Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-14
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Although the District Attorneys office
will work with the Grand Jury In any ac-
ton which may follow the vice probe,
District Attorney Rotan will not be In the
city until Wednesday. The work Will be
under the direction Of Assistant District
Attorney w. Flndley Brown until Mr.. Ro-
tan returns
The first two court cases growing out Of
the big raid Of July lb came before Judge
McMichael today They we're those OF
Eleanor Supper, OF 4S9 North Percy street
charged with conducting a dlsorderly house
and Annie Faulker, of the same address,
arrested as an inmate Of the house
The debate which Henry g. Bernard,
young choolteacherforaman Of the Grand
Jury which has just disbanded and Joseph
Manning, foreman of the same body until
displaced by Bernard have been conduct.
ing in the newspapers. still continues
JUROR CoNDEMs WEAK WORK
Bernard today made sweeping denial
Of the charges made by Manning that the
fury report was a one-man affair, and that
although II was brought In by Bernard, the
latter did not know the contents of II.
The chairman Of the jury, in answering
Manning, declared that the report was pre-
pared by himself and Secretary Pride, of
the jury, and that every paragraph was
submitted to the members of the body for
them to approve or reject.
Manning when informed Of Bernard's de-
nial said Bernard is n fine fellow The
smartest young man for his age that have
ever met. / merely expressed my belief
that the presentments of the jury were
weak. 1t is my honest opinion. L bear no
malice toward Bernard"
After making a categorical denial of every
charge and insinuation made by Manning
Bernard said
at is too bad that schoolboy could force
his composition upon a Grand Jury word
for word. Where was Manning when II
was done? Mr.. Manning's statement is an
insult to the intelligence of the jurymen
and certainly an admission of his own in
competence. He voted for the presentment,
paragraph by paragraph, after II had been
read and reread a number of times.
"He moved that vote Of thanks be
extended to Mr. Pride and myself for what
he called our good work. He signed the
presentment and why now this change
OF front? There is something wrong some
where. Apparently Mr.. Manning has some
fish to fry so let him go to 1t and enjoy
himself. The only two persons who saw
the presentment when 1t was being drafted
were Mr.. Pride and myself"
ERROR AS TO PROCEDURE.
Bernard explained that the mistake in
the recommendation for Superintendent
Robinson's trial came about because the
jurymen were laymen, not lawyers, and he
further said that, regardless OF this error,
there was no reason why the Mayor and
Director Wilson or even the succeeding
Grand Jury couldn't see that their recon-
mendation was taken up. Even though the
jury, of which he was foreman, advised
wrongly so far as procedure was con-
cerned there was no reason he said, that
these men couldn't carry out their recon-
mendatlon in the spirit in which It was
made
He added that he thought every man on
the probing jury was absolutely honest in
his convictions and that therefore no one
need have cast any reflection on the man.
ner In which the task was performed.
Captain Kenny has not dropped the Grim
inal libel charges against J. Stewart Knight
and Samuel DOugherty, respectively owner
and editor of the Sunday Transcript, which
paper charged Captain Kenny, in a recent
issue, of accepting tribute from dive keepers
in the Tenderloin.
Attorney William A. Gray, who is repre-
senting Kenny, when asked whether the
charges had been dropped said:
Captain Kenny has no thought of drop
ping the charges against these men. As
soon as they have been apprehended by the
police we will begin prosecution. The war
rants for the two men are now in the hands
of the Detective Bureau"