Weekly journal-miner., 1917-12-05
JURY TAKES RAP AT HIRING OF
 DETECTIVES
GREAT COST OF COAST SHOPPERS IS NOT WAR RANTED BY RE s U L T s PRODUCED, SAYS REPORT OF INVESTIGATORS.
(F.om Tuesdays Daily.)

lld1OlllN Ol hahN hON NJ been made public.
 The jury made its final report to Judge Smith at five o'clock, the re- port accompanying six indictments which had been made during the day. The report gave much space to the discussion of the advisability of the recent employment of the Thiel de- tectives, who had been brought to the county by county officers to fer ret out some of the alleged bootleg ging and gambling which was said for a time to have been rampant in various sections of Yavapai county. The jury seemed to feel that the ex- pensc bill of S4,000 which had been incurred by the hiring of the dctcc- lives was bit too steep to be in keeping with the results which had been obtained through the efforts of the spotters, and the jury rccom- mendcd to the supervisors that the payment of the bills be held up until the accounts of the Thiel operators had been thoroughly audited and checked to ascertain whether all of the items of the bill were legitimate.
 The jury report also recommended the use of granite as material for the construction of the steps of the new court house, and the jurymen set forth in their report that while the difference in cost between the use of the granite and the use of concrete was something like SS.OO0, the use of the first-named material would ulti- matcly prove to be the cheaper of the two, and for this reason the super visors were petitioned to specify granite.
 The jury before adjourning, made an inspection of the various offices and reported that everything was in ship shape in all of the places visited. The report called especial attention to the conditions under which the activities of the shcriff's office were carried on, and related that in the opinion of the jurymen, the affairs were going along very nicely in view of the fact that the office is partially torn up through the construction of the new court house. The county jail was also found to be in good condition.
 The full text of the Jury's report is as follows:
 Report of the Grand Jury.
 Prescott, Arizona, Dec. 5, 1917.
 To the Honorable Frank o. Smith, Judge Of the Superior Court of Va vapai County.
 Sir: We, the grand jury. cmpan' ellcd on the 27th day of November, 1917. respectfully present the follow ing report of the work done by us:
 There have been presented for the consideration of the grand jury 3 cases involving violations of the laws of the State of Arizona. This does not include reference made other alleged violations under which lit tie or no evidence could be secured. Under the cases submitted. l6 indict mcntS have been returned.
 The grand jury has had submitted 10 1t evidence concerning all viola tions of the anti-gambling law, includ ing a number of cases in which infor- nations had already been filed in the Superior court of this county.
 Wherever evidence which in the judgment of the grand jury was suffi> cicnt to convict was found, indict- ments were returned. It is possible that evidence leading to convictions in other gambling cases might have been secured had prosecutions been instituted at an earlier date. Your grand jury would recommend that the county attorney file all informations or submit cases to grand jury in the action as soon as possible after the evidence comes to his attention. We offer this suggestion for the guild ancc of the present county attorney who has been in office but one month.
 Your grand jury has noted that dur ing the carly part of 1917 great deal of the evidence in relation to gamb- ling cases was gathered by five or six operatives of the Thicl Detective Service Company. This evidence should have been made the basis for prosecutions several months ago.
 The grand jury has examined care fully into the bills submitted by these operatives and finds many instances in which sums of money from Slo to $+O were used according to the re- ports for getting into gambling games and for the purchase of whiskey from bootlcggcrS. We believe that should detectives be hired by county officers in the future they should be kept working directly under the supcrvis- ion of such officers, and should re- port directly to them, and that no expenditure of moneys along the line last above set out should be allowed by such operatives unless first au- thorizcd. by the county board of sup ervisorS. We believe that the present