The border vidette., 1918-01-05
GRAND JURY REPORT.

To the Honorable W. A. o.. Connor, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Santa Cruz:
 We, the Grand Jury, duly em- panelled and sworn on the 11th day of December, A. D., 1917, as grand jury of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for the County of Santa Cruz, beg to report as follows:
 We have inquired into three cases of murder, and five cases of grand larceny, one of assault with intent to commit murder and one for bootlegging, and herewith present to you the fol- lowing true bills and indict- ments, to- wit, two for murder, five for grand larceny, one for assault with intent to commit murder, and one for bootleg ginR.
 We have made thorough in vestigation into the murder of Fred. J. Miller at Mowry, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, on tine 12th day of October, 1917, but from the evidence produced be- fore us we were unable to re turn any indictments charging anyone with the murder of the said Fred. J. Miller.
 In view of the fact that it,is the duty of the State Examiner, who is an expert accountant, to examine the accounts of the sew eral county offices, the Grand Jury have deemed it unneces- sary to examine the accounts of the various county offices, as the State Examiner will in due time make a thorough investigation of the accounts of the several county offices, and will, at that time, make a report of the result of his investigations to the Board of Supervisors.
 Investigation shows that a nun Der of defendants have gone without trial on account of a trial jury not being called in stime .sto try these defendants within the time specified by the statute of limitations. We re- spectfully suggested that a me- thod be adopted, or the system improved, so as to avoid a re- currence of this situation in the future, and to that end we re- spectfully recommend that the Court adopt the same system that is now in effect in Pima county, viz, that trial jury be summoned in the month of Jan uary of each year to serve fol the entire year, being excused from time to time to be called again within a time not to ex- ceed ninety days. In this man ner no defendant will escape for want of trial jury within the time specified by the statute of limitations.
 We have investigated condi- tions relating to the practice of prostitution within Nogales and the county in general, and from our investigation we find that there is considerable amount of prostitu tion being practiced, 1, but the laws of the State are inadequate to handle the situa- tion, and for that reason we have had no remedy to apply, nor any laws upon which we could base any indictments. Investigations show that there is also a considerable amount of bootlegging being carried on in NogaleS and in the county in general. We subpoenaed nun | erous witnesses before us to testify concerning alleged viola tions of the prohibition laws, but none of them were able to give us any definite information along these lines, and because of our ina bility to secure proper and satisfactory evidence we 1 have been unable to return any indictments charging any one with violation of the prohibition laws, save and except one de | fendant.
 We believe that the Sheriff's office is greatly handicapped ane crippled in the enforcement Oi the laws, and in the apprehen sion of criminals, because of ar insufficient number of deputies and jailerS, and to this end wt strongly recommend to and urge upon the Board of Supervisor: that they re-establish the posi-
 tions of two County Rangers that a deputy sheriff be appoiD t