The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-01
HOLLAND GRANTED
CHANGE OF VENUE
Assault Case Will Be Tried in Circuit
Court in Santa Rosa County.

to the circuit court which convenes at
Milton in Santa Rosa county on May
%. Motion for change of venue was
made by John P. Stokes, attorney for
Holland, on the ground that his client
could not receive a fair and impartial
trial in the court of record of Escam-
bia county, owing to the excitement
which the case has created here.
The motion was granted by Judge
Jones yesterday morning after being
argued by Mr.. Stokes and Solicitor
Fisher and j. Walter Kehoe. In his
petition and affidavit requesting the
change of venue, the defendant sets
forth that he could not be granted a
fair trial in this county as follows:
County, State of Florida. The
State of Florida VS.. John Holland
Now comes the defendant, John HoI-
land, and moves the court to change
the venue in this cause and to transfer
this cause to another county in &C
cordance with law, for trial upon the
information here filed against him, and
designated as No. 1910, for the reasons
set forth in the affidavit hereto at
ta.ched.
JOHN HOLLAND,
Defendant.
In the Court of Record of Escambia
County, State of Florida. The State
of Florida VS.. John Holland.
Before the undersigned authority
personally appeared John Holland who
being by me first duly sworn, says that
he is the defendant in the case Of the
state Of Florida vs -JoAn Holland,
pending in this court. and that he is
the identical person mentioned by the
name of John Holland in information
No. 1910 filed in this court; that, his
case is set for trial in the court Of
record of Escambia county, in the city
of Pensacola, Thursday March 81, A.
D., 1921; that affiant cannot obtain a
fair and impartial trial in Escambia
Florida, and that affiant fears
that he will not receive a fair trial in
the court where the case is now pend
ing, on account of the adverse party,
undue influence over the minds of the
of Escambia county, Flor
ida, and on account of affiant being so
odious to the inhabitants of Escambia
Florida, that he can not re-
ceive a. fair trial; that, the information
in this cause was fled by the county
solicitor on the first day of the conven-
ing o. this court for the present term.
and after the hour OF the convening Of
The court on that day; that. prior to
the converting of the present term Of
court, both daily newspapers published
in the city of Pensacola all manner of
newspaper articles con-
corning affiant, and the case pending
Of civilians in 1920 ran into many
The testimony attributed to the Brit
rish forces approximately $4,000 raids,
''wreckage of property, rob-
berry, murder of citizens, brutality to
priests and women and children, and
flogging." Many of the
raids, it was said. were made at night
by members Of the British forces
dressed in civilian clothing"
Stress is laid upon the moral conse-
quence to the imperial British forces"
Of the British governments military
policy in Ireland" License instead of
discipline, the commission says, now
prevails among the troops. Citizens of
IF the Irish republic" are held blame
less for incidental accidental and dis
culinary casualties in the British
forces, and for casualties incurred I'M
der circumstances of general violence
and disorder" Many of the excuses
Of the $4,000 British troops are attrib-
uted to the Indictment of the fear Of
a sSa ssination in the soldiers minds by
their superiors.
Sympathy for British People.
1--WE would extend our sympathy to
the great British people," says the
commission in concluding its report.
The army which is the instrument
Of their government in Ireland would
also seem to be the instrument Of the
destruction of that moral heritage
which was their glory and which cast
it's lustre on each and all of them. The
sun of that glory seems finally to have
set over Ireland. British Justice has
become a discredited thing. The Off
cial black and tans in Ireland compete
FOR the dishonor of Anglo Saxon civili-
zation with our unofficial lynch mobs
= We hope that the wrong done to
ireland may be righted and the agony
IF her people ceased. When these
things shall be the great British people
will emerge from the darkness that
now Encompasses them into the gIory
IF a new day.
Thirty-six states were represented In
he committee which initiated the in
luiry the report says. including five
governors, II United States senators,
L3 congressman, the mayors of 10 large
cities, Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop
<eane and four Roman Catholic
bishops, seven Protestant Episcopal
bishops, four Methodist bishops and
c1ergymen, educators, edi-
ors, business men and labor leaders. |
rhe parent committee elected the sub
committee or commission which con-
Iucted the inquiry. This commission |
vas composed of L. Hollingworth |
Wood, a New York Quaker lawyer as
chairman: Frederick C. Howe, former |
commissioner of immigration at New
York, ce-chairman; Jane Adams, of
Hull House, Chicago, James H. Maurer, |
,raci5aut of the American Federation |