Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-16
TEXT OF.VERDICT
IN JACKSON CASE

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nocent of wrong-doing in the 1919
worlds series as you are, and MS
Punishment from organized base
ball was unjust, unfair and unwar-
ranted, and the decision of the trial
jury holding him for prejury is not
supported by the facts in the case.
We are relying, of course upon
the verdict of the members of the
jury who have decided the case
IN Jackson's favor. Comiskey adj
mitted on the witness stand that
he had deliberately falsified in four
different respects as to his .testi-
mony. he was not arrested. He
contended that he did not know
the 1919 worlds series was fixed
until the 28th of September, 1920,
which was an absolute falsehood,
because the unhisputed facts in the
case showed that he knew about
the disloyalty of the members OF
his baseball club two days after
the worlds series was played, when
Hugh Fullerton published an ar
ticle in the Chicago papers to the
effect that seven mmebers of the
Chicago White Sox baseball club
would be missing in the year 1920.
He also testified that he paid
$4,000 for detective services rem
dered in his behalf in attempting
20 discover the dishonest acts OF
ball players. on his ball club. The
detectives appeared in court and
testified that they only received
So 500 from Comiskey. Comiskey
also testified that he never heard
! of the $500 bonus he awarded tc
the ball players in 1917 until the
| Jackson case was commenced in
1922, and when | examined him
before a court commissioner III
Chicago under oath he testified that
he knew about it in 1918. He al
so testified that he never heard
the name of Bill Burns or Billy
Marbag until September %, 1920
and when | examined him in Chi
cago he testified that he heard the
names of these two men mention
ed in the middle of the summer Of
| 1919, and yet never made any eff
fort to find out what they knew
about the 1919 worlds series scan
dial. Of course, this was Mr.. Com
islley.
The decisio nby this jury who
were called upon to pass upon the
ultimate issuable facts in this cast
show conclusively that Contiskey
was just as much a conspirator as
| Gandil, Williams and Cicotte, anC
that he should have been indicted
by the County grand jury, but be
cause of the fact that his friend
Judge Mcdonald, called the CRANE
jury and his friend Alfred Austril
was the man that consulted The
witnesses before the grand jury
and his friend, Mr.. Brigham, was
the foreman of the grand jury
he was not indicted, but Joe Jack
son, was and was later eXonerateC
by a jury in Cook county.
This, in my opinion, is the great
est victory that a ball player il
| America has ever accomplished
Jackson has been arrested for per
jury, as was Happy Felsch, who was
another of his witnesses, and not
withstanding the conduct of the
court in these respects, the jury
nevertheless answered every ques
ton in favor of Joe Jackson anC
against the "Grand Old Roman
who has been grossly mis-nameC
! by a few paid lawyers and few
newspaper men.
We appeal to you to let the pub
lie know what has been going OF
in organized baseball in Americ;
| and the unfair advantages thai
i'haye been taken by. baseball mag