Show WHAT M J PARSONS SAYS I The Marshal was SIngled Ont for Perseeu ton While Others were ignored Mr M K Parsons one of the owners of the building on Plum alloy for his connection connec-tion with which Marshal Parsons was indicted in-dicted by tho lute grand jury was seen by a porter last evening and asked what he had to say in the matter In reply he stated that ho thought it a most outia eous charge and the jury wero evidently more at xious to bring I charge against the marshal than to arrive HI me truth in the case Ho turthor stated that aside from the fact that it was a matter of public notoriety that others besides the marshal were co owners of the building and tat their ntmies had appeared In press u week ago to lab certain knowledge I Members of tho Jury seem aware of the true state of the transaction and 01 the circumstances I tranaclon cumstances under which tho lease was given 1 Ihat the other owners of tbo build lug wure just as rnucu implicated in the matter as the marshal end they stood ready at all times to support the marshal in what be had done Continuing Councilman Parsons said hat neither he nor any of his associates for a moment supposed that a crimiual < charge would be made wIthout calling upon I the witnesses who were in the best posi I lion to know the facts The very fact that the propositions repeatedly made to them before tlo building vas leased that it be rented to certain persons at over 400 per I mouth for purposes of prostitution wero I rejected was a refutation of the charge in Indictment I In fast bald he this indictment which Mr Critohlow myself and others consider as unjust toward ourselves us it is to the defendant named In it is a lilting supplement supple-ment to a report which by its wholesale vaguo and cowardly insinuations seeks to discredit exWurden Vandercocus integrity integ-rity and to bring reprouch upon tho city government in ueneral |