Show JUDGE ZANES CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY OF THE trin GRAND gnand JURY I 1 will give you a brief charge in respect to your duties as jurors it is your duty ditty gentlemen to inquire into all crimes and offenses against the cretul criminal law in force torce in this territory and also it Is your duty as grand jurors if it you have any information as to the commission mission of any crime within the district by any person to make it known to the grand lury jury 7 and it is th the e duty ot of the grand grana rand jury tu to inquire into all such onn off offenses lapses inquiries gentlemen you should find indictments only upon legal evidence heard in the grand jury roon room while it is to communicate your information with respect to the commission of crimes to the grand jury you should not indict lct except upon legal evidence from sworn witnesses or upon record or documentary evidence when that is proper or depositions when they are pr proper 0 per pen if there is at an lin t time any question arising with respect to such evidence the prosecuting attorney A T mr ir dickson or his assistant will be with y you 0 u and he will give you any information forma t lon ion you require fryou may inay inquire further of the court you are not bound gentlemen to heartha evidence upon but one side of the case but if you know of any evidence that would explain the evidence in any case that you are investigating it would be proper for you to have hive such evidence brought before you and hear it it is your duty to inquire into cases where the persons are imprisoned and ancl aliw to examine the public penitent aries arles jails or any place here where any confined deprived of their liberty som some e complaints have been I 1 made ade I 1 know not whether arenc are well weil 11 founded faunde d or not with witti res respect hect to the manner in which the county jail has been kept it is your duty to examine that jail and see whether it is properly kept or not the law requires mat those places shall bu be kept properly and it is the duty of the grand grand jury to examine and inquire into it I 1 haye have heard complaints also against a lunatic asylum where the public probably keep some of their lunatics you should inquire into that also I 1 know not whether the complaints are well founded or not but hut I 1 understand the public confines liin Itin lunatics aties atles there if that is so it is your duty to inquire inlo into that and see that it is properly kept and that no unnecessary inhumanity is practiced upon anybody you are i nade made by the law the agents of the government and the people to make these investigations and it is your duty to do it honestly fairly and fearlessly it is your duty also gentlemen to keep secret what occurs in the grand jury room you should not communicate to any one outside of the grand jury room how any particular grand juror has voted upon any matter or what has been said there nor the fact that an indictment has been found until the party has haa been arrested and then it would bo be improper for you to what occurred in the grand jury room or how bow any member of the grand jury ury voted or what its action hard hart been your oaths gent gentlemen 1 e e n r require e ct u i r e t that h a t y rou 0 u s should h 0 u I 1 d d diligently iii lii g e n t I 1 y 1 inquire n q u I 1 r e i into n t 0 a and n d true rue indictments make of kil kii ail all public offenses against the thy people of the territory or against ane laws of the united states triable tria ale within this district you are arc forbidden by your oaths and by the ane laws of your country from indicting inducting indic ting any person through malice hatred or III 11 will if any man an should come before you YOU against whom you may may have any feeling you on mut must lav it all aside and look at ft tt impartially in the light that the law compels you to look at it not to view his case from your per tonal standpoint your sole purpose must be to ascertain the tru truth of the accusation against him your oaths require further that you shall not leave lease eave any person through cil all fear ear favor affect affection ion lon or for any reward or hope of any you are re cuirci quire I to act from pure mb motives tives you cannot act from personal considerations you cannot take into consideration any consequences to you any consequences to any gny man the law describes the conduct that constitutes crime and it is for you to determine in every case whether r the person has been guilty of that conduct with tile tiie intentions which the law requires in order to make a crime iveel 1 feel it my duty further to remark that you are not to take into consideration any public clamor for or against any man or against any class ot of crime there appears to be all an impression judging from the public prints and common report that associations bodies of men and women can by withdrawing a win their patronage and their sup support port from b business uslie men amen induce them to disapprove of the enforcement of the laws of their country this you cannot take into consideration the fact that any man because he may be affected in his business may disapprove of the enforcement of the laws of the country cannot be considered by you this government exists in its laws and its power is made manifest by those who are selected to enforce them and any man wan any person who disapproves of the enforcement of the law is lb against his country and against the laws of his country the idea is preposterous that because anybody may lose iose lose iose a little patronage or even a good deal er or that all the business men of this town may lose patronage or support that that can be considered by you and any person who supposes that ji a public officer in the discharge of his ditty I 1 a duty which the law imposes and which his oath imposes oses or that any grand juror in the 91 discharge of the duty which the law lin imposes poses upon him hirn is to be affected in bis bib action by the way in which the indictment of parties will wilt affect the interests of any business man is indulging arii in irl an idea that cannot b be c tolerated it Is S s singular In gular guiar that intelligent and patriotic ot I 1 c p people ec ipie if it they are such call can entertain to U 8 uch such views of duty that they should suppose that because they disapprove or because they might induce a business man to io disapprove of the enforcement of the laws therefore a public officer or a grand juror should fail to discharge his duty and commit perjury gentlemen your sole purpose is as I 1 ha have V c state stated a before to discharge your whole duty ascertain the truth haud hand and aud when you on have ascertained it or such auch a probability as the law lay lav requires you must indict and if there is not su iclene evidence you must I 1 ignore the bill and discharge the accuse accused d you must not go outside of on our r office outside do of the flaw or go behind the law and sad say aliat it is wrong there bisno is no appeal from the will of the people aas as ex expressed presse d through the lawmaking power in laws to any boutes such as town meetings or mutual improvement associations association i or any other kind of an association there is b bitone it one way war that laws cau can be made mado in this country and the laws so made are the only ones can recognize and if you attempt to 10 recognize any other laws than those you violate your oaths you violate your duties as citizens of the united states and are unworthy of the high honor of belm being called citizens of the united states stales gentlemen if it there is any man amon among you vou who believes that he will be e influenced by any of those mercenary and groveling ro con consider considerations sider actions at ions lons if you think you will bo be influenced by a desire to favor any person or class of persons person if you will be influenced by fear timidity or your own personal considerations rise up and say so and I 1 will excuse you because any man roan who would be influenced by such motives as those is not worthy to serve his country as a juror or in any other capacity hearing no reply I 1 assume that you mean to do your duty Fent gentlemen lemen I 1 have seen fit tit to make these remark remarks s because I 1 have heard so much outside clamor and seen so much in the public prints it seems that a portion of the peo people pl believe that the laws of this country oil gitry should be enforced according to it athis his V clamor lamor ac corling according to private notions and person penson personal hl interests and not ac according cordin to the oaths which you have taken ail all and in accordance with the law which is bl binding upon you and every one else |