Show A UPON intimidation IS IT INTENDED FOR FOB BUNCOMBE shortly after the opening of tile the first district court at ogden yesterday morning mornine the grand jury j arv being in court judge 0 W powers delivered the following charge gentlemen of the grand jury I 1 have requested your attendance in court this in order to call your attention or perhaps I 1 may say to recall recal I 1 your attention atter tion to one portion ot if the charge given eiven you by this court at the time sou entered upon your duties at the commencement of this term ani court then stated to you that you ou will find indictments against all persons who attempt to intimidate you or corruptly to influence your action for the jaws of the united states provide that if any portion person or versions fer persons shall corruptly or by threats or oceon uy threatening letters lett erg or any th threatening reat communications endeavor to influence intimidate or impede any grand or juror or any 0 any ny court of the united states in the discharge of his or their duty or shall corruptly or by threats or force or by threat threatening cuing letters or any ady threatening eom com influence obstruct or impede or orena endeavor end vavor to influence or obstruct or impede the due administration of justice therein such person or persons person 1 are liable to punishment possibly P 8 ably I 1 ought to explain the law to you a little more clearly and say to you that any juror acting upon any united states case t or who has acted upon a united states blates case if any threat sor threatening communications or any attempt 10 to influence intimidate timi date or impede him in his duty Is made with reference to his bis ac 1 noa on in a united states case it comes within this law you will observe that the statute its is quite broad it covers any any corrupt influence that is approaching pro aching irig any juror and attempting to influence him through any promise of reward or by intimation that he may receive any rewa rdby means of money or otherwise it ic covers also a case where threats are used where an effort is made to intimidate a man in the discharge of his duty by means of threats it goes further and says that if any force is used or if any threatening letters or any threatening communications are made mad e I 1 take it it would not be nee necessary essary that the threatening communication should be by letter I 1 take it that the true construction of act a man send by means of a messenger a communication muni s cation to be delivered orally that it would come in with the spirit of the statute the law goes froes f further arther and sa s that if there is any endeavor which would mean any attempt to intimidate timi date or impede you while acting as grand jurors juror of the united Sta states or any man who acts as a juror in a united states State case in this court then the statute covers the offense I 1 draw conr attention to this matter for this reason that since the adjournment of court during the january recess gentlemen who have acted upon the petit jury in this court and who have been compelled in the exercise of their function unction f sias jurors to sit in united states cates particularly in the case of the united states against lorenzo snow have bave been subjected to indignities by people of this Teril territory tory and to threats which if the communications that I 1 have received with regard to it are true will bring the person guilty clearly within the letter and the intent of this statute you fearlessly investigate this matter and to go to the bottom of it if the time ever was that j uch eh things could be done with impunity in this territory that time has basone gone by and if there is auy any bouer in these united states to protect a is compea compelled led to serve his country upon a jury that power will be exercised I 1 I 1 if the people have been doing what it is 19 1 9 charged they have doue done it would be well for them to I 1 learn earn that they have no business to interfere with men who are summoned in the name of the I 1 law w compelled by the law to leave ateer their business to leave their families and sit here tor for scanty pay to determine between respondents at the bar and the united states government I 1 say that men have no business to do doit it and I 1 therefore want to draw your attention gentl to this matter I 1 want you to go to the bottom ot of it no matter what the cost may be I 1 want everyone who can throw any light b by I 1 testimony upon it to be summoned 1 want your questions to be searching and if there is any truth in this charge I 1 want indictments found it is charged that men who have been upon the jury in this court have been subjected to surveillance guards have been been stationed around t their air houses men have been appointed it is charged to follow them as they have gone from one place to another one or two have been summoned into what are termed bishops I 1 courts to give an account of their doings it is said aid that one juror has been approached pro ached by a man who stated that tie he came as a friend to warn him not to sit upon another united states case that he be had bad no business to be upon the SHOW case as a juror that he be should have answered the questions in such a way that he would have been excused if such things as this are being doneit is high time that it was investigated by b suck the grand jury of this district if such things are being done and are permitted to be continued it will not he be a great reat while before men will hesitate g before they will allow themselves to sit upon a jury in a case where the trev may expect to be subjected to snell treatment now so far as I 1 am able as ju judge ge of this court I 1 propose to protect the jurors who serve in in this district both grand and petit As aa ion long as they are doing their duty I 1 shall do what I 1 can to protect them I 1 say to the juers of this court that they have a right to protect themselves that every roan man has the right in his own house that people who are not noi officers have no business to td go to a mans house at 2 or 3 in the morn morning ing and demand that they may investigate it or search it it 16 Is charged that such things have been done I 1 have been informed that attempts have heen been made to have tie jurors r 0 r s of the petit jury some of tu them h e give notice as to when deputy marshals leave this town and so far as possible notify those living outside as to indictments that are to be found fouad by the grand jury these things come to me not exactly in the shape of rumors but in such a way that I 1 think it to be my duty to call your attention to them and I 1 have no doubt from your conduct in the past gentlemen and your standing in the community and your evident desire as evinced at this term to do what is exact justice between all parties that you will give this matter thorough investigation and I 1 do not think thin kyou you can devote your time to any better purpose than to investigate it I 1 shall direct witnesses to be sent to you from whom you may obtain indications cat ions and evidence probably that will point toward the proper testimony and I 1 wish you to follow it up |