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JUDGE MOORE'S CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY (Continued from t?>kc 1) 10 be settled up here by ihe Court and ihe defendant will have an op portunity then to present hi- defense and all of his contentions about the matter. hut when it is before vou you only hear one side of the ques tion that of the States accusations and its witnesses, and iu returning ihe hill, if you find \ou have three' or four witnesses, or two or three witnesses on the bill, if you examine one and find the evidence shows probable cause that a man ought to j.e prosecuted, you will mark a ci oss mark at the end of his name to -how what witness you have examin ed, and if one witness makes out probable cause, you need not call the other witnesses and take up the lime of the court, just mark it a true bill, but in going oxer a bill, if the Yidence of one witness does not show probable cause, if it takes two r three, then do not return a bill :nored or not a true bill until you have examined every witness mark ed on the bill by the solicitor. If ? n vour investigation, you find there is .i witness that should be marked and is not marked that is an impor tant witness, you can report that ] fact to the Solicitor and he will I mark him and have him brought as a witness before you, but do not mark any yourself, but report to the Solicitor and he will put his name upon the bill and have a subpoena i-sued and have him brought before Mm so that you can examine him. You will find in your delibera tions I presume, in this County as 11 - -l everywhere else, that some man will want to come before you and make presentment against some one. and will want to take you aside and talk to you or pass a note to your office not signed by any body want ing to prosecute his neighbors? \ow. as a general thing, as a gener al rule, \ou can repaid thai man as a man who wants to persecute in- 1 stead ??f prosecute, and he simply Hants to express his spleen, or an ger or ill will against his neighbor ul tin* expense of the county, ami if \ou want to mark him as a witness, ho will throw up his hands in holy borrow and say " I cannot and will not lie made a witness, and you will >r? at once that he wants to perse cute instead of prosecute his neigh bor: he isn't trying to vindicate the lav . he is only tr\ ing to get his own private feelings vindicated; hut if a man wants another prosecuted by law. Ik* can go to you and to the Solu itor and tell him this man ought I" !??? prosecuted, if he is the right kind of a citizen, he will go and sax h?- ^iiows t lie facts arid be is willing to !.. made a witness, and a man of that kind is wanting to vindicate I he law , i,| not wanting to vindicate his own private feelings, and he will *a\ ? knows a man has done so and i he knows it and will say you ' an iark mo as a witness il you I hat man is upho hling the iid that is the kind of a citizen want, one who has backbone to ite the law and stand up and r the truth. N gentlemen of the grand jury, wholesale crimes in this state ,s filing pretty prevalent, and there noething done to head it uair law. > 4111 vin.? Iht nni>, j of! and stop it or we are going to a pretty had line. I find it I f'Vev here, and I am sorry to say [it ovists among young, white men lhetwren the age of twenty-one and ft thiriy who won't work and they have |?*>t to live and to have something to ft^at and something to wear and they are not willing to work for it ? and *hat do they do? The next thing frou hear of them breaking into ?Mores and houses and stealing, and these days of automobiles they ill break into a man's chicken jouse and steal his chickens and be J>re he knows it they are forty or miles away. Since I have been 1 the Bench I have found that they I ?o into a town and through a iiphhorhood and drive through a i'ghborhood and find some man J? is raising chickens, a man with Jo a hundred fine hens for "big purposes, and he will get npxt morning and find every I'ki-n he had gone and the men nave stolen them will be in c>ty far away and it will be late for him to catch them, and 8? in hands sometimes, there will Ik? three or four of them col lected together: they enter into a conspiracy among themselves to do these tilings, and they will go to| some litlle country store, and when a man locks his store up at nizht with three or four hundred dollars worth of goods at some little cross road. he will go hack the next morn ing and all he has left is his shelves ami counters, and thev have a place where they store their stolen stuff and when they are caught or seized by an officer none of the goods would be found; there were four teen different people in that crowd, just a pack of pilfering men going all over the count r\ stealing and they will go and load up their au tomobiles with stolen goods and drive across to Tennessee or South Carolina and peddle them out. and maybe have a man over there doing the same thing and come back over here and sell it out. They are do ing that all over the country, and what is the cause of it? To a great measure the swift mode of travel and transportation: in these days of automobiles they can commit these crimes and before they are discov ered they will be a hundred miles away: that is one cause, nad anoth er cause is that since the war the I boys refuse to work: they lay | around home all day. or around drug stores and soft drink stands and filling -tat ions, and smoke cig arettes. and. if they can, bum a drink off somebody, and go back home and eat up what the old man and old woman and little children have made during the day; instead of bringing in something to support the family they are imposing on them and they are strong ablebodied men: they are vagrants, they have no visible means of support, that is what the law calls vagrants ? laying around drinking fountains and plac es of that kind and places of amuse ment doing nothing at all to earn a living, they are nothing but va grants, and if you will just take charge of that and report them and bring them up here this Court will give them a job for at least thirty days, that i* the most I can give them, but I will give them work fori thirty days, and 1 11 give them a suit of clothes ? it max not be according to their idea of dress in society, and it may not be a suit that they want.' but I will give the m one if vou will work. Now think of it ? To show you, right here in your own town, you can go down to any of these wholesale stores and supply houses and you can find great stacks of bales of hay brought in here from some other state, and you can find bacon and flour brought here from somewhere else to sell to you and you are not exchanging a thing on eartli to get your money back, just making what vou can eat out of your natural ^-sources and {Milling out your money to enrich some other state for some other state to enjoy. This county could raise a- good hay a? any other country raises: it is productive enough to raise enough corn, vtheat ami bacon and hay to supply ever\ want there is in the county. Just think of it ? thi.ik of it for a moment if >ou can keep in \ our county the amount of mone\ that is sent out of your county to go out to another state and other places, you would ha\c more money iu your county than you have ever seen before, and everybody would have money and everybody would be aide to pay their taxes and there wouldn't be a juror that would have to be excused because he did not have money to pay his taxes you would have plenty of money every where in your county if you raised what you lived on at home, and for what you did not want you would have a market for and could sell it and have the money, and if you can do that, gentlemen, it would slop all I his loitering that I have spoken of. ami your county would be .1 pros perous county and prosperous peo ple. but letting these tilings go on and depending 011 everybody else for your supplies and living, von are not going to be prosperous. The natural resources of timber will <riv? out and y ou v\ i 1 1 have nothing to go lo to get a few lies and a lillle lumber to sell to get I he money t?i I a bag <?f flour to carry home on your wagon or truck. You see it every day. Instead of going to town and bringing ba< k a hale of hay and a hag of cotton seed meal to feed your cow on. if you would raise these things at home, you could take il in and sell it. and you would he carrying back home the money in your pocket. Now. gentlemen, you can relieve that situation if you will cultivate that spirit among the peo ple of your county. Larceny is going on. ihnt is the taking and carrying away of the per sonal property of another with a fel onious intent to convert such prop erty t?? his own i ? without the con sent of the owner- -just plain steal ing ? and these automobiles carry it out of the county and pet it away and >ou < anuot catch them, and not onlv that, the automobiles have cre ated another case of crimes that is prevalent- th"*- are polluting so ( set' -nd \<u ?)" ? these au tomobiles and ta1'.!- voung girl* out riding awav out in the wilds at night and with the automobiles and a lit tle u!iiske\ something happens, ei ther somebody is killed or hurt or some young woman has lost her rep utation that i- all. 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