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Judge AsksGrand JuryInspect JailtA 20-member grand jury was empaneled in Gulfport this morning as Judge Leslie B. Grant convened the four-week June criminal term of Harrison County Circuit Court.Judge Grant charged the jury to 51 conduct an inspection of the county jail, particularly the facilities for safe-keeping of prisoners, in ob-S ivious reference to the spectacular I escape last Thursday of ex-cowboy 5 Dale Morris, charged with murder in the slaying of a Bay St. Louis resident.•j Morris escaped through a hole pi cut in the wire mesh of an exer-jcise cage atop the $500,000 structure after being removed from his j cell in the early morning hours by;a night jailer on the pretense of £ i receiving a long distance telephonecall.■!*x-:•fe* * ■ • *j. •$l.I| Sheriff J. J. Wittman said to-•iday no new leads have developedJ to indicate Morris’ whereabouts, j The court also charged the jury ; to review laws governing gam-^ bling, the unlawful sale of intoxi- § [ i eating liquors, nepotism, wood; | *: burning and illegal use of barbitu- | J1ates.“I am particularly interested in seeing that sales of wine and beer n are not made to children,” Judge i } Grant emphasized.MEMBERS OF JURYe The court appointed Harold R.,n Barber, Gulfport, land abstract e~ firm president and a qualified law-j 1 jyer, as foreman of the jury panel1 ; drawn by Sheriff Wittmann from a 4 t- i special venire of 125 qualified | ?n | electors. ja Other jury members are Frot-! m .scher R. Steckler, Judson Hick-; )r man, Edward Necaise, Avqh Lad-f le ner, Delma O. Bond, John Lundayj Jr., W. C. Mabry Jr. D. V. Moran, ie Eimer J. Saucier, Homer Vogle,r.; Joseph C. Montgomery. C. L.lt.lThomas, Victor J. Saucier, Causey H Hudson, I. L. Broom, Piacide ?Hoda, Curtis Hudson, Lester Shaw, u and A. E. Carson. The court ap-1g pointed W. W. Ruble as bailiff.^ The jury retired to its chambers about 10:15 a.m. today to review a known 24 cases of persons being held in county jail and30 others not made public of in-'dividuals not in police custody.I The State of Mississippi is seeking r ^indictments against nine indivi-®! duals charged with murder.400 WITNESSES cCircuit Clerk Ewart Lindsey s*said approximately 400 witnesses have been subpoened to testify be-i fore the grand jury. ]cIn-51-n-iC-ftItJudge Grant dismissed the remaining members of the 125-man 1 j venire, indicating no cases are set art ! for trial during the first week of jt i circuit court.| The court urged the Harrison Lte' County Board of Supervisors ex- . 1 ercise more care in placing names ; in the jury box, noting between 130 and 40 members of the venire were excused on grounds they hadofip-chenl2*j served on a jury during the past--s*;two years. The names of Sheriff Wittmann and a Gulfport lawyer,Bidwell Adam, included on the list ^ of prospective jurors. Judge Grant he i noted. Law enforcement officials iat and attorneys are normally excused ed from jury duty due to the ny nature of their work,)pJ OTHER ACTIONJohn Howard Warren, indicted by a December 1956 grand jury on a charge of unnatural intercourse, was arraigned and entered a plea of innocent. The court set trial for Wednesday, June 19. iid The court placed Wade Baham, )Ut‘indicted on two counts of embezzle-ierjment, under a four-year probate tionary sentence, two years on each count, and ordered the de-er_ jfendant to make full restitution of , »» the amounts embezzled, at.* Baham had entered guilty plea1(i11]edto both counts in the March term of court with sentence deferred 5ts; until the June term.he DOCKET SOUNDEDdi-lt; Judge Grant called the docket »n- of cases continued from previous iy. | terms of court.It is expected the grand jury, closeted in secret sessions with District Attorney Boyce Holleman % , and County Prosecutor Gaston}^ Hewes, will make a partial re-jport of its findings Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
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Biloxi Daily Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Mon, Jun 10, 1957
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