Jackson County IA Archives News.....Grand Jury Accused of Drunkeness May 8, 1884
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Bellevue Leader May 8, 1884
Bellevue Leader, Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa, May 8, 1884


Theodore Nieman, Sr., one of the old settlers of this section, was a caller 
last Saturday. Mr. Nieman was a grand juror at the last term of the District 
Court, and says he believes that body was made up of sober, respectable men, 
and that they in no ways merited the reckless slander uttered against them by 
Hon. W. A. Maginnis, in a speech before the law and order convention recently 
held in Andrew, when he said that four or five of the grand jurors were drunk 
during the entire term, and that two of them were so drunk that they could 
scarcely get aboard the cars to go home at the end of their term of service. 
Mr. Nieman wishes to state that Mr. Maginnis has either been misinformed or 
that he has brought these false charges of his own volition, and with malice 
aforethought and without reference to the facts in the case.
Editor: Have you not learned Mr. Nieman, that Mr. Maginnis is a demagogue 
whose inclination to distort truth has never been questioned by his most 
intimate acquaintances? It is evident that the slander is a manufactured 
fabrication, and when the source is considered, will do no harm to the many 
upright citizens who were on that jury. 


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