HITS THEATER MEN HARD.
GRAND JURY HAS PREPARED
NINETEEN INDICTMENTS.
Four True Bills Against One Man-
ager -- Will Report to Judge Wal-
lace This Morning -- Injunc-
tion Comes Up Friday.
The grand jury will report to Judge Wallace in the criminal court this morning at 9:30 o'clock. A force of clerks and assistant prosecutors worked yesterday on indictments, and it was generally understood about the criminal court building that at least nineteen true bills will today be returned against theater managers who keep open Sundays. Four of the true bills, it is understood, will be against one manager.
The grand jury was expected to report yesterday, Judge Wallace was called to the criminal court building late yesterday afternoon to receive the report. Judge Wallace had intended asking Judge J. B. Casteel, sitting in the Pryor murder case, to grant a recess that he might take the bench and receive the report of the grand jurors. At 5 o'clock, however, the grand jury had not completed the work, and Judge Wallace visited the jury room. He remained there for some time and after leaving the room, and an announcement issued that the jury would report today.
Many true bills are expected from the grand jury this morning, chiefly among the batch being a large number affecting the Sunday closing crusade. Immediately o the report of the grand jury, it is understood, new instructions touching the Sunday lid will be read by Judge Wallace. These instructions will be given in open court. No warrants have been received by the county marshal yet from the grand jury, but the marshal's force of deputies will be in readiness this morning for a "snowing under."
Senator Cooper, who represents the theater managers, stated last night that grand jury true bills would not worry him nor his clients. He stated that he would even rather have his case tried before the criminal court than let it go before the circuit court. The latter course is assured, however, for the assignment judge of the circuit court can not possibly send the case to the criminal court for trial. Friday, the theater managers' injunction proceedings to restrain the county marshal from arresting them will either be tried in Judge Brumback's court or will be assigned for trial by him.
