tute defining the duties of grand jurors,
and fixing the punishment for disclosing grand jury proceedings, Judge
Shepard went on to say:

"The prime matter which will come before you will be the murder of
the late Dr. Cronin. This appalling murder demands a most rigorous
investigation. Dr. Cronin, an American citizen, has been struck
down and killed under circumstances so horribly indicative of
conspiracy, premeditated design and malice, as to warrant the most
searching inquiry. Fortunately the power of a grand jury is fully
equal to the emergency.

"Men who can tell of facts and circumstances that will lead you to
the discovery of the guilty parties can be made to tell. It is just
as much perjury to falsely deny knowledge of a fact as to affirm
its existence. Nothing short of a refusal to testify before you on
the ground that his testimony will tend to criminate himself will
excuse any witness, and he cannot falsely employ that personal
privilege as a protection for another without subjecting himself to
the pains and penalties of perjury.

"It is not the policy of the law that it is better that one or any
number of guilty men should escape rather than that an innocent
person should suffer; the law has no policy in such matters except
that every guilty man shall be punished. With all the information
already in the possession of the law officers of the county at
hand, it will be a blot on the commonwealth, a severe blow to the
administration of justice, and a frightful menace to the safety of
the individual citizen, if every man engaged in this shocking
crime, or having guilty knowledge of it, shall not be discovered.

"The whole power of the county is at your disposal. Employ your
resources, use the power invested in you without fear or favor, and
the result cannot be uncertain. You will now retire to the jury
room and make your own arrangements for the transaction of the
business for which you have been called together."

At the conclusion of this address the grand jury retired, in charge of
Bailiff Hamilton. An organization was quickly effected, and soon the
twenty-three men were at work, with the assistance of State's Attorney
Longenecker and his assistant, Jampolis. Acting Captain Schuettler was
also called in, and from these officials the body received an outline of
t