THE GIRL THAT DISAPPEARS
ficking in women. It had to be a formal organization, not an informal one; the kind that could be got at with indictments, or Judge O'Sullivan would have none of it.
Eventually an effort was made to offer a presentment of the jury's findings so that the jury might be dismissed. Judge O'Sullivan refused to receive the presentment and relieve the jury of its responsibilities. "I will receive nothing but indictments," was his answer to Mr. Rockefeller.
Some weeks later he did receive the presentment, read it, and dismissed the jury with these words:
"Your answer to the main question submitted to you is a merited rebuke to the slanderers of the cleanest and greatest city in the world."
Grand jury presentments are given to the press only after they have been filed. This particular presentment was not filed until the time for publishing it in the evening papers
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