The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-03-23
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE.
SATURDAY, February 9, 1904.
WILLIAM LEWIS ogr,,.J

WILLIAM LEWIS aHrrIYel
Mr. Dallas, MIR. w. Ewing and /, were conn.
,e' lor John fres at his requet, and believe
ny the Alignment of the court, ON his trial in
me year 1899. 1T was conducted, believe. l.,
the uiudi manner, and we were certainly allow
ed all the privileges that IRE cunomary on fucb
occailons. The trial waS had before Judqes
'redell and Peters. He was convicted and =
new trial was ordered, becaufe one of the in
ForS had manifeited a prejudice agairff the pro-
pie IN general, concerned in the nfurrt cfiop.
and agaInit Fries in particular. This trial tool,
place partly in April and partly in Nav 1900.
AT October fcliion following, Mr. Dallas and
attended at Norris town, expecting the trial
would again take place; but it did not. TIE
PROCEEDINGS on the hrit Indictment were ouarb-
ed by the dlftrict attorney, and new bill wac
found at April term 1900, at which Tudceo
Chaie and Peters prefded. MFR. Dallas and 7
appeared again as the counfeI Of Fries, At Ills
reqneit' and believe we were aligned by the
court, but OF this am not certain. On tbe
morning ofacertain day, which Idonot nowrecoi-
iec'' entered the court room when the Judges
were ON the bench, and if recolle9 rightly. fbs
Pnioner was in the bar; but if he was not then
there, feel very fure that he foop was. THE
'iit OF petit jurors was called over, and MANY of
them anfwered. Whether his trial had been
appointed Tor that day, do not recoIIed; nor
can lay, whether he was brought up in confe
quence OF ihch appointment or not. will now
td'e as accurately as is in my power, what
took place on the location, premiling that al
though my memory is a remarkably accurate
one tor fhort time, i IS far from being e. AFT,
acohilderable lapie of time. will not, there
tore, undertake TO fate the DreciE. words uEed
IN the alteration which took place but am
very confident that ] fhaIl not vary from the
iuoIance. When fay that am thus conf
dent, beg to be undertood as not undertaking
to diitnguilh pofdvely in I'll refpeets between
what took place on the fri or on the fecond
day.
AimoIt immediately after the Jurors were
called over, Judge Chafe began to fpeak. Az
this time Mr. Dallas had not come into court
Judge Chaie fald. he underhood, or had been
informed, that on the former trial or trials fnr
II was impoflble for ne to know whether he
alluded to the cafe of Fries only, or Of him and
others, there had been great waite of time in
making long fpeeches on topics which had no.
thlng to do with the buiinefs, and in readino
common law cafes on tfeaion, as well as on trea-
Ion under the ilatute of Edward the Third. and
a'io certain itatntes OF the United States. re-
ipeeting the reliting Of procefs, and other of
tencesleisthan treafon. He aifo faid, that to pre
ventthisinfuture, heOr they, Observation-Disclosures
collect which, had conhdered the law. had
made up their minds, and ad reduced their o.
pInion to writing ON the fubie6t, and would not
tuffer thefe cafes o be read again and i'm order
tsat the couHiel,--but whether for the ptiton-
or, or the council on both fides, cannot fay
might govern tbemieiyes conformdbiy, he had
ordered three copies of that opinion to be made
cut, one to be delivered to the prifoner's coun.
isi' oue to the council in fuppod Of the proft.