The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-15

: thrr, that il Is not my FAULT that this case
J IS here taking Mp the time of this hono-
! rable court think you will give me
! credit for telling the truth. when ! say
! that il ought 10 have been tired be-
fore Justice of the Peace. il being
. better adapted to the capacities Of such
a court. than Of this Que. After this
difficulty, Dotlder did get warrant
Tor me from Squire caddeback, over ia
i Deerpark. He then charged that l had
insultrd him, bat Eve or SIX months has
freshened his recollection, and he now
says that | assaulted and battered him.
! believe there is some difference be-
tween the two charges.
Dodder says he swore to the CON-
plant before Squire cu,ldeback, and
leave il for you to say whether he
tells the truth now in saving that / bat
tered him. i was taken by constable
before the Squire, and either because
the Justice was ashamed of what he
had already done, or hadn't time to at
tend TO it, 1 don't know which, il went
down. Two or three weeks after that
was arrested again, and my wife hay-
Ing been confined, thought il best, as
dutilul husband, To be around hum.
50 got rid Of it by giving security for
my appearance to Court.
You know. gentlemen, that am in
the employ of the Mongaup Valley,
Forrestbury and Port Jeryis Plank
Road Company, asa gate keeper. This
company. its seems, had sufficient con-
iidence IN my integrity aud honesty as
TO place me in that important station.
and even il | should receive $4,000 aud
steal $500 Of it, that's between me and
the company, and it's none of Dodder's
business. Now, when the company
sent me up along this road to collect
tolls, this Dodder was one of the in-
habitants | iound there in the woods,
and will say for him that he is a very
fair specimen of the rest Of the popu-
lation. But there isn't any Of them
that seem to appreciate all the benefits !
OF this plank road.
II let out to civilization a class of
people who never before realized the
idea that there was such thing as cis
ylllzed life, aud this Dolder is one of
them. II is fact that soon after I
moved there. young woman IL years
old, cum down out OF the mountains on
the Plank Road, one day, and said she
had never bee nout before. She fairly
seemed surprised to see white man,
aud after asking a few questions ent
back into the woods. This Dodder was
my nearest neighbor, and good deal
nearer than | wanted him, and / hadn't
been there long, before heard he had
been lying about me to one Of the Die
rectors, and soon found out that he
wanted to get his son, who was sworn
here against me, in my place. But he
hasn't done it yet. and il you don't
convict me, reckon he won't very
soon.
1t won't take long to dispose Of
D0dder No. 2. lie testilies that he
saw me throw three stones at his father,
and saw the sold man dodge" On
his cross examination he says that he
was in his own house in the woods,
and had to look over hill twenty feet
high, and also over three slab fences
and two stone walls. Well, If he tells
the truth, all wish is that | had young
Dodder's eyes. He is certainly a re.
markable boy, and can't consistently
deny his /" tafher."
| am wiling to admit that done
wrong to throw stones at Dodder, and
i apologize to all the world, and tn
county particularly, for it. The doc
tors tell US that there are two causes for
all diseases, predisposition and excita.
bility; | think it was the latter cause
that moved me to stone Dodder. [
therefore confess myself guilty of the
assault. but the battery deny; and il
you find me guilty OF the battery will
appeal from the decision to the Court
OF High Heaven itself before will SUBJ
nit to it.
Now, gentlemen, you saw Mr.. Dod-
der and heard him swear against me.
lasked him great many questions, and
| was sorry to hear him answer as he
did. | might have asked him il he
didn't kill my cat, and If he didn't
stone my chickens, because they tres,
passed in his woods, where actually the
rocks are 50 thick that the brakes can't
find their way through them; but then
! knew he would deny it, and it would
grieye me to hear him. He admits
that be was driving my three cows up
the road, and that he struck at one Of
'em, but says it was with small
switch. have proved that this switch
was a pole about ten feet long and
about three inches across the but end,
and have also proved that wheh he
struck, the COW fell. 1t is true my
witness couldn't swear that the stick,