Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-07

He Orders the Arrest ofJudge
WaIdrOn for Interior
ence with Process
of His Court.
The Contempt Gases Assume
a Triangular Shape A
New and Interesting
Phase Of Affairs.

ticles rejecting on his private character
which appeared in the columns of the
Apalanche, to exercise his authority as
William Hunter, Judge Of the Criminal
Court Of Memphis, in suppressing that
paper by imprisoning and fning its
editorial staff, seems suddenly to have
assumed altogether q new phase. The
fight originally made up between Hunter
and our Jefferson street confrere has
taken at length triangular shape, and
Judge Waldron, of the Municipal!Co
is logged in and seems destined in future
to share with the ApaIanche the thunder
bolts heretofore launched by the Jupiter
of the Criminal bench solely at the lat
ter. This, of course, involves an entire
change in the plan of battle on all sides,
and as the relative positions, defensive
and offensive, of the opposing parties is
somewhat complicated, it may be neces-
sary to review the events of the past
twenty -four hours in order to fully com
prehend just how matters now stand.
The application made by Col. Gala
way and Mr.. Campbell to Jndgs Waldron
for habeas corpus, on which the de-
PENDANTS were brought out of the county
Jail and before the bar of the Municipal
Court, where the case wa argued at great
length some ten or twel We days ago, and
decision from time to time postponed,
was finally decided, it will be remem-
bered, by Judge Waldron, yesterday.
This decision appeared in the LEDGER of
last evening, together with the action
subsequ taken by the Court in mod
fcation of the order remanding the
defendants to Jail. Judge Waldron as
sumed the ground that he had no right
whatever to interfere with the process of
Judge Hunter, presiding in court of
concurrent jurisdiction, nor could he
concede the right of appeal. So far so
good, and had he but stopped here the
Judge of the Criminal Court would doubt
less have been eminently satisfied with
the proceedings, and himself and the
Judge of the Municipal Court "hunka-
dora" But it was not ordered that
it should be thus. Another step in
the matter was destined to undo all
that had so far been done. An
application made by the counsel for the
defense, that the order demanding the
defendants to Jail be held in allegiance
for ten days, in order that the decision of
the case by the Supreme Court, now in
session at Brownsville, might be heard,
was granted, and Messrs. Galloway and
Campbell, after entering into bonds for
their appearance at the expiration of
that time, were permitted to retire from
the Courtroom, and again, for brief
period at least, breathe the free air of
heaven. This last was quite too much
for the prosecuted Hunter to stand. On
learning it he became frantically indig-
nant, and quite forgetting for the time
the editors of the Avalanche, forthwith
issued warrant for the arrest of the
offending Judge of the Municipal Court.
The following is the order:
CRIMINAL QouKT OF MENPHIs.
February Term, 1858. J
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The clerk of the Criminal Court of
Memphis will issue an attachment for
contempt of this court against George W.
Waldron, on the following charge: That
the said George W. Waldron did, under
pretense of acting in his official Ca
pacity as Judge of the Municipal Court of
Memphis, willfully, falsely, knowingly,
unlawfully, and completely impede, set
aside, and unlawfully interfere with, the
process, orders and judgments of this
court in q matter in which he knew at
the time of said unlawful interference he
had no lawful right or authority what
ever, in contempt of this court, within
the 9Th, 18th and 18th civil districts of
Shelby county, and during the present
term.
The sheriff will hold to bail in the sum
of $3.50. The writ returnable on the 18th
of April inst.
TSigned1 WIN. HUNTER,
Judge of the Criminal Court Of Memphis.
Issue subpenas for D. s. Griffin and
P. D. Beecher.
TSigned1 WIN. HUNTER, Judge.
In obedience of the above, Mr.. Capers,
clerk of Hunters court, forthwith made
out q writ of attachment, which was
placed in the hands of Sheriff Curry to
be served on Judge Waldron, and which
was served on him at his residence, on
Vance street, about dark, and the seces-
sary bail taken for his appearance on
Monday next. Thus with fresh shuttle
and new deal all around, the little game
ofoontempt has become three-handed,and
il our jefferson street confrere can only
pass, the interesting and somewhat novel
spectacle Of the two judges playing it
alone will be presented. Who holds the
trumps remains yet to be seen. In the
event that Hunter imprisons Waldron
and waldron retaliaies by imprisoning
Hunter, and either or both take Lewis,
Leonard and the rest Of the ring to jail
with them, we trust they will be kept in
until an election can be ordered and their
places filed by those who will render the
judiciary Of Memphis less ridiculous in
the eyes of the civilized and enlightened
world.
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