The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-01


gested and advised the said Chapman II
have his cause tried at the then Ma!
Term, 1869, of said Circuit Court, pre-
posing at the same time to give hlm
the said Chapman, a special jury, and
to appoint special officer TO summon
the jury for the trial of said cause
who was then known TO the said Harri
son to be on unfriendly terms with the
said Lewis Ballard. Sc record in saie
case of Ballard rs. Chapman, herewith
submitted, and testimony of said Chap
man, to be hereafter produced.
Fifth. That he has repeatedly and
gratuitously advised parties who hac
suits in his courts to employ q particu
lar attorney. See affidavit of Lewis
Ballard, herewith submitted, and testi
mony of John G.. Young, William z
Young and others, to be hereafter pro
duced.
THIRD CHARGE.
That he has used his judicial power
and authority oppressively, Vindic
lively and corruptly.
SPECIFICATIONS.
First. He refused to allow Joseph H
Alvis to qualify as Clerk and Recorder
of Mercer county. although he had beer
regularly elected az such, upon the pre-
tense that the official bonds which the
said Alvis furnished for his approval
had attached to them the names of per.
sons whom the said Harrison denounced
as rebels; but the said Harrison made
no objection to the sufficiency of said
bonds, or the snfficiency of the security,
aud after refusing to approve said bonds,
Immediately appointed one George
Evans Clerk and Recorder, who entered
upon the duties of said Offices. Witness,
Joseph II. Alvis.
Second He required all the court or.
ders from every part of his circuit to be
published in the Monroe Republican, u
paper of which he was part owner, 80
long as the said paper had an existence.
See copies from records of Monroe and
Greenbrier counties, to be hereafter
furnished.
Third. That he appointed his intimate
personal friend, Alex. r. Humphreys,
who was and is notoriously incompetent,
Commissioner and Receiver of the Cir
cait Courts of the counties of Green.
brier and Monroe, and rendered the
said Humphreys the said positions in
the remaining counties of his circuit,
and not only allowed him commission
upon any sales made by him, to the full
extent prescribed by the statute, but
also an additional commission of two
per cent. for the collection of the bonds
executed at such sales, in express viola
lation of law. Sec copies of DEGREES
herewith submitted, and also testimony
of the bar of Greenbrier and Monroe
counties.
Fourth. That although the said Hum.
pbreys has held the said Office of Re.
ceiver since some time in the year 1866,
he, the said Harrison, has failed and
neglected to require the said receiver to
make q settlement of his said accounts
before commissioner of said Harrson's
court, as provided and required by law.
See certificates of the Clerks of the Cir
cuit Courts of Greenbrier and Monroe
counties, herewith submitted.
Fifth. That the said Harrison has re.
peatedly borrowed for his own use funds
from the said Alexander r. Humphreys,
which he held in his hands as Receiver
of said Courts. See testimony of Will
liam A. Quarter, Henry NJ. Mathews,
Frank Hereford, and other testimony to
be hereafter furnished.
Sirth. That the said Harrison has
made unreasonable and illegal allow
ances out of the funds under his control
as Judge as aforesaid. See copy OF
record In suit of b. W. Harrison's 3 execu
tor rs. the Farmers Bank, herewith
submitted.
Serenth. That on the - day of
January, 1869, the said Harrison, acting
in concert with the Board of Registra-
ton of Greenbrier county, made an or
der upon citation of the officer, declar-
ing the office of Sheriff vacant, upon
the ground that the incumbent, Wallace
Robinson, had been stricken from the
list Of voters since his election and
qualification the said Robinson having
opposed the election of the said Harri-
sou as Judge of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit; from which order an appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court of Ap.
peals of this State, where the Same was
reversed; and Notwithstanding the re.
versal thereof and notice Of the same,
the said Harrison directed the Clerk OF
the Circuit Court of said Greenbrier
county not to deliver the process of the
said court to said Robinson, and direct
ed one of the assessors for said Green
brier county not to deliver the assess
or's books to said Robinson, but to one
Oscar Callis5n, whom the said Harrison
had appointed to fill the vacancy pre-.
duced by his order aforesaid-all OF
which was unlawful and corrupt. See
record Of case Of Wallace Robinson rs.
the State Of West Virginia, lately pend
ing in the Court of Appeals of this
State, herewith submitted, and testi-
moRy of William A. Anderson, assessor
of Lower District in Greenbrier county,
and other testimony to be hereafter fur
nished.
Eighth. That on the day Of,
1865, one Henry F. Hunter, then a citi.
zen of said GreeHbrier county, applied
to the said Harrison for his judicial en-
dorsement of his (Hunter's) petition for
a pardon from the President of the Uni
ted States, and he, the said Harrison,
refused to give his siid endorsement
unless the said Hunter, or some one for
him, would give his bond for $500 to
one John A. Wills, a partner of said
Harrison, aud living in Washington.
The bond thus required was given;
whereupon the said Harrison made the
endorsement desired, thereby putting q
price upon his judicial influence and
See testimony of
David s. Hounshell and John A. Hunter
and Others, to be hereafter furnished.
Ninth. That the said Harrison allows
Office judgments to be set aside upon di-
latory pleas, without requiring the
party to say that he has a substantial
defence. See testimony of Carlos A.
Sperry, Alexander Walker, and other
of the bar of the Seventh Cir.
cult.
Tenth. That at the November term,
1869, of the Circuit Court Of Monroe
county, there being case on the Office
Judgment docket in the name Of Jacob
C. Allen, for the benefit of Baldwin Bal
lard rs. Richard A. Hutchinson and
Woodram, the said Harrison
voluntarily and corruptly appealed to
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