Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-09
COUNTY MATTERS.

COUNTY MATTERS.
In late editorial we gave three
cases in which personal inconvenience
and personal suffering had occurred
from the careless and Indifferent man.
ner in which some of the county Off
Gals perform their duty. One of
these cases the Post denies with great
preciseress and fullness of statement.
The others are not denied.
We had stated that at the October
term, negro woman was put upon
trial for some petit larceny. The jury
failed to agree and the case did or
ought to have stood for trial at the
ensuing term. The witnesses were
notified to attend. Among others was
a poor negro woman, with large fam
lily of helpless children upon her
hands, and no one but herself to sup
port them, her husband having aban-
doned her. She attended the follow
ing court as a witness for two weeks,
as the law compelled her to do. When
Court was about to adjourn she APP
piled for her witness ticket, when she
was informed that the case was not
on the docket. The woman, after a
| loss of all this time at much expense,
was compelled to go home to her snf-
fering children without pay.
This is denied with great flourish
| of trumpets as follows:
LIST. That there was no woman tried
for larceny at that Term, where the
! Jury failed to agree, and a mistrial
entered.
I'd. That no woman was tried for any
other offense, and the jury failed to
agree; and
5rd. That no woman was tried for
larceny at that Term at all!
As the parties lived in the country,
we requested gentleman to gather
the facts in the case with the names,
which he has kindly done, and we give
it in his own language. We can ut
any time substantiate all these facts
with the affidavits OF the persons re-
ferred to i'll the communication.
1t reads as follows
Editoys OF the JOn1ylai: At yOur re-
quest I have looked into the matter Of
the womaH tried for petit larceny, to
which yOu referred in an article i'll the
Journal. You report it substantially
as follows: That last Fall colorcd
woman was tried i'll the Superior Court
for stealing that the jury could not
the following term; that one of the
witnesses i'll 1t was a poor cClOreu wo-
man, who attended as a witness in the
case the following term and failed to
get any witness ticket because the
case had been dismissed from the
docket. The Post says that you
Let me say that !yOu are nat 2nistokcn.
The accommodating and usually accu-
rate Clerk is mistaken, honestly and
taken. The following statement, which
can be sustained by evidence that
would not he disputed in The Court
self, will show that i'll the hurry of his
error, unintentional of course
Last Fall Rose Robinson, Il colored
woman of Rocky Point Township, was
tried before a Justice Court for steal
ing. She was found guilty and the
case was sent up to the following Oc-
tober Term. It was for II trifiing sum
of money. The case anqs I,asi OF triol
that Octobc1. Term, George L. Nab
son appearing for the defendant. The
jury failed TO agree. The girl, with
Thom6s Sessorls asher hOndsmaR, was
bond over TO the following january
Term. ant.. the witnessed, sarah AeRee
and Andrew Sioaii. Of Onslow, mott
fed t., again appear at the succeeding
Term. before the Term another caplas
was served by John Bell, the Deputy
of our worthy Sheriff, usss4 THIS same
girl in the same case, an4 anOtAer VII
ness also regularly summoned by the
same officer to attend as States wit
ness in the same Rose Robinson case.
This last witness attended, but upon
finding the case was not on Docket,
considered himself discharged.
Sarah McRee attended, IT'S the law
compelled her to do, as a witness, and
remained till near the close of the
second week of January Term. On
application to due Clerk, for her
witness ticket, she was Informed
that the case was not on the docket at
all, and that she had better go home :
and she then went home, and of course
got no ticket. Every person named or
referred to in this letter and others
besides, will endorse this statement
and testify to the same if Necessary,
except that George L. MADISON, the
attorney il the case, at October Term,
was not in the city ut January Term,
MS he was in the Legislature. What
you say about the poverty ~ the
woman. Sarah McRee, and the suffer
ing of her children when she was g
witness is true. 1t was the hand
of charity that saved them. That the
people in the county are awake to the
of the matters involved in
the Aforesaid controversy, and that |
there is necessity .+oor reform, need not
be questioned.
April 5, 1873. WITNESS.
The New York World says that IL:
Mr.. Marble, was never
n better health than he is now.