Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-07

MARYvILLE March, 6. L


Mr.. EDITOR: The bu,ning Of cur
court house il the topic of Conversa-
ton with u yes. Public opinion seems
10 accuse Alien q rleg Ed, as being
guilty OF The deeI. AL0 since there
il much talk ab0lt he affair 1t might
be well 10 give tae cir uGsraaces as
they really exist. Game Is a CC:0igu
man of extraordinary ms diligence, las
seen Justice Of the PesUe near en-
&c re, arranging h.s papers in the besc
shape of aiMC any justice u the
county; 50 there Was perhaps more
business transacted beioge him than
all the other Magistrates CombIued.
He Is also . lawyer, auU has been
for some years pTacuclng Il limited
extent in the courts of the county,
Some years ago he made profession
Of religion and attached himself 10
the C0IOTed Presbyterian Church a.
this place, was elected ruling elder and
supeIinteudent of the Sabbath school.
He had apparently accumulated means
and built IA very good house on Nam
Street, and appeared to be in pros per-
Gus condition. Last January he turned
up insOlYeDt, leaving large amount
of debts to be paid by his 8 curi~
ties. Upon this he got dunk aud le-
manned on q spree for several days.
He sObered up again and went about
his business as ugual. On Tuesday,
% h uIt., MIR. John Z. Duncan placed
a county warrant in the hand of Me
Teer & Gregory, attorneys, for the
purpose of taking judgment upon it.
1t is dated ia October, 1876, aud calls
for so %. There was a suspicious ap-
pearance about it, and, on close in
spection, by holding the waTrar be-
tween the eye and the light the words
"Judgt Feby" snd come figures
partly untelIigible were made PLAIN, 50
that even the hand writing WAS de-
tected, by the thin places in the
paper, appearing as the water mar.,
on new paper. They took it il
charge 10 feTrIt up The guilty party.
It's issuance TO VIII. a. McTeer was i
found, its payment to w. L. WeIcker
was also traced. Then on Friday, at
about o'clock p. M, Nc reer went TO
Gamers office ard found nat w elcker |
had taken judgment on bis warrant, |
and theTeupOn called for the file of |
papers, together with some other files !
of similar character. Garner replied |
that Gen. HOOD had that file, and the |
others could not then be found, but |
that he would get them all up by The |
next morning. Duncan bought the |
warrant from Garner. Nothing more
was done that evening, IS Mr.. Duncan
WAS not expected in town until the
next day. At night the baud played
awhile IN the court room and then
went out serenading. At a few min
utCs after 10 O'Clock the alarm of fire
vas given and Gamers office dis
covered to be in flames. He claims
that the fire caught from the
court room, where the band had been,
but they say they ha no fire at all
On Saturday, Duncan come in, a
States warrant for forgery WAS taken
out aud Garner was arraigned before
James Waters, Esq and continued
mis- case until the 18Th inst, giving
bail for bis appearance. On Monday,
other warrants in the same plight be-
gan TO turn up, and that evening he
again Tesorted to the bottle, and be-
came beastly intoxicated, RENAL lug
so until Tuesday evening, lis securl-
ties gave him up to the Sheriff, and :
he was committed TO Jail where he
now Temsins. The warrants thus
erased are sill appearing. Mr.. JEFF
Kidd discovered to-day that So 80 of
warrants, he had got from Garner
were all in the same plight. In fact,
it seems that he has turned out to
he the Boss Tweed Of Maryv lie. w.