Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
Jackson as a Judge.

Our Oiu IrlenQ Ii. V Bloom has hand
us copy of the Bedford, Penn, Ga
zette, in which a correspondent from
Jonesboro, Tennessee, gives some rem
iniscences of ''Old Hickory" which are
interesting. The correspondent says ::
'In my last letter 1 stated that this
place was once the judicial baihwick of
the Hero of New Orleans, General An
drew jackson, then president judge Of
the Superior as well as the Chancery
court. In looking over the records of
the court, find that his career as Judge
begin on the 18th day of September,
1893, and the following is literal copy
OF part of the proceedings of that term:
September, 1893.
At Superior Court of Law began and
held for the District of Washington, at
the Court House in JOnesboro, the 18th
day of September, Ammo Domini 1899,
Present the Hon1
Andrew Jackson, Esq, Judge, who
pursuant to an act of Congress of the
United States, entitled an act to regu-
late the time and manner of administer
ing certain oaths, took the oath to sup
port the constitution of the United
States.
When among other things the follow
ing proceedings were had:
Monday Morning, Sept. %.
State OF North ORTIZ Carolina Who by
Tnn Wilcnn onI Toe A
found guilty of horse stealing.
Being called to the bar, are asked
what they had to say why sentence
agreeable to law should not be passed
upon them, say nothing. 1t is there
fore ordered that the said John Wilson
and James FulsOm be confined in the
Public Pillory for the space of one hour.
that each of them have their ears nailed
to the pillOry and severed from their
heads, that they receive at the Public
Whipping post thirty-nine lashes each.
upon their bare backs well laid on, and
that each of them be branded upon their
right cheek with the letterH and on the
left cheek with the letter T. (Horse
Thief and that the Sheriff of Washing
ton county put this sentence in execu
tion between the hours of twelve and
four this afternoon. Sentence executed.
Andrew Jackson, p. J.
In 1904, about the close of his judicial
term here, while engaged In a cause of
much interest, news was brought 20 him
while sitting on the bench, that a des-
perate character Of the name of Hugh
Bean had committed terrible outrage
upon his infant child only two days old.
This man Bean, as before stated, was a
desperate character, feared by the whole
and seemed to do as he had
a mind to. He was of jealous dispo-
sition and on his return from hunting
expedition two days after the birth of
this child, went into his wife's room.
looked at the child, said to his wife
''this is not my child,'' took it up, pull
ed out his Bowie knife and cut off both
its ears. The child died, and the case
was reported to Jackson who iramedi-
ately called the sheriff to summon a
posse and arrest and bring Bean before
the court. The sheriff returned in an
hour saying Bean was in the dense
woods quarter of a mile south of the
town, and that they could not take him
as he was armed and refused to be ta-
ken. Whereupon jackson ordened the
sheriff to bring Bean into court, dead or
alive, and il necessary to summon every
man in the court room, including him.
self, saying, Sheriff, summon me; by
the Eternal, III bring him. The court
adjourned; Jacksensp pro-
cured rife, and with the sheriff start
ed to the woods. Jackson espied Bean,
and drawing his rifle on him called ON
him to surrender. Bean knew his man
threw up his hands and said he surren-
dered. jackson led him into court and
had him put under guard, .re-convened
court asked Bean TX he was guilty of the
charge against him, when Bean answer
ed he was. and that he was not sorry for
what he had done. Whereupon his hon.
or. Judge Jackson sentenced him to be