The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-09
THOSE FRIVOLOUS PROSECT-
TIONS.

Some Indications That People Are Out
rageOusly Prosecuted--For the Pur-
pose OF Being Made to Pay ssCosts.''
Some time ago the CHRONICLE made
reference to the fact that there were
evidences that frivolous prosecutions
were occasionally made in magistrates
courts for no better purpose than that
Of collecting ''costs.'
whether they were true or net.
And nov comes another which, if
true, shows that some outrageous things
are being done in this line. This re-
port comes only from one side, but it
is from a colored woman of exec ceptionally
coed character, and is entitled to ere
dence. She made the complaint to the
CHRONICLE yesterday morning.
She had been washing fOr her daugh-
ter-in. law and had done work to the
amount of three dollars. Then she ask
ed her daughter for the pay or part OF
it. She probably made the request
several tim s. but she asserts
daughter in-law became very angry and
went before magistrate in this city,
where she took out warrant, charging
her mother-in, law with using violent
| language toward her. This was affirm
ed by the daughter and denied by the
mother.
According to the complalnant's state
nlent the magistrate told her she had
no right to ask her daughter 20 pay her
the nouey on the street and was told
that if she ever did SO again she would
be sent to the jail Or work-house. Fur
thermore she was charged three dollars
as the amount Of "costs' of this trial
and told to pay it or go to jail.
If such are the facts there are indeed
outrageous proceedings in some Of the
magistrates courts.
The colored woman who made the
complaint is we'll known in the city
She is the mother Of the colored mar
who fell dead in Mr. s. c. Pools sta
bles some time ago, and she took it upor
herself to see that he wa.
decently burned, bearing nearly or quit,
all OF the expense. She stated that sht
had recently paid out seven dollars fo
her daughter-in law and son to keel
them out OF trouble.
The CHRONICLE of course knows th
lanes of all the palties and the magis
trete connected with this case. Thi
paper hopes to see the matter eithe
made clear, or it wants to see that "costs
money restored to that old woman. l
one or the other is not done soon ther
will be further reference in much plain
er terms to the affair.
} A Building for the Various Orders.
Especial Cor. of STATE CuRoNICLE)
Permit me to endorse your article i
the DAILY CHRONICLE of the 9th inst
headed "a Proposition. and say tia
the position taken by you is timely an
strikes me as one that will commend i
self to the public-spirited men of ou
city. I doubt whether any better il
l vastment can be made, and think tE
), following orders might enter hearth
: into the consideration of the same. tt
Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights
Pythias have two lodges each in tt
O city, and think the Y. NJ @. A., Knigh
). of Labor and may be the Alliant
> men. The Masons, Odd Fellows an
; Knights of Pythias would each want
n hall of their own. [ presume. tt
Knights of Honor, American Legion
Honor, National Union. Knights al
:. Ladies of Honor and the Royal Arcanu
would hardly be justified in taking al
part therein as they have very sna
70 general fund with which to meet ca
4 rent expenses. However, this fund
o raised by dues and fees as in other 8
e cieties.
It Now to go further, let me sugge
If that the various orders appoint, at the
# next meeting,a committee of conferen
= upon this matter who shall convene al
n discuss the matter. What say you.