The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-26
PESHALL MAY Shoot.
Chancellor McGi11 Thinks
He Was Slightly
Deceived.
SITS ON LAWYER COWLES.
And C0mpels Him TO Answer Ques.
tons He did not Like
Very Well.

noon vacated the writ of ne eredt under
which Mr.. Charles J. Peshall had been
confined in the Hudson County Jtil since
Tuesday and ordered Mr.. Peshall dis
charged from custody. The manner in
which The Chancellor disposed of the
case led many to believe that the Chan
cellor was laboring under the impression
that he had been imposed upon by young
Mr.. Carey, clerk in Lawyer Cowles'
office, who made the principal affidavit
upon which the writ was granted
There were large number of promin-
ent men in the court room to express
their sympathy for Mr.. Peshall among
them being Congressman E. F. McDon-
aid, Frank L. Clark, Assemblyman J.
Herbert Potts. Lawyers Fred Frambachs
William Midleye, Mungo J. Currie,
Ii. ID. McCartin, William Bumstead and
S. ID. Haines.
Ex-Judge Douglass, who appeared for
Mr.. Peshall, made the formal motion for
his discharge.
Mr.. Cowles, in opposing, said that the
petition for the writ prayed for an
answer, and he did not think Mr.. Peshall
should be realeased until ne had answered
the bill. He claimed that it was good
thing that man could be arrested and
held where the Court could get at him
in matters of this kind. The aff1davits,
he claimed, showed that Mr.. Pesnall
had no residence in this State. and
nothing to keep him here. He did not
come to the Court saying that he co1ld
not get bail, but he refused to furnish
bail. Ii the newspapers were to be be-
lieved people were waiting in line at the
jail to go bail for him. Peshall had
been defiant Notwithstanding the injunc-
ton Of the Court. and had said that
Read should not get cent from him.
MIDDLE AGE IDEAS.
Judge Douglass, In reylying, scored Mr..
Cowles for his Middle Age ideas about
davits upon which MIR. Peshalls gelease
was asked, as published in The JERSEY
CITY NEWS of Thursday.
AS Mr. Peshall's affidavit contradicted
that of Mr.. Carey the Chancellor direct
ed that Mr.. Carey should be
stand like conquering hero. and
told of the conversations he had
had with Mr.. Peshall, In which
Mr.. Peshall had said that he was going
TO Washington and to North Carolina
He remembered exactly what Mr.. Peshall
he. at the direction of Mr.. Cowles, mads
memorandum of the talk.
Upon cross examination he admitted
| that Mr.. Peshall told him that he was
going to the south for q shoot. Mr..
Douglass asked him why he did not
| put that in his affidavit, and Mr.. Cowles
| said he would not answer that question.
He will answer the Judges question. !"
said the Chancellor in his quiet but de-
cisive manner, and Mr.. Carey said he did
| not think it was necessary.
The Chancellor asked Mr.. Carey why
| he did not tell him all the conversation
with Mr.. Peshall. Mr.. Carey became
confused and said that he only told what
| he thought was necessary.
Necessary to obtain the writs and have
Mr.. Peshall locked up" remarked Judge
Douglass.
| Mr.. Cowles then made desperate
effort to vindicate the course which his
side had taken In the matter by
| urging that Mr.. Peshall was in
contempt of court and had violated the
orders OF the Chancellor. He said that
| Mr.. Pershall had told Mr.. Carey that he
| had the proceeds of the sale in his
pocket and now it is said that ne
| had not received any money at all.
| Cowles thought that any man who did
| like that was not entitled to relief at the
hands of the Chancellor.
The Chancellor cut Mr.. Cowles short
by saying that he did not think that he
would be justified in holding Mr.. Peshall
and he ordered his discharge.
Mr.. Peshalls friends crowded around
him, and congratulated him upon his
honorable discharge.