The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-27
JUDGE ARMFIELD WRITES.
What he Has to Say About the league
DGgraff Matter.

UUSl I'LL lnullUlI
Macarthur, the Democratic Candidate
for Sheriff. EnIightens the Minds
of the Voters by Reading to Them
the Letter in Full-It Proves that
league is an Arrant Coward
The speaking at Kernersyille Satur
day passed off tremendously. The
candidates were greeted with a large
and attentive audience. A Republic
can who was in attendance says that
the speaking was a Democratic vic
tory.
r. NJ. Macarthur made the opening
speech of fifteen minutes and badly
hacked his Republican opponent,
Sheriff league. Among the other
charges he made against the sheriff
was to read the letter from Judge
Armfield which conyicts league OF
cowardice. The letter reads as fol-
lows:
''STATEsyILLE, n. c. Oct. IA, 1892.
''R. M. Macarthur:
DEAR SIR Your letter of recent
date received, on my return from Wa
tauga court, in which letter you say
that NJ. E. league, the Republican
nomineefor sheriff, ihas been narrating
all over the county that a Democratic
judge ordered him not to leave the
court room at any time while court
was in session to make any arrests,
let them be for murder or other
wise.
SIN answer to your request to state
how this matter was, / have to say
that while as a Judicial officer of the
State, / am taking no part in the par
tisan contest now being agitated be-
fore the people, yet, as | am the only
judge who has held court in your
county since the occurrence to which
you refer, | feel bound to state the
facts as they occurred in my court,
and they are as follows:
son the morning after the homicide
of the woman, to which you refer,
soon after the converting of the court,
Sheriff league approached me as L sat
upon the bench and Informed me that
woman had been killed the evening
before in the suburbs of Winston, and
that man named DeGraff was charg-
ed with the murder, and asked me
what he ought to do. / told him the
man must be arrested at once, and
that if he wanted to go to arrest him
/ would excuse him from the court, he
having deputy in court. He replied
that he would rather stay in court and
send deputy. / replied: You may
do so, if you have deputy upon whom
you can implicitly rely to make the
arrest. He said he had such deputy.
/ then told him to send him with in
StructiOnS to summon whatever posse
was necessary, and to make the arrest
Immediately, and at all hazards;
These are the facts as they occurred
in court, and two or three times after
wards, during the week, / enQuired of
Sheriff league what efforts were being
made to effect the arrest, and he as
Sured me on every occasion that he
had the most reliable deputies in pur-
suit of DeGraff, with Instructions to
summon posse, etc.
never at any time told Sheriff
league that he must not leave my
court to make the arrest, but on the
contrary, told him repeatedly on every
occasion when the subject was men
toned, that / would excuse him from
attendance on my court if he thought
it necessary to go in person to effect
the arrest of DeGraff. These are the
facts. "YOurS truly,
''R. F. ARMFIELD."
AT REASONS STORE.
The county candidates were at Bea-
sons on Friday. Everything passed
off tremendously with the exception
that the Democratic and Republican
candidates for sheriff got warmed up
by their discussions.
About one hundred voters were in
attendance, including Editor GOsli ng,
of the Union Republican. and @. S.
Hauser, Sheriff leagues clerk.
J. W. Miller, the Third party can
didate for sheriff, was the first to
speak. He simply announced himself
as candidate.
r. M. Macarthur folll wed and was
cheered when he arose. He said that
he was the Peoples candidate and
that he was nominated by the far
mers. He asked if it was not the duty
of a sheriff to eXecuterpapers as soon as
they were given him. He then asked
if the present sheriff had done those
things. ''No," was answered with
cheers.
Macarthur then read letter from
Judge Armffeld, of Statesville, who
was holding court here when the MUIR
der was committed near Hotel ZinZen-
dorf, in which the Judge says that he
remembers distinctly when Sheriff
league came to him and asked if he
could get away from court to go in
search of a murderer. The Judge re-
-Efied that he could and urged the
sheriff to go after DeGraff at once.
league then asked the Judge if he
could not send one of his deputies,
saying that he preferred to attend to
the duties of the court himself. Judge
Armf1eld then asked if he had depu-
ty that could be relied upon in an i'm
portant rcase of that kind. league
replied that he did. The Judge, how
ever, advised league strongly togo in
person with the posse.
leagues reply to the letter is that
the Judge is mistaken in what he says.
He tries to tell about the converse
ton he and the Judge had in the mat1
ter, but gets badly mixed in his state
ments. He failed to answer all the
charges and sat down badly hacked.
Macarthur was called to the stand
the third time by the enthusiastic
crowd. In short, he was given polit-
ical encore.
G. B. Watson made another forcible
speech. The colored candidates were
also present and made addresses.
Crews said he was still in the race and
could not be bought over.
CUT WITH A KNIFE.
John Rver1v a JIIStica Of the Peace