The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-07
COL. FAIRBROTHER TALKS.
He Seems Interested About Mr.. One
Jones.
DOES HE EXIST AT lLLs

porter concerning the Identity
of This Mysterious Parsonage.
The late Colonel Fairbrother,
when approached for an interview
by a Recorder reporter, said, con.
cerning the identity Of the One
Jones referred to in the affidavit
Of Mr.. George w. Watts, read be
fore Judge Graham at Oxford week
before last in the now celebrated
Cowan-Fairbro rotherinjunction case,
substantially as follows:
"Yes, saw that a gentleman
carrying the rare cognomen Of
Jones was for some time negotiat-
ing for the junk and alleged good
will Of the abandoned and sunken
wreck-once sailing in calm waters
called the Globe. | believed
when / heard the affidavit of Mr..
Watts that somewhere or at some
time or in some place | had heard
the same name spoken. Yet, Of
course, in travelling about a great
deal one hears many names, but /
betook myself to thinking, and
finally / recalled that in Field
ing's masterpiece, Tom Jones the
Foundling was the hero. But as
Tom Jones Of Fielding fame could
never establish the fact that he
had a father, because he did not
know him, or at least who he was,
and knowing Of course that Mr..
Watts could not tolerate inter-
course with such a hapless being,
especially in the hope of securing
him TO edit his junk, | banished
the ghoulish and skulking thought
that it was the Jones whom Squire
Allworthy found on his door step,
and, in an eager and almost uncon-
trolable madness, ! again betook
myself to thinking, fancy unto
fancy linking, and before my Wis
ion appeared the visage Of the
venerable Christopher Columbus
Jones who followed the forlorn
hope Of Coxey, and who refused to
keep off the grass and who was in
carcerated for his trespass. But
then, | said to myself, that will
never do--a millionaire cigarette
maker, being a managing director
in an alleged gigantic trust, selling
a disabled press and d lot Of bat
tered type 70 a deluded and mis-
guided man who believed that
gold and its mighty influence wa:
corrupting and bankrupting the
nation. No, | said, ! cannot divine
who or what or which Jones held
an option on the six months tenn
porarily suspended wreck.
"For the third time ! engaged
in thought said the late Colonel
the process being painful 10 me
Here he showed signs Of grea
mental agony, as though som,
mighty thought was ploughinl
burrows through his giant brain)
81 hoped had hit upon the man
and thought Of Jones Of Bing
hamton who pays the freight
But as he has scales, fallen doubt
less from his eyes, | imagined h,
would want nothing to do witt
such d lease as Mr.. Cowan claim
70 have signed.
ed Jones, Of Oxford, thougl
Ia printer, denied that il was him
as we vulgar, ungramatical news
paper cusses would say. He toll
me he knew there were lots .
Jonescs, but that this particula
phantom, ghost or spirit, real o
unreal, nameless One Jones wa
mot ore Of the original family
land again | was lost.
II hardly thought that Johl
Jones. Of Durham, would be likel
Ito associate himself with the le:
sor, and was just about to give
Iup, when | suddenly remembere
THAT this particular One Jones wa
according TO Mr.. Manning, a ives
ern man. What particular pal
Iof the west was not named, bu
lthen, as Mr.. Watts swore that th
name was Jones. and his lawye
said he was a western man, tbs
ended il. | hardly think that Nj
Watts could have been mistake
Iabout this One Jones, because th
whole West doubtless knew thi
Inc had an old printing press (
sale. and One Jones was the luck
fellow who got the option. Whi
lll can't understand, however,