Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-04
CHARGES AGAINST M'ATEE.
II. J.. COLLINS. oE ENID. ANuMADyERrs
IrON run OKLAHOMA JUSTICE.
Makes oath to u Number of Statements
Which Reflect Upon That Gentle
mans judicial Con,iurt-fnyes-
tigation VIII t,e Ordered.

'NH'HHt Justice MtNleo, ana 10 WhcN
Alr Collins makes affidavit AS covered
in these dispatches some days ago
charges Of very serious nature had
been preferred 10y MIR Collins but the
attorney general decided 1t would I've
well to have the affidavit of Mr. Collins
attached, and Mr. Collins replied, com
plying with tho request
The attorney general will now for
ward these charses to Inspector New
iouwho Is investigating charges against
Justice Scott mentioned in these dis
patches some time ago. MIR. Newton
viii be directed by the department ta
investigate the charges thus preferred
against Justice McAtec.
1t will doubtless be of interest to read
some Of the charges preferred against
Mr. McAtee. y copy Of those covered
hy affidavit follows
Enid. o. r, Jan 20, 1895
| TO tho Attorney General
Charges are hereby preferred against
the official conduct Of John l.. McAtee.
[ now acting associate justice of the ter
ritory OF Oklahoma ana Judge OF the
/ Fifth judicial district as follows:
/ First-After the appointment aud
\ qualification Of said NcAtee, said Me-
/ Ale" appointed Il. l.. Collins clerk ot his
. said district court ana at the time stated
/ below said McAtce asked for and re-
[ tciveI from said Collins his personal
/ check i'm the sums as follows May ii,
! lsti $lol, June u, 1894, Sloo: June 2,
| lSAl $40 That on or about the first Of
/ July. while the order of rclistrlCtinE
/ the territory by the supreme court was
/ being discussed and considered By the
/ court said McM.ec approached said
| Collins and made a request of Collins
1 To let him have 500, that If the dis
| tricts were chang q as contemplated
I that he, Collins, could afford 70 let him
have that amount, which said Collins
neglected TO do. and. several times
| thereafter said McAtee requested Col
Inns to let him have the sum Of SlOo,
which said Collins still neglected and
refused to do, although he thought that
the same would put in jeopardy the po-
sition which he held under said McAtee.
That on account of these monthly de-
mands" and other demands for the pay
ment of various sums of money from
the proceeds Of the clerks office. said
Collins was forced to resign and did
resign: that said MCAtee at no time Of
fered to pay to said Collins the sums of
money advanced to him. and when said
Collins approached him after leaving
the clerks office and demanded settle
nent of the $2l0 above mentioned. said
McAtee affected great surprise and only
consented to repay said sum of money
when threatened with a suit, if he re-
fused.
Second--That said McAtee has at va
rious times shown violent prejudice in
the presence of iuries against prisoners
at bar: that upon the trial of one Bow
en- in G county, who is now serving
five years sentence in the penitentiary
for harboring outlaws, said McAtee re-
fused to allow the prisoner at bar to be
called gentleman" and on the men,
tionng of the prisoner at the bar a
gentleman by his counsel, said McAtee
caused the expression TO be eXpunged
from the record and ordered the de-
oner gentleman" in his presence
again. This exhibition of violent pre-
judice occurred in the presence of the
jury.
Third-That in D county. o. r, said
McAtee made an order to the county
treasurer to pay out Of cash on hand
500 to a. 5. DUNCAN for conducting the
defense of a pauper defendant, when
said fees should have been paid in a
county warrant; said Collins called
this act when said McAtee replied.
THAT Is all right; | can use him politi-
cally in this territory and / will make
the order right or wrong" Afterwards
some trouble arose between said Nc
Atee and DUNCAN, and then McAtee de-
clared that DUNCAN had forged the
order which McAtee himself had given;
threatening 10 have said DUNCAN
brought before him on the charge of
forgery, but dropped the matter when
said II. L. Collins, who was at that time
clerk of his court, called his attention
to the order made.
Fourth-That at term Of court held
at Beaver county in June, 1894, the
board Of county commissioners We're re-
moved from Office by said McAtee, and
after the final adjournment of said
court, Sherman II. Atkinson, his court
reporter, Informed me that said McAtee