The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-12-23
RAKES SWEAT And REESE.
SENATOR CARTER SAYS THEY'ARE
THE GUILTY JUDGES.
Sweat Accused Of Intimacy With His
Typewriter Girl, and Resse
of ''CuSSing' and Drunk
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Senator Yancey Carter has come for
ward with the names of the alleged
"criminal Judges" making answer to
| the resolutions introduced by Senator
Battle. The judges whom he names are
! Judge Sweat of the Bruins wick circuit
and Judge Seaborn Reese of the North
ern circuit. Against the former the
| charge is that he was involved in a scan
dial and against the latter, in an indirect
way, the charges are that he was inn
properly implicated in certain pardon
transactions referred to by Governor
Northen, and also that he gets. drunk
and ";usses."
Upon the presentation of Senator Car
ter's statement Senator Battle offered a
resolution that they be sent to the house
for action by that branch of the assembly
in instituting an investigation or inn
parchment proceedings.
Senator Carter declares that hp'is ready
to give other names when the investiga-
tion once commences.
DR.. and Mrs. w. II. FELTON, and jim
and John Sibley, the well-known popu-
list politicians, went to Atlanta to con
fer with Senator Carter, and had hand
in the preparation Of his report, which,
in part, was as follows:
Il the interest of justice and the in
tegrity of the bench and my respect for
this body in making this request, offer
| this article, which is given in full, as the
basis of the charges against Judge
Sweat of tie Brunswick circuit, and
which deals with An alleged scandal
i'll which he was the main participant"
The article, which was published
eighteen months ago, gave no names, but
i an anony nous style, peculiar to SEN
sational papers of the character of the
! Looking Glass, described how Judge
of the superior court went to a fashion
able watering place with woman whom
he said was typewriter, but with whom
be took long walks in lonely places and
! who caused the hotel management to re-
quest the judge to vacate his room on
account of the fact that she was seen GO
ing and coming away from his chamber
under scandalous circumstances. The
article went on to say that the same
judge, after leaving this watering place,
went 10 another aud there made insult
inc propositions to the daughter of q
carpenter. Upon the girl telling her
father of The conduct of the Judge, it
was reclted how the angry parent had
cut big hickory cudgel and went on
the war path for the judge. Friends of
the Judge interfered and got him away
from the place before meeting to
place. He came to Atlanta and then,
when the father of the girl threatened
to take the matter into the courts and
cause exposure, lot of prominent poll
ticians were summoned to Atlanta to
keep down the scandal.
These are the main points in the article
referred to.
''In response to the request of the SEN
ate, name Judge j. L. Sweat of the
Brunswick circuit, as the Judge alluded
to in the above article, as | am reliably
informed.
81 also name Judge Seaborn Reese of
the Northern circuit, and submit as
charges against him drunkenness while
in attendance on the courts of his circuit
and while on the bench, aud with the
use of profane language in the presence
| of ladies, while attending his courts.
offer you further the executive order on
file in the executive department COM
muting the sentence of convict from
Randolph county by the name OF Nixon,
| and cite you to w. j. Northen as a wit
ness to the facts leading to the exercise
os executive clemency in the case,
'It is never pleasant to expose the fol-
lies, sins or crimes of our fellow men,
because there are so many innocent peo-
pie whose hearts may be grieved or NOR
tifiod by such an investigation as this
must now become by your action. When
! my former answer was spread on the
journal | would have been content to
rest the matter, but inasmuch as the SEN
ate in its wisdom has seen proper to
move forward in this direction | will
sink my individual preferences and when
it moves by appointing committee to
investigate ] will give other names and
facts and witnesses in the hope of purj-
flying the judiciary by making them re-
sponsihle to the people anu not to trad
ing politicians and parti6ans,"