The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-07
WAKE sUTERloR COURT.
The Case Against Satterfield and Brown
to Come Up Thursday.

Judge McIver's charge to the grand
Jury at noon yesterday was delivered
in the same able, judicial manner that
has come to characterize North Car
DINA Judges There was in it no
pojnt of unusual significance. He COW
cred the ground fully, and laid a good
deal of stress on perjury, saying that
if the Jurors knew of this crime hay
ing been committed they could DO the
county no higher service than to pre-
sent the criminals.
Judge McIyer seems fair impartial,
judicial.
The eases OF the State vs.. Satter-
field and State VS.. Brown will be called
Thursday morning, according to the
calendar.
The fraudulent enrolment of the
mortgage bill,' the subsequent eX-
element, the passage of the Dill
through the Superior Courts to the
Supreme Court, and the refusal OF
that tribunal TO $50 behind the ratiii-
cation''-all this is still fresh in the
minds of men.
At the last term of Wake county SUI
perior Court the grand jury found
true bills against s. 7. Sattterfleid'
principal clerk of the House, and =.
w. Brown, enrolling clerk.
The bills of indictment as drawn
charge that S. p. Satterfield did neg
ligentIy and wilfully fail to perform
the duties of his Office in that he de
liyered to the enrolling clerk, j. W.
Brown. the bill called the assignment
act" The Indictment also charges
him with 'corruptly procuring the en-
rollment of that act
The indictment charges Brown
with wilfully and negligently per-
hitting the enrolment Of the act.
The State will probably introduce
as witnesses:
Smith, of Stanley, who saw Satter-
field with the bill after it had been ta-
bled. and called Satterfeld's attention
| to the facet that it had not been
| passed.
Miss Daisy Branson, the young lady
copyist who read the bill over to
Brown, the enrolling clerk.
j. G. Ellington, State Librarian and
custodian of the original bills of the
| Legislature.
". p. Bachelor, chief clerk of the
Secretary of State.
Quite an array OF legal talent will
1 form the DTbaSl-HoibS Ipl tiAt -i@iNiiNA
| ants. 1t is said that MIR. T. II. pur-
nell. Mai. j. u. Bachelor, of this city;
| Merritt and Brooks, of RoXboro; Col.
| l.. c. Edwards, and Capt. Il. 5. Roy
| ster, of Oxford, will represent them.
The defense has also summoned n
number of witnesses, among others
the Speaker of the House, Ieb Vance
Walser.
MRS. T.. ID. Il. For LIBEL.
Another double case is that Tor
| thosel against Mrs. Pattie ID. II. Ar
rington and the Barnes brothers for
| criminal libel In this case the in
| dictments are for publications in The
| Criminal Docket" the paper published
| here of which Mrs. Arlington was ed
| itor and proprietor, and Barnes Bros.
| the publishers. There are two SUITS
one for libelling ex-Judge Spier
Whitaker; the other for iibelling the
memory of the late Chief Justice W.
| n. II. Smith.
Graham, the negro who held up W
| j. Y. Thurston, On the Garner road,
| and robbed him, viii be tried at this
| term.
Walton Stone, who is charged with
embezzlement from New York
piano firm, Krmiich and Bach. will
also be tried.
The grand jury is composed Of;
4. b. Marshburn, foreman; W. Ii.
Hunter, W II. Strother, w. II. O'Brien,
| W. H. Cain, +. i. Brown, j. II. Stewart
q. ID. Bailey. NJ G. Hodge, Hardy r.
| Pool.Jr,L H. Edwards, Madison Priv-
EFT, c. NJ Allen, w H. BeelSwith, ".
II TbatpFaleo Robert PIERCE Marion