The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-14
MARSHAL CARROLL TALKS.
SAYS JONES HAS NOT BEEN RE-
APPOINTED DEPUTY
MARSHAL.
He Never Made Any Contract With
Jones to Pay Him 500, and
Gould Not Make Such
a Contract

/ :
Jones affair which appeared in the
Durham department Of the News and
Observer yesterday morning, Mar
shall Carroll made the following state
ment yesterday to a News and Obser-
YER reporter:
MIR. j. w. Jones sent his resignation
to the MarshaI's office on February
18th. On the next day in converse
ton with District Attorney Aycock,
he was told that Jones had resigned,
and package Of unexecuted warrants
| that were returned to the Office by
! Jones, were delivered to Mr.. Aycock,
and in this package was Jones com
mission as deputy marshal also return
! ed. Mr.. Aycock still has the commits
| sion; it was left in Collector Simmons
! office. In speaking with the District
| Attorney, of the necessity of a good
! deputy marshal in Wayne county, it
| was suggested that If Jones would re-
! form, quit drinking, move to Goldsbo-
! 70, (where he was raised) and stay so
| Der long enough, that his friends might
! be safe in signing a petition asking for
/ his re-appointment, that it might be
! done, ETC. In a few days thereafter
| ] wrote note to Jones asking him to
come to Raleigh. He did so. | then
! told him Of what had been said, during
Mr.. Aycock's visit here, and
/ suggested that he go to Colds
boro and reform and then
get his friends to make application
/ for his re-appointment Mr.. Jones
4 10 hnd IA, 90, tg
/ lumber business with a Mr.. Herndon.
4 He said he would consider this matter,
| and would go to Princeton, in john
/ ston county, first (where it was sug-
gested to erect a saw MILL, see the
outlook, and go also to Goldsboro, con-
fer with some friends there in regard
to the service mentioned and would
then decide with the marshal prompt
/ ~. Not another solitary word was
ever heard from Jones, until on Fri
day, 9Th inst, the editor of the News
and Observer told me that it was re-
ported in Durham that Jones was at
Princeton working in the capacity of
! deputy marshal at hundred dollars
| a month, guaranteed salary. This con-
yersation was brought about as the
result of a communication from the
1 Durham correspondent. / was totally
ignorant of Jones' whereabouts until
this information was given me by Mr..
Daniels; whereupon l wired and wrote
Mr.. Jones to come to Raleigh at once.
/ In response to the telegram and letter
Mr.. Jones came to Raleigh on Satur-
day evening, and in the presence Of
Collector Simmons and l.. ID. Watson
pronounced the rumor thus published
by the Durham correspondent false,
saying that he had been strictly on
private business of his own, and that
he had not, in any manner whatever,
stated to any one, directly or indirect
w, that he was in the marshal's service
at all; and that he had not attempted
in any manner to leave the impression
on the minds of anybody that he had
been re-appointed and commissioned
as a deputy marshal.
"The District Attorney stated in the
city this week that Jones did come to
see him in Goldsboro, and asked him
if he would endorse him for re-appoint-
ment.
zones being then under the i'm
fiuence Of liquor, the District Attorney
positively refused to recommend him
or encourage him in any way. | stated
positively that from the date he was
i'm nv Office, about the 10th of Feb
ruary, until Saturday last, the 7th
when I had sent for HIM, had not
seen or heard from Jones in any man
ner, and was totally ignorant of his
whereabouts.
sIn regard to the certificates in the
News and Observer of the 18th, | state
positively that / have never, at any
time, employed deputy marshal on
salary; that they can only be en-
ployed on fees, and that the contract
with them all must be uniform, and
this contract is kept on file at the De
partment at Washington, and that
when one is appointed or removed, the
same must be reported 10 the Depart
ment.
81 state that Jones has never been
re-appointed; that he has had no com
mission since February 18th. | state
further. that it is false that Jones was
here on the goth with number OF
warrants, that these warrants are fur
nished marshals by the United States
| Commissioner; that Jones had return
ed all he had on February 18th, with
his commission; that he could not OBJ
tain them only from the Commissioners,
and that there is no Commissioners in
Johnston county, the one there having
deid several weeks ago. / further state
that / never did in my life see J. l.,
Dixon, who claims that he was EN-
ployed at two dollars day to go with
Jones; that no such pay can be allowed
anybody to go with deputy marshal.
/ state further that | was in my Office
all day on Saturday, February 10th,
came to see me at ALL"
A course Of Hoods Sarsapal,illa this
spring may be the means of keeping
you well and hearty all summer.