The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-09

! He told me not to pay Busbee more
than $3.50, for my case was whipped.
At last in 1887 | got a message from
Whitaker asking me to come to his
office.
Judge Whitaker told me he knew
| the lawyers had been robbing me, but
| didn't know it was so bad as he had
| found it, Whitaker came up to me
| with two slips of typewriter paper
| in his hands, and said: IF you'll sign
these papers, I'll take your case.
told him ] was perfectly willing to
| give him what those papers stipulated
| five per cent. on the Arlington judg-
| ment, and five per cent. on my home
| at Castalia After an hours converse
| ton he called me around behind the
| desk. and asked me to sign the papers.
| He said Mrs. Arlington, don't show
| that paper to everybody. People will
| think that you have given me too
much, and that will make you dis
satisfied When | got home, my
daughter read the paper, and eXciaim-
| ed, Lord, mother, you have given
| Judge Whitaker twenty per cent. OF
all your property The next morning
| went to him with the paper. | said,
| I'm die before ! shall be treated this
way | tore up the paper in his pres
ence. He said, Well, if you tear up
| your paper, I'll tear up mine. And
| that's the end of it. He pulled
| paper out of his desk and tore 1T.
| | thought it was the contract. But l
| agreed to let him take my case, with
| out any written contract. At Vance
| county court wrote anote TO the Judge
| telling him that Whitaker had moth
| ing TO do with my case. Whitaker
| then rushed up to me, and tired 10
| induce me to sign paper OF some
| kind. / refused The only paper L
thought signed was the one deposing
| Whitaker and appointing John AIRING
| ton commissioner. / got $1,000 from
the Arlington Judgment, and after
| wards got 500, and that's all the
money | have received.
| Judge Whitaker told me the other
| lawyers, all of 'em, were stealing from
me. and he was the only honest one
| there was.
| 81 believe that Jake Battle at Vance
court read to me different paper
| from the one / signed. [ know it.
Capt. Day: why did you sign it
/ after the erasure?'
1 y. "a.
ceived and lied to. They didn't tell
me why it was erased.
Mrs. Arlington asserted on the stand
that the alleged libel was true, and
/ said, HE stole my money by fraud
| and misrepresentation"
| Mrs. A.: 1.-The way that paper came
TO be registered was this: | was sum-
| moned before Charley Upchurch in
/ fl1arF
/ wanted me to sign an order on the
/ Arlington Judgment for Hackney's
/ money. Whitaker was there. lie
| said to me, What are you doing here"
and then remarked TO Upchurch, You
can't make Mrs Arlington sign the
| order on the Arlington judgment
| until it has passed the higher court.
He said to me, Come to my Office to-
| morrow morning. The next morn
| ing when / went to his Office he said,
| DO YOU remember that old contract
| of ours? Registering that paper rs
! the only way you can save your home
| at Castalia' / told him / thought
the paper was destroyed, and couldn't
| consent to it's registration. At last,
| for the protection of my home, ]
| agreed. Then Fleming was called in,
| and witnessed the paper, and that's
| the first time he ever saw il.
DIR. CRAWFORD RECALLED.
DIR. Crawford, recalled, stated that
/ Mr.. Whitaker had told him Mrs. Ar
rington was dissatisfied with thecon-
| tract. that he had torn the papers up,
/ that he had given up the case, as he
couldn't take it for less than twenty
per cent.
JUDGE whitaker AGAIN.
Judge Whitaker again took the
| stand, and denied the statements of
| DIR Crawford. He explained the af-
fair at Vance county court; MRS. Ar
| rington was in and out of the court
| room. / offered her no paper to sign.
The erasure in the decree was made
because | would not consent to the
Judgment. The paper was changed
again signed by Mrs. Arlington,
| brought to me and then recorded"
ANOTHER VOLLEY OF QUESTIONS.
Mrs. Arlington then fired another
volley of question into the Judge.
Didn't you once tell me that every
other lawyer in Raleigh was jealous of
you, because you had the richest
clients in town?
Didn't you tell me not to get Sam
Mordecai because he had stolen $4,000
from the Askew estate, and was fix
ing to steal four more?"
Didn't you tell me that Battle was
all right, but Sam Mordecai wouldn't
do?"
Didn't you say, There's not a
grander rascal living than Pace, and
Holding, his nephew, is following in
his tracks'?'
Judge Whitaker Indignantly denied
having made any Of the statements
made in the questions.
He said:
MRS. Arlington, ] never said it; have
never said anything like it, and have
never said anything derogatory to my
brethren"
Mrs. A.. Did you ever defraud
anybody"
Judge w: Never. The worst