The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-06
Mr.. HUSSEY CLAIMS 500
Mr.. CARROLL DENIES THAT HE
OWES ANYTHING.
HUSSEY SAYS HE KEPT HIM IN OFFICE
Carroll Denies That He Promised Prtchard
That He Would Appoint Republicans
Deputies if He Were Kept in
Office by Him.


John r. Hussey, a Republican news.
paper correspondent in Washington, has
been in this city several days. Yesterday
he brought suit against United States
Marshal O. j. Carroll for 500 and got
Judgment for S25
He alleges that Carroll owes him 500
under contract for services rendered in
keeping Carroll in office during the time
that charges were pending against him.
These services, Hussey said, consisted in
securing certain important information
in regard TO the charges against Carroll
and laying it before the proper officials
The case was tried at l o'clock by
Justice of the Peace John Nichols. The
plaintiff, Hussey. was represented by
Judge Sp:er Whitaker and the defendant
by Mr.. Armistead Jones and Judge
iWomack. Only two witnesses were put
on the stand-Hussey and Carroll. They
made exactly contradictory statements
in almost every particular.
Mr. EuSsey took the stand first. He
said that sometime last winter he met
Mr.. Carroll at the National Hotel in
Washington. Il had previously received
letter from him in regard to his troubles
about the marshalship. He said that he
wanted me to render him certain ser
vices and represent him in Washington;
that he knew nobody who could represent
him better. He also wanted me to
mention in my correspondence that he
would very likely be retained in his Of
fee. For my services he said | should
be handsomely rewarded, but no defin-
lite sum was mentioned. | secured some
very valuable information later and
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agreed to do.
Following this, in the summer, came
the question of his removal, and it was
agreed by Mr.. Conrad, the Democratic
Solicitor General, that Carroll should be
removed at once on the charges prefer
red against him. But stay of proceed.
iAgs was secured, and soon the new SO.
icitor General Mr.. Richards, the Repub.
ican, came in
'.Then Mr.. Carroll came back to Wash
ington with his attorney, Mr.. Woodland,
and it was then Mr.. Carroll found !
could help him and came to me to secure
my services. | agreed to try to help him,
which ! did and he was kept in.
Mr.. Carroll wrote me a note stating
that he had been to see Mr.. Richards,
and that he had found out Mr.. Richards
great grandfather was Hussey, from
North Carolina, and that he spoke very
highly of me. He asked me to go to
see Mr. Richards in his behalf l went
and Carroll was retained
II drew on him for $25 October LIST,
and that draft came back protested.
Yesterday | drew on him again for the
same amount and the draft came back
With Don't owe it written on it.
Judge Whitaker. WAS he retain
ed because you asked it,"
Hussey: Il won't say that"
"How often did you go to see Mr.
Richards
"Only once; didn't think it necessary
to go again.
Mr.. Jones: Were you representing
Carroll as attorneyY'
"Hussey: Yes, in one sense l was
but not IN its technical sense. / repre-
scented him..
He sought you then for your infu
ence?
II suppose So
did you charge him for your news
paper work.
Il did not"
What do you base your claims for
500 on?'
'On contract with Carroll"
"Did your relationship to Richards give
you influence with himY
'T don't know about that don't
claim that my kinship Influenced Mr..
Richards. But I do know that the infor-
nation ! gave him did influence him.
AS Carroll and Woodland were going
away they begged me for Gods sake to
go see Richards as / could save Carroll.
I went to see Richards and as l was
about to leave Mr.. Richards told me that
Carroll would not be disturbed"
"You say you didn't charge Carroll for
the newspaper articles about himW
81 did not, though he one time said
he'd give me the finest hat or suit of
clothes in Washington city for what l
wrote"
"Have you had any communication
with Carroll since you drew ON him.?
Nothing but a letter from him in
which he explained why he let the draft
go to protest He said he was in great
financial distress; that he had no funds;
that all he had in the world was mort
gagged; that he was absent when the
draft came, but if he had been here he
couldn't have protected the paper"
"Why did you draw for $50 and not
for the whole $1OOW
Because he had already told me his
financial troubles. And had he paid the
S25, don't think, under the circum-
stances, I'd ever have asked for more"
'Why did you draw for only $50 yes
terday?'
Because l needed that amount. Mr..
Carroll wrote me letter yesterday also
explaining why he didn't honor the
draft
Mr.. Jones asked that this letter be
introduced
Judge Whitaker refused to allow il
to be done.
This concluded the evidence and Judge
Womack argued that on even Hussey's
evidence he was not entitled to recover
that his contract was against public
policy, and therefore not enforcible by
law. This he said had been decided by
the Supreme court in the Moss case