The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-24
JUDGE PURNELL PRESlDES
A LARGE NUMBER OF CASES ON
THE DOCKET.
WITNESSES FROM FAR AWAY
The Federal Court Now in Session has Many
Offenders 10 Contend with The List OF
Iurors.-The Important Cases and
nlLnn Hn,lrl Ifamc.
Other Court Items.

The United States court for Inc has-
tern district of North Carolina met IN
Raleigh yesterday.
The session yesterday was merely for
NAL and lasted just about seven-eighths
Of a minute. Deputy Clerk A. c. Leh-
man called the court to order, noted the
nresence of the court officials and then,
IN accordance with custom that has
for wears prevailed in the district, adj
iourned the court until 10 o'clock to-day,
when It will reconvene and begin active
work.
The court will be presided over by
Judge Thos. II. Purnell, and in the alb
sence of Marshal Dockery Deputy Mar
shall Sharp will be in charge. Clerk j.
r.. Fortune and Deputy Clerk A. c. Lch-
man will both be present, as Will also
District Attorney Bernard and Assist
ant District Attorney Spears. The fol-
lowing jurors have been drawn for the
term, the grand jurors will be drawn
this morning when court conyenes. The
jurors are:
Wake aurise Watts, ]. II. Moring
w. III. Hood, w. l.. Norris, w. d.
Hutchings, ID. z. Judd, r. G. Mitchell,
w. ]. Simpson. II. r. Sexton.
Johnson. j. Rose, j. ID. Finlayson,
J. w. Yelverton.
Warren-Geo. w. Bennett, Gid Thorn
ton, G. n. Harris.
Person.. j. Brooks. Frank Day, Jr.,
Jno. H. Kerr G. H. Mitchell.
Franklin +. L. Marlborough, NJ,
Woodleaf.
Chatham-Albert Windham, J. G
hannah. ]. X. Milliken, w. 7. Edwards.
A. L. Lamberth.
Sampson--G. III. Fowler.
Durham A. B. Couch, NJ. e. Nc
Gown.
yance-P. A. Bobbitt, H. T. Shanks,,
r. Al. Bullock, r. Y Lands. Jno. Reavis.
Harnett Sidney Collins, L. ID. Stew
art, John Dewar.
Waynne-J. c. Rhodes, John Holmes.
W. :. Moore. g. w. Wooten, j. X.
Smith. NJ K. Bizzel.
Granville r. Royster, J. NJ. Tay-
Tor, J. I. Wiley, L. Meadows.
Wllson4-G. ID. Green.
Cumberland. B. Hawley.
Moore-P. I'll. Kelly.
Among the more important cases on
the criminal docket are:
United States VS.. Geo. l.. Finlayson,
of Moore. who is charged with unlaw-
fully trading in postage stamps.
United States VS.. j. G. Hammer, from
Chatham, charged with threatening a
United States officer
United States VS.. G. v. Lee, Of Per-
son, for embezzlement.
United States VS.. Jos. e. Reid, Harry
Wright and Chas. Miller, of Moore, for
breaking into q DOStOffice.
United States VS.. j. b. Baddie, of
Nash, violating United States postal
laws.
United States vs.. J. B. Bodde. Of
ing postoffice laws.
There are in all 1873 criminal cases on
the docket, 81 of them continued from
last term and 90 new cases. One Of the
most interesting cases on the docket is
an Indictment against W. III. Robinson
and w. Il. Finch, both of Halifax coun-
ty. who are charged with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. In this
case witnesses have been sllbpoenaed
from Kansas, Missouri and from Indian
Territory.
Miss Flora B. Martin, of Indian Terri
tory, will come all the, way
from the Cherokee nation to
give evidence against the gentlemen
from Halifax. 1t seems that this scheme
caught some Of. the unwary from away
out near the Sunset This witness will
cost Uncle Sam about 5000 in mieage
alone, which is rather costly evidence.
Lizzie Terry is dusky damsel, of
about eighteen autumns. who was n
sort Of a second assistant i'm a Warren
county post0ifice. Now, Lizzie had a
sort Of a natural fondness for postage
stamps, or else the postage stamps had
natural propensity for the fingers of Liz
zie. At any rate there were several hun
dred fewer postage stamps after Lizzie
had been about there few days, than
there were before.
Lizzie was reported, but the dusky
young heroine of the Mckinley admins
trati0n, concluded that there was some
''whisherins' gwine on that foreboded
evil for Lizzie. So she all in a moment
took her postage stamps and other
troussean, and shook the Warren county
dust from the heels of her No. 9's, and
the last heard Of Lizzie, she was in New
York. SO that little entry on Deputy
Clerk Lehman's docket cuts mighty lit
tie frozen water with Lizzie.
There are a hundred or more minor
eases for retailing, dstilling, removing
concealing, &c, and the court promises
TO be an interesting one.
Messrs. A. V. Dockery and Kemn w
Merritt were sworn in Yesterday as
bailiffs for this term of the court
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