The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-29
poena in Judge Clark's handwriting?'
Here Mr.. Beckwith was handed the pa
per and as he scrutinized 1t Judge Win

per and as he scrutinized it Judge Win
ston said
III lend you a pair of glasses
Don't need Them was the answer.
Then Mr.. Beckwilh said he did not
know whether it was Judge Clark's hand
writing or not, after which the subpoena
went the rounds of the lawyers who all
saZed at it. and il was announced that
'.B. c. Beckwith" was written in pencil.
Being asked il it die not look like a
blank subpoena sent out to be filled in,
Mr.. Beckwith agreed that it did. He
closed by saying that he supposed it came
from the board as no one at the trial
had indicated otherwise.
The next to climb the steps to the
witness chair was Editor Webster. IN
answer to questions he said he was from
Reidsville, was Journalist and farmer
Methodist, educated at Trinity, his
paper was ''Webster's Weekly and that
he taught the Bible class in -. But
here objection was raised and Judge
Shaw had the Bible class statement
stricken from the records.
Have YOU seen the Blue Back?'' said
Judge Graham. I'VE object" said Judge
Winston. objection overruled, plaintiff
excerpts said Judge Shaw.
Yes" said the witness, Il saw bun
die of them in the Bank of Reidsville and
around town." his further explanation
being not allowed
Then Mr. Webster told of being sum
moned as witness to tell of DR.. Kilgo's
record in North Carolina. He said that
as he was riding out to Trinity in
hack with Judge Clark and Mr.. Beck
with he saw Mr.. Oglesby and DR.. Kilgo
lying on their stomachs in the grove at
Trinity and apparently holding an in
teresting talk. Here the people in court
again laughed.
Then came Col. Websters description
Of the meeting, the first question meet
ing an objection, and statement that an
omnibus objection was entered against
all along this line as the occasion was
a privileged one.
Colonel Webster said no one was ex-
cluded from the morning meeting, but
at the night meeting Mr.. Merritt, of the
News and Observer was.
Mr.. Merritt" said he, appeared at
the door and Profs Bassett and Flowers
ran to it and shut it. then DR.. Kilgo ran
and locked it and said, He can't come in.
The News and Observer is an enemy of
mine. 1t is not a decent paper and is
not entitled to circulation in any house
hold that pretends to be decent
Then Col. Webster told of the stenog-
rapher incident, the request Of Judge
Clark to be allowed to have a stenog-
rapher at his own expense being pro-
nounced by DR.. Brooks as "a most rea
sonable request but to which DR.. Kill
go and the board did not accede. The
challenge of Judge Clark to the jury was
told of and the remark of DR.. Greasy
whom Mr.. Webster said he believed
was now in heaven" was repeated, it
being that no matter what the board did
there was million and three quarters OF
people in North Carolina who would
make up their decision.
Proceeding, he told of the refusal Of
Judge Clark's request to poll the jury,
and was then asked:
What about the meeting?"
ut was the monumental farce of the
age said he, but this was ordered
stricken from the record and he framed
his answer anew.
1T was boisterous, the brethren all
wanting to speak at once. Twice they
cver-rode the decision of the chair
These two instances he described as
being one, when MIR. Beckwith wanted to
read an affidavit about DR.. Kilgo's being
a manipulation and ecclesiastical wire
puller," after reading the ones favora-
BILE to DR.. Kilgo, and the board over
ruled Chairman Southgate's decision to
let it come out. and the second being
when the chairman wanted to permit
evidence of Dr.. Kilgos record in North
CarOfina to be presented, Rev. Oglesby
thinking the other way, while Judge
Clark Mr.. Beckwith and Secretary Bal
lard, all said it was question in the
deposition papers sent out. Here again
the board over-ruied the chair.
Telling of the examination OF Gattis
by Kilgo, the witness said;
"Dr Kilgo's manner was not only i'm
perious and an effort to bulldoze from
start to finish, but at times it was alb
solutely cruel
Then he told of his not being examined
and said the statement of Mr. Oglesby
about his refusing TO tell him what he
knew was not true and in response to a
question If there were lawyers at the
trial. answered:
Yes, there were Two lawyers lueFe,
Judge Clark and Judge Montgomery,
and said that Judge Montgomery took
very active part, that he would refer to
"Greenleaf on evidence and would tell
Kilgo something, would bow his head at
Kilgo and seemed to be his legal adj
wiser.
Speaking of his exit, he said that came
the next morning when, on DR.. Kilgo's
motion he was excluded LAS | said last
year. added Mr.. Webster. I Nancy
Hanked' it over 20 West Durham, got
on the train and got home. as l saw that
my room was better than my company"
His direct examination closed when
he told OF seeing many of the supple
ments owe object') with the Kilgo
speech. There was food Of them in
my exchanges he said, land the Reds
Vile Review scattered them to the ex-
tent of its circulation. Besides this,
he said he had read the advertisement
of Prof. Flowers that those who wanted
the pamphlets could get them by writing
to him.
His cross examination was brief, the
principal points being that he said that
he did not know whether Messrs. Bassett
and Flowers were appointed door-keep-
ers that he had not heard of the board
appointing them and that neither