The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-30


little beef bill he owes in Durham,
when he owes this because his business
was broken up by this pamphlet"
They've scraped over Durham and
have found that he owed beef bill of $50
and Judge Winston grows imperious and
demands he tell about it while on the
stand Why you know that when
man fails people who owe him fail to
pay. Don't charge this beef bill up
against Gattis, because Of his inability to
pay it,
'To heap further contempt on him they
ask Mr.. Gattis if he was not refused ad-
mission to the Western North Carolina
Conference, if he was not sued by life
insurance company for fraud, if he was
not an opium eater not a charge OF which
had been sustained, but which were made
by insinuation.''
THE effort here to destroy that old
man is equal to the effort made in the
speech of DR.. Kilgo. A thousand years,
hundred years from now this pamphlet
will be read and these slanderous charges
against Gattis read. Why it was a pun
gent argument when Mr.. c. B. Watson
said year ago that he would sell him.
self in to slavery that he might bury such
pamphlet speaking thus of his father
and destroy it, that the world might not
know Of the charges against his father"
why, this pamphlet has destroyed his
business. He had a good one and it is
gone, and Judge Winston gets mad be-
cause he does not say that the $40
year he gets from the laymen of his
church, burns in his pocket when his
source of income has been destroyed
"Why, Tom Gattis, where have you
been? I've been preaching the gospel
for forty years. and his brethren say the
same thing. For forty years he has been
handing around the hat asking for aid
for the worn-out preachers of the Meth
odist church and now when he goes on
the superanmate list he is sneered at by
Judge Winston who asks him ii the $40
he took did not burn and the Western
North Carolina conference is said to have
refused him admission"
In this pathetic picture OF the aged
preacher Mr.. Hicks was very strong, and
it's effect could be plainly seen in the eyes
and on the faces of the jury.
I'm sorry Judge Winston asked such
question, but His Honor will charge
you that these added indgnities are
further evidence of malice made here
by counsel who stand for the defen-
dants."
| Here he commented on the putting in
pamphlet form, in form that will be
kept On shelves forever, a book that
contained the scandaIous charge AGAINST
Mr. Gattis.
For three months the old man waited,
but there was no attempted settlement
and when cne was tried it fell through,
because Kiigo wanted to keep & copy
n
Gattis had no copy; there was no set
tlement at conference, no charges We're
made there and finally this case was
brought.
In considering the damages, give
him what amount you think b1st. Ii it
is nothing why say it, but if you find
he is damaged, consider what he has
undergone, his business, a good one,
gone, cut off from society Of his fellows
by the slanderous charges brought
against him, and say what damages he
suffered because of these things.
IF you think DR.. Kilgo should be
turned loose on the world to spread his
medicine as against DR.. Kingsbury and
others, and scandalize good men, say
you are all right to DR.. Kilgo, you
just go on, we are with you,' but if you
want to protect men from him give
verdict for Mr.. Gattis.
IF DR.. Kilgo has scandalized Mr..
Gattis and it was false and malicious
charges that brought against him, why
bring in verdict for Mr.. Gattis. Here
it is like the case when one boy says
damn and the others stand off and say
'ainst he a swearing boy for the men
who are joined with Kilgo in this suit
have stood by and with their actions
have endorsed his charges"
'If you find that Mr. $Gattis has been
damaged, why find for him, and if you
do not, why, he will go to his home
content with your verdict, and will
manage to live whether he is given $40 a
year or not