The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-24
The Amount Placed at Ten
Thousand Dollars.
THREESESSlONSOFC COURT
A Packed Room and Hushed Attention Given to
the Wnesses---The Trial of the
Cese Comes of in Sep
(Staff Correspondence.)

(Stan Correspondence
Tarboro, N. c., March 2O.-Dr. Julian
Baker, after the preliminary hearing on
the warrant charging him with the muir
DER of DR.. H. T. Bass, was admitted to
bail today in the sum of ten thousand
dollars, and this was Immediately given,
the rating of the bondsmen being placed
at four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. In rendering his decision Judge
Brown said that it was very evident
that there was no evidence of murder in
the first degree, and as the plea of self
defense had been raised, that was Ques-
ton for the jury Declaring it to be a
proper case for bond to be given, he
placed this at ten thousand dollars. This
sum he said he named as from his per-
sonal knowledge Of the defendant the
amount Or much larger one could easily
be given.
The bondsmen are Hon Geo Howard.
Geo. Howard, Jr., Geo A. Holderness,
Job. Cobb, DR.. w. III. Whitehead, D. Lich-
enstein and DR.. w. p Mercer
There were really three sessions of the
court to-day, the first hearing did moth
ing except to swear the witnesses and
adjournment was taken to await the ar
rival of Senator Donnell Gillian of
counsel for the defense, who came from
Goldsboro on a special train as the train
from Raleigh failed to make connection
AT Goldsboro. He arrived shortly after
II o'clock and court began again at half
past eleven.
There were over five hundred people in
the court room and there was intense
interest. AS each witness testified the
crowd gave a hushcd attention to every
sentence, except when a negro witness
mixed up his language.
For the prosecution there was Solicitor
|C. G. Daniels, of Wilson: Hon. B. II.
Bum. of Rocky Mount, and Mr.. j. NJ.
Norfleet of Tarborc. The attornes for
the defense were Senator Don Gillian,
Mr.. Henry Gillian an G. M. Fountain, of
Tarboro.
Witnesses for the State were examined
at the morning session and their testi-
mOny varied only in slight details. This
was that DR.. Bass assaulted DR.. Baker
! in the postoffice on Monday last and fol-
lowd him into the street to get Baker s
pistol from his hip pocket, Baker finally
slipping out of his coat as DR.. Bass
grabbed it. On the sidewalk the two men
using it only before Bass got out his ps-
to, and that during these shots and the
intervals between them Bass was being
he'd.
The defense put on its witnesses in the
afternoon and these testified to almost
the same facts, except that when the
first shot was fired DR.. Bass had hold of
Dr. Baker, a smaller man and was bear
ing down on him. Then it was that Baker
tried to shoot, but Bass snatched the
pistol aside The second shot followed
almost simultaneously and Bass was shot
in the stomach
There was an expectation that events
back of the shooting would be gone into
but counsel confined the case entirely to
was asked by the defence referring to a
previous encounter and this was ruled
out.
the attornies as Solicitor Daniels said
when court opened after dinner that the
State did not hold the case to be mur-
der in the first degree, and admitted that
| the case was a bailable one.
| There is intense feeling here on
both sides and the trial in September will
, be awaited with interest Dr. Baker will
remain and continue his practice He says
that his action was in self-defense and
that it was either his death of that OF
Dr. Bass.
! He was the observed of all in the court
and his demeanor was quiet and unob
trusve. There had been much indigna
ton expressed by his friends during the
morning because of search made fol
him the night before.
DR.. Baker had gone to Richmond after
the first hearing. being out on 5000
bail. From Richmond he had gone tt
Norfolk. A day ago, following the is
suing of the bench warrant kilograms hac
been sent to the police authorities il
several cities to arrest him, but he wa
not found.
Last night he returned to Tarboro, ant
the home of one of his counsel went int
the country to spend the night with
!, friend Mr. J. II Ruffin. The officer
knew of his arrival and visited his hom
and searched for him, and it is thi
which aroused the indignation of hi
friends, who regarded it as al purpos
to have him placed in Jail temporarily
] During his absence the issuing of tn
; action. One was to stay away till tn
, trial. the other to return to Tarboro an
be placed under arrest He chose to re