The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-25

several ONES and some of the counse
in the case had retired for the night
and soon after the rendition of the YER
dict when there were about a dozen PEG
pie in the court house besides the jurors
somebody, unknown to affiant, fired of
pistol near the court house, but fol
what purpose and who did it, affia n
does not know Affiant further says that
the firing of the pistol was not prompted
by him, nor so far as he knows, by any
friend or person in sympathy with affiant
It is true that at the first jury trial
there were newspaper reporters in at
tendance who reported the trial from
day to day to daily newspapers publish
ed outside of the county of Granville
which have a large circulation in the
middle section Of the State. And it is
also true as affiant is Informed and be-
lieves, that a full report of the frs
trial before the jury was published al
the instance of the defendants and al
their request in al least one of the daily
newspapers above referred to, and affiant
further says that one of the attorneys
representing the defendants at the trial
as he is informed and believes, made q
lare part of the report of the trial tol
publication for one of said daily news
papers Affiant is informed and be-
lieves that none of the reports to the
newspapers above referred to were nm
fair to tie defendants or stated facts con-
trary to the evidence introduced at the
trial to the prejudice of the defendants.
As to the publications in the Local
published in the county OF
Granville, referred to in Exhibit "a at
tached to the affidavit of defendant Jno
C. Kilgo, an inspection of said Exhibit
"A" discloses the fact that said publica-
tins were made up largely from extracts
taken from newspapers published outside
of the county of Granville and having Q
large circulation in this section of the
State, and affiant is Informed and be-
lieves that the report of the trial pub
lished in said local newspaper as original
matter was full, fair and just, and the
comments of the editor of said local news
paper have not aroused such an impress
sion upon the public mind In said county
IS would prevent the defendants from
obtaining justice in sa.,. county; that the
criticisms of the opinion of the Supreme
newspaper were not of such a character
IS to arouse popular prejudice among the
people of the county and to prevent the
defendants from getting a fair jury trial
n said county, and were simply criti-
isms on the part of the news editor OF
he decision of the Supreme Court
That the county of Granville covers a
cry large area of territory and has a
arge population, but affian, is Informed
nd believes the aforesaid local newspa-
1er is not taken or read by majority
f those who constitute the qualified jur-
rs of said county.
Affiant further says he is a superan-
uated Methodist minister, and for only
me year resided in Granville county and
or the past three years has not resided
Il said county; that he was not born in
said county, nor has he any relatives, by
blood or marriage, residing in said coun-
~, nor has he any especial friends re-
siding in the county of Granville who are
taking any active interest in the prose
cution of this case against the defend
ants. But on the other hand the affiant
is informed and believes that several wei
KNOWN dCIlN6 anu lulIuGuIldl ClLlLeUS o.
the county of Granville have heretofore
and are still taking an active and Jealous
part in the defense of this action on De-
half of the defendants, and this affiant is
informed and believes thta the defend
ant Duke was Dorn and reared in the ad.
joining county of Durham and is person
ally well known to a great many or The
citizens and residents of the county OF
Granville and has large business interest.
and connections in said county of Gran.
vile with some of the most prominen
and influential business men residing il
said county of Granville, and further, i.
large stakeholder and director in the
Oxford cotton mills and was for NAM
years a director in the Oxford Orphar
Asylum and a frequent visitor to the
town Of Oxford; that he is an Influential
officer of the American and Continenta
Tobacco Company, which are represented
on the Oxford market by prominent anC
influential men, who have been active anC
Jealous in behalf of the defendants il
this action, and such representatives il
their business relations from time to tim,
CONE almost daily in direct contact anC
communication with the farmers of tn,
said county OF Granville.
Aftiant further says that Jno. c. Kilgt
as president of Trinity College, has Otter
visited said county of Granville and il
personally wen known to a large numbe
Of people of said county, and has made
many public addresses in oxford ant
other sections of Granville county, AM
mas active and influential friends o
Granville. as affiant is informed and be
l;evcs.
Affiant further says that while it is TIM
as hereinbcfore stated, that the crowd il
attendance at the first jur ytrial wa
large. at the second jur!
trial the crowd in attendance, if il coul'
be called crowd at all