The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-17

the law as he understood it and un-
der the oath he had taken he could
not conscientiously render any other
verdict.
That because this affiant and the
other jurors returned verdict or not
guilty, Judge PEBBLES dismissed the
jury and told us, among other things,
that we were unfit TO sit ana Try
causes of our county.
Affiant is informed that Judge
PEBBLES told the sheriff to take the
Jury down stairs and show them the
way home if they had sense enough
TO get home and to go and get a Jury
that had some sense. Ine harsn
treatment of Judge PEBBLES towards
those in the court was the common
talk of the people attending the
court.
That this affiant is general insur-
ance agent residing at Warsaw, \.
c., and also employed at the Bank
of Warsaw. N c., as clerk and secre-
tary of the Duplin Telephone Com
pany and one of the directors of the
Bank of Warsaw.
r. w. BLACKMORE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 11th day of May 1904.
[Seal] H. F. PIERCE,
Notary Public.
Affidavit of a. III. Herring.
North Carolina-Sampson County.
A H. Herring, being duly sworn,
says that he is 40 years old and for
81 years was a resident of Sampson
county and for the last years he
has resided at Warsaw, y. c., at which
place he now lives and is engaged in
the grocery business.
That in the month of February.
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Judge r. B. PEBBLES was holding
court at Clinton, n. c.. he, affiant,
was informed by wire that Judge Pee
bles had sent his brother, f. S. Her
ring 10 Jail and to see Faison when
the train arrived at Warsaw, that
Judge PEBBLES and II. Z. .Faison were
then on the train coming to Warsaw.
When the train arrived at Warsaw this
affiant was told by H. l.. Stevens that
E. s. Herring, a juror, had spent the
night with one Odom, party to the
case being tried and on that account
Judge PEBBLES had sent his brother
E. S. Herring to Jail and told affiant
he would see Judge PEBBLES and do
what he could to get atlantis brother
released.
Affiant then saw Henry z. Faison,
who was attorney in the case for the
party against whom the jury had re-
turned the verdict and Mr.. Faison
told affiant that Judge PEBBLES was
mad and if affiant said anything TO
him, Judge PEBBLES, that Judge Pee
bles would put affiant in Jail.
This was about o'clock in the
evening when the train arrived and at
that time Judge PEBBLES was very
much intoxicated. Later in the even
ing / went TO the room of Judge Pee
bles in the hotel to beg him TO let
my brother out of Jail and found him
lying on the bed in a very greatly in
toxicated condition and on table sit
ting near his bed was a quart bottle
about two-thirds empty and by ii
glasses with sugar and spoons.
Affiant asked Judge PEBBLES on ac-
count of the age of his mother TO let
f. S. Herring out of Jail. To this
Judge PEBBLES said if affiant would
make an affidavit that f. S. Herring
was an IDIOT he would release him. At
fiant said he could not dothis. as he
considered him sane. Judge PEBBLES
Siad that he had found out that f. ;.
Herring was spokesman for the jury
and that if the jury had brought in
different verdict there would have
been none of this, referring to put
ting Z. S. Herring in Jail.
After begging Judge PEBBLES for
some time to change the sentence of
his brother from imprisonment to a
fine, Judge PEBBLES said he would
consult H. E. Faison, against whom
the verdict had been rendered to see
if the change from Imprisonment TO
fine would be satisfactory TO him.
Finally after consulting the said Fai-
son, he agreed to let T.. s. Herring
out of Jail if he would pay a fine of
500 and the costs.
That at the time Judge PEBBLES left
Warsaw on the train that day about
$40 p. M. he was then so much in
toxicated that he could scarcely walk
A. H. HERRING.
Sworn to and subscribed before this
11th day of May, 1904.
w. f. SESSIONS,
Clerk Superior Court.
Affidavit of John u. Kerr.
North Carolina-Sampson County.
John d. Kerr, being duly sworn
says:
That he now is, and was at the
time Judge r. B. PEBBLES held the
courts of Sampson county, practic-
ing attorney and appeared in a num-
sber of cases before Judge PEBBLES
while holding the courts of this dis
trict.
That the treatment of attorneys
court officials, sutors, jurors and wit
nesses by His Honor Judge PEBBLES
was at times rudely harsh and dis
courteous.
Affiant formed the opinion that
Judge PEBBLES was by natural tenn
perament so constituted that he could
not help taking one or the other side
in nearly every case tried before him
Affiant heard frequently the remark
made, not only by the lawyers, but by
laymen that if the judge was on your
side you could not lose your case in
Judge PEBBLES court, but if he was
against you, you had no chance.
JNO. d. KERR.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
May 18th, 1904.
[SeaIl w. F. SESSIONS.
Clerk Superior Court.
Affidavit of II. l.. Best.
North Carolina-Sampson County.
r. l.. Best being duly sworn says
that he is a resident of the town ot
Warsaw in the county of Duplin and
remembers the day in February, 1903
when Judge II. b. PEBBLES sent L. S
Herring. juror. to Jail at Clinton
y. c. That affiant saw Judge PEBBLES
on that evening at Warsaw, y. c..
and it is atlantis best knowl-
edge and belief that Judge PEBBLES wa,
i'm a very greatly Intoxicated cOndi.