The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-04
NJ BEEE IN NORFOLK
Has MuddIed Up Affairs
in New BerL.
Judge PurneII Back in Raleigh From
Norfolk and is Invited by Judge
Simonton to Sit With
Him.

The latest in the A. & N. c.. Railroad
grab is that Receiver McBee has left New
Bern for trip North.
Where he left for he said not, but New
Bern is guessing that it was Washing
ton, while another report is that he pos
sibly went to Norfolk on Wednesday to
see Judge Purnell.
And what did he go there for? is the
question that is travelling up and down
the road and all abouts where the rumor
CT the Norfolk trip has spread. One sur
mise is that as Receiver McBee reported
shortage of money at the disposal of the
A. & n. c. he went to see how the
wheels might be CREASED and that it IS
possible he suggested that Judge Purnell
might permit him to issue Receivers
Certificates" and use these as funds.
Judge Purnell returned to the city from
Norfolk yesterday. He has been written
to by Judge Simonton, who invites Judge
Purnell to sit with him in the hearing OF
the application of the State for vacation
or modification of the receivership,
which hearing Judge Simonton has set for
10 o'clock on next Thursday morning in
the Federal court room here.
The formal notice of the hearing granted
by Judge Simonton was yesterday filed
in the office of the United States Clerk of
the Court here and copy of it was served
on Captain w. H. Day. Col. John w.
Hinsdale is not in the city, but left here
for Asheville, from which place it is report
cd that he has since gone to New York, the
abode of K S. Finch, who alleges that he
owns forty-five shares of the A. & N. G.
Railroad stock. 1t is possible that Col.
Hinsdale has gone to see Finch.
The official order of Judge Simonton
filed yesterday is as follows:
In the Circuit Court of the United States
for the Eastern District of North
Carolina.
Sitting in Equity in Raleigh, N. c.
X s. Finch in behalf of himself and
all the other stockholders of the At
lantic land Nbrth Ckrolina Railroad
Company, Complainant, VS.. The At
lantc and North Carolina Railroad
Company, Defendant.
To X. S. Finch, Complainant, and Messrs.
Day and Bell and John w. Hinsdale,
Solicitors for Complainant in the above
entitled cause:
You are hereby notified that in a GER
tain suit in equity in the United States
Circuit Court, in and for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, in the Fourth
Circuit wherein K. S. Finch In complain
ant, and the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad Company Is defendant, as
above entitled, it appearing that His
Honor. ThosS R. Purneil, U. s. District
Judge for the Eastern District OF North
Carolina, and one of the Judges of said
Circuit Court in and for the Eastern
District of North Carolina is absent from
the said district and from the State
or North Carolina and the defendant in
the above entitled cause having applied
TO the undersigned judge of said circuit
Tor notice to complainant that an appll-
cation would be made to set aside and
modify the order hereinbefore made in
this cause on Goth day of February,
1904, appointing temporary receiver
AMI granting a temporary injunction:
You are therefore hereby cited and
admonished to be and appear in the said
Circuit Court sitting in an adjourned
session of the December term, 1908, in
tho United tSates Court Room at the
city of Raleigh, in the State of North
Carolina, on the 10th day o. March ID.
1884, at the hour of ten o'clock, a. m.
to show cause, if any there be, why the
order hcfclnbefore mentioned should not
be corrected or modified or set aside in the
particulars hereinbefore mentioned, and
why speedy justice should not be done
The defendant in that behalf.
Witness the Hon. Judge of the Circuit
Court of the United tSates for the Fourth
Circuit, at Charleston. South Carolina,
this
March. A. D., 1904.
(Signed)
CHARLES H SIMONTON,
Circuit Judge, 2 Mch. 1904.
RECEIVER McBEE GONE