The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-17
this 18th day of May. 1904.
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Affidavit of III II GiddeuS

aHiudNlI OF Ill. Is. Olu0enS.
North Carolina-Samp pson County.
H. b. Giddens being duly sworn,
says that he has been a resident of the |
town of Clinton for thirty seven years;
that his business is making watches;
that he remembers the term of court |
held by Judge PEBBLES in Clinton in
February, 1908; that affiant was in
the court room during said term one
day and noticed Judge PEBBLES con-
duct on the bench: that from the gen.
eral manner and conduct of Judge
PEBBLES toward the lawyers and sui |
tors and court officials, affiant was led |
to believe that Judge. PEBBLES was
either very much under the influence
of Whiskey or some opiate; kthat it |
was the general talk of the people of
the town and those attending court |
that Judge PEBBLES was very much |
under the influence of liquor while |
holding said term of court
H B. GIDDENS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day of May. 1904.
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Affidavit of John Hill.
North Carolina-Sampson County.
John Hill, being duly sworn, says
that he is a resident of the town of
Warsaw, Duplin county; that he re-
members we'll the day Judge r. Is.
PEBBLES sent E. S. Herring TO Jail
while Judge PEBBLES was holding a
term of court at Clinton. \. c.. in
the month of February, 1908; that on
| that day late in the evening he saw
Judge PEBBLES at Warsaw, n. c., and,
according TO atlantis best knowledge
and belief, Judge PEBBLES was very
greatly intoxicated. J. w. HILL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 11th day of May, 1904.
J. z. SWENSON, J. p.
| Affidavit OF B. L. Blackmore.
| North Carolna-Duplin County.
| b. L. Blackmore being duly sworn,
| says that he is fifty-nine years old,
was a soldier in the Confederate army
and lived in Duplin county all his
| life. For seventeen years and five
months this affiant was postmaster at
/ Warsaw. n. c., and county commits
sioner for said county for two years;
/ that affiant is a farmer living at War
saw, y. c.; that in 1903 while Judge
| r. B. PEBBLES was holding the courts
of this county affiant was a regular
/ juror for one term of court: that
aftiant observed Judge PEBBLES con-
duct on the bench al said term of
court. At times he appeared to be
Iunder the influence of whiskey. He
was harsh and rude and disrespectful
/ to jurors and witnesses often times to
! lawyers; that about the middle of the
week of said term of court in the trial
of State VS.. Robert Hicks, this affiant
was a juror in the trial of the case and
affiant as he believes ali the other
jurors did, returned a verdict of not
guilty because under the law and the
| evidence the defendant was not gull
tty. After TIE jury returned said Ver-
i diet the treatment which this affiant
and the other jurors received at Judge
| PEBBLES hands was exceedingly harsh
and cruel. He dismissed the entire
| Jury and told the sheriff, as affiant is
informed and believes, to take the
| jury down stairs and show them the
/ way home, if they had sense enough
to get home, and TO go out and get q
/ jury that had some sense; that
among other things he told this
affiant and the other jurors that we
were unfit to sit and try the causes of
our county. All this time he showed
great anger; that for twenty-five years
/ this afTiant has attended the courts of
this county, and often observed the
conduct of the judges on the bench
| that afiiant never saw a judge who
| treated the different parties in court
as harsh and discourteous as Judge
PEBBLES did at said term of court.
B. L. BLAKMORE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
| this 18th day of May. 1904.
The affidavits having been filed
Judge PEBBLES made the following or
der: In re y. A. Mcneil and others
i'm matter of contempt the case was
called today at 1915 o'clock in per-
| suance of an order removing the case
/ from the Cumberland court TO the
county of Robeson. After the over
ruling of divers motions the original
of which all filed among the papers
and copies of the same furnished
counsel for the respondents filed an
swers to the rule. and thirty-three
affidavits the respondents have fve
| days to furnish additional affidavits
to r. 3. PEBBLES judge. by registered
| mail or express at his home in Jack
son, n. c., and no affidavits filed after
| that date will be considered except
| such as may be in rebuttal of affidavits
filed i'm reply to respondents affidavits.
/ Thus the cause was continued to be
| heard again on Thursday, the 26tn
| day of May at the court house in
Lumbertcn. Among the affidavits
| filed there are one of H. h. Norris
andu Donald Gillian, of counsel in
! the Haywood case. citing particular
/ instances of what they consider par
| tial acts of Judge PEBBLES, and OF
statements and actions of Judge Pee
| bies during that trial, that they con-
| slider discourtesy to counsel. Donald
/ Gilliam's affidavit states among other
| things that had not Walter DanleIs
| beer acting solicitor the other couh-
SCI fo rthe State would have reured
Ifrom the Haywood case before the IS
sues reached the jury.
The Lumberton bar dispersed TINS
afternoon i'm various directions IN
| search of additional testimony Judge
/ PEBBLES will file over zoo affidavits In
reply TO the charges i'm the answers OF
| the affdavits of the respondents.
The Court Convenes.
Court met at 1915 O'Clock, the
room being comfortably filled and
many ladies in attendance. The
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