The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-11

| sively circulated and read in the coun-
| ty of Granville, and in other counties
| of North Carolina, a certain printed
pamphlet purporting to be a Report
! of the proceedings Of the investigation
of the charges by Justice Walter Clark
against Jno. c. Kilgo president OF
| Trinity College, Durham N. c.. made
| by the board of trustees of Trinity
| College, August Both, 1898" in which
said printed pamphlet were composed
and printed and published. of, AID
/ concerning the plaintiff the following
! false and defamatory words contained
| in said printed pamphlet, published
and circulated and read as aforesaid
! that is to say, as followst
You recall, gentlemen, that in the
defendants first correspondence with
| Judge Clark, the judge demanded that
| President KilgO give him the inform
ant. The defendant did so at once.
| But, gentlemen, if you will take the
whole situation and connect it with
! the testimony of Mr.. Gattis (meaning
| T. j. Gattis, the plaintiff in this ac-
| tion), you will likely find the original
| slandered (meaning the plaintiff i'm
| this action) Here are the facts: Mr..
Gattis (meaning T. j. Gattis, the plain
| tiff in this action) said he was put on
! the stand against his will; that he did
| not wish to come here; that he was
give one hundred dollars and be out
of it, That is a high price for him.
! That means that an ordinary man
would have given a very large amount
| for like commodity
Behind a pious smile, a religious
walk, and a solemn twitch of the coat
tail, many men (meaning to refer to
the plaintiff in this action) carry a
spirit unworthy of them. He (mean-
ing the plaintiff in this action) has
been occasionally to South Carolina
and evidently gossipped too much for
a preacher about the defendant. You
remember quite we'll how he (mean-
ing the plaintiff i'm this action). in his
testimony lodged the issue, and would
look so solemn and say, Il can't
answer You remember how witty he
tried to be at one time. Poor wit over
the suffering heart and torn bosom of
enc of his brethren whom he had lac
Grated in the dark by stabbing him in
the back.
Had the defendant done anything
to warrant this meanness? Didn't Mr..
Gattis (meaning the plaintiff in this
action) say himself that the defendant
befriended him in South Carolina and
used his influence to get him employed
by that conference? Didn't he (mean-
ing T. j. Gattis, the plaintiff in this
action) say himself that the defendant
had recommended books for him; that
the defendant had tried to sell books
for him and help his business; that
President Kilgo was his friend?
What, then, had President Kilgo
done to him (meaning the plaintiff in
this ,action) to warrant any such vic
ious conduct?
Between the man hiding himself
hy the highway and making a victim
by an innocent traveller and the man
who in the dark (meaning to refer to
7. J. Gattis, The plaintiff in this ac-
tion) assassinates the character which
man has tried to build for himself,
send me to the woods with a revolver
and let me murder every passerby
rather than malign my fellow man
He (meaning T. j. Gattis, the plaintiff
in this action was asked if " sident
Kilgo had not ceased to visit his store
(meaning the bookstore of T. j. Cat
It's & Son, i'm Durham, n. Co. and he
said, Yes President Kilgo had been
there and heard gossip until 'decency
demanded that he keep out of such a
crowd (meaning to- refer to the plain
tiff in this action Z! j. Gattis, and per-
sons who visited the store of I. j. Cat
It's & Son. in Durham, N. CO Presi-
dent Kilgo has heard very unchristian
gossip over the counters (meaning the
counters in the store of T. j. Gattis q
tan literature was retailed
1.-The two South Carolina witnesses
say, We don't know how we got to-
witness; don't know Judge Clark, and
never correspondent with him. Mr.. CAT
It's. (meaning the plaintiff i'm this ac-
tion) is the only other witness for the
prosecution on this charge, and his
knowledge antedates the judges
charges, and hence Mr.. Gattis (mean-
ing +. j. Gattis, the plaintiff in this
action) is the original gossip. And il
is evident that this whole affair comes
out of the fact that a Methodist
preacher (meaning 4. j. Gatts the
plaintiff in this action.) licensed by the
same law, worshipping in same pulpit
has fouly dealt with the defendant.
Again, DR.. Peacock testified that Mr.
Gattis (meaning the plaintiff in this
action, T. j. Gattis) has slandered
President I<ilgo to him. More than
once those SANDERS reached the de-
PENDANTS ears. Never did the defend
ant suppose till just few days since
that Mr.. Gattis (meanng II. J. Gattis
the plaintiff in this action) had any
think to do with this matter. He
(meaning the plaintiff in this action
L. j. Gattis) says that two others told
him that he must come here and give
his testimony CT else his name would
be used in court. You recall that
Judge Clark said i'm the July meeting
If these men (meaning his inform
ants) do not testify. / will come here
and say that they lied to me-
Judge Clark would have kept his
word, if he had not produced here the
witness (meaning the plaintiff in this
action, II. j. Gattis), upon whom he
relied to come here and relieve him
and if that witness was not in this
court we would not have been thirty
minutes, Judge Clark would have re-
lieved the whole situation, Mr.. Gattis
tmeaning T. J. Gattis, the plaintiff.
in this action) said two
others pressed him to come here
Who are they that forced him
to testify? We urged him to tell this
court, but he declared: The man who
wishes to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth
lodges nothing. Under all these con-
ditions, do you, gentlemen, propose to
say that you believe Mr.. r. j. Gattis
told and intended to tell you the truth
He says what he told us was forced
out of him. The lover of truth never
speaks under such commission hui