The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-31

terday Not to Take Lawye n Bonds
for Clicnts-Case in Which Ed
Reads and Caesar Bullock are
Charged With Burglary Was Con-
tinucd Until the Next TcrHA-No
Danger Of Docket Not Being Clear
cd With Judge JOnc, Holding Court.
When superior court convened IN
this city last Tuesday there were Un-
hundred Il thirty cases on the docket
and during the week this number was
supplemented by some fifteen ar twenty
cases, making the docket a very 1arga
one, but day by day it dwindIed and
very rapidly and when the hOu" f0v
adjournment arrived yesterday all buL
III cas- on the docket had been dis
posed OF in some manner and nearly
all Of them were tried. The only cases
of consequence continued were tnOs2
in which Ed Reads and Caesar Bullock
are charged with entering the residence
Of Mr.. c. d. Gore. A true bill was re-
turned in each case. The negroes vii;
be tried together and the case WAS st
next term.
Only one case is OH the dOckaI ID
be tried and that is to come up Mon
day morning at $3.50 o'cIook-thc
ShOcklcy case. This case will III ali
probability consume about two days,
possibly more, but hardly less. A num-
Der OF Witnesses are to be examined
and long speeches will probably be
made by all of the attorneys in the
case. 1t IS understood that the line Cf
defense will be hat there was ample
opportunity for some one else 10 have
hit Talbert in the head after he WIS
carried from the saloon and they will
.endeavOr TO show that there is such
a doubt about it that Shockley should
not be found guilty. 1t is not know2
positively that this will be the line Of
defense but it is understood that i is.
;ShOckley has never denied clubbing
Talbert. The club, he said, was one
he kept hanging in the saloon and
when he was told that TalberC Was
beating his clerk, or bar tender. he
book the club from it's accustomed place
md walking into the street approached
the two men who were clinched. and
hit Talbert in the head. S%hOckiey
then went intO the saloon. All this WAS
Brought out at the cOrOner's inquest.
This case will, in all probability, IL
tract Il large crowd for ShOckley, owing
to the places he has held both as bar
Keeper and a barber, is very Vel
known in Wilmington. During the
greater part Of the time since he has
been in Wilmington he has devoted his
entire time to his barber shop in The
orion hotel.
Judge Jones does not hesitate - eX-
press himself against what he does LOT
believe to be right no matter who :
concerned. Yesterday a case WAS
called and the defendant not appear
ing His Honor asked if the man vas
under bond and if so, who was or the
bond. 1t was learned that the 2ctor-
ney for the defendant had stood MS
bond. Judge Jones told the clerk not
TO take the bond of a lawyer for his
client, that il was o the proper thing
for an attorney to do and was C1lcU-
lated to put the judge in an unpleasant
position. He expressed himself in ~
uncertain terms about this practise.
The following cases We're disposed :
yesterday:
Son Baldwin. larceny; six months IN
the county roads.
Harry Smith. assault; bond g.vaA
for appearance at next term.
CadOnia ROderick. nuisance; Defend
ant recognised for next term.
Joe Doe. alias DOnnalley. continued
John Phifer, larceny; verdicc guilty
and sentenced to 6 months on roads.
J. NJ. Brown, larceny; guilty; iudg-
ment suspended.
J. NJ. Brown. larceny; guilty; SEN
fenced to nine months on county roads.
Haywood Higgins, larceny in three
cases: guilty; sentenced to Il months
on roads.
George Robertson, larceny: guilty
sentenced to four months on roads.
Hurley Peterson. larceny; former
Judgment changed and defendant sen
senced to five years on roads instead of
penitentiary.
Ed Reads and Caesar Bullock, burg
larry: continued for defendant, and set
for Thursday of the first week. mex
term.
Henry Stevens, larceny: defendant
in hospital; continued.
Forest Padrick. carrying 4 concealed
weapon; pleads guilty; Judgment sus-
pended on payment of cost.
Forest Padrick, assarlt with a deadly
weapon; pleads guilty; Judgment sus-
pended on payment of costs.
j. D. Sudbury and Forest PadricN,
assault with a deadly weapon; pleads
guilty; judgment suspended on pay
ment of costs.
j. D. Sudbury and Forest PadrjcN.
false pretense; pleads guilty; judgment
suspended upon payment of costs.