Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-08
NEW COUNTY JUDGE: TO SUCCEED FORMER COUNTY
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Governor Davis has appointed , George Il. Lower as temporary coun- ty judge of Garland county to serve during the suspension af County Judge 0. II sumpter who Was remoy= ed several days ago bl au order of j, Circuit Judge w. H. Evans oil an in dietmcnt returned bv the Garland county grand jury, charging him with malfeasancc ill office for an alleged failure to hold court on q day set 1 The appointment was made yesterday afternoon and the commission has been sent Mr. Lower.
 George II. Lower, the newly ap
 pointed county judge was circuit
 clerk of Garland county from Octo=
 Der 1900 to October 1906, having just
 retired from the office at the last gen
 eral election. He is well known in Garland county having been a citizen
 of that county for years
 l Mayor George k. Bedding, of Hot 1 Springs who is in the city today and
 who first announced the appointment l of Mr. Lower says that the indictment
 against Judge Sumpter is only for a
 misdemeanor and that he is confident
 that Judge Sumpter will have no 1 trouble in clearing himself of the
 charges Mayor Bedding is authori- ty for the statement that Judge Sump-
 ter was in St. Louis buying furniture i for the new Garland county court
 house at the time he is alleged 10
 have failed to hold court
 June F. Wooten. of the law firm of 1 VinsOn and WoOten has returned form Helena, Phillips county where he
 went Monday to present the petition
 asking for rehearins of the GOvan Beard case on writ of error Cir
 cult Judge Hutton denied the petition
 on the grounds that as the case had
 once been passed on by the court
 and later appealed to the supreme
 court of the United States, he had l no jurisdiction in the matter. Mf. l ''''
 sented to the supreme court of .Arkan-
 sas in a few days, it being contended 1 that the court erred ill permitting the testimony of Annie Hartley to stand, she having later alleged that she did
 not tell the truth regarding the cir cumstances of the alleged assault up 1 on her when she first testified before the lower court.
 GOVan Beard, d negOr barber of Helena was three times sentenced to hang for an alleged assault upon the person of Mrs. Hartley His case is familiar perhaps to every reader of a
 newspaper in Arkansas owing to the fact thaf his attorneys have been tneless in their efforts To save the life Of the negro
 Mrs. Maudc McClintock, the con tester in the case of jhe will of Dr C. VI. TaNlof occupied the witness stand during the entire morning scs- sion of lhe second division of thc pu- laski circuit court= this morning and underwent most rigid examination of her relations with her father Mrs. McClmtock who was formerly Miss Maude TayIor. the dauehtnr 0f Df. TaXIor by his first wife, is probably the most important witness for the plaintiff in the snt owing to the fact that she is enabled to describe in de tail her fathers alleged opposition to her marriage with her present hus- band MT. McClintock and relate the history of this opposition from the time she and Mr. McClintoek first be- came acquainted. Mrs. McClintock was placed on the stand yesterday after noon and in response 10 questions of her attorneys detailed at length her associations with her father. She stated that she had always tried 10 be a dutiful daughter and that she had always entertained the most flial affection for her father She had ac- companied him on his trips abroad and had been his constant compan- ion doing everything in her power to demonstrate that she wished to do his will and obey him in all things.
 This morning under cross examine tion the story of the coutrship and subsequent marriage of Alr. Me Clntock and Miss Taylor was brought out at length. Mrs. McClintock stated that her father had always objected