The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-23
$4,000 FINE IMPOSED
Agent Green Pays S. and Gives
Promise

Raleigh, y. c. July 19-Thilt.
; thousand dollars fine was imposed b.
Judge B. F. Long on the South.e rI
railway al 6:2s this evening after tn
jury had returned a verdict OF guilt,
against it u Agent T. E Green o
the Raleigh Office for selling ticket.
in excess Of two and a quarter cents
mile. In the case against Greer
Judge Longs sentence was ten dol.
lars and the requirement Of a promise
from Green not to again defy the la \
by selling tickets at an xcesS rate
Green was given a half hour for CON
sideratiOn and came into court and
agreed to pay the fine and give the
promise upon which the fine was re-
duced to five dollars which Green paid
The morning was consumed BY ar
gument of counsel for and against
Green and the Southern railway fol-
lowed by the charge TO the jury.
, In imposing sentence on the South
! ern railway Judge Long declared IN
phatically that Jurisdiction in criminal
cases in this state lay exclusively with
the state courts. He informed the
Southern railway counsel that if the
Southern would obey the act of thu
legislature and put the rate law into
effect until finally passed upon by lie
proper tribunal that the state would.
hold up its cases.
He directed that execution be issued
against the Southern railway for the
payment of the fine of thirty thousand
dollars imposed and hat the papers
be placed in the hands of the sheriff
for execution. The our then ad-
jaurned.
There are cases on the docket here
against agents of the Southern rail-
way in this county at Auburn Garner,
Cary and Morrisville similar to the
Green case. These go over to the
next term.
The Southern has ten days in which
to file notice of appeal.
Indictments have beer found against
the Southern railway ticket agents at
Asheboro, in Randolph county, and at
Albemarle, in Stanley county. on
charges of selling tickets at an excess
i've rate this in violation. of the, STATE
law of two and a quarter cents.
Besides these indictments for SELL
ing at al illegal rate, there are our
L Ill w dhS COul4LS. Dut tlc9E 10
ver to the next term Of. court. At
Asheyille Ticket Agent Woods and
District Agent Wilson, of the Southern
railway. have been sentenced to, The
roads by the police justice. HabeaS
corpus proceedings are noW pending
before Judge Pritchard. It is under
stood that cases will he brought in
every county in North Carolina in
which the Southern galway sells
tickets.
HEARING AT ASFEVILLE-
Asheville, N. c., July 19.-Heari0&
before Judge Pritchard on writs Of
habeas corpus he issueG> at 2 o'clock
a. NJ, to bring before him J. H. Wood
and 0. c.. Wilson, Southern railway
ticket agents, convicted and sentenced
by Police Judge Reynolds here ye5ter-
day. to thirty days service on the CUB
lie roads for violation CT the new state
railroad rate law, began this afternoon
when Police Justice Reynolds and. sew
eral other witnesses were examined,
the petitioners being represented by
railway attorneys and the STATE by
Solicitor Brown and ]. G. Merrjnon,
special counsel. = 'Hhe railway counsel
1874 III SeL Ju1LlCc 1Lty 1OluS ~ I'LL
NIT that he procured the issuance Of
warrants and Threatened to issue
others as soon as Judge Pritchard left
the city and also sought to obtain
similar admission MS from other wit
nesses. State counsel objected TO evil
dence rejecting IN. the motives of
a. state court. Judge Pritchard ruled
that he. would not hear the evidence
for this purpos g, bat upon the state
meIt. from del tend2nt's counsel that
the evidence was introduced for the
purpose Of shO wing that there was in
tent TO harasS ard cripple the rail
way financial y so that Judge Tr!tcn-
ards nate or der made here Iune 80,
would be nu lifted in effect and the
court thus prevented from giYing re-
lief afforded if the law should be
found 10 be unconstitutional, the Judge
allowed the evidence. The railway is
seeking to show, that Judge Reynolds
said ne VIC uld send Judge Pritchard
to jail If he in1erfered with his court.
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