Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-02-05
PROMINENT LAWYERS
JAILED FOR CONTEMPT
Put Telephone In Their Cell
Which Judge Removed.
LEGISLATOR ONE OF PRISONERS
Claude Peyton ard c. Z. Hays Are
the Two Prominent Lawyers VINO
Have Been Jsiied-orderes 20 ray q
Fine or Go 70 Jail.

Have Been Jsiied-oroereS 20 Nay~
Fine or Go to Jail.
Triton. Ca, Feb. 4.-Wor.h SUI
perior cOurl was in session IN ss,-
vester this week. Judge W. y.
Snsnce presiding. The sensation ot
the week was the finlng Of Attorneys
Claude Payton. c. Z. Hay and j. \.
Conner for contempt OF court. Colonel
PAXTON Is representative elect
for worth county and Colone! Hay
aIso resides at Sylvester. CoIone. |
Conner lives at Ashburn In turner
county.
The ruling for contempt grew ou'
OF the case OF Nipper versus N'ppe'
AMI, for divorce and slimony from
Turner county. Messrs. Payton' hay
and Conner representing the defend
ant and an order was issued by Judge
SPENCE requiring said defendant MT
Ntpper. 10 filed a condemnation money
bond for $500 for his appearance al
the hearing. This order the detenl-
ants attorneys objected 10. and al
ter making a verbal application oe-
fore Judge Spence for a mOdincat'oH
thereof. they brought 3 petition IN
habeas corpus before Judge Pearce o.
the city court OF Sylvester, praying
that the defendant be released from
custody on his fling statutory oond
for his appearance.
This petition seems 10 have been
rather salty in character. In whch
matters personal and otherwise. were
touched up In a pretty lively manner
go severe was II that Judge PARK or
dered Objectionable language ex-
nurRed from the records In the case
and then granted the petition releas-
ing the defendant when the statu-
tory bond was filed. Judge spence
, ordered the attorneys before him 70
, show cause why they should not stand
> in contempt OF court. because tsey
T brought petition 10 set aside the ruI-
; ing Of the higher court before an IN
I ferior court. When the petition
D should have beea brought before the
= court BY which the order was granted
C The attorneys were adiudged In con
e tempt and fined SIS or ten days In )ai
each. Colonel Conner was away a.
the bedside OF his father. who Is a
the po!nt OF death. and outside o
the Jurisdiction OF the court.
), Colonel Payton and colonel Ha'
N chose 20 serve the jail sentence Il
4, preference TO paying the fine. and ar
now In prison. having already serve'
"a two DAYS OF their time. II Is sal
. when they were first imprisoned the
= ordered up a writing desk, books an
70 stationery 90 carry on their bushes
n and had a telephone put In. so tina
N they might communicate With thei
~ clients.
a, This Judge Spence countermande
? a. soon as ne learned Il was oein
NJ done. The situation Is said 70 b
or very strenuous In the county OF Wort
,k and the war clouds are lowerin
around the temple OF justice In Sylves
ter No man In the state is bette
KNOWN in politics than Judge Spence
whom current rumor associates WI
- the race for congressman from q
80 second Georgia district two yea
4, hence.
.. Co.oue, PAXTON vas nom!a'ei u
-, representative from Worth county
a. the as. democratic primary after
% spirlted contest. AMI Co,oue' Com
% IS a very prominent member Of :!
-. Turner county BAR. The aHair h
a. caused a govt deal NJ feeling oetwe'
.,s friends - BOA parties. both Jud
-. Spence AMI The 'aEya-s being ve
-. popular in Wor,h. The s'renuo
20 feeling among friends ~ TIA part
,ba Is Olsen, ~ a feeling ~ amnseme
". IN The prbl!r mind a. the rather no
o. situation. There s. no topbt 3
Judge Spence thought the fine vol
be paii. nj, me attorneys IN con'A-l
considered e. unjust. and A. -
'u's could not be>mads 10 pay II. ven
- !au
cen on thu other hand The l'torr'
wa thought they could equip their ro'
~" In the Jail as an once aud eontln