Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-11-26
JUN WIL5VII
 HAS BEEN FIRED Negro Policeman Found
 Guilty or Assault and Bat tery and Is Fined S2OO- Discharged From Force. SENSATIONAL TRIAL Charges Made That Wilson Conducts
 Immoral Re>ort-White Man Is
 Implicated and His Commission Is ReyOked-Funny Court Proceedings
SENSATIONAL TRIAL,

llCe ueDdIunenl. was yesterday ad- judged guilty of assault and battery by jury in Justice J. X. Fraziel's court and given the maximum punish
 nlent of a $200 fine. He has been
 suspended by Chief of Police Stewart pending final hearing of the case lin the Jefferson circuit court to
 which the case has been appealed by his attorneys, Nixon and Shaw. Form CT Prosecuting Attorney w. Sor- Tells represented the State at the
 preliminary hearing and denounced
 Wilson in the strongest terms in mak-
 ing his final argument to the jury.
 The case was one of the most sen- sa,ional listened to in a justice court
 in this city i'll years Wilson was ar
 faigned on the assault and battery
 charge at the instance of Isaac Seals.
 negro musician, who said he was
 assaulted and beaten in Mamie Riley's uegro resort on East Barraque street Saturday night by Wilson, The ne-
 gro presented swollen eye in court 10 prove his assertions. Although
 Wilson testified that he tried to arrest
 Seals on a charge of disturbing the
 peace. and it was stated at the hearing
 that Wilson saw him again at Third
 avenue and Main street Sunday, he
 was not arrested by the negro patrol
 man, but was arrested later with a
 warrant from Frazier's court, which
 vas issued at the instance of Mamie
 Riley, after Seals had asked for a warrant charging Wilson with assault and battery.
 The hearing Was a traVesty on jus
 tice. There were many amusing tilts
 between the attorneys and the court and the oppOsing counsel at times.
 ending up in heated discussions or
 sarcastic references to each other, in
 cluding His Honor Chief Justice
 Frazier, 1t was intima,ed during the
 proceedings that the court was being
 conducted on the style of kangaroo court and the spectators were thor oughly convinced before the hearing concluded that it was more on the
 kangaroo order" than otherwise but no fines were imposed on the dis turbng attorneys by the court. Even the cour, at times was charged with showing partiality in his rulings, but he only replied by saying that he was running the court according to law not run it at all
 Seals testified that he was in the Riley resort Saturday night and had an argument with Mamie Riley. Some words passed between them and while he was going through the door, he says he was overtaken by Patroman John Wilson, who came from an in- side room, and struck him in the eye He was knocked down, he says, but managed to get to his feet and made his escape. Wilson only followed him & short distance, he said. A white man named J. R. Thomas, who has a commission as a special officer, was with Wilson.
 Seals formerly worked for Wilson at the Riley resort, he said. He declared that Wilson was conducting the place and that Mamie Riley was only operating it for him. He charged that Will son had a room there per manently. !
 Mamie Riley testified that Wilson was particular friend of hers; that 1 she conducted the house, but the . court sustained the objections of At torney Shaw repeatedly when }Attor1 ney -,Sorrells would try" oS,brkg- iont testimony from the witness toS!show that Wilson was the naster..sot the house, and that it was being owned and conducted by a member of: the police department, as he charged later in his argument. Frequent tilts be- tween the attorneys and the court took place during this cross questioning. Sorrells charged that Jus tice Frazier was trying to show par tiality to avoid an expose of the charges against Wilson. but the court held that Wilson was being trlel for assault and battery and that tes-. rnony. relative to the proprietorship of the house had no bearing whateve- ,inoas the case. y. .,.