St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-03-23

might, without warning. and his blood
icried out to me as the only means
of vengeance, vengeance not CT men.
but of God, who said: He who
shedeth mans blood by man shall!
his blood be shed also
"The attorney for the accused par
tiles had instructed my witnesses be-
fore the court, If there is a court.
that they must not answer. was
outraged and jncensed. not because
l am more in inte~os. than other citi-
zensof the paris.
OFFICE ROB-, i;E : rs.
81 saw the Judge C s!.n district
prostrating all law, all precendent.
all justice and all the evidence In the
case, at the feet of his son. was
incensed and felt outragde, but did
not complain. Finally my office was
robbed Of the evidence of one OF the
most material and most important
witnesses in the case. said moth
ing because had copy of the evil
dence in my pocket.
when the trial was begun to-day
called a very material and impor-
tant witness to the stand and began
his examination. l had his test1-
mony before the corOner's jury IN
my hand and was questioning him
largely from it.
1.-The defense, through the judges
son, objected to this testifying. just
as it had to every witness who had
ATTEMPTED to testify against the ac-
cused. l thereupon offered to give
the witness his sworn signed state
ment before the coroncr's jury, that
he might refresh his memory fro2,
lit. To this the defense agreed.
VERSION OF CLASH.
"Afterward they dissented from
the agreement, and one of the attor-
neys for the defense, F. e. Jones.
snatched the document from the
hands of the witness.
81 requested him to return it,
which he refused to do, and then re-
Quested the judge to instruct him to
return the document to the witness.
The court refused to grant the re-
quest, and l then requested the at
torney to return the document to me.
stating to him that it was my private
property, and that similar documents
had been stolen from my office, and
that l was not willing to have him
retain my property. He refused to
grant the request, and the court re-
fused to instruct him to do SO.
81 had enough of such rulings.
took the paper from the gentleman
by force. He resisted, and there was
Ia scufie, in which the sheriff very
promptly interfered. l was immed-
lately sentenced to Jail, and am now
lin jail.
81 am here because / dared to do
right; | am here because l have stood
by my oath and prosecuted the case
LOT the State vs.. Terry and Mizell; i
am here because have dared to OPP
pose the son of the august Judge OF
this district.
81 plead my innocence to any crime
and leave my indictment to the judg-
|ment of a candid world. have pre-
pared a writ of habeas corpus to be
presented to him and have had the
same signed by next friend, who went
to present the writ to him in order
that l might have chance to show
to the world my innocence OF any
crime authorizing him to place me in
Jail with the common felons of the
country. It was found when this
writ was sought to be served that his
majesty had left town and that he
was absent from town, although
had served notice on him that a writ
of habeas corpus would be applied
for
Jena, La, March 18.-Gov. Sam
ders notified both Judge George
Wear and District Attorney 7. w.
Perrin this afternoon that he had
instructed Attorney-general Guion to
take charge of the prosecution OF
Elvin Mizell. The kilograms arriv-
ed at 4:3O o'clock, and the case was
at once, to await the At
arrival. This was
the feature of an otherwise quiet day
in the murder trial.
JUDGE DEPLORES AFFAIRS.
Judge Wear returned to Jena on
the 10 o'clock train this morning,
|unescorted, although trouble at his
journeys end was feared by some.
He spent yesterday at his home in
Columbia, Caldwell parish, which,
with LaSalle parish, composes the
recently created Thirtieth Judicial
District. He was met at G1orge-
town, the nearby railroad junction
by q stan representative OF the
Times-Democrat, and aboard the
train outlined his side of the contrC-
versy.
II depiore the whole affair." said
| he. "Mr. Perrin forced it on me.
He defied me to it, and l bore with
him as long as it was possible for
10 IL
or desire to prejudice the States
case on my part, and l only regret
that my sons position as Mizelps
counsel, has raised an unnecessary
Tissue. 1t was intimated by the dis
trict attorney tina ii favored the de-
tense for this reason. l think, II
anything, this fact would have caus-
ed me to lean the other way. l
should have been afraid of doing the
State an injustice.
'Mr. Perrin will be a candidate
for the district attorneyship this fall.
There has been a great deal Of law
lessness in this section, and public
sentiment has become quite bit
aroused. l fear that knowledge of
this led Mr.. Perrin to try to make
q play to the galleries. He Is very
earnest, and thing conscientious,
but he overlooked in his zeal the fact
that the accused has certain rights
which must protect.
with the idea of protecting these,
ruled Saturday afternoon that de-
positions made at the coroner's in
quest should not be allowed to go
Ito the jury. Mr.. Perrin insisted up
on this course, even to the extent OF
!placing his deposition in the witness
hands. Frank E. Jones, one of the
II Co. Hofnnoo tnNk fhiS