The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-30


made against witness by the woman
charging him with disturbing her
peace, cussin' and abusin' her" Case
was tried in Judge Bottoms court and
witness was convicted on testimony
of several witnesses, none of whom ap-
peared at the first trial. Judge Davis
advised Hollis to appeal to the circuit
court and promised to get him out and
save him paying a twenty-nine dollar
fine. Appeal was taken by D. w.
Draughn, Hollis lawyer For several
days the case was called and when
Draughn asked the court for. hearing
and told him what the. case was Judge
1 Johnson said, that is enough, enough,
il he is a secondhand furniture man
! don't want to know anything about
him" Draughn did not press his re-
quest further, so Hollis fell back on
Davis. The latter forthwith "lent
across the counter, whispered a few
words to the court and Judge Johnson
said, 4 mol pross this case"
"Why was that done?" witness was
asked
Because | know of my own know
ledge, not rumors, that Davis is John
sons next lawyer"
81 want to mention another case.
have got hearsay to bring these true
says to fact" said witness. Hollis
here got down to the real grievance he
holds against the Judge, which grew
out of considerable litigation over a
shanty witness states he had lease on
and which by injunction proceedings
he was finally put out of. Hollis went
into all the details of the case, where
he was awarded possession of property
by a jury verdict in a justice court,
when an attempt was made to oust
him and he had been given five days
notice to vacate. The next day, said
witness, he was served with a manda-
tory writ Of injunction granted by
Judge Johnson, not to interfere with
removal of his goods from the shanty
or try to prevent the parties seeking to
possess the property from so doing.
The goods were carted away and he
saw nothing more of them until he
sued Molere G. Eckles. who had made
contract with the landlord for the prop
erty, and ]. P. Myer, che landlord.
The suit was brought in the chancery
court, for reason, witness said, II had
rather take a chance there than to
run the risk of getting nothing in cir
cult court" Case in chancery was de-
cided in his favor and defendants or
dered to pay him $610.
81 claim Judge Johnson unlawfully
sued out the writ" said Hollis.
: Hollis then told the committee of
things he had heard pretty straight
that Judge Johnson had said about
him. Hollis is a whiskey drunkard,
Johnson is alleged to have said, "and
Hattiesburg would be better off without
him." Witness said Johnson had spok-
en- of him as "a frivolous affair."" and he
believed the injunction was granted
because of the Judges attitude toward
, him.
|, "This is something l hate to tell,
: said Hollis, in presenting his new
! charges. at is the truth, nevertheless.
; l am working for my country and
, want to see the right kind of men
: put in office | have known Judge
, johnson since he was a kid. When
, | first started in business l opened a
: place in the niger quarters, where
| stayed in the daytime but never be
) tween suns. My business demanded
that l go into niger quarters, and
2 don't deny l used to drink whiskey.
/ admit | like it. I sold some niggel
: women goods and l used a good dea
: of theirs" (meaning whiskey).
: Hollis then told of visiting the house
r of Daisy Tisdale. Witness and DAISY
8 were good friends. This night Iwit
S ness forgot he had just stated he wa
: never In the quarters at night Dais,
: had Just come from court. She sal,
. to me They didn't do much with m,
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