The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-03-12
Bar Association Reveals
Charges Against Justice
of the Peace.
MANY COMPLAINTS ARE
FILED AGAINST HIM
Document Says Attorney Brought
Suits Without Being
Authorized.

ed by the Bar Association against At
torney Orren Wilson of this city, the
testimony of four witnesses was offer
ed in evidence last Tuesday. The de-
PENDANT had been furnished with
copies of the charges that had been
preferred against him, and upon his
request was given until March II in
which to offer his defense.
The charges are as follows.
Cape Girardeau, Mo-. Feb. %, 1915.
The undersigned committee of the
Cape Girardeau County Bar Associa-
ton, duly appointed to investigate
various transactions and dealings of
Orren Wilson, as an attorney at law,
and to report to said Bar Association
on Feb. %, 1915, now at the appoint
ed time, submits herewith its report,
made after due investigation and as
information which we present as hav-
ing been received from others, and we
therefore present it as charges mere
ly, without representing the same to
be of our own knowledge.
Orren Wilson was appointed guar
dian of one or two brothers and sis
ters, which included Eva Wilson, a
minor. She lived down in Dallas, Tex
He refused to turn over to her her
just portion of her fathers estate un-
til she employed an attorney in Dali
las, Tex, and that attorney employed
Oliver and Oliver and they forced a
settlement from Orren Wilson for the
part that belonged to Eva Wilson. She
had been of age for three or four
years and entitled to the proceeds be-
fore she got them by compulsion
law.
Henry Caruthers made an affidavit
for embezzlement against Orren Will
son and got ready to prosecute him
and Orren Wilson then paid the money
to prevent prosecution. The fact Of
the above. matter are as follows:
About January, 1914, Anna Macke,
who is a person of unsound mind, at
least at intervals, was owing So inter
est on her note to the Bank of White
water, Mo-, and demand having been
made for such interest, she took 81
to Orren Wilson in order to have him
send the money to the bank for he
Afterwards the bank continued its de
mands for the interest, and she went
back to Orren Wilson and found he
had not paid the money. She then
paid the IS to Mr.. John Medley,
cashier of the bank land being unable
to get the 81 back from Orren, wen'
before the Prosecuting Attorney and
made an affidavit as to the fact. The
prosecuting attorney prepared to file
an information for embezzlement, but
showed the affidavit to Orren Wilso
before he filed the information and
Orren Wilson thereupon said he wor
pay Mrs. Macke the Sd at once, which
he soon afterwards did.
The case of Frances Heuchober VS..
Minnie Coehig, No. 4424, in the Feb.
1914, term of the Cape Girardeau
Court of Common Pleas, was institut-
ed by Orren Wilson, and Attorney
Henry Caruthers was retained by the
defendant. Soon after being retained
in the case, Mr.. Caruthers' client pre-
scented him with a letter from the
plaintiff denying that Orren Wilson
ever had any authority to bring the
suit, or to represent her in any way,
and Mr.. Caruthers filed a motion to
dismiss the case because Orren VIII
son had no authority to bring it. AT
ter this melton had been filed, Orren
Wilson claimed to Henry Caruthers
that he did have authority to bring
the suit, but said that in order to pre-
vent publicity of the matter, he was
willing to dismiss the case if Henry
Caruthers would withdraw the motion.
The case was accordingly voluntarily
dismissed by Orren Wilson, and an or
der was made for the withdrawal Of
the motion. Sheriff W. A. Summers
can also substantiate these facts.
Attached hereto are three letters
furnished by Judge w. H. Willer,
which are partially self-explanatory.
Judge Willer says that the costs, men
toned in the letter of February 2,
1907, have never yet been paid; that
the costs, mentioned in the letter of
January 7, 1908, have never been paid;
that the costs in the case of Haas
Lieber G. Co., VS.. J. H. Grader, men,
toned in the letter of April 25, 1908,
were paid to Orren Wilson by the
plaintiff and that he has never paid
those costs to Judge Willer. Judge
Willer also says that in the Amour