Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-24
mo EVIDENCE ADDUCED.
OF IMMORAL CONDUCT
Witnesses Unable to Remember ANY
Facts Harmful to Judge Car
tcr's Character.
THEY TELL or HIGH TEMPER
Testimony Is Given Purporting to
Show Jurist's Lack OF judicial
Temperament Mrs. Williams
Takes Stand to Rcfute Islanders"
Especial to The Times-Dispatoh.1

RALEIGH. y. c.. March 2S.-Morn-
Ing. afternoon and night sessions OF the
lcgisla tive committee investigating the
solicitor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Carter case
to-day, were featured not by evidence
OF immoral conduct on the part Of
Judge Carter. but by testimony by
numbers OF lawyers and other court Of
hcers where Judge Carter had held
courts. tending to show high temper
displayed on the bench and conduct
intended to show lack Of judicial tenn
perament.
former Congressman John d. Bellamy
j. o. Carr. ". y Harriss and others, OF
Wilmington; Sheriff Edwards. Of
Wayne. and Sheriff Sears. OF Wake
County: Solicitors Norris and Silver: h.
G. Beckwith and w c. Douglass
Declaring she believed the Lord
would give her strength to rcfute the
ISLANDERS against herself, her daughter.
Mrs. fowler. and Judge Carter. Mrs.
j. NJ. Williams. who ran the Montague
Hotel at Clinton, took the stand to-
day. She said she was sixty years
old and with six grown children. one
forty-one years old. She insisted that
there had never been the least i'm
proper intimacy between Judge Carter
and herself or any member OF her
family.
DECLARES JUDGE WAS
v
Judge Carter was the most perfect
gentleman she had ever known. and.
at the risk OF her life, over tho pro-
test OF her physician. she had como to
do what she could to protect him from
sla nder
n. S. Haddock. ofhccr at Union Sta
tion. Wilmington. testified TO having
refused to allow Judge Carter to go
through the gate to meet his wife. as
the Judge told him. and tho Judge
anSrily said he would remember the
Coast Line when cases came into his
court. He did not know who the
women were he met at different times
at the station One time he said an
elderly woman was his mother.
Numbers OF witnesses examined knew
nothing that would reflect on Judge
Carriers moral character. They had
seen At. OF temper displayed on the
| bench Representative NJ. II. Allen. Of
Goldsboro, testified to this effect. SEN
ator Harry Stubs remembered hear
Ing once that Judge Carter was at Vir
Ginia Beach with a woman. but he did
not know who said so or who tho
| woman could have been.
DR.. w. w. Faison, superintendent OF
| the State Hospital at Goldsboro, said
he knew nothing OF Judge Carter ever
| having been seen in the hospital
! grounds with his arm around a woman
! He could suggest no one who would
know anything OF such an incident
| Representative NJ. II. Allen. OF Colds
boro. testified that In 1912 lie was told
! by Senator Stubs that he saw Judge
| Carter and our little stenographer
| friend" at Virginia Beach. Mr.. Allen
| said this was Mt Virginia Beach, and
that he walked up the beach and saw
| the woman sitting on bench. He
shook hands with her. Returning to
| the hotel he saw Judge Carter. He
knew nothing OF any immoral conduct
| there or anywhere else.
| Only once during tho ordeal to-day
did Judge Carter seem TO lose control
OF himself. Solicitor Norris, OF Wake
was on the stand. and had told OF
unpleasant incidents about courts he
had been In with Judge Carter. and
had reverted to court stenographers
and the refusal OF Wayne County COM
missioners to pay the Wake stenogra-
| pher on the ground that n Wayne ste
nographer should have served tho
court. lie said Judge Carter had asked
him What la all this id row about
| stenographers?" Judge Carter sprang
to his feet and exclaimed:
do you mean to say Here the
hand OF Judge Manning. his chief coun-
sci, bore on his shoulder and pressed
him back in his seat. The question
recessed for dinner.
evening that the committee would
finish the hearing here on Wednesday
night and go to New Bern on Thurs
day TO Investigate the contempt ma tier
there. He said the purpose is to have
just as few witnesses 10 a side as
possible possibly not over five or six,
| in proving facts as to tho contempt