The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-12
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; eIL5o MAKES STATEMENT.


To The News Scimltar:
To satisfy my friends and to crafty
the curiosity and seeming anxiety Of
others / have decided to answer the
oft-repeated question about my conneC-
ton with the now notorious tioIdsby
case. / have been employed and paid
reasonable fee to represent the said
X. T Goldsby, OF Vicksburg, and it Is
my determined purpose to give him the
best service possible and to do every
thing that Is fair and legitimate to
secure his pardon at the earliest pos
sible moment. | am going to stay with
him and defend him until hell freezes
over. Whenever the time comes in Mis-
sissippi that a lot OF politicians, scan
dal mongers and partisan newspapers
must select my clients and determine
the fee to be paid for my professional
services ! will promptly quit the prac-
tice OF law
Goldsby wanted a lawyer to repre-
sent him In this matter, he had the
money to pay my fee and | know OF
nothing in the code OF morals or profess
siOnal ethics that would make il in
the least questionable or wrong for me-
to accept the employment, Goldsby IL
very sick negro-hopelessly so--and
believe continued confinement will
result in his death. Gov. RuSselrs ac-
ton In granting him "A suspension was
entirely proper, humane and wide open.
IAO ldh ANl'lt Ullll a clkltu SNdAtilltul
from both the physician and the ser
geant at Parchman that had Goldsby
IN charge together with a record OF
the supreme court wherein other ply
sicians had testified to the physical in
firmities of this convict have "A sus-
picion that all this huIlabaloo about
Goldsby would not have transpired had
some other attorney been employed or
some other governor granted the sus-
pension.
1t was my pleasure to be before the
pardoning board this week in behalf OF
two little cases in which was EN-
ployed, and while there | saw a great
many other lawyers from other parts
of the state, who were not Russell men
presenting their clients petitions tot
pardon. If these lawyers can accept
fees for their services IN matters ot
this kind, why cannot l. and do 81
without being questioned abused aud
denounced by certain influences?
II might be Of interest for the publ,
to know that when the code commits
sioners prepared the codo of 1906 that
in the chapter on attorneys and reg
ulatinE the practice of law they
inserted a provision prohibiting lawyer,
from representing cOnWcts in their pc
uuons for pardon. but when the lects
lature adopted the code this provision
was very properly stricken out
Now. in conclusion, | wish to stat,
have been in part guilty Of some Of tn
wrougdoingS charged at his door, To-
which he was sentenced TO the prni
Tertiary for five years but he has beer
punished enough and Is now hopelessl
SICK. being unable to render any serN
ice whatever as a convict He h8l
plenty ~ money left after paying my
lee and agrees to spend the rest Of hi
Ife in Chicago II released. This MAJ
is SO sick that he is forced to sit NJ
| in order to sleep. Justice and humaniu
demand that he be parGoneu, ana I can
not understand how any Mississippiai
could object when he proposes to leav
the state and MAKE his home IN chi
caRo a thousand miles away.
| | am now q nriNal- citizen, practic
ing law for a living and / do not cN
| meet to always represent angels TO
| clients. The best lawyers always 81
| the worst cases.
THEO @, BlLBO.