Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-08
JUDGE MONCURE
MAKES ANSWER
TO CHARGES
Judge Occupies Stand All
Day Yesterday And
Again Today
FLAYS FRANK STUART
Expects to Finish Statement ioaay
When Cross Examination Begins
Stuart Not to Answer Questions

Anv doubt that Judge Moncure was
ready. able and willing to defend MN
self against the charges preferred oy
Frank Stuart was dispelled within 4
short time after he took the witness
stand before the investigating COM
mittee Yesterday. The courtroom was
crowded, the audience including many
ladies and most Of the ministers VI
the city. Judge Moncure spoke Win. W, r.
out interruption from 2 o'clock until .
o'clock, and held the undivided atteh-
ton of the committee, and those pres
cnt during the entire session. he
smoke with calm and dignity, answer,
ing in detail from copious notes ana
documents every charge and statement
made by Stuart and the witnesses
whom he had produced. John ). Bar
hour. counsel for Judge Moncure, first
called to the witness stand Justice
Frank w. Troth, of Fairfax County
who testified that after the trial OF a
recent case before him, which had
been decided against Stuart, Stuart
had taken exception to, had become
very much inflamed and angered, and
cursed and abused him in the hearing
o. his wife, and threatened 10 morse
whip him. Justice Troth testified that
Stuart had been accompanied on this
occasion by Robert Thomas, an attof-
ney of Alexandria, and it was his mn
preston that they had come to ms
home for the. purpose Of intlm!datlng
him. Justice Troth, who is aged,
gray-haired, and cripple with rheuma,,
tisn1. when cross-examined, rccouDted
the occurrence without variation. Con-
stable Weiss was the next witness
who testified that ne was present at
the trial before Justice Troth, and cor
roborated his testimony in every de-,
tail, and stated that Justice Troth had
called for his assistance to protect
him from Stuart and Thomas. During
the examination of these witnesses
Stuart was asked by Mr.. Barbour
whether he was armed with plstoii
as he had stated he was at the time Oh
his difficulty with Judge Moncure.
Stuart stated that he did not remem-
ber whether he had q pistol on hlm
at that time, but that he probably
had, as he usually carried one on such
occasions. Judge Moncure in his
opening remarks, stated emphatically
that the charges made by Attorney
Frank Stuart to Washington news
paper were unqualifiedly and Know
ingly false; that the charges were
founded on personal. private venom,
and were propagated by an unreliable,
scandal-loving newspaper, that at
tackled mems characters Ior protlt.
Official Murder
He stated that he was reliably m
formed that Stuart had hawked ms
scandal to the responsible papers OF
Washington, and that the same had
been rejected, by all except the paper
conducting the scandal campaign
against him, and he further stated
that Stuart and this paper had during
many months preparation as delio-
crately planned and conspired for ms
official murder as wiliful, dellocrate'
and premeditated murder is done oS
those who in dark 5ecluded spots
planned and carried out the same.
Waited TO Answer Charges
Judge Moncurc stated that II hao
always beer his fixed purpose TO an
swer these vicious an duntrue charges
but only to the Bar Association com
mittee and to the public of the city OF
Alexandria, and that he did not intent
TO answer man controlled by envy
malice, and hatred, ana for whom hi
had no respect, nor a yellow shec'
which had had an opportunity to know
the truth but as matter OF choic
chose to prevent the truth and lent
irs aid in campaign OF official mu
der for the sole sake OF sensation
alism and profit.
Public Libel
Judge Moncure called their atten
ton to the fact that Stuart, TO eXer
else his private venom, and the news
paper for its private gain. had dis
rraced and published to the world tn
cilv of Alexandria, the Judge of II
court, the great majority of its re
spected attorney and many of it
ministers and good citizens. and ths
this action on their part could neve
be charged up to any moral reform
but to the qualification of their ow
desires, and he quoted the evidence Q
Stuart in several places where ne sal
he was not interested in the divorc
probe, but that he only wanted to ee
Judge Moncure, and Judge Moneur
also called attention to the genera
scandal-mongering propensities of tn
Wash;npton newspaper with whic
every one seems familiar. Judg
Sfoncure also called attention to tn
fact that many of the fantastic ar
ticles published in that newspape
were already known by the public TO b
absolutely false, and that yet Stuar
and this newspaper persisted in thei
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