Evening star., 1923-07-22
Judge HURLS FIERY
REPLY AT CRITICS.
Prosecution in Garrett Case
Charged With CoWardIy
Attack on Him.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va. July 21.-Judge
George ]. Hundley of the circuit court
for Cumberland. who was declared to
have been the victim of abuse of con-
fidence on the part OF the Garrett
brothers. charged with the murder of
the Rev. Z. S. Pierce of Cumberland
several weeks ago, today made reply
to statement of counsel for the
prosecution in that case, the criti-
cism and statement having been made
over the signature of NJ P. Bonifat.
the man Judge Hundley had appointed
to lead the prosecution.
Judge Hundley Is nearly eighty
hve years old. is a veteran of the
civil war and man of courage. He
characterizes the reference to him as
false, scandalous and CoWardiy, and
says in part:
The article published in the even
ing papers of Richmond July Is, pur-
porting to be prepared by the prose-
cutlon In the Garrett cases In Cum
berland, which, We are told, will be
used when the motion for change of
venue is made July Is. in so far as
1t alludes to me l wish to denounce
as false, scandalous and cowartily, and
wish to notify it's authors now that
II IL is offered in court the honorable
judge who is presiding will be asked
TO pass on its character and to decide
whether he will permit the record of
the court of the absent judge to be
dishonored and disgraced by spread
ing thereon this slanderous attack
upon the character of the judge of
that circuit.
Bitterly Attacks Motive.
wish to denounce it now as false.
lthRlOnS a.
cause it attributes to me action and
character which could only be
true of an imbecile or a corrupt
judge. Cowardly, because the insti-
gators of 1T know that l will not be
present at the trial of 1t. and they
would never dare to do 1t in any other
way than under cover of what they
suppose is privileged communica-
ton. made in court of justice in
a case on trial.
A court of justice indeed, that is
the last thing these people want.
Their whole course from the begin
ming has been an effort to try these
accused men by arousing popular
Glamour and trying these men. not by
unbiased jury, but by a prejudiced
public, whose minds have been al
ready poisoned by the most remark
able campaign of denunciation waged
in press and pulpit. Many or the men
mentioned by these slanderers, and
severely criticized by them. l knew
long before l knew the CARROTS, and
whom every good man IN Cumberland
knows to be far superior in all re-
spects to their critics.
In many respects this paper is the
most remarkable production that !
have ever known. When analyzed.
1t is simply an absolute Endorsement
of all the charges which the oppos-
ing faction have brought against
Garrett.
"CongIomerate" Indictment.
1t is a conglomerate indictment of
all the crimes in the catalogue. and
il is proper to inquire whether the
commonw ealth of Virginia, through
it's prosecuting attorneys, means to
announce to the world that she In
dorses every accusation brought by
a frenzied and hostile faction against
Robert Garrett, and is going to coun-
tenance the desperate efforts of this
contemplate faction In the country
to set aside the orderly and digni-
fed process of law, the voice of a
bowling mob whose passions they
have aroused and fired by the most
dissraceful appeals through the pub
lie press and from certain pulpitS to
an extent never heard of in old
Virginia before.
These people are attacking the law
through the officers of the law, like
the murders of the judge and sheriff
of Carroll county. They are seeking
TO take the lives of the CARROTS and
destroy the reputation of the judge
and good old sheriff of Cumberland
and, doubtless, If they had 1T in their
power they would do to the off1cers
Of the Cumberland court what the
murderers Of Carroll county did to
the officers of that court