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H Duncan contempt dXsu. Supremo Oourt Trying Columbia l>? Hi Lawyer?He Alleges Conspiracy al'l H Against Him. alt B Columbia, July 15.?It is a most unusual lliing' to sec the supremo " court taking' evidence and going into clu r details. It is doing so in the case oi' John T. Duncan. This is .a note worthy cause. The court room was C()l | crowded during the entire hearing ?'f P this morning, and when the dinner l!1 r recess was taken the principal figure I in the ease was on the stand giving I his testimony in dramatic style. John T. Duncan is a young lawyer in Columbia, who has figured in poli- 'i',i tics more or less, lie is well con- ,u" nected and, above all else, is a hard w<> fighter, lie lias been connected with ?^ the local bar for many years, but lias 'ni [ not figured in many prominent cases. wo I He is the counsel for a colored man | named Jess Hunter. He thinks Hunter is being persecuted and that M>,<1 the white people in this county tried I to drive Hunter from the community. a:'V i Hunter was arrested and convicted on the charge of firing into a posse , that went to arrest him. Hunter's ' case was appealed and the appeal disJ missed. Then Mr. Duncan tried to ; appeal again and failed. I'1" Then came the turning point in the present case. An affidavit was pres- an< ented which, it was alleged, was signt cd by Jeff Taylor. In this affidavit .VOi Jeff Taylor swore that Hunter was '>' 1- under the house and that lie (Taylor) 1 was in the house and did the shoot- <iv ing. Now Taylor says ho made no up such affidavit and that lie neVer did or. the shooting, and that Mr. Duncan lio' tried to get him to make an affidavit, die bill that he refused to do so. The ' Taylor affidavit was sworn to before sai Mr. Washington Clark, of Columbia, tin ami Mr. Clark swears that (lie man ' presented to the supreme court as eal fe Jeff Taylor was not the man who jur signed the affiidavil before him. iny Mr. Clark says that the man who signed the allidavit before him was a tall, black negro, whereas the man , who appears us Jeff Taylor, is a (j0 thick set, light compfexloned colored j ' man. pr; The Jeff Taylor who appeared be- Mp: fore the court absolutely denied that ;in< I) he has signed the allidavit, and Mr. |0j, R Clark says he is not the man who ap- wh peared before liiin and signed the pa- V0l per. ;va Mr. Duncan says he is the man and ma thai he signed the affidavit, and that 1 he did the shooting, and that he vol- res r unlarily told him so months after the she shooting. Mr. Duncan went into the fov minutest details to show how and why Taylor confessed to him that he had done the shooting. l Then to add to the mystery of the (|C1 Taylor affidavit it cannot now be found. Mr. Duncan alleges that it (M-j has been abstracted and r?iaf this is 0,i merely an incident of the "conspir- f;11 acy" that has been formed against (.(j him. The Taylor affidavit is alleged <>]a to have been filed with the supreme (.Ju court for a new trial. Mr. Duncan al- fav leges that Mr. Timmorman, then so- < licitor, took it out with a bunch of <v0| other papers. Mr. Tiiutnerman turned ' over the papers in the case to his sue- nie cessor in office?Mr. Benet?and the < affidavit was not among them. Mr. Sln IT. R. Brooks, clerk of I lie supreme court, said that he looked for the paper in company with Mr. Benet, 25. and that he could not find the file at all, and that later on he telephoned .)e, 4 for Mr. Duncan to come down to his ^ office, and that when Mr. Duncan ap- ^ peared and helped him look for the (|UJ papers that they were found. Col. Brooks says that he does not know j] whether the record was in the file box when he and Mr. Bcnet. looked for the r papers, but that he coufd not find a ~ single paper at that time?they may ( have been there. The Taylor affigov davit, the original, was not then found and has evidently flown. Then there is a negro, Myers, whose affidavit was filed by Mr. Duncan, lie "I1 it- says he made no such affidavit. Mr. ? Duncan says that he did. Now Mr. Duncan is charged with on* contempt of court and the court of its own accord is considering his dis- In( barment. The disbarment proceed- "10 ings hinge on the genuineness of the 00? B affidavits, particularly that of Jeff W Taylor, and it is for the court to do- ^ E cide from the evidence it is now hearF ing whether the affidavits were gen- cd ? nine or not. Judge Memminger, of che I Charleston, is sitting with the court, age I Chief Justice Pope, Justices Jones, ope R Woods and Judge Memminger asked bo ] ft questions during tho progress of the oxc W hearing, and once or twice suggested ] r that there was no need to have a re- pni k lion ring of the original trial as to age Bp whether Hunter really did the slioolY ing or not. Y Mr. Duncan is represented by Col. O. L. Schumpcrt, of Newberry, and W. Attorney General Lyon is presenting I the caso against Mr. Duncan. Solicitor lionet, who ln:s boon most j ivo in the null tor, a;\l who quos- j nod the genuineness oL' the Taylor j 'idavit, was present, assisting the I orney general. The snpromo court found an old ? goods box and covered this with few old newspapers, and from a nir placed on top of this box the tncsses, many of thorn colored men, re hoard in the august supremo irt giving their testimony. At 7 lock the hearing was adjourned untomorrow morning. A Packcd Jury. 'The Allen," said a New York pocian, "took a cynical view of manid. For one thing, ho did not be- i i'0 in trial by jury. Humanity, ho uhl say, was (tto corrupt to admit your getting twelve good men and e in a jury box together. Then he nld tell his ham story. 'A chap, the story ran. was indictCor stealing a multitude of hams? no six or on '.undrod. ! 'The trial came. The evidence J unst the chap was overwhelming. : lawyer loaned to him and whis ed. ' 'Yon are a gone goo>c.. Tnc',e is li'ni; f' r mo to do.' !f: t 'he prisoner sonh?l and rend : ' you got up Mie.e. please. | I -take a speech abusing all the Ines.v. Considering the size o' ti fit. you lose heart pretty quicky 'So the lawyer made a mosl abu0 ppicch. But the ' ~ sumih <<! powerfully against tiio ham sicalAfter an absence or live minutes, k'cvcr, the jurjf. broac-ht in a vcr1 of 'not guilty.' ' 'Well, 1 can't understand it.' <1 the prisoner's lawyer, a.? h ieft [ court arm in arm \v> !; l.'s client, i ' '1 can,' said the other with his m smile. "Every man on that v had one of the hams.' ''?Waslii ton Star. Hot For Grandma. 'The little girl was very fond of j ^ asant days and ill the close of a ivy rainstorm petitioned in her ivor for fine weather; when, the ct morning, the sun shone bright I clear she became jubilant and 1 il her prayer to her grandmother, 0 said: "Well, dear, why can't 1 pray to night that it may be rtner tomorrow, so grandma's rlieutism will be better.** 'All right, I will," was the quick ponse; and that night as she knelt > said, "O Lord, please make it hot grandma."?Harper's. 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