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Show JUDGE SPEER ROUNDLYSCORED Savannah, Ga., Jan. 29. When tho congressional Inquiry into the conduct con-duct of Federal Judge Emory Speer was resumed today, W. W. Osborne, a Savannah attorney, was the first to testify. "Judge Speer is a good lawyer," ho said, "but he Is a czar as a judge. He Is unfair and is possessed of a colossal conceit which makes him crave the spotlight and if some one olsc happens to get Into it, It great--ly anger him. His court is ono in which there Is little justice and this Is one reason litigants will travel through the city of Macon, whero he lives, to appear before Federal Judge Newman in Atlanta. I regard him as a great ogotist and devoid of personal courage. He has used his judgeship to satisfy his conceit by administering administer-ing punishment to those who will not truckle to him. What we need in this district Is a judge, not a czar. "Judge Speer is, in my opinion, judicially corrupt. It makes no difference dif-ference whether you win your case or lose It, you cannot come out of Judgo Speer's court feeling that It Is a place of justice." |