Show SCORCHING MEEARS Judge Zane Goes After George A Meears in a RoughShod Manner lie Refuses to Try a Case In Which Meears Is a Material Witness f 1 Do Not Wish to be Called Upon to Consider His Testimony i A little incident occurred in the Third District Court this morning which startled everyone present and is likely to create considerable talk when the particulars become generally known The fact that a young Mr Fisher an I agent of the Interior Department has been in town for many weeks past investigating inves-tigating certain charges brought against some of the Federal officials here and the further fact that the name oL George A Meears has been connected with the matter fromthe first is too well known to need repeating j and though the object of Judge Zane in taking the course he did this morning cannot be positively stated there seems to be no trouble in connecting it with the abovementioned state of affairs affairsTIlE TIlE INCIDENT Occurred in this manner During the setting of cases Mr Gilchrist arose and asked that the case of Groesbeck vs Meears be set down for a certain date Instead of the usual Let it be set down Judge Zane startled his hearers with the following uIf George A Meears is to be a material mater-ial witness in the case I do not wish to try it for the reason that Meears has made certain statements in respe t to the Court that I have been informed of and I have heard certain statements about him of such a character that I do not wish to be called on to consider his testimony testi-mony Mr Gilchrist said that he did not know what the personal relations of the Court to Mr Meears were and to this the Judge made the following answer I have no personal relations with him except as a citizen I have never met him but once and then was simply introduced to him and exchanged a few words but his reputation for TRUTH AND VERACITY Is such from what I have heard of him that do not wish to be called upon to consider his testimony in deciding any caseThe Court then informed the counsel that tjie case might be tried before either Judge Henderson or Judge Boreman didnt matter which |