Fayetteville, July 14—F.M. Wiggins, Cumberland county magistrate, was deprived of his commission by Judge Henry Grady in the Superior court here today when he pleaded guilty to a charge of extortion. Wiggins was charged with collecting an excessive fee from negro litigants in his court and was ordered by Judge Grady to refund all money collected and to furnish the court proof that he had done so, when sentence will be pronounced. In accepting the plea of guilty, Judge Grady declared from the bench that the holding of magisterial office by men like the defendant was “a mockery of justice and a disgrace to the white race.”
From page 1 of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Durham, N.C., July 14, 1925.
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