The Judge's Portrait That Refuses to Look Back: Crale's Secret
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The Judge's Portrait That Refuses to Look Back: Crale's Secret
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A cramped courthouse corridor has held a silent oddity for more than fifty years: a judge’s portrait turned to the wall, its brass plate naming HON. EDGAR PRATT - PELL COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS - 1922-1931, while ten other judges face the hall. Why was the canvas reversed in 1971, and how does a 1925 tenant-farmer’s death, a missing family, and a twenty-two-year-old woman who walked into court alone tie to a portrait that refuses to look back?
In this episode, we follow the records and the few surviving documents that trace a disputed tenancy, a one-day 1929 court hearing, a private October 9, 1930, meeting with Judge Pratt, and a public letter to the Crale Courier that preceded a disappearance. What happened in the courthouse room that day, and why did the town later hang Pratt’s portrait facing the wall?
Person: Teresa McCarthy
Date: October 9, 1930
Location: Pell County Court of Common Pleas, Crale Township Courthouse
Event: One-day hearing filed February 1929; judge ruled 1917 letter non-binding
Document: Letter to the Crale Courier published October 1930
- Eugene McCarthy leased the forty-acre farm from Howard Velt beginning in 1917.
- Eugene McCarthy died in the winter of 1925, leaving his family and the 1917 letter.
- Teresa McCarthy filed a complaint in February 1929 representing herself; Judge Edgar Pratt ruled the 1917 letter non-binding.
- On October 9, 1930, Teresa met Judge Pratt in a meeting logged as "civil dispute resolved without action" and later published a letter in the Crale Courier.
- Judge Edgar Pratt’s portrait was hung in the south corridor in 1932 and faced the wall from 1971 until questioned in spring 2019.
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