Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-28
,rpoRrANr CRIMINAL TRIAL.
The Golden-Moore Case-Brief of
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A trial for murder will always attract
large crowd at the court house, especially
of colored people, who appear to have NOR
bid curiosity to hear everything connected
with crime, and who viii sit for hours, swell
tering and jammed in the gallery Of the court
room, drinking in with,greedy ears the testt-
mony of the witnesses. 1t is not therefore
to be wondered that the "Temple Of JUS
tice'' was yesterday densely crowded, when
there was the prospect that the case
against Thomas Golden, charged with
murder, would be tried. The case had
been several times postponed, and the
anticipation was that strong efforts would
be made to secure another continu-
auce. The accused was represented
by Messrs. A. P. Adams and j.
j. Abrams. On opening Of the court,
after the usual preliminaries, Mr.. Adams,
for the defense, presented a motion asking
that the case be continued In consequence
OF the absence of two important Witnesses
one, James Parker, who is now in Atlanta,
and the other, Mr. Fennell, who was con-
ductor on the Coast Line Railroad at the time
the crime was committed. Parker had been
subpenaed, and was expected to be here,
and 1t was no fault Of the defendant that ne
was not. He was a material witness and
the counsel commended that his presence was
necessary 20 the interests OF their side. The
other important witness, Conductor Fen
nell, was confined to his house by sickness
aud could not be present. For these reasons
the counsel for defense asked that the case
be passed until these witnesses could be Sc
cured. The motion for continuance was
resisted by the Solicitor General, and AFTER
argument the motion was overruled and the
cause ordered to proceed.
The empanneling of the jury was then
commenced, and the requisite number was
obtaipt d after exhausting q panel Of fifty
eight. 1t may he mentioned that nine OF these
were opposed to capital punishment, and a
number went off for cause, having express
ed an opinion or acknowledging bias in the
matter. The following is the list OF the
Jurors as accepted and sworn:
James L Gallagher, Henry G. Claghorn,
George P GRAY. VIM. G.. Lyons,
Wallace SchleY, John ID. Bradley,
John Aston, C John A. Goette,
George G. Ulmer, John F. Teynac,
P. J. Cresghan, Il. Il. jackson, c.
1t will be observed that there are two
colored men on the jurY-one mulatto,
the other black man.
The taking Of testimony was commenced
at one O'Clock, tt e State opening with the
introduction OF Dr. Frank T. Lincoln, who
testified as to the character of the wound,
having examined the BODY of the woman
shortly after the killing. He expressed the
opinion, Judging from the appearance OF the
wound, that the pistol must have been at
least two or three feet from the head when
It was fired; was positive that the barrel OF
the weapon could not have been pressed
against the temple, or been within a few
inches of the head when it was discharged.
Christiana Hudson, colored, testified, in
brief, that she was passing along the localt-
~ when she saw Golden, Burke and the wo-
man Sallie Moore coming down Hall
street together. Burke walked ahead, and
was about five or six feet in advance. She
noticed that a dispute had occurred between
Golden and the woman, and saw him point
pistol at her head, and afterwards fire.
Saw the woman fall, and walked up to the
spot. Golden was coming away, and she
said, ooh, God you have killed that wo-
man" He replied "No l did not she
shot herself" He went back to the body
aud called, "Sallie," and threw down the
pistol and some money, STOPPING down to
do so. The witness was very positive In her
testimony as to seeing Golden fire the shot,
then run off and come back, place the PTS
toll and some silver In small piece OF rag
by the body. She stood a rigid cross-ex'
animation well. though displaying great ig-
noranee of locality, time and distance, and
was rather contradictory in some OF the mi
por portions OF her testimony, but IN
shaken In regard to Witnessing the shooting.
Salina Mcintosh, colored, was introduced,
aud testified to having heard Golden make
some threats against Sallie Moore previous
TO the shooting, when she was In jail. The
witness knew nothing of the shooting until
after 1t occurred.
Louisa Dennis, colored, testified that she
was sitting at the window in her room, In
the basement Of Mr.. Mills house where she
is employed, when she saw Burke, the wo-
man Sallie Moore, and Golden pass by;
Burke was little in advance; Golden was
talking to the woman, and she heard him
say. "The next time / will not put you In
iail;'' a few minutes after heard the re-
port Of pistol, and subsequently saw the
dead body of Sallie Moore lying in the
street. There was nothing Of Importance
developed under the cross-examinatiou.
AlonZo Jackson was an exceedingly reluct-
tant witness, with very poor memory. He
knew but little and could recollect less. He
was In jail at the time Sallie Moore was
there, and remembered one afternoon
Golden came out 10 see her. He was In his
cell at the time and Golden and the woman
were out in the corridor talking. Heard
Golden say to her that he would let her out
IL she would promise to let him alone.
Every effort was made by direct and
| cross-examination and by questioning from
the court to draw some information from
this witness, who apparently knew more
than he pretended, though his stupidity
NAV have been the result of ignorance. At
all events he could throw no light on the
subject.
Caroline Curry, colored, saw the parties,
Burke. Sallie Moore and Golden; the latter
had pistol in his hand while he was talk
ing: heard him say something to Sallie; she
replied, and the remark was repeated; just
| then a cow ran across the way and cut of
her view of the parties, and she then heard
the report of a pistol, and afterwards saw
Sallie Moore lying on the ground. Chris
| tiana Hudson came upi said TO her: Ibid
you see that man shoot that woman" She
replied: 'No, l did not see the shooting,
| but heard the report of the pistol" Under
| cross examination the witness became little
confused In regard to the relative positions
of the parties concerned and the exact
locality where she had first seen the parties,
but adhered to her statement that Golden
| had pistol in his hand at the time he was
talking to the woman. She did not see
Golden walk off, come back and throw
any money or pistol by Sallie; when wit
ness got up TO the place, Golden was bend
| ing over Sallie, calling her by name, and he
was pulled up by Burke; didn't think Col
den could have had time to walk oil and
| come back and place the money and pistol
| by Sallie from the time she
heard the report until she saw
| him bending over the dead woman;
she had been asked to go to Morehead's
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