Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-31
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
SYKES ON TRIAL, FOR THE N,,rp
DER OF HIS MISTRESS.

Captain Feide Acquitted of Starving
Italian Immigrants-Bills Returned by
the Grand Jury Against the Principals
in the New Orleans Election Riot Muir
ders.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.-The grand
jury yesterday reported the result of their
investigation into the shooting affray at
the Seventh ward poll December IA, by
which Capt. NJ. j. Fortier, Gustaye Re
maud and Eugene Mason were killed.
They brought in true bills as follows:
Three for murder, four for assault and
willful shooting, two for assault and bat
terry, and two for carrying concealed wea-
pons. The names of the indicted are with
held, but it is said that John Brewster.
David Douglass and John DOminick are
the persons indicted for murder. All the
indicted parties will be arrested to-day.
The grand jury returned not true bill i'm
the case of James d. Houston. convicted
for manslaughter by the Record or and
bailed in $4,000.
SYKES JURY SECURED AND THE TRIAL
PROGRESSING.
The jury for the trial of Troesvllle
Sykes for the murder of Kate Townsend
was secured and several witnesses ex-
amined, but without eliciting anything
new.
THE STARvER OF IMMIGRANTS.
The case of Capt. Felix, of the German
steamer Prince George, charged with
violation OF the law in a failure to supply
proper food to Italian immigrants. is
moving on in the United States Circuit
Court, and many witnesses are being ex-
amined.
CAPTAIN FELDE ACQUITTED.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 80, 10 p. M.-The
jury in the United States Court in the case
against Captain Felde, of the steamship
Prenz George, for violation of the statutes
IN the matter of not supplying emigrants
from Palermo with requisite food. TODAY
rendered verdict of not guilty. In
the matter of the libel against the Captain
and owners OF the vessel by 105 passengers
OF the Prenz George, Judge Billings fixed
the bond of the vessel at $4,000.
NO CONFESSION MADE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The report that
Charles II. Rugg, confined in the county
jail on a charge of having committed as
sault on Selah Sprague, had confessed
that he committed the Townsend assault
and Maybee murders, is denied by District
Attorney Fleming, who says that he
knows nothing whatever about such n
of Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Townsend at
Oyster Bay on January 7th is now settled
almost beyond a doubt.
4 HUNTERS MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
GALVESTON, Jan. 30.-In a lonely spot
on the east bay shore, TWENTY-FIVE miles
from Galveston, Sunday evening, a hunter
named Lewis Mecomb while eating sup
per in lonely cabin owned by Mrs. Bar
row, with whom he boarded, was shot
and instantly killed by an unknown per
son. Mrs. Barrow recently separated
from her husband, who is still living in
the vicinity.
BOSTON BROKERS CRIME.
BOSTON, Jan. 30.-In the United States
District Court this afternoon the iurv
found Dexter S. Hall, we'll known Bos-
ton broker, guilty on five counts on
charges Of OBTAINING pension certificates
as collateral security for loans. Sentence
was postponed.
A SOUTH CAROLINA EMBEZZLER.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 30.-Sheriff BIazen-
game OF Spartansburg, S. c., left this city
tonight with William b. Howard, col
ored. who was arrested on a requisition
from the Governor of South Carolina.
where he is charged with embeZZIing the
funds OF COlOrpd fOdUn