The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-31
A BAD GANG SENT UP.
Scott, Crosby and Scales Sentenced
for Their Brutal Work.


for Their Brutal Work.
Rowdyi,m and ruffianlSm got a setback
in the SUPERIOR court yesterday The sec
ond of the trio that figured in the stabbing
ARRAY on Anderson and Montgomery streets
Sunday morning, July /, j. A. Crosby,
after hardly contested trial, was found
guilty but the jury recommended him to
the mercy OF the court ION account or his
| youth and previous good character.
The defendant, Joseph scales, being in
| open court valves arraignmeHt and pleads
! guilty under the sec nd countot Indictment
as principal III second degree, Is the indorse-
! meut on the indictment. Scott was tried
and found guilty last week.
/ The court in passing sentence on the three
men, reviewed the detail, of what it called
IA most brutal and outrageous assault In
which an old and unotfending man was
pursuing his way hOmeward peaceably,
when he was Overtaken knocked down
with budgeon, stabbed aud left for dead,
| and in another case where a helpless
| paralytlc was beaten and kufed. Scott was
| sentenced TO nine years at hard labor in
the penitentiary, Crosby seven years and
Scales six years. Scott was represented by
r. r, Richards, Esq, Crosby by Gee W.
Owens, Esq, and : Gales by J. Rasoph
Anderson, Esq The solicitor general prose
cuted for the state in an able manner, and
the hopeesNness Of further resistance was
manifest when the Jury brought in a second
verdict Of guilty. This led Scales counsel
to advise his client to take the course he
did and which resulted in a sentence for
lesser term than he two otheis received.
The offence for which the trio were con
victed was a most heinous one, They
started out Saturday night June 30
to make a night of it, and inflamed by
whisky, they terrorized the southern part
of the city from Anderson to Second street.
and from Montgomery street rs far east as
Lincoln street They paraded the streets
singing in a boisterous manner. and assault
ing white and black passers by promis-
cuously. In tho early part of the night
they assaulted Marion Haywood Ccolored
but he sought safety in flight
Scott next attempted to pick a
quarrel with man by the name of
Futch, but he got away. They next met
a Mr.. Goodwin, a conductor on the City
and Suburban railway, who was on his way
home, and whom Scales knocked down with
a stick, but Goodwin scrambled to his feet,
and before Crosby could close in on him
ran off and made good his escape This
occurred near the corner Of Lincoln and Sec
ond streets From there the trio went singing
through tho streets until they reached An
derson and Montgomery streets again,
where they had attempted the assault
on Marion Haywood. Here they found
jeff Waters, a young colored driver on
the City and Suburban line. Waters had
been friendly with Scott, often bringing
HIM his dinner on the car when Scott was
i'll the employ Of the company, and address
ing Scott in his usual friendly way, asked
him for n cigarette, whereupon Scales
knocked Waters down and all three closed
in on HIM and were plying their knives on
him when Officer Baughn came up and
kept two OF the desperadoes at bay until OH
Ger Brantley came to his assistance. Scales
was unconscious from a deep stab in tho
chest made Scott, who was striking at
Waters who was underneath Scales on the
ground.
Later il was found that before the assault
made on Waters, Pinckney, an almost help
less paralytic, had been knocked down and
stab. ed in tho arm, but his cries for the
police had frightened his assailants off Att
or cutting Pinckney they spied Antony
Griers, a gray-halred old colored truck
farmer going out Montgomery street on his
way home. They pursued and overlook
him. He begged piteousy for his life, when
one Knocked him down and tho others
stabbed him in the back and bowels and left
him for dead. The old man lay quietly
until near daybreak, afraid to make an
alarm for fear it would bring his assailauts
back upon him. AS day was breaking he
saw a mounted officer, and signalling to
him asked for protection, and was taken to
the barracks where his wounds we're dressed
1t was after their assault upon Griers that
Waters fell among the desperadoes. For
time his life was despaired of, but he re-
covered, although he had no less than seven
StabS. PinCkneY has not yet fully recovered