The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17

the Jail corridors and hlS fellow prisoners
ana the friends Of the later had free access
70 them.
THE PRISONERS STATEMENT.
The browning drama Of the witness stand
was about TO come The criticale point N
the trial was reached when Attorney Rich
ards said that he was about to put Cassidy
on the stand Turning 10 The prisoner, he
said % him that he would now be permitted
TO make a statement 20 the jury. He was
told that no questions would be propounded
either by The Solicitor General or himself
aud that all he had 20 say must be said fully
. and without interruption.
The silence IN the court room was painful
as Cassidy arose from his seat TO take the
| stand. His face whltened into the pallor of
a dead man When he rose 70 his feet he
| hesitated, drew n long breath, and the
color came back Taking his handker
! chief he wiped his face a. If there had re-
NAMED the sweat Of the palior from which
he had just recovered. Moving in the di-
! recjion Of the witness stand, lie hesitated
| before going up the steps, aud then turned
10 the water cooler on his right, and
drank a full goblet of water. He
| had regained his composure now,
! and slowly mounted the stand.
| The silence in the court room dcepened and
with an effort he recovered himself and
said: "Welt" He then began his statement,
broken at intervals for the first five min
| utes, but after this it was clear, concise and
with detail IN its entirety to meet every
point of testimony adduced by the State.
| He had been u good listener. He had
not been troublesome client for
the counsel who were conducting his case,
and he proved al. able second on the witness
| stand He did not say too much or too
| little For fifty-four minutes he presented
his case. His statement as to his going to
| Tybee and what occurred there was about
as follows:
THE TRIP TO TYBEE.
On the 18th of July, 1887, / made prepar-
alton to go to Tybee Island. My company
consisted of Maggie Terrell, her little sister
Mamie, and a colored boy in my employ.
| We intended to go on the morning boat
! but we were late and | sent the boy down
to the dock TO see Capt. Swift and find out
if he wouldn't wait few minutes on nv
party. The boy returned and said the boat
haG to land some freight before leaving.
| told my party to hurry up or we
wouldn't catch the boat. We started and
when we got Oh Bay street the boat had left
the dock. We didn't go down to the dock.
We came to the conclusion we wouldn't be
| fooled out of our trip as we had our lunch
basket packed and so we concluded we
| would go to Thunderbolt and spend a few
| hours. We took a street car, and when we
| got near the junction saw the train leaving.
| The conductor told lis we were left We
returned to the city on the same car, and
stayed in town all day. We then deter
mined we would take the evening boat for
| Tybee. On the trip down, | met three gen.
| tlemen, one of whom was Mr.. Baldwin,
whom | knew, as | had been boarding at
the same place with him for a week He
asked me if | had seen so-and-so, and | gave
him prompt reply. When we arrived at
the Island we took a car and the first stop
was at the Ocean House. 1t was my first
visit to the Island. We concluded we
T yiGe Pavilion 81 o" which 5G f Wss S snr
next stop. Here we got out. We sat on
the bench of the Pavilion platform with
lunch basket, getting ready to eat. After
we got on the porch and were preparing to
lunch, Mr. Westcott Joined us and he or
dered beer ] then went into the bar. Two
gentlemen were standing in the bar, and
one addressing me asked If / remembered
him. ! told him did not. He said: My
name is Smith and l am proprietor Of the
Home-plate saloon in Savannah" He said
that had been in his place the day l was
on horseback. | told him that I was hardy
responsible for what occurred that day as |
was en- joying myself. supposed, however,
that he was speaking the truth We had a
drink all round and paid for the drinks.
Mr.. Wright then asked me to take a drink.
| did. / returned the treat with drinks
and followed with cigars Didn't see Reyes
go out the door. Shortly after treating
| excused myself and went out to finish
lunching. After lunching | went to Mr..
, Wright and ordered four bathing suits and
also rooms-two rooms. told Mr. Wright
that had a colored boy and | wanted the
best accommodations for him that he could
give. He gave me two roomS, and after
supper we went up stairs and changed our
clothes in our separate rooms, Miss Maggie
I and her sister went into their room and my
l | fr,A,,
the hall.
IN THE BATH
After changing our clothes we went
down on the beach and were i'll water all OF
an hour when the three gentlemen whom
had met on the boat came up from the
! direction of the Ocean House. They said
they came to join us in the bath. I went
with them to the pavilion, where we had
some beer and they got bathing suits and
joined our party | can't say how long
they were i'll the water. Shortly
, after that Maggie complained of not
, feeling well and wanted to come out
, was willing and would have come out
sooner, but didn't want to propose it as
, didn't want to interfere with the pleasure
of the bath if they were enjoying it. Be
, fore the gentlemen had left us they pro
, posed we should have some beer, and the
, colored boy went after it, We all drank
, from the bottle but the little girl, and the
boy was sent back for glass for her to
drink from. After my party came from
the bath we wentup TO the Seaside Pavilion
, and before going up stairs | stopped and
, told Mr.. Wright that if the gentlemen called
, for me to tell them that | would be down
directly. After changing our suits | sent
for some more beer aud the colored bar.
keeper brought it up stairs to Maggle's
, room. We were then dressed. Maggie had
on a light wrapper, cloak or mother hub
bard, or whatever You would call it, After
drinking the beer l tod Maggie that had
promised to meet the gentlemen, and asked
! il she would excuse me, She
said she felt sick from the guam.
tity of salt water she had
swallowed and wanted to go to bed any
way. | then went down stairs and asked
Mr.. Wright if the gentlemen had called in
my ab ence He said that they had. and
had LETT word that they had gone back to
the Ocean House | asked if he would keep
open till came back, promising not to stay
long over there. He said that he would.
On the way ! met n white man and think
one colorei man. When l got TO the Ocean
House inquired Of the porter for Baldwin
and his friends, and be said that they had
gone to bed. ! don't remember asking
them if they had spent anything at the bar
On my return to the Pavilion Wright and
MCGOWAN were mixing drinks, and Wright
said / was just in time and asked me to
JON them. | did so, and treated in return.