The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17
CASSIDY on THE STAND.
HE TELLS WHERE HE WAS ON THE
NIGHT OF THE MURDER


and Her Sister-H.s Meeting With
Smith in the Bar at the Seaside
Pavilion - Mamie Ferrells Story 49,
The Prisoners Shoes Stn Unac-
counted For-The Evidence Closed
and the Argument Begun-Points OF
the States Presentation.
Yesterday was the third day of the CASH
DIV murder trial It opened with Isaac
Beckett, Esq, on the stand for the defense.
Beyond the correction Of his calculations Of
distances on the island given in WclncS-
DAYS testimony, there was nothing new nd
,luced, and the question propounded before
the recess of court Wednesday night was
not repeated Mr. Beckett afterward said
that he had figured it out, but he was not
called upon to give his calculations.
c. d. Baldwin was the next witness sworn
for the defense lie was in bathing with
the Cassidy party on the night Of July 70,
accompanied by Messrs. Paxton and God
win. After coming out of tile water tho
party drank a glass Of beer with Cassidy at
the pavilion bar. They went into tho water
about 1920 or Il O'CLOCK and remain d about
an hour. The tide was low. 1t was some
where near J. when the witness and his two
companions came out and he thought the
hide was coming up but it was low. He con-
sidered Cassidy sober and his depornent was
proper. He didn't recolIect Cassidy's asking
another bathing party to keep away. He saw
no nude persons bathing on the beach. After
Cassidy went up stairs AT the hotel the wit
ness and his friends left word with Mr..
Wright at the bar for Cassidv that they had
gone to the Ocean House. On the cross
-
about II o'clock when he left the pavilion,
and he went directly to the Ocean House
and to bed. He said that he was reared up
in North Carolina and he didn't know any
thing about the TIL.
Mr.. DE MARTINS EVIDENCE.
J. c. DeMartin was next called. He was
tine owner of the wagonette engaged by
Messrs. Minis and johnson for the morning
of July -. He thought it was about 9
O'Clock when got up. He had forgotten
about promising to furnish the vehicle, but
got it off five or six minutes later. He was
shown the MORNING News of July II to
refresh his memory rs to schedule of Tybee
trains. The witness couldn't give the time
with accuracy, as there was a washout on
McQueen's Island, and trains were not run
ming 10 Tybee on the morning the body was
found. He went with Higgins to see the
body and recognized it as that of George
eouDll. II lay nearer ldpl. dun > mouse
than it did to the wreck. The body was
about one-half mile or over from the Sea
side Pavilion. The tide had left the body
which lay % or so feet from tho water
This might have been about 7:30 in the
morning, and the tide was about ebbing
He saw marks of the scufle at about the
line Of high water or maybe little above.
THE TRAIL IN THE SAND.
The trail started from the scene of the
struggle, and looked as if it had been made
by heel marks of a body The impression
would have been made deeper in the sand if
the feet had had shoes on. The body lay in
little gully; the drag marks ran up near
the gully and the body lay nearly opposite
the termination of the trail. The shoes
were about 100 feet from the point of strug-
gle when the witness saw them. II might
have been $50 feet from the point of strug-
gle to the water The body lay on its back
with the face up. Lived within 100 yards
or less OF the Bacon hou es, which were oc-
cupied part of the time by whites and negro
hands who We're ditching the island for the
Tybee Beach Company. He saw negroes
of and on getting supper and saw
lights in the houses. He wa,
not sure whether or not tho men
we're at work on or about the night of the
murder on that part of the island The
season was at its height and there were
guests, strangers and employees at the Ocean
House and at Wright's, On the cross
examination. Mr.. DeMartin said the wash
out was considerably north of the Seaside
Pavilion.
FINDING THE SHOES.
He didn't know where the shoes
we're found but learned that Mr. johnson
had found them. He didn't know where hc
put them. They were together when the
witness saw them. He would not swear
that anyone occupied the Bacon houses on
the night of the murder liz
didn't see the hands working
about his place on or about that time
There might have been a little water in The
slough where the body lay, for the pants
were wet.
To Col. Mercer-The washout on the rail
road was on McQueen'S Island, over a mile
from the Ocean House. Mr.. DeMartin saw
fires in the Bacon houses Tor a week or ST
before the murder, The hands were work
ing about the witness place in August
They were there when he went there il
June and campcd there.
To Solicitor General duBiguon-Of tht
two hands the witness employed, one stale
with him during the season, and the otheI
boy he discharged some time in the latte
part of July or August. The time he saw
the men camping III the Bacon houses wa
when they were working around the place
AN EARLY RIsER's STORY.
William Speer was a peculiar witness
He has been a market gardener on TIN
Thunderbolt road, near the toll gate, sine,
1856, and has been accustomed to gettinl
up at o'clock in the morning since tina
year. He never had watch or clock. Dal
breaks at o'clock in the winter and sum
mer, be said. The break or dawn of day Oh
July Is last was about O'clock On bene
cross-examined. Mr.. Speer showed himself
TO be a great discoverer Of early daybreaks
The dawn of day, or the ''split between
night and day" as he put it, came at
o'clock on the morning of the murder II,
had seen dawn as early as . o'clock, he said
in the old country On being asked i
he had known the morning to dawn
earlier than 2 O'Clock, he said that he had
Mr.. Speer was also an authority on c-cl
Growing. BOOSTERS, he said, are accus
toned to crow from midnight until day
light. As the witness stepped from thu
stand he convulsed the bar and lobby b,
saying that it was the young rooster tina
did the early growing
ANTONIO sALsEDo,
night Waterman at the Ocean House on The
night of the murder, was sworn He testi
fed that it was fifteen minutes past o'clocl
when Cassidy called and inquired for Bald
win. Cassidy then asked the witness j
they had got any drinks at the bar afte
witness had told him Baldwin had gone {,
bed. The witness said mo" He couldn'
tell whether Cassidy was sober or not Ii,
hadn't seen him drink anything, and as la
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