The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-16

remained. The witness was with BoSsell
when the latter found Smiths hat on Buck
Hammock Marsh. Bossell said That's
George Smiths. hat" and the witness said,
''Shove the boat up on the marsh and let's
get it, He didn't know that George Smith
was on the island at the time he was killed.
and he had no i'll feeling toward smith;
they were friends.
In the cross-examination Russell was
asked if Henry Smith, the father Of George
Smith, had not killed Lawson, the step
father of Russell. The witness replied that
lac didn't know that Henry Smith had
killed Lawson. In reply 20 question by
the Solicitor General Russell said: Il never
cherished any ill-feeling against George
smith ! was boy at the time of Lawson
death" bfr. duBignOn had a diagram Of
Russells foot taken. He wears No. Z
shoe.
THE CoLoRED NURSES STORY.
Georgia Ann Mills, the colored nurse Of
Mrs Thompson, swore 10 seeing Cassidy
pass pistol 10 Maggie Terrell as the boat
neared the wharf, and saw Maggie give it
10 the little colored boy telling him 10 run
and hide it between the mattresses. She
also sWOre TO seeing Cassidy pass something
else with his other hand, which Maggie
concealed under her oversklt. A long
| crOSs-examnation did not shake the testi-
mony on this point.
Frank Weldon, city editor of EUening
| Times, sought TO interview Cassidy
when he landed from the Cambria
| Cassidy expressed ignorance Of the murder
He claimed that he didn't know Smith,
wouldn't know him if he saw him, and
didn't know that he ever had seen him. In
the cross-examination the defense sought to
| lmpeach certain portions of the testimony
for the state by statements embodied in Mr..
Weldon's report of the murder after
interviews with relatives and friends
of George Smith on the day Of
Cassidy's arrest, but Solicitor Gen
! eral duBignon objected TO this line of testi-
mony, and the court sustained the objec-
tions. This was the first objection on
either side Of n case remarkable for its
latitude. No exceptions were taken to the
ruling.
Mr. Minis was then recalled and gave the
measurements of the large foot print found
on Tybee beach near the scene of the strug-
gle as follows: Length HI inches, breadth
of sole ~ inches This correspondent with
the shoe measured at the barracks in length
and by including the sag Of the patch with
the breadth of the sole. He also gave the
following as the measurements of the dia-
grams taken during the trial, as follows:
BARNEY KEYEs SHOES.
Barney Reyes shoes, 1ll3 inches long
33l inches breadth of toe; Cuddie Rus
sells, l0l4 inches long 81 inches breadth of
toe; j. c. McGowan's, II a inches long 3}4
lnCneS breadth or toe.
James Walsh, Jail guard, testified that
Cassidy had given him So since his incarce
ration in the new jail, to get him a pair of
| new shoes, which he bought at the prisoners
request and gave to him.
The defense in the cross-examination
sought to show that Cassidy was hand
! cutfed when he was removed from the old
Jail to the new, and couldn't have carried
| his old shoes along with him. The witness ad-
mltted that the prisoner was hand -cuffed, but
| couldn't say that he was not allowed to car
| ry his overcoat on his arm. He told the
guard TO get No. 10 shoes, not to cost over
So or 50 30, and he did.
On the redirect examination the guard
said that Cassidy didntgo barefooted to the
new Jail. He got the new shoes after his
removal there.
In answer to a question by counsel for the
prisoner, Walsh stated that Cassidy's
friends had sent him pair of button shoes,
but the witness believed it was after he had
bought the new shoes for him. TO a direct
question by Mr.. duBignon tho guard said
the button shoes came to him when he was
in the new jail
Elias Muhlberg, the pawnbroker, test-
fed that Cassidy had pawned silver
watch with him on July II, upon which he
; paid him s.. Cassidy claimed that he had
advanced negro that much on it, and the
negro would call for it.
Two days later negro did
call for it. On the croSs-examination the
defense sought to show that George Smith
had pawned his watch with Muhlberg, but
the latter denied it, and said that he had
examined the two books he kept and they
showed no such transaction When Mr.
Muhlberg came down from the stand at
4; 05 O'Clock p m, the State rested.
STUDY IN TIDES.
The first witness called for the defense
was Isaac Beckett, Esq, Shipping Commits
sioner. Mr.. Becketts testimony is to be re-
he'd upon by the defense as an expert in the
rise and fall of the tides at Tybee, the de-
clivity on the beach, near the point of strug-
gle, the relative distances of objects on the
island that have figured in the trial and the
variations of tides from the time laid down
IN nautical aInanacS and official charts
Mr.. Beckett, in view of the fact that he
would be called upon TO testify on the sub
ject, went down TO Tybee, measured dis
tances, calculated the tides, made up a chart
to guide him while on the witness stand.
He fixes the distance from where the body
was found down TO where the rising tide
was met last Sunday at 235 feet: from the
point of struggle III "A direct line TO the BODY
at Is feet; the distance from the point of
struggle to high water mark at % feet.
being that distance above high water mark
the slope of the shore at between feet =
inches and feet inches, and the distance
from high to low water mark $50 feet, that
is from high water mark to the incoming
tide; from the south end of the Ocean
House to the south end of the Seaside
Pavilion, 500 feet; from that point
to Capt. Henry Blun'S residence
LOO feet from Capt. Bun's to the point of
struggle about 500 or 900 feet Pending
Mr.. BeckettS examination the court took a
recess until 10 o'clock this morning, with
the following problem by counsellor Rich
ards for the witness to solve; II it was high
water at o'clock, when the tide had run
out feet and the total depth of the tide was
4 feet inches, at what hour was the body
left where it was afterward found!
Local Personal.
Mr. Houston Il. Harper, city editor of the
Tribune Of Rome, Rome, Ga, is graduate
of Mercer University and a son of Col
Charles NJ. Harper, OF Rome. He is doing