The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-21
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
THE STONE MOUNTAIN MURDERER
FOUND GUILTY.

He Pleaded Self-Defense, and the Jury
Recommended Him to the Mercy of
the Court-Love Confesses that he
Killed steele-A Minister Found
Murdered.
ATLANTA, GA, Feb. ga. D. REVERE,
who for the past two days has been on trial
at Decatur for the murder of an unknown
safe-blower at Stone Mountain in April
last. to-day confessed the killing, but
claims to have acted in self-defense. Re
Were said that he met the man killed at
Stone Mountain one year ago in Augusta.
He knew he was gambler, having played
with him. He met and gambled with him
later in Atlanta, where the deceased passed
bv the name of Sinclair. REVERE was on
the point of returning to Augusta, when
Sinclair proposed that the two go
to Stone Mountain, where he
said he had a game Of poker up.
REVERE consented. When the mountain
was reached Sinclair proposed to rob the
postofice safe and one In store opposite.
REVERE refused, and the other said that if
he would not help him he should not live to
tell about the robbery.
REvIERE's STORY OF THE KILLING.
REVERE continued: 81 was step ahead of
him, walking along in the middle Of the
track. | turned round to see what he
meant. OF course he was a larger man
than l. and | knew him TO be danger
Gus man. He had something i'll his hand.
1t was too dark for me to see what
it was. He had it appraised, attempting to
strike. / caught the instrument with my
left hand. At the same time l drew my
revolver from my right hip pocket, put it
sc foo inc / afadf hs
instrument from his hand. 1 then stepped
back and began striking as hard as | could,
and continued to STRIFE until he begun fall
ing. Then l threw down the instrument
and ran" About 9 o'clock tonight the
jury brought in a verdict of guilty" but
recommending the prisoner to the mercy of
the court.
ANOTHER MURDER CONFESSED.
Claud Love confessed before the coroner's
jury that he killed Jim Steele, the negro
whose bowels we're cut out a few nights
ago. Love said he was knocked to his
knees with stone, and another threw at
him from behind by Steele, who rushed
upon him threatening to kill him. He then
whipped out a knife and did the cutting.
The jury found verdict of justifable
homicide. There were three dissenting
votes Love was set at liberty.
BEGGED TO BE KEPT IN JAIL.
G. NJ. Ella, a moonshiner from Towns
county, who has spent about two weeks in
confinement here, became so enamored Of
the Jail that to-day, after his friends had
made his bond, he begged to be recon-
mitted. His extraordinary request was de-
MED. The grand jury Of this county has
just pronounced the Jail filthy, unwhole-
some and ill-kept. but it appears to fit the
peculiar taste of Ella.
SUIT FOR $25, 900.
Mayor Glenn filed a damage suit today
for Reed Davis, a minor, against the Rich
mond and Danvills railroad for S25, 600
Davis is a son of Hon. T. S. Davis, a mem
Der of the last legislature for Habersham
county. He sues for leg injured in a
wreck last August
MURDER OF THE MINISTER
A special to the Journal from Blairsville
says the coroners jury impaneled to inves-
tigate the death of Rev. John H. Lance.
the murdered Methodist minister, found
that he came to his death at the hands of
Thomas Swain and other parties unknown.
Lance was made on Sunday
evening while he was on
his way home from church. His body was
found in a creek near by with the throat
cut from ear to ear, and the face slightly
bruised. There was no evidence of robbery,
nothing having been removed from the |
murdered mans pockets or person. The |
cause of the assassination is presumed to be |
revenue reporting.
TRIED TO BURN OUT OF JAIL.
1t is reported from Hiwassee that John |
Dayton, who is confined in the Jail there
for stealing grindstone yesterday, tried to
escape by burning a hole in the floor.
When discovered he extinguished the fire
with quilts and said that it caught when he
was asleep.
r. w. Laird, an employee of the Western
and Atlantic. was so seriously injured by a
train to-day that he is not expected to live.
CLOTH FOR THE MILITARY.
Adjt. Gen. Kell says that though the re-
QUESTION on the federal government for
uniform cloth has been sent in, it will not
be honored before July l, and the military
will be obliged to appear at the state en-
campment in the OLD uniforms. Uniform
cloth costs Sc SO per man, and it will be at
least three years before the entire state
force can be furnished. the requisition
merely includes cloth. The caps. trim
mings, ETC., must be provided by the
troops.
CONVICT RECAPTURED.
Jim Holt, desperate character, origi-
nally sent up for eight years from Dade
county. has just been recaptured in Louis
vile and returned to the Georgia peniten-
tary. He has twice escaped, and once in
cited a convict riot for which four years
were added to his sentence
COFFEE ACQUITTED.
John Coffee, who was tried in Gainesville
for the second time for the murder of
Deputy Marshal Merritt in 1886, was TODAY
acquitted. 1t was most aggravated case
of murder.