The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-31
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
FOR THE jury TO SAY.
The Ambos Case on Trial IN the su-
periOr Court.


Sunday, July 81 Ia t." Tue case went to
the jury at o'clock last night, and bv con-
sent at o'clock Sheriff Roman was sent TO
the jury room with instructions TO Inform
the jury To bring in G sealed verdict at ~
o'clock this NOR linz.
From the evidence ELECTED on the frial it
appears that sh ly after Judge Fall ant
went on the bench the citizs IS of Tn nder-
bolt petit d fJr the enforcement Of the
law against Sunday liquor selling, and the
solicitor & neral brought the matter before
the grand jury, which found the ind ctnent
upon the testimony of William Gray, who
swore that he had purchased and drunk a
glass OF beer at Mr. Ambos' bar on the
Sun a. eceding ne time he was brought
before the grand jury.
MIR. Gray as he only witness introduced
by the state yesterday, AMI he was not
very Will z witness, tut admitted, when
pressed, that he hal entered the bar throu yh
tue hall and ladies' dining room, and got a
glass Of beer. That there we're he s
there, he didn't know how many, ami that
he was 80 much interested in getting his own
drink that he coul Int RENE uber whether
any one else drank or not When asked if
Mir. AmbOs' bar is in Chatham county he
SAID he believed that it is. On being cross
examined ny Mr. Richards Gray said that
Mr.. Ambos keeps a "wayside ian for the
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that there are tables In his barroom for
serving oysters.
DO they serve oysters in Julyp asked
the solicitor general
Mr.. Gray had never known oysters to be
served by AIr. Ambos in July.
but ne serves crabs, shrimp, and salt
water fish, ia short, al eatables and drink
ables at this wayslde inn, does lie not!'
asked Mr.. Richards.
The witness answered in the affirmative.
Gray, with the consent of counsel on
each side, made statement in which he
said that it hal been reported that he was
al informer before the & and jury. He
did not 60, he said, On his own notion. The
solicitor general had lear ed from some one
that he had been to Ambos' place. He
denied being a voluntary witness. On the
contrary, be said he would give $40 to know
who the party is that had him reported to
the solicitor general.
The defe So called William Boan to the
stand to prove that Mr.. Gray hal threat
ened to indict Mr.. Ambos, but tue solicitor
general objected TO this character of testi-
nony.
Mr.. Richards insisted that the voluntary
statement That Mr.. Gray had made to show
that he was altogether without a linus was
to highten the effect of his testimony be-
fore the jury, and the counsel proposed to
ohOW W oDdAl LAdL MI. gray udu bu6 WOTSU
kind of animus, and it was to illustrate this
animus and to show his lack of friendliness
to Mr.. Ambos that Boan was called to the
stand.
The court sustained the objection, saying
that counsel had the full right to cross-ex-
anime Mr.. Gray when he was on the stand,
and should have done so, ami having failed
to thus impeach him, the testimony of Boan
is not competent to impeach Mr.. Gray in
that direction now.
Mr.. Ambos was placed on the stand and
made q statement to the effect that he con-
sidered Mr.. Gray his friend, and as such
gave but did not sell him the glass of beer.
Mr. Gray had made thr ats, Mr.. AmbOs
said, to break him up, claiming that he
owned all the property at Thuuderbolt and
that he intended to break up his business
aud make him sell out and leave.
There was quite an amusing feature of
the trial after the evidence closed. Each
side seemed TO be waiting for the other IT,
open the argument, and finally Solicitor
General Fraser called upon Mr.. Richards
to go to the ju'y.
1T is your place to 60 first" replied Mr..
Richards.
30 no" said Mr.. Fraser. The state has
the right to conclude. You have forgotten
that you put Boan up as witness, and he
gave evidence. You asked him his name,
anu iIC iSplict gu dSR6Q MIN IL ne knew
MIR. Gray, and he testified that he did
Having introduced evidence on your side.
you must go to the jury first"
MIR. Richards claimed that he had put no
evidence in for the Defense as the evidence
was ruled out by the C )urt, but the court
ruled that Boan, having answered questions
under oath dependent of the evidence
sought to be introduced, the defense must
first go to tho jury.
VII TO-
effect that as Eeeper of "a Wayside inn. y
Mr. Ambos is not guilty under the statute
of keeping "a tipping house" ID that it
would be pit to nave him singled out by
some Junk lown assassin and made a vic
TIM OF malicious prosecution, when the
same condition Of affair exists on
Tybee aid in every direction, and
especially so as Mr.. Ambos keeps all the
doors Of his liquor-room closed on Sunday.
There are no churches at Thunderbolt, 70
counsel argued, ana the place is orderly
kept, and it has been the custom, from
time memorial, that these out Of town
resorts are kept in an orderly way for the
accommodation of guests from tie city and
from the island resorts.
In reply, the solicitor general justified his
own connection with the prosec ltion.
Under his oath of Office he could not ignore
the petit m f the citizens of Thunderbolt,
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that the Sunday law, he argued, had
been violated by Mr.. Aub $. 1t
was, he said, his duty as solicitor general to
bring before the grand jury any informa-
ton that the laws are being violated, and
by way of illustrating his duty, he said,
the information that counsel for defendant
had given him that the laws are being vio-
lated at Iytee and elsewhere would te
noted, and he would have the learned
counsel before the grand jury, so that he
might tell 1t what he knew about Sunday
tipping houses on Tybee
The charge of the court was explicit, and
to the effect that under the law Wherever a
man can get whisky, beer or other liquors
to drink, although the party may
bs keeping an inn, he cannot keep
open. He has no right to close the outer
doors and have a secret ingress and egress
for persons to uss in getti liquors TO
drink. IL door may he so arranged that
one can open it and go in where liquors are
sold and buy liquor on Sunday it is a tip
ping house. A man cannot do Indirectly
what the law fOrbids him 20 do directly.
There was great interest manifested in
the trial, the court room being crowded,
and upon the verdict will depend two
similar suits agai st other defendants.
Interesting But for Two Days More.
Before packing up the balance Of goods