The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-26
AT THE CoURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here aud There in
the Court Rooms.

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the Court Rooms.
Justice Sheftan committed Maggie VIII
liams to Jail yesterday upon a charge Of
assault and battery upon Lille Thorpe.
The women live in Charlton street lane
below West Broad street. They qusrreled
over some trivial matter and the result was
a fight. Tho Thorpe woman was considera-
bly, beaten.
The forclble entry and detainer case Of
McAlpin VS.. Purse and Rowland was ar
eued before beach OF magistrates yester-
day consisting of Justices Endres, Rey-
nolds, and Davidson tcolored). Charles n.
West. ESQ.,, argued for the plaintiff, and
]. r. Saussy for defendants. The suit grew
ont Of a dispute to the title to
four lots upon which Mr.. McAlpin had
erected tenement houses Defendants, claim
ing the land, tore down the dwellings, aud
the tide carried them away. Tne decision
was reached that the case could not be
heard upon its merits IN the magistrates
courts. the issue resolving itself into whether
or not in the civil action it was necessary
10 allege those matters which define the
crime of forcible entry and Getainer The
court held that such an allegation is neces-
sarv. whereupon plaintiffs counsel took a
cartiorari to the superior court.
No less than thirty divorce cases were
dccketed for the March term Of the superior
court, principally by colored lioelants,
upon whom the marital yoke seems to rest
uueasily. The record discloses that the
women are the most patient in the married
state as Of the thirty hbalantS nineteen, or
nearly two-thirds, are males. The colored
women, as a rule, believe in holding on to
their lawfully husbands" as one of them
puts it.
There will be no session of the city court
this week. The city criminal court will be
convened next Monday morning and the
city civil court on the following morning.
At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the city
court grand jury will be convened.
The knights of the green cloth who were
indicted by the superior court grand jury
last Wednesday, have given bond for their
appearance at a day to be assigned for q
hearing of the charge of gambling.
Tie relatives Of the late Prince Edwards,
the barber, who resisted the claim of the al
legged wife of the deceased in the ordinary's
court for years support, and were beaten,
have appealed to the superior court, where
the case will come on to be heard during
the term.
Grant Bacon tcolored) was convicted in
the superior court yesterday of burglary
and sentenced to five years in the peniten-
riary at hard labor
Justice Waring Russell committed Mack
w hltnelu TO jan yesterday 10 answer IN Lhe
city court to the charge of suabbing Simon
Brown in the arm last Thursday.
Judge Falligant has heavy task before
him in the illegality cases growing out of
the assessments for asphalting Liberty
street. There are forty-four of these and
the records in each are lengthy and not uni
form. The parties who are resisting the
assessments made by the city are as follows;
D. C. Bacon, George Cornwell ~, Mrs. G..
M. Sturtevont, B. S. Purse ~, Charles T..
Cer, Miss Laura 2. Harris, Miriam Lilien-
thai, Mcmillan Bros, Miss c. Tomlinson,
M. J. Murphy, D. B. Lester ~, Diedrieh
Grimm, Decker & Faucet, John w. Nor
ten, trustee; Joseph Cops, Meyer Mendel,
John NJ. Hogan, Nicholas J. Jones ~ An
ME Demers, Miss NJ. Ida Trevnor, Christian
NJ. Hoist, D. @. Purse, Thomas Ballantyne,
E, L. Neidlinger, W. D. Dixon, Louis T.
Turner, trustee; Mary r. LHensman, Mary
E. Wilbur, Henry Suffer, Henry Sulter,
trustee; Winnifred II. McGrath, Mrs. +. c.
Wayne and children, Thomas II. Harden,
trustee; Nicholas Lang, Bernard Goode, c.
a. Reitze, Johu B. Fernandez. Virginia
Sheftall C2) and Mrs. L. A. Purse.
The grand jury Of the superior court will
convene at o'clock this afternoon.
The Malpheus case is assigned for hear
ing tomorrow and the Burtimer case the
day following in the superior court.