The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-19
DODGE COUNTY'S CRIME.
CAPT. FORSYTHS DAUGHTER A
WITNESS.

Hearing tbs Report of the Gun She
Rushed Into Her Fathers Room.
There a Horrible Sight Confronted
Her-Judge Speer Calls One of the
Counsel to Order.
MACON, GA, Dec 1s.-The tenth day Of
the great Forsyth conspiracy case in the
federal court brought fresh sensations. The
prosecution examined witnesses TO show the
motive. When a deputy marshal was on
the stand Mr.. Bacon, for the defense, asked
him If he did not know that the witnesses
| brought to the court were intimidated and
| threatened with imprisonment if they didn't
state whet the government wanted. Judge
Spesr, from the bench, demanded that the
counsel make his meaning plain, and was
told that the counsel meant that the district
attorney had held witnesses IN fear by in
timidation.
THE CHARGE INVESTIGATED.
The court asked for the names OF such
witnesses, and said that the matter should
be investigated there and then. which was
DONE The district attorney repudiated the
charge as false, and said that on the other
hand the defense mad intimidated the gov
ernmeut witnesses until they were afraid of
their lives. Judge Speer, IN summing up,
said that the court utterly discredIted the
insinuatlon cast on the district attorney.
The accusation was utterly unfounded
TILT WITH THE JUDGE.
The counsel hero interfered and desired to
be heard. but was peremptorily refused.
Mr.. Bacon demanded the right to repudi-
ate the insinuation of the court. He
al IN in nd
elsewhere.
"You shall be given the right to reply,
sir, said the court, land l shall be ready
to meet it," was the quick and meaning
answer
The court at once adjourned, but met
again in half an hour.
MISS FORSYTH ON THE STAND.
In the afternoon Miss Nellie Forsyth,
only daughter of Capt. john G. Forsyth,
was brought into court. She is II years OF
age and pretty, although the shock Of her
fathers awful death has left it's traces. She
stood the ordeal bravely. answering the
questions in an audible voice and telling the
story of the death scene without falteriug,
except for tremor now and then, when
the recollection nearly overpowered her.
THE MURDER
1--WE were sitting at supper" she said,
''mother and father and 1, aud had just
finished. Father was telling US what be
would have to do tue next day. Then he
got up and went into the library. A few
minutes afterward 1 heard him call my
mother She did not hear him at first, but
told her he wanted her, Just as she got
up to go we heard the noise, loud noise,
but we did not know then that it was a
gun. We ran into the room.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
Father was sitting up in his chair with
his eyes shut, as if he was asleep; but when
l went up to him | saw the hole in his head
and blood on his cheek. He tried to get up
from his chair. but fell over sideways. put
his hand up to his eyes and wiped the blood
away, and then fell forward He
never spoke word, except that
think he said as we came
into the room, "Call mamma" There was
big hole in the back of his head. The room
was full of smoke and the window pane
was broken" The counsel for the defense
made no cross-examination.
The doctor testified that Capt. FORSYTH
had been shot from behind with buckshot,
and that his skull was at one part brokeA TO
pulp.
rhe murderer was undoubtedly Richard
Lowry, alias Herring, alias the notorious
Bob Brewer. Startling revelations will be
made tomorrow by a witness.