The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-18
TOLLESON OUT OF JAIL.
JUDGE CLARKE FINALLY FREES
THE EX-BANKER.

Appearance-The Halls EnIer All
other Claim Against Gould-Patter-
son Convicted of Assault - The
Church and Sam Small.
ATLANTA, GA, June 17.-Ex-President
J. R. ToIIeson of Mercantile banking fame
has, after nearly seventeen months, at
length been released from Jail, and without
surrendering any assets. OF his attempt to
account for the lack of money and negotia-
BILE paper of other banks. and which we're
supposed to be in the safe of the Mercantile
bank at the time it was placed in the hands
of a receiver, the judge, in his order dis
charging Tolleson, has this to say: From
the testimony of the petitioner, and other
evidence produced, it appears probable that
he has, in connection with said application,
complied with said order. so far as 1t Is at
present in his power to do SO.
las to the $S.34 SO of the assets in his
hands at the date of said order, and as TO
the remainder of such assets, the testimony
submitted by him is so confused and obscure
and so defective in important particulars
that no satisfactory conclusion can be
reached. 1t, however, seems from this testl-
mony doubtful whether the petitioner can
at this time deliver to the receiver this por-
tion of said assets"
RELEASED BUT REARREsTED.
Continuing, Judge Clarke states that in
consideration of promises and sixteen
months and twenty-one days served by Toll
Lesson in Jail, he allows the benefit of the
doubt and his liberty. Immediately on his
release the ex-banker was second time
made prisoner by an officer, who served
two warrants for larceny after trust, which
have been waiting a long time in the
sheriff's office. In order that he might give
bond no time was lost In hurrylng Ioileson
before magistrate, who liked
the amount at $500. After a
short hearing C. B. Boyd signed the
paper and Tolleson went away free man.
The bond was given for his appearance be-
fore the Justice on Saturday, when argu-
ment will be heard on the warrants. They
were both sworn out by the president of the
First National Bank of Little Rock, Ark,
who charges Tolleson with embezzling
81, 799. Tolleson will. he says, re-enter
business in Atlanta after getting rid Of the
warrants from which he processes to appre-
bend no serious trouble.
MRS. HALLS SUITS.
John A. Wimpy, attorney for Mrs Selma
Cole Hall in the first and most sensational
suit she filed against the rich E. F. Gould of
this city, has Just entered a claim for
$4,000 damages on his last account Like
that last filed by Mrs. Hall and that brought
by her husband, it is for defamation of
character, and founded on Mr.. Gould'S pub
LEGATION, in which he replied to the scandal
GUS charges against him by charging black
mail, calling the parties vampires, etc. The
damage suits entered by the three now
aggregate $50, 900 instead of the original
5000. Hopkins & Son have charge OF the
last three cases Wimpy drew the declara-
ton which raked Gould so severely at the
beginning of the trouble.
PATTERsoN'S TRIAL.
J. ]. Patterson, who seriously stabbed
Narcissus Patterson, his wife, when he
caught her walking in Grant park last
summer with a legislator, has again been
found guilty of assault with intent to muir
der. This was his third trial. On the first
he was committed and sent to the peniten-
tiary. when the supreme court granted
second hearing on an appeal. which re-
suited in a mistrial. Judge Clarke to-day
reserved the sentence. notice having been
given that motion will again be made for
new trial
NO ORDERS FOR SMALL.
The standing committee of the Episcopa-
liam church for the diocese of Georgia met
here this morning and withdrew its recon-
nlendation made at a former meeting of
Rev. Sam Small as a fit candidate FOR
orders This action was, of course, brought
about by the action of the Rev. Small in
entering the Northern Methodist church in
Juan, where ne Is 10 nave q Cclog0 DreSl-
dencv. The committee declined to recon-
mend two colored applicants, Dunn of st.
Simon's tor priests orders and Mann of
Darien for deacon's orders, owing to irregu-
larities. The members of the standing
committee are ex-officio members of the
diocesan corporation, of which the bishop is
president. Sitting as a corporation, a
proposition was received from the board of
trade of Newman TO give to the diocese the
property known as College Temple on con-
dition that the diocese would establish and
maintain there female college. The offer
was declined because, in the opinion of the
board, such college could not be success
fully maintained.
NEGRO WAYLAID.
George Evans, a negro fiddler who oper-
ates the big base drum in Huff's band, was
set upon last night by two brothers named
Martin and cut nearly to death. The affair
occurred in dark alley near the city limits.
The Martins are also negroes. Willis APP
pears to have done the cutting at leisure,
while his brother held the victim. Both
were arrested and confessed. There was a
woman in the case Evans was fast bleed
ing to death when picked up by the police.
DEATH UNDER AN ENGINE.
James Lovelace, white carpenter, met
horrible death here tonight under the
wheels of a State road engine. He was
very drunk, and repeated efforts had been
made to get him to go home, but without
success. Finally, about half an hour before
his mangled body was found, he forsook
the jewellers who accompanied him, and
was supposed to have started home, where
he left wife, critically i'll from the effect
of recent fall, and three small children, to
go upon the debauch which tonight cut
short his career in SO terrible a manner
When discovered nothing but the mans
head retained the form of the human body.
Every bone was broken and the flesh scat
tered in small bits UP and down the rail-
road track for distance of 100 or 200 feet,
Men with lanterns ran along by the rails,
picking up little scraps Of the remains,
and were kept long at their
CHASTITY work before getting them all
together. The tragedy occurred at point
near the site of the old Atlanta rolling
mills, where Marietta street approaches
close TO the railroad track, and it is sup
posed that he staggered from the walk and
fell among the rails and ties. He then ap-
pears either to have gone to sleep or else
was too much intoxicated to get up again
IN time to avoid the approaching engine.
LOOKS MORE LIKE SUICIDE.
ATLANTA, GA, June is, 80 A. M.-Later
accounts of the Lovelace tragedy alter its
aspect to that of a suicide The story that