The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-25

describe it. Brown has a splendid memory
about faces, according to his statement. He
had never seen Ella since that Sunday In
March until yesterday morning and vet he
remembered her, despite the fact that it
was early in the morning that he saw her
| in Lovers lane, and he did not get closer TO
her than the width of the street.
THE MAN WHO CUT ELIAS HAIR.
R. W. Bennett, the colored barber who
| cut Elias hair said she had come to his
place with Pearl Prendergast and both had
their hair cut. Ella wanted him TO give
her dark colored wig. Pearl paid for the
hair cutting.
] On cross-examination Bennett said Pearl
had made the request to have the girls hair
| cut. He was positive that it was in Feb
ruarY that he cut the girls hair, while the
undisputed fact before the jury was that
Ella WASN'T abducted until March 4.
| John Burney, the colored man to whose
| defense. He said Sibley came to his house
late one night in the latter part OF March
| and asked for lodging. He had Ella
with him and both were very wet.
Sibley told Burney that the
girl was his wife, and showed
him piece OF paper. which he said was the
| license. Burney told him that the proper
place for a marriage license was in the
court house. Ella seemed to be perfectly
satisfied, and made no complaint. She had
the full run Of the place and was under no
restraint.
Burney was amusing under the cross
examination. He felt, after Sioley left,
that there was something wrong about the
affair. 1t "pressed him mighty hard" that
Sibley had 'stole the girl from some lady"
BurneY said every time he saw Sibey in
Bryan county he was heading for Darien.
He looked upon him as a tramp, because he
was always walking and looked ike a
tramp.
ALICE TELLS HER LITTLE YARN.
At 6:55 O'Clock Attorney Gazan ans
nounced, THE defendant will now make a
statement" Everybody leaned forward in
eagerness as Alice walked up to the witness
chair with a swaggering braggadocio air
which indicated that she either didn't real
ize or care about the seriousness of the
charge under which she was being tried.
She said she had known Mrs. Holmes for
about two years. She used to visit two girls
at her house. She said Ella Holmes re-
quested her to get her into Pearl Prender-
gast's house because she had been i'll
treated by her mother and wanted to leave
home. Alice said she gave Ella note aud
sent her to Stella Mosely's, where she saw
her the next morning with Pearl Prender-
CAST. "The girl, said Alice, twas more
anxious to stay with Pearl Prendergast
than Pearl was to keep her. The only thing
in the note was an address Of the house, and
Ella gave me the pencil and paper to write
the note.n
The jurymen adopted novel method lot
usually seen In court rooms by subectinR
Alice to a cross-examination. She an
swered all the questions with toss of the
head and impertinent tone.
The interest displayed by the Jury In
questioning the witnesses after both sides
finished was a remarkable feature Of the
trial. Nearly every one propounded some
question, and some Of them rather tangled
the witnesses.
THE STATES RKBUTTAL.
The defense rested at 7:2O O'Clock aud So.
licitor General Fraser began the rebuttal
testimony for the state. Annie Martin was
first introduced TO dlsprove Alice Whites
statement that the note she gave Ella
Holmes was an open one. The Martin girl
said she was positive the note was in an en-
veIope because she saw it.
Ella Holmes was put upon the stand a
second time, and denied very positiv eIy
that she ever told Mena Butler anything
about leaving home or having her hair cut
She also denied Browns testimony about
having seen her in Lovers lane.
Attorney GaZan tried to insist upon Ella
that she had said on her direct examination
that she was at school March 4, but several
of the jurors promptly called the attorney
error,
Her redirect examination by Mr.. Gazan
was quite severe, but didn't shake her testi-
mony in the slightest.
Detective Wetherhorn identified the mar
rage license which the solicitor had as the
one which Sibley gave him at the time of
his arrest.
Mrs. Holmes denied In rebuttal the state
ment Of Alice White that she had been in
the habit OF meeting men at her house. She
never spoke to her until after Ella had been
abduo ed. Mrs Holmes stated that she had
asked at the barracks for officers to help
her, but she was refused, the officers de-
clining to 90 unless she was certain as to the
whereabouts of her daughter.
LIKENED TO sHE-DEvIL.
An adjournment was taken for an hour
at O'Clock, and when court reconyened
there was big jam in the court room, re-
minding one slightly of the Landsberg case
Solicitor General Fraser opened the argu-
ments In a brief speech, in which be de-
nounced Alice White as a she-devil without
a redeeming trait in her nature
Mr.. Gazan talked long and eloQuently for
his abandoned fair-facsd Client He made
a general resume Of the evidence for the
state. trying to prove it unworthy of belief.
His main effort was to break down the char
acter of Ella Holmes, who, to his mind was
house. Mr.. Gezan also attacked the truth
of Mrs. Holmes statements and ridiculed
the idea OF Ella Holmes being only Is years
of age. In Mr.. Gazan's opinion she is too
bright and well developed for so few years.
Solicitor General Fraser began his sum-
ming up for the state at 10:45 O'Clock. 1t
was a case he said of the utmost importance
TO society-more important than any
murder trial ever brought before Chatham's
courts He appealed to the jury co say by
It's verdict that Alice White should pass
from this community to place where she
would never again have the opportunity of
using her deVilish wiles to ruin innocent
girls.
BEYOND THE PALE OF REDEMPTION.
The solicitor held the prisoner up as girl
who. by the statements which fell from her
own lips on the witness stand, is beyond
redemption. Although comedy of face she
is 80 depraved as never to again be able TO
honor the name of woman. The inmate of
some Of the lowest dens of infamy and rot
tenness in Savannah, and the companion of
train robbers, she is beyond SYM
pathy. Solicitor General Fraser
told the jurymen that by con-
| victing Alice White and sending her to
the penitentiary they would be doing only
an act Of justice to society and place