The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-12

men on Bay street requestingithe attention
/ OF council to the bridge at the 1ooG OF
/ Lincoln street was received aud referred
to the committee on streets and lanes.
A petition was received from james M
/ Dixon q Co., to keep portable powoeF
! magazine in front Of their store on bay
street.
A petition from City Engineer VIM, to
! be allowed additional help for the purpose
/ Of making a survey on Springfield pIanta-
ton, was referred to the committee OF the
! whole.
THE APPEAL CASES.
The appealed cases of Martin Ha&r and
! Mrs Martin Haar who were fined 500
/ each in the police court on the charge Of
having their baToom open and selling
liquor on Sunday, Sept. "a, we're taken
| up. Policeman Kavanaugh and two ne
/ gro men were the city's witnesses.
| Z. J. OConnOr, Esq, the attorney for
| the appellants made the point that Mrs.
Haar had been tried for the ohense OF
selling liquor on Sunday, and was after
| wards convicted for the ofense Of keep
! ing her barroOm open on Sunday, which
| he pointed out was Illegal.
| City Attorney Adams acknowledged
that Mr.. OCOnnors point was well taken,
but said that the case could be tried by
council on the charges made. The fact
that the mayors sentence was illegal,
| he said, would not prevent council from
imposing legal sentence if the evidence
justified it.
Mr.. O'Connor argued that the question
of the appeal was the confirmation Ornon-
confirmation of the mayors sentence.
Alderman Dixon moved to sustain the
appeal, which'was lost by vote Of to B.
MIR. HAIRS CASE.
The case of Mr.. Haar was then taken
up and Policeman Kavanaugh gave his
evidence. He said that he sent the two
negro men to the Haar saloon on the Sun
day morning in question with a dollar
He saw them knock at the door, and
reach their hands in The door closed
and presently opened again and the men
again put out their hands and seemed TO
get something. They came back to him
with two half-pint TASKS of whisky and
two quarter dollars in change He
watched the two men the whole time
from an adjacent street corner.
Henry Young, colOred, corrOborated the
pOl1ccman's testimony, and apparently
told very straight story. Young got
badly ratified on the cross examination,
however.
Andrew Jackson, colored. was the next
witness for the city He told much the
same story as Young. Jackson gave some
pretty rich testimony about Haars efforts
TO induce him and Young to leave the
city. setting up the drinks, and Offering to
furnish them money. jackson is a slut
terer, but that didn't prevent his telling
his story 1t great length.
Witnesses were introduced by Mr.
Haar to prove the unreliability of the
c1Gy's witnesses. Mr. j. S. Collins testi-
fled that he knew Henry Young we'll, and
that he was a worthless and unreliable
character.
MIR. Fred Haar, brother of Martin
Haar, testified that the two city wit
nesses made an offer to him TO leave the
city and not testify against his brother
for five dollars.
Mrs. Haar testified that her place
was never open on Sunday, and
that she had never allowed liquor sold
there on Sunday. The bar closed al ii As
on Saturday night, Sept. %, she
said
Martin Haar testified that he had never
offered the city's witnesses any money to
leave the city, and that he had ordered
them out of the place when they made
him such proposition.
The same testimony was submitted by
Mr.. O'COnnor for both cases. When the
matter came to a vote in council Mr. Haar
was unanimously convicted and Mrs.
Haar was acquitted.
The appealed cases of Mrs. Bandy.
John Carr, Herman Miller, H. f. Kuck,
G. S. Godbold and G. e. Harvey, were
set for hearing next Tuesday night.
The appeal of the Electric railway
from the mayors fine of 81 900 for failure
to grade their tracks was set for
hearing at the next regular meeting.