Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-08-01

meeting at Silver Creek. Rev. j. III.
Gambrell was also absent, assisting in
meeting in Copiah county. The
next fifth Sunday meeting will be
held in October with Gum Grove
Church.
Smiths store at Montgomery was
broken into Friday night and lot Of
handkerchiefs, cigars, ETC., stolen.
Marshal Hurst arrested Robt. Will
liams here Saturday on suspicion, and
he soon confessed his guilt. The Mar
shall had quite lively race up Chero-
kee street after Williams, who was
"caught on the fly" in fine style by two
young white men at Heuck's corner.
Will Wright, another negro, was ar
rested by Marshal Hurst yesterday,
suspected Of completely in the rob-
berry.
The hearts of the Little Workers
we're made very happy last Friday eve
ming by large audience, who early
assembled in the College Chapel to
enjoy their entertainment. These en-
ergetic and ambitious little workers in
the Lords vineyard, richly deserve all
the praise that has been given them.
Misses Edith Sherman and Alice
Woodward had the entire responsible
ty of the evening upon their young
shoulders, and bravely and we'll did
they carry it out. a neat sum was re-
allied for the purposes of the society.
An Interesting Case in the Justice Court.
A large crowd was attracted to JUS
tice McMillan's office yesterday to hear
the trial of the suit of J. b. Andrews,
the White Cap detective, against the
Norwood IL Butterfeld Lumber Co.,
which Andrews claimed was due him
for detective services.
Mr.. Chas. Butterfield was the
chief witness for the defense, and
his testimony in substance was,
that Andrews was first introduced
to him by Craft Coon, as man in
the employ of Gov. Stone to unearth
the White Cap outrages. The assault
on the negro Bulge Connerly, one of
the Lumber Company's employees, had
then been made. Mr.. Butterfield said
80 men were believed to have taken
hand in that outrage, and i'll confer
ence with Andrews, he told him the
Company would be willing to pay $500
for evidence that would convict not
less than 10 of them. He said An
drews never was regularly employed
by the Company, that he (Butterfield)
thought he was employed by the Gov
ernor, and that the payment of the
$500 was distinctly conditioned as
above. Andrews had been employed,
while operating as detective, at Nc
Nair's logging camp, but not by de-
PENDANTS, but by Mr.. McNair, indie
pendently. After six of the White
Caps plead guilty at the Circuit Court,
he paid Andrews S3OOfor the Company,
which was accepted as full satisfac-
ton for his services, but he took no re-
ceipt, being in hurry at the time to
catch the cars, and did not know An
drews claimed balance until within
the last three weeks.
Mr. Butterfield could hardly explain
why the $500 was paid Andrews, as he
said the six men sentenced plead guilty;
and even if they had not done so, it
had already been decided by the dis
trict attorney and other lawyers for
the prosecution that Andrews testi-
mony would be worthless before a
jury and he would never have been in
troduced as witness if the trial had
gone on.
Andrews and Coon testified that
there was distinct agreement, that
$500 was to be paid, with no stipula-
ton as to the number of White Caps
convicted; and Andrews further claim
ed that it was dine to his efforts that
the six White Caps were indicted,
plead guilty and sentenced to the pen.
The last effort of the defense was to
inpeach the character of Andrews for
truth and verocity, and number of
witnesses were introduced for that
purpose, most of whom made unsatis-
factory or evasive answers.
There was some lively sparring be-
tween the lawyers of the respective
sides, A. G. McNair and Chas Chris
man appearing for the plaintiff, and
E. F. Brennan for the defense. The
trial concluded by the court giving a
Judgment for 500 in favor of the
plaintiff, from which an appeal will
be taken by the Lumber Company to
the Circuit Court.
There was a good sprinkling of re-
puted White Caps at the trial as look
ers ON, who took a lively interest in
the proceedings, and who seemed to be
inspired by the sentiment
Fight, dog. fight. bear,
There's nary purp Of Our'n there.
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