The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24
SOME RARE CASES,
Judge Macdonald Dispenses Some
Large Christmas Gifts Yesterday.


An eventful day was yesterday in the
| city court. There was a large number of
criminals on trial and some Of the cases
! were as rare and racy as ever come up be-
fore that court.
| The court had one very unusual expert
ence. The judge was thanked by pros
| eeutor of one of the criminals for some
/ justice which, IL seems, had not been ad-
/ ministered according to the latter's i'm
! preston with regard to the matter.
Catherine Stewart was the accused in
| the case, and Constant Evan claimed to
I be the victim. Evan is a Frenchman,
and cannot speak word of English, nor
understand IL. +. Maggie was secured as
an interpreter, and for while the trial
| progressed smoothly. The Stewart
woman was charged with having stolen
some money from Evan, and he was pros
ecuting her for the ofense. The evidence
in the case did not seem sufficient to the
court, and she was declared not guilty.
She was under thirty-day sentence from
police court, however, for drunk and dis
order, and she was sent back to serve
this out on the chain gang.
When Evan saw her going back to Jail
he thought he had secured her conviction
and he rushed hurriedly up to the judges
bench before he could be stopped and be-
gan bowling and talking French. He was
soon brought down, however, and the in
terpreter turning to the court said: "He
wants to thank your honor for the justice
done him"
Turner Jackson's case was a very pecu-
liar one. Jackson worked a sharp trick on
a negro and as result will serve twelve
months on the Changing. Jackson told
Officer kaVanaugh some time ago that he
was onto gang of gamblers Just beyond
the city limits, and the policeman
employed him to help him get them
into the barracks. Jackson picked his
man and informed him that he would
have to give him his watch and money
and everything else he had in his pocket
as he could not take those things in the
jail with him. The negro complied and
jackson pocketed the property. Judge
MacDonell told him he was sorry he
could not give him longer sentence for
such a crime.
July Houston put up regular summer
defense to the charge against him That
is it was too thin. He was on trial for
larceny from the house, being charged
with stealing a gun from w. Platter
There was no doubt about the fact that
Houston took the gun. His reason for
doing it, however. was, as he said, that
he knew that Platter wanted to kill him
and he had taken the gun to prevent him
from doing it, This didn't go with the
court, however, and Houston will serve
the county for six months.
William Wright, the wire thief, who
was in the habit of climbing the poles of
the Brush Electric Light Company and
cutting down large lengths of copper wire
from the arc light circuit, was sent out
for good years work on the canals
The crosstie thieves will serve only one
week each in jail. The two tried yester-
day were Henry Wright and Wheeler
Washington, charged with stealing cross
ties from the remains of the Tybee rail-
road. They were found guilty, but
claimed that they thought they were at
liberty to take the crossties, as the road
was not being used, and they thought it
had been abandoned.
John Robinson and Archie mcfarland,
two crosstie counters from the far away
state of California, were given the choice
between paying a $40 fine or serving a two
months sentence. They took the two
months. Ed Morgan and John keenan,,
two young white boys, were given a SINH
lar sentence for not knowing what their
employment was.
Napoleon Brown and Clarence Bailey
got six months each on the poor farm for
stealing two caps from ID. Silterstein's
store. Henry Green was given six months
for purlolning pair of shoes from the
same place.
Charles Grant was in it for twelve
months for beating Edward Singleton, and
Willis Carter was let go, because his wife.
not appear against him.
Altogether the court distributed good
lot of Christmas sentences.