The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-01
WASN'TTHISG RANDJURY
ROUNDER" DONELAN OF TIE IN
DEPENDENT ON THE BACK.

Bis Charge That Grand Jurors We're
! Vote Buyers Results in His Being
Asked to Prove It Before the
Superior Court Body-Be Signs a
Card Saying Ee Meant the Grand
Juries of Four Years Ago and Not
Recent Ones.
! The grand jury Of the superior court had
a newspaper writer on the rack for awhile
| yesterday afteg noon as a result Of a recent
4 publication regarding the corruption in the
late election.
! In the Savannah Independent. weekly
paper published by William Orr & Co.,
week before last, in the "Rounder" column
appeared paragraph charging that grand
/ jurors Of both courts had often said vote
buying could not be stopped, and the writer
went further by saying that he was not sur
prised at this Gs he had known some Of the
grand jurors 10 have INDUCED in vote buy
ing themselve1
This naturally stirred up the superior
court grand jury and the members began
an investigat ION. They learned that the
author was John d. Donelan, and yester-
day be was Summoned to appear in court.
AT. DonelRn faced mad set OF men, and
for short time he was not little bit
frightened at what the final outcome of the
affair would DO. He denied emphatically
that ne had any reference to the present
grand jury in bis article, and the upshot Of
the affair was she signing OF the following
card by Mr.. Donelan:
BAvAvSAH. GA, Jan. 90. 1893.
10 the Grand jury Of Chatham County:
GENTLEMEN-In the issue OF the IndeUendent,
O newspaper published In the city of Savannah,
FNvrHn das ~ Aan Ice - TaTz
the following Language appeared in article
under the head of THE Rounder:"
Men whom have known to sit as grand
jurors on both the superior and city courts have
often expressed Themselves III my hearing that
the purchasing of votes can't be stopped. 1
admit that it cannot as long as men are al
lowed to serve as grand jurors who have been
guilty themselves, to my knowledge, of buying
votes. But the damnable practice can be
stopped If these very men we're taken to task
aud made public examples Of. This law Of the
state has been too long lnsulted with impunity.
Not until the vote buyer is made example OF
will the bride taker become defunct"
desire to assure you that the article aud the
language above quoted was not intended to
refer to the present grand jury or any grand
jury of recent date, but to the grand jury Of
four years ago. further say that 1 am Unable
to name aly OF the members of the grand Jury
Of four years ago 40 which my language re-
JOHN D. DosELAN.
The next thing Mr.. Donelau is likely TO
nave on his hands Is demand from the
members Of the grand turies of four years
ago to prove what be alleges against them
il his card.
TIE grand jury of the superior court last
night indicted Jacob Waldburg for MUIR
der. on account Of the killing of Celia Cole
man al Sandfy, Nov. 5 last. This is the
case where a riot started at q negro dance
and Waldburg was attacked. In firing on
his assailants he accidentally killed his
friend, Celia Coleman, but the law says
that where a person, trying to commit a
felony upon another, kills different party
he or she is, nevertheless, guilty of murder.
The grand jury returned the following
other indictments Raymond Block and Joe
Vim, burglary !; Norman Simkins and Dick
Taylor. simple larceny, two bills each;
James Saussy and Ellen Singleton, assault
with intont to murder; Charles Frazier
burglary.
A jury In the superior court yesterday
rendered verdict in favor of the plaintiff
in the case of Able Stewart vs. Ii. r.
Remshart and Samuel and Jerry Mills to
compel the specific performance of con-
tract In making out titles to a small piece
of land purchased'by Stewart from the de-
PENDANTS.
Judge FalhRant yesterday appointed Ed
ward Wilson and Alex. K. lawton, Jr.,
Esq, commercial notaries public.