The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-17
THE MAYOR ON THE BENCH.
Two Held for Contempt, One for Per.
jury, and One for Intimidation.

mlCA 3 G6dVV E6naACys
The mayor made things lively in police
court yesterday. Two men were sent to
jail for contempt, one was arrested
for intimidating witnesses and another
was held for perjury. The sensations
grew out of the Mccormick case for viola
ton of the Sunday law.
The case was against VIM. Mccormick
for selling liquor on Sunday, and was
continued from Tuesday. Mccormick
keeps bar on the south sido of Indian
street, west of Farm. He was put on the
docket by Policeman Kavanaugh. Kava-
naugh stated that he knew nothing of the
case except from information furnished
him by the citys witness, Mr.. McI[insey.
McKinsey was sworn and stated that
on Sunday, May 6, about O'Clock, he got
into a buggy with A. ]. Wall, DR., and
drove to McCormick's place. They
stopped in front of his residence and Nc
Cormick got out and went into the front
door, which was locked after he entered.
He was then in the hall Of McCormick's
house. From the hall he was admitted
to the bar through door which connects
the two places. In the bar he found VIM.
Hellman, who works for the Savannah
Brewing Company, and J. Heller. Both
of these men were known personally by
him, as was also Mccormick, who was
waiting on them. Mccormick treated to
beer and he then treated to whisky, both
Hellman and Heller drinking. For the
three whiskys he paid 25 cents, and paid
5 cents for glass of beer for himself He
also bought a half pint Of whisky and
some cigars.
A SUNDAY BARRooM SCENE.
From McKinsey's description Of the
room it appears that it is divided in two
parts by screen, and on the other side of
the screen from where he stood he saw
twelve or fifteen men who were evidently
drinking and playing cards. He asked
Nc Cormick if he could bring his friend,
Mr.. Wall, who was waiting in the buggy
at the door, in, but Mccormick refused.
After he had been in the bar ten or fifteen
minutes he left the house and drove off
with Wall.
Mr.. Gazan who represented McCor-
mick, put McKinsey through long and
minute cross examination, making him
rehearse every movement he made from
the time he took breakfast Sunday morn
ing until he went into Mccormick house.
Mayor McDonough as ked that Mr.. Ca
zan conflne himself 10 the points bearing
on the case and leave all roundabout tes-
timony alone, but Mr. Gazan said he was
only introducing testimony which bore
directly on the case, and with the per-
mission of the court he expected to han
die the witness as he saw fit.
Although MIR. Gazan tried by every
method possible, he found 1t impossible to
break down McKinsey's story at any
point, and at last gave 1t up.
HELLMAN GOT TRAGIC.
Hellman was then introduced for the
defense. He swore that he had seen Nc
Kinsey at McCormlck's but that McKin-
sey never went into the bar or had drink
in the place. He claimed that McKinsey
only talked to Mccormick in the hall and
that whisky was not mentioned in the
| conversation. The only thing that was
mentioned, according to Hellman's teSti-
mOny, was tame fox which McKinsey
owned and " as trying to sell to McCor-
mick Hellman wound up by saying in a
tragic voice: "The man is liar, Judge;
| swear the man is har' For this
| Mayor McDonough condemned Hellman
to the county Jail for five hours for CON
tempt of court.
j. j. Wall, ST., was next put on the
stand. He testified that MoKinsey had
never worked for him or in any way been
in his employ. 1t turned out, however.
that McKinsey had worked for another
Mr.. Wall and it was probably this Wall
that McRinsey claimed to have worked
| for.
| Heller was then introduced and swore
| positively that he did not go into McCor-
mick's bar. He admitted having seen
| McKinsey at McCOrmioks, but said that
he took no drink with him.
| Mccormick then made his statement
He denied having sold liquor to McKin-
sey on any Sunday He said that Nc
Kinsey had been at his place on the 9th,
| but only came to see about selling him q
tame fox which McKinsey owned. He
! finished his statement by abiding to Nc
Hinsey as a liar and 1t was at this point
that Mayor McDonough had charge Of
contempt entered against Hellman and
Mccormick and sentenced them to five
hours In the county jail.
REVOKED THE LICENSE.
The mayor imposed fine of 500 or
thirty days in Jail on Mccormick and had
Clerk Hernandez read the revocation of
McCormick's license
The mayor said he would state for the
information of Mr.. Mccormick and his
attorney that the primary cause of his
having revoked the license was not that
he had been convicted of selling
| licquor on Sunday,
III teA9O VI D. Ildlis WHICH was also
| continued from Tuesday, was next called,
This had been put off on account of the
lack of witnesses. Hall had not sue
ceeded an getting any, but McKinsey
had A. J. Wall, Jr., to prove that the
statement he made Tuesday, that he
| had given PITT 80 cent. TO get whisky
with and that PITT had gone to Halls
and returned with the whisky and 25
cents, change was true This Wall
swore to. The mayor fined Hall Sl00,
and had PITT sent to Jail on the charge
of perjury.
j. G. Holder, who has assisted
| Mchinsey in the conviction of some of
| these cases, asked permission of the court
TO say few words, which was granted
Holder said that j. II. Warren. who was
then in the room, came to his room at
O'Clock yesterday morning, and Threatened
TO Kill who ever took hand in convictinp
Mccormick. Mayor McDonough had
| Warren sent to Jail on the charge of in
timidating witnesses
During the afternoon the navor
suspended sentence on the revolSinS of
McCormick's license, but said the next
ofense would certainly cause him TO i'm
pose the sentence.
All Of our mems and boys fine all-wool
suits that were $40, Collat's red letter
price S79s. Their equal cannot be dupli-