The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-30
.DIDEOT GIVE HIM THE ACID
The Jury Says Virginia Riley Did Not
Poison Alexander Williams.


She Was Charged With Dosing an g.
Months-old Boy With CarboIio
Aeid-Katie Grant, the Alleged Blue
Gum Negress, Who Bit Annie Jen-
kins, Released Richard Washington
TO Spend Three Months in Jail.
Final Decree in the Chatham Furni-
ture Company Receivership Case.
Virginia Riley was found not guilty in
the superior court Yesterday Of the
charge of assault with intent to murder
Alexander Williams, the 1s-month-old
negro child to whom it was alleged she had
administered dose of carbolic acid june
II.
The Riley woman was indicted on
charge preferred by Sarah Harris, the
grandmother of the boy Both of the
women live in house near Tattnan and
Huntingdon streets. The afternoon Of
the day in question the child was found
by its grandmother in a dangerous condi-
tion, and an examination showed it had
been dosed with earbolic acid.
The fact that the Riley woman had had
some quarrels with Sarah Harris over the
question of the rent of her room, and also
that Sarah had lost 80 cents, which she
accused the Riley woman of stealing, led
to the suspicion that the latter had made
an attempt to poison the boy for revenge.
There was bottle in Virginia Riley's
rooms also, which seemed from its odor to
have contained earbolie acid
TRIAL OF THE CASE.
The trial of the case occupied the entire
day.
DR. May, who attended the child, testi-
fed to the fact that he had been called in
and found that the child was suffering
with burns and blisters about the mouth,
made evidently by carbolic acid. Bottles
Were found about the house in this
woman's room, one of which twas labeled
carbolic acid. The matter of the quarrel
was also brought out in evidence.
The woman was represented by Mr..
William Pease. The defense claimed that
the child got the carbolic acid or potash,
it was not known which, and took it by
accident, not knowing what it was
In making her statement Virginia Riley
said she did not know what was the mat
ter with the child at the time, but that
she aided the child's relatives in relieving
its suffePings, administering sweet oil
until the doctor could arrive She said
she had always treated him kindly, often
giving him bread, cakes and fruit. She
said She had poured some medicine in the
DOeo4O III MI tbUll Sdlu W nave COutdlHeQ
carbolic acid, and that she toek.this med
ictne to show that she did not consider it
dangerous.
The jury was charged and retired about
o o'clock, and was out until nearly 10
O'Clock, when verdict Of not guilty was
returned. @
KATIE GRANT DISCHARGED.
Katie Grant, who was tried last week
on charge of manslaughter, and in
whose case a mlstrial was declared, was
released yesterday on her own reeogniz-
ance- She is the alleged blue gum
negress whose bite, il was claimed
caused the death of Annie jenkins.
After consultation between Judge
Falligant and Solicitor General Frazer it
was decided best under the circumstances
to let the woman go. She was sent for
at tho Jail, and after lecture from Judge
Falligant in the sheriff's officei in
which he admonished her to be on her
good behavior, she was allowed to go
Richard Washington, husband of Mary
Washington, who was indicted as an &C
cessory after the fact of the murder of
Isaiah Harden, for which Mary Wash
ingtsn will spend her life in the state
penitentiary, pleaded guilty to the charge,
and was given light sentence. The
offense is only a misdemeanor and he
was sentenced to pay fine of $50 or
Spend three months in Jail.
The grand jury was to have held SEES
sion, but the docket was small one and
there was very little business, on &C
count Of which its session was postponed
until next Friday afternoon.
CIVIL SIDE OF THE COURT.
On the civil side of the superior court a
final decree was taken in the suit Of the
Union Furniture Company and others
against the Chatham Furniture Company.
1t waa consent decree The net balance
in the hands of the receiver was 81, 784.62
after the payment of all costs An order
was taken BY which the petitioners and
intervenors are to share rrtably in this
balance, according to the amounts of their
respective claims
In the case of Kate G. LAWN and others
against James p. LAWN, an order was
granted allowing Receiver John r. Dillon
to release certain lands in Warsaw from
lien in the shape of Judgment against
J. j. Semers. There was a prior lien in
favor Of the Merchants and Mechanics
Loan and Building Association which ex-
ceeds the value Of the property.
A petition was filed asking the incor-
poration of the Savannah Mutual Loan
Association.
In the city court a motion for new trial
was argued in the case of the Grange
Land Company VS.. the Atlantic Contract
ing Company in which verdict for 81