The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-11

resented his financial condition TO petition
ers, thereby securing the goods through
fraud.
Col d. B. Dyer and Mai. George T.
Barnes have returned TO Augusta from
Wilkes county, where they have been on
a prospecting tour that possibly means
the opening up of a new industry I'm this
section. For some time past these gem
tlemen have been in communication with
parties in Wilkes regarding the flow OF
petroleum thai has been discovered on
Broad river in that county. The object
of the trip was 10 investigate this spring
and Col. Dyer brought back specimens Of
oil, which he viii have Xeamined by DIT.
Bachman OF the chemical works. oil
I ercolates slowly from pores Of large
white rock and is Of q slate color, which
can easily be refined and frightened. An
Augusta syndicate has already secured
an option on the land and final purchase
depends on the analysis of DIT. Bachman,
and further prospecting I'm the shape OF a
well that viii be bored within the next
month. On the same tract of land Is also
"A splendid natural water power, which
could easily be used for turning ma
chinery of an oil mill.
About 10 o'clock Monday night Frank
AshwOTth. a young man is years old, was
going to his home at Medicus, near Conner.
He was met by a young man named Smell
lings. Snellings noticed a strange negro
following Ashworth, but paid no attention
to him. Snellings passed Op and soon
heard Ashworth say to the negro: Put
down that rock; I didn't mean any harm
by asking YOU what your name was"
Snellings went or home and heard moth
ing more of the conversation. Soon after
Dock Smith a negro, passed by, and
found Ashworth's body with two bullets
i'm the head and an ugly cash made with
rock across the forehead. Young Ash
E,rl 4-T NO oh a O
loaded when he left town. 1t was found
with both barrels empty. It was supposed
the negro took it away from him and shot
him. On the shoulder of the dead man
was found the print of shoe where the
murderer had stamped his lifeless victim.
Ashworth was a young man OF temperate
habits and very popular. Great indlgna-
ton exists and if the murderer is caught
there viii be a lynching.
1t develops that there is feeling in the
police department at Augusta over the
Cobb matter. J. T. Cobb was given a
preliminary hearing before Justice Hern-
don Tuesday and was dismissed. He was
accused of having broken into the store
of the Rice & OConnor Shoe Company
and of having stolen $50 in silver, The dis
missal puts the police in the position Of
having detained the accused without war
rant or just suspicion. When the pre-
Hminary was had Tuesday the accused
declined to appear before Justice
Vaughan, and Justice Herndon heard the
case The witnesses for the state were
p. II. Rice and Chief Hood. Mr.. Rice
testified TO the fact of his store being
robbed and to the further fact that he saw
Cobb in the lookup, whereupon Cobb
stated that he had broken into the store
and robbed it of the silver. Chief Hood
testified to the fact that Cobb had de-
tailed to him how he had broken open
the store how he had secured the boxes
how he had taken the money and how he
had left the building. At the preliminary
before Judge Herndon, Cobb was not put
on the stand. His attorney worked hard
for him and the young man was ac-
quilted. The police hold that under the
circumstances and in the face of the evil
dence, it was expected that the commit
ting magistrate would hold the accused
to answer to the trial court. The police
do not like the course the case has taken.