The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-29
An ALLEGED LAND DEAL.
The Franklin Savings and Security
Company in the Courts.

Company in the Courts.
/ Stockholders AIleRe a Fraudulent
/ Sale of Property to the Company by
/ the President and Vice-President,
and Ask to Have a Receiver APP
pointed Burke Goes to Jail for Six
Months George Chasserow Tried on
a Charge of Keeping a Gaming
House.
a suit which to one reading the petition
sounds rather sensational was filed in
the superior court yesterday, but it may
be the defendants win be able to take a
little of the spice out of the allegations
when their answer is made.
The suit is that Of Thomas J. O'Brien
and others against the Franklin Savings
and Security Company, Clayton p. Miller
and George II. Miller The bill was filed
by Messrs. Harden, West & McIaws.
The plaintiffs in the case are Messrs.
Thomas j. O'Brien, Benjamin Rothwell,
Daniel Conuors and A. NJ. Lucas, all of
whom, with the exception of O'Brien,
hold one share of the company's stock.
O'Brien is the holder Of three shares.
The petition alleges that in 1890 G. =.
Miller, president, and George H. Miller,
vice president, bought a tract of land on
private speculation on the outskirts of
savannah for $40, 800, on which a mort
gage was given to secure the payment of
a balance of Sl1 500. IL is alleged that
the land decreased in value, when, in
1871, seeing no other way to get rid of it,
the Millers induced the directors of the
company TO purchase the property at
S26.65O, which they represented it to be
worth, and subject besides TO the mort
gage as above stated. The capital stock
of the company is said TO be only SIS, 800,
in fact, which is but little more than the
amount of the mortgage on the property.
AN ALLEGED DECEPTION.
They allege that this was a fraudulent
sale, in which the other directors were
deceived into signing the contract, and
that there was no meeting of the stock
holders of the company between January,
ls9l, and February, 1894. They state
there are only two directors besides the
Millers, and that these two, not being
ma GRITTY, are pOwerless to do anything
for the company or to have its al
fairs Strengthened out. The petitioners
ask for an Injunction restraining Presi-
dent G. y. Miller and Vice President
George II. Miller from in any way encum-
btiALE VI hlSDOSillE OI bllt company S as
sets, and for the appointment of a tempo
rary receiver for Strengthening out the
cOmpany's affairs. A temporary restrain
ing order was granted, and a rule issued
TO show cause why receiver should not
be appointed next Friday morning at 10
o'clock.
In the superior court also an order was
taken directing Mr.. J. r. Saussy, trustee,
to borrow money to the extent of 81 900 to
improve the property left in trust for the
heir of Mary +. Magill.
Rudolph Schwartz, former subject of
the Emperor Of Germany, was made a
citizen of the United States by Judge F'al-
lgant.
BURKE GOES TO JAIL.
The day in the city court was taken
up with criminal business one case being
tried and several defendants pleading
guilty.
j. S. Burke, who was arrested on the
charge Of keeping.a policy lottery,Aug Il,
pleaded guilty to the charge, and was
sentenced TO pay fine of $500
or spend five months in Jail. Burke
was charged with operating what
IS known as the Birmingham wheel
somewhere out in Bolton street lane. He
IS said TO have succeeded William H. Tee
pie in the management of it. Teeple is
now spending six months term in Jail,
having been convicted of operating this
wheel, and now Burke has gone there to
Join him, being unable to pay the heavy
fine, which is the least that can be as
sessed under the Georgia lottery laws.
Lizzie Mcconnell pleaded guilty to
keeping disOrderly and lewd house, the
evidence which led to her Indictment
having come out in the case brought
against w. Il. Booze by Mrs. Katie Britt.
She was fined $50 and costs, which was
paid in preference to serving a three
months sentence.
William Wilson, colored, pleaded
guilty to carrying a concealed weapon
and was fined SIS and costs, which was
paid
CHAssEROw ON TRIAL.
George Chasserow was tried on a charge
of keeping gambling house. He Is said
to have operated the rooms in the third
story of the building at Congress and
Bull streets He was defended by MIR.
T. $ Morgan, Jr. After discussing the
case for awhile the jury returned to be
recharged on the questions of difference
between keeping gaming house and
gambling in one
II was practically admitted that Chas-
serOw had conducted gaming house
prior to the time the indictment was
found, and the solicitor general made use
of this in his argument, bringing out the
law that guilt is established if it is proven
at any time within two years previous to
the finding of the indictment The fact, too.
that Chasserow has once pleaded guilty
to the same charge in the superior court.
where he made a promise that he would
not do so any more, was brought out by
the state. At o'clock last night the
Jury was still out, and instructions were
left for 1t to return a sealed verdict if an