The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-19

. The superior court had been at work on
. this case for four days, and Saturday
morning Harry Edwards went to Judge
HarIeman and told him he had thought
. Iessly talked with one of the jurors regard
ing the suit This was quite a serious
F offcuse and the attorneys on the other
/ side had just learned OF il before Or. Ed
wards admitted 10 10 Judge Hardeman.
1 Just what DE said to the juror was not
] made public. Some claim he is in contempt
+ of court. while other attorneys say he viii
. have the expenses of the court to pay for
the week The case was not nearly
+ through. Four witnesses mad not been eX-
amiued.
Robert Cain. alias Robert Toombs. was
the negro shot to death at Mclean sta
ton Thursday afternoon. He was 50
years of age. Thursday morning, so the
/ testimony before the coroner related Cain
entered Winters store at Mclean and
placed sweet potato on the stove to
bake. He then went out and when he
came back the potato was broken in two.
With an oath he demanded to know who
did it, Young Winter IS years Of age, &C
kuoWledgcd that he did. but said that it
was a mistake, that he was sorry and
would give him another potato. But this
didn't satisfy Cain, who cursed a great
deal and was finally ordered to leave the
store by Winter. Before departing he told
Winter that the next time they met one
or the other would have to die. Later
several negroes warned young Winter to
look out that Cain had sworn to. kill him
That afternoon they met and Cain re-
opened the quarrel finally advancing on
Winter with an open knife. He would not
halt. though warned to do so, and Win
ter drew his pistol and fired. Cain was
shot through the lung and died in ten
minutes. The coroner's jury, after hear
ing all the evidence, returned a verdict
that the killing was done in self-defense
and was entirely justihable.
Franklin News and Banner: The light
was turned in on the Yellow Dirt barn
burning Tuesday, night last when Sheriff
Lipscomb came in from HARRISON county
with Willis Wood. Mention was made
last week of the burning of the barn on
the old Pierce place. 1t was Jim Stephens
barn, however. instead of Mr. Bradley's
as reported to us. There were also pair
OF mules burned in their stalls. and one
OF them was found to be a different one
from that which had been left in the barn
at teed-time. 1t was also discovered that
the strange mule had been chained
In the stall and the chain thor
oughly stapled and locked. Certain sus-
plcions pointed to Willis Wood, and on
search it developed that no had emf
grated to HARRISON county. He was fol-
lowed though, and when found had Mr.
stephens missing mule in his possess
sion. Wood claims that he secured the
mule in AZ trade with a crowd of gypsies
and admits that the charred remains of
the mule in the ruins of the barn are those
Of the mule he traded for the one found
IN his possession. Wood Will have a. pre-
Hminary trial on the 9th instant, and
claims that he can prove his innocence.
HIS tale, though, is generally believed
TO be unsupported. He has an erratic ca
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about the bu-nt barn, and the consensus
OF opinion is that he stole the mule. left
his own chained in its place, and fired the
premises.
Calhoun Times A few miles up the river
from Calhoun, where a high bank faces
an abrupt turn in the river and overIooks
long eXpanse of sparkling water, there
are yet to be found some clods of dross
run from some kind of ore. Old citizens
say that an old Indian had a forge there
in the days when the red men lived in
this country in which he melted very
valuable ore. This ore he dug from some
secret mine, or cleaned it from the bot
tom of the river. Many of the old Mo-
neers OF that neighborhoOd have searched
for the ore among the hills and in the
river, but have never been successful
Near this place some Indians sunk their
pots in the river just before they were re,
moved west of the Mississippi. About the
OlA 4AuldA VINO ndQ the forge there is
a sad story In 1888, when the soldiers
came to arrest him to carry him to the
Indian Territory, for he had refused to
go, he fled from them like a deer before
the huntsman. He plunged into the river
and stemmed its current to the opposite
shore and ran up the stream. Reaching a
sand bar that stretched along the water $
edge under the overhanging trees, he dis
charged his rifle into his own breast and
fell dead. When he looked upon the river
where his boat had glided from his child
hood, and here undisturbed he had fished
in the still eddies or trapped the bear
along the banks, and upon the woody hills
which were his hunting grounds. and
when he thought Of leaving the graves of
his fore fathers for an unknown land,
it was too much for his strong heart to
bear The soldiers found his body upon
the sands and scooped out grave on the
river bank and buried the body in it,
and marked the grave by pen made of
logs.