The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-21
ALBERT GETS 20 YEARS.
The POCketbOOk SnatCheT Given the
Limit Of the Law,

Katie Grants Trial for Biting Annie
Jenkins = Annie Tried a Hoodoo
Racket Before She Died, but it
Didn't Work Lawyers Mistakes
Are Recorded, but Where Do Those
of Doctors Coz - The Waller Case
Still On in the City Court.
The robber of royal title, the game
Prince Albert, will leave Savannah in
few days for the peniteutiary where the
next twenty years of his life will be spent
repenting his folly in running into the
arms of Policeman Smith
Prince Albert was game prisoner
to the last. Confronted by half
a dozen witnesses of his crime,
whose evidence would have been strong
enough to convict more sanity charac-
ter, he stubbornly denied that he was the
party who attempted to rob Miss G. E.
Sutcliffe of her pocket-book. When the
evidence was so strong that his conviction
was certain, on being told to plead guilty
in order to tighten his sentence, he re-
piled:
"I'll be - il do"
His stubbornness, no doubt, had its
effect with the court, and his crime was
considered one of the most fragrant and
villainous of its class Albert, therefore,
will spend twenty years in the pen
itentiary, less the time he may be
allowed, If any, for good behavior.
In Albert'S case justice was not long
delayed. He attempted TO rob Miss Sut-
cliffe on Bull street, Monday night, June
IL. Tuesday, June 10, he was indicted
for robbery, and yesterday he was given
as heavy a sentence as the law allows for
the crime with which he was charged.
THE JURY OUT ALL NIGHT.
Katie Grant, colored, was tried on a
charge of in voluntary manslaughter IN the
commission of an unlawful act. She was
charged with biting Annie Jenkins on the
back of the left hand, causing her death.
The jury retired about 5 O'Clock and re-
turned about $50 to receive a recharge
on some point of which one of the jurors
was in doubt. At that time the jury
stood eight for conviction and four for ac-
| quittal. The verdict was awaited last
night until IL o'clock, when the court
house was shut up and the jury left in
! charge of Deputy Sheriff Dunno
During the Grant womans trial her
attorney William Pease, Esq, who was
| conducting the crOss-eXamination, said to
| DIR. Il. @. Norton, a witness VINO had
| stated that death resulted from the bite
| inflicted by Katie Grant.
doctor, don't physicians sometimes
make grievous mistakes?''
Yes" replied DR.. Norton, they do,
and so do lawyers"
"Well, lawyers mistakes go on record.
| They can be noted and corrected. But
what becomes of the mistakes the doctors
| make2"
DR.. Norton, with inverted index finger
| pointed significantly downward, as much
| as to say under ground" while the
/ lauph went round the cOnrt r0oun
WANTED TO. MAKE HER TEETH ROT.
Another amusing feature of the evil
dence was the story of the hoodoo or
''conjure" told by one of the witnesses
| for the defendant. The witness was
with Annie Jenkins the victim, before
the lockjaw set in, and stated the dead
woman had told her she used a peculiar
| poultice on the wound as a hoodoo to
make the Grant woman's teeth rot out,
as punishment for INJECTING the wound.
The evidence went to show that Katie
Grant and Annie Jenkins had quarrel
| on May l, arising from the fact that
Katie Grant had piece of wood in her
arm and brushed against Annie Jenkins
Some words and a scrap followed, when
a piece was bitten out of the back
of Annie jenkins left hand
i by Katie Grant. The Jenkins woman
was attended by Drs. Il. G.. and w. E.
| 4NOIbOus DOIl VI WHUu were WITNESSES.
Both testified that death resulted from
the bite, which produced lockjaw and
blood poisoning. DIR. r. G. Norton is not
a believer in the blue gum negro theory,
and he stated as much in his testimony
yesterday. In his opinion the bite Of
any human being is dangerous.
TWO MURDER TRIALS ON.
Willie Williamson, colored, pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary, he hav-
ing attempted to enter the baker shop of
M Cohen. He was sent up for three
years.
George Haskell, colored, pleaded guilty
to the charge of larceny after trust, and
was sent to the penitentiary for one year.
He was charged with collecting a bill of
IS from l.. Goebel for Solomon Steiner,
and appropriating the money to his own
use.
The Jail has been almost entirely
cleared during this session of court.
Mary Washington will pc tried to-day
for the murder of Isaiah Harden
and Jerry Holmes will be tried for