The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-18

Mr. Reilly" said the recorder you
| seem 10 forget that this is a court Of jus
| uce and that you are an officer OF the law
/ have warned your several times not TO
I interrupt the witnesses. I will sentence
I you to five hours in confinement for con-
I tempt Of court Lieutenant. you will see
/ that the order Is carried out"
Il can serve five hours" said Policeman
I Reilly. Il won't be the first man locked up
/ I'm put on another five hours" said the
l recorder, and every word you speak III
make 30 five hours more"
! This silenced the policeman and he had
no more 20 say.
tAbram Coburn. one OF the squad told
practically the same story that West told
I When the squad arrived opposite Nc
Brides he said, Dyer and Detective Hum
phries came out and stopped them Hum
I phries said that he was an officer Of the
/ law and asked them 70 turn over their
prisoner 10 him. Some OF the crowd fav-
ored turning him over. Policeman Reilly
came up al this time and took possession
/ OF the prisoner. Instead OF taking the
man 10 the barracks he showed him into
McBride's door. and arrested one Of their
party. Coburn thought the man under ar
rest was Mcguire, as did also another
member OF the squad who testified.
l. NJ. Peasants and DIR. Bugg, colored,
testified TO seeing the vehicles dash into
the company. They could not tell who
were In the huggies.
Lieut. Reilly stated that he arrested Nc
Guire in Crum's barroOm. He was inform
ed that G. W. Dyer was one of the party
and sent down officer Eivers, who ar
rested Dyer at South Broad and Price
James Humphries said that he was
standing at McBrides corner when he
heard noise and saw confused crowd
coming down the street. There were flf-
| teen OF twenty men in uniform. he
/ thought, and large crowd OF boys and
men following them. He heard a boy say
that the crowd was about to beat a white
man TO death, He stepped in front OF
the crowd and said. Il am an officer OF
the law; turn the man over TO me, and
will take him to the barracks" Some OF
the crowd favored doing this, but the po-
liceman came up at that time. HUMPHREYS
said that he did not know who II was
that the crowd had under arrest. The
mans coat was being pulled up about his
ears and he was being roughly handled.
He saw one tall fellow raise his gun to
strike the prisoner. He saw Sergt. West
and others pointing and swapping their
guns.
The recorder questioned HumphrIes
sharply and seemed TO doubt his state
ment as to not knowing who the man
that he did not know the man, but an
swered in such way as to give the I'M
preston that he had found out something
more about IL afterward.
A boy named Connors testified that he
saw the crowd in the buggy when it came
up TO Crum's Mcclure was the only man
in the party ne knew. When he jumped
out of the buggy two of the negroes seized
hold Of him, but he got away and went
into the barroom. The negroes tried to
get into the barroom 10 get at Mcclure,
but were kept out by Crum and Julius
Kaufman
W. T. Sullivan gave positive testimony
that Dyer was with him at McBrde's
barroom during the night previous to the
beginning of the trouble and consequent
ly could not have been with the party that
ran into the military company 1t was
not until after the uproar began that Dyer
ran down to Crum's barroom. The wit
ness was at McBride's when he crowd
came mp with the prisoner. He heard the
prisoner exclaim: They are killing me"
His coat was up over his ears and the
man was being roughly handled Some
of the men were cool, but the majority
were acting like hyenas," said Mr.. Sullt-
van. There was large crowd Of marines
and others gathered around. he said
A little tilt occurred between the re
corder and Mr.. Sullivan. The recorder
seemed to doubt the statements of the wit
ness and questioned him sharply. In re-
plying Sullivan's voice took rather high
pitch and the recorder jumped on him for
not treating the court with proper respect
The witness explained that he meant no
disrespect and the matter passed off.
J. r. Beranc testified to seeing Dyer on
South Broad street about five minutes pre-
vious to the beginning of the difficulty.
Dyer made his statement. He was stand
ing on South Broad street, between Hab-
ersham and Price, he said, when he heard
a row further down. He walked down to
the corner and saw a crowd coming. He
heard them yelling kill him, club him"
He saw that the crowd had a white man
and asked what they were doing. Some
body struck him with gun. knocking his
mead through the ihttlCe WOfk OF the door
of Nellie Bostwick's house. That settled
him for while. A little later HUMPHREYS
asked him to go around to Crums and get
McGuire's buggy; The witness could not
satisfy the recorder as to why HUMPHREYS
should send him to Crum's for the buggy
or how they knew that It was MCGUIRE
buggy. Dyer went to Crum's for the
buggy Crum did not want TO let him
have II at first. Deveaux came up just as
he was about to get in the buggy and
asked him what his name was
N,lA l. i'm toll
that he wanted him to so to the
barracks with the buggy. He replied all
right he could have the buggy, but he
wasn't going to the barracks Dyer de-
MED stating to DeveauX that he was in
the buggy when it ran into the company.
He remembered DeveauX asking him some
that he meant to ask him what he was
going to do with It, He didn't propose
to be arrested. and when he got into the
buggy drove off to McBrides. The crowd
tried to arrest him there and he resisted
He was arrested later by Policeman Eiv-
ers. He did not know at the time what
he was arrested for.
Policeman Speight testified that he was
on duty at the salleport of the barracks.
He ran down to McBride's corner and saw
several colored soldiers with man in
charge. He ran into the crowd, took hold
of the man with his left hand and showed
the crowd back with his right hand, draw
ing his club at the same time. Policeman
Reilly came up just then and he turned
che man over to Reilly, asking him to
take charge of the prisoner while he
(SpeighO kept the crowd back.
1.-THE last l saw of the prisoner" said
Speight, ''he was struggling with Reilly
I'm the street. The next time saw Reil-
ly he had a colored prisoner"
Policeman Reilly when called on for his
statement fatty contradicted Policeman
Speight. Your honor" he said no
body turned any prisoner over to me. The
only prisoner | arrested was Collins. He
was the first man l saw and was brand
ishing his gun. l did not know anything
about the row. 1 was on fire detail at the
barracks and ran down to the corner when
told that there was a row there. 1t was a
regular riot. The soldiers were striking at
people with their guns. | arrested the
first man l saw taking part in the row. He
was the only man | arrested"
The recorder again called upon Police
man Speight for his statement.
Il ran into the crowd" he said, and
seized hold of the prisoner with my left
hand. | did not take time to see who il
was The mans coat was up over his
head. / drew my club with my right hand
TO drive back the crowd. Reilly came up
and / asked him TO take charge of the
prisoner while l kept back the crowd
Reilly took charge of him and moved off
into the street a piece. The next time
| saw him he had a ColOred soldier. 1
asked him where the man was | turned
over to him, and his reply was that he