The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-15
TWO VALUABLE PICTURES.
Col. WAYS Interesting Story OF Their
Purchase and Disposition.

Storage Charges Which Col. Way
Saws VIII Involve the Art Dealer in
Suit for Damages as So on as He Is
Through With the Insurance COmpe-
nies-The Testimony Con ,luded and
the Arguments Begun-The Case May
Get 10 the Jury Tomorrow.
The testimony in the Way insurance
I ease was concluded yesterday afternoon
about O'Clock after having taken up
nearly eight regular court days. The
arguments We're then begun and Will be
{ continued to-day.
COL Way was on the stand most Of
/ the day to rebut the evidence given by
/ several of the witnesses for the defend
/ ant the Western Assurance Company Of
+ Toronto, Canada. Several other witnesses.
however were called. Among them were
+ AIr. Gratz Myers, Vapt. Henry Blum Maj.
/ A. T. Iartrdge and Mr.. J. A. sullivan,
/ the adjuster. Mai. Hartridge testified that
+ when he reached the house the entire front
/ of &c was i'm a blaze, and that space
/ about twenty feet square on the lawn had
/ been burned away. The wind, he said.
1 was blowing at % rate of twenty to thirty
/ .,. 49, t , a. t,i. t,,4-,,,+ +r
'''''-' '''' mum any
/ fire must have originated from the fire
+ on the bluff.
7,b. cbior i,teres+ was ~, the +es+iroony
/ of Col. Way. who scored =. r. Blount of
4 Atlanta and the Loves, the principal wit
! nesses TO attack him With regard to
/ Blount, he said he used TO run a bucket
/ shop In Savannah in 1883, and he stated
]
/ money out OF the land transaction at
4 Beaulieu He said that Mr.. ElOunt had
/ bought 500 acres of land at Bealieu for
1 $1,000, and had afterwards sold six acres
for 5000. Col Way said he had offered
tlr. Blount $1,000 for 200 acres of the
/ land. He produced contracts and letters
to show that MIR. Blount had given him
4 permission to cut wood on the land there,
/ and in fact came out with a denial of
! many of the statements which Mr. Blouut
/ made.
/ With regard to the Loves. who testi-
! fled against him. he charged that there
I was aniInus i'm their testimony on account
of "a small grocer's bin due by one of his
servants. which he had refused 10 be-
come responsible for.
In REGARD to the Judgment said to have
been obtained AGAINST him bv the Sisters
| of Mercy at St Nincent's Academy in
New York, ne said he was always under
/ the imUr,ession that he had paid that
amount but if the sisters wrote him "a
letter. stating that he had not. ne would
! give them draft on the insurance con-
/ many, for tl,e uavrnent of the amount our
Of what was due him
The bistot., Of the now famous Dicture
| purity C.bastising Love" was reviewed
i'm toto and DURING the questioning about
in Col Wav remarked.
"Tfit.b had hen n picture of Justice cbas-
/ ing an Insurance adiuster' we would not
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