The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-12
TO PuT SMALL ON TRIAL.
He VIII Answer To-day for the KILL
ing of Policeman Neve.

he VIII Answer To-day for the Kill
ing of Policeman Neve.
Abe Small viii be placed on trial in the
superior court to-day for the killing Of
Policeman Neve in February, 1894. 1t
VIII probably be one of the most in
teresting and perhaps sensational trials
OF the term, if not of the year The
crime and the long search made for the
slayer Of the policeman, his final capture
IN Baltimore, and his return to this city,
have kept alive interest in the case.
small claims that after the shooting
winch he declares was accidental, he left
Tor the north. When the crowd came on
MIN the day Of the killing he was sitting
down in Lovers lane. eating his dinner
II came up and began shooting and he
ureW MS pistol and fired several times
and then fed, not knowing that he had
hit any one.
did not know that l had hit any one, >"
said he, until after 1 got to Norfolk and
saw it in the papers. l wasn't trying to
hit nobody, and l just wanted to scare
them OH so l could get away, because
was no marksman."
Il crossed the field after the shooting
and went out and hid under the Belt line
bridge across the Savannah, Florida and
western railroad. 1 took the Chaflesto
and Savannah train out to the Florida
central and Peninsular yards, and that
night about Z or s O'Clock / got on the
Florida Central and Peninsular road and
went to Columbia. 1 didn't stay in CO.
Iumbia more than twenty minutes, when
1 got on the Sea Board Air Line passenger
train and rode blind baggage TO Charlotte.
1 didn't stay any time in Charlotte but
went to Monroe, twenty-six miles from
there, and then took the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern to Hamlet, and went from
there to Rocky Mount. From there | went
70 SUFFOLK, and then on the Norfolk and
Western to Norfolk. crossed Cane
Charles bay and went to Philadelphia
on freight. l was there one night and
then went on to Jersey City, where l
stayed two days 1 went over to New
York for a few days, then back to Phila-
delphia and then to Baltimore. 1 stayed
IN Baltimore two weeks and then went
straight to New York city. and then 10
the northern part of New York state, and
then across to Canada, where l stayed
| about three weeks. After that I came
back to Baltimore and was there and at
Salisbury Nd, ever since.
rewards were offered by the city and the
state.
The attorneys for the defense. Messrs.
c. n. West and T. p. Ravenel. are work
| ing on the case with a great deal of en-
ergy, and they will make a strong fight
for Small 1t is understood that they win
attempt to prove that Small was forced
into the fight. that is, that the police
began firing on him without trying to
capture him peaceably, and that ne fired
| back, without malice or with intent to
Kill, but simply to make a diversion SO
that he could escape. Another
point made, it is said, will
be as to the right of policemen to
make arrests in this manner, and also
with regard to making arrests outside of
the city limits.
writ of duces decum has been served
upon Chief of Police McDermott, requir-
ing him TO produce the records of his de-
partment from 1875 to the present date.
II is stated that this is for the purpose
of ascertaining how many people have
been killed by the police, in making arrests
from that time to this.
1t is very evident that the fight on the
case will be a hot one and doubtless a
great many legal surprises will be sprung
by one side or the other in the course of
the trial.