The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-16

3 800 AlA NA MtlAEN IaE nfnnHfFtnr got rake
I on
He said blind tfrer WIS regularly run
I hN the place on SUNDAYS in back room
I zap stairs. ami tNat the whisky used
I was largely made ON the premises I'm "a
+ back room. although ne had never seen
/ BAKER making H. The place was the rem
7 dcvoux for thieves. nrhters tourhs "ho-
+ b0s' and crooks OF AN kinds. They gen
orally staid I'm the billiard room behind
3 he said. "the Heht hurt their ewes" one
/ OF the instances of the practices OF the
/ place given. was where a man named
Green was drugged and taken ina the
/ alley back of the billiard room and there
robbed. Forty dollars OF the booty was
. handed TO Cooper. Dan FaIvcv got $40
I and the balance was divided around He
also told OF "A ''pill box" camc I'M which
Baker figured. ANA how "a man named
Lane. who threatened 10 eNnosc the place
was sent 90 the chain-eane bv having am
/ old pistol slippcd i'm his pocket bv some
one lu the house and then being handed
over TO the police
Cooper told OF stolen goods heing re
ceived by Han and of Baker running n
/ ''blind tiger and "crapt room upstairs.
I Baker had once backed him on "a "Tiv-
/ oil" machine. which was q scheme to rob
! the gullible. public
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witnesses to prove this.
Another time when Cooper robbed
mau of 500 he was arrested bv the detect
ives but Solicitor Thomas of the city
/ court non pressed the case against him
on payment Of the costs.
IN was brought out nv cross exauipa-
ton that the detectives have recently
/ taken great interest i'm Cooper. and have
promised to get him the position Of
| county taller Coopcr however. denied
that he was under their influence. all
though he and others of the star wit
nesses held a conference with the de-
tectives at their office last night Cooper
said he was arrested i'm Savannah last
spring and brought back here at the in
stance Of the detectives. The grand Jury
was then investigating the charges Of
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W. >. Griffin the lt-year-old BOY VINO
gave testimony substantially as given
above followed Cooper
Al the afternoon session number or
the irequenters or the National motel
bar We're introduced TO corroDorate
Coopers story OF the character OF the
place ana the crimes committed lhefe'
Dan FalVey ana Henry falFey, both no
torious crooks, were among those VII
nesses.
Charlie Howard VINO helped run the
pllllu usel uiluel DaN,l ~ ucI9 Wa9 alTo
put up, giving very damaging testimony
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