The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-18
TO LEASE ITS EQUIPMENT.
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA TO GET
THE SHORT LINES CARS.

Judge Speer's order to Receiver
Young TO Turn Over the Atlantic
short Lines Rolling stock TO the
New Montgomery Iine-The Terms
of the Lease.
Receiver John r. Young of the Allan
tic Short Line railroad was granted an
order by Judge Speer yesterday, allow
ing him to lease to the Georgia and AL
ALBANIA Railroad Company the rolling stock
in his possession as receiver. This roll
ing stock includes forty-nine fiat cars
and twenty-four box cars. Under the
terms of the contract the Georgia and
Alabama is to take these cars, put them
in repair and use them in the operations
of its line. The Georgia and Alabama
is to pay the receiver of the Atlantic
Short Line three-fourths of a cent a mile
per car for the use of them, the expense
of repairing the cars TO be deducted
from the mileage. The order also pro-
vides that in case the Atlantic Short
Line is sold before the mileage shall be
sufficient to pay for repairing the cars,
the Georgia and Alabama shall retain
possession of them until it shall have been
reimbursed for such expenditures.
William Bynes alias William Bames, col
ored, of Chatham county, was convicted
in the United States district court yester-
day of larceny of personal property OF
the United States. He was one of the gang
of four men charged with stealing rope
from Fort Oglethorpe last June. The tes-
timony showed that the four negroes took
a boat and went down to the fort, which
they entered by the aid of a key they
had secured. They made away with about
10000 pounds of rope and other property
of value, which they disposed Of. The
gang was composed of four men, Jim john
son, Thomas Dodden, West Johnson and
William Bynes. The grand jury indicted
the men on the charge of larceny of per-
sonal property of the United States, and
on their conviction, Judge Speer sentenced
Jim Johnson and Thomas Dodden to four
years at hard labor, and West Johnson
and William Bynes to three years Will
lam Bynes, who was sentenced yesterday,
was fined s. and costs OF the prosecution.
All of them were sent to the United States
penitentiary at Columbus, o.
Mr.. L. Kennedy of the firm of Cain &
Kennedy, attorneys at law, was admitted
to practice in the United States district
ticed in the state courts for more than
three years, which qualified him for be-
ing admitted to the United States courts
without an examination.
An amendment to the bill of the An
niston National Bank against the Cuyler
and Woodburn railroad was filed and an
order to show cause March q was granted.
The case against a. H. CASTOR, charged
with pension frauds, which was to have
been tried yesterday, was postponed until
to-day on account of the absence of one
of the attorneys interested.
The libel suit of the Darien and Sapelo
ToWboat Company against the steamship
Decatur H. Miller was not taken up. 1t
may come up later in the week.
The case of w. H. Harvey against the
Pullman Palace Car Company was tried
in the city court yesterday. In COINS
from Savannah to Waycross in January
1895. the plaintiff claimed to have lost
through the negligence of the company's
servants, diamond pin valued at s1S5.
for which amount he sued. The defend
ants claimed that all due diligence was
exercised in the protection of the pas
resented by Messrs. w. p. Hardee ana
Joseph NJ. Dreyer and the defendants bv
Messrs Erwin, duBignon & Chisholm
The trial of the case consumed the entire
day and instructions were left last night
for the jury to return sealed verdict.
The will of Rosa r. Bevin was fled in
the court of ordinary yesterday. Her prop
erty consists of two houses and lots on
Duffy street between Abercorn and Lin
coin, besides some Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company stock and
some other personal property. She left it
all TO her three children, John F. Ernest
and Edna r. Revin. Her two sons were
made executors of her will
estate of Peter Mccarthy was filed. The
property is valued at $1,010
Criminal business will be taken I'D in the
superior court again to-day, as Solicitor
General Fraser will be back from Atlanta
where he went to argue the Abe Small
case DefOre the supreme court.