The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-29
. AN ALL SORTS OF A CASE.
G. W. DANDY SENTENCED To 10
DAYS AT LABOR AND 800 FINE.


snap Away-The Case 10 he APP
peaIed 20 the Superior Court.
Recorder Wilson heard the evidence
yesterday in the cases against
George ". Bandy and j. ".
Denmark. charged with violatine
the Sunday liquor law Bandy was SEN
fenced TO thirty days at hard labor and SOD
fine. the fun limit Of the law. The re-
corder reserved his decision in the case
of Denmark.
Bandys case was heard in the after
noon. and proved very interesting. There
were four negro witnesses who swore
that they obtained liquor in Bandy's place
last Sunday. The same witnesses also
swore to obtaining liquor at Denmark's
place. Lizzie Walker was the first witness
and the recorder Immediately developed
by questions that she had gone 10 Ban
dy's place Friday night at the request OF
Mrs. Bandy and had been talked to about
the case. She said that she was asked
why she put Mr.. Bandy on the docket
and that she replied that she did not do
so, but that Spring Dude" did it. She
asserted to Mr.. Bandy. she said, that she
was not in his place Sunday.
The witness stated that she knew she
was telling an untruth when she made
these statements at the Bandys, but did
so because the recorder had told her not
to say anything to anybody about the
case. The witness then said that she
was in Bandys place twice last Sunday,
naming parties who were with her at
the time. Mr.. Bandy sold them liquor
she said. On being cross-examined by Mr.
Morgan she admitted that she had served
several sentences on the gang for petty
offenses.
Charlie Simpson testified that he and
three other negroes went into Bandy's
saloon at Margaret and Farm streets last
Sunday for something to drink They en-
tered by the rear door and Mr. Bandy
waited on them. Sue Graham, he said,
bought two half-pints of liquor, which she
divided among the four. They drank the
liquor and he then set up the beer.
William Walker testified that he was
one of the party which bought liquor
at Bandy's asst Sunday. The door was
opened by Neptune Golden, a colored boy.
Mr.. Bandy sold them the liquor. He saw
Mr.. ID. j. Buttimer sitting in the place,
reading a newspaper. To Mr.. Morgan the
witness said that he had been tried once
for car robbery. They didn't prove II
out on me-" he said, so they just give
me six months for being there"
Susan Graham testified that she went
into Bandy's place with the other three
witnesses and bought liquor for the crowd.
She bought two half-pints from Mr.. Ban
dy. The witness admitted to Mr.. Morgan
that she had served two months on the
chain-gang for cutting a woman and had
also been given ten days sentence in
the police court.
Policeman Norris was put on the stand
by Mr.. Morgan He said he had heard
that the two women were going to put
Bandy on the docket and asked them
about IL. They both denied that they had
been in Bandy's place Sunday, but said
that the recorder had threatened to give
them thirty days, and that was the reason
they made the charge against Bandy.
Norris said that he heard Tuesday that
Henry Blair said he was going to make
Bandy pay for the whole business. The
recorder took up this matter with police
man Norris a little later.
ID. j. Buttimer was put on the stand.
He testified that he was at Bandy's nearly
all day Sunday and that there was no
liquor sold by Mr. Bandy during the time
that he was there. The four negroes who
testified to buying liquor there. he said.
came TO the door between 10 and II o'clock.
He opened the door, but would not let
them IN. He knew them all to be chain
Mr. Bandy was put on the stand and
stated that he spent Sunday at home in
his sitting room, smoking and reading. Il
can solemnly swear" he said, that
neither of those darlies got in the bar.
The bar was locked and the key was in
my pocket"
Spring Dude" was put up by Mr.. Nor
gan. There is nothing of the Berry Wall
or oscar Wilde type about Spring Dude"
His real name is Joe Arnold. He is the
man who gave the whole snap away. He,
Henry Blair and Susan Graham were ar
rested by Policeman Norris Monday night,
charged with stealing a pistol from a
white man in Susan Graham S house Sun
day. When the recorder investigated the
case Tuesday morning Dude" remarked
that they were all SO drunk Sunday that
they did not know what they were talking
about. The recorder inquired where they
got their whisky and the witnesses stated
that they got their liquor at Bandy,s and
Denmarks places. Dudes" testimony
was of no particular interest
Henry Blair, a one-armed negro swore
that he was not with the gang which got
liquor at Bandy's. He got his liquor at
Denmark he said. The recorder seem
ed to think it queer that Blair should
have testified strongly against Denmark
about what went on at BandyS place. The
witness admitted that he had been on the
gang twice for being implicated in talk
Lille Walker was recalled by Recorder
Wilson. She SWore that Policeman Norris
had not asked her about the Bandy case.
He had questioned her about the pistol
she said. The recorder showed that he was
suspicious of Norris motives in taking an
interest in the case. He intended to get at
the bottom of the matter, he said, and he
notified the policeman to let these cases
alone after they had been put on the dock
| ct. Norris explained that the police We're
held responsible for what occurred in their
districts and as soon as he heard that
Bandy was to be put on the docket he
started out to Investigate and find out
something about the case as it was in his
| district. Norris got rather mixed UP as To
the time when he questioned the women
| about the case. The recorder informed him
| that the cases were not put on the docket
/ until 10 O'Clock Friday morning. and that
| he, himself, knew nothing about the cases
| until that time. Norris was given the sum-
mons to serve that afternoon at 3 o'clock
| He stated in his testimony that he thought
| 1t was a put up job on Bandy.
Mr.. Morgan made short argument for
| his client in which he dwelt on the char
| acter of the citys witnesses and pointed
out that the defense had the testimony OF
| three white men, Bandy, Buttimer and
| Norris, as against the four negroes a
| practical equality in the number of wit
| nesses, leaving out all question of charac-
/ ter.
| Recorder Wilson. in rendering his de-
| cision, acknowledged that IT was true that
| the city's witnesses were not of a high
/ character. but said that the manner in
/ which the case was brought up gave
! weight to their testimony. They had not
! willingly made the case, he said, but
/ very unwillingly. He did not take any
stock in the theory, he said that the
| witnesses were trying to force Mr.. Bandy
TO pay them out of the pistol case, as
the prosecutor in that case was DESTROYS
1 OF having it dropped. "Mr. Bandy," said
! the recorder, has been before this court