The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-16
RIOTERS PAY THE PENALTY.
MURPHY's AssAILANTs FINED AND
SENTENCED AT HARD LABOR.

SENTENCED AT HARD LABOR.
To Answer For Assault With Intent
to Murder Besides-Their Fines
Aggregate $40 Each-The story OF
the Assault ms Told i'm the Police
Court-Witnesses Testify That the
Firemen mt No. Engine House
Saw the ARRAY.
The assailants of Policeman Murphy
realize that the way Of the transgressor
is hard Recorder Wilson dealt with
them with a heavy hand yesterday morn
| ing. The full penalty of the law was i'm
! posed. Besides being sentenced to pay
| $40 each and spend thirty days in impris
onment at labor, the charge of assault
with intent to murder is stin hanging
over them, awaiting the result of Muir
phys injuries.
! On the original charge of being drunk
| and disorderly and singing vulgar and OBJ
! scene songs, all five of the men, George
/ Sapp, Eddie Paine James Frain, Henry
Brady and William Fallon, were fined $40
| each, with the alternative Of thirty days
Imprisonment, and the charge Of assault
with intent to murder was continued
/ This was only preliminary. After hear
! ing the evidence, Recorder Wilson or
/ dered two other charges entered, as fol-
| lows: "Dsorderly conduct, striking, ours
! ing and resisting officer T. c. Murphy
while in the discharge of his duty, $50
p. m, Sept. 10, 1896. Disorderly conduct
on the streets, drunk and refusing to
move when ordered, and striking T. c.
! Murphy, $50 p. M, Sept. 10, 1896"
| These two charges were considered as
! one and fine of 800 and Imprisonment
at labor for thirty days to be served At
the expiration of the former sentence
was imposed upon Paine, Sapp Fran
and Brady. The charge against Fallon
was continued and he was allowed to give
bond, the evidence showing that he had
not attacked the officer, and had urged the
other men to desist. The other four men
were turned over to the Jail to serve out
their sentences. II they should desire to
certiorari their case to the superior court,
they will have to pay in the $40 fines to
| the clerk of council, to be deposited with
| him to await the decision Of the higher
court, and give bond for appearance, and
on this account it Is not unlikely that the
thirty day sentences will be served.
There were a number of witnesses to
| the affray in court, including several
ladies. The testimony of the witnesses
corroborated Murphy's story of the as
sault in detail. Among the witnesses
were Mrs. Holder who resides at 7 West
Broad street; Mrs. Henrietta Williams,
who resides in the same neighborhood
Mary Evans colored; Abe Lasky, Fred
| OFT Peter Edward, colored, and others.
The ladies' first mentioned who were the
first witnesses put on the stand, gave a
| detailed account of the affair. They saw
| the five men come up from the bluff, sing
! ing and bowling. They went over to the
lyman place and stopped there. They
| shouted at Mrs. Holders daughter, call
| ing her by name and calling her sweet
heart" Policeman Murphy came up and
ordered the crowd to move. One of them
cursed him. They saw him put Sapp un
der arrest Then the crowd followed
threw Murphy down and beat and kicked
him. In answer to a question by the re-
corder, Mrs. Holder said that she saw
four men standing in front of the engine
house She ciapped her hands and cried
out: MY God, why don't those men hell
the officer Mrs. Williams also sait
that there were firemen standing in the
engine house door watching the fight
Other witnesses made similar Statement
as to the firemen.
Peter Edward, colored, said that afte
Murphy arrested Sapp, Paine ran up Il
the officer who hit him with his club, ant
then the whole crowd jumped on the pc
liceman All of the witnesses were not eX
amined, but sufficient evidence was secur
ed to make out a very bad case agains
the prisoners with the exception Of Fallon
| Several witnesses stated that he TOOK m
part in the fighting.
, The prisoners were turned over to tn
jail without the right to give bail unit
the result of Murphy's injuries can b
foreseen. Paine has a pretty sore hea
where he came in contact with Murphy
club. He says that when he ran up to Muir
ply to plead for Sapps release, he acct
dentally stepped on Murphy's foot, whe
the latter turned and struck him with hi
club He would allow no policeman I
beat him that way, he said, and turne
} into fighting at once. Paine is the onl
l man in the crowd who has a bad recor
! with the police. Brady has been arreste
once or twice for drunkenness. but neve
for anything serious. Sapp has been
! member of the fire department for som
t time. and had a fairly good record. Frai
is a young fellow and has never been i
any trouble before 1t was testified to tina
, he struck Murphy with a rock Fallon
another young fellow with a good repu
i tation. who was evidently travelling in tn
4 wrong crowd.
, DR.. r. G. Norton informed the Morn
/ ing News last night that Mr.. Murphy wa
: doing very nicely at that time, although
| he had suffered a great deal during tn
day. At o'clock he was resting easie
q than at any time since the assault.
q Il now consider him out Of danger
: said DR. Norton. This will be good new
4 to Murphy's many friends.