The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-31
WORK FOR JUDGE FALLIeANT
An IMPORTANT CRIMINAL DOCKET
FOR THE JUNE TERM.

der Cases 10 Come Up for Trial
POndcr's Motion for New Trial Not
Decided Ket-The Illegal Hegistra-
ton Cases 10 Come Up-The Grand
Jury VIII Have 10 Pass on the EN-
OmciO Justices Of the Peace-What
the Mcintosh Grand Jury said of
the Judge and Solicitor General.
The superior court will convene tO-mOr-
| row morning at 10 o'clock for the June
term. The month OF June Will be devoted
entirely TO criminal cases, and OF these
| there is quite an important docket though
| it is not an unusually large one.
The grand jury viii meet al 10 O'Clock
to receive the charge Of the court There
is a number Of criminal cases TO be pre-
| scented 10 it at that time, and besides IL
may consider the matter Of the appoint
ments OF notaries public and ex-ohicio
! Justices Of the peace for seven Of the mill
tia districts, the appointment for the
! Third district, Justice ". II. Patterson,
! having already been made some months
/ ago. Should the grand Jury decide to let
this matter go over TO a subsequent meet
| ing It is likely that they Will take up the
| matter OF an appointment In the Fourth
/ militia district anyway, there being a
| vacancy there on account Of the death OF
| Justice Elsinger. So far the most pr0mi-
| nent candidates for the appointment In
this district are Messrs. John Fitzgerald,
I Maurice A. Buttimer and Julius kaufman.
| All of them have been devoting some time
| 90 securing Endorsements and testimonials
TO lay before the appointing body in their
behalf
The criminal docket presents some quite
Important features. First and foremost
mere Is the case against Abe small for
the murder Of Policeman NeVe to be tried.
small, as is well known, was convicted Of
murder in the first degree and sentenced 70
l pe hanged, but was given new trial by
the supreme court on the ground that the
lower court failed TO charge the law of
self defense as between an officer Of the
is about to be arrested. This case, though
IL has been on the docket for a long time,
| VIII undoubtedly attract considerable at
/ tention when ii comes up at this term.
E. s. Guest who is still In jail and
! j. y. Connolly and Fred Floyd, win be
| tried on the charge of numbering Ste
| phen Givens near Jasper Springs, about
| six months ago. d. r. Walker, who was
| at the time indicted on the same charge,
| was tried and acquitted. The three 9th
/ ers, VINO arc still resting under the
| charge, will be brought up for trial at
! this term.
Patrick Connors will be tried on the
| charge Of numbering Thomas Monroe,
| colored, on Christmas day, 1894 AS will
/ be remem bered, they had a row in an
/ nors shooting Monroe. Connors was tried
/ once, but there was a m!strial. and the
| case VIII come up again ~ this term.
| Richard Manigault colOred, who shot
/ Vannah March %, is under indictment,
| and will be tried for murder. The de-
| PENDANT makes the claim that the kill
| ing in this case was accidental.
The motion for new trial in the case
| of Thomas V. Ponder, who was con-
Victed of the murder of Frank keenan,
| and sentenced to life Imprisonment, is
/ still pending before Judge Falligant. Pom
/ der was convicted in February, and the
| motion for new trial was argued about
| two months ago. There was some trou-
| Bile about securing the brief of evidence
! in the case, and the delay in the decision
! has been largely due to that fact, besides
! the fact that the court had spent the
/ last month on the circuit
| There are several cases of assault with
! intent to murder on the docket. Those to
! be tried on this charge are Robert Baker,
] Jordan Green, Ed 5. Gerken, Charles
! Berry, ". f. Barclay. Robert Holzen-
| dort and John Monroe: Gerken, as is
! well known, Is indicted for cutting young
| Thomas S. Wayne. Barclay, who was ac-
! murder of Respess. Is indicted for shoot
/ ing at John l.. Ferlari, and Monroe Is in
dicted Tor cutting Max Moskowitz.
! The cases that will be most closely
/ watched, perhaps, are those charging IL
| legal registration. The grand jury con-
sildtred about twenty five Of these cases
! that were brought before It, and found
four indictments, against William Demp-
| sey, William G. Girty, Vincent Thomas
| and William c. Banks. These cases were
brought by representatives of the Lib
| eral Club faction, who charged that there
| had been about 300 voters Illegally regis
| claimed. swearing to a false statement
/ of facts. on account of the political in
terest that has been stirred up, the testi-
| money and results in these cases VIII be
| closely watched.
Next in Importance perhaps comes the
| burglary cases. George Leighton was IN
] Wilson
| breaking into and stealing from the place
| of Albert Glaiber at Thunderbolt. Wilson,
tried for the crime. The other burglars
| to be tried are Berry BOWden, George
! Washington and Hector Bryan. James
Simmons is the only defendant to be tried
There is only one case of larceny on ao-
count of cattle stealing. Pompey Way
and Maria Way are charged with steal
| ing a hog. There are, however, several
cases of grand larceny. James Lloyd IS
charged with stealing 800 from the steam
er Three Links, owned by DR.. A. Oemler.
w. J. Simmons Is charged with larceny
after trust of a lot of furniture, valued
at $50 Dowen Mcpherson is charged with
larceny after trust over $50, it being
claimed that he stole a gold watch and
chain and some other property from D.
L. Moses.
There are very few of the extraordinary
cases of felony. Jerry Holman Is charged
with arson, it being alleged shat he at
tempted to burn the house of jamie Jen-
with false swearing before Justice Ell
singer but the principal witness against
him being dead, it may be a hard matter
| to make out the case.
These are the principal criminal cases
on the docket. There are several Others
which may be brought up for trial, but
in the main they are small cases.
= Judge Robert Falligant and Solicitor
, General W. w. Fraser returned yesterday
! from Darien, Mcintosh county where
they have been holding a term Of the su.
perior court for that county. The, court
had a fairly good docket, including a
number of cases of Importance.
Henry Roberts and David Washington
who were indicted for the murder of Henri,
Coleman in Mcintosh county about sever
months ago, were released for lack OF
evidence. Coleman was killed with an ak
= the motive being robbery. There was only
q little circumstantial evidence. mo-
enough even to show IN law that the de
, PENDANTS were connected with the crime
/ Judge Falligant granted an order releas
ing them Friday on their own recognf
aance- This. however, docs not 80 :.