The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-28
MAKING WAR ON POLICY SHOPS
THE CITY COURT GRAND JURY IN
diets NINE MORE AGENTS.


Same Day and HOur-They Are
Puzzled About which to Obey-A
Child Held as Security for a Debt.
POnder's MOtiOn-fOr a New Trial to
BE Heard TO-day-Abe SmaII's Fate
with the Supreme Court.
Policy must GO is the edict of the city
court, if there is anything in appearances,
and there is no doubt that is the policy
being pursued.
In the last two or three weeks no less
than four or five proprietors Of policy
wheels. and something like twenty-five
or thirty agents of lotteries have been
indicted by the grand jury.
There has so far been only one trial,
that of a proprietor who was up for his
first offense, and who was sentenced to
pay a fine of $3.50, though the usual fine
in such cases heretofore has been only
$500. This is taken as an indication that
there is some fun ahead in the policy line
The grand jury indicted nine men yes
terday afternoon on the charge of keep
ing a policy lottery. They are: f. A.
Dancy. Jim Pinckney, Edward REESE, Ed
ward Gray, Sam z. Screven, Washington
Brothers, Seaman Fuller, J. Jones and
Frank NJ. Smith. These are all said to be
agents of policy lotteries. but under the
law they are indicted for the same offense
as the principals. The grand jury has
been indicting them at the same rate al
every meeting for the last two weeks.
1t is probable that the trials of the
policy cases will be taken up about the
middle of March and everybody will,
watch them with interest.
The grand jury also indicted Rad Fisher
70. Cd, 10,
ceny of 81 from George Williams
Thomas Holly was indicted for the aban-
donment of his child, Alethea Louisa Hoi-
ly whom, it is stated, he has left in
dependent and destitute condition.
About $50 subpoenas were issued yester-
| day from the clerks office of the United
States court for grand and petit jurors
| and witnesses the majority, of course,
being for witnesses. All are summoned
| to appear on Monday, March 2
When Deputy Marshal Wilson served
| the jury subpoenas he found, in several
| instances, that the parties served had al
| ready been summoned to appear in the
| superior court as jurors. This apparent
| ly brought about a question of conflict be-
| tween the two courts. The rule, as be-
| tween the city and superior courts, has
| always been in such cases that the juror
/ should obey the first summons received.
As these summons, however command
| the jurors to be in two different places at
! the same time, they are naturally little
| puzzled as to what to do.
1neTe is always Pheasant comfy De-
| tween the two courts, and it is hardly
! probable that any conflict will come out
| of 1t. This is question which arises
| now and then between two courts, but the
! official courtesy which always exists will
| probably prevent its ever being carried
| up to a higher court for an opinion. AS
| the state court subpoenas were served
| first Judge Speer may instruct the jurors
| receiving both subpoenas to go to the su-
| perior court. on the other hand, if Judge
| Speer's court is short on jurors, 1t may
! be that Judge Falligant will give way and
| draw a few more jurors out of the box
II is an easy matter and there IS not
| either way.
Judge Falligant certified to the brief
of evidence in the Abe Small case yes
terday and it will go at once to the SUI
preme court. Abe has been convicted OF
fate is now with the supreme court and
| it remains for that body to say whether
the present judgment shall stand or he
/ shall have another chance for his life.
Though this week has been what is
called vacation with the superior court,
Judge Falligant has by no means had a
holiday. He has half a dozen matters to
attend to every day, and matters which
often require good deal of care and at
In the case of the state against Alonzo
Baker. convicted of assault with intent to
murder in the Liberty superior court,
and sentenced to two years in the peni.
Tertiary, he granted a new trial yester-
day on the ground that the foreman of the
jury that convicted him was related to
the prosecutor within the prohibtory de-
gree, which fact was not known to the
counsel for the defendant at the time OF
Walter A. Way, Esq, presented to the
court a bill of exceptions in the case of
superior court, which was examined and
certified by the court. The case, which
is an action to evict an intruder, will
go to the supreme court. The jury
found that the deed under which Thorpe
claimed to hold the land was a forgery,
and rendered a verdict for the plaintiff
on the main issue.
Several other matters were attended to
by the court and on Saturday he will
hear an injunction case from one of the
counties in Judge Sweats circuit, in which
the latter is disqualified
The motion for new trial in the case OF
Thomas V. Ponder, convicted of the muir
der of Frank keenan, and sentenced to
Judge Falligant this morning. All the at
torneys interested were ready yesterday
and it is said there will be nothing to de-
lay the hearing to-day. There is a great
deal of interest in the proceeding.
! Sarah Lewis was to have been tried in
! the city court yesterday for a misdemean-
or The jury was ready for the case, and
the court was in waiting, but when the
trial was about to begin it was found
that the defendant was not on hand. Sa.
rah will no doubt be given peremptory
command to be there when next her case
is called.
A rather peculiar habeas corpus appli-
cation was filed in the court of ordinary
yesterday by George W. Beckett, ESQ
attorney for the petitioner, Sylvia Turner,
who wants to secure possession of her
child Virgie Mignonette Turner. 1t ap-
pears that Sylvia was indebted in small
sum to Henrietta Wright. Now Henri
eta wanted to secure the collection OF
the same, so she gets hold of Sylvia
child and imprisons her at her home on
Montgomery street.
Sylvia claims that she never gave the
child to Henrietta, and that whether she
owes the money claimed or not, il is lille
gal to hold the child. for a debt That
sort of security has never been recog-
nized by the courts, and Sylvia says she
never offered her child as security. The
case will no doubt be an interesting one
when il comes up for a hearing before
Judge Ferrill, March 8, at 10 o'clock
John Ferrabee, a colored lunatic about
IA years old, was committed to Jail by
the ordinary yesterday. Ferrabee has beer
in Jail before for the same cause but had
to be discharged, as the asylum could not
take him for several reasons. lie has q
mania for throwing rocks at trains and
Of things