The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-31
BOTH AFTER INDICTMENTS.
T. MAYBE CHARGES CHAs. r. :.
STEWART WITH CRIMINAL
LIBEL.


Prosecute Stewart and the Latter
Presented His CharEes-The Inves-
tigatiOn to he Continued Next
Thursday-sam Habersham and
HIS License TO Preach Creates
some Amusement for the Court.
The Superior Court Grand Jury
TO Take Up the Twitty Case Again
This Afternoon.
In spite Of the excessive heat the bust
ness Of the courts srll goes on. The grand
/ jury OF the city court had several matters
of interest before IL yesterday afternoon.
/ The grand jury room which is on the top
| floor OF the court house. was like an
| oven. and that body took possession Of the
| city court room during its session.
The case. the investigation Of which
| occupied most Of its attention for the az
| ternoon, was one OF criminal libel. the
/ charges being brought by Mr.. Thomas
/ Maybe against Charles r. S. Stewart
| MI. Maybe is painter and paperhanger
| by trade and has in his employ a number
/ of painters and paperhangers, Stewart for
| merly being employed by him as painter
| Maybe is also the superintendent Of the
white ribbon mission Of the W. c. T. L,
NJ 40 UAEA MON SllEEAf anu Hos uEEAA All
| charge Of that institution for some time
This. as is well-known.is a charitable in
stitut.on. which looks after and admins
tiers to certain classes Of paupers. and peO-
pie who may be temporarily out of en-
| ployment.
Stewart. It is stated, has been circulating
paper upon which eight or ten different
/ charges were made against Maybe and
has sent copies OF 1t TO different papers
asking that ii be published. Among other
things II was charged that Maybe had
made the rooms of the white ribbon mis-
sion a resort for rascals and thieves and
drunkards. that he had secured whisky
for inmates there on Sundays and did va
rious other things compared TO which the
charges stated are extremely mild. Stew
art stated publicly on several occasions
that he was going to take the matter be-
fore the grand jury. and have Maybe in
dicted
When Mr. Maybe learned of the matter
he took IL to Solicitor General w. W.
| Fraser for the purpose Of making a case
of criminal libel against Stewart. The
matter was presented 10 the grand jury
Yesterday afternoon as were also the
charges made by Stewart and the latter
was before the grand jury as a witness.
Stewart has stated that he has some forty
! or more witnesses VINO Will TESTIFY 10 the
| charges against Maybe. After investigat-
ing the matter for some time the grand
jury decided that other witnesses were
needed, and the case will go over 10 the
meeting OF that body next week. 1t is I'M
| derstood the charge Of criminal libel and
the counter charges are both being in
vestigated.
In spanking of the matter after the meet
ing Of the grand jury. Mr.. Maybe said tina:
| the charges were absolutely false AMI
malicious. He said that he had discharged
Stewart from his employ, and that the
| latter had made threats against him 70
the effect that he would drive him out OF
town. Not one of the witnesses men-
toned by Stewart, he said, would SUB
| stantiate any of the charges made. He
| stated that Stewards real name was
Charles Sacks. and said that he was want
ed in Baltimore and other places for
| fraudulent transactions. Mr. Maybe said
he had taken charge of the mission sim
| ply 10 help out those who are in charge
| Of il, and that he had never received one
cent Of remuneration for the work he had
| done IN connection with 1t. He stated
! most positively that no drunken man,
far he knew, had ever been allowed 20
come there.
The grand jury also found the following
true bills Of indictment. James E. Far,
| ris, assaulting William BOuhan July 8; d.
| Kirkland assaulting and beating Aff1e
Reed April 3d. Joseph D. Small Jr..
| saulting and beating Martha Marshall
July D. and Charles Quarterman, keep
ing a gaming house
Harry Harris, Anderson Aldrich, Isaac
! Williams, Thomas Green and Teacher
Green were tried in the city court yester-
! DAY on charges of assaulting and beating
Rev Samuel Habersham, a licensed
preacher and thereby hangs rather in
| teresting tale
Thomas Green is the regular pastor Of
the First Ephriam Baptist church out on
the Waters road and Habersham was a
licensed preacher from the same church.
The fun account of the trouble within the
| aggregation. which has been given in the
Morning News, came out.
Habersham had failed to attend COM
| muniOn at the church for two or three
months. and the pastor and deacons de-
cided that he was no longer entitled to
hold his license. On July 10 they demand
| ed il from him, and when he refused to
| give it up they took 1t by force Hab-
ersham says they threw him down. struck
him and knocked him against the organ.
He went out the Sunday following, July
%, TO try and patch the matter up, but
there was no patching to be done. His
license was returned to him. but all the
writing in ink, including his name, the
date and the signatures had been erased
from it. Thereupon Habersham swore out
warrants, charging the pastor, Thomas
| Green and the above named deacons, with
| assault and battery.
Habersham reiterated his story when
| put on the witness stand yesterday. He
said he had paid twenty-five cents for the
license, and considered It was his per-
| SOnal property he explained that there
was one difference between the Methodist
and Baptist churches, that whereas the
| Methodist churches gives its licenses for
nothing. the Baptist church charges TWEEN
| ty-five cents for them Habersham stated
that the church was founded on the eight
| zenith chapter Of the gospel, according to
St. Matthew. When asked if he could
read, he replied yes but his effort to
| do so proved TO the contrary, and the court
told him he would have TO read louder as
he could not hear him Habersham stat
| ed that the license had been printed at the
| office of Messrs. Lester & Ravenel and
he paid forty cents TO have the work done
Pastor Green and the deacons told A
| somewhat different story. They said that
| Habersham had violated the rules of the
! church in not having attended communion
and that when they demanded his license
he refused TO give ii up. They were com
| PEELED then to take it away from him
Judge Norwood dismissed all of the de-
| PENDANTS.
Henry Smith and Rebecca Smith who
so violently assaulted Policeman W u