The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-09

Judge Norwood said: 1.-THE evil of this
practice we all know. There are now on
the docket of the superior court of this
county ten or fifteen homicides, nearly
all of which were caused by this evil. and
at nearly every sitting of this court a
number of cases of carrying concealed
weapons and often shootngs are brought
up for triaE''
The most important feature of the
charge was upon the need for reforma-
tory for youthful criminals. On this sub
Ject Judge Norwood said: zone not famil-
lar with the proceedings of this and the
recorders court has no idea of the num-
Der of young criminals in the community.
In most cases the charge against them is
larceny, and in many cases they are found
TOO young under the law to be punished.
About year ago a window was broken
on Congress street and a number of arti-
cles were stolen. In this case it was
found that the criminals were all under
age. The parents of many of these chill
dren turn them loose to roam like Arabs
hnding shelter under houses Stops or
wherever they can obtain shelter There
is nothing to be done with them at pres
ent, except when they are old enough to
be punished, but to send them to the poor
farm or the chain-gang, or turn them
loose on; the community; and when chill
dren Y, IL, or IA years of age are placed
with old and hardened criminals and
compelled to listen to their blasphemy
and foul language they cannot help becom-
ing educated in crime A bill has been in
troduced in the legislature to provide such
a refuge, but ] am afraid the bill will
not become a law. The people in the eoun-
try who have the education of their own
children under their eyes cannot see the
need of such counties as Richmond, Full
ton, Bibb, Muscogee and Chatham for a
reformatory. While do not expect you to
do anything more in this matter than give
it your moral influence, still l want to keep
it constantly alive, in the hope that some
good will come of it,
Judge Norwoods charge was earnestly
and forcibly delivered and will hardly fail
to have weight with the grand jury in its
delibeEations.
At the conclusion of the judges charge,
the grand jury organized by, electing Capt.
G. B. Prtchard foreman. Seven indict-
ments were returned and in one case there
was a failure to secure an indictment, as
follows: T. P. Thurman, carrying conceal
ed weapons; j. E. OVerstreet using OBJ
scene language; Jos. Collins and Alex Jor-
don, larceny; Laura Bellinger, assault and
battery; II. A. Goette, assault and battery;
John Rose, breaking into a house with in
tent to steal.
No bill was found in the case of ]. L.
Doss, charged with assault and battery.
The Indictment of Mr.. Goette was the re-
suit of his difficulty with Mr.. A. r. Sholes
in the Screven house about month ago.
The grand jury will meet again to-mor
row afternoon.
In the court of ordinary, letters dismiss
sorry were granted to Anna Juchter, guar
dian of the person and property of Fred
erick W. Henges, formerly minor.
The will of Joseph ]. Mccoy was filed
and probaSed in common form and letters
testamentary were granted to Jane r. Nc
Coy, executrix.
Letters of guardianship on the person
and property of Mamie Harvey were
granted to Edward T. Mahoney.
Letters of administration on the estate
of John 7. Campagnac were granted to
Charles H. Dorset.
Mary w. Hoist, guardian of Pierre N.
Hoist, filed a petition for leave to sell
Southwestern railroad stock.
An order was granted to Michael ]. Bar
rett, administrator of the estate of
Michael Barrett, to expend funds in his
hands for the support of minor heirs.
Mr.. Daniel M Smith was admitted to
the bar yesterday by Judge Falligant. He
has been located in the office of Messrs.
Gignilliat & Stubs, and they certified to
the fact that he had completed the study
of certain standard works, as required by
the code. The committee appointed to ex-
anime him consisted of Messrs. w. l. Gig
nilliat, T. P. Ravenel, ]. S. Schley and W.
w. Fraser solicitor general. Mr.. Smith
is from Florida, and had practiced for
some time in the courts of that state.