The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-12
BUSY DAYS IN THE COURTS.
THREE WILL BE IN SESSION DURING
THIS WEEK.

The United States Court to Convene
Wednesday-JudgeS peer and Mar
shall Barnes to Arrive Tomorrow.
The Dyer Murder Case and the
GOdbOId Embracery Case to BE
Tried in the Superior Court.
This will be a busy week with the courts.
Three courts will be in session, the United
States court and superior and city courts.
Judge Falligant has fixed several i'm
portant cases for a hearing, and Judge
Norwood will have big docket TO dispose
of in the city court.
There will be more life around the Gus
tom house this week than usual, due to
the holding OF United States court.
The jury has been drawn, and the sub
poenas issued for the cases that are to
come up for trial. There will be a great
deal of business on hand at this session,
and, while none Of the cases are of ex-
traordinary significance, it is quite prob
able that the court will have Sufficient
work to hold it quite awhile.
Capt. John M, Barnes, the newly ap-
pointed marshal, will arrive tomorrow
night, and will take up the work of the
office here for the first time since his ap-
pointment. Judge speer win also arrive
at the same time.
The officers of the court here have at
tended to all the detail work preparatory
to the session, and the jurors will be got
together promptly Wednesday morning.
Among the cases to come up in the SUI
perlor court in the near future, is the
trial of George II. Dyer accused of the
murder of William Titcomb. Not for a
long time has there beer such a murder
as this, which occurred the night before
Christmas in the tenderloin district.
The details of the affair are well remem-
bered. There was a crowd of drunken
jewellers celebrating in advance of Christ
mas in front of Madame Connelly's place
on South Broad street, and row ensued
Somebody was an expert in welding a
club and this one is supposed to have been
Dyer. After the scramble and fsticuff bat
tie among the crowd had quieted Titcomb
was found lying on the sidewalk, his head
in pool of blood. He was taken to the
police station, where he was kept for an
hour without medical aid, it being difficult
was then removed to a hospital, arriving
there about o'clock in the morning, and
medical attention was given him.
When the coroner's jury held its inquest
Ii was ascertained that conflict of testi-
mony made doubtful the real slayer of
Titcomb. George H. Dyer and James
Brown were both held for Investigation
by the jury, but there was no evidence to
convict them, according to the coroner's
investigation and they were allowed to go
free.
Policeman Shea arrested Dyer the night
of the killing. One witness swore that
Dyer had used the club while another
swore that Brown had welded it, All
of the witnesses seemed to have been in
such a condition of intoxication that they
could not remember definitely the details
of the occurrence.
The case of G. s. Godbold, indicted by
the grand jury for embFacery will also
be tried shortly before the superior court.
This charge against Detective Godbold
was first made out in the city court by
the attorneys who represented a plaln>
tiff in a suit against the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad. They reported
to Judge Norwood that they had learned
that Godbold had offered bride to juror
in the case, and Judge Norwood sum-
moned the solicitor general to take the
case in hand IL was decided by the court
and the solicitor general that the case
should be transferred, and that the grand
jury of the superior court should investi-
gate the charges against him.
In doing this Judge Norwood asked the
solicitor general to push the case as speed
lily as possible The solicitor called
special meeting of the grand jury, and it
Is probable that now, since the indictment
has been brought, the superior court will
take the case up without delay, this SEEM
ing to be the direction that is sought to
be given it. 1t is stated that some sensa-
tional testimony is likely to evolve.
With these and other important cases
i'm both the criminal and civil branches of
the courts, there will be some interesting
litigation around the court house in the
next few days.