The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-15
The Right of George Wright to
Write an Order on Another
Wright.
BOY BURGLARS WERE CONVICTED
They Had Stolen Money From Room and
Suddenly Became Dudes-Jim
Oolson's First Case.

The jury in the case of the state VS.
Wash Bacon, charged with burglary,
after long and closely contested
session, reported to the superior court
yesterday morning that they had
finally agreed on verdict of guilty
with the recommendation that he be
punished as for m1sdemeanor. The
case hinged on question of identifioa-
ton, and :hers was hard legal fight
on this point. Messrs. Krauss and
Isaac, attorneys for the defendant,
will probably carry the case to the su-
preme court. Bacon has influential
white friends, who are paying his ex-
peDses of trial.
The court then proceeded with the
trial of the criminal cocket.
1t was burglars day in the superior
court yesterday, and between the bur-
glars and the young lawyers, the court
managed 80 have a very interesting
day of 1t.
Four negroes were tried for burglary.
The court appointed attorneys from
among the younger members of the
bar for each Of these prisoners, as they
were unable to employ counsel.
Alex Wing was the first put on trial.
lie was defended by Col. j. D. Sparks,
and got off with verdict of not guilty.
Henry Carter and Lee Blue, two
small colored boys, claiming to be 8
and 9 years old respectively. were
charged with burglary. Judge Sweat
appointed Col. A. E. Eve to defend
the little fellows. This evidence was
conclusive that the boys had forclbly
effected an entrance into the room of
Mr.. L. V. Carroll and Mr.. Ed Cohen
over McCrary's stable, broke open Mr..
Cohen's trunk, and taken therefrom
$l4 in money. The boys, with their
heads turned by this sudden and over
whelning acquisition of wealth,
bought complete outfits of new clothes,
new hats, new shoes, and other things,
and returned to their work at the
stables so completely transformed in
appearance that their employers could
scarcely identify them. They SUBJ
sequently confessed to the burglary,
and showed the officers where they
had hidden the remainder of their dis
honest fortune IN the woods near the
city.
The question of youthful years was
the the only chance for the boys, and
Attorney Eve pressed this point.
After consultation, Judge Sweat al
lowed the defendants to plead guilty
to the charge, with reoommen dation
to misdemeanor punishment. This
will give them term on the chain.
gang, where, as Judge Sweat remarked,
they would be found useful as carriers
of water for the other convicts.
The only white man who has, thus
far IN this session, been placed on
trial George Wrght-was called to
the bar TO plead guilty or not guilty
to the charge of forgery. Wright halls
from the Isle of Wight, was charged
with forging an order on Mr.. Charlton
Wright, which was case of write,
and the jury decided that he was right
that is, not guilty. 1t was, there
tore, not case of 1.-THE Wrong Mr..
Wright" The defendant was en-
poyed on the farm Of Mr.. Burma
Pearson, near and the alleged
forged order was signed with Mr.
Pearson's name, and passed at Mr.
WriRht's store at Sterling. The de-
fense was very ably conducted by Col
R. Ernest Dart, and the prosecution
by Solicitor Bennett, The jury de-
cided that the proof was insufficient