The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-21
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k.v1ies,
Nsee 5s. t>e,. 9A-The O'Neil-Stein
aes,c eas rctu the sensation OF
>r- .eas sfo>e tHc face >lapping incident
a .ee N.~Aau house LOBBY Saturday af-
.er--,,-. toNN an even more sensa tional
,-.a ,,-,isy when the two men were ar
,s-SasA sor trial in police court. 1t is
vrN .rared that bloodshed is inevitable.
SrG BID parties are being closely watched
ey TIE police and their respective friends.
lion. Harvey Johnson, lately returned
to Atlanta from the Antwerp consulship,
is now involved in the affair with Editor
Stein. and thus it is made a three-cor-
ncre3 affair. A duel. or attempted duet,
seems TO be out of the question, because
the others take the ground that Editor
stein is not on plane of equality with
them. They assert that he is a convicted
fclon and murderer. and therefore, a
challenge. if he should send one, would
be ignored
Stein announced at the inception of the
trouble that he would not seek satisfac
ton under the code. Nevertheless, he is
determined to have satisfaction, and as he
is physically unable to defend himself
against a 12-year-old boy everybody ex-
poets to see bloodshed
Both Solicitor O'Nen and Editor Stein
appeared in police court for trial this ar
tcrnoon. Stein was accompanied by his
partner, j. II. Hill, and several other
friends, and Mr.. O'Neil was accompanied
NrtFr
Johnson
The court room was packed with friends
of both, everybody being on the qui vive
for renewal of the difficulty In the
statements of Solicitor O'Neil and Editor
stein there was nothing TO arouse excite
ment. They were both apparently co.,
lected, and gave their accounts of the ar
fair in the Kimball house, when O'NeiI
struck Stein, in a matter-of-fact way
stems account differed very little from
that of Solicitor ONeil. At the conclu-
SION of his recital he said he had no de-
sire to see Mr. O'Neil fined, and did not
wish to settle the matter that way.
Attorney Coyille, for Mr.. ONeil, also
made a dispassonate sort of speech urg-
ing that his client was justified in attack
ing Editor Stein for the insult contained
IN the article in his paper the Looking
Glass.
After Attorney Colville, however, At
lOIHey Johnson succeeded in producing a
sensation, the like of which has never be-
fore been witnessed in this city. He de-
nounced Editor Stein in the most scathing
terms. AS he proceeded, the crowd in the
room was moved to high state of excite
ment, while the immediate actors in the
aHalr were I'm a state of mental tensity
impossible to describe. The effect of Mr..
Johnson terrible denunciation of Stein
was to divert the quarrel from O'Neil to
a oh
reared at any time between them. Mr.
Johnson characterized Stein as "a liar a
thlef, a scoundrel, a forger and a convict -
Stein interrupted when he could make
himself heard and declared that if the
court would not protect him he would de-
fend himself. At this Mr.. Johnson re-
plied that he would be outside after court
had adjourned, and was responsible for
all he said. Mr.. Johnson declared that
there was in Maddox & Fuckers banking
house a picture of Stein i'm their roeues
gallery and that during his career 81. 600
reward had been Offered for him living or
dead.
This dirty brute" he exclaimed "boIds
no one sacred. The young girl going to the
altar is assailed, the solicitor doing his dutv
is slandered, and even to forgotten graves
goes this hyena to attack the dead of At
lanta's best citizens.
Your honor, you know he is a convict
and felon because you can see his pic
ture in the rogues gallery; you know he is
a liar because this letter shows it (hoIdinp
up q letter.; your honor, you know he is
q murderer, because you can see ii in his
cowardly face"
Stein rose eXcitedly and declared Mr.
Johnson's attack upon him was most I'M
expected, and called him "a scoundrel "A
coward ana dirty shyster" His grieV-
ance against OMEN, he said, had faded
Unto insignifcance, and he would cerfainIy
see that Mr.. johnson answered for his
abuse.
To the court Stein exclaimed: ct do not
want to see a heavy fine put llpon Mr.
ONeil. we can settle our matter out of
court"
At this, Attorney Johnson sprang up
again, and said: I'VE want IL understood
here now, you honor, that we are not on an
equal footing with this individual, and will
take no favor from his lips"
The fine imposed on O'Neil was $40 TX
Stein was not fined at all
Attorney johnson evidently expected To
meet Stein on the street after court. but
the editor was taken into a room bv the
detectives, and kept there until everybody
had gone away.
Next Saturday Stein will renew his
charges against Solicitor O'Neil in his ma
per- and also print an attack upon Mr.
johnson. 1t is thought that his Intention
- W pIOfOhS 6tDeF both
to make personal assault upon
him. when he will use his pistol.
which has already brought down one vic
tim. He says he would be putting his
head in a moose if he should do any shoot
ing al this time, though if others had nor
held him at the time of the Kimball house
row he would then have used his weapoh
under justifable circumstances.
Both O'Neil and Stein publish hot cards
to-day Solicitor O'Neil openly accuses
Stein of being a convicted felon. while the
editor warns the solicitor that the matter
is not at an end yet.
Solicitor O'Neil to-day received a letter
from w. w. Osborne of Savannah. the
solicitor of the eastern circuit, who was
among the gentlemen whose arrest for n
social game of poker was the cause of the
trouble In his paper Stein said the Sa-
vannah men intended to prosecute Solicit
tor O'Nen and Judge Berry of the civ
court, where they were fined, for poker
playing at the Oglethorpe hotel at BrlIns-
wick. In his letter to Mr.. O'Neil
Mr.. Osborne says there is not word
OF truth in STEMS article so far as he Is
concerned, and that he has asked all the
others who were arrested along with him
self and they also join in the statement
that Stein had no basis for the state.
ments in his article.