The morning news., 1897-06-18
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

"A New Development in the SprinE Z
Murder Case-Storm Sufferers OF
AIachun County in Imminent Dam
ger of StarvatiOR-Dr. Clute Re-
Elected President Of the State
Agricultural College at Lake City.
GEORGIA
At Parrott on Sunday night the room
of John Brightwen was entered by a
burglar and his watch and chain. SIS in
money and 500 in notes stolen.
Isaac Frachier of Vinegar Hill district
in Walton county has a steer that is "a
years Of age that is able to do good plow-
ing The animal was calved in 1872
A special term of Talbot superior court
has been called for July 10. AT this term
DR. W. L. Ryder will be again tried for the
murder of Miss Sallie Emma Owens.
A carload of plums, shipped by 8. H.
Rumph of Marshallville. passed through
Macon Wednesday en- route to New York.
This is said to be the first full carload Of
plums ever shipped from Georgia.
Miss Mabel Bancroft, the 16-year-old
daughter of George Bancroft of Atlanta,
and j. w. Younger, young man of Spar
tanburg, s. c., eloped from Fairburn a
day or two ago and were married.
McDonough has a dog which is a curios-
fly from a habit it has of continually
snarling and swapping at its tail when eat
ing. In doing so he whirls first one way
and then the other in his spasmodc ef-
forts to get at it.
"a. B. Flowers of Atlanta filed suit
against Mr.. and Mrs. 7. H. Knight for
5000 damages, claiming that the horse
whipping which was administered to him
several days ago was without cause and
was an assault and battery.
At Rome, Wednesday, Judge Turnbull
acting as auditor, rendered a decision in
the case of r. T. Armstrong against the
Merchants National Bank and j. King.
The auditor finds a verdict of $4,000 in
favor of the bank and J. King. The liti-
cation grew out of the building Of rail-
road in Florida and originally involved
$4,000. Exceptions will be filed by the de-
fendants counsel to the auditors report
Gov. Atkinson has issued an order par
doning George Blair, who was convicted
at the November, 1895, adjourned term of
the Muscogee superior court of the crime
of burglary and sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary. He wasN convicted
Jointly with another man, and his fellow
prisoner now makes affidavit that he was
alone at the time the burglary was COM
mitted, and that Blair had nothing to
do with it.
The Dawson Dispatch was not issued
last week, owing to the action of some of
its proprietors who wished to get rid of
their interest. For some time past l.. c.
Hoyi, Jr and F. l.. Parks have been try
fnd fo of In In ba
per, and, failing to find a buyer, finally
concluded to have its affairs wound up
by the court. They accordingly applied
to Judge Sheffield for d receiver for the
paper. In the meantime C. A. Wallace,
the other proprietor of the Dispatch, is
restrained by the court from collecting
anything due the paper or contracting any
new debts.
Ed Galloway, a clerk in the Kimball
house at Atlanta, has withdrawn his cele-
brated suit for damages against the owner
of the Spider and Fly Company" He
was paid S35, and consented to withdraw
his 5000 suit. The advance agent of Mr..
Leavitt's company made arrangements for
the company to stop at the Kimball house
and gave the clerk two complimentary
tickets. Between the time the advance
agent left and the time the company ar
rived, some of the members of the com
pany took part in a bacchanalian feast in
Birmingham and were ordered out of the
hotel there. On this account the Kimban
house declined to entertain the company
on its arrival there. When Galloway went
TO the theater he was put out after being
admitted on his complimentary tickets.
The suit for damages followed.
In an article on the sprinz murder case
at Midwife, the Atlanta Constitution says:
''The supposition when Dr. Fitzpatrick was
arrested was that he was infatuated with
Mrs. Sprinz and killed her husband in or
der to marry her. DR.. Fitzpatrick had been
Mrs. SPRINGS physician for some time. She
had been suffering with an organic trouble
and just before the murder under DR.. Kill
patrick's advice, she was sent TO Macon,
10 consult a specialist. The only theory
of the prosecution was that there was
really nothing the matter with Mrs
Sprinz and that DR.. fitzpatrick sent her
to Macon merely to get her out of the
way so that he could murder her husband.
The testimony would have hinged largely
therefore on the evidence of this Macon
physician, who is DR. Mettauer, one of
the best known and most prominent prac-
titioners of the Central city. The prose-
cution claimed that they could prove by
DR.. Mettauer that Mrs. Sprinz was not
affected at all, but he waa never placed on
the stand to establish this fact On the
other hand, Col. Felder, of the defense,
went to Macon especially 20 see DR.. Net
tauer, who stated le had examined Mrs
Sprinz and that he- ailment was exactly
as DR.. fitzpatrick had claimed and that
she was in very bad state. The defense
would have claimed, therefore, II the case
had ever come to trial. DR.. Kilpatrick
would have never married woman who
Is a confirmed invalid. Mrs. Sprinz sta
ted in Atlanta she was very unwell when
she refused TO talk about the murder and
that she was in Macon for the purpose OF
receiving treatment. The Midwife au-
thorities are now working on the new
theory and an arrest may soon follow.
The chain of evidence surrounding the
suspect while not complete, Is compara-
lively strong"
FLORIDA.
Miss Bessie NJ. sollee was married to
Dr. u. NJ. Sanderson at Jacksonville We'd
nesday.