Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
LIVELY Times IN Dali TON.
MORE SENSATIONS SPRUNG IN
THE CAR PIRACY TRIALS.
CAPTAIN PEOPLES IS CONVICTED.
He WA. Agent OF tho W. & 4. Railroad.
Another Prominent Merchant
IL Arrested.

Nearly oil OF Thursday and Friday
in the now celebrated car robber cases
at Dalton, Ga, was taken mp in the
trial Of Captain L. j. Peoples, the
agent Of the Western and Atlantic
railroad ut Dalton.
Notwithstanding that Captain Pee
pies was ably defended, tho jury
brought in verdict of guilty.
Peoples has been the biggest game
40 far that the prosecution has brought
down. His conviction created terror
among the accused, who have not yet
been brought to trial There was
some doubt about getting twelve men
with the courage to find him guilty.
He has the reputation of n fighter.
The defense had the jurors polled,
but every one answered that ii was his
verdict. Judge Fite did not pass sen-
tence. There may be another case
against Peoples. Ii is rumored that he
may be tried for receiving stolen to 5acco
from Bohannon. The penalty in the
case already decided may be either Q
fine or imprisonment in the changing
or penitentiary. The recommends
ton leaves it to the judge to say
whether it shall be punished as mis-
demeanor or as n felony. Captain
Peoples has been agent of the Western
and Atlantic railroad in Dalton for five
years.
Peoples was charged with buying q
carpet from Walter Bohannon. The
latter said that he sold it to Peoples
and received the money for it. The
defense attempted to impeach Bohan-
non, but the jury believed him, md
the citizens generally believed. Pee.
pies was deserted by his two sons at
the critical hour, and he had to rely for
his defense wholly upon his own state
ment and the evidence of n negro en-
ployee. The defendant said that his
son Drew, n member OF the city coun-
ell, had bought q carpet for him year
ago last summer in Chattanooga The
father did not produce any receipt or
memorandum of any kind to show
where they got the carpet that ruined
him.
"rhcrc Are others"
Anderson Gildings, a small mer-
chant of Tunnel Hill, pleaded guilty
Friday to an Indictment charging him
with receiving stolen goods. Sem
tence was deferred in his case, too.
The case against Mack Cannon Was
called, but il was passed. Cannon's
trial will probably last two days.
This will be sensational case. Boz
harmon says that Cannon often bought
goods Of him. There was one lot Of
clothing for which the Southern rail
way paid McTcCr u Co., Of Knoxville,
$1,000. Bohannon says that Cannon
paid him $50 for the lot.
Cannon is the wealthest merchant
in Dalton. and has the largest clothing
trade in north Georgia. Everything
is done in his wiic's name. The store
is known 90 the Baltimore Clothing
House.
w. b. McCarson, who runs q large
store in North Dalton, was arrested
Friday for dealing with Bohannon's
band OF robbers.
The grand jury has been investiga-
ting G. c. Bemis, the fa;her.in-law of
Drew Peoples, who skipped.
There is IN indictment against one
Buckholtz, DO has a restaurant.
Many Ladies' Present.
More ladies were in court Friday
than at any previous time in Whit
fields history. The ladies' are for
convicting nearly every time. One Of
them asks that il Inc clearly stated that
the members of Dalton's 400 do not
regard Bohannon rs q hero.
Lee Atwood, who pleaded guilty to
buying bicycle from BOhannon, with
drew his plea and went 70 trial while the
Peoples jury was out. Bohannon stat
ed that he did not think Atwood
knew the bicycle was stolen. Atwood
said that he did not know il, and on
this testimony Judge Fite directed the
jury to acquit the young man. So he
was really tried and acquitted within
the ninety minutes that the Peoples
fury was out. This was the first one
to get of, and he hal pleaded guilty.