The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-02
AFTER POLICY LOTTERIES.
GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED FIVE
OF THE PRINCIPALS.


mess In the City Court.
The proprietors Of Savannah's policy lot
| teries were taken in hand by the grand
jury yesterday, and five indictments were
found.
1t was brought to the attention of the
grand jury that Congress street lane is
! alive with policy shops. and witnesses were
on hand to substantiate that premise. Pol
ley has had quite a lay off for sometime,
but recently. the ticket sellers for the diff
ferent concerns were all indicted in the
City Court, and all of them were fined.
Now the principals are on the rack.
The policy lotteries were shut down af-
| ter Judge Norwood's edct against them
about year ago, The judge told them that
the next man who came before him for
| running policy lottery would be sent to
the chain-gang, ana not permitted to pay
fine. Within short time however, the
wheels were opened again and they have
| been running steadily, from day to day,
ever since.
This is the second time the proprietors
have been indicated in the Superior Court
The principals this time are Male Bender-
! son, Chas. CoIman, Charley Oden. z. A.
Massart and J. d. IIirsch Five indict-
ments We're found, one against each of the
parties named. No bench warrants have
been issued as yet. but it is probable that
the arrests will be made to-day.
Little can be said in behalf of these
men. Henderson has been running a policy
| lottery in company with several others in
| Bay street lane between Whitaker and
| Barnard for the last year, and more. He
has been seen paying frequent visits to the
place. His two partners who are not now
indicted have also been seen going there
| frequently. The OdeIls have kept a policy
/ shop going whenever they could do so
without too much publicity about it, and
| Hirsch has been several times mixed up
in the same sort of game. The others are
recent Corners in the field.
The most persisten of all of them has
been Henderson. His shop has been in
| operation day in and day out in Bay lane
/ for the last twelve or eighteen months.
! Several of the other shops are in Con-
| gress street lane.
An effort was made some months ago to
! break up policy lottery in Savannah, the
| grocers employing an attorney, Mr.. H Z.
| Wilson, to assist the solicitor general in
! handling the cases. The men were fright
ened somewhat for the time being, but 1t
| was only mOmentarily. Since then they
| have been practically running in full blast
| as almost every other negro met on the
! streets will testify provided he is assured
| that nothing will be done TO him for play
| ing the game
The state law imposes fine of $500 in
| these cases. No smaller fine than this
| can be imposed by the court. and it may
60 as high $l,000 or twelve months on
| the chain-gang, or both, in the discretion
Of the court.
The grand jury also found the following
true bills of Indictment:
| John Stokes, Otis Stokes, J. Hirt and
| Albert Hirt We're indicted for burglary, be-
ing charged with breaking into the store
! house of the Adams Drug, Paint and OH
! Company on June %. These are the boys
! who broke into the drug store of that
| company at Bun street and York street
| lane.
j. w. Shaw was indicted for assault with
/ intent 10 murder Benjamin Brown with a
| knife on June o.
William Heard was indicted for bur
| glary, it being charged that he entered the
dwelling house of j. A. Try on June q
| with Intent to steal.
/ Houston Sneed was indicted for bur
! glary, the charge being that he broke into
! The bath house OF Thomas Hewitt with i'll
| tent TO steal on June rs.
Jack Taylor was indicted for assault with
intent 10 murder Reina Young with a knife
on June a.
Earnest II. Rlckett, formerly book
keeper for Mr. Leopold Adler was in
1 dicted for larceny after trust. The in
| dictment charges that he appropriated to
his own use $40, which was the property
! of his employer.
T. j. Lutz and William Webster were
! s,,.ls fgp larso at i'm
charged that they appropriated 10 Cheir
I own use the proceeds from loo of meat
which was entrusted 20 them by e, \.
Fulton.
Out Of the eight or ten alleged criminals
before Judge Norwood in the City Court
yesterday only three We're found guilty
and sent to the chain-gang.
Abraham Boyd was found guilty of be
ing an escaped convict He was serving
a sentence of twelve months when he es-
I caped Judge Norwood sentenced him to
| serve an extra six months at the eXpi-
ration of his present sentence.
! William Logan, charged with assault
| and battery was found guilty and sem
fenced to pay a nominal fine of 81 and
cost or serve sixty days in jail. The case
! grew out OF Logan's taking up his father S
differences with an alleged preacher.
Earnest Harris was found guilty of
stealing a pocketbOok from B. Smith, and
was sentenced to pay fine of 50 and costs
or spend six months on the chain-gang.
George Montgomery, who was sentenc-
! ed from the City Court for three months,
| having served thirty days of his sem
tence, had the balance OF It suspended by
| the court.
The following defendants were found
! not guilty and discharged: Katie Mapp,
Arthur Simmons, Richard Austin and
| John Carter, charged with larceny from
! the house; Charlie Orr, charged with car
| rying a concealed weapon, and Burke
| Austin, charged with malicious mischief.
In the Superior Court in the case of
G. A. Smith against Daisy NJ. Smith, a
first verdict for total divorce was grant
! Ell the plaintiff on statutory grounds.
John G. Butler filed a suit against the
board of trustees Of the st. Paul's chapel
of the colored Methodist Episcopal Church
of America, on an account for $3.50 for
materials furnished.