The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-05
EIs IN SESSION ONE DAY.
,TrD STATES COURT GRAND
JURY'S QUICK WORK.

indictments Found Compared
u,th Former Terms of Court--.J.
q Hardee of WaycrOss Charged
nith fraudulent Use of the Mails.
+ ,.oyments Concluded in Inter-
.,.te Commerce Commission
cases. and They Were Taken I'm
dor Abatement.
,hsr returning seven indictments the
and Jury of the United States Circuit
,or, was discharged yesterday by Judge
r-,rv Sheer and most of the country
.,rs went to their homes. The session
one of the shortest a United States
,,rt grand jury has had for several
TINS.
probably the most interesting Indictment
,,s that against j. H. Hardee Of Way
,yss for fraudulently using the United
sses mails The instrument itself is
,,ber voluminous, but the gist of the Of
to.e against the government is embodied
the first count. The transaction in
vbch Hardee is charged with figuring is
o,e in which an attempt was made to get
mods of Pope & McLaurin of Jackson
vile. under the name of a fictitious firm,
wood. Hardee & Wheeler. Letters were
Vritten by Hardee Sept. %, 1897, purport-
claimed to be a member, asking that
ouantity of vegetables be sent to Way
cross. The goods were shipped it is I'M
darstood and reached their destination,
shortly after which the shippers heard
that no such firm was in existence Ac-
ton was at once begun against Hardee.
The case will be called Tuesday IIar-
dee called on Clerk King and asked that
certain witnesses be summoned. He said
be had no money to bring his witnesses
1 from Waycross to Savannah and none with
which to employ counsel. 1t is the rule
In such cases to get a defendants Wit
a resses to the court, even if the government
has to pay the cost. and also to provide
COUNSEL. Hardee is taking his predicament
rather seriously.
Clark Hadley was indicted for breaking
n into the postoffice at Leb, a small place
in neighboring county 1t is alleged in
the Indictment that Hadley broke open the
4 posoffice Nov. 2, intending to carry away
4 the furnishings. The office was entered
4 by using a lever on door.
Anthony Dorsey is also among the unfor-
B tunates. He is charged with what might
be called a heightened offense. Anthony
went around representing himself to be
an official of the United States of America
ad infnitum. He went among the lower
classes as the friend of the widow, whom
Al he said he was endeavoring TO aid by get
q ting special pensions Dorsey struck a
q credulous boy, it is alleged, and informed
him that a lad was wanted in the post
Office here, and he could secure him the
g position if the latter would get a suit of
clothes on the installment plan. The boys
name is Charley Franklin. He, of course,
assented to the proposition in order to get
q The position. But the only thing Franklin
seems to have ever got in return for the
& amount he advanced Dorsey, was the dis
cNery that he had been taken in by an
imposter
The other four indictments are for illicit
dsulling and are Joe Jennings, jeff, John
and Bill Walker, and Lin Gilliard.
In the afternoon the argument in the
Interstate Commerce Commission cases
against the Ocean Steamship Company
and the Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific Railroad, was concluded and
u the papers were turned over to Judge
\ sIeer, who took the case under advise
mehL MIR. l.. A. Shaver of Washington,
VINO represented the commission, has
returned North. Mr.. Edward Baxter of
nashville, Tenn, who represented the rail-
roads, also went home.
Judge Speer will give the case thorough
consideration before announcing his de-
cslon, recognizing that large interests at
STAKE on either side. The effect of the de-
cSlon VIII be the enforcement or non-en-
lofcement of the order of the commission
testTlcung carriers from violating the
long and short haul rules in Georgia.
Inc act specifically inhibits the charging
Vi greater rate to a shorter than a
longer distance point on the same line
ana IN the same direction, a point on
winch Mr.. Shaver threw the stress of
MS argument. If the order is enforced.
however, Mr.. Baxter said on the other
hand, the railroads will be
deprived of the advantage
OF competition for the reason other roads
Will get all business at the points where
the lines in question have reduced their
rates The roads hold that they were
compelled to reduce the rate or lose freight
ehurely and, therefore, be unable to oper-
dte. The long and short haul rule, it is
claimed, prohibits the roads from this re-
AUCTION unless they make it at all inter-
iUeulate points, but the roads claim that
because they were forced to reduce at one
point It does not necessarily follow that
'pSy must reduce at others.
Inc proposition is one which the courts
nave always regarded as a vexed one,
mere being number of authorities in
support of either side.
cute number of important cases have
sS een assigned to be taken up to-day. Thus
+aI the business of the term has been In
sellously dispatched and the indications
a.; nc mat there will be little delay dispos-
ing Of the docket.
SUPERSTITION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
IA" Does Not Punish for Beliefs, But