The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-20
MILAM'S DEED MANSLAUGHTER
SLAYER OF HENRY PERRY CON
NICTED IN ATLANTA.

QuarreIIed over "a Woman TO Whom
Both Were Attached-PendIey Il
out in a brand New Confession in
which He says He DID XIII Ponder
ChapIaIns and Grand Jury Com
rnittees May BE Cut out of Some
Fees.
Atlanta, April 1S-The trial Of John Mi
lam. indicted for the murder of Henry
Perry. was concluded to-day. Milan max
ing a long statement from The stand, set
ting forth the details of The fight in which
Perry lost has life.
Milan said that Perry was abusing Flor
ence Livingston, the woman at whose
house the killing took place, and that he
undertook to defend her. Perry had fire.
quentiy threatened 10 kill him, he said,
evidently being Jealous of his relations
with Florence Livingston.
Upon the occasion of the fatal quarrel
Perry attacked him with a poker and
struck him several times with it before he
used the pistol which he had picked up
in the womans room when Perry made
his appearance upon the scene
A number of witnesses, including several
policemen, testified to the peaceable dispo-
sition of the prisoner, and the quarrel
someness of the deceased, who had fire.
quently been under arrest for fighting and
drunkenness.
The case hinged upon the conflicting
testimony of Florence Livingston and
negro woman employed as a servant az
the house The latter claimed to have seen
the shooting, while the Livingston wo-
man declared that she was in the kitchen
at the time and could moi have witnessed
it. The Livingston woman's testimony
corroborated Milam's statement, while
that of the negro woman differed with this
version in some important details.
Florence Livingston admitted on the
stand that she was very much attached
to Milan, who, though a cripple is quite
an attractive looking man.
Tonight the jury brought In verdic'
of guilty of voluntary manslaughter M
lam has not YET been sentenced.
PendIey's Very Latest.
John Pendley, the notorious 'confessor'
came to the front again to-day with an
other confession. This latest is a repetition
of the original confession that he and
George Bankston killed Policeman Ponder
Pepdley was convicted and sentenced 70
the penitentiary for life yesterday. Al the
trial he repudiated the original confession
that got him into the trouble and hnaiiy
put him in a feIons stripes.
His second confession to the crime was
made to-day to Capt. Nash the official IN
charge of the DeKalk county chain-gang,
where he was confined. Pendley's defense
Yesterday was that he confessed TO the
killing of Ponder in order to escape from
the DeKalb county chain-gang, where he
was cruelty treated by Capt Nash. AFTER
this story did not go Wath the jury, 1t APP
pears that he decided TO square himself
with Capt. Nash and when that oihciai
went to see him al the jail to-day he ad-
mitted that his first story was the truth,
thus generating Nash of the charge OF
cruelty and confirming the justice of the
jury's verdict.
Claims Cannot BE Paid.
Controller General Wright to-day re-
ceived from Attorney General Terrell an
official opinion on the authority of the
state to pay the customary per diem to
chap.ains and to members of grand ijuries
and citizens committees for services and
inspections at convict camps under the
new convict law. The matter was referred
TO the attorney general several days ago,
the new law making no provision for the
payment of chaplains or the payment of
the inspecting committees.
Attorney General Terrell holds that the
controller general cannot approve such
claims, and, therefore, the chaplains, un-
ill further provided for, and also the
grand jury committees, will be dispensed
with.
The whole matter remains in the discre-
ton of the prison commission, and it is
possible that they may make some pro-
wilson for paying chaplains, though it is
barely probable that the local inspecting
committees will be continued, as the state
officials are now in direct charge OF the
convcts Heretofore these two items
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