The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-25
FOR MURDER AND ABDUCTION.
INTERESTING CRIMINAL TRIALS IN
SUPERIOR COURT THIS WEEK.

John j. Read. SlgnOrn Mitchell and
Henry TyndaII VIII BE Placed on
Trial for Murder, While william
CnshwcII, Alias King Sabre, Must
Answer for the Attempted Abduc-
tion of Young Preston Everett.
TyndaIrs Trial Assigned for To-
day-The Stories OF the Crimes for
which the Defendants VIII BE
Tried RetoId-Rend's Case the Most
Important of All.
This week will be an interesting one in
the Superior Court, the criminal trials
of most Importance for the term being
assigned for the next five days. The
criminal cases that are to be tried en-
brace those of three murderers, or al
legged murderers, and that of King Sabo.
To-day there has been assigned for
trial the case of Henry Tyndall, who has
been indicted for the murder of William
Brown Easter Sunday Brown was in a
room IN Coopershop lane with a negro
woman, Viola Sauls. 1t appeared that
Tyndall claimed the woman as his own
apecial property, and that when the news
reached him that she was in Browns
company, he was rendered furlously an
CRY.
Armed with an ugly looking knife he
entered the room at a bound and made
furious assault upon his rival From the
evidence thus far adduced Brown seems
to have been unarmed and defenseless and
the attack upon him to have been I'M
provoked by anything said or done by
him. other than his attentions TO the wo-
man.
He had no time to explain his position.
Tyndall was prepared to go any length
10 make good his claim to the woman,
her affections and society. The knife rose
and fell half dozen times in quick sue
cession, inhicting a number of ugly
wounds, one of them, in the breast, just
below the collar bone, being that which
Is thought TO have caused death. Inc
wounded man was taken from Yamacraw
TO the Georgia lnhrmary, where he ex-
pred in less than two hours after the
wounds had been inflicted.
Lyndall escaped from the house, but
only 10 attract the attention of Patrolman
Jernigan, by whom he was arrested ana
sent in to the station house. The ccroners
jury held him for murder and the grand
jury of the last term of the Superior Court
indicted him for the same offense. II is
upon this charge that he is to stand trial.
Tomorrow will be made interesting by
the trial of William Cashwell, alias King
Sabre, on q charge of attempting the abb
duction of Preston Everett. The various
facts in this case, Sabro's strange infatu-
alton for the boy his several attempts to
get the boy away from the control of his
HE kEal- 1T n
his last disastrous failure, are all sufti-
GENTLY familiar. To those who have seen
and eonVersed with Sabre Ii has seemed
that he has slipped an eccentric and that
he is, like the girl IN the touching ballad
of the streets, more to be piled than CEN
sured." That he is mentally wrong some
how everybody agrees.
On Wednesday Signora Mitchell viii be
placed on trial for the murder of James
Harris. The woman shot and killed the
man in a quarrel over game of skin, in
which a number of negroes were engaged.
The game was in progress in the disrepg-
table dive maintained by the woman, al
the corner of Cuyler street and Duffy
lane, on the early morning of May rs.
AS TO the facts of the willing there is
considerable diversity of evidence. one
bunch o witnesses asserting that Harris
had already made one assault upon the
woman and was preparing to make an
other when she fired while the Witnesses
on the other side aver that the shooting
was not preceded by any circumstances
that could afford il justification in law.
As the woman has told her story, Harris
was about 10 attack her with a knife
when she fired the fatal shot, but the
force of this explanation Is weakened by
the fact that no knife was found on Her-
ris' person or anywhere about the house
John j. Read, The white man who hol