The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-31
RED HOT MAN ON TRIAL.
THEODORE EULENBURG CHARGED
WITH COMPLETELY IN A HOLD UP.

Avenue That John c. Chason, of
Bainbridge. Lost Nearly $1O0--Bob
Levy and Joe Davis Indicted With
Him, But Are Not Being Tried at
the snme Time-ChasOn Told the
Story of the Loss of His Money.
Levy Turned states Evidence and
implicated Euienburg.
The trial of Theodore Eulenburg. one
OF the men charged with robbing Jonn Z.
Cbason. a cambridge attorney. of nearly
500 in money, was begun in the superior
Court. before Judge Falligant, yesterday
morning. The arguments will be made
and the case go to the jury some time to-
day.
The two other men indicted with Eulen-
burg are Bob Levy and Joe Davis. Levy
has turned states evidence, and pro-
fesses himself willing 40 approximate the
truth, as nearly as he can, in telling the
story of the crime. Davis, to whom the
evidence points as the ringleader OF the
conspiracy, maintains n sullen silence and
refuses to have anything to say. Eulen-
burg is widely known as Red Hot
from his extensive sales of that delicacy.
Chason, the man who was robbed. was
placed on the stand by Solicitor General
Osborne yesterday morning, and in the
course of his testimony positively identi-
fed Eulenburg as one of the men who
had robbed him. He gave a detailed ac-
count of the methods used by the men in
the commission of the crime. At the
afternoon session Levy was placed on the
stand and told his story, confessing his
own gilt, and duplicating Eulenburg as
one of the actors in this drama OF GRIM
inal life.
Chason said that on the night of March
% he was engaged in seeing the sights of
Savannah and in the course of his wan
derings determined TO see the worst as
= well as the best This carried him TO the
Nenderloin, and there befell the adven-
lures that left him poorer, as well as
sadder and wiser man.
He acknowledged that he had been
drinking too much and was rather more
than half seas over when he met Davis
and Levy. After this meeting he and they
had seen the sights in company, taking a
very large number of drinks. 1t was
along towards daylight of the following
morning that he had been steered by the
precious pair of rascals into the lunch
stand of Eulenburg.
Here they had something 60 eat and
something to drink, rather more, probably,
of the latter than the former. The evil
dent intention, Chason afterwards came
to the Conclusion, was to get him in
condition in which he could make no eff
fective protest against being relieved of
his money, and in this the witness SEEM
ed TO be borne out by after events. AT
any rate. he became, finally, almost stu
pefied with the liquor he had drunk.
While he was sitting at one of the Ia
bles In this condition, either Eulenburg,
Levy or Davis had gone through his
peck cts. His drunken faculties did not
permit him to identify positively the man
who had actually taken the money, but
he was certain that all of them were
about him at the time. He was positive
as to the amount of the money he had
lost. Se4. 80, and stated that most of it was
IN $40 bill or notes.
After the men had gone through his
rockets all of them had left him in the
lunch stand, whence he had finally made
his way to the hotel at which he was
stopping. In the meantime, however, he
made an effort himself to make Eulen-
burg. who had returned. give up the mon
ey. an effort that was totally unsuocess-
full In the afternoon of the day upon
which the robbery was computed he re-
ported it at the police barracks, and stat
ed to the officer in charge that Eulen-
burg, Davis and Levy were the guilty
parties.
ing and Mr.. +. NJ. oliver, appeared for the
defendant, subjected Chason to a rigid
cross-examinaion. without, however, ma
terially weakening the effect of his ties III
mony. Though on many points he con-
fesSed that his recollection was bit vague
and cloudy, he remembered the salient
facts of his nights adventures with suftf-
cient distinctness TO give clear and ready
answers 20 the questions CT counsel.
William Hanrahan, a bat keeper at Facet
tits saloon on Bryan street, said that On
the morning of the robbery Levy and Eu-
lenburg had entered the bar towether and
that at Levy's request he changed for him
a $40 bill He had heard Gutenberg ask
Levy, Where do / come in?" ana Levy
had retorted that the other man had the
money that Gutenberg was to get Levy
and Gutenberg then left the lar together.
The men were traced by the testimony
of witnesses to and from several either
bars In the city and hackman finally told
of taking EuieRberg and Levy 10 the home
of the latter in his cab Levy was drunk
and Gutenberg was taking care of him. Ire
hackman saw EulenbuTg take Levy UP the
stairs leading TO the house and through
the door
At the afternoon session Bob Levy one
of the men indicted, was introduced as a
witness. Levy is a blocking charac-
ter and the manner in which he went
about giving his testimony. the admix-
ture of servile creeping and coarse impu-
dence the confession of guilt and the pro-
testation OF righteous intention and past
good repute, did not tend to increase the
favor in which he stood with the jury.
Levy probably found 1t hard to tell the
truth, but 1t seemed to the onlookers and
listeners that he was making whatever
effort he was capable of to accomplish
this end. When, however, IL became nee
essary for him to relate his own part in
the robbery, he would become reticent
at once. or else seek, with a flood Of
plausible explanations, to cover up what
he had done.
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came up casually. after he had been IN
duced to enter the lunch of Eulenburg,
with Davis and the witness. Before This
time, however, Levy said that Eulenburg
had told him that II he or any of his
friends wanted to bring a man who had
money into the lunch room, the proprie-
tor would interpose no objection, as long
as he got his share.
According to Levy there was never any
verbally concocted plan to rob Chason. but