The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-14
TO JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS.
FULTON AND HODGES MUST SERVE
TERN AND PAY A FINE OF 81 900.


Nabbed in the Recent Raid, Sem
fenced to Six Months in the County
Jail by Judge EaIIisant-They Are
Also to Pay n Fine of $1,000 and
All COsts-L. j. Hodges Got on With
the Payment of the Fine-Julius ID.
Hirsch VIII Submit His Case to "A
Jury-Judge FaIIigant Everywhere
Commended.
A fine of one thousand dollars and the
costs of the prosecution, in addition to
sentence of six months confinement in
the common jail of Chatham county, made
up the punishment inflicted by Judge Fall
ligant upon two seif-confessed violators
of the gaming laws in the Superior Court
yesterday.
The men were Frank Fulton and w
Male Henderson, who were among the
policy lottery proprietor who were nab
bed by the sheriff and his officers on the
occasion of the raid made during the
early part of last week. The cases
against these two men and those agains.
Julius d. Hirsch and l.. ]. Hodges
had been assigned for trial in the Superior
Court yesterday morning.
In answer to the call of their names,
Hodges, Fulton and Henderson respond
ed, but Hirsch was not in court. Mr.. r.
l.. Colding was present to represent Full
ton and Henderson, while Hodges was
represented by Mr.. W. F. Slater When
the attorneys announced that their clients
wished to enter pleas of guilty upon the
indictments that had been found against
them by the grand jury, Judge Falligant
prepared to pass sentence Messrs. Cold
| ing and Slater advanced to the rostrum.
with the apparent purpose of pouring
tale of woe and plea for sympathy
in the ear of the court Such tale and
such a plea are altogether usual under
such circumstances.
Judge Falllgant, however, seemed to be
IN possession of all the facts he cared to
learn and he waved counsel away. Then
ne directed Hodges 10 stand up and i'm
posed upon him a fine of 81 eco and the
costs OF court with a term of twelve
months on The chaingang of the county in
! the alternative. Fulton and Henderson
| drew a breath or two of relief. but the
relief they experienced must have been
| one OF the most altogether evanescent and
| meeting sensations they have ever known
| 10 each of them Judge Fallgant had
ABOUT the same thing 10 say when he
passed sentence: You have been up be-
lore me on several other occasions, charg-
| ed with the same offense The fines in
| hlcted in the past seem insufficient 10 40
ter you from the further commission Of
crime. The sentence of the court is that
| you pay fine of 81 600 and all COSTS and
| that you be confined for the term of six
months IN the common Jail of Chatham
county"
| Inc effect of the sentence upon the two
men VINO received it was almost appalling
man the men in their business nobody
| PROBABLY save the very wealthy. lives
easier or better, and the prosnect of six
motnhs in the county Jail was more than
| they were prepared 10 stand They had
| not expected to be sentenced to more than
me payment OF fine and the term in iail
was a blow that struck them in their
tehoefest point-their sense of personal
| comfort.
Immediate efforts were made bv their
| counsel to have the terms in Jail struck
from the sentences that had been i'm
posed. Mr. Colding told Judge Falligant
that MS clients were quite willing TO sign
! a pledge never again to engage in gam
ping within the limits of Chatham conn
~ and to make any other promises of
good behavior that could reasonably he
required but to all of these appeals the
| court was deaf. The sentences rnust
stand as they were pronounced" was all
that he would say.
Hodges paid his fine and was given his
liberty. He announced afterward the
lesson had been wholesome one for him
| ana that it would not be necessary 70 re-
peat 1t. Never again. he said, would be
De concerned in the operation OF a policy
iottery In this neck of the woods; the
butcher business, which he abandoned for
the uncertain daliance with fortune in
which he more recently has been engaged.
was good enough for him in the future
| hodges seemed to think that he had got
on remarkably light, and to be very well
| content. Ii was certainly due to the fact
that he was not better known, officially.
70 Judge Falligant that permitted him to
| be let off upon the mere payment of a
fine and costs
Hirsch had 10 be sent for by the sheriff
and brought into court by a deputy. When
| ne learned of the sentences that had been
! passed upon his companions he refused to
| enter plea of guilty, as ID had been I'M
| derstood he would do. though possibly not
on his authority. Instead he gave bond
for his appearance at the present term
OF the court when he will appear before
! jury and his case will be tried His
|
| Expressions of full approval of the
! course that Judge Falligant had pursued
! came freely from the best people of Sa-
vannah yesterday. 1t was said generally
| that he had adopted plan that would
! serve TO break up public gambling and
render the open and fragrant violations of
| the gaming laws that have been familiar
to citizens here in the past impossible in
| che future.
Judge Failigant's course ,o,ist raca;,,a
| the Endorsement of every good citizen"
said prominent lawyer yesterday "Ex-
! perence has shown that appeals of any
| kind made to the gamblers themselves
were utterly without avail, and has point
ed to the inevitable conclusion that the
| only way to suppress the vice was to
make it Improbable TO those who made
! ii their vocation in life. No matter how
| large their fines were. nor how often these
fines were inflicted, if the gamblers found
themselves able to pay the fines and vet
to live luxurousy and accumulate money
on the remainder of their incomes, they
were content
They appeared in court year after year
! and paid their fines with becoming cheer
| fulness. carrying on their business regu-
! larly between the time of their indictment
| and she time of their sentence i'm order
&c raise money to meet these legal obl-
cations. Judg Falligant has seen that
the way to stop the evil is 10 infiict a
punishment that the gamblers will not
regard with equanimity. but which they