The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18
STRONGLY AGAINST TYSON.
EVIDENCE CONFINES TO snow
HIM UP IN A VERY BAD LIGHT.

Tyson Wrote Orders and Signed
Others Names at His sweet VIII.
4 Profitable Trade INDUCED in By
Him and others in the Sale OF
champagne Cider"
Tor The hrst me curing the trial of D.
A. Tyson and his defendants, pending in
he District Court. evidence was intro
ducei ye terday rectly connecting som
Of the men with the commission of the
frauds that form the basis of the indict-
mems. Evidence Of this character against
Tyson was especially strong.
At the morning session The district at
torney concluded tie examination Of all
of the W. mes es Whose places Of res denca
are outside the state and be an to p4ace
On the stand the station agents of the
railroads and the postmasters Of the little
towns in which the defendants operated.
When these men began to give their tes-
timony the trial became more interesting
and the plan that the government will
pursue in introduc. ng evidence and at
tempting the conviction Of The defendant
more and more plain.
Therefore no evidence except such as
was brought out casually during the ex-
animation Of a witness placed on the stand
with a different object in view. has been
introduced 10 show the identify of the pris-
oners with the men who wrote the fraudu-
ieut letters and received the fruits and
pronts of the fraudulent scheme The
district attorney has confined himself 20
showing that extensive frauds have been
perpetrated, that goods of immense value
nave been shipped by business houses to
a 70 nf g11F 80 A.
ana living in the towns in which they
ave, and chat for these shipments it has
not been possible for the shippers to col
lect. instance after instance of this kind
has been shown, each case bearing marks
OF similarity with all the other sufficient
10 Indicate at least that the scheme was
the product Of one brain. and that the
various successful efforts to carry It into
execution were supervised by one man.
Yesterday morning District Attorney
Erwin began the Introduction of evidence
20 snow the methods pursued by the al
legsd conspirators among themselves A
NUMBER OF the station agents were placed
on the stand and testified to the shipment
OF goods arriving at one point. consigned
TO one OF the defendants to another point
consigned to another Of the Defendants
In many cases the new consignee was
Tyson.
The morning session was enlivened nv
the testimony of r. Fl. Holmes, proprietor
and manager of the Helena Boiling
Works. AT much length and several times
during his examination Mr. Holmes ex-
planned to court, jury, counsel witnesses
ana audience the resources of the Helena
Bottlfng Works and the various products
of that business enterprise. The bott,i:lg
works, it appeared, manufactured soda
water ginger ale, sarsaparilla and the
like, the soda water being Of as many
havors as the coat of Joseph was of oclors.
After making this explanation several
times, Mr.. Holmes reluctantly consented
to tell what he knew about the ease. 1t
appears that he sold beer for Tyson 20
certain individuals along the road, or,
rather as he himself took care to eX-
plain, he took orders for the beer and "
son shipped 1t. The witness described the
f1ourishing business in beer that was don,
in these prohibition counties of the st.te
The n sht session beg z with the c am
ination of a number of station agents OF
the Georgia and Alabama Railway and
pes mas ers J. Z. b m r ass slant vost-
mas eT at Glenwood. testified that he
knew the fer darts J. T. Hammond, J
s. Wheeler, Jr.. and J. II. and W F.
Hutchinson. They raised under these
nameA at Glenwood a Re had delivered
mail TO them. d. NJ. Bedenbaugh rail-
road agent at the same place, gave the
same testimony as to these defendants
identity.
<AECf I btutHtdusu WIS PROVIDED WI n a
LIST Of the shipments 10 the men on trial
rece we'd at Glenwocd. taken from the
books 4 the Office Some of the . e~t-i 8
ad made by Wal er T. Charne tn
agent who prec ded him, who has nee
b en- convicted Of the murder OF Post
master Thompson of G3enwood. and SEN
fenced to he pen tent airy for life vg-
orous protest was made by Mr. Barrow
ard Judge Twiegs to the admission in
evidence II any of these entries made by
Cfanncll, on the ground hat Bedenbaugh
could know nothing Of their correctness
or of TIE manner in which the books OF
the Office ad been kent. District A or
ney Erwin supported his cen ent'on as %
he abmissit il ty f this evidence by IN aw-
irg from he witness the sfa emont at
Channel tad been convicted and was In
the peTi 'ntiary. Judge speer ad-
mi'ted he evidence and the
agent testified from che books kepfby his
predecessor as to shipments received 1T
Gleuwood, consigned to the defendants.
during Channells tenure of the Office Of
agent.
United States Commissioner ]. F. Lewis
was the next witness placed on the stand
by the district attorney. Mr. Lewis, tes-
tilted TO facts adduced at a hearing hall
before him, in which ] #. Hammond. one
of the defendants now on trial was
charged with using the mails 90 defraud
This hearing was held in last October and
the government case against tyson and
his fellows had its inception there.
Comm ssioner Lewis testified that Ham
mond had made him statement as to
the part he pl0yed in the alleged conspra-
| cy Hammond had then sad that j. Il
and w. T. Huchtson had offered him s25
per month and a share In the profits tor
the use of his name in he conduct OF a
business. Hammond said that all the let
ters were written by J. H. Hutchinson
and all the goods received and most of the
business conducted by w L. Hutchinson
He had had no part in II himself. nnd gave
up completely when the Hutchinsors
threw him overheard" and refused to
give him any Of the money they had prom
ised him.
Postmaster Tippins OF Manassas was enc
of the most interesting of the witnesses
examined The postmaster said that Ty-
son had for a time conducted business
in his town and that the principal cb-
ject exposed and sold was champagne
cider"
And what, pray is champagne cid