The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-22
CRIMINALS WILL BE TRIED.
j. J. READ WILL FACE A JURY FOR
MURDER OF WILLIAM STEWART.


Week of Criminal Trials in the SUI
perior Court, Some of Which Are
of Public Interest-Read VIII BE
Tried on Tuesday and on Wednes-
day George III. Witte VIII BE Call
ed Upon to Answer a Charge of
Larceny After Trust-With Posi-
bly, Day Two of Next Week
for Criminal Business VIII Be
COnclud ed-Civil Business Over by
Middle of August.
The trial of criminal cases in the Su-
perior Court will begin, for the second
time during the June term, tomorrow
morning and will be continued during the
week. The cases to be tried include some
of strong public interest, ]. J. Read and
George White being among the defendants
who must answer before a jury of their
peers for the crimes with which they are
charged.
Tomorrow will be utilized to rid the
docket of half a dozen cases of no partic-
ular Importance. Two or three OF the de-
PENDANTS are charged with assault with
intent 20 murder however, and among
these is Jerry Holmes Several months
ago jerry fired a shotgun into a house
at Burroughs Station and seriously wound
ed Joe Grant, one of the men who hap
pened to be within the house at the time
Holmes managed to get away from the
officers of the law and for quite a while
was successful in eludng their clutches.
He was arrested short time ago and
indicted by the grand jury for assault
with intent to murder at the present term
Of the court.
Tuesday Read will be placed on trial.
He Is charged by the grand jury with
shooting William Stewart a negro whom
all the evidence that has ever been ad-
duced in the various Investigations that
have been held into the facts of the case
shows to have been perfectly inoffensive
The coroner's jury fixed the grade of the
crime at involuntary manslaughter, in
the commission of an unlawful act but
the grand jury, which heard the same
evidence indicted Read for murder.
The shooting took place in front of a
fruit stand on East Broad street. Read
claims to have acted in self defense and
is doubtless withholding until the trial
NhO CNAuNhNS llS I6lISS Ut Oll 10 SupS ldliildl6
this claim. 1t has never been revealed, so
far as is known, to anybody and GER
tainly not to the public
Wednesday the charge of larceny after
trust, preferred against George H White,
will be investigated. White was formerly
city drummer and collector for the Sa-
vannah Grocery Company, and was well
known and liked here. When he disap- |
pcared the officers of the company by |
which he ann1OWpd fOnnd he /
had collected large sums of money which |
he had never turned over. The company |
has never seen fit to give out the exact |
amount of the defalcation preferring pub |
lie uncertainty to the extent to which |
it's officers were duped, rather than pub
licly knowledge of the bald facts. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the shortage |
amounts to 5000 or 900 at least.
1t is stated that Whites method OF car
ry1ng on his side line was TO make. part |
of his collections go towards the payment |
of debts he had already collected and the |
proceeds of which he had appropriated. |
He was wont to extract the monthly state |
ments sent out by the house from the |
mail box and substitute others of his !
own compiling. These latter would give
credit for the payments the customers of
the house had made him, but which he
had never handed in.
Clerk Carr of the Superior Court has is
sued about tihrty-fve subpoenas duces
tecum, directed to the various retail gro
cerymen in the city with whom Witte.car-
ried on business for his house. They are
directed to bring their books and the re-
ceipts from him, showing payments to the
Savannah Grocery Company. The intro
duction of all this evidence will require
time and it is scarce likely, If it is all in
PRODUCED, that the case will be concluded
in a single day.
~,
unlawfully, preferred against A. NJ. Bar
bee and Joseph Bandy, will be tried. Bar
bee &, Bandy are the proprietors of the
pavilion and restaurant at Isle of Hope |
and are charged with selling liquor within
a mile of a church or public school. They
protest their innocence of the charge, and
claim to be able to disprove it without
trouble.
Bob Levy and Joe Davis, the two men
indicted with Theodore Eulenburg for
robbing country attorney, in Eulen-
burg's place in the Tenderloin, will also be
tried on Thursday. 1t will be remembered
that Eulenburg was acquitted, though |
Davis and Levy both testified as to his |
participation in the crime, of which they
acknowledged their own guilt.
No cases have been assigned for either |
Friday or Saturday, but it is probable
that some assigned for days earlier in the |
week Will go over, and that the last two |
days will be utilized in disposing of them |
The trial of criminal cases may be con-
tlnued until the first week in August
BY the middle of August the work of
court, both civil and criminal, will have |
been about completed and from that time |
on but little will be done until October |
The cessation of court activity will give |
Judge Falligant and the officers an oppor-
tunity to enjoy a holiday. in case they
they care to take it.