The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-16
FOURTH DAY or THE TRIAL.
BETTER PROGRESS MADE IN TYSON
CONSPIRACY CASE.

O-'-t IN N-h~N@'
Twelve Witnesses Testified Against
Tyson and His Fellow Defendants.
The Testimony Given of the Same
General Character as That ON Pre-
yiOus Days of the TriaI--Brewers,
as Usual, Were Prominently TO the
Front in the List Of Testifying
Nictfms-W. l.. Jones Did Much OF
the CSrresPondence-Fif Miles
of Telephone Wire shipped TO De-
PENDANTS.
Yesterday was the fourth day of the
trial Of Daniel A. Tyson and the ten 9TH
! ers indicted with him for conspiracy 10
defraud through the use OF the mails
From $50 o'clock in the morning, when
the District Court convened. until
O'Clock in the afternoon. when the usual
recess for the day was taken. the ccarg
room was crowded with witnesses and in
terested spectators
The progress made in the trial was con-
siderably greater than has yet been the
case. During the morning twelve witness
| IS were examined and cross-examined,a and
the end of the hearing, though sull in
the distance, is now dimly perceptible with
the naked eye. To see it, during the first
Cay or two Of the trial when witnesses
! absolutely hocked from every quarter.
packed the court room and the corridors,
overhowed into the lower halls and kept
coming into the city on every train. was
only possible with the aid of high-power
glasses.
The testimony given yesterday was on
a par with that of the day before and
similar to it in every respect. A majority
of the witnesses represented houses from
which one or more of the defendants had
purchased beer or liquors and their story
of the manner in which they had been in
duced to make shipments became at last
as tiresome as a thrice-told tale. Indeed,
during the session it was told over and
over again, with a painful similarity of
detail that led the audience first 10 smile
and then to yawn.
The letters requesting a first or trial
shipment were all pretty much alike They
would be about as follows Trenton
ewing Company, Trenton, n. j., Dear
Sirs: Please ship me at Vidalia. Ga, one
cask, of ten dozen pints of your Export
beer In white bottles. Please quote me
also prices on your beer in five and ten
cask lots Yours truly. w. l.. Jones'"
The beer would be shipped and in course
of time would come a letter like this:
Trenton Brewing Company, Trenton n.
J.. Dear Sirs: Enclosed find money or
der for $3.50, in payment for the last ship
ment. Please ship me at once ten casks
of the beer, at the price you quote. What
will you pay for returned empty bottles?
l win be glad to ship them to
you If I dan get anything for them,
as there is no demand for them in this
part of the country. Yours truly, w l..
Jones" Needless to say that after this
second and larger shipment nothing more
would be heard from w. L. Jones.
Something, however, would be heard
from another Of the defendants for in
the course of q few days the company
would be in receipt of a letter, so closely
resembling the first order of Jones' that it
might have been copied from the same
model. 1t would request a trial order
and this order when shipped, would be
paid for promptly. Then a second and
| larger order would be given, and the
brewer left 10 whistle for his money.
From the number of letters read and
introduced in evidence bearing the sig
nature of Jones. it would appear that this
absent individual was a sort of core
spending secretary for the combination
Jones lived with Tyson at Vidalia bur he
did not cOnfine himself 30 ordering goods
shipped to this point. but had them con-
signed 10 himself at half n dozen towns
in which the conspira tors are said to have
op rated. The station agents generally Ind
orders to deliver these cOnsig nrnents to
Tyson or some other of the defendants
One of the witnesses on the stand was
George Brown manager of the Gilbert &
Bennett Manufacturing Company manu-
facturere and jobbers of copper wire and
electrical instruments From this COM
pany fifteen miles of wire had been pro-
! for b.a hit
phone, presumably the one that Tyson
owns and operates throughout the coun-
! try districts In which are located the va
rious towns in which the defendants live
As in otNer cases one small consignment
of wire was paid for and the second and
| larger order VAS not
| S. L. Shores, of Shores, N c. was an
| otter of the sufferers the district attor-
/ Eev placed on the stand. Mr.. Shores tes-
! t3iieG that he had made shipments Of
liquors to Jones, Hammond, Galloway and
! wheeler, and that persistent efforts had
| never resulted in a collection from any
! one of them Some of the witnesses testi-
! fed that they had received from some of
| the defendants orders that they had not
! filed having become suspicious that ev-
! erything was not exactly what it should
! he.
As usual the jury spent the afternoon
ard nisht at the De Soto, where quarters
| for its members have been secured They
1 are permitted to take regular exercise
daily. and to read what Judge Speer terms
''expurg6ted" copies Of the newspa pers
| That Is TO say. that from the copies given
the jurymen all references 10 the case they
| are a gagged in trying and thot they are
ulJ mately to decide are first clipped out
! The jurymen look comfortable and hap
ny. but ii viii doubtless be a relief TO sill
Of them when the case reaches its conclu-
! sion.
Is RECOMING DNcEACED.