The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-21
HIRSCH GAVE LEG BAIL.
INDICTED POLICY PROPRIETOR
FAILED TO SHOW UP IN COURT.

Last of Quartette of Principals Cap
tured in the Raid of the Sheriff and
His Deputies Failed to Answer
when His Name Was Called in
Court His Counsel Announced
That Hirsch Had Left Town for His
HeaIth-HOteI de Sweeny Did Not
Attract Him-BOnd of $1,000, with
VI. Prager as Security, Was Es-
trented-Missed the Moral of
story.
When the case of the state against
julius D. Hirsch was called by Judge Fall
ligant in the Superior Court yesterday
morning Hirsch failed TO appear. Upon
the motion of the solicitor general the
bond given by Hirsch for his appearance
was estreated.
The defendant in the trial that was
to have been, was one of the unfortunates
captured by Sheriff Sweeny and his depu-
ties in the reid of two weeks ego when
the officers, by the direction of the grand
jury, descended upon the temples of for
tune that have thriven in Policy Row.
When the three other proprietors of lot
teries pleaded guilty to the indictments
found against them by the grand jury,
Hirsch entered a plea of illness. Solicit
tor General Osborne, nevertheless, want
ed the case assigned for trial, and it was
at his instance that yesterday was Sc
lected.
After the sentence imposed by Judge
Falligant upon Henderson and Fulton, di-
recting their confinement in the county
Jail for six months. in addition to a fine
of 81 900 and all costs, there has been con-
siderable speculation as to the course
that Hirsch would follow. His objections
to joining his friends in misfortune in the
last of their misfortunes were easily to
be understood, and those who knew the
man did not believe that he would sub
nit himself without a struggle of some
kind to the expected mandate of the
court.
OF course, from the long list Of specu-
latons in which the interested INDUCED
the possible supposition that he would not
be on hand when his case was called was
not lacking. on the other hand the bond
he had given was for 1000, the security,
NJ. Prayer, is regarded as perfectly able
to meet it and it has scarcely been
deemed probable that Hirsch would change
the money bond he had given for leg
bail. However, he has done it,
Mr. r. L. Colding of counsel for the
defendant, when Judge Falligant called
the case, announced that his client who
had not been in very good health, any
how, had decided 10 shake the dust of
Savannah from his feet before the trial.
This decision had been reached, said Mr..
Colding, after consulta ton with physi-
clans, who had advised ID very strongly.
Mr. Colding said that his client had de-
termined to abandon the manifold adj
vantages of Savannah despite his per-
sonal delivery of the opinion of Judge
Falligant on this subject and his added
non-expert testimony to the cool
breezes that meandered perpetually
through the broad corridors of the Hotel
de Sweeny.
There were some further pleasantries,
and the nthe bond was estreated.
rule nisi was taken by the solicitor gen.
eral against Hirsch and his bondsman,
directing chem to have either the defend
ant himself or sufficient reason for his
absence in court on Dec. g. the first day
of the next term. In the event that
Hirsch does not then show up and his
bondsman fails to explain it in manner
altogether satisfactory and in accordance
with the law, the rule VIII De HdQe dp-
solute and the bond forfeited.
Under the terms of the rule nisi Hirsch
has about four months in which to re-
cover from the Illness with which he is
said now to be suffering. At the eXpir-
alton of this period he may return to Sa-
vannah and stand trial, if nothing had
happened and without any prejudice TO
his case. He may believe that by this
time Judge Falligant will have come to
the conclusion that the scare he has ad-
ministrated to the proprietors of policy
lotteries is already sufficiently severe and
be willing to differentiate the punishment
then 10 be melted out from that inflicted
upon Henderson and Fulton. On the
other hand he may be content 40 permit
the bond to be forfeited and to stay
away from Savannah long enough to per-
NIT his trouble with the authorities to be
forgotten.
a little story that Judge Falligant tells
was reproduced in the Morning News of
yesterday, the moral of which was sup
posed to adOrn the tale of Henderson and
Fulton and to illustrate the sympathy
that Hirsch would show them. The point
of the story lay in the offer of one boon
companion to join his friend at the bottom
of a ditch, in which the latter had fallen
in lie of any ability on his part to get
the other out. The moral of course, still
remains, but its application vanished
with the diSappearance of HirSch.