The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-27
A SCORE OF INDICTMENTS.
SUPERIOR COURT GRAND JURY HAD
A LONG AND BUSY SESSION.

indictment Returned Against the
Three Men Charged With the Rob-
berry of John C. Chason-PhOenix
md Dan Williams Are to Answer
for Forgery-WiIliam Schroeder,
the s., f. "a w. KIeptomanic, Pre-
scented to the Court for Trial.
oyster Thieves on the Rack.
"UncIe John" and His Forged Or
der for GrOceries-YOung White
Man Charged With Serious
OHense.
The grand jury of the Superior Court
was in session for more than three hours
Yesterday afternoon, and as a result OF
it's deliberations and examination of wit
nesses, returned indictments against more
than a score of defendants. The crimes
charged range in gravity from simple
larceny to forgery and robbery by force
Bob Levy, Joe Davis and Theodore Eu-
lenburg are indicted for robbery The
crime with which the men are charged
was of recent occurrence, and it's details
are familiar. John C. Chason, q lawyer
OF cambridge, was induced to enter the
lunch house kept by Eulenburg on Ogle-
thorpe avenue, in the heart of the Tender
loin, and there relieved of nearly 500 in
money. One of the men indicted has al
ready made a confession, in which he i'm
plicates both the others in the commits
sion of the crime and states that the trio
divided the spells equally.
The grand jury returned two indictments
against Dan Williams and one against
Phoenix Williams for forgery The men
are the Court House messengers who forg-
ed the name of Janitor B. Donovan to
orders for their salaries, which they ne
gotiated profitably with two of the money
brokers' of the city. Dan is indicted for
forging such an order for $31.9O, upon
which J. Maril advanced him the money,
and in a second indictment, for forging
the name of Mr.. Donovan to an order for
$40, which he negotiated with Frank S.
Van Giesen. Phoenix is charged with
forging the name of the janitor to an order
for $780, upon which he obtained money
from ]. Maril.
William Schroeder is charged with lar
ceny from the house. The man was
trusted employe of the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western Railway and took adj
vantage of his position as foreman of
gang of laborers, and of the confidence
reposed in him by his employers, to make
away with property of very large value.
His populations are said to have extended
over a number of years, and the property
he has stolen 20 have been of very large
value. His arrest was feather in the cap
of Detective Godbold. The indictment
charges the larceny of brasses of the value
of $500 and of tools and other articles of
the value of s125 additional.
George Howard. Isaiah Wright, Ned
Hargraves and Robert Hargraves are
charged with taking oysters from the pri-
Vate beds of Mr.. w. j. DeRenne, without
his permission or authority. The indct-
ment is one of several that have recently
been returned for this offense. Some of
the negroes are in this manner reaping the
consequences of their indiscretion of last
year, when a number of them came to the
conclusion that the oyster leases were of
no binding force and proceeded TO gather
oysters wherever their fancy carried them
or the bivalves were most plentiful.
E. L. Brooks must answer for the crime
of forgery. 1t is charged that Brooks was
concerned in forging the name of l.. 3.
Brooks as indorsee upon a money order
made payable to the latter, and received
the money. 1t is charged further that
these acts were committed with intent to
defraud the estate of l.. B. Brooks. The
money order was on the Southern Express
company ana was sent Dy Ut. NJ. -.
Cowart, from Collins, Ga.
The grand jury returned three indict-
ments against Leander Bonaparte. On
smaller scale, of course, Bonaparte had
as much difficulty in distinguishing be-
tween meum and tuum as his illustrious
predecessor of the same name and seems
to have annexed with great frequency
and in some quantity the products of
the market gardens of his neighbors.
John Thomas was indicted for forgery.
Thomas is charged with the authorship
of a document that purported to be sign
ed by Mrs. NJ x. Corbn and in which
the Southern Grocery Company was be-
sought to send by "Uncle John num-
Der of articles for the table Uncle
John" after he had succeeded so well
in the composition of this epistle, evident
ly thought that the groceries would look
as we'll on his table as on any other
and proceeded to put them to this use.
W. H. Helmly, young white man, is
charged with seduction. Helmly is alleged
to have won the affections of a young
woman and by arts and hattery and fair
promises succeeded in effecting his pur-
pose and wreeking her happiness and her
life.
II. Maddox and Edgar Branch are
charged with assault with intent to muir
der, Cicero Law and Walter Fuller with
burglary and Charley Jones with forgery.
The grand jury was more than three
hours in session, and it was considerably
after O'Clock when its members filed
into the court room.