The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-12
KEPT OPEN SUNDAY
uup SANDERS FOUND GUILTY
AND FINED $3.50.
1,yl OR AND SCHROEDER TRIED.
.,Es IN THEIR CASES NOT LIKE
LY TO AGREE.

u.ury Printup, Negro witness IN
- schroeder Case, Kept Things
I'm COurt-Went Into n Bar
and Was Late at Church.
-. KNOW He Was Going to a
,oon--Witness in Sanders Case
pococnized Negro in Court Room
-, TooIx Him Into sanders Bar.
y Tavlor. Philip Sanders and George
aor were tried in the Superior
e,.,rt yesterday for keeping open tipping
s.,,ses on the Sabbath day, and Sanders
convicted after the jury had been
only a few minutes. He was fined
.,.o and costs, or six months in jail.
T,bo cases against the other men will
..ohablv result in mistrials, although
r.. wbo heard them in the court room,
.idered the evidence conclusive. In
w Ease the Jury was instructed to
.rtn, in sealed verdict, in case an agree
u.an1 was reached during the night. This
-as done with the consent of counsel.
TAYLOR was represented by Mr.. j. Ferris
ronn and Mr. Robert l.. Colding, Sanders
nv Mr.. George w. Owens, and Schroeder
Nv Col. P. w. Meldrim. All of the cases
wore more or less interesting, and at
times were amusing.
Henry Printup colored, kept the court
to an uproar during the time he was on
.be stand in the Schroeder case. He is
an elderly negro of the deacon in de
rbrrch" type. and was quite earnest in
rbat he had to say. The witness declar-
"A that he had only just returned from
Florida and that he was on his way
n church on Sunday morning. June %,
when he met a negro named Cummings.
cummings asked him to go to a place
with him and the witness agreed, if it
would not get him late at church
az didn't know where Mr.. Cummings
ras going to take me and it wuz sure
Axed I'D alright. 1t was a put up job
on me-" said Printup. when l got in
Mr.. Schroeder's bar l knowed l wuz out
n Mace | ought to had ben in de church
den Cummings, he ordered two glasses of
louor. and it wuz put on de counter. 1t
is been about forty years and it wuz de
first time I did sech thing. 1t was a
nut up job, but it wuz a good lesson to
de old man and you'll never catch me
arv more. l wuz jest dragged into dat
place on Sunday by dat Mr.. Cummings,
and faint no fault oh mine dat is here
now"
Did you drink the liquor before you
vent out?" asked Judge Falligant, as the
witness left the stand.
well. boss. it wuz done a put up job
and | did drink it;' said Printup turn
ing back with a grin.
In the same case a negro named Jack
son Williams swore that he went in the
bar for half a pint of whisky. He
walked through the green grocery and
found no difficulty in reaching the bar
The witness declared that the whisky
had been poured in a flask when man
with stick walked in the place and said:
They are all out there on the corner,
don't sell that man any liquor" Will
Jams testified that the bartender put the
whisky back in the jug, but sold him
Decent drink.
T. D. Newman and Y. c. Newman, both
white, testified that the bar was open on
the Sunday in question. The latter wit
at the time. Newman asked if he could
buy drink, and was told that he could
not. He saw others making purchases,
however. The witness returned to the bar
five minutes later, and the doors were
closed
The defendant made a statement in
which he denied the charge upon which
he had been indicted, but no witnesses
were placed on the stand. Col Meldrim
made an able argument. and evidently got
some members of the jury guessing. The
solicitor general could see no use for an
argument, and the facts were left with
the jury