The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-20
GAVE HIM The TIP
JOE BOWERS, INDICTED FOR
GAMING, OUT OF OFFICERS WAY.
WANTED ON TWO CHARGES
INDICTED FOR GAMBLING AND
KEEPING A GAMBLING HOUSE.

Could Be Signed and When the
Court officers Sought Him He Was
Not to Be FOund-HOrace Jones
and Henry Sheis, Jr., Indicted for
Murder-TwO Charges of Assault
With Intent to Murder Against
Rufus Bell.
The grand jury of the Superior
Court was rather short on Good Gov
eminent League indictments at it's ses-
sion yesterday afternoon. But three
were returned. two of which are
against Joe Bowers, Caesar Stewart,
and one against negro gambler, whom
the county officers, armed with a
bench warrant, arrested last night
They are looking for Bowers
still. Before the bench warrant
could be signed and placed in the
| hands of the officers, some obliging
Individual, who had inside Informal
ton, presumed to be one of the wit
nesses who appeared against the de-
PENDANT, had given him the tip that
very shortly he would be wanted and
wanted badly, and when the officers
started out to look for him he was no
where to be found.
His accustomed haunts knew him no
| longer and the deputies who had the
bench warrants looked and looked and
| looked again in vain. The two indict-
| ments against Bowers charge him with
gambling and with keeping a gaming
house, respectively. The lawyer interest
ed in convicting the offenders against
the gaming laws of the state have
| played in hard luck latterly in proving
| that the defendants in the cases they
| tried have been actually interested in
| keeping gaming houses, though in al
most every case it has been acknowl-
| edged that the defendant was in the
| game. BY securing an Indictment for
gaming, as well as for keeping a gam
! ing house, it is evidently designed to
| prevent the recurrence of such mishaps
| in the future.
Caesar Stewart, the colored member
| OF the sporting fraternity indicted, was
| arrested in his house in YamacraW at
an early hour this morning by Deputies
McCatery and Hartigan. Stewart was
| In bed when the deputies arrived and
| surrounded the place. The inmates re-
fused to open for the officers, and the
door of the house was broken in. Stew
art had no chance to escape and was
| able to furnish BAIL
A number of other indictments were
returned, among them being two for
murder. Horace Jones is charged with
the murder of Ben. Blount and Henry
| Shelg, Jr., with the murder of Hender-
son Fraser. The two alleged murderers
| are both negroes and their victims were
| of the same race.
IL is rather a peculiar coincidence
that both men were killed with shot
| guns. Jones and BlOunt had a. dispute
over money matters on July 4. out on
the Louisville road, which Jones ended
| by shooting Blount in the side. The
| desperately wounded man lived only a
| moment.
Henderson Fraser was killed by Sheig
| a week afterward and at night. Fraser
was in church at Sandhy Station, when
| some one showed a gun in through an
| open window and fired two shots. A
load of slugs and missiles of every de-
scription entered Fraser's side and he
| expired Immediately. Shelly was ar
| rested and charged with the crime, but
| he then, as he continues to do, denied
that he had anything to do with the
| shooting and that he was in the neigh
| borhood when it occurred
Two indictments for assault with in
| tent to murder were returned against
Rufus Bell. Bell is a negro tramp,
| whom w. F. Rousseau, conductor of
| Seaboard Air Line freight train, dis
| covered on his train on the night of
| July 49, The conductor endeavored to
! arrest Bell and the negro struck him
in the head with coupling pin, knock
Ing him off the train. David Hayes,
negro brakeman, came to the assist
ance of the conductor and him Bell
treated in the same manner The negro
was arrested two days later in the city
| The indictments returned yesterday al
| lege murderouS assault on the conduc-
tor and brakeman respectively.
John c. Steinberg, young white
boy, was indicted for simple larceny.
| He is alleged to have stolen a horse
and cab, of the value of 5000, from Jas
per N. Griffith, on Feb 2.
George B. Cooper the grand jury in
dicted for larceny after trust He is
| alleged to have appropriated and con-
| Yerted to his own account $7221, with
which he had been entrusted by
Thomas M. Blount. Blount is in the
hay. grain and feed business, and Coop
| er was for time in his employ. He
| is young white man. 1t was while
| he was employed by Blount that the
| defalcations are said to have occurred.
| Cooper claims that he took nothing to
| which he was not rightfully entitled
and that he was only trying to pro-
tect himself. He denies that he ever
appropriated, with any purpose in
view, anything like the amount of
money alleged in the Indictment
Moses Wayne was indicted for as
sault with intent to murder Peter PAN
sadino, and A. 2. Scott for assault
with intent to murder Robert Hun
ter. The last indictment springs from
Fourth of July row, in which Scott
is said to have taken a shot or two at
Hunter with no loftier purpose than
the desire to see him jump.
The grand jury refused to return an
| indictment against Butler Hadley a
young white man whom Sergt. w. H.
Fleming of the police force, charged
with larceny after trust. Haley was
said TO have pawned an overcoat and
appropriated the money.
There is no business awaiting now
TIE prompt action of the grand jury,
aud it has been discharged, subject to
call. II any need for its services
should arise It can. of course, be
promptly got together.
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