The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-05
MANY CRIMINAL CASES.
Long List for the Grand Jury to In
vestigate Tomorrow.

Long List for the Grand Jury to In
vestigate Tomorrow.
A large number of criminal cases will
be investigated at the session of the
grand jury tomorrow. None of the
murder cases will be investigated, nor
will witnesses to the killing of little
Clarence Baker, by a trolley car of the
East and West belt, be examined.
There are other criminal matters to be
investigated, and the homicides will pc
taken up by Solicitor General Osborne
upon his return to the city.
Almost all of the residents of Woods
vile, negro settlement, have been
summoned as witnesses in several Sc
rious cases. Frank Moultrie alias For
tune Jackson is to be presented on a
charge of assault with intent to muir
der. The prosecutor is Paris Jones of
No. Ii Main street, the townships
thoroughfare, and there are a half
dozen or more, witnesses. Josie Green
and Elliot Graham are also held on
separate charges of assault with intent
to murder. Both of these defendants
reside in Woodsville, and the row
which caused their arrest occurred in
the settlement.
Joe Demere and Stephen Hooks, two
we'll known East Side negroes, are to
be presented for highway robbery. The
negroes. who have a bad name with
the police, are alleged to have stolen
a dollar from the hand of Matte Mas
ters, of No. 526 Harris street, east. The
little girl is a daughter of former Po-
lice Clerk T. B. Masters, and was
robbed in a fruit stand on Liberty and
East Broad streets. The detectives say
that the negroes also worked the dou-
bic lock game on unsuspecting strang-
ers.
Jim Small, the notorious negro bur-
glar who burned his way out of the
police station, will be presented on a
charge of burglarizing a Jefferson
street pawnshop. Small was arrested
a week after the crime was committed
and a few hours after he had been
taken i'll custody he made a daring
escape. He was arrested in Charles
ton several weeks afterwards and re-
manned in Jail in that city for some
two or three months.
Witnesses have been summoned to
appear against two boy burglars, both
colored. Daniel A. Washington is al
legged to have entered the bicycle store
of Deputy Sheriff Charles B. Westcott
taken from the place was found on
the boy when arrested. Preston Dam
iels is the second juvenile and he is ac-
cused of robbing the residence of F.
J. Goette of No. $40 OFT street.
The case of William Brown, charged
with burglary at Meinhard, Ca, will
also be investigated. The negro en-
tered the store of S. B. Harrison early
last Sunday morning and was caught
in the act of going through the cash
box. He was covered by the proprie-
tor and brought to the city. The pros
ecutor is postmaster at Meinhard and
the postoffice was entered, but for
some reason the case was not called
to the attention of the United States
commissioner.
The other cases on the docket to be
investigated are: Francis Williams
and Jacob Donegal, larceny of large
sum of money from w. M. Donegal Of
No. $40 Bolton street. east; Simpson
Grayson, assault with intent to muir
der; Robert Small, robbery; A. N. Gra-
ham. larceny after trust; Joe Bush,
larceny after trust John Croddock,
larceny after trust; D. Lewis, bur-
glary; Henry Williams, larceny after
trust; Charles Low, larceny after
trust.