The news & observer., 1901-01-04
COURT BEGINS
NEXT MONDAY
Judge Starbuck Will Preside
Over This Term.
2 WEEKS CRIMINAL COURT
There Will be Three Murder Cases
Tried at This Term.
CASES NEARLY ALL FOR PETTY CRIMES
There Are One Hundred and Fifteen Cases on
the Docket, Eighty.Five Of Which Are
New. Fifty For Larceny and Carry
as ing Concealed Weapons.
ing Concealed Weapons.

ing Concealed weapons.
On next Monday will begin criminal
Sterm of the Superior court of Wake coun-
ty. Judge Henry Starbuck will preside,
: and the court will be in session almost
two weeks.
- There are one hundred and fifteen cases
loon the docket, and eighty-five of them are
new cases. The majority of the old cases
are simply kept on the docket until BOND
is paid or cost settled. The greater num-
Der of the new cases are for larceny ana
carrying concealed weapons. These seem
10 be the most prominent failings OF the
average petty law breakers in wake
county
There will be three murder cases for
trial this time The defendants are sam
uel Mangum for the murder OF Peter
Griffin. and Oscar O'Neal for being ac-
cessory thereto, and George Gooch
charged with killing his father.
The only one of these defendants in jail
Is Samuel Mangum, both ONeal anu
Gooch being out on bond. Twice Man
gums attorneys have tried to procure
his release on a writ of habeaS corpus
from Judge Montgomery, but the Judge
2 refused each time to grant the liberatlng
order
At the coroner's hearing in this case,
Mangum was released the jury declaring
the deed justifable. Later he was ar
rested on warrant issued by Justice
Barbee and sworn out by a brother to
the dead man. Mangum was placed IN
iail, and Justice Maroon, who heard the
case, refused to grant him bail, and re-
manded him to Jail to await the action Oh
the grand jury. ONeal was remanded
TO jail, but was granted bail by Judge
Montgomery, of the Supreme Court
bench.
The defence in this case say they nave
a strong case. They say Griffin came to
Mangum's house, raising a disturbance
and cursing, and that Mangum went down
the road with him at his own request
and when killed he was advancing on
Mangum. and trying to pull pistol from
his hip rocket The defense in this case
is represented by Col. ]. G. L. Harris
and Messrs. Argo and Snow. Col. 5. e.
RYAN will represent the State. The case
will be hotly contested.
The other case happened only few
weeks ago. The defendant shot his faith
er. who was at the time of the shooting
beating the boys mother The man dlea
the night after being shot. Public sym
pathy seems to favor the boy, and MS
mother has employed to defend him Col.
g q. RYAN and Messrs. Argo and Snow
It is said that the grand jury may not
find a true bill in the case. The pre-
Iiminary hearing was waived, and the boy
was liberated upon $500 bond
Another case that has attracted at
tention is the case against Moses BED
soc for shooting ]. S. Carter, of Durham
The case has been continued twice a
few days ago, news came from durham
of Carter's death. He was the principal
witness against Bledsoe, and it is not now
known what disposition will be made OF
the case. At the last term of the crlmi-
nal court, Carter was called home on ac-
count of the death of his daughter.
There are two forgery cases. In one
case, negro, Bill Bryant passed forged
$40 bill at bar in payment for drink
The bill was originally 81 bill, but acid
had been used and the figure replaced
BY 10, and other necessary alterations
made. The black ink used betrayed tne
counterfeit. The negro denies having
passed the bill, but it was concluslVeiy
proven at the magistrates hearing.
The other forgery case is the forgery
of a check Mr. w. A. Williams, VINO
works for the Seaboard Air Line received
his pay check for $69.40, and lost IT. JOE
Johnston, the defendant is charged win
having forged Williams name to the
check in the endorsement. The check
was cashed by Mr.. Dave Berwanger, who
with Mr.. Williams are the prosecuting
witnesses.
lanes Mclean will be tried. having
been charged with furnishing liquor TO
Otof
Jennie Turner (col.), will be tried for
the larceny of $3.50 of diamond rings from
Mrs j. C. Blasingame.
There are 25 cases for carrying con-
cealed weapons; &c cases for larceny; !
for highway robbery; / for bigamy: !,
for affray; for false pretense; fol
adultery and fornication, and for dis-
turbing religious worship.
The cases that will probably be called
up for trial are as follows
Samuel Mangum, murder
Oscar O'Neal, accessory.
George Gooch, mansaughter.
Bill Bryant, passing and counterfeltine
Moses Bledsoe, unlawful shooting
Joe Johnson, forgery.
James Mclean. furnishing spurious llq
uor to a patient at State Hospital
Jennie Turner, larceny of diamond
rings.
Hubert Ferrell. disturbing religious
worship at Wakefield
John Abrams, bigamy
]. H. Bailey, larceny and receiving.
Earl Jones and Charlie Jones, larceny
and receiving.
Daniel Watson and Penny Stevens, alias
Penny Battle, alias Penny Moon, fornica-
tion and adultery.
Lee Whitfield. larceny.
John Tyler, larceny.
Tom Holmes and Rufus Dunn, larcens
and house breaking.
Edgar Richardson. larceny
Frank Moore larceny e cases).
John Smith and John jones' larceny
(several cases).
Tvill Taylor, larceny e cases)
Coot Yellowday, assault with deadly
uycan0n