The age-herald., 1901-05-18
CRIMINAL COURT
 BREAKS RECORD Began on Case at 10 O'clock
 Yesterday A VERDICT AT l:45 TODAY Samuel w. Taylor, a Young White Man, Is Tried and Convicted of Receiving Stolen Property.
 Takes an Appeal.

The Criminal Court broke the record yesterday for a continuous sitting. It started yesterday morning at 10 o'clock on the trial of Samuel W. Taylor, charged with receiving stolen property, and at a quarter to two o'clock this morning the jury brought in a verdict finding the de- the stolen property at $17.40. This is the longest sitting this court or probably any other court in the county ever had. And it was all done to enable a jury to at tend a Sunday school picnic today.
 Judge Dan A. Greene presided Samuel W. Taylor is young white man formerly fin the hide and tallow business. The property he was said to have received was 3 pounds of rod brass of the value of 24 cents a pound, and 800 pounds of journal brass of the value of 20 cents pound, property of the Southern Railway. and 800 pounds of journal brass, property of the Alabama Great Southern.
 Journal brasses are the pieces of brass that go over the journal on a locomotive engine, or other engine A diagram of an ehgine journal was introduced in evil dence in the case yesterday and explained by Henry c. Bingham, a witness for the State, who is a machinist of the South ern Railway. It looked like a round cir cle. What part of an engine is that, a headlight?" asked defendants counsel "No sir, a headlight has reflector, that ain't got none,'' replied the witness. The witness continued to testify about jour nal brasses, saying that they had identi- fled the stolen brasses of the Southern Railway by the numbers on them, each brass having the number of the engine stamped on it. f.te
 Defendants counsel asked number of questions of the witness about journals and journal brasses which seemed to ex- asperate one of the jurors.
 'If it please your honor" said the ju- TOT, "are we trying this man for stealing journals or journal brasses?"
 ,. He is being tried for receiving stolen journal brasses,' replied the judge.
 'Then I want to know" continued the witness why it Is necessary to ask all these fool questions about journalist"
 The defandant's counsel replied to this by suggesting to the witness that the state was represented by counsel, who were competent to object to any improp- CT question. Proceed with the examina- tion," said the judge
 Continuing the witness said that twen- ty journals were stolen from his com pany between March 15 and, 20, 1900; that they weighed about 450 pounds and were worth sixteen and half cents pound.
 Chief Austin TestifIes.
 Chief Austin testified for the State that he had gone to the defendants yard and l asked him if they had any railroad brass and defendant said that they didn't buy railroad brass. That he then asked him to let him look into storeroom, and that defendant replied that his brother had the key. That defendant went after it and they found some brass in there, but no railroad brass. That Officer Patton. who was with him then, went to another storeroom across the alley and came out and told him that there were some barrels in there which defendant said contained only tallow. but that he had polxed poker through the bunghole and that he could feel a hard substance in- side. That he himself then tried it and said to defendant 1t didn't feel much like tdliOW, ana tHdt Iie WdHleu lne DdrrelS opened. The defendant said he couldn't open them without his brothers consent. That defendant then went off and that he, the witness. got search warrant and found some brass in the barrels The de- fendant's place of business was at that time in Morris avenue and Twenty-fourth street
 Albert Pressly, witness for defendant, testified that he had carried the brass to defendant to sell for another man named George Judge.
 Defendants counsel then offered to in- troduce In evidence the record of George Judges trial-and acquittal on the charge of stealing the same brass, but the judge held it was irrelevant.
 J. P. Weller testified for defendant that it was the custom to ship brass in bar rels He also testified to the value of secondhand brass
 At 5:30 court adjourned to resume at 8 o'clock, as one of the jurors wanted to go to a Sunday school picnic today. The juror who had objected to the journal tes- timony remarked that he would rather sit up all night than sleep in the place where they had been sent to sleep the 1; night before. 7
 The Night Session.
 At o'clock court reconvened and J. T. Glover took the stand for defendant. He said he was attorney for J. D. Taylor at the time the officers came to his ware