The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09
OVER 100 WITNESSES
SUMMONED FOR UNITED STATES
GRAND JURY.
COURTS CONVENE TUESDAY.
JUDGE sPEER AND OFFICERS WILL
ARRIVE TOMORROW.

Jurors AttentiOn-The Price Mail
Robbery Case to Come Up-An-
ders the "Pecan Tree SwindIer,"
Docket May BE CalIed-Interesting
Civil Gases to BE Tried.
Judge Emory Speer will arrive in Sa-
vannah tomorrow night and will con-
vene the United States Circuit and
District Courts for the November term,
Tuesday. Accompanying Judge Speer
will be Assistant United States District
Attorney Alexander Alderman, Deputy
Clerk L. NJ. Erwin and United States
Marshall John NJ. Barnes.
The court will convene at 10 o'clock
Tuesday at which time the grand and
petit jurors will assemble to answer
to their names. Many of the members
of the local law bar will be present as
will also representatives of the bar
from other cities in the district. Dep
uty Marshal Furman Pearce has served
$50 witnesses with subpoenas to APP
pear at this session Of the court.
Greene and GaynOr May Not BE Here
Mr.. Alderman will conduct most of
the criminal cases while Assistant
United States Attorney w. r. Leaken
of Savannah will represent the govern
ment's interest in it's civil matters. Mr..
Leaken was asked yesterday if he ex-
pected Greene and Gaynor at this
term of the court. He smiled and sug-
gested that the question be asked of
Mr.. Marion Erwin, but when asked as
to Mr. Erwin's whereabouts he replied
in the same manner that he didn't
know.
The grand jury will convene on the
opening day of the court. will sit until
a number of matters of a criminal
and civil nature which are now on the
docket, have been disposed of.
1t is expected that this session of the
court will be rather a short one, but
this will scarcely prevent the assem-
bling of a very large audience at the
first days session to hear Judge Speer
deliver his always interesting and
thoughtful charge to the grand jury.
The members of this body have al
ready been summoned to appear at the
time specified.
Among other matters to be consid-
cred by the grand jury are the follow
ing cases:
Plenty of Pension Trials.
That Of S. f. Holman, colored, charg-
ed with taking pension papers as Sc
curity for loan, and making a. false
certificate and jurat as a notary pub
lie, he holding that office in Chatham
county. Holman then went to New
York, FORGETTING his bond in doing so,
but upon his arrest there did not adopt
the tactics of Greene and Gaynor and
resist extradition. He was taken to
Macon and Jailed there, but afterward
brought to the Chatham county Jail,
but released on bail furnished by his
stepfather.
Another is the case of Henry Bill
lingslea, oolored, charged with fraudu-
lently taking from a United States
mail bag letter addressed to the
First National Bank, Albany, Ga, and
extracting from it certain checks. The
offense was committed at Poulan, Ca,
but Billingslea is held in Chatham
county Jail.
The case of Jim Council, colored, is
another that will receive consideration.
This man is charged with breaking in
to the postoffice at Fly, Ga, and TAX
ing five letters His present abode is
the local Jail.
George w. Davis, white, a notary
public, will be tried on the = same
charges as those against Holman, that
OF aff1xing a false certificate and jurat
to pension papers. While still an
other man who will be tried on charges
growing out of this same transaction
is William E. Moore, a colored law
yer OF Eftingham county,, against
whom the specific charges are aiding
and assisting in make a false and
fraudulent affidavit for a pension
sought by Louisa Simpson, colored.
The Price Case.
One of the most interesting of the
cases to be considered is that of Hor-
ace l.. Price, white, of Johnson Sta
ton, who is charged with taking.
stealing and carrying away a mail
pouch of the United States designed
for the postoffice at Johnson Station.
Price, who is. quite young man, has
been in Jail since few hours after
the alleged crime was committed. and
this, despite the fact that his father
is said to be a fairly wealthy man.
Aionzo Kicks, white. will be tried
for breaking into the postoffice at Nor
rlstoWn' Ga, and committing a lar
ceny therefrom. He is out on bond.
Still another case of unusual inter
est will be that of ]. Lucian Anders
OF Savannah, charged with using the
mails for scheme to defraud, known
as the pecan tree swindle." The
various phases of Anders' operations
are familiar to the Savannah public.
Anders is out on bond.
Henry Shigg, colored, will have in
CURED into charge against him to
the effect that he presented a. false
pension claim, alleging that he had
served in the One Hundred and Tween
ty-eighth Regiment, U. sc. T. Ed
Brown is another negro, now in Jail,
who is charged with the attempt to
pass a false and counterfeit money
order, whose case will be considered
by the grand jury.
The LOWndes County Mail Robbery.
At this sitting, too will come up the
case of Carrie Riley, coIored. who is
charged with having damaged a mail
box in Lowndes county. This is the
woman who refuses to be discharged
from jail unless the government will
give her specified sum of money and
give her back her baby The child
died while the woman was in jail.
The case of Willie Baker, colored.
also will be considered. Baker is
charged with forging a postoffice or
der at Waycross. He was arrested in
Tampa and given a preliminary hear
ing by Judge Locke, but subsequently
removed for trial to this district.
The Civil Docket.
1t is not known whether the civil
docket will be taken up at all by the
court. This will depend on whether
Judge Speer intends to hold more than
a brief session, the general impression
being that the court will sit but a few
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