The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-08
FOR CHILD PRISONERS.
GRAND JURY AGAIN ASKS FOR
REFORMATORY.
AN EARLY ELECTION URGED.
MANY INDICTMENTS RETURNED AT
YESTERDAYS SESSION.

Lunnen Grant Indicted for the MUIR
der of Victor Rivers-Pete Thomp-
son to Answer for Robbing ID. J.
Woods and Lewis Cox for Holding
Up j. ID. Her.
The grand jury of the Superior Court
submitted a special presentment yes
terday indorsing the recommendation
of the last grand jury for reformatory
for Juvenile prisoners, and recommend
ing that the matter be submitted by
the County Commissioners to a vote
of the people as early as consistent
with the law.
The grand jury followed closely the
charge of Judge Barrow on the re-
formitory question. It's Endorsement
of the action of the grand jury for the
December term however, has no legal
force, the action of the last grand
jury being all that was necessary I'M
der the law to secure an election. The
oresentment was submitted to Judge
Seabrook, who is presiding in Judge
Barrow's place.
The grand jury spent two hours in
session, and returned twelve indict-
ments. two special presentments and
failed to find indictments in two cases.
Lunnen, alias Lump Grant, was in
| dicted for the murder of Victor Rivers
| last October. The killing followed a
quarrel over a woman, and Grant fed.
| He was arrested in Jacksonville
short time ago. The evidence against
| him is strong. At least two witnesses
| saw the shooting.
Eight indictments were returned for
| burglary, two for robbing, two for lar
| ceny, one for assault and battery, and
one for hog stealing.
/ Pete Thompson, the young white
man, arrested for completely with Muir
| ply, a race horse follower, in the rob-
bling of D. ]. Woods in Pacetti's bar
| last month was indicted for robbery.
| Thompson seems not to have had a
| hand directly in the affair, but knew
about it and made no effort to prevent
it, or to have Murphy arrested. Muir
| ply is supposed to have taken an en-
| velope with $3.50 out of Woods pocket.
| He offered to divide with Thompson
in the enterprise but did not and
| skipped. Nothing has since been
heard of him. Some days ago Thomp
son was arrested.
John H. Sanford was indicted for
burglary He was caught breaking
into ]. M. Dixon & Co.'S warehouse
by Plant System Policeman ]. F.
Lovett, who had s. desperate struggle
with his prisoner. Sanford had an
| iron bar with which he was working
and gave the officer hard tussle. He
| was finally knocked down and, after
being shackled, was taken to Jail.
Lewis Cox was indicted for robbing
| ]. D. Her on West Broad street last
month. Half a dozen others were ar
rested for the crime, but were released.
| Cox was the leader and it developer
was the man who did the job He was
suspected by the police of being a fug-
| tive from Columbia, S. O., where he
| was wanted for murder. OF this sus-
| picion Cox was cleared. There seemed
to be no doubt, however,
| of his having been mixed
up in the robbery of Tier.
| Arthur Mitchell and Lincoln Lesane.
two negroes who broke into a Jeffer-
| son street house some weeks ago and
one of whom was captured under bed
in the house which he tried to rob,
were indicted for burglary.
Four negroes, Ed. Wayne, George
| Cooper, Ed. Cummings and Clip An
derson, were indicted for burglary.
They broke into Dublin Browns house
on the western part of the city by
| taking off the window blinds and
| smashing in the windows and carried
off nearly all of his wife's clothes.
Charles Terrell and James Barr, two
white. men, We're also indicted for
! burglary They pretty nearly cleaned
out a sailor boarding house on East
| Bay street during the proprietor's alb
sence.
William Brown, the supposed jew
! elry drummer who hired a horse and
| buggy from c. H. Spple and failed to
return the rig, was indicted for lar
ceny. The horse was found near Jesup in
almost worthless condition, after hav-
ing been driven in roundabout way
| about two hundred miles.
Morris Cuthbert, a patient at the
| Georgia Infirmary, who took SIS from a
| fellow patient, Glasgow Brown, and
escaped, was indicted for larceny
| Cuthbert said when he was arrested
that he intended to return the money
and only took it to keep for Brown.
Ed. Powell was indicted for hog steal
| Ing. He was caught with one of the
| fifty or seventy-five hogs that had
| been stolen from H. M. Morgan's place
on Hutchinsons Island.
Frank S. Van Giesen was indicted
for assault and battery on J. K.
Pedrick of Thunderbolt, Thursday. The
| assault was made in Van Giesen's
place on West Broad street. Pedrick
went there to see about a contract for
painting his house. at Thunderbolt and
the assault followed up some abusive
language which Van Giesen used.
The grand jury failed to return an
indictment against ]. A. Woodson, |
butler for Mr.. G. H. Gibbes, who was
| suspected of having had a hand in the
robbery of Mr.. Gibbes' house in the
Meadows.
Indictments were returned against
Bryant Heath and Mack Sapp for fish
ing on S. J. Dickerson's place on the
Fort Argyle road, eighteen miles from
Savannah, after having been warned to
keen off