The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-15
OURMURDER TRIALS
TO OCCUPY ATTENTION OF SU-
PERIoR COURT THIS WEEK.
SEVEN DOSS-BRYAN CASES
AMONG THOSE THAT APPEAR ON
DOCKET FOR TOMORROW.

| Charges Also to Be Heard-DOcl1et
Unusually Heavy for Third Week
of Term-Several Interesting DAM
| age Suits to Come Before City
COurt-MajOrity of Them Against
| RaiIrOads-OnIy Routine Business
in Ordinary's COurt-United States
Court to Convene Thursday.
| Though both the Superior Court and
the City Court have been busy since
the beginning of the present term, and
a number of important cases have been
disposed of, there yet remain on the
docket many other important cases of
which a number win be taken up this
week.
In the Superior Court, alone. there
are three murder trials docketed, one
for murder in the second degree. five
cases for assault with intent to muir
der, and a raft of cases on charges of
| gambling, carrying concealed weapons,
larceny after trust and other offenses.
| Among the cases on the lesser
charges the most interesting, probably,
are the remainder of those growing
are to be taken up on Monday in the
following order: Cad D. Bryan,
charged with conducting a gambling
house, a case that resulted in a mis-
| trial before, James T. Bennett, for
| carrying concealed weapons; Bryan,
| for keeping a tipping house open on
the Sabbath; James L. Doss, for gam
bling; Doss. for carrying concealed
weapons; Bryan for carrying concealed
weapons and Nat Evans on the same
charge.
The case of the Evergreen Cemetery
! Company against Joseph Williams, in
which an injunction is sought to pre-
vent trespass upon the property of the
plaintiff, is also to be taken up on this
day.
On Tuesday will be taken up first
| the case of Samuel West, charged with
the murder of Alexander Paris on Aug.
| 90 West was Waterman for Fergu-
sons wood yard at the time Of the
| killing. There were no witnesses
| to the affair, but West claimed self
| defense, and stated that at the time
he shot Paris, that man was advancing
on him with a piece of wood with
which he had threatened to knock him
| in the head.
| sAQOLn6r case QOckeIeQ IOE Tie SdliAS
| day is that of Caleb Williams, charged
| with assault with intent to murder.
The story in this ARRAY is of an I'M
usual kind. The woman on whom the
| assault was made was the wife OF the
| defendant. She claimed that her hus-
band had sought to cut her throat, and
| but for the fact that on the night in
| question, when the assault was made,
! she had reversed her position in bed,
| head
should have been, that the defendant
would have accomplished his purpose.
| AS it was the razor used cut the wom-
! ans foot to the bone, nearly seVerlng
| it.
Glover Murder Trial.
Henry Glover will be tried for muir
| der the day following. 1t is charged
that on Oct. "a Glover struck Angus
tus Sheppard over the head with bot
| Cle inficting a wound from which
| Sheppard died some two weeks later.
Glover came very nearly getting off
with a very light sentence. His victim
had died and been buried before the
police knew of the trouble, and Glover
was then a member of the chaingang,
where he had been sent for carrying
| concealed weapons.
Jim Brown and Ed Smith will be
tried on the charge of assault with in
tent to murder for firing on Patrolman
Mccarthy on the night of April %. One
of the negroes fired two shots at the
policeman when he attempted to arrest
them for being drunk and disorderly.
| They escaped at the time, but were
later arrested.
A similar case to be tried on We'd
nesday is that of Percy Moulden, who
cut the throat of Georgia Mobiles with
a razor, Oct. 4, and then turned the
weapon on himself in an effort to com
NIT suicide. In each case the attempt
proved abortiVe.
Willie Jones, who shot John H. Gray
son Sept 20, will be given a trial on
the charge of assault with intent to
murder Thursday, and on the same
day Paul Austin will be tried on the
same charge ~ shooting Andrew Rob-
inson, and lnust answer also the
further charge of carrying concealed
weapons.
On Friday will take place the trial
of Abram Singleton, charged with
murder, and Jim Richardson charged
with aiding and abetting the crime.
The three men, together with num-
Der of others, were engaged in skin
game on Gwinnett street, east, when
Singleton and Quarterman became en-
gagged in a row over 20 cents. Single
ton shot Quarterman through the heart.
Richardson is held because he told
Singleton to kill the man.
In the City Court.
In the City Court are to be heard
number of damage suits, that is, they
are the cases in which the greatest
interest centers, though there are a
number of other. civil suits of more
or less importance. On tomorrow will
be heard the case of j. P. Cordray
against the Savannah Electric Com
pany for damages; that of S. H. oliver
against the Central of Georgia for
damages, and that of w. O. Hanley
against the Ocean Steamship Company
for damages. other damage suits are
those of Alice Jones against the Sea-
board Air Line, Ed McTeer against the
Seaboard Air Line, and May Pierce
against the same company
So far as can be foreseen there is
little but routine business to come up
in the Court of Ordinary. In the United
States court, too, there is likely to
be but little business out of the routine
unit! the return of Judge Emory Speer
who will arrive Thursday and imme-
diately convene the court