The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-25
NEWS OF A MURDER
AFTER SENTENCE PASSES.
Condemned Man Asks COmnuta-
.;oD Naxs from, Atlanta

Condemned Man Asks Commute
tion-News from Atlanta.
Atlanta, March 24-The Prison Com
mission received information to-day of
a murder committed last Friday in
the convict camp at Coal City, Dade
county, in which the murderer has al
ready been tried and convicted and
sentenced to be hanged.
The details are meager, but the in
formation comes that Charles Phillips.
who was serving a life sentence from
Jasper county for murder, lin a quar-
rel. killed Ed. Davis, whose term
would have expired next July. Phil
lips was turned over to the sheriff of
Dade county and yesterday was con-
victed and sentenced to death.
About the only information with re-
gard to the affair comes in a letter
from Phillips, in which he asks the
commission to commute his sentence
of hanging to life Imprisonment.
The commission will hold a special
session tomorrow for the purpose of
hearing arguments in the case of John
Perry, white, sentenced to be hanged
on April for the murder of a circus
employ at Dalton, and Joe Cleveland
of Crawford county, sentenced to be
hanged for murder on April II. On
recommendation of the commission
Governor Terrell to-day granted a re-
spite of thirty days to Jerome Colbert
of Oconee county, sentenced to be
hanged for murder on March rs.
Finds Against ShuIhafer.
In response to a request from the
Shulhafer Insurance Agency of Savan-
nah. through Controller General
Wright, Attorney General John c.
Hart to-day decided that a corporation
cannot under any circumstances repre-
sent an insurance company in this
state. The insurance laws applicable
to agents are such that only individ-
uals can comply with them.
1t is stated the Attorney General will
also hold that the Shulhafer Company
charter is void. because it acts as
trustee, and such charters, ii is stat
ed, can only be granted by the Sec
rotary of State.
Must Tax All Property.
Another opinion rendered by the At
torney General to-day is to the effect
that 1t is unconstitutional for any
town or city to levy a tax on one class
of property and not on another. The
little town of Pepperton, in Butts
county, has levied a tax only on real
estate, exempting personal property.
has refused to pay the taxes demanded
of it, and based on the Attorney Cen
erals opinion. Controller General
Wright will refuse to issue the execu-
ton asked for.
Trouble with Printers.
The Blosser Company filed a suit for
$4,000 against the Employing Print
ers' Club of Atlanta to-day for al
legged damages. The defendant club is
composed of thirty-one job printers and
printing companie OF Atlanta. 1t seems
the club agreed to employ only union
men, if the union would refuse to let
its men work in shops outside the club
There has been considerable trouble
over this agreement lately, and this
is said to have led to the suit.
Site Not Yet Selected.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie NJ
Shaw to-day met all the parties in
terested in the site to be offered the
government for the new public build
ing here. There are about half dozen
of these considered available. Later
he inspected all the sites, but said on
leaving for Washington he could not
express any opinion in the matter, and
would not until after the bids had been
opened and gone into thoroughly.