The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-23
IN ITS SECOND WEEK
CRIMINAL MATTERS TO BE TRIED
BEFORE JURIEs TO-DAY
IN UNITED STATES COURT.
JUDGE SPEER WILL RENDER SEW
ERAL IMPORTANT DECISIONS.

Will Be Read When Court COnvencs
This MOrning-Sixty-ORe Traverse.
Jurors Will Report for Duty.
Grand Jury VIII Meet ON Thurs
day-SeveraI Criminal Jury Trials
for To-day-InterestinE Civil
Cases Assigned for the week-The
Rauers Case.
The second weeks session of the
United States courts will commence
this morning, The present week
promises to be the busiest and most
interesting of the session. since in ad-
1ition to the criminal and civil bus
mess assigned and the charge of
Judge Speer to the grand jury. there
are number of decisions in import
ant cases to be rendered by the court
1t is probable that when court con-
yenes this morning at 10 o'clock,
Judge Speer will read his decisions in
several of the important cases argued
last week. The traverse Jurors, sew
enty-one in number, will report for
duty, and will enter upon the dis
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are numerous criminal matters to be
disposed of, and it is probable that
these will be taken up directly after
the panel has been sworn and instruct
ed.
Among the cases to be tried this
morning is the one against ]. w. c.
Clarke, who is charged with refusing
cancelled stamps at the postoffice at
Mamie. The indictment against him
alleges that he refused as many as
six, though 1t is thought that the ex-
tent of his operations was considerably
greater Clarke protests his innocence
of the charge against him, and will
be given an opportunity of disproving
the accusation. He is represented by
T. S. Hill.
other Criminal Matter.
Thomas w. Faircloth, who is charg-
ed with having made a jurat that
was absolutely false, to a pension
claim, will also face jury of his peers.
The government, which will be repre-
sented by Mr.. Alderman, will contend
that the party whose signature Fair
cloth claimed to have attested was
nowhere about when the paper was
signed. The accused Is from Decatur
county. He will be represented by c.
L. Smith of Valdosta.
Other trials have been assigned for
later in the week. There are also
numerous civil matters to come up for
disposition, the most important and in
teresting being the case of Barstow ct
al. against Isaac Beckett ct al; Lar
sen against S. P. Shotter Company;
Stone against Bell Telephone Com
pany. The CASTOR street paving case
will not come up until next week.
The Rauers Case,
A great deal of interest is manifest
ed in the outcome of the Rauers case.
in which the government is seeking to
condemn land for a light house on st.
GATHERINGS Island. If the court sus.
| tains the plea in bar, the case will be
| dismissed, and the government en-
/ Joined from further procedure. If, on
the other hand, the plea is overruied
| the case will come up for trial, prob
ably at the next term of court. Judge
| Speer's decision will be rendered in a
| few days.
The grand and traverse jurors were
drawn without regard to the newly
| created division of the court at VAL
dosta, there having not yet been a re-
vision of the jury boxes. The consti-
tuition of the United States provides
that the accused shall be given a
speedy and impartial trial by a jury
Oh MS peers from Lne olSlrlct IN Wnlcn
the offense is alleged to have been
committed. as previously ascertained
by law. Those accused of crime at this
term of the court were indicted for
crimes alleged to have been committed
in the Eastern division of the Southern
district of Georgia, and, therefore, their
cases are returnable to the court in
Savannah. Offenses hereafter commit
ted in the newly created division will
be returnable to the court to be estab-
lished at Valdosta