The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-10
TOLD OF HIS CRIME.
MISS GREEN'S RECITAL OF MARVEL
EDWARDS ASSAULT.
EDWARDS DENIES CHARGES.
CASE WILL GO BEFORE SUPERIOR
COURT GRAND JURY.

Pretty Young wOman's Tears
Flowed Freely as She Told the
Court of Edwards Attack-Said
She Fought Her AssaiIant Until
She Was Standardization Who
Has Assisted Her She Declares to
BE Friend of Her Family.
With tears streaming down her
cheeks, Miss Ada c. Green, who al
leges that Marvel Edwards, for whom
she was working in a cigar store un-
der the Marshall House, committed a
criminal assault upon her last week,
appeared at the preliminary hearing
of Edwards in Justice Wickham's
court yesterday afternoon and told the
court of the alleged outrage.
Out of regard for the young woman
Justice Wickham held the commitment
trial behind closed doors, only the
county officers, witnesses and counsel
being admitted. Col. Robert L. Cold
ing appeared for the defense and As
| sistant Solicitor Dan Charlton repre-
sented the state. After examining a
number of witnesses the'case was left
in the hands of Justice Wickham, who
bound Edwards over to the Superior
Court The prisoner was committed to
Jail.
Miss Green was the only witness
for the prosecution. After stating that
she had come to Savannah from Hill
yers, Fla, thirty miles from Jackson
xTiIlo CHI no In hn ritU
only three months, having worked at
the American Cigar Companys fac
tory and with Edwards, and that she
boarded at No. 2O3 Liberty street, west,
she told of Edwards assault upon her
in his room at the Marshall House last
Monday morning.
Miss Green's story.
when I went to work that morn
| ing" she said, Mr. Edwards told me
that he had a bad job for me, and set
me to work stringing out some to-
| bacco. He went out but came back
shortly after o'clock, and said he
had some important papers in his
| trunk in his room upstairs and want
ed me to go up there with him to get
| them Together we went up the stairs
after going through an alley-way, we
stepped inside the room. He shut the
| door and locked it, putting the key
in his pocket.
Il Immediately demanded to be let
out, because l could see by his eyes
what he intended doing" she contin-
ued, land in answer he choked me and
fell to the floor. He choked me again,
but l struggled to my feet, apd resist
ed him as long as 1 could. When my
| strength was exhausted he dragged me
to his bed and threw me across it. I
tried to scream, but he held his hand
over my mouth and choked me again,
and then accomplished his purpose.
ChOked Into Inconsistencies.
Il didn't know anything else for
some time-maybe an hour-but when
l regained consciousness he was stand
| ing over me smiling. Go to your
| dinner, he said, and come back and
go to work, and if you tell anybody
about this, I'll kill you' He opened
the door and let me out of the room,
| following me down the stairs and out
on the sidewalk where he stopped. 1
then went to my boarding house
MY clothes were torn" continued
Miss Green, with tears again filing
her eyes, and my throat where he
choked me hurt 1 hunted Mr.. Per-
kins, who is the only friend 1 have
| in the city, and who came here from
my home in Florida, and told him
what had happened. He agreed to
come here with me to swear out a
warrant for Edwards, and we came to-
gether. He boards at the same place
that do, but is nothing more than a
good friend of my family"
Edwards Only Statement a Denial.
1.S
he was innocent of the crime. He had
very little to say
Parties who live in the Marshall
House, Mrs. Charles c. Jordan and
Mrs. Lizzie Russell. We're put on the
stand and said that they saw the two
Miss Green and Edwards coming
| down the stairs from Edwards room
on the morning of the alleged assault,
but that the young woman was appar-
emily in gay spirits, her hair and
clothes showing no marks of a strug-
| gle, and that as she went down the
| steps in advance of Edwards she turn
| ed and smiled and made some remark
concerning a puppy that was playing
| on the steps A negro bell boy said he
| was sent into the room an hour after
| they left it and that the place was in
perfect order He said, however, that
| the chambermaid had cleaned up the
| room between the time MISS Green and
Edwards left it and the time he was
| there.
Mr.. Perry sign painter, who swore
that he was painting a sign for Ed
wards in front of Edwards cigar store
on that day, said that a young man
! whom he later recognized as Mr.. Per-
kins, Miss Green's friend, came to him
while he was at work and asked a
number of questions concerning the
store and the way to Edwards room.
Nothing About Apples or Drinks.
| Edwards first story when interview
ed shortly after his arrest was to the
effect that he and Miss Green went
to his room to get drink and a bag
of apples which he had in his trunk.
and parties at the Marshall House said
at that time that they had seen Miss
Green coming down the steps with the
! bag of apples in her hand, but no ref
erence was made to either the apples or
the drink at the preliminary hearing.
When the case comes up in the Su-
perior Court Edwards will be repre-
! scented by Col Robert L. Colding and
| Messrs. Reynolds & Toomer of Way
cross. where he says he lived before he