The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-29
AN EVEN 100 IN JAIL
HALF A DOZEN MURDERERS
AWAITING GALLowS OR PEN.
LEE CRIB TO HANG DEC. II
UNLESS A FURTHER STAY OF SEN
TENCE Is GRANTED.

Jesse Hanberry Ready to Go to Pen
ing a Fight for Him-MOrrel Ed
wards Awaiting Action of Grand
Jury for Alleged Criminal As
sauIt-Number of Prisoners Re-
duced by Last Session of Court.
Removal of Murderers Will Less
en- the Number More.
Jailer Seyden has in his care at the
county Jail an even one hundred pr1s-
oners, the number having been con-
siderably decreased by the recent ses-
sion of the Superior Court. Twenty
six out of sixty prisoners who figured
in cases on the court calendar have
been removed from the Jail.
There are at present confined
in the fail half dozen muir
derers, some of whom have
been condemned to answer for
their crimes on the gallows, and others
who have been sentenced to serve pen
itentiary terms. There is also one
prisoner held as an accessory to a muir
der.
Decidedly the most important case
which is recalled by a trip through the
corridors, is that of the Coffee county
murderer, Lee Crib, whose wanton
crime near Douglas desolated more
than one home. Crib was sentenced
to be hanged at Douglass on Nov. 10,
but before preparations were beginning
to be made to carry him to the scene
of his crime for execution he was grant
ed a respite by Gov. Terrell until
Dec. IL, in order that the Prison Com
mission might look into his case and
consider an application for commute
ton of sentence.
The time is now drawing near, when
the day until which Crib has been
granted his life will dawn, but no word
has been received, from the Prison
Commission regarding his case. He
has for the last few weeks been in
correspondence with his attorneys
whose letters are always cheerful and
full of hope, but the condemned man
displays no uneasiness nor emotion,
appearing absolutely content in the
knowledge that unless the Prison Com
mission sees fit to favor him he will
meet death in a few days more. CRIBS
NGloC IDS at u cbCICu Unusual dIlCllllOLi
on account of the fact that he was
brought to Savannah and placed in
the Chathom county Jail for safe keep
ing after having twice escaped from
other prisons, and that since he has
been in Jail here he has made con-
fessions of his conversion and has been
baDtised.
Marvel Edwards, formerly a cigar
maker, who operated a business under
the Marshal House on Broughton street,
occupies a cell in the Jail, with a grave
charge hanging over his head. The
account of the charge made against
him by young lady, who he had en-
ployed as a stenographer and upon
which charge he was given a prelimi-
nary hearing before Justice Wickham,
is fresh in the minds of the people. Ed
wards has been refused bond.
Other murderers now confined in the
Jail are Jesse Hanberry, who was
sentenced to d penitentiary term of two
years, and who is perfectly content
with the outcome of his trial, but
whose attorneys persist in making an
effort to secure him a pardon. Rosa
Tutty Willie Calvin, who is condemned
to pay the penalty of his crime on
the gallows, Henry Grover Edward
Bryan and Abram Singleton. James
Richardson is in Jail as an accessory
to the murder which Singleton is al
legged to have committed.