The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-31
JUNE TERM BEGINS
NEW SESSION WILL COMMENCE TO-
MORROW WHEN JUDGE BARROW
WILL CHARGE GRAND JURY,
INTERESTING FELONY AND MISDE-
MEANOR CASES TO BE TRIED.

| Probable That the New Term VIII
DeveIopments-Quit Number of
Cases Appear on the DOckets in
which, 1t Is Expected, Some Sem
satiOn VIII BE Sprung-Cases Have
Already Been Assigned for This
Week-Docket VIII BE Called To-
morrow.
The June term of the Superior Court
will convene tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. Judge Barrow returned last
night from Oglethorpe county. The
official court stenographer, Mr.. John
NJ. Thomas, has also returned, and
was busily engaged in preparing for
the opening of the new term yesterday.
Some interesting cases win engage
the attention of the court and jury
during the coming term. Principally
interesting among these will be the
murder trials. Among the civil cases
there are several divorce hearings
which will attract more than ordinary
attention. While the number of
criminal cases is somewhat smaller
than usual, the number of interesting
ones is greater.
Gases have already been assigned
for trial this week Directly after the
charge of the court, the civil docket
will be called, and cases assigned for
the following week. This mode of as
signment, which has been adopted by
Judge Barrow, has been found to have
the effect of expediting the disposition
of cases, and as result of its obserV-
ance last term, there are fewer old
cases this term then ever before. The
system is the same as the one used for
some years by Judge Gamble.
1873 Criminal Cases.
The criminal docket is comprised of
1873 cases, including almost every grade
of felony and misdemeanor in the gam
ut of crime Its preparation has oc-
cupied Clerk ]. K. P. Carr, and his
efficient deputy, James l.. Murphy, for
the past week, and was finished yes
terday afternoon.
The trial which will, of course, at
tract the greatest attention, will be
that of the Potters. 1t is probable
that this case will come up late in the
term. The two men have been tried
ON but one indictment, that charging
them with the murder of Fred Tay-
lor. Whether they win be tried on tn =
indictment for the murder of Gugie
Bourquin, or whether the Supreme
Court will give the elder Potter another
trial is problematical, and upon the out
come of the latter issue depends, in
large measure the modus procendi in
the former proceeding.
Will Calvin will have to face a jury
of his peers for the murder of Anna
Pace, the Supreme Court having de-
cided that the court committed error
in his charge. Calvin had been SEN
fenced to hang. He introduced little
or no evidence in his own defense,
and it is hard to conceive how he will
receive anything morsA from another
| hearing of the case than a longer lease
| on life. The crime for which he was
| tried was one of the most atrocious
| and blood thirsty in the criminal annals
of the county. Calvin hopes to save
| his neck.
Six Cases Against Hazel.
The trial of the six cases against Ed
Hazel, the notorious negro outlaw for
whose capture, dead or alive, reward
was offered by the Governor and as
| a result of the Intellectual attempts to
arrest whom charges of murderous as
sault were lodged against him, will be
fraught with much interest. Hazel
was only captured after pitched bat
| tie, and the officers of the law whose
| lives were imperilled in the capture, are
| determined that he shall pay dearly
| for his lawless operations. Hazel has
! already been tried on one. of the
| charges, and sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary. The other six will
| be tried this term.
Lewis White, alias Taffy Lewis, will
be given his second trial on the charge
of murder, while Bum" Washington,
who was for some time a fugitive from
justice, and who was only a short time
ago epprehended and indicted for the
| murder of a negro in Yamacraw some
months ago, will also plead for his life
before the bar of justice.
There are quite a number of other
interesting criminal matters which will
| occupy the attention of the court dur
ing the term, among which are sew
eral gambling cases, and the outloob
is that the term will be productive
of great interest and. mayhaps, some
sensation.
In addition to the civil and criminal
matters now on the docket there will
be other criminal cases. The grand
| Jurors. which have been drawn, and
who will report for duty tomorrow
morning, will find numerous bills dur
ing the term, and these will be tried
during the present term. Those WHIT
comprise the panel from which the
jury will be chosen are: Henry M
Stoddard, John r. Young, Lehman
Putzel, Adolph Berg, Joseph Rosen.
helm. Jacob E. Gutman, w. J. Robider
Bernice F. Billiard, Henry T. Williams
Beirne Gordon, James McGrath, Mills
B. Lane, Henry H. Mckee, Garla nc
NJ. Ryals, Samuel F. Gerst, Daniel Ho.
gan, William Inman Miller. John H
Elton, Joseph Phillips, w. I. O'Brien
James NJ. Dixon, Lawrence Kelley
George p Walker, James Sullivan. ]
Moultre Lee, Jacob Lippman, AlberT
L. Rees, Marquis L. EXley, Armand
B. Palmer, Thomas H. Mcmillan.
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