The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-15
CRIMES OF ALL KINDS
ON THE CALENDAR.
Isaac Washington, for the Murder of
William Holmes, Ed. Hazel,
Notorious Desperate and
Twelve White Men VIII
BE Tried This Week.

| the Superior Court this week. Among
the offenses on the calendar are muir
! der, rape, burglary, murderous assault,
! larceny after trust, hog stealing using
approbious words, keeping a tipping
house open on the Sabbath day, and
trespass.
All of the trials will prove interest
! ing, not alone because of the gravity
| of the charges, but because of the
prominence of the parties, and the I'M
usual circumstances surrounding the
crimes. Twelve of the accused are
white men. Dan j. Charlton, Esq, will
prosecute for the state in all of the
| cases, while different counsel most of
which has been supplied by the order
! of the court, Will appear in behalf
| of the accused.
The most interest will, of course, at
| tach to the murder trial. Isaac Wash
| ington, alias Bum" will have to face
a jury of his peers to plead for his
| life, which the states proposes 10 take
in expiation of his murder of William
| Holmes on Nov, 16, last. Bum shot
Holmes, it is alleged, in a row which
was precipitated by a misunderstood
country Immediately and was only
short while ago captured by Deputy
Sheriff Sweeney in Florida. He will
be represented by w. F. Slater, Esq.
Trial of an Outlaw.
The most notorious negro criminal to
be arraigned Is Ed Hazel. This ne
gro, it will be remembered, after be-
ing branded by Gov. Terrell as an
outlaw and having ransom placed
on his head, was only captured by
the officers of the law after pitched
battle in which several were shot. He
will be tried on five charges of muir
derous assault. Hazel has already
been given ten years on one charge
which was tried at the last term of
the court, and if the same punishment
is melted out to him in each of the
cases at bar he.will have to die in the
penitentiary for his lawlessness. W.
F. Slater, ESQ, will also represent him,
at his trial on Wednesday.
Lacey D. Nell and r. f. w. Ed
wards, two well-known young men,
will be tried on the same day for lar
ceny after trust. The cases have at
tracted a great deal of interest because
of the prominence of the parties, and
there will doubtless be many specta-
tors at the trial. The young men are
each accused of appropriating large
sums of money to their own use. Inc
two cases are separate and distinct
To Try Five GrOcers.
Five we'll known business people will
be arraigned on charges of keeping
open a tipping house on the Sabbath
day. The indictments are distinct, hav-
ing been found at different times. one
of the most interesting of these VIII
be the one against P. H. Grimm. 1t
aI,o ,G,1cr FnGti-
mony in this case that Policeman
Broom was dismissed from the force.
The other cases are against Martin j.
Berry and Cornelius Dulehery, two
we'll known West Broad street grocers
and Eliza Newton and Walter, who
were jointly indicted.
On Thursday the trial of r. E.
Thornton, who is accused of murder
ously assaulting Hartridge Harm will
take place. Because of the mystery
which for some time surrounded the
Indictment, it is probable that this case
will also attract much interest.
For the unusual offense of using APP
probrious words. L. L. Dotson will
have to stand trial. The words imputed
to him are about the vilest in the YER
nacular, and indications point to
very spicy trial. The victims of his al
legged appropriateness are father and
daughter.
Other cases, some twelve in number,
have also been assigned for trial this
week, the accused being charged with
nearly all the offenses in the gamut
of crime, from rape to trespass. Among
the accused are several white men, and
the trials bid fair to be unusually in
teresting.
The business To-day.
The first business of the week will
consist in the regular Monday morning
assignment of cases to-day. Civil
cases will be assigned for trial next
week. Several criminal matters, in
Guiding a murder case, have been as
signed for trial next week, so that
there will not be a great deal of time
for trial of civil matters. After the
assignment of cases, several divorce
matters will be disposed of. after which
the court will take up the hearing in
the Oemler oyster cases.
Altogether the week in the court will
be one of the most interesting and the
busiest of the term. The dockets. both
criminal and civil, are being cleared
with great rapidity, it being the in
tention of the court to dispose of all
jury cases before the first of August.
that the juries may not have to serve
in the hot weather.