The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-21
CRIMES OF ALL KINDS
WILL OCCUPY ATTENTION OF sU-
PERIoR COURT.
BUSY WEEK IN COURTS.
TWENTY-THREE CRIMINAL CASES
TO BE TRIED IN DAYS.

Murder Trial Is the First on the
Answer for the Death of Bay Street
GrOcer-Evidence Is Purely Cir
antiaI-Dennis Leonard Will
stand Trial Again for Receiving
Stolen GOOds-AppearRnce Docket
to BE Called Tomorrow and other
Criminal Cases Assigned.
This week will be an unusually busy
one in the courts, particularly in the
Superior Court, where twenty-five
criminal cases have been assigned for
trial in five days. of which there are
quite a number to which considerable
interest attaches.
When the court convenes tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock the appearance
docket for the June term will be call
ed, and criminal cases will be assigned
for the following week. The cases
which will be set for trial are those
in which indictments have recently
been found. OF these the most in
teresting is the Oliveros case. which
may be assigned.
The criminal trials do not, however,
constitute all of the business which
the court will transact during the
week. Civil matters have been set
for a hearing also. Most of these
are introductory matters, though
there are a large number of divorce
cases to be disposed of.
Murder Trial First.
The criminal business will begin with
the trial of Ed. Green, who is charged
with the murder of T. R. Smith, a
white man who kept a grocery store at
Farm and Bay streets. Smith was
struck down from behind, brick and
n billet of wood being used. The vic
tim died in the hospital shortly after
wards in commissions, without ever
knowing who his assailant was. The
evidence against Green is purely Cir
cumstantia1, and for that reason there
is no doubt that the trial will be inter
esting. He will be represented by w.
F. Slater ESQ.
H. H. Mickler, a white man, will be
tried for hog stealing. The trial grows
directly out of the recent difficulties at
Ossabaw Island, in which Morningstar,
negro fisherman, and j. w. Larris-
sey and S. S. Sasser, two white men,
figured. Mickler is under two other
indictments for hog-stealing and cow
stealing. He will be defended by Col.
r. l.. Colding. The trial is set for
hearing on the same day as that of
Green.
Dennis Leonard will be tried on a
charge of receiving stolen goods. His
trial has been set for Tuesday. He was
recently tried on a like charge, but
was released. after having been de-
clared guilty, because the Supreme
Court held that the indictment did not
allege with sufficient certainty what ar
ticles were received. He win be rep
resented by Col. r. l.. Colding.
other Criminal Matters.
There are other cases of lesser in
terest assigned for trial. embracing all
of the offenses in the gamut of crime
from murderous assault to trespass. A
number of the accused are white men,
and for that reason the hearings will
be more interesting than otherwise.
The criminal calendar for the week
is as follows:
Monday: Ed Green, murder; H. H.
Mickler, hog stealing.
Tuesday: E. M. Bailey, trespass;
Lutte Haywood seduction; William
f. Corbett, keeping open a tipping
house on the. Sabbath. and assault and
battery; Dennis Leonard, receiving
stolen goods; Joe Harris, larceny from
the house.
Wednesday; Philip Henry, burglary;
John Kelly, misdemeanor; Henry A
Drake, burglary July Houston, as
sault with intent to murder.
Thursday: Joe Houston, George
Stephens, Frank Green and James
Lane, assault with intent to murder.
separate charges.
Friday: Dan Spalding, bigamy; Sa-
rah Williams, obtaining goods fraudu-
| lently: Mamie Williams, misdemeanor;
A. Smith, assault with intent to muir
| der; Henry Clarke, misdemeanor;
| Robert Mcintosh, Jr., assault with in
| tent to murder