The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-14
CURSED A MINISTER
CHARLES ROSSIGNOL INDICTED
FOR CALLING REV. A. r.. MILLER
A FOOL.
PRESENTED BY GRAND JURY.
PROMINENT MEMBER OF CHURCH A
WITNESS.

Six Indictments For Violating the
Fish Lavs-Fish Wnrdens Deter
mined to Break Up the Practice of
GiIIing-NegrO Who Attempted 10
shoot Policeman walker Will
Have to stand TriaI-Five other
Indictments For burglary and Va
riOus Grimes.
For calling Rev. A. r. Miller, pastor
of the Christian Church a d fool,
Charles Rossignol was indicted yester-
day by the grand jury, the charge
against him being the use of abusive
language.
This is the first time in the
history of the county that an indict-
ment has been returned for such an
offense, and the trial of the case will
no doubt attract a good deal of at
tention. Whether the accused will deny
the allegation or attempt to prove 1t,
is prObematical, either course being
open to him in order to clear himself.
The use Of the language resulted from
some difference in a church meeting
at Thunderbolt
The finding of the grand jury was
in the form of a special presentment,
Rev. Mr.. Miller not appearing as the
prosecuting witness. The only witness
before the grand jury was Mr.. A. A.
Artley, who testified to the use of the
language for which RossignOl is in
dicted. While the law provides a pun
ishment for the use of abusive Ian
guage, it has not been customary for
the grand jury to return indictments.
The aggravated character of the charge
in this instance caused the indictment
to be returned.
The grand jury also returned six in
dictments for violating the fish law.
Ned Hargraves, George Howard, Sol.
Aiken, Willie Costa, Albert Griffin and
Frank Griffin are accused of operating
a gill net in Skidaway river, near Isle
of Hope. The arrest of the parties was
made by Deputies E. w. OConnor, c.
B. Westcott and E. ]. Thomas. O'Con-
nor and WeStcott, who are the fish and
game wardens, are determined to break
up the practice of gilling in the county,
and to this end secured the indictments
against the six men, who they allege
were so engaged on Jan. 30
Frank Sessions, who attempted to
shoot Patrolman D. P. Walker a short
time ago was indicted for assault with
intent to murder. The case was to
have come up sooner, but at the last
session Of the grand jury Walker was
taken i'll just as he was leaving for
the Court House. and the hearing was
postponed. The negro snapped the pis-
toll in the patrolmans face several
times, but, luckily, it did not explode.
There were five other indictments of
which four were for burglary. Two
were against a woman, Julia Small, for
crimes alleged to have been committed
on Feb and 8. the persons whose
homes she burglarized being James Nc
Lane and Lena Smith. The arrest in
both cases was made by Detective Muir
ply.
j. H. Williams was indicted for bur-
glarizing the house of A. L. Johnson on
Feb. 10, he having been caught in the
act by Johnson and arrested by De-
tective Murphy. John Snipe, who was
arrested by Detective Wall for burglar
izing the house of Mollie Brown, was
also indicted.
The aftermath of a row in Yamacraw
on Christmas Eve night came in the
shape of an indictment against Johnnie
Mack, for attempting to shoot d. G..
Owens. The witnesses who appeared
before the grand jury were Willie Bur-
CESS, Wilson Wright and John Harris.
The grand jury met at 4 o'clock, and
after receiving instructions from Judge
Barrow retired for the consideration of
cases. Besides the return of the in
dictments the only other business was
discussion relative to the general pre-
sentiments of the body which will be re-
turned on Feb. %. After the return of
the indictments, the body adjourned I'M
til next Friday afternoon at o'clock.