The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-17
MILL OF JUSTICE
GROUND ALL DAY
HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED.
JUDGE sEABROOK DEALT OUT JUS
TICE WITH HEAVY HAND.

Aggregate Sentence of AZ Years
Was Given to Those who Pleaded
Guilty and Were Convicted of Vn-
riOus Offenses-AdditiOnaI Jurors
Were Drawn for the Heavy Dock
ct which Has Been Assigned for
Decentralization, Edwards and
Miller Cases Will Come Up.
Yesterdays session of the first Sec
ton of the Superior Court was the
most productive in years and an ag-
gregate sentence of forty-two years in
the penitentiary and three years on
the chaingang was what the legal mill
ground out.
The dispatch with which Judge Sea-
brook assisted by Assistant Solicitor
Dan Charlton, disposed of the large
docket excited much comment, and al
ready preparations have been made to
dispose of the heavy docket for to-day
with equal dispatch.
George Walker, convicted of at
tempted criminal assault, was given
fifteen years. Walker is a negro, as
was his victim, though she was only I
years of age. 1t took but short
while to dispose of this case, as the
defendant was proven guilty almost
by his own statement.
Pleas of guilty on the part of pris-
oners had little visible effect on the
court, and in the case of Sam Jenkins,
the South Side burglar, who pleaded
guilty, Judge Seabrook passed sem
tence of fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary.
There were number of cases in
which the prisoners pleaded guilty,
and as the judge imposed the unex-
pected heavy sentences the accused
invariably WINGED. In addition to the
convictions in which sentence was
passed there We're several cases tried
in which the defendants were ac-
quilted.
Big Docket for To-day.
The docket assigned for to-day is
even heavier than it was yesterday,
and just before adjournment last night
Judge Seabrook instructed the clerk to
draw a number of additional jurors so
that three cases could be under way at
the same time.
Probably the first case that will be
called will be that of the state against
bGHJdIIllH fOICheISOl, CtldIS ecu Win the
murder of his wife. The state will
stand on the evidence that was
gathered and presented to the coro-
ner's jury, and which was also heard
| by the grand jury which indicted
Dickerson.
The three younger children of the
accused man are now in the Bethesda
Home, but will be brought into court
| to testify against their father. Dick
erson has been growing nervous as the
| time approaches for his trial, but re-
fuses to talk about the matter.
Marvin Edwards Will Be Tried.
Marvin Edwards will be put on trial
for the second time on the charge of
criminal assault on Miss Ada Green,
| the jury having failed to agree onsia
verdict at the first hearing of the caRe.
1t was rumored some time ago that
Miss Green would not appear at the
second hearing of the case, but she
| has written to parties here that she
| intended to be in Savannah on Mon
day night last. Up to a late hour she
| had not arrived at the places where
| she usually stops while in Savannah.
| If Miss Green does not appear the case
| against Edwards may be dropped.
Boy SNvindIer Will Be Arraigned.
Harry T. Miller the boy swindler
VIII De put on TRIAL IoF Tic sever ~
charges preferred against him, and his
attorneys, Messrs. Edward Abrahams
and Pratt Adams will .endeavor to per-
suade the court to send the boy to the
Junior Georgia Republic in New York,
1t has already been ascertained by par
ties who have interested themselves in
the boy that he will be received at the
| school.
Miller has displayed the same sagac-
| ity since he was arrested and lodged in
| Jail that he did before he was finally
| landed by the authorities. He SAID
that he would be glad to go to the re-
formatory and be given chance tc
make a man of himself.