The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-04
GRAND JURORS IN
FIRST SESSION
RETURNED 20 INDICTMENTS.
TRUE BILL AGAINST w. C. GOOD
MAN. CHARGING MURDER.

Mike Drury Indicted on Charge of
Assault With Intent to Murder.
Soldiers of Fort Screven Give Evil
dence Against Frank NayIor, and
He Is Again Indicted for Selling
Liquor on the Sabbath-Two In
dictments Returned Against John
OdOm.
Twenty indictments were returned
yesterday morning by the Superior
Court grand jury. Only one no bill
was found. the return being made in
the case Of Dan Washington, charged
with burglary.
The grand jurors for the October
term are Mr.. George A. Gregory, fore
man, and Messrs. Leopold Adler, Jo-
seph C. Puder, John ]. Cummings,
John F. Glatigny, Abram ]. Lehwald,
Adolph Berg, Patrick Brennan, David
s. Morgan, M. A. Morrissey, Abram j.
Garfunkel E. S. Abrahams, A. H.
Entelman. Norton Frierson, A. S.
Guckenheimer, NJ. j. Kavanaugh, R. J.
Davant. William NJ. Davant, Robert
After hearing the charge of Judge
Cam the grand jury retired, and after
organization took up the consideration
of cases presented to them by Solicitor
w. w. Osborne. A number of the
cases in which true bills were found
are of general public interest, chief
among them being those against w. C.
Goodman and Mike Drury.
There was no delay in finding true
bills in each case, the evidence present
ed being of such a character as to
leave no. other course Open. Drury is
charged with assault with intent to
commit murder. The case is the out
growth of the West Broad street
shooting of last week when Drury
shot and wounded John j. Clarity.
The case against Goodman is of
more serious character the indictment
charging him with the murder of Pa
trolman Zipperer. The case has not
yet been assigned for trial, owing to
the absence of counsel. The circum-
stances of this fatal shooting are IA
miliar to the public. The prosecution
will be conducted by Solicitor General
w. w. Osborne and Judge H. D. D.
Twiggs. The defense will be represent
ed by Judge Samuel B. Adams and
Col Robert L. Colding.
NayIOr Again Indicted.
The "Iohn Doe" cases from Tybee
were again brought before the grand
jurors and as a result of the evidence
Frank Naylor was again indicted for
keeping open a tipping house on the
Sabbath.
Naylor was indicted on a similar
charge during the June term of the
court. He entered a plea of guilty
and, after a severe lecture from the
court, was discharged upon the pay
ment of a $500 fine. Col. Anderson of
Fort Screven worked up the prosecu-
ton and the soldiers of the fort were
the witnesses against Naylor.
The latest indictment charges him
with selling liquor on Sept. IS. A
bench warrant has been issued by
Judge Cam for Naylor.
Besides the Naylor case an indict-
ment, by special presentment, was
found against Sam Hamilton, charging
him with assault with intent to muir
der. A bench warrant was at once is
sued for him and given to a deputy
sheriff to serve.
Against Odum and Galley"
Two true bills were found against
John Odom, one charging him with
burglary and the other with assault
with intent to murder. The evidence
brought out before the grand jury
showed Odom to be particularly dan
gerous character. The burglary
charge was the result of his attempt
ing to break into a store with the pro-
prietor of which he had had some diff
ficulty. He broke the large glass win
dow in the front, but as he attempt
ed to enter the proprietors dog seiz-
ed him by the ear and frustrated the
attempt.
After this trouble Odom went down
the street to a negro barroom. Here
he met a friend and asked him to
have drink with him. The friend
accepted and to the establishment of
those who witnessed it, just as the
two started to enter the saloon, Odom
pulled a revolver and fired on his
friend. For this offense he was in
dicted for assault with intent to muir
der.
True bills were found against Billy
Williams, alias "Bill Bailey" and Has
kell Mitchell. These negroes are the
ones who assaulted an old negro won-
an, Mary Mongin, in boat near Mont
gomery. They cut the pocket from
her dress, it is alleged, and took from
her all her money amounting to $40
The woman was badly injured in the
scuffie and all of her clothing torn
from her.
other Indictments Found.
beSlQeS the ABOVE Gases tic lOilOWlhb
true bills were returned:
For assault with intent to murder:
Frank Williams, alias Arthur Will
liams; Verge Wilkinson, Annie Turner,
and Andrew Demere.
For burglary: Julia Mongin, Willie
Drayton and Amos King, two counts;
and Ella Fleming, two counts. An in
dictment for burglary was also re-
turned against Andrew Demere.
Willie Wright and Charlie Berrien,
alias Pop Corn" were indicted for
robbery. Bill Ingram was held to
stand trial for breaking into and en-
tering a railroad car. Willie Virgins
must stand trial on two counts.
charged with falsely personating an
other with intent to defraud. j. +.
Jones is indicted for forgery and at
tempting to pass a forged check.
George Butler is held for larceny from
the house.
Summaries of the above cases have
been given heretofore in the Morning
News.
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