The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-16
CASE AGAINST NEGRO CHARGED
WITH MURDER IN SECOND
DEGREE.
SELF DEFENSE IS HIS DEFENSE
Counsel for Accused viii Seek to
Show He Killed 10 Keep from
Being killed-other News
OF the Courts.

| III Judge WAITS court ytSlcIuhN
the third trial of John Davis. cOlOred.
charged with murder In The second
degree, was cotton under way, II
viii he concluded today. Yestcri/,y
was devoted to the introduction Of
Testimony by the state. This will
continue this forenoon. II is expect.
cd the defense will begin putting ON
Is Witnesses about noon and will oc
cupy but about one hour. The arSu.
mcnts of both sides will then be made
and the case will probably go To the
iury late this afternoon.
The Davis Case.
Davis is charged with killing Ed
Glider on August T. 1900. The case
has been transferred from one Dis
| trict court To the other several times,
once n mistril resulted and once on
| appeal the case was remanded for Il
new trial The trial started yester
| dav is the third on the same count.
O'Brien, John & O'Brien are counsel
| for the defense and Mr.. George c.
O'Brien is conducting the case for
his client. States Attorney High
tower and his assistant. Mr.. f. A.
| Mcdowell, are prosecuting the case.
| The State yesterday endeavored to
show by its testimony that Davis
killed Glider as charged in the in
dictment. Counsel for Davis will
seek 10 show bv their testimony AMI
argument that the killing was in self
defense. BY witnesses thew will try
tn nrovo that Glider had threatened
ravis life and had Dersued him win
the avowed intention of killing him.
Big Suit Filled.
In the District court yesterday
City Attorney Tcagle filed another
hatch of city tax suits, among them
one for nearly $4,000 against J. b.
and Mollie Langham of Orange. the
CITY attorney alleges that defendants
are indebted to the city Of Beaumont
in the sum of 1,75G.9O for taxes on
CITY property owned by them III 'he
years 1902 and 1908. .
Suit on note for $4,000 was filed IN
the D;a'ricf court yesterday by a.
Friedman, a lministrator of the estate
oc Schloss, against Jake DAVIS.
In the District court. Judge Wal,s,
Hudson & Lord attorneys for JeI'
Scott who was recently sentenced W
Gftoen Y r"s in the penitentlarY OH
= conviction of manslaughter' yeSler-
day filed motion for n new trial. me
boorina on the motion will be given
tomorrow morning.
In Judge POpe's court EeSter"'S
an opportunity was given Tor near
ing on the application to mooliy III
junction in the habeas corpus pro-
coedings in the case of l.. l.. Brown
AGAINST Mamie Brown ct al Dut 'he
noncrs in the case. supposed to pc on
GIn with the clerk Of the court cou'a
NOT no found They have been
oithor lost or stolen. A motion lor
permission to file a new set o. Pape''
was made and granted and the near
ing will be given later.
Injunction Asked.
T. S. Short ct al of Center yeSter-
day made application in Judge POPE
court for an Injunction restraining
H. Il Miller from erecting livery
stable IN clpSt DlDNlhl''N ~
nroncrty 4 temporary lhlnhclloi,
was issuedd. conditioned on n bond oil
81 600 returnabe to the DISTRICT
court of shelby county. The case
WAS brought to jefferson county on
account of the absence of the court
of Shelby county.
} In the county court yesterday MISS
Rose Jones of this city was brouga'
heforc Judge Wheat and adjudEeu VII
sane. The court consented that Sh'
he sent to private hospital al san
} Antonio
In Justice Pope's court YESTERDAY
Julius BukemCyer. a carpenter I"
/, i1Iouston was arraigned on the charge
N, assault with intent to murder
inc complainant being his wife, ADA
nnl;pmeycr. Defendant waived
preliminary hearing and was adm'
, tod fo bond i'm the sum Of S'7o Mrs
Rolcmcyer alleges that she reslde
ia this city and operates nnArnih.
l .-,ouso ON Laurel avenue. and iha'
her husband came to the city day he
.......I..- .nH nGlnrIfHI her.