The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-14
LIPPMAN CASES
UP AGAIN FRIDAY
WERE STARTED YESTERDAY.
ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANTS OBJ
JECTED TO RECORDER PRESIDING.

Said His Connection With Coast
Line Disqualified Him from Pre-
sidinE-Was a Fight of Railroads
and Not City, Attorney Stated-Ex-
pert Testimony Was Introduced
by City to show That a Ticket
Brokers Business Is IIIeEitimate.
Though the cases against Lewis and
Leonard Lippman, charged with vio-
lating the city ordinance regulating
ticket brokers in Savannah, occupied
several hours in Police Court yester-
day morning, they were not completed
and will be resumed again Friday
morning, when it is thought the cases
will be ended.
The attorney for the Lippmans, OBJ
iected to Recorder Shelby Myrick hear
ing the case, on the ground that he was
disqualified by reason of his connec-
ton with the Atlantic Coast Line The
Recorder stated he could preside with
impartiality, but the attorney insisted
he should not preside.
ut is not question of impartiality,"
he said.
The Recorder overruled the attor-
ney's objection. stating he was not le-
gally, or in any other way. disqualified
from hearing the case. The attorney
commended it was a fight of the rail-
roads, and not the city, against ticket
scalpers. The Recorder stated he had
no interest in the matter and would
hear the case, and ordered it to pro-
coed.
The Various Charges.
Leonard Lippman is charged with
running the place without a license
and with selling two tickets on last
Sunday. Lewis Lippman is charged
with both of these offences and also
with falling to make reports to the
superintendent of police. as the ordi-
nance requires. The veterans license,
under which the place has been run,
is in Lewis Lippman's name, while his
son, Leonard Lippman, has been run
ming the business
Detective Wall told of witnessing the
sale of the tickets on Sunday, and
also of going to Tybee and taking the
tickets when they were presented at
the validating Office there. General
Passenger Agent ]. c. Halle, of the
Central and A. 3. Goodenow, ticket
agent at Tybee, testified also to the
tickets being presented at the Validat-
ing office by parties who acknowledged
they were not the original purchasers.
Business Is Illegitimate.
The most important evidence intro
duced was that of Joseph Richardson
of Atlanta, chairman of the Southeast
ern Passenger Associat ton. The object
of the city in putting up Mr.. Richard
son was to try to show that ticket
brokers' business was for the most part
not legitimate.
He said of the four kinds of ticket
brokers, only one class was legitimate
That was the kind permitted under the
Savannah ordinance. He stated the
same ordinance was in force in Atlanta
and that a broker could not make
enough handling the tickets allowed
under the ordinance in twelve months
to support his family for thirty days.
Fence for Stolen Goods.
The second-class acted as a fence
for stolen goods, he said The third
class sold passes and the fourth class
sold ironclad signature tickets, such as
the Lippmans are charged with having
ulSpoaeu OA' OlNiSlOu FdSSenReT Agent
w. H. Leahy, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, also testified in regard to the
ticket brokers' business.
The city marshal and deputy mar
shall swore no Incense had been taken
out, and the superintendent of police
testified that the reports, which the
ordinance specifies should be made to
him, have not been made. Col. Gar
rard the city attorney, is representing
the city at the hearing. The argument
of the case will probably take some
time.