The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-06
ANOTHER PHASE
OF OSSABAW FEUD
FOR MURDERoUS ASSAULT
$. 5. SAsSER INDICTED BY SUPE-
RIOR COURT GRAND JURY.

Charged with Shooting at Henry
MickIer with Intent to KiII-CaSe
Only Another Phase of Case Tried
at Last Term of COurt-MickIer
Was Then on TriaI-TwO Other In
dictBhents Returned at First Ses-
sion of Grand Jury.
Another chapter at least is to be
added to the history of the feuds of
the Ossabaw Island residents, the first
step in that direction having been
| taken yesterday, when the Superior
Court grand jury indicted S. S. Sasser
on a charge of assaulting Henry Mick
Ter with intent to murder.
The indictment reads that the Of
Tense was committed on Oct. 3, with
rifle. setting forth that Sasser fir
ed at Micller with the intent to kill
him, having malice aforethought. A
plea of not guilty will, of course. be
entered and the case go to trial. prob
ably next week.
This shooting is only another phase
of the same case that was tried be-
fore Judge Cam at the October term
of the court. At that time Mickler
was on trial charged with murderous-
ly assaulting Sasser. The evidence
was conflicting and the jury, after con-
| siderable deliberation. returned a YER
dict of not guilty.
One of the features of the trial was
the statement of the defendant, a
statement characterized by bitterness
and hate. He stated that he had tried
to deal with the man. but failed, and
that it was a Gods pity that l miss
ed him, for it would have been
good radiance to the community"
Shortly after this trial the compro-
mise decree was reached which SEEM
ed to point to a peaceable settlement
of the troubles on the island. Lit
tie things have occurred. however,
since that time that have famed the
smouldering hate into a flame, and
now Micker will attempt to convict
Sasser of a serious charge.
circumstances of the Case.
The circumstances of the case, as
brought out at the last trial. are some
what hard to determine, owing to the
conflicting character of the evidence
submitted The uncontradicted facts,
however, are that Sasser was going up
the river in his boat and started to
pass point along shore on which were
Mickler and some other members of
the Larissey crowd.
Both sides began firing and the
question to be determined is as to
which fired first. Mickler claims that
Sasser opened the leaden argument,
and that he replied in self-defense. Sas-
ser claims he was first fired upon with
out warning and that then Mickler dis
appeared in the tall marsh grass. He
himself then fired into the grass at the
point where Mickler had disappeared
Twiggs & Oliver will appear for Sas-
ser and the solicitor general for the
state. Col Robert L. Colding will APP
pear in behalf of Mickler.
Two other Indictments.
Two other indictments were returned
by the grand jury at its first session.
One was against Joe Miller and James
Brown, charging them with burglary.
John F. McAvoy and r. Pedro were
indicted for assault with intent to muir
der committed on ]. w. Buckley. 1t
is charged that knife was used and
that Buckley was badly cut.
In the case of Frank Wade, charged
with burglary, no bill was returned.
The grand jury for the December
term is composed of Messrs. George j.
Mills foreman f. X. Douglas, A A
Aveilhe, George S. Haines, George H.
Remshart, Edward X. Demmond, c. B.
Malone, c. F. Cler, M. Dryfus, NJ. A.
Morris, H. ]. Sutcliffe, ]. B. Chestnut,
j. L. Morrison, e. Geffcken, e. H.
O'Connor, w. N. Nichols, John O'Gor-
man, William L. Grayson and w. w.
Starr.