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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
MEASUREMENT TO COURT
COST MERCHANT $40.
Claimed store Was Closed, but Dep
uty Reported Otherwise.

uty Reported Otherwise.
When the names of the petit jurors
were called yesterday morning in the
Superior Court, M. Wilensky a
Broughton street merchant, asked
Judge Cam to be excused from duty.
His reasons We're that he was the only
one at his store and that he had to
close his business in order to come to
court.
do you mean" asked the court,
that your place. of business is now
closed because you are compelled to
be here?" To this answer the juror
gave an affirmative answer.
Judge Cam then instructed Sheriff
Schwarz to investigate the matter
The sheriff dispatched Deputy Sheriff
Fennell to the store of Mr.. Wilensky
and there the deputy found two white
clerks and two negroes at work. He
reported this to Judge Cam, and then
the trouble began for the juror.
Mr.. Wilensky attempted to explain
that he meant there was no one there
to look after his business as it should
be looked after. The court recalled to
him, however. the fact that he had
stated his store was closed. He then
expressed surprise that such a state
ment had been made and imposed
fine of $40. This was promptly paid.
The juror was then excused from
further service for the term.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
WASHED TWO TEN DOLLAR
BILLS ENTIRELY AWAY.
Negro Woman Made a Novel Plea
Before Recorder Myrick.

Negro Woman Made a Novel Plea
Before Recorder Myriclk.
Sarah Seabrook was arraigned be-
fore the Recorder yesterday morning
on the charge of having stolen $40 in
money and a check for $40 from ]. r.
Miller, at No. LOG Oglethorpe avenue.
west.
The woman was engaged by Mr..
Miller as washerwoman 1t was his
custom to keep money in a small cha
mois bag which he had pinned to his
undertaking. When he sent his
clothes to wash, he found he had left
two $40 bills and a check for 500 in the
little bag. He at once sent to the wash
erwoman. She brought the chamois
bag and pins which secured the bag
and returned them to Miss Virginia
Miller, but said there was nothing else
in the bag.
When asked if she did not see any
money or piece of paper in the bag,
she said she did not. She did remem-
Der, however, that there were some
small particles floating around in the
water while she was washing the gar
ments. She was bound over to the
City Court
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
A CONSENT VERDICT
IN BIG LITIGATION.
Defendant Must Give Bond in Sum
of $4,000.

of $42s0OO.
A consent verdict has been reached
in the attachment proceedings of
George w. Hopkins against the Oc-
mulgee River Lumber Company, litiga-
ton that has been pending in the Su-
perior Court for some time.
The agreement. was drawn up and
signed by all attorneys for the litigants
and by Judge Cam yesterday. Gar
rard & Meldrim and Mr. Livingston
Kenan appeared for the plaintiff and
Osborne & Lawrence and Haygood x
Cults for the defendant.
By the terms of the agreement the
injunction prayed for is continued and
the pending cause is stayed for one
year from yesterday. If any litigation
of moment is then pending, involving
the property in dispute, then such liti-
cation is to be continued for such
length of time as the litigants may
agree upon. In case they can reach no
agreement the matter of staying the
cause is left in the hands of Judge
Cam.
The defendant is allowed to continue
to cut and use the timber from the
land, working under the existing con-
tracts. lie is required, however, to
give satisfactory bond in the sum of
$4,000. 1t is expressly stipulated that
this agreement is drawn only in the
hope that the matter can be amicably
adjusted between the parties litigant,
and that in case such course fails.
the rights and privileges of neither
shall be prejudiced by the existing
agreement.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
BIG GUNS WILL
BOOM AT FORT
SAVANNAH MILITARY MEN
WILL WITNESS TARGET PRACTICE
AT FORT SCREVEN.

Special Permission Secured from
Secretary of War and Officers VIII
Be Guest of Lieut.. Col. Anderson
While on ReservatiOn--WiII Leave
for Tybee Island This Morning
Active and Retired Officers WIZ
Witness Exercises.
By permission of the Secretary of
War a party of Savannah military Of
ficers, both active and retired, will go
to Fort Screven this morning to wit
ness target practice with the big guns.
In the party will be Col. A. r. Law
ton, Col. Jordan F. Brooks, Col G.
Arthur Gordon, Maj. w. B. Stephens,
Capt. w. T. Dixon and others. They
will leave the city at 10 o'clock and
will be the guests of Col. Anderson at
the Fort.
The regular target practices INDUCED
in at Fort Screven are interesting and
it is only by special permission of the
Secretary of War that persons outside
of the men on the reservation are per-
mitted to witness the exercises. The
SCI elhlldAl iil4IlIdIy OllCSIo WSIS SIdu
of the opportunity offered to witness
the practice, some of them never hav-
ing been at Fort Screven while the
big guns were booming.
The most interesting feature of the
practice is the manner in which the
big guns are aimed. 1t is not neces-
sary for the men behind the guns to
see the object at which they fire. The
range and elevation of the target is
transmitted to the gunners by tele-
phone from signal stations. This in
formation is gained by mathematical
calculations in the chart room, and the
rapidity with which it is transmitted
is one of its most interesting fea-
lures.
AS wonderful as the accuracy of the
aim seems to the spectator, it is even
more inconceivable in the case of the
mortar guns. These instruments of
death, which daily are gaining favor
as coast defenders, are installed in an
enclosure within the foptifications
many feet below the top of the
fort.
The asmuth, range, velocity of the
moving target and time of flight are
automatically computed in the
twinkling of an eye, and the huge pro-
jectile, weighing half ton, is thrown
into the air to hight ofttimes
of nearly two miles, to fall like
a bolt from heaven upon the enemy's
craft
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
POLICE SAVED
FlREMEN TWO RUNS
Fire Chief Maguire's Little COmpIi-
ment Has Good Eject.

Fire Chief Maguire's Little COmpIi-
ment Has Good Eject.
Fire Chief Maguire's commentator
of the action of a patrolman in refus-
ing to sound an alarm when requested
to do SO by a lady who had become
frightened at burning chimney has
already borne fruit.
Shortly after o'clock yesterday
morning Patrolman w. G. Smith dis
covered the back room of a house at
Mo. SO7 Torch street on fire. He broke
in the door. and with the assistance
of one of the occupants. soon had the
flames out. Had he sent in an alarm
and waited for the department the
chances are the house would have been
badly damaged.
At $3.50 o'clock a telephone message
was received at police headquarters
from the proprietor of a saloon and
grocery store in Yamacraw, stating
the whole of Yamacraw was on fire.
Before Sergt. McCool could send in an
alarm Patrolman Hicks telephoned the
extent of the fire and saved the sound
ing of an alarm
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
TALKED OF SOLDIERS
OF THE C0NFEDERAcY.

COmrade HazIehurst Addressed Nc
Laws Camp on Appropriate Theme.
The feature of the December meet
ing of Lafayette McLaws Camp, U. C.
v, which was held last night, was
the address of Comrade Thomas NJ.
Hazlehurst on the theme The Con-
federate Soldier The subject was
treated analytically, and the causes
that. worked together to make the Con-
federate soldier the best soldier in the
world has known were clearly and
forcefully brought out.
Starting with the organization of the
first army and a sketch of the men
that were present when the opening
gun of the war was fired on Sumter,
Comrade Hazlehurst treated the SOL
der as he was developed during the
times that followed. For the cause
of his country he denied himself the
luxuries and comforts to which he had
been accustomed, donned his uniform,
shouldered his gun and marched to the
front.
In 1862 there was a nucleus of men,
accustomed to fire. about which the
magnificent armies were formed. men
whose examples were closely followed
by the recruits who were coming to
the front, recruits made up of old
men, middle-aged men and even strip
lings.
At the close Of the next year hard
ships had been endured bravely and
uncomplainingly; battles had been won
and lost with the same unflinching,
undaunting courage; men had march
ed, ragged and barefoot, over the
frozen grounds and slept coverless I'M
der cold skies.
In 1864 he had marched into the
enemy's country had seen the defeat
and fearful slaughter of Gettysburg,
and had retreated, fighting as he moved
back into Virginia. In the closing year
he had seen the great catastrophe to
his beloved cause, and had borne 1t
with all the spirit of the true soldier.
All of these things, working together
with unequalled patriotism, unexcelled
vicissitudes of war; made the Confed-
crate soldier and gave him the place
in history that he holds to-day.
Besides the address, matters of rou-
tine business only marked the meeting.
Comrade F. A. Exley was elected a
member of the camp. Reports of COM
mittees were heard, bills passed and
other business of like nature trans
acted.
At the January meeting the annual
election of officers for the camp will
be held. Commander Clement Saussy
announced last night that he would not
be "a candidate for reelection. and
asked that another be selected to fill
the place.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
rho Ideal Christmas Present u
Gnnlity.
Not Qunnflfs.

A handsome diamond ornament or "A
pretty piecs OF jewery are articles
that pass from generation 10 genera
lion ana become precious heiriooms
sfcrnhefR a CO.'S superb stock Is niii
of attractive Oppftuuifies ladies' and
misses gold and silver Watches, chains
charms, lQfkDff. rIuNf. toilet ARTICLES
~ sterling silver cut glassware of non.
and pifaainf designs an1 hunefa1s III
pinef Alppmlaff pfffruff Lowest
prices lu naFHnnnh, Hnd onrn lafr
evenings fiN chrlafmaH.~ AL
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
NEGRO ARRESTED FOR
ROBBERY BY FORCE,
Waiter on Baltimore Steamer Said
He Was Held Up.

Charles Sydnor, a waiter on the
steamship Allegheny. appeared at po-
lice headquarters yesterday morning
and made complaint that he had been
held up the night before near the Mer-
chants and Miners wharf and robbed
by several unknown parties.
Sydnor said he was standing on a
corner waiting for a friend just before
II O'Clock, when several men approach
ed him. He had his hands in his pock-
cts, and one of the men slipped up be-
hind him, caught his arms and held
them securely while another negro
went through his pockets.
He recognized the man who did the
searching, he claimed, and pointed him
out to Detective Nose Davis, who made
the arrest. The negro who was ar
rested gave his name as James John
son, but it is believed this is not his
real name, He denies his guilt, and
will be given a preliminary examina-
ton in Police Court this morning.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
DEFENDANT FAILED
TO MAKE APPEARANCE.

When the case OF the Savannah and
Ogeechee Canal Company against Mrs.
Josephine Hornlng was called yester-
day morning in the Superior Court. the
defendant was not represented.
AS a result a verdict was taken in
favor Of the plaintiff and shortly after
wards Judge Cam handed down a
decree In accordance with the terms OF
the verdict. by this decree all the
land IN dispute. consisting OF about 40
acres along the OReechee canal be-
comes the property Of the plaintiff. The
case has been pending IN the court for
some time. and has been tried several
times. The last trial resulted IN a
verdict for the defendant.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
EMERGENCY AUTO WILL BE
STORED IN SALLYP0RT.
Arrangements Now Completed for
Fast Work by Detectives.

Arrangements Now Completed for
Fast Work by Detectives.
Arrangements have been completed
for the storing of the emergency auto
mobile at police headquarters Christ
mas eve night in the sallyport.
A runway will be constructed across
the sidewalk and to the pavement of
the street. so that the machine and
officers can get out and on the street
as early as possible.
The automobile, which has been fur
nished by the Electric Supply Com
pany, will only be used in answering
calls where there seems to be an urg-
ent demand for the immediate presence
of plain clothes officers, such as MUIR
ders, shooting and cutting ARRAYS in
which some one is dangerously in
jured.
Supt. Garfunkel announced last night
that the entire police force will be on
duty on Christmas eve from o'clock
in the evening until midnight. The
detectives will remain at police head
quarters from Saturday night until
Monday morning while not out on some
call, and with the Flying Squadron on
duty in Yamacraw the superintendent
believes the city will be amply pa
trolled.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
SOMEONE STOLE MONEY
WHILE HOUSE WAS ON FIRE,

Mrs. Maggie Bell, at No. 242 East
Broad street, reported to the police
yesterday that some one had carried
off her pocketbook containing consid-
cradle money in the confusion attend
ant upon the discovery of fire in the
ceiling of the house Monday. She be-
lieved she had dropped the purse and
one of those who went into the house
to assist in eXtinguishing the flames
picked it up.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
WHITE MAN ARRESTED
FOR STEALING HORSE
south Carolina Authorities Looking
for Him Nearly Two Years.


c. c. Gunter, young white man
who was arrested several days ago by
Detective Murphy on a telegram from
the chief of police of Columbia s. c.,
was turned over to Deputy Sheriff w.
c. Cathcart last night, and will be
taken back to Columbia for trial for
the theft of "a horse and buggy, alleged
to have been stolen nearly two years
ago.
The charge which Gunter was ar
rested on is one of several against him,
the deputy said. Nearly two years
ago he went to the stable of Mr.. w.
f. Martin, in Columbia, engaged a
horse and buggy for the afternoon,
and has not been seen there since, it
is charged. The horse and buggy were
found, Gunter, it is charged, having
sold them. He was traced to Allan
ia, then to Macon and finally to Sa-
vannah, where he was arrested. Ac-
cording to the deputy's statement,
Gunter worked for instalment furni-
ture houses, and il several cases fail
ed to turn over the entire amount of
his collections.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
COUNCIL WON'T
GIVE MONEY BACK
CHURCHES TO GET NOTHING.
ALDERMEN WILL NOT UNDO WHAT
FORMER BOARD DID.

Members of Council Anticipated
That Churches Which Paid Paving
Assessments Would Ask for Their
Money Back-In Secret Caucus IL
Was Agreed That Nothing Would
BE DOne-MOney Has Been Paid
and spent by City.
If the churches that have petitioned
City Council to refund money paid in
recent years for street paving except
to receive donations of the amounts
paid out they are doomed to dfsap-
pointment.
1t was expected by the aldermen that
the churches which paid street paving
assessments would come forward and
ask to be reimbursed just as soon as it
was announced that the churches
which were recently assessed for street
paving had been donated the amounts
of their assessments.
Realizing this would follow their
action, the aldermen agreed in secret
session, it has been announced, that in
the event any other churches came for
ward with requests for similar dona-
tions they would one and all be turned
down. This agreement makes it GER
tain that the churches whose petitions
are now with the Clerk of Council will
not be given a Christmas present by
the city.
No FavOritism Being Shown.
The members of Council say they
are not showing any favoritism in pur-
suing this course and they do not wish
to be misunderstood I'VE feel we
have no right to undo what another
board has DONE" said one alderman
in discussing the matter. When Bull
street was paved there was different
Council and that body saw fit to as
sess and collect from the churches for
street paving.
''The petitions that are presented
now come from churches that paid
money to a former administration, and
this money was spent by that admin
istration. We do not consider it would
be just the thing at this time to take
money out of the city treasury and
pay to these churches, as much as we
would like to help them. This money
has been collected by the city and has
been paid out.
NO Actual Cash Paid.
I'm the cases where we donated
money to the churches no actual cash
changed hands. They were assessed
for street paving, but the bills We're
not paid. We simply made donations
to the several churches to the
amounts of the assessments, and the
money only changed hands on the
treasurer's books.
The petitions of the Independent
Presbyterian, First Baptist, First
Presbyterian, St. Johns and Christ
churches and the Temple Mickva Is
rael will be read at the meeting of
Council tonight. They will probably
be referred to the Finance Committee.
or the Committee of the Whole, which
will mean that no official action will
be taken for at least two weeks. 1t
is hardly likely that the petitions will
be disposed of tonight.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
ELECTION OF AGENT
POSTPONED A DAY.
Members of $. II. c. A. Executive
Committee VIII Name Man.

Members of $. T.. c. A. Executive
Committee VIII Name Man.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals met yesterday at
the De Soto Hotel and decided to leave
to an Executive Committee the selec-
ton of an officer to represent the So
ciety. This committee will meet at
$3.50 O'Clock tonight at the residence
of Mrs. st. j. b. Graham, No. 107 Jones
street, east.
The committee will then elect an
agent to represent the society and to
make cases for violations of the ordi-
nances and state laws protecting dumb
animals. Upon the special officer will
depend very largely the success of the
society. For this reason all the mem
bers desire to secure a responsible and
competent man. The Executive Com
mittee is composed of those who have
displayed the most interest in the So
ciety. The selection is left entirely
with this committee, but the commit
tee would accept no one not accept
able to the entire society.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
count Christmas, via SeabOard Air
Line Ry.

Account of the Christmas holidays.
teachers and students of schools and
colleges upon surrender of certificate
signed by the superintendent, princi-
pal or president of school or college
Will be sold tickets via the Seaboard
Air Line Railway to all points east
of the Mississippi and south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers at rate OF
one and one-third fares for the round
trip. These tickets will be sold Dec. II
to "a, inclusive, and will be linitei
for return until Jan. 8, 1905. Parents
desiring to have their children spend
Christmas at home can secure vallia Bile
information by calling at Seaboard
city ticket office, No. Bull street or
phone 2S.-ad.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
POLICE SEIZED
SLOT MACHINES
MERCHANTS PUT ON DOCKET.
TWO MACHINES WERE SECURED
BY PLAIN CLOTHES MEN.

Claimed by One of the Firms That N
Man from Charleston Put the Ma
chimes In-News of other Machines
Received Mt Police Headquarters,
and They Too VIII BE Seized.
COnhscated Machines VIII BE
Burned by Police.
A crusade against slot machines was
3naugurated by the police yesterday
when two Dewey C'Doyou") machines
were seized and Spellman & Brunnig,
at Alice and West Broad streets, and
M. B. Ehrlicher. at Liberty and West
Broad, were placed on the docket for
operating the machines in their places
of business.
The superintendent of police received
information that a number of these
machines had been bought and put in
operation in various parts of the city,
and he Immediately detailed Detec-
tives Murphy and Wall to confiscate
the machines and place those who were
operating them on the docket.
The only two machines found in ac-
tual operation were those mentioned
above, but the detectives know of
others that were in operation during
yesterday and will make an effort to
make cases against the parties operat-
ing them.
VIII Destroy Machines.
According to a statement made b.
one of the firms placed on the docket,
the machines all belong to the same
person, a man from Charleston, who
puts them in the places on shares.
The detective wagon was called out,
and the two machines seized were car
ried to police headquarters, where they
will be destroyed. The machines are
the latest and most approved make,
and have a capacity for swallowing
nickels that is truly wonderful.
AT one of the places where a ma
chine was seized a white man carry
ing extra weight was just pushing his
last cents into the slot when the de-
tectives appeared. When he saw them
carrying the machine off he reviled
them for not appearing sooner and
saving him the IS he had pushed, 5
cents at time, through the slot.
Police Played the Game.
Under the laws of the state all
gambling devices seized by the au-
thorities are supposed to be destroyed.
and the police superintendent says he
will make a Christmas bonfire out of
the two machines already taken.
All the suckers were not on the
street, some of them being in the
ranks of the police. AS soon as the
machines We're placed on the back
veranda at police headquarters the
members of the night relief, which
was getting ready to go out, crowded
around and commenced showing nick
els in. One of the men didn't have
a nickel so he mashed car seal
and ran it through. He struck the
Dewey and counted himself out 50.
The cases against Messrs. Spell
man & Drumming and M. B. Ehrlicher
will be heard in Police Court this
morning.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
MAN SH0PLIFTER TURNED
OVER TO CITY COURT.
Was Caught With Goods which He
Claimed He Bought.

Samuel D. Flowers, white man
aged IS years, was given a prelim-
mary hearing before Recorder Myrick
yesterday morning and turned over to
the City Court for shoplifting.
Flowers was charged with having
entered the store of Leopold Adler,
with three companions, and picked UP
a ladys scarf, valued at $3.50, which he
showed into his pocket. He was de-
tected by Mr.. Adler himself, and when
arrested stated he had bought the
scarf from a young lady in the store,
and gave her thirty cents for it. He
said he didn't have to have his goods
wrapped up if he didn't want them
that way, explaining why the bundle
was not wrapped. He is the first man
shoplifter that has been detected in
some time.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-21
LEFT ALL PROPERTY
IN BROTHERS HANDS.
Relieves Him from Making Any Re
turns to Court of Ordinary.

Relieves Him from Making Any Re-
turns to Court of Ordinary.
The will of the late John Rocker
was offered for probate yesterday in
the Court of Ordinary. By the terms
of the will all the property held by
the deceased, both real and personal,
is left to his brother. Henry Rocker.
The brother is also named as execu-
tor of the will. The will was drawn
on July 9, 1904 and was witnessed by
Charles F. Childs, Siegfried Fantl and
H. Z. Wilson.
The brother is given full control of
the estate and it is expressly stated
that he may sell any portion, or all
OF it, II he desires. He Is relieved
from making and filing any appraise-
ment. and from making any returns
regarding the management of the es-
tate to the Court of Ordinary.