Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-10-04
THE GROUSE bSSAIANTS
INTERESTING TRIAL L AST s
THREE HOURS
Had Hearing AZ Court HoEss-HeId
Under s., 900 Security for Ap-
peaEance at ceurt

Nine e0loreJ men anI one eoIorsd
woman bad preliminary hearings be-
/ fore Justice joan r Davis today o.
tlse cfiargs - heiug Implicated n The
assault opoB Ueputies James Grguse
and Reuben g.. small wood 2t Rock
/ Greek czmpfneetlrx on Sunday sep
tembeF !. during whieb the former
vas DadIy beaten
owing - fas ngmber ~ peFso1s wEo
were brought before the JBstIee ard
the crowd wbfeb was attracted ~ f4s
proeee1lngs. t8s hearfnx took piaee II
tie conrf loose states Attorney
Nicholas r.. 8seen ce1daesed tfs Esrs-
csedlngs Tor fhe State snd 31essrs-
Robert sloss. a. Theodore .Brzdy snd
james -. Owens. ~ Annapolis. 2Dd
Charlie " Maine ~ Bzltir10re- req
resented ore ~ n1oEe - he aeeGseti-
a { ths conclusion Cf he nearin<
Justice Das5s Bed tne following ga-
der 81 90 security g. answer AZ IL
October term - eOuTr. Henry -fmp-
s01. Henry NuTray. Richard Bstier.
Joshua ~. Day EBd Etta ~ Twyns11-
alias BlzeE EIla. The f0llONInz wsss
released. as ti5e egffenes was Eot
strong eBonzh - Justify holding Lienz-
Jobu sfaun. Esn0ry J0ansgn. Be1I1-
mir Gizdden, Edwar1 Powell and
Daniel DOrsev-
OMcsF Csoase vas the Grss witness
Hs stated that se went t. the .0c<
Greek campmeetlnG IN bis 0i1eial ca
pzeSty. arriving thsEe ao01E II
O'Clock IN the uOEuinz- he said shas
hs saw = crap game going On IN the
grounds ard mentioned the RARE of
some Of those who were engaged n
II. The Officer told or attempting -
put a st0y~f0 tire game and testified
zs TO the shooting u Jerome Boo1e-
who has since died. By Olhesr snail
wood. He said that I,C0Es Started to-
wards them. putting his Eand behind
him as be came and that O11eer
small wood shot bin. Ife said sha1
they were warned BY Sam johnson
that there Vas n plot % Kill them All
that the two rstrsased irtC ti5e church
smallw0Od. hs said sueeesded n
getting out Of the baek Tay. but HAT
he vas knocked down between the
Dsws and kicked and beats1-
Officer Grouse said that bis pistol
handouts and books were taken froI
him By = nan that be did not see.
bat he positively identified Henry
Simpson as one u bis chief assGil-
ants. He said that he was able 20
get up and that . eOlOred man named
Hill made every effort 70 protect
him, wffhstandiBg the other col0red
men bravely, but that most ~ tire
crowd seemed determined TO XIII him.
RE identified Butler and Murray a.
having been among those who stEsek
him ii this time, and also stated that
the eoIored woman, Eta Twyna1.
hit him in the head with = bottle, and
that a large c0IOred man who had not
been arrested, had kicked him n the
breast. Officer Grouse said tnat a B-al-
ber in the crowd tried 70 get at him
even after he Vas being taken 10 the
doctor. but tint several Of the e0l0red
people protected him and were assault
Cd By the rOughs.
OHicer Rueben J.. SmAIlwO0d gave
testimony which. in many instances
c0frObOrated that of Officer CrOUse,
and he succeeded in positively Identi-
fying one or two additional ones Of
| the prisoners. lie told u the action
Of the members Of the crowd. their
| threats against the officers and the
| fact that 4 number Of them were
armed with pistols. He told Of the
shooting 0f Boone, claiming thai he
bad been threatened By the er0wd
previously and that Boone was an
proacbing With his hand behind him
a. II TO draw a revolver. This testi-
| mony was ruled out. as the shooting
Of Boone was not before the court
4 large number Of the eOlOred pe0-
ple testified and in some instances they
| gave evidence which cOFrODorafed
1 that Of the officers. IN other cases
| however, the tetimOnby Of these Wit
| ueses tended 10 show that some Ol
| the accused were not in the crowd
/ which had committed the assault and
1 had not done anything 10 bring on the
| trouble. There was much diyergenee
Of testimony IN the case of John Mann
| whom the authorities have claimed
| was one Of the ring leaders 0f the
affair. However, Justice Davis did
not consider that the case against
him was strong enough 70 bold him.
| Among the eOIored people who gave
| the mos important evidence were
l Samuel y. Hail, Harrison Green,
Moses johnson. Maggie Kelly, Caro-
| line Murray and Andrew Aackail.
| In some cases a number Of the col
ored witnesses did not hesitate q
| state the names of those who bad a.
sauIted the officers