The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-07-29
VANCE CONVICTED
ON VAGRANCY
CHARGE
CASE ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE
ATTENTIoN-oTHER CASES
DISPOSED OF.

Circuit Court rec0nvened this morn
ing and the grand jury is again a
work, with a large number of witness
es in attendance.
Orvin Beagle was arraigned on the
charge of grand larceny. He plead
guilty and was remanded to Jail to
await sentence. Shipper Zion, an
escape from the county farm, was ar
raigned on an indictment for that of
Tense. He plead guilty. Sentence was
suspended and he was sent back to
county farm on the former charge
Bill Cole, a negro, convicted in Justice
Fairley's court, having appealed his
case and being absent when it was
called, a forfeiture was taken on his
appeal bond for 5000, against B. T.
Currie and Elias Lewis. Cole was
tried before jury in his absence, but
the case had not been submitted up to
the hour for going to press.
In the Court Saturday the trial Of
Fl. S. Vance, on the charge of va
grancy, was concluded and the jury,
after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of guilty as charged This
case attracted considerable attention,
for the reason that it was something
new in this section to see a white man
tried for vagrancy, the basis of which
charge was desertion and non-support
of his family.
1t was shown that the man has had
pending for some time a suit for d.
vorce from his wife-and she also had
sued him in the Chancery Court for
alimony and a support for herself and
her child. His suit for divorce has
never been granted, but last November
the Chancellor had decreed that he
should support his family and had al
lowed the wife a monthly stipend,
which he was ordered to pay. This he
failed to do, and it was shown that he
has made no provision for his wife or
child since 1908. Vance is an able
bodied, healthy man. At the trial the
wife was present as a witness against
him, and with her was their only child.
R. S. Hall, the district attorney, was
assisted by Neil Currie and the de-
Tense was represented by Duncan
Draughn and T. T. Salter.
Monroe Woods, alias Neal, charged
with the burglary of the store Of j. o.
Barron Supply Company, near McLau-
rim, thought he was lawyer enough to
conduct his own case, but his mag
mary legal talent didn't keep District
Attorney Hall from getting from the
jury a prompt verdict of guilty.
Reuben Parker, another COON" hav-
ing tried his hand in forging the name
of Glenny Walker to draft or check
and succeeded in getting it cashed by
Giant J. McInnis, also played lawyer
in conducting his own defense against
the charge of forgery, with the result
that he, too, got verdict of guilty
as charged"
A. B. Johnson plead guilty to the
charge of retailing and was released
on existing bond to await sentence.
The case of the City of Hattiesburg
VS., JOHNNIE Briggs, for retailing, was
dismissed with writ of procedendo.
Pink Ulmer, indicted on the charge
of grand larceny was arraigned. He
plead not guilty and his case went
over to another day.
\. A. f. Smith, indicted on the charge
or suborning witness to perjury, was
arraigned He plead not guilty and
his case was set for Tuesday next. He
at once gave the $4,000 bond fixed by |
the Court and was released. Smith |
is the postmaster at Palmer's. He is
represented by Davis & Davis and d. |
NJ Watkins.
T. NJ. Lyle having been tried in his
absence in two cases wherein he ap-
pealed from the City, in both of which
he was convicted for retailing, fined
Sl0O and sentenced to 30 days in jail, |
was found guilty and the Judgment of
the City Court affirmed.
orvan Beagle, the youth who took
$3.50 from the cash drawer at j. M.
carleys' store in Petal, several months
ago, having been indicted by the grand
Jury was arrested and committed to
jan subject to call of his case in court.