New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-05
Jury REGARDS NOT FAME
Convicts Negro Professor
Sought BY Swiftest Messengers.
PATIENT MISSED HIS WATCH
Defendant Urges His Peers to
Seek for the Truth, and They
Find Il in Five Minutes.

Professor" Andrew s. Williams. negro
who according TO his card. which ne eN-
pIained WAS a calling card and not an au-
yertisement. is the friend OF the people
at No. East 13od street. was convicted OF
grand larceny yesterday in Judge swami
part of General sessions charles W. Lewis
another negro. sixty-six years old SAID tne
professor came To pray for him when ne
was "at deaths do ' and departed WIN
his watch and chain, worth go. Lewis o'u
not get his watch back at once, Tor James
Carr came into court at the end OF the
trial and said the watch had been stoien
from him before Lewis bought 1t at
pawnshop.
"O-o-oh"' Lewis began to testify In
shuddering groan. II laid in that bed IKE
dead man. Jus as good as dead Wuz.
An i'm come this fellor," he shook his mead
at the prisoner II asks him how nue."
is he goin' TO charge me an he says I'll
an Of man an he can't do much Ter NE
however so he tries, so he VIII nave 10
charge $50.
Lord have mercy on me-" groaned Lewis
realistically. 81 tells him I'm pore man.
but I knows | can't feel no wors' imam
what I do. so | says go ahead an Ill give
YOU $50 | was that wracked with pain
oon't know what he done then but knows
that the next day my watch was gone rum
my trunk. Yes. 1t Dnz So you Memp'is
trash: don YOU shake yore head no
know YOU TUX IT," he finished ferocl"uslE'
He said when next he saw the "atch II
was in the hands OF the policeman "no
had arrested Williams and had found the
watch on him. On cross-eNanInat'o''
Iewiss flow Of words ran like a heavy
freight on down grade. Je ran past all
the signals set by the professors coun-
sell Sometimes. when T. w. stanton 'hf
attorney. tried to get In a word edge"lse'
the old negro checked him with lordlE
wave of his hand
Now you hush up he directed III
still a-talkin.''
Williams told his counsel that Ne hao
studied i'm mo particular school. but that
he was a travelling preacher. For ihne
years" ne droned generously. II travelled
studying the word OF God. In Great Neck
Tj,tIo Neck and Newark. y. j.. I studied
the mvsteries oC God and the people have
heard of my name and fame 'hrousho"' III
All parts roundabout when trouble comes
,pon them they send the swiftest messeh-
ger that | may cure their Erievous sore
with the bcnodi'tIon of grace that descehds
from the throne on high
Lewis sat in the rear Of the court ana
chucltled audhly while Williams was teso-
fylng. so that the jury might not u" un-
Gully impressed He shook his hst belllscr-
entity. however as williams denied having
seen tho watch and continued TO tell of
his visit 10 Lewis
a young colored lady said Nillians'
Ted me 10 his bedside. and he tole me that
he wished 10 be made young; that he
wished 70 be pleasing IN her sight. told
him 10 pray an - mediate on Paul. an
he begun 10 curse an 10 swear an 10
weep an 10 wall an says he don't want
no nied.tations, ne want dat gal. I said
fer him To pray an he jus curse an
swear
Williams end IN n An" burst OF oratory.
directing the jury 10 disregard the gray
hairs that "kvcred tho soul Of the wicked
AMI 10 search for the truth. Mr.. Coliigan
cross-examined him searchingly and elected
tho Information that he depended for his
education upon spiritual knowledge and
upon The divine aroma" that descended
from the .hronc OF grace. He admitted
that he hal taken POSTGRADUATE course
in the pentcntlary a year ago for assault
Tho Jury was our only live minutes.