Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-27
BUNNY" PORTER
goes To JAIL FOR
: HERON KILLING
Negro Who Administered Drug to
Soldier Who Died Gets Two
and Half Years.
CLEAN CAPITAL DOCKET

Herman Porter, colored, known as
"Runny," indicted for manslaughter III
causing the death of a soldier named John
Rose through the administration oil heron
and cocaine. TODAY changed his original
plea Of not guilty to one of guilty, before
Judges Rice, Conrad and lleisel, sitting
rs Court of Over and Tcnnlner, and took
his punishment two years ana SIN
months in lail and 5000 fine.
William c. Jones, POrter's counsel,
made.a plea for lcnicncy for the man, say
ing Porter had no intent to take Rose $
life. and in giving him the original dose OF
heroin thought he was doing him favor.
When Rose showed signs of serious Ill
ness from II dose of cocaine was adj
ministcred bv Porter IN an effort to help
Rose. :,
Deputy Attorncy-C,cncral Green called
the court attention 10 the fact that the
ease was one Of the results OF the per
niciouS hcToln traffic, which the authorl-
ties are doing their best to break up. NJ
the very moment. he said, there was n
body Of another victim Of the drug lying
in the morguc The General Sessions
docket had been full of hcroin cases, he
said. and the court attention was called
10 tho fact, too
Judge Conrad, in imposing sentence,
also referred to the gravity OF the heron
traffic and the fact that the court had
disposed of large number of eases TINS
form Int this one was tho most serious
of all, in view Of the fact that n death had
occurred Sentence was then pronounced.
THREE orHER CASES
There arc only thrrc other eases on the
Over and Tcr1nincr trial docket for this
term. and Of these only ono IS likely 20 hc
tried They are benjamin Callahan.
colorrd. charged with first degree murder
in killing his wife'S former husband, Mil
lard Parsou. whom tho latter went 20 the
Callahan home last summer and tried to
get in John Newman. coiorcd, indicted
for manSlaughtcr m running over and
killing one David Brown IN IN automobile
recently. and Nathaniel Jones, colorCd, q
soldier. indicted for FIRST degree murder
in the killing of colorcd woman named
NTarv Elizabeth Graves. back in August.
1915
In the Callahan case tho State has
arroed to accept plea of guilty of man
slaughter. Attorneys General Reinhatdt
dl4 not expect to obtain 4 first degree con
vIrtinn. and had some doubt about Sc
curing any conviction, Il Is said, except
for ono or two circumstances trcord-
mglv nc and Julian G Walker. Callahan s
counsel. conferred upon the matter and
Mr. Reinhardt agreed to accept plca oi
guilty TO the charge ~ msnslaughtcr
The case will lc disposed Of this after
noon
Tho Groves case has gone over 20 the
November term Groves was IN court
this morning and was arraigncd. entering
a plea of not guilty The court assigned
John W BRADY 10 defend him lmmcd-
lately after the arralEnmcnt NtorncN-
cneraI Roinhardt informed the court
ne would have ~ ash for continuance
until next term because If the absence of
svo important witnesses Detective
Sergeant Green, who IS I'll and confined
tn mis- bod. and man named Wheeler, IN
Philadelphia Mr. Rra3v also wished an
opportunity to famillari2c himself with
the case
This leaves only tho Newman case and
If may not hc tried Decision on tins
matter viii he reached this afternoon