Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-23
HERON CASES
CALLED TODAY IN
GENERAL SESSIONS
One, Involving a Mans Lite. Was
Set for Trial Next
Monday
OTHER COURT BUSINESS

~ TEN NUM-
Having already won the first skirmlsh
in their fight through having achieved a
preliminary conviction on Friday after
noon. the forces of the commonwealth,
represented by Attorney-General Rem
hardt. Deputy Attorncy-General Green
and the Police Department through
Sergeant Green's narcotic squad and
the patrolmcn. today resumed their war
fare upon the deadly heroin trathc, taking
up the trial of those against whom IN
dictments have been found before Judge
Conrad and HeiseI in General Sessions.
But before this was done one of the
most important cases involved. the charge
of manslaughtcr against Herman Porter
alias BUNNY" Porter colorcd, IN giving
John Rose. IA soldier. fatal dose OF heron
on June |, came up IN the Court OF Over
and Termincr. with Judge Rice sitting
as the associate of Judges Conrad and
Heiscl. Porter being arraIgncd To plead
To the bill of Indictment against hun.
He entered plea Of not guilty. The court
assigned Attorney William c. Jones TO
defend him Trial date was set for Mon
day next.
N COURT ROOM No. /.
In Court No | Elsie Johnson, who
was the defendant convicted on Friday,
through her counsel James salisbury,
entered plea Of guilty to ono OF the
other four indictments against her On
motion of Attorncv-t General Rclnhardt
sentence was deferred temporarily
INDEPENDENT WOMAN ADDS TO iER
TROUBLES
The first case called for trial was that
Of Helen Laws. Young Ncgrcss. of
second aud Tatnall streets, who seemed
"a view the proceedings IN a very dlS-
dainfu sort of manner But before the
court had finished with her case she took
AN entirely different view Of things
There were two bills against her and. to
try ono Of these Jury was drawn and
The case went to trial before Judge HclSci
m Room No , Walter Francis. a white
youth. said in helping the detectives he
bought the drug At the woman : house on
June u Detectives FairchIld and Riley,
WHO made the arrest said the woman
confessed To selling htroin but said she
was only acting as AN agent Deputy
AttorncS General Green prosecuted the
ease
fho jury convicted the woman without
leaving the box Judge lieI>cl imposed
sentence Of one wear and $500 fine and
hen things happened very suddenly to
ttGltD t~it WIS SldfitN 1tii ~ llt t''ut "
room III custody with her car-frcc in
different manner still very much IN cvi-
,lcnce Quite nonchalantly she snapped
her fingers and uttered q phrase quito
common among Negroes when they seek
to express scorn.
That's small -crImption>, she SaId.
Judge Jelsel heard It. Just as did pretty
much the whole courtroom
Bring her back. said the court
Helen was brought back and Judge Hciscl
changed the penalty by adding SIX
months, making IL months in all. Helen
didn't look quite 50 indifferent rs she
went away this time On the other hand
she looked worried
Another case was Immediately placed
on trial, Deputy Acknowledgement Green
continuing to present The evidence for
the State And like tho case against
Helen Laws it ended in a verdict Of
guilty Samuel Green, colorcd. was the
defendant. Witnesses testified to buying
the drug at Third and Tatnall streets
from the defendant Sentence was de-
fcrred temporarily. and another case.
Lizzie Parker. brought INTO court.
Francis was again the States chief
witness He testified that he purchased
three decks Of the drug on june I6
paying her = 80 lie sand he used two of
the decks SUNDAY and the other one on
Monday after which he told the MEM
berS Of the detective bureau where and
from whom he had purchased the heron
Detective Fairchild testified that he
and other members OF the detective
bureau found some Of the drug and
paraphcrnalIa for using It at the Parker
woman home when they ralded il June
Il There were { one-eighth ounce
bottles Of heron and IS OF the same size
tottlcs Of cocain THIS lot WAS found in
he posse ssion Of William HAYES. in the
S1me house the detective sad Hayes
roomed Al the woman house The case
WAS still on trial when noon recess arrived
LIVELY sT>BBING AFFRAY
That ancient and sometimes honorable
If everybody watched COngoesa golf
game known to the law and the police as
crap has gotten lots OF people, chiefly
Negroes. INTO trouble one way or another.
but the difficulty has usually been finan-
cial To-day IN General Sessions before
Judge Conrad. a game that was played
on Nav Is last got James Free colorcd.
into a peck Of II
Free was q prisoner on bill of indict-
ment accusing him Of assault with intent
70 commit murder upon one George Green.
also col red He had entered q plc; Of
not guilty but Levin / Handv ms
counsel, announced q change TO guilty Of
simple ass-.,IIt which was acceptable to
the State But when il came down to
hearing enough evidence to enable Judge
Conrad TO impose sentence with justice
the matter went almost into a regular
trial stage
Green said he was cut eight times bv
Tree. He had turned 10 go away after