The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-19
Hamilton County Courts Have
Transacted Volume of Business
Three Tribunals Are Up Date and VIII Shortly Adjourn for
the SumerChancelIor Garvin Reversed Only Ten Times
In -Four Years-Splendid Record of Gen. Chamee.

for this and the promptness and dis
patch with which business has been
transacted Is due, OF course, 70 the
attorney general his assistant ana
the criminal judge. Gen. Chamlee
always prepares his cases Tor triai
and seldom, II ever, asks continuance
unless IL lis in a serious case OF
sickness. ! Assistant Atty Gen, w.
II. McGaughy, whose duty ~ ~
TO conduct the affairs OF the grhnu
jury, has kept right up with MS
chieftain and whenever caiien on ~
furnish grist for the wheels OF JUS
flee has done so with indictments
from the grand jury. IL has been OF
great help to Judge McReynolds 10
have an attorney general who always
is ready for trial with his cases, ana
in this way the business Is up Tor the
first time in the history OF the court.
Atty. Gen. George w. Chamiee,
Immediately upon being indicted INTO
Office, adopted a new pracuce ~
Hamilton county byattending all the
preliminary trials In important cases
and making personal investigation
Of all murders or crimes as soon "
they are committed; as soon as an
indictment is returned he places tne
defendant on trial, or as soon alter
Some Convictions.
II would not he malapropos al TINS
iuncture to recall few or the mos.
impbrtant criminal cases and theiI
anal disposition during the regime OF
the present attorney general. Henry
Meredith, Holman stephens and Ho-
mer McWhorter, all three colored'
were convicted OF the murder OF Pri-
waite Frank j.. Sweeney and sen
fenced TO life Imprisonment. Inc
negroes killed Private Sweeney after
chasing him through Tannery flats
CLYDE and RUDE Love were convictep
Of receiving and concealing stolen
Foods. Ii was charged they received
automobiles and changed the parts
about SO they could not be recognized
by their owners. X. Il. Trice. col
ored. was convicted and sentenced y
serve from three to twenty zone year,
in the penitentiary for the murder O
Walter Johnson. The trouble oc-
Cured over Trice's wife Cnaries
williams Is now serving q peniten.
tiary sentence for the murder o.
Della Cross whom he killed IN y,
OF jealousy. Henry A. Cook killed
r. B. Vann about his divorced wire
and was convicted and sentenced .
serve from two to ten years for man
slaughter. Jim Marty was convicted
Of second degree murder for kiiilne
Harry Lowe. ]. w. Staab was CON
yicted OF lewdness and sentenced z
the workhouse. Staab for awhile was
held in the county Jail as German
enemy alien. ,,,
Henry Shepherd and VIII Hayes
were convicted OF robbing II. p. kini
Of his automobile on the Birds MI
road and taking the car to Chcka,
manga park, where they abandoned
II. Fred CLANCY, young man OIL TN
Soddy neighborhood, was the recip'
lent OF lenlency from the attorney
general and Judge or he would hav'
been sent up for a long term. Chanc!
was hunted in the mountains abou
his home for several days on mum
her OF charges and was finally cap
tured.a He came into court and state'
he had married and wanted to g
west and begin life anew, and on ac
count of his youth he was given I'M
change. He paid the costs Of IN
case Henry Lewis was convicted
grand larceny. being convicted Q
stealing C. j. Mertin's automobile.
The court will be busy during tn
coming week and then will. ad1osri
! until the September term.