The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-08
WILL FACE JURY
OF THEIR PEERS
Long and Important Grind Of
Criminal Court Begins
Monday Morning.
GRAND JURY WILL MEET

Monday morning the wheels OF JUS
tlce In the criminal court will begin
to grind for the September term. and
slowly but surely the transgressors
will be summoned to the bar 10 an
swer for their transgressions. There
are many important cases on the
docket including nine murder trials.
Atty, Gen. George w. Chamlee an
nounces that he Is ready in all the
murder cases and in nearly every
other case assigned and says he has
assurances from most OF the defend
ants attorneys that they will also
come into court ready for trial. The
term will be one of the longest, rs
well as one OF the most important,
held in some time.
The grand. jury also begins its grind
Monday morning, and many cases for
investigation will come before this
body, including several recent 10y
riding escapados,
Criminal court officials are OF the
opinion that the recent cruel murder
OF young Abe Baron has served to
warn the public but little OF the dan
gers OF "joyrlding"; that this nightly
pastime Is stil ~ progress and that
1t will take few indictments and
publicity to break II up. The docket
assigned for the term beginning on
Monday morning Is as follows:
ofHelal Docket.
Sept, l3--Georgia Roam, felonious as
sault; Howell Johns. larceny; Frank
Haywood, selling liquor; John r. Jones
81. tnI. To. N
r. s, Gardenhire, carrying pistol; Ben
Mills. murder; Charlie Johnson. larceny
Charley Jones, carrying pistol; Mandh
Gordon, carrying pistol; Manda Gordon,
felonious assault; Sygeby Hood, ASSAULT
and battery; Jack II. Beach, vagrancy;
James Reed, carrying pistol; Frank Hay
wood. selling liquor; Frank Haywood.
selling liquor; Joe Bork. Jr. and Robert
Fox and Clyde Stone, public drunk
eness; Frank James, larceny; Ethel
Reed. larceny; Ed jackson. alias An
drew jackson, larceny: VIII Guy, lar
ceny: John Byrd, larceny; Robert Har-
ris. assault and battery
Sept. 14-Clyde Love and Ollie Ayers,
selling liquor and transporting three
gallons: j. T. McCarty, larceny; WIN
Metcalf. selling liquor; Willie johnson
criminal ASSAULT clifford Hughes. lewd-
ness; Clifford Hughes, carrying pistol
Dooley jackson, selling liquor; HIP. NAL
lcot, transporting over three gallons,
Eugene McGee, larceny; NJ. NJ Lawson,
larceny; w. II. Palmer, murder; Matte
Goodrich, felonous assault; Emmett
Morton. feonious assault; David Mason,
highway robbery; sherman Howard,
highway robbery; David Mason, high
way robbery: Patsey Moore, carrying
pistol; Julia Martin. carrying pistol; w.
II. Palmer. carrying pistol Matte Hes
ter, carrying razor: Lester Merritt, Joe
Ferguson Pies Gerley and Henry Purse
w gaming.
Major Usher, larceny; t. x. Smith,
selling liquor; Tennie Smith, selling
liauopff Mary Lee Webb, assault and
battery; viii II. Thompson, carrying
pistol; Rukur Ware felonious assault:
Sam Wlllbanks, assault and battery; j.
J. Whiteman, selling liquor; John
Smith. larceny; l., H. Stafford, vagrancy;
Charles Sively selling liquor; Jim Lock,
murder; Fannie Smith, Lena white
larceny: Johnson Scott alias John
Tucker. larceny; Ray Wood, carrying
pistol Cinda York, manufacturing
liquor.
Sept. i6-Henry Payne, felonious as
sault Frank Davis and Henry Lynch,
larceny; Joe Smith. Joseph Eason, Jim
Guam, alias Mooney, larceny: It. y.
Pratt. embezzlement James Nixon, car
rying pistol; Henry Bruison manufac-
turing liquor; Henry Bruison and Wiley
Sterling, transporting liquor; Henry
Bruison and Caste Sterling. transporting
liquor: Anderson Jackson, transporting
liquor: Maud Ballow, larceny; Dave
Shiploy. murder; II. II. Parker, larceny;
Eugene Pratt, carrying pistol; Rosa
Thurman. IL. G, Echols, Jennie FitzRer-
aid. Tom Fitzgerald, VIII Stafford,
Hamp Kelley, selling liquor; 8. II, De-
Trcese, assault and battery; Willis Bal
ley. violating automobile speed limit.
Sept. III. @. Madison, cruelty to
animals; @. +. Paynes, false pretense,
forgery 1.-TWO cases), larceny; Virgil Ma
son. murder; Alexander Hamilton, pub
Lie