Show JOHN SL ND DISCHARGED V i S R Olm H So No fo Cu Cl Cuo Cao o I h l Man r hl Uh A ll The colored denizens s of ot Franklin a avenue nul In lar large numbers were present III ni II police court yesterday morning 1111 at atthe V V the trial of oC John Bland a young colored col col- col- col red ored man on the charge of as assault assaul V mind battery batter upon Matthew Edwards S an aged a negro on the night of Nov 3 CI or the thoroughfare As the thc testimony adduced was very conflicting the healin hearing hearing hear heal in ing resulted In the thc discharge of oC Bland 0 J It appears that the murder In VV l avenue a about a i. l month ago of oC Horace H. H Yo Voss s b by A A. A T. T Day wh whIs who I Is Js now awaiting trial continues to b be the foremost t of conversation among amon the rc residents of the thoroughfare thorough thorough- fare and gossip over th the tragedy tras-edY 1 In Iii a free for n fight ht among V tho the friends of the murdered man and those of oC his slayer on the nl night ht of Nov n. n i. i According to the te testimony lImony of EdS Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- Emma S wards and his wife and Mrs MiSs John Johnson on In the trial of Bland yester ester da tiny day the accused dealt Edwards a blow that floored him and rendered him hire Unconscious unconscious un un- conscious for Cor a short time during the general row This testimony however V was na refuted by that of Bland Mrs l II H H. Hos Voss os Mrs Mitchell l and lr l Mrs Wll II 11 Hams IIams who declared that the accused was not present at the time of oC the thc trouble and that he did not hit Ed Ed- Ed wards At the conclusion of th the hear hear- Jud DIehl Diehi announced that a Ing Judge e made out against case calc had not hot been Bland an and his release was therefore ordered |