The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, December 18, 1900, Page 7, Image 7
deadly knock-out drops.
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(11 or*l ll y drat" I® Make Nokkrr.
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„„,| Adnilnllert.
bTom the Nk York Sun.
; over the country attention Wa* at*
~ rj by lb* cga* of Jennie Boi>< hlctrr
.terscn to the use by men of knock.
they are called, in the ac
t-turn ul of criminal purpose* aga last
„. ie. Tha us# of knock-out drop,
nrvar. by any menu*, cotvtln.d
' u.'n by men. Woman of the vicious
use them In robbing men Rob
irlio eaaler and safer If the mm
• rendered senswlesa, the ktiock
nre brought Into play as soon
I respective victim ran be Induced
6 -ske a .irlnk. The advantages of their
, , . twofold. Flrat. tha vtcUm U easily
l, , m ptly relieved of more money
. ~ r could otherwlae be Induced to
„ r i A second advantage lieu tn
that for a certain period at
' will he • bl vlous of his surround
, In that time the robber can get
way and. tf It be desirable,
with some degree of safety go
. • r place where she met him and
• ready game For whan kno, k
,ue used tly victim Is generally
a. iv from the resort wlterg he
i ,| tiiem before ha la robbed, and
:t loft whero he will not too
Mscotered
. of knock-out drops by male
against other men Is to the
1 iid llttis different In method
~ti pursued by these women. The
c.v. n In drink of last tort. TBs
may be seeing the sights, or he
ire to get Into a quiet game of
• Into a gambling house without
■c *he way Into one. or he may
want to be aoctabJa and so ready
I 'ake up With any sleek talker who
y. . . that all men are friends over
, „v, and acta on bis belief when the
, appears. It Is said that the male
~a!s usually give a audit lent amount
irujr to make sure that their vtc
. nip I.*, consciousness utterly, and
t y..n so careless as to other result*
may of their ucttm* die. On the
and. women especially if thev
; a victim to a well-hidden room hired
he purpose, are sometimes content
i 'minister merely sleeping potion.
the use of the. knock-out drops for
- * i -nose of taking advantage of young
-iwever. attention has been drawn
(.*•’!■ clarly since the Paterson murder.
~ In cases ot mysterious Illness in
•. •. ports of the country Inveattgu
h t.c been directed In a way to bring
f tie possible use of mr such stupe
rug The result has been a dec
c in many Instances that In knock
..... has been found the solution of
• mystery ard the further discovery
•', a lesort to drugs ts a matter of
f- .dent occurence in certain commuiri
case of Abbie Whitney of Auburn,
Me .! to Investigation and disclosures
T h Induced the correspondent of a
paper, writing from Lewiston.
\p- to say: "It now come* out that
of respectable girl* have been
me.i, have been assaulted and mal
i-a'H In various ways, at these dances
ts dance hall dances, at one of
y was laid the scene of the Abbie
V h'irvv assault). The tough element of
i- r.- r iur%ssJ (iround this and other
tun - halls In the outskirts* of these
Hid with drug* and threats preyed
ir. n ' girls that fell Into their clutches.
?-■ re isn't much likelihood that there
*, I* prosecution*. Tha names of a
Ann young men who have been doing
• • ►rt of business ere bandied around
i- Ity. Many of the men aro fairly
. i , In aeveral caeca sutp* of
i. . have been paid to settle the mat
people of the State of Maine
v ■ have len shuddering over that
P.tmson rase may now do a little thlnk
tn. over home affair*. The fact of the
i ~ <r Is, ip**r* downright brutality has
.1 *h wn tn tills S*battle assault than
. i.rportod 1n relation to tile Paterson
.is correspondent tells of an Auburn
i I who was assaulted so outrageously •
?, r months ago that she ha* been confin
ed to her Ited for eleven weeks and will
t- .in Invalid for Ilia remainder of her
", ll,r assailant was admitted to hall
aid escaped, and he correspondent says
,• no effort has been made to calch
hm. 'These things Jar our selfrlghteoue-
Ia little." he says, "but they mak*
for meekness."
V t only In the Bast, but In the Wees
*ul 111* Southwest as well tha knock
ed Is familiar method employed In the
t . n of girls. Just a* It Is employed In
t - robbery of men. In cHlea of large
P >ulatton where there Is n numerous
r an contingent, rascals ready to re
► '. to tha knock-out drops find a field
h they are not slow to take advan
’ re of. Places of refreshment quite re.
I able, to whteh German woman and
■ can men of the neighborhood resort,
’•..■me familiar to the daughters of the
f,mules, born In America, and sooner
or later they are Invited Into less harm-
Ii resorts of a similar appearance In
* tier parts of the town At these places
i r u time many of them fall prey to
ns practitioner* of the knock-out. In Bt.
I .!. for example, crusades have beet,
• ducted to drive such reaort* out ot
business.
?:rny people associate tho words ktw*-k
--* . drops with pellets. It Is said that In
some Instances pills are used by men
• - ; women, but the more common form
'' tha drug of drugs usad Is the liquid
f m. which Is more convenient and less
likely to he detected by the prospective
ms The stupefying dose Is carried In
-naH phial, which may easily be con
i' !d In the hand which holds a bottle
fr m which a convivial drink I* to be
|o red. and some or all of Its contents
• allowed to rur, Into the victim's
drink In New York the results of the
work of knockout drops or men and
* men. according to me freely made
-moot* of the police, iJ appal ting
The fact that knock-out drops have
In extensively used tn the borough ot
Manhattan for the past two years Is welt
knr .vn to physicians about town. Time
*''■! again they have been called to at
•’tel patients who had returned to their
•> me* m a dazes condition and 1n not a
f‘ * of the cases the patients have died
f r :he reason that the person admlnls
-1 ring the drug wo* not familiar enough
” ’ jt to know the safe limits of a d<**e.
•■•rly all the physician* connected with
'*■* •'oroner’a ofhre have been called upon
1 perform autopsies upon bodies of per.
* n* Who died from *n overdose of the
*rug, but In these cases It has been dlf
-1 dt for the police to get evidence on
' h to base a conviction
'•■any men found unconscious In the
•et and taken to a hospital are sup-
Id to l,e suffering from alcoholism
'Then H Is too late to render relief the
covary la made that the man ha*
■ drugged and Is suffering from some
* ' of ou!son that seems to puasle the
f‘! Jans at the hospital. When dsatb
■illy results In a case of this kind the
* oners physician finds from his autopsy
i death was due to the fact that the
f nt had a waak heart, llaart failure
’ coll M In moat of the caaea. but If
J 1 * P lysltlan who performed the autopsy
1 *J been taml lar with tha history of tha
*• be wquld promptly have said the
* of death waa a dose of chloral too
• ’* for tha parson <© whom H was
b 'mistered.
I>r Philip O’Hsnlon, who he* been
needed with the coroners' office fur
1 *cy years Is of fb,* opinion that hun
' *“ of insn die In ItU* city every veer
* f w havtag been the victim* of knock
°'' drops. Dr. O’Hanlon era* cm of tha
i k*'*ia inetrumeotal In procurlop, the
law shut make* It a crime n> have knock
out drops in one's possession.
"What Is commonly known as knock
out drops t* chloral hydrate," *axi Dr.
O llanlan. "from li to 30 grains of It pro
duces a sleep that lasts three hours. Of
course the steep u derp.-r tf the drug
ls adintnutered In large amounts. Then
It produces a mate ot coma Fatal syn
cope sometime* nwr occur <'hior*l hy
drate wot* as a hypnotic on the l.ratn, lipt
when the hmrt , weak It ktlla. I hav*
known of cases where thirty giatns prov.
ot fetal, although the crooks at->ot town
who make use of It usually administer
much mure titan thirty grains Hey dis
solve the cryetsls In water and often
■ smipound the mixtur* by a rough guess
that is bound to result fa telly to the icr
>on who gels a dose "
In at least titty drug stores In this town
t stranger ran buy gtilural hydrate with
out a physician's prescription Bom- of
the druggists know what use tt ts to bs
put <o at the time they sell tt, but tlvi
charge t! or U for n ounce bottle of
he mixture and so long as.they get a
good price for tt they ask no queetlonr.
1 here art two drug stores in Manhattan
that aie thriving on the sale of chloral
hydrate Tbclr custom, ta are thieve* who
make a practice of drugging and robiiing
own who come to New York to oee tho
town. The thieves have their headquar
ters tn Chinatown, anu get in much of
thetr work In that part of the city. They
'■ oik In conjunction with the proprietors
of cheap hotels In the vicinity of Chatham
tiquare. and divide their booty with them
In the Tenderloin district there are
many young women who use chloral hy
drate for the purpose of carrying out
thtir [dans of robbery Moot of them have
been taught to use u by the men with
whom they associate, in many Instance*
cabinet, who have made a practice of
’rugging strangers In the hotel district.
The young woman selects the victim and
drugs him while sitting In one of me up
town saloons or amok ng parlors. The vic
tim selected Is usually a man who has
been drinking heavily. The woman 6r-
Irr* bo tried beer, and volunteers to pour
t Into her companion s glass It Is while
doing this that site holds a small bottle
of cbicral in her hand and pours the
chloral into the glass with the beer. A
few minutes later, after the victim has
swallowed the contents of the glass, he
becomes dosed. He stands up to go, and
maguwe he's Intoxicated. Tic cabman
who ia In tne game la uaar at band. The
woman calls a matter, says her friend la
drunk and nsks the waiter to help him
Into the cab at the door The robbery
incurs later in the cab. probably while
the cab hi be.ng driven through Cerural
Park. Afler the woman gets possession
of tho victim's money and Jewelry she In
forms the oabtnan, who drives through a
•lark street. The victim l lifted out
and left on a stoop or lying on the side
walk only to be found laser by the police
man on port who sends for the patrol
wagon. in some cases the victim t*
taken to a hospital. In other c-asea ho
awakes to find himself arraigned In court
on a charge of Intoxication.
But that 1* only one of the ways the
women of the Tenderloin make use of
knock-out drop*. I'p there they call It
"Peter."
"Put a lUtl Peter In my friend's glass."
i woman remarks to the bartender tn the
resort they happen Into. The bartender
may put the "Peter" tn the water that
he serve* with whisky, or he may put .t
m the glare before the victim pours
out tils drink The young woman, of
course, pays the bartender for hi* port
In tho robbery, and often helps to drag the
victim to a Balnea low hotel room where
the robbery t* eaaler.
Often the "Peter" people use chloral m
riehy or soitgar Bometlmea they put ,t
in the victim's gin In such eases. alt
Is colorless, It Is not detected.
The place* where it ts mostly used are
situated on !h upper M'et Bale of the
c!ty. In some of the so-called smoking
parlor* it 1* used, and tn a few places
on Third avenue and along Sixth ave
nue.
t H 4I.FHHF.KD S CBU3I BAB.
Juilsr l.anuvi ortliv Tell* * Story nf
t rlntinnl l.otv tn Old Kentoekr
Usyi.
(■>om the New York Tribune.
The old Judyc wae In a mood of remin
iscence. lie had not always been a
Judge, and hie memorial harked back 114
the day# of his *re*t triumphs a Ihe
best-known criminal lawyer 111 Kaatern
Kentucky. Those were lawless day*, and.
an Judge l.angworthy said truly enough,
murders were so common that "like it
not everybody In the eouiriry would
a-been hanged e'f they hadn't bad a right
smart lawyer to defend 'em."
And that WWs how il happened that the
moot desperate ouHhro.ll brought to bay.
the worst outlawed murderer, tho man
for whom a (loxen nooses were yawning,
would always come to "Bam" I.angworthy
for help. If there was any looidiol* of
escape. If there waa tha slightest weak
ness on the port of the prosecution. Law
yer Bam was sura to setae It and squeewe
the prisoner through. Ideals in the law
in Eastern Kentucky were none 100 htgu
In llmee days, and "Ham" Lsngworthy
nJver dreamed of turning * client down
because he happened 10 be guilty. That
was a circumstance that the lawyer was
generally pretty *f* In taking for
granted
"Well.” said Judge Lsngworthy. re
flectively. "of all Ihe case* I ever had I
do believe that Jim Lightbtrd's waa ihe
one that gave me the most bother.
"Jim Lightblrd. ye see." Mid the Judge
seWltng back In his chslr and crossing
hi* fret carefully oil the table In front of
him. "Jim Lightblrd wu a half-breed In
dian a sour, sullen sort ot seacook. cruel
a# a shark and superstitious ass nig
ger There must a-been bad blood In
the whole lot somewhere, for of Jim's
five brothers, one had been hanged for
murder, and not lees than two of the
other" would have swung years before tf
I hsd not g<K ’em out of their killing
,f - Wefl o' course, Jim Lightblrd knew
Id helped his brothers; In fact, he'd done
1 lot of ihe work to corn money for my
fees But no slwsya seemed Just sort of
quist and sulky, and I never thought he and
get into serious trouble.
about 7 o'clock one August
niaht and I • •*•*' 0,1 th veranda
of my boardin' place in Conway tbsi s
th* county seat. There wee a great red
glow tn th* West, and the moon, pale and
peokedllke. wa* Ju*t slldln' shove the
dark pines over to lb# EssD I wss thlnk
ln' how pesoeful ihe whole world would
he if there wasn't any men In It to raise
ruction*. RM 10* 1 ,h " t • l ® ns
came Jim DightMrd lookin' as solemn as
judgment day. And who should be ran
nln' alongside of Jim but Lot Johnson s
wife Now. Lot WSS a nice. old. pesce
sMe farmer that lived down by th" creek,
sixf hsd a decentiah Mt of property, too.
He had married s girl twenty year*
younger than he was. and not much of
a looker *1 that Bhe come of a poor
While family. nd wasn't In Lot's crios
everybody said that. ....
" 'Judge ' Whispered Jim. layln Ms hand
on my knee (they had already begun to
call mo Judge; sort of cornin' event* cast
in' shsdows racket, I suppose):
he as Id. and he was as cool as the North
pels. 4 w* want lo speak to y# a MU'
"But Farmer Johnson's wife, she didn't
look #0 game. Bhe wss fluttered a good
Wt and her lips were all a twitter.
"X took 'em both upstairs to my room.
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Soothes and strengthens th* nerve*;
relieve* pain in th* temple*, depres
sion and nauaoa.
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PUS* W pvrrw* *OO. *7 e.e-wv,vi e rttri.i-n -recu eutm...
as It was too far to go down to the of
fice. Then I squared off In front of
the fireplace, and, 'aim. what's up?* I
said
"Tho hilfhreed gave a queer look at
Johnson s wife, and men he said ‘Judge
you saved two of my brothers, Haldv and
Torn. Now I walk you to save me.' And
then he tat down as calm as you please,
and with Johnson's wife right across the
room, puttin' In a word now and then, ho
told me the
"It wasn t a nice story, and it didn't
do credit either to the halfbreed or to
poor tort's wife. But. a* for tb.it mutter,
murder ts never genteel. Here's the gist
of what Jim l.tghtbrd. the halfbreed.told
me that night, with the moon rtsln high
er and h ghor. and ->pr, adtn whiter and
ghostlier about the rom every minute:
"It seems that Jan was doin' a hit of
work for Farmer Johnson, and took a
groat fancy to Johnson's no-*count wife.
He made up to her quite a lot wmen the
old men wasn't around, and she cotton
ed to him a good bit. Thing* went on that
way for a couple of months, and then
the two of 'em began to fidget to get the
old man oirt of the way. The,' bed to he
careful and on the lookout all the rime
with him around, even though he was
such an Irmocesn and unsuspectiu' old
man. Finally, they go* Impatient, mode
up their minds to put the old man under
the sod. and then run the place to aull
themselves They didn't etop to look
alu-ad or plan the thing out carefully.
They Just went along without waitin' for
anything
"Jim. he rode over to the next town and
got a big wad of strychnine and he helped
Johnson s wife mix It in with the cof
fee Then, when the old man came tr.
for dinner the next noon, hi* wife rave
hun a big bowl of coffee < hockful of the
poison. Poor old Dot thought it tasted
kind of queer, but he wes hungry, and
gulped It all down without rayin' any
thing. . ~
•■ln about five minutes the poor 01,l
sucker was roliii around the floor, groan
in' to beat the band, and in terrible dis
tress. Just as soon as she saw the poison
begin to get in Its work. Dot * wife w. n*
to the door and blew the horn for >he
halfbreed, for that was the signal agreed
on. Jtm was hangln' around In the next
lot. and he trotted rlgh* In.
"The two of 'em lifted the poor old
farmer on the bed and then sat down to
watch him die. Johnson was already In
a state of co,lapse, for the strychnine
wae burrin' bt* inside* up. and he was
in the agonies of a regular hell Shlrst. He
kept moanin' for water. So what did that
brute halfbreed do but chuck a tot more
strychnine in a pall of cold water and
then begin ladlin' this out to the poor
old sufferer, who had never done him any
harm It was dreadful cold-blooded and
heartless, but perhaps it was more merci
ful to end the old man quickly rather
than let him die slowly. But he would
have died quick enough anyway.
"M,wnwhtle. the wife had sat by the
bed, and with never a tremor or a sigh
had watched the agonies of th„ kind okl
man who had raised her from poverty
and always been a* good as a father to
her.
"Well, the old man swelled up pretty
bad. and In tn hour he wws dead. Then
tt wae. and then for the first time, that
the halfbreed and the woman began to
realise what they had been about They
had gone Into Ihe thing blind with un
provoked rage at the old farmer, and they
hadn't left a single bridge to escape by.
They couldn't have proved an slibl. even
tf they had known what that meinl.
with the bloated body right before them,
they got geared tt an officer would poke
hts heart In llvu door any minute and
string 'em up before they could asy a
word.
"80. as soon as sunset, off they postcd
to me. and there I was with as pretty a
pair of murderers on my hands as ever
cut a throat, and the most cruel and
atrocious killing lo defend that I had ever
dreamed of."
"Thot is all. I* It?" eagerly inquired the
groin* around Ihe Judge.
"All!" lie said. "Well. I should say not.
That was Just Ihe beglnnln' of the
trouble. I have had some preisy tough
oases In my time, oral don't account my
self Chicken hearted. But I vow 1 would
have turned those two ecoundreto right
down If II hadn't been for one thing
That was that the hslfbreed Insisted on
tskln' the whole fault on Ms shoulder*.
He declared If M cam# lo draggln' lle
woman up to trial, he'd go on the aland
and swear he'd done tha whole murder:
he'd swing, he sold, before he'd let Ihe
law touch the girl.
"Now that seemed pretty square lo me.
for the woman dirt th* real murder her
self. So a* I Shouldn't have lo defend
her. and Ihe hslfbreed was only second
hund at the Job on Ihe okt man. 1 agreed
lo lake up the case. I made th" two of
'em clear right out fbf HAib". and told
*m to lake quietly the arrest that wao
sure to com* pretty quick.
"There's no us* go*n' into all th* de
tails of how I prepared for that trial."
pursued the Judge, "but anyway, lo
make a long story short, it wa* In less
than a month that Ihe ease came up ami
1 was In the courtroom defending Jim
DightMrd for murder In the first degree
Four of Jim's halfbreed brothers were
In the llttis olufly courtroom which wa*
packed and Jammed Everybody knew
Jtm was guilty all right, but then every
body knew I wasn't likely 10 let my rep
utation as a criminal lawyer suffer If I
could help It. People cam" tidin' over
from all pari* of the country, and I'll
lict the! If you go down there now any
body can tell, you how old Lot Johnson
was murdered and how Jim LlghlblrJ.
th* halfbreed, was tried for It.
"Well, Jim made an Steal witnrss. H"
was as cool and glum a* a crocodile, and
he had his story down pal. The district
attorney, who woo a* smart a chap as
you're likely lo ran against, end after
ward attorner general for Ihe slat*, laid
ahoiri fifteen trap* for the halfbreed, but
couldn't catch him It teemed altogether
best to tne 10 put Lightblrd on lit" stand,
beraua* he told ms fake story so straight
and made a good Impression on the Jury
“The upshot of It wa* that thera wa*
no one point on which Ihe Jury could
convict, and aa th* trial was drawin' to
.1 close I began to feet that my man was
safe.
"Pul there wa* one thing I hadn't reck
oned on. and that was the prisoner's su
perstition. and that wa* where the dis
trict attorney got me Those niggers and
half-breeds In he Kentucky mountains
all wear a charm bag around their neck*
that la practically their whole religion It
waa on the lari day of the trial and. aa I
said. I was beglnnln' to feel safe, when
the proaecutlon suddenly leaned over to
the prisoner and sold: 'Jtn\ Lightblrd.
lei's have that charm beg of yours!’
"Jim started back like he wa* shot and
clutched at hi# breast. where the charm
bag was hid. He wouldn't give It up.
bt* the district attorney 00 some pre
text or other, got th* Judge to rule tbart
Jgrt should let gw Him then it took a
couple of constable* to force the bag
away from poor Jim * clutch.
"No sooner had the prosecuting attor
ney got his hand* on the bag than he
out with his knife, riptawl the bag Pf„-n
and chucked it on the table. Out fell all
of Jlm'a poor little letlrhee—a rattle
snake's rattle, a dried weasel's foot, two
or thres rusty nails, an,l the like.
"You could have heard |kn drop In
the court room when these wretched gew
gaws tell rattling on the table. And
Jim flushed suddenly Crimean and than
came a sickly yellow again
"It was the beginning of tho end All
the courage ran out of the half-breed as
sands out of a glass, and ho sat there
shaking and afraid. Ills charm bag was
gone, what was to help him now" The
sweat stood out lit Mg drops on his fore
head. and ha cast a look of despair at
ms like a lost soul.
"Tha prosecution was quick to see its
advantage, and tn a few minute* of ques
tion* had Jim ali tied up and contradicted
a doten times. He stuck to his old stoty,
hut his nerve was all gone, and the dls
tnot attorney simply punched holes tn
everything Jim sold A more complete
breakdown I never saw In my life, aitd
everybody knew that Jim * goose woe
cooked. The Jury stayed out half <n
hour for'form s sake, bu, the Judge didn't
waste mors than two minutes In passing
the dsath sentence on Jtm and he was to
be hanged within a month at that.”
The Judge sighed, and slowly removed
his feet from the table, knocked out hts
pipe and prepared to leave the hotel
title*.
‘*Wa# there a big crowd at IJghtbird's
hanging. Judge? ' inquired one of the
sympathetic auditors.
The Judge bit off the end of a big cigar
and lighted It before he answered Then,
taking It out of hi* mouth, he said ekrwiy.
"Why, as to Jim Lightblrd, he didn't
hang after *ll.
“I could make quite a story ou! of that."
ho added: " ‘another etory,' a* these new
fangled literary chaps say. But It'll only
take a minute The wray Jim escaped tne
nooae waa Just this. After that sentence
he was kept at the Court House for a
couple of hours, and then they were go
ing tn take him across country to the
state prison Just as I said good-bye
to Jim. a little piece of paper was thrust
into my bend It asked me to meet Jim t
brothers at once tn a certain saloon Just
down the street.
"I had no Idea what they could want
and I hased to see them right after Jlm'a
conviction But I went. They were all
together tn a llttis room upstairs, and
they pounced upon me. and said 1 must
get word to Jim that at the llawkshee
>Crossroad*, five mile* from Conway, they
were going „ waylay the sheriff’s men
that were taking him to the elate prison
In the fight that would ensue Jtm must
clear out, cut acroae two fields and then
on an old deserted road he would find a
man In a buggy, with a fa*t horse, wait
ing to hurry him across the state border,
twenty miles sway.
"Of course, I at once told the hunch of
half-breeds that 1 could countenance no
such attempted rescue as that, much b-se
take pert In It. And then I set myself to
work showing them how furile the at
tempt would he; how they were sure to
kill a couple more men, and that meant
certain hanging for the whole lot of them.
Anyway, the sheriff's party was strong
and well armed, and would quite likely
clean out the Dlghfblrd hunch in the light.
"But all I could say was of absolutely
no weight. Their minds were msde up
•Brother Reub.' they said, had been
hanged over In the next county, and therb
Shouldn't lie a *e,-ond hanging in their
famliy. Not only this, hut If 1 wasn't
prepared to help them out they would
kill me quietly right thcr* and then
"Of course, that was a Muff, amt It
did not bother me But what 1 did know
wa-t that the half breeds were set upon
I laving a desperate fight. A couple of
(hem might be killed in It but they
would certainly kill more than a like
number of the sheriff's party, and the
who I* county would b atlrred up for
months on end over the affair It would
be telegraphed all over the United States,
end would give us too much notoriety All
this I wanted to avoid Then, too, I knew
a couple of the conatahtea with nice fam
ilies I dldn t went them waylaid and
killed.
"80, finally, to escape all this, I prom
lied Jim's brothers that If they would
give up this stiompl at rescue I would
see to It that Jim should not swing They
accepted mv promise without a wool,
and Iqt me go
"What did I do? I took the next train
for Covington, and 1 Jut camped down
In front of Ihe Governor for a week I
had a pretty big oontract on ny hands,
but Ihe Oovornor trusted me. and at
the end of that time I had His Excellen
cy’s signature, commuting Jlm'a sentence
to life Imprisonment.
"On the whole, I wa* pretty wrell satis
fied with Ihe way thing* turned out. and
It seemed to me everybody l a* good
as he deserved, except poor old lx*
Johnson, whe drank the alryehnlno. He
certainly did get the short end of the
stick.”
.♦
BRUNSWICK AND HIM Ml Mill IR.
Survey ina Party Is Already at W ork
In the Field.
Brunswick, Ga.. Dec. 17.—Chief Engin
eer B. W. Roberts, and full engineering
corps reached Brunswick one day ahead
of tliAn to-day and commenced th* pre
liminary survey on the Brunswick and
Birmingham Railroad.
President Mac hen and party leava to
morrow morning via private conveyance
through the country to prospect for Con
ner tlona along ihe proponed rout*. The
road deal has been worked on quietly for
weeks and within twelve working hours,
after Ihe charter wa* granted. th road
was organised all She capital stock sub
scribed and the ehgtneering corn in the
field. It I* tilts push and enterprise that
ha* characterised President Mschen'e
past work and It give* Ihe people here
great confidence In him.
Uncle George's Hkeanaallam Care.
From the Nashville Benner.
Brownsville. Nov 30—I met an old ne
gro. Oeorge by name, and after Ihe usual
salutation, the old negro said his health
hsd improved since I had lest seen him.
Bald I:
"Uncle Oeorge. how did you get rid of
your rheumatism’"
Th# old man replied: "Well, boss, FU
•ell you J*a sackly how I cured It. I
heard o fellow say If you go find a place
whar a hog rubbed and ef you rub dar
and squeet like a hog your rheumatli
would leave you Bo I went and rubbed
whar * hog rubbed and squealed same as
a bog. and. boas, 1 ain't had no rheumat
ics sines.”
THE WEATHER.
_____
Forecast for Tuesday ami Wednesday! j
Georgia: Fair Tuesday; warmer hi
cerirm portion. \Vrdnaaday fair, light
southerly winds.
Eastern Florida: Batr Tueeday and ;
Wednesday: light to fresh northeasterly
winds.
Western Florida: GenrraHy fair Tu**s
d.iy and Wednesday; ilg tit southerly
win dr.
Houth Oarollna Fair and warmer Tues
dy WidtU'Sday far variable wind*.
Yesterday's weather m Savannah.—
Maximum temperature
S p. tn 5? degrees
Minimum temperature
? JO a tn It. degree- j
Mean tempi rature 41 degrees
Normal temperature 13 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 0 degree*
Ac. umulwt'-d deficiency since ..
Dec. 1 Ui degrees
Accumulated deficiency wlllcc ..
J Mg 1 331 degree*
Hakifall Oil Inches
Normal to Inch
Deficiency since Dec I .10 inch
Deficiency since Jen. I ? g Inches
River Report -The high! of Ihe Haven
nah river at August*, at 3 a in (?slh me
rldisn time yes.erday. w* *.* feel, a
fall of 3 I feet during the pre sdlng twen
ty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment
of time at all station*. Dec. 17, I*o*. I p ■
m , TSth meridian time.
Name of Mtatton T V Rain
Boston, clear 7777. Mil.! .0®
New York city, clear ... 34 | s no
I’htiadelphta, clear | 1, i no
Washington city, clear ..j XI | D | .00
Norfolk, clear |S3 10 no
Hatters*, clear ...| tu j. no
Wilmington, clear jag l, no
Charlotte, clear I xx s on
Raleigh, clear ; M j U no
Charleston, pt ctdy 144 * on
Atlanta, clear |so and no
Augusta, clear j 44 D no
Havannah. n ear {44 ) ], no
Jacksonville, clear |S3 g off
Jupiter, clear |s l on
Key W*M. dear M j 14 00
Tampa, dear !gj j |, 00
Mobil*, dear ] Id g .Ort
Montgomery, clear S3 1- ,do
Vicksburg, clear 1 M , .no
Nsw rirlsans. clear j m J, no
Ga-veaton. clear | *0 | g ; .**
Corpus Chrlstl, pt ddy..,j 4 t| T
(‘.Destine, dear t4l j a ul
Memphis, dear {gf 1g lAt
Cincinnati, pt cldy -as j 1, ,
Pittsburg, cloudy 2S | D 08
Buffalo, cloudy 33 g 00
Detroit, cloudy | 1 D , Ot*
Chicago, cloudy jxx T
Marquette, cloudy j X{ 11 no
Bt. Paul, cloudy >l4 | x ot
Davenport, doudy jXX | D l
St loniD. clear jS4 13 OH
Kansas City, clear jBO' 14 on
H. H Boyar.
Uocat Fore, osi official
OXU OUR FAVOMITK IXMT.
Bloomfield Woe the trirat Hare Iml
Wat IHsqeallHed.
New Orleans. Dec. 17 Strangest waa the
only beaten favorite, Bloomfield finished
first in the first race; Inn waa dtequallfied
for tmerlervnue. and T. Kan. who rode
him, wa* fined 135 and set down until Jan.
1. Bummarlm
Ftrst Race-One mile. Bloomfield, T to
1 TT7I shed first, hut wa* disqualified; llelle
Simpson g to 5. second, and Dum.ige. 7
to I. aei-end, and Btar ration, 30 to 1.
third Time 144',,
Second Rs/te-Uelltu*. five furlongs
Animosity. 13 to 8, won. trtih Dtvonne, 3D
to 1, eccofiri, aiat liraclou*. X to 1 third.
Time MB.
Third Race—One mile and a quarter,
selling Admetus, S to a. won. with Silver
Coin, 7 to 1, second, and Hoods Brigade,
7 to 1, third Time 3:13.
Fourth Rare—One mile handicap. Fran
glide. 6 tv> S, won. with Ida Drdford, X
to 1, second, and Mini Sauce, 13 4o 3,
third Time 143
Fifth Rat—Seven furlongs, selling:.
Docust Blossom. 1 to 1, won. with Judge
Magee, X to J. second, and Heroic", 7 to
2, third. Time 1:31
Sixth llaor—Six furlongs, sailing Sir
Curlstopha". 3 to 1, won. with Dlgg". lu
to 1, second, anal Deiisterswtvsl, 3D 401,
third. Time 1;I6>.
MAW lIKI.K4.ATU* NAURU.
Harrrae Promised t* Maritime I
grrti of Hrnaatvlrk.
Brunswt.V Ua . Dsc. 17.-official notifi
cation has been received of th* appoint
ment of delegates to the National Mari
time congers# from Denver, Nsw York,
Doulsvllle. Nsw Orleans, Philadelphia and
other piact* Intersst I* growing In the
congress, which convene* ia*r Jan M aoxt-
The Brunswick Board of Trade has Is
sued a statement regarding th* <ongrea.
which slates that Ire* and untrammeied
discussion will be accorded to ail who at
tend. and the large number of delegate*
booked already. Indicates a Mg aucceee
Will lee the Mayor To-morrow.
Th* oorpniittew of three, appointed at
a recent meeting of the workers of the
four city district* to arrange with Mayor
Myers for an appointment when he could
he Informed by Ihe larger committee of
Sixteen, of the meeting'* Indorsement of
hie candidacy for th* Mayoralty, reported
to the larger commit lee las: night
Mayor Myera will receive tne larger
committee to-morrow mgnt, at tne DC
Boto.
Dr R D Hick*, f. 8. A . Mr. R D
Olgnll'iat and Judge Paul E Ke*brook
will leav* the city 10-ntght for Darien,
from where they will go 10 Bt. Cathar
ine's and to Blackheerd Island on a hunt
for big game.
Bone Meal
Tor Chicken Feed and r#rtlll#r. ,
NITRATE OF SODA
Invaluable for "home-mlxad" fertiliser
Th* cheapest and most concentrated on
the market Bend for particulars
HAY. GRAIN. COW FKfull. BRAN, HTI ,
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T. J. DAVIS,
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S Sunset Route.
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STANDARD PULDMANB on all train*
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EXCURSION PALACE PULDMANS
dally, except Monday, from New Orleans
to California and Dragon print*, at .tt)
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FREE CHAIR CARR dally. New Or
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