Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-27
A GUITEAU IN PETTICOATS
LUCY HORTON TO SHOOT Roth
FOLGER AND BUTLER.

An Office or Your Life the Threat of
the Nixen-A Senator's Son Once
Pierced by Her Bullet. and Her Threat
Not to be Laughed at-VOluntary Con
tributiOns Possible
WASHINGTON, August 25.-Miss Lucy
Horton, fair and dashing brunette. well
known in local society, has threatened to
throttle the Treasury Department. She
mas spoken and written the mandate. It
Is that she must be given a clerkship or
secretary FOlger and appointment clerk
butter must bite the dust. Lucy is not
without history, and her record is writ
ten in blood. She is probably twenty-five
years of age, and hence cannot be classed
as unsophisticated, having been a resi-
dent of this city several years. A very
few years ago she fired a slug of lead into
the body of the son of Senator Morgan.
OF Alabama. and left him for dead. She
said the young man had seduced her and
betrayed her. She is tall, slender, rather
NlNaclOus, and good looking. 1t is said
that she can love with a ferver seldom
equaled and hate with vengeance
worthy pirate. Six months or more
ago, the smoke from the field where she
shot young Morgan having cleared away.
Department. She made her application
IN person and was accompanied, it is
said, by Mrs. IngersOll, Representative
Shellenbarger, of Pennsylvania. and
other good and reputable people, who
urged the Secretary to give her a place.
The people who recommended her were
moved by her pleas and promises.
heard her name he bluntly refused TO help
her. But the old man was soon out
manGuvred by ardent friends. She was
given position as a sub" for three
months under another name than Lucy
Horton. At the expiration of that time
she succeeded in securing another three
months lease of life. 1t was during the
last quarter that she displayed a spirit
not to be cOurted by the saints, whereby
prominent clerk in the department was
transferred from one division to another.
and came near losing his official head.
Appointing clerk Butler, discovering Iu-
cy's unenyiable qualities, refused to help
her to another term at the end of her last
employment. Again her old desire for
blood returned. She cOOlly entered Mr..
Buffers room i'm the department a few
days ago and informed him that unless
he relnstated her she would shoot
him and Secretary FOlger, too, remarking
with emphasis, "And | won't miss nv
aim, either" at which Mr.. Butler pre-
sumed she meant immediate work, and he
replied that he should not treat her as
others had if she ever attempted to shoot
him, but would reply with the same effect
as though she were masculine. Lucy left
MIR. Buffers room with her anger un-
sOOthed. Returning to her home on |
street northwest, she indited a note to Mr..
Butler. She threatened his life if he did
not give her a place at once She es-
sayed the same fate to Secretary Folger
Not hearing from hersnOte she wrote again
and again. The others were of the same
purpOrt as the tirst-''A clerkship or vour
lives, Messrs. Butler and Folger.v
Mr.. Butler informed Secretary
FOlger of the woman's threats
and repeated to him her dangerous
character, but did not say to the Secre-
tary that his life was also threatened.
On Thursday Miss Horton entered the
office of the appointment clerk. She was
calm and her face blOOdless. She was
penitent. She is subject to Mysteries. and
after begging to be received back she was
seized with an hysterical spasm, and en-
acted scene that would put out pathOs
its very self But Mr.. Butler, to save his
honor, could not take her back, and re-
fused fatty to do so. She came again
yesterday and again to-day. Her visits
were lOng-prObably of two or three hours
duration. This afternoon she repeated
her threat that she VIII shoot Mr.. Butler
and the Secretary, and those who know
her say that she doesn't talk so for pas
time. Since she has grown so demon |
stratlYe Congressman Shallenbarger, Mrs. I
lngersOll and her other whilOm influential
friends have abandoned her.
VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS POSSIBLE. |
The Republican politicians seem to have |
concerted plan for securing cOntribu- |
tlOns from employees of the government i'm |
this city. The system is to have the |
Chairman of the local political Organiza-
tiOns in the several States request contri- /
buttons from those employed in the de- !
parLmentS. \ letter was received here /
to-day from the Chairman of the Muskin- !
gum County (OhiO) Republican EXecu-
tive Committee, requesting a list of the
names of the employees from that county
in the department. The person to |
whom this letter was addressed was
unable to furnish list. but a |
roster of the Ohio Republican Association, !
which is made up principally of govern /
ment clerks, was sent. He said, however,
that he supposed the Chairman wanted !
the list in order to assess the clerks here
from Muskingum county, and make them
pay for their brass bands, etc, during the |
fall campaigns. The Chairman of the |
Republican State Committee of Pennsyl- !
vania, Mr.. Thomas V. Cooper, is out with |
a circular which it is proposed to send to
all Republicans, whether they are in office
or not, who are supposed to be willing to
make contributions. The civil service
law only prohibits Senators, Representa-
tives, Delegates in Congress and Federal
employees from asking for contributions
OF course this leaves the local managers
at liberty to apply the bleeding plaster.