Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-06

said, ''to lave behind all valuables and
all money but the amount which they
need TO bly, goods with. You are only
going to lok, so you can leave all but a
one, a tw', a five, and ten dollar bill, TO
compare With the goods that will show
you.''
Hill give me his watch and jewelry, and
all his money except a selection of United
States Jills, and went off with Butler.
He cane back in three-quarters Of an
hour. 4 gave Hill my money, my watch,
and M diamond pin, and then l went to
take alo0k az the goods.
A nan was in the room, who l have
since learned was Tom Davis. He told
me to AXE seat, and then told Butler he
| couldyo. Butler went, and the door was
shut. When We went in there was big
pile Of money heaped up on the lid of a
desk tgainst the wall. i took a seat near
the cGner of the desk. Mr.. Davis said:
"Pbase examine the money. These are
the gods mentioned"
i die examine il carefully, / had a one,
a two md ten-dOllar bill, but no ives. 1
compaed those bills with bills OF like de-
nomination that picked out OF a heap on
the dek. Mr.. Davis had a large, round
magnfying glass. He spread out the
bills nd held the glass over them tor me
to lOd through, the more thoroughly to
examine them. Then he asked me how
likedit. l told him liked it. He said:
"Tlen you'll want to buy some, l sup
pose9
tdd him guessed would.
"Al right" he said. "Pll sell you
$1,000 of this for $500 in good money. We
can 10 it up in any way you please. There
are many ways of bundling up the go0ds.I
once sent to a man in san Francisco $780,
600 packed in flour barrel. You can
have it in boxes or in packages, or any
howyOu please"
''Ihe best scheme, he said, was to pack
the goods in black satchel, that no one
would notice particularly. We would
pact the goods in it together, he said, and
l shluld carry it while he showed me the
waytO the express office, where we would
haV, it shipped to any point l might Sc
lect w hen that was arranged he asked
me / thought Hill would buy. 1 said |
dldl't know.
''Sext he got out what purported to be
clipping from a newspaper, which told
about the trial of party who had been
caught with lot OF his counterfeit money.
Its beauty had excited admiration, for
even experts who came on from Washing
ton pronounced it genuine. he made an
appointment to meet me at noon the fol-
loving day at the Merchants hotel, and l
returned to the hotel.
That ended the morning session of the
court, and every body adjourned to eat.
Atl quarter of , they returned. Holland
began his tale again. He told how he
spelt the Thursday afternoon after his
interview with Tom Davis. He had bor-
rOwed $500 of Hill on the way from Butfa-
10, thinking he might need to invest it in
hurry. Together they sought out the
Hanover Bank. Hill deposited 81 900, to
which Holland added his letter OF credit
for $780, thus clearing off his indebted
ness to Hill.
b. Mr.. MakemsOn-What did you bor-
row the $500 of Mr.. Hill forY
Al wanted to invest it in the goods
if 'ound they were genuine money.
Q-YOu were looking for genuine
money, and not counteTfeits?
Ayes. sir; that's what l was after.
Holland then told of other interviews
with Butler. He and Holland met Tom
DAVIS on Saturday. He thought his name
was Woodward (the name signed to the
letter Offering counterfeits for sale }.
Davis said it wasn't. He was the son of
the old man (WOodward). Davis said that
the old man thought they were Texans,
and that they were trying to spot him.
Davis took Hill out with him to look at
the goods" Hill came back in ten min
utes, because, he said, Davis acted sus-
piciously. Butter had met them and said
that there was another customer around.
''We slept that night at the Continental
hotel. Next day was Sunday. l was
sick. but told Hill he had better 60 and
keeI the appointment. He handed me his
roll Of money and went. He came back
at 1, and said the men had not met him.
Then wrote Woodward or Tom Davis a
note asking MIN why he had not been on
hn an anGnfnfOrTc
/ also said that ] had been here before,
and had lost some money. That, gentle
men Of the jury, was not true.
81 wrote that to allay the suspicious of
what / supposed to be 'the old man. l
told him | would meet him next day at
the Merchants hotel; that l wanted to
buy some of the goods, and would 60 with
him to get them"
THE TRAGEDY DESCRIBED.
The next day, Holland continued, he
went to the Merchants hotel accOmpa-
MED by Hill, and there met Tom Davis.
Davis said to them that everything was
satisfactory, had received letter, and
suspicious mad vanished. He had got rid
of the customer Of two days before, and
was ready to 90 ahead with his Texan
friend. Here Hollands narrative grew
very spirited, and mnch action entered
into his talk:
81 said was all ready to 20, and would
start at once"
IAN right said Davis. 'Leave all
your money and valuables with your
friends, and only take what you want TO
invest, and wen start"
~ gave Hill my diamond pin, my
watch, and handed back to him his roll Of
bills, about 1000, which / had not re-
turned to him. We went to the same
place on Reade street, and Davis led the
way to the same room. He knocked three
times, and Butler opened the door. Davis
led the way in. Money was piled upon
the desk as it had been when / was there
before. Davis said:
Nv we've come"
Butler said nothing. Then Davis said,
pointing to the heap:
Chow much is there, there % and added
right away, "Where's the old manW
''Ohw Butler said, she's up stairs with
some bills that are net quite dry"
CAN right" Davis said. "You can
60"
Butler went, and we sat down, / at the
corner of the desk nearest the door, as
before. Davis sat at the other corner and
put his hat on the desk. Then said he:
"There's $4,000 here, 1 think. Let's
see. Help me count it."
He passed. me part of the 81 bills, and
we counted them. When we had finished
we did them up IN packages and tied
them with strings. We did the same
with the twos, the fves and the tens, Da-
Wis counting the bills much faster than
did. Then Davis said:
"Well, here's my goods. Where's your