Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-25
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i"tai, though very painful.
Gibson Enterprise: Monday morning
before day the cry OF fire, heard in the
nelghoorhood Of the jail, brought out a
number OF citizens. 1t was found that
tne Two inmates had undertaken to burn
hole In the corner of the Jail through
winch 1t was planned they should escape
wnen the aperture became large enough
10 ADMIT the body of man. The jailer
| furnished the inmates with two buckets
OF water on the evening before, and hav-
Eing secured match and a pocket knife
from some source they set to work 20
| iight the floor in the corner, by putting
burning splInters In the cracks.
BY the use of water they at
tempted to keep the fire in the
corner, but after awhile the water gave
out and the fire caused such a smoke that
the Jail birds became choked and cried
out 1or nelp. One OF the darkies was Tom
Wigfall, a negro OF notorious charac-
ter who was sent up for
cattle stealing. A few days before
court he cut the sinew OF his ankle,
| commonly called the heel string. He
ala this, be says, thinking that his condi-
| ZION would create sympathy sufficient to
Keep him out of the chain gang. If the
| nre had had little more time Wlgfall
would have found it a deadfall or cure
| all for all his infrmities.
Atlantis correspondence Macon Tele-
| graph: The prohibitionists of Atlanta
claim as an excuse for dull tunes here,
that 1t is duh everywhere, and that At
ianta does not stand by herself in this
particular. 1t seems that this statement
| does not hold good as far as Savannah is
concerned. j. 2. Fallon, a prominent
contractor, who has been living here for
many years, left here for Savannah four
months ago in search of work. He found
1t, and now has all the building that he
can attend to, with plenty more in pros
pect. Mr.. Fallon is here to-day on a short
business trip and returns to Savannah to-
morrow. A correspondent of the Tele-
graph enjoyed short conversation with
him to-day, which shows that he is doing
well in his new home. During the four
months he has been In Savannah he has
built nineteen residences. The nineteenth
ne Is now putting roof on. The con-
tracts to build these houses amount to
about $4,000. He has contracts enough
ahead OF him to last fully a year, with
the prospects of continued success, as
his work is winning him favorable opin-
ions in the Forest City. He employs
sixty-five men, forty-flve OF them brick
layers and carpenters that he carried
with him from Atlanta. Mr.. Fallon says
that the other contractors of Savannah
are doing well and have plenty of work
on hand.
Gainesville is stirred up over the muir
der Of John O'Connor Thursday night.
His corpse was found on the track, and it
was supposed that he was killed by being
run over by train on the Jefferson
Gainesville and jug Tavern road. 1t de-
veloped that OConnor had been brutally
murdered and his body placed on the
track.so that the ponderOus wheels Of the
engine and cars would cover up the
crime. Engineer Spencer saw the body,
but was unable to stop his engine until it
had passed over him. The coroner's jury
adjourned Monday, and will meet again
in few days. There are witnesses who
are lodging. Three of Gainesville's citi-
zens are suspected ofthe crime, but what
the evidence 7ieB against them Is not
known. John Stringer, Glenn Blackstock,
Milt Hope and John Snead were with
OConnor on Thursday night, and Stringer
and VConnor had a row. Stringer
is young man who stands
well, as do the others implicated.
1t is claimed that pool of blood was
found in the woods on the track where
OConnor was run over. and that he was
struck on the head with Ratchet. The
clerk OF the Arlington was at the dead
mans side twenty minutes after the en-
CINE ran over him, and he says he is sat
ished he was dead long while before the
engine passed over him. A woman named
Hutchins, of questionable character, is
implicated, so 1t is stated.