The morning news., 1888-05-31
sHINALL WOULDN'T COME.
South Carolina is Good Enough Place
for HIN to STAY

for Him to Stay.
Requisition papers do not always succeed
in bringing the fugitive criminal back to
the scene of his exploits, aud when the State
wants witness, not to he found in the
bailiwick, persuasion and even bluff often
fail to effect the desired end Constable ST
Bssch had a pleasant excursion to Colum-
bla, ). G. this week, at the instance of the
Solicitor General, fully commissioned to
bring Mr.. Shinall back to Savannah as a
State witness in the Sheftall case.
MIR. Shinall Is reputed to be very ardent
student of history, the history Of the four
Kings being the alleged favorite work over
which he has burned midnight oil. 1t is an
unbound work of ffty-two pages, printed
In colors, and the pursuit of its study is said
to be very fascinating. but around full
table the tender-foot student often makes
an all-night sitting highly remunerative to
the expounder Of the complicated characters
which frequent and expert turning of the
pages develop.
AS the story runs, at one Of the night les
sons In this city last winter, an infatuated
student wagered more on his superior
knowledge OF the history Of the four Kings
than his practical experience warranted
and his wife, whom she learned of the lapse
Indignantly stormed against the host of the
evening, his class in history and the manner
he had in making it 80 expensive to his
guests to progress in their researches. In
fact, she construed one of the statutes made
and provided as interdicting, under pains
and penalties, Mr. Shinall's peculiar
method Of page turning and manipulating
the volume, and drawing upon the purses of
his guests, so she approached grim visaged
justice to make inquiries If there was not
law in Israel that would make Mr.. Sh;nall,
the historian, suspend his teachings in his
tory, or charge lower entrance fee
When Shinall heard this he is said to have
fixed the matter.n and the money was re-
turned to the indignant wife through one
of the Constables of Justice Sheftall's
court. The State holds that there was col
lusion, because the wife would not prose-
cute. Shinall finding his historical qualifi-
cations were not fully appreciated in Savan-
nah. moved over into South Carolina, and
it was to get him back and get the true in
wardness of the transaction from his stand
point that Mr.. Basch, armed with Off
cial papers, went over to Columbia to see
if he could not bring Shinall to Savan-
nah. Tho Governor of South Carolina
looked over Mr.. Basch's credentials. and
found them faultless. The legal allegations
were handsomely executed. But as instru-
ments to boost Shinall out of South Caro-
lima into Georgia as a travelling companion
of Basch they lacked healthy function
which all the laws in Georgia could not give
them. Mr.. Shinalps attorney examined
them. He did not get off any compli-
mentary bon mots about them as did tho
suave chief executive of the Palmetto
State, but he looked at them with the keen
eye Of the well equipped lawyer and
laughed. He informed Shinall that it was
wholly optional with him whether
he visited old friends in the Forest
City or staid with the now
in Columbia. Mr.. Basch turned on Shinall
with one of his sweetest and most inquring
glances. He detailed how Savannah was
growing, new railroads are working this
way, regattas that were, and interstate re-
gattas to be, new hotels on Tybee, new
ocean steamship wharves, new steamships,
and thousand and one attractions present
and prospective, friends awaiting him who
had missed him, the loneliness of travel
back without him, and then paused for
reply Shinall hesitated but for moment,
and said: Il guess l am not missed very
much; will stay where am" or words to
that effect. Mr.. Basch returned the official
documents to his breast pocket, took glass
OF malto at ShinalPs expense and took the
first train for Savannah, satisfied that the
absent witness can, wrapped in the folds Of
the constitution OF South Carolina, come
or go as he chooses.