The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-09
WITH PISTOL In POCKET.
CLAYTON KING OF CPELIKA
COM IS NoETE FOR ST., 900.

Detectives Think He Meant to, Beat
Green Goods Men at Their Own
Gams aud That eomebody Might
Have Met Davis Fate.
From the Ne,c York Sun.
CLAYTON King of Opelika, Ala, was in
Newark yesterday, and, in fact, is there yet
detained at police headquarters. Mr.. King,
who is a small, dark-complexioned man,
with Struggling black beard, restless dark
sves and broad-brimmed black hat arrived
north Yesterday at the invitation of some
strangers, who offered to sell him $40 in
preenbacks, which they said had leaked out
of the engraving department at Washing
ton for one good dollar which had not
1eaked out, but had come out in a legitimate
manner. Mr.. King said yesterday when
arrested that it was not so much the offer
of cheap money that tempted him as it was
the offer that these good, kind gentlemen
made to give him 81 900 in gold If he was
not satisfied with the way they did bust
ness.
Want gwine to be satisfied. didn't want
any counterfeit money"
Mr.. CLAYTON King had with him a south
arm friend named Henry Judson Skipper.
He came from Goodwater, up at the end Of
the road which runs through Opelika. Mr.
Skipper had the appearance of a man of
tbe world. He looked shrewd, vigorous,
and we'll fed, while his companion was a
typical southerner, a thin-lipped, wiry, and
.f1rtiye-looking man. who would be tough
one to tackle when pushed in a
corner. King had $3.50 in good money,
and several plugs of hard tobacco The
tobacco and the money were wrapped up in
green and white striped paper, and the
nal point Of view He had also ferocious-
looking revolver loaded up with heavy
cartridges. Skipper had six $40 gold pieces
and S. in loose change. They had an ap-
pointment to meet Charles f. Mcdonald of
81 and SO Cooper Hail. Jersey City. Mr..
Mcdonald was the benevolent gentleman
who was to provide them with cheap money
surreptitiously procured from the treasury.
At Washington they sent telegram in
forming Mr.. Mcdonald that they would be
in the CITY at 1890 o'clock, and Mr.. Melon
aid was waiting for them at the Pennsyl-
vania depot in Jersey City. The meet
ing was observed by watchful Peter
Morris, the detective employed
by the railroad, and Mr.. Nor
makes him invaluable to the Pennsylvania
road. that the gentlemen from the south
we're lays" and that good, kind Mr.. Nc
Donald was a "steerer." For some reason
Mr.. Mcdonald induced his visitors to take
the next train to Newark alone, and Mr.
Morris followed the two out. At Market
street station Mr.. Morris communicated his
deductions to Detective Van Houten, also
EMPLOYED by the road, and Mr.. Van Houten
communicated with Lieut. Ward who is in
charge of the Newark detectives. The men
were traced to the Park house, and watch
was kept upon them. At 4 o'clock Mr.
Mcdonald made his appearance and
went directly to the room which the
southerners had taken. There the detectives
swooped down upon the party and took the
trio to police headquarters. Mr.. King mis-
took the detectives for friends of Mr.. Nc
Donald, and be showed disposition to get
his gun out Of his pocket but. Lieut.. Ward
stopped him with threat. Even in the de-
teetives' room at police headquarters King
seemed to think he was in the hands of
swindlers, and it took some time to disabuse
him of the impression. Mcdonald was kept
separate from his victims. He was
searched in the chiefs room, and almost
the first thing found was one of the
Iithograph letters which the 'tgreen goods
men mail about the country SO freely. 1t
was signed with the name of George f.
Mcdonald, 81 and 50 Cooper Hall. Jersey
City. Such carelessness on his part almost
maze un6 Q0U6CuN6S weep lOT HIu. OnueT
his coat he carried q new russell leather
satchel 1t was an exact counterpart of one
which Mr.. Skipper brought with him from
Alabama, and the impression conveyed was
that when he left the southerners in Jersey
City he had taken mental notes of the
shape and construction of Mr.. Skip
per's satchel, and had been I'M
usually successful in procuring a
duplicate of it for the purpose of making
the transfer which green goods" operators
depend upon in working their little game
on unsuspecting victims from the south and
west No money was found upon Nc
Donald, and it is thought that if he intended
to fleece his victims in Newark his confed-
crate who carried the money must have
been successful in getting away before the
police recognized his part in the game
When taken to the desk the prisoner said
his name was Nate E. Sippell, occupation,
stove moulder; age, 35; residence, New
York. He declined to be more specific
about his residence because, he said, it
would be advertised in all the papers, and
he did not want his folks to know the bust
MSS he was in. He is a blonde young man,
with blue eyes and full beard. His hands
are white and shapely, and do not appear
to have been in contact with molding sand
In many months. He wore a glossy silk
hat and suit of brown clothes just neat
enough not to be called shabby. He was
extremely nervous, but tried hard to be
brazen. Sippell is held in Newark on a
charge of fraud. and the southerners are
detained as witnesses.
For many months the Newark police
have been using every exertion to capture
the gang of sawdust men who have been
making use of the Newark postoffice for
their mail. The United States officers
have been interested, too, but as far as any
body has got is to prevent the delivery of
hundreds of letters, which are addressed to
the confidence men in the care of keepers of
cigar stores and barber shops.
The police do not believe that King and
Skipper are as simple as they pretend to be,
and the presence of the big pistol makes
them think that the little southerner in
tended to get the sachel full of good money
at any hazard, even though he had to re,
enact the episode in which Tom Davis lost
bis life at the hands of James Holland of
Abilene Tex, in this city on Aug. 81, 1885,
year ago the Newark police saved col
ored man from Mississippi from being fleeced
by green goods men in Newark hotel, and
they had great difficulty in preventing the
man from trying to follow the matter up
and keep his appointment. he would no be-
iieve that the sharpers intended to swindle
him.
LOOK AT YOUR GIRLS LIPS.