The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-20
HE LOOKED LIKE WARD.
SHERIFF ROMANS PRISONER NOT
THE FUGITIVE CRACKSMAN.


He Looked Enough Like Him to be
His Brother, but Turaed Out to
be Luther z. Harris " hat Harris Says
About Ward and His Doings-Harris'
Former Experience IN Savannah
His Striking Resemblance to Ward.
Luther B. Harris, who was arrested by
Sheriff Roman wednesday on suspicion Of
being Ward, the fugitive safe-blOwer, was
released at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
| For an hour before he was released he was
| the center of attraction in the sheritf'S
private office in the court house, and many
said when they saw him: "Of course 1t is
Ward" H. c. Haste1t, who was one of
the Jail guards before Ward was taken to
the pelitentiary, came in and looked at
| Harris and said: I'D swear it is Ward"
1t turned out that the man is Luther
| B. Harris, who was arrested here
little more than a year ago as
Charles V. Harris on telegram from
| Sheriff Holland of Jacksonville, for
the alleged robbery of a boarding house
| keeper there At the police barracks he
| tried to shoot himself with a pistol which
he picked up from the sergeant's desk, but
| failed. He was taken back TO jacksonville
| but the case against him was not prose
! cuted.
ENOUGH LIKE HIM TO BE HIS BROTHER.
Solicitor General dub gnon saw Harris
| in the sheriff's office, and, after talking with
! him for few minutes, he said:
| You certainly bear a striking resem-
! blance to Ward, aud you look
enough like him to be his brother The
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man was not Ward. He told a straight
story about his being employed at the Ponce
de Leon hotel at st. Augustine and at the
| Oglethorpe hotel at Brunswick, and he
| gave the names of a number Of merchants
and business men of Brunswick whom be
knew in his capacity as steward OF the
| OglethOrpe.
Before he left the sheriff's Office Harris
was fully identified as Charles V. Harris,
who was arrested GA Bryan street by Officer
| Spann year ago last May. His identity
! having been fully established and there
being no charge against him he was turned
| loose.
Harris said to q MORNING NEWS reporter
that he was on his way to New York to
take a position as second steward in the
| Gilsey house when he was arrested. He
came here to take the Baltimore steamer,
but his arrest has changed his plans
and he might return to Florida.
Harris repeated the story that he told at
the jail Wednesday night that Ward mar
ried his stepdaughter
HE KNOWS WARD WELL.
He said that he knows Ward we'll, and he
gave a minute description of the safe
| blower, which tallies exactly with the fugi-
tive. He had very little to say about
| Ward except that he is not 800
miles from Savannah Harris said that he
| Na1r 1xrir hot "a
take in regard to his arrest and confinement
in Jail, but he had not yet decided what to
do He mentioned Burton and Angel, and
remarked that other distinguished gentle
men" had been arrested and locked UP
simply because they looked like somebody
that the officers were after. He said that
he could not understand how such a mis-
take could be made when his description
is so different from that which
fits Ward. lie gave certain
distinguishing marks by which Ward can
be readily identified and which, fortunately
for him, Harris does not possess. Ward, he
said is inches shorter than he, and is not
SO heavy. He has a bald spot on
the back of his head, while Harris
has not, and has sharp. piercing
ewes, while Harris has weak eyes and is
compelled to wear spectacles. Wards
beard, Harris said, is darker than his, and
he has other marks by which he could easily
be identified,
WARD LAYING Low.
Harris said that he is satisfied
that it will lie a long while be-
fore the authorities see Ward again.
| His. statement that Ward is not vet out of the
souSh, may account for the professional
cracksman's Jobs that have been reported
throughout Georgia and Alabama through
out the past two months, and it suggests
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