The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-30

IN III.
Those who examined the beef say that
the heart, liver and lights were not with
the beef when they found it concealed Fri
day morning. 1t is a custom to put the
trlpe, head, liver, heart and lights in one
sack, and the last three articles were not
In the sack with the head. Birds wife de-
MED that Henry Marcus had any clothing
there except a worthless pair of pantaloona,
although Bird told Wetherhorn that Mar
Gus had gone back Monday to his Birds
house for his clothing. Birds wife says
but is running on the steamer
Ethel. She wanted to come down to Sa-
vannah yesterday, and Sam, the boy who
is in Marion Gill's charge, was permitted TO
take a message to friend of Birds wife,
whom she wanted TO come down with her,
but he pointedly refused and she did not
come.
BROWN NO. 2 AGAIN.
Yesterday morning Brown issued from
his concealment, and under the protection
of the gray headed old minister came to
town, where they waited long and patiently
IN the office of Justice Waring Russell, Jr,
for Detective Wetherhorn. But II o'clock
and o'clock came, and no WetherhOrn.
The old preacher could wait no longer, but
told Brown to remain, and he left for home
Later in the afternoon the detective re-
turned to the city and while pretty well
satisfied before, he had no doubt that Brown
No. was an innocent man and he was per-
mitted to return home.
Marcus is still at large. He is evidently
living very low, awaiting developments.
Detective Wetherhorn, in an interview with
a MORNING News reporter last evening,
said that his Wednesday night experience,
which included an extra thirty mile drive
he had not calculated upon, hal so thor
oughly tired him out that he was going to
rest last night, but that every effort would
be made to apprehend Marcus. 1t was evil
dent TO him that Marcus was a thriftless,
lazy negro He had laid out in an open
shed at Birds house, where there was little
or nothing but corn bread and chicken en-
trails to eat, and it was suspicious that
when there was plenty in the house to eat,
with no talk of arresting Bird, that he
should suddenly disappear Sunday, and
hide away.
BIRDS BAD CHARACTER.
The character of Bird, the detective says,
is bad. He is an INDECENT negro, and while
Marion Gill had done great deal for him
and let him have the cattle he had never
paid for them and never made an effort to
pay for them. 1t was strange, too. that
Bird should never mention what Birds wife
had told him.
she heard a shot Friday morning before she
aud her husband started to Marion Gill's,
and that she had said to her old man, Ibid
you hear dat shotl l wouldn't be s'prised
eff dat wasn't one of yoh Veahlins dun
got shot out dab i'll de swamp"
Bird has never made any mention
of such an occurrence. When the
detective asked her why Bird had not gone
out there 10 see about it, she said they were
N hIrr hrrt. TO t, T..
Marion Gil1s to get to work But the dis
lance from Birds to Marion Gill's is not
over mile and half, and Birds state
ment is to the effect that he got up at
O'Clock that morning, woke his wife up and
they left for Marion ellis without their
breakfast, right after the 6 o'clock train
passed, getting to Gill's after o'clock
The detective says that when he asked her
why she did not send Sam to see about the
yearling, she replied she never thought of it.
The detectives theory is that they had liver
for breakfast that morning, and the heart
and lights have never yet been discovered
Detective Wetherhorn says that he feels
satisfied that Bird knows all about the
affair, and that at one time he was about to
make a clean breast of it. That was on
w ednesday last, when Marion Gill feeling
ly alluded to the many charitable and kind
ly deeds he had done for Bird that he did
uOJ accuse Hlill Oh SuOOUlnS MS brother:
that he did not care for the beef, but that
he did want to know who was the slayer
of his brother, and he appealed to Bird to
tell him what he knew about it.
MOVED BY GILL's APPEAL.
The appeal seemed to touch Bird, who sat
with his head bent, and at the conclusion of
Mr.. ellis imprisoned pleading for the truth
Bird raised his head and acknowledging
the kindness of Marion Gill, started to say,
I'm tell you all | know about it, " hesitated,
looked around at those about him. and then
changing his demeanor, said that he knew
nothing beyond that which he had already
told. His statement made for publication
in the MORNING NEWS of yesterday is all
that Rafe Bird has had to say since the
tragedy with which SO many connect him
as an accomplish.
Bird, Detective Weterhorn says, got into
trouble in Bryan county, where he kept a
doggery, and the officers came down mere
after him some years ago and took him up
there. Bird says that he was indicted for
selling liquor without giving bond, and that
he got out of it by paying a couple of law
yers $25.
The relatives and friends of the murdered
man have relaxed none of their vigilance
and are watching every suspicious move
ment, both in the vicinity of Pooler and in
this city, and that Birds neck was saved in
the swamp Tuesday night is due to the
presence of mind and considerable Judgment
of Mr.. Haywood, TO whom the enraged posse
listened, although after finding the liver in
Birds cabin they felt sure they had the