The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
RUNNING THE QUARANTINE.

How Two Refugees Passed the In
spector at SOuthover Junction.
The quarantine officials are stirred up ovel
the arrival in the city Of two refugees from
| Camp Perry. Detectives were on the look
out for the suspects yesterday, but late last
night they had not been captured They
| came in Wednesday afternoon from McIn,
| tosh. thirty miles south Of Savannah, on 6
way ain, having successfully run the
| quar- milne at SOuthOver junction.
! Mr. Carey B. Townsend, of the Standard
! Oil Company, came in on the same train.
| A Mcintosh, Mr. Townsend said that he
saw two strangers get aboard. They did
| not seem to be together. One of them said
10 NJ. Townsend that he lived at Taylor's
creek, IN Liberty county, and wanted to
know If he would be likely to have any
trouble in getting into Savannah without a
health certificate
Mr.. Townse nd told him that he would have
trouble undoubtedly, and that he stood a
very poor show of getting in. After awhile
the Taylor's Greek man owned up that he
did not live at Taylor's Creek, but had come
from Jacksonville through Camp Perry, and
was on his way to Savannah, where he eX-
pected to get employment. He said that he
left Jacksonville month ago and went to
Camp Perry. From Camp Perry he went to
Folkston. There he got health certificate
stating that he had been there thirty DAYS.
From Folkston he went to Waycross In
spector Kelly refused TO pass him through
to Savannah and he went to Atlanta and
tried to work his way down from there, but
was turned back. He then went out into
Liberty county and staid there week, long
enough to acquire a residence, and then
started for Savannah.
Mr.. Townsend told him that be had bet
ter give up the idea Of coming here, as he
would be stopped at SouthoveF and either
sent back or on to Charleston. The
stranger seemed to think that he would get
through all right, and he did When the
inspector entered the car at Southover and
called for the passengers certificates, the
stranger said that be didn't have any. 81
live out here at Fayl0r's Greek :" he said and
he went on TO tell the inspector that he
didn't know that he had to have a certifi-
cate to come in from there. The inspector
told him that he had no right TO let him
through, but under the circumstances he
would.
When the inspector had left the car the
other stranger who had got on at Nc
Intosh walked over and asked, Did
you get through all right r Easy
enough" was the reply. so dill IT, and
the two men separated, and apparently did
not know each other any more until they
reached the city Mr.. Townsend was sat
isfed that the men had been out of the in
fected district long enough to render the
danger from their coming into the city
very small, if, indeed, there was any danger
at ali, and he did not feel called upon to re-
port the matter to the authorities
The circumstances reached the ears Of
Supervising Inspector Sheldon yesterday,
and he sent for Mr.. Townsend. The
latter reported the facts to him, and a
wordy interview was reported to have taken
place. Detective Basch started out to run
down the refugees, but he failed to find
them. They were heard of in several
places, but could not be located. One Of
them said that he was a barber, and came
here to get job. He applied for position
at several places, but nobody knew where
to find him when he was wanted. The
way the two men got into the city shows
the necessity of keeping a sharp lookout on
passengers from the way stations. as we'll as
those travelling on through tickets. II is
understood that there will be a change of
inspectors at Southover to-day.