The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07


took her to the drug store.
She tried to cry, but the tears wouldn't
come. She begged DAILY to be merciful.
lie asked her who the men were, and she
said she didn't dare to tell" She wouldn't
say that she knew the men, but at the same
time she u derstood that her position was
that of an accomplice.
''Oh, don't take me to jail I" she exclaimed,
speaking first to the policeman and then to
Mr.. DAILY.
You will probably go to Sing Sing, )"
said DAILY.
''Oh, don't send me to prison, - size begged.
Then tell me who the men are that tried
to kill me. Tell me who they are and
will spend 5000 to keep you out of prison.
Il can't tell you don't dare to-" the
woman replied.
"Then I'll spend SIS, 900 to send you up the
river" threatened the old gambler, whose
face was black with powder marks, and
alternately pale and dark with anger. He
is SO years old.
The policeman took the woman to the
Thlrtieth street station house, and Mr.. DAILY
went there in cab. He told his sto to
Capt. Reilly. The woman would not say a
word that would reveal the identity of the
assaSsins. She gave her age as IS, said she
was married, and supported herself They
locked her In cell, and then Mr.. Daily
thought 1t was about time to have his
wound dressed little better than it had
been dressed at the drug store. The surgeon
who attended him found that the ball had
got just as close to the skull as was possible
without cutting it. The shot cut the
scalp just above the left temple at the
parting of the hair, and, furrowing q
length of four inches along he parting. had
passed off. His hair will never part there
ag lin. The plucky old fellow had lost lot
of blood, but he felt pretty good, aud after
the doctor had put five stitches in his scalp
and stuck some plaster on the top
of his brow, he went to the cafe of the Cole
man house to let his frieuds see that he was
not dead. He sat at the rear of the long
room with frie ID. They had sirloin and
| some brown hashed potatoes and tea, and
Mr.. Daily ate more than half of the supper.
1t took him quite while to do it, for
| man after man came in to see il he was
really there eating The story that he had
been murdered had been believed for a
while, and then when later news WAS OBJ
tanned it was announced that though not
dead he was sure to die. The first rumors
we e out about 4 O'Clock and it was fully 5
o'clock before the distorted statements were
S heightened out. Daly's son, Philip Jr.,
al most tainted when he heard the story, and
when he got to the Coleman house and saw
his fathers powdermarked face and plas-
tered head he did faint. The father seemed
sorry for one thing only. He said:
"Oh, how I wish | had had a gum |
used to carry one when l was in Phila-
delphia, down in Bill McMullen's Fourth
ward. 1t was tough place at times, and
was constable and we used to have some
fine old scrapes. | have been in a good
many scrapes-it was when I as an offic4 r
in Philadeiphia--and once before | had q
job put up on me just like this. l had sew
eral thousand dollars in my pocket one
night and two men planned to knock me
down on my way home. A woman came
to me and said she knew of their plan.
The men didn't find me- Both we're hanged
some years after, for each was tough and
had murdered woman"
There was q group ab-ut the King Of
Long Branch as he told his story, and every
little while some one else came up to shake
Mr.. Daly's hands He said it was pure
DAILY luck that the assassins hadn't got his
bonds or money or diamonds or watch, and
that he had escaped with his life. 1T may
have been foolhardiness for me to try to
fight two men with pistol, but l swear I'd
try the same thing over again, for had
rather have had row with them d have
been Knocked down than to have simply
thrown up M hands and let them go
through me- / think it vas pure robbery
that they meant. They believed that
would act peaceably and let them take
what had so as to save my life. In that
case what could / do? Why I simply would
have to keep mum, for it would be refec-
ton that could not stand to say that had
been a coward"
His friends congratulated him again, and
then with his son he went cut and drove to
his home in the Stra hmore, at Fltty-second
street and Broadway, where his wife and
dau ghters were awaiting him.
After Mrs. Stanton had been put in cell
Capt. Reilly sent men back to the fat to
hunt for evidence aud get anybody that
might come around there. The officers
found in the fat woman who said she was
Mrs. Ella Hammond. She was not in the
house, she said, when the assassins were
there, and she swore that she had no con-
nection with the crime and had known
nothing of it. She declared that she was an
innocent dressm iker, and protested against
arrest, but she was locked up all the same.
The sergeants of the Thirtieth street sta
ton found Addie Stantons face familiar to
them, and then they remembered that some
year or so ago she was arrested in raid
upon a Thirty-first street house. She is a
slight, supple woman, who does not appear
to be more than 25 years old. Her face is
small and her eyes are brown and bright.
She as blonde hair and fair skin. Her
voice is low and her manner rather quiet.
She was scared at first, but afterward re-
gained her composure and was as cool
as you please The other woman is
fully ten years older, black in hair, eyes and
face, and has a large nose. This one wears
dark clothes, and had long velvet plush
cloak with fur trimmings, out OF fashion
Mrs Stanton dresses great deal better.
The police brought Mrs. Stanton's trunk
and some boxes to the station house. The
trunk was full of fine gowns; the boxes
were crammed with letters and papers.
Among the documents was one which
seemed to show that Mrs Stanton had once
been married to a man named Linston.
There is an actor of that name. 1t is be-
lieved tnat Stanton is name assumed by
the woman. She is or was some sort Of an
actress. A bundle of cards was found in
her trunk, inscribed:
Observation-Disclosures. -.....'''.'''-
ADELAIDE STANTON,
. Bankers Daughter Co. Lillian"
$500. ...........-..... .'..-''....'''''
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