The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-18
HUNTING FOR THE THIEVES.
Atlanta Detectives Investigating the
Car RObberieS.

| Atlanta Detectives Investigating the
Car Robberies.
There is humorous feature connected
with the Frierson-B Bacon cotton case which,
! if true, as vouched for by Mary Bacon, is
too good to keep. When Officer McDermott
arrested Phil Henry, an effort was made to
keep it a secret until Hackless Bacon, alias
! Heartless Bacon, alias Jack was appre-
hended. But as Henry didh't show up
about Ann and Olive streets for a couple
of days, Alice Frierson became I'M
easy and suspicious Knowing that
| Mary Bacon was a tenant of Officer
McDermott, she suspected the Bacon
woman of betraying her and of
knowing that Hurry was in trouble. Mary
is one Of the sharpest and shrewdest women
of her class, although she cannot read or
write. Taking advantage of this knowl-
edge Alice Fierson, so Mary said, got big
book, which she informed Mary was fort
une book. She proceeded to read from it
that Mary Bacon had conflded secrets OBJ
tanned from Alice, and had had Henry
arrested There is a tinge of superstition
in all of the col0red race, hut when Alice
read out the alleged fortune Mary, in
language more forcible than elegant, denied
it and denounced the fortune book as a
fraud.
Mary, by the way, is a sister of "Chucky
Bacon" who gained not a little notoriety
by escaping from the chain gang, where she
was serving a two years sentence She WAS,
after some months liberty, caught IN Au-
gusta, having been seen on a Savannah
river packet by colored man who knew
her and betrayed her to the Augusta police.
Mary promised to get "Chuckyn to come
and give herself up, but "Chuckyn seemed
to be afraid of Guard Schuman, and when
assured that she would be put in Hesser's
gang she was about to come for ward, at the
instance of her sister, and give herself up,
when she suddenly changed her mind, and
the text time she was heard from she was
in South Carolina.
There are 10 new developments in the
case beyond the fact that Detective Jones.
Atlaztas era X sleuth hound, who was in
the city last week, returned again last night
with three assistants, and they were keep
ing their eyes open last night. AS they
have been working the Gaze for week some
developments may soon be expected. To
the unsophisticated, the DISCUSSES of the
new comers would be very misleading, but
they have not esca1ed the notIcs of the
MORNING NEWS reporters. Officer Nc
Dermott is also working on the clews he
has, and the Savannah, Florida and West
ern detective returned from Baltimore and
Boston Tuesday night The extensive sys-
tenn of robberies has led to a determination
to hunt down the thieves and accomplices
and make an example of them by a Jealous
prosecution of them all.
The plan of stealing cotton from NOV
ing train is not II W one, as some years
ago when tue cotton used to be conveyed on
open or fiat cars a shrewd thief had rope
tied to tree near the track, at the other
end of the rope were attached two or three
grab hooks. At night, when a cotton train
was passing, the thief would throw the
hooks at a cotton car, and it was an off
night when he didn't get bale or two He
was caught in the act, his ingenious plan
discovered and ke was sent to the peniten-
tiary for long term of years. Hackless
Bacon had a safer plan. Concealing him
self in a car he watched his chance, dumped
bale where it was dark and handy to get
to the road TO be hauled off, shut the doors
Of the car and at the first stopping place
slipped out, closed the doors and concealed
himself until the train pulled out. His double
barrel gun, revolver and ak made him
dangerous thing to be discovered in a car,
and it is very fortunate perhaps that he was
never found at his work, for he is des-
perate fellow and takes no chances. He is
said to be very intelligent man, pleasant
and affable, and calculated to make friends
among his race. He has given presents far
and near, and by reason of this he is the
more able to elude arrest, as the bene-
fcia les of his bounties of booty will not
betraY but rather conceal him.