The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-26

their lives by jumping, but were consider
ably bruised by rolling down the embauk-
ment
| w. II. Harden, of Brooks. has invented
something in the way of rat trap which
! Will probably revolutioniZe the rat catching
business. 1t consists of an upright circular
| piece, resting on a wooden base, which is
| raised and set with trigger so as to fall
| with The slightest pressure upon the base.
| This always catches at least one rat. Then
| there is a fiHely balanced trap door in the
main body of the trap which can catch the
rats as fast as they can walk in it. This
door is fixed at an angle Of about forty-five
| degrees, and is so nicely balanced that as
| soon as the rat crosses the pivot upon which
| it is balanced i'll he goes into the trap. the
| door at once regaining its first position.
| There is no end to the number Of rats this
| trap can catch.
| Glen Waters, a Constitution reporter.
| was slapped in the face at Atlanta Tuesday
night, by Patrolman West, on account Of
an article in Tuesdays Constitution. Mon
| day night West was told by little negro
boy that several persons were engaged in a
| fight IN the next block, and, without inves-
| tigating the affair, he telepboned for help
! from headquarters, and had several of the
mounted force dispatched to the scene sim
| ply to find the patroman himself looking
for the belligerents. Waters published the
| facts as they were, and the police spent
| Tuesday in guying West Chief Connolly
told him if such thing occurred again he
would suspend him. When Waters went to
| headquarters Tuesday night, West walked
up to him and slapped him in the face
Waters knocked him down in return, and
Chief Connolly has suspended him until his
case comes up before the commission.
On Monday night of last week the house
of Mr.. Bryan, at Raleigh, Mcriwether
county, was entered and trunk taken from
lt. After the trunk was carried a short
distance from the house. it was broken open
and the contents. which consisted Of tObac-
co, pistol and S25 or $50 in money. were
taken therefrom and the trunk left As
soon as the news was made known to Officers
Moreland and FARRELL they went to work and
son arrested the supposed guilty. artes, who
were Henry Williams and Bill Parkman.
both colored. Officer Moreland, knowing
that Parkman was in very feeble health
deputsed three other men to help guard
the prisoners all night, and to give him
(Parkman), a better chance to get up bonds
men the next morning. While Moreland
was eating supper party of fifteen or
twenty men came up, well armed and took
the prisoners from the guards On seeing
the crowd, the alarm was given, and as
Moreland started out of his house he was
covered with two shot guns in the hands of
two masked men, so he said. The prisoners
were taken toward Cane creek and were
seen no more till next morning The body
of Parkman was found in the swamp,
near where the railroad crosses the
creek, in badly mangle1 condition. His
| head and face were badly beaten up, and
his feet and legs were badly burned In
| gully not far from where the body was
| found were coal and ashes, and one side of
the gully was perfectly smooth, as though
some one had been dragged up and down
the embankment. 1t is supposed by all
who saw it that the lynchers dragged Park
man up and down the embankment until
they were satisfied and took him to the
bank of the creek, where they left him.
Williams hasn't been seen since, and it is
not known whether he escaped, or what
became of him.