The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-25
HE DIDN'T SAY GOODBY.
LAWRENCE GIVES TIE OFFICERS
THE SLIP.

The Bogus Circus Agent Walks Out
Of the Police Barracks While Dep
uty Sheriff Constantine and Chief
Green Are Hunting Up His Pistol
Lawrence Too Fly to Be Trusted
The Monkey He Got from One of
His Victims.
George Lawrence, the alleged advance
agent of John Robinson's show is non est
tnUentus. When his name was called in
the city court yesterday afternoon. Law
renee was out. The place that knew him
Sunday did not know him TO any alarming
extent yesterday, nor last night, nor will it
know him to-day.
Yesterday afternoon Lawrence was en-
trusted to the custody of City Court Deputy
Sheriff Constantine. The fakir claimed
that he could get bail, and he wanted to
''see man." He had some crows to pick
around town also. He was very indignant
that the MORNING NEWS had taken his
name in vain. He visited the editorial
rooms TO give the reporters a game of talk,
and insisted at he had been much put
upon. At s o'clock last night Sheriu Roman,
tired OF waiting for the circus man, tele-
phoned the MORNING NEWS to return him
in like good order and condition. The sher-
if was uneasy. He did not know whether
Lawrence had been bottled up or, had been
bounced out Of a fourth-story win
dow. Lawrence left the MORNING NEWS
office with the elasticity of youth
and bold cheek looking for bondsman.
He wanted one of his victims to go on his
bond. All he got was fat refusal, but he
was undaunted, and he left in high dudgeon
and impressed upon the deputy the enormity
of the indgnities put upon him by arrest
laski house bets were freely offered that
Lawrence would give the officer the slip,
and he did
GAVE THE OFFICERS THE SLIP.
In passing the police barracks, Lawrence
wanted the officer to goin with him to hunt
up pistol that he said had been taken
from him at the barracks when he was first
arrested. The pair walked into Chief
Green's office, and the deputy said he would
like to see if there was pistol answering a
description of which he had memoran-
dunn. Chief Green and the sheriff
crossed the hall and entered the
sergeants' room. Lawrence kept his
seat. In the sergeants' room the
sherinf dropped the Information that the
man in the other room was Lawrence, the
circus man. Chief Green suggested that it
was not safe to trnst him out of sight, but
the sheriff assured the chief that he was all
right; that he had been with him two hours,
and that Lawrence was going to sue for
big money tor false imprisonment. Chief
Green and the sheriff had no sooner turned
their backs than Lawrence walked out.
He passed Sergeant Lee. The sergeant did
not know him, but Lawrence, with the
grace of Chesterfield, bowed low, and
saluted the sergeant with military
flourish of the arm
WALKED OUT OF THE BARRACKS
A few moments later Sheriff Constantine
returned to Chief Green's room, but Law
ence was gone. He hurried down town and
began to scour the city in a buggy, and
called on Officer Barch to help in the hunt,
but Lawrence was too sly for them, and of
late hour last night he had not been heard
FROM
This is why Lawrence did not appear for
trial in the city court. The ruse of hunting
for bondsman had been effectually played,
as it had been planned. The shrewdness of
Lawrence may be surmised when the
monkey story comes out The butcher who
was mulcted for the $25 by Lawrence, it is
said, had been presented with monkey by
one of the ships in the harbor, and the little
animal took Lawrence's eye and he sug-
gested that it might prove valued addi-
ton to the college of schooled
monkeys in John Robinson's great
show. Lawrence proposed to take the
monkey to see if had the intellectual ca
pacity worthy of place in the collection;
If so. money was no object when he came to
negotiate for its purchase. OF course Law
renee got the monkey, and, 10-cent show
being in the city, Lawrence lost no time in
unloading it upon the proprietors at good
round sum as trained monkey worth ten
times the amount asked for it.