The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-26
sHERIFF ROMANS COLONY.
The Jail Guards Having an Easy Time
of II Now.


of It Now.
There are only three cases for the city
court TINS morning. Two were from mag
| istrates' courts and one was turned over by
the mayor They are:
Charles Brown, larceny from the house,
committed to jail by Elsinger.
Charlotte Powers, assault and battery,
committed by Justice Patterson.
Jno. Buffet, simple larceny, committed
| by the mayor.
There are now thirty prisoners IN jail.
Some of them are from other counties, and
several are from the mayors court. Only
three or four are waiting trial for the su-
perlor court, and they were lncarcerated
since the grand jury was discharged
Burgner's case will come up in the superior
court, and also that of Peter Griffin, the
negro who was turned over from Justice
McDermott's court on tie charge Of robbing
the Ocean Steamship Company.
There are three United States prisoners
in Jail. The two prisoners whom United
States Marshal Corbett arrested for stealing
brass from Fort Oglethorpe are among the
number.
A fifteen year-old white boy is serving
out a term of four months for vagrancy. He
came to Savannah from Augusta, he said,
and went about the streets begging. He
seems 10 be perfectly contented behind the
bars, and is apparently well pleased with
the title Of "trusty.n The duties Of a
"trusty" are not few, and are anything
but pleasant, but the officials are lenient
with the young tramp. as the
guards, dub the white boy.
1t is necessary for the keeper to have some
one about all the time to do service, and TO
economic one Of the jail birds is taken.
He works up until his time is out, then he
is discharged and another is taken. The
TRUSTEES are generally selected from that
class of criminals under light charges. The
best men are selected. In some cases
tached to the guards from being
thrown with them that they are 10th to
leave the Jail when the doors are thrown
open and they are discharged.
Guard Strickland said last night that the
Jail folks breathed free when Steele and
Hazel We're taken away to the penite1tiary
the other day. "They were desperate fell
lows" he said, land would have taken the
lives of any of the guards whom they came
in contact with if they had half chance"
MIR. Strickland said that not since Cassidy
was confined there have the jail officers
been so careful of any of the prisoners
Cassidy was a terror, the guard said.
Did you ever see his signs which he
left in his cellF' he asked "Well they
are there, and will be for all time They
are the only marks in the Jail made by pris-
oners who have endeavored to escape. One
is very small mark, and nobody but the
jail folks could have discovered it, probably
1t was made with very small saw. The
rift which Cassidy made in the iron bar is a
half circle nearly through the bar He was
discovered, however, in time, and an end
was put to his escape. just how Cassidy
got his tools has always been a mystery.
Guard Strickland said that it is his opinion
that the prisoner got the saw in his biscuit.
When the bucket was brought for him it
was examined, but it is his impression that
the saw was cooled inside of piece of bread.
1t is thought that it was as
much surprise to Cassidy
when he shut his teeth on the saw as were
the guards when they discovered what
Cassidy had done.
The Jail is quiet now. Out of nearly
100 prisoners only about thirty remain aud
the place is comparatively dull.