The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-10
C0NVICTSAT A BARBECUE
THREE OFsCHUMAN's GANG MAKE
THINGS LIVELY.

a Trio OF Striped-Garbed Ditchers
Try to Join in a Cotillion at a Col
ored Odd Fellows Picnic at Mont
Romery and Precipitate Big Row
TRUSTEES Who Were Trusted Once
Too Often.
There was reigno of terror for awhile yes
terday among the colored people at the bar
becue at Montgomery, occasioned by dis
pute over the ranging of the dancers for the
first cotilion OF the day. in which three Of
the convicts from Schuman's camp were
mixed up. They were Charles Green, Willie
Stephenson and Burke, a butcher, three
''trustiesn who went down on the excursion
train TO cut cypress posts at Montgomery,
out somehow got to the picnic.
ARRESTED BY a COMMITTEEMAN.
William Sails, one of the committee Of the
barbecue, started for Savannah with Green
and Stephenson, and two colored women,
Clara Jones and Emma Williamson, who
were the cause of the row, but at Sand Fly
station Sails let Green get off the train and
go pack to camp, and after bringing
stephenson to town he concluded not to
prefer charges against him, and as no
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| women at the barracks for violation of the
city ordinances, Serg5. Lingg, who was on
quUy when SAILS brought in tle prisoners,
| suggested that he take them to a Inagis-
trate, and the sentinel at the sallypOrt
accompanied Sails with the trio TO Justice
Elslnger, where charge of breach of gooi
behavior was preferred against the women
ana IN default of bail they were sent to Jail.
SET AGOG BY RUMoRs
Rumors of a mutiny among the convicts
| were afloat in the city for awhile, and as
the news spread they became more ex-
! aggerated, until it was said that Schuman's
gang had mutiuied, overpowered the guards
ard effected their escape. Sifted down it
was ike the story of the two crows
The particulars of the trouble. as near as
could be ascertained, are about as follows:
The Mount Zion Lodge No. l and the
Samuel Lodge No. 3, G. U. o. of K. OF A.,
gave an excursion and barbecue at
montgomery yesterday, and the three
TRUSTEES were on the excursion train. The
women, Clara Jones and Emma Williamson,
were also on the train. and the Jones woman,
VINO mad bought a ticket for herself and
Emma, when told by the convict Stephen
son that he did not have enough money to
pay MS fare to Montgomery, bought him q
ticket, which carried with it admission to
the dancing pavilion and barbecue
EFluenGly ClaVaS 1OndneSS for cOnVlctS
dld strike the committee favorably, and
Paul Cohen, one Of the committee who had
arranged place for Clara to dance in the
flrst sec, afterward went back and ordered
her 10 make room for another
MAD wOMAN's ANTICS.
This made Clara bouncing mad, and she
was beginning to show it, when her friend
Emma, to stop the quarrel which began
over Cohen's action, offered Clara her place.
Clara's mad was up, and she demanded a
return of her money for the three tickets.
amounting to 81 05. Stephenson, who had
managed to get some liquor either from a
friend on the train or at the barbecue
grounds, took up Clara's quarrel and pis-
tols and knives were drawn, and
the two women say that Cohen fired
his revolver at Stephenson. In fact the
| excursionists made common cause against
the convict5. Burke. who was armed with
an ak, finding the odds against him, took to
the woods, and Stephenson, who had bee
pretty well punished in the melee. and
Green and the two women were arrested
and turned over to Sails to be brought to the
city.
Stephenson's excuse for being mixed up
in the row is that it had been so long since
he had had any whisky that the one drink
went to his head. The Joues woman halls
from Augusta and has been in Savannah
only few days.