Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
CESAR is C0OPED UP.
The UnriValed Sable Exponent Of
Culture in Jail.
BEFORE HIS RESONANT ELOoUENCE
Had Chance to Thunder He was Ignobly
Arrested.
WHAT THE PROSECUTRIx SAYS OF IT

Life is full of disappointments. This say
ing trite though it may be, came homef forci-
blv to Cesar A. A. Taylor lastevening. Mr..
Taylor. who claims to be q shining light
among the sons of Ham, and poses as one of
the best educated negroes in the country. in
tended to deliver lecture at Lafayette Hall
last night, but circumstances over which he
NAV or NAV not have had control intervened,
and the learned gentleman was forced to give
the platform the go-by and harangue the
lights and shadows of the county jail.
Taylor, who modestly bills himself as the
boy philosopher Che is almost 40 years of
age), cosmopolitan traveller, writer and lee
turer upon every conceivable subject, in
Guiding temperance; ex-secretary of the Re-
publican organization of New York City,
and other things too numerous to mention,
was arrested last night just as he was pre-
paripg to 90 to the hall by Constable
O'Brien, of Alderman Reilly's Office, on a
charge of assault and battery, made BY Miss
Ceatta Gain, a handsome young colored girl,
daughter OF the lady with whom Taylor has
been boarding.
Alderman, Reilly committed the sable ex-
ponent of culture and cold water to Jail in
default Of the customary bail. Whether or
not Mr.. Taylor delivered his lecture which
was entitled 1.-THE Negro Race, Retrospec-
tive and Prospective" to his fellow prison
ers is not known, but Lafayette Hall did
not resound with the thunders of his elo-
quence at any rate.
SHE RELATES THE CAsUs BELLI.
Miss Cain. the prosecutr1x, was seen by a
DISPATCH reporter last night, and willing
ly told her story as follows:
monday morning, between 11:30 and IL
O'Clock, Mr.. Taylor came into the kitchen,
just as was leaving it to 90 upstairs. He
touched me on the elbow and, in play.
touched him in retaliation. He then said
something that 1 did not like to me, and 1
retreated to the kitchen, shutting and lock-
ing the door. This seemed to enrage
him, and he attempted to climb in
through a window, knocking the whole
sash out in the effort. This frightened me,
and opened the door and ran upstairs to
my sisters room. She was nursing the
baby, and when entered she gave me the
child to hold. 1 had hardly taken it from
her, when Taylor rushed in, snatched the
child from me, threw it on the bed and
knocked me down, all the time threatening
to kill me. arose to my feet, and after
some tusseling, he left the room. When he
had gone, I called after him, say
ing that I was going to sue him
for what he had done. This made him
angrier than ever, and he came back and
struck me twice in the face, blacking my
eye and bringing the blood from my nose.
As be did So he said that if sued him he
would kill me and hang for my murder.
"When my mother who was absent at the
time, returned, 1 told her about what had
happened, saying that was going to sue
Taylor. did so and he was arrested this
evening. do not know what could have
been the matter with him, for he never acted
in this manner before. He was not drunk,
though he does take glass of beer OCCASION
ally"
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN LOVERS.
"Did he ever pay attention to you? Imean
were you lovers?" asked the reporter.
"Whati Lovers? He looks too much
like Jack the Ripper for me. Mr.. Taylor
bad no right to touch me, none whatever"
The young lady's mother said that Taylor
had been stopping at their house, No. 36
Hazel street, since September, and previous
to the present trouble had always behaved
as gentleman. Heis somewhat in arrears
with his rent, but promised to pay up after
the lecture, whether it was success or not
She said that Taylor gave one
the impression of being a man who
had passed through troublesome
and exciting life. For hours at a
time, he. would sit BY himself, gazing in
tently at nothing, and repeat whole pass
ages from the works of famous authors,
quoting poetry by the yard and essays by
the bnshel.
Itwas developed that Taylor, few days
ago, had received letter from Governor
Foraker, of Ohio. Whether or not the let
ter was of such nature as to drive him to
commit assault and battery is not known.
His cards read, Caesar A. A. Taylor, V.
D. NJ. NJ. Ph., S. S. and P. E., and, as
stated above, he claims to know all about
everything. He will be given hearing on
the 9th instant.