The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-04
JEFF PAYNE CAUGHT.
Tho Police Have a Hard Tussle With
the Notorious Outlaw.

jeff Payne, a notorious negro outlaw
whom the police have been endeavoring u
CAPTURE for several weeks, and who was
only arrested night before last, was sent &c
Jail Yesterday morning by the mayor &c
await the action of the grand jury.
The principal charge filed against Payne
was assault with intent 10 murder.
Although Payne is guilty Of numerous
crimes and nearly every magistrate in the
city has a warrant ter him, no active steps
were taken to capture bin until
saulted Central Railroad Policeman
! Thorpe, WHO attempted to arrest him for
defying and threading Conductor Tullis Of
! the West Broad street line with dirk. 1t
is said that Payne never loft the city. AL
! though frequent efforts TO capture him
We're made after he assaulted the officer,
| they were barren of results. Payne was
always sharp enough to get out of the back
! door before the officers g 1t in the front
| door,
| Patrolman f. NJ Morgan, through
| spotter, located Payne the other night and
with the assistance of PatrJlmen baughn
and Neidhnger Letter Carrier Murphy
and young Moran, succeeded in capturing
TIE .egro. Payne got word that the officers
were planning for bis arrest a few hours
after ni2htfall, and in company with an
other notorious character he hung a mus
ket on his shoulder ami started
to leave iowa. The officers kept
| track of his movements through
a spotter, and when tho pair crossed the
Ogeechee canal bridge tue officers ordered
them to halt. Pay immediate'y threw
the gun to his shoulder aud, springlng the
trigger, fred. The flash went IN Oilicec
! MOrgau's face and blind'd him, but before
Payne could fire again the officers fired On
him and closed in on him. Iie dropped the
gun, and bre king loose from the
officer who held him by the coat
he ran back across the bridge and down
West Boundary street. The arresting party
pursued him and chased him into a house
near Little Jones street., where he was ar
rested There were il all about twenty
shots fred. Payne fired a shot and his pal
fired on the officers with pistol and after
ward escaped. The arresting party fired
between sixteen and eighteen ines.
Yesterday morning, in his examination
before the mayor, Payne was charged with
several other crimes by those who attended
the examination. He is wanted by the Cea-
trail railroad Zorro bling cars, and he is
also wanted for breaking open aud plum
dering several colored peoples houses He
Is suspected of being the negro who choxed
a lady out on the commons a short while
ago, and attempted to gothrough the house.
Frank Pulite, who was convicted of
breaking open a store last week, duplicates
Payne. 1t is thought, and he answers the
description, to be the negro who tried to
force his way into Mr. Tilton's house Sun
day evening. A girl met him at the door,
and he asked her where the folks were, and
upon being told that they were
upstairs be pushed the servant girl
out of the door and went inside,
hut the cries Of the girl brought Mr.. Tilton
down and he fired twice at the negro as he
ran down the street. Payne was involved
in an ARRAY about two years ago with some
wood haulers in which he received a wound
which was pronounced fatal. He was laid
out for dead but afterward recovered, aad
lived to be as notorious as before. He bears
the scar now, which he received at that
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