The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-16
TOO SHARP FOR THEM.
SOUTHERN SCAMPS TOO SMART FOR
NEW YORK SCAMPS.

N'"'" """"S WON VINO hnVe Como to
Grior-Tho Latest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mon Who Carried Pistols and Gathered
aPile.
NEW YORK, Oct 8.-In time the
green goods" philanthropist who is
ever trying to sell ten good dollars Tor
one ordinary dollar will learn that he
must not attempt his little game on the
southern man. Holland, Of Texas.
gave the green goods" men Il violent
shock hy shooting their recognized
leader, "roni" Davis, several years ago,
and Others have contributed mildcr ob-
lcct lessons. 1t remained for two Ala-
ham!ans, however, to furnish a melo-
dramatic climax by a successful raid
| upon the genuine capital ~ we'll us the
dummies ofan cntcrprising gang. The
names of the mon are supposed to be
i. II. Lindsay alias James ii. IIancv
and Eober. ID. George, but all Of the
names may be fictitious. Both men
are locked up in tie Twcnty-third Sub
lrccint Station House, in the basement
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and their "baggagc" is slowed away in
the safe.
The baNgage consists Of one brown
leather Satchcl one towel, four big re-
VolrcrS, two green goods" packages
and over $1,750 in genuine greenbacks.
The two last-namcd items are not re-
rognizcd 10y the Alabamians as portions
OF their baggage but were found in
their satchcl nevertheless.
Saturday evening, about 6.3O o'clock,
Detective McMiahon, of the Twenty
! third Sub-Precinct, was standing near
the most Southcrly door in the New
| York Central Rail Road station scan
ming the faces of people who entered in
his search for suspicious characters. A
young man accostcd the detective and
inquired where he could find a police
man.
81 am one. What do you want" the
officer inquired.
| "Thcrn are two men who robbed a
man,of several thousand dollars down
town." the young man said, pointing to
two men who had just purchased tickets
tor Western Alabama, land what is
more, they are green goods men," he
continued. "They are robbers and |
know it, and l want them arrested"
| The detective secured the assistance of
Iatrolman Lane and arrested the two
men. They expressed mild surprise,
but asked no questions, and went quiet
~ to the station house downstairs. The
!, young man who made the charge ac-
companied the party, and in station
house gave his name as Thomas Eaton
and his address NO. 225 West 126tll
Street. The men arrested gave their
one. and Robert ID. George, aged TWEEN
ty-nine. They both said they lived in
MooreSVille, Limestone County, Ala
bama.
While the two prisoners were being
searched Eaton slipped ont Of the sta
ton unobservcd, and nothing has since
been heard from him by the police
The prisoners wore sack coats, and in
each of the side pockets Of both coats n
murderons looking revolver was found.
Other pockets revealed two rail road
tickets, 50 or $50 in currency and
green goods" circular addressed to b.
II. Lindsay, Belle Nina, Limestone
County, Ala. Belle Nina is small
station seven miles from Decatur, on
the Memphis & Charleston Rail Road.
The Satchcl they carried is a medium
sized brown satchel, with leather
strap around it. 1t outwardly appeared
to be empty and the officers were sur
priSed on opening it to find even soiled
GELS The towel bore the stamp of the
"Roanoke Hotel" and at one time
evidently comprised the entire contents
OF the Satchel. Two Of the parcels con-
tanned slips of paper the size Of national
bank notes. The other two contained
genuine bank notes, one being filled
with $40 bills and the other with ones,
twos and liveS. The former contained
$1,27O and the latter $48l. The four
packages corrcSpondcd in size and gen
Cral appearance and were apparently
intended to be interchangeable. That
they were put up by "sawduSt' men
there is no doubt. IIaney, who appears
to be the leader, when asked how much
money the package contained pretended
not to know and suggested to the Of
| liccr: "CountiL if you want to find out"
lie was equally noncOmmunicativc as
TO where the four packages came from
or how the charge Of robbery against
them originated. Charges Of robbery
and carrying concealed weapons were
entered on tho record. and tho mon
were locked up. Yesterday morning
they were taken before Justice Nc
itahon, in the Yorkville Police Court,
and rcinandcd until to-day. They spent
, Sunday in the Twcnty-Third Sub Pre-
cinct station.
The prisoners appear to be fairly we'll
t0-do farmers, and both Of them look
and talk intelligently. They are tall,
, slender, dark skinned and determined
looking men, half smooth -shayen.
They discuss any subject introduced
freely except their experiences in New
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even." is Ilailey's explanation, and that
remark is the only alluSion to the sub.
Jcct the police have forced out Of either
OF either of them. Start them on the
resources of the South, the race prob
lem, tariff, Alabama cotton raising or
religion, however, and they talk freely
and Interestingly, Haley owns 800
acres OF land in Alabama, he said, and
raised cotton and corn. Both men in
timated that they have influential
friends in America, but they declined
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