The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-22
TUTTY SAYS HE'S ENGLISH
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AP-
PEALED TO BY HIS WIFE.

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Vice Consul Robertson Written to
from Washington to Investigate
the Charge That Tutty Is Subject
Of Great Britain, and is Locked Up
Without Cause - Solicitor General
Fraser Explains the Case satisfac-
torily to Queen Victories Repre-
ssntatives-Tutty's Wife the Bottom
of the Trouble.
1t has leaked out that the English gov
eminent has been petitioned to take up the
cudgel for Charles Tutty, but whether the
action Of the state and the United States
courts In the case will turn out to be q
c0sus beLi events will show.
It developed yesterday that Rose Ward,
the alleged wife of Tutty, is in Washington,
and has been before the British consul
there with a most grievous tale Of woe, in
which she represented that her husband. a
good and loyal subject Of her majesty
Queen Victoria, is incarcerated in a Geor-
gia dungeon for no crime committed at all,
and she has asked her Britannia majesty to
interpose the great segis Of her protection,
and take Tutty out of jail, or SOW the
streets of Savannah with salt if he is not
promptly permitted to go at large.
TUTTY's wIFEs STORY.
The woman represented that Tutty and
herself were married in the national capital
under the forms of law and the drippings
OF the sanctuary, and after happy bridal
tour of the east returned to their Georgia
home, nestled snugly in Liberty county,
aud uefore the sweetmeats of the wedding
FEAST had disappeared, or the testoonery OF
the boudoir had begun to witAer, her hus-
bind was bounced upon by the minions of
the law and locked up.
The consul was 50 much impressed with
the sad story of the wrongs OF the guileless
Rose that he instituted a inquiry into the
matter, doubtless with the design, if the
tale proved true, of plucking handful OF
feathers from the caulal sppendage of the
American eagle if Tutty was not immedi-
ately released.
VICE CONSUL ROBERTSON WRITTEN TO.
Vice Consul Walter Robertson has re-
ceived a letter instructing him to investi-
gate the matter, and in accordance
with his instructions he laid the letter
before Solicitor General Fraser this
week. The solicitor general explained to
Mr.. Robertson all the details in what is
fast becoming national case; that Tutty
IS not prisoner, but is out on bond:
that he is white man, debarred under the
laws of Georgia from intermarryinr with a
negro woman, and that he took Rose to
Washington. aud after having been married
there returned to Georgia. A grand jury
of the superior court indicted them for for
nlcaIlon; they were arrested, gave
bond for their appearance, failed
to appear, the bond was estreated, and
pending the convenng of the court for the
next May term, we t into the United States
circuit court aud asked that the case be re-
manded to the latter court, but Judge
Emory Speer refused to remove it, and re-
manded it back to the Liberty county
superior court in long decision affirming
the constitutionality of the Georgia law.
TO COME UP AT THE MAY TERM.
The case will come up for hearing at the
May term. Meantime Tutty is not in
jail, but is OUT on the Ogeechee
road within the extended city limits, where
he has been keeping a little shop, selling
ginger cake and peanuts to the small boys.
while Rose is a petitioner at the branch
office of the court Of st. James in Washing
ton.
The personnel Of the defendants, for both
are under Indictment, may be of interest, as
they are figuring in notable case. Tutty
lived in Liberty county FOR many years,
where he was engaged in farming, and sue
cessfully so, as he accumulated some means,
which, since his infatuation for Rose
Ward. must have been constantly dimin-
ished in one way or another.
TUTTY'S REPUTATION.
His reputation is that Of an honest and
industrious citizen, and until he outraged
the public sentiment of the community by
his marriage with the negro wo nan he en-
joyed the respect of his neighbors. The
claim that he Is a subject of Great Britain
is in the nature Of a surprise to his old
neighbor7, as it understood that he never
set up such a claim before, but on the con-
trary assumed the privileges and rights Of
an American citizen. He is over 80 years
of age and the years have silvered his hair.
The woman, Rose Ward, is about 35
years Of age, black as Erebus, shrewd and
crafty, and was born slave, but reared as
domestic, she was brought in closer con-
tact with the white race, and from her
earliest years held herself aloof from those
Of her own color.