The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-15
TOO SHARP FOR THEM.
SOUTHERN SCAMPS TOO SMART FOR
NEW YORK SCAMPS.

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NEW YORK sCAMPS.
Grief-The Latest Incident--Alabama
Men Who Carried Pistols and Gathered
Pile.
NEW YORK, Oct Sin time the
green goods philanthropist who Is
ever trying to sell ten good dollars toI
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 violent
shock by shooting their recognized
i leader, tom" Davis, several years ago
and others have contributed milder OH
ject lessons. 1t remained for two Ala
bamians, however, to furnish melo'
dramatic climax by a successful raid
upon the genuine capital as we'll as the
dummies ofan enterprising gang. The
names of the men are supposed to be
b. II. Lindsay alias James II. Haaey
and Rober. D. George, but all Of the
names may be fictitious. Both men
are locked up in the Twenty-third Sub
Precint Station House, in the basemen!
of the Grand Central Rail Road station,
and their "baggage" is slowed away in
the safe.
The baggage consists OF one brown
leather satchel, one towel, four big re-
volyers, two green goods" packages
and over S1.75O IN genuine greenbacks.
The two last-named items are not re-
cognized by the Alabamians as portions
of their baggage, but were found in
their satchel nevertheless.
Saturday evening, about $50 o'clock,
Detective McMahon, of the Twenty
third sub Precinct, was standing near
the most southerly 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 accosted the detective and
INQUIRED where he could find police
man.
Il am one. What do you want?" the
officer inquired.
There 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
for 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
Patrolrnan 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-
conpanied the party, and in station
house gave his name as Thomas Eaton,
and his address No. 225 West 126th
Street. The men arrested gave their
names as James H. Hahey. aged thirty
one. and Robert D. George, aged twen-
ty-nine. They both said they lived III
Mooresville, Limestone County, Ala.
bama.
While the two prisoners were being
searched Eaton slipped ont of the STA
tion unobserved, 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 a
murderous looking revolver was found.
Other pockets revealed two rail road
tickets, 50 or $40 in currency and a
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 satchel they carried is medium
sized brown satchel, with leather
strap around it. It outwardly appeared
to be empty, and the officers were sur
prised on opening it to find even soiled
towel and four small brown paper par
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 fives. The former contained
sl,27O and the latter S484. The four
packages corresponded in size and gen.
eral appearance and were apparently
intended to be interchangeable. That
they were put up by "sawdust' men
there is no doubt. Hafley, who appears
to be the leader, when asked how much
money the package contained pretended
not to know and suggested to the Of
licer: "Countit if you want to find out"
He was equally noncommunicative 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 the record. and the men
We're locked up. Yesterday morning
tney were taken before Justice Nc
Mahon, in the Yorkville Police Court,
and rrmanded until to-day. They spent
SUNDAY in the Twentyrhirl Sub Pre-
clnct station.
The prisoners appear to be fairly we'll
to-do farmers. and both OF them look
aud talk intelligently. They are tall,
slender. dark skinned and determined
looking men, half smooth-shaven:
They discuss any subject introduced
freely except their experiences in New
York. I've been robbed and | got
even is Hatley's explanation, and that
remark is the only allusion to the sub,
ject 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 500
acres of land in Alabama, he said, and
raised cotton and corn. Both men in
tmated that they have influential
friends in America, but they declined
to communicate with them. They said
they came here via Washington and
Jersey City They will not reply when
asked whether the money found in the
satchel belongs to them or whether they
intend TO claim 1t.
The police think no claim will be