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

"ioeh "o""s MON VINO Have Como to
Grief-rho Latest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mon WHO Carried Pistols and Gathered
aPiIo.
NEW YORK, Oct Sin time the
green goods" philanthropist who is
ever trying to sell ten good dollars for
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 10y shooting their recognized
leader, "Tom" Davis, several years ago.
and Others have contributed n.ildpr OH
Ject lessons 1t remained for two Ala
bamians, however, to furnish melo-
dramatic climax by a successful raid
upon the genuine capital as well us the
dummies an entcrprising gang The
names OF the men are supposed to be
IS. III. Lindsay alias James II. IIanev
and Rober. ID. George, But all of the
names may be fictitious. Both men
are locked up i'll the Twcnty-third Sub
precint Station House, in the basement
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-
Yolvers, two "grcen goods" packages
and over 81, $50 in genuine Sreenbacks.
The two last-named items arc not re-
cognized by the Alabamians as portions
or their baggage, but were found in
their Satchcl nevertheless.
Saturday evening, about $50 o'clock,
Detective McMahon, 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 accosted the detective and
inquired where he could find a police
| man.
81 am one. What do you want?" the
officer inquired.
"There, are two men who rotped 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 | want them arrested"
The detective secured the assistance of
PatrOlman Lane and arrested the two
men. They expressed mild surprise,
| but asked no questions, and went quiet
| ly TO the station house downstairs. The
young man who made the charge ac-
| companled 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 III. HALEY. aged thirty
one, and Robert ID. George, aged twen-
ty-nino. They both said they lived in
MOoreSVille, Limestone County, Ala
bama
While the two prisoners were being
searched Eaton Slipped out of the sta
ton unobscrved, 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 e. Charleston Rail Road.
IiiS oobIllCi GiCJ Call leu lS u lllCuluIl
'lZed brown Satchel, with leather
strap around it. 1t outwardly appeared
to be empty, and the officers were sur
prlSed on opening it to find even a 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 satchcl. Two Of the parcels con-
tanned slips Of paper the size Of national
bank notes. The other two contained
genuine bank notes, one being filed
with $40 bills and the other with ones.
tWOS and liveS. The former contained
&l,27O and the latter $48l. The four
packages cOrreSpOndcd 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. IIatlev, who appears
to be the leader, when asked now much
money the package contained pretended
not to know and suggested to the Of
llcer: Count it if you want to find out"
lie 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
were locked up. Yesterday morning
they were taken before Justice Nc
Nahon, in the Yorllville Police Court,
and remanded until today. They spent
Sunday in the Twcnty-Third Sub Pre-
CinCt station.
The prisoners appear to be fairly we'll.
TODD farmers, and both Of them look
and talk diligently. They are tall
slender, dark skinned and determined
looking men, half smooth-shayen.
they discuss any subject introduced
freely except their experiences in New
York. "PYe been robbed and / got
even" is HaAey'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, IIahcy owns 800
acres OF land in Alabama, ne said, and
raised cotton and corn. Both men in
timated that they have influential
friends III America, but they declined
TO communicate with them. They said
they came hero via WASHINGTON and