The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-18
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
A LAWYER ARRESTED ON A
CHARGE OF WINDING.

Voolfolk Sends the Governor a Let
ter Which Charges the Jail Officials
at Macon With Incredible Cruelties.
Army Cloth Ordered for the Militia.
A Call for the Davis Fund.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. l7.-Charles A.
Loring, an Atlanta lawyer. was arrested
this afternoon charged with cheating and
swindling. L is alleged that Loring. act
ing as agent for r bert p Duncan Of Louis
vile. bought shares in a sewing machine
patent in May, ISIS for which Mr.. Duncan
sent him a check for $500. Loring is said
to have fraudulently represented to Mr.
Duncan that the stock could not be bought
for less, when in reslity it was purchased at
El20 Loriug, it is charged, drew the $500
On the check and appropriated the surplus.
In a similar transaction, it IS alleged, be
made an overcharge of $500 and applied the
money to his own use. LOring came here
from st. Louis. and for a time edited the
Georgia LGlv Reporter.
ARMY CLOTH FOR THE MILITIA
The adjutant general has drawn a requi-
sition on the federal government for army
cloth 10 uniform 1919 men at a cost OF
50, 500 80. which eXhausts the states quota
Of the national appropriation in aid OF the
militia.
ALETTER FROM VOOLFOLK.
It is reported that Tom Voolfolk, in
second letter TO Gov. Gordon about the
Macon jail. complains Of fiendish and i'm
possible tortures to which prisoners are sub
jected. The picture he draws of the horrors
of the place is such as could emanate only
from the brain OF crazy man or one trying
to play crazy. Here IS an extract: I'm the
cage below my cell are between fifteen aod
twenty pris 1ners. | don't know for certain,
but l earnestly believe it, that white peo-
ple men and children, have been trapped
by the iailer and some of his assistants and
tortured. | believe these people trapped
are my witnesses and friends. They are
first arrested, tied, gagged, thrown into
bath-tub, while one of the assistants sits on
him till he browns. They are then thrown
out among the negroes, while some of the
prisoners put on boiling water, and then all
the hair is scaded off the drowned men or
women One of the assistants, who is a
painter, t en- paints the white bodies black
or covers them over very nicely with some
pieces of sealskin, and when the officers
come the jailor tells them niger is dead"
1t is believed at the capitol that Voolfolk
has made up his mind TO play the insanity
dodge for all it is worth. and probably
some one shrewder than himself has as
sisted him in preparing the queer letter.
GEoRGIAs DAVIS FUND.
Ordinary W. IL. Calhoun, as treasurer
for the Davis widow and orphan fund in
this state, calls upon trustees and others
having charge of any portion of the money
subscribed to remit to him az once that he
may report to the governor So far he has
collected only little over 81 900, and from
many places reported to have raised large
sums and nothing has been forwarded.
THE ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
The state farmers alliance exchange,
the secretary of the alliance and the South
ern Alliance Farmer to-day removed to a
building donated for their use as an induce
uent for locating the exchange in Atlanta.
The new headquarters are at the corner
Of Forsyth and Hunter streets.
JUDGE HAYDEN's REMAINS.
The remains of Judge J. A.
Hayden. who died near Sanford,
tomorrow. Judge Hayden was one of the
men who built Atlanta, having
been one of the earliest
settlers. He was very prominent here as a
business man, and was a large property
holder. His estate probably aggregates
nearly 81, 200, 900, much Of which is Atlanta
real estate.
Hon. w. E. Russell has sent 500 for the
Grady monument fund, contributed by the
Young Mems Democratic Club of Massa-
chusetts.
POLK NEwToN's SENTENCE COMMITTEE.
The sentence of Polk Newton, the con-
victed murderer who was to have been
hanged at Morgan, Calhoun county, on
Jan. %, has been commuted to imprlson-
ment for life. 1t was known that applico-
ton had been made for a Communication
of his sentence, but only last night did
the governor conclude to grant 1t, and he
had Newton brought quietly away from
Morgan. 1t will be remembered that when
the reprieve saving Newton's neck reached
Morgan a large assemblage to see him
hanged relieved their disappointed feelings
in a general riot, which resulted
and the injury of several Others. For this
reason, as 1T seems, it was deemed advisable
to remove the negro quietly. He reached
here tonight on his way to the Dade coal
mines. Newton Killed a turpentine hand
named Wright Dickson at Williamsburg
last May. There was woman in the case.