The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
THE MURDERER EVANS IN JAIL.
His Arrest Effected by Sheriff Hendy
in Liberty County.

Al A-AOSANg OOAAbg-
Alonzo Evans tcolored) who murdered II.
J. Dutton at Midway. Bulloch county, in
June Of last year, was lodged ia the county
jail in this city last night by G.. H.
heDdy, sheriff Of Liberty county,
who arrested Evans last Saturday on
the turpentine farm Of Joseph B.
Frazier, in Liberty county. The prisoner
was lodged in jail subject 70 the order Of
the sheriff Of Bulloch county. Mr.. 5. ".
Holmes, who witnessed the killing, and A.
d. DuttOn, brother Of the deceased. &C
cOmpauied the sheriff to this city with the
prisoner. Evans was very cool and self
possessed until nearing Jesup, when he sud-
denly lost his self-control, as he felt he
would be taken from the train there and
lynched.
The circumstances Of the murder were
detailed in the MORNING NEWS at the time.
but may be again briefly reviewed. The
negro Evans was in the employ OF F. w.
Hodges & Son on their turpentine farm,
and demanded pay Of Mr.. Dutton, the wood
man of the firm, for cutting more boxes
thaa he had really cut. Mr.. Dutton told
him that he did not employ him and could
not pay him. but if he would bring an order
from his foreman he would pay the bill
The negro became very angry at the refusal
and declined 20 go for an order, and when
Mr.. Dutton went TO the shop to get the
tools used by Evans, a short distance
away, Evans, who had by this
time procured shotgun, came
running after Mr.. Dutton and fired at close
range, shooting his victim in the neck, Mr.
Dutton surviving the wound only four
days Evans made good his escape, and
Sheriff Heady, recently learning OF Evans
whereabouts, came suddenly upon him in
bis cabin last Saturday and took him into
custody. reward of $3.50, which was
offered by the brother of the deceased for the
apprehension Of the murderer, will be paid
to the arresting officer. Sheriff Hendy and
party will return home this morning.
Mr.. Hendy is making reputation for
the arrest Of outlaws. He arrested Mon
day Of last week, in Wayne comfy, Ste
phen Jacobs, alias John Smith, an Indian
cruitan, aud notorious leader of a gang
of outlaws in North Carolina. Jacobs is a
successor TO Henry Berry Lowrey, a noted
North Carolina outlaw. Jacobs and seven
other cruitans were entrenched in a log
house in which were port holes. ad they
were armed with two Winchester rifles,
two breech-loaders and twenty -fve pounds
of cartridges Sheriff Hendy aud a posse
of fourteen men surrounded the fort at |
o'clock in the morning and demanded a
surrender which Jacobs declined to make,
but, being threatened with a cannon bonn
bardment, he surrendered at 3 O'Clock
in the morning. Jacobs was under sentence
of death for the murder Of lady in Robin
son county, North Carolina, whose son had
at one time unprecedented the outlaw, and it
was at the latter that the shot was fired
which killed the lady. Jacobs had been at
large year and ten days. Two male and
one female accomplice Of Jacobs are now
under sentence of death. Sheriff Hendy
delivered the prisoner to the Robinson
county authorities. Jacobs accomplices in
the fort were released, as there was no
charge against them and they had evacu-
ated at the first notice.