The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-17
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Green Goods Men Who Have co,,o
II 1"riot-The Latest Inoident--Alabnu
n Men Who Carried Pistols and Gntbsr,
h Pile.
5. NEW YORK, Oct SIN time r.
r green goods" philanthropist who
r ever trying to sell ten good dollars f.
a one ordinary dollar will learn that h
Q mustnot attempt his little game on tb
: oonthern man. Holland, of Texa
J., gaSS the green goods" men yioler
q shock by shooting their recognize
r ieader, Tom" Davis, several years ay,
!. and others have contributed milder y,
Ject lessons. 1t remained for two Al,
e -, A,nAuor TO furnish a meIf
!, o'auiatic climax by successful rai
upon the genuine capital as we'll as ~
oummles ofanenterprising gany Tb,
names OF the men are supposed TO h.
Is. IL. Lindsay alias James Fl. Uaae,
and Robert D. George, but all Of tb.
names may be fictitious. Roth mar
are locked up in the :Twenty.third Sub,
Ireciht station House, in the basement
Vi .he Grand Central Rail Road station
and their "baggage" is slowed aw,v in
the safe. ""' III
Inc baggage consists of one brow,
leather satchel, one towel. four bio ro
Voi'ers' two green goods" packages
an" over Sl.7o0 in genuine greenbacks
Inc two last-named items are not re.
rognized by the Alabamians as portions
oi thelr baggage, but were found in
their satchel nevertheless
Saturday evening, about $50 O'Clock
detective McMahon, of the Twenty.
third subsIrecinct, was standing near
the most southerly door In the New
York Central Rail Road station scan.
ming the faces of people who entered in
MS search for suspicious characters a
young man accosted the detective and
inquired where he could find a police
man. e'V1o-
. a. ~ am one. What do you want ?" the
officer inquired. ''0
There are two men who rohhod ,
man OF several thousand dollars down'
town. the young mankaid, pointing to
Two men who had just purchased tickets
lor Western Alabama, land what is
more, they are green goods men" he ,,
;onIlhued. "Ihey are robbers and I ,
NOV -, IL, ana L want them arrested " g.,
the detective secured the assistance of
Patrolman Lane and arrested the two
men. They expressed mild surprise
'ut asked no questions, and went Guiet.
y to Observation-Disclosures downstairs The
fTseieE, the men arrrsreu gayu-r-aeu e
ames as James III. Hatey. aeed! IS, ,i.slr i.sLr
he. and Robert ID. George, aged f,nc
y-nine. They. both safd thetsJiuoaein q
dooresvine, Limestone CouhCs're"i IN '
'aina. 49, 1r
While the two prisoners We're being
earched Eaton slipped out of the sta +
ion unobserved, and nothing has since 7
,een heard from him by the police.
The prisoners wore sack coats, and in r
,ach of the side pockets of both coats a :
nurderous looking revolver was found. ,
Other pockets revealed two rail road /
ickets, 50 or $40 in currency and q ;
green goods" circular addressed to Is.
ii. Lindsay, Belle Nina, Limestone
County, Ala. Belle Nina is Il small
station seven miles from Decatur, on
The Memphis & Charleston Rail Road.
The satchel they carried is medium
,iZed brown satchel, with leather
strap around it. 1t outwardly appeared
to be empty, and the officers were sur
prised on opening it to lind even a asoiled
towel and four small brown paper par
cells. The towel bore the stamp of the
"Roanoke Hotel" and at one time
of the sitcRel TIE sqt sRslEs contents
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 lives. The former contained
$1,27O and the latter $4Sl. 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. IIafley, who appears
to be the leader, when asked how much
money the package contained pretended
not to know and suggested to the Of
| icer: "Counti 1t if you want to lind out
| He was equally Donc0mmunicatiVe 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
Mahon, in the Yorkville Police Court,
ana remanueQ until lo-uty. lney SpcuI
Sunday in the Twcnty-Third Sub Pre-
i cinct station.
The prisoners appear to be fairly well.
to-do farmers, and both Of them look
and 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 Ne"
York. "Ive been robbed and / got
even" Is IIahcy's explanation, and that
, remark is the only allusion to the sub
f 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 o.
religion, however, and they talk freel,
|, and interestingly, Haley owns 8O'
- acres of land in Alabama, he said, ant
raised cotton and corn. Both men in
timated that they have iniluentia
e friends in America, but they declined
II to communicate with them. They sai'
d they came here via Washington am
g Jersey City. They will not reply wheI
l. asked whether the money found in tn
h satchel belongs to them or whether the