The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-12
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
A MURDEROUs FIGHT AMONG TIE
CoNVICrS At THE JAIL

Police Bush in Just in Time TO Pre-
vent q Nurder-A Aoonshiner Who
Escaped by Doing the Human Fly
Act Brought Back-Gov. Gordon III
With the Grip.
ATLANTA. GA, March 11.-Trouble &C.
CURED among the prisoners at the county
1ail this afternoon. Sol Turner, a notori-
Gus Fulton county burglar, was twice
stabbed in the region OF the heart by Henry
Falvev. alias Parks, white man. Another
negro prisoner. named Moss, also took a
hand in the difficulty. Turner was talking
through the grated door with his
wife when Falvey approached and
began heaping unseemlngly epithets
on the woman. Turner resented this and
Quarrel ensued. The police were telephOned
for and reached the jail about the time
the fight was well under way. Turner
struck at Falvey with a stick of moulding
when the latter drew a small knife and did
the stabbing. The police rushed in to
separate the parties just as Moss was
coming to Turner's assistance. Moss I'M
wisely turned upon the officers and was on
the point of hurting spittoon at one when
another knocked HIM down with his club.
Within a short time all was quiet. The
jailer reports Turner resting easily to might.
A MOoNsHINER BROUGHT BACK.
Deputy marshals arrived in the city to-
day with Dock Cockburne, Murray
county moonshiler, who escaped from the
prisoners room in the federal court IN this
city several month ago. Cockburne was
waiting III the prisoners room expecting
to plead guilty as soon as his case was
reached. when, finding that no one was
m qt
he might get away by crawling
along narrow granite combing
leading from the window of the room to
that Of the hall He made the desperate
venture and succeeded. The prisoners
room is located in the third story Of the
building, and. had he fallen, sure death on
the stone pavement awaited him. 1t was
necessary to turn corner in or
der to reach the window by which
he proposed to re-enter the building, which
fact made the undertaking doubly hazard
Gus. Cockburn, however, chung tight and
managed TO reach the corridor. He then
walked away, leaving the officers no clue
by which to trace him. According to his
own statement, he went to Sand
mountain, and has been living there
ever since. Lately he revisited
his old home in Murray county,
and was on the way back to Sand noun
tain, when two deputy marshals recognized
and talked to him IN Chattanooga. They
made no attempt to arrest him then, but
boarded the same GeOrgia-bound train
Cockburne left on. and took him into Gus
tody as soon as they reached Georgia soil.
The moonshiner to-day, after looking at the
federal building. said he would not venture
on the mario v granite ledge again for the
whole wealth of Atlanta.
TAILORs ON A STRIKE.
The Atlanta tailors are on q strike and
demand an increase Of wages which was
refused. The merchants entered into an
agreement and offered the workmen certain
terms of settlement, which at last accounts
lad not been accepted by the union. 1t is
said that wages have been steadily increased
for the past three years.
GOV. GORDON SICK.
Gov. Gordon is sick with a severe attack
of the grippe.
Surveyors are busy around Atlanta locat-
ing the line of the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern railroad, which, it is said viii be
completed to the CITY in twelve months.
The contract for its construction from the
Savannah river to Atlanta is to be let in
the next few days. The road will connect
with the Seaboard and Roanoke system.
POLICE COURT SCANDAL.
To-day in the police court Carrie Echols,
q white woman, was fined for cursing Tay-
Tor Echols, a coal black negro. Both parties
were arrested by the officers on charge of
disorderly conduct. Mrs. Elizabeth Frank
lin was also arraigned on the same charge,
but the case against her was dis
missed, as was that against the
negro Behind this little case
lies terrible scandal. The negro, it is re-
reported, claims the white woman fined for
abusing him as his lawful wife. Where
they were married does not appear, and be
got mis- cursing because she was jealous of
the other white woman No state cases
have yet been made against any of the par