The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-23
JESUP'S RED SCANDAL.
LITrLEFIELD TELLS THE STORY OF
THE KILLING.

picions Had Been Aroused and He
shadowed the Guilty Pair Till They
We're self-Convicted.
JEsUP. Ga, May 22-The coroner's
jury in the Littlefield tragedy met this
morning at 0 O'Clock, and came to decision
about O'Clock this afternoon. The verdict
of the jury is as follows:
We, the jury, find I. P. LittlefeId guilty ofs
the murder OF his wife. and the killing OF j. G.-s
Mccall iustifiable homicide.
Littlefield was committed, but waived a
preliminary trial and was taken to Bruins
wick this afternoon to await trial at the !
October term Of the superior court. Little !
fields statement before the jury was as
follows:
"Mr. Surrency and Mccall and myself !
were all around at Surrency's store, andg
Mr.. Mccall left me and Surrency and said
he was going to the postofiice, but would be-
back In minute or two. / suppose
that it was half an hour after that came
around in the house and came upstairs, and
MIR. Mccall was lying on bed In No. II, l
think, asleep. and did not bother him | 4
went downstairs, and knocked around
there until after supper. Awhile after sup
per / came upstairs and went into my
room and went to bed.
HID sUSPlCiONS AROUSED.
"While l was lying there Mccall came
to the door and pushed 1t open and came In
and sat down on the foot of the bed. and
asked me to get up and come down, and L
noticed that he reached over me and placed
his hand upon Mrs. Littleield, and that
made me suspicious Of him. got up then
ana put on my clothes and told Mrs Little-
field would go down and heat the coffee
ready for the train: When came out
put the night latch on the door, which
locked as / pulled it too. After lighting
the lamps locked the door and started up
stairs again, and when I got to the foot Of
the stairs Mccall was at my door trying
to get in my room. The
door being locked he went out on the
piazza. AS he did | went to the door my
self and saw Mccall outside trying to get
in the window, but he did not succeed in
getting in at that time, and l saw him get
up and l stepped behind the door so that
he would not see me.
LIKE MOTH AROUND CANDLE.
"He came out and went to his room and
stayed a short time and came back again.
He went around to the same window and
succeeded in raising it, whether by himself
or. with Mrs. Littlefeld's help / dol not
know. When he went in / stepped around
TO the window where could see what was
going on, and when 1 got to the window
Mrs. Littlefield was up and she and Mccall
were whispering together. / could not
hear what was said. She unlocked
out. for what l do not know, but supposed
| to see where | was. He wenti downstairs
and she remained at the door until he came
back.
INA BED OF SIN.
"He went into the room and she locked
the door and went to the mantlepiece and
turned down the light, and they then re-
tired. l watched until / saw this and
thought l had stood it long enough. l
pushed the curtain to one side with my left
hand and with my right hand held the
pistol. / went in the window, and
as l Strengthened up / shot Mccall
and he rolled Off the bed
on the far side, falling upon the
floor. Then l shot Mrs. Littlefield AS [
fired the second shot Mccall got up and
came from the bed, turning his left side 20
me. shot him again. He then caught me
and tried to disarm me. During the tussel
l shot twice more. He said then: You
have killed me; let me get out OF here.'
LET HIM OFF TO DIE.
81 went to the door and unlocked it and
let him out, and have not seen him since.
He went to the room where he aud Mr.
Surrency-were sleeping, and I went down.
stairs and found Mr. Goodbread, the night
marshal. / u told him what had done and
gave myself up, handing him my pistol.
He sent for Mr.. Austin, the deputy sheriff,
and turned me oyer to him,
and now l am in his custody.
Mccall had on nothing but his
night clothes while trying to get in the
room. caught Mccall at the same window
two months ago trying to get in. l sus-
pected him, and thought l would watch
him and caught him. l regret that had
to kill him, but did, and as thought one
as much to blame as the other shot them
both. Mccall came from Brunswick and
brought some whisky, and we took drink
did not hear Mr.. Surrency and Mccall
concocting any plan. l suspected Mrs.
Littlefield before, but was not certain
about it,
The NEWS correspondent was misin-
formed in regard to the prisoner being
placed in jail last night. The sheriff
guarded him at a private residence.
Mccall was county surveyor OF Ware
county and Lttlefeld is proprietor Of the
hotel in which the tragedy occurred.
TAKEN TO BRUNSWICK.
BRUNSWICK. GA, April 22.-Sherif
Robertson of Wayne county arrived here
at Q O'Clock Tonight with I. T. Littlefield.
The sheriff and his prisoner got into a car
| riage and were driven from the East Ten
nessee depot to the county Jail. The Jail
| was filled, SO the prisoner was placed in q
cell on the second floor of the city prison.
He was called upon at IL o'clock by re-
porter. but he positively refused to speak.
The only word be has uttered since he was
locked up was ''yes.n in answer to a ques-
tion by the prison keeper. He was brought
here for safekeeping.
RrCHMONIyS BIG PARADE.