The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-27

the sheriff was attempting his arrest. Hurst
| was shot down. He still wears the heavy
! bullet taken from his shoulder as memento
of his short but exciting meeting
with the famous burglar. Palmer
/ again got away but was captured
/ next day. The evidence against him was
conclusive and he was given the full extent
/ of the law. He has attempted TO secure a
pardon. but public sentiment was all against
him. Palmer was one OF the burglars con-
nected with the famous seal robbery some
years ago north. A reward of $4,000 was
offered for his arrest. IL was supposed
that he came south TO escape detection.
Every effort has been made by the northern
authorities TO carry him back for trial, but
the Georgia officers would not give him up.
A partner Of Palmer's was hanged in Co
lumbus, o., some time ago.
Mrs. George Langston, her son and
daughter, Jesse and Matte, aged respect
lively is and % years, aud Oscar S"afford
are the inmates of the jail at Alpharetts.
They are confined in the iron Gags, with
partition of plank in the center. One OF
these planks was knocked off aud they all
occupied one cell during the day, and until
Friday were getting along smoothly ana
peaceably. At this time Mrs. Langston
tried to get Swafford to say that he was
badly treated by the jailer, aud that ne did
not get enough to eat, which he refused 70
do. She then threatened TO whip Swat
ford, and the jailer put him in the other cell
and nailed up the plank that had been
knocked off. Sunday morning she began
beating her two children, and abused them
so that Sheriff Mayfield, who is the jailer,
took her son out and put him in the cell
with Swafford, and offered TO take the girl
out, but she refused to go. Several persons
went TO the Jail Sunday. and Mrs. Langston
would curse them, spit and throw water az
them. She swears she will burn the jail
and the town when she gets out OF jail. She
struck some matches and tried to set the
Jail on ire Sunday morning before day, but
her children extiDguished the quilts she set
on fire. Sheriff Mayfield thinks she ought
TO be sent TO the asylum
Atlanta journal: George Pearce, charged
with the murder of Charles Edwards, YVES
brought through Atlanta Wedne day. tt
killing occurred twenty-five years ago, and
after being fugitive all this time Pearce
was arrested. While In Texas Pesrce be-
came a wealthy man. In 1866 George
Pearce shot and killed Charles Edwards in
Cherokee county, near the line of Barlow.
No one saw the killing except the two sons
Of Edwards. As soon as Pearce saw what
he had done he left his home in
Cherokee county and went west,
as every one rightly supposed.
A diligent search wa9 at once begun for the
missing man, but search where they would
the officers could find no trace of his where
abouts, aud he was given up for lost. About
a month ago message came to Cherokee
county saying that Pearce was living in a
Texas town in aff1uence and ease, and that
he had been seen by the informant, a man
living in Cherokee county at the time of
the killing. Sheriff Kitchen, the present
sheriff of Cherokee county, went at once to
Texas, but Pearce warded of the trial by
swearing out writ OF habeas corpus. So
the sheriff had to come back as empty
handed as he went. About week ago Mr..
Kitchen received a notice saying
that il he would come to Nashville
he could get the man Pearce. Mr..
Kitchen went, and to-day he passed
through Atlanta with his long-sought pris.
oner. Pearce made no resistance TO his
last arrest, but casne away without a MUIR
mer. He states, and Sheriff Kitchen veri.
fies his saying, that he has not tried to con-
ceal himself in Texas, and that he has lived
under his proper name. Concerning his
supposed guilt he has kept a guarded
silence; be has denied or admitted nothing
concerning it. Abbott's sons are the only
ones who claim TO be eye-witnesses, but his
accusers say they have enough proof with
out them to hang him. Pearce made money
IN Texas, and is reported to have been
worth over $4,000 at the time of his arrest.