The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-17
CAME INTO THE CITY.


Robbers in Henry Street. Lane.
While Detective Basoh, Agent Cooper and
other Southern Express people were out in
the country on horseback aud in
buggies Saturday morning, following
the hounds and endeavoring to track
the robbers from the scene of their
crime, Detective Wetherhorn was hard at
work in the city following up clews. His
theory from the moment the case was
placed in his hands by the Southern Ex-
press Company was that the robbers had
returned to the city and were in hiding
somewhere here.
About $50 o'clock that morning a white
man named Lee, who keeps a store
at the foot Of Huntingdon street,
went to Justice Naughtins Office and told
Detective Wetherhorn that the three men
who held up the train we're in his store Fri
day afternoon, aud he overheard them talk
Ing about robbing the express that night.
They we're Savannah men, he said and their
names were J. A. Turner, J. NJ. Perkins
and J. E. DeLauter. Lee knew they lived
with three women Of loose morals at 277
Henry street lane, near CemsEery street,
and he told the detective that he believed
they were there.
THE ROBBERS LOCATED.
Detective Wetherhorn lost no time in
going to the house, aud by keen and shrewd
| detective strategy in making inquiries from
neighDors he found out that the three rob-
bers had been seen there that morning. He
also found that the names of the women
MnrHa1af Mippia IVarH nd
Alice White.
| Back to the express Office he went and
made his report to Agent Cooper, with the
| additional statement that he would secure
| the services Of Detective Basch and others
aud go back to the house and take his men.
Agent Cooper was anxious to have this
course pursued and advised it, but Route
| Agent Carey. who had taken full charge of
affairs, couuseled delay. He was expecting
certain information at 4 O'Clock, he said,
which might be Of great use to the officers
LOST BY DELAY.
| "But delays are dangerous" said Detect
| i've Wetherhorn. at is better to arrest
them at once"
Route Agent Carey didn't think so, and
the matter went over. The information
which Route Agent Carey was waiting for
was furnished by brakeman whose car key
DeLauter had several times endeavored to
| borrow, and remarked to him once that he
was getting hard up for money and would
rob a car before long to secure it. AS soon
as this brakeman heard of the robbery he
suspected that DeLauter was one Of the
parties and went to the express office to tell
his story. Detective Basch was present
when the story was told, and he remarked:
why, that's practically the same infor.
nation that Detective Wetherhorn had this
morning. and if he hadn't been stopped he
would have had the robbers in jail now.n
FURTHER PosTPoNEMENT.
Detective Basch wanted to go after the
robbers then, but Route Agent Carey
asked that the arrest be again post
poned until O'Clock. The detectives
were under his orders and they re-
luctantly obeyed. At the appointed hour
the officers went to the Henry street lane
house. but the birds had flown. The delay
had resulted just as Detective Wetherhorn
feared.
The women denied that any men had
been In the house the night before, but De-
tectives Wetherhorn and Basch determined
to make search of the premises.
They soon ran across three old suits of
clothes aud three pairs of shoes, with mud
sticking to them. The mud on the shoes
settled in the detectives minds that the
wearers of them were the robbers, who had
tramped along the muddy roads after hold
ing up the train.
The clothing and shoes were bundled up
and taken to Justice Naughtin's office, and
Detective Wetherhorn again tried to get the
women to give the men away, but they de-
MED any knowledge Of either Turner, De.
| Lauter or Perkins