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

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work on the railroad. frequently he gave
her SIS and $40 between paydays, and Min
ME, thinking he was borrowing the money,
remarked to him one day:
Sweetheart, you won't have any money
left out of your wages at the end or the
month";
DeLauter replied that he could stand peo-
pie off. When she saw the bags OF cloth,
handkerchiefs, etc., which DeLauter
brought to the house, she asked him where
he had gotten them.
TOLD TO ASK NO QUESTIONS.
"Never ask railroad man where he gets
anything he answered in manner which
kept Minnie from ever after asking ques-
tions Of such character.
She said that DeLauter told her he was
highly connected in Florida and had
school teacher sweetheart at Mosely Hall.
He told her furthermore, he had led very
wild life and had travelled all over the
United States. Once he was sentenced to
twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary for
robbing a stage coach, but after serving
twelve months was pardoned.
He told Minnie that his hanging q man
secured him the pardon. A criminal was
to be executed, and none of the officers
would do the job He was asked to do it,
and agreed on condition that he should be
pardoned, aud that condition, he said, was
accepted.
HANDSOME BUT HAS QUEER EYES.
Minnie says DeLauter is q handsome man,
but has funny eyes. He is 5 feet inches in
hight, Of slender build, with black hair and
mustache, and eyes of mixture OF black.
blue and yellow. Minnie has a great opin-
ion of DeLauter's courage, as evidenced
from the remark she made TO Detective
Wetherhorn when told that her "sweet-
heart had been caught.
"Well, they must have caught him
asleep" said sho, because if he was awake
he'd die before he would have been ar
rested.n
CAUGHT JUST IN TIME.
Hadn't Detective Wetherhorn arrested
and separated rue from the other girls Sun
day morning, )" said Minnie. II never would
have given them away. l would have stood
by DeLauter till the last, but the datective
made me believe that the other girls had
talked, and then thought best tell all l
knew. II he hadn't gotten us Sunday he
never would have gotten us at all. because
we intended to skip TO MOsely Hall and pass
as tho wives of DeLauter, Turner and Per-
kins and get out OF the country, but Detec-
tive Wetherhorn spoiled our game"
TURNER'S GIRLS STORY.
Mamie Mordecai is Turner's "sweet-
heart" She says she has known him for
about year, and met him first through be-
ing employed as a servant in his house at
West Boundary and, Sims street. Turner
was living there with his wife and two
children and she went away in the country
for awhile. On coming back she was sur
prised to find that the servant was acting
mistress, but still agreed to keep her as a
servant.
Mamie couldn't get along with Mrs. Tur-
ner and threw up her job and went to live
| in Henry street lane. Here Turner continued
to visit her, and finally about two months
ago Mrs Turner took her children and re-
turned to her fathers home in Walterboro.
Mamie said that since that time Turner has
| lived in the same house with her. He never
! bOlQ dOOAN OClbS Sh6nEOA IL Guy AOb-
berries. and she believes he was persuaded
into the attack upon the express by De-
Lauter He is blonde, 81 years old and is
native of Durham, n. c.
FLoRRIE HODGES TALE.
All Florrie Hodges knows about Perkins,
| whom she claims as q "sweetneertn is
that he has q wife and one child at Sebas-
tapol, on the Central railroad. She said she
has only been acquainted with him two
weeks. Thursday night Prrkins asked her
that ,supposing friend would go away and
send her $500 or $500 or even 81 900. would
she keep it quiet or tell everybody. Florrie
said she told him she would most certainly
tell people of her good luck, and Perkins
replied: "Well, il that was the case he
guessed no friend would send her money"
Florie is the wife of Albert Hodges, who
works at the Savannah. Florida aud West
ern railway. She eloped with him to
Charleston in 1887 and was married there,
but claims that she left him because Of
brutal treatment.
ALICE WHITES YARN.
Alice White, the friend Of all and
sweetheart Of none, tells a peculiar
story. She said that Thursday DeLauter
told Perkins TO see Alonzo Brannen. a con-
ductor on the Central, and tell him that if
he wanted "that money due him" to meet
him (DeLauterl at Laurel Grove cemetery
gate. Alice claims that the two men met
there in the afternoon and the conductor
came back to the house with De-
Lauter. She saw the latter
hand Brannen 80 cents and
heard him ask "Can l go through
with one man to the folr-miIe post" Tie
conductor, she said. answered YES" and
then Turner, who had been sitting near
said: "We'll get the - - - -
then" Brannen. Alice said, laughed but
said nothing, and shortly after left the
house.
DE LAUTKR LEADER
II is evident from the stories Of the
women that DeLauter was the leader and
that he. Turner aud Perkins had been plan
ming the robbery for several days before
putting il into execution. From DeLauter's
threats 70 Minnie Ward about killing her if
she gave him away it would seem that he
trusted and distrusted her at the same time
Agent Cooper said that the Southern Ex-
press Company viii probably prosecute the
women as acconplices before and after the
fact.
| A pEGuTAn s'FFNoEn