The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-21

rents in their clothes, 10 go to court and
make out warrants of atroeious assault and
battery against them. Housell started and
then Hartner weakened.
"W-a-a-l," he drawled, ''if " be goin' T.
do that then recken I'll tell We twas this
ere way" and he confessed that he and Sam
hau come to buy green goods 'Thet is q
say" he said, aud then he went on to say
that they hadn't come to buy green goods
put had come north TO get some money that
ne had lost Davis was bad un down
there an full o. grit.n
He was taken to court about this time
ana arraigned before Justice Ford with
Douglass and Davis. Davis was put on the
stand first, while Hartner, who confessed
that bis real name was Charles D. Harrison,
was put out of the room. Davis had little
to tell He denied the green goods end of
the business. He'd got his courage back.
While he was on the stand telegraph mes
senger came in with a telegram addressed
to George Davis, Maeon,s hotel The boy
had been TO the hotel and had learned OF the
row and had come to court. The telegram
was handed to Davis as he sat in the witness
chair he read it calmly tore il into little
bits. and he put each piece in his mouth
| and chewed and swallowed it as he talked.
Even the judge had ITO smile. but Davis
looked crafty.
Oliver went right to the telegraph office
and got a copy of the message. 1t was
signed John II. Slattery ;" and asked If
Davis had met my agenth yet. The story
that Davis was telling on the stand didn't
exactly agree with some things he had said
before, and so the case of all three was ad-
Journed until this morning, when the court
stenographer will be- there to take testi-
mony. Oliver says he got this story out of
tho pair:
Three months ago Harrison, who is only
20 years old, and is not in any business, got
| circular from John H. Slatterly, lSS
Canal street, offering $500 in counterfeits
| for $500. It struck him as being q bargain,
and he got together 81 600 and came north
to Poughkeepsie, where he met an agent
| he Is not sure whether it was Douglass OF
not-and came to New York with him.
He doesn't remember where 1t was in New
| Y ork, but he saw several men put 81 800 in
box for him. He's sure 1t was good
money. Then they took the box to an ex-
press office and got him to railroad depot.
Two days after he got home the box ar
dust, each with S1-bill on top. He thought
over it good while, and decided he knew
how the game had been worked on him
| So when he heard that Davis, who used
to be deputy sheriff down there, had got
circular from the same man, Slattery, he
decided to try trip north with him. and
with bis previous experience he hoped to
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back or else murder the whole gang. Davis
was with him in either event. Both he and
Davis thought when Housell came to arrest
| them that he was one of the green goods
gang come to rob them, and that was the
reason they fought. AN, say, we put up,a
putty fair kind an article too, didn't weep
said Harrison after he had confessed that
the pistols they had were brand new hair
| trigger self-cockers. They didn't use them
because they didn't want to kill "'thout
twas necessary" and they thought they
were better men than any two that might
come against them.
Detective Oliver found $1,1S0 in cash
when he searched the two men. Douglass
had nothing about him that would identify
| him in any way. After he was locked up q
telegram came for him from Slatterly, ask
ing if he had met Davis and Harrison. These
two kilograms about complete the evidence
that the detective say they needed to get
him punished. The two countrynen are
held as witnesses. If they refuse to testify
they will be prosecuted for atrocious as
sault. Davis says he is in the whisky BUSH