The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-07
HILL FLICHTY IN HIS TALK.
HG Claims to Have Many Letters From
Hrs. Porter.


he Says He Would Not Divulge
Their Contents Under Any circum-
stances Banker Porter's Name
Coupled With Pistols and Coffee
for Two-Harry Would Like to
Tickle Echols With Bowie Knife.
Atlanta, Ga, June 6.-HarryiuHill,
charged with forging the name Of Mrs. J.
II. Porter 20 notes amounting to $4,000,
arrived here this morning at 7:45 o'clock
In charge OF Police Sergeant Jennings,
and was at once taken to the police sta
tiou, where he was assigned to one of the
common cells to avoid the crowd and to
crafty the request of the prisoner Hill
was not taken into the union depot.
Chief Of Police Connolly had n hack In
readiness when the train slowed up be-
tween Whitehall and Pryor streets, and
Jennings and Hill jumped of and the
officers and their prisoner entered the
hack and drove to the police station.
Hill appears to be In good physical health,
despite the reports that he has become
wretched since his fight from Atlanta
three weeks ago. He is feshier than
when he was last seen here, and so far
trouble. Through the kindness Of the
chief he was given acocktall shortly after
his arrival, and under the bracing infiu-
ence OF this he talked for a while without
questioning TO the officers and newspaper
men.
A SENS ATIoNAL oUTBURsT.
What he said on the spur of the mo-
ment, as 1t were, furnished a most sensa-
tfnnNl Inn pe y1,.f fa es
unless he changes the tone of his story
before he is placed on trinl.
"What | more than anything else want
now, +" he said. after having swallowed the
cocktail, ''is my attorneys, and l want
them as soon as they can come to me. I
as he began biting HIS finger
nails, until they come" Then
after a few minutes reflection he con tim
ued 81 am not a forger and / don't want
you TO think 50, because am not. Mrs.
Porter signed those notes, or some Of
them, and the others she told me to
sign, and am prepared to prove that In
the courts ] amt uneasy, because can
give bond. The trouble is | should never
have left this town. | should have killed
Porter; that's what ! should have done.
He always did hate me-"
PORTER SHOULD HAVE SHOT.
After an interval he suddenly ex-
claimed, mo; he ought TO have snot nv
-- head on long ago; that's what I
would have done had the case been re-
versed, and he knows it; but won't talk
any moro, you know until I see my at
torneys, because they don't want me to
talk TO anybody"
'Wel now have said that Mrs. Porter
did sign those notes, must give reason
for her doing so, and that is that she
liked me. As to those letters that Robin
ugr. ha1 80 ~. A..
they are genuine or not; l would have to
see them first.
Hill added that no had many letters
from Mrs. Porter, but he considered them
confidential and would not divulge their
contents on any considera tion.
WOULD LIKE TO CARVE EcuoLs.
Changing his tone and referring to his
former attorney, aud the man now in
possession Of his whisky business, Hill
said: "Echols has caused me all this
trouble and Echols Is a d rascal, how
would like TO have him here now Turn
him In here and give me bowie knife
and | would be happy
Hill says the immediate cause of his
ruin was the extortionate interest charged
him by the money sharks and banks. His
credit was finally destroyed, he says, by
the discovery that he was dealing with j.
X. TOllesons banks, Tolleson being re-
garded as charging usurious interest
John NJ Robinson, who acted as his
broker, aud who furnished to the grand
jury yesterday the letters afterward pro-
nounced forgeries by Mrs. Porter, Hill
says, knows all about tine affair.
HILLS BOND.
]. r. Collins, who appears as prosecutor
In the case to-day, conferred with tho
solicitor on the subject of HIPS bond.
Collins Is afraid IIill will forfeit his bond
and went to the solicitor to sec that a
heavy bond would be assessed. This, he
says, will be done; very probably $4,000.
The grand jury viii continue its investi-
CATION Of the case tomorrow.
j. b. Smilly, HIPS confidential clerk,
will be one of the important Witnesses.
The station house has been besieged all
day by people who wanted % see Hill, his
old associates and relatives, but all were
turned down by the chief of police
Hill is very contradictory in his talk
and manner, denying and then repeating
the same statements. His mind is un-
settled apparently, though he has always
been regarded as Wild and unreliable la
a.