The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-22
HARRY HILL SURRENDERS.
Hq Claims That He Did Not Know lie
Was Wanted,

He Says He Has Been Fishing in the
Country Near Augusta-He is Given
His Old Room at the Jail "A Flaw in
the Requisition Which Was Sent to
Chicago.
Atlanta, Ca, July 21-Sensational and
surprising features of the Harry Hill
Mrs Porter case developed to-day, and
now. from a speculative point of view the
affair is more racy than ever The first
of to-dav's developments was Hills vol
,.rtary surrender to the sheriff. He is
NOW back in his old room at the county
tH where he may remain an indefinite
time.
In the second instance, it has come to
LIGHT that there was serious omission
IN the requisition papers upon which Hill
zcas brought to Atlanta from Chicago. af-
tor his first arrest. This irregularity in
rha papers would have resulted IN Hills
discharge from custody, in Chicago, had
the prisoner undertaken to fight the case,
and be would, in all probability, have es-
capped further prosecution on account of
his use of Mrs. Porter's name but,
unfortunately for Hill, the officer
sent on from Atlanta was slick enough to
bring him back to Georgia despite the il
1eg8i requisitiOn. If the requisition had
been fought Hill would have soon discOv-
cred that it was mo goodn when his law
YER was allowed to read it in court, but as
there was no trial in Chicago, the fact Of
the flaw in the papers has only come out
at this late day Officer jennings, the
man who brought Hill home from Chicago,
is authority for the exposure Of the
omission in the requisition. He says Gov.
AltgeId of Illinois, denounced the weak
point and only honOred the demand after
notifying the officer that it would not
hold if Hill should show fight. Under
the law requsitiOn papers must state that
the man demanded is not wanted for the
collection Of debts. This was the omis-
sion I'm the Hill case. q
The story of Hills alleged forgery of
thename of Mrs. J. H. Porter, wife Of
the president of the Merchants bank, is
still fresh in the peoples mind, as is also
his release on bond and the subsequent
issuance Of new warrants for his re-arrest
because of his reckless statements made
in Augusta papers.
THE SURRENDER
The new warrants, which were sworn
out by Mr.. Porter, were issued two weeks
ago very quietly, but when Hill was
sought to be arrested he could not be
found. In fact, he was not heard of here
until this morning, when he arrived at
$50 o'clock from Augusta and immedi-
ately notified the sheriff that he was
ready TO surrender himself Sheriff
Berger went to the train and took charge
of Hill in his sleeper, walking over to the
Jail with him rs soon as he was ready to
GO Hill, who mysteriously disappeared
from Augusta just a few hours before the
police there were teleCraphed to arrest
him, says he had no idea chat he was
wanted or he would have given himself
up before now. He says he has been in
the country fishing, but to newspaper re-
portcrs he refuses to talk, evidently hav-
ing s0urcd on the press since his reckless
talk in Augusta resulted SO dis1s trously.
There IS something peculiar about HIPS
surrender. Taken in connection with the
discovery of the loop hole in the requisi-
ton it is not calculated to Glhay gossip.
Investigation at the executive department
shows that the requisition for Hill was
based on the indictment of the grand
jury for forgery. There are two ways OF
securing requisition papers. One is by
the affidavit of this party taking
out the warrant, in which he must swear
that tue man is not wanted for the collec-
ton Of debt and the other is upon the
grand jury's indictment The fact that
Hlll was cXtradited on an indictment dis.
credits officer Jennings story somewhat
unless there was some other flaw in the
document