The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
GAVE HIMSELF UP.
z. @. Morgan Under Bond For Shoot
ing Sylvia Jackson.


q. G. Morgan, foreman on Mr.. F. A.
Exley's place, about a mile west of
the city, who shot Sylvia Jackson
night before last when she was attempt
ing TO escape with a lot of potatoes which
she had stolen from the field, came into
the city yesterday with MIR Exley and
gave himself up to the s0liciJor-generaL
lie was placed under $500 bond for as
sault with intent to murder, and was re-
leased.
The woman, who was carried to the
Georgia InfrTnary, does not appear to
have been fatally hurt by the shot, and
the indications We're yesterday that she
would recover. When she does she Will
PROBABLY swear out a warrant against
Morgan, charging him with assault with
intent to murder
There is question whether a person
has the right to shoot another under such
circumstances, the ofeuse Of which she
was guilty being nothing more than
misdemeanOr. In the protection of prop
erty, however, such actions have been
excused, though not sustained by the
courts.
Mr.. M. L. Exley writes the MORNING
NEWS that the arrest Of the jackson wo-
man will bring sigh of relief to every
truck farmer on the western side of Sa-
vaunah. She is one of the most notorious
thieves, MIR. Exley says. that has ever
lived in or around Savannah. and has, &C
cording TO his belief, stolen vegetables
enough in the last fifteen or twenty years
to have paid for herself several times
during slavery. Several years ago Mr.
Exley had her husband at work for him,
and he told Mr.. EXley that he had to quit
her on account of her stealing; that she
continually kept him in trouble.
MIR. Exley says that one night on be-
ing chased by the Waterman on Mr.
EXIey's place, she evaded him and made
her brags afterward that she took refuge
under a bridge in the field, with fifty-six
cabbage in bag, while the Waterman
went over the bridge. She was arrested
at one time by MIR. Suffer, of Hartloge &
Suffer, and turned loose on condition that
she would leave the neighborhood and
steal from him no more But, to his sur
prise, short while afterward he chased
her again from his fields with dogs, and
arrested her in a pond of water over
waist deep. He had her put on the chain
gang, and rumOr had it that she PLAYED
off sick and died, was carried out to the
dead house, and after all had left, made
good her escape. At any rate, she turned
up one night not long after in Mr. w. L.
Exley's cabbage patch, to be arrested by
his oveRseer, who put her in lock-room
adjoining his packing house, and left a
colored man, with gun and lantern, to
watch her until morning
The Waterman decided to make an in
vestigation before morning. and to his
surprise, found an empty barrel in the
room dressed upin Sylvia clothes and the
woman gone. She had dug out, but in
doing so had dug on the side adjoining
the packing house and found herself I'M
derneath floor held down by several
hundred sacks of guanO. The Waterman
gave the alarm. and the overseer, with
the assistance of two colored men, pulled
her out, but the three found a good deal
of trouble in holding her in her nude
state, as she was slippery as an eel They
sent for colored woman on the farm to
dress her.