The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-28
ISAAC YOUNG IN JAIL.
Run Down In South Carolina By a
Posse Of Twenty-Five.

Broughtto Savannah BY Two Beaufort
omoers- Young Says he Didn't
Know He Had Killed Lucy Wallace,
and Fled to South Carolina to Avoid
Being Arrested For Beating Her.
Says She Started at Kim With a
Knife and He Struck Her in Self
Defense There Were No Witnesses
to the Killing.
Isaac Young colored, who killed Lucy
Wallace, on Wilmington Island the night
of Oct s, by striking her on the head
with a club, was arrested near Beaufort,
s. c., on Wednesday, by County Detective
John Green and Constable Frank Gillison
and a posse all colored, and brought to
this city yesterday afternoon on the
steamer Alpha by the officers who made
the capture.
Detective Green says he read about the
killing in the papers, and from the
description of Young he thought he was
man who had recently been seen in Beau
fort. He located the man at a plantation
on Port Royal river, and in company with
Constable Gillison he went after him.
PURSUED IN BOATS.
Arriving at the place he found Young
there, but he fled, and was pursued about
two miles, and then jumped in the river.
Boats were procured and the culprit soon
made prisoner. Green says the whole
colored population in the vicinity, about
% in number, joined in the hue and cry
and helped run the man down. Young
acknowledged that he was the man
wanted, and expressed a willingness TO
come to Savannah with the officers.
Young is about 80 Years Of age, and,
though handcufed and in old clothes,
makes a good impression on any one. He
has a good face and was very much de-
pressed He said he had no idea that he
had killed the woman until his captors
told him she was dead. He said when he
knocked her down he fed because he
thought that the woman would swear out
a warrant against him and have him ar
rested.
SAID SHE RAN AT HIM WITH A KNIFE.
He took boat from Wilmington Island
and went to Beaufort county, where he
had some relatives, and intended return
ing when he thought the trouble was
over. When asked the cause of the
quarrel, he said that he had lived with
Lucy for five or six years, and, short
time before the killing, she left him and
went TO Savannah to live with another
She came back TO Wilmington Island to
get some more things, and he got after
her about what she had done. In the row
that followed ne said she run at him and
tried to cut him with a knife and he hit
her over the head with a stick
He said that he was very sorry to hear
that she was dead.
Young was formerly a slave belonging
to the estate of Barstow, and was born on
Wilmington Island and has li-aH thpun nj
his life.
NO WITNESSES TO YOUNG's CRIME.
Young's crime is believed by many to
have been an atrocious one, but there
were no witnesses to the encounter be
tween them, and the only evidence
against him so far as the charge of muir
der Is concerned will be circumstantial.
The woman was killed Just at nightfall,
on the road leading down to Green &
Gaynor's mattress fats, where 1t is said
the woman was going a the time. 1t was
said that she was cooking for some Of the
men on the dat, and this was one thing
Young objected TO- There will be little
except circumstantial evidence when his
case comes up for trial to show whether
the deed was committed in self-defense or
not.
Young was turned over to the sheriff
yesterday afternoon and lodged in TAIL
Inc omcerS- Green and GilllsOn, left a
bill of expenses with Solicitor General
Fraser before returning. Their expenses
are all that will be paid them in this case,
as no reward was offered for Youngs
capture.
This was case which Detective Nor
gan has been working up for some time,
and he came up from Jacksonville. where
he has been working on another case, TO
90 over after Young. He was landed in
Jail, however, before the detective could
so for him. Detective Morgan will re-
tnrn to Jacksonville to continue his work
there.