The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-26

ing. he said. and went ous 20 DR. Lanier's
drug store, where news of the murder was
shortly afterward sbrought by a negro
I boy He went with Dr. Lanier 70 Jack
sons place and forced the door open, DR..
Lanier climbing in through win
dow. Scharf's narration Of the
subsequent events. including the
capture Of the tramps, coincide with the
published accounts. His interest, he
said, was only such as any other well
thinking person who was shocked at the
crime would have manifested. He used
his horse and buggy freely in this work,
and was one Of the posse which captured
the tramps. He said that the negroes
came very near being lynched, and that
at DR. Lauier's request he went to the
crowd and begged il to desisU. Two of
the negroes, he said. were taken out by
the crowd the next night and strung up
by the necks to make them confess. I'm
der such persuasion as this tine older
negro was induced TO make a partial con-
fession, and agreed TO lead the crowd 70
where the money and papers taken from
Jackson's store were buried.
HELPED TO FIND TIE BURIED ARTICLES.
Scharf was one of the party which ac-
companied the negro in his search for the
buried articles, which. it will be remem-
bered, was a fruitless one While at
tending the examination Of the negroes
the next day he was arrested by a con-
stable and held under arrest for several
hours while all of his belongings were
searched. Nothing being found TO in
criminate him he was released. He re-
manned at Oliver three days longer, when
he settled up his bills and left-doing
some work in the country between Oliver
and Brewer He was arrested at Brewer
the Monday after the murder by DR.
Luffburrow and a Mr. Mills. They took
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Jail two or three days while the
grand jury investigated the
charge made against him by
the negro woman of having given her a
bloody shirt to wash for him. After be-
ing released on this charge he secured a
statement from Clerk Nunnally of the
superior court to the effect that the
charge had been investigated by the
grand jury and no bill found against him.
He then came to Savannah, and, after
spending a few days here went 10 Ella
belle where he did some work. He came
to Savannah again and went to Bur
roughs, Fleming, Walthourville and other
places along the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad, where he worked on
pianos.
CAME TO SAVANNAH.
He came to Savannah last Thursday. he
said, and stopped at the Marshall house.
He was told at Rosenfeld q Murray's
that Detective Wooster was looking for
him. He went to the Marshall in com
pany with a friend and inquired for
Wooster, but was told that he had left
the city. He went out to Burroughs again
Saturday, coming back to the city yester-
day morning. He was on his way TO con-
suit Lawyer Otto Seller, he said, when he
was arrested. Scharf protested his con-
fidence that he would be acquitted in the
investigation as easily as upon the two
previous occasions.
At the Marshall house the clerk said
that Scharf registered there Thursday as
r. Smith of Florida. He was given a
room, for which he paid the next morning.
He registered again the next night, but
when the proprietor demanded pay for
the room in advance he did not stay The
proprietor said he knew that he was the
man wanted by the detective, and he did
not want him in the house He said that
Schsrf asked for Wooster but he mad
probably ascertained already that he had
left the hotel.
TOLD DETECTIVE WAS AFTER HIM.
Scharf was told in the Marshall house
bar that detective was looking for him
and declared that he intended to have
Wooster arrested at the first opportunity.
Scharf is said TO have passed himself off
as a representative of the Ludden q
Bates music house. AT Ludden d. Bates
a MORNING News reporter was informed
that they had known of Scharf for sew
eral months and that he had never had
any connection with the house, Very
damag ing reports had been made to the
house some time ago of SchRrf's doings.
John f. Smith, a jeweler and post
master at Jasper, Fla, sswho made
some inquiries about him on Jan. 10,
wrote ten days later saying that Scharf
had skipped out with watch which he
had obtained on false pretences. Schsrf
is said TO have a record of not paying his
debts. He will be taken to Oliver this
morning by Detective Wooster for exam
ination. The detective thought it best
not to take him up last night, on account
Of possible danger of lynching. It is not
thought likely that there is much danger
of this, however.
STORY FROM OLIVER
An Oliver special says: Henry Archer,
who was on trial there Saturday, was
committed 10 the superior court under
the charge of the murder of Jackson. He
said the pistol brought here by Mr. Hill
was given him by Professor +. l.. Scharf
the night after the murder, as a present,
and, judging from his statement, it was
TO make him keep his mouth shut.
Archer states that three negroes, Henry
Butler John Owens and George Jenkins
and Prof Scharf white man, who had
been tuning pianos for a short time before
the murder, were at Jacksons store late
the night of the murder, drinking and
plotting, and that Jenkins had the ham
mer under his arm. He says that as he
turned to leave the crowd called him and
threatened his life if he said anything
about their being there.
The other negroes, Henry Butler, John
Owens and j. S. johnson, under ar
rest, deny knowing anything of
the murder, and the other negro,
Jenkins, will be taken there to stand his
trial to-day. 1t is evident that Henry
Archer knows something of the murder,
fhe was not the party or one Of the par
ties that did the numbering, as the pistol
he gave johnson cannot be accounted for,
and it is in every way like Mr.. Jackson 8
pistol. Everything is quiet, and there is
no inclination to lynching The citizens
are anxious that the crime be ferreted
out. .....