The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-09
TO OFFER BIGGER REWARDS
The City Will Pay $500 to Convict
the First Of The Ship InCe1diarieS.

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Five Hundred Dollars for the Capture
and Proof to Convict ALI After That.
The Board Of Trade Urges the Matter
Before the City Council-The Total
Amount IN Rewards Now offered in
the Neighborhood of $4,000
The Board of Trade held largely at
tended meeting yesterday morning at II
/ o'clock for the purpose of taking further
action with regard to the cotton fires
Capt. D. G. Purse vacated the chair,
which was taken by Mr.. w. CPowel.
| Capt. Purse then offered a resolution urg-
ing the Importance of Offering larger re-
! wards for the capture of the criminals
! concerned in setting fire to the cotton.
! He urged the Importance of some
such action by the city council
/ as is contemplated in this resolu-
ton. 1t is of the greatest inn
| portance to the city, he said, that these
criminals should be apprehended and
/ brought to justice, and from the fact that
! it is not individuals, but the whole city
/ that is vitality interested in the matter,
| he thought the city government should
! offer sufficient rewards to enlist the best
talent in the search for and capture of
! these men.
! The resolutions, which are as follows,
/ were passed by unanimous vote:
! Whereas, The directors of this board
/ of trade have already expressed the
unanimous feeling of this body in depreca-
ton OF the diabolical attempt by incen-
diaries to infiict an irreparable disaster
/ upon the commerce of this port, involv-
/ ing in its consequences every material in
| terest of the city; and
| whereas, The directors have already
applauded the action of the mayor and
! aldermen in so promptly offering rewards
| for the arrest and conviction of the hui
man hyenas whose assaults upon our
| commerce might have covered the ocean
with holocausts in burning ships; and
whereas, The universal sentiment of
| the business interest and the property
holders of this city is that the rewards
| offered by the mayor and aldermen are
| inadequate to secure the speediest arrests
| of the criminals; and
| whereas, 1t is equally the expressed
| opinion of the entire community that the
| burden for the apprehension of the Grim
mails should fall upon the city treasury,
and that it would be ill-advised and most
unfortunate in tins crisis, to tax the
meager resources of any one or more of
our commercial bodies for any part of
such burden, therefore be it
Resolved, That this board of trade,
in special meeting convened request and
| urge the mayor and aldermen to advance
the reward now offered for the arrest and
conviction of each incendiary, and fix
the reward at $500 each for the first five
arrests and convictions $1,000 each for
the next FIVE arrests and convictions and
$500 each for every subsequent arrest and
conviction after the first ten as above.
Resolved, further, That if the mayor
and aldermen have any doubt of their au-
thority under the law to offer such re-
wards, that this body request the cotton
exchange to cooperate with them in call
ing mass meeting of the citizens to give
the necessary justification TO the mayor
and aldermen for immediate compliance
with the preceding resolution.
Resolved lastly that certified copies of
these resolutions be transmitted immedi-
ately by the secretary to the mayor and
aldermen and the Savannah Cotton Ex-
change" d. G. Purse,
President Savannah Board of Trade.
A true copy of the minutes of meeting
held this 9Th day Of November, 1894
c. Wallace Howard.
Superintendent and Secretary.
The council met at 430 clock for the
purpose of receiving the resolutions which
were adopted at the meeting Of the board
of trade in the morning calling upon the
city to increase the reward offered for
the apprehension of the parties who set
fire to the eight cotton ships Monday
night Notice had also been given by AL
derman Myers at the meeting previously
held at ! o'clock for another purpose, that
he desired to Introduce a resolution to this
effect The resolutions adopted by the
board of trade we're read by the clerk
and received as information, after which
Alderman Myers offered the following res
elution:
RESOLVED, That the resolution adopted
in council Nov 6, 1894, be amended to
read as follows: That the mayor be and
he is hereby authorized to offer reward
in the sum OF 81, 500 for the first apprehen-
sion with proof 70 convict OF any person
concerned in setting fire to the vessels
in this port on Nov. and 6, and $500 for
each on every successive apprehension
with proof to convict Of any person con-
concerned in setting fire TO the vessels IN
this port on Nov. and s, 1891 or cutting
the citys hose used at said fires
The resolution was unanimously adopt
ed The matter had already been prac-
ticaly decided upon by the members OF
council, and there was very little dis
cussion
The theory Of Offering the reward in this
manner is that large reward Is almost
certain TO lead 10 the detection and con-
victon Of at least one Of the incendiaries
and that the discovery Of one is almost
certain 20 lead to the discovery OF others
n not ALL Of the incendiaries. The re-
ward OF S. 800 by tho city for the first ar
rest and conviction Is likely 70 be sup
plemented by a similar sum from the cot
ton exchange This Il b. believed viii
bring immediate results. II is believed
that the prospect Of n large reward will
attract the best talent In the detective
line ln tho country 10 Savannah.
n you are a good dresser you want d
Dunlap HAT we have a big line Of then
/ luft received. -. IA. Levy A. Broad.
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