The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-10
QUEER DICKS IN THE LOOKUP.
CURIOUS PRISONERS THE POLICE
HAVE TO DEAL WITH.

The "ReguIars" Take Life In the
station House as Quietly as If They
Were mt HOme-A Prisoner Who
Went Into His Cell Dressed Like q
NabOb and Came Out Like "A Tramp.
'CrnpPin" Had Lost Him His
Clothes.
Some of the customers which the police
take in hand are curiosities and furnish
considerable amusement to the detectives
and police officials.
While a Morning News reporter was at
the station house early yesterday morning
talking with the Williams woman. who had
just been brought in for the killing Of her
lover, Henry Smith, another prisoner from
the scene of the murder was ushered into
the lookup.
The newcomer was a stout, short, black
fellow and very stylishly dressed. He was
evidently weII-known to several of the prls-
oners who greeted him with various excla-
nations, referring to his clothes, and one
asked him if he had been on BroughtOn
street in the afternoon. The newcomer
paid no attention to these remarks. The
first thing he did was to drop down at
the Williams womans cell and hold
whispered conversation with her for a
minute or two, evidently giving her some
advice, and then he proceeded to make
himself comfortable.
Chief McDermott was asked about the
fellow yesterday.
why. that's Harry Bailey replied the
chief I'VE had him arrested last week
for stealing watches on the Beaufort cx-
curson. Grant Harris, who was sent up
for stealing the watches, claimed that he
got them from Bailey but there was not
sufficient evidence to convict him, and he
was released. Harry made me laugh when
he came out. When we arrested him he
was decked out in STYLE straw hat, pink
shirt, check trousers, tan shoes and every
thing else. He came in here after being
released Saturday afternoon. He was
in his stocking feet, bareheaded, had on
an old shirt and an old pair of pants. &
Why, Harry said 1, where's your
clothes?' u
Been crappin,' he said. Boys won
EN- all away from me over at the jail. I
come over here to beg you for that old
just come over here TO beg you for that old
The chief never goes back on an old
acquaintance, and he endeavored to ac-
commodate Harry, but somebody else had
got the shoes. and Harry had to go with
out Being an industrious youth, how
ever, he was not long in equipping himself
with new toggery, and when officer Sculiy
met him at the scene of the murder after
midnight he was nearly well equipped
as he was when arrested a few days be-
fore. He had just sold fine pair of shoes
to a shoemaker for IS cents. Evidently
Saturday night had been a good one with
him.
Harry made a great mistake In expos
ing his poverty stricken condition at the
barracks earlier in the day, otherwise he
might not have been suspected of coming
by this new outfit feloniously. Officer
Scully sent him in. but unless some claim,
ant for his apparel turns up soon he will
get out of this scrape as easily as he did
the other.
"A couple of years ago I was out along
the docks early one morning looking for a
man had a warrant for" said the chief,
when 1 ran across Harry with a big
bundle under his arm.
Hello, Harry, where you going with
that bundle?" / asked
Just taking it to gentleman down to
de dock, boss
Let's see what you got there"
''Is in a big hurry, boss"
Hurry nothing" said T. Tets see that
bundle. He had two dozen understands in
it. He said he got them from man who
had just bought out a stock from another
party. 1 told him l would take them
there and see whether he was telling the
truth.
'Tain't no use. boss he said. He
don't know what he's got. He can't tell
II took the undershirts to the party and
found that Harry had told the truth. The
man had taken no inventory of stock and
didn't know whether the undershirts | had
recovered belonged to him or not. That's
the sort of slick worker Harry is He
never came back after the undershirts,
though, and as they were not very good
ones, gave them away to the boys in the
neighborhood, who were not so particular
as to what they wore"