The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-20
PRETTY SUREITIS ABE SMALL.
CHIEF M,DERHtOTT SATISFIED THE
BALTIMORE POLICE HAVE
THE RIGHT MAN.


Marshal Frey Wires, After Reading
the Circular and Seeing SmaIIs
Photograph. That His Prisoner Is
the Savannah Fugitive-A Trusty
who Knows small sent 20 BRIt-
more TO Identify Him-IIentucISy
and south Carolina Claim small,
Too.
1t is Abe Small the Baltimore police have
got. so Chief McDermott thinks. Anyway
he will know to a certainly by noon to-
day.
The chiefs belief Is so strong that he
sent a man to Baltimore yesterday who
knows Small well and who viii not fail
to identify him If he is is really the muir
derer Of Policeman Neve, Mar
shall Frey has under arrest
The evidence that it is Small is al
most conclusive as the following telegram
received from Marshal Frey indicates:
Iron picture aRdgescription in circu-
lar we believe he is Abe Small"
A photograph of Small. with the cir
cular giving a description of him was
mailed Marshal Frey this week. The
fact that he has received the picture and
circular and that he stil believes the
man he has under arrest is Small would
appear to be conclusive. The man sent
on to Baltimore by Chief McDermott is
a negro trusty who has done fine work
of this kind before. If he wires to-day
that it is Small, Chief McDermott will
leave at once for Baltimore, accompanied
by another officer, to bring the murderer
back to Savannah. He will. no doubt re-
ceive an enthusiastic reception.
In the meantime. Sheriff Z. d. Rodgers
at Nortonville. KY. insists that he has
Small under arrest there. Chief McDer-
mott wired him to give him the name and
alias of his prisoner and the town from
which he claims to hail In reply he re-
ceived the following telegram yesterday
morning:
ABE Small. alias Grant Boyd. Claims
to be from Memphis. Tenn"
Sheriff Rodgers has been wired to hold
his man until the identy of the man under
arrest in Baltimore can be determined.
In the meanwhile. Small is said to be
over in Beaufort county, South Carolina,
al his old tricks, robbing houses and car
rying things al a high-handed rate.
The Baltimore sun Of Thursday has the
following 10 say about Small;
The colored man who was arrested Tues
day night on the charge of being Abe
Small, who murdered a policeman in Sa-
Vannah, year ago, was fined S25 by JUS
tice Donavin at central police station yes
terday for carrying the revolver which
IA H.. al. IA
In default of payment of the fine the ac-
cused was committed to Jail. This will
keep him in custody until his identity can
be established.
Samuel Brown, who pointed out the col
ored man to Sergeant Dempsey, who ar
rested him told Marshal Frey that he had
made no mistake. Mr.. Brown said he be-
came acquainted with Small while he was
u pawnbroker's clerk in Savannah.
The accused, who says his name is VIII
Thompson and not Abe Small, was kept
in the central police station nearly
all day He denied that he
knew Mr.. Brown, and when
asked if he might not have gone into
MIR. Browns shop to pawn something,
he replied: Il never had anything to
pawn except rags, and you can't get any
had been in Savannah, but said he had
never been charged with any offense
other than being drunk.
All questions asked him concerning his
life were answered with apparent frank
ness. According to his story he is "a
years old and is native of Barbados
Island one of the Windward group. His
father is dead, but his mother is living.
About six years ago, he said, he made
a round trip from the island to New York,
but came to Baltimore afterward on a
vessel called the Tiola. From Baltimore,
he said, he went to Savannah, and was
in that city three weeks, about five years
ago. He worked about the wharves in
Savannah, boarding with Peter Round
tree, colored, on East Broad street When
he left Savannah he came to Baltimore
again, but was here only a day before
he went TO Philadelphia.
At Philadelphia he found employment
on the steamer George Law, according
to his story, and remained until she was
destroyed by fire. Then he returned to
Baltimore for the third time, leaving in
Philadelphia a wife he had married there
four years ago. He has been here fifteen
months, he says, and has been working
about the wharves and on farms He de-
clares that Thompson is his right name,
and that he never went by any other.