The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-13
PRETTY SURE 1T IS SMALL.
THE MURDERER OF NEvE BE-
LIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
CAPTURED.

he Il in Jail in Columbia. :. C..
Under the Name Of Joe Mavery.
Han Down in Fairfield County by
POSse-ChIef McDermOtt Directs
the Columbia Authorities 60 Hold
Navery for Identification
Abe Small. the murderer OF Policeman
SSeYe- is believed 10 be IN Jail at Columbia.
s. c. The authorities there think they
have the right man A telegram was re-
ceived By the Morning News from Colum-
bia last night. announcing that Small was
IN Jail there A later telegram gave fuller
particulars.
Abe Small. OF. as he now calls himself.
Joe Mavery. the black murderer Of Police
nan J. c. Neve OF Savannah. was cap
tured day before yesterday in Fairfield
county by a posse. consisting OF r. c.
Williams. Durham Brown. Dargan Brown
and Cook Brown. He was taken to Co
Iurbia yesterday and lodged in jail await
ing requisiuon papers from the governor
Of Georgia.
Mavery has a long list Of crimes to his
charge. He is a native Of Coreton coun-
". whence be came 10 Georgia. Here he
first killed a negro and escaped. Subse-
quently. in Screven county. in a quarrel
about some cotton. he killed white man
named Howard. He was then known as
Sam Roberts. He escaped TO Savannah
took the name OF Abe Small. and while
resisting arrest murdered Ofhcer Neve
Again eluding the police. ne went to the
fertilizer region. where he lived as Sam
Grant. a few months ago he went 10
Fairfield county, twenty miles from Co
lumeia, began nving with a woman
" nom he cancd his wife, and worked fot
Bargan Brown. Meanwhile the detectives
had been on AIS track. A lew wckes age
they located nm in Columbia, but he gut
out OF town before they couiG close IN CA
HIM. Then the citizens of FarAeld gol
Information about him, which led to MS
capture after considerable difficulty.
rhe amount OF the reward is Sij0, S20l
bN the state and SD by the city. Chief
McDermou was not notlned last CHI
OF The arrest OF Small ana was consider
ably surprised when Informed by the
Morning News of The information received
from Columbia. In company with Detec-
tive haniey ne read the telegrsm and
then telegraphed the chief OF police OF
as SInalls until further notification and to
have .Supt Neal Of the South Carolina
Ionitontlary at Columbia identify him,
Small having served a term there several
years age
Chief McDerrnott mas since his election
written several letters to chiefs OF police
and sheriffs OF South Carolina asking them
70 keep a particularly close lookout for
Small Detective Hanley, who has followed
up the Small case from the beginning,
said that Il is more than possible that
the man held al Columbia is Small, though
the record given OF him is not Smalfs
record. He Is positive that Small is not
the man who killed Howard IN Screven
county several years ago, but another
South Carolina desperate, who has es-
capped and has not since been heard from.
II is possible he thinks that the man held
under arrest In Columbia may be the lat
ter.
What makes 1t appear likely that the
man arrested in Fairfield county is Small,
Detective Hanley says. IS that the last he
heard from Small be was in that county.
II it is Small Detective Hanley says there
should be 40 trouble in Identifying him.
small has a large wen under one ear and
two of his front teeth are broken OF. De
tective Hanley has traced him all over
South Carolina, and nearly every sheriff
in that state has at one time and another
been notified to look after him. Small,
Detective Hanley says, was under arrest
at one tine last summer. He was captured
at Bath. S. c., June "A. The constable and
magistrate who made the arrest felt SO
1ubilant over the prospect Of the reward
that both got drunk and Small made his
escape. The matter was reported in the
News at the time, though al
that time II was doubted If the party ar
rested was Small. Chief McDermott ex-
poets to receive definite Information from
Columbia concerning Small this morning.
If the prisoner is really Small he viii get
him here as soon as possible.
1t is nearly year now since Policeman
Eeve was killed, and there is no fugi-
tive from justice whose arrest would give
greater satisfaction to the people of Sa-
vannah than would Smalrs.