The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-24
NED GREEN REMINISCENT.
HE TELLS WHAT HAPPENED on HIS
MIDNIGHT ROUNDS OF THE
HOUSES.

Dark-He Has Been Chased Several
TimeS-Why He Would Never Paw n
Anything or Take Anything VnIu-
abIe-The stolen Property Brought
Back From burroughs station.
Burglar Ned Green. who was captured
day before yesterday morning after he had
gone through the residence Of Gen. a X
Lawton was quite an object Of curiosity at
the barracks yesterday. where he was seen
by a number of the prominent citizens
whose houses he visited on his early morn,
ing tours Green did not hesitate 20 TEL! al
he could remember about any place ne nad
robbed and some of mis- answers 10 the
questions put TO him were curious anu
Among Green's effects are a bottle with
a queer looking liquid in it.
and a rabbit foot. He did not
have the rabbit foot with MN but
mentioned II in the course OF MS answers
TO questions. The liquid in the bottle ne
said possessed peculiar charms wnlcn ne
explained to the interest ana amusement
of those who heard him ,..o,,
What do you do with the RABBIT Iool'
he was asked.
Il Keeps dat wrapped in a piece of red
flannel he said, AN pour goo3d corn I'm N
pass you right on thro'' ,,,
He was evidently in earnest and believed
in the peculiar charm Of the rabbit loot
He attributed his capture and arrest TO
the fact that he did not have his rabbit
foot with him at the time.
How did you manage TO make your
way around so well in the dark he was
'oh, I has my rabbit foot wild me" he
replied. When IL get too dark J rub via
il and could see as plain as In de day.
Green began TO talk about the peculiar
noises he had heard in some Of the houses
he had entered, and he gave away some
of Savannah's prominent snorers.
Where did you hear all that?' he was
asked.
dat eight dollars" he replied. Dat was
de bigges' potion of money l ever got IN
one place After l got it ] went to another
room an de dos chase me an run me
down de stairs. l heered somebody holler
Hello! Hello! an ! thought at rust hes
;ainswerin de telep1hone. he ; st dliter "a a
window de same way | come in"
In one house he said he went into a
room where someone was asleep and got
$50 out of a trousers pocket lie then
started for another room, where the door
was partly open. He started to push II
and ii creaked, when someone began to
talk about the creaking of the, door, and
got up to shut it. as this was done Green
said he drew back to the staircase and
Ibid any one ever chase your"
"Oh, yes. ] was run outen a house on
CASTOR street, frontin de park, an lei
my carpet slippers in de hallway. l was
in Mr.. Myers house on CASTOR street one
night too. when a lady came out an ask
me what ] want. AS went to git out she
hollered for somebody, to bring pistol
/ started to the room l got in at and fell
over a VelOcipede, an when got up tell
right outen de window"
Hulls house and starting upstairs, when
he heard someone walking around. He
went back down. took the Bible out of the
II II tried TO git in Col. Screven's house
one night" he said, when l heered some
cuyous noises inside. I went aroun' an
do lcn nick
went away"
Didn't you ever come across anything
valuable? p he was asked.
Yes" he said, II seen heaps o jewelry,
watches an such, but 1 knew dey would
be a big outcry about it, so didn't take
no jewelry In dat house where I got de
ribbons up dere by Bull an Taylor streets,
got box and foun' gol watch in 1t.
lef' it on de table down stairs"
for fear ne would be caught before he got
through. He said he carried the stuff
down to Burroughs Station, in order to sell
Some Of 1t. but had only disposed of a few
things he had taken. he said
had been stolen from him by
called them. Ned said he came back to
Savannah from Waycross and has been
here this time little over year. He
was sent up once for five years for robbing
the house of Mr.. Nein, and another time
ne said some of the boys got him drunk
and carried him into the Chatham Acad-
and for which he got ten years He has
been out now about four years, he SAYS.
He was asked why he had gone into the
business Of a burglar.
Well he said, II had some money when
l came to Savannah, but l got broke, an
was in tight you know boss. l meyer
took nothin' of no value, an in some
houses I went in l only got somethin' to
'And what do you expect to get for all
You know. boss. I didn' take nothin' of
no value, an they's got back mos every
thing took. an they said they was goin
to loose me an give me a job. / wants TO
go to drivin dis here red maria wagin."
Green is a short, thick-set negro between
asked his age he said he would have to
20 home and look in the book to tell ex-
actly, but he reckned he was about twenty
five Some of those who saw him think
him half witted, but he persists in the
statement that he is of sound mind and
memory. and said he knew what he was
doing all the time He did the work he
said, because he was hard up. He had
stopped counting the houses he broke into,
but he thought he must have entered more
Oficer Scully went out to Burroughs
station yesterday morning and secured
bundle which Green had left there few
days before. The officer was informed
that Green had done a small peddling bus
mess through that section Of the country
selling sugar peanuts and nicknacks.
Now and then he worked off a table
cloth or something else that he had
stolen Among the articles recovered and
identified by Green as belonging to dir
ferent parties from whom he had stolen
them were a buggy robe from Il. L. Neid-
linger. a shawl from Capt. John r. Dill
lon, a large table cover from Mr. w ?.
Schirm, table cover from Capt. John Elan
merry. box of ribbons from H. NJ Conner
and a large piano cover from j. r. An
dersOn. There were several small arti-
cles which Green could not remember
where he obtained. Among these is A
handsome Morocco pocket-b book and a la
dy's long. black kid glove.
Green said that Leah Rhett in the mar
ket basement had a fine rug and some
other things, which he had left with her
Leah denied this when called upon bv the
police to produce the things She also
called at the Morning News office vester1
day to get a correction of the statement
that Green's valise was found in her
place. The valise, she said. was found in
her husband 5 place, Lewis Rhett. lust
across from her place in the market base.
ment.
stamped Linens at 80 Per Cent. Orig
inaI Cost.
Krouskoffs having bought the entire
stock of a firm going out of business