The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-04
CHAINED TO A HUT.
An Illustrated Article with sensa-
tIOnnl FentureE

"a" Ahustrated Article with Sensu-
tiOnal Features
Tallahassee, Fla, Jan. 3.-There is great
Indignation in the capital city of Florida
caused by the appearance of the current
number of the Police Gazette which con-
tains highly sensational article, illus
trated in its own peculiar style, with an
emaciated woman lying PROSTATE on the
ground, without shelter, half naked. and
chained to a rudely constructed hut.
presumably in a Florida swamp The
Gazette claims that the victim of its
sketch is a Tallahassee girl, but this
claim, as well as other impressions sought
70 be created, is not sustained by facts
The basis for the Gazette sensational
story is the Black-Harvey episode. the
parties to which reside about twenty
Two miles southwest of Tallahassee and
follows: 'S
on the 10th of February last Miss Ida
Harvey, aged 10 years, suddenly and mYs-
teriously disappeared from her fathers
house, between breakfast and dinner
Immediately search was instituted and
men secured the woods for miles around
but no trace of the missing girl was dis
covered. On the same day her first cous-
IN, Hugh II. Black, who has wife and
three children disappeared from the same
neighborhood. After a few days' absence
Black was seen at his home again but
gave no ttdings of the unfortunate child
SlIl. Il OF several months prior to the girl 6
departure from the paternal roof, Black
was constant visitor at her fathers
residence, and very persistent in his at
tentlons to the young lady. Black it is
said, always carried a repeating rifle
and two immense revolvers. For some
time previous to the girls leaving home
slack called to see her almost daily,
II is claimed, the mother more than once
nndlng her daughter in the yard at night
with Black. 1t appears that with his
shooting irons and bravado Black had
hA an iva En H.
mother, who, at the time the girl dis
appeared, had her trunk packed and a
team standing at the front gate with a
ter beyond the reach of this bold, bad
man. NN
For nine months Black was roaming the
country over-someti times seen at his homo
often found ON the roadside. and ALWAYS
with his rifle and pistols; but nothing wa :
seen of Miss Harvey all this time MANY
ttthoug {5I her dead, and some concluded
In the early fall parties bear hunting in
That section came upon a hut in the woods
where they found cooking utensils, a cor
set, chain. collar. etc. The supposed they
had found Blacks camp, where he had
kept the girl chained. Soon after this
discovery Black disappeared from the
about Dec. !, Miss Harvey was found in
a hotel at Lloyd. eighteen miles east Of
Tallahassee, where Black had taken her,
and he was working as a carpenter near.
by. Being again discovered, Black and
the girl once more disappeared.
Nothing more was seen of them for
about two weeks, when Black and Miss
Harvey We're arrested near their homes
by the sheriff of this county, and brought
TO this city. The girl was restored to the
custody of her parents, after about ten
months absence. Black was adiudged a
lunatic and is now an inmate of the state
insane asylum at Chattahoochee
Black had been presented to the grand
Jury Tor the dagnnable part he played in
this episode, and that body found a true
bill" against him only the day before he
was pronounced insane