The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-29
WILD MOUNTAIN GIRL
CHARGED WITH A KNOWLEDGE or
MURDER. Is IN JAIL
Hounds Run Dewn q Giri-N cman
With Pretty Face shows Fond
Out of the Conference.-The of Out
fawry Has a Charm for Girl
Raised In the Hins of North Geor-
gia.

Matte Waite. now in Floyd county jail.
IS new product Of the mconshine region.
Size seems 10 be a degenerate az the
worst type. Only about SIX weeks ago she
was pardoEed out Of the COUNTY chalngaas
on the earnest appeal Of 3 number OF De-
EgsFo.enE people, and now she - resting IN
DER the charge 90 instsgatsng the shooting
q VIII Mason, young SUBURBAN business
man.
Last Friday night Mason was aecested
by an unknown negro on the street as ne
was coming from MS place Of business AZ
ter supper. The aegro walked down the
road w4th Inn and asked aim Tor some
matches. when tne negro walked on SCOUT
eight PAGES, wheeled around, drew pistol
and told Mason 10 throw up hs aanfls-
Before Tue yOUng man could comply the
negro sent oal.el mo a.s eTsa-st Jast be-
low The heart.
Blcoduounds were secured and the assas-
sn pursued Tor some distance, when The
dogs lost the track.
The officers ses about ferreting cut
motive for the crime. when a chance re-
mark By Matte White caused them 70 IN
s1itute search for her. she said 10 one
OF her acaua. ntances that W3n Mason
brother had appeared as a witness against
her and that the bullet was intended Tor
HIM. She intended TO serve some OF the
rest of her enemies the same way. she
said.
\ sherins posse started out in search Of
her. and after a long hunt, the dogs struck
a trail out IN the Lavender mountains.
They followed the trail until they oroug NJ
the girl 10 bay n a fence corner ana she
surrendered.
She is a comedy young woman, about 70
years of age, and has been a terror 10 the
community where she Was reared since
her childhood.
Her father was court halliff for many
years, and Matte was brought up in the
Wild country near the foot of the Lavender
mountains, amid the toughest and poor
est surroundings When she Was barely
grown she began 10 20 wrong. and by the
time she was Is years old was sent 10 the
changing.
Her mother set her an example Of de-
nravity, and for while the Two engaged
in 50 much mischief that the people OF the
community tried 10 drive them out. The
old woman laughed at the conduct or Mat
tie and made no secret of the fact that she
had encouraged her in her evil ways.
The old woman became a raving maniac
as result OF her evil life and Matte was
apprehended and placed in jail on the
charge of immoral conduct. She was a
very prepossessing girl. and her youth and
seeming contrition appealed strongly TO
public sympathy.
She was sentenced to the changing.
however, for one year. and the people re-
joced that they had got rid of her for a
while at least II afterwards developed
that she had good time while IN the
chaingang. She mana geu 10 llft up plank
in the floor OF the building and Went TO a
frohe IN the neighborhood, where she
danced all night. and returning, re-entered
| the cell where she had been confined With
| out any OF the guards being the wiser.
A second tine she tried the same game.
| but was detected. and when the superin-
tendent asked her why she did not remain
outside when she had made good her es-
| cape, she replied that she had a good place
10 sleep there.
| For some time afterward she behaved 50
| well that when a petition was circulated
| to secure her pardon some OF the best men
| in the county signed H. The ladies Of
| Rome interested themselves in her behalf.
| so that the governor pardoned her before
| the year had expired. She Immediately
| took up her abode in hut in a lonely 10
| cality among the foothills of the Lavender
| mountains and began a career OF wicked
| ness that has only been temporarily cut
| short, unless the evidence against her
| proves conclusive.
| For several weeks holdups have been so
| frequent around the city that some OF the
| most peaceable and law-abiGing citizens
| have been compelled 70 arm themselves
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