The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-13
VICTIM OF A NAMELESS CRIME.
TERRIBLE RESULT OF A HUSBANDS
VENGEANCE

II
haustiOn and Was Taken to the
Savannah HOspitaI-He Refused TO
Give the Names of the Pcrpetra-
tors of the Crime.
victim of the vengeance of
an ged husband is lying in a preca-
rious condition at the Savannah hospital.
If he RECEIVERS he must go through life
MANNED and deprived of all sense of man.
hood.
About 8 o'clock yesterday morning a
man, who was evidently in great suffer
ing, entered Livingston's pharmacy at
Bull and Congress streets, and asked for
10 cents worth of balsam, saying he had
been stabbed and wanted the balsam to
dress his wounds. He was asked where
and how he was hurt, but gave no expla-
nation. Having obtained the medi-
cine he left the store, but had
gone only few PAGES on Con-
gress street when he fell on the sidewalk.
1t was seen that the mans clothing was
bloody and that he had evidently been Sc
riously hurt,
The police ambulance was summoned
and the stranger was sent to the Savau-
nah hospital. There was a report that he
had attempted suicide, which sprung
probably, from his being picked up on
the sidewalk.
The true condition of the man was soon
ascertained at the hospital. 1t was seen
then that he was the victim of an I'M
usual and horrible crime. His injuries
were promptly attended to by the house
physician, DR.. Dudley.
The report of the crime spread rapidly
and was generally discussed. There were
many rumors as to the cause which pro-
voked it, but none of them, probably, had
any foundation in fact. When first
taken to the hospital the victim
said his name was Wiley, and that
he was a sailor. His story is that he was
from three-masted schooner, the
Luke, on which he recently went to Jack
sonville, Fla. He grew weary of the life
at sea and decided to work his way back
TO Delaware, his native state.
According to his statement he came to
savannah night before last on the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular railroad; ar
rived in the city near midnight and in
quired for place to lodge. He fell into
the hands of designing negroes, who told
MN they would show him
quiet place. He followed them, and at
some point out in the suburbs of the city
they asked him to join them in a glass of
beer. He told them that he did not want
any beer, but that he would take a glass
of water After he took the glass of water
at some place on the road he can remem-
Der nothing more of his whereabout. The
inference is that he was drugged and rob-
bed, as he claims to have had about 81 in
his pocket and only had about 81 when he
came to his senses again.
After regaining consciousness he real
lied that he had been most foully dealt
with. He hurried to a drug store for
medicines finding that he was in a weak
condition. He reached Livingstons phar-
macy at Bull and Congress streets, from
near which place be was shortly after
taken to the hospital.
Detectives Scully and Barrett spent
sometime in the afternoon at the hospital
with Wiley, endeavoring to learn from
him the true story of the affair. The first
story told by Wiley was too prepos-
ferrous for the detectives to
accept They were only partially sue
cessful, however in getting any other.
Wiley at first adhered to his story that he
had been attacked by a party of negroes
with whom he fell in while in search of
lodging house. He finally admitted to the
detectives that this was not true. The
fact was, he said, that he called upon
a woman whom he had known for some
time. The husband had evidently OWNED
the object of his visit and had laid trap
for him. After he had been in the house
some time, Wiley said, the husband sud
denly came upon him with a rife which
he presented at his head. He was backed
up by another man, a friend. With the
rifle at his head he was compelled to sub
nit while he was bound hand and foot.
Wiley refused TO give the names of the
parties or the locality in which the crime
aV,,tN I'd EHaf 4
make a fuller statement later on.
There are all sorts of rumors concern
ing the affair. Some of the officers at
the police barracks declare that they have
seen the man here before; that he came
down from Baltimore with a wife and
children aboard a fishing smack last win
ser, and that he has lived around Sa-
dren, they say, left here about two weeks
ago and went back to Baltimore. They
say that his name is not Wiley, but
Douglas, but It is probable that the Of
ficers are mistaken in the man.
1t is expected that the police force and
detectives viii find some clew as to his
assailants to-day. They are hard at
work on the case, and will leave nothing
undone to get at the truth.
Solicitor General Osborne arranged yes
terday to have an ante-mortem state
ment taken in case there should be dan
ger OF whey uedtH. Inc statement ne
makes is as outlined above and throws
but little light upon the scene of the
crime.
The crime is a most revolving branch Of
mayhem. There was such emphasis laid
upon this diaboical act by the men who
made the code as to have caused a special
law against il and a special penalty for
those guilty of II, and that penalty is
death. The sentence Of the court when
a verdict Of guilty is brought by a jury
must be hanging, unless the jury recon-
mends mercy, In which case the penalty
Is nothing less than life Imprisonment.
MARRIED by THE BISHOP.