The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-15

son by Chief Of Police Dillingham;, await
ing instructions from the authorities in
hamilton county, Texas, who want him
Tor the murder on Dec. s, 1893, Of Deputy
SheFlH Thomas Eaton. The name given
by the man under arrest is VIII Jones.
lie answers in every way the description
gwen Of the man wanted. The reward
offered is 1880. The prisoner
volunteers the information that he is
wanted in Walker county, Georgia, for as
sault and battery
Greenviile and Spartanburg, neighboring
towns on the Southern railroad, in the
Piedmont belt Of South Carolina, have re-
Gently furnished two remarkable cases of
tehacity to hfe Forty days ago Dock
Chaney, negro living in Greenville, dis
covered that Tom Ferguson, a mulatto,
was attempting to wreck his domestic
peace Upon the next visit of Ferguson
TO the house, CLANCY confronted him. The
intruder made a vicious attack and CLANCY
hred at him at close range. Ferguson
ran out of the house, but fell soon after
reaching the street. He was taken home
and the doctors being afraid to probe for
the bullet, was left alone. He was con-
sciouS and took nourishment, and for some
time hopes were entertained of his recov-
cry, but few days ago he became worse
and died on the thirty-nlnth day after the
wound was received. At the postmortem
had penetrated the right lung and then
struck and became firmly imbedded in the
wall or the heart. The cause Of death
was declared to be inundation of the peri
cordial cavity, which impeded the action
OF the heart Four months ago Mr.. and
mrs Joe w. Husemann were practlcing
rlhe shooting In the back yeard of their
residence, the weapon used being a peal
iber target rife. Just as Husemann was
pulllng the trigger his 7-year-old son ran
In front OF the target and received the bul-
let in his brain. For days he was insen-
slDle and no hopes were entertained for
his recovery. No attempt was made to
probe; the bullet was known to be in the
brain: In ten days the boy could recog-
hlze MS parents and has apparently en-
tlrely recovered from his injury.
Eighteen months ago S. C. Dickson, a
young man who had been rolling too high
in Greenyille, was convicted of forgery
and sentenced to forty-two months in the
penitentiary. He doubtless felt the dis
grace oil his family keenly and the result
OF his brooding has been that within the
past ten days he has become violently in
sane. When the authorities proposed to
remove him to the asylum a defect in the
law was discovered and he is still in his
cell in the penitentiary. The question to
be settled is nothing more serious than
the transfer of an insane criminal from
the penitentiary on one side of Columbia
to the asylum on the other, yet the COVER
nor is stumped and the attorney general
Is wrinkling his brows over the problem
The general statutes provide that an or
der for admission to the asylum must come
from the probate judge of the county in
which the patient resides, or If a criminal
should become insane during his trial the
presiding judge can have him admitted
to the asylum after examination by medi-
cal experts. In the latter case if the per-
son should recover his sanity and be dis
charged his trial would be resumed. No
provision exists, however, for getting a
crazy convict into the asylum The COVER
nor coull pardon him and then set an or
der from the judge Of probate of Green
vile, committing him to the asylum, but
this Mr.. Ellerbee objects to doing, be-
cause II Dickson regained his reason in
a week or month he would be a free man.
Besides, If such a precedent We're estab-
lished the governor fears insanity would
become epidemic in the penitentiary and
the institution would be quickly filled
with bowling lunatics, who would recover
rapidly on getting into the asylum.