The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-17
WROTE THREATENING LETTER.
DR. F. t. LINCOLN DEMANDED AN
APOLOGY OF DIR. T. p. WARING.


whose Intimacy with DIR. Talia-
ferro, DIR. NNarinG Based His Re
fusaI % Admit the Latter's Pa
tients 10 the Telfair HOspital-Dr.
Lincoln Made Threats at Police
Barracks-FOIIOved Them with "a
written Demand for an Apology,
With Personal Collision in the
AIternative-Peace Warrants Is
sued.
Sensational developments, cropping out
of the arrest of DR.. V. II. Taliaferro, upon
q charge of assault with intent TO muir
der Dr. 7. P. Waring, followed one an
other in quick succession yesterday. The
climax Of the matter consisted in com
munication written by Dr.. Frank 7. Lin
coin to DR.. Waring, in which he demanded
an apology and retraction within twelve
hours, with threat of a personal encoun-
ter upon first sight in the alternative.
DR.. Lincoln is the physician TO
whom the authorities of the Tel
fair Hospital entertained so serious an
objection, and he felt the onus of the
difficulty and the responsibility of resent
ing the reflection upon his professional fit
ness rested upcn hint
The case against Dr. Taliaferro was
called in The Police Court in the morn
ing. The defendant was accompanied by
his attorney, Capt. J. f. Cam, and by Dr.
Frank 7. Lincoln and DR.. w. F. May.
The prosecutor was also in court In COM
pany with his brother, Mr.. =. Aston
Waring. Capt Cam requested that the
al. f1afa
1fle end that he might see and produce
his witnesses and prepare the case Of his
client for trial No objection was made
to the case taking this course, and the Re-
corder, in consequence, permitted it to 90
over This part of the story closed for
the time, then and there, but the hearing
furnished the keynote of the succeeding
incidents of the day.
1t became generally known among those
present in court, officers, attendants and
Witnesses that DR.. Lincoln had been the
physician whose patients Dr. Waring OBJ
jected to receiving at the Telfair HoSpf-
tai and upon whose personal and profess
sional intimacy with DIR. Taliaferro he had
predicated, in part. his object don to the
reception of the patients of the latter DR..
Llncoln's attitude and bearing conveyed
TO the most casual eye his own knoWi-
edge and appreciation of this fact, and Of
the further fact that he bitterly resented
H. IN the court room ana around the pO-
lice barracks, before and after the hear
ing, DR.. Lincoln, il was said, declared
that Or. Warning had grossly insuted him,
and that he intended during the day 10
call him to personal account for what
had been said.
1t is said that the threats embraced a
determined intention to wreak personal
vengeance upon the physician by whom
DR. Lincoln said he had been insulted, and
that personal chastisement, of the most
severe description of which the magma
ton is capable of cOncelving, was the least
OF the offered penalties for a failure TO re-
tract and apologize within a reasonable
time.
Soon after the conclusion Of the session
of the Police Court, about 10 O'Clock Dr.
Waring called at the office of Magistrate
VI. Naughtn and swore out a warrant
against DR.. Lincoln to keep the ISeace and
be of good behavior. The affidavit upon
which the warrant is based and was IS
sued, contains the allegation that DR.. Lin
coin had used violent threats against DR.
Warning, and the warrant directed that the
offending doctor be arrested and brought
before some committing magistrate, to
whom he should give the required bond
to keep the peace. This warrant was
placed in lthe hands of Officer NJ. Lilien-
thai, with instructions TO serve It upon
Dr. Lincoln and bring him to the office of
the magistrate by whom II was issued
All of the morning was spent by the ON
Ger in the effort to find Dr. Lincoln. me
constable said he sought him in every
nook and corner of the city, in which, IN
the opinion of the officer, it was al all
likely that he would be found, but with
an invariable lack Of success.
About o'clock DR. Warning was called
upon by DR.. w. +. May, who presented
him a letter from DR.. Lincoln.
The letter was exceedingly severe
and vituperative in. It's terms, assur-
ed DR.. Waring that DR. Lincoln consid-
cred himself grossly insulted and demand
ed a retraction of and a fun apology for
all that had been said to DR.. Taliaferro
on Wednesday within twelve hours. The
consequences of refusal were to be a per
sonaI collision on sight. The clearly in
tended inference was that 1t would result
disastrously to DR.. Waring.
DR.. Warnings reply TO DR.. May Is not in
evidence. Possibly, or very probably. II
was not satisfactory, for IL certainly in
cluded neither a retraction nor an apology.
DR.. Waring stood upon what he had said
and refused to modify 1t. This is evident
from the events that followed.
Later Mr.. Z. II, McLaws appeared as
counsellor and friend of DR.. Waring. Dr.
Waring showed him the letter he had re-
ceived from DR.. Lincoln. In the capacity
of counsellor and friend Mr. McLaws gave
DR.. Waring some advice. and then, in the
y
gave him certain other advice. The former
these gentlemen prefer 10 keep to them
selves, but the latter is not only avowed
by Mr., McLaws, but is conclusively evil
denced by what followed Immediately aft
er. Judge F'allgant was asked to supple
ment the peace warrant issued by Magls-
trate Naughun with another 10 the same
effect. The letter was shown Judge Fani-
giant, who deemed ID of sufficient gravity
TO justify him in issuing the warrant The
warrant was conffded TO Deputy Sheriffs
Hartigan aud O'Connor, with directions
TO serve It and bring Dr. Lincoln into
court. The second effort to find DR. Lin
coin was then begun. Deputies O'Con-
nor and Hartigan called in Officer Lie
thai who had made the previous search
and was thought 10 be in possession of the
requisite knowledge of the places where
the doctor could not be. As afterwards
developed. this knowledge was important
for IL led ultimately to the discovery OF
Or. Lincolns whereabouts He was found
at his home. but was not in condition tc
no into The nj Of