The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-02
GREEN'S MURDERERS BAGGED,
FIVE OF THE GANG THAT SLEW
MOSES GREEN CAPTURED.


O'COnnor-The Capture Made with
out EIoodshed or Disturbance,
Though Trouble Had Been Expect
ed-NcgrOes Had said They would
Not BE Taken AIive-Crime Was
Committed on Last Saturday Night.
Two of the Gang sim at Large.
Five negroes. Eddie Hazel, Emmett
steele. Prince Irving, George Irving and
Henry Irving, were arrested in the neigh
borhood of Monteith yesterday afternoon
by Deputies Hartigan and O'Connor and a
posse, and are lodged in the county jail on
a charge of murder. The negroes arrest
ed, with two others, fatally wounded
Moses Green at a dime party at Monteitn
last Saturday night, and SO seriously beat
and cut his father, Sidney Green, that
the life of the latter is despaired Of. The
origin and circumstances of the killing are
involved in some mystery. and it is diffl-
cult 20 get at the exact truth of the mat
ter and decide definitely just what hap
pened and who is directly responsible for
the murder. From the best evidence OBJ
tainable Moses Green left his fathers
home on the night Of the tragedy and
went over to attend the dime party, a
form of entertainment much cultivated by
the country negroes, where bad liquor Is
freely dispensed and where rows ending
sometimes in loss of life are not infrequent
occurrences All Of the crowd were drink
ing and in an ugly humor.
1t IS probable that Moses made no great
effort to avoid the impending conflict, and
that though he knew that the rest of the
party were against him and anxious TO
pick a quarrel. that he made no very de-
termned efforts to avoid il. A any rate,
the row started and Hazel, Steele and the
three Irvngs with two theirs, drew their
knives, hourished their cudgels and began
a murderous assault upon him. With such
odds the fight could not be of very long
duration and Green went down, with
mob of bowling negroes, their blood In
famed with the lust for murder and with
all the worse passions of their nature
aroused to the highest pitch still dealing
murderous blows with knife and bludg-
con. Green was soon beaten into complete
iusensibility.
During the time that this first fight was
in progress the news of the conflict was
borne 70 the ears of his father and the
old man fastened to the scene to save, IL
possible, the life of his son. When he
reached the spot, angry, possibly, and
grief-slricken at the sight that met his
eyes. he reproaehed and dehed the crowd
that had assaulted his son and filed his
PROSTATE body with a hundred wounds.
They were then in no mood TO listen to
reproaches, and turning upon the father.
soon reduced him by the same methods to
the same condition in which the son was
lying. Then their passions cooled and
their sober sense revolving at the crimes
they had just committed, they left father
and son weltering in their blood and dis
persed.
on the following day the younger Green
died. His father is still in a
dangerous condition, but during the
last few days he has improved and
his case is not regarded as hopeless. From
the infrmary il is reported that he stands
more than a chance of recovery.
When the matter was reported to Coro-
ner Goette ne went to Monteith, investi-
gated the circumstances and ascertalned
the names of the men who had partci-
pated in the assault. This was a tedious
matter and it was some time before all
of the criminals were spotted
Yesterday morning the coroner went be-
fore Justice Naughtin and swore out a
warrants against all the men, charging
them with the murder of Moses Green.
o
Deputy Sheriffs Harugan and O'Connor,
who left with a posse for the scene about
noon. The negroes who had committed
the crime were all known TO be desperate
men and one of them had announced that
he did not intend TO be captured alive. For
this reason the arresung party We're well
armed and prepared to shoot, If il be-
came necessary as a last resort
The posse went out in a six-heated buck
a a.. -.
the members of the party and for the pris-
oners they expected to bring back Reach
ing Monteth they drove around the coun-
try to the homes Of the negroes for whom
they were in search, and finding them one
by one, calmly gathered them in. In none
of the cases was there show even of re-
sistance, for had resistance been intended
or desired the muzzle of a rife, present.
cd in close and dangerous proximity to the
breast of the prospec live prisoner, effect
ually silenced any cutlery and prevented
any attempt TO escape or fight. In this
manner five of the seven for whom the
warrant called, were captured, but the two
others could not he found, having deter
mined, probably, that some other section
of the country would prove more condu-
Give to the continuance of life, health and
prosperity Ii is expected nevertheless,
that they VIII ultimately be caught and
brought TO justice.
The leader of the captured gang is said
TO be Eddie Hazel, who has served a ten
year term in the penitentiary for the
crime of assault with intent 10 murder.
He is the one who had publicly announced
that if he were taken, it would not be
alive, and that the officers or those of
them who were left would have to be
content with his dead body. Another of
the crowd Emmett Steele, was sent up Mt
the same time and for the same offense
as Hazel ana served the same term. With
the criminals in hand it is expected that
the coroner will not long delay holding
an inquest upon the body of Moses Green.
but that he viii empanel his jury as soon
as Che witnesses to the affray can be sum-
moned and brought down from Montieth.
The clean and thorough manner In
which the captures were made, without
excitement or bloodshed, reflects credit
upon The efficiency and courage of the
deputies and their posse, which is in
creased when the desperate character of
thA NOR, with whom thev bad