The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-06
MURDERED WHILE SHE SLEPT.
MARIE sCOTT's HEAD SPLIT OPEN
WITH AN Az.

Isaiah scott. the WOman's Husband,
Supposed to BE the Murderer-He
Left Their House. in Duffy Lane,
With Another Woman short
Time Before the Body of His Wife
Was Found Lying Across Her Bed
% in a Pool of BIOOd-The Crime Dis
covered by scOtt's MOther-The
Motive of the Murderer Unknown.
Police Following Every CIew.
Marie Scott, young cosored woman,
was killed, it is supposed, by
her husband Isaiah Scott, last
night in Duffy lane. between Mont
gomery and West Bread streets, in the
house in which the parties had been llv-
ing The fatal blow was inflicted with an
AK, so far as is known without excuse or
provocat,on, and in the presence of no
witness. II is thought, with good ground,
that the woman was asleep when the blow
was struck.
A few minutes after o'c,ock Susan
BradweI a colored woman living next door
10 the parties, saw tall negro woman
come OQA OF AIlt iQAetf WHICH 9iAN tAH VI
tered shortly before, and so down the
lane in the direction of Montgomery street
Five minutes afterwards Scott himself
came out, and after leaving the key with
Susan, followed in the same direction. He
said as he left that his wife had gone TO
her mothers and he was going to bring
her back home. The Bradwell woman took
The key, put IL on the mantel of the front
room OF her house, and thought no more
about the matter. She had been asked by
Scott to give the key to his mother, who
lived with him and his wife, and, was ex-
pected shortly to return.
Ealf an hour later Betsy Mazique,
SCOTS mother, came home and after talk
ing for a while with the Bradwel woman
and her daughter. entered her sons house.
She passed through the front room and
into the rear where she found the body Of
her daughter-bn-law lying upon the bed
IN a pool of her own blood A gaping
wound in the side of her head tod graph
icaly the cause of her death. Her body
was yet warm. and it was evident that she
had not been a great while dead.
The Odd woman Immediately raised an
outcry, aud the neighborhood, almost to a
person. responded The dead body lying
upon the bed told It's own story, and the
gaps in the chain of evidence were soon
supplied by the story of Susan Bradwell
who had seen Scott leave The house and
heard the lying statement that he then
made. The police and Coroner Goette were
summoned and within a few minutes the
coroner and a patrol wagon, with Detec-
tfves Scully, Barrett and Shea, weres on
the scene. An Investigation was at once
begun, and The detectives started to follow
up the scanty clews that they had as 10
the Whereabouts of the murderer. The
police throughout the city were apprised
of the fact that the murder had been com
mitted and instructed TO keep a sharp
lookout for Scott and the woman who left
his house shortly before he did.
When the coroner entered the dwelling
he found in the room adjoining the one In
which the crime had been committed
Bloody ak, leaning against the wall. The
position in which the woman was found
lying at length upon the bed, and the
facts that there were no marks of
struggle and that blood was found only |
on the bed beneath the woman and In no !
other part of the house, impelled the cor |
oner and the detectives TO the belief that |
she had been murdered while asleep. Only |
one blow had been struck, the blade or
the ak entering the left side OF the head |
and splitting the ear. The dead woman'e |
face was peaceful and quiet and every |
thing showed that she had died uncon- |
scious of the manner OF her death. She |
was about 20 years of age, and her hus~ |
band is but a few years older.
The woman came of a respectable negro |
family aud herself was of excellent re-
pute among the people with whom she
lived Her father is nurse, who is es-
teemed among the white patients whom
he has attended in illness and whom he |
has served generally Isaiah Scott the
murderer, was formerly coachman for a
physician and has recently been driving
hack. He has hitherto borne a fairly
good reputation.
The negroes in the vicinity of the place
where the killing occurred were very much
excited over the crime They congregated
around the house in which the murdered
woman lay. and threats to lynch or burn
Scott should he be found and fan into their
hands, We're heard on every side The
opinion was expressed that hanging was
too good for him. and that some more re-
fined and prolonged form of torture should
be devised as a fitting punishment for the
crime he had committed. There Is no
doubt that had he been caught by them
his fate would have been speedily deter
mined, and that short shift would have
been allowed him.
1t is probable that the coroner win hold
an inquest some time during to-day. but
this is dependent upon the capture of
scott. IL he is arrested he may be in
duced to betray the name of the woman.
who came out of the house shortly before
he did. Her evidence is deemed necessary
TO clear understanding of the crime. and
the coroner is unwilling to proceed with
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