The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-15
FOUR HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.
MEMBERS OF ALLEGED TYSON CON-
sPIRACY IN MA9SFIALs' HANDS

son ana y. Il. BslEnin Gnu nave beGA
Caught-Arrested ut Their HON IS
by Deputy MnrshaIs White, Case n,
Dismul<e and Thorn us-TysOn Is
SIN at LIberty-He Is the Man
Chiefly wanted by the Officers of
the Law-Arrested ana Indicted
Thrice Before. He Has Thrice Had
Indictments MOL Pressed.
-Four men, who have been Indicted by
the federal grand jury for conspiring 10
use the mails to defraud, We're arrested
yesterday by deputy marshals sent out
from Savannah for that purpose.
Deputies White and Cason arr. ssted NJ.
w. Hutchinson Of Ezra and T. /. Kicks
of Odomville, while Deputies Thoraas and
Dsmuke arrested J. T. Hammond and J.
H. Hutchinson, both of whom were under
arrest formerly under warrants from Com
missioner ]. f. Lewis All of the prisoners
were brought into Savannah and taken TO
the office of the clerk of the United States
Court J. II. Hutchinson was required to
give bond in the sum of $500, which he
managed to furnish, having brought his
surety with him. Although the clerk was
willing. acting under the Instructions of
the court, to accept bonds in less amount
from the others, none of them was able
to furnish 1t and all were committed to
Jail.
The man who Is said by the officers of
the departments that have had the inves-
tigation in charge to be the arch consDr-
ator of them all. and in whose fertile
brain the ingenious device for the swim
~
mated Daniel A. Tyson, Is still at liberty,
but it is expected that either to-day or to-
morrow he will be in the hands of the
officers. Tyson is known to be in the Sec
ton of the state in which the frauds have
been committed, In one of the small towns
IN which the indictment charges that
branch offices of the conspiracy were
maintained and 1t Is surmised that there
will be but little difficulty in effecting his
arrest.
The four deputies who made the arrests
of the prisoners brought into the city left
on the Central and Georgia and Alabama
trains Wednesday afternoon and night
Deputies White and CasOn went out on
the Central, and Deputies Thomas and
Dismuke on the Georgia and Alabama
They had no difficulty in arresting the
men for whom they were seeking, but
that on the contrary when the defendants
were apprised of the officers purpose and
were shown the bench warrants that were
their authority for the arrests, they con-
scented TO come with apparent willingness.
Some of those stlll at liberty are known
TO be desperate and determined men, and
1t is feared that there win be trouble of
perhaps serious character before the ar
rests are finally made in their cases.
Tyson Is the Wbnn1 tho off3
especially anxious to apprehend and it will
be a gay feather in the cap of that one of
the deputies who succeeds in making the
arrest. There is a generous rivalry
among them as TO which one shall be for
tunate enough 10 tap Tyson on the shoul-
der and tell him he must come to savan-
nah. If the stories that are told about
him are true he must have managed by
this time to accumulate considerable
property and should have little or no diff
Guilty Ia arranging for the bond that will
be required of him for his appearance at
the next term of court.
He Is the grand master of charlatans"
said one who has followed Tyson's career
and is familiar with its more prominent
features, and were 1t not for my knoWl-
edge Of the native shrewdness and plausi-
bihty OF the mans character and his in
hereDt ability to pull the wool over the
eyes of the unsuspicious, and even Of the
generally suspicious, l should be lost in
amazement that even before this he has
not been placed behind prison bars"
In February, 1895, he was indicted by
the grand jury of the District Court for
this division of The Southern District of
Georgia for using the mails to defraud
The scheme he was charged with oparat-
ing then was the same one that forms he
basis Of the indictment in the pending
case and j. H. Hutchinson, another of the
alleged conspirators In this case, was said
TO have bacR The baI1 Cnf IN tbo y.
lie by Tyson as worthy of credit This in
dictment was suffered to rest in peace for
nearly two years, when a noi,e prosequi
was entered in the case"
In the meantime Tyson had been char@-
ed by a second federal grand Jury with
making and passing counterfeu money.
Deputy Marshal Asher Ayrcs having
worked up the evidence in this case and
being the prosecuting witnes IS on behalf of
the government. Several years ELAPSED aud
the deputy marshal finally died. On ac-
count of his death a nolle prosequi was
entered in this case also"
"A third indictment was found in the
Western division of the district of Macon,
This, like the first, charging the use OF
the mails to defraud, by the same old
scheme. 1t involved holding out thor
oughly insolyent person to the public as
well worthy of credit, purchasing large
amounts of merchandise on the faith of
this alleged credit, and then permitting the
Victim 10 whistle for his money and his
revenge. A third time a nolle proseuui
was entered, each indictment seeming tc
operate as a necessary preliminary TO this
method of winding up a criminal prosecu.
ton"
THE truth of the matter probably is
that Tyson had been much too shrewd fol
the officers of the law. They have thought
many times they have had him in Their
traps, but on each several occasion he has
slipped neatly through the bars or man.
aged TO shift the responsibility to the
shoulders of some lesser member OF tho
association. The breath of suspicion NIGH
be famed into a whrlwind of certaint,
and conviction, but the certainty and con
victlon were in the minds of the officers
They never injured Tyson"
When any of the arrested defendant,
are asked a question that has referenc,
to the alleged leader of the band of con
spirators, they return the most non-com
initial answers the circumstances permit