The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-29
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fenced TO serve term of three years in
the penitentiary. After serving fifteen
months, a petition for his pardon was cir
cuIated and, on condition that he would
never return to that place, was signed by
a number of the most prominent men in
hey west The pardon was granted.
After his release from the penitentiarv.
wilson was rejoined by his wife, and #
was soon after this that he came TO Sa-
Vahnah. Everything was going well when
the letter, whose substance has been
gwen, came to the gentleman, who had
made the inquiries about Wilson's his
Tory. The doctor was confronted with
the knowledge of mis- knavery assured
mat IL would soon become general and
broke down ON Friday he folded his
tents and since Savannah has not known
mis- presence. For his unimpeachable
nerve and boundless imagination he de
served credit and from all accounts he Sc
cured it, Since his departure there have
been numerous indignant gentlemen, who
have haunted the offices of those they
imagined indebted to the doctor and
asked to collect from them, that little
bill" They found there was nothing in it.
1t has been learned that Wilson's real
position in the Red Cross Society was
| that of nurse and that he never held any
other. The Offices which he described
himself as having held had existed only
in his fruitful Imagination.
DR.. Wilson, as he calls himself, first
made his appearance in Savannah in the
spring of 1898. just after the declaration OF
war between the United States and Spain.
The doctor registered at the Pulaski
House under the name Of Wilson but 10
Morning News reporter who found him
there he condded that his name was
Schultze and that the name of wilson was
a subterfuge adopted because he was a.
that time engaged on special business for
| the Cuban government
Wilson alias Schultze said that he was
an American of German parentage but his
accent indicated a foreign birth. He tod
! story about having been in Cuba with
/ Maxine Gomez. going there, he said, as a
! hospital nurse. but afterwards having be n
| promoted to the position of surgeon He
! acknowledged that he had not learned to
| speak Spanish in spite of his service with
( the Cuban army, but told a fairly plausi-
be story of his experiences there, includ-
! ing of course, some hairbreadth escapes.
| There were some discrepancies in his mar
| rative, but anything purporting to be from
| Cuba was in demand in those days, and
no attempt was made to probe The story.
! Wilson said that he was the bearer OF Sc
! cret dispatches from the Cuban govern
ment to the government at Washington,
! containing important information, but he
displayed no special anxiety to hurry on
| to Washing on with his dispatches and re-
manned in the city two or three days or
/ longer.
While here Wilson professed great anx-
/ iety for a Mai. Smith of Chicago who he
| said had been with him in Cuba and who
! had been killed or dangerously wounded
! by the Spaniards according to last re-
/ ports, he said. Nearly year later Wilson
turned up again in Savannah, and with
| him was the mysterious Maj. Smith. Both
were evidently anxious to be interviewed,
J III ATsNrsr afTarr
! News office for the purpose before achieV-
/ ing that honor. Wilson wanted the job OF
writing up the Majors experience, but as
he was evidently ignorant of newspaper
work, he was given no eucoura cement.
A Morning News reporter finally called
/ upon Maj. Smith at a boarding house on
/ Barnard street, where he and Wilson were
/ stopping and obtained from him some
/ what lengthy interview of his experiences
/ in Cuba. Smith gave a good account OF
/ himself and told a good story, going cir
/ cumstanailly into details of his adventures
/ in Cuba, giving dates of events and names
of parties who participated, including sew
eral well-known newspaper correspondents
/ IL Is more than probable that his story,
or a part of it, was true, especially as
/ he did not corrobOrate Wilson's story that
/ they had been together in Cuba. He said
/ that he had met Wilson at Key West,
! had gotten friendly with him there, and
! had attended his marriage, and that he
/ left Wilson at Key West when he went
/ to Cuba. He further said that he did not
/ know whether Wilson had been in Cuba,
though he might possibly have made
/ trip there after their parting at
Key West. Smith claimed that their
meeting in Savannah was accidental. He
took his departure from Savannah short
ly after, but Wilson remained, 20 bring
sorrow to many acduaintances.