The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-07
HAYS IS STILL AT LARGE.
WHEREABOUTS OF LUCIUs vARNA-
DOES MURDERER UNKNOWN.

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Funeral of the Deceased MotormaE
TO Take Place To-day-The Ipques
Yet to BE HeId-Many Rumors in
Circulation Yesterday as to Hays
Capture, hut All Unfounded-MucI
Bitter Feeling Against the Muir.
derer and Threats of Lynchsne
Heard-Hays N Man of Nerve and
Those who Seek His Capture
should BE Wary.
The funeral of Lucius Varnadoe, the
motorman of the Savannah, Thunderbol'
and Isle of Hope Railway, who was
shot at Sandiy Station Saturday. night
and died Sunday afternoon at the Savan-
nah Hospital. from the wounds, viii take
pace this morning az II o'clock, from No.
721 Sarah street.
The coroners inquest into the death Of
Mr.. Varnadoe was not held yesterday, but
will be probably this morning.
Seaborn Hays, the murderer, is still at
large. though every effort is being made
to catch him by both the city and tbs
county officials. All of the former city
haunts of Hays have been thoroughly
searched, and, since the morning following
the shooting, all of the outgoing trains
have been watched, but as yet no defnitc
Information has been secured by the
searchers, though there are many rumors.
One of these reports that was generally
current on the streets yesterday was that
Hays had been captured in Charleston and
would be brought to Savannah on the train
which arrives here early in the morning
Another. equally widely disseminated, was
to the effect that Immediately after the
shooting the man had gone to Skidaway
lsiand with the probable intention of work
ing his way down the coast to a place of
safety.
other rumors that at times claimed the
attention of citizens were that the man
mad been located in the city and would
he arrested during the day, and that he
had been shot to death in a house on the
outskirts of the city by West Indian ne
gro Needless to say that none of the re-
ports had for founda ton anything more
substantial than the Imagination of the
orginators
The mans whereabouts can be only con-
Jectured, and these conjectures are about
as many as the reports of his capture and
IN tact, probably originated them.
but Wherever the man is, no one doubts
that ne Will be captured and should he
be taken shortly. and while the present
state OF feeling against him is at its
night, II Is not impossible that the county
VIII De saved all further expense on his
account except possibly to furnish him
with a coffin and pay the fees of the cor
5 10 IL 8
ing bee when Hays should be taken was
quite current yesterday, and if II did nor
meet with enthusiastic approval wherever
TAXED, tnere was not a great deal of
strongly expressed disapproval at least
not among the friends and scouaintances
OF the dead man. The men who went out
70 sandy on the morning following the
shooting went with the purpose of making
snort work of Hays should he be can.
tureo' ana Jasper Hays, himself, had a
narrow escape from their vengeance he
cause he was first thought and Reported
70 De the man who had done the shooting
Jasper Hays and the McKeever woman
are still in jail.
among the many white people here to
whom Hays is known considerable sur-
prise is expressed at his desperate and
oioooy deco. While he is said TO come of
FAMILY of hard cases Seaborn Hays is
porne fair repu alton and never TO
have given any indication of a murderous
spirit
gentleman with whom Hays worked
a year or so ago in making railroad
survey said that he was undoubtedly a
very nervy fellow, and that it would he
well for those who undertake his arrest
to be on their guard, as having killed one
man he would not hesitate to kill an
other to retain his liberty A favorite
pastime with Hays, the gentleman said,
was to catch rattlesnakes by pinning
them down with forked stick, frequent
ly bringing them to camp alive. He onee
brought a puff adder into camp in his
bosom in order to brighten a COM
pauion. A popularity of the negro
and one which may aid in his
Identification, if arrested away from Sa-
vannah, the Morning News informant
said. is that he has a deathly fear of
cats. To have one of the felines touch
him seemed to fill him with horror and
q small boy with kitten could run him
out of camp.
A paper deploring the death of Motor
man Varnadoe and calling upon all law
abiding, peace-loving citizens to use their
utmost erdeavors TO apprehend the MUIR
derer and deliver him up to the authori-
lies, was passed among the patrons of the
Savannah. Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope
road yesterday and received many sigma
lures.
The paper also requests that the railway
authorities, through their manager, Mr..
II. NJ. Lotion, give instructions to their
that the law passed by the
Legislature of Georgia on Oct 81, 1891.
requiring all railroads to furnish separate
seats for white and for coiored passen-
gers, be enforced. There is also a request
that the railway authorities see that all
trifiing, loafing and Objectionable charac-
ters be kept out of the depots and cars
Of the company when within the power
and control Of the company 10 do so. The
paper will probably be sent to Manager
Lotion to-day.