The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-10
WHITE MAKES A CONFESSION.
TELLS THE STORY OF THE SHOOT
ING OF ARTHUR HAMILTON.

ING OF ARTHU II HAMILTON.
Saw Iverson With n Gun just Before
the Shooting and Met Him Coming
From the Scene hmm ediateIy Aft
er-KinS Also saiI He Believed
Iverson Fired the Fatal shot.
Lawyers Harrison and Myrick Had
a Clash with the Police at the sta
tiOn House-CIaimed 10 Represent
All the Prisoners and Advised
white Not to TnIk-Habeas Corpus
Proceedings Continued Until This
Afternoon.
The habeas corpus proceedings instituted
on behalf Of the five Darien negroes now
under confinement at the police station
house against Superintendent of Police
Thomas Screven were to have been the
subject of investigation in the Superior
Court yesterday morning.
on account of the loss Mai Screven has
suffered since the applications for the
writs were filed. the case went over until
this afternoon. when Judge Falligant will
investigate the facts and determine what
shall be done. In the meantime the negroes
are still at the station house where they
will remain until this afternoon at least
From all accounts the occurrence against
which the application for the writs of ha-
beas corpus was designed to guard has
already trauspired one of the prisoners,
as indicated in yesterdays Morning News.
having talked not wisely, but too well, for
the safety of his companions. This one OF
the prisoners. Nick White, has told De-
tective Stark a story of the Staying of
Arthur Hamilton that is very likely to
land his companions in misfortune behind
the bars of the peniteutiary, if it does not
give them a judicial title to a fate even
more terrible.
The confession of White, in substance,
is that prior to the shooting of Hamilton
he had while in a saloon with Iverson,
one of the bunch OF five now at the sta
ton house, heard him say that he in
tended to kill Hamilton.
on the night on which the shooting took
place. according 10 Whites statement to
Detective Stark. he was carrying Valse
for Hamilton and walked some distance
behind him. After they had gone some
distance White missed his umbrella and
road, turned over the valise to another
negro named King and retraced his steps
10 look for the umbrella. He says that
on the road he saw Iverson and another
man standing near the road and almost
concealed in the shadow of some trees,
and that Iverson had a gun. Shortly af-
ter he had passed the men he heard the
report of a gun, and while on his way
back to where he had left Hamilton and
he mi he at
coming down the road. VERSIONS compan-
ion he claims he did not recognize.
He was afterwards told by King that he
too, believed that Iverson had fired the
fatal shot
There was quite discussion at the sta
ton house yesterday when the prisoners
were visited by Messrs. Harrison and My
rick, who Instituted the habeas corpus
proceedings. 1t was the understanding
of Lieut.. Reilly and Detective Stark that
the lawyers represented only one of the
negroes, and when, as soon as they reach
ed the cell, they began TO talk to White
and advise him 10 make no confession,
Stark naturally objected, particularly as
White had told the detective that he was
not represented by any lawyer. and did
not expect TO be. The detective was up
held in his objection by Lieut.. Reilly un-
Ill the lawyers explained that they repre-
scented not one, but all five, of the pris-
oners. having been retained by their
friends. 1t seems that Mr.. Harrison be-
came rather excited during the progress
of the discussion as TO whether he was
TO be allowed to talk to White or not, and,
according to Detective Stark, told White
that he must not talk 10 the detective,
for he said '1f you tell him the story
that you have told me you will get both
yourself and your friends into serious
trouble The detective remarked that
he would remember that remark ana
thought that the lawyer would make an
excellent witness for the state when the
trial came off.