The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-30
TURNED IN FALSEALARMS.
Telephone calls ssy Fv'enen sent in
for FhRy

For the thira time at Is O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. the ireien had a run
to the Tenderloin district,n a false tele-
phone message
several days ago a massage was re-
ceiVed at headquarters over the Bell
| phone saying that there vas a fire in the
| vicinity Of Houston street ma Og ethorpe
| avenue. The apparatus at No. l station
| on Broughton street was rushed to the
scene of the supposed bLze. but could
find no flames 10 fight ne telephone
gifl could not remember What number
mad made the call and the company was
requested to instruct its OPERATORS to try
and find out from what citation sucn
calls we're gicp3 I'm the future. The same
th-Hg occurred day or two later and
again the operator was unaBe to T m m
Der who had asked for connect. on with
fire headauas.Ers 50
superintendent Mcguire tealzed that
the false messages We're beDg sent over
the same line end called at the telephone
exchange and impressed upon the man.
agement the necessity of finding out who
the guilty party was. The operators W re
on the alert and when call for head
quarters was made yesterday d note was
made of the station from which it came.
The firemen caunot afford to taiTe any
chances and for the third time the lad
dies at the Broughton street station went
on a wild goose chase.
The operator reported that the call had
been made from place on Houston street.
Supt. Mcguire Immediately reported the
matter at police headquarters. and also
made personal inves tigatiou. Neither he
nor Detectives Stark and Godbcid we e able
10 learn anything from the women in the
house, end the names of the proprietress
aud five inmates were taken for the pur-
pose of placing them on the docket ard
investigating the case in Police Court. i;
was suggested that the guilty person
might escape, and that O better plan
would be TO arrest all of the parties III
the house and require them TO furnish
pan FOR their appearance in Police Court
The detectives were before the grand
jury and Sally Port Ofncer tngar was
reinforced by Street Sergeant Davis and
Bicycle officer Christy. The three Off
GERS went to the house for the purpose
Of arresting the six women, but found
OILY three at home, one of whom was
the proprietress. Together with the COL
ored cook the women were walked to
headquarters, where they were questioned
ny Supt Mcguire and Senior Sergeant
Owen Reilly.
Ihe statement made by the negro cook
went 10 show that negro boy employ
ed in one of the restaurants in that pre-
cinct had been in the habit of slipping
upstairs and using the telephone. The
woman stated that she was quite sure
that the boy had used the telephone dur.
ing the day and that she strongly sus-
pected that he he'd been the party who
nau oeen sending in the false alarms
who claimed to know nothing at an about
me matter, it was decided that the games
mad been played by the negro. An Of
hcer was sent to arrest him. but he had
made his escape. Sup srintendent Mcguire
theh ordered the release of the women
ahd asked the police to use every effort
10 spprehend the boy. The penalty for
sending in false alarm is fine ~
800 or 80 days, or both.