The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-28
TIED HAND AND FOOT.
William Henry Gordon Was Brought
Into the City

into the city.
A very much bound and manacled
negro, with ropes around his wrists
and ankles and chains about his neck,
was bundled out of a truck wagon at
the corner of Bull and Thirty-third
streets, shortly after 2 o'clock yester-
day, and directed to make himself COM
Portable on the ground until the ar
rival of patrol wagon from the police
station house.
The spectacle was unusual and a bit
dramatic and there were plenty of on
lockers, interested and curious ones in
the course of very few minutes. The
bound negro reclined on the ground,
While white man and a negro. the
former armed with a rifle and the lat
ter with a shotgun, stood watchful
guard over his recumbent figure. The
crowd "rubbered' and asked questions,
to which the guards of the bound me-
gro returned monosyllabic answers.
The principal figure in this little
scene from melodrama was William
Henry Gordon, who is said to have
committed criminal assault upon
Mary Haywood, a negro woman living
near the intersection of Stephens ave-
nue. with the White Bluff road. Ac-
cording to the story of the woman, and
there are no other witnesses against
the defendant. the assault was commit
ted between . and 10 o'clock Friday
morning.
She has been i'll and confined to her
bed for some time and on the morning
IN question, as she tells the story, Cor
don entered her house and committed
the assault. Her husband, W. H. Hay
wood was not about at the time, nor
was there any one else around the
house but her assailant and herself.
When the husband returned at night,
his wife told him of the outrage to
Which she had been subjected and yes
terday morning Haywood made pre-
paratlons to secure the arrest of Cor
don.
p. j. Weinheimer, a white man who
runs a grocery store on the White
Bluff road, was induced to lend his as
sistance and with the husband started
out on a search for Gordon. He was
not hard to find and with threats and
brandIshed weapons his pursuers ap-
preached him. He was at work at the
time on the farm, on the battle-ground
road, where he is employed, and engag-
ed in the very harmless and unroman-
tic occupation of currying a horse.
Gordon said he didn't know what was
the trouble, but he made no remon-
STRANGE and submitted readily enough
to have the various letters his captors
seemed to think necessary placed upon
his limbs. The charge that Mary Hay
wood had brought against him was ex-
planned to him briefly and then he was
put into the farm wagon and brought
into the city.
The patrol wagon was telephoned
for from Bull and Thirty third streets
and when it responded to the call,
Gordon was brought to the station
house and locked up in a cell.
He's not a bad looking negro at
all, and when Morning News repor-
ter talked to him in the station house
yesterday he laughed at the charge
that the woman had brought against
him. He says it isn't so, and that the
woman knows it isn't so, but that the
whole thing is just case of spite. He
has known the woman intimately for
number of years, he says, and this
is the first time that a charge of GRIM
inal assault has been brought against
him.