The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

the money. The application was then
filled out as follows:
New York, May 2, 19902.-To Capt.
Stephen O'Brien of the Eighth Pre-
is hereby made for
permission to carry a pistol for the
following reasons: That 1 generally
have in my possession large sums of
money. stocks, bonds and jewelry, etc.
Name, Hetty H. r. Green; residence,
270 Broadway; occupation, financier."
Endorsed by Capt. O'Brien, the appli-
cation went to headquarters, where it
was granted yesterday. The number
of Mrs. Green's license is 1854.
At 270 Broadway is the Chemical
Bank building. 1t was said there yes
terday that Mrs Green did not have
sleeping apartments at the bank, but
that she did spend a great deal of time
there. She is one of the heaviest stock
holders of the bank, and it is asserted
that sometimes, when applications for
loans have been unable to get what
they wanted from the bank, they have
been referred to Mrs. Green, whose
terms were usually somewhat stiner
than those any bank could make.
Mrs. Green talked with vivacity yes
terday morning to callers who went
to the bank to inquire why she needed
revolver after getting along for so
many years without one.
when I was in Boston the other
day" she said, some things happened
which made me feel that something
might happen to me. There are a num-
Der of men who would like to have
me pass away. l have written the
names of several of them down and
have deposited one copy of the list in
each of several banks. So if 1 am ever
taken off there need be no long legal
rigamarole to find out who did 1t. Their
names will be right on these lists. They
are lawyers, all of EN-"
Mrs. Green said that the fact that
she carried large amounts of money
and of securities around with her was
good enough reason for her to have a
means of seIf-protection.
Though, really she said. sit isn't
SO much that 1 fear that l shall be
robbed while l am carrying things
about the city. 1t is true, though, that
do carry sometimes as much as half
a million dollars in dividends from the
trust companies to deposit in the banks.
"But l want to be able to put a re-
volver on the table right beside me
like that-when 1 am talking to some
of these lawyers. Then the fact that
l am woman and not strong enough
to knock them down will not leave
them free to act high handed and go
through things like bull in china
shop.
My fathers death was fastened by
lawyers. He had two or three attacks
made on him by lawyers and they af-
fected his health, and then, anyway,
always have believed that my father
was murdered. l was the first to reach
the room after he died. and there was
a strong odor of chloroform there, and
blood was pouring from his mouth
Mrs. Green instigated several inqui-
sitions into her fathers death. None
of them proved her contention that
he was murdered. She has also &C
cused persons in the law office of
Evarts, Choate, Tracy & Meaman of
having inflicted serious injuries upon
her daughter, Sylvia Green. by throw
ing her against a safe in their office.
at is that sort of thing" she said,
(which makes me, as 1 run over my
history, feel the peed of some way of
protecting myself from people who
want to see me killed. I have been
warned several times lately not to per-
sist in some suits l have Instituted.
IT know what that sort of warning
means. Some people they can scare
out of things. They cannot scare me
that way. Those they can't scare they
would like to get rid of, somehow
Why, in one case that 1 had lately,
right out plain that his side didn't
care whether or not there was murder
| in it so long as they got their money.
Then a high official in Massachusetts
has been making some threats lately
that have put me on my guard.
"Of course, I don't want to kill any,
body. 1 am a Quakeress. 1t is not in
my nature to be quarrelsome." (This
declaration has preceded most of the
most strenuous episodes in the life of
Mrs. Green.) And if 1 am attacked
rather think I shall not fire at my as
sailant first. The first shot will be
fired in the air. But after that 1 shall
shoot to kill I have often fired in the
air at burglars at my home in Bel
lows Falls, VT. 1 shoot out of a second
story window at them. 1 think 1 could
hit a man at twenty yards all right.
But nobody ever has scared me, or ever
will, and now I think / can do some
soaring on my own account"
Mrs. Green has done soaring on her
own account before. Smith E. Lane,
recently an East River Bridge Com
missioner, once stated under oath in
this city that when he called upon Mrs.
Green to collect a law BILL she backed
him up against the wall. shook her
finger under his nose and by force and
duress made him accept an inadequate
amount. Mrs. Green denied Mr.. Lanes
story, but the jury gave him a verdict
forcing Mrs. Green to pay part, at
any rate, of his bill.
She has had more lawyers than any
other one woman known in public life.
1t was once said of her that she never
came to the County Court House with