The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-02
FORCED INTO A CAB
HARTMAN SISTERS LANDED IN JAIL
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
HAD THREATENED VIOLENCE
AND POLICE WE'RE CALLED ON TO
MOVE THEM FROM THEIR ROOMS.

Took Detectives wall and Murphy
an Hour to Get the Unfortunate
Women in JaiI-PIain Clothes
Men Used Every Inducement to
Get Them to Go Quietly, but FL
naIIy Had to Force Them Into
Cab on Bull Street, Near the De
sOto-AIthOugh Nearly Midnight
Large Crowd Had Gathered--An-
other ScuHIe Mt the Jail to Get
Women Inside.
Because they threatened to do viO-
lence to the people in the house No
ga State street. west, where they have
had rooms, Grace and Belle Har-
man were arrested last night, and are
now in the county Jail. Lunacy war
rants will probably be sworn out to-
day.
The conduct of the two women for
| a long while has been the subject of
talk and their visits to police head
| quarters and the City Exchange have
! been frequent. They were not inter
! fered with by the officers, however,
until formal complaint was made. The
arrests were made by Detectives Frank
Wall and ]. j. Murphy after plenty of
trouble. The women had to be forced
into cab on Bull street, at the south
side of Madison Square.
At II o'clock a request was made Of
the police to take the women from
their home on State street. 1t was
! charged that they had been creating
a disturbance and had threatened to
kill a lady in the house Detectives
Murphy and Wall hurried to the house.
Wall endeavored to persuade the wom-
en- to accompany him, but they re-
fused, saying that they were waiting
for their physician.
Detectives Trick Failed.
HE is busy at his office and can't
come now. He says you must come
with me-" said Detective Wall.
| He convinced the women that he was
telling the truth and they left the
! house with him, the other plain clothes
man was just behind At Oglethorpe
avenue, however, they refused to turn
in the direction of police headquarters
| and the detective humored them by
told them not to turn east, thinking
that of course they would Again the
| officer was fooled.
At Liberty street the women started
| towards East Broad with the detectives
| close on their heels. AS usual they
attracted attention and a crowd fol-
! lowed They stopped at the residence
| of a physician and dismissed the of
| ficers, saying they would sit on the
| stoop all night if necessary. AS sud-
| denly as they had planked themselves
! down did they change their minds and
started up Bull street In front of the
| De Soto they ordered the detectives
away and headed for Jones Pharmacy
where they sat down. A large crowd
! had gathered by this time despite the
fact that it was nearing midnight. The
superintendent of police was notified
! by telephone of the excitement that
was being created and was advised to
make arrangements for the women in
the county Jail.
Lifted Into Cab.
While the conversation was being
| held with police headquarters the wom-
| en- left the drug store and started out
Bull street again. The officers followed
! and a cab was secured. The driver was
instructed to go around Madison
Square and block the south walk with
his vehicle. When the women reach
ed the cab the detectives tried to in
duce them to get in, but they would
not be persuaded and one of them had
to be lifted in. The older sister agreed
to get in alone and did so. Detective
i Wall remained with the women, and
Detective Murphy hurried on to the
Jail.
At the Jail the sister refused to leave
the cab until a patrolman was called.
Call Officer Ungar was sent for and
hurried to the Jail entrance from po-
lice headquarters. When the uni
formed man arrived the unfortunate
women order him to arrest Wall for
kidnapping them. To humor them
the detective was made a prisoner. but
considerable argument had to be put
up to induce them to enter the Jail for
the purpose of "preferring charges"
against Wall Even after they were in
the office they refused to go into the
prison corridor, and they finally had to
be lifted in. Just what will be done
with them will be determined this
morning when the officers will be call
ed upon to swear out lunacy warrants
Another Sister Returned.
1t was stated at the house where the
Misses Hartman lived that during the
day a third sister, who has been in
an institution, returned home Her
sudden appearance upset the two who
have been attracting so much atten-
ton of late and they became more
violent than usual. The sister who
had just returned was finally taken
from the house to. the home of a
friend.
The. other sisters continued their
wild talk and some of the people in
the house feared that they would do
violence during the night. and called
in the police. Supt. Garfunkel made
arrangements to have them taken to
the Jail because better accommoda-
tions are afforded there for such cases
than that at the police barracks.