The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-04
ROSA TUTTY'S TESTIMONY.
SaIuted Her Husband in Fond Fash
ion in Court Room.

Saluted Her Husband in Fond Fash
ion in Court Room.
II don't want to be brought to the
Georgia Infirmary in Savannah. 1 will
have no peace of mind. AS soon as the
ladies learn that 1 am confined at the
hospital they will begin showing me
attentions, sending me flowers, and
other things, and / will have no rest.
] am well known there, and then, too,
1 am a Kings Daughter. This is what
Rosa Tutty said when DR.. Clay, the
Atlantic Coast Line physician suggest
ed to her, after her accident at Mil
lers station. that she be sent to the
Savannah Hospital for colored people.
So DR.. Clay testified in the City Court
yesterday.
DIR. Clay went further than this in
his testimony. He said that the ne
gress had named at least one of the So
ciety ladies of Savannah who would be-
stow attention upon her. The case in
which the testimony was adduced is
that of Rosa Tutty, against the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad, a suit for
alleges was sustained by her while a
passenger on the defendants road last
September.
The case was on trial all of yester-
day in the City Court, and great deal
of testimony that was amusing to those
in attendance on the court was brought
out. Charles Tutty, the white husband
of the plaintiff, was at the Court House
during a great part of the day. Dur
ing the dinner hour, when court took
a short recess, he met his wife and
talked with her, greeting her with a
most affectionate salutation.
A great deal of merriment was occa-
stoned by the woman's testimony rela-
tive to a former Liberty county off,
cial who testified on the stand that
Rosa bore very unsavory reputation,
and that he would not believe her on
oath. When Rosa took the stand in
defense of the statement, she cut loose
in a manner that surprised court and
jury, and, no doubt, the witness him
self, who was sitting in the court room
at the time. Pointing at him, she
said:
Now, that gentleman there, can
testify all he wants to about my bad
reputation, but I will say right here
in my place that he never attempted
to better it, if he thought so. He used
to worry me to death, and once when
1 was a school girl, he stopped me on
the way to school one morning and
begged me to kiss him. l refused, and
he tried to make me. We had a scuf-
fle, and l doused his head in pool of
water and ran away and left him that
way. He knows that's true, too, and
he can't deny it."
The victim did not deny it, but laugh
ed with the rest of the spectators.
The Tutty woman is really most
remarkable person, and many who
heard her testify yesterday, and no.
ticed her demeanor, were quick to rec
ogniZe her quickness. Some of those
who know her said after the trial that
she has not her equal. Her testimony
relative to her trip to Washington;
the frequent proposals made to her by
Tutty; her repeated reflections of him,
and, finally her acceptance, consti-
tuted a narrative to which those pres
ent listened with much interest.
Throughout the trial of the case she
sat next her counsel, and prompted
them, evincing unusual interest in the
proceedings.
The story of the accident for which
she is suing for damages has already
appeared in the Morning News 1t
forms of itself most interesting story
of alleged abduction by the railroad
authorities under the influence of
opiates, her forced confinement in the
company's hospital at Waycross. her
| escape in the night, and her wander
| ings through wood and swamp half
clad and half conscious, until picked
up by friends. She claims that she
| is a trained nurse, a saw mill operator,
| a lecturer and an official of st.
Nichols Orphans Home. from which
she realizes $500 a month.
1t was in the company hospital that
| she claims she lost the $1,000 worth
| of bonds for the possession of which
| her husband is now suing her. Under
a bail of trover proceeding she is