The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-03
ROSE TUTTY IN JAIL
NEGRO WOMAN WHO COULDN'T
ACCOUNT FOR PROPERTY.
BONDS VALUED AT $4,000
SHE CLAIMS WE'RE STOLEN FROM
HER IN WAYCROss HOSPITAL.

Effort VIII be Made To-day to Sc
cure Her Release - Bail TrOver
suit Instituted by Charles Tutty,
Whom She Says is Her Husba ID.
Prisoner is a Trained Nurse, Lee
turer, President and Founder of
Mil Operator-Hns a $4,000 suit
Against A. c. l.. Now Pending.
Sick and suffering, Rose Tutty,
colored, is a prisoner in the coun-
! ty Jail. where she was placed
! yesterday under bail trover
suit. instituted against her in
the Superior Court by Charles Tutty
who claims that she refuses to deliver
to him certain bonds valued at $1,000.
The woman says they were stolen from
her while she was confined in a hospi-
tai at Waycross.
The woman is well known in the
community. She has, for several
months, been confined to her home on
Harris street as the result of injuries
alleged to have been sustained as the
result of being showed from an Allan
tic Coast Line train, near Miller's Sta
ton, last October, and for which
suit for the recovery of $4,000 is now
pending in the City Court.
w. NJ. Hayward, her attorney, will
make an application this morning to
Judge Barrow to have her released
from the Jail. He will present a GER
tificate of her i'll health from DR.. R. S.
Kenan, her attending physician, who
will testify that she should not, in her
condition, be confined in the Jail. Her
arrest was the result of her in
ability to furnish bond in the sum of
1920, which is required of her in the
bail trover proceedings.
If Judge Barrow declines to order
her release, pending the hearing of the
case, a request to have her taken
back home in the custody of a deputy
sheriff, who shall remain at the house
with her until the determination of the
case, or until her health permits her
return to the jail.
stolen from Between Mattresses.
The woman claims that the bonds
at Waycross, where she, during her
illness and confinement placed them
between the mattresses. A search sub
sequent to the time she left the hospi
tai, failed to reveal the missing val
uables, and up to date they have
not been found. They are three of
the first preference bonds of the Geor-
gia Southern and Florida Railroad, of
the value of $1,000 each.
To- eli oh m he IN ioi1 - id
Rose Tutty last night. Il have not
been out of my house but once since
1 was injured several months ago, and
l am sick woman; my doctor will
testify to that fact. 1 haven't the
bonds and / am unable to give bond
Mr.. Tutty is my husband. We were
married in Washington city in 1876-he
will tell you that-It was while l was
taking a course in the training school
for nurses. l am surprised that he
should have me arrested"
Woman of Talent.
Rose Tutty is a rather remarkable
negress. In addition to being a train
ed nurse, she is the head of the St.
Nicholas Orphans Home at Eulonia,
a lecturer, saw mill oper-
ator, and a woman of good educa-
ton. Her experiences, after being in
jured on the railroad, read like a novel
In her suit for damages she says
that she was going to Burroughs, and
because of the crowded condition of
the train was obliged to stand. When
Millers Station was reached, several
passengers went to get off, and in or
der to allow them room to pass, she
stepped out on the platform AS the
train started to leave the station, she
was seized by the porter of the train,
and, despite her statement that she
was a passenger for Burroughs, was
forced off the train.
Escaped at Night.
She was, she says, badly injured,
the road physician, DR.. Clay, waiting
on her. He ordered that she be placed
in a hospital but she would not at
first consent, until she had been prom
Used that she would be sent to the
Georgia Infirmary. She was given
an opiate she alleges, and when she
| came to, four days later, found her
self in the hospital at Waycross. She
demanded her release, but the Off
Gals would not grant it, so she made
| her escape the same night.
After wandering through the woods
and swamps all night, clad only in a
thin shirt and without hat or shoes,
| she was found by certain parties who
| took care of her. She was shortly aft
| erwards sent to Savannah where, she
says. she has remained ill and under
| the treatment of DR.. Kenan ever since
| S-o-S
Arrested on Serious Charge.