The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-12
THREE WERE SHOT
BEFORE ED HAZEL, OUTLAW, WAS
MADE A PRISONER.
DETECTIVES ARM BROKEN
by A BULLET FROM DESPERATE
NEGRO'S PISTOL.

anu Two Oh tnC
Slightly WOunded-HazeI Surren-
dered to PatroIman Christie After
That officer Had Battered Down
the DOOr-WOuId Not Give Up,
However, Until Assured That He
Would Not be Hurt-His Third
Battle With Officers of the Law
and as in the Past He Escaped
Unhurt.
Not until three people had been shot,
one of whom was Detective Thomas
Hewett, and he had been assured that
he would not be harmed by those who
sought to arrest him, did Ed. Hazel,
a negro desperate who was recently
branded as an outlaw by the Governor.
and for whose taking the state offered
a reward of $50, surrender at Mem
hard yesterday morning.
At least a score of shots were fired
at Hazel. a house in which he secured
shelter was riddled with bullets, and
all in all, the three men who went to
Meinhard to make him a prisoner, had
an exciting time of it. 1t was the out
laws third duel with officers of the
law, and as upon the two previous oc-
casions he escaped without a scratch.
Detective Hewett was shot in the fore
arm and the bone was fractured. He
is at the Park View Sanitarium. Ar
thur Chislom, a negro in the house
where Hazel ran, received slight
wound over the left eye, and his 10
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shot in the calf of his left leg.
The negro surrendered to c. T. Chris
tie, bicycle patrolman, after that OFF,
Ger had battered down a door of the
house with the butt of his shotgun. Pa
trolman Christie, Detective Hewett and
Mr.. Keller went to Meinhard early yes
terday morning and remained in a
hay loft until shortly after o'clock
when Hazel showed himself. Hewett
went to the rear of the house nearest
to Hazel, and Christie started for the
desperate, ata the same time ordering
him to throw up his hands. The ne
gro started at once for the house and
the patrolman fired two charges of
buckshot at him. Both men were run
ming and the shots did no damage.
Many shots Fired.
The shooting was followed by cries
from the house, and Mr.. Keller told
the negroes who were on the inside
that if they would march out they
would not be harmed. Chislom and
his son had already been wounded, but
with the exception of Hazel all of
them filed out of the house. The cut
law in the meantime returned Detec-
tive Hewett's fire and the wound in the
forearm was inflicted. The negro then
gave his attention to Christie and the
fusilaade continued.
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told him that he had been wounded
and that his arm was useless. With
out considering the danger, and re-
Numbering only that Hewett was out
of the game, Christie sprang for the
house and broke the door open with
his gun. Both he and Hazel had
emptied theiV revolvers, but the patrol
man had reloaded his shotgun. AS the
door crashed in Hazel jumped to an
adjoining room and reloaded his pis-
toll. Christie was on the point of max
ing a second attack when Hazel
sung out that he would surrender upon
condition that no bodily harm would
be done him.
Farley with Outlaw.
Christie stood just outside the second
door with the shotgun to his shoulder.
He agreed that no shots would be fired
ii the negro would come out with his
hands high in the air. Hazel was at
first suspicious and insisted that the
officer should make the promise on his
word and honor. This Christie did, and
the outlaw marched out with his hands
thrown up.
The member of the uniformed force
kept the negro covered while the
wounded detective relieved him of his
revolver. 1t was the only weapon that
the negro had on his person, and had
he been in his own home it is doubt
full If he would have been taken alive.
In the mean time quite a crowd of
negroes had gathered and the prisoner
was hurried away by the three white
men. He was brought to Savannah and
taken TO the police station house at
noon.
Later he was mea Sured under the
Bertillon system by Detective Murphy,
and to-day he will be delivered to the
county officers. Hazel talked freely of
his fights with officers of the law and
declared that he never fired the first
shot upon either of the three occasions
that an effort was made to take him
a prisoner. He claims that he simply
returned the fire of the officers. Hazel
denies that he ever intended to hit the
white men at whom he shot, and says
that his only idea was to prevent the
making of an arrest.
when Trouble Began.
Although a warrant charging Hazel
with assault at Montieth was issued
more than a year ago, and the negro
has served a sentence of ten years for
assault with intent to murder, COM
mitted at the same place, where he was
born, the outlaw first sprang into pub
lie gaze last summer when he held up
Mounted Patrolman 7. c. Murphy, now
sergeant, and an hour later shot at
the same officer and Detective Frank
Wall. Hazel had become enraged with
a negro boy and threw him into the
Musgrove Creek, near the Water
Works
Hazel claims that he was fishing and
that the boy tangled his line and then
cursed him. The mother of the boy
who had been tossed into the water
secured the services of Patrolman Muir
ply and that officer came upon the
negro who was stil1 fishing. Although
Hazel was sitting on the canal bank
he had his Winchester across his lap
and got the drop on the uniformed man.
He forced Murphy to turn his horse
around and so the other way
The uniformed man returned to
police headquarters and secured De-
tective Wall. The officers armed them
selves with Winchesters and went back
10 make the desperate a prisoner.
Eight shots were exchanged and the
fugitive finally made his escape in a
growth of coffee weeds. The officers
were unable TO locate him and return
ed to the city for assistance. The
negro claims that he remained in the
vicinity OF the Water Works until dark
he IL.