The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-05
KICKED A DUCK
OFF ITS NEST
AND WOMAN WAS ARRESTED.
WIFE OF MAN IN JAIL FOR Fort
gerry FINED.

Mrs. F. c. Bone and VI. G. Whitcraft
Both Fined-Whitcraft Paid His
Fine and Left Companion to Her
Fate, hut Authorities Relented
and RENTED Her Fine-Bride of
FOrger Smoked Cigarette and
Kicked Setting Duck.
For kicking a duck off it's nest at
Thunderbolt, Mrs. Fred G. Bone, wife
of the man now incarcerated in the
county jail on the charge Of forgery
was arrested yesterday afternoon, tried
and fined.
NJ. G.. Whitcraft, Mrs. Bones COM
panion at the time of the kicking cpl
sode, was also arrested and fined.
Whitcraft paid his fine and left Mrs.
Bone to the tender mercy of the Off
GERS of the law in the historic town
| of Warsaw. After time, the heart of
the acting recorder was softened and
Mrs. Bone was allowed to go in peace.
Mrs. Bone has heretofore figured as
the injured bride, whose devotion to
her criminal husband was most pa
thetic and admirable, though many
thought misplaced. Her devotion to
Bone during his trouble has up to date
been the only redeeming feature of a
story of crime.
Found House of Trouble.
After her many visits to the police
station and later to Jail. Mrs. Bone
needed fresh salt breezes. She and
Whitcraft, both of whom board on
A D
derbolt. For some time they strolled
about the grounds and then they dis
appeared near the House of Trouble.
One of the amusement people made an
investigation. The bride of two weeks
was joyously putting away on a ciga-
rette. She smoked with evident enjoy
ment and Whitcraft also seemed happy.
When the cigarette was fin
ished, the couple started back
towards the Casino. Then it
was that Mrs. Bone spied an old
| duck calmly sitting upon it's nest in a
laudable endeavor to hatch out young
ducklings. The scene did not appeal
! to her. however. and she kicked the
duck off the nest. In the scuffle, it is
alleged, several of the duck eggs were
broken though Whitcraft denies this
| strenuOusly
Pair Parted Company.
| At any rate, the owner of the duck
| did not like the performance. 1t was
some time before he learned of it, the
amusement park people being so much
| interested in watching the kicking, and
| the discontinue of the duck that they
did not at once inform him. When
the matter was reported, Whitcraft
and Mrs. Bone had become wise to the
fact that the duck kicking had had
an appreciative audience and they took
steps to duck out" They separated
and Whitcraft caught a car going to-
wards the colored college Mrs. Bone
walked up the bluff towards the city.
She had not gone great distance
| when Marshal Crawford, who had been
| Informed of the performance, arrested
| her. She was highly Indignant. She
is alleged to have said she was Mrs.
! Whitcraft, and helped her husband in
his business here in the city. Mean
while the alleged husband had gotten
away. An officer in the city was tele-
| phoned for, and Whitcraft was later
arrested and carried back to Thun-
| derbolt.
Denied Her Identity.
Meanwhile the officer had been to
| Thunderbolt. where the woman under
arrest was doing a weeping act end
| declaring she was Mrs. Whtcraft. She
| demanded her liberty, denied any mis-
conduct, and said it was an outrage.
1T was really superb, said the Off
Ger. "She almost fooled me, she play
ed her part so we'll. But | knew her.
After one of her finest scenes L asked
| gently if she had said she was Mrs
Whitcraft. She replied yes, and then
| asked when she had secured a di-
vorce from Bone, the man in jail. Well,
| it took her by surprise and she COL
| lapsed completely. She admitted then
who she was"
After Whitcraft had been carried
back to Thunderbolt the two We're ar
| raigned before Acting Recorder La
Roche. The evidence was that Mrs. Bone
had kicked the inoffensive duck off
its nest and broken some of the eggs.
There was no evidence to the effect
that Whitcraft had kicked a duck, but
| each was fined SIS. Whitcraft prompt
ly paid his fine and came to the city.
Mrs. Bone did not have the money and
she was detained for time. The fine
was later RENTED and she too came
to town.
Whitcraft Didn't Kick Duck.
Whitcraft said he did not know what
| he had been fined for. He had kicked
| no duck, he declared.
Il suppose 1 was fined for being in
company with the lady who kicked the
duck" he said. 81 paid my fine, but
| l think it was too much"
He exhibited a receipt which showed
that he had paid to the town of War
saw SIS as a fine imposed for mali
cious mischief" Whitcraft was seen
at his boarding house last night, where
Mrs. Bone also boards. The conveTsa-
ton had not gone very far, when a
voice from the adjoining room sounded:
Mind, no names"
Whitcraft replied that he was not
calling names. but Mrs. Bone was not
satisfied, and she had to appear on
the scene herself to expostulate.
Whitcraft has not been in Savannah
long. He employs a number of sales
men to sell an article from door to
door. He thinks he was treated very
badly.
IF I had kicked the duck. or had
any fun l would not mind, but l did