The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-29
POLLARD AGAIN
FOUGHT JAILORS
AND WAS ovERPoWERED.
DEsPERADO WAS CARRIED TO
CONVICT CAMP AT MILLTOWN.

sentenced to Serve Twenty Years in
the Penitentiary for Burglary ana
Assault With Intent to Murder,
He Fought Like a Demon, When
Guards Came for Him-Made a
similar Fight Several Weeks Ago
when Guard Came for Him.
Was beaten to the Floor. tied
with Ropes and Carried TO the
station in the Patrol Wagon.
For the second time Will Pollard,
sentenced to twenty years in the pen
itentiary, attacked his jailor early yes
terday morning. Though Pollard
fought with all the fury of his former
attack, the officials were on their guard,
and the results were not so much in
the negro's favor.
He was beaten to the floor, bound
with a rope and carried to the depot,
where he was put on the train for Mill
town, to be placed in the Gress Lumber
Company camp.
There is little doubt that Pollard will
give all the trouble he can at the camp,
and it is believed by many that he will
force some of the guards to kill him.
He has said all along that he would
never work in the penitentiary, that he
would die first. and on one occasion he
came very near doing so-when he at
tackled Chief Deputy Sheriff Sweeny.
The Fight in Jail.
The fight yesterday was nothing
compared with the one several weeks
ago. though it was lively enough
while it lasted. Prison Guards Low
ell and Jones had called at the Jail
for the prisoner. They accompanied
the jailor to Pollard's cell and as the
door was thrown open the negro at
tackled them with a slop bucket, which
had been left there.
The men jumped back in time to
escape the blow though the contents
them. They called for Chief Deputy
Sheriff Sweeny and the four then at
tackled Pollard. He resisted to the
last and was beaten until he dropped
on the floor. He was then bound with
a rope from head to foot.
The police patrol was called, and the
negro, still trying to kick, was lifted
into it. At the station he was placed
on the train by main strength.
Must BE Killed.
You will have to kill me-" Pollard
exclaimed, repeatedly. Il have told
you l was never going to the peniten-
tiary alive and l won't, if l can help it.
If you do get me there, l won't work.
l will make some one shoot me-"
And he probably will, too. That the
negro wants to be shot there is no
doubt. At the time of the first at
tack Pollard made upon his jailors. he
IN, 70 Of, fefo 1aolI til
Chief Deputy Sheriff Sweeny's hands
and called to him to Shoot and be
d" Even after the officer hit him,
Pollard continued the fight and did not
give up until he dropped from exhaus-
ton, bleeding from head to foot.
POIIard's Record.
Pollard is one of the worst negroes
that the authorities here have ever had
to contend with. Since he was IA or
Is years old, he has been a familiar
figure to the police. Only within the
last few years, however, has he be-
come desperate. His crimes until a
few years ago were confined to petty
thieving. Once he got into more Sc
rious trouble and was sent to the peni- |
tertiary for a short term.
While there he attempted to escape, |
and was shot, which accounts for his
present dread of going back. He was
arrested here for burglarizing the Sa-
Vannah Rice Mills. The jury that con-
victed him recommended him to the
mercy of the court. but Judge Cam |
who knew the negros record disre-
earded the recommendation and gave
him the full limit, ten years. For his
former attack on the jailors he was
convicted of assault with intent to
murder and was given ten more years
When he was sentenced he asked the
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the last execution was about to take
place in the Jail he asked to be al
lowed to take the condemned mans |
place on the scaffold.
Pollard in WaycrOss.
special from Waycross tells of Pol
lard spending four hours there to-day
on his way to the camp. The guards
had to wait four hours in Waycross
TO make connection, and during that
time Pollard was kept in the depot.
The entire time he was here" the
telegram says, the negro remained in
the waiting room at the depot, with his
hands tied behind him, and his feet
strongly tied together. He was in his
bare feet. and his waist was perfectly
nude, his shirt having been torn from
his back during his struggles at the
Jail in Savannah, when he was remov-
ed from his cell. His skull and Shout !
ders were bloody, and thousands of
hies lighting on his wounds and his
bare skin must have caused great ply
steal pain, but at no time did he show
any sign of the suffering he endured. |
Occasionally some one would speak |
to the negro and then he would COM
mence his fearful cursing. Pollard's
guards had to lift him on and off the |
train his hands and feet being tied TO
prevent him from assaulting the Off |
GERS"
The dispatch from Waycross says o. |
n Lowther, who has a turpentine
plant in the western part Of the coun- |
". has leased Pollard for five years.