The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-08
HABEAS CORPUS
WRIT GRANTED
IN PRISON FOR Is MONTHS
ROSA TUTTY, COLORED, WAS YES
TERDAY RELEASED.

Charles Tutty, White, Who Insti-
tuted the Proceedings Against
Her, Sat With the Woman in the
SheriH's Office During the Entire
Day-Ate Lunch TOgether-When
Told That She Could Go, the WOm-
Seat.
After being confined in the Chatham
county Jail for sixteen months, Rosa
A. Tutty, colored, was given her lib
erty yesterday on a writ of habeas
corpus.
The woman was brought into the
court room early in the day, and I'M
til the case was called waited in the
sheriff's office. Near her was Charles
Tutty, white, the man who had her
placed in Jail. Sitting with her were
two other negro women, friends of
Rosa.
When the announcement was made
that Judge Cam had granted the writ
and that the woman's term of impri-
sonment was ended, she appeared over
joyed Her face lit up with smiles
and she began talking lightly to Tutty
and the women who sat beside her.
She seemed disinclined to leave the
sheriff's office, however.
About $50 o'clock one of the deputy
sheriffs stepped out of the court room
and told the woman that she could go.
With a Thank you SIR she rose and
then turned to Tutty and said: Use
goin' home!" The old man is apparent
ly hard of hearing and made no re-
Spouse.
Again the old colored woman leaned
over and said: Use goin' home now
Can't you believe it! It's true, though,
so come on" Then she reached out
rise, and the two left the office, the
woman apparently leading the way.
Glad of Her Release.
side and walks with a crutch. Just
before she left the sheriffs office she
began hobbling about the room and
bowling to each of the officers, told
them goodbye. Goodbye, sir. Good
bye, sir!" was the salutation.
Even after she had left the office
she stepped back and, turning to Dep
uty Sheriff Fennell, thanked him for
his kind treatment of her. AS though
all ended she said. as she turned away,
If l ever gets back in Jail again, l
hopes you'll all be as nice to me as
you wuz this time"
Tutty himself const antly assured the
woman that he would do all in his
power to secure her release. When
lunch time came, Tutty and the woman
ate together, and at the close of the
light meal he again assured her that
he wanted to get her out of Jail and
have the case dropped.
Circumstances of the Case.
The details of the case are familiar
to readers of the Morning News. The
woman was placed in Jail sixteen
months ago under bail in trover pro-
ceedings, instituted by Charles Tutty.
1t was claimed that she had appro-
priated to her own use three bonds,
| of the aggregate value of $4,000.
The claim of the woman, when or
dered to deliver the bonds, was that
she could not do so as they had been
stolen from her. She denied having
used them for herself and steadily
maintained that they had been stolen.
Under the proceedings, she was locked
up.
1t is alleged that Tutty became anx-
ious to drop the case some time ago,
but that his attorneys would not con-
sent to it. Tutty claims that he enter
ed into a contract with his lawyers to
give them a certain percentage of the
amount recovered.
The grounds brought forward by
the attorneys for Rosa were that the
questions at issue had ben adjudicated
and that the woman was therefore
being illegally restrained of her liberty