The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-11

driver, only to climb up on the back
of the vehicle. Small missiles, includ-
ing vegetables, ratified against the
sides of the coupe, and the police then
charged the crowd in earnest. Paper
bags filled with water were hurled
from many windows on the vehicle.
In anticipation of the examination
of the woman the Centre Street Court
squad had been reinforced by twenty
men from the Elizabeth, Leonard, Null
berry and Church street stations, and
these men had to contend with a howl
ing mob of hundreds at the entrance
to the building For several min
utes the detectives, with their prisoner,
battled with the excited people for en-
trance.
Had no Fear of Mob.
When the mob caught sight of the
negress a shout of dersion went up
that could be heard throughout the big
building. AS the detectives and their
prisoner fought their way across the
sidewalk there was a rain of bapana
skins. The woman did not look to right
or left and in her black eyes there was
no sign of fear.
There did not seem to be marked an
ger toward Hannah Elias, but simply
a feeling of disappointment that the
spectators had gone to so much trouble
to see SO poor a show.
While the woman was being held in
the pen long enough to give her ped
igree" the court room where Magistrate
Ommen was sitting rapidly filled with
an unusual assemblage. Fashionably
dressed men and women crowded about
the corridors and sought admission.
There were many well-known lawyers
who had come to study the peculiar
case, and not a few physicians, psy-
biologists and alienists. There were
large numbers of negroes. The court
room was filed almost an hour before
the time set for the hearing of the
Elias case.
Orders were given that no one would
be allowed to leave the court room
while the hearing was on.
Shortly before II o'clock District At
torney Jerome entered the court room
and those in the court room knew by
the roar of jeers and cries coming from
the crowds in the streets that the CEN
trail figure in the case was at hand
Washington Brauns, the womans at
torney, came into the court room, and
then up the aisle and through the
gates that lead to the bench came
Hannah Elias. Stripped of her ex-
pensive wigs and cosmetics she GER
tainly was not an attractive figure.
Less than the average hight and rath-
y
years that she gave as her age in the
PEN AS she walked up to the bar
before the judges desk her carriage
was anything but graceful. Her hair
showed thick and fluffy and kinky I'M
derneath her big black hat, which was
overturned with artificial roses.
The Prisoners Appearance.
She wore a white waist and a vivid
green ascot tie under a black cloth
jacket, trimmed with gold braid. Her
skirt was of light check material and
her gloves were Of black silk. She
wore no jewelry, except a gold clasp
in her tie. The clasp was set with a
diamond, a sapphire and a ruby. Her
feet and hands are small, but her fig
ure is pudgy and ungraceful. To the
spectators she seemed to be the typi-
cal mulatto woman of the South
And yet, as the woman stood straight
and impassive with her hands resting
on the rail while her lawyer argued
with the district attorney, there was
a something about her which gave
some indication of her superiority over
the average woman of her race 1t
might have been her eyes, large and
black, and brilliant, which lighted IN
her otherwise unattractive face or per-
maps her GOODNESS under trying circum-
stances. For nearly a half hour she
stood motionless and absolutely i'm
passive while hundreds of eyes were
fastened upon her and an undercurrent
of gossip was buzzing about her ears.
At intervals photographers pointed
cameras at her face and took pictures
of her, but she did not finch except
once, when a number of spectators
stood almost directly in front of her
and looked her over from head to foot. |
Then her thick lips quivered, but she |
soon became firm and the woman was |
herself again.