The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-24
WOMAN SLAIN
BY UNKNOWN HAND
CRIME SHRoUDED IN MYSTERY
COOK IN MIR. w. p. HARDEE's FAM
lily KILLED IN HER ROOM.

An Servants Quarters, in the Rear
of the Hardee Home on Gwinnett
street, Minnie Green Was Fatally
Stabbed in Broad Daylight - No
Screams Were Heard by Reside nts
of Tranquil NeighbOrhOOd.
wounded Woman CrawIed Into
Yard and Was Found by MiIl<man.
Died "A Few Minutes Later.
BY an unknown hand Minnie Green
q negro cook, was stabbed to death in
the servants quarters of the residence
of W. P. Hardee. Esq, at No. 2l4
Gwinnett street, east, about 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Although the murder was committed
in broad daylight. in one of the most
prominent residence sections of the
city within calling distance of the
home of Acting Mayor James NJ.
Dixon, no one can be found who heard
an outcry, and the police confess that
they are practically without a clue.
That there was a scufle is shown by
the condition of the room in which
the tragedy was enacted. and by the
three wounds inflicted by the murderer.
Although too feeble to cry out, the
woman dragged herself from the room,
crawled down a long flight of stairs
into the yard, and made an effort to
climb into Mr.. Hardee's residence and
make known by her appearance that
she had been mortally wounded.
With her life blood rushing from a
CHASTITY wound In the chest, about two
inches below the collar bone. the wom-
an moved with difficulty. She was able
10 ascend several Of the steps leading
into the residence, however, before she
fell back exhausted. A moment after
the woman fell into a pool of her own
blood she was discovered by the milk
man, who was making his usual after
noon delivery.
NeIGhbOrhOOd Was Aroused.
The woman was gasping for breath
ing the neighborhood. usually tranquil
The first information that the officers
of the law received that there had
been a tragedy was when some one
at Mr.. George j. Baldwin's residence
telephoned Desk Sergeant Baughn at
police headquarters.
DIR. w. II. Elliot, who resides within
block of where the ARRAY occurred
was at home at the time and reached
the woman before she expired Dr.
Elliot saw at a glance that the wounds
were fatal, and the woman lived less
than five minutes after his arrival
Her tongue appeared paralyzed and
nothing that would throw any light
on the killing was secured from her.
Officers Were Banied.
Patrolman Ungar and the superin-
tendent of police were the first officers
TO reach the scene. officer Nose Davis
and the entire detective force was at
work in a short while, but no infor-
NATION that threw any light on the
homicide was secured. The officers
were frank to confess that they were
baffled
The Green woman was employed as
a cook in Mr.. Hardee's family, and
lived in a room in the yard. An ad-
Joining room is occupied by a man,
ahe woman's cousin. but he was at
work when the tragedy occurred. 1t
was in this room that the woman re-
ceived the wounds that caused her
death. She was stabbed in the breast,
in the left side of tn neck, and her
right hand was cut
No Screams Were Heard.
DR.. Elliot, who made an examina-
ton of the wounds, he believes, within
Fifteen minutes after they were inflicted,
says that the wound in the breast was
the one that produced DEATH and in
MS opinion was inflicted first. The
room was spattered with blood and
the doctor believes that the cook was
sitting on her cousins bed when she
was attacked.
1t is believed that her assailant
plunged the knife into her breast and
that the woman threw up her right
hand to protect her throat when the
second stab, and the cut on the fin
gers, were received. The slayer must
have left Immediately and the woman
probably followed him down the steps,
dragging herself along. The officers
are certain that the milkman discov-
cred the wounded woman almost i'm
mediately after the cutting, yet he
saw no one in the yard, and had no.
ticed no suspicious person in the
neighborhood.
A thorough search of the premises
was made by the officers, but no trace
could be found of the weapon that had
been used by the murderer. A uni
formed man was put on guard and no
one was permitted to interfere with
the room, or the body. until Coroner
keller's return to the city. The hon.
1cide is shrouded in mystery, but the
police are in hopes of securing some