The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-16
OFF FOR HEAVEN.
LANDED IN JAIL.
JUDGE M'ALPIN- AS ST. PETER
AIDED MATERIALLY IN GETTING
LUNATIC BEHIND THE BARS.

Was Smashing Furniture and Break
ing Windows in Her Home When
Arrested-Wns Told That She
Would be Taken to Heaven, the
Place for Which She Said She Was
So StrenuOusIy Prephring-Char-
iOt-ride to the Jail Completed the
PrOceedings-Enter Cell to
"Purge Her Sins"
Believing that she was en- route to
heaven, Elsie Bostck, colored, was
yesterday escorted from her home in
West Savannah to the Ordinary's
Court and thence to- the county
Jail.
Her Incarceration in Jail was car
ried out on the same scheme, and all
the details of arraignment in the world
to come were in the comedy.
The woman was constantly applying
the names of the departed saints TO
the officials of the Court of Ordinary,
and for time the interest in the
proceedings was at fever heat.
The first hint that there was some
thing doing came with a telephone
message that the woman was smash
ing the windows and breaking up the
furniture in her home at West Savan-
nah. Officers were at once sent to the
scene of the trouble to make inquiry
and stop the wholesale destruction.
Mid the sound of breaking glass and
the cracking of the furniture, they en-
tered the woman's home and demand
ed an answer to the query regarding
the cause of her action. In response
came the answer that she had been
called to heaven and must get there as
soon as possible.
Taking their cue from this the Off
GERS announced that they were special
escorts from the celestial regions, and
that they would carry her to the place
for which she was so strenuously pre-
pairing. This contented the woman,
and without an instant's hesitation she
prepared for the journey.
Was Pleased with Heaven"
When the imposing front of the Court
House dawned on the woman's sight,
the iron gates before it standing just
atar. she burst into transports of de-
light, believing that she had at last
reached the place of her desires.
Heaven shoh is beautiful" she ex-
claimed IAN how clean hit am"
Hurriedly she was escorted within
the gates and to the Court of Ordinary.
There the real interest began. Judge
Henry McAlpin and Clerk Joseph Mo-
lima were both in the office, but with
out moments hesitation the woman
went straight to the judge and saluted
him as the eminent parsonage to whom
it has been given "to bind and TO
loose"
"St. Peter" was "there with the
goods" and comprehending the situa-
ton at once. he asked the woman If
she had purged herself of her sins.
When she answered in the negative, he
told her that that was one of the nee
essary conditions Of entrance.
Chariot Ride Was Thrown In.
The woman agreed to the purging,
whereupon Judge McAlpin informed
| her that a chariot ride was necessary
to make the apotheosis complete. This
suited the candidate for celestial hon.
ors. Minute instructions were then
given as follows:
Nov. Elsie. you must. go out and
get in the chariot" said Judge Nc
| Alpin, land that will drive you to the
| inner gates. When you get there you
must enter not only the first door
but the second also. Then you will
come to the bars. You must pass these
and within that room purge yourself
| The rest will come afterwards"
The woman thanked est Peter" fol
his minute instruction. and at once
entered the carriage and was
driven to the Jail and locked up. She
will be given her trial Wednesday. II
| is supposed that the trial stands fol-
1.-THE rest" that is to come after
| wards"
On the same day the woman who is
charged with burning d small boy &c
| death will face Judge McAlpin. The
woman is held on a lunacy charge
though the mother of the boy who was
burned claims that she can prove the
woman did the burning for pure
| spite.