The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-01

surroundings of the jail and Court
House. One or more lieutenants had
accompanied him, but when asked who
they We're he could not recall them,
though he did not think they were
members of the Statesboro company
He believed that the rear stairway was
the most dangerous place as it led
nearest the prisoners room.
From the position in which Lieut.
Cone was last seen by Capt Hitch. it
would have been impossible for him
TO nave missed seeing the latter's seiz-
ure, unless his attention was strongly
attracted elsewhere. The statement of
Sergt. Scarboro regarding the place
where Capt. Hitch was when seized.
was stated to be incorrect The Off
Ger had rushed past a number of the
guard on the steps. Two or three of
the guards we're between him and the
mob when he was seized. Other state
ments of the same witness regarding
the movements of Capt. Hitch were de-
clared to be wholly incorrect Witness
had not knocked up the bayonet of
Scarboro.
Judge Daley's testimony was then
taken up, and before the statement of
Capt. Hitch was concluded the insin-
uations that the Judge was in a large
measure responsible for the lynching
were broad.
Wanted Warrants. Issued.
Before beginning this statement,
Hitch said that It had been his aim
not to try to shift the responsibility
on any subordinate, if there was any
blame. This feeling will not prevent
me from placing the blame on any
one outside of the members of my
command" said Capt. Hitch. IF
any are rightly blamable.
When the riot commenced Tuesday
morning, after sentence was pronounce
ed, 1 Immediately fastened to Judge
Daley and requested that he issue
warrants for the arrest of the men
who were melting the crowd to riot,
and said that their names were all
known, and that they were the ones
who were creating all of the trouble
on the afternoon before.
Judge Daley made an indecisive
answer, but so far as I know took
no action in the matter. I wanted
the leaders locked up and if this had
been promptly done, it would have
had very SOLDERING effect Fifteen
minutes later / requested Judge Daley
to swear in twenty deputies to assist
He replied that he would do so if
the sheriff would point out the men,
Events were moving so rapidly that
there was no time for me to wait on
him, or get the sheriff to select depu-
ties.
Put 1t Tn to Judge.
'If Judge Daley had remained in the
court room he could have been of great
assistance in directing the sheriff"
Col Wooten: Had he left when the
rioting began?"
ty minutes afterwards, and before 1t
was over. He says corridors were prac-
tically clear when he left the Court
House The statement is incorrect, ex-
cept in this particular. AS I explained
before, the mob kept asking that the
prisoners be not taken to Savannah.
Sheriff Kendrick intimated that if
they would dispense he would start
with the prisoners to Jail. The leaders
of the mob then shouted for the men
to stand back. They merely banked
up against the wall and thus cleared
an open space. 1t was during this tenn
porary' lull that Judge Daley escaped"
This last word was later changed at
the suggestion of Col. Wooten, and
made left the Court House"
my conviction is that were the
truth fully known" continued Capt.
Hitch, that the plan to lynch the
was dDdIlQOIlSO MONDAY
night, and on Tuesday morning it had
been entirely given up, and that for
some reason, and in some way, the
passions of the crowd was rekindled.
1t was evident that the crowd was
smaller on Tuesday, but it increased
after the sentence was pronounced.
my judgment is that the remarks
of Judge Daley in passing sentence on
the prisoners had as much to do with
infiaming the crowd as any other one
thing and probably more. What he said
could very reasonably have been con-
strued by the crowd to mean that in
his judgment hanging was too good
for the prisoners. The result was two
hours of terrific fighting"
List of the Wounded.
Col. Wooten: During those two
hours of terrific fighting that you
speak of, how many were wounded of
the soldiers, or of the mob?"
Capt. Hitch called the names of
Sergt. Scarborough. Corpl. Waters,
Lieut.. McIntire and others of the mill
tary who had suffered at the hands Of
the mob.
Col Wooten: How many Of the
mob showed evidence of having been
wounded?"
Capt. Hitch: "I had no way of nnd-
ing out. We left soon afterwards.
heard that some of the soldiers used
their guns on the crowd
At the conclusion Of Capt. Hitchs
statement, Lieut.. McIntire was recall
ed to answer a charge made at States
boro that his gun had been taken from
him four times The witness at States
boro who knew all this, described Lieut.