Arizona republican., 1905-09-02
A PARTI-COLORED SCANDAL
Involving a Woman Of Negro Blood
and a Drummer.

An attachment suit brought in JUS
tice Burnett's court yesterday morning
disclosed a scandal involving a colored
woman of this city and a travelling
man who spent the earlier part of the
week at one of the leading hotels. The
woman is Mary Hines, lately employed
at a boarding house, and the drummer
is A. P. Fuller, who is making this ter
ritory for the first time. The cOlored
girl is so nearly white that it is only
by the closest observation that a trace
of negro origin can be discovered, and
even then the discovery would not
likely be made unless one had been
previously informed of the fact. Last
Monday the travelling man was
about the streets with her, and he sue
ceeded in attracting the attention of
many persons who knew the girl.
Miss Hines has been in the city for
about two years. Since then she has
been under the protection of Henry
Davis. janitor of the Fleming block.
He mas been quite attentive to her, and
insisted that she should conduct her
self in such way as not to reflect up
on the race.
When he learned of her appearance
on the street with Fuller he learned
it from the girl, who, thinking ne
would be angry, was the first to tell
him. He reproached her and said he
would make an investigation and find
out how far this mixed racial Irritation
had gone. The girl also told him that
she nad first met Fuller on the coast,
where she had recently been spending
a vacation on money that Davis had
loaned her She said that Fuller had
been very kind to her there. She also
promised to have nothing more to do
or criNr
promise full credence, but kept up a
watch. which resulted in the disclosure
of another meeting.
Davis then decided to take it up with
Fuller He called upon him at his no.
tel and prefaced his remarks
with the statement that what
he had to say to him would not
be pleasant, but that it was necessary;
he added that if Fuller was a gentle
man he would not finch, but would
thank him, but that he would be pre-
pared to act Immediately in the event
Fuller should not prove to be a gentle
man. Then he told aim of the Hines
girls negro ancestry. Fuller professed
great surprise and thanked Davis for
the information, and said he would not
see the girl again.
Davis said that the affair had been
embarrassing to him on account of his
protective relations with the girl, and
that the girl herself had been damaged.
Fuller replied: "I don't think any of
the rest of you are hurt worse than 1
am"
Davis told him that his interest in
the affair was not wholly personal 1t
was more matter of his race. He said
that if a colored man should persist in
this country i'm showing attentions to
long, and in this case neither would
Fuller unless his relations with Miss
Hines came to an end Immediately.
Fuller said that the end had already
come.
Davis was not sure of that; his sus-
picion had been aroused soon after en-
tering the hotel by Fuller going to the
telephone and calling up the boarding
mouse where the girl was employed.
But he warned Fuller again and went
away. He next called on the girl at
the boarding house to tell her how mat
ters stood at that moment. On his way
back he met Fuller going toward the
house. Fuller told him that with his
consent ne would like to speak to the
girl a minute. Davis told him that it
was in his power to speak to her, but
1t would be done with risk, for what
he told him at the hotel a few minutes
before still stood. Fuller turned back
to town with Davis and left the city on
Wednesday night.
The same night the girl disappeared
from the boarding house, saying that
she would be back in three or four
days. She took nothing with her ex-
cept a few articles in a telescope va
lise. Among the things she left behind