The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-11
DOCS ON FInlD'S TRAIL;
 LYNcHINc MAY RESULT
Ixe ef Victins Dsad and Third
 Dyhs.
Axed Women struck Down with Axe, Another Is AssasIted Before Be- ,.x Killed and Last IL n
 Hespit.l Near
 Death.

Savannah, Ca. Dec. 1o.--victims of . rsvolting crime, Mrs Eliza Gribbles aged 70 years. and her daughter. Mrs Carrie ohlander. were found dead tn their home. 4o1 Perry street: West here today. while third woman. whose name Is unknown. found just in- side the front door of the house. Is at the Savannah hospital dying.
 Physicians state that Mrs. ohiander was the victim of criminal assault just before she was Killed
 $ one hundred and fifty negro men. caught in the meshes of the police drag net through Yamacraw. the negro section of the city, are prisoners in the police station. the theory of the police being that negro man. having pisn- ned an assault upon Mrs. ohlander. was compelled to commit the other crimes in order to escape.
 Other arrests will be made before nornins until every negro in the city who in any way resembles the dsscrip- ton of a negro. who during the iast three days has been seen frequently about the premises of the house of the murdered woman. is prisoner.
 The police believe that the negro us. ing an axe taken. from the wood shed in the rear of the Ssrfbble home. beat Mrs. Gribbie to death, struck d?wnsthe unknown woman and after assauiting Mrs. ohiander in the wide. long hall way where the bodies were found. fin- ished his terrible work by beating n n her skuli with the weapon.
 Mrs 0ribbie evidently was attacked . r,.,..s.s s.as.s sis sat iH- an sAay char reading. On the floor beside her body were found the hswspaper she was reading ana her spcctAcles
 one. or possibiJ twos blows were daalt here. Her grey hair. blnod-niat- ted. shows the imprint of the hunt axe.
 It is probable that the unkpown wo- man was the first to be struck down. that she met the murderer at the door as he entered and was struck before she could dtseape.
 Then the murderer. steaithily ap- proachins aged Mrs. Gribble. Killed her. It is believed that Mrs. ohiander. as she left her room to enter the hall way. was assaulted and killed. Tho un,nown woman's skull was crushed In and her, death is matter or put q
 Other theories are entertained by searchsrs for the murderer. but the police are proceeding on the theory that q negro is the guilty one. Many entertain this theory and feeling IS m tense here because If 1t. The motley horde of prisoners in the ponce s,aton and jail are frightened. It IS peneveu tnat if the negro suspected of the crime is caught he can be quickly iden- tified.
 effort to take the trail from the wooa- shed where the axe used by the mur- derer was found, but as the house ot murders is almost Within the heart or the city and as the murders probabiy were committed several hours before the discovery of the bodies. the dogs will be of little use.
 Identiaed as Mrs. Hunter.
 Tonight Mayor Tiedeman. of savan- nah, ofrered reward of sl.o00 for the capture with evidence to convict, the shaver of Mrs Gribble and Mrs. Oh lander and assaiiant of Mrs Maggie Hunter. who was not Identified for hours after the discovery Of the niur- ders and who is the woman at the point of death in a savannah hospital.
 It Is now almost certainly known that a negro. the negro who was ar first suspected, Is the guilty persoi- Persons have been found who state that this negro was seen entering the Gribble house with an axe in his hand and was seen closing the shutters to the windows of the house and to leave the premises. all at the hour when It is believed the murders were commit ted.
 The negro's. description has been urinted on hand bills and scattered broadcast over the city and county with the reward ofrer. and all nearby towns have been notified and are on the lookout. Police officers tn auto mobiles have covered all the roads for miles around the city while posses on foot have secured the. places where au- tonobiles could not go.
 The house to house search of negro homes continues and the negro's cap ture is expected momentarily.