The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
HOLD HUSBAND FOR ATROCITY Savannah Police Again Arrest
 Man. WIFE OF SUSPECT TALKS Meanwhile, Search For Negro is
 Continued. Mebs of Angry Citisens Hold Forth In Yamacraw and Barracks Are
 Crowded With Black sus-
 pects--Had Been Iron I bIe In Family.

of Mrs. Maggie Hunter, only surViVor of the three women who were attack ed in their home here yesterday af- ternoon. made in her delerium at the Savannah hospital. where she hovers between life and death. caused the re- arrest of her husband J. c. Hunter, today.
 Listening physicians and nurses who have hoped to catch definite clue to the perpetrator of the crimes. which caused the deaths of aged Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander. heard Mrs. Hunter say that her husband had struck her. The police were immediately notified and Hunter was quickly taken in GUS tody. However. the police have placed no charge against him. Despite this statement. made In the injured woman's delirious babblIng. few believe that any one is guilty of the crimes except the negro man. now missing, who was seen to enter the house about the time of the murders. with an axe in his hand, and to leave the building later.
 The hunt for the negro has not abated. yet he seems to have disap- peared as if swallowed up by the earth. To aid the search for the mur- derer. Governor Brown. of Georgia, today added $500 to the reward al- ready offered, making the total now $1,300.
 Funerals of Victims.
 Late this afternoon double funerals of Mrs. Ohlander and Mrs. Gribbie were held and as evidence of the feel ing here the crowds that were attract ed to the scene of the crime respect fully stood back and the two cask cts were attended by few relatives of the slain women as they were taken to the graves. Hunter. who Is painter and paper hanger, has been separated from hts wife for several months. He protests his innocence.
 Mrs. Hunter remained in an uncon- scious state the greater part Of the morning, caused by a blow on the head by some blunt instrument, presumably an axe Later In the day she was able to make several statements to the pos | lice, but in none of these was any mention made of negro being in the house. On the contrary she told of having trouble with her husband and declared to detectives he was the man who had assaulted her.
 The funeral of Mrs. Gribble and her daughter were held this afternoon.
 All during the man hunt. which last ed all of last night. intense excitement prevailed. As revolting details of the tragedy became known 1t only inten- slfied the excitement. In fact. so fren- zied did the searchers become after learning that Mrs. Ohiander had been criminally assaulted before she was murdered, that a white man who by accident had scratched his face, came near being torn to pieces when the crowd saw the blood.
 All Hiding Places Destroyed.
 Fences were torn down and doors burt in. Every obstruction in the path of the crowd which would have afrorded a probable hiding place for the fugitive was levelled.
 The negro wanted for the crime is said to be about 2s years of age, of ginger cake color and slender build. Practically every negro who answers his description had been sent to jail during the night on suspicion.
 Several persons have said that they saw such a negro entering and after wards leaving the Gribble home about the time that the murder Is supposed to have occurred. One man went so far as to state that he saw a man in the house in the act of striking some thing with an axe As all of the vic- tins had been cut or stabbed with a knife and then their heads horribly crushed with some blunt instrument. presumably an axe. this Is taken as al- most conclusive proof by many.
 Mrs. Gribble, the oldest of the three victims of the negro, was native or Cornwall. England, and was 72 years old. Mrs. Ohlander was 45 years old and formerly lived fin Montgomery, Ala, where she left her husband about three years ago. Mrs. Hunter Is 35 years old and also had left her hus. band several months ago.
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 Savannah. Ga, Dec 11--With the arr rest of William Walls tonight, it is possible the police have taken a long stride toward solving the mystery of the murder of Mrs. Eliza Gribbie and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander and the fatal wounding of Mrs. Maggie Hunter here yesterday afternoon.
 Though Walls Is nots formally charged with any crime. yet he is closely guarded at the police station. To iav the police found at his home a grey sweater flecked with blood and a coat badly stained but which has not vet been sufficiently well examin- ed to determine the nature of the stains.
 The police began their investiga- tlons in regard to Walls after learn ing that he had expressed an inten- tion to visit the Gribble home a few minutes prlOT 10 tue liihe OA bhc thuh- ders and again appeared after they must have occurred.
 He Is a cousin of Mrs. Hunter. who late tonight Is unconscious in Savan- nah hospital. even her incoherent statements in delirium. from which the police hoped to learn something that would point to the double murder having almost ceased. Little hope Is entertained that she will live more than a few hours.
 Despite the arrest of Walls and the stories that his aequaintances have told of his actions on the day of the murders, the declarations of witnesses that the missing and suspected negro man was seen entering the house of murders with the axe that was used in the Killing of the two women, In his hand, is regarded here as furnishing the best clue to the murderer.
 However, the police stated late to- night that they will continue to hold Walls and J. C. Hunter. husband of the injured woman, arrested earlier in the day.
 May Be Montgomery Woman.
 Although the identity Is not fully