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tumorous Jcpartmcnt. Whittier as a Casuist. The extreme d' :taste of the modest Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, for foolish hero-worship, and the skill which he attained in politely eluding too enthusiastic admirers, have been exemplified in many anecdotes. Even now. however, new ones occasionally come to light. One such recently related tells how two women of the type at once sentimentally gushing and overconfident of their own Importance, visited Amesbuty to seek the poet In his home. They went astray In their search for his house and bustled into a small general store to be redirected. The clerk, smiling, a little queerly, Informed them that the Whittier house was near by?but a few steps round the corner. One of the women, a big, florid, * .l?UU? overdressed being wun lanKuiamuB eyes, caught the smile and clasped her hands with a rapt air. "Oh don't you think he'll see us?" she demanded. "He simply must! We've heard he doesn't like to but he must; we won't go away till he does. We've thought up ever so many things we want to ask him." The clerk, still smiling, glanced casually toward a quiet man in a shadowy corner, sitting on a barrel, surrounded by a group of other leisurely customers. They had all been talking politics together, village-fashion, when the strangers came In. "Think he will?" said the clerk. *" ** u-J ??? An tha har "Weil," repneu uic mau rel, hesitatingly, "thee knows Greenleaf does not find It easy to refuse a lady. I think perhaps he will?If he Is at home." The women bustled away again, excited and expectant, and a chuckle went around among the laughing men. The man on the barrel, with a trace of apology In his tones, rose frorfi his perch to go. "They will not waste five minutes," he murmured, "It Is such a little way. Besides, thee knows very well that exercise is a good thing for stout ladles." "That's so, Mr. Whittier," assented the clerk.?Youth's Companion. It Was a Long Chasa. After more logs had been thrown on the fire and pipes lighted the talk drifted around the middle fork of the American river and the country round about. "The strongest remembrance I have of that country is of the big grizzly that chased me out." said Bill Bailey. "I was a-pickln' wild strawberries up on the side of a mountain when some pebbles, dirt an' one thing and another come a-clatterln' down; you all know how it Is on a hill side when something heavy 's movin' about you. I looked up, and s'elp me if ther wasn't a whoopln' big grizzly a siaiain' me; yes, sir, doin' the sneak act right up on me. You ought to see me go down the mountain; I'll bet my tracks was a rod apart, and in some places I didn't leave no tracks ?I Jest nacherally went through the air. But that bear was hittin' only the high places, too, and the faster I "went .the faster he come. I could hear his 'whoof right behind me, and sometimes I believed I felt his hot breath on the back of my neck. But I fooled him good and plenty." "How?" "I'd crossed the river on my way up, an' while the ioe would bear me I knowed It wouldn't hold up no 1,600 pound grizzly, so I headed for the river and out on the ice. So did the bear, but not far out. He went through an' I kept on; I didn't even stop to see if he got out. I was afeared he would." "Oh, you said you was plckin' strawberries?" "So I was; so I was; but I didn't tell all the story, for it would be too long. That bear chased me from August to January." Into Enkmy's Hands.?"Mao*, my dear," said a gentleman to his wife a few mornings ago, Just before leaving for his place of business, "Mary, I expect a couple of gentlemen will be down nere loaay 10 iuuk. a., wui with a view of buying. Don't be. careless with them and neglect to show them all the good points about the premises. If you are a little discreet now we can get a good price for the property. "I understand lovey; I'll not neglect them." hearing which "lovely" departed. In the course of the day two gentlemen called, and Mary gave them all the aid possible in inspecting the place. No estate agent could ever have been more valuable in describing the property than was this loyal little spouse. "Why. gentlemen." said she, "we have acetually received repeated offers of f 1,000 for this property, and have held It all along to be worth ?1,500." That night, as the husband entered his home, he said: "I was sorry today, Maty, but those gentlemen had some engagement, so that they could not eome down." "What's that you say?" exclaimed the wife. "I said th<?se gentlemen couldn't come down." ' "But they did. though: and I tell you 1 cracked up the place to them. I verily believe I made them think the old rookery was worth ? 1.000." "How did they look?" asked the the husband. The wife described them, when the husband threw up both hands and veiled: "Mary. you have undone me completely. You have been talking to the assessors."?Tit - Bits. She'd Wait For His Retprn.?A Philadelphia clergyman was talking about the late Sam Small. "I ottce heard him speak." he said, "and his humor and eloquence impressed me deeply. "He had a happy knack of illustration. He wanted. I remember, to Illustrate the frailty that is a part of even the best characters, and he told a. story about a brave young soldier. "This soldier, he said, enlisted in the Spanish-American war, and he fought like a lion for his country*. The firm he had worked for. pleased with the record he was making for himself, told his wife that all the time he was away they would pay half his wages ll? IICI. "Accordingly, at the end of the first week the young woman called at the office, and the head of the firm handed her $9. "She looked at the money, and her face clouded over. "Nine dollars?' she said. " Yes.' said the head, a little hurt; "that is just half. I'm sorry you are not satisfied.' " 'It isn't that I'm not satisfied.1 said the young woman, 'but all along he's been telling me that his pay was only SI4 a week. Wait till he gets home! If them Spaniards don't kill him. I will!'" ittisi.cItanrouD grading IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. News and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. News, March 30: The many friends of Mrs. Leroy Springs, who Is undergoing treatment In a Baltimore hospital will be pleased to learn that there Is a gratifying Improvement In her condition this week. Col. Springs who has been with her for some time, returned home yesterdayMr. B. D. Jones met with a bad accident last Tuesday. While at work on a gin house being built on Judge Jones's Gl-nwood farm, near town, he fell and sustained painful Injuries, being terribly bruised in a number of places Mr. Judson KennJngton and Miss Nellie Rollings, daughter of Mr. W. H. Rollings, of the Ebenezer section, were married last Wednesday. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. M. Pardue, at his I home A colored girl about ten I years old, named Lily Jackson, was I arrested here Thursday by Sheriff I Hunter, for stealing a valuable ring (from the residence of Mr. B. C. Hough, belonging to Mrs. Hough. The J ring was stolen Wednesday, and was found in the girl's possession. Mr. J Hough requested, that the girl, on ac| count of her tender age. be whipped (and turned loose Very little cot| ton is being sold on this market now, | and it is thought that there is but (very little more in the country to sell. The receipts thus far are somewhat (in advance of those up to this time (last year. Mr. Nesbit, the public | weigher, having weighed about 10,j 760 bales of last year's crop. It Is not J likely that the total receipts of the J previous season will exceed those of (last year, as there were about 1,000 | bales sold here last June and July. | It is not expected that any will be j marketed in Lancaster during those j months this year, as what little cotton | is still being held will doubtless be | "turned loose" ere that time j Mrs. Elizabeth Hoke, mother of Mrs. (W. B. Knight, of Lancaster, died J Thursday at her home In the Lesslie J neighborhood, York county. She had (been in feeble health for some tlmfe. J Mrs. Knight was with her mother (when she passed away, having gone j to her bedside the day before. Mr. j Knight went over to Rock Hill yesj terday morning to attend the funeral, J which occurred there yesterday afterj noon at three o'clock. It will be re called that It was only a iew wcbm ago that Mrs. Knight lost a brother, Mr. David Hoke, who died In Shreveport, La. Mrs. Hoke was the widow of the late John C. Hoke, of York. She was the daughter of the late William Robinson, of Chester county, and was In her 70th year, having been born May 7, 1837. She was a member of the Methodist church and was a lady of exalted Christian character. She Is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mr. W. B. Hoke, of Fort Mill; Mr. Jas. Hoke of Catawba Junction; Mr. Munerlynn Hoke, of Winnsboro;Messrs. Johnson and W. H. Hoke, of York; Mrs. W. B. Knight, of Lancaster; Mrs. P. M. Berry, of Tunnell Hill, Ga.; Mrs. J. L. May, of Florida, and Miss Maggie Hoke, of Waycross, Ga. CHESTER. Lantern, March 29: Miss Mary Ann Christopher of Fort Lawn and Mr. Leckie of Statesville, N. C., were married at 3 o'clock yesterday, March 28, 1907, by Rev. J. H. Y&rborough, at his home at Fort Lawn Miss Josle Oates arrived home from Union yes terday evening to spend tne ussier holidays. Miss Josie Fewell of Rock Hill, who teaches in the same school, accompanied her and went on home this morning Major Lee of the Southern Power company, stopped over in the city Wednesday on his way to the Falls. The mayor and water and light committee took him out to the power house. After looking around for a half hour, he said the machinery is first-class and of the latest and best type, and suggests that we could use the same building for the substation, which would be a saving to us in taking power from his company. He said that he could bring the power here In about six months. Engineers are at work between here and Broad river locating a line which will pass through or near the city. -Mr. W. H. Finch died about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, March 28, at this home at Fort Lawn, after an illness of nearly three months with lung trouble. He was a native of North Carolina, but has been living at Fort Lawn for about twenty years and has been postmaster at that place for a number of years. He was a thorough Christian gentleman and had won the confidence and esteem of all with whom ne came in concaci. no was about forty-five years old and Is survived by his widow, who was Miss Martha McDow, of that neighborhood, and five children, Mrs. \V. T. Gladden and Hugh. Mary. Martha and James Finch, all of that place. Reporter, March 28: Miss Bessie Carlisle of Xewberfy, is expected here today to spend the Easter holidays with her sister, Mrs. W. M. Kennedy. ....The following is an extract from a letter received by Mayor Hardin from Col. M. B. Hardin, chief chemist at Clemson college, in reference to certain samples of our city drinking water, which were sent him for analysis: "Woter slightly turbid and partly yellowish. Chief constituents, carbonates of calcium and sodium, with smaller quantities of carbonates, sulphates and chlorides of magnesium, sodium and potassium. There is very little organic matter in the water and, there is no evidence of contamination by impurities of animal matter, The water is safe, but would be more acceptable if perfectly clear and colorless." Judge Dantzler in his charge to the grand Jury Monday morning stated to> the body that the purpose of the law is to avenge crime in an orderly and legal fashion, and that herein lies the difference between observance of the law and disregard of the same. The whole future of civilization hinges on this one vital point; that is, whether we are to makt our courts subsidiary to wild and inflammable mob spirit or whether th< courts are to maintain their ancienl dignity and continue to dispense evenhanded justice to all comers, unhampered by any disposition on the pari of the citizens to take the law intc their own hand. The test of our faitii in our institutions is the disposition to stand by them at all times, particularly in this matter of robbing the courts of their prerogatives to gratify some personal call for revenge. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, March 29: A chicken fight took place Tuesda> somewhere near the South Carolina line, between the fanciers of the two states, and It Is reported on good authority that the North Carolina chickens licked the sandlappers to the tune of seven out of five. As no one from Gastonia was present to witness the fight, this score is not verified, but at any rate some Gastonia folks know about it Mr. Dorie Craig, an employee of the Page company, was the victim of a most distressing accident Wednesday afternoon when he had the misfortune to have his right arm broken, the bone crushed and the flesh badly lacerated. The limb was caught by a set screw while Mr. Craig was engaged in work at one of the machines In the shop. The injured man was at once removed to the office of Dr. C. E. Adams up -? town ana me wouna w? Drs. Sloan and Reld assisting. Though very badly mangled, Mr. Craig refused to have the arm amputated, hoping that It can be saved. Mr. Craig has many friends who learned with regret of the accident he had sustained and who hope that he will entirely recover from the effect of it. Four Gastonlans went to Charlotte yesterday to test the value of the mad stone. They were Misses Estelle and Kate Jenkins, the young daughters of Mr. John Jenkins, who lives near the Loray mill, on the north side of the railroad; Mr. Jas. Howell and the young son of B. W. Spratt, who lives in the western section of town. All four were bitten Tuesday by the rabid dog belonging to Mr. Howell, which was later killed. Wednesday Mr. Spratt took his young son to Charlotte and the madstone was applied, adhering for fifty minutes. Yesterday morning the two girls, Mr. Howell. Mr. Spratt and the latter's son went to Charlotte for the samo purpose. The young people were all bitten on the arms, none of their wounds being very serious. The dog also attacked a cat and literally tore It to pieces. ON THE RUN. How Passenger* Dei on rwnvi inane* of Steamships. It was the smoking room steward on one of the big Atlantic liners who spoke, and he was relating some interesting stories in connection with the many big sweepstakes he had organized on the ship's dally runs. For those who never cross the Atlantic It may be mentioned that It Is always the smoking room steward who gets up these little gambles?collects the names, rakes in the money and hands out the prize. For this work he is generally paid 5 per cent on the amount received, though of couise there is no obligation to pay him anything should the prize winner feel so disposed. But as a rule the smoking room steward comes off very well, and what with tips and interest in the sweepstakes he probably does better than any other servant on the ship. The steward, a round faced, good natured German, who spoke English without an accent, stated, in reply to a question, that he had been getting up transatlantic sweepstakes during the last ten years, and he thought it more than likely that he would be getting up transatlantic sweepstakes for ten years to come. He had handed out many valuable prizes during that time, and the amount of money which had thus passed through his hands would probably total up to tens of thousands of pounds, had he only kept a record. But, unfortunately, he had not, though he acknowledged that he could recall many remarkable sweepstakes which he had organized. the prizes in which would have made any ordinary man's fortune. "Probably the biggest sweepstake that I ever engineered." he said, "was In 1897?Queen Victoria's diamond Jubilee?when we had on board a whole bunch of American millionaries. There was a coterie of these men?twenty in all?and they stuck together during the entire trip. They played cards In groups of fours and fives, dined at one table and had little to say to the other passengers. They had left their wives behind, for, as one of them explained, they were out for a 'good time.' "Well, the second day of the trip one of them came and asked me to get up a sweepstake between the party, and put the entrance fee at $20. I got the names, collected the $400, distributed the numbers, and the prize was won by a gentleman from Montana. When I handed him the money he picked out two twenty dollar bills, handed them to me and quietly pocketed the remainder. Then he ordered drinks and cigars all around, and five minutes later had probably forgotten all about the matter. "Later in the day, however?the ship's run being posted at 12 noon? these gentlemen called me up and said: 'Kaiser' (they called me 'Kaiser* for fun), we want a sweepstake with a 1?rtle interest in it, not the kind of game a lot of schoolboys would Join ii:. hut something wcrik while. Now, ? :>i n ake out another ji t and put the entrance fee at $500. Stick the notice on the board, and mention that there is no limit to the number allowed to enter?we'll welcome every one on board this tub. Mark the twenty of us as paid, and then, if you'll come back, we'll hand you the cash." "Well, I did as they said, and when I returned each man handed me notes for ?100 (we were running east;. me ?2,000 I promptly deposited with the purser, and I felt a good deal easier when I knew It was In safe keeping. As I had anticipated, no outsider came into the game, and so the result lay i between the twenty Americans. By a curious coincidence the gentleman from Montana won again, and when I handed him the money he gave me ten ?5 notes for my trouble. When, we arrived in New York we found that the , news of the big sweepstake had preceded us, and as soon as the gangplank was run out I was surrounded i by reporters all clamoring for details. . However, I didn't tell them very much, . though every New York paper came out the next day with about a column of my remarks," and the good-natured German laughed heartily. "The ordinary sweepstake runs from . a sovereign to ?5 a ticket, so that ' even in the smallest sweep the prize i is worth having. Some of those who I go in regularly for these sweepstakes are extraordinarily lucky. On our last western trip, for instance, there 1 was an Englishman on b~ard who : went in for a ?5 draw six times. Tne . first three he won straight off the reel, and then finished up by annexing the last. Altogether he won ?200, without t deducting the ?30 which he had him. self staked. "After the first couple of days the passengers get to know pretty well 1 what the ship can do, and if ? the elements are favorable then there , in quite a little gambling among the members of a sweepstake In bidding 1 for the supposedly winning numbers. I have known a man hold a favorite . number, for which he paid originally ?10, sell it for ?25, buy a rank 'outsider' for ?15. and after that carry off the prize. Of course, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the result cannot be anything but chance, though ^ there are times when sound calculation will go far toward landing the l pool."?Tit-Bits. FAMOUS TRIALS. t c Those of Webster, Harris, Kennedy, _ 0 Fleming and Others. v While murder is one of the common- s est of crimes In New York city, only v a very small percentage of the murder r trials are reported at any length In the t New York newspapers. The ordinary c variety of killings, lacking In "unwrlt- t ten law" attachments and fixtures, and e with persons of neither wealth nor 1 beauty figuring as defendants or wit- e nesses, do not even get a "stickful" a \ day of notice In the New York papers, t On conviction or acquittal In such t cases a bare three or four lines not- s lng the verdict are printed. Yet there s are several murder trials going on In s New York on every calendar day. f There are scores of murderers now j awaiting trial In New York, and a l good many of these trials are held c back by the Thaw case, to the prose- j cutlon of which the entire force of c the district attorney's office has ad- i dressed Itself from the day following i the shooting of Stanford White. About ( once In two years a really "big" mur- c der trial happens in New York. That, 3 at least, has been the average during c the past twenty years. \ After having reported for various \ New York newspapers a good many of t these famous trials of the past twenty 1 years or so, one finds it more or less Interesting to run over some of the 1 most notable of them and to revive 1 Impressions formed at the time con- < cerning the principals In such cases. ? One of the first murder trials which t I reported for a New York newspaper was that of Burton Webster, In 1888 f or 1889. The so-termed "unwritten j law" was not Involved in this case, al- q though it mlgnt wen nave Deen. tjur- t ton Webster, a bookmaker of the bast ; repute in his class and a man with j legions of friends, caught the man 1 whom he shot and killed, in the com- 1 pany of the woman upon whom he had lavished his affections?Evelyn Granville, an actress and a very beautiful i woman. Webster had repeatedly s warned the man to remain away from j the apartment in which .he and the j actress lived. When he returned to j the apartment one night and found the , man there in spite of all warnings , Webster promptly shot him to death , and surrendered to the authorities. , He did not do the baby act. but took , his medicine in silence, although he j had many influential friends who might ? have turned the tide in his favor had ( he Invoked their aid in that direction. ( He was sent away for twenty years, , and finished out his term, with the ( usual time off for good behavior. Web- ( ~ anmnmhot nromo. Sicr, fct vcij 4ujcvt owuivniiMk j turely old man, well liked by those with whom he comes into contact, now makes his home In Washington. Evelyn Granville, the woman who was at the bottom of all the trouble, died a miserable death a few years ago. The case of Carlyle Harris, a medical student, charged with murdering his beautiful young wife by administering poison to her, was the hext of the famous New York murder trials. I have always considered that Carlyle Harris was guiltless of the crime for which he went to the chair. In such matters no good is to be gained by seeking to go behind the evidence; but Harris's case was exceptional, and my humble Individual judgment of him, which Is fully recognized as being wholly unimportant in view of th4 verdict, was formed after months of dally contact with him while he was awaiting trial and during the trial, which, if I remember correctly, lasted some seven weeks, and which I reported for a New York paper. Anybody who became closely acquainted with Harris would have found it impossible to believe that he murdered his young wife. He protested his Innocence to the very last. He was a frank-faced, accomplished and wholly engaging young chap, and the prosecution never established any actual motive which might have actuated him in killing his wife, who was very lovely, and who was entirely devoted to her promising young husband, as he was to her. He was accused of having brought about her death by the administration of increasingly strong doses of morphine. After Harris's execution some very strong evidence was brought forward showing that the wife whom he was charged with killing had involuntarily become addicted to the use of morphia while undergoing a severe illness. It Is certain that all hands who were present throughout that long trial?I can speak, at any rate, for the newspaper men?gravely doubted If the verdict finally rendered was the right one, and, In fact, there seemed to be a quite general impression that he had been unjustly convicted?that, at any rate, he should have been given the benefit of the many grave doubts in the case. Two nights before the day set for his execution In Sing Sing, Carlyle Harris had an opportunity to make his escape from that prison. But he scorned the chance. A pair of desperate convicts, confined in the Sing Sing death house with Harris, tossed red pepper into the eyes of the keeper, overpowered him and took away his keys, and before leaving threw open the door of Harris's cell and Invited him to join them. Harris refused to run away. The two desperadoes got out and found a boat moored to a stake close to the prison. The alarm was promptly given, but they got across the Hudson, although the night was a wild and stormy one. On the following day the searchers found the boat on the Jersey side of the Hudson, with both of the convicts sit ting dead in it, one in the bow and the other in the stern sheets. They were both riddled with bullets. The mystery was never unravelled, but it was supposed that the two escaped murderers had fallen to quarrelling as to which routes they should respectively take in abandoning the boat and had shot each other. The fact that Carlyle Harris had resolutely refused to join these two escaped murderers at the time they got away made a profound impression at the time, and strenuous efforts were made to gain a respite for him. But he was executed two days after the pair of murderers had got aw", protesting his utter innocence to the final moment of his life. Being "on the case," I visited Harris's cell every day during the long months while he was awaiting trial, and It was Impossible not to be impressed with the dignity of his general character. While awaiting1 trial lie wrote some very excellent verse, and this I marketed for him at astonishingly high figures, for the case was being watched by the whole country. The money which he gained from his versifying went toward the expenses of his trial. I was with him until a little while before his execution, but could not bring myself to watch his finish, although I was ( delegated to that duty. Harris was i he gnmest man accused of a great t rime that I ever met up with. Passing over the case of Dr. Buch- 1 nan, the poisoner, who to everybody 1 rho came into' contact with him < eemed to richly merit the legal death < vhich he finally met, the next "big" i nurder trial in New York was that of i he dentist, Kennedy, who was accused ( f beating Dollie Reynolds, an actress. 1 o death at the Grand hotel. The ivldence against Kennedy, although ngeniouf.ly woven, was purely and unsquivocally circumstantial and there vere two mistrials right off the reel, >oth of these costing the "people" a Idy sum. Contrary to the custom In luch cases for the "people" assuredly leemed to have it in for Kennedy for lome reason or other?he was tried 'or the third time again with the hung ury resuu. ims nine ne oose, with the charge still hanging >ver him. If Kennedy was guilty of laving killed Dollle Reynolds then he :ertalnly succeeded In fooling the great najorlty of the newspaper men who eported his various trials, and most >f them had been In more or less close ontact with noted criminals for many rears. Even If he were guilty, some >f the evidence adduced against him vas so palpably cooked up that It vould have seemed subversive of all he alms of justice and an outrage had ie been convicted. The case of Mary Livingston Flemng, accused of murdering her mother >y putting arsenic in a pall of clam jhowder which she sent to her. was mother one of the "big" trials In which i huge bill was rolled up against the 'people," largely on account of the jreat number of alleged .chemical exjerts and "alienists" who were called ;o testify. This was the trial In which he dogmas of the writers of the Lomjroso and Ncrdau type were first ranked Into an American murder trial 'or the purpose of proving the alleged 'degeneracy" of the defendant. The 'alienists" fairly revelled In that trial. Mary Livingston Fleming was a ather plain but withal an extremely iccompllshed and interesting, not to jay fascinating, woman, and nobody jeemed to be greatly worried for the 'uture of society In general when she vas acquitted. A great effort was nade to prove her a "degenerate," and in equally heroic effort made to present that stigma from being fastened jpon her. The testimony brougnt oui n these encounters between her counlel and the prosecutors was more salacious than anything1 of the sort before >r since, but it was kept out of the ltwspapers by a general understanding )f the men reporting the trial, as well is by an agreement reached by the proprietors of the newspapers. John Mclntyre was then the dls:rict attorney of New York, and he angled up some of the alienists called jy the defence In a sad sort of way. fie had a bullying, hectoring way with ilienists much the same as that employed by Mr. Jerome, and he generLlly succeeded In bulldozing the allensts into silence or submission, but he itruck a snag when he went up against :he leonine Dr. Spltzka, a noted New fork specialist on nervous diseases. Spitzka came out with flying colors, ilone of all the testifying experts. Dr. Spltzka early In his life had been a /eterinarlan. Mclntyre thought he vas going to discountenance and discredit Dr. Spltzka by alluding to this .'act at the beginning of his examination. "Is It not a fact," Mclntyre asked dim, "that not many years ago you vere consulted solely in connection ivlth the ailments of horses"? "Yes," promptly replied Dr. Spltzka, 'and it is additionally .true that even now I am sometimes called upon to :reat asses." Mclntyre, pretty sore over this one, tried the same kind of thing on Dr. Spltzka several other, times during the examination, but was finally routed, to lis vast discomfiture. Mrs. Fleming? to whom a son was born while she tvas awaiting trial In the tombs?was icqultted after a very long trial. . She fcvent to Alaska not long afterward and Is said to have become very wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields. Then came the two trials of Roland Molineux, indubitably the most accomplished and adroit individual ever put pn trial for his life in an American court. He was convicted upon his first Dplir Hot E MADE ROY A are the most ap] ful and nutri Much depends upon ROYAL BAKINQ POW J. S. WILKERSON & CO. HICKORY S. C. General Merchandise OUR Stock of General Merchandise is large, varied and well selected. We are able to supply almost anything In the best qualities and at the RIGHT PRICES. MACHINERY. We handle goods of the International Harvester Co.. including Gasoline Engines. Hay Balers, Harvesters, McCormick Reapers, Rakes, Harrows, and sell everything at Right Prices. BUGGIES AM) WAGONS. Anything that rpay be desired In Buggies and Wagons can be had from us. If it does not happen to be on hand it CAN BE HAD without difficulty. But we are carrying a large stock in this line. J. S. WILKERSON & CO.. Hickory. S. C. BBT* Watcli for the opening chapters or "FRIDAY, THE I3TII"?soon to appear in The Enquirer. trial and sentenced to death. After being confined In Sing Sing's death house for more than two years he obtained another trial, solely through the ceaseless efforts of his aged father, Gen. Molineux, who had the general tl,,. oil TT.icrh WUllnrn Djrilipailijr yjL ....g.. Osborne was then the New York pros- I ecutor, and he made the effort of his life to convict Molineux the second time. But Molineux had the crafty and profound ex-Gov. Frank Black for a lawyer this time, and, besides, he had learned a lot about the law business himself while awaiting electrocution In Sing Sing. I did not report his first trial, but "covered" the second one, and I shall never forget the amazing skill wl?.h which the slight, pallid Molineux fenced with the bull-voice and resourceful Osborne during that long siege. Molineux went on the stand himself during the second trial, and, although Mr. Black had been of unexampled assistance to him In the early stages, he clearly won the case for himself by his way of utterly baffling and routing Osborne. It was sheerly Impossible for Osborne to tangle Molineux up at any stage of the game, although the evidence against the defendant was strong, and, it might .be said, generally convincing. Osborne would ask and reask a question two or three times, endeavoring to put words in Mollneux's mouth. "But those are. your words, Mr. Osborne," Molineux would reply every time with the greatest Imaginable courtesy, and never once throughout the tremendous ordeal of days was he tripped. The Patrick case next sped along? Albert Patrick, accused, in conjunction with the valet Jones, of murdering, by the use of chloroform, the aged Texas millionaire Rice. This was a XT* ainintor business.. and hardly anyr body who went through the case ever believed that Patrick got a square deal. Jones, the valet of the victim, was the man directly accused of the crime, with Patrick the tnstlgator and accessory before and after the fact. Valet Jones "peached" upon being promised Immunity by the prosecutors. The story he told may or may not have been true, but It has always seemed an extraordinary thing that Patrick should have been convicted solely upon his evidence after the valet had been promised his freedom as the price of his testimony. The public Is familiar with the long fight Patrick has been making ever since to have the verdict against him reversed. The late Gov. Higglns of New York refused to grant his appeal for a new trial only a few months ago, and Patrick Is now working out his "lifer," to which his sentence of death was commuted In Sing Sing. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility, however, that Patrick will yet be a free man, for, In addition to being an extraordinarily astute lawyer .himself he has powerful Interests arrayed on his side, and the general impression that he has received the worst of the deal from the first may, at some future time, operate in his favor. Then followed the trial of Florence Bums, the pretty Brooklyn girl accused of havlne shot her lover, Walter Brooks, to death in a New York hotel. The evidence against this pompadoured, peachy-skinned young woman of perfect poise and self-control appeared to be overwhelming, but evidence has got to be more than that, it would seem, to get a Jury to convict a pretty woman of a capital crime Involving execution In this country. . Florence was sketched and photographed almost as much as Evelyn Thaw. But the underlying opinion of the community, and especially of those who were present throughout her trial, was that she was guilty. A week or so after her acquittal she bad the hardihood to join a comic opera company. On her first appearance she was roundly hissed by the audience, and then the other chorus girls resolutely refused to appear with her, dress with her or have anything to do with her. 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