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PUBLIf tTEp TRI-WEEKIA WE MOVE ON flu? New Enterprises w the Slate in the Pist Nine Ruths REPORT BY COUNTIES Over Twenty-five Million Dollars In vested in New Concerns, the Park er Merger Included in the Total Capital, Which is a Most Excellent Showing. Twenty-five million dollars, is a very large amount of money and it is approximately that much tha; has been put Into new enterprises in South Carolina during the first nine months of the year, according to the reports on file in the office of tho sec retary of state, says the State. This amount is much larger than for the same period last year. The charter fees for the o.. ce thin year are several thousand dollars in ad ' vance of the fees for the same period in 1910. Greenville county leads the State, ?with $16,211,000, and Charleston comes second, with 2,122,900, and Rlchland county third with $1,012, 800. Charleston county really led the State as 315,000,000, the capital stock of the Parker mill merger be ing included in the return from Greenville. The following shows the amounts thlft have been invested in the va rious counties of the State: Abbeville.$ 25,000 A/ken. 18,000 Anderson .... 274,000 Bamberg .. ... 3,000 Barnwell. 146,000 Beaufort. 35,000 Calhoun.115,500 Charleston .. ..*.2,122,900 Cherokee. 132,000 Chester. 110,000 Chesterfield. 185.000 Clarendon. 196,500 Colleton. 75,000 Darlington. 784,500 Dillon. 767,500 Dorchester. ... 50,500 Edgefield.? 75,400 Falrfleld. 8,700 Florence. 331.600 Georgetown. 500,000 ..Greenville .. .. ;.'.16,211,500 Greenwood .. ..... ._i 75..0OO Hampton. .. 45,000 Horry. 26,000 Kershaw. 140,000 Lancaster .. . .: .. 123,000 Laurens ... 234,000 Lee .. .. .. .. .. ... .. 22,500 Lexington.... ... 11,000 Marion ... . 91,500 Marlboro. 76,500 Newberry. 155,000 Oconee >. .. .. 5,000 Orangeburg... 102,000 Piokens.?.. 26,000 Richland ...1,012,800 Saluda .. ... ... .? .. 75,000 Spartanburg., .. 581,700 Sumiter. 624,000 Union._ 106,000 Wdlliamsburg ... .. ,. 28,000 York. 102,500 SEEKING HEART BAIJtf. Austrian Officer Demands $25,000 From American Girl. A breach of promise suit for $25, 000 was filed against Miss Helen Mc Murray of New York by Lieut. Ed ward Stars of the Austrian army. He alleges that Miss McMurray prom ised in Vienna, in 1910, to marry him and thaf thereafter he did. all he could to make bimself pleasing in her eyes, taking a year's leave of absence from the army and losing his opportunity for advancement, sell ing his racing stables and taking up the study of English. He also claims to have given Miss McMurray many of his family heirlooms, wreaths and bunches of flowers, and that he pur chased "at enormous cost" a civilian outfit and evening clothes. When he came to New York in July last to claim his bride she saw him but once, he alleges, and then only long enough to discard him. CASE SETTLED AT LAST. Bottom of the Maine Was Blown In ward by Explosion. Exploration of the bottom of the Maine Wednesday at Havana, Cuba, about 140 feet raft of the bow, re vealed a plate Identified as forming a portion of the outer hull of the ship on the port side near the keel and under the magazines as having been blown inward, the upper part being folded inward. This appar ently could result only from an ex ternal pressure. The engineer in charge and the other officers are maintaining reticence, but the dis covery is strongly confirmatory of the theory of an external explosion. One body was recovered from the boiler room. It was that of an unusally tall man. -? ?? ?-< Killed in Wreck of Train. Engineer W. A. Kinney was killed, Fireman Ed Townes, colored, serious ly injured, and the mail clerks and passengers were badly shaken up when Southern railway train No.3 7, from Washington to New Orleans, was derailed between Benaja and Reidsviile, about 20 miles north of Greensboro, N. C. This is one of the finest trains in the South. ABRUPT ENDING. Centre, Kansas, Plead Guilty to Centre, ansas, Plead uilty to Tar Tarring Girl Teacher. ?Pleas of guilty were suddenly an-; nounced in the circuit court at Lin coln Centre, Kansas, on Thursday, by three of the prominent citizens ac cused in connection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the Shady Bend school teacher. These announc ed pleas of guilty: Everett G. Clark, president of a Shady end milling company; Watson Scranton, Shady Bend farmer; Jay Fitzwater, Shady Bend faiTner. A flood of affidavits was let loose in court at the beginning of the hear ing of an application by Everett G. Clark, the wealthy miller of Shady Bend, for a change of venuo in the case, in which he with eight other men are charged with "assault and battery" in connection with the tar ring of Misa Mary Chamberlain last August. Miss Chamberlain was in court, Accompanied by her mother and brother. Since Miss Chamberlain was de coyed to a lonely spot on a country road, seized by a band of a dozen or more men, her clothing torn off and her body coated with tar, she has re mained in close retirement in her home in the little Shady Prnd com munity, where she taught school and where it is said her popularly with the men caused jealous wives and sweethearts to inflict on her the tor ture which created a storm of indig nation throughout the State. Another confession of gulit in the tar party case came on Thursday whbn Edward Ricord, a barber, ad mitted he decoyed Miss Mary Cham berlain, a school teacher, to a point near Shady Bend, where she was "tarred" on Aug. 7. He went before I Judge Gover and entered a plea of guilty. Sentence was suspended un til after the trial of the other accused men. R'cord has been in jail for the last three months, awaiting action on an appeal of a justice court sentence of one year for complicity in the attack on Miss Chamberlain. He was the first man arrested in connection with the "tar party" case. It is alleged he received $5 for his part in the .affair; According to Miss Chamberlain she accompanied Ricord on the night of. the attack under the impression that he was taking her to a dance. Ricord expects leniency as the result of his confession. KILL GIRL IN JEALOUS RAGE. Enraged Because She Accepted At tentions From Another. Crazed by jealousy, Ed J. Brazell, a white cotton mill operative, forty two years old, shot and killed Carrie "Belle Duncan, a Blxteen-year-old girl, in the presence of Brazell [a sick wife, Thursday morning. Before the man could reload the single barreled shotgun and turn the weapon on himself, his wife, though weak and-feverish from illness, wres tled with him and prevented him from accomplishing his purpose. Of ficers soon arrived and placed Brazell under arrest. Brazell and his wife and the dead girl and her family lived in the same tenement house. He was enamored with the girl and was insanely jeal ous because of her alleged acceptance of attentions from another man. While the Duncan girl was In the room with the wife and just after she prepared breakfast for the Bra zells, the husband seized a gun and blew the girl's brains out. The wife is prostrated and Brazell refuses to talk, although letters found in his pocket stated that he loved the girl, was jealous of other men and that he intended to kill her and end his own life. GAVE IT ALL TO CHARITY. Woman of the Underworld Disposed of Fortune That Way. Anna Willson, a woman of the un derworld, who died recently in Oma ha, Neb., left her fortune of $250, 000 to charity. Margaret Alice Piatt, lived in St. Louis with her pa rents until she was seventeen years old, when the family removed to Memphis. Three brothers were steamboat engineers. Margaret eloped soon after they went to Mem phis, but was followed by one of her brothers and forced to return home. In 1S67 the family removed to Jack son county, Illinois, but Margaret re mained at Memphis, where she was employed as a maid in the family of Dr. Thomas. Anna Wilson was a character of considerable notoriety in Omaha for forty years. She died four weeks ago and objections were raised to accepting her bequests on the ground that the money was "tainted." Buried Dog in Flag. Muggsie, the little terrier mascot of the aeronautical corps of the army, is dead and buried at College Park at Washington in a United States flag. Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary' to the Grand Army of the Republic, is highly Indignant and has appealed to the Secretary of War, demanding an investigation. KILLED BY ENGINE UNKNOWN MAN FATALLY HURT BY LOCOMOTIVE. Died at the Union Station at Colum bia as the Train that Struck Him Pulled In. The State says unknown and ap parently far from nome, a young white man, about 21 years of age, was sruck by a south-bound passen ger train of the Southern railway, coming from Charlcftte, near Chappels, Richland county, Thurs day morning and was fatally Injured. He was brought to Columbia, but death came as the train rolled into the union station. Acting in the absence of R. D. Walker, coroner, Jas. H. Fowles, magistrate investigated the case ani, deemed and inquest unnecessary. It is alleged that the unfortunate man was sitting on the crossties, seem ing asleep when passenger train No. 35 rounded a curve and struck him. He never regained consciousness. His skull was fractured and left leg brok en. The dead man left little clue as to his identity. He was dressed in a pair of blue overalls with a black coat, and carried a.B his only baggage a small bundle of underwear. On the inside of his coat collar was the name "H. M. Lewis, Staunton, Va." The name was sewed on a little tag, and was evidently the firm from whom the coat was bought. The un derwear was wrapped in paper mark ed in two places, "C. A". Carter, Smith's /Turnout, S. |C."< Smith's Turnout is on the Southern railway, between Chester and Rock Hill. Judge Fowles is doing everything Smith's Turnout Thursday in hope of getting some Information as to who the man was, but secured no news. On the man's coat were a few cotton linters, and the presumption is that he may have been a cotton mill operative, going to some manu facturing town in search of work. He was seen at Ridgeway on Wednesday, and asked an old negro the distance to Columbia. Juge Fowles is doing everything in his power to identify him. He was five feet, nine inches in height, had ?blue eyes and rather light hair, was clean shaven, and: looks as if he part ed his hair in the middle. A promi nent side tooth is badly decayed, and he had at some time been operated on for appenicitlfl. The body Is be ing held at the undertaking parlors of J. W. McCormick on Hampton street for identification. SLIPPED ON PEEL OF BANANA. May Result in ?Crippling for Life 01 Man Who Stepped on It. The Greenville Piedmont tays tes timony to the fact that the city ordi nance against the throwing of ba nana peels on the sidewalks of the city's streets is not enforced as it should be, and that failure to en force the law puts pedestrians in a precarious situation is borne by a sad incident that occurred recently, barely failing to cause death to a Greenville resident. Mr. Robert Nash, a man who has lived here for about eleven months, having come here from Virginia, was walking down Main street near the postoffice building a week ago. Near the corner of Main and Broad streets he slipped on a banana peel and fell to the sidewalk, the base ol his spine striking the pavemont. The foot that stepped upon the peeling went high into the air and he suf fered a hard fall. Persons on the street came to the aid of Mr. Nash and he was taken to the Salvation Army citadel where he was given medical attention and Dr. 'Black and Brown have been at tending him since. It was found that the base of Nash's spine was fractured and that the nerves were badly deranged. Nash has suffered terrible pains and it is likely that he will never walk again. The attending physician said that the injuries may heal, but the chances are that he will never again have the use of his limbs. His legs have been numb and feeling less since the fall. It is thought that the break in the spine will heal but that his nervous system will never be whole again and that this will prevent further use of the legs. Nash is a young man and rather tall and it is believed that his height made the fall more serious. It is thought, that if it had been an old mean to suffer the fall death would have resulted. However, Nash, be ing a young man, the wounds will not, it is thought, prove fatal. Beattie Will Have to Hang. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says the supreme court of appeals denied the petition for a writ of error by Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. convicted of murdering his young wife last July. This decision on the appeal from the judgment of the Chesterfield court, which sentenced him to die in the electric chair November 24, is final. "Unloaded" Pistol Kills Boy. At Chattanooga, while playing "jail" Tuesday evening, Dewitt Clarkson, 13 years old, a son of A. Clarkson, a prominent real estate dealer, was shot and killed by Dennie Hughes, 11-year-old son of J. N. Hughes, a contractor and builder. The pistol was not supposed to be loaded. JRG, S. C, SATURDAY, NOV TRIAL OF T?TEN fie Is Accused of flordtricg J R. Lang ford io Hampton Coooty WHAT WITNESSES SAID PJary Harris, the White Woman in the Case, the Principle Witness for the State, Testified that Tuten, the De fendant, Did the stilling of Lang ford, WTiich the State Claims. LeRoy B. Tuten, of Hampton County, iB not guilty of the murder of J. R. Langford, according to the decision reached by the jury in the case early Thursday afternoon. Two and a half days were consumed in the trial of the case which was brought to Bamberg from Hampton, and ac cording to statements made, it took the jury scarcely three minutes to de cide the case, once the matter was in its hands. The case of the State against Le Roy B. Auten was begun in the court of general sessions at Bamberg on Tuesday. The defendant is charged with the murder of J. R. Langford, just outside of the town of Brun son, in Hampton county, about a year ago. Both the deceased and the defendants come from large and prominent families. The case was transferred to Bamberg County on the ground that a fair and impartial trial could not be had at Hampton. Below we give the testimony in the case: The first witness called by thb State was Dr. J. W. Mole of Brunson, v;ho held an autopsy the^ay after the killing. This witness testified that the body of Langford was found in the woods near Hampton, and that a wound was discovered near the left ear. The skin waB not severely in jured and the skull was not fractur ed, a hemorrhage near the brain be ing the imediate cause of death. Dr. J. L. Folk, the next witness, testified that he was the family phy sician ofLangford ,and that he had never seen any evidence of apoplexy about the deceased. E. W. Addison stated that he saw Tuten the day after the burial, Octo 1, and that Tuten: told him that he had been near* the place where the body was found, on the morning of the killing, and that he had been hunting birds there. The witness testified that a horse and buggy was tied to a tree about 36 feet from the spot where Mr. Langford's body was discovered. It was testified by Gray Rivers that he saw Langford leave Brunson on the mroning of the killing, and that he himself was in the party that found the body about 8:45 that night. He stated that Langford was found lying on a lap robe, and that a horse and buggy waB hitched to a nearby tree. J. C. Dowling told of finding the body of the deceased in the woods, and also stated that about a week after the killing Tuten had said to him that he had been near the place of the killing on November 29, look ing for a covey of birds. After flnd1 ing the body, several men went to the hcuse of Mary Harris, and took her to tbe Hampton jail. John Allen, a colored hand of Tu ten, testified that Tuten offered to di vide $100 among Allen and some oth er negroes if they would tell the truth at the trial. Allen swore that Mr. Tuten was in the field with his hands at about sunrise, and was in their sight almost all the time until the train went by, which other wit nesses testified was about 9:30 in the morning. A good deal of Wednesday's ses sion was taken up with the testimony of Mary Harris, who has played a most important part in the case. The night of the killing this woman was arrested, and after bting confined in the Hampton jail for a. time, she was removed to the penitentiary, where she had been kept since. Richard Williams, the negro, whose name ap pears often in the testimony, has also spent some time in the peniteiv tiary, where he was hurried soon af ter the homicide, the officrs faring that he might be lynched. The testimony of Mary Harris, the principal witness for the State, was greatly weakened by the proof brought out on cross-examination that she had made a number of con flicting statements as to who struck the fatal blow. Sne stated on the stand Wednesday that the defendant, LeRoy B. Tuten, hit Langford on the head with his gun, but it was shown that soon after the killing she told a number of people that the act wat. committed by Richard Williams, and told another man that Mr. Langford died a natural death. Several spirit ed contests by counsel over the ad mission of evidence arose during the examination of this witness. Tbe defendant sits in the court room beside his counsel and appears very cool and collected. He is a tall man, with gray hair, and Is very prominently connected in his native county. P C. Brant testified that as the wound on Mr. Langford's head was so slight he was not fully satisfied that it had been caused by a blow, and 60 about two weeks after the death he examined carefully the ground upon which the body had been found. He stated that he had found no roots, sticks or other oh _\ "EMBER 18, 1911. LIVED A DUAL LIFE MAN PLAYED THE JEKYLL AND HYDE ROLE FOR YEARS. He Was a Highly Respectable Gen tlemen by Day But Burglar and Murderer at Night. The trial of Bertram G. Spencer, who is charged with murdering Miss Martha G. Blackstone, a Springfield, Mass., school teacher, has begun. The killing took place on March 31, 1910, but the trial 'has been delayed in order that the prisoner might be watched by alienists, for the de fense will be insanity of a "Dr. Jei-yll and Mr. Hyde" type. 'Spencer has admitted to the police that he was responsible for a series of hold-ups and robberies, which for nearly two years kept the city almost panlcstrlcken. He was known among his acquaintances as an honest, hard working young married man. About three years ago, while em ployed aB a railroad man, Spencer fell in love with an attractive young woman from a highly respected fam ily and not long afterward they were married and went to housekeeping. A baby was born, and tha couple were to all outward appearances hap py and devoted. Yet during all this time Spencer, according to his statement to the po lice, was terrorizing the city by bold robberies. Most of these were com 'mitted in the early evening, so that by 8 o'clock he might be at home with his little family. On the night of March 31, 1910,1 Miss 'Blackstone was visiting at the home of MIbs Harriet Dow when a i man entered and shot both women. Miss Blackstone was killed, but Miss Dow was only slightly injured. After the police had exhaused every effort to run down the murderer and had about lost hope, a locket which had been found In the yard of a home robbed several months before was turned over to them. The locket bore the initials "B. G. S." and by a coincidence the only name in the Springfield directory with these initials was Bertram G. Spencer. Pictures in the locket were identified as of his wife and a rela tive. Spencer was arrested. He ad mitted, the police say, every crime laid at his door and told a remark able story of his dual personality. jects In the ground which could have produced the injury, but that the land at the place was quite open. Mary Harris was then placed upon the stand. She Is 21 years old, and lives with her aged father near Mr. Tuten's house. She testified that on November 29 Langford came by her house, where she was cutting wood, and asked her to go with him. She said that the two then went out in the woods together. Tuten walk ed up, the girl testified, and struck Langford on the head with his gun; and then told the girl that if she did not Bay that Richard Williams hafl hit Langford he would kill her, as he had already killed two men. The girl says she then ran home, and went Into the cotton field, about 100 yards from the scene of the killing, passing a colored man in a wagon on the way. The witness said that she was afraid of Tuten after this, and that this was why she told Herman Lightsey, J. G. Bowers, and a detec tive, in the penitentiary, that Wil liams had struck the blow. The witness said that after she had been taken to the penitentiary she told several men chat Tuten had killed Langford. She stated that Tu ten had been intimate with her for three or four years, but that the ne gro, Richarde Williams, had never made any improper remarks to her. It was brought out on cross-exam ination by Mr. Welch that at the coroner's inquest, a few days after the killing, Mary Harris swore that Williams had struck the fatal blow with a stick. The witness admitted having made this statement at the inquest. It was shown that she had made similar statements to Mr. Dowl ing, Mr. Harter, Mr. Gray, and in the penitentiary to Capt. Roberts, Mr. Griffith, Dr. Butler and members of the penitentiary board. Some testimony was also brought out that Mary Harris had told sev eral men that Richard Williams had been intimate with her. The witness admitted having told J. P. Bowers in the Hampton jail that no one struck Langford but that he had died from natural causes. In addition it was shown that the woman had told the solicitor at the penitentiary that Tu ten had never been inimate with her. The girl testified that Langford had been attentive to her for about two years. Three negroes were placed upon the stand in order to throw light up on the whereabouts of Richard Wil liams at the time of the killing. E. W. Rouse testified that on the morn ing of November 29, as he was driv ing into Brunson, he met Williams, near the Cossawhatchie swamp, and took him in his buggy. John Mil liard swore that as he was driving a two-horse wagon out from Brunson on he Matthews filuff road, he pass ed Mary Harris near her house, walk ing fast and looking back several times, an 1 that later after driving two miles further down the road he met Rouse and Williams in a buggy, coming toward Brunson. In passing near he scene of the killing, he saw a horse and buggy in the woods, and it was between this place and Mary's house that he saw her. John Preach er stated that he saw Williams get in WAR? ROAST FOR TAFT IDAHO EXECUTIVE INDIGNANT AT MAN'S PARDON. Attorney General Wickcrsham's Agents Usurp Functions of Reg ular Officials in State of Idfiho Governor Hawley, of Idaho, Wed nesday gave out at Boise a signed statement, addressed to tha people of Idaho, in which he condemns the action of President Taft in granting a pardon Wednesday to Clarence W. Robnett, bookkeeper in the Lewis ton National Bank of Lewiston, Ida ho. He was convicted of embezzling funds of the bank and was sentenced in the federal court at Idaho Springs to ten years' imprisonment. He nev er entered upon service' of his sen tence. "I feel that the pardon of Robnett is a fitting sequel to the proceedings! in the United States court during the last four years, while the special as sistants to the United States attorney general have been usurping the func tions of the United States attorney general and his assistants and have been running the cases in which the United States has been interested with a high hand, regardless of jus tice or decency," the statement sets forth "I am not surprised at this par don. In fact, no act ever done in connection with the courts of Idaho has brought justice more into dis repute and weakened the courts more in the estimation of our people. For more than four years, In every im portant case in which the United States was interested, the regular prosecuting officers have been retired and these special assistants to the at torney general have been given full control. "Without the slightest interest in our State, caring nothing for our people, simply desirous of establish ing a reputation in the department of justice, these special prosecutors have done more to injure Idaho and retard its development since the fall of 1907 than all other causes com bined. "The injustice of Ihls action of President Taft, Inspired without doubt by the special prosecutors, will long rankle in the minds of our citi zens and will inspire them with a wholesome contempt for such dis graceful methods. "It is probably unfair to severely blame President Taft directly for this unspeakable action, as he undoubted^ ly acted on the request of Attorney General Wlckersham, who evidently had been in collusion with his asso ciates in charge of this prosecution." JUDGE SPEER ON COTTON. Tells Jury, to Investigate Conditions Causing Low Price. Judge Emory Speer's charge to the Federal grand jury Wednesday at Savannah was featured by his refer ence to the present low price of cot ton and the probable forces that are alleged to be at work holding the price down. He read a newspaper interview with the Attorney General of the United States, touching upon a pos sible prosecution by the government of cotton "hears" holding the price of cotton so low. The judge charged that it would be the duty of the grand jury to in vestigate such conditions, if any are found in the southern district of Georgia. He said that it would not be necessar> for any instructions to be received from the Attorney Gen eral before that body could proceed In this district. the buggy with Rou3e. After argument the Court allowed the introduction in evidence of what Mary Harris said to her sister when she reached home just after the al leged killing, for the reason that the girl should be permitted to explain her conflicting statements. Florrie Harris, the sister of Mary, swore that on the morning of the 29th of November Langford came to her house in his buggy and entered into conversation with Mary, who was vinthe yard cutting wood; that soon after he left Mary followed him into the woods, and thPt in a short time Mary hurried back to the cot ton field and said to the witness: "Florrie, Roy has killed Mr. Lang ford." Soon after Langford had left the house, stated the witness, and before Mary returned, Tuten passed by, and after a talk with Robert Harris, hej went in the sane general direction Langford *iad taken. On cross-ex amination it was shown that Florrie had said nothing about Mary's state ment until a very short time before che trial. Ait this point Mr. Davis announced that the tSate rested its case. After j a conference of the. defendant's a torneys, Mr. Welch stated to the court that the defense would put up no testimony, but would rely upon the weakness of the State's case. It was agreed that each side have three hours for argument. Col. W. S. Til linghast made the first argument for the defense followed by Solicitor Gun ter for the State. John Duncan for Governor. Mr. John T. Duncan of Columbia announces his candidacy for the gov ernorship. The announcement is made in Saturday's issue of Mr. Dun can's newspaper, "The Reporter." rwO CENTS PER COPY. LIFE FOR LIFE Govtrncr Hann g! Virgioi?, Refused Res pile in the Beatlie Case KILLED BIS OWN WIFE The Convicted Virginia Wife Slayer Must Die in Electric Chair on No vember 24, Unless Unforeseen Cir cumstance Prevents Execution of the Law's Sentence. ? With the frank and ( emphatic statement that he believed in the prisoner's guilt, Governor. Mann of Virginia declined to grant a respite to Henry Clay Beattie, J'r'., convicted in Chesterfield County, September 8, of wife murder. .The refusal of the Governor to. interfere with the sen tence, which the Supreme Court de clared on Monday to be plainly right, means that Beattie will:"?ie in the electric chair at the State, peniten tiary on Friday, November 24. Being aware that a final, decision would be reached in his case Wed nesday, Beattie, in the death cell, waited expectantly for some word from the Governor's office. His gray haired father, utterly broken in spir it and strength, who notified him on Monday that an appeal had been de nied, was spared the ordeal of con veying a second message that all hope was lost. Rev. Benjamin Dennis, an EpIs-< copal minister, who had interceded in the young man's behalf, went quickly and quietly to the prison to inform him that every possible ef fort to save him. had failed. Beattie heard the announcement in silence, though he was visibly affected. Later In the afternoon his father, brother and young sisted called to see him. Unlike the Supreme Court, which filed no written opinion in refusing a writ of error, Governor Mann gave out a statement, in which he said that Beattle's appeal was made with "the purpose, if possible, of avoiding the consequences of a crime which he knows he is guilty." The Governor also stated that the socalled affidavit of Paul Beattie was not worthy of consideration as evi dence. In a ? signed statement to Beattie's lawyers and the public, Governor Mann said: "While I sympathize very pro foundly with the- father of H.1 C. Beattie, Jr., and would be glad to help him if I could do so with proper regard for the public interests, I cannot with any consideration for those iinterests interfere with the due execution of the sentence of the Court In the Beattie case. "I followed that case during the trial, and as its horrible facts were developed, regretted that a crime so cruel and malicious should have oc curred within the confines of this State. In the decision of every ques tion which was presented to the able and impartial Judge who presided at the trial, he was careful to give the benefit of every reasonable doubt to the prisoner; his instructions were as favorable as counsel for the pris oner could have expected; that he did not err in the admission or ext ension of evidence or in his instruc tions given to the jury, is shown in the refusal of the Supreme Court of Appeals to grant a writ of error. "There is no question of the hon esty and fairness of the jurors try ing the case, nor is there any ques tion that the defence made by law yers of character and ability obtained for H. C. Beattie, Jr., every advan tage guaranteed by law to persons charged with crime. "That Beattie is guilty of the wiK-^ ful, deliberate and cruel murder of his young wife I have not the slight est doubt, nor is It insisted that there shall be any greater relief offered than the commutation of his sentence to imprisonment for life. "I do not think the affidavits of Taul Beattie, printed in the p?pers, or any other evidence or considera tion brought to my attention, suf ficient for that purpose, nor do I question the wisdom, I might add, the necessity of capital punishment in cases where human life has been quickly and deliberately taken. "On the contrary, I believe that this punishment is necessary for the protection of society, and if on a jury, I would not hesitate, in a proper case, to agree to a verdict requiring life for life. "To grant a respite in so plain a1 case would be to set a precedent;! would be to temporize with the law, and to encourage appeals to the Su preme Court, with the sole purpose of gaining time. I believe the best way to prevent such crimes as this is to punish them adequately, cer tainly, speedily. Therefore, the judgment of the Circuit Court of Chesterfield will he carried into ef fect without interference from me." -,.?- i Must Serve Thciif Time. John Y. Garlington and James Sto bo Young, officers of the Semincle Securities Company, must serve pr: on sentences of three years and o:ie year, respectively, on the charge of appropriating to their own use the sum of $55,596, the property of the company. The supreme court af firmed the verdict secured !u the Richland county* court over a yean ago. i