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PUBLirr*ED TRI-WEEKIA7 LAYS All e? Teils tf Bis D able lif", Hu Miuy Ribb iflu and Other Crimes. / ? ENDING WHd CRIME 4 ' Escaped Suspicion of Thirteen Thefts, But on Unlucky Fourteenth Lost Locket That Led to Detection and on Fifteenth Shot and Killed a Young Woman. The confession of Bertram Geger Spencer, on trial for the murder of Miss Martha B. Blackstone at Spring field. Mass., as made to representa tives of the State Detective Bureau and municipal police shortly follow ; ing his arrest, is one of the queer est of documents and tells all about a series of crimes committed at Springfield by him, while holding a responsible position in a business house of that city as shipping cler*., and looked upon by all as an honest, industrious citizen. No fiction can equal this confes sion?equal the contradictory phases of character displayed in a man who could invade a home to loot it, who could shoot down defenseless women and, on the other hand, could polite ly listen to a frightened, fainting wo man's request for a glass of water and fetch it to her, or couli sympa thetically consider a mother's plea on Christmas Eve that the gifts she had to place in the little ones' stock ings and on the family hearth should not \-e stolen. Yet in this confession is also the raise into madness the anger of nor mal men?confessions that he not only robbed women but that he bound and gagged them and showed 'an other phase of his despicable char acter. When the locket, lost during an attempted burglarly 6lx months be fore, had been traced to him 'and the detectives went to the place where he worked? as shipping clerk and told him he was under arrest as a suspect in the murder of Miss Martha Black stone, they said that he had first demanded: "Is this a joke?" "It is too serious a matter for ub| to come here and joke about," one detective said. Spencer had called to his employ er, a Mr. Handy: "Why, Mr. Handy, what do you think? These men have come to ar rest me for the murder of Miss Black stone up there in Round Hill. What do you think of that?" His employer had reassured him to the extent of saying that he had bet ter go with the officers, with the as surance that if he were innocent everything would come out all right. "All right," he answered, "then I'll go." I At midnight on. tha day of his ar-J rest he was in a cell; the many arti cles found in his house had been identified as stolen things; the re volver and mask and searchlight lan tern and belt and holster had been uncovered there. The testimony is that Spencer called to State Detective Flynn, whom he saw in the corridor, ana asked: "Is it true that this drunken fool over there in that cell has been hol lering all night; that Mrs. Bow and one of her daughters has identified me as the man who murdered Miss ?iackstone?" This "drunken man" was a police ruse. "That's something I can't discuss with you," said Flynn. "Spencer already knew that Mrs. Dow and her uninjured daughter, Miss Lucy Bow, had identified a bead ed belt and a pearl brooch found at bis home as articles stolen from them on the night of the murder. It was two days later, he said to the detictives, that he desired to tell everything. They wa-rned him they were policemen and would tell what he told them to the courts. He said: "I don't care. I want to tell you Verbatim extracts ::rom his confes sion will perhaps prove the most in teresting. He tells, for Instance, cf entering a house by a window and discovering a man and woman talk ing. From their talk he gathered that the man would son retire, so he rolled under the bed in a back room and waited. "The man went upstairs. Then this lady came in and locked the doors and went to bed. I must have stayed there an hour or two waiting for her to go to sleep aud every time that I would make the least move to come out t could hear her kind of sigh. "When I got up to the edge of the bed sh*> rose up and screamed. Then her position changed from a sitting to a lying position. I demanded mon ey and jewelry. While I was talking to her she pulled off some rings and dropped them iuto the bed. and I saw her and said: "What did you do? You dropped something.' She said: 'No, I didn't.' I asked her to move over to one side and she did, and I saw them. I asked her if she had any money. She sail a little. She gave me $2. "She asked me for a drink of wat er and I got her a drink. She asked me which door I wanted to go out and I said: 'The back door.' She went on ahead of me and unlocked he back door and she said: 'Good -_ I AT MEN AND RELIGION MOVE MENT SOCIAL MEET. The Colored Brethren, Segregated at Banquet, One siio'uts, "No Black Seats in Heaven!" There was a stir at the Young Men's Christian Association at Mil waukee at a banquet in connection with the Men and Religion Forward Movement because of the men of color were put to eat at a table by them selves. A negro preacher from Madison rose, and bitterly remarked: "There are no black seats in heaven, we are told." The Madison preacher at flrsi started to take a place among the white guests. The other nogroeB signalled vio lently to him as a hint that he was in the wrong place. The negro preacher half rose and turned to his brethren as if to join them. Then he gave them a severe scowl and sat down. A few stage whispers follow ed^and the colored pastor moved ov er to the black table. As soon as the speeches began the Madison preacher threw his bomb about the absence of black seats in the great hereafter. The black ta ble became very excited and tried to stop. him. At last, heefdng the mur murs of his br-*hren, he chaSged his topic and asku- for the co-operation of white people in the worL: among the blacks. The Rev. George J. Fox, pastor of the Cavalry Baptist church, explain ed that he had specially asked for the separate table,? thinking the men of his race would feel more at home sitting together. eight,' and I said: 'Good nigght.' And that ds all there was to it." Of the three little children who were trying to keep awake waiting tor Santa Claus on ChrlBtmas eve in the home of Mrs. Helen F. Fisk at 86 Calhoun street, Springfield, Spen cer recited this incident: "Yes, it was the night before Christmas: I remember the bed was all covered with Christmas presents and I started to pick up some of those presents, and the lady said: 'For God's sake, don't touch those; those are my children's; and I said: "All right, I won't.' And I went away. Regarding the robbery of the Rip ley home at 266 Union street, Spring field, he showed swift cunning. He found husband and wife in toed. "They awakened when I flashed my lantern. I warned them to keep quiet," he said. "Both of them told me they had not a blessed thing in the house; no jewelry or silver and that the only money was a two dol lar and a half gold piece. He looked at the date as he handed it to mo and it struck me in an instant, what good would that two dollar and a half piece do me. He had identified the date and I could never pass it anywhere. I handed it back to him, talked a few minutes with him about tre troubles of a burglar's lifo, looked out of a kindow, didn't see anybody, talked a few minutes more and left." He had lived nearly opposite the home of Dr. Ames in Seventh street. Ono night the Ames family and ?a number of friends were sitting on the porch. He mads up his mind that here was a good opportunity, went to his room, hurriedly got out his burglar's outfit, and entered the rear cellar door of the physician's home. "I looked around through the rooms and found quite a little jewel ry and thingB and Iput them all in a handkerchief. In a few minutes one.of the girls came upstairs. While she was coming up I ran into a bed room and got down under the bed. She went into another room, stayed there a few minutes and went down stairs again. Pret'.* soon they all came in and came upstairs. "Mr. Ames was the only man in the house. He went down the end of the hall into another room. I had all my stuff tied up, and I was under this bed. No; I didn't have any silverware. T hen I was won dering all the time if rhey would miss this stuff that was gone. They didn't happen to notice. After I had given everybody time to go to sleep I lef* rhe package that 1 bad tied up in the big handkerchief righ* noxr. to the foot of the bed and I came out r.iul went Stuo the girls' roon and j was looking in the drawer when one of them kinder sighed and turned over in bed. "I was worried for a long time and decided to lay low but after six months i guessed that the police couldn't have got it and so one night I thought I would get into some oth er house?that was the Dow home, whore I shot the two women." Spencer then tells jauntily of how he would go out looking for houses to rob as a man might seek the en tertainment of an attractive cafe. In one place in this confession, he admitted that the very revolver with which he murdered Miss Dlackstone and all but murdered Miss Harriett Dow was stolen. He stole it out of the locker of an officer of Company F of the National uards of Califor nia, in an armory at Oakland. Then he confessed fifteen burg laries covering a period of nearly four years In Springfield. Thirteen times he committed depridations here and escaped even suspicion. The fourteenth time was when he attempted the burglary of the Blair house and in a slide down a ladder to escape, the locket he wore as a OK ANGEBT RUIN EIS WORK Miiistei D clam Uk fit de Miserable by Wife's Jcrt?str WIFE IS A CHILD HATER Cruelty, Neglect and Fear of Bodily Harm Co Himself and Children also Alleged in Rev. Graham's Petition for Absolute Divorce froni Former School Teacher. The Rev. Benjamin Graham, re cently pastor of St. James Methodist Church of Atlanta, Friday filed suit for absolute divorce from Mrs. Lorah Harris Graham. Ho alleges "cruelty, neglect, fear of bodily harm to him self and children, unwarranted jeal ousy of his own children and all the women of his church," which, often, it is declared, "culminates in wild ijtantrums of rage," embarrassing to hjmuelf and his church. In a statement issued shortly after the filing of his divorce petition, Mr. Graham goes into details regarding his marital troubles. He states that before their mar riage his wife was for eleven years a school teacher at Covington. Cordele and Athens, Ga., and that this, he be lieves, is the cause of her unusual feeling towards his children. * "My wife is a chil l hater" he said, "and although, I have not believed in divorce, 1 now find that it is the only thing possible for :he sake of my children." Mr. Graham stateu that they have! been, married twenty-nine months and in that time he has been com pelled to spend one-fourth of his en tire time attempting to calm his wife in her jealous rages and restoring peace in his household. His two chil dren a boy of 11, and a girl of 5, are by a former marriage. "Any attention that I might show either of the children brought on a jealous rage on the part of my wife," he states. "In the morning if I kissed my little girl my wife would fly into a tantrum. Sometimes it would be days before she would speak to me. She declared that when I kissed my own child she felt exactly as if I were kissing another woman. I have known her to fly into these tantrums ?simply bscause' I would pass a dish to one of the children at a Cieal. Sometimes she would rush into the yard of the parsonage screaming, drawing a crowd of idly curious to the gate." The minister states that for a year he las been unable to take his child ren out even for a car ride on account of his wife, and that once she bought an automobile, but soon sold it be 1 cause he asked her to let the child ren ride in It occasionally on the back seat. His work for the church has been ruinc-d Mr. Graham aserts because his wife has been jealous of the wo men of his congregation. He could hardly speak to one of them, he said, without spending the next twenty four hours pacifying his jealous wife, and often when he went to meet male members of the church she would think he had seen some of their wives, and a rage would follow. Mr*. Graham's resignation was pre sented and accepted by the Georgia Conference, by Presiding Elder J. T. Daves. Ii was accompanied by a let ter form the official board of St. James ' Church, commending Mr. Graham's work in Atlanta during the past year. Mr. Graham stated that he proba bly would adopt the stage as a ca reer. He said: "In moral plays which exert a ten dency to uplift, I believe I could fol low an ocupation that is'a parallel with that of preaching the gospel. J will still retain my moral attitude, but seeing no other course, the foot lights, promise me a means of liveli hood for myself and niy two children, and I probably will adopt it." Mr. Graham is 4 0 years of age, while Mrs. Graham, from whom he :seeks divorce, is 35. MI ST HAVE COOL HEAD. A Texas Cowboy Saves His Life by Riding a Steer. At St. Joseph, Mo.. William Ham 11 j ton, a cowboy from the Texas pan handle, saved his life Friday with a revolver when he fell into a corral of I wild steers and the frightened ani I mals threatened to trample him to death. Hamilton scrambled to his j feet and immediately drew a big re j volver strapped to his belt. He fired j in the fare of the on-coming steers 'and crippled one. Then as the herd stopped short he seized one by the j horns and rode it until the animals (got close enough to the fence for him to scramble off and climb to safety. Thousands Are Massacred. According to native estimates, over 1.000 easuatics occurred up to Fri day night in the three days fighting at Chang Chow. watch charm was torn from its chain to be afterwards found, examined and what with his initials on it and the pictures of his mother and sister within, to lead to his examination and arrest. The fifteenth time was that In which he killed Miss Blackstone and shot Mis3 Harriett Dow in the head. JRG, S. C. TUESDAY NOVE! bios mi mm urn TEDDY'S MESSAGE SO CON STRUED BY MR. HENRY. Texas Congressman Predicts That On Such a Platform Roosevelt Will Be Beaten in His Own Party. Declaring that Theodore Roosevelt makes Alexander Hamilton look like a novice as an advocate of absolutism, Representative Henry of Texas, chair man of the House committee cn rules, issued a formal statement Saturday in answer to the former President's views on the trust question in his re cent editorial in The Outlook. Mr. Henry asserts that Mr. Roose velt, through his "message, ' is feel ing the pulse of the American people for a third term, that he is trying to dlscreStft Mr. Taft and Mr. Wicker sham, and predicts that he will "find the road to the presidency 'rocky' while he is running for a third term with the steel trust snugly and con genially sitting astride his shoulders." The Democratic Congressman, who recently made public proposed amendments to the Sherman law pro riding that trust criminals be forced to wear "felon's stripes," assails Mr. Roosevelt chiefly for what he terms his a'dvocacy of "legislative courts" and "legislative executives." He quotes from the former President's editorial the following reference to the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust decisions of the Supreme Court: "It is contended that In these re cent decisions the Supreme Court legislated; so it did; and it had to; because Congress had signally failed to do Its duty by legislating, but where the legislative body persistent ly leaves open a field which is abso lutely imperative, from the public standpoint, to fill, then no possible blame attaches to the official of offi cials who step in because they hare to and who then do the needed work In the Interest of the people. "Thia is absolutism run mad," Mr. Henry declares, "Never in the his tory of Amercia did any man, living or dead, advocate such ran*, misei% able and rotten doctrine. The ad herents of Alexander Hamilton should tenderly take up his ashes, make duo apology for his being a novice in the doctrine of absolutism and remove his sacred urn to some quiet and sequestered spot and give way to tho real thIng,rLaone who has views." Mr. Henry attacks the proposed FeJeral trust commission, asserting that it robs the States of their power to deal with corporations. This pro posal is vicious beyond description," he Baya. "Corporations would im mediately raise a hundred thousand isBuable questions and points and rush to the bosom of the commission for their settlement. They would pile up treir controversies there and the comission would not be abl9 to set tle them in a hundred years. Charging that the trust commission is Mr. Roosevelt's issue, the TexaB Congressman says in conclusion: "This will make him tho candidate for the Steel trust which he defend ed and the advance agent of the reac tionaries, not the progressives. In my opinion he is harnessing himself up with the wrong crowd and on a mighty bad issue, and even Mr. Taft and i\Ir. Wickersham can whip him in his party.".^ THE MAINE WILL FLOAT. Bulkhead is Being Built in the Af ter Part of the Ship. The exploration of the portions of the battleship Maine affected by the explosion which sank her, probably will be completed by the end of No vember, when results of the investi gation will be ready for submission to the board of officers. The work of building a wooden bulkhead amid ships wub begun this week, and there is no doubt now of the feasibility ofi floating the afterpart of the ship. Up to the present, it is said, all In dications strongly confirm the find ings of the Sampson board of inquiry that the ship was destroyed by an ex terior explosion, supplemented by ex plosions in the forward magazines. I Officers in charge of the work, how | ever are silent as to their conclu sions. The forward section for a distance of 70 feet from the bow is lying on its starboard side and twisted sharp ly to port. Exploration within this st.'tion has now been completed for 40 feet, eaving only .".() foot to the ex tremity of the bow, which it i.s ex pected will bo reached within two weeks. Removal of the four forward boil-' era has been delayed owing to the in sufllceint strength of the derricks. * Found Dead Man Guilty. .lohn W. Sharp, while chief of po lice at Talequah. Okla., shot and killed William Powell, a youth. Sharp was tried and convicted of sec ond degree murder and appealed the case. In September last, year he was assassinated. Tho court of criminal appeals Friday affirmed the sentence; of the trial court. Turns One More Loose. Governor HIeaso late Friday pa roled ' during good behavior Elijah Walker, convicted at Anderson in July, 1007, of manslaughter and sen tenced by Judge Gage to serve five years on the public works of that county. VIBER 21, 1911. Ii 01)51 TAF1 hU] Will Oppse like Presicul in he Republican tcuv rjim rSE TRUSTS WANTS HIM Some of the New York Newspapers Criticise Roosevelt's Stand Most Severely, The World Accusing Him of Being Morgan's Candidate While The Tribune Says; He Helps Taft. . A New York dispatch says Roose velt barred himself from all visitors at the Outlook office Saturday, send ing out word to the newspaper men that business of Importance engaged rim and that he had nothing to give out either In interview or staaement in regard to his scoring of the prose cution of the Steel trust nor would he make any reply to press criticism. ' Wall street Saturday had kind words for Colonel Roosevelt for the first time. These words had their in ception in the former president's at tack upon President Taft's anti-trust policy which he terms "chaotic." Wall street's feelings were plainly a reflection in the stock market, which was strong and material gains were ma le in the list, generally in United States steel. Barker Henry Clews, one of the powers of "the streets" expressed the general view Saturday when he declared that Colonel Roosevelt's views, as expressed in his editorial in the Outlook, would be cheerfully endorsed by all holders of securities. Mr. Clews said: "A good many people will probably jump to the conclusion that the colo nel's remarks will have some effect on the next presidential candidate. What this country would like Is a leader who would make "prosperity" his watchword and not allow politics to Interfere with it in any shape or form. At tho present time business of secondary consideration, politics occupying the first, place. "The financial Interests have not always been In accord with the col onel's utterances, but his remarks with respect to the United States Steel corporation and other corpora tions seem to be very appropriate at the present time and will be heartily commended by all holders of securi ties and by others who believe the large industrial corporations when properly conducted are not inimical to the best Interests Of the country." That Theodore Roosevelt Is again a candidate for presidency and that his editorial In the Outlook, declaring that buBines conditions in this coun try are chaotic as a result of the present admlsltration's policy is his formal declaration of that fact is de clared editorially by the World. Oth er newspapers make Btrong comment on the editorial. The World, under the caption, "Is Roosevelt Morgan's Candidate?" de* clares that Mr. Roosevelt "presents Wall streets sentiment against Mr. Taft more forcibly and coherently than Wall street Itself has been able to do, and -.ds: "Less than a week ago, when Mr. Roosevelt gracefully accepted Wil liam Barnes, Jr., as boss of the Re publican party in New York, The World asked If he were not again a candidate for president. The Outlook article may be accepted as a full and complete answer. Mr. Roosevelt Is palpably a candidate and' nls extra ordinary political genius has set for itself the task of bringing about a coalition between the anti-Taft pro gressives In the west and the anti Taft plutocrats in Wall street. Of this coalition he expects to be the beneficiary, i.'.'r. Roosevelt is not giv en to disinterested political effort." Branding the editorial as "flap doodle," The Herald editorially re marks: "The difficulty tti which Mr. Roosevelt is involved?and believe us if. is a difficulty, is that he has been named as a co-respondent in the gov ernment's suit to divorce the steel corporation and the Tennessee Coal and Iron corporation. He cannot be indicted and fined, he cannot be enjoined and dissolved. But all the same, he is on the defensive and on trial, and he is smarting as he has seldom smarted before." The Tribune believer; "that Mr. Roosevelt's discussion of this com plex problem should prove helpful to President Taft." "The Outlook editorial marks the return of Roosevelt," is the opinion cf The Press. Charged With Poisoning Bride. The cases against Robert Kenne dy and M. L. Childers. who are In jail at Leesburg, Ca.. charged with causing the death of Mrs. Etta Rich ardson Childers, the bride of M. L. Childers, which are to bo considered by the grand jury at the present term of the superior court, will not be tak en up before next Wednesday. ..Mrs. Childers died on Aug. IT. as the re sult, of taking poison placed in a bottle of medicine which she had been using. Falls to His Death. At Perkins,' Okla.. Samuel Heller, aged was killed while making a balloon ascension. When the balloon was three thousand feet in the air. Heller cut loose his parachute. He clung to the bar until within a hun dred feet of the ground, then lost his grip and fell. abuse m sooth FOR LYNCHING THT FIENDS WHO ATTACK OUR WOMEN. But Has Not a Word of Censure for the North for Burning Negroes for Murder. The New York World says a mass meeting to protest against lynching was held in Ethical Culture Hail. Sixty-Fourth street and Central Park West, Thursday night under the aus pices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Resolutions were adopted expressing regret that President Taft "has not seen fit to voice a single public pro test." These resolutions also asked for a Congressional inquiry into the entire question of lawlessness. Hutchina C. BiBhop, a negro cler yg-man atbacked the President for doing nothing to prevent tse .?ynch fing of negroes in the South. Every uncomplimentary reference to the 1 President was applauded by tho small audience, which consisted almost en I tireiy of negroes. Mrs. Florence Kelly said the wo men of this country should hang their heads in shame, for they had I the upbringing of the men who did the lynchings. "The personal honor of every woman in her own affair," she exclaimed, "which no one can attack but herself. The- burning of a man's body is no worse than the sacrifice of the lives o? our young girls on the streets, to which we ac quiesce." W. E. Du tfois said many negroes were lynched for assaults on white women which never took place. Oswald Garrison Vllllard, who presided, said officials North, South, East and West bow in obeisance to Judge Lynch. He called attention to the steady increase in the number of lynchings and declared that if Lynch law was not checked it would under mine the foundation of American clv ilazation. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, a Unitarian minister, exhorted thf North to fight over the battle of fif ty years ago and lead the poor, be nighted South back to the paths of right and full equality of every de scription. Appeals were . made for contributions for a fund of $1,000 to send a man to watch the doings In the South. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. Farmer's Mules Bring Thci. Ma&ter Home in Dying Condition. A mysterious tragedy, in which Mr. James Irvin is dead, occurred near his home at Polkville Tuesday. Mr. Irvin was a progressive farmer and was in the woods with his wagon, hauling leaveB for the stable. He came home riding on the wagon in an unconscious condition, his skull be ing crushed. For some time it was thought that he had been brutally attacked and murdered, but after an examination of the wagon tracks, it is now trought that the hub of the wheel lodged against a tree and he got down to press the small tree out. When he did the mules jerked and caught his head between the sapling and the wheel. Ills skull was crushed and his ear was torn off. Somehow he managed to crawl back on the load of leaves and his mules hauled him home in an unconscious condi tion. Mr. Irvin was one of the leading farmers of the county and the trag edy is most -deplorable. The exact manner in which he met the fatal stroke is not known but the above is the accepted theory of the neighbors. He was buried at Rig Springs church Wednesday and a great crowd at tended the funeral. He was a broth er of Rev. A. C. Irv-in, the venerable Confederate pastor who is so well known throughout the State. SCORE DEAD Fir TORM. Much Daninge to Shipping Along the New England Coast. A Rosto;: dispatch says the high gaies of the last forty-eight hours have caused the destruction of or serious injury to a dozen or more sailing craft, while at Iea3t a score of seamen have perished. The worst disaster was that which befell the Norweiplan full-rigged ship Antigua, of Christian!.*!, at. Martin River,'at the mouth of the Gulf of St. Law rence. A gale drove the big vessel on tho rocks and' of tho crow of I S men 1." perished in the terrific soas. The survivors were picked lit) suffer ing from cold and exposure Friday. The Antigua is a total wrecK. Roosevelt a Candidate. Norman E. Mack, chairman of tho Democratic National committee, said in an interview: "Roosevelt is now an avowed candidate for the Republi can presidential nomination. It will be a neck and neck race between him and Taft In the convention." Drinks Poison and Jumps. Dr. S. Dal la, said to be a promi nent physician of Los Angeles, Ca.1., after announcing his purpose to fel low passengers on an Atchlson, To peka and Santa Fe Railroad train, near Pauls Valley, Okla., swallowed carbolic acid and lee.ped through a window of the sleeper on Friday. WO CENTS PER COPY. OFFICER SLAIN 4iken P-j ic nni? sw sod Killed by a PromiBeot Cidz o 4 DEPLORABLE AFF? Town Shocked by News oi Falthf Oluccrs Death' at Hands of Promi nent Citizen?Kicking of Patter son's Dog Said, to Have Started Trouble in the Street. The correspondent of the News and Courier Bays one of the most unfort unate and deplorable tragedies in the history of Aiken occurred there Fri day afternoon at 3 o'clock, when Mr. James Seigler shot and instantly killed officer Wade Patterson, one of the oldest and most valued members of the police focce of that city. There were several eye-witnecses to the tragedy, but ther refuse to be quoted. The story centers around a dog he longing to the dead policeman. It seems that Mr. Seigler had been playing with the dog, when the ani mal became enraged and bit, or at tempted to bite, Mr. Seigler, where upon the latter became incensed and kicked the dog. This drew a warn ing rebuke from Officer Patterson, who reminded Mr. Seigler that be had trifled with the animal. Mr. Seig ler. it is said, replied to the warning by cursing several times and the of ficer threatened him with arrest. This seems to have closed the in cident. The two men then separated, Mr. Seigman walking into thq store" of Mr. John Overstreet, entering through the side door from Park av- ? enue. Officer Patterson walked to the Main street entrance of the same store, where the difficulty was re newed. Words passed, which it seems provoked considerable profan ity from Mr. Seigler, and for this Mr. Patterson arrested him. Mr. Seig ler immediately offered bond for his appearance, and Mr. Patterson ac cepted the bond of $5. The report goes that Seigler fc-rr' ed Patterson a five dollar bill, and without further words pulled from his pocket s. 32-caIibre.automatic re volver and fired four or five shots in to the brea?t of the officer, produc ing Instantaneous death. Bystanders rushed up and found Officer Patter son still clutching the money and his revolver securely fastened in its hol ster, the barrel pointing upwards. ;Mr. Seigler was arrested by Rural Policeman Holley, who one of the' eye-witnesses ,and taken to jail. Mr. Seigler is one of the most prominent men of the county, being a son of the late Capt. A. S. Seigler, and has a host of Mends, wh:- deeply rgeret the shoojsfng. Officer Patterson came from Edge field to Aiken about thirty-five years ago and has almost continuosly since been a member of the Aiken police force. He was recognized as one of the heit and most conscientious offi cers cn the force, and was a man whoily and altogether void of any fear, being at all times cool and re sourceful, and his untimely death has cast a gloom over the city that he has guarded so long and well dur ing the dark hours. He leaves a sv'*t and five children. * FORTY-FOUR MILLIONS SPENT Last Year by the Southern States for Good Roads. Speaking of the advantage of good roads and of what is being done in that direction Secretary of Agricul ture Wilson declared that nearly $44,000,000 was expended during the present year for good mads iu the Southern States alone. The secretary will speak on the subject at the good roads congress to be held next week in Richmond, Va. "Through its bureau of good roads," the secretary continued, "the department of agriculture has been stimulating tc.:e nation-wide move ment for better highways, sending out experienced engineers to conduct demonstration work and a force of trained men to give illustrated lec tures. "Reports to the .departmem show that the $11,000.000 spent during ?the first ten months of this calendar year was divided as follows: Ala bama, $3.484.000: Arkansas $2,450^ .000; Delaware $430,000: Florida $l,.r>05,000; Georgia $2.500,000; Kentucky $2.500,000; Louisiana $1, [32,354; Maryland $2,250,000; Mis sissippi $3.130.000; North Carolina $4,505,000; Oklahoma $1,505,000; South Carolina $1.100,000; Tennes see $3.900,000; Texas $7,6000,000; Virginia, $4,004,000; West Virginia '$1,625,000. - i Settles Family Trouble. Because he had filed suit for di vorce, had left their homo, ;it Fort Worth, an.!? gone to Denton, and re fused a reconciliation, Noy Pugh, 21, was shot and fatally wounded by his 18-year-old wife, who at once fired a bullet through her own brain and died instantly. They were married last January. -? ? ?- i Many Are Killed By Storm. Fifteen of the crew of eighteen men lost their lives Friday when the Norwegian bark Antigua was driven ashore at Martin River. The Antigua was loa-ding at Martin river below; Quebec.