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(Jfe Hamburg Ifmtlb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912. Established 1891. ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. I \ News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt School. The first month's work of the Ehrhardt school has closed. The faculty desire to announce that the work for the month has been very satisfactory. A o/T/Tinor frtOroE}>QT> Ella PonitQtl'flTI A"*. A tCi AUU1U5 A deportment and attendance grades, ' it was discovered that quite a large number had made suitable proficiency to be placed on the honor roll, as follows: TENTH GRADE. Clara Copeland, Ethel Smiths NINTH GRADE. Allie Kinard, Lillie Kinard, Clyde Herndon, Carolee Hiers, Edward McDowell, Robt. Peters, Lander Whittaker. SEVENTH GRADE. Leroy Hudson. SIXTH GRADE. Henry Hutson, Inez Hutson, Ada Smith. FIFTH GRADE. Vertol Wingate, Alice Pate, Eleanor Pate, Effie Ramsey. FOURTH GRADE. Wilma Clayton, Ruby Kinard, Zeita Planer, Alston Hutson. THIRD GRADE. Harvie Williams, Bernice Williams. SECOND GRADE. Louise Simmons, Lyles Ehrhardt, Marguerite Copeland, Wilhelmina McKenzie. ADVANCED FIRST. Nell Hudson, Alfred Hudson, Dorothy McDowell, Edna Kirkland. BEGINNERS FIRST GRADE. Hildegard Dannelly, Sallie Morris, M. E. Hutson. Among those who deserve honorable mention are: SEVENTH GRADE. Grace Moore, Estelle Hiers, Genie Ramsey. * ' FIFTH GRADE. Helen McDowell, Glen Smith, Allie Morris, Bettie Kinard. ADVANCED FIRST GRADE. Louise Copleand, Cornelius Brabham. ' FIRST GRADE. Robert Smith, Vera Planer. 1 . SECOND GRADE. Furman Roberts. ON CHARGE OF MURDER. Two Held in Calhoun for Alleged Crime Committed Last May. St. Matthews, Oct. 29.?Sheriff Rast brought in Moten Cheesehoro and Joe Felder, negroes, from Creston this afternoon under peculiar circumstances. Last May a negro by the name of Sam Robinson was found dead on the Atlantic Coast Line tracks and removed by passersby before the train arrived. He had evidently been murdered and carried there with a view of shifting responsibility. There was no clue at the time, but the sheriff has never lost hope and finally procured evidence which cast suspicion upon these parties. A little cabin stands about four hundred yards from the track, and near the station. It now develops that the bloody deed was probably enacted within its dingy walls. Blood stains were found on the floor of this cabin and covered well with sand. The theory is that a gambling bout was in progress during that fateful night, when a dispute arose, which caused Robinson to meet his doom. The prisoners were lodged in jail and will probably be tried at the ap proaching term or court. In One Minute You Can Propose to a girl. Fall overboard. . Miss the boat to Europe. Be hanged. Lose a fortune in the market. ' Kiss a girl from one to sixty times. Be kissed as many times. Acquire a fatal disease. Drop from a ten-story building. Take a cold bath. Run a hundred yards. Lose your job. Have your pockets picked. Write a check for a million. Make a good after-dinner speech. Make a bad one. See the point of a joke. Go crazy. Meet your affinity. Say the wrong thing. * Lose a thousand. Say the Lord's prayer. Swear a blue streak. Buy a gold brick. Sell one. Be let into words with your wife. Be run over at a grade crossing. Read this.?Life. LESTER GUXTER SLAIX. Shot and Almost Instantly Killed by j Levi Gunter. Lexington, Oct. 28.?Lester Gunter, a young white man of the Steadman section of this county, was shot and almost instantly killed 'in the public road about dark last night by Levi Gunter, his third cousin. The tragedy occurred in front of the home of Levi Gunter, and five shots were fired. A bullet from a 38-calibre revolver entered the side, ranging upward and lodged about two inches below the nipple, causing in stant death. From the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest this morning and from what can be learned from the accused, it seems that the trouble had its origin about a week ago, when, it is claimed, Lester Gunter and two or three companios went to the home of Ed. Gunter, father of Levi Gunter, and acted in a very ungentlemanly manner in the presence of the sisters of Levi Gunter. The trouble was renewed at the Baptist church at Steadman yesterday and, according to the statement of Levi Gunter, he was attacked by seven young men. Levi Gunter says that he ran, being unarmed. Lester Gunter was in the party, all of whom were under the influence of whiskey. Last night Lester Gunter, Glover Hall, and Clinton Corley, in a buggy, drove by the home of Levi Gunter. Glover Hall testified that when they were about in front of Levi Gunter's house Lester Gunter said: "Boys, I believe I will see if he wants to shoot," and gave three yells. At this juncture, Hall said, Levi Gunter came to the door of his house and fired four or five times. None of the party in the buggy returned the fire; and after driving a short distance Lester Gunter said that he was shot, and he expired a few minutes later. The two companions carried the body of Lester Gunter to the home of his brother, four miles distant, where the inquest was held this morning. The testimony of the other young man who was with Lester -Gunter at the time of the shooting is substantially the same as Hall's. Levi Gunter, according to his statement, did not know that anyone was injured until he reached Leesville with his father this morning, and was apprised of the fact by some friends who had seen Sheriff Miller and Coroner B. D. Clarke pass through on their way to hold the inquest. The young man boarded the first train and came to Lexington and gave himself up at the jail. He does not hesitate to talk about the crime, although he was very visibly affected. He said that he shot in self-defense; that the ? ? ? ?? -? ?- Vin o + 1 yUUULg JLULtJJLL 1U t UtJ UU55J oivppvu in front of his home, began to curse and make all kinds of threats. He said- that they told him that he would either have to shoot or be killed. At the time the buggy drove to his home he said that he was sitting around the fireside with his wife nursing his twoyear-old child. He said that when he went to the door he believed that he was going to be instantly shot, and that in defense of his own life he began to fire. He heard nothing further and did not know that he had injured anyone until this morning. Levi G.unter has employed the law firm of Efird & Dreher to defend him, and it is likely that an application for bail will be made as soon as the papers can be arranged. He is about 30 years old and has a wife and one child. Lester Gunter was about 19 years of age and unmarried. The dead man is a son of James V. Gunter, and his relatives have secured the services of E. L. Asbill, of Leesville, to assist in the prosecution of the case. Riiti-c PftiiviVts Wat .".Ortft Tihs. Pish. Jackson, Ga., Oct. 28.?The Butts county chain gang has a record for devouring fish that is seldom equaled. Recently the convicts have been working the roads in Worthville district, which is near the pond of the Central of Georgia Power company. Now this body of water is full to running over with fish, particularly carp. Farmers in the neighborhood sold the gang 5,000 pounds- of fish in one month, and the county had a bill of $50 for fish. Fish are both chean and whole some and the county chain gang uses large quantities of the finny tribe. The Central Georgia Power company pond is literally alive with fish and during the season hundreds of tons of fish are caught, catches of several tons a day being reported. . IN THE PALMETTO STATE " \ SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Roiled Down for Quick P v Reading?Paragraphs About a Men and Happenings. a ' h George Keller, a young negro, kill- ^ ed his father-in-law, Heyward Jones, ^ near Bradley, Greenwood county, on g Friday. i V/UV/iaiu^ wug k/\/w vuv* A* VMV* v?? bridge over Tiger river at Nessbitt r Shoals, in Spartanburg county, strik- n ing the end of the structure, a little E girl, four years of age, was killed instantly. Mrs. Lawson was serious- u ly injured and Frank Harrison sus- 2< tained slight injury. A baby in Mrs. Lawson's arms escaped injury. 11 m c; PROSECUTION ASKS DELAY. b " g New Turn in Case Against Green ville Officers. Greenville, Oct. 29.?If the re- ^ quest which the prosecution made ? this afternoon for a postponement of ' the preliminary in the case against Police Inspector Gilreath, Policeman p Phillips and Constable Gosnell is not j. granted, it is said the warrants against these men will be tempora- a rily withdrawn. The attorneys for yi the defence declare they will op- p pose vigorously any postponement of ^ the preliminary. c It is understood that the grounds upon which the piuseeution will ask continuance is that it has not been n able to secure witnesses. Just what the prosecution means by its statement that it has not been able to se cure witnesses is somewhat problem- ^ atical, as it was generally understood ^ here that the warrants were sworn . out on the testimony of T. U. ^ Vaughn, who claims that these officers asssited him in breaking jail here in May, and who is now in Co- ^ lumbia under sentence of death. It is the consensus of opinion locally that the withdrawal of the war- ^ rants to-morrow, should the magis- ^ trate refuse to continue the hearing, j will mean the end of the matter, un- ^ less the defedants decide to bring g] civil and criminal suits against the ^ men who they charge with engineer- ^ ing their arrest. I)o Not Believe Gilreath Guilty. f h Greenville, Oct. 28.?There was ^ little, if any abatement to-day of the j intense feeling engendered here Sunday night by the treatment accorded one of Greenville's most highly respected citizens, ex-Sheriff Jeff D. ^ Gilreath, and the other two men, both of whom are men of integrity, ^ when they were arrested on warrants charging them with assisting T. U. Vaughn to escape from the Green ville jail last June. The affair is openly declared by some to be a con- , spiracy designed to bring about the official decapitation as police inspector of Mr. Gilreath, who has been making blind tigers and operators t< of gambling dens sweat bl^od since tl his election to that office October 1. ti Twp of Vaughn's brothers stated u; to-da? that they did not believe any ai of the three accused men had any- a] thing to do with the prisoner's escape. They went further and stated a, that they had serious doubts as to their condemned brother making a fl, confession implicating the three men. The three defendants will be given a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon before Magistrate Stradlev. A dozen or more of the leading members of the bar have clamored for S( the privilege of representing the de- 111 fendants. ^ mi la Lucky "Babe." g] Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 24.? ir "Babe" Stephenson, while burning brush on the side of Lookout Moun- tl tain, near Fort Payne, found $3,050, ai nearly all in $100 bills. The end of tt the roll of bills which was exposed sc was rotten, showing it had been tr buried some time. d< President Taft will be invited by a the mayor and citizens of Charleston ^ to visit Charleston during "Fleet t Week," Nov. 17-23. h The governor is out in an article v in the newspapers advising all Dem- s ocrats to vote at the election next n Tuesday. We'll see how much ef- v feet the article will have. h A meeting of the members of the b general assembly is to be held in Columbia this week, possibly to plan r legislation at the coming session. It C is said that Blease members called the conference, but some anti-Blease- y ites have been invited. & When the mules drawing a wagon driven by Frank Harrison, and car- c t1 rying Mrs. Lawson and several children ran away Monday just before P roooliinor + Vi o QAnthorn on rl r?f tViP ^ IUREDR OR MENDICOS' PRANK? Roman's Body Discovered?Police Unable to Solve Mystery. St. Louis, Oct. 26.?The nude and artly decomposed body of a woman, rith five gashes on the head, a rope round the neck, a gag in the mouth, gunny sack over the head and the ands tied together with a cloth, was ound to-day in the basement of a ouse, which had been vacant since eptember 3. One end of the rope was wrapped round a gas pipe in such a way that L supported the body in a sitting posure. Indications are that the body ad been in the basement for several feeks. The cuts on the head, it was aid, at the morgue, might have been lade with a hatchet. No weapon with rhich the cuts on the head might ave been made was found near the ody. The finding of the body was the esult of a note received by . mail by !hief of Police Young, which read: If you will go to 2,307 Locust street ou will find a body hanging. Janie ishley." Beside the body was a pile of lothing, all of it much worn. On he floor near the body was a newsaper dated September 28 folded so hat it displayed a story of the arest of men alleged to have been conected with the New Westminster, t. C., bank robbery. The latest tenants of the house are nable to-night to aid the police in lentifying the woman. The police D-night investigated, without reachig a conclusion, a rumor that medial students placed the body in the asement and arranged the scene to ive the appearance of a murder. SLAYS HIS WIPE'S PARENTS. because He is Not Permitted to See Her and Baby. Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 28.?Alvin oehr, a young farmer of Plymouth, ite yesterday shot and killed his ither-in-law, Philip J. Ott, Mrs. Ott, nd Mrs. Ott's father, Fred Haut, 80 ears old. Roehr had been refused ermission to see his wife, from horn he had lived apart. He esaped. Mrs. Roehr and her baby esaped by hiding three hours. About a year and a "half ago Roehr larried Ott's daughter. They did ot get along well and Mrs. Roehr ome time ago took her six-monthsid baby and returned to her father's ouse, just across the road. She aen started suit for divorce. Roehr tarted suit for recovery of the child, ut failed. Late yesterday afternoon Roehr rent to his father-in-law's home and emanded to see his wife. The randfather answered the door, but efused the young farmer admitmce. Roehr went back to his home, ut returned in ten minutes with a hotgun and as the grandfather, Fred [aut, went to the dairy shed, Roehr hot and killed him. Mr. Ott and is wife came out of the door and :oehr shot them also, killing them. Then he entered the house in sarch of his wife. She had heard im and had taken her baby and idden in a chimney cupboard where tie remained for three hours. Finally she slipped out and gave le alarm to neighbors. A witness to the crime was the )ur-year-old adopted son of Ott, who as at the milk shed. Thinking the ntire family had been killed, he ent upstairs and hid in bed. Roehr's father committed suicide bout five years ago. Ott was one f the most prominent farmers and :ock raisers in this county. Throw Victim Into Bushes. Glen Rock, N. J., Oct. 28.?An auimobile containing three women and iree men killed George Price, a con actor, here last night and after the ten had thrown the body into weeds ^ 4-Vt^vr tVlO T? L LJLLC l uausiuc Ciilti nd hurried away. A nine-year-old boy who saw the ccident told local authorities and le police of nearby places were notied and the party escaped. HUNGRY BULL GORES OWNER. bystanders Prevent Tragedy at Georgia State Fair. * Macon, Ga., Oct. 25:?A prize Jeriv bull, angry at not being given his lorning feed, attacked its owner, 0. . Selman, a young farmer of Dougissville, Ga., at the State fair rounds this morning, and seriously ijured him. The man's left leg was gored to le bone from the knee to the hip ad he is in a critical condition at ie City Hospital. Standers-by las4-V.^ U..11 ^?A nrairontori it frnm jcu cue uuli aiiu i?&!vui.vu *?, ampling the prostrate man to sath. i ARRESTS FOLLOW TRIA1 WARRANTS FOR PHILLIPS, GIJ REATH, AND GOSNELL. Charged That Well Known Men Aide in Escape of Prisoner From Greenville Jail. Greenville, Oct. 27.?Upon an a leged statement of Thurston 1 Vaughn, sentenced to die for crir inal assault, and at the instigation * Gov. Blease, ex-Sheriff Jeff D. Gi reath, inspector of police; ex-Jail( A. A. Phillips, of the city police, ar Reuben Gosnell, a magistrate's co: stable, were arrested to-night on wa rants charging them with assistii Vaughn to escape from the couni jail last June. , The three men wei hauled through the streets of Gree: villc. tn tho iail nrhora fhov <1 TtliV VV wuv yvkti VUVJ " V4 V *4 carcerated for an hour or more. Five substantial business me commanding more than $1,000,0( cash, later rushed to the jail fro their respective churches togeth< with hundreds of other citizens wl crowded about the prison and clar ored as to who should be the first i sign bonds of $1,000 for each of tl parties. Feeling is intense to-nigl and excitement is running high* than at any time during the past fe days of sensational happenings i Greenville. Rumor spread like wildfire on tl streets about noon that arrests wei to be made in connection with the e cape of Vaughn from Greenville jail some time ago. Warrants we: drawn up late in the afternoon ai just before night were signed 1 Magistrate Samuel Stradley ar placed in the hands of sheriff elec Hendrix Rector, for service. Tl deputy set out to apprehend his me and located Policeman Phillips fir nt flrppn nrprmp n/nrt Pp.nrilptr streets as the officer was going fro his home to the police station. I was arrested and conveyed to the ja and locked in a cell. Rector then set about to locate M Gilreath, finding him at the poij near the grand opera house. Bol got in a hack and started toward tl jail. As the two came through Mai street a tremendous throng gathere and raced behind the vehicle shou ing and making the night ring wil their cries. Mr. Gilreath was platx in a cell with the common prisone: after which the deputy set about i find his third man. The News Spread. In the meantime news of the a rests spread through several of tl churches of Greenville and many < the most prominent men of the cii left their pews and rushed for tl jail. They insisted on Magistra Stradley being sent for so that 1 could make bond for the prisoner A messenger went to a church aft< the magistrate and brought him I the prison. By the time he arrive the deputy had returned with Reube Gosnell, his third prisoner. Bom were drawn up and signed by Avei Patton, Henry P. McGee, J. M. Gee A. Lester Furman, C. O. Allen. Tl prisoners were released and left tl jail at once, while the crowd tin jamed the street in front of the pri on dispersed. The intense feeling in the case caused by the sharp lines between tl law and order faction of which Gi reath is a member, and the blin tiger element of Greenville. Gilreat was recently elected police inspectc and has been making war on the lav breakers with a vengeance ever sine thereby incurring the enmity of tt lawless. The men who signed tfc bonds were representatives of Greei KAaf m'f iVonohin vine o iseoi To-night, at the county jail, in th presence of the prisoners and a scoi or more of prominent citizens of tfc city, Sheriff J. Perry Poole gave 01 a statement in regard to the allege confession of Vaughn. He state that as he, Deputy Sheriff Hunsinge Sheriff-elect Rector and J. B. Wa: son were carrying Vaughn from tb court house to the train late Satu: day afternoon for the purpose of tal ing him to Columbia the prisone made an open confession to how h escaped from the jail last June. Statement from Sheriff. Sheriff Poole said in part as to lows: "We were going along Hlidso street when Vaughn made his cor fession.^ He said that his brothe gave Jailer Phillfps $10 to transfe T. U. Vaughn from the main cell trw q ppii iispiI for women which has barred window opening on the ja; yard. The night before he escape Vaughn said, Reuben Gosnell cam to the jail window for the purpose o sawing the bars, but that condition were unfavorable for the job and h went away. The following night h said Mr. Gilreath came to the wir ^ TO WEI) GIRL FATHER WHIPPED Marriage License Issued to Dawson k* Boy and Essie Carter. Macon, Ga., Oct. 28.?A marriage license has been secured from Ordinary Wiley by Vogt 0. Dozier, of Dawson, and Essie Carter, of Macon. They say they will marry to-morrow, j. Dozier is the 20-year-old son of W. S. Dozier, clerk of the Terrell counts ty superior court at Dawson, and is the young man on account of whom his father severely whipped the Carter gr girl at Dawson last July. The elder l(j Dozier and several of his friends are q_ now defendants in a suit for $25,r_ 000 damages brought in the United States court by Essie Carter. ty Essie Carter states that she and re Vogt Dozier made an effort to marry o_ Saturday night, but could not locate a justice of the peace, and postponr ed the affair until Tuesday on account of their unwillingness for a minister )a to perform the ceremony. m Constable Takes His Life. er __ Hampton, October 28.?Frank Q- Brown, constable of Magistrate J. to f! Dowlinsr. of Brunson. committed 12 suicide this morning by shooting kt himself through the head with a 38?r calibre pistol, the muzzle of the pi?w tol having been placed in mouth, to from all appearances. No one knows what the cause was. 12 Mrs. Brown, who was Miss Clara re Harrison, daughter of W. F. Harris* son, states that her husband had l>s been more or less despondent for the re past two or three weeks, and that ld he had said he was going to kill >y himself. She kept him from his pisto tol until this morning, when'-he managed to obtain possession of toe 16 weapon. About 7 o'clock he went jn out into the back yard and, in a st squatting position, leaned up against >n a fowl house, where he killed himm self. No one heard the report of *e the pistol, and it was not until Mr. U Crosby went over to Mr. Brown's house to return a buggy that toe r* body was discovered. This was shortly after 7 o'clock. * .h ooom tr% think that, business WWliWV WVV4** VV V??* ? le troubles brought about this act. in Mr. Brown leaves a wife and sev^ eral children. ;h WOMAN GETS LIFE SENTENCE. id r3 Religious Fanatic Confesses Comto mitting Nineteen Murders. Lafayette, La., Oct. 25.?Clementine Bernabet, the negro "axe wor_ man" and follower of the Church of ie Sacrifice, whose confessed murders number 19, was to-day found guilty of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the State peniten.. te tiary- v- * ie The negroes of the community, s who had feared her, both because of the crimes she had committed and ?0 for the "evil eye" they believed she ;(j possessed, had threatened to lynch m her should she be acquitted. n .... . jg The woman's trial Degan yesterday .y on one charge, that of having killed r the wife of Norbert Randall. All of r? , . . ie her victims were negroes. , ie A year ago the *negro woman's father, Raymond Bernhardt, and her g_ brother, Zepherin Bernabet, were convicted for murders that the "axe ^ woman" later confessed to havingie committed. What disposition now j. will be made of their cases has not 3 been determined. ^ dow and did the actual sawing of the )r bars, handing the saw through the t 7" window to the prisoner just before ;e the last bar was severed. Vaughan Le said he finished the job. Vaughan ie furthes* said that he would sit in the electric chair itself and make the same confession as to who helped ie him to escape." e The confession made by Vaughan te must have reached the ears of Gov. lt Blease, for the officers stated that !(^ the chief executive telephoned here IC* to-day and ordered the warants r' sworn out at once and served. It 3~ was repeatedly seated at the jail toie night by the arresting officers, the r" prosecutor and others interested in ! the case that Blease had ordered the !r arrests to be made that day. The l? three warrants were sworn out by ^ Dr. W. L. Mauldin, and each one charges the respective defendants I- with "aiding a prisoner to escape." n The specific charges in the warl rants against Gosnell and Phillips t are that they assisted T. U. Vaughan r to escape from the Greenville county s jail. The warrant against Mr. Gila reath charges* that the defendant il "did convey into the Greenville coun d ty jail tools adapted or useful to aid e a prisoner to make his escape with ?f intent to facilitate the escape of a s prisoner." The witnesses in each e case are J. Perry Poole, Hendrix Rece tor, John S. Hunsinger, and T. U. i- Vaughan.