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HOMICIDE IX FLORENCE. | Sam M. Cook Dead; Seeby T. Buret) j Accused of Killing. i Florence. Nov. 29.?Sam. M. Cook, j Qf this city, overseer on the planta- j tion of Mr. Seeby T. Burch, one mile | south of this city, this afternoon was J shot and killed in the lobby of the j Central Hotel on East Evans street, j Mr. Burch is charged with the kill- j ing. The men had previously had an j altercation, it is said, earlier in the afternoon. There are conflicting | statements as to the nature of the j altercation which led up to the shoot-1 ing. Several parties claim they wit- j nessed the affair. At the inquest the testimony was to the effect that the j two men had been standing on the i street talking, when Burch told Cook to come with him. T-ie two men} walked from the street to the east side of the lobby in the Central Hotel and sat down in chairs. Burch, it seems, endeavored to reconcile Cook as to the trouble they had had previously, but Cook seemed to be drinking and Burch was unable to do anything with him. Burch then got up from his seat and told Cook he would see him a litle later in the afternoon and turned to walk off. Just then Cook is said to have used a curse word. Burch, it is claimed, turned to Cook, who was attempting to approach with his hand in his pocket, and Burch quickly drew his gun and began firing. One of the shots took effect a little to the left in the neck, one in the left breast, piercing the heart; one beneath the left shoulder blade. Another wound was found by the examining physician, Dr. Simmons Lucas, but he did not state positively " that it was the wound of a pistol bullet. Dr. Lucas stated that the wound through the heart was sufficient to kill Cook almost instantly. As soon as Cook was shot he turned * and staggered out to the sidewalk, falling face downward and expired in a few minutes. As soon as the shooting was over Mr. Burch surrendered and was taken in charge by the sheriff. Coroner Gunn was sent for and a jury empanelled and adjourned to the county court house, where the evidence was taken. The verdict was that the deceased came to his death by a gunshot wound in the hands of Seeby T. Burch. Judge Shipp granted bond in the sum of $.5,000, which was promptly given and Burch was released. Mr. Burch is a well-known traveling salesman and farmer. He is a son of the late Seeb T. Burch, a former coroner of this county, and is widely connected with some of the best families of this and Darlington counties. Mr. Cook came to Florence from Conway or Horry county sumc imCC or four years ago. He leaves a wife and two small children. The unfortunate affair occurred just when the streets were filled with shoppers and caused no little excitement. * BRIDAL PAIR MAKE ESCAPE. ~ X Savannah Bride Slides Down Water Pipe from Second Story. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 26.?Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Pierce, the groom a resident of Dawson; the bride a Savannahian, made a dramatic "getaway" last night following their marrige yesterday over the protest of the bride's mother and the consequent incarceration of the lady in an upper bed room of her mother's home. Before her marriage Mrs. Pierce was Miss Helen Creech, and her mother very bitterly objected to her getting married. Last night, after being locked in her room and separated from her husband, Mrs. Pierce slid down the water pipe from the second floor of the home and joined her hus1 J ?1? ?-?oT-htT Thov anneal. Del LIU, W UU W as ucaii;;, iuvj uff ed to two friends with motorcycles to aid them in getting away from the ire of Mrs. Creech and were carried on these machines to Pooler, ten miles away, where the train was caught for Dawson. Mrs. Creech did not know that her daughter had gone until several hours after her departure. KILLED BY RUNAWAY HORSE.' Glenn Ulmer Meets Death While at Play in Front of Elloree Home. Elloree, Nov. 26.?Glenn Ulmer, 7year-old son of Mrs. Annie Ulmer, was struck by a team of runaway horses hitched to a wagon and instantly killed yesterday afternoon. The team was hitched in front of a blacksmith shop when the animals became frightened, and, breaking away, dashed down the street. Little Glenn, with some playmates, was in front of his mothers' home. rr"u- r\f tho hnnsp wpre I 1 IXC XI UliX OLCyo VI vuv uvvvv. torn away and the child struck by a wheel. His skull was crushed and he [ was killed almost instantly. His companions, who were sitting on the steps, had a very narrow escape. The child was the older son of a widowed mother, and the accident has shocked the community. ' The team was owned by Henry Wilson, a negro farmer. I KFCOKD OF A CONVICT. Freed Twice by the Governor of South Carolina. Lexington, S. C., Nov. 27.?Jacob B. Jeter, the white man who was released from the State penitentiary by the governor's parole yesterday, is said to be one of the most dangerous men in the State. Jeter was the first man to receive a pardon at the hands of the present governor and his parole yesterday makes the second time that he has received clemency from the chief executive within the past three years. Jeter was serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary for having killed a man on the public streets of the city of Union, and was released after having served only about seven years, it is said. Jeter, soon after his. release the first time, returned to the home of his mother and sister, at Swansea, this county, where he is alleged to have robbed the home of a lot of personal effects belonging to his sister. The goods were practically all recovered by P. H. Corley, who was then sheriff of the county. The different articles were located in a number of disreputable houses in the city of Columbia by the officers, but Jeter was taken into custody. Upon signing an agreement that he would leave the county, never to return to the home of his relatives again, Jeter was allowed to go his way. It was not long after that, however, before he was again in trouble. While on a drunken spree in the town of Swansea, Jeter resisted arrest, making an effort to shoot his would-be captors, who found it necessary to shoot him in order to effect his capture. His wounds were considered so serious that he was carried to Knowlton's Hospital in ColumDia. Alter remaining in the hospital for several weeks Jeter, upon the promise that he was only going out on the porch for a little fresh air, slipped away from the institution, and, while on his crutches, made a rapid get-away. , A warrant for his arrest had been placed in the hands of Sheriff Sim J. Miller, who at once got in pursuit. It was learned that Jeter had boarded a train for Salley, where he secured a horse and buggy and drove for several miles into the country, to the home of a relative, where he was captured by the Lexington sheriff as he was preparing to leave for Savannah. Jeter wras brought back to the Lexington county jail, where he was kept confined for several weeks. JBe w;as tried on a charge of resisting an officer and assault and battery with intent to kill at the January term of the general sessions court this year; was convicted and sentenced to serve a period of two years in the State penitentiary. Jeter made a strong attack on Sheriff Miller while in the Lexington county jail previous to his trial, and it was only by the almost superhuman strength of the Lexington sheriff that Jeter did not harm the officer and effect his escape. He is also said to have made a threat against George Bell Timmerman, solicitor, who made a strong fight for his conviction during the trial, and to have threatened the life of the Lexington sheriff and otner omcers or me court. The fact that he has been turned loose a second time by the governor has occasioned considerable comment among the people of this county who are acquainted with the character of the man. TRY TO ASPHYXIATE LOPEZ. Officers Will Endeavor to Poison Desperado Underground. t Bingham, Utah, Nov. 30.?While Ralph Lopez, the slayer of six men, was attempting to batter down a bulkhead at the entrance of the tunnel in the Utah-Apex mine to-day, a posse brought out the bodies of Deputy Sheriffs Duglas Hulsey and Tom Nadrich, killed by the deperado in a subterranean fight yesterday afternoon. A development to-day was the report that Mike Cranovich, who shot and seriously wounded his wife sevj eral days ago, also is a fugitive in the i mine and is co-operating with Lopez, j That Lopez is suffering from hun| ger is the belief of the officers, as he has been in the mine with only a small supply of food since Thursday. Hundreds of Americans and foreigners begged for the opportunity to search the mine for the murderer. Only five, led by E. P. Strauper, mayor-elect of Bingham, were allowed tc penetrate the workings. After making two attempts they brought out the bodies which had been dragged by Lopez some distance up an incline. Outwitted repeatedly since Lopez began his career of bloodshed on November 21 the pursuing sheriffs oi seven counties to-day decided to batten up the mine and attempt to asphyxiate the fugitive with poisonous ? /.nnnJtnerl,. frtHTtoon r>f th( gctses. AWUl UlUfelJf luui v?. v.?? fifteen exits were stopped with bulkheads and the work of preparation for forcing in gas is under way. "OAKLAND SAMMY" 15 A OK IN JAIL Did Not Get a Chance to Turn the "Portland Ned" Stunt. Columbia, Nov. 26.?When Samuel K. Williams, alias Jas. P. Kelly, alias "Oakland Sammy," was released from the State Penitentiary this morning, under a parole from Governor Blease, after serving five years of a fifteenyears' sentence for safe-cracking in Charleston county, he walked into the Federal authorities' clutch, Deputy United States Marshal J. L. Adams serving a Federal warrant on Williams under a charge of robbing a postoffice in Marion, Ala., August 1, 1901. The yeggman was taken before United States CommissionerR. Beverley Sloan, and in default of a $10,000 bond was committed to the Richland county jail to await a preliminary. The warrant on which Williams, alias "Oakland Sammy," was arrested was sworn out by Postoffice Inspector Gregory before Assistant District Attorney Arthur R. Young at Charleston on October 13, 1908, Mr. Young at that time being United States (jommissioner, and charged that Williams robbed a postoffice in Marion, Ala., August 1, 1901. Not Surprised. Williams is a big, heavy-set fellow, weighing about 200 pounds, well proportioned, and about 50 years of age. He did not express surprise at falling into the Federal officer's hands on being released from the State Penitentiary, and took his arrest with that stoical appearance which all of the yeggmen have. He remarked that it looked as if he would be kept in prison all of his life. He displayed some familiarity with the United States statutes and demanded a preliminary, which will be accorded him by Commissioner Sloan. Williams is said to be wanted in several other States. It is said that he escaped from jail once in Montgomery, Ala., and again in Florida while awiting trial. He is said to be an escaped convict from Missouri, and in addition to the charge on which he is now under arrest by Federal authorities there are claimed to be other charges against him. ? BEAK FIGHT TO DEATH. Farmer Gets Two Big Carcasses and Much Honey From Tree. W. W. Williams, a farmer, came across two big black bears fighting over a hollow tree trunk full of honey in a clearing in a woods near Sugar Run. The bears were so busy tearing each other that they failed to notice Mr. Williams, who got behind a big tree where he could watch the battle. The smaller of the two got a hold on the other's neck with his teeth. The battle then ended suddenly, the larger bear gasped twice and rolled over, dead. The victor, sorely wounded, fell on his victim, dying in a few minutes. Mr. Williams found both bears 1 smeared with honey they had drawn from the tree trunk. He got a team and help, loaded the two bears onto his wagon, and then took 400 pounds of fine honeycomb from the hollow trunk.?Sheffield, Pa., dispatch to the New York World. LANCASTER LAD HURT. i Theodore Barton is Injured by a Fall From a Tree. Lancaster, Nov. 26.?Theodore Barton, a bright little lad of the second grade of the Lancaster cotton mill school,sustained serious injuries yesterday afternoon, when he fell from a tfee, which he had climbed, upon a picket fence, one of the sharp palings of which stuck in his left side , and held him fast. The little fellow was taken from the fence by his sev II AAmnoniAnr? TlTlth TX7 Vl Am erai bxnaii cuuipauxvuo ** . he had been playing, and carried by , them to his father's home nearby, i where medical assistance was soon . secured for him. He was found to be in great pain and was very weak and faint from the loss of blood. His ugly and deep wound was sew, ed up and otherwise attended to. Under carefi^treatment, the boy will . soon be back at school. SAVANNAH PRESS HAS FIRE. Cigarette Supposed to Have Started $5,000 Blaze. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 30.?Fire damaged the plant of the Savannah Press, Savannah's afternoon daily, at an early hour this morning to the ex| tent of $5,000, covered by insurance. The tire originated in me uusmeas uifice on the first floor and spread from ' thence to the press room in the rear. The alarm was turned in at 4.25 a. m., but it is the belief that the fire had been smoldering since early the ; preceding evening. The general theory is that a cigarette carelessly thrown down on the floor of the busi" ness office caused the fire. The paper will be gotten out from its own ' plant tomorrow. i All kinds of ledgers and blank books at Herald Book Store, cheap. GRABS HER CHILI) AND FLEES. | Batesburg Woman Uses Fast Racing Auto to Bring Son from Alabama. Columbia, Nov. 29.?Ail interesting story is told of a trip by a young woman of 25 years, who is said to hate gone alone from this State to the southern part of Alabama, where her former husband and their two children lived, got one of her children in an automobile, made a wild run in the racing car across country, headed for South Carolina. She arrived safely in South Carolina with her boy. The story is told by Miss Lena Blease, formerly Mrs. L. B. Hartley, of Batesburg, who passed through this city to-night en route to her home, having gotten protection from Governor Blease at Anderson to-day. Miss Lena Blease is a member of a well-known family of Batesburg, and a cousin of Governor Blease. She married L. B. Hartley, some years her senior, on the 19th of April, 1903, in Batesburg, she says. The husband lived at Batesburg, and his father and several brothers reside there now. The young mother to-night in speaking of her married life, said that it was not a happy one. Secured a Divorce. The two children are named Julian, aged nine and one-half years, and Lester, aged eight years. For several years after they married Mr. and Mrs. Hartley lived at Batesburg. Finally Mrs. Hartley went to Augusta to work, and about three years ago Hartley took the two boys and went to Alabama, where, she says, he subsequently secured a divorce, Mrs. Hartley resuming her maiden name of Miss Blease. She claims that Hartley afterwards married Miss Ida Shealy, also of Batesburg, the ceremony taking place in Augusta about two years ago. She says when she returned to Batesburg her former husband had taken the children away. The mother says she began a long and patient search to locate her two children, following clue after clue. Finally after two years she says she located her former husband in the little town of Samson, one hundred miles South of Montgomery, on the Louisville and Nashville road. The mother next laid plans, she said, for getting her children. She intended invoking the aid of the law, and about six weeks ago went to Birmingham, and from there to Montgomery, Ala. Getting in command of the situation she says she found that the younger of the boys was sick, and this, with other information led her to decide to take the older boy, Julian; and come back to South Carolina. So t Friday of last week she says she moved to Elba, thirtyfive miles from Samson, where the boys were. Used Fast Rkcing Car. Monday morning, in a racing car, she declares she sped across country to Samson. As the school children . were gathering at the school the mother says she called Julian to the car in which she was sitting. The boy came up, and she pulled him in, opened the throttle and headed for Elba, across country. The boy was at first bewiwldered, says the mother, but soon recognized her and was wild with joy, saying he wanted to come back to South Carolina. With her boy in her lap the run was made to Elba in thirty minutes. From Monday until Wednesday the mother says she hid in the couhtry with her boy, among friends, and Wednesday went to Montgomery by automobile. From there she came through Atlanta, bound for Greenville, S. C. Miss Blease claims the alarm had been sent out and the police of various cities asked to be on the lookout for her and the child. On a northbound train she reached Greenville Friday morning. Hearing that her cousin, Governor Blease, was in Anderson, she caught the interurban and went to Anderson yesterday morning, and claims she immediately got the protection she expected. She and the young boy accompanied the Governor here to-night. In the morning the woman and her boy will go to Batesburg, where her father and mother await them. INJURED BY A NEEDLE. Gaffney Child Falls on Instrument's Sharp Point. Gaffney, Nov. 26.?While at play during recess at the Central graded school in Gaffney yesterday, Cozbi Daniel, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. 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