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GRIEENVILIJE POLICE3MAN SHOT BY NEGRO George S. llurroughs in ilospital as Result, of Fight with Negro. City. Wide Search Mide for Assalint. Greenville, May 7.-Shot as he at ..enlpted. to defend himself agahist a .,six-foot, 200-pound negro on a dark Martin street house 'porch a few min utes before 9 o'clock last night, George S. Burroughs, call officer of the Green ville force, was very painfully but not seriously wounded. The shot was fired after sevcral minutes of scuf fling, durinig wichel Officer :Burrorv... iwas struck on the head with a board andI painfilly hirt. The negro es caped. An ambulance rushed the police man to the ity hospital, where it. at first appeared tha t the bullet had gone through. the abhdomen and that the Wounitd was of an extremely serious nature. A stirgeon, who haatenoed to tho hospital to attend he I aintred manl, soon found that the .38 balibre bllet had struck a i) and fortunately had glanced. Imimediately after the ncar-trage(dy, police Chief Noe and Sheriff Rector-, with their forces spread the dragnet over 'the entlre city and section in search of William Thompson, giiger colored -negro who drives a truck for the Minter Homos company and who is named by other negroes in tihe house as the man who shot the officer. Thompson, according to the descrlp tin furnished by the police, weighs around 200 poinds, is abiout 'six feet tall and appears to b) about 30 years of age. Up until a late hour he had not been found but officers, aided by citizen-volunteers, are doing all In their power to locate him. According to the story obtalined from negroes who were in the house, Thompson was creating cnsiderable and profane ioise around the place. Omicer Hturroughs, who lives at -110 Westileld' street, a short distance above Martin street, either heard the noise, as one ngro woman said, and twen t to the house to stop the dis order or, as another report went, was called to the place by a negro. ThIe officer had gone off duty at -i o'clock in the aftriloon but did not hesitate to aniswer the call. Whe I Policeiani hi rroughis reach ed the froit porch of tle Martin street house, wh1ich is only a few yardis il I lie rear of a store situated by the P. & N. traelis on Westlield street, the nicgro, Thon pson , attacked him with his lists, accorditig to reports. The was Very Weak "After the birth of my baby I had a back-set," writes Mrs. Mattic Cross white, of Glade Spring, Va. "I was very ill; thought I was goinig to die. I was so weak I couldn't raise my head to get a drink of watcr. I took . . medicine, yet I didn't get any better. I * was constlpatcd and very ' * weak, getting worse and worse. I sent for Cardul." TAKE OARDUI The Woman's Tonie ' 1 found after one bot * t4 of Cardul I was im proving," adds Mrs. Crosswhite. "Six ibot ties of Cardul and .. . I was cured, yes, I can say they were a God-send to me. -I believe I would Shave died, had it not been for Cardul." Cardul has been found beneflclal in many thousands of other cases of womanly trou bles. If youa feel the need of a godd, strengthen ing tonic, why not try Cardul? It may be just what you need. AU .Dnuggists * I.u officer defended 'himself stoutly, at tom)tilg to take the man, who was uinch heavier than he, to the police station. Finally, after a few moments of struggling, the pol-iceman was struck on the head with a board of some sort and was then shot once. Bertha .Burton, a negro 1woman who says she rents a room in .the Martin street house froin another woman, Katio Goldsmith, is being held at the police station. She said that she lieard the noise on the porch and that she went to the door anil saw the of ileer struggling with Thompson. Dlertha , (said that she was afraid 'to go .beyonid the door, and (dd not see all of the trouble. Asked regarding tlie even'lts leading lp to the dIificulty, the 13urton woman stated that Thompson was cursing about the Ilace aid s.;ellmed to l)e attracting considerable attention. William Barniore, a negro iIa who reited roois on the ground floor of the huse. is quoted as telling oflicers that he Iheard a noise overhead just .before 9 o'clock aid that he went up Stairs to ascertain What the trouble was. The porch, lie said, was dark when he arrived and saw. two ilgures engaged in a struggle. Barmore is quoted as stating that lhe had gone in the rear of the house to obtain a light when the single shot was fired. While no serious consequences from the wound are expected, Policeman Burroughs will no doubt suffer se vere pain for a few days, according to the surgeon called, on the case. Mrs. Burroughs, wife of the ollicer, who nwas anxiously waiting at the hospital, breathed a sigh of genuine relief when informed that her husband would -be ,able to return to his home after sov Ieral (lays' treatment and that his con dition is not serious. Call Ollicer Burroughs has a record of upwards of a dozen years service on the city police force and is re garded as one of its most etlcient of ilcers. News that lie was shot spread rapidly through the streets, and of fers Iof assistance In lhelping to locate the guilty man 'Were numerous. Police olicials of nearby towns have been Intotified, and all outgoing trains aid roads leading out of Greenville are being guarded. Tie tiegro, Thompsoi, lives tit a house oi Oscat' street, niear the South vrn station, aid why lie was at the 'artint 'treet holse is nlot definitely kinowi. It. is uidersitood that the place in which lie lives is osied by his si-ter. Ioth th'se districts, and virtually ill others in and near the city, were untider' heavy patrol after mildnight, and Shetiff Hector with his (eplities wias still sgouriing the coul 1y inl search of him. TOLBEIllT DENIESN LOSS OF I'll ESTIE Letters froml lIepubilennl Leaders Suis tiii. Talks )%fii ('Coelhran. Gr'eenwood, Ma' 7.-Joe W. T'lbert nat ional I lepuic 1zan excti t ive until mitt Ieemtatn for' Suthi Cat'olina as we'lI 1 teilmb licani slate chairmtatn, wm~as her'e Itday antd lssuedl a strtong den'iaml of' tho statemenit sent out from C'otllumia several (lays ago that a cei't ain promi)1 ntl( C~olumblia burwiness man was to lie the dilsienser 0of feder'al 'ipati'otnag in tis slate and also aidl the assertion that onie C. C. Camtpibell (If C'olitinbia wmmas ton lie ('01lector (If internal r'evenue., iwas without warrtant of fact. To sutppior't hiis statemets lhe had letters frotm a numberci of ilepmublieana leaders in Washington whvlo all ex itress ('01)idecu)e ini Tolber'it's r'ecoml mnendations andl if any change in the tmatter' of maiking appinttmients .in this state is contemtiplated these jparty lead er's ar'o evidlently without ktnowmledge of -it themselves. They writo Tolbert in the m)ost intimate way, showing their close acquaiiintance, and1( a1ll as sure him of theu' regards. One of thle writers, a mat) high in the plarty coun cils, refei's to a certain formner Demo cratie 'liolitician who' has been r'eferriedl to as at "r'eferee," and tells Tlolbert that lie had nevei' heard of the man befor'e. Th'iis writei' also refers to the fact that a "r'eferee was talked of foi' Geor'g-ia but niotilng camne of it." Persistent rnplorts have been circiu iatedl that .the federal patronage in this sta-te was to be taken away fr'om R"ate Chairman Tolbert, but nlot If letter's from party leadei's in Wash lington count for aniythiing. The name of former D~istrlct Attorney E'rnest F. Cochran of Anderson was mentionod0( in a story from Columbia a few (dayn ago as .being cei'tain of ap~pointmient as district attor'ney for the 'western district and also .that ho was to ,be connectoil with the "new Rleputblican party".'bein-g for'medh in this state. Mr. Toibert wias in conferecnce- yesterdhay with Mir. Cochran andl was assured~ that 1)e knewv nothing of any new piarty andl assured Tolber't thatt he looked uponi him as the head of the party it) this state. The Coch ran ap)101oitment, if made, will be a Troibert notminatlon for Toibert has recommended Cochran and Cochran Is in rperfect sympathy with the Tnbha't factinn * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *MEKOM NEWS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ekom, .May 9.-After an absence of several weeks we will give a few items of news. 'Most eveiybody Is about through planting, but the weather has been so cold tit cotton is not doing any good. A large crowd attended the baptiz Ing-at linon Sunday afternoon. Rev. Mir. Smith and 1wife have been on a visit to fihe latter's mother, Ai1rs. Ida Cooper, the 'past week. On Fridayv n i-it Mr. Smith preached at the home of Misses EIdna and Kittura Cooper. a1d thy also attended the ray er meeting at the home of A1l'. T. .1. Cooper and preached an. ilteresting We are glad to report all the sich of oi comuinity better. ''lle kiom boys have organlizod a base ball teamil anid have alrcady hal two gaies. Last Saturday they played the Poplar hoys, tile gaime ending in favor of I0koimi. Ill r. Cooper and wife, Mr. Carl CIII bertson and family, and N1lr. and Mr.. 1j. C. Culbertson spent the day with Mrs. Lou Culbertson and daughter re cenitly, .\il. A. it. Thome has gone to Florida to spend awhile. Miss Jessie Culhertson spent Tues day afternoon with Miss lauirence Culbertson, Miss Lonio Cooper and Mrs. Gray Cooper spent on (lay last week with Mlr. W. W. Culbertson's family. Mr. and -Mrs. J. W. Fowler spent the night with AMrs. Jennie lainiltoni re cently. Mrs. Mattle Burts and children. of tho Woodrow Wilson section, visited THE A fnmo Acknov dealers examph ways d VC0IIO1l1 after se The register Patent tir Iout ina c "Any U S. '1re la a univeraal fuil- maonoy'e wporth." Many of U. S. A hart fit now. worked forced s shipping Ur Unii her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C Cul bcrtson, Sunday. 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