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h ~1 C rW 1ETI rut 4Aus ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1903. PUPIL'S WOUND FATAL. EdWard Foster, Shot by His Teacher, Pitts, at Inman Died on Friday - The Inquest. (The State.) Spartanburg, Feb. 27.-Edward L. Foster, the pupil of the Inman school in Spartanburg county, who was shot by his teacher, Reuben A. Pitts, on Tuesday last, died at the home of Mrs. Brown at Irnan this morning at 11 o'clock. The inquest over the body was held at the school house, the scene of the tragedy, this afternoon. Fifty citi zens of the community were present at the proceedings which were con ducted by Coroner Foster. There appears to be a silent un dercurrent of feeling against Teacher Pitts, quietly expressed, but no vio. lent expressions are being indulged in. Pitts has friends at Inman also. The dead pupil is related to many residents of that place and belongs to a leading family. There is. ex treme reticience as to friction at school between teacher and pupil. Many persons were questioned, but very little satisfactory information was obtained. THE FACTS OF THE SHOOTING. Mr. Pitts had been in charge of the Inman school since last Septem ber. Of late he had some trouble with older male students. The after noon before the tragedy he ordered Ed Foster to stay in because of dis obedience. Tuesday afternoon Fos ter and four other male pupils were kept in. Pitts and Foster went to an adjoining room from where the three others sat, Pitts telling the pupils he would have to whip Foster. Pitta stepped back some distance, secured a switch and ordered Foster to stand up; struck two blows which Foster caught, and according to Pitts' statement, the three boys in the other room pushed in the door and came crowding in. Pitts then drew a pistol from his pocket and pre sented it, for t' - purpose of over awing t: Foster was close, and. i up the pistol Foster', na[iu ak it, causing his } arm and weapc . to fall abruptly and the pistol to be discharged in Pitts' hand. The bullet, 32 calibre, en tered Foster's abdominal cavity, about six inches below the navel, to right of median line, ranging inward and downward, and cut through a portion of the bla 'der before lodg ing. After the shooting Pitts and the const able came to this city ny private RebnB. Pit,ts is ai graduate of Forma university, a native of Larn adsn f,ev onD. Pitte, pator of the F"iru.t Baptist church of thbat city. He is a young man of slight build and delicate con stitution. Ed Foster is a son of GaOti Fostor of Inman. THE~ CORIoNERI's INQUEs8T. -'The story of the sad tragedy is best told by the complete ingnlebt proceedings, embraucinug t he te stimony or the three lads w ho were kept in with Foster on Tuesday. Trhere were present at the inquest G (3. Foster, father of the deceased, C. C. Feat herstone, of Laiurens, Ci W. Nichols and Stanyarn Wilson of this city, of counsel for defense. Tom Ballenger being duly sworn testified: "Mr. Pitts kept f( of us in Tuesday afternoon and '...tced me and Rome Wolfe and Jesse B3allen ger to go into the other room and we had not been in there but just a few minutes until I saw Mr. Pitte step to the corner and get two hickories. He camo back and said hie guessed he would have to whip Ed. F4oster. Foster said he didn't care about tak ing a whipping, but instead of that Pitta commenced whipping him and gave him two lieks; then all four hands were on the hickory. We boys were looking through the crack of the door. Both were bent over and the next thing I knew I heard a pis tol fire; don't know wvho fired the pistol. Pitts had pistol when I first seen it. I didn't see pistol until he went to put it in his pocket Edl Fos ter was lietween me and pistol, and when I rushed in I saw Pitts put pis. tol in his pooket. Pitts asked some of us to go for a doctor, and Ray. mond Wolfe went. Then Pitts left." Tow Ballenger beirng questioned by jury men Et tied he heard some words pass between Pitts and Foster after the shot, but was not sure what they were. THE SECOND BOY. Jesse Ballenger testified that "on Tuesday afternoon Mr. Pitts asked three of us boys to go into another room, me and Fred Ballenger and Raymond Wolfe. We had not been in there but a few minutes till we saw Mr. Pitts go to the corner and get two hickories. I never heard no words between them at all. Pitts hit Foster two licks; then both got hold of the bickories with all four hands a hold of the switches. They stooped over and then the pistol fired; don't know who fired pistol; never saw pistol till after shooting. Foster was between me and Pitts. Pitts had pistol when I saw it; then Pitts asked some one to go for doc tor. We were all peeping through the crack of the door. Hadn't shoved the door in, it has no look and stands kinder open. Made no attempt to go in till after pistol was fired." On being questioned by juryman, Jesse Ballenger said he heard Pitts say nothing about shooting and heard no talk between Pitts and Foster. Pitts hollered "Lord a mercy" a time oa two; entered room after pistol was fired; didn't hear Foster make any statement. Questioned by Stanyarne Wilson of counsel for defense Jesse Ballen ger said he entered just about time pistol was fired, but did not start in before shot. Asked where the blackboard was in the room where he was waiting, Jesse Ballenger replied "nailed up beside the door on the wall and don't hinder opening door. Came to door when Pitts went for hickories, heard the licks, 6nt could not see Pitts nor Foster. They were scuffling over hickories until shot fired; don't know who fired shot. Foster I think is larger and heavier than Pitts. We all came through the door at once, Fred Ballenger in front, but all prac tically together. When we reached room they were doing nothing: every thing over with; Eddie was sitting on the floor and Pitts was standing somewhere in the room. I do not know if any one noticed Eddie was shot, I didn't. Pitts did not remain unt il doctor came; wenit on behind Jesse BalbI-nger d.scribed how he andl thle other two boys peeped from adjoininig r' om iit o main school building a here Pitis anid Foster were, oTrHERc wITNEssEs Po~iliceman iFranuk A. Mretcal f te3sti iled 1totPitta comuiig to hinm and sur rendering himself aind weapon, 32 call ibre Smith an id W esson pistol, one of t he- loaded chambers being emp.ty. This wYas exhib)ited to the juiiry. T1om Swell, a pnipilI of the school, testa iied to sittIing on t hi- roaid..ide, 70or 100 yards from t he schoolhonse and heardl scufli-g anmd the report, of a istol. WXhen hie reached the school house Foster was; 1yinug on thme r st rum. THEm~ TiRDmi BOY. Raymond L Wolfe testified: "Pitts told us boys to go into another room and we went; he kept Foster in here. He got his hickories and struck Foster two licks, and Foster grabbed them. They were scuf fling and just as he shot we pushed door open. We came in and Pitts had pistol in his haud, and he seid "Lord God, I've shot him ; somebody go for a doctor.'' I wvent and when I came back Pitts was gone. Didln't haar him say anything about giving him a whipping. Foster said he did not want to take a whipping. I did not si-i p)istol till after shot was fired. They weire not scufiling more thanm a minute, if that; could not see what they were scuffling over. Ed. had one hand over Pitts' head and1 the other one dlowni; after the shot Ed. gavii way. Pitts had bothb hands on pistol after thce hot holding it in front of him At the time they were all bent over together the pistol fired. They were nearing the south side of the house to the door." THE ANTE-MORTEN STATEMENT. The ante mortern statement of Foster was read as follows: State of South Carolina, Spartanburg County. Personally came E. L. Foster be fore me and made oath that he is a resident of this county, and, being badly wounded by a pistol in the hands of one Reuben Pitts on Feb. 24, 1903, and dangerous and might prove fatal makes this his ante-mor tem declaration: First, that Reuben Pitts is principal of Inman graded school and that on the afternoon of Feb. 24, 1903, the said Reuben Pitts caused me to stay in after school was dismissed; after words he called me up to him and said he was going to whip me. He sent three other boys out of the room. He asked me why 1 did not stay in on the day before. I said I did not miss but one word and would not take a whipping. He then ordered me to get up and said he was going to whip me; brought two switches from rostrum and laid Dne on bench; he gave me two licks. I then grabbed the switch and told him I was not going to take it. He 3hanged switch from right to left Lband and put his hand on hip pocket mud drew a pistol threw it up in my race. I then grabbed pistol and tried to knock it off; he then fired it. It lid not weaken me at first. I did aot know that I was shot and I .aught him by the hair he again thr,ew pistol up. I then began to get weak and fell back on the rostrum Fred Ballenger, Jesse Ballenger and Raymond Wolfe who were also kept n, who were in an adjoining room, mame in when the pistol fired. Pitts said as I fell down "Just as I ex pected, you are all on me." He jumped up two or three times saying be was awful sorry about it. About r-hat time Jesse Ballenger had my 3lothes unfastened. Pitts came up and wanted to know where I was shot. He then left the room saying Le was going to give up. There was ao one in the struggle with Pitts but Myself. (Signed) "Ed. Foster." sworn to before me this February 24tb, 1-903. G. H. Camp, N. P. The physicians' testimony as to leath being due to gunshot wound >f the abdomen,describing wound was ;mbmitted. THE VEnDICT. The verdict of the jury was "that leceased came to his death by a pis 11l shot wonndi( inflicted by Reuben P. Pitts on 24 Feb., 1903. E. E. 3lement, foremuan." CHARLESTON WAS SNUBBBD. Anid tihe South Carolina Delegates to the D. A. R. ConventIon Wa- ted to Kinow Why. * [New York WVorld.] Out of the multitude of tempests in teapots at the congress of the D). A. R ,- held in Washington last week, there came a tempest large Mnough for a toen kettle at least. The Sonatlh Carolina daughters blew it up. Mrs. Fairbanks, the president gen arail, in her annu al address included thie nlames of all thle States she had visited and gave at some length the Lcourtesies extended to her. But Mrs. Fairbanks spoke so low that only a few tiers of delegates heard a word she said. Every body applaud. ad just I he same After it was all over a little South Carolina woman p'ped up. "What dlid she say about the way we all Eintertainedl her dIown in Charleston ? We were so far back we couldn't hear a word." She got a typewritten copy of the address. South Carolina didt not ap pear irn it. Th'ien thle South Caro lhna (delegaites hunted up the presi rdent general. She explained that the typewriter girl had got things mixed, anid had loft out a '"splendid'' niotiace of the "magnaificent courtesies extenidedi at Charleston." Notwithstanding the explanation the South Carolina (delegates felt hurt, arnd at t.he reception which the presidIent general held at the Con. gressionial library no daughter of South Carolina appeared with a badge on. Only two were there at all. A meeting of the delegation was held later, and it was decided niot to attend Mrs. Fairbanks' reptiot MURDERED FIVE WOMEN. Three of Them His Wives-Confession of Albert Knapp, Notable n the Annals of Crime. Five murders, the victims of which were all women, and three of them his wives-such is the revolting record of Albert. Knapp, of Hamilton, Ohio, given on Thursday in a sworn confession by the murderer before Mayor Bosch. The murder of his third wife, Annie Goddard Knapp, which led to Knapp's arrest yester day in Indianapolis was done, "I don't why," to quote the prisoner. HIs vICTIMS Knapp's confession, which was sworn to before Mayor Bosch, is as follows: "On January 21, 1894, I killed Emma Littleman in a lumber yard in Gest, street, Cincinnati; on Aug. 1, 1894, 1 killed May Eckert, in Walnut street, opposite the Y. M. C. A, in Cincinnati; on Aug. 7, 1894, I killed my wife, Jennie Connors Knapp under the canal bridge in Liberty street, Cincinnati, and threw her into the canal. In Indianapolis, in July, 1895, 1 killed Ida Gobhard. On Dec. 22, 1902, 1 killed my wifo, Annie Knapp, at 339 South Fourth street in Hamilton, and threw her into the river at Lindenwald. This is the truth. (Signed) A lbert Knapp. "I make this statement of my o.%n free will and not by the request of any officer or any one else." (Signed) Albert Knapp. The confesion clears up the mys tery a.t least of one death-that of Jennie Connors Knapp, Knapp's second wife This woman's body was found in the sluggish waters of a canal near Cincinnati. Bruises were discovered on the head but an investigation led to no definite con. elusion concerning the manner of her death. The most recent of the murders to which Knapp has confessed-that of his third wife, Annie Goddard Knapp of Hamilton, led to his arrest at the home of his. fourth bride in Indian apolis. An uncle of the victim, hearing of Knapp's marriage to a Miss Gamble in Indianapolis a few days after the mysterious disap pearance of his niece, formerly An nie Goddard, started an investiga tion. The police were prepared for a grewsome story today, Knapp having admitted his guilt cf the Goddard murder last night, but they were dumbfounded at the revelations which the prisoner made when put, under oath. After his confession Kna1pp) admIit ted1 that he had repeatedly assaulted women. He said: "'I met the Littlemnan childl in the lumber yard and choked her to death when she madle an outcry. 1 went into the room with the Eckert girl and sat down wvith her. She cried and I strangled her with a towel and hurried from the house. "I was mad at my wife, .Jennie CIonnorrs Knapp, wvhen I killed her. We were walking along Liberty street. I sat her downV1 unrder t he bridge and( choked her to death. I deny that I poisoned her. I never t>ld any one I did. After 51he Was dead I threw the body into the canal. "'Ida Gebh ard I killed, buit my memory is not clear as to what I did. I canrnot tell what maiide lme kill people. I could not help it. Some kind of a dlesire t.o kill took hold of me andl I could not resist thle tem p tation to kill. 1 am sorry for my crime, but n.ow I hope they will be easy with rme." After the confession a formal charge of murder ini the first degree was filed. Attorney (. E. T1enner, of Cmcina ~at i, wais allowed to se0 Knapp)1 and( told him to make no further state mont. Knapp) was surprisedl t hat h is people had secuIred( a lawyer for him. Knapp talks miuch of the Peoarl Bryan munrdler and( is an,aid of being ly nched Knapp is now susp)ected1 of strang ling three women at Evansville, where. He was in the Cincinnati house of refuge when 17 years old. KNAPP IS INsANE. Cincinnati, Feb. 26. --The parents of Knapp tonight ti.'d Albert was insane and his confessions should not be believed. Albert has been giving so much trouble they believed he would be better dead. Mrs. Sadie Wenzel, his sister on hearing of the aonfession went to the Cincinnati police headquarters and thence to Hamilton. She said her brother when five years of ago was kick.d by a colt and later struck by lightning and but for her i-arents she would have had him adjudged insane. HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT. For the 180 Days of the Season the Ag gregate of the Bales 106,000 Ahead of the Same Time Last Year. New Orleans, February 27. - See retary Hester's weekly cotton state 1nent, issued to day, shows for the wenty-seven days of February an acrease over last year of 106,000 )ales, and an increase over the same period year before last of 173,000. H'or the 180 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead if the same days last year 116,000 )ales, and ahead of the samo time ear before last 657,()00. The amount brought into sight during Ihe past week has been 165,892 bales against 192, 4410 for the same seven days last year and 156,255 year he. fore last. The movemont, since September 1 shows receipts at all United States ports to be (1,574,256 bales, against 11,439,131 last year; overland, across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers, to northern mills and Canada, ,45,335 bales, against 873,328 last year; interior stock in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 250,590 bales, agai' st 369,457 last. year; Southern mill takings I, 184,500 bales, against 1,056,913 last year. The total movement, since September 1 is 8,854,681 hales, against 8,738,859 last year and 8,1197. 989 year before last. Foreign exports for the week have been 168,635 bales, against 111,377 last year, making the total thus far for the season 5,066,531 bales, against 5,102,976 last year. The total takings of the American mills, North and South and Canada, thus far for the season, have been 2,823,019 bales, against 2,7()3,4 31 inst year. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty- nine leading South erni centres have decreased (luring the week 95,7 18 bales, against a decrease duiring the corresponiding p)eriod last season of 58,233. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop aind the number of balos brought into sight thus far for the new crop the supply to date is 9,069),755 bales, against, 9,098,540 for the same pe riodl last year. 'I 11 OA'5VHE o' iIL 51UPPLJy, Ne'w Orleans, February 27.--Sec. retary Hester's at t(eent of the world's visible supply of cottori, is sued today shows thbe tot al visible, sup ply of (cott on, to be 3,920,952 bali's, againsat 41,0341,343 last week arid 4,437,989) last year. Of this the total of American is 2,863,9;>2 iales, against 2,987,31 3 last wveek anid :3,390,9)89 Insty3ear and -if all ot her kinds, inceludinig EGgypt, Bril~ , Ind11 ia, etc., I ,t057,000Ot bales, againrst 1,04 7,000 last week and I ,047,O000 I ast year. Of t he world'is v.isiblei su pply of cottiin is no0w afloat anid held in (Great Britain and Continental I0u rope 1,9)51,000 halos, agai nst 2,322,. 000 last year; in Egypt 1 77,000 bases, against 252,000) iast year; in India, 252,000 bales, against 512,000 Ilast year; anid in t he Unaited St ates, 1,201 ,000 bales, against I ,322,000( last year. Th'Ie TFri State Medical 8->iet y of the Carolinas anid Virgin in cottnled itaannual sessions int Columbia on Thursday. D)r. Furman, of (Ireent ville, wats chosen presidlent, arid D)r. Hughes, of Laurens, was re-elected secretary for the ensuing year. ROOSEVELT'S SOUTHERrN POLICY. The National Republican Editorial Asso. clation Fails to Endorse the Presi dent's Policy. Washngton, February 27.-The National ltopublican Editorial Asso. oiation today adopted a resolution saying that prospor:ty is the con plete vindication of the value and success of Iiopublican ascondency, and the great achievements of the strong, progressivo and brilliant ad ministrations of Presidents McKin joy and Uoosevelt constitute the highest appeal for continued IRepub lican Supremacy." Senators lianna anld D4pew made short addresses. Senator Hanna vas enthnsiastically received. Strong opposition to the endorse mont, of the President's so-called Southern policy was developed at. the session of the exenutive coumtittee, where tho interest of the Convention cent red. Robert Miteholl, of North Carol inn, the only outspoken oppon out of Prosidont. Roosevelt, at the Convention, who was not a member of the cr.niiton on resolut ions, s'ated plainly to the memlbers that he wold oppose iln opeol s"ssion the endorsemltent of th I' resident' policy in regard to the negro Nquestion. \Vhen1 resolutions woro prveonted to the Convention no nent ion Of disfranchlisoment, or ot.h-r Sout h ern questi ons was made. M-.ni bors of the committeo doliml that any such resolution had been conttemplated. It Wial stated, how. ever, by Mr. Mitchell that the ques tion of ondorsoment. Oin this point. 1i(1 ben proposed by a New York dole. gate and that it was voted down by the committee, after a warm discuss. ion, in the interest of hiarnony. John A. Sleicher, of New York, was elected prosidtent and ltobert Mitchell, of North Uarolina, andl Minor 13 Lewis, of Virginia, mom tiers of the executive committee. REPUBLICANS SEAT WAGONER. lion. J. J. Butler, of Missouri, Democrat Forced Out of the House By a Re publican Rough-shod Action. Amid scenes which recilled the memorable and exciting days of the Fifty first congress, when party feel ing ran fiercely and the hall of repre sentatives sounded with denunciation of the alleged "high handed moth 0(18'' of the majority, Jamos J. But Ior of Missonri was nuseated on Thurs day by the house of replresentat iveu anid George IL. Wagoner was seated i his p aeo. The Demiocrats had dlecidedl at thlei r (icucs tis miorningll that. if this case wias callted up lhey would1 prose'cut.e a Iibbast51er from now~ unit i March -1, regard less oif conrie quen~1ce to legislattion and( thley begin thme light as sooni as I he gavel fell al noona. Rtol callI followed roll catl and( it took over thbree hours to ap) pr~ove the jornal of yest erdaiy's pro coed ings. Th'ien when the (locks wer< clearedI tIhe case was cal led. A spir ited dlebatte of two hours followed am linally after repeated roldl caills thIi case was brought to a vote. TIhi Deimocratts thlen atteimplted to bloei Ii igs biy lbaving t lie halil but ougi iatsent ens wvoreo flailly b ,rught ini I miiako nyp the niecessiary gnorum. Mr J)alzellI of Missouiri, who wits inth chair declined to recogniize the de rimand for a dIivision~ andI Mr. Rtichard. Hofni, t lie iniiiority beader, stooti [[ bias plact arid denirouniedt his course 0in rniniEstiil t Iermus arnid( the jeer iog of t lhe tit her Side,. T'hi handi(fl oif Demiiocratts piresenIt were overriddet rouigeshod arid Mr. Wagoner wan seatedl, by it vote of I1(1 to 2, t hi chatir decliniing to entertaim the poin' it rio quiorumn was piresernt. FThii s: ill fuirt.her atroused thie irmo of t hi handi(lful of D)emocratts on t he floor "I td,, n ot belieove thle cebtir would hi gnily of such an atct.ioni," cried( itr D)emoc.rat of MIississippi, from hil spitt shoutedl that t he speaker put proxy in thle chair to (10 it. Mn Wagoner was thenui escorted to th thar of the house and1( sworn in. That shysters are sworn enemiu of newspapers, thlereb)y test ifyin eloquent ly to the resp)ectability of ti: craft. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Item of More or Less Interest Condensed. Outside of the State. Ten masked robbers entered the home of Christian Joehlin, two miles from Toledo, 0., on Thursday, beat the whole family, including an 18. months old girl, into insensibility, helped themselves to edibles and drink and $300, and left. They no. tifled the family that they would re turn for $20,000. W. J. Thompson, who formerly traveled for a Louisville, Ky., house, was shot and fatally wounded in his residence at Maxton, N. C., on Thurs (lay, by E. N. M 'Lean, a nephew of Thompson's wife. B,th men were under the influence of liquor. Capt. Alfred Lander Rives, for some years manager of the Panama Canal Co'.npany and who was the father of the Princess of Troubetze. koi, died at his hou in Virginia last week. Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks was unanimously re elected President Geeneral of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the recent convention held in the city of WVash iugton. President Roosevelt was the chief speaker at the great mass meeting held in Carnegie hall, New York, on Thursday night, "to do honor to the character and labors of John Wesley." The m%etmug wai under the auspices of the NewYork ThankOffering coin mittee, which had charge of the local work of the Methodists' Twenty Cen tury Offering of $20,000,000. U. J. (Iatling, the inventor of the (atling gun, died very suddenly at at his home in New York last week. There was a two million dollar fire in Cincinnati on last Thursday, more than one half of the beet square in the city, bounded by Vine, Fourth, Walnut, and Third streets including the Pike building and opera house, being completely destroyed. Senator Burrows, chairman of the Senate committee on privileges and elections, has tiled a protest against the seating of Reed Smoot, Senator elect from Utah, on the ground that Smoot is a polygamist, having at the present. time two wives. ,Joe Keenaun, t he negro convictedl in GIreenville of killing Samuel Wil limoni, was legally hangedon F"ridlay. l'C.wini L Burdick, president of 10. L. Burdich & Co., and of the Buffailo Envelope (Co, was hit in the head with some' blunt instru ment and killed at his home in Buffalo Friday night. There is nio clue to the murderer. SOUTH CAROLINA NEiWS. Items of More or Less Interest Comdensed. In the State. WinW. J. Roberts, a car inspector, stepp)ed from a train into the way of at passing l'como.t ive in the Colum bia freight yardl on Thursday last and was run over aund killed. Mr. W. T. Joynes, a prominent c.iti zen of Oconee County, (lied very sud denly at his home near Richland on Tuesday. Capt J. 0. WestIeld, a promhiinent citizen of Greenville, was stabbed on Thursday b)y a porter of the Mansion House. Capt. Westfield had gone t o the negro's house to collect rent. T[he [negro handed him a $5.00 bill. Capt. Westfield told him he would give hinm the change later, wbere upon he was stabbed b)y the negro. Wounds will probably not be fatal. .That the paper which tries to please c everybody at once soon pleases its comlpetitors by (lying, a That those who patronize the pa g per systematically and persistently e are the most level-headed andl relia ble citizens of the no.munity