The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 13, 1914, Image 1

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p M. \ < B * J i v *... % " 4 . , ! .' ' ' VOL. 9, NO. 30, SEMI-W NOTABLE VICTORY FOR HARRY K. THAW Commission Finds No Trace of Insanity. MENTAL CONDITION SOUND Report Says IJberty Under llail Would Not be Dangerous?Reviews His Past Trials. Concord, N. H., Jan. 11.?Harry Kendall Thaw would not be a public menace if released on bail, accordIn ir tn thA rnnnrt nf thn r?r*m mloqlnn appointed by Federal Judge Aldrlch to inquire into Thaw's mentality. The -f report says the commission finds Thaw is not now afilicted with any of the mental diseases from which he was suffering when he slew Stanford White. The finding was announced today. While the commissioners say they have reached "a definite and positive opinion" as to the present mental condition of Thaw and his probable state of mind at the time of the homicide, "they refrain from expressing this opinion in view of their instructions from the court not to em, burrass aby subsequent litigation. >! where the broad question qf insanity 'might be involved.".- ? ... MENTAL CONDITION'SOUND. : j "Upon'the question Of menace or danger through the'granting of bail, we may, however, be permitted and probably are compelled," concludes the report, "to record our finding that whatever may nave been the mental condition of Harry K. Thaw at the time of the homicide, he now is not suffering from any of the mental diseases alleged by the prosecution at the time of the trials or subsequently thereto, namely, maniadepressive insanity, paranoia, dementia praecox, or delusional Insanity. "In our opinion it is reasonably ** probable that Harry Kendall Thaw's liberty under bail would not be dangerous or a menace to the public safety." MEMBERS OF COMMISSION. The commission comprised Gen. Frank S. Streeter, a lawyer of this city, Dr. Morton Prince, Boston; Dr. G. Aiderblumer, superintendent of Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence, R. I., and Dr. Charles P. Bancroft, superintendent of the New Hampshire Hospital for the Insane, this city. The report will he considered by Judge Aldricb early this week in connection with the petition of Thaw for admission to bail under habeas corpus proceedings. The Judge has said that after the presentation of the report, interested parties may liav^ an opportunity to be heard further before the question of bail finally is passed on. No date for a hearing has been set. After referring briefly to Thaw's second trial and his committal to Matteawan State Hospital, the report says the commission examined all entries of the official record in the hospital relating to Thaw from February. 1908. to the date of his escape from the hospital. Transcripts of ; three cross-examinations of Thaw by counsel for the state of New York on habeas corpus proceedings were also Inspected. - "All the cross-examinations,'* 6ays the report, "except that before Justice Morschauser, which was brief, covered the most searching Inquiry Into Thaw's mental condition and attitude. USED EXHIBITS AND LETTERS. "We also had before us," said the commissioners, "various exhibits, letters and other documents used upon the two trials for homicide and in other proceedings." The report then tel s of the public hearings held on January 7, at which interested parties were asked to offer evidence of acts committed by Thaw since his committal to Matteawan, tending to show personal violence and evidence to the contrary. "Counsel for the state of New York," It continues, "declined to appear on the ground that our power under the order of the court was Inadequate to a determination of the question sub mltted. Counsel appeared for Thaw and offered evidence of his custodianship since September 18, 1913." The commission says Its mental examinations of Thaw "covered a searching inquisition into nil the acts of his life. They included an examination of his present and former mental attitudes with reference to all his acts." A careful physical examination to determine the presence or absence of structural or runcnonai aisiuruauce of the nervous system, also was made. "In its studies ana deliberations," says the report, "the commission has in the main confined its attention to facts, preferring to attach little importance to conflicting opinions of experts and "other witnesses." Thaw attended church with his mother today, accompanied by one of Thaw's guards. j * iter they were informed of the Vii'Sg of the commission but neither '* . comment, saying they were aetii\g by advice of counsel. EEKLY. THAW PLANS TO VISIT FRIENDS; nnill Believes Early Release on Hail is ' I ill" Practically Assured. -.1 XT TT T ? 1 o r* >11 i uunvuru, 11., Jan. l&.?oeuevius that his early release on bail is practically assured by the report of a federal court commission that he would not be a menace to public safe- , One c ty, Harry Kendall Thaw today began planning for visiting friends within Have the state. Thaw said that if the court should admit him to bail, he would not leave New Hampshire for the SEN/ present. Since his detention here he has | made many acquaintances. Thaw He Th planned, he said, to make his first j ()vt visit at the home of one of his custo- i dtans, Sheriff Holman I\ Drew, at I Berlin. Drew arrested l'haw near [ Coin Colebrook after his deportation from Canada. server, After the lawyers have had suffl- the pr cient time to study the report of the most i commission, United States Judge Ed- | gar Aldrich will give another hearing | on Thaw's petition for admission to conven ball. Senato one of VILLA IS READY TO r<,a"he MOVE TO CHIHUAHUA form ? Believes Huerta Government lias i?egl Been Crushed; the Capital His luge o Objective Point. which Presidio, Texas, Jan. 12.?Believ- day at ing the retreat of the federal army j the cil in Ojlnaga had completely crushed introd the Huerta government in the north come I of Mexico, Gen. Francisco Villa said bills, i he would begin tomorrow to move in the his army, to Chihuahua, preparatory into si to his "campaign southward. At the pt Chihuahua, Villa expects to have a Hie st* force of 10,000 men, from which to Bot draw for attacks on Zacatecas, Alias i orfler Calientes and Guadlajara. i "The defeat of the northern divis- ' Speak* ton of the federal army leaves us con- the h< cerned only with the south," said ; sani? General Villa. "The few remaining pohite federal gnrrisons on the west and'and no east coasts will be driven out by the ! ^sual ' rebel forces now surrounding them. rp Mexico C'ty always has been my des- dayl<tl tlnatlon." 1 cess al The village of Ojlnaga Is a wreck i Cal< ; from Its recent bombardment, but ready I General Villa has ordered Its restore- which I tlon. According to General Ortega, time, no military executions have occurred, lng ui Only 1,000 rebels occupy the houses, readln Others are scattered over the coun- Senat< try. About 3,000 have already been bill fo sent toward Chihuahua. Major Mc- ate ca Namee, commanding the United while States troops, having received orders ond rf to remove to the nearest railroad sta- tor Ei tlon all the federal soldiers and civi- two-ce lians now being held in Presidio, the is at t crowd of more than 4,000 refugees Hills and soldiers probably will march pulsor soon for Marfa, Texas, 67 miles over leston a mountain road. All the refugees truffle are to be put to work preparing their railroi own camps. ploy i sale o UNCLE SAM WILL ' Voad" USE AIR CRAFT for an i Panan all col Hoard of Xavul Officers Reports to dition Secretary Daniels?Aeroplane tion f to Vessel. "ft}6* vtdlng V/ashlngton, Jan. 11.?Equipment high 1 of every battleship with at least one j aeroplane, the use by the navy of urf!s < dirigible balloons and the concentra- other tion of all naval aeronautical train- tion. ing work at Pensacola, Fla., are rec- ' ommendationa .of-.the board of offl- ftnfj cers appointed by Secretary Daniels .point to draw up a cofupreliensive plan for hours the organization of a naval aeronau- )ePis'f locket tlcal service. I they ? ' The board report was made pub? is stil lie today with the announcement that to bit It had been approved by the secretary. Tht The board collected a vast amount days-i of information from abroad, where nations were found to be a unit In the conviction that superiority Is essential In all matters pertaining to aerial equipment. The Idea of some |{|-(?mi powers that roast defense also should be based upon air service was condemned, the report declaring that the *sev American aeronautical service will be tlve T adequate If based on official service aey, it with the Meet. ()f ra,| The board held that special ships for aeroplanes and air craft generally cancei should be considered though not 1m- the pi mediately recommended. "Hi The purchase of dirigibles at the those earliest practicable date was reconi- to mended. t.lans OPEX ROOMS OF LATE CARDINAL {Jere? "If Seals Removed From Ham poll it's ed a t Apartments and Inventory Taken. has n Rome, Jan. 12.?The qeals were re- the ri moved from the apartment of the late tenth Cardinal Rampolla today In the pres- forth encc of representatives of all pnrties "I j Interested in his estate. An Inven- feel t tory was taken of everything found added In the residence. to flg Because of the reported disappearance of the last testament of the cardinal. the Investigating judges cited severnl witnesses to appear before Roi them tomorrow. Those who will be point( examined include Baron and Baroness priest Rampolla-Pezzana, the three attend- late C ants of the cardinal, the nun sister an an Lucia, who laid out the body, Father tion i Monclnl, the chaplain and several aften nuns who arrived at the house soon the a after the cardinal's death. priest ' T T" 1 | LANCASTER, S. C., TUESDA IARY ELECTION ISENATC MATTER IMPORTANT! C01 >f the Subjects That Will Federal i Legislature's Attention. Far Si lTOR LANEY'S VIEWS. 120 COT Inks Everything Else Will be Texas Ix?s rshadowed by Primary He- Such a form Agitation. imbia Special to Charlotte Ob- Washinf Jan. 11.?Legislation affecting ments whl imary elections will be the greBB at th mportant matter to be decided ?> Smith t session of the general assembly jn gpinnlnf lng this week in the opinion of standard r G. K. Laney of Chesterfield, ceeded fai the vanguard, who has already 'senator's 1 d the cltv. The Chesterfield I. _ ? ?? IH uy nu ii r things everything else will thought fr rshadowed by the primary re- dUcer Qf tl igltatlon. ,Out of tl IslatorB are ready to rain a de- being mad f bills on the general assembly riculture i meets in annual session Tues- cotton exp noon. Lawmakers arriving in are nccrui ty have measures ready to be importantuced as soon as the two houses the South, together, while others have pet | The exp itlll in rough drafts, crammed on With a ir grips, which they will round half of e?i Tape and offer for the relief of upland cot >ople and the advancement of tjlo uanvl ite, as they view it. regular pi h houses will be called to cotton. I promptly at noon on Tuesday. th f.iPTnf mant Governor C. A. Smith int ring the senate together, w hile * liantc .11 er M. L. Smith will assemble and additl ause of representatives nt the e(j from ( time on the other side of the whpr_ hn, 1. Committees will be apd to wait on Governor Blease Ushed. ?tify him and then will come the Knough message. Indications are that tests alrei ading of the message will con- the foIjov so much time on the opening f tU I_ lat Doin nouses win liaeiy re-!"' a fter hearing it until Wednesday. | "It has endars of both houses are al- that mueli loaded down with measures . . . did not get through the last which Senator Nichol's bill tighten- paid, wor ;> the primary heads the third and fabric g bills on the senate calendar, grades, ir McLaurin's state warehouse year muc ir storing cotton is on the sen- stained ai lendar as a second reading bill, hut these a twin measure stands as a sec- that the ?ading bill In the house. Sena- the mills Trie's bill providing for a flat has no >nt passenger rate on railroads strength < lie foot of the senate calendar. ! At a he providing for statewide com- mittee on y education, permitting Char- departmei the right to regulate the liquor stained a by high license, giving the Texas had id commission the right to em- pound, w an inspector, proving for the worth 10 f the state farms and the plac- demonstrr f all state convicts on public ments. 1 providing for an appropriation ers of Te: exhibit from this state for the account, c la Exposition at San Francasco, committee ne over from last year. In ad- 000.000. there will be offered a resolu- As an < ?rovidlng for an election on oal effect ride prohibition, another pro- ning expe ; for a statewide election on agricultur license and repealing that sec- sets of ei if the constitution prohibiting of cotton icense, scores of proposed meas- waste in lealing with the primary, and the yarn matters too numerous to men- after blea be install lti,cal dopesters are predicting tural coll fight between Governor Blease and with the general assembly. They as care t< to the bitterness in the closing aid to th of the past session when the Itive and exeoutive departments " 1 horns in n stormy scene, and EUGE] issert that the resentment which Til? I smouldering can be expected JJJiii >ak out early in the session. > session will last at least 40 and may run over two months. " "e i Shoo RADIUM IS WONDKRFUIi. ' Newnai ner Says Mis I.ife is Not Worth prn?? K(Torts Made to Save It. from the 1 v York, Jan. 12.?Representa- ,y reoejVf tobert G. Hremner of New Jer- V(>ars aR( l whose shoulder $10,000 worth p-tralysf? Hum was placed to counteract a sj,(K)tjng r, said today in a message to R ser|ouH ublic: nr(ir;1 , idium 1r most wonderful to borne in who have devoted some time moned by study. Kven in my ease physi- in a sen have found out something that the hospil than repays me for coming Daisy Op Mrs. Cirai experimenting on me has add- of Grace': xew fact to science then my life on his act ot been in vain, but has helped year she ice. My life is not worth one- attempted of the effort tnat has been put guilty, to save it. At 'he im ready for the scrap heap, but the court he cutting and doctoring has statement to the knowledge of how best his wife f ht cancer." large ami he held. To Succeed Ktuii|?olln. me, Jan. 12.?The Pope has ap- session ol ;d Cardinal Merry Del Val arch- left him t of St. Peter's to succeed the ing that 1 Cardinal Rantpolla, according to Soon a nouncement tonight. A deputa- Atlanta h >f the canons of St. Peter's this in Newnn loon discussed with the Pontiff said, war ppolntment of the new arch- poisoning wound in ' < ( t mmmmm ^ V, JANUARY 13, 1914. IH SMITH'S | THIRTY GAXtiSTKIW SE ' * OilIII 11 0 j "Dopey Penny" and Tlire TON GRADE fwUttiS | begin serving five-day | sentences and "Dopey I3ei Experiments Have So leaders of a band that name, and three of his 1 istained the Theory. are held without bail on charge of homicide in conn* the murder on Friday nlgt ION HALES TESTED. erick Straus. A bullet fire bers of Fein's gang at s struck Straus as he was es $-lo.ono,oou on Cotton hall where the gangsters friends were having a dan s Smith Plan Proposes The murder of Straus, 1 to Save. German politician, came Inopportune time for the ?ton, Jan. 12. Expert- The police dragnet to clet Ich were ordered by Con- of professional criminals n ie suggestion of Senator E. such an occurrence to in o determine the difference BCOPe ^ Include members gangs who have terronzet 5 value between the various Slde for BeVeral years. cotton grades, have pro- The thirty men senten< enough to sustain the work house were arrested theory that this difference "P?n a firRt R,"<< last week to clean up the leans so great as would be 0^er arrests were made a om the price paid the pro- men must stand trial fo he staple. the Sullivan law, which pr its Investigation, which Is Pa^,nK OI* revolvers or e by the department of agmder the supervision of its ^ ___T , ert, Dr. N. A. Cobb, results DOCTORS HELP ] Ing which will be of vital WORK AT WIN e to the cotton growers of i Physical mid Medical Ex icrimonts have been carried Are >Ia,le Regularly ii total of about 120 bales, . .. , , ing Scliool. istern and half of western ton, which was put through Winthrop College. Jan. He. Va., mills under the cal an(1 mpd*al examina ocess used for commercial bppn madP for years ,n 11 arallel tests were made at 8,h?o1 by tbG re9,dent P ion Agricultural and Me- the coI,PKG- Thesp e> College in South Carolina, have beon made twlce Pa? lonal checks will be obtain- records have bPGn kppt" T technical laboratories else- su,ts from this P Ptlce 8 'ore a final report is pub- tionPd' Many chlldren saved from permanent tl has been learned from the "U"-r8 have idy necompliahed to Justify ?" a<- ual ?f *"> fluff semi-official statement th" rf"ldent ?h5 iantflrance: unable to <-?allau<- ?hls ' . . . i , 'the beginning of this ses been shown conclusively . _ , , .. , ... plan was made. The local i of the lower grade cotton, ... . ., ? , . . and dentists were consulte a decidedly tower price is , . . , . , 1 vcrv wining 10 give tnel k8 into just as good yarn ' , . .. ?, as sllghtlv more expensive slices to the school ii In the case of Texas this , The work was taken up h of the cotton was badly tere<-t from the first and t nd weathered in the field. haH rapj(l. The dei experiments have shown ? . bleaching process used in ,,on ls completed and a la Is effective and cheap and the physical and medic appreciable effect on the finished, af the yarn.' I \ dentist and a physici aring before the house com- physician's office in t agriculture experts for the school building for a sti it recently said that this one (lay jn thr, wtH.k till I nd weathered cotton in (]one. ity so doing no on 1 sold for 6 or i cents a burdened by this work wli hen it was intrinsically without clisirgc. All aid to 12 cents a pound, as Bpoction. The spirit of c ited by the Danville experi- js most agreeable. Both The total loss t othe, farm- f,>ssional men and the ! xas alone this year on this working for the best Intel ine of the experts told the children of the school an ?, will probably reach $40,- munity. After a complete recoi >hject lesson to give practi- examinations is made in l to the outcome of the spin- offices, statements are m riments the department of parents of the child's ne e will prepare fifty or more family physician and chibits, showing the grades con8Uited regarding the handled, the amount of work itke an the work ii each, and the character of jng school, serves two d produced, both before and poHes. namely: to protf iching. These exhibits will children here nnH te aid ea ai tne various agrlcul- drpd graduates of the c eges which are Interested, wm RO out next year into as many cotton exchanges af These youn* > have them on view as an ^ave practical Ideas of hi ie grower. portant work can be d< things are being done this Kff? tt nt>\nv nre rioT of Prf>n,PS r i P' Will tt. Ix-rvAUJlj uo> The results attained \D FROM WOUND ^ )ii'^;J1ny P,acc hy tho s1 i 1 as Tried on Charge of 'hivid Laird. ot Ottawa, 1 of HI Years. ting Husband and Ac- I Ottawa, Out., Jan. quitted by Jury. Laird, Indian commissloi minister of the interior ai i, Ga., Jan. 12.?Eugene H. ernor of Northwest Ter: d here at 1:45 this morning here today, aged 81 years . ? . . . . . Mr. Laird was the ou bullet wound he mysterious- rharIottPtown Pntriot. ;U1 d in Atlanta nearly two journalist when he ent >. He had suffered from life in 1853. Since 1898 since shortly after the voto<) h,H energies largel; . * . * . . lations between the gove occurred and had been in the Tnd|ans amonR who, condition for several days. ushed a reputation for vas wounded at his Atlanta sympathy and fair Judgn March. 1912. Police, sum a telephone call, found him SCORES SCANl).\L->1< ll-consclous condition. At :al he accused his wife, Mrs. Vice President l>eclnr? ie Grace, of the shooting. Needs .Men With ll?< re was found at the home Washington, Jan. 12 b mother here and arrested and discussion from tb* msation. Later in the same latest bits of scandal wer was tried on a charge of Vice President Marshall 1r I murder and found not at a service of the Wome ary Society here last nip trial Grace was brought into clared he would rather room on a cot and made a American people how dow that he had been shot by image than acknowledge or the purpose of securing a all, adding that if the re >unt of life Insurance which endure "we must go bac Mrs. Grace said at the trial our faith in God." husband had been wounded "What this country r Kgle between them for pos- the Vice President, "is n f a pistol and that she had lice nor large armies. It ?nd gone to Newnan, believ- with back hones, men will le wan not seriously hurt. for something more and i fter the trial Grace left his not try only to make mo ome to live with his mother make money and I won in. His death, physicians make all that I possibly i due directly to uremic I would have it made so which set in from the your habies could cut thi the back. it and never be polluted. 1 ? im $1.50 PER YEAR. "ICONGRESS SETTLES ~l DOWN TO BUSINESS workhouse ! ______ my" Fein, j bears his | Coming Anti-Trust Legislation ieutenants i a direct Looms Large Before Members. ;ction with it of Fredd by mem 1MB. WEBB STARTS ACTION. m enemy | passing a I and their xorth Carolina Member Introduces ?.oa _ Bill Flitting Teeth In svho was a at a most Sherman Law. ir'Tlfe ^ity Washington, Jan. 12.?Congress eeded just settled down to its long regular sescrease its sion today after a recess dating from of wnrrtnv - -- - ? ime passage or the currency reform 1 the E.ist bm jU8t before Christmas. The cornred to the Administration anti-trust legislaln a raid tion program loomed up as the big 5 the order business of the Winter; but with the md^several ProsPect of waiting until next week r violating *or President's message both ohibits the houses turned actively to other matother fire-1ters. In the House, return to work was celebrated of the annual supply meaCN sures, the District of Columbia apTHROP propriation bill, and the iutroduc| tion of the usual opening day batch aminatlons ?* miscellaneous measures. The I Senate began debate on the Alaskan i Trainj Government railroad Dill. PEOKID OF ACTIVITY. 1 - ?Physi- | Anti-trust experts in both houses itions have began a period of extraordinary ache training tivity, to end when the anti-trust prohysician of gralu written into law before the :aniinations ciosu 0f the session. Actual committee I, vo.ir n.wl " "* """ work will be delayed pending Presihe good re- dent Wilson's address. A rough draft iro unques- ot- address will be brought to have been Washington by the President and lisease and iuter in the week Chairman Clayton of the House Judiciary Committee, wtli of the ^ and Chairman Newlands of the Sen'sirian was ate commerce committee probably work so at wjjj caRed into conference with sion a new tjie president and Attorney General I physicians I McReynolds. id and were Meantime Chairman Clayton and r time and Representatives Carlin and Floyd of n this line, the House Committee are reviewing in real in- 'he long list of anti-trust measures already before the committee. It is he progress noL probable that any of these bills ital inspee- will be accepted as a part of the rge part of Administration plan, but all the ideas al work is embodied in them will be considered Senator Newlands of the Senate Commerce Committee expects to take up an rome to tjie anti-trust program Friday. lie training wEll 11 INTRODUCES HILL, ited period he work is 'he House Representative Webb ip doctor is of North Carolina introduced his bill lich is done to strengthen the Sherman law by de in the in- daring illegal every contract, como-operation bination or conspiracy in restraint of these pro- "any part" of trade of commerce, school are including agreements oral or written rests of the designed to reach socalled gentled the com- men's agreements or understandings. His bill would shift to the defenants "d of these the burden of proor as to whether the school's such combinations, contracts, conade to the spiracles or agreements injure comeds. Then petitors, act as a detriment to the dentist are public or whether they are not uncase. This reasonable. 1 train- As a ranking member of the House ennite pur- judiciary Committer which will take !?t c',0 up the question tomorrow, Mr. Webb he one hun- purposes to fight for action along the o lege who lines of his bill. the schools Representative McCoy of New Jer tLT , sey, another Democratic member of r>n F the Judiciary Committee introduced vear which bis l)U1 lo l?roh,bit meterlocking dirraetieal val- e?torntes among banks and trust comhere can he panies. Ininle moth. Senator Overman, chairman of the committee which conducted the lobby Inquiry last year intrduced a bill to Dies at We regulate lobbyists. Senator Overman said the bill represented his indivi12 I)nvi<l dual views. It would require the re. a,i nersons Honouring aer, formor Kisirmiun ?>. .... id first gov- before Congress as "legislative coui)ritory, died or aB^nts they represented and the legislation in which they were .'ner of the concerned. The bill would make it a id an active crime for any one to attempt by corered public nipt methods, to influence legislators he had de- or promote, or defeat legislation. v to the re- No person would be permitted to rnmont and act as a legislative agent whose comn he nstah- pensation was in any way dependent integrity, upon the outcome of proposed legisaent. lation. ONCERS. MARK r.XMOl'S SPOT. '* Country In fi<Tolit \ M?nnm<*n* Will t?e Erected to Lincoln - pulpit of ai>d Davis in Illinois. 'scored by Chicago, Jan. 12. The Historical i an address Society of Illinois today announced . .s Mission- that it would place a memorial to i . He de- mark the place where Abraham Llnhave the coin and .lefferson Davis first met. " before an The site for the monument is 7i? miles r'?.n i,t west of Chicago in DeKalb county, putilic is to There, in 1832, the future President and place of the United States and the future . President of the Confederate States ' 1?, 8a'(' of America first saw each other. As laws, po- soldiers they had gone to assist In needs men ending the Black Hawk Indian mas* .utan<' safrps- Lincoln was a youth of 23 r? ''? aiu* a caPtftln ?' militia. Davis, one i r in Bay year bis senior, was a lieutenant Just !'ke, ^ out of West Point. . 1 i ?ut Incidentally, among those at the Mr'/I ?, at mectlng was General Zachary Taylor, teeth on who later was to become President of the United States.