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X > . . VOL.. 9, NO. 81, SEMI-WEEKLY LYNCH NEGRO WONAN EE" FOR MURDER OF CHILD: -*y and that ted and ? Rosa Richardson is Hanged and Sheriff Then Shot at Elloree l,t viewed tti CHILD KILLED IN WOODS. Rosa Kiel buried, w] ^ Woman Confesses to Deed and Is was ' Taken FVoin (inard House at churcl Klloree by Angry Mob. crowd of Elloree Special to The State. July re,atlveK 12.?One of the most brutal crimes rhe co WflLR COI1 ever perpetrated in Orangeburg county, committed midway between s W8( y' here and Vance late yesterday ,,nve a w? afternoon in a dense bay near the rao v ? f Two Chop public road, was brought < r> to light this morning when the body In,tte<' ,n of litUe Miss Essie Bell. 12 year-old p8st, BCVer daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell C Canno1 was discovered after an all night on' 8 search, foully murdered and care- ne,ir ?" " fully covered by the confessed mur- ,lt 81 deress, Rosa Richardson, a negro 88 not y f w:?nan, about 35 years of age. A xxrn? A grim and horrifying spectacle It wit- " UrCA' nessed today In that community. The D. I body of little Essie with her head beaten into a pulp by a lightwood APP?'?**?< knot, lies prepared for burtnl in the b-v v quiet home of Daniel Bell. while 200 yarda away near the scene of the Atlantb crime, swinging to a tree, is the body HOC,ate Ji of her murderess, Rosa Richardson, ton- of 11 riddled with bullets. court, die Guilt was established, the mur- toduy frc deress confessed and a volley duted hy a short time. Thirty nogroe?T^IB&! 70 yoar" gathered near the scene of the crime 1 be would have fired the volley if per- lstl waK mitted and went to console the grief- rfiHrlng stricken family, while the crime has h,H cu*lo? cast- a pall all over the community 'l()"ri' wa and hundreds of people have gone to he comPl1 the scene, there. though hi The murdered girl yesterday after- arrived y noon went to graze the family cow waK HUU11 in a field on the public road a short '-.urton d distance from the home, which was uluJ KOn' hidden from view by a dense field 0f Nawhv,,,? corn. Just In front of this field on H,de- Mr the opposite side of the road is the (,auKbter. home of Rosa Richardson, the negro ''ere toni murderess. Daniel Bell was reading ?iuer nie his newspaper and the mother, Mrs. Pected to Bell, was leaving with one of her The bo sons to board the afternoon train at ' Vance for Charleston. Mr. Bell was nera' P??r absorbed in reading and presumed tomorrow that little Essie had gone to the "?tice 1 station with her mother and would of ,aw ai return with her brother. When the! Puae'"al young man returned home without Wednesdi y his sister, Mr. Bell inquired for Essie and Revft> and the young man told his father K,,P?"enie that she had gone to graze the cow f,"iends R when he saw her last. Mr. Bell c?untry. immediatly gave tho alarm and searching parties were formed. The, THh whole community was scoured. mm u? _ , will Stui Rosa Richardson was suspected of t luring the girl In the woods for Washir criminal purposes during the night l,,ef ( by some of the searching party. jng t,mb< one loiu Heverai uisconnecieu stories ^jjR publi which indicated her guilt. Houston A message reached Elloree dur- 8tu( lng the night that the girl was mis- departme sing and the penitentiary blood- ni? hounds were wired for but it was ale |mpoi later learned that they were out of, nouncem( the city, The suspects were rushed to the Htfln the Elloree guard house. Tl?e local about th telephone being out of commission, jB |>e|nK connection was established *^it St. yie rote Matthews. Sheriff Salley wasvnoti- |Hon feet fled and Columbia was asked to have nmjte<| t hounds make a cross country trip, are t but before either reached here the Qf po< body was discovered and a dash was that froi] made for the town guard house. the mat? Rural police, the magistrate, the in- |h<> WOO(j, tendAnt and several citieens of EllO- gomo 0f ree who did all they could to protect ' prevent the prisoner, were choked and thrown to the ground by the crowd condition! and held at bay by aix shooters. wood The victim waa placed In a waiting automobile and rushed to the j,,( scene of the crime. The woman won st j examined. Blood was on her cloth- dje(j herp Ing and other evidence of guilt was prostrate* established. She confessed to the aJ| record crime without giving any reason for otncia| te having committed it. The posse had The g0er tracked the little girl and the wo- registered man Into the bay, both tracks fitting ()fnr|fl] fn the shoes, and the woman was track-' re||ef ed to her home returning after committing the deed. Woman < There is no reason nssiirned for the fl? 1.01 deed except that the woman was a Cohen, a bad character and had refused to eery, was work for Mr. Bell on whose place she contain { lived. On several occasions, it is al- on the st leged, that she grew fflssatlsflod and Miss C sullen and the theory Is advanced bank wh< that she lured the little girl in the areaway, v.oods on the pretext of showing her fled. # . lan<;ak'I'i'ii{, h. o. tuksl HSHiS ME MARINES |HUE er shown that no one else TO lk|\/ A PIT HAITI zrZLrz:/;r 'U INVAUL HAIII ixecuted the deed alone. ? Sallev of Oranirfihnrp wlin ? ? ? """ - ~ - i i*ryan rrevaiis on Navy Depart- wnn ie<l of the crime too late. ; here thin afternoon and f ment to Mobilize Bluejackets. t01 ie remains. The body of lardson was cut down and TROUBLE IS EXPECTED HE hile the victim of tlic trag-' aid to rest at Gerizim Bap- i ? ... . .. ... , . v I Involution in Haiti and Kan Bom- I ,M 1 ?^r!8e,1Cf. * arR? I < ? '? f orth Uie Action of ?? grief-stricken friends and American Officials. inmuntty where this crime Washington. July 13 ?Seven hun- W? imittcd is composed of|dred marln?* today w?r? ordered as j Me aw-abiding citizens, who jHe,nbled at Guantanamo, Cuba, to be | wruil lys held themselves against!I,eld in r?adlne?H for service in revo-,aaa * ,nce |lution-torn Haiti and San Domingo, i110" 1 me is the second one com- ^ navy deP??*tmenl acted at the j voke that community within the I requeHl of ^retary Bryan, who ??? i or eight months. Mrs. Suc|nBked that the ,,ewt be Pr?Par?<> to "titut I, who lived in the Millican \deal wlth an emewncy that might | W" several miles away, came artH* on the turbulent island. The I ??acie g her life some months ago marln?B will ?e gathered from those|Biven ids of a negro woman, who now on duty ,n Me*ica" waters. an?? |?aea et been apprehended. fro,n the marine barra"k" in PMUH 8tal? delphia and Norfolk. incut r?-ifi it j TT'prP(")'M' At (iuantanamo the force will be P?rl nro at anv ni? 7nOI,ly a dayB BaU from tbe Nortb ??"81 Aurli KJT lU coast of Haiti and San Domingo, and daily I to the Supreme Court thelr Proxlm,ty l* expected to im ^ tl "resident Taft on Jan- I>re8H upon tb<! revolutionary leaders "arf ,, the determination of the American COIUD1 c City. N..J.. July 12.?As- R?v?rnment to terminate their ac 1 ve? istice Horace Harmon Lur- t,vitie8 by forclb,? mea?? un,e8IJ lie United States supreme thcy li8tft" to tbe war"ln?8 aJready *??? d suddenly at a hotel here Kiven" Tbe ?,tua<-io? in San Do- airs i >m heart failure superin- j ,nI,,K? bas l'ome to be regarded a!i baV?, cardiac asthma. He wasltt,u,?8t bopele88 of a cure from with- hope , , I in, while in Haiti conditions are little ^ ?' ' hetter ingtoi stice, who came hcrc^uly* , act rxpr.atnkn consu in his usual health HVr< A( 1 *'AI last night and had taken AotinK Secretary Roosevelt an? nary evening outing on the "<>u"<-ed ,0,,;'y,? acti?? *? ??e ^lloyy lk. Shortly after midnight inK statement: vvi iiined of reeling ill and al- "Numerous appeals from ty* to rovv s physician. Dr. Ruffln, who tlme for ,be ~Um" sign esterday from Washington, tlon of lif'ft and pr?p?rty mlnW noned immediately .Justice 'on tbe ^^WTof Ha??. which has)Carbt led at 5 o'clock. His wife | been j?"par<lized by various bands of of th Horace H. Uurton, Jr., of j revolutionist* operating both in | mjBo Tp?? ! Haiti and San Domingo. Disnatches ,, - - ? ntaw ' 'V ' \ from there indicating that those con-1 wore s. Horace Van Devon er, a dlt|on8 w|? ,)robably continue for Huer and her husband arrived it bas been deVlded to b| ght from Knoxville, Tonn. ,ace tt 8mHlI forco of marinea where | ^ mbers of the family are ex- ^ ^ be ava?ftble ln ca8e any Ca morrow mergency should arise which would brld? dy will be taken#) Clerks- ^ ^ f<jr thcm tQ be on ty ' leavintz her^ s!t 2 o clock *?d pro^"?n ?"d tratic It was at that city that p 1 y HANCOCK 0OKS. polttl .urton began the practice acUQR ?ecretary of the navy J, no id lived for *weaty y^r8; at the request of the state depart- m|Ht| services will be held here ^ ^ accord,n|?|y dlrected that Uon|| ly. Chief Justice Wl i ^ lJnitfld statftH Hblp Hancock pro al associate justices of the from Vera Cruz 10 Uuantariamo ?OUrt,^1JlS V IT 'and there ,and ftbOUt 295 marln?8' (iiiest rom different parts of the of thflm hav|nR bften taken from quest are expected to be present. ^ ^ and lg5 frQm Kpftrla, they^ TtIMIIKR problem. service squadron in Mexican waters deny mainly from the New York and p<)we ly Present Methods of Ex- Texas. bere ii?g Timl>er Resources. "After landing the marines, the igton, July 13.?In the be- Hancock will proceed to Hampton cou(d the methods used in exploit- Roads to take aboard there 400 ad obvJo >r resources vitally concern ditional marines and return with prOJlt uv.itMiiioo iirunrm mm mem 10 wuanianniun. have completed plana for a "In addition to the above, the gun- Munt ly of the question by their lioat Sacramento haa been ordered ,,mst ever nt8. One of the conditionH from Puerto Mexico to Uuantanamo. ' ike the inquiry of immedl- This action is taken merely as a pre- ( r< e rtance, according to an an- caution and it is hoped that no condi- ] H ?nt today, is the fact that tions will arise that will require ser- cie ding timber, estimated at vices of this force." |0n a ree thousand billion feet, The navy already has In Haitian l city, reduced of its Rtumpage at and Dominican waters the battle-, seif i of approximately sixty mil- ships Connecticut and South Carolina electi annually. In spite of this and the cruisers Marietta, Castine. ences imber. supply, lumbermen and Machias. manl 0 be unable to market much cours arer grades. It is estimated Generally Fair Weather. AH q one-third to one-half of Washington, July 12.?Generally I anno, rial in the trees is left In falr weather, with temperatures w|th # or burned in lumber mills, above normal east of the Rocky ^now this waste is believed to be Mountains was forecasted by the (n8ist tie and much more, It is weather bureau tonight for this ,jl8ap n be saved under improved week "Widely scattered thunder 1 en^|a s of marketing and use of "bowers are probable." said the bul r0c0(( letin, "but no important disturbance n] Is charted." ! quart mr Died From Heat. I effort lis, July 11.?Four persons A R*"?way ?' Wain Street. 1 today and several were A? MM8r9 Fo8fer Taylor' DIck Dre8!. 1 by the heat, which broke Varnedore and R. L. Wherry were J Is for the current year. The driving Sunday night in a single fr|en) mperature was 102 degrees. huKKy 'r?m the tent meeting, pa>a| nment kiosk on the street wuth of town' the b,,*gy 8truck rang* I 109 regrees. Tonight the an ob?tacle on the 8,(,e of the . ^ recast held out no hope for 8treGt' near the dePot' The oc' I cupantn were thrown out, tho buggy REJ smashed and the horse, pulling loose Th a.hi.r I. RohM of i0" . . . ? ... ? .. the street. Fortunately none of the . ' . uis, July 13.?Miss Esther men were seriously hurt, though 'zes * ashler of a wholesale gro- considerably shaken up and bruised, triure robbed of a satchel said to anxio 13 000 in checks and cash Sjieaking Here Friday. with is.ooo in cnecKs and cash Hon p Fln|oy and Hon w F witn reet here today. i Stevenson, candidates for Congress As ohen was on her way :o a in this district, will address tho vot- and I ?n a man darted from an ?rs of the county in the court house the I - ? " ?? L?.Frxtr "f"?k s:.",oo'o,rMkr them. Icnd 11 '1- ?ik' " " U.' V ir; > f%i V *? ? ? * >AY, J ULY 14, 1914. dta uiniiin nv J short time peace it m will II 11 III mrougnout the repi ,mn llUULU I LI President Wilson FROM REBEL HOSTS -p t ' friendly attitude of the United States, as i Enemy at the Gate I>icta- statement of last nij * Hopes to Save Himself. . Kratl,uatiou r ottlcials. WANTS WAR ENDED. m,u. Wound* Wdiiih HimtH HMly to Itewign, Alleging It Wilmington. Del.. His Desire to Have His Clifton Wilkes, 31 Country. Brunswick, Ga., a ishlngton, July 12.? Events in Thirty-Sixth Compai IO are shaping theny "'ver for a corps, Fort Mott, f nation of the ct/,'. strife that and fatally woui ept that countr/ >n a turmoil Finnan, aged 33. hreatened at one time to pro- himself. The trag war with the United States, the New Castle r Huerta, against whom the Con- United States Senat ionalists have waged incessant bury, who was pasi tre since he overthrew Prcsideut mobile, took the wo ro eighteen months ago. has Hospital at Farnhu lit) t.hp utriioirliJ o f loul by the failure of the United JJ DIRECT s to recognize his govern- cjiiAppT V C and cut off from financial sup- DllAKrLi L In Europe, lie realizes the big itutionalist army, augmented "One of Most Glar as it presses southward, is at 1 HWadminiHtratloi ireshold of the Mexican Captinl. j American I ul that an invading rriuy mny Washington, Ju lit excesses, which endanger the ,r|ost glaring i of an innocent population and administration reve il property, persons influential history of Americat the man who has dictated aff- fhe interstate coi n Mexico City at his own whim, slon's charai terizati persuaded him to abandon his '11 ihe Investigation ess position. railroad financial oiprehensivc messages to Wash- today to the senate, n 1 <>in legations and report of latoi^ii^exico City, thus de,jably t)ie most drjisti 5 the situation. ever made by the I New Haven's dire EXPECTED TO RESIGN. ..... nounced criiniiu thin a few days, perhaps tonior- Evidence pointing l< Gen. Huerta is expected to re- has transmits in favor of his newly appointed torneys in Massa ter or foreign affairs, Francisco | l8la|ld and New Yor ijal, unfil recently Chief Justice, (leparlm0Ilt of jUst e Supreme Court of Mexico. reasonable esi ulties ..between the Unite! lo tjie llavi a and the Huesta Government wagtt? a.ti<1 mismanai composed at Niagara Falls. rej,ori "will aim La would leave the Internal j $60,000,000 and ! eui to be settled by his succes- i re(.torf, should be i li;ihl?> In civil niiH rbajal. It is expected would the manner in~whi. e the gap from the Huerta re- (jiejr trust " to a new Provisional Adminis- coin mist in controlled by the Constitu- were upon the in; sts. He has not been active in Novv ]j;ivon systei cs and is anxious for peace. He ' president Melien t of the type likely to offer ln justlce to the iry resistance to tne Constitu- , ment thp commissi st8- fair to say that C lile Carbajal'n reputation as a, Elliott and Walter of fairness and integrity is not counsel, "have co-c ioned by the Constitutionalists, j commission anil rer claim he Is friendly with reac- tial assistance thro ry interests in Mexico City and . ligation." his right to exercise executive | r. Racfel Zubaran, spokesman TRACK IS < for General Carranza, tonighi that as the Constitutionalists wreckage is Move* not recognize Huerta, they 1,,^, jun usly could not recognize his 0 , , ... Camden Special Ion. That some way would be , . , . _. . July 11.? The wrei 1 to bring about a transfer of . .. . , . Junction, due to th r to the Constitutionalists, how ? Seaboard and So was believed in government 1, . . . , freights, was clear is tonight. .. . ! afternoon. A wre iEHELS INSIST ON WAR. Columbia and anot neral Carranza intends to Insist ?n the Seaboard military conquest of Mexico wrecking crew and and the establishment of him- Columbia: on the So iix i~rt!!iiu?iii hii luieruu, Will If! uimi i runic w ouh are called. Strong inAu-,of the derricks <1 , however, arc beginning to; train was rapaitk fest their displeasure at such a, tons, another 7f? to e, 60 tons. A large c though General Carranza has junction to see tl uneod his unwillingness to treat engines raised in Carbajal, it is authoritatively back on the track. n that if such an attitude is ed upon, strong intimations or Two Men Are Kil proval will proceed from influ- Anlm I countries, who will refuse to Madrid. July 12 ;nize General Carranza unless honors jn the | innifests a disposition to give today In the evei :er to his weakened enemy. An toreailor'K sword w ; will be made by diplomats as hull and tossed in as ( arabajal is elevated to the struck a spectator Jency to obtain from the kJ|Ied him. Later { id States some manifestation of man Miguel Frey, Illness to strengthen the Car- drf,t bull, was mort government In its efforts to ar- flecond The fight 5 a peaceful transfer of power for th day e Constitutionalists. VI.IZE REBELS HAVE WON. Ititcriirban Lines II e large population In the terri- Chester. July 11 controlled now by Huerta real- heretoday there h hat the Carrunza revolution has merger of the Pi< iphed. Business interests are , Company, ope rat in ua that the transfer be affected lotte and GaRtonia as little disturbance as possible, ville, Spartanburg aibajal is a man of d plomacy Railway, operating nardly of a military disposit'on, burg and Green wot mpreasion prevails here that The Piedmont at ng in Mexico is virtually at un | way Company will and that within a remarkably , name of the merge $1.51 blease kick: ri,r : smith is fl Carranza toward j expressed in bin 5bt. was a source Got Mad ItecauK to Washington . ? ped Places V n and Then Kills SMITH GOES If. | July 12.?John jWas Allowed to S|i years old, of That He Miglt corporal in the Ruined by ly. coast artillery Greenwood Sdp< J. J., today shot Piedmont, July 1] ided Mrs. Lulu vation by Rev. Jar He then killed'19th meeting of tl edy occurred on puign was called t oad uear here, noon at 1 o'clock or Williard Saul- county chairman, sing in his auto- proximately two tt man -to the State the audience, abou rot. ing women. SMITH FIRS 'ORS ARE Senator Smith JRITICIZED with w p P*?"ock speaker. that th< ing Instances of|might go to Laur . in History the cro*? of tht> d tAi I reading" (>n witb a hal1 6to ly 13.?"One of Smith began his nstances of mal-,wou,d use a11 h5s ' aled in all the appropriation Ton . railroading. " ,s'"nment for the s amerce com to is- 1 ',e speaker im on of its findings discussion of the < of New Haven said that there ar affairs, reported P^'itors of the staj silk. The averag ,U00 words, prob- commodities is 8P c in terms olWuv ,hese products can conunissioui9he '"otton woven into tors 'were pro- l)ert cannot tell tl illy negligent." Cotton should 1> d violation of law plus the price t ad to district at-jbringing, asserted chusetts, Rhode jotor Smith then il k and the federal of his speech to a ice ton and his reoor tiinate of the loss During the ci ii by reason 01 Smith's speech, gement." says the came on the sti nint to between "kick" on a chnnj (90,000,000. Di- the speakers, and nude individually lowing Senator Si criminal laws forj The governor b they discharge change as a trie The governor e don's structures ed rufesal to a inagement of the|troop8 to pass th 11 under former hna> by saying it [to give his permi present manage- the military code on says, it is but 1 tion hairman Howard After paying h I). Hines, special ^jay convention, iperated with the 0juded his speech ulered it substan _ newspapers, ughout the inves- ^ p p0nock t , began their speee ? I report. 'LKAKKO. The crowd tod? ? of the campaign, I Away at Spald- n,ated it at three etiou. The cotton mills 1 to The State, and a large nun kage at Spalding were present and e collision of the governor. The f uthern through1 out in large croi ed late yesterday jbe opposed to the eking crew from 11L.KASE HIT her from Hamlet Governor Hlea flail way and a ;Speaker, ridiculed work train from Snljth on a cotton uthern were kept and took UD lhe ,-uK cieareu. ,jno'i Newberry that ret iu the wrecking , mease badges wa ? of lifting 100 JgoiialiBt, the ai me and the other unjOI) Kepublicai rowd went to the #oyernor> holding le huge crippled ;M|d it wap the co] the air and l>"? ,rode wjth Wade The governor t ? an attack on the lied l?> Harassed smith, using the Als. he quoted at St. , Hulls carried Governor Blease's jull fighting here Smith, some one. it for amateurs a of the court hou as caught by the which the speakir to the stand. It a lemon and hit ( in the neck and khe left shoulder, i Mexican swords- ; coward hits from after killing the governor, ally gored by the Some of the gi ing then stopped resented the insul Way cross Pastor ' ave Ileen Merged. Their Coal .? It was learned Wayoross, Ga., as been made a C. Flanders, past< sdmont Traction odist church, todi g between Char- who attend <hu , and the Green- leave their coats ; and Anderson) he thinks the plai between Spartan- not believe a m id. himself with a hr id Northern Hail iner season Tin be the corporate in Waycross are d interurban (he annonncennn r- -- 1. . _ _? *. ?^ ' *" *" T ~ HL. 1,1 w i jubwijai?rzxnrr - : i) A YKAK. SBECAUSE RST SPEAKER ?e Pollock SwapVith Senator. TO LAURENS. ifuk First in Or?Ier t Visit Section Hail Storm. lal to GreenvilleI.?After an invones D. Kinard, the be senatorial eam0 order this afterby R. P. Blake, There were &plousand persons in it one hundred bei T SPEAKER, exchanged places , who was the first ? junior senator ens county, where istrict were strickrm. When Senator speech he said he influence to get an 1 the federal govIricken county, mediately began a otton problem. He> e only three com >le?flax, wool and :e price for these cents a pound, and be so supplied by ^loth that tin exn difference, e sold for 15 cents he staple is nou the speaker. Senevnteit tbe tialanni discussion of cotd in Trie senate. [>urse of Senator Governor Blease ind, and made a ce in the places of he insisted on folnith. characterized the k." xplained the allegillow the Georgia rough South Cainwas not necessary [ssion. He quoted to show his posiis respects to the the governor conwith an attack on md L. I). Jennings hes too late for a ly was the largest many people estithousand persons, were closed down iher of operatives they were for the armors, who were vds, were said to chief executive. 1 BY LEMON. ,se, the second the ride of Senator bale in Newberry, criticism made at i, tlie color or the s the color of the narchist, and the is of 1880. The up a red shirt, or of the men who Hampton in 1876. hen launched into record of Senator same records that Matthews. During attack on Senator in the second story se In the rear of ig was held, threw lovernor Mease on "Noth'ng but a behind," said tho ovemor's followem t by howling. Tells Men to leave * at Home. July 11.?Rev. J. >r of Trinity Methay invited all men irch tomorrow to at home. He says i all right and does an should burden >t. coat in the sunir shirtwaist squad highly elated over t.