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A * w hnr^Z^ -; i The Press and Banner, ABBE VIILF. S. C. AN ABSURD LAW. Scntcrccd to be Rang for Murder of Her Husband WHO KILLED HJMSILF i Wtman Tock Poison With Her Hufbaod. She Recovered, But He Died and ' Under Antiquated Law S'le Was Put on Trial for ner Lite. By a singular coincident siau'tan- 1 eous'y with the judication in London ( Eogland, ef the cabled report of Jc- ( beph Cheated speech at the Lotos < Club, In New York, wherein he ex ( tressed the opinion ttat British law ' was superior to the he me-made article i and better admit latere d, wehavebeeri ? treated to a striking demonstration of ( Its afsinlne q alltltles. With black cap on head, a British j ldge in Lon ( don has solmenly pronounced sentence of death on an old weman for the j murder of her husband, whem she did . rot murder, aid to complete the far- ( v clcial tragedy a British chaplain has ( solemnly Invoked the mercy of God j cn htr "guilty scui," which was not . iu'lty. And all this with the full knowledge that she did not commit the crime for which she was convicted j and that she will never be hanged for It. In a ce nde mned cell tte aged v c- i tim of legal cruelty wtose sad plight , has evcked expressions of tbe deepest j sjmpatLy from all classes Is awaltiDg the exercise of the crown's prerogative of mere*: A 'ter a brief period of im prlsoi meat she will probably be re leased?to eke c ut what remiios of her wretched ;x> ttxce branded as a murdeiess. Judgt and jury are agreed that the should Li y? r have been con victed. But they h*d no otber recourse tban to conform to a stupid acd anti quated law which ought leng ago to y V ? KftAn woolc/1 LAVC uccu Mrs. Marian Stddcn's story is one of the mat pitiful tbat has ever been told In tht fc> ir old Bailey court. She i was 65 years 111 and her husbapd was 78. They haa Lnn married twelye years. After tbtir marriage they -> *> -Ja confectionery shop at Staines f these pip' ''^me they were fairly successful. | eijilit i" trade fell off and they moved to j carr a shop in Mortlake. There things | went from bad to worse. The hus- j band's health failed. When quarter day came round they had not enough morA*' to pay the rent. Death or the < .eg jnt.se seemed to be the only al ..mil Afi , ^ive open to them atd they chose of d^de. d, but the husband alone founa | of f It. x Proc We decided," said Mrs. Seddon, 1 cut , at the li quest on bis br..dy, "tbat we i top hbd better both leave the world to- ( lea gether.'' After passing a sleepless | night worryirgover their lot, black j dtbpair gripped her. "I can't stand j this any lcrger," she said to her hus- { band. RUing frcm the bed she went j to a cuptoard and took frcm It a tot j tie containing a liniment co&pcsi d ! < belladonna and sccnite, which bar j been cifd to relieve ter 1 u >ard' j pain. It * aa marUd "io.'sol." Sat' i drank bail its contents. 'I ben she sair to her husband, "Tnere U nctLiig for j us but this or the wc rk house. Are ycu goirg to take jou than?" "Yes,': replied tne man, and snatching .the boitle frcm his wife's hands he drain ed what remained of the poison. i Mrs Seddon then sought her sister i in law, who lived in .the same house, < told her what ttey had done and be i sought here to see to it that they were naved the ignominy of pauper burial. Then she returned to the bed and lay down by ter husband's side, to died with him. she fchoutrht. But the Doison worked slowly. As in duty bound tbe sister in law told tbe police what bad happened. Tbe police removed tbr couple to the work bouse, whicb tbey bad so dreaded. There the doctors du their best to prevent them escaping irom It by death?as in duty they were bcuodtodo. They saved Mrs Seddofcrs life, but her husband, more fortunate, succumbed. There followed, of cours?, a coroner^ ii quest. ILe jury brought in a verdict of buiclde while tcmporily insane Then the pullce arrested Mrs. Seddon and charged her with the murder of tbe man who, accordlrg to the coro ner's Jury, hid committed Buicide Parade x'cal as It souLds the law justi fitd that charge. For the law dt clar es that if two persons conspire t< ccamit suicide and one survive that survivor is guilty of murder. The evidence at the trial made tt clear that it was not a case of murder '?that is according to common sense notlcis. But the law was equally em ptatJc that it was murder, and the Judge tcld the jury that they w< u'.d b&ve to stand by the law. The jury reluctantly brought in a verdict of guilty, tddicg a strong reconmenda tion to mercy. And the judge reluc tantly sentenced the wcm??n to death He said it was the saddest case he bac ever tried. His opinion of the law wh'ch ccmpelled him to imprse a sentence that was utterly abhorrent fr. bis rot'ocs cf right and jus::ca he kept to himself, for in a court of jjstice the mcst stupid law mu^t be treater" as something sacred. "1X7z? dlrl nnt, want, tn find IhA wfi man f,ullty," said one of the jurymen after the trial was over, ' buo after what the judge told us we c*.uld not do otherwise. Of course, we knew that the woman would not be hanged, and of course, the judge knew it, too, when he pronounced sentence of death upon ber. In this case the law is certainly 'an hass," and it is absurd tc retain it on the statutes." One of the council who tcck part in the trial said to the writer: "The case reveals a flaw in cur law wiM . - . ?- :?SA-uaKa... whioh certainly ought to be amended V/eought to bave murder in the firs egree ard in the ncjnd degree, as elieye jou h; vj in the United States It is absurd to put a persjn who i merely technically guilty on trial fo his or her life. A br us{breaker whi smashed a window with bis flit. thi flying glass from which fatally lr j arei any one would be tecbically gu Icy o murder. So would a man who shot a a fowl which did not trl >ng to hia and acc'.den-1 r killed a mm. AGAINST BISHOP VVSCAS. A Preacher Allr ges Tfiac Be Is Gull ty ol Non-ad ministration* At the meating of the North G3ora Cjnfereuce last week at Nerman Ga., one of the preachers g?Vi notic< hat be would prefer charges against Bishop Duncan of mal- ad ministration When the minutes were read on Thursday morning Dr. W.- W. Wad swortb, about whom rumors of im prtd^nt or immoral conduct had been : rculated, which had been investiga bed and found to be false by a com aittie, objected.to the way in whicfc is case was referred to in the minu tes of the day before, saying he hac aeen done an in justice, that his c ?se was not brought up in the regulai T?r n lllian hia nr?aidinff naj u/ v,. o ilder. Dr. Wadh worth asked the blsh )p to rule od a question of law contruing Dr. Qiillin's aotlon. He want id to know if Dr Q llllian was not icting contrary to law when be brought jp the question t f bis case as he did ifter a c jmmittee had exonsrated him The bishop did not rule on the quesiicn, but will later. Dr. Wadsworth then addressed the ;hair, saying: "Bishop, I am in a good tumor, and L say It with all courtesy, but I put ?ou on notice that I shall prefer sharges agaiDSt you at the next) genjral conference for mal-admioistratioi] n meddling with the characters oi preachers." The bishop replied: "Well, Dr. Wadsworth, I don't care f you do." "I have no doubt," answered Dz1 (Vadsworth, "tbat you do not cire. l im in a good humor, but I shall prefer charges against you. Dr. Wads worth had reference to .he bishop asking each presiding elder is thtlr names were oalled, if ttiere was anything against any preaohern inder their oharge. He claimed that ihis was wrorg in the bishop; tha* i* was not his province to make suca 1l luiries, and tbat it amounted to mai administration. The Incident caused a sensation ie ihe conference rooms. ANKUAL PitfcIOH EKPORT. }howln|( the Amonnts Expanded in Each of the Connties The anou&l report of the state peni'on department has bsen publisaei ay the state printer: The repjrt it particularly valuable In that it givas tho name of every pensioner and the imount received by him or by her rhe total number of pensioners lc the respt ctive clases is as follow:: 31aas A, 196 each, 75; class B, 172 192; olass 0, No. 1, $18 585; class C, No 2 $15.50, 4.068; class C No. 3, ?48, 756; class 0 N>. 4, $15 50, 3 129. foe*! number of pensioners, 8 804. Th<* lota1 amount paid to pensioner was $196,945 50. divided among the 3ounties as follows: Abbeville, 83, 582; Aiken, 16,900; Anderto1', ill, 2i3; Bamberg, $1 712.75: Barnwell, 13 332; B aufort, (680 50; Berkeley, >2,403; Charleston, 13,089 50; Cherokee, 15,163; Chester, 13 696; Chesterfield, $5 696 50- Olartndoc, <3,338: Colleton, 16.984; Darlington, $4 989 50; Dorchester, $1,754; Eigefleld, $2,384 25; Fairfield, $3 357; F.orence, 13 885 50; Georgetown, $1,027; Green v >13, $11,014 90; G^eenwODd, $3,324. 5 ; H*mpt>n, 4 181 50; Horry, $4 437: Kersbaw, $3 387.75; Lancaster. $5,88( Laurenp, 16 605.75, L e, $2,946 50 LexiDgton $5 771 27; MarioD, $5 466 Marlboro, $3 502 25; Newberry, $3, 810 50; Oconee, $6 905; O-ansreburg 14.375; Piokanc, $5 330 2?; Richland 15 874 50; Suuia. $3 775; Spartan burg. $17 481 50; Sumter, $3 070 Union' $5 034 50; William burg, $3, ^38; York, 7,598; total, $199,287 80. Shocking Tragedy. Ly'ng on a couch at his home k West Philadelphia, helpless from par alysis, David F R we, an elderly man was Bhot four times by Caspar Ojop er, his son-in-law, who then fl;d fron the hou^e &Ld killed himself by send lrg a briliet through his head. Th< rather in-law's wounds are so seriou that he had to be removed to & hos pltal. It Is belitvcd he will recover Cooper had been marrltd to R>we' daughter about three years, but tb wife left him about eight months ag< because of ill treatment. To day thi husbaid returned to hl3 father-in law's bouse and asked to see his wife Rowe said she was out earning he living. The father-in law reproache the son-in law for ill treatiDg hi laughter and a qiarrel followed which ended by Cjoper shooting hi wife's father while he lay on th co ch. Want State Flic. The members of the United Cot federate veterans camp in Ciicag bave written the governor foraSout Carolina flag to be u<r d by them i exercises cv r the 6 000 Cunf?:deiat dead buried near that oity. Tae lei ters'at*s tbat a handsome monumen has been erected by the camp an they desire a flag from every Sjutt *rn state for Memorial Diy exercise.1 T e Confederate dead buried thei those who died at Faderal prison The letter will probably tn referre to the state organization of v^t erdiis. Constables Wanted, Tie p^Qple of Cherokee town3hi la Cheri kee county have sent a p< tition to Governor Hay ward u*gin the governor to place a state connta ble at BlackBburg. The state tha since the d.spsns; r!es were voted ou at BlackBburg and Gaffaey, the ic crease of ill clt manufacture and sa of liquor has been so great., it. is source of annoyance to the respectab and law abiding residents of ths township. The governor, of cours has not yet had time to take any ac ion on the petition. : SERIOUS OHARGI I. 5 r d Made Aagainst Senator John a | son of Fairfield County,^ t _____ i WHICH HE iXPLAIN! To the Satisfaction of the Judge. Th Senator was Charged With Talk! . ing to aod Trying to Iofuence a Juror in the State 1 House Case. The noted suit for $200,000 acrains 1 Mclivalne, Unkefer & Co., and Fran Milburn, contractors and architect [ respectfully, for the completion of th state cipitol for alleged irregularitle 1 and faulty construction of work, wa [ begun in tbe olroait c3urt at Colum bia on Thursday, with an lmposiri array of counsel on bath sides am . the entire state looking on with dee; interest and essrerly looking for th ; conclusion. The fight is honey comb ed with politics, but while some sen I -atiOD&l developments have bcei promised. Mr. Milburn and the coo tractors appear to be perfectly con tident of the results, and say they ar anxious for the trial to be carried 01 and finished as they kave nothirg t I fear. The suit was brought by Sena tor Aldrich and R' presentative Yan cy Williams, appointed by the lrgta lature to look into the matter, whict i has been the subjeot of so many acrl ' monious and spirited debates in' thi legislature. In connection with the case thi i Columbia State says C<1 W. J. John son, senator from F.irQeld count; and a member of the former Stat bousi commission, may be called upoi 1 J - nrtoa] f nf PAn All upCU l> iUi u IAS puiro uiuuoon vx wu r.empt of court. Cjl. Jjhnson "spoki ' his mind" very freely Taurtday a the dinner hcur to members of th jury, and It made such an lmpressioi > upon at least one of them that h i reported the c rcumstarc s. Judg Gage's attention was cViled to th juaitrr by Ool. J Q Marshall. Ool. Marshall announced that h did not want to Impede the progres of the trial but he thought this mat t?r should be told to the court. Judg Gage in an unrLtfbd manner, afte hearing that Mr. Johnson had beei permitted by the defendants' attor neys to go to his he mi at Ridgeway ordered his return to Columbia. To following is a transcript of the loci dent from stenographic note ; Col Marshall (oefore going on the witnes ? stand:) I do not care to lnterfer i with tbe progress of this casa, but : think ib my duty to mention wbat juror told me as I was interlng th i court room. The oourt indicated that Ool. Mar , shall should proceed with tbe state i ment. Col. Marshall: One of th jurors informed me tbat a party ha approached him outside after; brad j )urnment of ccu *t. His words weri i cbjut this: Tbat it was at! outrage to bring this suit against Milburi and that the work had been well done I think It my duty to cm tne court' attention to this. The court: Who is is this juroi Stand up. Mr. Ruff, a mc mber of the panel stood up and was sworn on his VjI dire at the direction of the court. Q. Now, Mr. ILff, state what oc curred. A. We were going along as cjur ad j urned, going to dinner, and wer approached by a man In the street Mr. JohnSon from Ridgeway. H spoke to us and said that it was*a outrage for a suit of this kind to g on. That the work was well done 3e spoke lb in the presence ot Mi Kelly, Mr. Blair and myself. He al so said he was going home. Court: Is Mr. Johnson in ourt. Mr. Riff: He is not here now. d j not see him The court: Call him at the d :or. Mr. Barrqn, I do not think Mi 1 Johnson is here. Hi is oie of th original State hou3e commissioner* , and was a member of the house c rcp'esen'atives. We had him sut ^ poi nted here as a witness. He is no1 State ssnator from Fairflsld conobj ? 3e approae .ed us before court ac g j urned and stated that on a( c un jf sickness in his family he desired t go home this evening at 4 o'clock an j we told hlaj we woJd telegraph lili e In ewe we needed him. j The ojurt: Telegraph him to con e here. If you do not I will have rule served on him. Mr. Barron: All right, sir. r Tae court: Ask him to be hei 5 F.iday. S WHAT JOnNSON SAYS. ' In the oourl of common pleas ( f Riohland county Friday, Senator V e J. Johnson purged himself of tl charge of contempt of court in so fs as he was alleged to have approach* a j aryman and to have dsnouacsd tl 0 trial of certain parties as an outr&g h Senator Johuson did not wlthdra nis language, but repeated it to tl ,e court room. However he did disavo j. speaking to the juror in any othi it chan a oasual manner. The juror hi d spoken to him first, .and he bad mer 1. y made answer in passing witboi ? to r*ft Minor that Mr. RcfiP. to whom fa p remarks were addressed, was a juru u~ Senator Johnson stated tbat ] d bad been very muob surprised to r i. 'Jelve a telegram oalliDg bim bat from bis borne at Ridge way on a count of the allegation tbat be b; iddressed remarks about tbe trial P * juror. He could not think wb o&d Inspired tbia but malice ai g hatred. i "I will state bbe conversition as -ccurred verbatim as near as n t memory will permit," be contirue i "Wben I left the court house I ovt Le took Mr. Ruff and Mr. Blair. I spo a to them pleasantly, told them got le evening and Mr, Ruff said: "Wh it are doing down here? Are ycu i e. this cast?" I told him tbat I wf t that I had been subpoenaed as a w ness. E"I dK not use the language thai he says I used, but I told him 1 thought the cise was a damned fraud and that the work bad been properlj doDe and passed or. -'A" the tlnce this conversation ocI" curred I did not recall the fact that Mr. Ruff was on the jury, although I had seen him on the j ary while I wa* In the court house. "I will be candid enough to state, however, that if I had known this 5 fact at the time, the seme con vers i tion possibly would have ot curred.bic\u?e he led up to the c.nversitiOD." Mr Johnson, after defending his in oegrlty, disclaimed any lnttnoion to ie be disiespact'ul to the court. Judge Giry: "I think Mr. Riff wa> rfght to report the matter tu thoturc. Mr. Jjhnson disclaims any in tention of being disrespectful to the administration of justice. I think it was improper, Mr. Johnson, and 1 think it is improper Id anybody to refer to a case that is pending in court, t ? think it is improper because it em b r>arrasses the juror. It Is often done, . but the tendenc? of it Is to hinder the '' lawful administration of justica. Jure urs are men and they cannot help bu s be influenced by opinion on the out s -Idc 01 the issues pending before them, . ospeially when that opinion comet _ from one who is entitled, under ordi* nary circumstances, to be heeded. 1 a ihink the matter mlgbt as well be P <tt pped here. I am satisfied under e your statement that the conversation 1 was led up to. You stated you were a witness. I know as a matter of public y record yoi had been on this commis' sion, and perhaps you had more inter ' est in the matter than an outsider B would have. I want to say emphat3 loally it is bad practice, and one to br 0 condemned, no matter who ex.rcl&es it." THBILLIHG 1XP&JEUENCE j e Of a Schooner Pre m Port R ?yal to e N w YorK, The three masted schooner, Wir. e W. Converse, Capt. Nickerson, lumi ber laden, from Port Royal, to New " York, was towed Intoi Norfolk harbor * late Wednesday night by the steamer 1 Rescue, with all her sails gone, her e crew exhausted and water pouring 3 through strained seams at the rate of e one foot an hour. e The story of the saving of the Oon e verse is the most thrilling in thk year's events along tbe Virginia Caro e Una oast. Fr^m the time the ves s sel left Fort Royal until she came to anchor Wednesday afternoon four e miles off Dam Neck Mills life saving r station, heavy seas and adverse wind* Q had held her at their mercy. All the way up the coast she battled with them. F.rst almost all of her deck 8 load was carried away and then one sail after another went by the board. Her steering gear became lnjurec 3 and she rolled In the trough of the ? sea while big waves crashed over Her. 1 The strain was so great that her a sides began to open and water poureo e into her hold. When Dim Neck Milh were sighted the Converse anchorer * and s'gnalled for help. Norfolk wa 1 advised of the vessels plight and the e Rsscue put out to the scene. Suc'i 8 s rough sea was running it was riiffl [ cult for the wreckers to approach \ near enough to make a line fast tc ' Khn orthnnnar UUU JW' 'VUUWA 0 Id one attempt a seaman on thr ' Rescue fell overboard and was saved 8 from drowning only by the heroic work of a shipmate who ran out or ' the point of the bow and threw a life line with accuracy to the man in the [> water, After a hard struggle against r the wjnd and sea the Rsictie at 7 o'clo:k tonight reached Norfolk harbor after 11. She is in a bad condl tien and may have to be beached. tl ? e Mysterious Death. i, At Chester, Pa., a ran believed tc e W George Foster of Virginia, is dying n from injuries received in a mysterlou* 0 manner. He was found lying in the > road late one night and as he appear :. ed to be in a drunken stupor was taker i- to jail. During the nigbt bis cond tion became serious a nd a physician who was summoned found that h( 1 was suffering with hemorrhages of tht head and stomach. His condition, the doctor said, was due to blows. r. The polite are endeavoring to ascere tain whether the man was held up oi }, was irjured in a brawl. He was )f identified by several residents ol ) Chester as George Foster. Nothing w is known concerning him beyond tht fact tb^t his home is in Virginia. it T It auce tae acreage. '0 President Jordan, of the Sou there d Cotton Growers Association, in at 11 interview said the preparation to tic up 3,000,000 bales of cotton and hole ie it f jr higher prices, in the face of the a already established short crop anc ths unprecedented consumption, was well under way and promises success re results. He said: "Tne entire ma chicery of the association will be pui in motion within a few days, pled# f ing the cotton growers of the. Scubt * to a reduced acreage for the nex! year. We will begin this early t< le nold down acreage to give the plan ters a fu 1 opportunity to make ar * rangemects for another year." e Dashed to Pico s. w Advices received from Cape Sa'ol< ie [glands are believed to confirm las w night's report that the collier Tu^bint 3r was lost with aU on board Frida; td night. Ancffijial dispatch says tbi e steamer struck a rock t ff Mud Islanc r?1 nioAaa 4nri m^nntoc a ftar u* AUU vrouv tu LUU w&vwft is ward. There was 110 time to launcl >r. a boat and none could have lived ii ae che sea that prevailed. ^ Ends His Life e Drinkiog carbolic acid in his cffl;e jd James Sayder, Pennsylvania Rallwa; t0 agent at Colliers. W. Va , Wednesda; av, night committed suicide at hissuppe 1(3 Snyder recently compialntd of havlni r-rouoles of some sorb, but told no on what they were. His accounts ar aj Straight. Snyder wab thirty years o d. age, unmarried, and a very popula .r railroad employe. Fatal Fall of Slate. 3i at Gsorge Robinson, was killed an on W. Wall, an unknown Hungarian is: was fatally injured by a fall of slat it- in the New England Coal Company' slate mine at Sintery, Oaio. ????????I : QUEER CASE. I A Man Ordered by His Wife to Commit Suicide. HOW HE FOOLED HER And Had a Good Time With the Money She Gave Him to Bury Himself With I nnirh nn thp nf the Husband. Because he failed to obsy bis wife's orders to on mlt bari-karl, Henri NogueB.of Paris France,?s now lodged in j il, accused by ber of cjmmitticg burglary, forgery, and a variety of otber heinous cfkns's. All the same N gues thinks that the laugh is on olsfcide, and Paris a^re.s with him No^ues is an expert michine titter *nd a practical philosopher. Wheth er he is the otber things which hia wife alleges, remai .s to be proved-by the lady, who keeps a green grocery' shop in the Rua d'Allemsgie. Mme. Nogues is a woman of thrifty habits, out a shrewish temper. She and her husband did not get along well tonn/4 Via 1 rilrtor? mhori Vila irAfl/ gouLiei auu "utu u.o took him away from home for a few days. He was engaged on a job at E9QQes the other day, aud congratu latiDg himself on his temporary relief rrom domestic worries, when he received this'exhilarating epistle from his better half: "Inhuman nrnste:! You have brough disgrace and dishonor on ycur family, if you do not ommit t u ciae within twenty-four hours, I shall rie nourca you the police. Anna." Any ordinary man would have been tfreatlv depressed oy such a missive, but it did net u.jset Nigues a bit. He does notseem to have denied the c larges, but wrute his wife tbat he was prepa ed to commit suicide. Tc avi her the necessity of having tc attend to such disagreeable details bersdt, however, 1 e begged that she ffou d send him sufficient money to nable him to make p ovisions foi Qis decent burial. He besought her also to send him a photograph of her self and his two daughters, tbat thej might be placed in the ciffii with aim. Hi concluded by pleading for aer forgiveness and subsorib.d him self, ,4your affectionate husband." Nogues' fellow workmen noticed that he was in a particularly good lumor for the rest of the day for hf chuckled frequently to himself, he lecnnea to leu taem wnat it was luao oickled hid fancy so much. Mme. Nogues was delighted with the letter, out she would cot risk her precious 'ooney on her husband's mere word. Instead of sending it to him by mail, she intrusted it to her brother In-law Legris BenoDie, and Instructed him 10 see that Nugues carried cut his part of the bargain, and to send her a telfgr_m when the j b was done She gave him $120, having figured It out that amount would enable her ausband to blow his brains out d c ;ntly and pay for the i funeral expenses. And she considered that she wmld be rid of him cheaply at the price. N jgues had not calculated on Le ;rls taking any part In the affair, but :e readily adapted himie f to the changed circumstanee3. When Begris had explained his mission, Nogues professed to be well satisfied with the 1 arrangements and th -y went off to gether to buy a revolver. After the weapon had been pur phased, Nogues proposed that they ihould eat a farewell dinner and crack i i couple of bottlas of wine together jefore he made his exit from this vorld. "You can cut down the funeral ex ! penses a bit to make up for what It josts," he suggested, "and Anna?she is a dear, good wife, but a bit close Isted?need never know that we had a good time with the money." L'igrls acquiesed without demur md toey adj jurned to the hotel where i Nogues was staying. There they did 1 full justice to an ample dinner. . "The lmdlord has treated me so veil here," said N igues when it was Irished, "that I couldn't think of committing suicide and making a mess :nhisplac3- It would not be treat, log him fairly. I'll have to do the , Joo seme where else." "You will have to hurry." said Ls-. j gri.: "I promised to send Anna a tel, gram when it was done. Time is flyI ing and she will be getting atxious." j "Djn't you think ij would take a luad off her mind If ycu wired at once that I've done it? ' observed Nogues. "It would only be anticipating my de cease a little and would allow us oime to get matters fixed up so that everything will go through smoothly." j "It Is an'excellent idea," said the accomodating Legris, "and it will give her more time to get her mourn ing ready." Thin wa? the disDafcch that he sent Mme. Nogues. 1 "Job finished. Everything passed t off satisfactorily. Obsequies at R:n nes." \ Then they settled djwn to arrang2 ing details. Nogues insisted that a i funeral service should be held over * his body. Lrgris objected that a man 3 who took his own life was not - entiti led to that ceremony. Nogues contended that his case stood on a d II jrent footing from that of an ordinary suicide, sIdcs he was not seeking ' death voluntarily, but was going t:> * kill himself merely to satisfy his wife P and carry out her orders. Legrls re1 cognized the force of Nogues' logic K and promised to do his best. e Then Nogues begged for 5be privi e lege of balog allowed to select his own * grave. Together they sallied forth r to the cemetery. It was evening before Nogues had selected a site that satisfied his exacting notions. "Since my wife thiaks I'm dead (3 anyhow," he said to his companion, i. "we might as well put off the job un e till tomorrow and get a comfortable s nights rest." Legris consented ani the morning found Nogues apparently resigned to his fate. "I'm quite prepared to thoot myself," he said, "but I think lo would cot be a bid Idea If we first na1 a gccd breakfast trgether. You can shave down the funeral txpens.s a bH further to make up for It." T ley had a gorgeous breakfast and got somewhat fudiled e ver it. Then ohey started (ff to the cc metery where Nogues was to blow out his brains. There ano- her Idea captivated him. "I will expire," he said, "on the tomb of my parents. They lie at Montfort. Obviously that is the best place to do the j b. I shall rest easier if I lie with them." As there was no train to Monfort that day the dire deed wes postponed until the morrow. When Montfort was reached Nogues suddenly remem bered that hl3 cousin was the priest of the parish and bis death in tbe cemetery would bring difgrace upon I bim. Bather than do that he woul. sacrifice his own convenience: So it was d( eld. d that the tragedy should oe enacted at Pantln. Toe two men took tickets for Paris and arrived at Monparnacse station at mldn'ght. Then N gues discovered than he had forgotten to make his will and sever al hours were spent in drawiDg up r.hof. riHrna ni faa hoinn uuou UVVUUiVUU) visited In the Interim. In conse qun,c9 Legris was reduced to a conaitlon In which further locom tiOD was impossible. The two men sepa rated, Nogues vowing that when dawD broke his corpse would be fuund |ic the Pantin cemetery. Before daybreak Noguss staggprrr Into his wife's home In the Rie d'A lermgne. When she discovered tha. it was not a ghost and that all the money she had intrusted to her broth er in law for the funeral had b?en ex pended, her fury knew no bounds She called in the police and made charges enough against her husband to keep him in jill for many years 11 he be guilty. Hat he stcu jly deolares that he is innocent and that her sole motive in making the accusation is to get rid of him. A PECULIAR CASE. i A Citizen of North Sues Railroad ^ For a B g Sam. For alleged failure to post certaio rates and schedules at Njrth, a sta don cn the S.aboard Airline Rill way, suit was brought by a olt z n of that place for 932 9 JO some time ago and a d.clsion was rendered by the supreme court last we 2k, thnvlng the suit out of the courcs. The case was decide.! by Judge Towsend in the lower ocurts on a demurrer entered by the Seaboard, which stated that the com* plaint was defective and that parts of It were unconstitu local. Tbis dls poses of this suit, b o it is said that ? /*! mill r... K?rtiinrV?f ohnvflw dLU.UCl UI3C TV 111 UO U.UUgUU DUVJLUt/t The complaint *a? one of the most interesting brought in a long time and was as foiio* : That section 3092 and 2093 of the c.vil code Of South Carolina provides that the railroad commissioners of said state shall fix a schedule of reasonable freight and passenger rates for each railroad corporation doing business in this state. That the defendant is a railroad corporation d)lng business in said state, ani that Njrth4s a- station on said railroad corporation between Columbia, S. C., and Denmark, S. C., bub the saief station of North is wholly wuhin the state of South C .rolina. That the railroad commissioners of said state more man one year pnur tu tbe commencement of this action fx' ed a schedule of freight and passenger lates for the defendent corporation. That section 2093 of the civil code or South Carolina provides that am railroad corporation failing- to post at any of its stations a c py of the schedules aforesaid shall incur and Buffers penalty of one hundred, dollars for eich and every day during which time such corporation shall fail to pjst su ih schedule aal that such penalty may be sued for by any oltiz m of the said state, and tbe reoovery shah be equally divided between the oitlzan so suing and the state of South Carolina. That the defendent failed to post s;ch schedules at tbe said station of North, S. C., from January 1, 1933 to December 9, 1903, a period of thiee hundred and twenty-nine days, and and that thereby the defendant has incurred and is liable for a penalty ag gregaticg thirty-two thousand nine outdred dollars. That the plilnt!fl is a citizsn of the said state, and suts for the said penalty of thirty-two thousand nine hundred dollars accordin cr to the Dro visions of section 2093 of the code. A Sign fiotat Statomenr, In his speech at Akron, Oaio, S?c retary Taft told the people that ' W.Iliam J. Bryan would become the sue cessful leader of the democratic party and a menace to the prosperity of the country unless something shcu'd b accomplishec by President R ios< vdlt." Tnli is no t only a significant statement but it is a complimant to the Nebras ka democrat, and, reading between the lines of the utterance, the fact stands out that the "something" President Roosevelt mu3t do to pre vent democratic success in the nation is 10 carry out the reforms for whicli Bryan stands and which have given birth to the term Bryanism. All of this goes to sho rr that Taft has a level head. Ha kaows that the people are getting their eyes open and that unless the Republican parly mends Ps ways it will be p.-rmanently retired. Fatal Scrap. At New York a quarrel over election matters is believed by the polioe. to causc d the murder last night of W. F. Harrington, in Little Naples dance hall and also the probable fatal ir jarin# of Abraham Juckerman, who wat found wita a fractured skull some distance away from Little Niplef, which is conducted bv Paul K?lly, leader of an Eist Side gang. Both Killed. At Jackson, Tenn., Hugh G. Ryals of that city, was instantly killed and Warner Blackar3, of Piris, Teen., seriously iBjured Wednesday night by falling ov.:r a bannister, while engaged in a friendly sculli j at the Southi western Presbyterian University. Both were students and the sons of ministers. X . I m - ; BOLD THIEVES. Burglars Cast off Safe With Seventy Thousand Dollars WORTH OF GEMS. | The Home of a Millionaire Reddest of Patterson, New Jersey, Robbed While He We; Attendliif Revival Service. Safe Thrown Prom Window. A $70,000 Jewel robbery, engineer* ed with remarkable delicacy and dar* m mg, occured in Patterson, If. J., rhursday night, when the horn* of Frederick W: Cooke, millionaire member of the Passaic Steel Company, and one of the tmt known men La North=rn New Jersey,Jwas entered and a heavy safe, containing practically every bit of jewelry In the family possession, was hurled from a; second ?tory window to the soft dirt In ft a'd and carted away. Absolutely no trace of the dlreotlon ohe housebreakers took could be found by tbe police. Tae skill of the robbers was amszlng. They used no cackle to lower the safe, the contents of whloh were diamonds and other gems, ourrency and valuable papera* The only attempt to hide their pretence was made when they chose the rear of the house by whloh tq escape / with their loot. Mr. Cocke went to the Chapman revival meeting about 8 o'olock, and remained there until the end of the services. He returned promptly to bis home at Nj. 334 Broadway. No evidence of the roberry wen found by the millionaire when til opened the door whloh was securely locked, but when he reached the second floor he found a window open. Tals was unusual, and he investigated. Thinking of the safe, which contained jewels left by Mr. Oooke's ' mother to his wife, he entered the '-i room where the steel devtoe, about two feet square, had been stored. It was gone. Looking ont the window the victim saw a hole In the turf of the yard. He descended and found a dent such as V'-.-'i che corner of the safe would have made had it been dropped. -It mads qo noise when in struok the ground, and the burglars presumably figured jn this ruse for avoiding attention. The police were immediately notified, but not even the suggestion of a < ? clew to the robbers oould be found. Nobody had seen a vehicle standing opposite or near the Oooke boon, and it is certain tbat the looters did not carry off tbelr booty by hand. When Mr. Cooke's mother died, she left all her jewels, worth many thousands of dollars, to her son's / wife. s / -r: There were family heirlooms worth jast as muoh in the safe, and jewelry belonging to 'the millionaire's wife ?38 and to himself, besides valuable pipers which Mr. Oooke cannot alfjrd to 'ose Goes Up Head. ^ At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Atlantio Ojast Line Billroad at B ohmond, Vs., last week T. M. Emerson, of Wliming too, N. C)., was elected president; vloe B. T. Bxv vin, resigned. Mr. Emjrson was formerly fouth vice president and tztffls manager. He suceseded Mr. Krwla on t.ha hnird nt rtfr?lT/ini All tha other cffloare and directors were reelected. Alex Hamilton, former second vice president, was promoted to be first vice president. 0. S. Gadsden was promoted from third to seoond vice president. J. R. Kenly was made third vice president. A divl- ' dend of 3 per oent. was declared on che stook, placing lc on a 6 Instead of a 5 psr cent, basis. The annul report showed an 1 crease in mtllwge, gross and net receipts. President E Hereon started with the road as a dark In the freight offices In Wilmington, N. 0., at 975 per month. - * * V Where la the Fool Uliler?" A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., ays a unique soolal function was rh | given on Friday by Mr. and Mr*. Arthur K. Lord in honor of their dog, Boots, the occubing being the eighteenth aonlveraary of his birth. " , ' % roandlng the boH weA1^' " ' #ell known locy ' ? of honor, Bo^ i;?^ocatea at tt*' **^5 right hand cj. the hostess, and, all things considered, be bahaved remark* ably wtll. His menu oomisted of tidbits of beef, rice and bread, and be went through the bill In a manner ssll to have been edifying to the guests. Boots had his dinner served in silver platters, and he would not accept anything less. His one article v. of adjornment was> blue bow about his neck Fatal Accident A special from Cranberry, N. 0,, iays two aojldsnts occured f^ere Friday at the plant of the Cranberry Furnace Company, as the result of waich one man, Thomas Fowler, of Johnson City, Tenn., will die, and three other men are seriously Injured. Fowlers' Injury was due to his clothteg, being o. u?bt by a belt, whloh <*ound his body abont a revolving shaft. The three men injured, whoea aam?s are not given, were at work oa i ?C IT jld. thirty feet high, when it gave way. BJtn accidents ocourna *icbin a short time. Blown to Fleoe*. Four men were blown to pieoes Weduesday afternoon by an explosion at tbe lab ratory of tbe International Smokeless Powder and Caemical company at Parlin, N. J. Tbe cause of ne explosion will never be knowo, as only the four men were in the buildlag at tbe time. Tbe building waa a one story frame Btruoture and beoauae of tbe liability to explosions was sep* arated from all tbe others in tbe plant except one by a spica of several bundred feet. The next building waa a storehouse in which supplies used in tne other were Btored. This caught fire and was burned,