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The Press and Banner. 1 = PAET SIEOOIDTD. | i i I TAKES HER LIFE Wife of a Millionaire Kills Herself with Gas JUST TIRED OF LIFE She Attended Fashionable Dinner "Wednesday Night?Left a Note for Husband, but Members of Her Family Claim That Her Death was Due to Heart Disease. Washington, March 25.?Weary of I the gay whirl of society and face to I face, as she believed, with years of I physical suffering, Mrs. Pierre Loril-1 lard, Jr., aged 49, wife of the tobacco I magnate, committed suicide by as-1 phyxiatinon at her home, near the I fashionable Dupont Circle, in this I city, today. Her tragic death has I shocked the first social circle of the I Capital as has nothing else in years. I In spite of the coroner's certificate I of death by suicide, members of the I family declared that Mrs. Lorillard I died of heart failure. The death was I made more dramatic by the fact of I Its occurrence only a few hours after I Mr. and Mrs. Lorillard had been the I guests of Mrs. Richard Townsend at I a dinner given in honor of Lady I Paget. In fact, it is believed that I as soon as Mrs. Lorillard arrived I at her home, shortly after midnight I this morning, she began to prepare I lor iici uoavu.* About 8:30 o'clock this morning the butler in the Lorillard residence detected an odor of gas. The origin of the fumes was traced to Mrs. Lorillard's apartments. Opening the door to the bath room, just off hei suite, the butler was horrified tc behold the body of the mistress ol the house stretched lifeless. Her face was turned to the mat on the floor. The alarm brought Mr. '^orillard from his apartments across i^e hall He and the butler carried the bod} to Mrs. Lorillard's room. Mr. Lorll. lard attempted to revive his wife b> means of artificial respiration. The n'n rfnotnrs summoned resorted to every scientific method to restore life, but after an hour's efforts gavi up in despair. Shortly afterward Dr. J. Ramse\ Nevitt, the coronrer, visted the Lorillard home and ordered Deputy Coroner Glazebrook to perform an autopsy, upon the completion of whicl Dr. Nevitt issued a certificate o death by suicide by gas poisoning He said later that gas was escaping from one or more jets in the batl room when the body was discovered and thait the condition of the lung; indicated death by gas poisoning. Extreme reticence is being main tained by the Lorillard family am all others who possess information conoerning the sudden death. Onl> a few of the most intimate friends have been admitted to the home sinct the news was spread of Mrs. Lorillard's death. Inquiry at the residence met wit* jQr,ioT-QtiV,n that Mrs. Lorillan LilC UCVlUiuvivti v..?. had not committed suicide. "Sh? died of heart failure," retorted tilt servant. Mrs. Loriilard left a note, whicl the coroner's jury has seen, bu which Mr. Loriilard has decline* to have marie public. Mrs. Loriilard was subject to fre quent attacks of despondency, it i said. The last person to see Mrs. Lori! lard alive was Mr. Loriilard. II bade her good-night as they separa' ed to go to their apartments, afte> returning home about midnight fror. the Townsend residence. Mrt Loriilard was seemingly in the bee of spirits. She had joined free! in the social festivities of the evenin. - tau nennh hnnifi. where ha' at IHC IV" UWVMV. - gathered the Brazilian ambassado and Mme. Xabuco; the Danish mil) ister and Countess Moltke; the Sec retary of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer Senator and Mrs. Lodge; Senator an: Mrs. Aldrich; Senator Root, Mr. an< Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. \V C. Endicott, of Boston; Lady Clif ford, of England; Col. and Mrs. Coli Campbell, Col. and Mrs. McCawley Mr. and Mrs. Clarenoe Moore, th< Hon. Maude Pauncefote, Commodon Rodgers, Rear Admiral Cowles am Capt. Archibald Butt, military aid' of the President. Mrs. Lorillard had disrobed, afte; arriving home, and when found he: body was clothed in a dressing gown The dog collar of diamonds she won at the dinner had been removed be fore she went to the bath room, but the costly circle of diamonds that adorned her hair had not been displaced. The Lorillards have lived at thr Hillver place since January. Immediately preceding that time Mrs ?woe in TTiirnnp ljuniKww " c?o nx - 1? Mrs. Lorillard, before her marriage in 1881, was Miss Caroline J. Hamilton. She is survived by two sons, one of whom is now traveling in the Orient, and the other is in college in New York. Invitations were out for a luncheon today at the Lorillard home, but wer?? recalled immediately. Dr. M. F. Cuthbert, the family physician, when seen tonight, held aloof from any discussion that might shed light upon the tragic affair. "I had not been called to see Mrs. Lorillard within the last two months, and I was startled when the message came to my ofl&ce tjiis morning," A*..-? . MAD DOG BITES WILL BE TREATED IN* COLUMBIA HEREAFTER. A Pasteur Institute to be Established There for the Treatment of Hydrophobia. Columbia, March 24.?Columbia is to have free Pasteur treatment for those suffering from rabies or threatened with an attack of this frightful disease. So with the approach of the good old summer time cease to worry about getting "mad" dog bites. The free treatment is not to be confined to patients of this State. It will be provided for by the State board of health at its meeting here next month. The board is to equip a laboratory, one of the finest in the country, not only for the free treatment of rabies, but it will also be used to combat other infections and contagious diseases. This State, as is the case with practically every other Southern State, annually sends scores of such cases to Baltimore, Atlanta and other ACID FORCED DOWN THE THROAT OF A YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN. It Is Charged That the Awful Deed Was Done by a Man and Woman Through Jealousy. Vincennes, Ind., March 24.?Mrs. Jessie Overton Culberston is dying todight, it is said, as the result of having carbolic acid forced down her throat and her jaws afterwards securely bound. She was found today in a s>hed back of her home. Revived for a few seconds she said: "A man and a woman dragged me into the woodshed and poured something down my throat." The police attributed the crime to jealousy. They have held a letter purporting to be from a jealous woman, since Monday. The letter was found under Mrs. Culbertson's doorstep. It warned her to giv* up her husband under penalty of death. Russell Culbertson, the woman's husband, arrived tonight from Lawrenceburg, Ky. When shown the threatening letter he said he recognized the writing as that of a woman he once knew, but who had not been in Vincennes for many years. Mrs. Culbertson, who is 25 years old, came here a few years ago as a trained nurse. While caring for Joshua Brazelton, Republican county chairman, she fell in love with her patient's step-son, Culbertson. The two eloped to Lawrenoeburg, 111. In the shed in which Mrs. Culbertson was found, the police tonight liscovered paper on which were a skull and cros3 bones and the words 'Goodbye." The writing was the same as that of the letters. FATHER SLAYS DAUGHTER. .Vew York School Teacher Murdered on the Street. i\ew lorK, raarcn zi.?wunin -ight of several of her fellow school teachers and pupils on the way to ichool through a crowded street oday Miss Anna Mangano, a teacher in the public school on East One Hundred and Second street, was shot \nd killed by her father, Philip viangano, an interpreter in a minor ^ourt, who had been following his laughter and calling to her to stop. As she kept hurrying on, he drew lis revolver and ffred two shots. He fhen turned the revolver on himself, nit was prevented from carrying out lis purpose by Adolph Schwartz, who rrappled with Mangano. Two more hots were fired while the men struggled, but both went wild. Mangano >roke away from Schwartz, but was arrested by tow policemen. Several of the teachers ran to the ilace where the girl fell.. She was lead when they found her, with a wound in the back of her head, '^rank Lacatira, a brother-in-law of he dead teacher, identified the prls-'* mer. Lacatira told the police that 'lis sister-in-law was compelled to eave her father's house last Janu\ry because of his cruel and inhuman reatment of her, and had lived at i working girls' home since. Hf aid Mangano probably shot his laughter because she had left home. SELL NEGROES ONLY. Threaten to I)o That to Spite Her RiYh Neighbors. New, York, March 24.?Mrs. Caroine A. Dow, the widow of a real esate operator who first opened up a uhurb of Yonkers, New York, known >s Yonkers Park, threatens to sell ler property holdings there in a fashonable neighborhood exclusively to negroes because the name of the uburb has been changed to Crestvood. r'1 At.iK/vwlrfA/J o rnol AC-f !J cnt? Ilcld ?.UIUUI1/<C11 CI i ^rcii votuvi 'gent to sell her residence provided be purchaser conspicuously posts he following signs: Boarding house, Exclusively for N'egroes. "Laundry for Negroes. "Road House for Negroes. Undertaking and Embalming, Exclusively for Negroes." The residence is at present occu>ied by Eva Booth, of Salvation \rmy fame. A negro physician has >lready offered to buy the house, jut declines to post the signs. TEMPLARS WRECKED. V Special Train Ditched on Carolina and Western. Yorkville, March 24.?A special 'rain, consisting of two cars on the Carolina and Northwestern railway, "arrying about 20 Knights Templars from Chester to Yorkville. for a banquet was wrecked about three miles south of this place today. The engine and both cars of the train were litched. Fireman Frank Hadin, of Chester, jumped and was killed. Several of the pasengers w^re bruised, but ^pne seriously hurt. The cause of the wreck has not been ascertained. A track is being built around the wreck and traffic will proceed. he said. "I do know that Mrs. Loril'ard was much alarmed over the conlition of her heart. She had suffered considerably. When she visited Paris last summer, she sought an eminent specialist, whom she consulted as to her condition, but when she returned to America, she had been 111 frequently. I must decline to discuss *any other phase of the case." points for treatment, and the expense is very heavy. The State board's idea is not only to stop this drain, but methodically to combat ; the spread of the disease. It has become a frequent occurrence for some section of the State to report 1 a regular epidemic of rabies. Only recently a portion of York county 1 reported such an epidemic. In this connection the attention of a member of the State board was 1 lirected to the curious outcome of ( a recent local case, where practically 1 all the members of a large family J were bitten by a dog supposed to 1 be suffering from rabies. The head ' of the dog was sent on to Baltimore 1 and the head of the family went there for Pasteur treatment. Im- 1 mediately the hospital reported that j analysis of the dog's head showed ' a most virulent type of rabies, and 5 the family's head was put through 1 a thorough scientific treatment and after recovery his bill, amounting to 1 several hundred dollars was cheer- ' fully and gratefull paid. Mean- ' time the other members of the fara- 1 ily, who "took" a home, "unscien- f tific" treatment, were also miracu- c lously saved from the disease. ( "That is easily explained," said the doctor, solemnly declining to ,i:>in ( the smile that went around at t.ho expense of the profession. "The ' general lay mind." he went on im- ' nressively, "has an altogether erro- 1 neous idea on the subject. As a matter of fact sot more than a third 1 of people or animals bitten even at points where the circulation is most ' nctive, as in the face or on the hands, ] ever contract the disease, and con- 1 traction of the disease where the j bite is through some portion of the clothing is much more rare, for the reason that the saliva carrying the J disease germs does not get into the blood. All of which accounts for c the marvelous cures effected by mad- 1 stones and other unscientific treat- " ment." t PREFER DEATH TO ARREST. 1 1 Business Man Kills Himself When Officer Came. f i Harrifburg, Pa., March 24.?Trap- ] ned by the police, F. H. Richardson. | of Elmira, N. Y., formerly president ( of the Richardson Shoe Company. , wanted for embezzlement, of $300, 000, shot and Killed himself at thr? ] Hotel Lvnch today. . Mr. Richardson was president of | 'he Richardson Shoe Company, which in 1907, was declarod insolvent. A1 hat time it was discovered that hesides money in this concern the president has a credit of $250,000 on false statements in Pennsylvania hanks. Right warrants were sworn out for his arrest. Atelephone call from '?.]mira this morning warned Chief >f Police George that the man was n this city. The chief traced hir man to the hotel. Mr. Richardson was in his room at 'he time the chief went to the room. The door was thrown open at his tnocK ana ine man s neuu a|i|icciicu for an instant. Then before the chief had a chance to make a move 'he fugitive observed him, slammed he door and bolted it. An instant later the pistol shot, ran? out.. The door was broken open and Richardson was found lying on the floor with his head under the bed. KILLED SELF AND CHILDREN. Bodies of Woman and Children Found in River. Simsburg, Conn., March 24.?The bodies of Mrs. Amos Miller and her two children were found in the Farmington river this morning. The children had been tied together before rlrnwnintr pnsiifirl. and throueh a note left by Mrs. Miller the probabilities are strong that she took their lives and her own while mentally depressed. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Miller left home with the children. Mr. Miller returned to the house about 5 o'clock, and for a time did not worry. About dusk he began to look about for some explanation of his wife's disappearance and found a note in his desk to the effect that she intended to kill herself. Soon after daylight this morning the three bodies were found in the river, some distance from the Miller home. CRUEL CRIMES Against American Parents Dur- ' ing The Last Half Centuary MOST FAMOUS CASES ' Of the Kidnapping of Children Durk ing tlie Past Fifty Years Recalled. . Short Sketches of Each That AVill p Be RJead "With Interest by the r< o General Reader. "Kidnapping is the most nefarious, sr most fiendish, most diabolical crime b; in the calendar." tl So Judge Gregory, of Albany, characterized it when he was sentencing S? three mfcn to 15 years each in the tc penitentiary for the kidnapping of jD little Johnny Conway in 1897. Certainly in the abject paralyz- q ing fear it strikes in the heart of sr the parents, there is no crime more jS terribe. The sickening suspense and ni the hopes rising only to fall again, e? make it the more agonizing. dc Only one kidnapper ever aroused any public admiration, and then only in after he had given up his victim. 0i This was Pat Crow, who for pluck, ^ termerity and cool-headed pictures- tr que deviltry, stands at the head of st the "profession" in Amierica. He r thought, like Robin Hood, that it \v was all right to prey on the rich, be After kidnapping the son of Cuda- T] bay. in 1900. the millionaire beef nf jperator, getting $25,000 ransom and be making a clean get away to South st Africa. Crow returned voluntarily .0 stand trial in Omaha, and was acluitted amid the cheers of the court w< room. es Crow left notes on the Cudahay u< awn, giving directions about leaving ne :he $25,000 in a certain lonely place vi n Omaha. The father followed in- ci structions and got his boy back in a ;he morning. M. The missing Charley Ross is the br nost famous of all kidnapped boys, lei ^e was playing with his brother in 'ront of their house in Germanton, sa ?a., in 1874, when a boy four and M( i half, when two men in a buggy eo >ffered him a ride. Charley never :ame back from that ride. es Christian K. Ross, the boy's fath- T1 sr. spent all his fortune, and never wl Tave up the hope entirely until he tr< Jkd, a broken and penniless old man n! 897. The kidnappers were killed te vhile burglarizing a house in New otl fork, and the secret of the boy'B es, vhereabouts died with them. wt A number of cases of kidnapping lyj iy Indians were reported in colonial ? listory, but the first big kidnapping an n times comparatively recent was m< hat of 4-year-old Mary Gaffney, in \Tew York, in 1864. 1 9 Mary's father was a union soldier to ind the little girl was her mother's hii jreat comfort. One day she wander- bo >d out on the street with her little w? miK. sun uuunet <uiu giii'gua.ui areas txli ?and never came back. th The case aroused the sympathy of ;he nation, but the child was never p0 leard of again. The father died in Ai jattle, leaving her $10,000, which is th still held in trust for her. br In the half century of kidnappings mi since then is a trail of broken hearts, ial nsanity and bitter desolation. Per- an laps one of the most, strange was ye hat of 5-year-old Rosie Adams, of pe I'.hicago, who was carried away by ;ypsies. Yc The parents turned all their be- sa ongings into money and started or. at i hunt that carried them as far as nu Hungary and Egypt. Everywhere a he girl had been sent on to another dj, ribe and they lost the trail. Finally in ^Massachusetts the on nnnlp fnnnrl thpir dane-htfr in the "T ?amp of Chief John Stanley. Here 0r same the strangest part of the st6ry. ?? l'he parents wore penniless and broken in spirit. The gypsy who had taken ap their daughter offered to take thf'n ha into the tribe. And the parents ac la uf'pied the offer. re Daring in its successful rescue at* ar tempt was the story of Johnny Con- 0ji way, of Albany, in 1897. A ransom w if $3,000 was demanded. Instead in the father, P. F. Conway, a train in dispatcher, collected a posse and went to a place in the woods where he w; thought the kidnapping party was ]y in hiding. His surmise was right, T< and a revolver battle was fought be- to tween the two parties. nc The boy was rescued, unhurt, and ey three of the kidnapeprs arrested. b? One, A. S. Warner, was an Albany lawyer. Each was sentenced to 15 w years in the penitentiary. m There is a ghastly touch in the m abduction in 1898 of Oerlad Lapimer, m a two-year-old New York baby, who ta was heir to $200,000. g< Baby Gerald Fimplv disappearrd. There was no demand for ransom, no w word from the kidnappers. Police 0j and detectives were unable to gain m any clew. Tt was a nine-days' sensa- w Hon, this disappearance of the baby B heir. w It was several months before the di mystery was solved, and then by ai chance. Gerald was discovered liv- c( ing on a farm near Painesville, O., with an old couple of imbeciles nam- s' ed John Collins and Anna Ingersoll. fc The baby was returned to his rela- fi: tives, the couple sent to an asylum. They seemed to have no motive d for stealing the baby except that b< they wanted It. tl The kidnapping of 1901 of Freddy C Muth. eight-year-old son of a Phila- h delphia jeweler, furnished an ex- fc MANY LIVES LOST LND MANY THOUSAND DOLL A] DAMAGE DONE 5y Destructive Storin That Swc Through Northwestern Part Wise County, Texas. Dallas, Texas, March 24.?Twel nown dead, property loss reachii lto the thousands of dollars ai ossibly a score Injured are t ssults of a tornado which swe ver the northwestern part of Wi Dunty late last night. Sever nail towns were visited by the stor ut none were entirely destroyed, i lough each suffered serious damag The general course of the tornat :ems to have been from the we > southwest. Starting at Craftt i the northeastern part of the cou ' it passed to the north of Decatu ie county seat, and struck sever nail settlements of which St. Ide the centre. From here the to ido appears to have turned soutl tst, continuing Its course withoi )ing further serious damage. The greatest loss of life occurrt the country. The destruction < ie farm house alone caused tl ;ath of eight persons. This sing agedy of the storm occurred nej Idell. The farm house of Ii ice was crushed in by the furioi ind and the family of eight men :rs pinned beneath the wreckag ie light in the house at the tine the disaster caused the ruins 1 icome ignited and fanned by tt rong wind the flames destroyed th res of the helpless victims. The towns of Sanger and Greei jod were hit and a number of houi were moved from their found: )ns. The Good View school hous >ar Sanger was wrecked. In th; cinity Ben Wilson and Glasgo' ark. farmers, and two children c negro tenant were killed. Mrs. ( , Bentley is seriously hurt with oken leg and several negroes ar ss seriously injured. At Crafton every business hous ve one was blown down. Th ?thodist and Baptist churches wer mpletely wrecked. Several residences and two churct were blown down at Brumlov lis town is located near St. Idel lich appears to be the storm cec J-feavy sand storms occurred yes rday at Dublin, Gainesville an her points in that vicinity. Fenc , small buildings and wind mill ?re raised by the storm in the out Ing districts. iple of swift legal vengeance al 3St without parallel. Freddy was stolen on June 15 01, by John J. Kean, who starte run away with him, then change s mind and decided ..to bury th y alive. All evening the tw mdered about the city, going t eatres. In the morning Kean mad e child dig its own grave. While the boy was s-till toilin lice burst in and took Kean to jai raigned within a week, it too e prosecution only two hours t ing in all the testimony and argi; snts they needed. Five minute ter the jury had called him guilt H inhprt ?f>ntonppr} him tn 9. ars solitary confinement in th nitentiary. The "nurse girl case" in Ne1 >rk in 1899 was a tremendous ser tion. A nurse maid named Bell iderson had taken her charge, 1? onths-old Marion Clarke, out fc trip through Central park. The d not come back. Instead a note was round plnne t the doorstep the next morninj f you don't leave the money hen if you tell the police," It reac re'll pin the baby's ears here." Despite thl^ threat, the 'parenl ipealed to the police, who found th iby alive and crowing a few daj ter in Summit, N. J. They ai sted the nurse, also Mark Barrow id his wife, 'ihe nurse, who wa ily an accomplice, got four year hile Barrows drew 14 and wer sane. His wife got 12 and is sti prison. The mosf famous black hand ca? as that of Tony Mannino, of Brool n. Just ?f>0,000 was demanded fc jny's release. The parents refuse appeal to the police, and woul >ver tell whether any of the moi r was paid over or not, but tli ibv was restored. The note demanding the monc as unusual. "We are not crim lis," it read. "We are nice gentli en, like you. Only we have n< ade money like we expected, so tv kp this way of getting money I >t bark to beautiful Italy." To find little Erica Egbert, wt a? snatched from her mother's arn i the streets of Chicago, a SO.ftni ile trip was made. The moth-j ho was editor of the Bacheli ooks. was shopping at thp tim hen a man grabbed the baby an isappeared in the crowd. A hi id cry was pet up, but the bal mid not he found. Leavfng her work, Mrs. Eghp <t set out in search of her chil illowing mysterious clews, until si nally recovered it at Madras, Indi In addition to the successful a uctions, many other efforts hai ?en made at different times. Mai ireats were made about Grov leveland's family, and the Goul< ave kept guards over their childn >r years. MONEY COMING RS INSURANCE COMPANIES BRING- ^ ING SURPLUS HERE. V A High Insurance Official Says the K Qj Compaaies Will Invest Very Heav- [ iiy in South Carolina. ve Columbia, March 24.?"Life in- tj surance companies of the North are a(j seeking desirable investments not ke only in this State, but throughout pt the South, and there is no reason se to doubt investments of this kind aj will become more general and heavy m in the immediate future," said Mr. tl_ Robert Lynn Cox, manager of the 1Ie e association of life insurance presi-. an j0 dents, which ex-President Grover ^ 3t Cleveland presided over up to the ^ in time of hie death. Mr. f!r>* wac b- here todtay in conference with inr WE ' surance Commissioner McMaster D al * ,jj with regard to the new laws passed r- by the legislature affecting insur- na h- ance companies. at "Truth is," continued Mr. Cox, to '"the insurance companies want to distribute their assets throughout ho ie the country, and they are doing this he ]e to a much greater extent than is W ir generally understood. We want in- wa a vestments of a desirable kind all ov- thi is er the country. One of our com- an j_ panics, ana noi me largest one, nas e. investments now in every State in Th ie the Union, where it is doing business, cal :o and in addition in five States where gii ie it is not doing business. cei ie "Bu$t the putyijc should] untdeon is stand that the insurance companies in i- have certain well defined limitations He s- in making investments, limitations er, i- which are provided for in the by-laws >e for the proper handling of trust be: is funds if they are not laid down in so< w the law of the State in which they tifl u aie uiidi ici cu. lusurauuu uumpa.- in 3. nies can not invest trust funds in coi a business ventures or industrial en- no e terprises. The money is to be had sai 'in adequate security, but can not tor e be got without the security. Real VV1 e -state loans up to half the value Sal e of the property are desirable where Ha there are settled conditions, where W1 i- the value are not likely to depre- lic< r. ciate, in growing communities. tri< 1, "Yes, county and municipal bonds trii i- are acceptable, where there is a fair Wi rate of interest, for you know the o'c >* law requires the insurance compa- ] d nies to earn a certain amount of tio: interest. But there must be no pri s question about the validity of the by > bonds. I don't know that I have oat seen any case of State or county :he - or municipal bonds 'being repudl- the I- ated, but^there has been 3ome ex- the perience with school bonds which W1 !. have made the companies avoid these 31o d sort of investments. Some school pol d districts have been very anxious tc ' e get hold of the money, but thought bel 0 nothing .then of turning about and ant 0 repudiating the bonds which were < e given as security." hai Within the past few months much S insurance money has been placet1 'W ' in Columbia and elsewhere through- wil k out the State, at rates of interest to 0 ranging from 5 1-2 to 7 per cent. Ian l" Nearly SI00,000 was recently placed ' !S on Main street property in Colum- tio y bia at 5 1-2 per cent. However, me 0 on account of the companies declln- he e ing loans for more than half the value of the property the new cheap sa^ w money is not doing the small holder lie l" of property much good, inasmuch at- out ,a the loans are for a term of three loc years, the fees for passing upon the Ci( ,r papers eating up the difference in y the interest.?Columbia Record. noi br< d FIRED ON OFFICERS. ha ' _______ sh< ... , w . . . me 1, Attempt fliaae to Aesassinaw? uuj ? rel ,g Policeman. wa wo e Greenville, March 24.?A bold at's tempt was made to assassinate Patr" rolman Attaway, of the local police rs force, this morning about 2:3^ LS o'clock. Mr. Attaway was going to .. s- his* home in the western part of j\ the city, having been relieved from . 11 duty at 1 o'clock. He was walking , up a railroad track, and when hi? !e neared a small house near the roiti, c" a man stepped out and asked: "Is 0 )r that you, Attaway?" Mr. Attaway 1(1 replied in the affirmative, whereupd on the man commenced firing. After firing the first shot the man began S1C ie to run, firing at the officer six times a ?? won All af fpVa+o rpflnt nr ao nc; i an* -rvn ui. cuv- o?wo n vmv muv of the mark. In the darkness Mr. *" Attaway conld not recognize the 1X15 e" would-be assassin. The police force a 1 3t Is working on a clue.?News and rt> Courier. W: :o ______________ on SEVERAL GOOD POSITIONS nil 10 . Pai ip wi [i. In tho Bureau of Plant Industry tjj( r* Hard to Fill. mi 3r SU: e, Washington, March 14.?Several id jobs paying from $1,500 to $2,250 ty in the bureau of plant industry have an >y ?onp begging, and to supply the de- m< mand for properly equipped men, the fic rt government, through the civil serv- th rt, Ice commission, has scattered broad- no if? east an announcement of a forthcoma. int* examination to fill the vacan- W h- cies. "Physiologist in poisonous hi re plant investigations" Is the position fo ?y for which the commission In vari- a er ous parts of the country will test As 3s applicants. Women are barred from fh ?n the examinations, which will be held lif . ? on April 28, 1909. an THE RIGHT ONES an and Women Held For kidnapping Are Identified m JY THE STOLEN BOY ie Man and Woman Arrested in Cleveland Prove to be the Ones Who Stole the Sharon Lad and the Ones Who Received the Money From the Father. Cleveland, Ohio, March 24.?"V is Whltla today Identified the man d woman held on suspicion by the eveland police as the persons who dnapped him from the school at aron, Pa., last Thursday and held m for the $10,000 ransom, which is paid by the father. Attornev J. Whitla, Monday. Willie said the man who gave the me of Jas. H. Boyle was the one 10 took him from school and car;d him through a tortuous route Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, back this city, and placed him in the use in the east end, where he was Id until the money was paid. illie also declared that the woman is the one who cared for him at b house where he was detained, d who acted the part of a nurse. Boyle said the woman is his wife. ie police have no other identifition of the couple than the names 'M ren. So far as the man is con- \ . ^ rned, the police believe the name correct. Boyle is said to reside Sharon, and is a plumber by trade. i is said to have a widowed mothfour brothers and a sister. The woman, who is accredited with ' ing the wife of Boyle, declared >n after her arrest that her idenication would cause a sensation Sharon. When identification was npleted, Mr. Whitla would say thing regarding the woman. He d he knew Boyle slightly. Atney Whitla, accompanied by Mrs. litla, son and daughter, Willie and line, a boy school mate of Willie; rry Forker, a brother of Mrs. litla, Janitor Sloss, Chief of Po- 3 j Crane, Detective Kempler, dis- ti :t Attorney Llninger, former Dis- 5 rt Attorney Cochran, and Detective ird, all of Sharon, arrived at 1 lock today to see the prisoners. Mr. Whitla went to the police stan, but was not allowed to see the soners himself. He was informed the chief that the only identifiion he desired was that which only i boy, Willie, could make. The fair then agreed to let Willie see ! man and woman. Mr. and Mrs. litla, their children and Janitor >ss appeared before the chief of ice. % rhe man was the first one taken 'ore them. Boyle was a little pale I nervous. . Vyl] Chief Kohler asked Willie if he _ '< ?j 3 ever seen the man before. * "Sure," said Willie brightly. *hy that is the man 1 left Sharon ;h. He took me to Cleveland, then Ashtabula, and back to devoid." rhe boy was asked the same quesn ag^in to make certain of his morj^ and again the lad declared was positive. "He had a mustache when I first | v him at the school house," Wil- j supplemented, out ne must uavo : it off later. This is the way he I ked when I last saw him in | jveland." |j Boyle smiled sarcastically, but said t a word. Then the woman was jught in. She was defiant and ughty in her demeanor. Blankly i stared at Whitla and the other fmbers of the party. Her only apse from the indignant manner s when she first saw Willie. The man smiled. Immediately Willie walked up to r and extended his hand and said: "How do you do?" "Hello, Willie," the woman reed, as she placed her hand upon i head and caressed him for an itant. The boy then stepped back to his her and was asked several quesns by the chief of police. "Yes, I know her," he said. "Sht. 1 s the nurse who took care of me Cleveland. She told me I was - *- - i " +1 T f o ttp Vior K ana in a uuspiiai. x r.??r Uv. whole lot and she was with me >st of the time." 1 Notwithstanding the woman's for- fl !r assertian that there would be 1 sensation when she was identified i when Whitla saw her, she and J hitla looked at each other with- I t any outward evidence of recog- I tion. They did not speak with ^ :h other. Neither did she speak I th any of the other members of 9 party. Whitla made no com?nts regarding the woman under spicion. The movements of the Whitla parwere greatly hampered. Thousds of persons followied their every >ve. At the police station the ofers had difficulty in handling the rong. The steps outside and the rridor Inside were packed. When leaving Hie station Mr. hitla picked Willie up and placed m on his shoulder. The police rmed a wedge in front, and with foot ball rush they hurried out. > they passed along the corridor e crowd shouted: "Hello, WHmany attempting to touch him id others tried to shake hand?, J