The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, June 25, 1904, Image 2
THE LEDGER.
TIWRIOW S. CARTliR,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
HSIK1> WKONKSDAY AND 8A1 i'HDAY.
SUBSCRIPTION S60PF.P YE\K
SATURDAY, JI NK 25th, 1004.
Celebroted Aiken Murder Trial
Now in Progress.
Columbia Record, 22.
In Aiken today the case of the
State vs. Lee Green, who is
charged with the murder of the
Jew peddler, Abrani Surasky, on
nr f*hnil tl hfi 1 01 h nf loaf .lulv wnu
taken up. Tho details of tbis case
are familar to nil, as what could
he learned of tho facts at the time
showed that Surasky had been
killed in a most horrible manner.
Mr. Surasky was ono of the
five brothers engaged in business
r n
at Aiken. Abrnm Suraiky made
weekly trips through the country
with his pack of goods in his waggon.
Tho section in which he
was murdered was ono in which
he traveled frequently, and so fains
known he never lias reason to
believe that he wa; in danger.
On Tuesday of tho week of his
last trio, he went to the Hawthorn
' I ? """
and Silverton neighborhood and
was never seen alive. On Friday
news was brought to Aiken that
that he had been murdered. Iiis
body had been found seated in his
pedler's cart with gunshot wound
in his back and mutilations made
with an axe or other instrument.
Coroner lMunket hold an inquest
ci! the remains, which had
been lolt in the woods from Wednesday
until Saturday and were
m u horrible state of decomposision.
His horso also had been
left tied to a tree to starve, but
tho animal had broken loose and
wandered away. The coroner's
jury, after hearing the evidence
charged two young white men
George Toole and Leo Green
with the murder, and Toole was
arrested and brought to jail.
1 ? .i i i
.mute proven Jin auui un? urcen
was left to shoulder the awful
crime alone. Ho was arrested
four weeks later by the sheriff,
Detective Arthur and a posse.
Bloods stains on the floor of
Gieen's house, a bloody axe under
his house and other facts
pointed to this young man of 21
years of age as being the perpetrator
of ouo of the most horrible
crimes that cror occured in Aiken
Count v.
Only two persons, Henry
Drayton and his wife, Mary,
could be found who knew much
of the lacts. Thcso two negroos
lived noar Green and their tcsti
mony was of such importance
that they wero arrested and put
in jail for safe keeping.
From the first Lee Green has
r contended that the roason why he
shot the Jew peddler, chopped his
body so barbarously with an axe
and then left the remains to rot in
the woods,was becauseSurasky in ultcd
bis wite. This is the argu
?
ment so far followed by the do
feueo.
OAVF. THE BEAR A CHASE.
Chesterfield, June 13.?Quite a
littlo excitement was canscd
among the "sporting blood" this
afternoon, when Mr. L. H. Davis
phoned from his home, about
threo or four miles from town,
saying that a boar had been trackA'l
n o o i? Kiu nlnoA - ^ a! ?
WV4 UVIII AJIS ['Hut, UUIIll' III 1I1U
' sports" went out with (legs and
guns to have a race. The hear was
tracked for lOor 12 milos, hut ro
thin had heen scon of him win n
the returned homo tonight. ^\Il
those who saw the tracks are positive
that it is a hear and they
think that ho was making for the
swamps on the I'eo Doe river.
fc, .
Iloyt Hayes Will Hang.
iSupre neCourt Passes On The ease
?The Famous Wulhalla Case
Settled at Last.
Columbia Record,23.
Iloyt Hayes will hang unless
theio is intorforonce by tho chief
executive. The Supremo Court
today rendered a decision of this
famous Walhallu case, which
sustained the docisiun of the low*
er court, and dismissed the ap*.
peal of the attorneys for the dofonso.
Hayes was a whito man from
Oconee County, who lived not far
from tho county seat, haying
married a younur woman about a
year l>efmo Iho killing. On April
'JG, 1003, the womau was found
dead in her bed, her head being
blown oil" by a load of shot from
a double-barrel shot gun. Tho
alarm was given by Hoyt Hayes,
who went over to his brother's
house and stated that his wife Lut
lu, had killed herself, llayes
claimed that ho went out in the
cow lot to fasten up the cows, and
while out t iero heard the report of
agnn. Ho hurried back and
found her dead in bed with near ly
half of her head blown off.
The story of the suicide was accepted
for some time, but 'finally
upon some of the relatives digging
up several bloody clothes,
and upon an expert examination
of the direction of some of the
shot whice entered the headboard
of the bed, Hayes was arrested
and put on trial.
A jury found him guilty and
sentence was suspended pending
an Appeal to ihe Supreme Court
In the appeal printed for the
Supreme Court are several unusual
exhibits,a picture of Hayes
and his wife shown, the note alleged
to have been written by Mrs.
Hayes just before she killed herself,
as claimed before by the
defense, several pieces of poetry
written by Hayes, and other
such exhibits. This is probably
the first time a picture of this
kind has been shown in aSupreme
Court appeal.
It is understood now that a
petition for tho commutation of
the sentence to life imprisonment
will be presented. Unless this is
acted on favorably ho will be
hanged us soon us sentence is
passed at the reconvening of court
at Wa'.halla.
Negro Lynched by Negroes.
Sfclmn, Ala., June 23.?Incited
by jealousy, Samuel Houston, a
negro, attacked and was killed
yesterday by Joe Scott, also a negro,
who was afterwards killed by
a mob near Randolph, iiibb county,
and Joe Smitherman, a white
man, was painfully injured.
Ilou&te.n tired and the load mis
sing Scott struck Smitherman's
left hand. Scott then drew his
pistol and shot Houston to death.
To avenge Houston's death his
friends and relatives, it is reported
lynched Scott, riddling him with
bullets.
Commander Kellog Killed.
Norfolk, Va., June 24.?Commander
A. G. Kellog, U.S. N.,
fell from a fourth story window
in tbo Monroe hotel in Portsmouth
| ut 'J o'clock tonight, to the sidewalk
below, sustaining injuries
from which he died an hour and
a half later at the naval hospital,
lie had been in bad health for
some timo It is thought that
Commander Kellog during an attack
of vertigo lost his balance
and fell from the window atuhich
ho was sitting. His wife and
married daughter were with him
when ho died.
I
Subsenoo to The Ledge-.
\
it is Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Republican Convention End* After
Nominating Candidates.?
Everything was done by Acclamation.
Chicago, June 23.- Theodore
Roosevelt was nominated for the
Presidency by the National Republican
convention today. United
States Senator Charles Warren
Fairbanks of Indiana was named
as the running mate. There was
no opposition to Fairbanks and
both nominations were by acclamation.
Former Governor Black,
of Now York, made nominating
speech and Harry S Cummings,
n Maryland negro was among
those to second it.
The convention adjourned sir.o
die at 2.25 p. m.
NOTIFICATION ON JULY 27.
Tho formal notification to President
Roosevelt of his nomination
wi1! be made at Oyster Bay on
July 27. Speaker Cannon will he
chairman of notification committee.
Senutor Fairbanks will be
notified a week later at Indianapolis.
Former Secretary Root will
ho chairman of tho committee.
After the convention adjourned
the national committee met aud
made George B. Cortelyou chair
man. Mr. Cortelyou assumed the
duties at once and hegan to lay
plans for a vigorous campaign
East and West. Ho has resigned
his cabinet oflioe.
Happenings in The State.
As Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents
of Too Coiuuihiu
State.
DIED AT BREAKFAST TABLE.
Wulhalla, June 22.?Mr. A.
Lay died yesterday morning at his
home 8 miles north of this place.
Although he had been in bad
health for sometime,his death was
unexpected. The end came while
he was at breakfast
KILI.EI) nr LIGHTNING.
Elloree, Juno 22.?During a
heavy thunder storm bete yester.
day a negro name Sank Gil more,
who was ploughing in his Held,
was strucd by lightning. Both
negro and mule were killed instantly.
STRUCK THE STEEPLE
Sumters June.-A heavy shower
of rain fell hero yesterday afternoon.
The African Methodist
episcopal steeple torn to
pieces by a bolt of lightning. A
house in the southern part of the
city was also damaged by a bolt
of lightning.
Kir.T.ED THREE COWfi.
Winnsboro, Juno 22? Lightning
killed three cows for Mr.
Doty ono mile from town yesterday
evening. They were standing
under some trees.
There has not been enough rain
hero to lay the dust yet and gardens
are suffering.
JBAI.OUS NEGRESS KILLS IIATED
RIVAL.
Greenville, Juno 22.-A Victim
of jealousy, Little Gray, a negro
woman, was shot and instantly
killed by Roxy Suggos, another
woman, today at noon. The affair
occurcd in the western suburbs
of the city, the Sugges
woman going to the other's
house and shooting her while
I 1
uwuui uor wurrt.
After ihe shooting the Sugges
woman fled, and was pursued hy
Sheriff Gilroath and two doputies
on horseback. The woman was
captured about three miles from
the city and together with her
supposed husband,,!im Sugges,has
been jailed.
A WORI
IT A I
Is what we art
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itors and our aii
interest of ever1
giving him or h<
money. No qm
approve of sitch
tive advertisenn
and at l-2the i
nonsensical tal
will say that w
enough to live <i
and itwillbebs
that we will ma
of our eompetitc
which can not b
JlJll.V/111 V/ U
of shoes, which
THE 81
Every pair gu
solid leather coi
pair prove to th
a new pair. Tl
the Douglas lin
hald-lieaded cajj
he soars. Our :
board, like sour
SPECIL DRIVE |
For the cash
we ay an t to mal
line arrives, so
reduced prices I
written guarmil
Bros Clothing,
Everybody kno
clothing, and tf
will come and i:
see that we hay
large majority,
everything you
of all kinds and
Thanking all
theY will avail
arc offering.
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striving for, to do
m is to help and t
y customer tliuf p
ir the lowest pric
[>tatiom or prices.
, as we have seen
ents; pricing you s
ralue they claim,
k to the intellig<
e have to have
>n, but bear in mil
ickeil Im honesty
ke you you prices
?rs ami w hat, we
?e controverted.
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avail teed to be so
iiiitev and double t
le contrary wewil
lere is hardly any
e, for every body
;le takes the the
shoes are cow leatl
e here who preten
m WINTER Wii
we v"!i sell any g
:y a clean sweep
friends take advs
lefore they are sol
ceo witn every sui
guaranteed to fa
ws that we are <
ic fact we freely a<
aspect our stock, t
e had the clothi
Notion departme
may desire we ha
prices to meet th<
for their patronaj
themselves of the
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ant people, but
a little profit-iid
this one fact,and
integrity,
lower than any
say are facts,
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i]) toe and if any
1 freely give you
use to mention
knows the old
cake wherever
tier and no paste
id to sell shoes.
GHT CLOTHING
suit at cost, as
before the fall
mtage of these
Id. We give a
lv vjjl kjlujusu ix
ide nor shrink,
overstocked on
imit, but if they
hey will readily
ng trade by a
nt complete and
tve. Groceries
e lowest buYer.
ge and hoping .
low prices we
> serve,
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