The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 14, 1908, Page 3, Image 3
AWFUL RECORD.
Rev. Mr. Bristow Writes of Mur
ders in This State in.
Since July Last There Has Been One
Hundred and Fifty-Eight Murders
in Socth Carolina, of Which Eigh
ty-Two Were Committed in Pro
hibition Counties and Seventy-Six
In Dispensary Counties.
Rev. Louis J. Brisxow, a young
Baptist preacher and a strong pro
hibitionist, has been keeping the re
cord of the murders committed in
this State in the lact six months, and
gives out the following on the sub
ject for publication:
"The appalling frequency of homi
cides in South Carolina is a matter
which should give the officers of the
law and al'! law-abiding people cause
for serious consideration. Legisla
tive, executive and judicial officers
are confronted with a situation
which, if tolerated much longer,
will result in untold evil to the
state. If necessary, drastic measures
should be adopted to put a stop to
the reign of riot that is rampant in
South Carolina.
"For a long time I have been giv
ing attention to the matter, and I
herewith append figures covering re
ports in the daily papers for the past
six months, from July 1 to December
31, inclusive. f
"Homicides, 158; of the dead,
whites 79; negroes, 79; of the slay
ers, whites 70, negroes 85, unknown
3. It will thus be seen that the
number of deaths is and the men
who did the killings were almost
equally divided also. I have often
h6ard it said In answer to argument
against killing that the large major
ity of the homicides in Soutn Caro
lina were ordinary 'nigger killings.'
The reports in the daily papers for
the last six months are a complete re
futation of the claim.
"As to the manner of death I find
that 121 of the dead were killed by
guns and pistol shots; 18 by blows
from rocks, brick and pieces of
wood; 1? by knife cuts, and two by
blows from axes. * Here, too is a ter
rible indictment against our people;
the deadly weapon?the pistol?is
carried by far too many men and
boys. Pistols are made and carried
for the purpose of shooting men, and
that person who habitually carries a
pistol is in his heart already a
murderer, With the: possible excep
tion of .certain officers of the law,
^who-aTe supposed to go armed. Ii
believe it Is true that an Indictment
for murder in this state carries with
a charge of carrying concealed wea
pons; but I have never heard of a
case where the accused was convicted
of the charge, or count, relating
thereto.
"Another matter, and one which
I leave to others to account for:
"Of the 158 killings since July 1,
82 were committed in prohibition
counties and 76 in counties in which
there are dispensaries. Since Octo
ber 29, killings have been reported
in phohibltion counties as follows:
York, Saluda, Oconee, Union, Pick
ens, Marlboro, Cherokee and Spar
tanburg, one each; Greenville, New
berry, Darlington, two each; Edge
field and Marion, three each, Lan
caster, four, and Anderson eleven, j
"In prohibition counties. Hamp-j
ton, Williamsburg, Georgetown and I
Dorchester, one each; Charleston
and. Columbia, two each; Bamberg,
Alken, Orangeburg, Richland, Lau
rens, three each, and Barnwell, four.
"I recite this last paragraph for
the information of those who have
desired to compare the homicide re
cords of prohibition and dispensary
counties.
"My remedy for the evil of homi
cide Is for the legislature to make
It a crime, per se, to be punished
according to the degree of felony in
each case.
"To take a human life Is an of
fense against God and human so
ciety, except it be due process of
law. When the Lord gave his laws
to Isreal, he made provision for the
manslayer who-killed by accident.
But even he was not to go scott free.
According to the Mosaic dispensa
tion every person guilty of a homi
cide suffered a penalty for his of-j
fense against human life and society,
whether the death blow was given ]
premedltatedly and wantonly, in
heat of passion, or in fear; or!
whether by error or accident. This j
was God's command; and every pro-'
vision of the Mosaic economy en-1
shrined some enduring principle By I
it some lasting moral lesson was In- j
tended to be impressed upon the
minds of the people. The Institution
may be altered or entirely disappear
amid changing social conditions; but
the principle ever remains the same.
"The Cities of Refuge provided for
by the Mosaic laws were to give an
esylum only to those who killed by
accident or error, but even they had
to suffer on indeterminate sentence
of confinement in such city--until
the death of the high priest. For all
other manslayers the penalty was
death.
"It is my conviction, after long
and serious study of the matter,
that homicide should be a felony
and that punishment should follow
upon proof of homicide according to
the degree of carelessness or wilful
ness or felony in each case. Were I
a legislature I would introduce into
that body next week a bill declaring
homicide to be a felony, and fixing
the punishment for man killing at
from two to fifty years imprisonment
and for dastardly or wilful murder,
death. ?
"I .venture the ascertlon that had
the 158 persons who killed their.
feUowmen during the last half of
last year know positively the penalty
for homicide was certainly two, pos
sibly fifty, years' imprisonment, not
one-fourth of the number of homi
cides would have occurred in this
state. r
"I know I will be met with the
case* of person who kills unquestion
ably Jn defense of himself, his home
or hip family. My reply is. we us
ually have a man of integrity and
honor in the governor's chair, fh
whose hands is the prerogative of
pardon.
"I stated at the outset that drastic
measures should- be adopted, I re
peat it. Louis J. Bristow.
Wllliamston. Jan. 3, 1908.
FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT.
In a Head On Collision Ont In Ala
' bama.
A special from Vinegar Bend, Ala.,
tells of a disastrous wreck on the
Alabama & Mississippi railroad Fri
day, caused by a head on collision
between a passenger train and a
logging train. Five persons were
killed outright and two were serious
ly injured. ' The dead are: W. B.
Paine, merchant, Vinegar Bend;
Charles C. Busbee, a section fore
man; three negroes, names unknown.
The list of injured is as follows:
Frank Marks, engineer of the pas
senger train, will die; Henry Hall,
fireman of the passenger train, ser
iously injured; several negroes slight
ly injured.
Twelve miles west of Vinegar
Bend, the road turns sharply and
the greater portion of this curve is
made up of trestling that spans a
ravine and a small brook at the bot
tom. Running at fair speed, the tres
senger train took the curve and tres
the trestle gave way and both en
came on the opposite end. Before
Engineer Marks could bring his
train to a stop the trains met head
on in the certre of the trestle.
Simultaneously with the collision,
the trestle gave way and both en
gines and trains fell to the bottom.
On the logging train were a number
of convicts.
According to Training.
The traveler belonged to the "effete
civilization of the east," and when the
unmistakable odor of sauerkraut per
meated the atmosphere of the little
Pennsylvania inn where he had halted
for his midday meal he was first per
turbed and then irritated beyond meas
ure by the smell, says the author of
"Old Schuylkill Days."
?^Sauerkraut! Ugh!" he shuddered,
with an indignant glance at the vener
able Dutch landlord who was nodding
over his pipe in a corner of the rocm.
"How any one can eat sauerkraut I
cannot see. I'd as lief eat dirt as to
eat sauerkraut"
The landlord stirred in his chair.
"Well," he began, without opening
his eyes, "that is just as yon were
brought up. If you were brought up to
eat sauerkraut, you eat sauerkraut. If
you were brought up to eat dirt, yon
eat dirt."?Youth's Companion.
Her Wish.
Wee Hostess?Mamma, shall I in*
vite Lucy Littnay to my party?
Mamma?Certainly. She is the min
ister's daughter.
"Do ministers' daughters get invited
everywhere?"
"Always."
"They has lots of fun, I s*pose. I
wish my papa was a minister 'stead of
being a miserable shiner." ? London
Tit-Bits.
"I don't see how you can have any
fault to find with him."
"Why not?'
"Because he appears to be a man
who is absolutely without faults of
any sort"
"That's just it That's his worst
fault"?Catholic Standard and TimeB.
She had accepted his offer to escort
her home In the rain.
"I have been wondering," he remark
ed on the way, "whether it is on ac
count of my umbrella or my company
that I am allowed to come with you."
"It is neither," she replied. "It is on
account of my new hat"
The "Saybrook platform," which was
adopted in the year 1708 at Saybrook,
Conn., fixed upon Connecticut an es
tablished church. Congregationalism
became the religion of the state by
legislative enactment and for seventy
six years made "dissenters" of all not
conforming to it
SHOT THEM BOTH.
The Murderous Act of a Jealous
Young Man.
As the result of a tragedy at Mar
lon, N. C., which occurred In front of
the First National Bank building,
James Patterson was killed outright
and Alfred Patterson, his brother,
was picked up in the street in a dy
ing condition.
The shooting was done by Graham
Finley, a well-known young , man of
Marion, and was over Miss Patterson
a sister of the two men shot. Fin
ley met Miss Patterson in company
with Henry Moore, his rival, as the
two were returning from church. He
demanded that Moore surrender the
girl to him and was met with a
prompt refusal.
A personal encounted ensued, and
the girl's brothers, who were also
returning from church with a party
of ladies, appeared on the scene and
took their sister's escort's part,
whereupon Finley drew his revolver
and killed one of them outright and
mortally wounded the other. He
was arrested.
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Santa Claus Abets Dan Cupid.
North Carolina Girl Escapes From Connecticut Boarding School
on Rope Sent Her In a Christmas Box and Marries
h?r Youthful Sweetheart.
Thirty feet of rope sent by a girl io
a Christmas box to Miss Ruth Kendall
at the Norwalk Finishing school, in
Connecticut, was responsive for .a
merry wedding party at the Holland
House In New York city. The former
Miss Kendall appeared as Mrs. Alfred
Kent
Mrs. Kent laughingly admitted that
she-had reached her fiance's arms only
after traversing the thirty feet of rope
hanging from a window in the board
lng school. Her chum, Miss Ethel Kel
cey of 155 West Forty-sixth street,
was present at the celebration and said
that she was proud to state that she
sent the rope which had brought about
such a happy result.
But the rope descent was not the
only feature of this romance. It wa ??
founded strictly upou Romeo-Juliet
lines, for the fathers of Miss Kendall
and Mr. Kent have l>een bitter enemies
for a generation. When Mr. Kendall
In his borne In Raleigh. N. C. learned
that a "Kent boy" from Asheville, N.
C., had made the acquaintance of his
daughter, strict orders were sent to the
school that Miss Kendall's mail should
be carefully watched and her excur
sions from the school well chaperoned.
Miss Kendall and Mr. Kent met last
summer during their vacations nt the
Thousand Islands. Miss Kendell told
chance to rest if she trit? to escape by
means of the bedclothes or a rope.
"I had to use bedclothes, but I pre
pared a box with thirty feet of rope
and sent it to Miss Kendall, marked
'Merry Christmas From E. A. K.* Those
are my Initials, but they also happen
to be the initials of Miss Kendall's fa
ther, so the box was given to her with
out Inspection. I told her to try to get
my old room and to throw out all her
bedclothes so as to make a soft place
to land upon when she reached the end
of the rope."
Miss Kendall, or, rather. Mrs. Kent,
received the rope without any suspi
cion being excited, and on Wednesday
last was able to secure the room that
had been suggested by her friend.
Mr. Kent was already in Norwalk.
and through friends the two planned
to elope.
Mrs. Kent said:
"It was all so jolly and just as ro
mantic as a girl could imagine in her
dreams.
"I was obliged to wait until about
o'clock, as regular trips through the
rooms are made by teachers up to that
hour. I was afraid that I would slide
too rapidly down the rope and not be
able to check myself at the ledge mark
ed out as a resting place."
Before attempting her descent Miss
SHE SLID DOWN A THIRTY FOOT ROPE INTO HER FIANCE'S ABMS.
where she was to be sent to school,
and Mr. Kent promised to call fre
quently. His calls attracted the atten
tion of the school authorities, and they
communicated with the girl's parents,
asking if it was with their consent that
Alfred Kent so frequently met their
daughter.
The first answer to the Inquiry came
by telegraph, followed by a long letter
of instructions. These replies shut off
all chance of the sweethearts meeting,
although they were still able to keep
up a more or less, infrequent corre
spondence through friends.
. Kent begged for an immediate mar
riage, and while Miss Kendall was
willing she could not find means to
escape from the school, and she found
that her letters were being inspect-,
ed. In her despair she sent through
a friend a letter to Miss Kelcey In
New York city. She knew that Miss
Kelcey had at one time attended the
school and had on her own account
made a famous escape from her room.
The letter implored Miss Kelcey to
send directions for an escape.
"When I received the letter," said
Miss Kelcey, "I -decided that there was
no better way of getting out of the
school than the one I had employed.
The students all sleep upon the third
floor, so the windows are regarded as
safe. In the room I formerly occupied
there Is a broad ledge about ten feet
below the window that gives a girl a
Kendall and a giW chum who was In
tensely interested in the romance
placed knots in the rope at regular in
tervals. Miss Kendall is an athletic
g!ii and led her gymnasium class, so
she had no doubt of her ability to
make the thirty foot journey through
the air from her window to the ground
below.
Kent was waiting at the bottom of
the rope, and just outside the school
grounds he had a carriage In hiding.
At 5 o'clock In the morning they called
upon a minister and were married,
leaving kter for New Haven and New
York. Both young people have nu
merous friends in New York city, and
they kept the telephone wires hot
spreading the news of their romantic
elopement.
Miss Kendall's father Is wealthy, as
is the father of the young man. Mr.
Kent's father is prominent in the pol
itics of bis state, and the two fathers
are said to have quarreled over civil
war Issues. Mr. and Mrs. Kent left
New York for a tour of the south.
They notified their parents of their
marriage, but did not know at the time
they left New York whether they were
forgiven or not
"I guess everything will come out all
right." said 7?rs. Kent. "It Ib foolish
for our families to quarrel. "Wo are
going to ma'ce it all up, and they will
not have the heart to oppose us, I am
quite sure."
Hoi Battle With a Horned Owl.
Washington Man Wins Desperate Encounter With Big Bird of III
Omen in a Chicken Coop.
Numerous raids have been made re
cently on people's chicken houses ia
the vicinity of Meyers Falls. Wash.,
by hoboes, who have always succeeded
iu escaping unpunished with their boo
ty. H. C. Buchanan, an old gentle
man sixty-five years old, who lives in
the outskirts of the town, was awak
ened by a wild commotion in his hen
house. Having no firearms handy, he
armed himself with a club and rushed
to the rescue of his chickens, expecting
to find a hobo in the act of climbing
the fence with half a dozen spring
pullets, but to bis surprise he found
the Intruder to be a gigantic owl of
the horned variety. He had caught
and killed a large Plymouth Rock hen
and was hastily making a meal of her
when interrupted by a broadside frurn
Buchanan.
Instead of flying away the bird of 111
omen merely jumped aside and stood
looking at his assailant. As the old
man made ready for another onslaught
his feet slipped and he fell flat upon
hia back. The owl with several snaps
of his monster beak and trembling
with anxiety to begin the second round
lit on his adversary's chest, all spread
out and ready for business. For a time
Mr. Buchanan thought he had met his
Waterloo and called vociferously for
his next door neighbor, who failed to
respond. With a few right and left
swings from Buchanan the bird of
prey was finally stunned, and the vic
tor, once more seizing his cudgel, dis
patched him.
Mr. Buchanan has had his late an
tagonist stuffed and is ready to exhibit
him to any one who doubts the truth
of this story.
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