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ASS: ESTABLISHED IN 1* DON'T WANT IT Senator Culberson, of Texas, Not Seeking Nomination. JUDGE GRAY QUITS Delaware Statesman and Jurist De clines to Enter Lists?The Paper Trust Investigation. Trouble Ahead lor the Republicans?Sentiment of the New England Democracy. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. Much of the political talk in Wash ington has centered about the retire inent of Senator Culberson of Texuo and Judge Gray of Delaware from the Democratic presidential race. Nobody who knew Senator Culber son's position ever thought that he was a party to the effort to force bim to the front. That effort was made with out his knowledge and without his ap proval. It began to be exceedingly embarrassing to him when the story was started that there would even be a contest made for the position of chairman of the Democratic national committee by the friends of Culbersou and in his interest. His denial has been explicit and categorical. It was prepared by bim and sent to the Wash ington newspapers and declares that he is not and will not be a candidate, that he believes a majority of the Dem ocrats desire the nomination of Mr. Bryan and that the delegation from Texas, of which be will no doubt be a member, will be instructed for Bry an. No one who has observed Senator Culberson's actions and utterances in the last two years could possibly be surprised by this position, now form ally taken. He is one of the men of what might be called presidential stat ure who have watched the sentiment of the masses of the party and have not run counter to it. There is little likelihood that any one save Mr. Bry an will be nominated at Denver. If by any chance there should be a break, the loyal and consistent attitude which Culberson has maintained dur ing1 ail the precouvention campaign would, in my judgment, make him the strongest second candidate. Within two days of Senator Culber son's declaration that he was not a candidate Judge Gray, of Delaware, who has six delegates pledged to him, announced in a public speech that he would not under any circumstances re-enter politics; that he is a judge on the United States bench aud not even a receptive candidate for office. This would seem to leave Mr. Bryan the only present candidate to be reckoned -with, in the convention. The Paper Trust Inquiry. The investigation into, the paper trust is dragging its slow length along. As a rule, only' three of the congres sional committee of five appointed to conduct it are present at the hearings. Thus far nine-tenths of the evidence presented on behalf of the publishers has been given by John Norris, busi ness manager of the New York Times and for ten years business manager of the New York World. Medill McCor mick, manager of the.Chicago Tribune, has given some useful testimony. Sometimes it is embarrassing to be a witness before a committee of con gress aud at the same time the editor of a great newspaper. The other day the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune wrote a very justifia ble criticism of the hostile attitude of Chairman Mann toward the publishers who appeared before him. When Mr. McCormick came up for his next or deal the chairman asked him if he had knowledge of this article printed in his paper. Mr. McCormick answered that he had not directed that it should be prepared or sent, but that be had read it, considered it an accurate state ment of facts, a piece of news, and ap proved its publication. The chairman of the committee, who has throughout acted as if he were special counsel for the paper trust, subsided and said no more. The incident has some impor tance as indicating what the great Re publican newspapers of the United States are likely to do to the Repub lican party in the event of its failure to smash this trust, which Is so easily to be reached. The room in which the committee is holding its bearings is one of the enor mous committee rooms in the new of fice building for representatives in con gress. While the room Is completed, its furnishings are not, aud with little furniture and no curtains it is a sort of echo gallery, a cave of the winds. The stenographers and the press men who are five feet away from the wit ness cannot hear what he is saying. The other day In the cloakroom of the house oue of the Associated Press, men was complaining about the difficulty of reporting this hearing. Another man said: "That room isn't a circumstance to the new room of the ways and means committee overhead. You can't hear two feet away from the witness there." John Sharp Williams, who has been trying to got the ways a "AH. means committee to give some attention to various tariff reform bills, drawled out In his characteristic way: "Boys, they must have built that room with a pur pose. The ways aud means commit tee doesn't want to hear anybody on any subject at all." Democracy In New England. George Fred Williams of Boston was In Washington recently and talked some what on politics in the New Eng land states. Williams has l>een a good lighter for Democracy there for twelve illcvJr Ib/augOS State Houue r -- 369. years, prior to which time he was a Mugwump. He has had his ups aud downs, his last down being in 1904, but "Sfpresent he Is very much on the up grade. In fact, he believes that he and his friends have regained control of the Democratic situation in Massachu setts. . * Mr. Williams said: "The amount of misinformation concerning the attitude of the New England Democracy would surprise me except for the fact that I have learned how little we know in New England through the press of what is going on in the rest o? the country. Apparently men iu Washing ton are astonished to learn that the vote of New England iu the Denver convention will be by a great majority for Mr. Bryan. Rnode Island has act ed, and seven out of the. eight dele gates from that state are earnest Bry an men. In Connecticut a majority of the delegation may safely be counted for Bryan. Massachusetts will send thirty-two delegates pledged to Mr. Bryan. Maiue has elected delegates from three districts, all of whom pro fess to be friendly to him. I am as sured that not a single delegate will go from New Hampshire or Vermont who is not favorable to Mr. Bryan's candidacy. In Massachusetts at the caucuses not one candidate for dele gate to Denver opposed to Bryan re mains in the held. One man retired before the caucuses were held, declar ing that he was not In favor of Mr. Bryan's candidacy, but that the senti ment In mis district was evidently so strong fbr Mr. Bryan that his only course was to withdraw. This state ment is fairly representative of all New England. The traditions in our states are against instructions, but failure to instruct does not mean hos tility to any prominent) candidate.'" The Denver Convention. The hall in which the Denver con vention is to be held, according to re ports brought to Washington, will ac commodate 14,000 people?that is. It is larger than Madison Square Garden in New York and quite as large as the Kansas City Auditorium, which the Democrats occupied In 1900. Occasion ally some newspaper editor gets it into his head that these great gatherings of the people influence the working body of the convention, the delegates and the speakers, so that proper discretion and judgment are not applied to the business of the convention. I have not myself the slightest sympathy with this theory. While I have attended more conventions of both parties than I care here and now to recount and have seen many changes made in the nominating plans of the persons who expected to be in control, yet I have not seen, and I doubt whether any po litical correspondent has ever seen, a convention^ stampeded by the clamor of the galleries. The men on the floor, as a rule, know what they have come for. and mere noise from above does not affect thein. But on the other hand. if. as under our system the case should be. a prop er knowledge of political methods and politics as applied to the higher ends of government is desirable a national convention of the greatest proportions should be applauded as an educational | institution. To bring together in the conventions of the two great parties some 25,000 people in all gives an opportunity to those who are not actively engaged in politics to acquire some knowledge of the methods of making a president and sends out into the campaign citizens who, not being politicians, have still heard from the best speakers the argu ments upon which each party bases its claim for pre-eminence. The conven tion ha"r> at Chicago will accommodate easily 12,000 people. Those who go there will hear the best orators, in the Republican party set forth its claims to public favor and eulogize their re spective candidates. The great throng at Denver, will bear Democratic doc trine set forth and no doubt listen to Impassioned eulogies of Judge Gray. Governor Johnson. Judson Harmon. Senator Culberson and Mr. Bryan. The auditors will come away knowing more of their party and its leaders than when they went there. It is vast ly better that all who can be carried within the carrying power of a human voice should have this opportunity than that a thousand delegates and a few favored spectators in a small hall should go perfunctorily through the task of selecting a predetermined can didate. Mr. Hearst's Convention. Some delegates have been elected to the convention of the Independence league* to be held m Chicago late in July, actual date not fixed. By a strange coincidence William R. Hearst led the list. The party being a person ally conducted one, Arthur Brisbane, one of his employees, was selected for one of the presidential electors in New York. At one point the proprietary'in terest failed. Word was seut to one district by Mr. Ihuiseu, another Hearst employee, that John Temple Graves, still another Hearst employee, must be selected as a delegate. The result was a revolt and the repudiation of Mr. Graves by the district committee, with some rather biKer words about dicta tion from above. Few of the New York districts were able to secure at the meetings a suffi cient number of leaguers to justify holding .any elections whatsoever. Since the famous fusion with the Re publicans In New York the political stock of the Hearst organization ha: gone far below pur. While that fusion was In New York, its effect has been made manifest in other sections. For example, iu Boston, where the candi date of the league for governor polled nearly 20,000 votes, when the primaries were held a few weeks ago only 131 Independence leaguers voted. No one questions the influence of the Hearst newspapers, but the Independence league as an organization "has ceased to Interest practical men in public life. Washington. D. G. Spent Millions Abroad. Xi is estimated that American tour ists spent $40,000,000 in Europe laat summt'! ?. ORANGEBTJ TALKED POLITICS. TILLMAN SEKS NO USE IX IX STRUCTIOX. But Thinks the Convention Should Adopt the Unit Rule, Which Would Give Bryan the Delegation. . Senator Tillman was in Columbia on last Saturday on his way to Wash ington, whence he will go to New York. Senator Tiilman expects to sail for Europe on Saturday, May 1G. and will be abroad for some time, go ing over a large part of Southern Eu rope before returning homo. He will be accompanied by Dr. J. V/. Bab cock and others with whom he has consulted since hi srecent illness. -The State says Senator Tillman si looking remarkably well and has gained in health considerably sine;; his visit to Atlanta. He stated that with the exception of a slight pain occassionally he is entirely free from any ill effects of the tingling sensa tions which he thought were symp toms of nervous breakdown. ,'I have taken little interest in State politics, however," said the senator, after sneaking of his condition. "Since my reti.rn to Trenton I have read on ly the headlines in the papers and have devoted my time to getting well. I have been rather amused, however,, as to the claims and counter claims of the newspapers on the result of the recent county conentions on instruc tions for William J. Bryan for presi dent. "As I have said before, I do not believe in instructing the delegates, although I am heartily in favor of Bryan and believe that he will be the nominee. It is foolish, 1 think', to tie up the men who go to Denver when we know that they would vote for Bry^p anyhow unless some al most unheard of think should hap pen. "I do not believe in the unit rule? that is, for a majority of the delega tion casting the entire vote as the majority should decide, and if we were a machine-controlled State and were afraid of some political boss might be able to deliver the votes to any candidate he saw fit I think the delegation should then be instructed as the people might desire. We are not that way in South Carolina, however, and no man would vote against what he thinks are the wishes of the people." The senator talked very little poli tics, but. showed great interest in State affairs. He wanted to know how the receivership matters of the old Slate dispensary fund were pro gressing and if any further moves had been made by either side. While offering no comment he believed that it was an ugly snarl all around, and said that he had watched it with much interest. Then reverting to national politics he remarked thai the nomination of Bryan was peculiarly distasteful to the New York World, as that paper had practically gone back on Bryan years before when it supported the gold ticket under Palmer and Hack lier. Naturally to see Mr. Bryan still | a leader of his people aller all these years was a bitter pill, but he did not believe the light would affect Bryan's chances. ??The whole thing," the senator coneluded. "is foxfire, a beating of gongs and a lot of noise over noth ing." The senator laughed. "Had this fight over Bryan not beeu brought cut by the newspapers there would never have been any discussion on tin* mat ter, .lust, what can be gained out of it 1 cunnoi imagine. I do not believe ihe South Carolina relegation will In controlled by Wall street or any other Influence of that kind and I believe they are going to vote for Bryan with out instruction." Senator Tillman did not discuss af fairs in Washington at all. He has | not changed his views as given in The State some time ago by a staff correspondent, but said that he had RG-, S. C. Fi?IDAY, MA? ENTERING THE DANGER ZONE ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. Because His Daughter Was Not Al lowed to See Him. Because his visits to his ten-year old daughter were stopped by his di !voiced wife. Rudolph Witte, a book keeper, idiot nimself through the head in a hotel ^Brooklyn. His wife obtained a divorce years ago and se cured the custody of their daughter nelen. Witte was permitted to see his daughter at his former wi'-j's home un-;il recently when she mar ried again. Pleadings and letters were disregarded by the former Mrs Witte. It was said that the father became heart broken. He went to the hotel and told his story to a friend. Then he went into another room and killed himself. Witte ^died before a doctor arrived. BOLD THIEVES. Broke Into Fever Hospital und Stole Employes Wages. A dispatch from London says that on Saturday burglars went to an unknown extreme when, disregarding a number of cases of malignant fever, they broke into the fever hospital, on Seagrave road, Fulham, and made away v.ith valuables estimated to be worth $li 000. / The money had been drawn out of the bank to pay the wages of the em ployes. In ordeV to reach the office where the money was kept it was necessary for the theives to pass' through several wards where patients were lying. No one saw them, but marks evidenced where they forced an entrance to the building. * BRYAN CALLS ON TILLMA.N. The Nebraskan Confers With South j Carolina Senator in Washington. y The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Hon. Wm. J. Bryan called on Senator Tillman on Tuesday in that city and spent some time with him discussing national politics and the outlook for the for mer to receive the Presidential nomi nation at Denver in July. This is significant by reason of the fact that it was almost the only call made, by Mr. Bryan upon any one since he reached Washington. CRASHED THROUGH CAR. Large Rock Rolled Down Hillside on Express Train. While the Chicago and New York express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was passing Hammond, 7 miles eist of Fairmont, W. Va., early Sunday, a large rock rolled down from the hillside and crashed through the roof of the smoking car, injuring three passengers. * Soldier Ran Amuck. A telegram received by the adju tant general from Manila Tuesday an nounced that Private Mike lleacham, of the First cavalry, ran amuck, kill ing three and wounding three of his comrades, one mortally. All tlie kill ed and wounded were members of troop F, First cavalry. Details of the tragedy are lacking, hut it is presum ed that Heachiuan was insane. Young Girl Shot Father. At Duburque. Iowa, defending her I mother with a rifle, Miss Madue Flem ing, -i? years old, shot her father. Mom Fleming, in the head. He is not expected to live. Fleming, ac cording to the young woman's state ment it the police, was about to at tack her mother when she fired. She was arrested but releaseu on her own recognizance. The sympathy of tbe community is with the young woman. given little thought to these affairs, although he longed to get back into the fray. It was impossible for the present, however, and therefore he gave it little thought. 15, 1908. ?Rogers in New York Herald. HE DID NOT SAY IT. SENATOR TTLLMAN'S VIEW OF GROVER CLEVELAND. ? Says Ho Was Misquoted in The News and Courier?Says He Is For Bryan, Who Will Be Nominated. In reporting in The News and Cour ier an interview he had with Senator Tlllmon in Columbia on last Saturday Mr. August Kohn make the Senator say: "If the Democrats could get a Cleveland, not Mr. Cleveland in per son, but a man who stood for the same thing, aud could command the support that Cleveland does, 'it would be a shame to take the money' the way such a candidate would run away ' with the race, and be elected to the Presidency." Senator Tillmnn's Denial.. Senator Tillman gave out a state- , ment in Washington on Tuesday. The , Senator said it was not his intention , to say anything further on the sub- , ject'of politics before his trip to Eu- ? rope, but being so widely misquoted . in reference to Grover Cleveland he . broke his intentions on Tuesday and expressed himself freely. He said: | "You may set all minds at rest as , to my opinion of Cleveland by saying , that it has not changed ont, iota since ( my first speech in the senate denounc ing him. I would rather the Demo cratic party would now be defeated than to be victorious with Cleveland or any other may like him at its head, and I am quite sure that no ( matter what the condition of his health, should he be nominated he would be beaten worse than Parker was. I am at ?a loss to understnad how a man usually so accurate as ! Mr. Kohn is, should have so mis- j quoted me. "So far as I now recall I never 1 mentioned Cleveland to him the other 1 day. I certainly did not say that un der an., circumstances I would favor his nomination'or the nomination of any man like him. What I did say was that Wall street would welcome one of the old plutocrats as the Dem ocratic nominee, preferring to support : such a socalled Democrat than Taft, ' who will be the Republican nominee, ; or Bryan, who will be the Democratic nominee, and that if the Democratic 1 party could unite upon one nf these : Eastern plutocrats, which it. will of course not do, then Taft would be easily defeated. "I am, of course, for Bryan as the nominee at Denver, and I am satis- 1 fied that South Carolina's delegates will bo for Bryan, but 1 am opposed to instructing them because our con vention is not going to sen," men to ' Denver who can be bamboozled or < bought and instructions are iinueces- I sary I "Now, having been goaded into this i tiling. I am going to tell you what ! I think about this tempest in a tea i pot about instructing the delegation. ; Gonzales wants to make it appear i that he Is the biggest Bryan man in ] the State so that if IJryan is elected | the editor of The State can control j the South Carolina patronage. I ?"The trouble with Hemphill is, i that he has never been aide to see j anything in Cleveland but a demigod ; and he opposed Bryan in 1896, and i he is of the kind who never change*; , his mind. Hemphill was in the | wrong then and to support Bryan | now might appear an admission that , he was wrong. That's the whole ( cause of the mighty racket over in structions." ? They Will Swing. At New Orleans on Tuesday death sentences were pronounced on Ed ward and Jack Pierre, negroes, con victed of murder. They are members of a sect of negro fanatics who last fall barricaded themselves in a houso and defied the police for several hours, One policeman was killed. wtm DRAWS BIG CROWD. OVER FD7TEEX THOUSAND PEO PLE VISIT BARN YARD Where the Victims of Mrs. Guinness Were Buried After They Had Been Most Mysteriously Murdered.v All roads in Laparte, Ind.. Sunday led to the farm of Mrs. Belle Guin ness, alleged murderess of at least ten persons, whose bodies have been unearthed in the barn yard and now thought to have been burned to death with her three children in afire that destroyed her L_.m house on April 28. Upwards of 15,000 sightseers visited the place of death before sun set of the first Sabbath to pass since the news of the mystery transpired. Nearly every able bodied resident of Laporte went to the Guinness farm and railroads and trolley lines brought 4,000 non-residents to the city. Mayor Darrow found it necessary to issue stringent orders that the Sunday closing laws should be strict ly enforce. Hotels and restaurants were overrun with patrons. Every conveyance in Laporte was pressed into service in an attempt to provide transportation to the farm, which is a mile north of Laporte. Hundreds were forced to walk. There was noth ing in the attitude of the crowd to indicate that they were visiting a place where gruesome tragedies had taken place. Jokes and laughing comments were heard on every side and exclamations of joy from suc cessful relic hunters were numerous. Along the roadside were several lemonade stands and lunch wagons. At. the gates were venders of souvenir postal cards, and those bearing a group picture of Mrs. Guinness and three little ones, who met death with her found readiest sale. During the rush to Laporte in the afternoon sev eral farm horses, freightened by au tomobiles, started to run away. A buggy was upset, Mrs. Benjamin Zanelar, of Laporte, suffered a brok en arm. Several pickpockets did a thriving business while the throng waited for homewardbound trains. Investigation of the farm for more bodies halted Monday. The sheriffs and other officers were forced to be come spectators also. Several visi tors, however, were seeking informa tion concerning missing friends of relatives and some further informa tion regarding the possible identity of the bodies ' on the farm resulted from their inquiries. The most definite information came from Olaf Lindabo of Chicago. He said that his brother, Thomas, work ed for Mrs. Guinness three years ago, and the last letter from Thomas said that Thomas intended to marry Mrs. Guinness. Olaf wrote to Mrs. Guin ness and she replied that Thomas had gone to St. Louis, and that she had no word from him. Olaf Lindabo has not heard from Thomas since. Sheriff Smutzer will continue his in vestigations at the Guinness farm, and the floor of the cellar may be dug up and additional excavations may be made in the yard where ten bodies have already been unearthed. ANOTHER FIRE IN ATLANTA. One Hundred and Seventy-Five Horses Burned to Death. One hundred and seventy-five hor ses, two of them show prize winners, and half a block of buildings burned with a hundred thousan d dollars loss; a threatened pauic in a crowd ed theatre nearby, and half a dozen persons iujured, none seriously sum marizes a fire which started Monday night in the business section of At lanta, and for an hour threatened to mak^ ? cleaner sweep '.ban did the flames the week before, which de stroyed a million and a quarter dol dars* worth of property in another section of the city. The block in which the fire started was made up cheifly of one story wooden and brick structures. The flames started in the Piedmont Stables on Marietta street. REBUKES NEWLANDS. Major J. C. Hempbill Calls the Ne vada Dowu. A dispatch from Washington to The State says Maj. J. C. Hemphill, editor of The News and Courier, in the drainage conference Tuesday af ternoon reproved Senator Newlands if Nevada for criticising the South. Senator Newlands had declared that the South before the war, because of slavery, was strict in construction of the constitution and a habit of mind had descended to this day. which un rortnnutely kept the South from be ing prominent in the great reclama tion measures. Maj. Hemphill said that the Soul hern people were will ing at any proper time ty discuss with Senator Newlands their habit of mind towards the const ruction but that the drainage conference was not the place lor a discussion either of that ques tion or for the resurrection of th^ slavery issue. He therefore deplored the remarks from the seuator Iron? Nevada. Tried the Jail First. Edward Sieben, of Belleville, Ohio, rather than pay a rim* of $10 and costs assessed on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, declared he would work it out in the county workhouse. Arter spending one night in a cell he paid the fine. Sie bert is about sixty years old and Is worth over $60,000. $1.50 PEB ANNUM. TWELVE KILLED By Terrible Tornado and Much Property Is Destroyed in state of Nebraska The Storm Sweeps Over the Eastern Part of the State, Visiting and Wrecking a Number of Towns. Col lege Buildings Damaged and One i Railroad Station Destroyed. A dispatch from Omaha, Nebraska, says twelve persons are known to have been killed and a score injured by a tornado which swept the north ern part of Sarpy County at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The storm, which gained a velocity on its way south, started in Omoha about 4:30. At Bellevue the college buildings were damaged to the extent of probably $5,000 and several persons injured, none fatally. The storm was the most severe that ever struck Eastern Nebraska. The damage to the college buildings at Bellevue was heavy. The tower was torn from Park Hall and the building wrecked. Lower Hall and Raikitt Hall were unroofed. The panic stricken students ran to the basement and in this way many fatalities were probably averted. The college stables were wrecked and all the horses killed. A number of small buildings and stores in the village v/ere blown down. Moving south the tornado struck Fort Crook, damaged several of the barrack buildings, but nobody was in jured. In the town of Fort Crook, however, a number of buildings were entirely wrecked and other damage done. The storm lifted and dipped at in tervals, continuing to move south ward, doing much damage to farmers* property. The first town struck was Papillion, 8 miles south of Omaha. At that point the damage was not great, the funnel shaped cloud apparently lifting sufficiently to pass the town. It again descended as the storm mov ed toward Richfield, four miles south of Papillion. In its path was the farm of Gus Leader, whose farm buildings were partly destroyed, and his son, Charles Leader, aged 14, killed outright. All his live stock was killed. Edward Martin's farm was next to be swept.. Mr. Martin's home and ill his barns and small buildings were totally destroyed and Mr. Martin fat ally hurt by being crushed under his% home. The little town of Richfield was almost blown to pieces, but the casualty list was small. At Louisville half the town was wrecked and at least eight persons lost their lives. Mrs. Frank Hester was killed in her home. Seven who took refuge in sand pits were killed autright. The names are not avail able, x. Two miles n^rth of Papillion Martin Teith and his son, James, were driving along the Little Papio River, when their horse became^ frightened by the hail and plunged into the swollen stream. Both father and son were drowned. An officer from Fort Crook arrived in tue city and stated that the dam ages to buildings would amount to $100,000 at the army post alone and the village is almost a total wreck. A remarkable scene was enacted when the officers realized that a tor nado had struck the post. Six hun Ired troops of the GOth regiment were brought to battalion formation and in the midst of dying slate roofs and other debris they marched across the parade ground to substantial build ings, where they were put "at rest" and took to the cellars. The roofs of several of the large buildings were blown off and other damage done. WAS TEMPORARILY INSANE. Chicago Woman Cast Her Two Chil dren Out of Window. While temporarily insane, Mrs. Emma Loftgren, 25 years old, of 337 North Albany avenue, Chicago threw her baby girl and her three-year old boy, Arthur, from the second story window of her home at 10:15 o'clock last night. Both children probably will die. The crazed woman was pre sented from jumping from the win iow herself by her husband, who ran nto the room in answer to the boy'Si ;ries of help. - I Fatal Explosion. At Quarr. Fla., Tuesday W. T. Mc Donald was seriously injured and his line year old son was instantly killed l.v the explosion of several thousand lynamite caps. The boy s body was iremated. He had just handed his father some tobacco when the explo sion occurred. It is evident that Mr. McDonald cut. into a cap while trim ming off the copper wire from a Io4 )f condemned material. A Human .Monster. At Montgomery. Ala., five children af .Jim Kennedy were burned to death Tuesday night, and two others so bad ly burned that they cannot recover. The crime is charged to the father, who. the mother says, locked the; seven in and set fire to the house* The police are looking for Kennedy, The couple were seperated and had been at law over the children. The woman says she say Kennedy loclfc and set fire to the cabin.