The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, September 28, 1909, Image 1
PUBLISHED THREE
PETTY SPITE
Peary Refused to Allow Dr. Cook's Re
cords Aboard His Steamer
THEY WERE LEFT AT ETAH
This Is What Whitney Cables to
Dr. Cook In New York, Who Says
it Does Not Matter as he Has
a Duplicate, Which Will Suf
fice,
Commander Robert E. Peary, re
fused absolutely to allow any of
the records or instruments-of Dr.
Frederick A. Cook to be brought
abroad the steamer Roosevelt and
was thus Instrumental in causing
these recordB to remain in a cache
at Etah, Greenland, according to
Harry Whitney, tbe New Haven
sportsman, in a dispatch received in
New York by Dr. Cook on Sunday.
The meseage, which came as response
to one from Dj*. Cook, is as fol
lows:
"Strathcona. via India Harbor and
Cape H?y, N. F., Sept 25.
"Dr. F. A. Cook , VVaidorf, New
York.
"Started for home Roosevelt.
Nothing arrived ?or me. Peary
would allow nothing belonging to
you on board. Said to leave every
thing in cache at Etah. Met Capt.
Sam, North Star. Did not go back
after going schooner bound St.
John's. Take steamer home. Hope
you well. See "you soon. Explain
all, Good shooting.
"Harry Whitney."
Dr. Cook was questioned as to
his view of the situation created by
the action ascribed to Commander
Pe&ry. but he declroed to say any
thing derogatory of his rival. "It
may be that the instruments will ar
rive this year after all," he said,
"and as for tbe records and observa
tions, their non-arrival here makes
no"difference whatever, as I Have
complete duplicates, so that there
will be no delay in compiling my
story with all its details."
Dr. Cook denied the report that
he was to bring suit for slander
against Peary. 'There is no truth
in the report," he said. "I have no
intention of bringing suit. Natural
ly I am taking measures to .have
everything in order in case of neces^
slty; but I have never even thought
of filing a suit, and I wish to con
tradict such reports at once."
If they are still at Etah, Dr.
Cook's Instruments may not arrive
in New York until the Spring
months of 1910. There Is a possi
bility, however, of their reaching
here this year, as another vessel may
have touched at Etah after the
Roosevelt left.
ISSfiSCS *5por Excuse.
'A dispatch from''Portland, Me.,
says it ^as'^e?rtie'? -from -a source
close -to '^hraOTtfer Peaijy^ teat the
cotamaTider^justifiesr his 'action in
rejfcsto^-to &l$pT)r. FreSeri&k A.
Cdok's^'instruS/^nta^r recorder on
board; the homeward bound'steamer
Roosevelt? on-fhe? theory SatWe ? had
been aware'f^r^sbnie'time'ot Cboifs
i^tentfo^n;"'to:''cla^ni tl$e '-d(rscove*ry
of the -'North -P^Te~and that;'Peary,
therefore] would'sanction nothhig' to
aid this project.
Gen. Hubbard, president of the
Peary Arctic Cl^ makes a different
excuse from the*--above for Peary'3
littleness. He says that Peary did
not mention any such circumstance
to him during the conference with
the Arctic explorer last Thursday.'
Gen. Hubbard said that undoubtedly
Peary felt that Inasmuch as; Dri
Cook had intrusted the data to Mr.
Whitney, It was important that Mr.
Whitney should ' retain sole 'custody
of 1t. : Gen. Hubbard left' It to be
assumed by his remarks that Com
mander Peary'did not desire to have
custody of the records which would
play so important a part in a con
troversy with Dr. Cook.
Peary's Chief Witness.
All hands on board the Roosevelt
were instructed not to talk about1
the controversy. Mat Henson. the j
negro cook, who was with Peary in
his final dash north, said that he!
had talked with every Eskimo who 1
went up with Cook and knew every ?
one of them but was not at liberty
to reveal what he had learned. Hen-!
son said, further, that Cook had prac
tically no experience when he went
North; that he knew nothing about I
building sledges and was absolutely j
inexperienced in driving Eskimo '
dogs. Henson said that he was of
the opinion that Cook could not even I
harness a dog correctely. This is
the kind of testimony Peary ex-j
pects to convict Cook on. It is total- j
ly unreliable.
Fired Into Car.
L. R. Sires, express messenger on {
the Central of Georgia, was fired
upon in his car near Mclntyre. Ga..
Friday morning eary b ysome per-!
son on the top of the car. The
shots were fired through the tran-1
rom, robbery doubtless being the i
motive. Sires obtained help from I
the mall car, but the man escap
ed. ?
White Man to Hang.
At Baxlev. Ca.. on Saturday. Pate
Taylor, a white man. was convicted
of murder and sentenced to be hung.
Taylor after a trival quarrel shot
from ambush W. A. Belcher, a near
neighbor.
TIMES A WEEK.
PROMPTLY LYNCHED
NEGRO HANGED AT PERRY, FLA.,
FOR KILLING OFFICER.
I He Was Swung Up in Front of His
Shop "Where the Murder Was
Committed.
Swinging from a limb in front of
his shoe reparing shop at Perry,
Taylor county, Fla., the dead body of
Charley Anderson, colored, was
found early Sunday morning, a mob
having imposed the death penalty
as a reward for the bullet he sent
into the heart of Marshal Hawkins
of Perry Saturday night.
The place of the lynching was al
most at ,the_spot where Marshal Haw
kins was slain, the officer having been
m the act of placing Anderson under
arrest when he met his death at
che hands of the man he meant to
make a prisoner. The negro's body
was allowed to hang until late in
the day when it was taken down
and shipped to Live Ooak.
The killing of the Perry officer
occurred at 8 o qlock Saturday
night. Anderson was wanted for
a minor offense, it is said, and was
in his shoe shop when the officer
went to arrest him. Hawkins was
at the door of the shop when the
negro appeared, armed with a pistol,
and before the officer could defend
himself shot him to death.
zAnderson escaped for a time, but
was caught several hours later and
at 12 o'clock was in the hands of
the crowd of men that pursued him.
He was returned to his shoe shop
and in front of it a rope was placed
about bis neck and be was swung
I into the air. Bullets were fired into
his body and he was left swinging.
FARMER HID HIS MONEY.
After Fifty Years Tells Where it Was
Hidden Away.
There was deposited in the First
National bank of Logan, W. Va., Fri
day the sum of $6,620. This specific
deposit has a history as strange and
interesting as ever shadowed romance
or figured in the tales told of the
old-time misers. Milton Mulllns, an
aged man who lived at Rolfe post
office in Logan county, W. Va? In
the owner of this small fortune and
the sum deposited represents the'sav
ings of 5.0 years..., .
"When quite a young,man Mullins
began hoarding his savings. At every
opportunity he would exchange silver
and greenbacks for gold and two or
three times a year he would go to
the treasure crypt in the rear of his
house and make a deposit of gold
coin. Year after year be watched
the pile accumulate. Even before
I the War Between the State he was
reported to have had a considerable
?sunrof moneyhidden on his premises
'amr'b^ttj^tff-m^utiers ?rten~trled'
to cohjperhis tohlisclose Its''hiding*
place-during .the war, but those" at-;
temf)ts? we're never successful and,'
the" Secret-remained his own until*
two days^agd". " : ?' -
A few days ago Mullins' wife died
and 'he, feeling that he could not
long survive "her. decided that it
would be better to disclose at once
the hiding place of the treasure
which represented the slow but reg
ular accumulation of 50 years.
Summoning J. M'. Perry, a grandson,
and some other near relatives, he
related the story of his hoardings
and gave them directions how to find
the money. They went and dug in
.the yard as directed and found even
$:V,000 in gold and $20 in silver.
-Then they proceeded to the barn,
?where in the exact spot indicated
by the aged man. they discovered
$1,000 in $20 bills makiug $6,020
in all. *
HEAD OF THE THEOSOPHISTS
Claims That She Has Lived in Dif
ferent Periods.
At Cleveland. Ohio, intimate
friends of Mrs. Annie Bessant, pres
ident of the Theosophical Society of
the World, declared that their leader
had confided to them that she was
a reincarnation of Hypatia and
Giordano Bruno.
"It is certain that Mrs. Bessant
has been Hypatia and Bruno."
said Mrs. E. O. Peets, president of
the Cleveland Theosophical Society.
"She remembers all?every day of
her existance as those characters."
Mrs. Bessant told her adherents
that one of the strongest proofs of
her claims that she is a reincarna
tion of the two characters is that
she has been persecuted throughout |
her life. She avers her former
selves have just been revealed to
her after twenty years of hard study
in England and India in an effort
to clear her past.
During the time of Confusius. Mrs.
Bessant says she lived as different
characters, but can not recall their
names. She predicts that she will
live again.
Chased by Whales.
A dozen whales chased the schoon
er .lohn S. Preston, Capt. Chantree, >
man}* miles while the vessel was pro
ceeding toward Boston from Monn!
Derert with a cargo (ot" gravel.
Capt. Chantree admits the levithans
kept uncomfortably close to the
coaster, blowing, sounding and gam
boling as if they considered an op
portunity to race the Preston too
good to be overlooked. * ?
im
OBANGEBTJBG. S
A DOUBLE CRIME
A Greenville Mao Kills His Wife and Blows
Out His Own Brains.
MAN USED A SHOT GUN
The Tragedy Took Place in the
Woodside Mill Village Near Green
ville and There Were Only Small
Children in the House When it
Was Enacted.
A dispatch from Greenville to The
State says one of the most horrible
domestic tragedies that has ever
taken place near that city in a num
ber of years, occurred at Woodside
village Friday moruing when G. W.
Gallaway, a mill employe, shot and
instantly killed his wife, and then
blew his brains out with the same
weapon, a double-barreled breech
loading shotgun.
The crime was committed about 5
o'clock, and there were no witness
es, save two Bmall children, who can
not give a coherent account of the
terrible happenings.
It iB supposed that Gallaway and
his wife had been on unfriendly
terms for a long time, having had
sharp words about their son, Ben.
There is also a rumor that the
husband was suspicious of his wife.
When found by Deputy Justice of
the village the two bodies were ly
ing cuddled up on the bed, side by
side.
The woman was shot through the
back of the head and the entire
face of the man had been blown in
?to -a mass of .'bloody .flesh. In --the
arm of the man lay the weapon which
had been the instrument of the trag
edy, a short double-barreled breech
loading shotgun, in which were two
discharged shells.
A lamp was burning in the kitch
en. Tiny clots of blood and brains
were scattered over the bed and over
both bodies.
Neighbors heard two shots In the
early morning, one within minute or
two of the other. No notice was
taken of them, however, until about
8 o'clock, when the older daughter
of the Gallaway's came frightened
and crying 'Co Deputy Justice saying
that her father and mother were
dead.
The officer immediately went to
the house, took in the situation, and
notified the coroner. *
BODIES FOUND ON SHORE.
From Clothing Finders Judged Men
Had Been Sailors.
Section hands on the Louisville
?and ^rashvllle i'uilTtoad i'ound the
bodies" of 35 sailors and fishermen
near'Duffbar Station, La., Saturday.
Thu< brings- the; tot&haumher-of ,dead
resulting from last Monday's hur
ricane up to approximately 200.
The bodies were badly decomposed
and were buried near Old Track bed,
without identification.
Dunbar is a small station on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad be
tween New Orleans? and Hay St.
Louis. It is not far from the Rigo
lets, which connect Lake Horgne, an
arm of the Gulf of Mexico, with
Lake Ponchartrain. During the hur
ricane many light draught sailing
vessels, heading for the inland wa
ter, were swept asnore in this sec
tion.
From day to day the body of a
drowned sailor or fisherman from
Bome of these wrecked schooners
has been found and es-timates on
the total number of dead have been
based on the former rate at which
these bodies have be<*n discovered.
When thirty-six bodies were found
in one place at one time, all former
estimates as to the number of per
sons who lost their lives in the gulf
coast, hurricane were completely
upset.
GUI LTV OF GRAFTING.
Collected Money From Various Dis
orderly Hou.s<*s.
At Chicago Police Inspector Ed
ward McCann, charged with "graft
ing." was found guilty by a jury
which reported in Judge Barnes'
court Friday.
Sentence was not pronounced and
will not be until after the hearing
of arguments lor a new trial. The
law provides an indeterminate sen
tence in prison.
Tin- charges against the inspector
in charge of the Des Plains street
district wer" the mo.-t sensational
aimed at a police official in .wars.
State's Attorney Wayman stated
that "graft" aggregating many thou
sands had been collected from dis
orderly homes in return lor "pro
tection."
Killed by Auto.
At Tampa. Fla.. Mrs. Lee Rteclf 1
was killed and Mrs. Ai red Money ;
and Chauffeur Waiter Beeman were
probably fatally injured Friday night
when the rear tire of the large tour
ing car in which they were riding
burst, causing the car to dash into
a telephone pole, wrecking it and j
throwing the occupants out wi'h ?
great force. * I
1. C TUESDAY. SEPTE
FRAUD ALLEGED
AGAINST THE DORCHESTER
BOARD OF REGISTRATION.
Governor Ansel Makes Rigid In
vestigation and Issues an Order
to Show Cause.
Charged with malfesance in office,
general misconduct and negligence,
the board of registration of Dorches
ter county has been summoned by
Gov. Ansel to appear in Columbia
to show cause why they should not
be removed. A dispatch to. The
State from St. George gives the fol
lowing about the matter:
The board of canvassers took cog
nizance of the discrepancy and made
a report of their findings to the gov
ernor. As the result of this report
Solicitor Hildebrand, at the request
of Gov. Ansel, came down to St
George a couple of days later in
order to conduct an investigation In
to the affair. He made a thorough
and complete examination, going
through all of the records in the
matter and his report confirmed that
of the board of canvassers.
One day this *eek Mr. W. H.
Towsend of Columbia, former as
sistant attorney general, was here for
' the purpose of further looking Into
the matter. He secured a number
j of affidavits as to the handling of
the books immediately prior and
after the election. Immediately after
Mr. Townsend returned to Columbia
the summons were sent to Sheriff
Owens for service and they were ser
ed on Wednesday of last week.
The board of registration is com
posed of Elias Doar of Summerville.
Bunk Limehouse of Beech Hill and
A. W. Rumph of Grover, the first
named being chairman. Mr. Doar
Is cashier of the Bank of Dorchester
and Mr. Limehouse Is a prosperous
farmer. . Mr. Rumph, who is about
70 years of age, Is an ex-Confederate
soldier.
An effort was made to Fecure an
interview from Mr. Doar over long
distance phone but he could not be
got on account of the fuct that the
wires between St George and Sum
merville are down. The alleged false
entries are supposed to have been
made on the first Monday In August,
this being the last regular meeting
of the board before the prohibition
election.
At this meeting Mr. Limehouse was
not present and Mr. Rumnh, accord
ing to some of the affidavits, author
ized 0. B. Limehouse to act in his
place. Mr. Doar, It is claimed, was
the only member of the board !n
position to issue the certificates. It
is claimed that the majority of the
additional names were negroes and
that they did not appear in person
to get the certificates as is required
by law, but that they were secured
by other parties.
The precincts where the irregulari
ties are alleged to have occurred
are all in the lower section of the
.county. The affair has created ho
I little Interest In Dorchester county
;and the action of the governor, It is
[understood, will employ, attorneys in
[ order to defend themselves against
:the charges preferred against them
/All three members maintain their
; innocence. ?
GREAT TIMES IN NEW YORK.
Fifteen-Mile Procession of Warships
a Feature.
The boom of sunrise guns aboard
the warships in North river awoke
New York Saturday morning to the
first day of the celebration which
honors the deeds of Henry Hudson
and Robert Fulton.
The river that Hudson found and
where Fulton set his steamboat was
the place toward which the eyeB of
5,000,000 persons turned Saturday
for the most impressive pageant that
ever floated in the New York harbor.
A thousand vessels, including war
ships from the powers of the world,
were present, making a column fif
teen miles long. The Half Moon
and the Clermont will remain at
the foot of 110th street.
New York is so overrun with
visitors that many ships are being
used as hotels to house them. The
celebration will last /several days
and will be witnessed by millions of
people.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT
To Be Erected by the Government I
at Salem, N. J.
To commemorate the lives of the
Confederate prisoners of war who
died at Fort Delaware during the
civil war, a monument to cost $S,
500 will be erected in the Confed
erate section of Finn's Point Nat
ional Cemetery, near Salem, N. J.,
and close to the old prison. The war j
department has just closed a con- j
tract with the Van Amringe Granite
Company, of Boston, Mas.-., to con
struct the monument of Pennsylvania
white marble. It is to be completed
by December 1 9, 1 909. The shaft
will be 82 feet high. Similar monu
ments are being erected by act of'
congress throughout the North !
wherever tl :>re many unuinrke!
graves of Confederate soldiers. : ?
Victims of the Storm.
With the list of dead from the
tropical hurricane well above 100 .
every indication points to a much
larger increase of the number of
those who perished. ?
MJ5ER 28. 19(K>.
CRASH TO DEATH
Four French Aeronauts Die When a Mili
tary Balloon Bursts.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
When the Balloon Burst it Was Over
Five Hundred Feet High, and With
Envelope Collapsed Car Speeds
Downward at Lightning Pace,
Crushing Occupants.
There was a most horrible acci
dent over in France on Saturday.
While passing over the national road
which leads. from Pari6 to Antibes j
at a height of between 500 and 600
feet, the French drigible military
balloon, Republique, exploded Satur
day morning and fell to the ground.
The four men on board were killea.
They were: Capt. Marchal, Lieut.
Phaure and Sub-Lieuts. Vicenot and
Reux.
It was the intention of Capt.
Marchal, who, was. in charge of the
airship, to stop at Nevres, and an
automobile containing mechanicans
was following the balloon. It was
almoet directly beneath it when the
ticcjident occurred. The car Cell
straight down, carrying the flutter
ing remnants of the envelope, and
,the occupants were buried beneath
ithe wreckage.
All were dead except Lieut.
Phaure, but he lived only a few
minutes after being removed. The
bodies were transferred to the
.Chateau D'Averilly, the property of
the Marquis de Chavannes.
Lieut. Tixier, who was in the au
| tomobile, says that the balloon burst
I and collapsed. It seemed to oscil
I late violently for a moment prior
'?to this, as though it had been struck,
and it fell with the rapidity of a
stone. When he reached the wreck
age the car was completely covered
with the envelope and not a sound,
came from beneath. With the aid
of Marquis de Chavannes and peas
ants who hurried from the surround
ing fields the envelope wa& removed.
The spectacle was appalling. The
car had been literally crushed, and
amid the mass of tangled Bteel and
wire every man except Phaure could
be seen at his post. Capt. Marchal
was in a fitting posture, his body
thrown back and his eyes wide open,
the bodies of the sub-lieutenant lay
mangled beneath the cylinder of the
motor. . Phaure's ;body was lying
half outside, as if possibly he had
tried to jump during the descent.
Apparently the death in the case
of the three men had been instan
taneous from the shock when they
ttruck the earth and fee weight of
the heavy rig^ng above. Capt.
Marchal's skull was crushed.
An examination disclosed the cause
of the accident. The axle of the
right propeller had broken and the
propeller had passed through the
envelope falling in a field about 130
yard?i away.
A careful investigation of the ac
cident will be held but the fact that
the propeller which was found was
enwrapped with twisted wire is com
plete confirmation that it flew off
and punctured the balloon.
Tbo loss of the Republique as
sumes the magnitude of a national
calamity, especially as. the French
had come to believe that the semi
rigid type which is the system em
ployed in the construction of their
dirigibles was. superior to the rigid
type which has been adopted by
Count Zeppelin of Germany.
President Fallieres and Gen. Brun,
minister of war, who were informed
of the catastrophe while engaged in
the inauguration of the first inter
national exhibition of aerial locomo
tion at the grand palace, were much
affected and left the building im
mediately. The president directed
Gen. Brun to send the condolences of
the government to the families of the
victims.
DEATH OF A MISER
With Money in Bank, Deeds in Vault,
u Man Start es.
One of the most remarkable cases
in the history of the coroner's of
fice at Cincinnati, O., was reported
late Saturday when the body of
Christopher Kuhn, aged GS, a cab
inetmaker, was discovered in his
squalid room at 1622 Central avenue.
The man had been dead since Sep
tember 6, when, according to neigh
bors, he apparently died of starva
tion. Secreted in th:' room where
he was found were many thousands
of dollar?.' worth of securities and
deeds to th<"> property in which his
room was located and adjoining
property along Central avenue.
There were keys to a fafety deposit
box in the city hall bank and a hank
book howing he had on deposit
$1.100.
Died in the Flood.
Gen. Trevino, military commander
of the district of north -rn Mexico,
who has directed the distribution
of aid through the section swept by
tin; recent flood, es--tiniaf.es the num
ber of live? lost at 2,000. Two
thousand bodies were recovered.
Between Monterey and Tampico, Gen.
Hervinn states, every vestige of cul
tivation and the homes and stores
of the inhabitants have been washed
away and there is still great need
of outside aid. *
TW
GANG OF SWINDLERS
A VAST CONSPIRACY TO DE
FRAUD PEOPLE IS ALLEGED.
i Eighty-five Men Indicted in Iowa on
Charge of Using Mails ,'n Swindl
ing Operations.
At Council Bluff, Iowa, James C.
I Mabray and 84 alleged associates,
I were a few days ago indicted by the
I United States grand jury for the
southern district of Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to defraud by ille
gal use of the United States mails.
With the exception of Mabray and
three or four others, none of those
indicted are in custody and for that
reason the names of the defendants
were not made public.
It was stated the list -included
many persons known In criminal an
nals in all parts of the country and
that nearly every name is followed
by from one to four aliases. Each
of these alleged confederates had a
number, which is given as one of
the aliases according to the defend
ant.
Although specific amounts are not
mentioned in the indictment, it is
authoratively stated that the amounts
lost by the alleged" victims-^bf-Mab
ray and others named will exceed
$500.000. The sums lost run from
$1,500 to $30,000, the latter sum
having been placed on fake horse
races, according to the evidence at
hand, by a Missouri banker.
Victims in la States, the territory
of Alaska and the Dominion of Can
ada are named in the indictment,
Indicating the wide range of terri
tory over which Mabray and his as
sociates are alleged to have plied
their vocation.
As a basis of operation tbey used,
according to the Indictment, the
cities of Council Bluff, Davenport and
Burlington, Iowa; St Louis, Little.;
Rock, Seattle, Denver and New Or
leans?, to which places it is alleged
victims were taken by the numerous
steerers.
In setting out the specific instanc
es in which violations of the postal
laws are charged, the indictment in
cludes copies of many sensational
letters said to have been exchanged
between Mabray and his associates
which refer to alleged "deals" and
name various sums of money as hav
ing changed hands as a result of the
operations of those mentioned in the
indictment. , ? j ,?;
One of the letters is dated from
a New York hotel, and , invites
"Friend John," who, it is alleged,
is Mabray himself, to go to New
York city, declaring "I have^a town
might across the river from New
York in Jersey, a swell track and ab
solute protection. The sheriff and
prosecutor and police; they will be
absolutely right on the job during
working hours."
It is expected the trials- will begin
at Red Oak, Iowa, during the Novem
ber term of court or at Des Moines
in December. Sylvester R. Russ,
special assistant to the attorney gen
eral of the United States, at the in
stance of the deparment of justice
is taking part in the prosecution. *
SHOOTS HIS KINSMAN.
A Man Probably Fatally Wounded
His Brother-in-Law.
D. D. Fields, one of the wealthiest
plauters of Emanuel county, is dying
at his home at Adrian, Ga., while
hi.-' brother-in-law, M. J. Webb, is
a prisoner in the jail as the result
of a fight between the two men in
an open field near Adrian Friday
night. The two men jointly owned
a farm and disputed over the divis
ion of the crop. At first they fought
with fists but Webb ended the troub
le by drawing his pistol and shoot
ing his kinsman through the head.
Fields dropped unconscious to the
ground, while Webb, it is said, de- i
clared his intention not to submit
to arrest. lie was not taken into
custody. Fields' brother is sheriff
of Emanuel county. *. j
SHOOTS HIS DINNER GUEST.
J. F. Boarcher Resents Upsetting of
Coffee on Tablecloth.
Some of the folks of Lawrence
burg. Ind., must have queer idea-'
about hospitality. Recently T. K.
Ititzie was Invited to eat dinner
at the home of J. F. Boarcher and
a few minutes after entering the
house he was carried out with five
bullet holes in his body. He acci
dentally turned over a cup of cof- i
fee on tin' table cloth and resented
reproval of the act of his host.
Ronrchher .not his revolver and emp
tied the live chambers in Ritzie's
body, and In- is now at a hospital
in a dying condition. Boarcher es
caped. People who dine at Hoarch
er s must be careful at>out their rof
fee. *
Tried to Take His Life.
Despondent over his paralyzed con
dition. Geo. .1. Rhodes, 40 years old, j
Saturday slashed his thorat three!
rimes with a pocket knife and then .
jumped in'.o the lake a; Lakewood I
near Atlanta, in an attempt to com-j
mit F-uieide. Rhodes grasped a pole j
under the water but his failing
strength caused him to relax his
hold and when he came to the sur
face he was rescued and hurried
to a hospital. It is believed he will
recover. *
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TURNED LOOSE
Jiirj Says Jas. S. Farnum is Not Guilt; of
Charge of Briber; to
ALLEGED GRAFT CASES
"Beer King" Fac^ Another Charge
of Bribery and is Implicated In
Two Other Cases?John Black,
Former Dispensary Director, to
Be Tried This Week.
James S. Farnum. on trial at Co
lumbia for several days on the charge
?of bribery in connection with the
['alleged 'dispensary "Graft," walked,
from the Rjebland county court,
house Saturday afternoon a tree man,
the jury, after six hours deliberation
having returned a verdict of "dot
guilty." ' 1
He is charged in several other
indictments, but unless he is tried
along with others on a charge of1,
conspiracy his case will not come*1
up at this term of court.
Thus has ended one of the most
brilliant legal combats in the his
tory of jurisprudence in South Caro
lina; ? Of special significance is the
fact also that the State has not made
good on the first of the alleged
dispensary graft cases that was
awaited with so much interest. '
The jury took only one ballot
and stood at first 11 for acqulttajP.
and one for conviction, according*,
to the statement of one of the jurors^
The losing of the first case will not
deter the State from pushing the
charges against the others that are^
indicted according to an intimation
by Attorney General Lyon.
Attorney General Lyon when ask
ed convefning the trial shortly after
the verdict bad been rendered by'
the jury be said: "I have nothing
to say, the testimony in the case
6peaks for itself.''
He made no definite statement as*
to the future action of the State
other than to state that the case
against John Black, charged with ac:
cepting a bribe would very prob
ably be called on Wednesday. This
statement was made in the court
Saturday afternoon on the request
of Judge Memmlnger, who had pre
viously asked that other cates be
..triefl ..during next week other than
the remaining "one agaibst Farnpro.
Not talking officially, the attorney
general however, intimated that the
first defeat would not deter ihp
course of the State in reference to.
the other indictment' in the allege^
dispensary "graft," ? -
When pressed for an official state
ment, the attorney general said, "I
have heard it rumored that the !jury
declined to bring in a verdict against
?the defendant because "they woi^tf
.not convict on the testimony of ah..
accomplice. If this.rule is to be.fol
lowed It will always be a practica?'
Impossibility to ever convict one for
bribery, for testimony in such cas
es, must always come from an ac
complice."
The attorneys for the defense wore
naturally very much gratified at
the result of the trial. ?
EAT*} FROM BOY'S HAM).
Reptile Nibbles Bread in Fist of
Sleeping Chiid.
A Chicago dispatch says .Mr. J.
Martin Grant, of K. F. I). No. 2,
who was in the city Friday, tol.d of
a thrilling adventure at Mr. A. Ross
Durham's Friday night, in which Mr.
Durham',', little son, Charlie, was
subjected to great peril from the
presence of a deadly snake. It
seems that the little fellow had gone
asleep on the porch after supjver with
a biscuit In his- hand, when Mrs.
Durham who had been attracted to
the porch, was horrified to see a
tremendous highland mocc-usin nib
bling at the biscuit and endeavoring
to wrench it away. With a scream
she jerked the boy back and a col
ored domestic dispatched the snake
with a ho?1. The reptile wa*- intent
on the bread, and after the child was
drawn away, went quietly on eating,
the bread, which bad been left on
the Moor. *
AUTO TURNS OVER.
Kills Lady and Catches Vive, Roast
ing a Man Alive.
One person was burned lo death,
.'?nother instantly killed and a third
burned, when an automobil.', driven
by .lohn McLondon, ran off an eight
foot embankment near Amerieus,
Ca.. on last Friday. McI>'!idon and
Miss Viola Herman, one of bis com
panions, were pinioned beneath the
wrecked car, which caught lire.
Ethel Hilt, another member of the
party, although severely bi;rn?d, ran
screaming to Amerieus two miles dis
tant to give the alarm. Miss Her
man's neck was broken by the fall
and death was instantaneous, but
McLondon was literally roasted
ali vi?. *
Sav?'d From Storm.
Tabs of hardship and destruction
fif lit"'* and property continue to come
in from the Gulf storm of las; week.
In Grand Caillon, La., floating on
a bit of plank was found a nine
month-old baby, alive after three
days without food.