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S Two White Hen Lynched at Tampa, Ha., For Shooting a White Man. PROMINENT ITALIANS Were the Victims of the Lawless Slob.?They Had Been Arrested anil Were Being Carried to Bar* racks When Small Mob Halted th Conveyance and Procured Them. . {While being transported to the county jail Tuesday night about nine o'clock at Tampa, Fla., Castenge Flccarotta and Angelo Albano, twb prominent Italians, who have made .themselves ? conspicuous in. the cigar strike here, were taken from deputy sheriffs at Howard and Grand Cen tral avenues, hurried to a heavily wooded tract nearby and hanged to ... the same limb. Both men were arrested about 3lx o'clock In the afternoon by a deputy sheriff charged with being accessor ies to U/} shooting of J. D. Easter ling, the bookkeeper of Bustlllo Brothers and Diaz several! days ago. They were locked *up in the west Tampa barracks for a short time and after nine o'clock were taken out, placed In a hack and started .to wards the county jail In Tampa. They were accompanied by Deputy Sheriffs Evans and Bryan. When . the hack in which the four men were - riding reached Howard and Grand Central avenues a squad of armed men, estimated in numbers from 50 ' to 75 halted the party. The officers were told to get out, and. the driver ordered to turn around. The pris oners, handcuffed to' each other, wer? then ordered to alight. ? As the two prisoners were march-j ed off the two officers hurried to the nearest telephone and sent a mes sage to police headquarters. Ijtfhea Police Chief Woodward ar rived at the ? scene no one was in ?eight. He was greeted with the gruesome sight of the dangling bod ies in the moonlight. A hasty examination was made but there wa? no clue upon which the officers could, proceed. The two dep uty sherics, when questioned stated that|they beHev^ttevlynching party; . was n composed ? of Italians and \Cu bans, and would be able to identify aoiae of them if they could be . brought face to face with them. [When the bodies were cut down at 11 o'clcok it was found that the nec _v essity for hanging both to the same ^jimb arose when the mob failed In an effort to sever the chain connecting the handcuffs. Ficcarotto had Ms pipe gripped firmly in his teeth and wore his hat. Following the discovery of the bodies wiid excitement; reigned. . At midnight a crowd estimated at 2,000 persons had gathered and the real tensity of feeling, resultant from the strike now on in Tampa was evi denced. ' Flcarrotta and Albano, it is charg- j ed. havo made themselves conspicu ous recently In the labor troubles be-1 tween the manufacturers and cigaf j makers. (Marshal Logan, of the West .Tampa force, stated that he has an eye witness who will testify that Al bano was the man who fired the shot which seriously wounded J. D. Easterling, and that Flcarrotta was a conspicuous member of the crowd gathered in front of the Bustlllo brothers factory at the time of the assault. Eight months ago Flcarrotta was ?tried on a charge of murdering his uncle, G. Flcarrotta, a prominent wholesale dealer of West Tampa. He was acquitted for lack of sufficient evidence, and as he was being carried \ to jail Tuesday night he made the re 1 mark that he had escaped hanging on a charge of murder, and that he supposea he would escape on this minor charge. The police do not believe that the execution of these two Italians has any bearing on the local strike sit uation, alleging that It is rather the result of recent feuds between cer tain elements of the local Italian col ony. Deputy Sheriff Keaggin, how ever, who arrested the two men ear lier in the evening, stated, that he was approached by a number of peo ple who asked at what time the two , men would be sent to the county jail. THEY WANT IT BACK. A Movement in Darlington to Vote on the Dispensary. A special dispatch to The News; and Courier says petitions addressed to the county supervisor, praying for an election on the question of dis pensary or no dispensary, are 'be ing circulated and freely signed in Darlington county. There are those who profess to see in the recent elec tion returns in that county a will ingness, on the part of the people to abandon what they term the "howl ing farce" of prohibition, and return to some saner way of regulating the sale of alcholic drinks. Some of the strongest anti-dispensary men of for mer days are Interesting themselves In behalf of the present effort to have a vote and, it Is said, that the petitions are being more readily sign ed a this time, than when an effort was made about two years ago, to have an election on the question. i LES A WEEK* TEDDY LOSES FIGHT BARNES OLAD1S THAT SHERMAN HAS DEFEATED HIM. He Thinks That Roosevelt's Fight for the Chairmanship is a Viola tion of Political Ethics. A clear majo'ritf'Nof 55 votes for the selection of Resident Sher man as tempor( , ^ ot tne New York State \ ^ Conven tion over Col. Roosev^W ?4? v^ed by William Barnes, Jr>x^, of the up-State prlmariesN^a Mr. Barnes, who has been lei?.^ the fight of the "oM guard," declare^ that the real content at Saratoga will be in the committee on resolutions. This committee will consider the question of direct lominatlons. Mr. Barnes gavo out this statement: The resuK of primaries ends the contest over the temporary chairman, and gives Vice President Sherman a clear majority of 55 votes. Interest narurally centres Li the personal ele ment, but there are involved in this situation two principles of ";reat im portance to the Republican party. The first may be culled orderly polit ical management. Mr. Roosevelt was defeated in the State committee by a vote of 20 to 15 imd then Mr. Sher man was unanimously chosen as the temporary presiding officer of the State convention. To question that determination on the floor of the convention is equiva lent to bolting a aomination. This is known as political welching and had Mr. Roosevelt defeated Mr. Sher man in the State committee that would have been the end of . that con troversy, Mr. Roaiievelt has not act ed as Mr. Sherman would have done in questioning the unanimous ac tion of the committee. They are equal before the party. Mr. Roos velt has no superior rights as man than ony other man. Secondly, the real contest at Sara toga will be in the committee on res olutions. There the party creed for two years will be proclaimed. There must be determined whether the party Is to be turned over to 'my policies'' borrowed from Bryan, or to remain steadfast in the faith which has given victory in the past. I have done what I could in the public preBs to warn Republicans of the Roose velt danger and at the primaries to secure delegates who will riot rusn madly to the . worship of false.;.gods. We have won. . -.. ? WIN THEIR FIGHT. High Rate of Duty on Cotton Bag ging is Reduced. ?Domestic cotton ginners have won ah Important victory at New York In the board of United State general ap praisers which' has just decided that so-called "patches" for covering cot 1 ton are not subject to the high rate of duty recently exacted by the Treasury Department ; The board also denies the conten tion of the government that the sten cilling of a single name or word on cotton bales constitutes "printing" within the meaning of the latter word as used, in the tariff acts. The merchandise Involved In the test case consists of jute bagging, thirty by fifty-four inches in dimen sions, imported for use in patches to cover holes in cotton bales produced by sampling the cotton. The collector of customs at New Orleans returned the merchandise for duty at the rate of 45 per cent as "woven fabrics of vegetable fiber." The importers' claim was for duty at 6-10th of 1 per cent, per square yard as bagging. This contention the board sustains, the New Orleans collector being reversed. The collector contended that the merchandise was taken out of the provisions claimed by the importers on the ground that the patches were "printed," although the printing con sisted of but a single word on each patch. The board holds that the stenciling was only for identification. CHARGED <FO OPERATOR. Four Killed and Two Injured in a Freight Collision. Four men were killed and two in jured in a head-on collision between a Mobile and Ohio and Iron Moun tain freight train, Sunday near Beech Ridge, 111., The dead: Claud Rollins, engineer; M. and O.; A. S. Rossner, fireman, M. and O.; W. E. Stevenson, brake man. IM. and 0.? all of Jackson, Tenn.; unidentified negro. Witnesses testified before the cor oner's jury Sunday afternoon that Operator Charles Clark, who was on duty at Beech Ridge, had been drink ing and failed to transmit train or ders. Clark was arrested, charged with responsibility for the wreck. Kills at Postoffice. ?At Vernon, Te:\as., in the midst of a throng waiting for the Sunday mail at the postoifice Sunday morning, Dr. A. P. Howard, a prominent physician, shot and killed H. A. Burns. The cause is not known. Dr. Howard surrendered. Wreck i:u Antipodes. The British ship Carnavaran Bay, from Liverpool, June 20? for Syd ney, has been wrecked on King Is land. The captain and 20 men have been picked up, but a second boat with 15 men aboard is missing. OKASrOBB?KG, FEARFUL CRIME WOMEN AND CHILDREN MUR DERED BY BURGLARS. Mother and Three Little Ones Bra tally Slain by Marauder in West ?Chester, Pa. 'Mrs. John Zoos and her three chil dren, a boy, aged 7 years, and two girls, aged 7 months and three years, respectively, were murdered late on Tuesday afternoon at Byers, a small ,xyu about 12 miles from West ynester, Pa. Suspicion points to a /laborer who has disappeared, but whom the police are makng a des perate effort to locate. The husband and father was the first to discover the horrible crime. While on his way home from the Plumbago mines, where he Is employ ed. Zoos saw the body of his 7 year old son along side the roadway. Upon investigating he found that the child had been terribly cut about the head and was unconscious. The distracted father took the child in his arms and rushed to his home, a short distance away. Here a terrible sight met his gaze. Lying on the floor in the little kit-j chen were the bodies of his two lit tle girls and his wife, the latter still breathing but with her brains oozing from a great gash in the skull. The almost frantic father rushed from the house and gave the alarm. A physician was quickly summoned but a glance told him that there was no hope for the wife. Attention was then turned to the wounded boy. He was placed In an automobile and a quick run was or dered for the hospital, a distance of eight miles. Just as the automobile was In sight of the hospital the little fellow breathed his last. It waB evident that the murderer had gone to the Zoos home for the purpose of robbery and the fact that the three persons in the dwelling were disposed of by the brutal bur iglar would seem to bear out the theory of the police that the robber was familiar with the Zooses and murdered the family upon being re cognized. At the time the woman and the little girl were murlered the boy was at school. It is svpposed he met the slayer of his two sisters and mother when a short distance from home and the murderer, knowing | that the child would recognize hlm| and give a clue to the authorities, slew the little fellow. The weapon used by the murderer) was an axe, the pole of which was j covered with blood and brains from the mother and children. The house had been ransacked and $45 which Zoos claims to have had in his home is missing. WANTS FACTIONS UNITED. - '? -? Taylor Urges AH Tennessee .Y)enio-| crats to-Stand Together. At Nashville United States Senator Robert L. Taylor, Monday night is jsued an address to the Democrats of Tennessee, urging the party factions to reunite "in! a common cause against the Republican party and its allies." He declares, that the action of Governor Patterson in withdraw ing from the race wiped out every ! reason for division. The Republican candidate, he says, "has been en dorsed by a convention composed of gentlemen who claim that, ib Dem ocrats, they had tacitly obligitated themselves before the August elec tion to support the Republican nom inee for Governor. "The pledge may be binding upon individuals," he continues, "but surely a few leaders had no right to bind the people or to barter the votes [of Democrats." The Senator calls upon "all Demo crats of every shade of opinion and Of both wings of the party to join me in the thickest of the fight, for I intend to prosecute the war to the bitter end." He urges all counties to send delegates to send delegates I to send delegates to the State con vention at Nashville on October 6th. WANTS GENERAL PRIMARY LAW. Proposes a Conference of Governors to Consider It. A congress of governors of the various States to outline a primary law for general use throughout the country was the plan outlined by John A. Dix, chairman of the New York Democratic State committee, at a conference Friday afternoon with 200 Democratic leaders of S^ratr.ga county. Mr. Dix also advoev.ed a State law that wtuld prevent the) use of funds by corporatlonj la cor rupting legislators. He told hl3 hearers that the time has come to place citizenship above partisanship to accomplish re'orms. Will Stretch Hemp. For the murder of Officer Waldrop at Piedmont about two months ago. Bunk Sherard, a young negro, was Friday sentenced at Greenville by Judge Gary to hang on the first Fri day in October. ? Fonr Men Drown in "Wreck. Four men were drowned and two others barely escaped death when the power boat Comfort was disabled and foundered off Plum Island, near Newburyport, Mass., Saturday. ? s. c, th?bsday, sepi AIM HELPS The Sooth Carolina Congressman's Speech on the Tariff to be DISTRIBUTED IN OHIO The Speech Contains Letters of Zach ? McGhee on the Conditions in Eng land, Which he Wrote The Colom bia State Some Months Ago, From the Country. Ohio is calling on South Carolina for help in her effort to do something like Maine did last Monday. Repre sentative Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville has received the following self-ex planatory letter: ?Kenton, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1910. "Hon Wyatt Aiken, Abbeville, S. C. Dear Sir: We have an excellent opportunity to elect Thomas C. Mahon to Congress from this district, the Eight Ohio, now represented by Ralph D. Cole, but we need some assistance to do it in the way of speeches upon the tariff, and I know of .no speech better calculated to help us than the one delivered by you on March 22, 1910, and I assure you that you would contribute very much toward this election if you would send in 500 or 1000 of these speeches for. distribution to independent Re publicans. "Assuring you that anything you do will be greatly appreciated, I am "Yours truly, "W. W. Durbin," Mr. Durbin Is a prominent bem Jo/criat of the Eigth Ohio district, and is taking a leading part in the effort to have that district send a Democrat to congress instead of Mr. Cole. The , fact that he desires the- speeches for distribution among Independent Republicans shows that there is some dissatisfaction, among the adherents of that party in the president's own State with "the best tariff, law ever enacted," which des cription of the law, however, had to be "revised downward" as soon as the primaries in the Middle West were heard from. Mr. Durbin feels that there are numbers of Republi cans, in the district who are ready to indicate their dissatisfaction by vot ing for a Democrat to succeed the Republican members who assisted in the making of the tariff law. The speech of- Mr. Aiken to which Mr. Durbin refers, delivered on March 22 last, .contained several of the letters written by Zach McGhee, Washington correspondent of the State, from England, dealing with conditions In that country as compar ed with those of the United States. In the course of that speech, Mr. Aiken said: "The now notorius Aldrich tariff act has created euch unrest in the public mind that It must undergo material revision by the next com gress to be elected. The people ask ed for bread they have been given a stone. "For many years the Republican party was kept in power by the bare unsupported statement on the eve of the elections that high protection en abled employers to pay higher wages to employes. This looked plausible, and the employee who did not stop to think that the same tariff advanced the price of all articles of consump tion for which he spent about 90 per cent, of his earnings would be easily duped by such statements. But light has begun to dawn upon the laboring man. In no instance has wages ad vanced permanently as promised. In this unrest we find explanation for the strikes, bread riots, meat boycotts' and all such outward expressions of subdued bitterness. I do not hesi tate to say, too, that, in my humble judgment, the people are right. The trend of all legislation in this body has been to enrich trusts and corpor ations at the cost of the very exis tence of the producer. "In the great mass of falsehood and fabrication which has been brought to bear on the tariff subject in order to fool the men who are really suffering by its operation, there is so much that Is unreliable that It must be refreshing to come into possession of facts which may not be questioned. "During the year 1909 the Wash, ington correspondent of the Colum bia (S. C.) State, one of the best newspapers in this country, without reference to locality, made a per sonal tour of inspection through the mill sections of England and the con tinent. This correspondent was Zach McGhee. I have known him from childhood. There is no man who Is capable of making a more thorough and intelligent study of the situation there, and I know of no living man whose statements would have more eweight with me. Mr. Mc , Ghee is honest, conscientious and careful, and his statements can be relied upon absolutely." Mr. Aiken then proceeded to re produce a number of Mr. McGhee's articles from abroad, dealing with the tariff situation. The Eighth Ohio District, repre sented by Ralph D. Cole, is a very close one, and there Is every resaon to believe that a Democrat will be chosen this year to represent it in the Sixty-second congress. Mr. Cole was elected two years ago by a voto' af 24,476, as against 23,271 for his' Democratic opponent?a aiajority of( only 1,205 votes out of nearly 50,- j 000. The Socialist and Prohibition-1 'EMBER 22, 1910. WRITES OF THE SHOOTING MAYOR GAYNOR RELATES HIS IMPRESSION OP IT. After Being Shot Was Conscious of Terrible Metallic Roar Which Fill ed Head Almost to Bursting. Mayor William J. Gaynor, of New York, in a letter to his sister, Miss Mary E. Gaynor, of Utica, New York, which is printed in the Evening Post, tells in an'interesting manner of his impression at the time he was shot on the steamship Kaiser Wilheim Der Grosse. The mayor says that he has not read a line of what has been published of the shooting, nor does he remember the name of the man who shot him. Going over the incident of the shooting, Mayor Gay nor, after stating that Robert Adam son, his secretary, pointed out that the ship was.dressed with flags for him, said: "My next consciousness was of a terrible metallic roar in my head. It filled my head, which seemed as though it would burst open. It .swell ed to the highest pitch and then fell, and then rose again, and so alternat ed until it subsided Into a continu ous buzz. It was sickening, but my stomach did not give way. I was meanwhile entirely sightless. "I do not think I fell, ,for when I became conscious I was on my feet. IMy sight gradually returned. I be came conscious that I was choking. Blood was coming Into my mouth and I tried to swallow it so as those around me would not see it. But I found I could not swallow and then knew my throat was hurt. "It seem ed as though it were dislocated. I struggled to breathe through my mouth, but could not, and thought I was dying of strangulation. 1 kept thinking all the time the best thing to do. "I was not a bit afraid to die, if that was God's wiii to me. I said to myself, just as well now as a few years from now. "In some way I happened to close my mouth tight and found I breath ed perfectly through my nose. I then believed I could keep from smothering, but I kept choking, and my mouth kept opening to cast out the 'blood. Though the thing had not entered my head that morning I was not surprised when I realized 1 was shot. I had had a feeling for some weeks, that I might be assault ed on account of the annoymous threats I was getting by mail." Mayor Gaynor, In the letter, scor ed certain newspapers for the man ner in which they had criticised him, saying that "the time Is at hand when these journalistic scoundrels have got to stop or get out, and I am ready now to do my share to that end." Robert Adaimson, the mayor's sec retary, said to-night that the may or's condition continues to Improve, and that he plans to return to his desk at City Hall on October 3. BRYAN AGAINST LIQUOR. Refuses to Talk for Candidate for Governor. In a statement in which he de clares that the crusade which he feels impelled to wage against the liquor interests of the State and na tion overshadows a personal political friendship of 20 years, William J. Bryan this evening announced that he had bolted the head of the Dem ocratic State ticket in Nebraska and would not support James C. Dahl man for governor.. Mr. Bryan sayB he regrets that he is compelled to take the stand he does?his first de parture from political .regularity? but says he feels it his duty to do so because of position taken by the Democratic nominee on the liquor question. The statement, which in, in a way, In an apolegetic tone, does not indicate that Mr. Bryan will sup port the candidate of any other par ty, but announces that he is a pre judiced advocate of county option and the early closing saloon law, both of which he says are menaced by Mr. Dahlman's candidacy. Row Over a Dog. As the result of a quarrel at Per ryville, Ark., over a dog, Dub Thur man, aged 18, died Tuesday night, and Bob Owen, aged twenty, is charg ed with the killing. Thurman was fatally stabbed on Saturday night in a fight which followed Owen throw ing a rock at the former's dog. Shots from Ambush. Ed Sherrod and J. F. Hewitt were shot to death from ambush, at Cooks Camp, twenty miles north of Hunts ville, Tenn., Sunday. Pending in vestigation, John Bunch and son, Joe Low, Nelson Low, Jack Low and Jack Bradley are in jail. Deadly Gasoline. Mrs. Anna Belica, of Chicago, and two children, Frances and Joseph, wero burned to death by an explosion of gasoline Tuesday. Two other chil dren were probably fatally burned. The accident took place when Mrs. Belica tried to start the kitchen fire with the liquid. 1st candidate received 1,231 votes in the district, and the Democrats are trying to win the supporters of these tickets on tho plea that the tariff j demands more immediate attention than does the cause of socialism orj prohibition. GIRL TRIED SHOT SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY. IN A LEXINGTON CASE. Y'oung Woman Goes on Stand and Says She Shot at a Man Because He had Wronged Her. There was surprise in the Lexing ton Counrt room Monday when Miss Buff took the witness stand and ad mitted that she fired the shot at the three Hendrix men for which offense her father, M. B. Buff, and Artie Buff were on trial, the charge be ing assault and batery with intent to kill. Miss Buff stated that she tried to shoot John Hendrix because he had wronged her under promise of marriage. The first case to be called was that of M. B. Buff and Artie Buff, father and son, defendants, who, it is al leged, made an assault upon Jno. W. Hendrix, Sr., John W. Hendrix, Jr., and James Hendrix on the 25th of March while the three were pass ing along the road in front of the house of the accused. The three men swore that the elder Buff and his son fired two shots at them. The defendants claim that the shots were not fired by either of them, but that Miss Malissa Buff, a daughter of M. B. Buff and a sister of Artie Buff, fired the shots. The young woman went on the stand and admitted that she did the shooting; that John Hendrix, Jr., had, under promise of marriage, wronged her and that she wanted to get revenge. She said that neither her father nor brother knew that, she was going to shoot, and that Artie Buff took the gun away from her after she had fired the second shot. Miss Buff is just 18 years old, and made a star . witness. All of the parties are prominent farmers of the Hebron section of Lexington coun ty, and a large crowd has been in at tendance upon the trial. - M. B. Buff, one of the defendants, is a Confederate soldier. The pros ecutor,, Jno. W. Hendrix, Sr., is a former county commissioner. YOUNG WOMAN TRIES SUICIDE. Wife of Spartanburg Editor May Die From Wonnd. At Spartanburg Mrs. Max Henrici, nee Miss Ernestine Vaughan, made a second and perhaps" successful' at tempt to end her life Monday af ternoon, by shooting herself with a revolver in the right side. The ball from a 38-calibre pistol entered be tween the sixth and seventh ribs, riercing the right lung, and, ner haps, other organs. Her condition is considered critical tonight. About two months ago Mrs. Hen rici jumped into East River, New York, and was barely saved by a passer-by. She ib thought to be men tally unbalanced. At a private his-, pital, where she was taken soon al ter the shooting'occurred, a numher ?.of X-ray photographs have been tak en in an effort to locate the bail, but at 8 o'clock to-night the sur geons say the photographs do njt an! them much. Mr. and Mrs. Henrici were married five months ago under most roman tic cirsumstances. As Miss Vaughan, she entered a story in the New York Herald contest, which Mr. Henrici was conducting. After she was de clared the winner he came to Spar tanburg and, after a brief courtship, they.were married. Their married life has been a peculiarly happy one. QPr. Henrci U at present city editor of the Spartanburg Herald. No cause is assigned for Mrs. Hen rici's act. She was alone when the shot was fired and has made no statement that has reached the pub lic. Since being at her home here she has been apparently in the best of spirits and with the exception of occasional periods of despondency has been as well and cheerful as us ual. CONFESSES DOUBLE MURDER. Girl Shows Axe Used to Kill Her Father and Uncle. At Arkansas City, Kansas, Ebby Sheppard, 16 years old, daughter of J. W. Shepard, who, with his brother, Taylor, was murdered at their home in Newkirk, Okla., Friday morning, confessed Sunday to County Attorney Burns and Sheriff Rader that she killed the two men. In her confes sion she declared the cause of the crime was that the men whipped her. She went to the woodshed, secured an axe. with which the crime was committed, and gave it to the offi cers. The girl has always been con sidered feeble minded. Robbed by Bandit. After robbing W. K. Ewing, a well known business man of San Antonio, Texas, and his companions, two prominent society women, of money and jewels valued at $1,400 two masked highwaymen seized their au tomobile and escaped. Mr. Ewing and party were on the way to a club near the city. Fatal Train Wreck. Ten persons were killed and 25 injured by a collision between ex press trains Tuesday near Rottehe mann, Austria . Prince von Honenlo he-Schillingsfurst, governor of Tries te, was on one of the trains but es caped without injury. TWO CENTS PEB COPY T BY A THUG Killed in Ejecting a Negro From the Room of His Daughters -? 1 IN HIS CHICAGO HOME Charles D. Hiller, he Father, Who Was Aroused by the Would-in- As* sailant of the Young Ladies CrleSy. Discovers the Fiend, Who Shoots Him Fatally. Wm. A. Jones, a negro was part ly identified Monday afternoon g? the slayer of Charles D. Hiller, was shot in defending his daughter^* from an intruder, who had entered* his residence in Chicago rhrrmg^ their bedroom window. Jones succeeded in concealing a? bullet wound in his wrist for hours while being grlUctt by Polio Cap-" tain Collins, at the South Engle wood police station. The injury be trayed itself when blood i begaa triqkldng down the colored man's hand and onto the floor. The ptrls oner declared that he wounded him self accidentally yesterday, but Capt Collins declared the wound to be? comparatively fresh. The latter expressed ,hls belief that Jones fired while struggling - with Hiller, his left arm?the on* injured?being around Hiller's ba?fc and receiving a bullet that had pass ed through the latter's body.. ' ' - When taken into custody Jones** carried a revolver, every, cbamhesr - of which was loaded, but which, 12? police declare, smelled strongly burnt powder. Hiller .was. chief local freight cledt of the Rock Island { Railroad.* He was aroused at an. earlx.hour tMs^" morning- by the screams of his daugh ters, Florence,, aged 12, and Clarice, i aged 18, who slept together.. Fter>- ; ence told Capt. Collins that she was? ? awakened to her danger by feeeling a rough heard against ber face. Sb? said the face was that of a negier - but could not be certain of other de- ? tails. She declared that the clothing- - worn by Jones tallies with that Id ' which her assailant was garbed. In answer to -her cries, Hiller ? rushed to the^bedroom and grappled* with the'intr. lew They, rolled dowia ? the stairs locked In each others arms* Then the negro began firing, three*: bullets entering the railroad man'ff body. His grasp relaxed and the* murderer escaped. Detectives ar rested Jones when he rushed from 3. clump of bushes near the HUlcr* house and swung onto a car going; ?' toward the city. ... Mrs. Elizabeth McNabb ideutifledl ? Jones as the man who had entered! her home earlier in the night. Mrs.. . McNabb says the negro entered her* < home and found his way to the bed room, where she and her daughter.* were sleeping. He laid his band om the latter's arm and she awoke and! screamed. This frightened the in truder away. "At first I thought it was my lit tle brother, Gerald, who had com* into our room," said Florence Hlller,. "Gerald, what are you doing heref Go back to your room," I said "Then I felt that awful beardl against my face and yelled." PATIENT KIELS DOCTOft. WTho Failed to Cure Him As He Ha<5 Promised to Do. Armed with a revolver, a pair of" brass knucks and an open knife and* awaiting his turn in the office of Dr? J. R. Sewell, at Atlanta, W. M. Cox", aged 36, of Austell, Ga., shortly af ter noon Monday shot and instantly killed the physician just as the lat ter was emerging from the operating; room. Cox then turned the pistol oni himself and pulled the trigger. He? is now at the Grady hospital with ai fractured skull. Cox wen to Atlanta from his homo in Austell Tuesday morning for the: purpose, it is said, of visiting Dr.. Sewell, whose patient he had beea for several weeks. It is understood, he had been brooding for some timei because of fancied wrongs at the* hands of the physician. He has stat ed, it is said, that the physiciair. promised to cure him of a chronic disease in return for $100, but in stead of getting better he har", be come wcrse. There were no witnesses to the^ shooting, although another patient, who had just left the physician's of fice a few seconds previously heard! the shots and *;non running back, found Dr. Sewell dying and Cox un conscious on the floor. Dr. SewelL, who is 4 6 years of age, is survived by a wife and six children. Cox is unmarried. A coroner's jury has or dered Cox held for investigation pending his recovery. Murder and Suicide. At Abbeville, Ga., B. Manass Mor&j day shot and killed Mrs. Cole H. Wil liams, wife of former Mayor Wil liams, because he believed she had interfered to prevent the sucess of his suit for the hand of her sister, Mrs. Eugene Robal, a widow. As Mrs. Williams collapsed he turned his revolver on the widow, wound ing her on the hip and then killed