The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, November 29, 1910, Image 1
F?BLISHED^PHElBE-TE
BOTHW
De?S Mies of' fef taie&ff?le Lads
E??Kdais- B'ome . on Thursday for a
?t^^fc^rtng-VBay. Hunt:r Prentiss
Moore and Guy Rogers Not Heard
From Until Searching Parties Find
? Their Remains in Branch.
The dead bodies of Guy Rogers
aad Prentiss Moore were found Sat
urday morning about ten o'clock. The
. two boys left their home In Bennetts
vflle early Thursday morning for a
boating trip; They went to Gardner's
Blnff, hitched the^f horse'and'buggy;
. and nothing definite could be learn
ed of their whereabouts until the;
todies we-o found.
Prentiss Moore, aged 11, the son
of' Mrs. Emily E. Moore, was- found
lying ou the south side of a branch;
aS>9n^:five feet.de.fp. His feet we^e
toward the bottom of the branch
and .he. .blutched a briar between' his.
fingers. Examination showed that
t^C load from;a shotgun had entered*
the side near the "edge of the shoulder
1 Wade and;ranged toward the middle
of the chest, passing through the
body. The entire load, shot and wad;
was lying underneath his clothes
Sa front of the chest.
Guy Rogers, aged 15,' son of N. B.
Rogers, <county treasurer, was found
ia the bottom of the branch, only a
. Jtew feet from the body of little
Bfcore. His face wps- turned to the
ground; his body was nearly in a
' knetling position, with the head, in
the edge of the water in a puddle )
o! blood. He, too, waB wounded with j
* ehotgun, the load entering direct
ly into, the heart from the front,
passmg through the chest, shattering
j iho ribs on the back side, some
skot. burying themselves in the skin
in the back.
One wad, that between the powder
and shot, was found inside the shirt
near the wound. The wound in
young Roger's body ranged slightly
oowa from the front. A double bal
. relied shotgun was found on the
brink of the branch, the muzzle
..aUghtly elevated, pointing > toward
the ditch, one trigger cocked and in
thti breech* was."caught"a'small part
of the shirt of young Rogers. One
barrel, the one with the cocked trig
ger, was found ompty; the second
barrel contained an empty shell. An-j
other empty shell was found within,
a few inches of the muzzle of the!
sun.
The branch runs through a broad j
field. An overgrown hedge covered !
the banks of the branch, which is;
about five feet deep and about six
feet wide at the top. Within about
150 yards is a negro cabin. An old
faegro woman who lives there said
that she saw | the boys out there
shooting, but that she paid* no atten
tion to them and knew nothing of
their disappearnace. Within half a
mile away there are three' other
houses. The point where the boys
bltehed their horse was about a quar
ter of a mile of where their bodies
were found.
Thursday'night and Friday morn
lag searching parties were out look-;
SSag for the boys: The party was in
creased largely Friday night and with
lanterns the entire swamp on this
aide of the river was carefully search
ed.
A party was again formed Satur
day momlng, many who bad been
oat all night renewing the search,
which was begun at the place where
the boys were last seen, with the
understanding that it was to spread
gradually and take In every foot of
the ground.
.? The portion of ground where the
boys were found was assigned to a
party among whom were Frank
<3rosland and W. C. Carlisle. Mr.
<3rosland was riding horseback up
the branch when he saw the body of
young Moore.
rThe bodies remained as they were
found until the coroner empaneled
his jury, when they were moved and
an examination made by Dr. W. J.
Crosland. The jury made a thor
?ogh examination and took the testi
mony of every one In the immediate
vicinity. It Is practically impossible
to harmonize facts with the theory
of accident, yet nothing has develop
ed to point concluRively to the theory
of murder. ?
Shot Him About Rent.
As a result of a quarrel over some
rent cottton on their place. Matt
laall shot and fatally wounded Jesse
Hall. The men quarrelled Wednes
day and next morning Matt Hall en
tered the store of Jesse Hall at
Thompson. Ga., and emptied a load
?of buckshot into tho latter's left
aide.
Money in Cotton.
The will of Hugh T. Tnman. who
for many years was one of the best
known cotton traders in the Soutn.
was probatod at Atlanta Tuesday and
showed an estate valued at from S3.
000,000 to $5.000.000. Much of It
was in real estate.
Accidentally Shot.
At Spartanburg, Virgil Hlggias;
aged 14, was killed by his compan
ion Thursday when the latter's gun
fclon Thursdat when the latter's gun
was discharged. ?
OS--A-WEEK*
SAILORS MUTINIED'
(SEIZED WAR VESSELS A5ID
' SHELLED RIO JANERJQ.
? ? ?ijiti:?_
Iplling Oiie Woman and Two Chd
driesn in .the City,?Several Officer
and Men idlled.
:: At. Rio Janerlo, Brazil, the ,crews
.of two battleships of the Brazilian,
iBB^m^%^'r^^*?jj^ arid/.'turn
'Bd/.the-jr guns upon the loyal ships
and also threw a few shells into the!
elty. During the outbreak several
officers were killed. The fighting j
-ceased at night, but the ??evolvers!
remained In possession of the two
vessels.
It is ^officially stated the trouble is
not of a political character and
should be described as a mutiny
among the sailors to enforce certain
concessions from their officers rath
er'than a'irevolt' against the' adminis
tration ojf' Pres 1 de n t ?' Fousec a.
< For. s?ine time the men of the
navy had beep agitating the matter
of more pay. They also objected to
the piraptices of. the nayy inflicting
p'qrporal punishment upon surbordi- J
nate or otherwise offending 'sailors.
A private cable dispatch from Rioj
Janerio aa'ys that' the' captain of the j
Brazilian battieship Minns Geraes I
pud several officers and men were
Killed during the naval disturbance
^rVjBdcesday night.
I A woman and two children were
killed by the shells thrown in the
city.
The Chamber of Deputies Friday)
evening in a vote of 114 to 2.3, pass
ed a resolution granting amnesty to |
the mutinous sailors on board the
battleships Minas Geraes and Sao J
Paulo, the coast defence ships Mar- i
shal Floriane and Marshal de Odora, J
and the scout ship Bahia. The Sen-j
ate had unanimously passed the mea
sure Thursday.
Immediately after the lower house
] had voted to pardon the sailors for
j having mutinied and killed several
of their, officers and thrown shells- in
! to the city. President Foaseca au
thorized Deputy Carvalho to visit
the Sao Paulo and confer with the
mutineers.
Meantime, the mutinous vessels,
which had been waiting outside the
bar since noon for a signal to* come
in, put to sea and disappeared. Their
destination was-not made known.
While the revolt lasted the peo
, pie of the. city.jwere kept in, a state
of suspense, fearing that the muti
neers would make good their threat
to blow up thee eCapitol unless their
wishes were met. ?
SHOT TWO WOMEN.
I Crazed by Jealousy is Said to be the
Cause for the Act.
Frank Rickets shot and killed his
j wife and Mrs. Nellie Britton. wi'h
whom she had' been living in an
[apartment In the business center of
Anderson, Indiana, Thursday. Rlck
| ets, who was arrested, declared that
,he had shot the two women att?-j
his wife had shot at him. Rickets was j
maddened with jealousy because his ]
wife had been separated from him
for several months.
A policeman attracted by the
! sound of shots rushed to the build
i.ing, found Riskets ?,-?th a revolver
in his hand and the bodies of ilis
i women lying in an upper hahway.
Rickets attempted to shoot himself,
but the policeman snatched the re
volver from him. *
HOSE WAGON SMASHES BUGGY.
Crasho* Into Vehicle on Square at
Durlington.
While on the way to a fire Friday
morning at 9 o'clock in response to
an alarm turned in Trom the tr1
warehouse section of DafilngtCA, th<
hose wagon collided with a b 01-29 OJt
the square and came near Kllli">o tiu
occupants Charlie Law, a
who drives for one of the sales stv
hies of the town, was driving through
ithe square near the corner of Ca
Ishua street '.vhen the fire team dash
ed around the corner, meeting him
i The buggy ?"as torn all to pieces.
{and Law was though.'; to he seriously
hurt. Medical aid happened to oe
near, however, and the negro
getting alonji all right later in vie
day ?
Right Injured in Wreck.
Ki^lt: persons were Injured (none
faintly i when Missouri Pacific pas
senger train. No. <:ollided with a
freight 'rain at Ott er vi lie, Mo, Fri
day afternoon. The freight train had
drawn in on a switch to allow the
passenger train to pass, hut did not
entir*1v eloar the main track and '.tu1
d /estilted. ?
Kills Wife aw. Another.
At Anderson, fnd . Frank Kicket*
shot and killed bie wife and Mrs.
Nellie Britto?, with whom she had
heen living in an apartment, in the
business centre of the city, iate Fri
day. Rirkets. who was arrested, de
clares that he shot the two woiuent
after his wife had shot at him. *
Many Out of Work.
The num'!>er of unemployed in the
I'nited States is estimated at 1,500.
000 by the investigating board of
thp Howery mission in New York.
About 15 per cent, of them are said
to be in New York city and vicinity.
0BA2TO&BUBG.
FOUGHT A BATTLE
MEXICAN TROOPS AND MEXICAN
REBELS MEET AGAIN.
Hoots, Repulsed and Retreated to
the Mountains.
Rebels, in a Fight of Some Five
? -In an engagement near Chichau
bau, Mexico, Saturday, which lasted
[from 9 o'clock in the morning until
2 in the afternoon, six hundred Fed
ieral troops rounted a force of four
hundred rebels, driving them repeat
iedly from strong positions and com
pelling them to take to .the wooded
l mountains. The revolutionists lost
j fillteen killed and many wounded.
! There weere no fatalities or. the Fed
eral siderbut several including, three
officers, were woundtd.
j Gen. Navano was in command of
the Federal troops. He left Chlhua
khs.u at 5 o'clock Saturday morning,
[at the bead of four companies'of the
2nd batallion and two squads of cal
vary from the. 13th regiment. Near
I Fersno, twelve miles out, one of the
[ squads of calvary fell behind to
guard the road. They were ambush
ed by the rebels, who- opened fire
from bills on both sideea of the road,
Capt. Florentino Gavica, with, fifty
trropers, drove tht enemy from
their positions. CapL'Gavica waited
for a portion of the forces, who had
gone forward, to reinforce him be
fore ' pursuing; the insurrectionists.^
Meantime, the latter took a position
on another bill, a short distance
away, and prepared to resist an at
tack.
Within half an hour Gen. N'avarro
reached the scene with his infantry
and opened fire. Again the rebels
retreated, only to seek a new posi
tion, from which they were again
I dislodged. They made a determined
stand behind a stone wall. The fir
I ing was heavy and here most of the
loss of life occurred. Finally the
rebels broke for the mountains, pur
sued by the infantry for three miles.
I The calvary did not. join In the pur
suit because of the rough country.;
Behind the wall the bbdies of fif
teen rebels were found and ten dead
horses.. The Federate abandoned
the pursuit to make camp'and care
for their wounded.' Several of the
;most seriously Injured were sent to
Chichauhau for treatment. Artillery
and calvary left the same night on a
detour to intercept the revolution
ists. ; t ... .
OFFERS TO DIE FOR $200.
Chicago Man is Willing to Kill Him
self and Sell His Body.
Tired of the struggle to eke out an
existence, but wishing to have a
"good time" before he- ends his life,
Robert Tyler, startled the Chicago
police by offering to commit suicide
for $200. "I mean it. " said the
man. "You may thing I'm crazy,
but I'm not. If any medical college
in-Chicago gives me $200 I .will
agree that my body be given to it for
dissecting purposes. Two hundred
dollars would enable me to live sike
a king for about two weekB, and at
the end of that time I'd be ready to
! quit here." ? . *
SHOT BOY'S HEART OUT.
Boys with "Unloaded" Gun.?-One
Instantly Killed.
Win Hlgglns, age 15, was shot and
instantly killed at his home, near
Pacclet, Friday by an "unloaded'.'
gun in the hands of his companion,
Charlie Grlrhn, who Is about the
same age. The two boys were sit
ting on the Bteps when the gun in
some unaccountable manner dischar
ged, and the entire load took effect
in the chest of the unfortunate boy.
His heart was literally blown from
his body. Both werf well known at |
thidr homo town and the tragedy is
much regretted. The coroner held
an inquest; but attached no blame to
Griffin. ?
? ? ?
"Unloaded" Pistol Kill?.
At Spartanburg. after an "unload
ed" revolver, in the hands of Wallace
Chambers, colored, was discharged
and Will Stevens, also colored, was
killed, Chambers threw the gun to
the trround and smashed it to pieces
with an axe. He then fell over the
dead body of bis companion and cri
ed pileously. *
Conductor Kntully Hint.
At Marian na. Fla.. Conductor .Mil
bird Brooks wan throw n from a car J
on the Jarrett Lumber Company's'
road and died before he could be j
soiten to a physician Death result
ed in about a half hour after ih<- ac-1
[cideui happened and Brooks never I
I retrained consciousness after ibe j
i fnii *j
Some Quick Work.
At Nashville. Teno., a new church J
building was constructed from the"
foundation painted and furniture in-.
stall-?I in oil.- day through the com- |
bincd efforts of .three Christian!
Churches; and ri service held in it j
that night. There were about 1 ?0 [
workers and tin task was finished in |
ten hours. *
Convicl Attacks While M:iti
Alleging ihai the while man bad
iiin, whipped while he was a convict
on the Chatham county farms, at
Savannah. Ga.. E. J. Williams, a ne
gro, attempted to assault Britt Rog
erB.- was shot and killed. *
TweBty-Fi?e' Toimg Women Croelly Boro
ed or Cruiucd Ig Dieath
ON STONE PAVEMENT
Horrible .Scenes Witnessed When j
Young Women^Eniplqyed "in Four j
Story Factory/Bnildihg. Attempt to
Escape from the Blazing Structure
by Leaping from Upper Stories.
At Newark. N.yJ.. Saturday morn
ing, in ten.uiinu jai'.twenty-Eve t'oung
women were burned alive or crush
ed to death on-th? psverrent in leap
ing from the - Windows und fire es
capes of the fonr-etdry brick factory
at the corner ! of'Orangfj'and High
Streets. Fifty: were taken to hospi
tals, two of whom may die. Among
the Injured is Jo?e 'E. Slloan, a fire
chief, who was overtaken by the fall
ing walla :and buried in brick rub^
blsh. He is badly hurt, but may re
cover. ' . H " "?'?* , '
The rush of the flames was so ln
credltably swift-and threw such un
reasoning terror into the huddled
working girls bn the toj? story that
the body ioti one was, found still seat
ed on a charred sto?l beiHde the ma
chine at which she had been busy
when the first cry of "Fire!" petri
fied her with fright, ?
(Horrible as'mustj have been what
went in the'smoke .of that crowded
upper room, what "befell1 outside In
the bright suhiightrwan- more hor
rible yet. The building was extreme
ly' inflammable' and ;the first gush of
flames had cut off all possibility ol
escape by the-'stalrways: The eleva
tors made one trip, bul. took down
no passengers'' and never came back.
The only exit was by-turo narrow'fire
escapes, the' lower platfo::ms of which
were 25 feet from the pavement be
low. -'' ' ' - ??' '
On these- overcrowdeil and steep
lanes, scorched, danclhus; hot by the
jets from lower windows pressed for
ward a mob of "women, blind with
panic, driven by the fire and'the oth
ers behind them. A'net had bfeeh'
spread -beneath the windows and the
girls began to jump. "Like rats out
of a burning bin" was the way a
fireman .described^he.descent.
They boiled out of :he windows
like a thick treacle, rolled on the
heads of those below tt.em and cas
caded off the fire escape to the pave
ment 60 feet below. Some of them
stood in the windows outlined against
the flames and jumped clear; others
from the landings; still others from
the steps where they stood. The aii
was full, of them and they fell every
where?into the net. on the necks or
firemen, and 15 of taem on the
hard stone slabs.
When the awful rain ceased the-e
were eight dead in the street and the
gutters ran red. Seven more were
so badly crushed that they died in
hospitals. Fifty are still under sur
geons' care. ?
Clouds of smoke and showers of
burning embers spread.over the city
and rained down on neighboring
roofs. As the news flew?and It
lost nothing In the telling?pan'<;
sproad. to other factories where many
of the girls- in peril had friends and
relatives and several firms ha-.;
shut down for the day. Thousands
flocked to the scene and made the
work of the firemen and police mor?
difficult. Italian silk workers fe'J
in the street and prayed and luineM
ed pitably.
Priests and clergymen -vvAeri
their way through the press \" give
the last, r nsolations to those '>f their
different faiths. Ambulance- and j
automobiles commandeered for emei-j
gency service ivere hurryi ig :n oppo
sition directions to the hospitals a;.!
back ana in.
The building was p four s-.- y
brick stru-iuie ??' voicd on th" two
lower floors by the Newark r*ap"?.r
Lex corunfiriy and the A. A. 0 .:\.-a
r aper Bw?: Co; m .he th""' llx?r
where the fire starved, by the A. chor
Lamp C/Mflpauy anc the A>-??Klcc
tric company and on the top Poor
where th^ death list ran poi''iP.n
by the World Manufacturing com
pany, makers of underwear.
The WH)den floors were ?o.jkel
with oil drippiDgs from the machin
ery and the flames ate through them
like pasteboard. When warped and
weakened the weight of the ma
chinery t - ? t'-eis: from the ?v.f"s and
they fell .nio the basement in ;: ho: -
rible tanirle of hot '.ron and wangb-d
humanity.
Sadie Benson, an employe of the!
A"tna Electric Company, was clean-!
Ing an electric light fixture in a
gasolioi; bath. The gasoline look j
firt?she docs not know how- -and j
trickled in a little rivulet of flam es on
the floor, whei-e stood a full can ofj
gasoline. The can exploded and thei
burning liquid Hew far and wide. ]
Ijewis t'oxe. an employe of the box)
factory on the second tlocr. was j
Standing in the hiil] at the time of j
the explosion. The shock was strong1
enough. h>- said, to hurl him against j
the wall, hut the girls upstairs at
their whirring sewing machines did
not hear the explosion.
Fireman Flrown, who turned In
the alarn; was at work directly op
posite tie- building, cleaning 'he
windows of (he engine house where
he is statioucd. He saw a girl rush
out of the factory Into the street
screaming and wringing her hands.
"There Is a fire in there." she
?BEB 29 1910.
COLD-BLOODED
SON KILLED FATHER ?' RATHER
THAN PAY $2.
Beat Him Over Head With a . Brick
and Then to Make Sure, of His
job, Pounded Him Again.
. Benjamin Smith, in jaii.atMub"le,
Ind., has confessed to the murder of
his father, Charles C. Smith, a, far
mer. The confession was the result
of a sweating after the. youngs man
had been arrested on suspicion.
According to Smith, who is 22
years old, he and bis father had
quarreled. over the question as . to
whether or not the.young man should
pay $2 a week for board at home.
The young man struck his father, ov
er, the head with a brick and. con
tinued striking him until he thougat
he was dead. Next he .-loaded his
father into the family buggy, prop
ped.his body in the Beat.and started
for an old well on the. farm, nearby.
On the way to the. well, ao.weve'r,
the father revived a little and manag
ed, to put his arms about the eon's
neck, ^-hereupon he latter beat, his
father over the head again with, the
b'rick which he carried with, him for
that purpose and continued to strike
his father again and again until he
felt certain he was dead. However,
the son thinks, that his father wasn't
dead when he threw bim into the
well.
"Faher drew a long sigh and son
of groaned, just, as I.thew him. into
the well,'' the son told the police:
1 Smith, his hands smeared with
blood, staggered into the home of
Oscar Shaw and told a story of hav
ing been attacked by highwaymen.
Smith's father was mysteriously miss
ing, and susplcons were aroused
which led to the son's arrest. Under
examination he finally Bald that he.
would show the police where his
father's body could be found. He
led the police to an abandoned well
and. pointing, said, "There he Is.
Tht corotter counted 27"wounds on
the murdered man's head and face,
and any one of half a dozen of these
might have caused bis death. ?
CHARGED WITH KILLING TWO.
. ??? :
Negro Held for Murder of Minister
and His Wife.
The murder of the Rev. Anzi L.
Armstrong and his wife, Annie Artns
Istrong, at their home at Dutch Neck,
N. J., Friday night, has resulted In
charges bfing preferred against John
Sears, who was arraigned before J us
! tico of the Peace .Mills, and held
without bail to answer two seperate
charges of homicide. Rudolph Nor
haus, who was brought to Trenton
by the county authorities, along with
[Sears, was released.
Investigation established the fact
I that the Rev. Armstrong and his
wife were killed with a double-bar
relled gun, which was found stand
ing in a corner in the kitchen of the
Armstrong home. This gun was bor
rowed by Scare two weeks ago from
I a .neighbor. Robbery 1b supposed to
have been the motive.
Sears is a half breed and his
mother iB a negress. The mother
has been housekeeper in the Arms-,
trong family for more than thirty,
years. . ..
ADRIFT AT SEA, RESCUED.
Steamer Picks Up Helpless Fisher
man in Boat.
Cnpt. Colcord, of the steamship
American, in New York, from Puer
to. Mexico, reported a passenger not
on the list when thp vessel started.
He is Thomas Hall, a fisherman of
Stuart, Fla., who was found on No
vember 22 frantically waving his
shirt, as he stood in his 25-foot mo
tor boat, helplessly adrift. A big
wave had put his engine out of com
mission.
Tho liner went out of her course
and drew nenr for the rescue, but
Hall Insisted that his boat also be
taken aboard and after more than
an hour's work this was done.
Hall bad drifted more than fifty
milea from his starting point when
picked up, and it has been five days
since he left home. On lauding he
telegraphed his w'fo who, doubtless,
thought him drowned. ?
cried, pointing back to the hall she'
had left.
Brown turned In an alarm and'
then dashed lip the fire escape. .Al
ready he fnund forty pirls at the
forth story window, ?im/1 of them so j
du zed with terror that they bad not
the wit to pull down the sashes and |
'climb out. Brown smashed in the
window and began pulling the girls
j throuch on to the tire escape. He
[counted forty that filed past him. j
The Moor was far from cleared hut
the heal bad then grown so intense)
that the skin was beginning to crack
from his face. He pulled himself up J
to the window for a last look in,
but at that moment a gush of red
streaked smoke blinded and almost
smothered him and he was forced to
drop into tht Ice of the wall.
"It was the most horrible thin,
I've ever seen." hr? said afterwards.
Chief Astcy laid the responsibil
ity for the loss of life on the delay
in turning in an alarm. He says thru
five minutes were lost In trying to
fight the blazing gasoline with sand
in a barrel. "If those precious min
utes had not been wasted." he al
most sobbed, "we would not have
lost one single life." *
DRUNKEN NEGROES
SHOOT AND KILL A WHITE
EN CHEROKEE COUNT!
If the Reports as Printed Below is
Trne It Was a Cold Blooded, Bru
tal Murder.
If the account of the affair sent
to The State from Gaffney Is correct
a most cold blooded, brutal murder
was committed in Cherokee County
on Thanksgiving night. Here is the
report as we find it in the Sate:
Robt. Davidson, a young' white
man, died at his home in the Wil
kinsville section of Cherokee County
Friday night as a result of a gainshot
wound inflicted by one of three ne
groes, Luther Curry, Ned Horton or
Will Curry on Thanksgiving night,
It Is impossible to'say exactly which
one killed the man, although suspi
cion strongly points to Luther "Curry.
It seems from the evidences that all
three negroes did some] shooting.
The sheriff was summoned to the
scene as" soon as the affair happened
and the three negroes are ~noW In
jail. Davidson was picked up and
taken to his home directly after the
shooting by some of his friends and
physicians were summoned who at
once decided that bis leg must' ho
amputated as it was practically torn
from the body. This was doi
he was unable to survive the
and died Friday night.
Coroner Vinesett went to the scene
Saturday morning aud an- Inquest
was held. It seems fronr'the testi
mony introduced at the inqrest that
Davidson had been hunting and
stopped at a negro church whert. a
frolic was going on to gel some
thing to eat before going home. He
obtained something to eat and start
ed down the road but was pursued
by the three negroes and fired at by
two pistols and a gun. A short time
after he fell the negroes reached the j
body and fired three- more shots at j
him. All of the negroes'were drunk
THE "UNLOADED" GUN.
Gets In Its Fatal Work in Forest
Port, New York.
' ' tT.V r, .V. ,
'The coroner Is today investigating
the death of Charles Mulcey, a 15
year-old boy, who was shot and kill
ed by a companion of the same age
Charles Jones, near their home In
Forest Port, N. Y., Friday. The two
had been hunting and were on thelT
way home when the shooting occur
red. According to the story told the
coroner, Jones pointed his shotgun
playfully at Mulcey, telling him to
"halt on pain of death." Tr
went off and the charge entei
lad's head, death resulting 1m
Joues declared that he did not nuvn
his gun was loaded. . ?
FOUND HIS DEATH CASE.
Baffled Detective Killed Himself Be
fore Admitting Defeat.
-In practkil admission that he
could not solve a case which had been
intrusted to him. Barnard (Ike) Laz
arus, one of the famous detectives in
the country, committed suicide bj
shooting in a hotel at Rochester
[Pa'..'," last week.
"?''He had- been running a private de
tect've agency, and some time agr
was given a case of systematic theft
from a big Arm to ferret but.*' Hi
could make no headway, and in des
peration made giood his lifelong boas:
that if he found a case he could not
isolve he would commit suicide. ?
DIME NOVEL HERO.
Set? Fire to a Neighbor's House by
F! nine-Tipped Arrow.
Goo. Bomp. a 3 5 years old boy, <s
under custody at Glcndale. Long Is
land, charged with using a flame
tipped arrow to set fire to the home
of a wealthy neighbor. The lad lur
ed the mistress of the house away by
telephoning her that her little son
was sick at school. The fire did $11.
000 damage. The fire marchal de
clares that the boy started the the
because he has been reading novels
about how Indians set fire to the
cabins on their way white enemies by
means of fire on arrow tipb. *
Boys Die Seeking Sister.
At Norton. Va.. while searching
through the flames for their little
sister, whom they believed to he in
their burning home, two little son?
of J H. Robins mot death Friday
When found by rescuers, the boys
were so severely burned that death
<|Uickly resulted The sister wat
saved. The fire was du- an e.v
plosion of powder ?
Wounded Man Holds Robber.
Although probably fatally wound
ed. Albert E. Lee, station agent for
the Pennsylvania railway at Edward
sport. Ind.. grappled with the robber
who forced his way into the station
land held hfm until help arrived. I^ef
was shot just below the heart and
probably will die. ?
Killed by Falling Tree.
Kd Run. a negro about fifty years
of age. was accidentally killed by a
'tree falling on his back Friday, while
?be. with a number of other negroes.
I was felling some trees on Mr. Rieh
i ard Carlis'r's place. In Newbeny
.County. The negro lived aboet 15
, minutes. ?
<0
WO CEKTS PEK COPY
FitND LVNCHEU
The Brutal nWer of a Young Girl % a
Negro Speedily Avenged.
WAS HORRIBLE CRIME
Flute Clarke, Alter Relating Horn?
ble Details of Attempt to Ravish,
Before Murdering the Pretty Foor
teen-Year-OId Daughter of a Lex
ington Farmer, Shot to Death,
Wib'i her throat cut from ear to
ear, a pretty 14-year-old girl, daugh
ter of a highly respected farmer at
the Little Mountain section of Lex
ington County, lies dead in her home,
surrounded by friends and' loved
ones, while Flute Clarke, a negro
lies on the south side of I?lt?e*
Mountain, a lantern across his breast:
and a thousand' bullet wound*
through his body^ "
The above dispatch to The New
and Courier, published in Saturd&jV
paper,' told a story of horror'tail1 its
quick avenging. The dispatch goes
on to say that Friday afternoon, b*^
tween the hours of A and 5 o'clock,
the young girl was brutally attack^
e'd by Clarke. There was no one ai
the house' at the time, and only tha
confeision of the nbgro is all'thati
remains of the true story'. Th'e
young girl's mother had gone to the
home of a near-by neighbor. : ''
The body of the'girl was'found by
her young brother and ah alarm was
given. The sheriff of Lexington was
notified, and the bloodhounds from
the county chain gang were dispatch
ed to the scene in charge of Cant.
Pete Mack. Upon arriyal at the
scene the dogs at once took up the*,
trail and carried it successfully to A
field, where the negro had beea
ploughing. Here they'stopped and
the chase was: given up.
Clarke was spirited away by some
hilf-dozen person;} and the officers
were-eluded: ' To those men he made
a complete confession of the crime,
!n which confession he estated'-thit
he had' gone to the house for water
and asked the young woman to bring
him soin? "potatoes -to the well. Wheat
she- brought them he made his fiend
ish attack; He said that the girl
screamed and said "she was going tq
to tell her father. He then cut bet
throat.
The physician who was called in
asserts that the negro did not ac
complish his purpose. The glrl'sbody
waB found lying In the yard near the
cellar door, and the surroundings
show that a desperate struggle was
mado by the young girl. The dis
tance from the well to where the
young girl met her death is abont
thirty yards, and she was dragged
the entire distance. Her head was al-'
most severed from the body.
Upon arrival at the scene Monday
night, at 9 o'clock. The News and
Courier correspondent found a crowd
of armed men, variously esetimated
to number from BOO to 1,000. They
were all armed to the teeth. M. M.
Buford, the voteran sheriff of New
berry, thinking that the crime wa?
committed in Newberry County.
Flute Clarke had lived on the
pi acb for twelve years, haying ..been
practically raised by' the :famiry*; He-'"
was married and is said to have been!
about 21 years of age. After having
committeed the crime, Clarke return
ed to the home of bis employer and
even went so far as' to assist in car
rying the body, to, the house.
The scene of the crime is about
200 yards from the Newberry line
and about a mile and a half from
Little Mountain. As soon as the ne
gro had confessed, tht word was
whispered'from one to another and
the crowd quietly left In small
squads, to where the negro was be
ing concealed from thee officers, Ii.
was about 10.30 when the lynching
took place.
The crowd was composed of the
sturdy citizens of the Dutch Fork
oection and hundreds of Newberry
people were on .the grounds. There
were no signs of rowdyism. The vic
tim is a school girl, hut on account
of 'he Little Mountain School beine
closed for two days, she did not at
tend school Thsinksgivlng or Friday.
Tho crime shocked the entire com
munity, and on every hand the ex
pression is heard that the negro re
ceived his just deserts. At 11 o'cloctt
the report oi guns are heard and
j parties continue to visit the seena
t Strange, it may seem, but the crime
{ was committed within less than two
! miles of the place where Cute Tvev.-?r
I attempted to assault the wife of a
pnbminent young farmer, about a
year ago and for which he was legal
lv haniir-d. a
Chicken Shower.
"Chicken shower-' is the latest
Connecticut novelty In ministtrial
donation parties. Sevonty members
I of the Torrin Ford Congregational
j church at Stanford called on their
i new pastor, the Retv. W. E. Page.
Monday night, eeach person carrying
a live chicken. The tlock will stock
will stock the pastor's hencoop to
tht pastor's hencoop overllowlnc,.
Killed in Football Game.
At Winsted, Conn., Harry Lee. 17
years old, was killed there Thursday
'in a football game between the Tier
ney cadets and an independent team,
! composed of Gilbert Preparatory
' School Students. His Rltull was frae
t ured, ?