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Milien Kiser Hong at CYmden for lie. Mar del: of Jailer CreoL BE WAR1D All OF SIN Tbe Crime foir Which FOser Paid the Penalty Wats a.Most Brutal One? It Was a Deep l*aid Plot, in Which Ho Had Two Accom plices. Milton Klser, alias Henry Hunt ley, was hanged at C trade a Friday morning at the county jaid at about ederen o'clock for the murder of Jailer John Cook. Tho following ac count of the crlmo and the hanging we take from The. State: . j Last Spring Jailer Boone was de livering ' supper to the prisoners when he was assaulted by Al. Fields, a notorious criminal with a number of aliases, and several, other prison ers. Six of the prisoner* j escaped and all were recaptured except Fields, who is still at large.. Jailer Boone lingered some time as a result of his wounds and was final" y taken to his old country home, where he died' several months later. John Cook was appointed jailer in the place of Mr. Boc-ne during the past summer. While a carnival was la town Mrs. Cook took her children to the carnival grounds to see a bak loon ascension. As soon as Mrs. Cook got away Kr. Cook was called from his room by Mary Jones, a negro woman, who told - him that the water pipes in the cell above hers, occupied by Henry; Huhtley and Jim Cox were leak tag and the water was dripping on her bed. , While' Jailer Cooli was bending over examining the water pipe he was struck in the he.id with an iron spittoon by Huntley. The spittoon weighed about 10 pounds. Huntley and Cox then took his keys away from him and threw Mr. Cook/into a cell and made their escape, taking the, negro woman with them.. The woman was captured the night of the escape, but it was several days be fore Cox and Huntley were captured. Huntley and' Cox confessed later, that they had entered inio a com pact with- the ?woman to make their I escape at the first opportunity^hpy | _..stuffed -cpiton taken from tlielr maJf^j resscs !.n"to the drain pipe"and caused it to overflow and got the negro wo man to call the jailer. They were tried :*t the November term of court and were ably defended by lawyers appointed by the court. Cox. was given a ten-year sentence and Mary Jones one of five years. A crowd of about 100 negroes and whites loafed rourd the jail this morning while the hanging was tak ing pi are, many of them eager to see the hangln-?, but :ould not, as all views had been screened. Sheriff Tranthanr. summoned ten witnesses and four deputies?Willie Whittaker. first deputy; W. D. Star ling, second, and M'r. Herron, third. The negro parsed a restless night, but showed 10 signs of break ing down. This morning he gave out a statement to the press and to two negro minis'ers, Revs. Brown and Boykin, saying th?;t whiskey, gam bling and women were responsible for his committing t he crime and said for blacks and whites to avoid them, as they would booj get the best of them. He said that wlen he struck the jailer be did not iatend to kill him, but only to stun him. fir- said that he was ready to meet his Jesus and did not fear death. Sheriff Tranthain read his death warrant at 10:30 and placed the handcuffs on him. When asked if he had anything to sz.y, he said, "Yes." "1 want you, one and all. to turn your back on sin and don't let old Satan lead you wrong, for this is what it will bring to you" (pointing to the rope). While the rope and black cap were being a.Jjusted he was continually 6.iyiug, "Lord, save me this morning." "Good-bye, Henry," said the sher iff "Good-bye, all Of you," said Hunt ley. The trap was then sprung. Two minutes later death was pronounce! by Dr. Dunn and the body was cut down. It will be buried in the pot ters' field. Huntley Is from North Carolina, but has been working around Haile's gold mine and the upper part of this <ounty for tho in;st year or so. He was awal?ni' trial for a charge or lar ceny when he ki'Ied the jailer. He was a very iarge negro and was very uncouth looking and bore a reputa tion as a "mean negro." Mrs. Cook, tho wife of the dead Jailer, was present at the hanging and. said that she had come to the Jail with her mind made up that if everybody tailed she would spring the trap St'eriff T?-anth:im and Jailer Rowe bad two policemen on the outBide of the jail, who "tept perfect order among the morbid crowd. This is the first hanging that has taken place in this county for over 20 years. * Will Help Them. The Bishop or Greenoble, Spain, has issued a decree forbidding the reading of two local papers, because they are hostile to the Cathslh* SOME PLAIN TM TOO MUCH VICE, WRECKS, SUI CTDES AND MURDER FOR HER. .Mrs. Gsbrlelle S. MuUiner Indulges Gives Her Views , of Tbings at a Woman's Meeting. The New York World says before seventy-five women Mrs. Mulliner read a long paper Id ..which she dis cussed the menace to society of wo men of the half world, unfaithful husbands and divorces. She classed the city of New York as one huge receptacle of everything foul under the sun. "There Is more vice per capita In New York," said Mrs. Mulliner, "than in any other city of the world. There are more wreckB, more sui cides, more Illiteracy, more accidents upon the public highways, more thefts, more murders, more deprav ity, more misery and distress. And the woman who surveys it all and understands It all and wants to bet ter It all is beginning to make of herself ? true suffragist." Mrs. Mulliner said the old Puritan standards that had Inspired the writ ing of "The Scarlet Letter" had been mashed flat. Women, she said, were looking upon the breeders of evil, feminine home wreckers and the like with pity and patience Instead of working for legislation that Bhould punish the woman who enters a home and steals a husbanb as it punishes 'the thief who breaks in and carries off the silver. "There Is such a thing as the un written law," went on the woman lawyer, "and the written law often countenances it If, upon the spur of the occasion, a husband kills the man he. finds with his wife! Why should It not be just as much the recognized right of the wife to kill the woman I who steals her husband? That thief is not stealing alone from the family; she is stealing from the social wel fare and that of the soul in futurity. Hers is a marvellously wicked crime. "It is the woman whom the law allows to walk the streets and openly attract men by her bedizement that ? is the criminal at the base of New j York's degeneracy, and at the. base I of the evil In all cities. She is the, community wife. And the decent wo men are not helping conditions oy ipmg her in the matter of the hobble skirt, the mob hat and the paint and "csmetic. But even the deini-mon ialne and the woman who tolerates '.:er" existence are not the ones to Msnte. It -is the iaw itself and the rottenness in politics that sees the hin-r calmly through that Is to Warne. ' Good women should work 'o become elective ronstituents of nght-minded men upon the Board of \ldermeh and in other positions sig nificant to the public good. "Raise the standard by setting a value on chastity!. Make an infringe ment of that standard punishable by * law." Mrs. Mulliner next presented her pet topic, divorce. "Every co-re anondent ought to be Impounded in fhe penitentiary for a certain term," she asserted. "Such an offender igainst the public good! is a criminal of tbe worst type." Every women at the meeting pledged herself to keep a close watch on her own drawing room and to do her part in the proponed purging of society. ? DEATH CAUSED BY CARBON GAS. Chicago Physician Succumbs to Odors Inhal-wl From Gasoline Engine. A muffler on tht 'gasoline engine of blB automobile caused tbe death Friday night of Dr. John Alosius Ilemsteger, a prominent psyaician of Chicago. He died from tho effects of carbon dioxide inhaled on Wed nesday while cleaning the apparatus on his machine. The death is said to be the fiist of Its kind on record. Hemsteger, finding a quantity of | carbon had accumulated In the j muffler and engine cylinders, poured la mixture of wood alcohol and kero I sene into them to clean them out. He then "started the engine and op ened tbe cut off valve in the muffler. The garagb door was closed and there, was no other outlet for the forming carbon gas that rushed into the rcom. The phvsician was al most overcome, but managed to open the door of the sarage, which let in the fresh air. lie was taken to Iiis resi lence, where he died the next day. Physi cians who held an antopsv assert that Centn was due technically to poison ing or tho heart by the carbon gas. Dr. Hemsteser was ."G years old. ? WHOLESALE POISONING. Noarly Every Resident of a Texas Village Made I1L ?ix deaths have occurred and prac tically all the membera of the entire village of Telfener, in Victoria coun ty, Texas, are 111, ascribed to the eating of food prepared with flour containing arsenic. On Monday the village grocer poured several sacks of flour Into a svjra barrel and one of his first customers was Joo Brown, a negro. After the morning meal tho ectin. family became ill, two of Brown's children dying the same night. Since then four other deaths have occurred. How the drug and flour came in cor'act has not been de- J termlned. I okangebukg DARING FLIGHT MADE AT CHARLESTON BY A YOUTHFUL AVIATOR FRIDAY. Jlmmie Word, Eighteen Years Old, Circles the Harbor Over the Forts, Goes Ont to Sen and Returns. Jimmy Ward, the 18-year-old avi ator, In'a Curtis 25-horae power aero plane, gave some fine exhibitions ot his skill at Charleston on Friday. He made a daring flight across two riv ers, the harbor and out over the Afc lantic ocean, breaking the world's altitude record for low-powered ma chines, and winning a prize of S5,0U0 by circling over two of the strong est fortifications on the Atlantic coast, demonstrating the efficiency of the aeroplane as a scout in time of war. Landing gracefully on the beach in front of Fort Moultris on Sulli van's Island, he handed a note to Col. Marsh, which the latter sighed. Ward then Teentered his machine, ro3e from the beach and flew back across the harbor in a direct lino to the aviation field north of the city. He covered a distance of about 2i> miles in 51 minutes. Very few people saw Ward be gin his flight from the aviation field, his unsuccessful attempt of the day before having aroused a splri'. o: skepticism. News of the darng at tempt spread rapidly, however, ana many roofs in the city were packed when the airman made his return flight. Leaving the aviation field, he flew first to the navy yard on Cooper river, circling above the plant He then flew down the river a distance of about five miles to the city, over the upper end of which 'he passed. He turned eastward, crossed the Cooper and Wando rivers and the harbor at a height of about 1,000 feet Reaching Sullivan's Inland at the northern entrance of the harbor, and on which Fort Moultrie Is situated, he. circled back over the harbor at a height of about 2,000 feet, :passing close to .Castle PInckney. Heading seaward again, he passed directly over Fort Sumter at the entrance ot tbe harbor and swept for a distance of about a mile and a half over the waters of the open Atlantic. Turning be new about the'lsle. or Palms and Sullivan's Island and landed on jbe beach in front of Fori .Moultrie, amid tbe cheering of sol i.'ers and om'cers. A note which he landed to .Col. Frederick Wtfrah, in barge of the fort, was signed b.> be latter and Ward brought it bacl. :o the city with him on his return It was on the return trip that h? iroke the world's altitude record fo; small- machines. At a point direct!.* ibove Mount Pleasant, a village on the edge of the harbor and opposlt* o tbe. city, he attained a height oi 1.3 00 feet, as shown by his baro graph. As the aviation field cann into view, Ward, at that time ovet Cooper river, shut off his power and ilded for a distance of a mile and a half, landing safely and easily, lit was shaking as though palsied as be posed for his picture, no terrible had been the strain. ? 74 VESSELS I.OST And Fifty-three People Out of M(fc. Lout l4iNt Year. Out of a total of 6.361 persons In volved In 1,4 63 disasters to vessels of all classes within tbe scope of the United States life saving service, on ly fifty-three were lost, and about seventy-four vessels were completely destroyed, according to the annual report of S. L. Klmball, general su perintendent of the ?ervice. for the fiscal year, which endod June 30 last. The next expenditures for main taining the service for the year were 52,240.375.6S. The enactment or the bill passed at the last session of Congress b" the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving service and others o: the field service and others of the field service Incapacitated for duty ih ur?ed in the rejicrt. Of the 1.64 6 vessels of all kind? which met with ? accidents, the life savers rendered service to 1.04 7, val aed with their cargoes at $10,17f*. 230. Other succor rendered by tin life saving service included the res cue of 137 per.-ons front drowning, surgical aid to 60 persons suffering from gunshot wounds, broken limb* or bruises and the recovery of lot! bodies of persons who had met death through Ice or in other ways. Nine of this number wore suicides. * CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH. Coat Mr.ken Mule Runaway and Up set a Carriage. Willie Coleman, the 6-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Coleman, who was hurt in a runaway accident at Florence a few days ago, died Thurs day night in the infirmary there. It will be rememberei that the child and his parents and W. L. Lewis and his wife were returning from a visit, in the country riding in a surrey drawn by a mule. The mule got frightened at a goat and dashed around, turning the vehicle com pletely over and throwing the occu pants to tbe ground. All of them were bruised ci little but the Coleman child was s?riously injured about the head and congestion of the brain set in. ? , S. C, TUSE DAY. JAN? Sends Femerooe to United States Senate in Place <tf Di k. HELPS HARMON'S CAUSE Governor Wilson in New Jersey is Trying to Send a Good Man in Place of Kenn und From New York It is Hoped a Good Man Will Go. Ihe Washington correspondent of the, Augusta Chronicle says Governor Harmon has won out again ana strengthened himself at home ani abroad through the action of the caucus of the Democratic members ot the Ohio legislature in selecting A1. lee Pomerone for United States Sen ator to succeed Charles A. Dick, j The ? friends of Pomerone in the j Ohio delegation are confident, th it ibia selection will be a great thing for ?jtho party nationally, and brin? i:n'.r? Llic United States Senate-another strong man. It is especially pieii ing to friends who are backing Jui'. Eon Harmon L'or the Democratic: nom ination in 1912, for they belicvj thk> new evidence of his strength ait ::nn*o will help him naturally abronu. The United States senatorship fight in Ohio is one of the four in which the Democratic party Is vitally inter ested. The S'ther contests are 'n No"' York, New Jersey, and one that will be precipitated in West Virginia to select a successor to Senator Elkins. If the Ohio contest had brought about any charges of corruption or bribery, or even anything savoring of unseemly tactics, it would have been embarrassing to the party and partic ularly distressing the Democracy in these early days of its triumph. If the interests of the people was not to be served by the retirement of men like Charles A. Dick, Chauacey De pew, and John Kean, then the coun try would not be disposed to trust the Democratic party with complete, national control. Contests In New York and New Jersey are now on. In the former state it is reported that Tammany is in complete control and that Charles F. Murphy1 can p-" \r t? United Sta< es senate any i a . a? chooses. Tho strongest kiru.of ,.r h sure Is being brought to 'oear or Murphy to l.he end that he luay nnm? ?he right kind of a man. Howevei.. iny man chosen will be" known s? Mrrpnv's choice. Woodrow Wilson, the new gov ernor of New Jersey.? is making ;i sard fight-to prevent the election or former Senator Jame3 Smith. He If backing JameH F. Martine, who war sndorsed for the senatorship in thf Democratic primary. It is sail Smith 's not a. proper man to represent New Jersey in the. senate, and th-il his selection would be a calamity for the party. When the primary was on It waF not thought remotely possible that he would offer. Now that the op portunity for the people to expres? -heir cholc? is past, he wishe-s to sub mit Mb claims to tho legislature which hp believes Is friendly. Ad vices received, however, are to thf sfTect that Woodrow Wilson ha? ^nough strength to defeat the elec flon of Smith, even If he la not able to win with Martine. Defying the criticism that has ?sprung up as the result of bis active participation in this fl?ht,. which has 'ed to him being called a dictator, Governor Wilson has insisted that he Is a leader and not a boss, and thai he ^commissioned by tho people to do tbe very work he is doing. ?Unless the Ohio legislature can he "Influenced" as was the Illinois leg islature which cheso Lorimer, it is safe to pay that Pomerone will come to the senate. He had barely enough votes to elect in the caucu3, and there has been talk of a bolt and the se lection of someone else- but little ?weight in. altrched to thps* stories. The Democrats In the Ohio deleg"1 ' ''on say Pomerone is all right and has no Intel csts to serve apart from these of the people. Had a n:*.n of larse wealth, or one prominently identified with the big corporation1?, been chosen from Ohio, it is conr-erlod iL would have serious ly em!)arn?red flovernn- Harmon. 11 Is not too much to say that he n~s been strengthened as a presidential candidate by the action of the dem ocrats of bis state The sener.'il Im pression here Is that he will give a rood account of himself during the j npxt two years, and strengthen the i favorably ojinicm already formed of him as a leader. Tivn TCtMrvi by <>?. Mrs. H. O. Bannister, wife of the manager of the Western Unioe tel egraph office at P.aleiirh, and !i ir 17 montks-old 3on were aapbyxiaLe.' by a gas heater iu the baLh room ot their homo in that city Saturday afternoon. The mother entered the bath room, followed by her nat'A. \ Later the servant was horrido.1 ! i find thfi lifeless b^dy of Mr:}. Uan nister on the fioor and that of the child across the chair. I What It Cost. Edmond Thery, a French econo mist, flgureB that to maintain Eu rope's armieB the past 25 years over $29,000,000.000 have been spent and 195,ft.-"! r.'fl^.-rf? snd 3.800,000 pri Ivotes have b^en constantly excluded 'from productive Industries. ? ART 10, 1911. SMALL POX SCARE SUM TER REFUSED TO ALLOW TWO MiS WITH DISEASE To Get Off the Train There, Quaran tined Them All One Day and Sen* Them Baue. The Sumter Watchman and South ron says Tnursday morning when the eleven o clock train came In Lwo cases of ?-mall pox would have bel,n unloaded upon Sumter had it nut been for the work of Dr. C. W. BImic of that city who saved SumfcDi from the unwished-for and dreaded v.eit ors, who \?ere two colorel men bound from Marion to Lynch varg, one of them jUBt getting over the "disease and the other just taking U. They were not allowed to get off ai Lynchburg, their desired destiuat' and so were brought on to Sumter where they would have been set fret had it not been that vhrougu thu warning of Dr. Birnle, Mayor .lea ning had had time to notify the health office and station him with a policeman at the depot to keep aw?.y any such undesirable visitors. Tne Watchman and Southron says: "It seems that the men came from Marion and were bound for Lynch burg or at any rate that was the way their ticket read. Dr. Birnie got on the train at Florence with .them and when the two men got off at Lynch burg'and were Immediately hustled back on the train by the city officials at that place, who had received no tification of the kind of visitors they were about to receive, Dr. Birnle at once made It bis business to find out what the conductor expected to do with the two cases of small pox. He found that the conductor expected to take them on to Sumter and turn them off the train there. He did not have time to get off the train at Mayesville but he got. some one to telephone Mayor Jennings of the two cases of small pox and what the con ductor expected to do with them, when he got to Sumter. "At Sumter Mayor Jennings got in a hurry as soon as he had received the telephone message from Mayes ville for he kne wthat It would not take the train long to jet here and nniethin? must be cone before it at -ived. He at once got the health or leer by phene and told him what hif inty was. He also sent a policemai ?long to see that thlngB" moved ?Tioothly and to help the health of Icer In case of nee?. So when the 'rain pulled in there they were both '?ailing to see that no cases of small, j -ox got off !n the city of Sumter rhls they r,av lb, and when-the con luctor insisted, they mildly told him 'hat they would tie his train down tc lhe track and kep it there ail day "or him. The conductor objected tc 'his even more than carrying on the 'ises of small pcx which wp.e in the 'moking ananment of the c'olore' ??oach. The matrer was finally settled ''y the coach being run outside the Mty limits und left on a side track ?vhile the rent of the train pulled out for Columbia. "He3lth Officer Towles kept a strict ?iiaranfine on the coach all yester day unil Irtst night when the evening Tain pulled out. The coach witr? tue 'wo small nor. patients was attached to It and the health officer rode as *ar as the city limits to see that the train did not stop and that the two undesirable cftiztns were taken to their home town, or to eome place where they were wanter more than they were in Sumter." Small pot seems to be gettlnj com mon In different parts of the State, and It would he best for tbe au thorities In this city to be on the lookout. People with the disease should not be allowed to be traveling about tbe State ae the negroes above mentioned were. Watch the trains. GIRLS IN ST'fCIDE PACT. Sisters Drink Poison in a Confec tioners Store. Arms entwined and facing a mir ror to watch their (tying e\'nref;.-ienn, Mabel ant Isabella Boisseau. risters and members of a prominent St. T,nuis fnrr.ilv, drunk carbolic acid Saturday n'ght In a confectionery s:ore. Mahel died nt the city fc>i )if.".l ani lier sister Isabella is not expected to live. Before taking the poison one ot the girls requested the proprietor t? call a pol iceman. N*:?t until Mabel fell off her ehpir. writhing in pain ???.'?.s any attention paid to the girls. Tho second sister dropped to the floor a second after Mabel had col lapsed. "We r.re tired of living," was the last mesfa?c written by tho partners hi tho RiMctfifl pant.. The :!e^o""'<?o* i;lrls drank the potions from soda, water sl^ase.;. Breaks Insanity Record. F-jrty-two men and women were adjudged tnr.an? Saturday in pro bate court at Cleveland. Ohio, bj JudRe Alexander Hadden. Thi3 1. believed by tho officials to be thf largest number of persons declared mentally unbalanced in one day V. one jud?e in any city in the world. Brenk? Butter Record. Pontias Clothilde de Kelil, a blue bloodod Holotein-Frienian cow, owned by the Stevens brothers, of Liverpool, N. Y., has broken the world's seven-day butter record by producing 37.28 pounds. The pre vious record was 35.50 pounds. * WANT CORN SHOW WILL BE URGED TO MEET IN CO LUMBIA THE NEXT TIME. A Strong Delegation Will Be Sent to Invite the Nutional Corn Exposi tion to the Capital City. The State Bays the second South Atlantic States Corn Exposition will be held In Columbia during the week of December 4 of this year and the prospects are that the Exposition will be a success from every stand point. South Carolina in cooperation wltn other Southern States will send a Btrong delegation to Columbus, Ohio, to extend an invitation to the Na tional Corn Exposition, to be held in Columbia in 1911. The national corn show will be held in that city this year, from Jan uary 30 to February 12. There will be over 25,000 exhibits, with prizeb aggregating ?50,000. Every effort will be used to se cure the national corn show. Should the Exposition be brought South, and to Columbia, it will be held in con nection with the South Atlantic States Corn Exposition. It is expected that at least $20, 000 will be secured as prizes for the second South Atlantic States Corn Exposition. An active campaign for the Exposition has already been launched by the management. Sev eral large contributions for the Ex position have already been pledged. The first corn exposition to be held In the South, which was held in Co lumbia from December 5 to 9 was a complete success. There were ovei 700 exhibits. It is expected that there will be several thousand ex hibits for the second exposition. The exposition i3 a permanent affair. Nationul Corn Exposition. ?The following dispatch from Co lumbus, Ohio, where the fourth National Corn Exposition will soon meet, will give some idea of what it really is: The program for the fourth an nual National Corn Exposition, tc bo held January 30 to' February 11, in the eight immense buildings on the Ohio State Exposition rrounds, bais inc-t been completed, and provides for one of the greatest national igriiuK -ural expositions ever held la t'nc world. The buildings are connected by 'iri ?1o-' d walk.': comfortably beatej a.u1 brilliantly illuminated, in all iesein bllng-a great summer garde'" with palms and plants and tender growing v:op? giving, tbe vkirors a tvhiff of natir , which will mere remind theni ->f a balmy June day thai of the winter seasou. The gruat National Corn Exposi tion will be a round-up of all State agricultural shows and azrlccltural meetincs. The name, "corn exposi tion," does not mean lhat only corn will be shown, for all gra'os and grasses, the prize winners only, at the various Stfte shows, will be in competition fVr the valual^s national trophies."" Morn than 35 States will have com petitive exhibits. Twenty-five State agricultural colleges and experlmen* stations will have scientific exhibits, each demonstrating Its most ad vanced experimental work. These ex hibits, which will be'in charga of ex port demonstrators, will deal, in a practical way, with nearly every phase of the science of agriculture. For instance. North Carolina will emphasize the cotton industry, from the growing plant to the manufno tured article, with cotton gin aud loom in actual operation; while Illi nois will especially emphazises its soil work. Never before in the history of t tho world has there been such a showinj of results in agriculture, based on scientific investigation. Tho federal department of agri culture will be represented with its famous exhibit, which fills two large furniture car3, and* which has just been returned from the international exoositlcn at Buenos Avres. Important among the many meet iags, exhibits and ether sneclal fea tures of this greatest of agricultural expositions may be mentioned the mccMnTs of the American Breeders' Association, the Ohio Dairymen's As sociation, i're National Rural "Life Conference^ the Ohio Conservation Association, tho Ohio Co'T. Improve ment Association and- numerous live stork Associations. There will be .'::>e?i?.l fe-.tures of vital I-rerc-t to the Y. M. C. A., churches. rol'ru?-, schools, the farm er and the city man and their fami lies alike. ^pe-c'al enter! ^nrnent. features will Include a two-ring winter circus, lard concerts with vocal soloists ,;ud moving pictures. :*;:;:.vci?t:;i acts as f lac man. Grabs Handkerchief nnd Warn Train of Wreck. The moment be emerged from thf 'lay coach where he wan riding at Ma-soot, Tenn., late Triday after noon, xiev. J. A. Tjnylor. pastor of the State Street Methodist Church ^niith, of Rr'atol. and formerly oi Chattanooga, Instantly grabbed a handkerchief and ran a half mile up the track to flag any other traim that mljht be coming. Mr. Baylor who is one of the most prominent ministers in the Horton conference was forwerly a locomotive engineer and this was hi? first Impulse. He was injured In a passenger wreck some years ago while railroading and before entering the ministry. ' WO CENTS PEB COPY VERY BAD BOYS Two Young Bandits Under Arrest Sitoot and Kill a Policeman. BOLD UP HOTEL CLERK They Are Captured, and While Be ing Taken to Prison on. a Street Car, Murder the Officer Who A*. I ? ? - ? rested Them and Make Good Their Escape. William Muzzary, twenty years old, 'and Algot Jackson, discharged bell boy and night porter respec tively of the Hotel McKoy at Dulutb* Miss., early Friday held up, robbed and shot the night clerk. Both were arrested and placed on a street car after a chase through the Interstate bridge district and while being taken back to the city, asked that they be allowed to go inside the.car. The requesi. was granted. On? of the youthful bandits quickly pulled a revolver from a pocket that had escaped the notice of Policeman Har ry Chesmore, who had made the ar rest, opened fire on the 'officer and killed him. He was Bhot twice in the lungs and once in the forehead. The robbers then held up the pas . sengers and crew of the street oar j and at 6:30 a. m. made good their I escape over the Northern railroad bridge. The two boys entered the hoiel about 3:45 o'clock Friday morning. Clarence Stubsted, the night clerk, and Charles Feasted were standing beside the desk. "Hold up your hands!" shouted one of the boys, pointing a revolver. The clerk and porter thought the boys were joking. To show that they were In earnest, one of the boye f.red a shot through the floor near the desk and the clerk and porter put their hands up. The boys them marched them into che dining room and ordered them to stand up against the large iron post in the middle of the ..room. While one of the bandits covered '.he two men with the revolver,- the )ther hastily gathered some table linen, and tied their hands- to the ;)ost above their heads. The boys then ' returned to the ?esk,and went through the cash reg ister, taking about ?50 In cash/and made their escape. The two men were later released by a rubber from :the bath parJors in..the..l)asemen,tja?d they then gave tbe alf rm. ?' SOLVING GKEF..VWOOD MYSTERY. Young While Man Arrested for At tacking Miss Pinson. Fletcher Golden, an eighteen-year old whjto boy, has been arro.' ted at Greenwood in connection with the alleged attempt of robbery at the home of.'J. F. Pinson cn Reynolds; strnet. The evidence, on wjich the? arrcst was *>adc i3 birc urns tan tla? being bused on the finding of a pair of trousers, which are said -*o have been identified as his, in a vacant bnildlru? near the Pinson home with some oi the young lady's haJr in one of the pockrtts. Young Golden is a carpenter and has been doiag some work ouf in the country, though-he' comes home at nlgbt. An interesting feature &i Jthe af fair Is that young Golden's father is the man who shot at a thlei who at tempted to rob Pin son's r*ore -about a year ago and went ?v C.ir as to identify the man by hin voioo, fixing it cu a >oung man herr who proved conclusively that It was a case of mistaken identity. There is considerable interest in the case, there being many differing opinions. The pecnllar hour, 7 a. m., at whloh the robbery was fittempted puzzles mofct people and uiuo how it was possible-'for a cut, so severe as to cut tbe young lady's hair, could he made without cuttin? her skin or ear. GOIdcu assorts his Innocence. * STARVED TO DEATH. Woman Miser Die* in B&eiw&Ie Room of Cleveland The death from starvation of Mrs. Susannah Drum, seventy-six years I old, at tbe Cleveland, Ohio, infirmary Saturday night, brought to light ttid ::.ory of an aged vornan who, for two ysars past, lived In a small, squalid room, clothed herself in rags and finally starved herself to n^ath In order to save every ptmny that was with in her grasp On Decemb'jr 29, on complaint ol neighbors of her queer action* she ?ails taken before Probate Judge Mad den to be cj:'.!0tried hr to nor a-mity. Mut the old woman was so lil and weak that she was 6ent to the in firmary. She was supposed to be penniless, but after death came there wa?< feti;?d in a cloth ba? around her nock Si50 in bills, two bank books calling for several hundred dollars and a mort gage on a farm at Berlin, Ohio. Given Three Yeurs. In the circuit court at Salem, Va^ Thursday afternoon a jury In the cose of J. H. Body, white, charged with killing James Mack, a negro, re turned a verdict of Involuntary man slaughter and fixed Body's punish ment of three years In the peniten tiary. A motion will be made for a new trial. ,