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CI?E 31K\T- P E \ J > E LTO N CASE | Vari<>ii> lulluenccx Would Keep Hcport 01 Coniiiur Trial Out of Papers. News and Courier. Spartanburg. April IS.?This town j is engaged in a hot controversy, with nearly everybody expressing an opin-! ion. over t'.:e eternal question. "What | news should a newspap^e print?" It was started by tne case of Aiiss Fietla Fend.e.on and Clyde C. Clement, t.:e young North Carolina couple who are to be iried next week for tiie alleged dorwning cf a baby. Some of the church-workers app'oached the editors of the papers and requested them to publish no hing wha, ever about the trial. They said reports of the plight or' t'.iis boy and girl would tend to corrupt ,the mo'als ot otner young people, and besides, nobody wanted to read about it, anyway?this in the face of toe fact tuai; reports oi' the case have enormously increased the street sales of the papers. The: editors politely refused the request, j Everybody in Spartanburg feels an almost properietary in its news almost proprietary interest in its newspapers and d^es not hesitate o advise them how they should conduct their affairs. Attack Renewed. Nothing daunted by the refusal the church-workers renewed the attack. Other church folk joined* issue with them, however, and the question of whether exposure of wickedness through publicity "tends to suggest the j commission of similar wickedness to others or has a deterrent effect has been, and still is, warmly debated. In the meantinme the editors, replyin to the broadside of letters fired at them, have suggested that they were ; "not too good to print anything that God Almighty permitted to happen,'' and also called attention to an ablyedited Boston newspaper, the Christian j Science Monitor, for the benefit of per- !.* sons who object to reading of the tra- ! gic or wicked happenings of the world,! as u yuuusiies iiu sucu i The City Federation of Women's l Clubs next tcok r.he matter up and in i ponvention assembled solemnly ad- j opted resolutions calling cn the Spar- i tanburg :.ewspapres to publish notning but tie bare outlines?a mere skeleton j report?of the impending trial. The j Ladies' Missionary Society of the! Methodist Church and the Women's Missionary Union of the Bap.ist , Church adopted similar resolutions. One Editor Leaves T?>\n. The edito:s . lso refused this request. ; The morning paper, however, invited 1 the City Federation of Women's Clubs to appoi:one o:' its members to report the trial in woat t.ie Federation j regarded as a proper manner, and a delegati:n of clubwomen called on the editor and said they were inclined to accep,: .:is challenge. On learning, however, that he expected to print his j own reporte". *s story, in addition to ! theirs, they accused him in a sarcastic ! le ter of trying to make, a newspaper, "story" -cut of them. After a parting 1 ! reply he has left town for a few days, j While this has been g)ing on the cir- : culaticn of t.ie papers .^as been in-j creasing. Complaints have been made, through letters to the newspapers, because tiiie body of the drowned baby, embalmed and in an undertaker's morgue, has ^ot been buried. Protests have been voiced against ihe suspected intention , cr solicitor Aipert nni 10 nurouuce the b3dy in evidence. Why He Kept Baby. * . Solicitor Hill, replying to these pro- ! tesis, said he did not propose to have j to exhume t..:e body if his contention j that the baby met death by drowning should be disputed or if the defendants should deny that the baby was :heirs. "Ho wac hnlriinor flip hnriv hp sa.ifi for possible purposes of identification ,cr to ' prove the manner of death. He did net propose to introduce the body otherwise, he said. He declared he had ample le^al precedent for .'his action and spoke of numerous murder cases \ in recent years where the bodies of! victims ihad had to be disinterred to settle disputed points. He was r.ot responsible, he said, for the fact that I thousands of morbidly curious persons had called at the morgue. A curious feature of the interest taken in the case cf Clement and Miss . Pendleton is the fact that yards and yards of "poems" on the affair, written , by all sorts and conditions of persons, have been sent to the local newspapers. They are for the most part mawkish drivel. - 3IITCHEL FIRED 0> Apparently Irresponsible Man Shoots at tfayor of >"ew York but Hits City Lawyer. j New York, April 17.?In an attempt; to take the life cf Mayor John Purroy j Mitcfael t^day, Michel P. Mahoney, an apparently irresponsible man, who 1 said he was a blacksmith out of i work fired into a group of three men ! seated in the mayor's au omobih' 011 ! Park Row at lie east side of City Hall j park. The bullet entered the jaw of j Frank L. Polk, corporation counsel.; who was si ting next to the mayor. 1 Wi:h blood spurting from his mouth ! Mr. Polk was taken in o the city hall ! and afterward to a hospital, where it was said the wound would not prove I a t a 1. Ma..o.:oy shot at the mayor, he dedal ed anight, because he felt aggrieved a: the city executive's "extravagant expenditures" and because he was incensed at being refused an audience with the mayor on two occasions this week when he came to apply for a municipal job. Before Mahoney could tire a second shot, he was overpowered by Detective Xeun, who, in the capacity of chauffeur, was adjusting robes about the men in the automobile. The maycr sat in the middle of the back seat with Mr. Polk on his righ: and George V. Mullan, the mayor's former law partner, on his left. The bullet passed so close to Mayor Mitchel that the left side of his face was scorched. Standing within a few fee: of Mahoney was Police Commissioner Arthur H. woods, who was waiting for the chauffeur to get into the car, intending :o sit beside foe driver. Saw Assassin Downed. Bystanders 'turned at the sound of the revolver shot aad the sight of the aged man who did the shooting sprawled on the pavement as he wa* ^ A rvTi'v. Kv Qtanriua \*Diir? Q^pm - UUl iic UV"U UJ ? V/ 41VUU, ~V,WA** eel almost simultaneous. The sigh: of Mayor Mitchel steadying the staggering figure of Mr. Polk then detached itself from the picture. Within short time the city hall plaza and Park Row were flooded with a surging crowd and police reserves were called out. As soon as he had seen that Mr. Polk received medical attention, Mayor Mitchel went to the police sta- I Lion and questioned Mahoney. "Why did you shoo: at me?'' he asked. The prisoner's answer was incoherent and to the effect that lie had noth-' ingt o say. Cowering before his ques- I tioners, he seemed hardly to know wha: he had done. He wore a ragged fringe of white beard and was clad in an ill fitting suit. j I While the police were trying to learn the man's ^ame, which he per- j i sistently refused to give, a jostling | crowd packed tne plaza. Called For His Blood. "Where's the assassin?'' "Lynch him!'* some of them cried. It was thought a: the time that the corporation counsel had lost most of his lower teeth and that the jawbone had been peirced in two place by the bullet, bu: a later report from tne hospital said only one tooLi had been knocked out, and that unless bl-od poisoning set in the wound would not prove serious. Mahcr.ey underwent a searching examina.ion at police headquariers at li Seaboard Air "The Progressive R; Low ] t 4 I_ _1 *1 jacKsonvu acc( Annual Reunion I Vete May 6-\ RATE FROM N] $7. Correspondingly lo^ Tickets on sale May J trains scheduled to re; noon of May 8th, 1914. Final limit returning Upon payment of { ticket in Jacksonville, 1 June 4th, 1^14. For full informatio agent, or write i r w CMAfi n, V* Tit UlTiflULl; I/1TIOJ Savann fj-M t/.e hands of Police Commissioner f ? Woods. District Attorney Whitman and others. As he was led out of he traffic police station to the ambulance that took him to police headquarters. t.ie crowd lunged toward him, menacing a.'.d loud voiced, but :he police : 1 r h tun h;i r-U* The automobile which the mavur's | party was entering was to take tiiem ! to lunch. In 3<) seconds the car would have s arted. Ween the party ap-: ! proached the car Mahoney, wao had j 1 ! been attending a noon meeting of tne j unemployed and the Industrial Work-j : ers of the World nearby, saw that. j iViayor .\111u11e1 u u.s ttiann u it:\> lccu I of him. As :he mayor took his scat Mahoiiey drew a revolver from his pocket and sh v.. According to his own story Mahoney , I had tried to see the mayor last Mon ; day, but had been unable :o obtain an ' ! -..x t t * k ~ i j interview, ms iut*a, xic* saiu, wits lu criticize Mayor Mltc'ael f>r the "ex- ; | travagant expenditures" of his ad- j j ministration and incidentally to ask , tor a job. Angered by Repulse. His repulse embittered him and; whea he came back Wednesday it! was within the intention of killing the i mayor. "He thought better of his pur- ! pose* on this occasion, however, and j deferred the at;empt. Today he determined to act. Turn Ipttprs taken frnm Mahoneiv's i pockets, one addressed to Mayor j Mitchel and the ot'ber to Mayor j fW Armstrong of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the i most part were unintelligible, but it j A was evident that the writer was trying to voice a protest against the police bills recently urged by Mayor I Mitchel at Albany and other munici- j pal activities. j ??? In these letters Mahoney appeared j to be agitated by the attempt to get j George W. Goethals to take the po- I li""* commission'ership. llUIl I "He knows less about police work? III Dl as much as a boy of 12 or 13," was ' one of th.e disppointed statements ia j the letters referring to Col. 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