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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
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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.
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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! 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. Goethals. j
and continuing: "Also knows lots of But This
engineering as 12 or 14 years old D .
boy.- Burt
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The letter then launched into a j
general attack on Col. Goethals.
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