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A REMARKABLE CASE. How the Dead Body of a Woman in a Trunk IN THE CITY OF LONDON, ENG., Unmasked the Most I ng e n i o u r Wife Murderer Since the Days of the Pirate Blue Beard. One husband with four wives all it the same house, three living each it ignorance of her husband's real rela tions with the other two, and one dead, murdered. and her body buries in cement in a trunk in the cellar this is the extraordinary domestic situation revealed in the London su burb of Kensal Rise through the sui cide of George Albert Crossman whe1 his oily tongue could no longer satisf; those who suspected him. Only the strange fascinatitn whic1 he exercised over woman, his utte lack of scruples and the persuasiv powers of the bigamous murderer an suicide made such a situation possible And the criminal investigation ha shown that at least four other wive had become his victims before the ad vent of those-making a total c eight. There was nothing Mormon abou this household. Each of tl.e livini wives believed herself to be the onl: one and her husband faithful, al though all lived under the sa me roof When Crossman's persuasive tongue was stilled by his. own hand it wa only necessary for the three livinj ones to speak freely to each other it comparing notes, and the mystery wa explained. An account of this drama of com plications properly begins before the advent of living wife No. :3. Wife No. 1, known to tradesman and all it the neighborhood as Mrs. Crossman as she truly was--occupied living ant sleeping rooms with their child on th second tloor of the house in Kensa Rise known as "Sunnyside." Wife No. 2 and her child-also Crossman' child-were similiarly situated on the third floor. She was known to wif No. 1 and to the neighborhood a Mrs. Clark, the widow of the lifelong friend of Crossman, who, dying, has made Crossman his executor an< guardian of his child. When wife No 1 objected to his spending so mucd time with "Mrs. Clark" he would ap pease her with this explanation: HIS INGENIOUS EXPLANATIONS. "My dear wife, if I seem to you un duly attentive to Mrs. Clard, upstairs you must remember that I am fulfill. ing a sacred trust reposed in rr - b3 my dear friend, her late husband, or his death bed. Besides, the position of executor in this case is lucrative and, like many inexperienced woman Mrs. Clark has a passion for going into detail. As she is extremely se cretive about her affairs, I beg tha you will never appear curious." And so Grossman was free to enjo: "Mrs. Clark's" and their child's so ciety, going and coming at his pleas ure. To satisfy wife No. 2 about the pub lic recognition accorded to wife No 1 as Mrs. Grossman was easily withir the limit of Crossman's ingenuity. He told her. "My darling wife, of course yot know that the relations between Mrs. Crossman and me are only what those of brother-in-law and sister-in-lay should be. Her husband is in India and for reasons involving considerabl< property it is necessary for her to b4 supposed to be living with her hus band. That is the role I have to pa: -distasteful though it is. Of course you wont mention it. If the littli deception should become known thi result would practically mean ruin fo: the poor woman, and, besides. the ar. rangement is rather profitable to me -something to be grateful for thess .hard times." There was no resisting the fascina. tions of this man, and neither wifE dreamed of doubting his word. Sc Tverything went on smoothly, the household expenses being paid out of money Crossman's two brides brought to him on the wedding day. There was only one complaint from the twc wives. This was a bad odor which seemed to come from the cellar. "I'll attend to that the first day I have time,.' Grossman would say, "The smell comes from a box full 01 cement left by the masons. I'll at tend to it presently." LOW FUNDS CALL FOR ANOTHER WIFE. But funds were running low, and Crossman had a more important task before him, lie needed another wife -one with money-and he was al *ready advertising for her in t he name of "Frank Seaton." Frequently he was away for a day or two. At length he announced to wives No. 1 an&d2, sep arately, that he was about to install on the first floor as housekeepers at old and intimate friend of his sister in Manchester, adding: "It is enough for me to remind you that she is my- sister's school chum, that we are named in her will as heir to all her property and that she will trust no one but the brother of het girlhood's chum." Seperately, wives No. 1 and 2 beg ged him not to mention it. Together. Mrs. Grossman and Mrs. Clark urged him to go at once and bring home Mrs. Seaton. Thereupon, grumblingly, Crossman posted off, not to Manchester, but tc Reading, where Miss Annie Welsh, not especially attractive, but with a neat savings bank account at the 10 cal post otlice, awaited her dashing fiance, "Frank Seaton." For Crossmar was only thirty-five, and in spite o; four years spent in jail for bigamy, presented a youthful and attractivE appearance. They were immediately married al St. George's Church in Reading, ani proceeded to enjoy their honeymoor with the assistance of "Mrs. Seaton's' savings, which "Mr. Seaton" thought fully withdrew from the bank aftel the ceremony. They went to Man chester, from which place Crossmai prudently and dutifully wrote to witf No. I and 2, and found a letter fron "Mrs. Clark" telling him how mrcelj their little boy was getting along witi the whooping cough. Coming across this letter, "Mrs. Seaton," wife No. 3, asked questions. Grossman was equal t( the emergency. He was acting as g0,-between fora husband and nife who were jangling. This was q'.4ite satisfactory. In good time Grossman and wife No. 3 set .out for London and home. Now he became doubly fascinating. When he saw that wife No. 3 was finding him perfectly irresistible hE prepared her ror the somewyhat am biguous state of things she would tind at "Sunnyside," saying: HE PREFARES HER FOR NO. 1 AND NO. 2. "My angel bride, you know that many people have family obligations 01 which not even a marriage ftr lc e can relieve them. That is why 1 am known as George Albert Cromm:m. who is in India. He is my hal.-b t: . and for prop:rty reas.ins his w ie- who lives in my house and passes for i e. must appear to be living with 2r iu band. MIrs. Clark. who lives ith her child on the top flour. is the wmow of 1 my dearest friend, and :he care f her her child and her property is a trust which he reposed in me while on his death bed. These poor women and their affairs take up much of my time: but you mustn't mind. darling. Mrs. Seaton was so deeply in love that she was far past minding any thing respectable that concerned her new husband. So on their arrival all was serene. Having learned about "Mrs. Seaton's" property and the will and about her suspicions and exacting nature, wives, No. I and No. 2 even urged Crossman to humor her m e'ery way. And thus the new honeymoon 1 was not too rudely concluded. But on the very day of their home coming "Irs. Seateon" &bje ted strongly to that strange odor from th cellar, much more noticeable :: the first floor, where she was istailld. than on the others occupied by' wi No. 1 and No. 2. Cros> man was sen ously embarrassed. Ile could not think how to safely dispose of the trunk and its dreadful secret. In the presence of that odor his fas cinations lost their effect on wife No. 3. They had a quarrel about it, and wife No. 3 was in a fair way to join the dead wife in the cellar when she suddenly packed a handbag and left. saying she would return to her parents and remain there until the cellar was put in a respectable condition. S!LaIICLUS OF THE ILL sNiE:LL. This episode called anew the atten tion of wives No. I and No. 2 to the ill smelling trunk in the cellar. They made Crossman take them down to look at it. It was an old tin trunk and stood in a little dark closet. Crossman tried to say that old cement usually smelled that way-but the wo l men had flown to the upper regions. And then the wife murderer would go down into the cellar and tug at the straps of the trunk in which the body of one of his victims lay encased in ce ment. trying to shut in the odor that was making his living wives suspi ; cious. While Crossman was continually I planning to take away the trunk and t bury it in his mother's garden, in an other part of the suburbs, wife No.:3 finding that absence made the heart grow fonder. returned. Crossman promised to have the trunk taken away the next day without fail. But several days elapsed with noth ing done. Crossman seemed much preoccupied, and when wife No. 3 hinted her suspicions he looked at her so strangely that cold shivers ran down her back. Was he thinking! that it would be better to let her join the dead wife in the cellar? At last, on Saturday, Crossman call ed at the shop of Messrs. iyden & Sons, news agents, in Willesden lane, in whose window was a notice to the effect that light work was done with a pony and van, He wanted a box moved, he said. Young Ryden, who is still under: twenty years of age and who does the van work, was out and Crossman re fused to leave his name and address. saying he would call again. He called again that same evening, but Ryden was again not in. On Tues day he sent a telegram ordering the van, but subsequently cancelled it. Late the same evening he called at! the shop, again ordering the cart for the next day and saying he would come for it. On Wednesday evening he went to the shop for the last time and asked Ryden to get the van ready. It wa then about 8:30, and he said that the job would probably take until about' 9 o'clock. Ryden suggested that he should take a carman named Wicks to help, but rossman insisited that he must go alone. Ryden was suspicious at this and told Wicks to follow on foot. Ie and Grossman then drove to "Sunny side," a drive of about eight or ten minutes. DISCOVERED, HIE KILLs hIMSELF. Before fetching the cart, however, Crossman had moved the fateful box from the cellar into garden. Ilis ac tions were wvatched by a suspicious neighbor, who, while Crossman was away after the van, reported the mat ter at the near-by police station. The police sergeant and an otticer in, plain clothes met the murderer when he arrived with the van. Cri ssman was completely taken by surprise, and it was not until the sergeant had! actually touched him that lie took to! his heels and ran wildly down the road. Luckilly, the plain-clothes man' was young and an excellent runner. He stuck close to Grossman's heels down the length of Ladysmnithr road and into the main road leading to Kensal Rise station. Both pursued and pursuer were winded by this time, and the constable called out for assis tance in the chase. Finding himself corner, d in I f anover road, Grossman suddenly stopped and cut his throat with a razor. S~o thoroughly did he do his work that the windpipe and blood-vessels were served to the backbone, anid he died practically at once. Grossman being dead, then came the mystery of the trunk. Four police men managed with great trouble to lift the box into the van. while from it oozed a thick and evil-smeelg' liquid. It was taken to the yard of the police station in Salisbury tooad and there it was broken open a::d thre horrible discovery made. A woMvANS BoDY Ex;cassa IN (i:NT. When the lid was forced lack t e box was found to be tiled with solid cement. A few blows broke thre crust, revealing the body of a woman! in an advanced stage of decomposi tion. Owing to a lack of evidence Ithat violence had been used in killin~g the woman, the police assumed that she had died of poison. U pon Crossman's body., soaked in* blood, was a death certiticate of ar woman named as his wife and letters and other papers, shrowi ng that he had married at least eight womnr through the mediation of mat rimiafl agencies. Fu rthI er investigation shrow ed that practically Ihis whole soeurce of income had been these bigamous~ wives and the money they br.u lit with them. As already told, it was onrly neces sary for wives No. 1 No. 2 and N. to frankly compare notes to m'a!<eth whole mystery plain of Crosma's ability to live with thir e wiveos in b same house without excitiLn:; tire su picion of any of them. Singularly revolting as is the case Iof George Albert Crossmnan, it exhuibi in a pronioun~ced form the cha~iracters tis of thne typo of crimninal wh'ose monomania seems to be thne lhunti down preying upon and sla ughater 01 women. Like "Blue Beard" in th~e ar:-y agamn and, murder till some .o forrtunately opens the cupboard, td tiie world is rid of them in due md "aiutary course. Fog Cro1ssinan's case has set the authori ies to moralizing on the subject. He tas been married eight times, and was ookinig out for another victim when :le cnd came to his loathsome career. to ditiiculty in finding wives. lie' ould have had as many as lie Ca What is the explanation? KILLING FROST PREVENTED By l ains, Otherwise Damage Would Have Been Great to Crops. gal The State says the cold wave made th a sudden and unexpected dip south nard over the Appalachian mountains Wednesday and Cclumbians and other da Suth Carolians again hauled out abl their overcoats and wraps and built H. tires after making full preparations in apparel and otherwise for summer. There were light falls of snow at sev erai points in the upper half of the ha Sate. as far down as Newberry, and po the clouds and rain and wind alone mi saved thousands of dollars crop dam- th ages all over the State. With clear, tal calm weather Tuesday night, Section th Director Bauer said, there would cer- lin tai ly have been killing frosts practi- wi cahv over the entire State, which ab would have played havoc with the me fruit crops, killing cotton and greatly co] retarding corn. The night before freezingz temperatures occurred in the m< mountainous sections, but Wednes- M< day's reports from the commercial to peach orchards of this State and Geor- ch gia indicated that though the crop he had been damaged to some extent en there stiii remained enough fruit on Rc the trees to insure practically a full crop. The reports from Georgia were on particularly encouraging, and those 18 from South Carolina points were al- he most as good. The North Carolina wi fruit crop was seriously affected, nnt sir over half a crop remaining. In Vir ginia. where there was also clear Rc weather killing frosts occurred all hi: over the State, greatly damaging the th trucking interests at Norfolk, where the frost was heaviest. di< The centre of the cold wave Wed- or nesday was in northern Micbigan, Pennsylvania, New York and the Be New England States, with snow as th far south as St. Louis and with tem- on peratures from 6 to 10 degrees below freezing, while in the central valleys fri and on the eastern slope of the an lbekies there were rises of from 10 to -0 dLgrees on account of a storm fr( originating in the Rockies. As the ro western storm advances tne northerly winds will change to the south and this section will get a touch of spring ra again Thursday or Friday, s> Mr. Bauer says. Texas and Louisiana en joyed seasonable warmth Wednesday, ills but the central Texas farmers who tried to get a jump on the boll weevil be have been disappointed. Their cotton was killed by the cold wave of he a few days ago and they are now re- tag planting. rel In the northern half of the country ta east of the Mississippi practically no farming has been done on account of to the lateness of the spring, and these th sections have not suffered by yester- m day's cold wave. The unreasonable th has not extended into the spring ru wheat districts of the Missouri valley, where the crop is all in the ground, of and the New York, Wisconsin and ou Minnesota apple orchards are unaf- t fected because the lateness of the pring has prevented even the buds m starting yet. So the prospects for w full wealth and apple crops are still g<.od. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __dis CHECKS BEING SENT. an Largest A pportionments of the Fund of Go to Upper Counties. he The State says the comptroller thi general's ctlice force has completed be bhe pensiou statistics and Saturday thb the checks were sent to the various - zounties. The appropriation is 8200,- bei 2300 this year and this sum had to be tal apportioned in proportion to the de- liv f the coun tics.. Fon this sum before it was appor- Rc ioned was deducted $3,300 for the of 3xpenses of the county and State pen- liv: ion boards, for the salary of the and 1erk. for printing, stamps, etc. The ma Lmounts to be paid follow: thi Abbeville............ ...S 3,411 97 all Aiken.................. 6,375 61 dis Xnderson.............. 10,915 09 jec B~amberg........... .... 1,59~13 dis Barnwell. ....... .... .. ..3,240 26 thi Beaufort................. 684 87 hal Berkeley...... .. ....... .. 2,453 95 ma 3arleston.. .. ....... .. 3,125 95 at herokee...... ..... ..... 5,054 12 su< hester... . .. .. .. 3,577 00 sid Jhester deld.. ....... ... 5,810 99 tio liarendon .. ..... .. ... .. 3,427 31 ma 31'eton. .. ........ .... 7.224 53 Darington............... 4,793 09 boi Dorchester....... ....1515 72 wi' .igeield............ .... 3,040 34 'airield.... ....... ..... 3,150 639 Elorence.... .. .... ..... 3726 70 . eorgetown.. .. ....... 1001 reenville ............ ...10978 reenwcod.............3,487 4ampton... ........... 4177 lorry.................4676 Kershaw............. 3236 Aucaster............. 5,469a ~aurens............ ..... 6,20 ee..................... 2959as exinton...... ......... ,399m Iarlboro............... 3502 e ewberry............... 3,8 8 e )raone................ 4,2 2H [ckens............. .... 5094do Willamsbrg......... 3,18 49lw ~7er............... 732216 lurehas ad pepard 3an 5wil soo reg ssue FrmersBullein 58o 195 sen p Rc~,hoad....t..... of... the3 02er wmi 1uatinury..... ear......re enonstrutionof.. tbe.. andc..d.on Wllamsbur The dae fo .p...t.n. .h. ;cedof ech o thevaritie e 25e its :uirik.io. are. state in. the0 disus sa ow toah pcis G en Foeral cu u o Inoerto msuryte solrgempani- o :rasnd transaningoreblston gie. Mr latinbuloetin contiain plan flowrsheol Uniteds Sades illsartedtfAgifty- dt ure has had reredpies will bsoon the sesu n Farmrsplatin to. 19 Senor p tilepde"Ana oweerin Plan. pol rbe or tiectary of thgbreruil the raeWs.hedtons for plnin.he. RICH AND RACY. a sonr mer Congressman Gave Senational bea C Testimony on Morman Tenets. new thr E SITUATIONS CONFLICTING cer ise in Which Obligations to Church Would Clash With to Duties to the State Confessed. not pla 2ith the reopening of the investi- p ion in the Reed Smoot case before tio1 senate committee on privileges n I elections, at Washington Wednes- or the prosecution devoted consider- vea e time to drawing from, Brigha ten Roberts the character of the oaths ich are said to be necessary for a as Ic rmon official to take in order to I e the support of the church for roi itical office. Members of the com- enc ttee showed an equal interest in oat obligations which are said to be ten by Mormons who "go through a endowment house." Along both vet es much evidence was brought out ich is expected to have consider- act le bearing on the fitness of a Mor in chuch official to hold a seat in wa igress. ab [t was shown by Mr. Roberts' testi- p0 mny that without the consent of the >rmon church he failed of election nol a seat in congress and later with arch recognition of his candidacy was elected. In relation to the :owment house obligation Mr. A3 berts was extremely reticent. SIr. Roberts said he has three wives. e married in 1877, the second in 36 and the third in 1890. He said sui has had children by all of the are yes and by the first plural v ife col lce his election to congress. ME Senator Overman inquired of Mr. th berts whether his first wife and wi second wife had consented to his ty rd wife. "No sir," said Mr. Roberts. "They tin I not learn of the marriage for three del four years." pr "How was that?" asked Senator Ba veridge. "Do you mean to say that ed e marriage was not known to any e?" Pa "It was known to some of my peg ends but not to my wives," was the In swer. pee 'Why was this marriage concealed a s m them?" asked Chairman Bur- we VS. wi woULDN'T EMBARRASS THEM. co "Because I did not want to embar- Ha s them." "How embarrass them?" Pr "Well, we knew the marriage was ter gal and it might be embarrassing i them if they should for any reason called on to testify." Gr Er. Taylor asked Mr. Roberts why thought it incumbent upon his to re plural wives." "From boyhood," Ki )lied the witness, "I had been D ght the rightfulness o plural D. riages and I believed this practice Br be the law of God. I knew that l s practice was contrary to the ndates of congress but believed s t the law of God was the highest s e and I felt impelled to obey it." S hairman Burrows asked a number pointed questions which brought Ha the confession from Mr. Roberts it he still believes in and is pracpic. th polygamy. He said that he be- C es that the Woodrug manifesto s divinely inspired and that now in Lticing polygamy he knows he is obeying both the laws of the land T. i the laws of God. He was asked ty he continued to disobey the laws Gr God, if he believed them to be the chest laws and with a resigned air, Ca said: "Well, the manifesto left in the midst of obligations to mse wives. I am trying to do the N^ t I can to live within the laws but BO mse obligations I cannot shirk." at the afternoon session Mr. Ro ts said no action had ever been en by the church in respect to his ing with more than one wife. in Juestion were asked respecting Mr berts' views regarding the manifesto 1890 against plural marriages and m [ng in poloygamous cohabitation T the witness said he regarded the nifesto as an administrative act of Schurch and of binding force uponco members. He admitted that toco obey any of those laws would sub t the member to liability to church in ipline. The witness was asked m in regard to polygamous co itation, and said that he and ~ ny others were living in polygamy in the time the rule was made againstm ;h cohabitiation and that they con-D ered themselves under moral obliga to live with the wives they had rried. Int 'Do you think you are morally md to cohabit with all of your es?" Chairman Burrows asked. ' do." ofit AN UNL;.CKY NU.MBER- enin 'Ho0w many children have you?" bor 'Tirteen living." isst 'How many not living?" giv 'Two." 'When was the last one born?" St 'About two or two and a half years Sou i." mi] ,r. Van Cott in cross examination Sta :ed in regard to the rule which per- tha ., officials of the church to enter- bai o politics and the witness said he mal arded it as merely a "leave of ab- in'1 ce from the church official duties 190 *ing incumbency of political office." vali said he did not regard it as an en- coa: sement by the Mormcn church. It due brought out that in his first can- nit s for office when he had not the whi sent or leave of absence, he was has eated. In his second canvass he cen ained the "leave of absence" and an elected. of enator Bailey asked a number of con 'stions regarding the witness' views con his obligations as a citizen and the ether there could be a religious ine igation which would justify him in 190 tying his services to his State to but ;harge duties which would devolve of m him by the - acceptance of a whi ir. Roberts said the emergency stat ht arise whereby an official should ed gn his political office if the will of $57 constituents would not permit ovel 1 to erfect his duties in harmony nex y with the church mandates. follt enator Bailey asked the witness if of ras not true that the political sup- rani t of the Mormon church in Utah mir isought by political parties the tuk: ie as the Irish, German or Italian thal e was sought in other communi- inc: the And the negro vote?" interrupted 88 Worthington. 000: I believe not," said Mr. Roberts. $3. here may be individuals who trim Car< ir sales that way, but not the lina .ch."' out] ' belIeve," said Senator Bailey, 639, tat the first election was carried by 190: Republicans, the second by the eac] norrts, the thirrl by the Rennh- 188( ns. The next appears to be our n. That appears to indicate that le influence has been brought to r on the church." hairman Burrows asked the wit s whether he ever had been ough the endowme.t house. Yes, sir." Can you tell us in regard to this mony?"asked Chairman Burrows. 'I cannot. I do not feel a liberty to so." 'Why not:" 'I consider myself in trust and at liberty to disclose what takes ce." Ir. Roberts said that the obliga as were secret and he thought them unlike the oaths of the Masonic er or other secret societies. 'What would happen if you did re .1 what took place within the ple"? asked the chairman. 'I would lose caste and be regarded betraying a trust. If I keep faith annot disclose what takes place." 'Then," pursued Chairman Bur 's, any person who takes the lowment house obligation is under h not to reveal its nature?" I think so." 'And Senator Smoot could not re .1 his oath of that character?" Che witness nodded his his head in luiesence. senator Bailey asked whether there s anything in the ceiemony that ridged a. man's freedom in any itical or religious way. the witness replied he thought THE SUMMER SCHOOL. nouncement by State Superinten dent of Education Martin. The arrangements for a.large state nmer school at Winthrop college being rapidly perfected, and a nplete prospectus and announce nts will be issued from the office of a state superintendant of education thin the next few days. The facul thus far completed is as follows: dministrative board-0. B. Mar i, superintendant, state superinten at of education; D. B. Johnson, sident of Winthrop college; W. H. ,rton, chief clerk in department of acation; C. B. Eirle, stenographer. Pedagogy and library work-Prof. tterson Wardlaw, professor of :agogics, South Carolina college. addition to his excellent course is lagogy, Prof. Wardlaw will deliver pecial series of lectures on library rk, and a model rural school library 11 be maintained and operated is mnection with his lectures. Eistory and civics-Supt. W. H. nd, Chester city schools. ity and county school problems of. Lawton B. Evans, city superin ident of Augusta and county super endent of Richmond county. eography-Supt. E. L. Hughes, eenville city schools. English-Dr. H. N. Snyder, presi ft of Wofford college; Dr. Jas. P. ard, Winthrop college, and Prof. W. Daniel, Clemson college. Educational Psychology-Professor uce R. Pane, Teachers college Co bia Unoiversity, N. Y. lgebra and Geometry-Prof. Mar. L11 D. Earle, of Furman university. rithmetic-Supt. S. H. Edmunds, iter city schools. Botany and School Gardening-Dr. ven Metcalfe, of Clemson college. Physics-Maj. 5. T. Coleman, of a South Carolina Military academy, arleston. b~atin and Greek-Prof. A. G. Rem rt, of Wofford college. Tature study and bird life-Prof. Gilbert Pearson, North Carolina irmal and Industrial c 011 e g e, sensboro. Ianual Training-Prof. F. R. agh of California. Epression-Miss Edith C o b u r r yes, Emerson College of Oratory, ston. 3rawing-Miss Elizabeth M. Getz, minger Normal school, Charles rimary and Intermediate Methods diss Ellen Rieff, principal of Wash ton Street school, Columbia. pecial primary work in applied nual training sud blackboard illus tion-Miss Katherin Basch, of achrs college. bild study and Kindergarten work iss Minnie Macfeat, of Winthrop Lege. light Singing--Miss Margaret N. ompson, teacher of sight singing Greenville graded schools. eneral Lectures-A number of minent educators from this and ter states will address the school general lectures. BVELOPET OF THE SOUTH. eresting Figures Given in Current Issue of Tradesman. 'A Quarter Century Development he Mineral Resources of the South States" is the subject of an ela ate article presented in the current e of The Tradesman, and in it are en igures which tell the eloquent cy of the wonderful progress of the .th. A table on the value of the ieral products of the Southern tes in 1890, 1901 and 1902 shows t with the exception of lead, salt, iite, etc., mica and corundum and ganese ores, there was an increase :he value of all other mainerals in 2 as compared with 1880. The .ie of some of the minerals such as l, pig iron, petroleum, clay pro ts coke, zine. phosphate rock and uraljgas, show enormous gains, le the total value of all minerals increased $217,808,536, or 615 per t. It is also shown that there was ncrease of $35,640,372 in the value all mindral products in 1902, as pared with the previous year. A parative statement is also given of total value of all mineral products ach of the Sothern states in 1880, 1 and 1902. Not a single state shows immense gains in the value its mineral products since 1880, le in some of them a gain is nishingly large, Alabama, for in ie taking the lead, having increas the value of its products by over 000,000 and West Virginia by S$56,000,000. Virginia comes t with an increase of $20,612,000, wed by Tennessee with a net gain $18, 788,000. Missouri, next in k has increased the value of its eral output $17,371,000, and Ken y's gain is nearly $11,000,000, and i of Maryland $9, 569,000. The ease in all the other states, in order named, is as follows: Texas, '49,000; Indian Territory, $4,676, Georgia, $4,054,000; Arkansas, :90,000; Florida, $2,777,000; South lina, $1,444,000, and North Caro $1,019000. The value of the ut of minerals in Louisina, $966, and of Oklahoma, $431,000 in , is all gain, as this industry in n f them wa undeveloped in They Paid the Penalty. That was a terrible tragedy enacted in Chicago last Friday, when three young men were deprived of their lives by due process of law because of their many crimes. Never before possibly have so many desperate b crimes been crowded into so short a time as was the case of Harvey Van en Dine, Peter Niedemeier< Gustav at Marx, the three young men alluded to gr above. These young men committed te all their crimes within a period of da about five months, with the exception at of small offenses of larceny. In that TI time they killed seven men, wounded at several others, robbed a dozen saloons, di a railroad ticket office, the Chicago y car barns, and attempted to dynamite tt a train. Five of the murders were ty committed within two months. Emil er Roeski was a member of the band, of but he secured a separate trial from the other three, and is now confined d" in the Chicago jail, where his three r, partners were hung on Friday. Cl So far as is told by police reports .p and the confessions of the men, the of first crime of note committed by them n was the robbery of the Clybourn junc-. a] tion station of the Northiestern rail- n; way July 3 last. Niedermier and Roe- di ski carried out this robbery. The gE ticket agent and telegraph operator w were in the station when the men S pointed a revolver through the lattice a work and demanded the money in the ci drawer. The ticket agent reached w for a revolver and was shot through the body, but not mortally hurt. The ui robbers secured $70. Lss than a it week letter Van Dine, Roeski and b Marx robbed a saloon in Ashland p avenue, lining up the customers be- .w fore the bar and shooting and killing bi a young man named Otto Bauder who p: started to run. The following night, a July 10, Van Dine and Roeski went a to a saloon in Addison avenue. Lu's Cohen, the bartender, was alone, c and the men had little trouble in c securing $25. It was in this saloon g that Marx later shot detective John g Quinn. Two nights later Van Dine G and Roeski held up the saloon of ij Carles Alvin. There were five men G besides the bartender in the place 'Z when the youths entered with hand- R kerchief over their faces. On-e hun dred dollars was taken from the cash ij register. o Roeski and Van Dine ou July 20, b found Peter Gorki alone in his saloon o; in Milkwaukee avenue. When con- b fronted by the robbers the saloon- S keeper crouched behind the bar and o: reached for a revolver. Before he could secure it four shots had been p fired at him, one of the_bullets strik- g ing him in the head. The murder b of Benjamin C. LaGross and Adolph p Jensen on Aug. 1 in the former's a saloon in West North avenue .came t next. The saloon-keeper and Jensen were playing cards when the robbers , entered. LaCross and his customer a held up their hands when ordered to 0 do so, but both were shot LaCross t; dying at once and Jensen a day later. t: There was $64 in the till. . The most desperate crime of the youths was the car barn robbery on c: Aug. 30. Marx and Roeski arranged S the details, but Roeski was not an ac-p tive party in the robbery. Two men fa were killed and $2,250 was taken. sl Marx, Van Dine and Niedermeier in- si vaded the barn at 3 o'clock in the c morning and began shooting without: warning. Francis W. Stewart, a stu dent at the Armour Institue, at work at a desk in the cashier's office was a shot through the body and died soon af terward. William B. Edmond re ceiving cashier, also was shot, but not mortally. James B. Johnson, a motor- g man, was killed as he rose' from a bench on which he had been sleeping. y The men made a failure of their plan for dynamiting the limited trainb of the Chicago and Northwestern rail way. After the car barn murders two of the gang went to cripple Creek to buy dynamite for the purpose. Van r Dine learned when a large sum of money was to be carried, and on that night Roeski flagged the train be tween Jefferson and Des Plaines. The engineer dlid not stop, but slowed up, As the locomotive passed Roeski firedn a shot, the bullet wounding the fir~.e man in the thigh. When the traina was brought to a stop it had passed the point where the dynamite had been concealed and the robbers hur ried away. Soon after this the police became hot on the trial of the youug bandits. t. In an attempted capture Detective b Quinn was shot and killed by Marx. Tne desperadoes then fled from the , city and a few days later were brought E to bay in a dugout just across the b Indiana state line. A desperate en- ri counter followed in which the youths al were slightly wounded and two of the c pursuing posse killed. Their trial, con viction..and execution has set a new t record for speed in the Cook county a courts. The total cost of the trial is estimated at $100,000, the most ex pensive, with the exception of the Luetgert trial, ever held in Chicago.p Nedermeier was hanged first. He i fought desperately against the guards and had to be shackled before he could be banged. The others did nc~t give s nruch trouble. Neidemexer, when asked b if he had any dying wish said: "Let me swing so I can get to hell first and c kick that squealer Marx in the face ci when he gets three." In the trial n Marx confessed the whole thing, and b that is why Neldemeier wanted to o kick him in the face. The parents of 'ti these young men had tried to bring tl them up right, but they wandered ~ away, and finally ended their yo ng or lives on the gallows. No doubt tey ~ started their downward career at the a gaming table. The fate of these young sv men should be a warning to all young w men. A Candidate's Expenses. S or A Georgia candidate figures out his tle expenses in tlhe late primary in that gi State as follows: n "Lost 4 months and 23 days can- ti vassing; 1,548 hours of thinking about pi the election; 5 acres of cotton; 22 sa acres of corn; a whole sweet potato ct crop: 4 sheep; 5 shoats and 1 beef. given to barbecue; 2 front teeth and a ju considerable quantity of hair in a per- bc sonal skirmish. Gave 97 plugs of to bacco; 70 Sinday school books; 1 pair of suspenders; 4 calico dresses; 7 dolls bt and 13 baby rattles. fls "Told 2,887 lies; shook hands 83,- Os 485 times; talked enough to have ha made in print 1,000 large volumes bo size of patent office reports; kissed 1,- 2 226 babies: kindled 14 kItchen fires; ce cut 3 cords of word; pulled 474 bun- bc dies of fodder; picked '174 pounds of coton~; helped pull 7 wagon loads of corn; dug 14 bushels of potatoes; d; toted 27 buckets of water; put up 7 p stoves; was dog bit 4 times; watch fe broken by baby, cost $3 to have re- p paired-.g "Lnaned out 3 barrels of floor; 50 ofi bushels of meal; 150 pounds of bacon: 37 pounds of butter; 12 dozen eggs, 3 : umbrellas: 13 lead pencils: 1 BIble dic- ne: tioary; 1 mnowing blade; 2 hoes: 1 bix vercoat: 5 oxres paper collars-none Ti f wh ich have been returned. jw GOES FOR TEDDY. Kitchin Takes Fall Out of Roosevelt a d Roasts Grosvenor. WHAT REPURLICANS SWALLOW. Unpalatable Quotations from Presi dent's Writings Expressing Opinion of His Present Champions Cited. President Roosevelt was assailed bitterly in the house Friday by Claude Kitchin of North Carolina, who in cluded in his castigation Gen. Gros venor, whom be charged with having humiliated Theodcre Roosevelt, the vice presidential candidate whom in a recent speech in the house he had glorified as the worthy successor of McKinley, forgetting that during Mc Kinley's last campaign as a contribu tor to the New York Journal in' signed articles he (Grosvenor) had referred to the president, then governor of New York, "as a brilliant, erratic and curious sort of a man." Mr. Kitchin charged that Mr. Roosevelt, as a candidate for vice president, was dis tasteful to McKinley and challenged Mr. Grosvenor to deny it as well as the statement that Mr. Roosevelt as vice president was humiliated by the friends of McKinley, including Gen. Grosvenor himself. "And yet," he said, "you men sit here and gulp down everything Roosevelt says and not one of you dares raise his hand in memory of McKinley." McKinley had a right to think that Roosevelt would be dis tasteful to him. "Contemplate," he said. "the amazing spectacle of any Republican in the United States being humiliated by Gen. Grosvenor and contemplate this same man marshall ing under his banner the hcsts of Re publicans with Grcsvenor the chief bugle blower." To say that Rcosevelt filled Mc Kinley's place, he declared, was a dessecration of McKinley's name. It was, he said, a case of "the ant hill taking the place of the mountain; the owl's screech taking the place of the tomb's symphonies; the minnow tak ing the place of the whale." HIS ATTACK ON MR. DAVIS. The people of the south. he said, knew that 25 years after Appomattox, Roosevelt in one of his publications bad declared that until out of the dic tionary was stricken the word trea son Jefferson Davis would be an arch traitor. That, he said, was a strike at the whole south and the Confederate soldiers. He also referred to another publication of Mr. Roosevelt's in which he is quoted as saying that through out southern character there ran a streak of coarse and brutal barbarism. He compared "the kind, loving words of McKinley," in an address to Con federate veterans, to "the insulting words of Roosevelt." He said that in one of his books President Roosevelt "deliberately teaches and advocates lynchings fur the stealing of a rag-tail Texas pony." He asked if that book did noti have something to do with stimulating "the great people of the north to lawlessness." The people of the south, he said, condemn lynching for all crimes, because the hand of civilization and Christianity had been lifted against it. No man the civilized world over, he said, would condone outrages against women "and yet we don't preach lynching or teach it, but knowing the weakness of human na ture mobs cannot be controlled in sparsely settled communities where we cannot get suf~cient police force on the spot at once." He believed that every Democrat and RepublIcan in the country would pause in shame. that the president of the United States had scattered books advocating lynch law. Reading from a speech made by Mr. Roosevelt, governor of New York, he declared Mr. Roosevelt had character ized the congress of theUnited States as a "herd of cattle." Laughter on the Democratic side followe.. "The humiliating spectacle," he continued, "is that since he has been president of the United States he has treatedV the Republican house as a herd of cattle, and the most humiliat ing thing about it was that the Re publicans allowed *the president to treat them as cattle and lay down be fore him in his green pastures." He pro oked laughter when he said the presi dent looked upon congress "as his great ranch" with the Republicans as his "round-ups." Speaking deliber ately, he declared that any man who had such profound contempt for the legislative branch of the government was unfit to be its executive head and was a dangerous man. FOR GRosVENOR'S ENJOYMENT. He closed by quoting from "Ameri can Ideals" In which Mr. Roosevelt, he alleged, had denounced Gen. Gros venor by nam: as a champion of foul government and dishonest politics." Then turning to Gen. Grosvenor, he added: "Read that and then read your recent speech defending the presi dent and tell the house that you feel like 30 cents." Gen. Grosvenor admitted that :our years ago he opposed the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for vice president, but said Mr. Roosevelt durin~g the campaign had conducted himself in a dignified manner and had won the confidence and esteem of the people by his acts from the time he was elected to preside over the senate and that he reached the supreme heights when he declarezl at Buffalo that he would carry out the policies of Mc Kinley. Since theni the president had grown to be one of the great men of the country. The president, he said, was more dangerous to the Democratic party than any other man today. The Democrats in New York, he said, had launched a candidate for president who didn't kown where he stoodi, on his head or on his heels. T HoUGH the University of Chicago has lost Prof. Triggs, who annihilated Shakespeare, is still has Dr. Albion W. Small, professor of sociology, who has proceeded to shelve dear old John Bunyan. "Pilgrim Progress," he says, "has done the world incalculable harm. "From this distance it looks as if the fool killer is badly needed in Chicago. Mns. Mary Dionne of Chicago re cently entered suit against a young man accused of hugging her, and she wanted damages in the sum of five thousand dollars. The bugs were valued at $75 a pair and the ungallant editor of the Greenville News says "from the picture of the woman we should imagine that the man should ae been sent to the asylum." Cwr. Win. IH. Green. assistant general manager of the Southern, died t his home in Washington on Fri day night, aged 65 years. lHe was a natveonf Columbia. THE WEATHER AND OROVS. Prof. Bauer Says Farm Work IEas Made Rapid Progress. Section Director Bauer's weekly crop Iletin was issued last week as follows: The mean temperature for the week ding at 8 a. m., April 18th, was out 58 degrees which is nearly 6 de ees below normal, due to very low mperatures during the first and last ,ys, and to moderately high temper ures during the middle of the week. 2ere were light frosts on the 12th d 13th in the western counties that d no material injury. High, drying nads prevailed during the middle of e week, that intensified the drough conditions prevailing over the great part of the Spate. The percentage sunshine was about normal. The rainfall was extremely light, iring that part of the week covered r the correspondent's reports, and ie surface soil became very dry in all Lrts of the State, and unbroken lands came hard and broke up cloddy in owing. There was need of rain for 1 growing crops, and for the germi tion of recently planted seeds. This aughty cojndition was ialieved by a neral rain at the close of the week, hich was fairly heavy and fell so awly that practically the,- whole nount was absorbed by the soil, espe ally on plowed ground. This rain ' ill prove very beredcial. General farmwork made rapid and iinterrupted progress, except that the central counties the ground had come too hard and dry to plow. anting operations were pushed here the soil was in fit condition, it cotton planting was delayed in Laces awaiting warmer weather and Moisture, so as to assure quick ger Lination. Corn planting is nearly fin'shed, ex pt on bottom lands in the western )unties. Early plantings are up to. od stands, and have received their rst cultivation. Later plantings are >ming up to poor stands, and are be ig damaged by birds and worms, -ne essitating ccns'derable ieplantirg. 'he cool weather caused coin to yel >w somewhat. Cotton planting progressed slowly i the 'centraL and western counties wing to the dry soil and cool weather, ut made fair progress in the eastern aes, where about half the crop has een planted and some is coming up. ea-island cotton that is up is in need r rain. A beginning was made in trans anting tobacco, but this work is not eneral, ard confined largely to Marl ro anc Marion countiesr The lants are plentiful, though small, od will suffice for the small acreage be devoted to tobacco this year. Wheat is improving steadily. The 'eather was too cold and dry for oats, 'hich turned yellow in places. The yndition of toe peach crop Is uncer tin, but enough fruit remains on the rees in most sections for a fair crop. ear trees are blighting badly. Ap- _ les are uninjured. Tfie strawberry rop has been damaged by droug it. weet potatoes coming 'up. White otatoes have good stands. Melons tir stands. .Pastures are scant. Truck aipments continue heavy, though - sill confined to the southernmost 3ast sections. BOYS DEFEND A BRIDGE.7 hey Were in Charge of Their Teach ers, Gray-Headed Ministers. An order came from General Lee yr every sick and wounded man who 'as able to report at Staunton River !ridge, as General Cortz with 2,700 ien was advancing to burn '&he ridge. I mounted my horse and barted at once, says W. C. Marshall f Morgantown, W. Va.,- in the Rich iond Times-Dispatch. When I ar ived I found Col. Farrington in corn and and the artillery under an offi ir who had never fired a gun and I ight add that his men were in the. me predicament. Col. :Farrington put me in corn and of the artillery. After telling Lh man what I expected - him to do ad how to do it, I received an order ~om Col Farrington to report at once >his headquarters. I found he ished to hold a council of war. Dur ~g our talk, two, and, I thinlk, three d gray-headed ministers reported at they were there with their school pys to help save the bridge. It occurred to me at once that this as our chance, and I advfIed Col. arrington to put the boys in 'the reastworks on the other side of the ver, the river being behind them 2d the enemy in front of them. The olonel agreed at once. The minis ~rs began to protest on account..of. ie age of the boys. The Colonel ~ked if they did not come to help ive the bridge, and he insisted upon ieir holding their, position. This. emed fearfully cruel, but the result coved to the satisfaction of the min ters it was the right thing to do. The rest of the command was~then. aced in breastworks on the south de of the river. I then went at once ck to the artillei-y. I had scarcely ached it when I saw the enemy >me out and form in line of battle to iarge the bridge, four times our inber. My heart went out to these >ys. I opened fire on the enemy at ce with the four guns, and did all ae harm I could. I tried to make lemthink that we had a large force. ttheir front. At this time the order i other side was given to "Charge." own came 2,500 men on those boys id disabled soldiers. Not a word did e hear from the boys until the enemy . re within about 200 yards of them, ben one of the lear old ministers rang upon the works and gave the der: Fire low and fast'" The lit e fellows swarmed up from the ound like "yellow jackets." I do t know that they killed man3, but e result was that the enemy was re 1sed and as badly frightened as Iever w. They rallied and made a second arge, with the same result. The bridge was saved, and, in my dgment, saved by the preachers and ys. "Called my opponent a peram lating liar-doctor's bill $10. IHad 'e arguments with my wife-result: ie flower vase smashei; 1 dish of sh knocked cff the table; 1 shirt so ruined; 1 broom nandle broken; - handsful of whiskers pulled out;- 10 ts' worth of sticking plaster ught. Besides spending $1,738." A bill passE d the hou.re on Thaurs ty appropriating $20,000 for "the oper marking of the graves of Con erate soldiers who died in northern isons." The work of locating the aes will be in charge of an army cr. 5a3s. George Duckett, who lives r.r Walhalla, Oconee county, gave th to three boys on Wedoesday. e mother and, children are doing