Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOL. Xrn. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST2,.94 O4 TWO MEN BURNED At the Stake Rear Statesboro, Ga., by a Determined Mob. THE MILITIA IS OVERPOWER!D. The Soldiers on Duty With Unloaded Guns Were Helpless in the Hands of the Crazed Populace. With clothing saturated with kero sene, writhing and twisting in their agony, screaming to heaven for the mercy that the mob would not show, Paul Reed and Will Cato, negroes, two of the principals in the dastardly mur der and burning of Henry Hodges and wife and three children six miles from Statesboro, Ga., three weeks ago, were burned at the stake on 'Tuesday, Aug. 16th. That afternoon at 1.21 o'clock a de termined mob charged upon the court house, overpowered the military guard, secured Cato and Reed, who had been found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged, took them two miles from States boro and there exacted the fearful penalty. The forenoon passed quietly, the trial of Paul Reed, the ringleader in the murder, being concluded and a verdict of guilty rendered. Sentence was imposed upon both him and Will Cato, sentenced the day before, and September 9 was fixed as the date for the execution. The crowd assembled about the court house Tuesday was not so large as Monday. Nor was itso threatning, though, for that matter, there was never much parade about the crowd that argued the worst and the deter mination of the countrymen who had come in from miles around for the trial was never to be doubted. Up to the noon hour there was no intimation that so soon was to be en acted the terrible, climax. In the trial of Reed little delay was caused and upon its conclusion the prisoners, as before, -were hustled into the wit ness room where a strong guard of military was mounted over them. THE AGITATION BEGINS. In the corridors the agitation be gan. The spectators left the court room and from the lawn outside many entered the hallways. Shortly before 1 o'clock the crowd was addressed by a tall man who seemed to infisme it greatly. He called on those asout him to follow him. Then Capt. Hitch of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, who was in command of the forces, realized that the situation was desper ate. He posted guards on each of the stairways that led to the floor above where the prisoners were confined. With fixed bayonets but unloaded rines, the guards stood. The mob surged toward them but were rep several times. 'Ihe determined ort was yet to be made. At the rear stair way the gravest danger threatened. Prominent in the crowd was Rev. Mr. Hodges, brother of the murdered man, who sprang to the front to address its members. He begged them to dis Sheriff Kendrick was in the crowd. He cautioned the crowd against vio lence and pleaded with them to dis vrse. "I am your friend," he said. 'I beg you to do nothing that will re flect upon us as well as on the com munity. Disperse and let the law take its course. We need these men. There are others to be brought to jus tice and only from the Information to be gained from Cato and Reed can we bring the right ones to justice. I can almost promise you that wuhen the case Is finally silted there will be five par ties who are equally guilty." THEIE FEIEND KENDRIc. "We know you are our friend, Ken drick," some one shouted, "but prom Ise us that you will let these men stay Statesboro jail and not be taken i>Savannah. Then we will dis perse, not'antil then." There was a shout and cheering and Kendrick could no me2ly. "Promise us that," they shouted,'"you will not take them away from Stateroro." Ar commotion to the.i front di'ew the crowd there. This was but tempor ary. Presently they were back at the rear and some 25 men crowded aroundt the guards. Before they could be prevented they bad caught two of the1 guards, wrestled their weapons from them and thrown open the breech locks. The weapons were empty. That was w bat the crowd wanted to ascertain. The troops had been given orders not to load their rifies. The captured soldiers were held prisoners. The same policy was !ol lowed with others of the soldiers. Man after man, caught isolated, was relieved of his rifle after a struggle. At the front a member of the mob crept along the w3.ll until he got close to the guards. He threw himnself upon them. In the breach thus formed his companions threw them selves. Two hundred wildly cheering men followed him and soon the sol diers, though they fough desperate l'y and inflicted bayonet wounds upon some of their assailants, were over powered. ONE FIGHTING SOLDIER. One young soldier of the Oglethorpe Guards never surrendered. He fought his way free, fought through his cap tors and out upon the lawn. A weapon was raised to strike him. "Shame!" shouted the crowd and struck down the man who had raised the weapon. Then they threw them selves upon the boy and and overpow ered him. The small guard about the prisoners withdrew into the room and closed the door. The mob crashed against it, bursting it as though It were an egg shell. The prisoners were at their mercy, all resistance having been beaten down. Cato, Reed, Handy, Bell and other prisoners cowered before the crowd. They dragged Cato and Reed out, releasing Bell into the hands of the few soldiers left there as soon as they learned that be was not Reed, for whom they had msitaken him. Reed was taken down onie staii way with a rope about his neck and Cato down the other, both pleading for their lives. By then the crowd numbered 500. They dragged the men along, shouting and cheering along the roadway lead ing to the Hodges homestead, where the five members of the famuyi ad been murdered and burned. That was their destination. A WEARY CROWD. The heat was so intense that the crowd wearied when two miles of the six mile route had been traversed. Going several hundred yards from the road the crowd halted. The two ne groes were made to seat themselves on a log. They were told they had but a short time to live and that they should confess. Reed was the first to speak. He confessed, implicating other negroes as he had in the court room. He denied, however, that he had taken an active part in the murder. Cato answered incoherently. The crowd moved across a field to a strip of woodland. Several men climed to branches and called for ropes. "Burn them, burn them" shouted the crowd. Cato begged to be shot or hanged, saying he was innocent; that he had had no hand in the crime. Some of the more humane wanted to grant his requEst but they were in the minority. The rest wanted to visit the same death upon the negroes that they had visited upon the Hodges family. A member of the mob made a speech recounting the norrors of the crime. This inflamed the crowd to the burn ing pitch. To a large stump, 12 feet high, the men were chained with their backs to the stump. With trace chains the men were lashed to the stump. Then a wagonload of pinewood was hauled to the spot. It was piled around the men and ten gallons of kerosene was thrown over them. A GEORGIA COIN-CHASER. A Photographer was present and the crowd was cleared back that he might get several views of the men bound to the stake and ready for the burning. The scene which followed beggars escription. Frenzied cheers rent the air as men, almost crazed with hatred f the men being punished, saw the Drel flames drinking up the life blood. Just as the match was applied to the pyre one of those in front asked Reed didn't he want to tell the truth before he died. "Yes, sir; I killed Mr. and Mrs. Ecdges," he replied. " Who killed the children?" he was asked. "Handy Bell," came the response, as the flames lept upwards and further uestioning was impossible in the wild tumult. The spectacle was rightful. As the flames touched Reed's naked oil-soaked skin he twist d his head around in an endeavor to hoke himself and avoid the fearful torture. Only once did he complain. e said: "Lord have mercy!" Cato screamed in agony and begged that he be shot. His heavy suit of bair which was oil-soaked was almost he first thing the flames fastened on, and he screamed with agony, while I he hemp rope became a collar of fire round his neck. A thrill of horror ran through the frames of the more timid. Before the flames had quench ed Cato's life, the rope was burned in two and his head swung from side to ide as he endeavored to avoid the dery tongue. By efforts almost super-' human he writhed under the close ocked chains. For only about three minutes was he vist ble to the crowd before the great pile of fagots made a wall of flame which the wind wiped1 around on Cati's side and so hid him from view. SAVAGERY IN DETAII.. Reed was the first to exhibit uncon-1 sciousne s and was perhaps the first cead. After the flames had progress-I ed very far up his body his head sank forward and many believed- that the re got into his lung and killed him. As Cato's head swung to and fro some of the more excited members of the] party commenced throwing lightwood knots at it. As soon as it was seen that the men were dead the crowd commenced dis-1 persing. A large number remiained behind, however, plling more fuel on until the bodies were burned except the trunks. They employed them selves in thrasing out the fire which commenced spreading along the streaks of pine nec dies. Late Tuesday afternoon, after the last member of the mob had left the1 cene, hundreds of citizens who had in no wise participated in the execution repaired to the scene and many re mained until long after nightfall pick ingp whatever souvenirs they could fnd. Conspicuous among the crowd were a number of small boys in knee pants. REED'S CONFESSION. Both negroes made statements be fore they diedi. Will Cato reiterated the statement made a few days ago that he was only a guard in the cane patch while toe murder was being committed. Paul Reed said that he did all the killing and that Will Cato told the tr uth wuen he said he watch ed in the cane patch. He said -he did not kill the children; that they were burned to death wheri he fired the house. He told how hie found the lit tle girl, Kittie, behind a trunk and pulled her out. She asked him what he wanted aud he told her money. She offered him 5 cents, all sihe had, and he told her he would not hurt her. She fell back beihnd the trunk. He said he then pihd the bodies of Mr. and Mis. Hodges together and poured kerosee on the m and then fired the house..- He said: " Gentlemen this, is the last talk 1 will have and I am telling the truth.'' He said Preacher| Tolbert and Bill Golden planned thel crime and tnat Randy Bell, Will Ramey and his boy, Tom Neal, Big John Ball, M >sts Parish and Alex Hall were all into it That Gaines told him Tolliert ani Golden were ring leaders and piannd the crime and the lot fell on him to do the j )b, but if there was any money seca.red he never saw any of it." TWO MORE NEG RuES KILLED. Two negroes were killed about ten miles west of Statesboto, Wednesday night, a few miles apart, and two wounded. One of the dead men is Handy Bell, and the other names could not be learned. Two bullets were in one and eleven buckshot in the other. Toe dead and wounded were found Thursday morning. A pool of blood and a bloody trail were near one corpse, but not con nected with It. The cause could not groes are Albert Roberts, near seventy years old, who was shot in the leg, body and arm, and his son Raymon, eighteen years old, who was shot in F the neck, arm and twice In the the leg. They are said by those who know them to be harmless, industri ous negroes. A doctor has attended A them and pronounced their wounds painful, but not fatal. The old man and his boy were asleep in a house and were aroused by the shooting. After the attacking party left they crawled into a field and remained un til day. The killing is not generally regretted, but the wounding of the inoffensive negroes is deplored and It is believed that they were mistaken tv for others. bi INSOLENT AND JUBILANT. d The appearance of the militia here bi made the negroes insolent and jubi- ar lant In their manner. Some negroes circulated the impression that the governor was at their back; they con strued his interference not only as for co their protection, but as an approval of 02 the Hodges murder. dh A negr-> on a wagon blocked the bi road when he met a rural mail carrier th nd cursed him, the negro has disap peared. Recent events have materi- th lly changed the behavior of the ne- H, groes. Those of shady reputation are at leaving town. About twenty-five are w said to have left Wednesday. Every ha negro implicated in the Hodge tragedy th is from another state. The native tic Bullock county negroes, as a rule, are m Af a different stripe. All are learning t in important lesson. A negro barber he it Clarton, twenty-five miles from ev bhere, was soundly thrashed Wednes- 90 lay night for insolent, defiant threats th against the whites on account of the JU burnmg there Tuesday. sb A number of negroes In that county Sh 3ave received the same treatment and ;o t is said that others are to get it fa rhursday night. The citzens are de- fr< rmined to protect their families and an property. They will curb the ten- ta: lency 9f lawless negroes at any cost. th [t is nbt the intention of any one to ed nolest the law-abiding or to harm wI hose who stay in theirplaces. BABY'S SKULL CRUSHED op By Fall on its Mother's Head in Game so hi, of Bounce. th Four-year-old Dora Elbrecht, a hu- be nan doll, was laughing in her moth- be r's eyes, and every time the strong m rms tossed her in the air the musical ound rippled out into the street from ly, he windows of the Elbrecht home, at gTo. 182 Stanton street, New York. no "Here she goes over the mooni" s Once again the childish laughter f -ang out, but suddenly ceased. The o )aby's head had struck against her nother's forehead as she was falling bE nto the eager arms, and the brown bl :urls dropped as a baby hand clutched Lt the mother's dress. "Oh, baby, did it hurt you? See, ne namma will kiss it and make it well. nq Taughty old head to hurt baby so! wl We'll just whip the naughty old head. Fast watch mamma beat it!" ga There was a faint smile in the th rown eyes and then the lids closed. int rhe laughter was hushed. dit "Never mind, Dora's tired and she'll bl< o to bed," said Mrs. Elbrecht, pai moothing the tangled curls. Hum. ning a lullaby, the mother removed ga he little shoes and stockings, white als rock and petticoat and gently laid bal he child In her crib. w Monday night, when the father boa sme up stairs from his work and ed dssed the child, the only one that . ad come to brighten his home, the in~ nother told how the child had slept ea1 al the afternoon. Dora had been ha bick Sunday and both parents were anxious about her. "Yes," said the father, "The poor ittle girl is sick, and the sleep will do bl< er good. She was down in the store laying with the tailor's needles, and ho [ told her to come up and ask you to da younce her." dr "I did, but she bumped her little ead and spoiled the game," said his n wife. Little Dora seemed to sleep soundly a a n~ght. In the morning she was r btill sleeping. "Better wake her," said the father, tw mnd the mother called to Dora, but gn he child slept on. "Come now, sleepy-eyes, wake up," gr< ad Mrs. Elbretch, lifting the child rom the cradle, but she could not rouse the little one. A tell-tale red Pa nark on the side of the child's head ati meant no more than a bump to the a mother. P Father and mother both became ha alarmed when they could not awaken mi Dora, and Elbrecht ranjto Gouverneur ospital and asked for medical assis bance. An ambulance was sent to the house, an~d Dr. Doschi saw at a of glance that the child was dying. He sa found that its skull had been crushed w] ike an egg shell. He took the child be to the hospital in the hope of saving be ts life. S Thursday afternoon, however, lit- he ble Dora died in the hospital, and the ba ather, heartbroken went to his home, M where the shadow of death had blot- at bed out the light of a child's laughter, t and the patter of little feet echoed T2 only In memory, to tell his wife that H their baby girl was dead. t1 The mother still believes the child SP died of an Illness. The father has not the courage to tell her that her m kisses to make the little head well S werein vain. Mrs. Elbrecht is almost wi frantic with grief, and for fear of a Ci complete collapse was not allowed to n see the body of her dead child. t1 She must remember her darling t only as she saw her last-the brown li urls pillowing on one tiny arm, the w: other bare arm stretched above her ax head, sleeping a sleep fron which she hi never awakened. Richly Deserved it. Hl Alfred A. Knapp, convicted of the bi murder of his wife, Hannah Goddard ha Knapp, and who confessed to five we murders, was electrocuted In the annex of the Ohio penitentiary a few gr minutes after midnight Thursday. fol Knapp, who weakened when he found tri his last hope for life had gone, ex- sp pressed a fear that he would have to be in carried to tbe death chair, regained he his nerve and met his fate with little bc show of fear or emotion. The elec- pil trocution was performed without a fir hitc, the lirst shock being applied at 12.02, the second a minute later, and Ini at 129 ohe ws prononnced dad. th THE CRIME or Which Cato and Reed Were Burned to Death. N ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED nd Their Bodies Burned in their Former Home, Which Was Set on Fire by tfie Hu man Devils. The Hodges murder, fur which the vo negroes, Cato and Reed, were irned near Statesboro, Ga., on Tubs ,y of last week, was one of the most utal that has ever been committed y where. An entire family, con ting of the husband, wife and three Jildren, were cru:lly murdered in Id blood and their former home set fire and burned to the ground. The vilish fiends threw the bodies of eir innocent victims in the burning ilding and thus attempted to hide ,eir crime by cremeating the bodies. There was no happier family in all e section around Statesboro than nry Hodges, a well-to-do farmer, id his wife and three children. He is industrious and economical and ,d managed to accumulate some ing for a rainy day. His accumula >ns, following a small deposit he had ide in one of the banks, began to be Iked about and soon reports ofj arded money were told. It was t en said that Hodges had a pot of Id hidden in his front yard. With i e coming of the dawn on Friday, t ly 29 the whole community was s ocked by the story of- the crime. i tortly after midnight neighbors dis- r ered. the home of Mr. Hodges in I mes. The home is just six miles t )m Statesboro. Rapidly neighbors I d friends gathered to render assis ace. Instead of a home just afire f ey found the house almost destroy- i . Members of the family were no- t ere to be seen. SCENE OF HORROR. Closer investigation, as daylight ened the way, showed a horrible -e. Mr. Hodges was found with e skull crushed in as though from 8 e blow of an axe. C Krs. Hodges' head and body had V en beaten with some blunt instru- C mt. The body of a little girl was horrib mangled. The two other children's bodies did t show any signs of violence, and it supposed they were victims of the E mes and not the murderous blows their assailants. I t Dn pieces of timber in the yard re found many blood stains and dy finger prints. STRUGGLE WITH ASSAILANTS. Et developed that Hodges went to a ighbor's about 8 o'clock the same ht to bring his little child back, i o had been spending the day. r [t is believed he was met at the be by the assailants and murdered f ere and that his body was dragged C :o the house. There were many in- a :ations of a struggle at the gate and c id stains were found on the gate ~ a lamp was found sitting on the 6 be post. A horse and buggy was o found, hitched to a tree in the t ek yard. The body of Mrs. Hodges , s found near the fireplace. The f :y of the oldest, child was discover- E on the front porch. ll the bodies were dressed, indicat- e i that' the crime was committed t dy in the night before the family a d retired. g BLOoDHOUNI~s ON TRAIL. r &s soon as the crime was made own, a large posse was formed and r dhounds put on the trail. 1 &s reported at the trial, the blood- li unds rollowed the trail during the t y to a picnic, at which several hun- S ad negroes were assembled. With- c t warning the dogs pounced on two groes. The offieis ran to the dogs U d in attempting to arrest the two. a groes they were immediately sur- V inded by the crowd. The crowd e ight to prevent the arrest of the L o men and the officers drew their a Within a short time thirteen ne- t >es were placed under arrest and 14 cried to the Statesboro jail. r Prior to the arrest of the thirteen, 6 .ul Reid and his wife and Will Catc, a er negroes, were placed in jail. In o enfesson made later by the wife of t ,ul Reid she declared her hus- I nd and Will Cato committed the r ider. NEGRO WO1A N CONFEssES. The woman told a harrowing tale the crime. She was anxious, shee .d, to make a clean breast of the ,~ ole matter and would have dune so fore, when she heard of the murder. ing lanned, but she was afraid, e said, that her husband would kIll r. The woman said that her hus nd Will Cato were impressed that r. Hodges had about $300 in money ~ d had planned to kill him and rob I e house the Saturday night before. e rey went to the house, called Mr. dges out, but their courage failed em and as an excuse asked for some rits of turpentine. s They were still resolved to try the d rder again, the woman stated. I: e heard them plotting during the i e. She said her husband and Will c ,to left the house together on the s ght of the murder and she thinks r ere were two or three others with f em, but did not know who, as they d ver came into the house where she t is. They were gone about an hour I d a half. When they returned, her s isband said he had committed an c f ul crime, and was in troubile about i They said they had killed Mr. s odges and wife and two children, i it remembered that the little girl r .d escaped and would tell who they a According to the woman, the ne oes then returned to the house and und the little girl hid behind a t knk. She pleaded with them to t are her life, but her pleadings were vain. A blow from an axe ended 1 r life. The woman then said the ~ dies of the five victims were then t ed in a heap and the house set on There was great excitement follow- V z the woman's confession and ' oret of lymching- were heard on al I iides. A public meeting -was calle it the court house and the coolei beads finally persuaded the enragek :itizens to allow the law to take it ourse. Later, under military escort the two negroes, Paul Reid and Wil Jato, were carried to the Savannal ail. To a party of Statesboro citizens, who visited the prisoners In the savannah jail, Reid confessed thal he Hodges murder was planned by 2 >lack mafia society known as "Before he Day Club." He said the mem. yers of the club, which included mani iegroes in the neighborhood, bae narked several victims. The meet Dg of the club were held after mid iight and a.djo.urned before day. BRAR KITLED BY TRAIN. Vhe Animal Was Knocked From a Railroad Trestle. A special dispatch to the Atlanta ournal says on Wednesday morning be southbound Georgia Southeri assenger train ran over what the ngineer supposed to be a man at landy Run trestle, near Bonaire in louston county. Engineer Yates Bft Macon several minutes late and s his first stop is Unadilla,'44 miles elow Macon, he was running at a tigh rate of speed, when an object vhich he suppose to be a man stood rect and was knocked headlong on he ground se'veral feet below. The train was stopped as quickly as ossible and a flagman was dispatened o stop the nortn bound train, if it hould come along before the man ras reached and either carried to the Learest physician or otherwise cared or. The train was in charge of Cap ain Robert Flournoy and Train aster Scott was in the sleeper. When the supposed man had been Dund the engineer blew for the flag =an to return. The loud blowing of he whistle and the train being still roused Mr. Scott from his slumbers ndhe eagerly asked Captain Flournoy rby the train had st,.1pped. The egro porter was the first who reach d the supposed dead man and ima ine his honor when he found instead f a dead man a half-dead black bear reighing nearly three hundred pounds fering fight. The bear died before day and the ext train brought It to Bonaire rhere it was on exhibition from the epot platform all day. Engineer ates, Conductor Flournoy and Train iaster Sctt are all delighted at the illing of a bear instead of a man, as ey first supposed. A PECULIAR STUAY. [usband and Wife Thinking Each Other Dead Marries Again. Quite a peculiar story has developed i real life near Greensbaro, Ga., Lther a series of events, in which ears have passed and all the years ll of happenings; in it. a woman of -orgia and a man now of Texas, but former Georgian, are the principal baracters, but living for twenty-five ears totally oblivious of the existence the other, each believing the other ead. Thirty-two years ago in Greene coun y B. T. Mc~lroy and Miss Tarpley rere married, lived together four or ye years and had several children orn to them. During the s'xth year th ir married life Mr. McElroy de ded co travel in some of the Wes er states, and so he left his wife nd children in Greene county and arted on his journey, intending~ to turn soon. However, after getting out West he emaned longer than he had antici ated, and information that he be ved to be thoroughly reliable was rought him that his wife was dead. he, not hearing from him, also con uded that he was dead. Eventually. Mr. McElroy discontin ed his travels and settled in Texas nd began preaching. Believing his rife dead, and ten years having apsed, he -married again and now as living in the state of Texas a wife d eleven children. Mrs. McElroy, also laboring under he belief that her husband was no nger in the land of the livmng, mar Led again, this time Ben Wray, who ied several years ago, and who was farmer in that county until the time t his death. Two children blessed his union of Mr. Wray and Mrs. Mc liroy, she a'so taking care of and asing her children by her first hus and. Now, after a lapse of twenty-five ears, Mr. McElroy decides to revisit be scenes of his youth and so de Ides to come back to Greensboro, rhich he had left sa many years ago. 'he state of affairs that confronts im Is a most peculiar one, his first rife living here, her second husband cad, his children that he left when ttle, now grown to be men and wo ien, the children of Mrs. McElroy's cond union also being grown, and, s stated, he also having a wife and leven children In Texas. Boys for Farm Work. The State says Commissioner Wat n expects two boys from the Chil rens' Aid society of New York city 1 a few days. These boys will go to Lbevlle and later on in the year thers will be sent. As has been ated, these boys are not inmates of eformators, but are foundings cared or by the society until an age of iscretion has been reached, when bey are sent out to make their own vigs. They are under the supervi iin of the State for two years. Any nae wishing to secure some of these oys as laborers, farm hands, etc., ould write to Commissioner E. J. Vatson, care the department of ag iculture, commerce and immigration, t Columbia. Worst on Record. According to the Railroad Gazette, e recent wreck at Eden, Col, was be worst railroaci disaster In point of ss of life, which has ever occurred this conntry. It is believed that ore than 100 persons were killed in be Colorado disaster. In August, 887, at Chatsworth, Ill., S5 lives rere lost in a railroad wreck, and this as the record until last week. There rere a larger number injured In the 11inis wreckr hnover. GOES UP FOR LIFE. A White Murderer Sent to the Penitentiary from Saluda. A GOOD EXAMPLE TO POLLOW. Judge Watts Teis the Convicted I Man or the Enormity of his Crime and the Justice of I the Sentence. A special dispatch from Saluda to I The News and Courier says the nctice I of motion for a new trial in the I Thrailkill case, was abandoned by de- , fendant's attorneys, and the prisoner 1 arraigned for sentence. In passing I sentence Judge Watts said: "You have been tried and convicted I by a jury of your country of murder. It is now my painful duty to pass sen tence upon you. I am always sorry for any cne who Is in trouble and dis tress. But you have violated the law of your country. A jury of your coun try have found you guilty of murder, I and have recommended you to the 2 mercy of the Court. I am of the opin- I ion that the verdict was warranted I absolutely by the facts of the case. I do not see how the jury could have I done otherwise under the testimony I in the case than to have found the I verdict they did. I think it is going I to have a happy effect throughout the E State of South Carolina, because the I people of this State will learn that a 1 man of respectable character and with property can be convicted when he 9 commits a crime, the same as the poor, the Ignorant and the unlettered. I There has been too much shooting in C South Carolina. Men too much have taken the law in their own hands. You cannot pick up a newspaper but t what you will see that somebody has t been killed. Defendants come in Court and make, an effort at self-de fence. I heard the Solicitor of the 1 6th district say he was absolutely I afraid to blow his nose in the Court c House because he carried his handker chief in his hip pocket and was fear ful that somebody might take that as Y an excuse for shooting him. There Is a no doubt in my mind that you went v up to Monetta with malice in your I heart and blood on your mind. You Y went up there to pick a row, It seems a to me, with the school teacher. What 9 the cause of trouble was between you and him I do not know, but he (the 0 teacher) seemed to be a very inoffen sive and quiet young fellow. You had no right to take the law in your bands. The worst feature of your - whole case, to my mind, Is that you loaded your shotgun with buckshot and you gave your eighteen-year-old boy a pistol, and carried him along with you. A boy, especially one 18 years old, will do anything his father 3 tells him to do. I think your son is e more to be pitied than to be blamed. I He was acting under your orders. 1 You went up there to harm the school teacher and got into an altercation t with the brother of the man you sub- 9 sequently killed, and as far as I can 1 learn you shot him for no cause at all, i and you concluded you would clean up the crowd. When his, brother came down, as It was natural that he should ~ do, on hearing that his brother had t been shot, you shot him down with- ~ out giving him a dog's chance. He might have been a bad man. I do ' not know anything about that. The t testimony developed the fact that he 8 had had, some fights in his life. t Unfortunately and unluckily all of us ha.ve done the same thing. I ~ suppose If I was on trial you 'could ~ rake up some fight I have had and so ~ far as that is concerned, most every- ' body else in this Court room. The older a man gets the more he realizes ~ that fighting does not pay. I would ~ take a great deal before I would fight under any circumstances. The man who wins his fight usually gets the ~ worst of it. I would rather be the ~ dead man than the live one-that is, ~ I would rather be dead than to have to kiflaman. I do not think aiman C has much happiness when he takes t the human life, unless he does i e acting strictly i self-defence. The ' The law is that no man can claim sell-defence unless he Is without fault ' in bringing on the quarrel and diff- C culty. It seemed to me as If you could feel it in the air around the Court House that those people around about Monetta seemed to be afraid to b testify in this case. It actually looked y as if they had been terrorized some- e how. You are the most deterined t man I ever saw. You went to j1 Monetta for a certain purpose and a you carried it Into effect. I think y the jury deserve great credit for find- a ing the verdict they did, and I think t it is a happy omen for this coun- a try, going to show that the peo- a pie of Saluda County are tired of j lawlessness, are tired of so much , bloodshed, and in fact they are deter- t mined to cut It down and place this l1 county on an equality with other coun- t ties in this State so far as law and a good order are concerned.c This is one of the finest counties I ever saw in my life. Its people, white and black, are courteous and polite, and I cannot understand why there 'l should be so much shooting. I am sor ry for you, I am sorry for your wife, I E am sorry for your children. I have got I five children myself. I have frequent- r ly wished, on occasions of sentencing ~ defendants, that the punishment t could fall upon the guilty one. Your a wife and children will suffer because n of violation of the laws of the land. t Nothing that we can do can bring the 2 dead man back to life, and his wife and three little children. It is one of the saddest cases that I ever saw in my life. I trust you will make your peace and repent of your misdeeds. Let the prisoner be arraigned for sen tence." The prisoner was arraigned and re sponded that he had nothing to say why sentence should not be passed ~ upon him. Judge Watts then senten ced him to hard labor Jn the State Penitentiary for the period of his nat ural life. Neck Broken. Clarence Derider, a cyclist, was killed while attempting to "loop-the loop" at a local resort at Salt Lake Wednesday night. He reached the upper side when the wheel left the track and he droped. His head struck the wheel and his neck waLs broken. YOUNG ANSEL ZILLED In a Railroad Wreck on ThursdaI Morning Near Central. A special from Greenville to Thi State says in a head-on collision nea Jentral Thursday morning a loca !re-ght and a dirt train were badll nashed up and. several of the trail 1rew injured. Clalborne Ansel, fireman on th ocal freight, was caught between thi mgine and tender and remained iI hat position for over two hours unti tn engine could be sent for fpon 'reenville to pull the wrecked locomo ive of the suffering fireman. Mr insel bad both legs broken just belom fhe knee and was slightly scalded b) he escaping steam. Engineer Hanks of the dirt trail eceived a cut in the head and wa murned and badly - bruised by th( hock of the collision which threv 31m 20 feet from his engine. On ex. Lmination by the physicians it wa ound that amputation of one of Mr. nsel's legs would be necessary and robably the other one. also. If thf ortery in the other leg cannot be saved he limb will have to be taken off [r. Ansel is a son of M. F. Ansel. As soon as a train could be made uj Pireman Ansel and Engineer'Hanks vere brought to the city and taken :o the Greenville sanitarium where )r. Earle took them In charge. En ineer Hanks was not seriously hurt s he was able to walk from the am )ulance into the house. The extent f his injuries were bruises, burns and gash on the fo ehad. Fireman Ansel was remarkably cool or one so badly injured. When placed n a stretcher at the depot he recog. dzed the doctor and other friendi md exchanged handshakes and told hem about the wreck. Report say hat Engineer Hanks of the dirt trait ras sitting in his cab in a cut wher he local freight came down the track, tting the front of his engine and nocking hiin up on the side of the ut about 20 feet. A later dispatch from Greenville rought the sad intelligence that oung Ansel had died at 6.30 p. m. t the Greenville sanitarium. 'He ras about 20 years old, only .son Of Ion. M. F. Ansel; and -a popular oung man socially. Mr. Ansel had mbitions to become a locomtIve en ineer and Tiursday's trip was his rst regular run in the full capacitY f fireman. XILLD AT ZMGGETTS. ,opular YoungBussineas Man Fataj ly Shot by a Negro. A special dispatch from Meggett'S D The News and Courier says Allen [eathington, prominent young white an, was shot and killed at his broth r's saw mill in Toogoodoo at sunras hursday morning. The slayer was a egro teamster, Sam Brown, who was i the employ of the mill. A difficul y -arose over the tardiness of the ne ro in, going to work. Young Heath. gton fired two or three shots and in red the negro, though it is not bought seriously. A bystander stated bat the negro fired but one shot, rich was fatal, the bullet entering be left eye of Heathington, and caus 2g death in a short time. News of the tragedy spread like rldfire and in a short while about all be white men and several of the ne roes were armed and in pursuit of be fugitive. Sheriff Martin, of Charleston, was elegraphed to for bloodhounds. A pecial.train was chartered and Officer urton and two assistants arrived ith the hounds about 11 o'clock. Up to late Thursday evening Itis ot thought that the hounds have bruck the right trail. In view of previous troubles in this ction the Governor has wired to heriff Owens, of Walterboro, to call t the Campobello Rifles to protect be fugitive if caught. There are two posses out, each In barge of a local magistrate. Every bing Is orderly, but serious, and no ifort will be spared to capture the egro. Mr. John M. Heathington, brother f the deceased, has offered a reward f $500 for the capture of the -culprit, am Brown. Cream Eaters Poisoned. Reports from Pleasant View, Am *erst county, Va., where 25 persons rere poisoned Thursday afternoon by atng Ice cream, are meagre, owing o distance from telegraph lines but it iknown that all of those affected re considered out of danger save one oung lady, Miss Lawborne, whose ddress is not known, and who is said o be in a critical condition. There rere more than 2,000 persons present t the sessions of the Piedmont aptist association and those who rere poisoned ate of tbe cream after he afternoon session adjourned. In us than half an hour the church was urned into a hospital and four phy. Icians were working heroically to onteract the effects of the poison. Well Taken Care Of. The State says: "Morgan W. hraikill and his son have been in aluda jail for several months charg d with the unprovoked murder of ~enj. Burton, but our correspondent ports that 'neither looked the worse or confinement.' And why should hey, living in comfortably furnished nd well fortified rooms, taking their esls at the sheriff's table, having he liberty of the honse and being rell armed!" Over the Fanls.. Just before ten o'clock Wednesday ornng an unknown woman commit ed suicide by going over the Ameri an Falls at Niagara. The suicide as witnessed by hundreds of people, e hundred feet from the precipice. he was about forty-five years old and rore a black dress and skirt and a bampagne waist. It seems that the roman was of good circumstances com her clothing. Burned to Death. John H. Frazier was burned to eath at Columbia Tenn., Thursday iorning in a fire which destroyed the laning mill plant of the N. F. aughn Mercantile and Manufactur ig company. Frazier was cut off hile attempting to save tools stored i the mill. The property loss was 10,0009 MANY JAPS KIlL LED. Several Bloody Battles Raged Around Port Arthur Last Week. WILL DZFMZ IT TO THE LAST. L The Russian General Grew Profane at the Japanese Demand for the Surrender of the Fortress. A dispatch from Chefoo says a bat tle of huge proportions raged around Port Arthur August 14 and 15 and was resumed August 17. The Japan ese, it Is reported, sacrificed 20,000 more men but gained important ad vantages in the matter of position. The above news was brought to Che too on junks, one of which, having on board three Russians concealed in the baggage of Chinese to escape from the Japanese,'left Port Arthur Thursday night and was blown rapidly to Chefooq t by a gale. The main force of -the at tack was directed against the left wing aid resulted in the capture-of Pigeon bay positions and some ofthe forts at LIao TIeshan. At Paln , Chang the Jap'anese hastily mounted guns which did excellent service in gling the storming of the rightwing K yhere the- Japanese are said to have captured two forts of minor value, thounting eight 4-Inch guns, two selge guns and six quick firing guns. sUERWER DEMANDED. The position that the Japanese oc cupy on Liao Tieshan peninsula is not clear but numerous Chines sources aver that the Japanese have been seen, in force in that section. Apparently _ an attack originating In Louisa bay. swept through the Pigeon bay posi tions Into the peninsula, in the doing Z of which a majority of the lives of the expedition were . sacrifcedlOn the night of the 15th the battle somewhat whentheJapanese entthez terms of surrender to Lieut.anerat. StoesseL. Tho terms provided that the garri son should march out with the honors of war and jinGen. Kuropatkin; that all civilians be brought toa placedes-& ignated by the Japanese admralfthat the Russian warships in the -haibr, numbering seven namely, the b-t ships Betvizan, Sevastapol, Pobid, Peresviet, poltava, the.rmre u er Bayan and the protected 'cruiser Ballada and 12 or more Torpedo boat destroyers and, four gunboats be sm rendered to the Japanese. Lieut. Gen. Steossel is alleged to haveren eived the terms with-a burst of woo.' derful profanity, his habitual tacitIdry' nity ,desertling him. He strode the the floor until he became calmer and ; remarked that If the Japanese propo sition was a joke it was In badtaste WIrL NOT-sURRENIEE. The London Express printed the following dispatch from Its Toklo cor respondent on Thutsday: "I am informed that the 'Mikado has received from the commander i bl forces at Port Arthur the Runt general's reply' to the imperial de mand for the surrender of the forcs "In his reply, Lieut. General Ste sel expresses his' thanks for 'the '- hu -; ifanitarian offer to grant safe conduct to all non-combatants withintheB~us- -- att lines.' " The demand to surrender Stoessel - refuses uncompromisingly, and. de. clares his garrison will fight tio the last man In defence of the' fortress" -' FEON PIGEON BAY.' According to news received atChe.'; foo the Japanese have began to bom-F badPort Arthur from PienBy has penetrated, this being less than three miles from the fortress. , The coal yards of Port Arthur have been set afire by the Japanese shells and are now burning. ' --.~ The centre of the beselging force has been moved to Paling Cnurg, two - miles north of the town,,ang -ai the ' line has moved closer to the doomed fortrs. Passengers on board the steamer Decima, which anchored off 'Port Ar thur Thursday night, witnessed the bombardment from Pigeon Bay. .A TEEBIFYING sPECTPAOLE. The Japanese shells were 'visible during their whole course. They cir culated comet-like to the town and their explosions were marked by great splashes of fire, which shot up into the sky. The bombardment from this and other points began at midnight and lasted until morning. The Enssins did not reply to the Japanese fire. Major Seaman, formerly a surg on in the American army, was a passen ger on the Decima. He says the spec- - tacle was most brilliant and awe In spiring. The Decima weighed anchor from Port Arthur at 5 o'clock Friday * morning. At some distance out she saw flve Japanese warships guarding the harbor. Chinese refugees from Port Arthur, who arrived here last night, report that the Japanese, have captured the position at Balichuang, three miles out on the main road from the for tress. Horrible Accident. The Augusta Herald says Mrs. Ma mie Jackson, an employs of the King Mill carding room, while working Wednesday morniag had the scalp torn from the top of her head by her hair becoming entangled In a belt. While passing under a belt her hair was caught up by the moving leather band and she was jerked from her feet 'and the scalp torn before the machin ery could be stopped. A physican was immediately summoned and had Mrs. .Tackson removed to her home at 1856 Hicks street. .She is reported to be in a precarious condition. A Trolley Tragedy. At Chicago four people were killed, another fatally hurt and twenty-three severely Injured in a collision -late Thursday afternoon between an ex press train on the Chicago Great Western railroad and a train of three cars bound for the Hawthorne race. track. Fooli the Birds. An English farmer has had several cats killed, stuffed and placed In branches of his fruit trees. NTot a bird will come anywhere near the or shard.