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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 24.1912 NO.2 L -ANNING S.-C., REED BADLiED TIIEN ROUNDED UP A LOT OF A*"LANTIC CITY GRAFTERS THE DICTAiRAPH USED The Boodlers Were Trap-t"l Very Much in the Same Way T!.;t Reed, Posing as Henry N. Porte:-. a Chic ago Lawyer, Claims to 11 .e Trap ped Nichols. E. S. Reed, the detec:*- 'e who while posing as Henry N. 1 wter, a Chicago lawyer, claims to h ive en- I trapped Sam J. Nichols, a ::partan- I burg lawyer, into negotiati as to < have a notorious yeggman rIdoned i by Gov. Blease, is origin'al in hisi, methods, very successful in his work, quiet with a manner which c..avinces one of his sincerity, and a pe- zanality which is magnetic and engag a Mr. Reed. who is the right bower of William J. Burns. is spc;ding a few days in Atlanta, the guest of At- i torney Thomas B. Felder, in whose < employ he was when he seeured the i evidence against Nichols. It was I Detective Reed who exposec the At- 1 lantic City grafters. eighty of whom t have been convicted by the grand Ju- < ry. and it was he who traced Harvey 1 Logan, the famous Montana train robber, to South America. A history t of him and his work would read like a real dime novel. t It was back in 1SS9 when Mr. c Reed, then a boy of 16 years, pulled t his first big detective stunt. He had Ii been assisting his father, who was o also a detective, in running down s some of the crimiuals who infected t the Black Hills country in South Da- c kota following the Sioux Indian up- t rising. Since then he has handled many big cases, and has never failed r to succeed in running down and a bringing to justice the criminals he v went after. a The most recent and perhaps the most important piece of work ever ( done by Detective Reed was the s rounding up of the Atlantic City r grafters, which he completed a few q weeks ago. After opening offices on N all Street, in New York. securing I elaborate apartments at the Waldorf r hotel in that city. Reed. posing as J. i K. Harris. a millionaire contractor, , went to Atlantic City. ostensibly for i recreation. He took a suite of rooms f i. the Marlborciigh-Blenheim, which t he connected up with dictagraphs. p Ascertaining that the city was g spending $4.000 a year for repairs b to the famous board walk, of which t $30,000 was divided in graft to city officials and bosses. Reed gave out an interview suggesting that the old old board walk should be replaced .1 with a concrete walk. that in the end it would be cheaper and more satis factory. He studiously avoided the city officials, and his interest appear ed to be that of a disinterested but t, experienced contractor. The concrete walk suggestion at- a tracted attention immediately, and a the trade bodies and civic assocla- u1 tions invited himl to address them up on the project. After he had created* an almost universal demand for the n new walk, one of the leaders in the !< council called on him at his hotel e and adroitly negotiated a aeai wnere- b by thirteen members of the council, ,w thie city attorney and other officials y were to he paid certain sums for put- Ii ting through the concrete walk ordi nance. Seventy-five thousand dollars a was to be divided among them. b One by one the other councilmen n were drawn into the negotiations and g; conversations were had with the vari- n ous officials at the Larlborough- a Blenheim. the Waldorf, in New York,. and the Continental hotel, in New- g ark. Each of these conversations gj was recorded by the dictagraph, s which Reed had previously arranged, a the same as he had done at the Finch &. Hotel at Spartan burg and the New a Williard Hotel in Washington, at both of which places he entrapp~ed Nichols. The ordinance, which was passed by the grafters provided that Reed was to receive 7 per cent. of the $1, 500,000O to be expended on the con crete walk for engineering services, 7 per cent. for his own personal su- u pervision, and $80,000 for his plans. ai etc. This last mentioned sum was fi under the agreement to be divided y among the grafters.n So skittish were the grafters that P they would not accept the money at V any of the hotels, but insisted that it be paid over in a back room or lia- S lia's combination saloon a-ad hotel, a a dive run by an alderman by the name of Malia, who was one of tne gang. It was necessary for Reed to in stall his dictagraph in this dive, lHe> must do this without creating sus picion. so he hit upon the idea of 2 sending a crew of linemen from New York to Atlantic City who were os tensibly in the employ of a local pow er company. These linemen, one of whom was an expert dictagraph ..n. secured quarters in Malia's hotel and was seen about the streets and work ing at the top of poles for days The dietagraph m'an spent the en-I tire night preceding the day w'hen the money was to be paid over in drilling a concrete floor over the gang's assembly room. and before he completed the' ob so that the dieta graph could be installed in the cell ing of the assembly room so me one~ heard the drilling and he was comn pelled to stop. wires thrown out of a window. and a few minutes before the gang assema bled he skillfully pinned the dicta graph behind a cur!tain. The oper ator workin:: upstairs recorded all that transpired. Su:ch a complete re cerd was out ained 'hat when con-i fronted with the e.idence the gang sters owned up and refunded practi cally all of the bribe money. In speakingf to an Atlanta reporter Reed exhibiti the dictagraph that recorded his cenversationl with Nich QIs. "That's th seen little machine that trapped :':e McNamnaras in the dnamit pe.' he said. 'It's the sarte on I ":e to >nvict the graft-~ ig counlt' met Atlantie Ci~y and the legislato~ at Columtbus.I' been a 'pre"- loyal machine to the TIrns detective aaecy. and it m'iy de some roe w ork to undo Elae Thm not 'hremh wit the case ye. 'm acn to :; n Atlanta for severaI committee. nw had nroof 6Venl whR9 th9 BITES PROVE FATAL 'HARLESTON MAN VICTIM OF MARSH MOSQUITOES. uccumbs to illness Brought on by 31yrfiads of Mosquitoes Which Bit Him While in a Launch. The News and Courier says as a re ult of numerous mosquito bites, hich he received in the marshes be Ond the Isle of Palms about two veeks ago, 'Mr. John Von Oven, the :ing street grocer, died at the River ide Infirmary. Mlr. Clarence Fair hild, who was with 'Mr. Von Oven. -as also badly bitten, and is ill at the tiverside Infirmary, though his con ition is said not to be serious. The two men spent the n!ght In a aunch near the Isle of Palms two reeks, or more ago, it is said, but id not feel seriously the effects of he attacks of the mosquitoes until few days ago. Mr. Von Oven's eath is ascribed to a severe malarial nfection. It was not by previously made lans, but through seemingly acci ental circumstances that "Messrs. ,on Oven and Fairchild spent the ight in the launch behina the Isle f Palms. The two men, together ith some ladies, had gone to the le of Palms to attend one of the ops at the pavilion. They made the rip in a launch, tying the vessel in ne of the small creeks back of the sland. After the dance it was found that he tide had ebbed, and left the boat ground. It was impossible to get he craft off at that hour, under the ircumstances, and the ladies spent e night at the hotel. he men stay 3g aboard to take care of the vessel, nd to get her afloat at the first pos ible opportunity. During the night he mosquitoes attacked them in roves, and both men were badly bit mn. The serious results of the bites did ot become apparent until a few days go, when the men became ill, and ere taken to the Riverside Infirm ry for treatment. In spite of all at could lt done for him 'Mr. Von en died. The cause of death is aid to be a severe malarial Infection, ceived from the bites of these mos uitoes. It is now a generally accepted be ef of the medical profession that ialaria can only be taken into the uman system through the bite of .osquitoes of a certain species. The osquitoes probably came rrom the -esh water swamps in the interior of te marshes themselves. At last re ?rts. 'Mr. Fairchild was stated to be tting along nicely. ana it is thought e will be out again in the near fu ire. INSUANE FROM DRUGS. Negro Kills Four People and is Himself Killed. At Tampa, Fla., Bob Harris. a -azy negro. startcd out on a ram age, killed four persons, wounded to others. one of whom was white, id himself was slain by policemen 'ter a siege, in which gasoline was sed to burn him out of a house. He as insane from drugs. He first went to the house of a we an and killed her and a man he ~und there. He then went to anoth house and fired on a woman with a ty. The former was slain. On his ay out he shot another negress. irginia Simpkins, and a white po eman named Riggs. He took refuge in the Simpkins oman's house. where he lived, and rricaded the doors and windows. eing plentifully supplied with cart dges, he kept a large force of police en at bay, and was dislodged only er being smoked out of one room. The house was then set on fire with asoline. When he made a dash for berty he was shot and killed. The mpkins woman died later at a hos tal where she w'as carried after ng wounded. The fifth victIm can t live. SIX DIE IN A COAL MINE. xplosionl Kills TIwo Wp1hite MIen and Four Negroes. Two white men and four negroes ere killed in an explosion in the ines of the Gayton Coal company. fteen miles from Richmond Va., ednesday afternoon. The white en were William Donnelly and Geo. olisho, and the negroes were Thos. 7illiams. Mlatthew Burts, Henry Bill ps and Norman Cade. Three ne roes were injured. The men were ,work when the explosion occurred., od it is supposed that the premature ~ttig off of a "shot'' or a 'charge of lasting powder was the cause. None fthe men working near enough to e explosion to know its cause. es Several Drowned by Cloudburst. A Barren Run. Pa.. Thursday ight during a heavy storm John ~ayond left his home and went to barn in a nearby ravine. Alarmed v his continued absence, his wife. ix children and two guests went In erc~ of him. As they entered the avine a wall of water swept down d drowned them. Raymond. safe the barn, was helpless to aid when 1e ie virnis screamed. Girls lKilled by Train. The Misses Bianche and Ruth Ev ry. fourteen and eleven years old. espectively. daughters of .John. Ev-' rly. a farmer of Chesterfielid county. 'a.. en route Thursday to market .ith a wagon load of truck were kill ci by a Norfolk & We'stern train hile attempting :o cross the tracks bout one mile north of Petersburg. Swarms of Mosquito Hiawiks. Millions of Mosquito hawks flew ver Luling, La.. Thursday afternoon. oing in an easterly direc'ion. They 'ere so dense at times that the sky as obscured. The hawk resembles n insect known as the "darning icedle" and thrives on mosquito diet. ommittee was in sessin tna:. Nich s was coming along nicely in his ezotiatons with the gov'ernor t o cli us Dentley's pardon. Of course' ~e telegram telling me to come and cind it up meant that the governor ad accepted $5,000 for the pardon1 nd was ready' to issue it. But the eitagraph may do still more clever A STORY OF HA SAYS HE SLIPPED MONEY UNDER STOTHORT'S DOOR IT WENT ON FOR MONTHS O'Neill. Former Charleston Liquor Dealer, Says He Collected "Pro tection Fund" From Other "Tig ers", Put it in Envelope and Left it at Office of Chief Constable. Appearing before the committee of the general assembly at Columbia on Thursday, J. P. B. O'Neill, a confess ed wholdaale and retail whiskey deal er of Charleston, gave testimony un der oath that he had been paying a "protection fund" of *about $60 a month to Ben H. Stothart, the chief whiskey constable in Charleston. O'Neill made the direct charge that he had collected this fund from sev eral retail whiskey dealers. The testimony by O'Neill was giv en after he had been put through a grilling cross-examination by the committee and after he had been threatened with a jail sentence for contempt. The witness when placed on the stand refused to give testi mony on the ground that it might In criminate him. The members of th'e committee took the position that O'Neill must answer all questions with reference to the Charleston sit uation or to be held in contempt. The testimony of the witness and his answer caused a general uproar among the spectators. He tried to evade practically every question pro pounded on the ground that it might incriminate him or other Charleston citizens. After a conference with his attorney, W. S. Nelson, O'Neill said that he was ready to answer all ques ions rather than take a jail sentence. Story of the Scheme. After evading questions by the ommittee for more than one hour and after several conferences with his attorney, O'Neill got down to his story of confession and outlined the following scheme. He said that about eighteen months ago Ben H. Stothart of Charleston came to his place of business and informed him that he had been appointed as chief constable for Charleston county. "Stothart told me that the boys would be coming around to see me." said O'Neill. O'Neill then said that about one month afterwards he plac ed the "protectior. fund" that he had ollected from the retail whiskey dealears in an envelope and put the envelope under the door of the office of Ben H. Stotbart in Society street. He declared that the money was left during the night and that the en elope contained the names of the re tail dealers who had paid for protec ion. O'Neill declared that tnle "pro ection desired" was given to the re tail dealers. The testimony of O'Neill was the most sensational that has been given before the legislative committee. In his testimony O'Neill declared that the collection of the "protection ~und" had commenced about eighteen onths ago or just after the appoint LTent of Stothart by the governor of south Carolina. At a recent meeting of the dispen iary committee in Charleston several ~onfessed "blind tigers" charged that they had been paying a protection tnd to J. P. B. O'Neill. who was said Lo be a member of the Marion Stock ompany, alleged to be a wholesale vhiskey company operating in the tv of Charleston. The principal tes imony on the "protection fund" giv en at the Charleston hearing was by Iohn J. Miller. O'Neill admitted be fore the committee that Miller had been employed as his agent and that Ve collected the "fund" from the re Lalers. O'Neill's Testimiony. The following is J. B. P. O'Neilrs onfession as taken from the official ~tenograher's notes: Mr. Carlisle: Mr. O'Neill, did you ~ollect any money in the city of Cnar leston or elsewhere for the pu-rpose f paying it over to Mr. Sfothart or, ny other constable for protection or immunity? A. I decline to answer i the ground that it would incrim natt me.., Committee rules that witness will ave to answer or be rulea for con tempt. !.pon reconsideration and onsultation Mr. O'Neill consents to tnswer. A. I can not tell you exactly. It has been testified by two people they aid me money and this money I iaced in an envelope with names of parties paying it to me. and left it it the constable's office. Q. Wh'at parties paid it to you? A. V ilton is one. He paid it for two laces. $15 Q. Did you take it in person to the on~table's office? A. Yes, sir. Q. WXith whom did you leave it? \. A his offce. Q. Did you have your name on it in ay way ? A. Names of . parties who piaid the money and their place f business. Q. How did you know the consta les would keep that money? A. Because 1 was to give the money to Q. Acting agent between r'eailers nd constables? A. Yes. str. Q. lDid the retailers direct you how :c do that? A. The retailers? I Q. Yes, sir: who told you to put it under the door? A. Those people who deal: with me was to pay me ; much to keep from being raided by a warrant. All I had to do was to e the amount in an envelope and names and to leave at the office. His Name. Question by Senator Clifton: What Shis name? A. B. H. Stothart. The :onstable's office. Question by Senator Carlisle: Who cade that arrangement for you to co that? A. I arranged. Q. With those fellows? A. What fellows? Q. Those in this business. Did you -ver have any conversation at any time about this method of "protee ion"? Ilcin't you agree with tne~ constables that this matter should be done in this way? A. That I could collect it. I made that agreement with Mr. Stothart himself. Q. How many retailers did you represent in this proposition? A. Dif'erent times. Q. How man'y times did youi leave i uner the, door? A. Once every mo .\'2e ddtt .rnflCltb. gin? A. About iS months ago. Q. Commenced soon after Mr. Sto thart went into business as consta. ble? A. About the time I went into the jobbing business. About March of last year. Q. Soon after the inauguration of Gov. Blease? I want to get after the date of Mr. Stothart's appointment. A. Shortly after that. Q. And continued up to what? A. Up to when I went out of business, some time in the month of June. Q. Just about the time that article came out in Common Sense? ? A. Before that I think. Q. I would like if you could give us the exact date of your going out of business? A. I can not state pos itively. Q. Do you know whether any oth er jobbers had this same plan? A. Don't know anything about others. Q. 'Mr. Stothart didn't tell you? A. No, sir. Q. Where were you when you made that arrangement? A. At my place of business. - Mr. Stothart came there. He notified me he had been appointed chief constable, and the b.,ys would be around to see me. The "Boys". Q. Whom did he mean by boys? A. 'Men under him. Q. What arrangement did le sus gest to prevent anything unpleasant, what did you suggest he could do for ] you? A. Didn't suggest anything. I j just collected the money during the month and put it in an envelope and left it at the office. Q. At the time of the first conver sation did he tell you he would do that? A Didn't specify anything. Said only the boys would De around. Q. Said something besides that? A. No, sir; I was in jobbing business. Q. You think Mr. Stothart, when be found those envelopes of money knew what they were for? A. Yes, sir; the names were-there; my name was on it. Q. Then 'Mr. O'Neill, the under standing was that those payments were made monthly there would be no search warrant? A. He was not particular about it. Q. The understanding was if they t were paid the searches would not go so far as search warrants? A. I did not do that. Q. Wasn't' search warrants on E your customers after that? A. I I don't know. Q. Did you ever give them credit s for goods? A. No, sir. t Q. About how many customers did I you have? A. Not many, very rew. Q. About how many? Any time during the last 18 months. How many men have paid you that money? A. t Only six. t Q. Give us names? A. Milton is E one. He paid for two places. Q. The others? A. Strickland, I Windham, myself, and W. J. Cant well. Q. How much did you pay, Mr. I O'Neill? A. Fifteen dollars per month. Q. How much did you pay for each of the others? A. Five dollars and ten dollars. Q. Your total payments for the month aggregated about how much? A. About $60. Q. Whegie is that office located? A. Society Street. Q. What time would you pay It? A. Just shove it under the door. Q. Ever hand it to them person ally? A. No, sir. Q. If they were in there you would put in under the door? A. No, sir; i~ they were in there I would not leave it-. Never Got Back Money. Q. You never got any of that mon- b - back ? A. No, sir. Q. Mr. O'Neill, you say you were jobber? A. Yes, sir. Q. About how much stock did you carry? A. Didn't do much business. Not more than ten customers. Q. Didn't you pay for some of the others? A. No, sir. Q. Why did you discriminate? A. don't know. Q. Did those men you spoke of buy nostly from you? A. No, sir. Q. But from others, too? A. ! judge so.s Q. Do you know whether any other jobbers had the same privilege ora greement? A. Don't know. Neverc heard one of them say. Q. By Mr. Cary: Mr. O'Neill, did you ever have any way of knowingi hether these constables or the chieft f the constables- actually got this oney that you put under the door?t . No, I don't know for a positive Q. Have you any reason to feel sure that they did get it? A. Oh, I Q. From what did you judge? A. guessed I would have got a tt phone message if there' wasn't some thing doing. Q. By 'Mr. Carlisle: Why do 7o1: guess that? A. Just guess they would have rung me up. Q. Didn't they do it? A. I never gave them time. 'I always sent it in. Q. Did you know a man named owe? A. Sam Howe? Q. Yes. A. He used to be chief' onstable there: during the State dis pensary, I think. Q. Ever know of his receiving any money directly or indirectly? A. I was a new beginner. Q. Did you ever hear of any one who did make arrangement with him? A. No, sir. Q. By Mr. Evans: Any arrange ent made in your behalf? A. Not that I know. Q. Ever have any protection at all then? A. No. Protected by Stothart. Q. By Mr. Carlisle: From whom were you to be protected? A. The only one I got any protection from was Mr. Stothart. Q. Do you know, Mr. O'Neill, any thing about what .became of that -oney when it went into the hands of the constables? A. No, sir. Q. Ever hear them say? A. No, &r: never discussed it with them at all.I Q. Mr. O'Neill. as a matter of fact in your first conversation with Mr. Stothart, did you not make some agreement with him as to some kind of protection? A. No. sIr. Q. You never discussed this matter at all with him? A. No. Q. You simply paid him money ithout any understanding? A. I simply wrote him names of people nd enclosed money. Q. H-ow did you know he would take it? A. I didn't knt'. Just* sent it to him. Q. How long after that first con versation was it you first sent it to him? A. Abount a. nm'onth afterwards . iht have been longer than a' m~onh. Q. You didl that without any ...-wMedg of whofha- he w'ould .a BLEASE WILL PARDON MURDERER OF MEN WHO ACT LIKE KING AND WATSON. Any One Who Slays Men for Using Some Alleged Indecent Language Gets a Pardon. Speaking Friday night from the steps of the State House in Columbia to a crowd of 1,500 people Gov. Blease said he would have a pardon ready for any man who killed J. N. King and 0. M. Watson of Greenville, if they came to any man's home in the same drunken condition and used the same indecent language that that they were guilty of when they called it the executive mansion last Sunday afternoon. Mr. King and Mr. Watson gave out signed statement that they had been insulted by the chief executive last unday afternoon when tney went to ee him about getting a reprieve for take Norris, a GreentIle negro, sen :enced to the electric chair. Gov. Blease defended his pardon econd and declared that J. M. Gra ham. has the hosiery mill contract. had .been "cleaning up" since he got in behind him. He told the crowd hbat he wanted all his friends in Richland county to vote for George R. Rembert, when he ran for the Eouse of Representatives this sum :er, because he was his friend. A large part of the chief execu-l ive's speech was devoted to 3. N. Cing, a contractor, and 0. M. Watson, i metal worker, both citizens of 3reenville, who came to Columbia ast Sunday to see the governor about ;ranting a reprieve to Stake Norris, t Greenville negro, sentenced to the lectric chair. Gov. Blease declared riday night that Mr. -King and Mr. atson were drunk when they came o his home and that one of them 'iroped into the first chair he came His excellency said that the two reenville men used indecent Ian uage He declared that If Mr. King nd Mr. Watson came to any man's Louse in the same conuition that they vere in when they came to the man ion and used the same language, If bat man killed them then he would tave a pardon ready for him. Gov. Blease said that Mr. King and &r. Watson might he members of the )rder of Red Men now, but after bree more meetings they would not e as he intended to have them turn d out of their tribe. The governor aid that Mr. Watson and Mr. King Lad .been referred to as gentlemen in newspaper and added, "If they are entlemen, then God pity the no *es."' *4 | '-RIEND OF KING AND WATSON. )ares the Governor to Attempt to Kick Them Out. Friday night H. T. Mills of Green ille, sent the following telegram to 'he State: "After reading the reports that ov. C. L. Blease said he kicked J. Z. KiKng and 0. M. Watson out of is mansion, I am willing to offer a eward of $500 for the governor of he State If he will even attempt that ob. These gentlemen have been his eading supporters In this county and ave a large number of friends. ThIs s another case of Blease sticking to Is friends. H. T. Mils."' The governor is offered an easy ay to make $500, but he will hardly ake it up. WOMAN DRAGGED TO DEATH. lot Entagled in Rope Hied to a Cow Which Ran Away. Mrs. Ida Emerick, the young wife f E. J. Emerick, a wealthy oil oper stor, who, with her children, wast pending the heated term on a large~ ountry estate near Washington, Pa., ettempted to lead from the pasture a ow to which she had taken a fancy. bee stung the cow and the animal -an around and around Mrs. Emer-. ck, imprisoning her within the thir v-foot leading rope. Then the cow lashed madly across the pasture, !ragging Mrs. Emerick at her heels. drs. Emerick was terribly .bruised and battered, and died a short tIme tfter being rescued. Several Die in Cloudburst. Twenty lives were reported lost riday night in a cloudburst that w~p d out the small town of Seven. 'roughs, Nev. From Louvelock, nea seven Troughs, came word that seven ersons are known to be dead. Five >ersons are known to be dead In a' loudbhrst at Mazuma. The Mazuma iotel was turned over in the rush of vater. Loose in New Orleans. An alligator six feet in length was ,aptured in Carrollton avenue, a ~ashionable section of New Orleans, y the crew of a street car early r.ri ay morning. The conductor and rotorman were helpless tintil rein 'arced by the crew of another car. rhey combined forces and the alliga :or was finally hauled to the car Sweatrs to the Record. Sigmund N. Teitlebaum. of Atlanta, ie stenographer who took the con ersation between Detective E. S. Reed and Samuel .T. Nichols, of Spar :anburg, in a Spartanburg hotel. nade affidavit at Atlanta Friday that is notes were "accurate and comn dete and not faked in any way." Blease Did oNt SpecIfy. Governor Blease did not make good is announcement that he would >rove the testimony of Felder and he Burns detectives to be false at he campaign meeting at Columbia rriday. Netiher did he mention the natter of his own meeting. Bites Torpedo for Candy. Andrew Hoffman, of Appleton, Vs., who ate a torpedo, is dead. He ad some caramels and torpedoes. yoth wrapped in read and white pa yer, In the same pocket and chewed Storpedo by mistake. Suspended by Wedding Ring. Mrs. David Swanson, living near serlng, Ill., wvas badly injured when er wedding ring caught ou a nail in hy-mtow. It held her suspendied WILil TEXAS STEEN ON A RAMPAGE IN THE STREET OF NEW YORK CITY TRIED TO 60RE PEOPLI Dashes Through the Streets, Bellow ing and Charging-Group of Folks on the Sidewalks, and is Finall3 Killed by a Bullet from the Pistol of a Policeman. The New York World says one hundred long-horned steers, just ar rived in New York from the Texas plains, were being unloaded Wednes day night from a cattle boat at the foot of East Forty-fourth street. Suddenly one of them-a big red fellow-gave an angry bellow, plung ed against the fence about the pier, broke it and leaped Into the East River. The steer started up the riv er, swimming with the tide. Mfany persons swimming off the piers passed by the longhorn hurried to shore. At the foot of Forty-ninth street there is a pier that extends far out into the river. The steer rounded it and then turned toward the shore, where between 300 and 400 men and women were bathiag. The first the bathers knew of the steer having got loose was when they saw him approaching. At the same time he gained a footing In the shal low water and with a bellow charged them. A small boy, trying to clamber up the jagged rocks, was overtaken by the brute. The steer was lunging forward with his sharp horns when Walter icGirr of No. 311 East Fifty first street ran forward and covered 1:e steer's eyes with his -coat. Then the boy was drawn to. a safe place. Quickly the steer shook the coat from his head and, trotting up to the street level, loped up Forty-ninth street toward First avenue. The street was crowded, but the cries of the bathers had given the alarm. At First avenue the steer swung about and headed toward the river. On the long pier at the foot of the street were many mothers with babies in carriages and small children at their skirts. The steer made straight for the pier, and the women and children were pushed upon a barge by men, who then sought their own safety. The police were called. Again the steer turned and started In a gal lop, with lowered head, toward First avenue. A passing trolley car brought him to a halt. Patrolman Andrew Deleah of the East Fifty-first street station at tempted to head off the steer and was charged. The patrolman sprang aside and as the steer swept past him he sent a bullet into the animal's shoulder. This only angered the brute the more. He turned and again charged. Deleah had to show the agility of a toreador as he leap ed to safety. A second bullet enter ed the steer's side. The third time the steer charged e came so fast Deleah was In danger f being gored. Again the patrolman hot. The brute sank to his knees ith a bullet in the centre of his orehead. Before he could get to his eet Deleah had shot him in the eart. The steer was consigned to the Un ited Dressed Beef Company, which as an abattoir at Forty-fourth street nd First avenue. It was hardly ead before employees of the com any came running up armed with clubs and carrying ropes. The steer as loided on a wagon and hauled to the abettoir. After a government nspector had said the animal would ake perfectly good beef It was pre ared for market. ept it or not? A. Yes, sir. Q. Without any suggestion from nyone? A. Yes, sir. Q. Ever pay protection to anybody lse? A. No. Q. By Mr. Evans: Why is it you taxed yourself heavier than others? . I just 1.a it to him. There was o price on ..?ly. A. I didn't know, just sent it. If t wasn't satisfactory I guess I would have heard. Q. by Mr. Cary: Did you first think up this scheme that it would :e a good one to keep your customers otected? A. I thought it a good idea for those fellows, they would not have no trouble. Q. by Mr. Clifton: How far is your place from H~asselmeyer? A. Clme mile and a quarter. Q. Wasn't he one of your custom ers? A. No. Sold Whiskey. Q. What do you sell? A. Whis key, mostly. Q. You were in business in a small way? A. Yes. sir. Q. Do you know Miller? A. Tas, Q. Did you hear him say he col lected money in the same way? A. Yes, sir: he was my collector. He worked for me. Q. He collected from the people and paid it to you and they put you btween Miller and Stothart? Is that correct? A. He paid money ov er to me and Stothart. Q. You were to stand between Mil jer and Stothart? A. Miller was w orking for me. Q. When he collected for the goods he also would collect the graft? A. Yes, sir. Q. You mean to tell this commit tee that you paid money to consta bles without any agreement? A. 'Mr. Stothart came into my place and said he was appointed chief constabies. Q. So you sent him that money in answer to an agreement? A. I told you I sent it to him in an envelope. Q. He knew about your agree ment? A. lHe knew about names in envelopes. He didnt suggest that I put money under door. Q. He didn't know Stothart was appointed chief constable until he told you? Didnt you then agree with hiin for you to collect from people you could and they would not be raided by warrant? A. I put mon ey in envelope and put it under door. Q. He~ knew what it was forr A. Yes. sir. Q. He knew not to raid these pemo pe with v.arrants? A. To be raided all rignt. 'nut that he would notify ts. Q. That v'as the agreement? A. There w~as nio agreement. That '$js THE WARS5 Hi SIN MAN WHO MIURDERED LITTL GIRL KILLS HIMSELF. His Father Told Him, After He Coi fessed to the Murder, Suicide Ws Only Thing Left. The body of Nathan Swartz, whos father informed the police that hi son was the slayer of fourteen-yea1 old Julia Connors, at New Yoric, wa found early Thursday on the fourt floor of a tenement house on Christi street, that city. Swartz had con mitted suicide by inhaling gas. Tb body was identified by Detective Jo! eph Brennan. Swartz had engaged the room eigb days ago under the name of Ma Hirskowitz from Max Kaplan. Eai ly Thursday Kaplan smelled gas. 0 investigation he found Swartz in be with the end of a gas tube tied to hi mouth. Examination by a physicia: showed the man was dead. Written in lead pencil on his col lar were the words: "I am guilt and Insane. Caused by the beautift make-up of women, which has mad me passionate." There were severa pieces of newspaper lying arounc and one of these was written the set tence: "I was sorry the minute afte [ did it. So don't cry for me.' A letter was found addressed t Swartz's mother, in which he con es ed his guilt and telling her not to cr her eyes out. Later Philip Swart Identified the dead man as his brotm er. Only a few days ago Swartz' father informed the police that hi son had told him that he had Rille4 the Connors girl, to which the fathe: responded that there was nothing lef but for th3 son to commit suicide. Swartz, his landlord said, woub have been turned out of his roon Thursday morning for failure to pa: his rent and the police thought that fearful of the ordeal of finding anoth er place of shelter and subjectin bimself to the gaze of strangers Swartz finally brought himself to en tertain the idea of suicide suggeste to him by his father. MAKES SEINOUS CHARGE. Man Says He Paid Lawyer Five Hun dred Dollars for Pardon. At the campaign meeting in Colum I bia on Friday Geo. R. Rembert, oi the Columbig bar, who had been flooi leader of the Blease forces in th( House of Representatives during the past two sessions of the general as sembly, advanced to the front'of th( stage, from his seat at the rear, or 1earing his name mentioned by Judge Jones, and asked that the statemeni about him be repeated. Judge Joner read: "He (Blease) pardoned Glenn, whc killed Rhoden in Batesburg. Glent says he paid 'Mr. Rembert $500. Rem bert is Blease's floor leader in the house. Did that $500 pay Mr. Rem ert to explain how Glenn was in nocent, or did it pay for Mr. Rem bert's influence on Gov. Blease tc liberate a criminal?" "Any one who says Glenn gave me $500," said Mr. Rembert, "is a liar.' "I have not said so," rejoined Judge Jones. "Glenn said so, and upon demand I will produce proof that he said it." . Mr. Rember said no more, but re tired to his seat. Why did he not de mand the proof? BURNS DETECTIVES ABSENT. Afraid They Would be Assassinated if They Came. An interesting turn has come absut in the investigation in the absence of the Burns detectives. Sam Nichols had requested that when he testified Thursday E. S. Reed, Burns' lieuten ant, appear and hear his testimony. The committee had requested Reed to appear, but announcement has been made that neither the Burns de tectives nor Thomas B. Felder, who has been backing the detectives' In vestigation, will appear before the committee in this State. They say they are afraid that they will be as sassinated by friends of the Governor who will act boldly in the expectation of a pardon from the chief executive in case of conviction. They consent to appear before the probers in any city in a nearby State. I I Better Than a Pistol. Miss 'Marian Merry, when held ui. near her home in Chicago, Ill., stab bed the bandit with a juicy strawber ry pie. He escaped but she recover e(. her purse. Miss Merry struck him full in the face in a sort of "swat the fly,' motion. The pie spattered ovei tie bandit, blinded him and in hit fright he dropped the purse and ran. The pie was badly damageda. SCat Adopted Little Rats. An official report ofL the assistani actuary of the Ohio State liabilitI board declares he has discovered. cat at the Goodmian plant in Hamil ton that has adopted a nesi of eight young rats. The mother 'ai had been killed by employees of the plant. The report says the cat it mothering the rats just as if they were her own offspring. Shoots and Kills His Father. Walter Nichols was shot ans kill ed by his son, Earl Nichols, at Dell wook, Fla., after the father had at tempted to kill his wife, the boy' other. Young Nichols gave him self up to the sheriff and was latet released when the coroner's jury ren dered a verdict of justifiable hom! Witness Shot and Killed. At New York Herman Rosenthal the proprietor of a gambling house whose sensational charges that the police are guilty of grafting, oppres sion and protecting gamblers, wer' t be investigated was shot and kill ed in front of the Hotel Metropole b: five men in an aur~.aobile. this first trip of Mn. Stathart's t your place did you write down th names of these retail liquor dealer and show it to Mr. Stothart witJ amounts opposite their names? A No, sir: I guess it was a month af terwrds when I sent it to him. Q. Did you eVe-r submit a list; r, 'Stothart without the mioney? / Sby Mr. Carlisle: You didri coie; advance? A. No. sir. *ig. ~committee then adjoug .... t hn reall of the ch'm~n UNLT LIUORU TALK DECLARES SAM J, NICHOLLS TO THE COMMITTEE TALKS ABOUT RECORDS e S Young Attorney States to the Dispen s sary Probers That He Had No In tention of Doing Wrong in Connec. tion With Efforts to Secure Pardon for Yeggman, Young Attorney t States to the Dispensary Probers. h That it was "liquor talk" and that he was drunk at the time when he was dictagraphed and, therefore, on s ly talking wild, was ine statement, in substance, of Samuel J. Nichols Thursday morning, when he took the stand before the dispensary investi gating committee at Columbia, and made answer to the cnarge contained in the testimony of Detective Reed, that he had- employed Nichols to buy a pardon for James Johnson, the no torious yeggman. r Nichols admitted that "Henry N. Porter" came to see him in Spartan burg about securing a pardon for Johnson, representing that Johnson was heir to a $600,000 estate in Chic ago and that it was necessary to get a pardon for him before he could come in under the terms of the wil. Saying that "Porter" made him dead drunk after he called on him at the Hotel Finch, in Spartanburg, Nichols said what the dictagraph made him say might have been as re ported, but that he was "wild drunk" and simply talking big if he did. That Nichols was drunk when he started to Baltimore with "Porter", fiter their cc'.f'eren'e in the Hotel Finch, was testified to by Judge Geo. W. Nichols, his father, who saw him when on his way to the depot. An affidavit from C. P. Calvert, the edi tor of the Spartanburg Journal, who accompanied Nichols to Baltimore, was submitted, stating that Nichols was "wildly drunk", and one to the same effect by R. S. Pasly, city re corder, of Spartanburg, who was also with Sam Nichols on his trip. Nichols said one of his characteris tics was when he got drunk that he "talked big". This was also testified to by Mr. C. P. Sims, who said that when sober, Sam Nichols was a quiet, courteous fellow, but that when he was drunk, he was rowdy and wanted to fight. The whole tettimony tended to show that when "Porter" approached Nichols, he first made him so drunk that Nichols didn't know anything about what was going on and that he was in this alleged irresponsible con dition during the three conferences wvith "Porter'', when the conversa tions were dictagraphed, in Spartan burg, Washington, and in Baltimore. Nichols denied having at any time had any idea of any wrong-doing in this transaction and also said that he never once mentioneq the pardon matter to Governor Blease after he joined the campaign party in Barn well; thrt his first knowledge of any crookedness was when he read the papers Sunday morning. Attorneys C. P. Sims and Ralph Carson testified that there was noth ing unprofessional in presenting the petition for the pardon of Johnson, and Mr. Carson said that he would have signed such a petition. Mr. Sims was associated with Nichols in the matter. Another important statement of Nichol's was that he was to receive a $10,000 fee for this pardon, but that no mention of the Governor was ever made. "I knew the Governor would not contenance any wrong-do ing," said M3r. Nichols. lHe der iedl having paid anything for getting Governcr Bllease to sign the charter to the Pieamont and Nor thern Railroad, and said that outside - of the Johnson pardon he hadn't got ten over $1,000 for all the otner peti tions he had represented, that the four he was personally interested in were granted, one of which was a commutation. Nichols dubbed -the dictagraph ref erence to him running for the Gover norship two years from now, and Blease for the Senate as another evi dence that he was drunk, for said he: "I wo,)d only be twenty-nine and too young to qualify, even if elected Governor.'' Nichols denied having sent any "0. i." telegram to "Porter". and said that the only one he sent was from Dlackville, as follows: "Things do not look good to me now. Come to Spartanburg." He exhibited the original of this to the committee, told of having tried to et from Felder a copy of the alleg ed "0. K.", telegram, which Reed is said to have declared he received, and defied Felder to print it. Nich ols said he preferred to testify iD South Carolina, where witnesses would be punished for perjury and did not believe in going to Georgia. MIr. Nichols gave Governor Blease a high recommendation and answered the general charges made against him by the dictagraph, declaring that if he said what it said he did, he was drunk and not responsible for his statmuen ts, tnd that there was noth ing in it. He said that he was to have got ten a fee of $10,000 if the Johnson pardon was secured, but that he nev er mentioned the matter to Govern or Blease and was going to tell "Por ter" so if the latter should have come to. Spartanburg. Five Texas Feudists Poisoned. County' Commissioner 31. G. Diaz, hi us.ad three other county of hics nurs arank from the same bar reiaos ate !n San DTego, Tex., are ead of wte rest of a feud in which dad aute resoutlaws~ had teen prev osl killed. The '?a~ter was shown to contaifn strychnine. Gasoline Tea K~ills Girl. I iss Florence Trout, of 3Musca LrIa., was burned to death and four other members of the fanly were injured, two fatally, when a tea Ipot of gasoline exploded. By mistate the kettle had been filled with tbe danger'ous fluid and placed on a hot stove. Twenty Drown in fhine' ti At Cologue, Germany. twent wee y ahig n the death are attlb