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HRAVE GI*1VES FACTS' I EXTENDED STAREMENT THE" IAYOR STAN1S BY HIS FORMER CHARiES Answer's Blease's Reply to Felder, Giving Out a Detailed Account of the Appointment of the Consta bles by the Governor (and Their I Graft). 3ayor John P. Grace gave the fol lowing statement to The News and Courier in reply to the statement made by Governor Blease in which It was charged that he (Mayor Grace) had preferred his charges of graft because he had not been allow ed to have control of the dispensary constabulary in Charleston. "I have never iade a statement that Governor Blease was 'getting' graft from the blind tigers of Char leston as immunity for protection ex tended to them. It will be noticed that the gist of my denial on this point is the word 'getting'. I have said substantially that a system of immunity was inaugurated by the constables sent here against my pro test by Governor Blease, and that the basis of the system was money paid to these constables. I have said that I could trace this money prazicallly to the Governor's office and this has been abundantly proven. It will be recalled that in his Charleston speech Governor Blease gave Stothart the highest endorsement and it will be equally well recalled that Stothart on the witness stand swore that he was so close a friend of Governor Blease as to haeo slept with him and drunk with him. If it has not been conclusively proven that Stothart in stantly began upon his appointment a wholesale system of grafting, then I have no idea of the probative value of sworn testimony. $t was sworn that the money was actually put in tothart's own hands. Other witness es swore that they put it under the door for him and Stothart himself refused V answer the question of whether or not he had received this graft on the sole ground that it might incriminate him. "Moreover, in all cases where the money was paid all the raiding stop ped. If this isn't a system of im m~unity for graft, then .I would like to know what is. Stothart acknowl edged that he paid as often as week ly visits to ze Governor at Columbia and on some of these occ3sions Mr. Todd, of one-million-dollar-Capitol wing fame, was his co-adviser in the Governor's office with Governor Blease. One of the constables who was ready to squeal was ordered by Governor Blease to go to Barnwell. and, according to his sworn testi mony 'was importuned by Mr. Todd to do so on the ground that there was enough graft in Barnwell to be worth three times his wages. This advice was given by Mr. Todd im mediately after he le't the Govern or's office, and the constable was warned about talking too much. Todd repeated to him a long con versation about the graft situation In Charleston, which the constables had reported to Stothart and in which it was deduiitely stated that it was well known that Governor Blease was getting wholesale graft from Charleston. "This is particularly significant, because it could on1.: have come either through Stothar't or Blease, because up to that time they were the only two who knew about it. When this constable refused to be governed by iMr. Todd's advice he was instantly dismissed by Govern or Blease from the service, notwith standing in his transfer to Barnwell. Geverner Blease had in writing ree ommended him as 'the most honest man of whom he knew. Hence, the most honest man of wnlom Governor Blease knew had gone to Columbia to report to him the grafting situa tion in Charleston and as a result of his visit he was dlsmissed from the service. Moreover, the sworn testi mony of John J. Miller is that he. too, had gone to Governor Blease and told him in detail of the graft situa tion in Charleston and stated to him that he, the Governor, was accused: of being the one to whom the graft was sent. Governor Blease's answer was that Mr. Miler was the third man who had told him of this and yet he did nothing to investigate. If thIs Is not tracing the graft 'prac tically up to the Governor's offce,' again I say I cannot imagine wvhat would be. I have been careful in my charges and I think they have been conclusively proven. "It wo'nld seem to be irrelevant, therefore, as to what my motive is. Even had I the basest motives im agin able for showing up Governor Blesse's graft, it would be no answer to my proof for him to blackguard me even if true.. But he has resorted to a wilful lie made more diabolIcal because he has had ample time to consider his words. Iwortunately for me, I am able by documentary evi dence to prove that he is in this in stance, as in many others of which I know a plan, unvarnished~ liar, which I will now proceed to prove. "FIrst, however, let me say that 1 rejoice that he has elected to take this course, for if it can be proven to. the satisfaction of everybody that he Is a liar in reference to1 this denial, it may also be inferred th-.t he is a liar in reterence bo his other denials of charges in respect to which there is not perhaps s'ach definite proof. This is in keeping with the well-known doctrain~e of falsis in unum, falsis in omnibus. He says that my expose is 'on account of my not allowing him (meaning me) to have the control and appointment of the constabulary force in Charleston'. What are the facts? The facts are that in the month of October, 1910, Governor FW.ease made a speech at the Schuet zenplatz, in the course of which at my instigation he promised the peo ple of Charleston that they would rnever iagain be troubleu with consta bles. His private word to me at the timie was that he vwas fully aware of the opportunities for graft in Char leston and had detelm~ned that it would never go on under his admin istration. ''These sentiments were not his. but mine, and I had talked him into the idea of concurr?ing in them. Thet next time I saw him was just before his inauautration, when I visited hing at Newberry expressly for the pur pose of learning his then attitude. I found it to be the same. at least professedly. After he was inaugur ated. he actually did remove the con stables and for a while they were not here. Then, as I have stated, rumors flew thick and fast that he was about to send other constablos here, where upon Mr. L. C. A. Roessler and I went to Columbia. drove from the train at night to the Governor's Man sion and stated to him what was be ing said in Charleston, He was very much perturbed, and wile he denied all foundation for the rumers. his: expression was so shirty that I told. him that Stothart was saying aroundi nCwasnn tha in a tlttle~ while he -ould be doing business as ccnstable. L the mrost extravagant and pro ,!ne way, lie denied al idea of it, but : I canze away from the Mansion I old Mr. Roessler that I didn't be ive him and that guilt was written Ui over him. Mr. Roessler told me hat I'd better not be too hasty in udging him, to wait and see, and tpcn his assurance to us we came ack to Charleston ana reassured our riends. They didn't velieve It, be ause they said that In addition to tothart's saying it, Capt. Martin was Iso saying It. I then told Mr. Roess er that I intended to put the whole ;ituation in writing, as I did not vant to be in the position of havig nade assurances to people in Char eston that might not afterwar(is be arried out. I thereupon wrote Gov :-anor Blease a long letter reviewing a detail the whole situation, remind rg him of his public and private romises. stated to him what Stoth rt was saying, and what Cant. Mar :in was saying, reviewing to him the istory of constables in Charleston, rpecifically calling to his attention hat when he was elected those who M-new the debt that he would be un ;ier to me had tried to get me to ave him appoint constables here hom I could control and out of which I could make immense sums 'r money, that I had repudiated the dea, that I was against the appoint me nt of constables, that I would hold im to his word, but ttat if he broke ais word and sent coustables here I xould construe it as meaning graft. "He was afraid to answer that let :er in detail, but wrote me that he would see me in Charleston in a few ays. The letter was written or February IS and he came to Charles ton on Washington's oirthday, foul days afterwards. Upon that occa sion I made a speech and devoted my whole time in his presence and the presence of a very large assemblage to a review of all these things and publicly challenged him there and then to define his possition. It wa! so much to the point and the charac ter of the audience being practical13 the same as he had addressed at thE Schuetzenplatz, that he just simp13 didn't dare change hiv position, bu1 still maintained, somewhat equivo cally however, that he would not pu :ny constables in Charleston. Lis tening between the lines of hi, speech, however, there were thos( present who discerned a false note and as they were men very much in terested in the situatlon, they held ai impromptu caucus and came to mi and advised me to have it out witl the Governor there and then. "We adjourned to the receptioi room of the German Artillery Hall about fifteen of us, including men o nimpeachable veracity, I might sa: that I put Blease through the thir< degree. He shifted 4nd apologize< and finally began to assume the posi tion that it would be nitter for us I we did have constables in Charles -cn: that there might not be so muc talk about it through the State, tha -bey needn't do anything specially ut they would come down and mak, a showing. We told him that w< didn't want them: that if they cam ere to invade our homes and rigid: 7o do their duty we certainly didn' want them, and that if they cam, here for any other purpose their pres ence would be indefensible. He the, .rggested that he w. ud send mei who would be acceptable to us. Thi was also rejected. lie then turnei personally to Mr. Roessler and said "'Why, Louis, you take it.' "Of course he knew this would b instantly refsused and that broke u: le meetinga The gentlemen presen tought tha.t the jig was up. but the: asked me to make one further effort to' take him to the notel, and tr; again. And at about half-past fiy 'ciock in the morning, we got hir ito an automobile and drove him t the hotel, where I left him, and hi !ast words were that be would d nothing at all. The nrit day I hear hat he and Mr. Farnum and Mi Stothart had had a Lonference an that Stothart had bee'n appointed. vent to the hotel and round that h ad gone and that night rang him u over the Iorg-distance 'phone an -.sked him what was the news, tell ng him what I had neard. Bein, parated by 132 miles, he grew ver: rank and told me that he had ap ointed Stothart as chief State de ctive, not as constable, and that h would not operate in elnarieston an that he had done it just to give hi: i job. I told him that if he carrie hat out I would be very happy. tha :1y fight was not against Stothart o ny other man, but against consta bles. "Gir. Roesskcr had asked me ts 'phone hin. at the Scnuetzenplatz a ;oon as 1 got in touch with the Gov ernor. I reported to him what Bleas ;ad said, and he informed me after ards that he at once communicate i to his friends. In a few days afte -hat Stothart and several other con nabes visited the blind tigers o Charleston and I was at once inform em that they were nor here for th< purpose of raiding, but of collectin, money. That they collected it I tow beyond dispute. I estimate tha i the last eighteen months Stothar ~as collected about erxty thousan< dollars. If he has keyet it all, he is; very rich man and he ran at once dis rove that he has transmitted it t< Blease by showing his bank book When he got the job, he was not onl: por, but as the records will show his house was mortgaged for a comn saratively small amounit. He had ni other property. It ought to b'e ver: easy for him to show that he did no give this money to Brease by show ng that he has kept it himself iither one thing or the other is cer tain." Miller Moths Delay Trains. Miller moths by the millions de layed incoming trains at Denver. Col. the swarms darkening the sun. The3 covered the tracks and greased thE rails so effectively that the wheel! pun around, making it impossible foi ttains to run on schedule. On thE plains, east of Den, the insects cover ed the ground like a mantle of snow Child Dances to Death, Dancing on the wire screen thai covered the mouth of a well on the A. H. Mulliken estate at New Canaar Con.. Monday Mortimter. G. Has trock, four years old, of No. 42 East One Hundred and Sixty-firsi met. Manhattan. broke through le was drowned in ten feet of water Trestle Was Dynamited. A large tresc-e rte-onging to the ~ose Mines in Bath couinty. Ky. 'h-r.e two hundred a~niners are on trieO was blown up. A railroad tie, I'cavily charged wi-a dynamite was discovered just in time to prevent a train from being w.recrked. Wilson to Plant A pple Tree. The famous old apple tree near Appomattox (Ya.) courth~ouse, un der which Lee surrend.ered to Grant, ong sInce carried away pietce by niece by souvenir hunters, is t o be re laced by a tree planted by Governor Woodrow Wilson. Meets H~orrible Death. Fredrick Nehmer, aged 50, a roill 3:in a steel plant. at Pittsburg, met hrrible doa':h Sunday night, when Sstc.s' :'ail gowing hot was thrust THEY WERE QUIZED JONES AND BLEASE ASKED NU. MEROUS QUESTIONS AT LEXINGTON MEETINi Judge Jois Endeavors to Give the Infornation Sought, But Governor Blease Uses Strong Language To ward Inquisitors, Evading Direct Reply in Nearly Every Instance. At the Lexington campaign meet ing on Tuesday both Judge Jones and Governor Blease were asked many questions by people in the audi ence. After Judge Jones had been speaking a short time, some one in the audience volunteered the follow ing information: "I haven't had but one drink to-day." Another issued this challenge: "Don't tell wha.t rlease has done: tell what you'd do if you were Governor." "When I state what Blease Is do ing I know the way to be right in the pposite," retorted Judge Jones, and :here was vociferous applause from his friends. The speaker went on to spy that he attempted to show by contrast just what he stood for, and made it plain that he was opposed to practically e~vcry principle enunciated by Gov ernor Blease. As to the taunts about his age, Judge Jones said: "I am sixty years old, and forty years young and no man need worry about my age in the performance of the duties of the of 'Ice." "Do you think you can beat Col 2y?" inquired a voice. "What? Do you think I'd resign the great office of Chief Justice if I did not know I could beat Coley?' replied Judge Jones with emphasis e- the word "know". This evoked another outburst from the Jone sympathizers. "Why, I have known Blease sincE he was a kid," continued Judge Jones: "I have had lots of hard jobE in my life, but the easiest job I evei undertook is to beat Cole L. BleasE for Governor." Again Tuesday, when Judge JoneE asked wherein Governor Blease had befriended the poor man, he wa told: "He turned them out of thE enitentiary." "Well. why doesn't he turn then all out?" asked Jones: "there ar( -still some poor men there just a. ,cod as those he turned out.' "He ain't been there long enoug.. he'll do It," said a Blease rooter, it r Eference to possible future action oi the Governor. "It's a one-sided affair," said Judg Jones, "this turning out the poo, -nan: what of the poor man whos( barn is burned, whose pockets ar 'icked or the victim of the murder er?" "Oh, he's done dead," chimed ii the same voice. Judge Jones made a strong poin in his argument that real friendshil !or the poor man was the strict en forcement of law, whereby he, as wel as the rich man, was guaranteed pro tection of life and property. "The thing to do Is to make It hard to commit crime in South Carolina,' said Judge Jones, referring again t< th e Governor's declaration regardin: Messrs. King and Watson, sayini that such language was positive en 'curagement to crime with a promis< rf immunity from punishment. "Hor~rah for Leroy Springs anm rew is W. Parker," came from the au dience, and there followed mort cise and disturbance. "That's just one of the evidences ofthis anarchy I'm talking about when men are so inflicted with Bleas ism that they will not allow a ma: right of free speech or give a squart deal" said the speaker when partia 'uiet was restored; and on the samt ine he repeated the charge that me: 2:ere imported to yell for Blease. "But." said Judge Jones, "ths -uiet. law-abiding people of Lexing tcn will control her destinies an! they are the ones who will express themselves at the ballot box." Elease Was Also Quiized. Soon after Governor Blease begat to speak from backs.in the audienc< ase a shout: "Murrah for th< o ickpokets." It came, as later in quiry showed, from Mr. W. H. Hiller In insurance man of edzumbia, frmier Lutheran minister, at on' time pastor of St. Stephen's Luthera: Churchi in Lexington. "Oh, I'll bet you are a pickpocke - curself, was the shot fired by Gov r or Blease at his disturber: "I'l et a dollar that man's stole mor money than those two pickpockets.' -Aai Mr. Hiller said somethin vand the Governor retorted: "I wisi there were no ladies hero, so I could ' ell you something." A little later Mr. Hiller repeated -his taunt and Governor Blease re oeted his reply that "that man, i ru will look him up, has stole: tore money than those two pickpock "You are an infamous liar," sho1 back Mr. Hiller. "Oh: any coward can stand oui there and call a man a liar when hi cn't get to him," said the Governor .Addressing himself to the mill boy! present, Governor Blease told then to beware of their vote, that It was aparent that the big Parker mul combine was trying to force men tc vote for Jones. "Old man Jones got hot yesterday nd called me a liar," said the Gov enor in mentioning his charge that t'e Judge's son. Charles D. Jones, hd exerted influence on Supreme 'curt decisions while his father wall IChief Justice. "There were ladies present, too,' continued the Governor. "and yet the respapers, with big headlines, pro claim it a great act, If I had done it thy' would have called me a black uard." dsoalenualt.y in voting against seaaeconch es. Governor Blease vas interrupted by this question: .ell. did rot you vote for that 'bad (irOr~heally) man (Jones) after he ad voted th'at way?"' "If .Jones was as bad a man as you are he'd a-teen in hell long ago," retorted the Governor. "But I .iust want to ask you the si~ple question," explained his ques 'tioner. "If a gentleman asks me a ques tion I'll answer it," replied Governor Pese. "Tones says his friends don't 'inrupt the speakers: that they are gerntleman: therefore he says you arc His questioner was persistent until the Governor finally said: "I wouldn't :y ar.: more attention to you than a hun' puppy would to a yellow nig p-r. an then the Governor tried to n-a ' pot of hIs questioner by say 4rr: 'He's inttrying to show off: "~t" upad let these folks see you," Go'e-ror ?mease. however, did not answe 'he question,. which It devel -.ed ws cdd by Mr. l-. R. Dreher, PfDt: eh Fo'k. Irmno postomlee. :Mr. MANY WERE KILLED BY MEXICAN REBELS, WHO AT TACK TROOP TRAIN. Just Before the Attack on the Train, a Small Garrison of Federals Had Been Routed. The list of dead as a result of the at tack by a band of Zapatistas on the Mexico-Cuernavaca train near Parres, on the edge of the federal district, grew to a total of 84. Three of the wounded died during Monday night i:i the railway hospital. A second relief train, which reach ed -Mexico City early Tuesday brought 23 passengers who had escaped the butchery and made their way into Tres Marias, a few miles away. El even were accoUnted for Monday night. It is estimated that the train com posed of one first class and three sec ond class coaches, carried approxi mately 75 passengers in addition to the 50 soldiers of the escort. Forty three soldiers were killed. Nine bodies of passengers were found near the wreck. Of the re maining thirty-two, a majority are believed to have been killed or wounded and consumed in the burn irg cars which were fired with oil taken from the tank of the locomo tive. Before the attack on the train It became know Tuesday, the Zapata horde had routed a small garrison of federals at Parres. Many women of the camp fell into their hands and were subjected to indescribable bar barities. The wife of the chief of the detachment was found dIsem boweled and otherwise horribly mut ilated. Capt. Rosendo Nunez, In charge of the escort of the ill-fated train, is nsid to have fought heroically. After nearly every man of his command had been either killed or wounded and he himself had received three wounds, he continued to fire from a patform of a choach until a bullet pierced his heart. The Zapatistas robbed the dead and living and looted the express car. BATTLE OF NAVIES. England and Germany in Battleship Building Contest. Introducing a supplementary naval appropriation bill in commons Tues day. Winston Spencer Churchill. first lord of the admiralty, declared the effect of +lhe new German naval law would be to maintain nearly four lifths of the kaiser's entire navy in permanent commission, ready for in stant war. "Such preparation," said Mr. Churchill, "is remarkable and, as far :s I am aware, finds no example in the previous practice of modern naval powers." The British shipbuilding program, Mr. Churchill then announced, pro vided for five battleships to be con structed next year and four battle ships for each of the following .four years. Naming the ultimate scale of the German fleet, the first lord of the ad -niralty declared it would be "ex tremely formidable" and the only way to meet it, he said, Is "by cool. steady and methodical preparation, prolonged over successive years." VICTIS OF THE FLAMES. (Girls Caught in a Death Trap at Lon don, England. At London, England, seven girls were killed, five were fatally Injured, mnd several others severely hurt In a 'ire Tuesday in a four-story building ia Moor Lane, In the heart of the city, .ccupied by Celluloid Christmas card -na.nufacturers, who employed many 'emales. The fire started in a front room on the top floor and spread -uckly. To reach the stairs the ~irls In the back room had to pass through the front room and before they realized their danger the flames h~d cut off the means of escape. The response of the fire brigade was :rompt, but the swiftness of the fire and the fierceness of the flames blaz ng from the windows prevented ef fective use of the fire escapes. FARMERL MANGLED BY B'ULL ?nraged Beast Tears Gash in Stom ach of Helpless Man. James Harrison, aged thirty years, of Zaners, Pa., was scattering straw in his father's barnyard when he was attacked by a bull. The young man's efforts to escape the animal failed. and he was caught squarely In the roin. the bull tossing him high In the air and ripping a gash twenty two Inches in length across his abdo men. As Harrison struck the ground :he enraged bull attacked him with his hoofs and continued the attack, as his victim, his intestines trailing along the ground, crawled forty feet nto an entry where the bull could not follow. tendent E. S. Dreher, of the Columbia public schools. After the tilt with Mr. Dreher some one yelled out "take him off" -meaning Governor Bleaoe. "If you think you can take me off of here come up and try It," flashed b:.k the Governor. "I can whip you i a minute." Another member of the audience put the following question to the Governor: "What have you done with the decisions of the juries of South Carolina in criminal cases." "If you had sense enough you'd read the newspapers and see," was Governor Blease's reply; "I can't give you the brains if God Almighty didn't." "What's your name, anyhow?" asked the Governor. "Sam Snyder," was the reply. "What do you do for a living?" was the next question. "I am a graduate of the 'University of South Carolina. I do as I please," sad Mr. Snyder. "I kno~w you weren't workilng for a liing. I had a purpose in asking. Judge Jones has been talking about college boys interrupting; 1 lust wanted to show that all the college boys were not Blease .boys," said the Goernor. Firing another shot. Mr.' Snyder sad: "I'll explain my record at Car-1 olina if you'll explain yours." This the Governor did not hear or took no nuotice of. for he did not reply. Ear Blug Latest Menace. "Beware of the ear bug" Is the lat est warning sounded by Philadelphia' phsicians. Annie Rooney was a vIc tim. surgeons at the Polyclinie hos ital finding the bug alive. snuggled* close to the ear drum, stringing the! senstive organ as it pleased, and causing the child excrutlating pain. . Five Blind Tigers Caught. Five operators of blind tigers have benruded up In Georgeto-vn, \isthrough the efforts of the msay e--. and in each case a anv:y fine wais imnposed accompanied by a 'cu:r. ce (jt .av days in fall. |OOl CHANLE fOR BOYS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO PAY FOR A CLLLEGE COURSE. Several Scholarships to be Given Away by the Southern Railway in This State. President Finley, of the Southern Railway Company, announced that all arrangements had been complet ed for the award of Southern Rail way scholarships in agriculture in the State Agricultural College of each State traversed by the lines of the Southern Railway Company and the companies associated with it in farm improvement work, so that the schol arships may be awarded prior to the beginning of the school year this fall. The purpose of the management of the company to award these scholar ships as a means of supplementing the extensive work which the com pany is doing for the improvement of agriculture in the territory traversed by its lines South of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and East of the Missis sippi was announced last February. The selection of the young men who will receive the scholarships has oeen placed entirely in the hands of the President of the State Agricultur al College in each State and all cor respondence relative to the matter should be addressed to him. The general plan in accordance with which the scholarships will be award ed is as follows: 1. The scholarships shall be awarded to a boy, preferably from the farm, living in a county, within the State, traversed by a line of one of the railway companies participat ing in the award. 2. The boy must meet the entrance requirements of the college. 3. The boy must be financially un able to avail himself of an agricultur al college education without assis tance. Provided, that the president of a college, if he deems it advisable, may divide the total amount award ed to such college among two or more boys who may be able to defray' part of their expenses from other sources. 4. Subject to the above conditions, the president of each college for which scholarships are to be award ed may determine for himself the method of selecting the boys to whom they shall be awarded. The manage ment of the Railway Companies, be lieving that the best results will be obtained If the selection of the boys shall be left entirely to the college authorities, will not participate In such selection in any way or recom mend the award of a scholarship to ny particular boy. 5. Each boy to whom a scholar ship may be awarded must maintain good standing in his classes through out his entire college course and must conform to the rules and regu lations of the college. The authorfi ties of the college shall have full and final authority to determine the ,.-egree of delincuency or of Insurbor dination that shall constitute grounds for the withdrawal of the benefits of a scholarship from any student. In no case nhall a beneficy of a schol arship be permitted to appeal from ':ny act or decision of the college au thorities to the railway companies. 6. In colleges In which it is custo ma..ry to send to the parents or guard ians of students periodical reports as to their standing and conduct, such reports as to the beneficiaries of rail way scholarships shall be forwarded to the president of the Southern Rail way Company, as well as to the par ent or guardian. 7. Each beneficiary of a scholar ship shall be required to subscribe to an agreement that he will, for at east three years aftej the termina tion of his course In college, devote himself to practical farming in terri tory contiguous to a line of one of the railway companies participating in the award or to teaching agriculture, yr work .g on an experimental farm. n some state traversed by the lines of one of the railway companies par ticipating In the award. LOVE WRECKED HIS LIFE. Miser Starved to Death Amidst His Gold Hoard. Surrounded by tin cans filled with gold, silver and paper money, and with more money packed Into every crevice in his little hut, Adolph Huf ehauser, of Highland, Ind., miser, recluse and victim of a love tragedy, laid himself upon a bench and starv ed to death. Upon a piece of torn cardboard lay the story of his tragic life. It read: "Strife and worry may fade the .bloom of youth, but love's first dream remains in the heart forever." Back of the words lay the secret of his entire life. Hufenhauser had liv ed alone in a little shack at High land. near -Hammond for fifty years. He came to Hammond before the Civil war, purchased a forty-acre farm, and set to work to eke odt a living and to prepare a little home nest to which he might bring the girl ha had left in Wesdorf, Germany. The girl never came. Shortly before the opening of the Ci1i war. Hufen hauser became a recluse, shunning all comnanions, never leaving his lit tle cabin unless to work on the farm or to go for food. He worked hard and spent little, storing up his hoard just as if the girl of his dreams were actuaally coming. When found dying by neighbors, he clasped an old army musket. He had evidently prepared to drive away inquisitive strangers, but he was too weak from starvation to raise it when the police entered. Pleads for Mother's Murderer. Mrs. Mary Delpha, of Kokomo, Id., went from the grave of her mother to the side of her husband, pleading for his liberty. IHe was con victed for the killing of his wife's mother. Delpha's allegation was that h fired at a man, but instead of kill ig his intended victim, the mother of 'rs. Delphia received the load of shot and died. Found Dead in. Store. At Jacksonville, George Osborne. aged sixty-four, was found dead in M s grocery store on the outsktirts of the city Wednesday morning, his had was crushed by an Irbon bolt found by the body, and the cash drawer was rified. Negro Hanged for Two Murders. F-or the first time in ten years the* death penalty as exacted in Tuscaloo-' sa county Ala.. was inflicted on a ne gro when Frank Richardson was hanged for the murder of Deputy Tom Cooper and Brown Horton. a member of a pursuing posse. Auto Axle Broke Judge Charles W. Johnson of Per ry. N. Y., was killed and three guests s-riously Injured when hIs automo bile turned turtle Wednesday night about a mile from Perry. The rear axle broke while the car was making high speed. All of us may not agree as to who should be Governor, but we all can! agree that we want a big cotton crop and good prices for It this fall. @IRL IS COWHIDED 1HREE MEN 6O TO HER HOUSE AND TAKE HER OUT WON'T TELL THEIR NAMES It is Olaimed that the Attackers Are Prominent in Georgia City.-Giri Whipped Because Man's Son Lov ed Her Against Father's Wishes. W. S. Dozier Did Wrdpping. According to the Augusta Herald, Essie Carter, a young white woman, is in the Macon Hospital in a serious condition as the result of a horse whipping inflisted upon her Saturday night at Dawson by three men. She v as brought to Maco on a cot for medical and surgical attention. While refusing to give the names ot the men who whipped her, the young woman says that the man who plied the whip is a prom.inent citi zen of Dawson and the father of a young man whose attentions to her caused the trouble. She says she was dragged out of her house and while two men pulled off her cloth ing and held her the third adminis tered the flogging. She is striped and cut on every inch of her body from her waist down. According to Mary Carter, the wo man's sister, who brought her to Ma ,:on, W. S. Dozier, clerk of superior court of Terrell county, did the whip ping, while Clyde Dozier, his grown son, and Pope -MeClung held her. V. 0. Dozier, eighteen year old son of W. S. Dozier, is the youth whose in fatuation for the woman is given as the cause for the cowhiding. W. S. Dozier was asked by long distance telephone for a statement, but refused to discuss the affair. According to Mary Carter, a crowd. of a dozen or more men, in two automobiles, went to Essie Car ter's home about midnight Satur day. The servant refused them ad mittance, whereupon she -was knock ed down and the Doziers and Mc Clung entered and seached tke house until they found Essie Carter in -her rcom. She was taken outside, Mary Carter asserts, and after being strip ped was beaten by the elder Dozier, while Clyde Dozier and McClung held her and the other men stood around with pistols to prevent any interfer ence. After Essle Carter had been beaten ir:to insensibility, Mary Carter says. the crowd rode to her house two blocks away, determined to punish her in similar manner. Mary Carter says she was warned in time to es cape in the darkness and hid in a rearby grove until after the crowd had dispersed. She brought her sis rer to Macon on the first train and nlaced her-in the hospital. Friends of the Carter women in Vacon say they will employ Macon attorneys to prosecute the Doziers -nd others who took part in the horse-whipping. "Because it will bring disgrace upon his son, I am not going to tell .he name of the man who lacerated me with a buggy whip,'' declared Essie Carter, "although I really think he should be exposed. His son bad been coming to see me, and I had been warned to leave Dawson, but I stayed there, and that is why I am in this condition. I told the young man that he should forget me, but he said he couldn't and persisted in his attentions. "Saturday night his father, ac rompanied by two other men, entered the house. They seized me and drag ned me out into the street and two of them pulled off my skirts and under clothing and the father then beat me until I fainted." "The man used a long buggy whip which was concealed under his coat when he entered the house. He is one of the leading men of Dawson, and is wealthy, and his son stands as well as he does. For that reason, be cause it will shame and humiliate the son, for whom I feel a sincere affec tion, I am not going to give any names. "Dawson Is my home. I have lived there many years, and my~people live there now. My way of living may not please everybody, but I am not a bad woman." The young woman is being taken care of here by friends who have raised a fun to defray the doctors' and hospital expenses. The doctors say she will recover, but may be crip pled for life, as several tendons are affected. MET DEATH IN QUEER WAY. Drowned on Top of a Twelve Story New York Store. At New York Robert M. Kinsela was drowned on the top of a twelve story building in which he lived on East Sixteenth street Sunday. He had gone and that night rang him up foot and a half of water which had collected there after the drain pipe became clogged. He ran his right arm down into the drain pipe and as he released the rubbish the suction of the rushing water caught him. His arm was drawn in up to his shoulder and became wedged in the pipe. three companions strove frantically but vainly to release the imprisoned man. The suction held him in the ipe and his head was drawn into the water which still remained on the roof, causing him to drown. TWINS WILL STAY JOINED. Siamese Duplicates Will Not be Sub jected to an Operation. The twin daughters of Mr. and~ Mrs. John Griggs, of Holyoke. Mass., widely known as the Holyoke Siam ese twins, because their bodies are joined together at the hips, have left the hospital where they were born seven weeks ago, and have been tak en to the G'riggs home. They are god natured and have been christen d 'Mary and Margaret. The former frequently enjoys a nap while the ater, with wide open eyes, coos and smiles. It has been decided not to attempt to separate the infants by an oper auonr. Bectrayed by Bloody Bill. The proffer of a bloody dollar bill to' a shopkeeper in Washington. D. C.. resulted in the arrest of six youths charged with stabbing and clubbing to death, Thomas Cole, a negro. The boys divided $2.30 found on the vic tim. Awful Floods in Japan. Unusually heavy rains and floods have prevailed on the northern coas of Japan. Four hundred persons are missing and are believed to have perished. Much damage has been done to crops. Suspended by Wedding Ring. Mrs. David Swanson. lIving near Sterling. Ill., was badly injured when her wedding ring caught on a nail in a hay-mow. It held her suspended for two hours and she waz 2moost . ead when mened. CAPTAIN SMITH ALIVE )LD SHIPMATE SAYS HE SjiW ILL. fATED TITANIC'S CAPTAIN. Mariner Insists He Talked to His Old Commander on Streets of Balti more, Maryland. That Capt. E. J. Smith, command er of the ill-fated Titanic, was not drowned in the disaster, but was seen safe and sound in Baltimore, Md., is the claim of Peter Pryal, a retired mariner, who claims to have been a shipmate of Capt. Smith for more than seventeen yeavs. Mr. Pryal claims he not only saw Capt. Smith. but that he talked with him. Think ing he might be mistaken after the first view of the man he thought was dead, Pryal asserts he made a second trip to the place wrere he sa.w him the first time. Finally to his aston ishment, he says, he saw the same man approaching him. Walking up to him he said: "Capt. Smith, how are you?" Then according to Mr. Pryal the man answered: "Very well, Pryal, but please don't detain me. I am on business." Pryal insists he followed the man until he boarded a train to Washington, D. C., and at the gate Capt. Smith turned to him and said, "Be good, shipmate, until we meet again." "There is no possibility of my be ing mistaken," he said. "I have known Capt. Smith for many years., When he commanded the :faaestic I was his quarter-master and the White Star line officials will vouch for this. I entered their employ on the Repub lic, but was later transferred to the Majestic just after Capt. Smith was raised to the rank of comamanaer. . would know him even without his beard. "After what I have seen I firmly believe that the Titanic's command er escaped a watery grave, and was in some mysterious manner saved and brought to this country. I have told rr. Warfleld of the occurrence, and he wIll testify as to the condition of my brain, for I know that many will think I have gone insane." Pryal was quarter-master on the Majestic of the White Star line thir ty years ago, when Capt. Smith com manded the vessel. He is one of th8 oldest mariners in Baltimore. He has made Baltimore his home for more than fifty years, and claims the honor cf having sailed on the first steam ships that ever plied into the harbor of Baltimore, the Carrol, the Somer set and the Worcester. The White Star line officials in New York -City, while they do not ridicule Pryal's story, declare they have re ceived no substantiation of the tale told by the Baltimore mariner. STAND COLLAPSES. Supporting Posts Rotted From Run ning Water Underneath. At Wheeling, W. Va., many pe: sons were injured, a number serious ly, when 200 Masons and their ram ilies, seated on a wooden platform cvering in a small ravine in front of an open air theatre were precipitat ed to the ground by the sudden col lapse of the structire. The drop to the bottom of the ravine was fifteen feet. Thirty persons were seriously hurt. One of these. Miss Elsie Lit tle, of Benwood, W. Va-., sustained a broke2. back and will die. The oth ers received fractures of the arms, ribs and legs or internal in juries and bruises. Scores of others suffered from scratches and shock.. The annual outing of the Masonic Club, of Wheeling, was being held in the park. .Over 200 persons were on the platform. At the conclusion of a vaudeville program the portion of the audience sitting near the stage arose. Suddenly the tan bark covered plat form beneath them began to give way. There was a wild scrantbie for safety, followed immediately by the collapse of the structure. The mass of humanity dropped fifteen feet and piled in a heap at the bottom of the muddy ravine. Assistance was plentiful in the park, while a score of physicians was rushed to the scene from the city. Many of the Injured were unconscious when rescu-ed. A park restaurant was converted into :an emergency hospital. Anexamination of the col lapsed platform showed that the posts sustaining it had rotted from running water beneath. BLEASEJ LOSES A FRIEND. Former Strong Supporter at Green ville Now Opposes Him. The Greenville News says that Ad am C. WeWlborn, Esq., who have been warm friends and political friends for years, have severed rela tions with each other will doubtless prove surprising news to friends of both throughout this section. In 1908 and 1910 Mr. Welborn was a particularly strong supporter ot Governor Blease and weilded a considerable amount of influence in the elections. Very few people have learined of the break between Mr. Welborn and the governor, and those few who knew of it, perhaps did not know the cause of the separation. Saturday morning Mr. ~Welborn stated to a News reporter that per haps It would be best for himn to state publi ly that he was no longer a sup orter of Governor ~Blease, for some of his friends, remembering how strongly he supported the chief exe cutive heretofore, might be influenc ed in the approaching primary. WOMAN KIDNAPER CAUGHT. Was Pursued Across Three New York Counties by Officers. Pursued across three New York state counties by police on motorcy cls and automobiles, driving her car nearly fifty miles an hour over mud dy roads and through a downpour of rain. Mrs. Herman F. Lehman, of Buffalo, N. Y., was finally arrested. At Atti ca, Mrs. Lehran entered the Eagle hotel and a few moments 'ter returned to her car accompan ed by Evelyn Mildred Sloan, aged eeven, adopted daughter of John loan, proprietor of the hotel. Mrs. Lehman claims the child as her own daughter. taken away from her by its father. Charles A. Dleming. of Chic po, Ill., shortly after the child wab born. Charged with Bewitching Cow. Mrs. John Yeniski, of West Hazle ten. Pa.. was arraigned before an alderman, charged by Mrs. Frank Gelp with having bewitched a cow so that it ceasted to give milk. The w.man was discharged and the pros eutor told her to consul her pastor about the Impropriety of believing such nonsense. Mule IKilled by a Bolt. Last Thursday, about ten miles be Low Branchville, while a negro. Smart Funches, was leading his mule home just before a shower of rain, the mfile was struck by lightning and killed and the negro stunned. The bolt ripped the right leg of his trous ers and yet dlid noi leave a scar on WASH HUNTER CASE MOVERNOR BLEASE PARDONS HIS FORMER CLIENT WAS ,ONITED TWE The Greenwood Journal Gives a Full History of the Famous Case and Incidentally Defends Its Peopl Against Charges Made Against Them by Governor Blease. The Greenwood Journal says it may be that the people of Greenwood Ccunty are not particularly interest ed in the general pardon record of Gov. Blease, but there Is one case which is being much discussed and about which we think it well to keep the record straight. The Journal then gives the following facts in the Famous Wash Hunter Case: G. Wash Hunter was charged with the murder of Elbert F. Copeland, July 19, 1906, near Clinton in Lau rens County. The case was tried four times at Laurens Court House, resulting in three mistrials and-a ver dict of manslaughter which was set aside. On Sept. .26, 1907, the case was ordered transferred to Green wood County, and after an appeal from this order to the Supreme Court the case was brought to trial in this county September 27, 1908, when Hunter was found guilty of man slaughter and given an eight year ' sentence. The record shows that the follow ing men composed the yury that found Hunter guilty: W. H. Hagood, Foreman; J. L. Stribling, J. H. D. Ashmore, T. W. Pace, B. P. Pinson. P A. Hunter. W. H. Whitlock, J. E. Reardefi, J. H. Hinton, R. C. Jen nings, M. D. Warner and J. L. Rich ter. The following attorneys are marked of record as representing Hunter: Cole L. Blease, W. R. Rich ey. B. F. Townsend, Geo. T. Magill, W. R. Richey Jr., and T. C. TurnerJr. After sentence the case was appeal ed to the Supreme Court and the ver diet was affirmed. It was then taken by appeal to the Supreme Court of Ine United States and the verdict was again affirmed. When the United States Supreme Court refused to in terfere there was no further legal move and Hunter was pardoned by Gov. Blease. . In -his book of Pardons the Gover nor states: "The case was transferred to Greenwood county in preference to any otl'er county in the circuit notw 'hstauding Greenwood's well known prejudice in regard to drink ing whiskey and gambling, which to my certain knowledge among some of its citizens is hypocritical, yet It had its weight in this case." He then proceeds to severely criticise the Su preme Court of this State and of the United States for refusing to Inter fere. with the verdict of the jury. We think the Governor has done this County and the jury which tried that case a great injustice. We did aot ask for the case to be sent here, and the Governor evidently overlook ed the fact that a jury of Laurens county, his political st-ronghold, had already found Hunter guilty and the further fact that three other juries of the same county had refused to declare him innocent. Then Lu the face of those facts why make such an unwarranted charge against this county and its fury. Some of the men on that jury we do not know personally, but the greater -number of them are known to, the citizens of this county, and It would require more than the totally rnsupported charge of the Governor to convyin ce the people of this county that it was a hypocritical spirit which moved that jury to declare Hunter guilty. He shot to death a crippled man. He had been given four trials '.n his home county, and although he had been represented by strong legal talent he had never been able to con vince a jury of his fellow citizens of his innocence.' On the contrary one o9 those juries had declared him guil ty. He was gIeen a fair trial -in this county, and the verdict of that jury represented the truth as they saw It. The Governor a few days ago stat ed that he had never -received any pay, that it was in litigation. We. of course, know nothing as to this, but we do know that in the report of the case of the Chemical Co. vs. Hunter there is the following: "Cole L. Blease admits he holds note and mortgage for one thousand dollars mentioned in the complaint and alleges that he is a creditor 6f G. Wash Hunter and that the amount of the indebtedness is one thousand dol inrs, and will be made if deponent lhve to render the services he pro poses to hereafter perform for said Hunter in the case of State vs. G. Wash Hunter now pending In the Supreme Court of this State and in other matters." In the same case Hunter states on oath that some of the money from several etner large mortgages over his eight hundred acre tract of land went for the pur pose of paying attorneys' fees. Governor Blease pardoned his own client when five juries of his coun trymen had refused to free him, when the Supreme Court of this State and of the United States had said they could not interfere, and yet a few days ago he severely criticised his opponent .because as a member of the Supreme Court he had felt it his duty to grant a new trial in a civil suit where damages had been award ed. He states that Judge Jones should have respected the verdict of the jury regardless of all else, and yet in the Wash Hunter case he more severely arraigns the Supreme Court for refusing to upset the verdict e says he is proud to have freed Hunter from the oligarchy of the Court, but he must not forget the verdict of a jury placed the case before the Court. Why shoald the verdict of a jury be regarded so sacred in one case and yet so lightly regarded in another? The Governor may continue to par don his clients when he has failed to win their freedom before the juries of the State. but as often as he at tempts to impugn the motive of hon est citizens in this county in the faithful discharge of their duty, just so long shall we give the record. Moore M~ay Be Declared Dead. Thomas Moore. once a prosperous druggist in Mobile. La.. must put in his appearance within a few weeks or the courts of Alabama will declare him dead. He disappeared several :-evs ago and his wife mnd children ri~ t a settle the estate I~ | Looses Money and Ends Life. Despondent because she lost $50 belonging to the Mystic Workers and head officers had insisted on it being sent to them, 'frs. Fred Desjardins, of Grays Lake. Ill., took rat poison and died. Bites Torpedo for Candy. Andrew Hoffman, of Appleton. Wis., who ate a torpedo, is dead. He had some caramels and torpedoes, both wrapped in read and white pa per, in the same pocket ang peweg