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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY., JUNE 11. 1913 NO 48 THE TRIAL OF LON MAN WITNESSES HAVE TESTIFI ED IN THE CASE STATE HAS POOR CASE Several Witnesses Testified that Gun ter Had Threatened to Kill Long if cH Was Elected to the Legisla ture and Came Back to the Town of Wagener. "If Hugh Long is elected to the legislature I will kill the - - and stamp him In the dust!" M. T. Holley, a well known Aiken county farmer living a few miles from Aiken, and who was himself a candidate for the State Senate in the political campaign which last sum mer led up to the killing of Pickens N. Gunter by Hugh Long, testified at Long's trial Thursday morning that Pickens Gunter uttered this threat the Monday evening before the sec ond primary was held. "I told him," said Mr. Holley, on the stand, "that he could get in more trouble in a minute than he could get out of in a lifetime, and that if he talked that way, Long might kill him." Mr. Holley's testimony was the climax of the morning's proceed Ings. The defense began to combat the case the prosecution Wednesday made out against the legislator, and Thursday morning produced some testimony to establish the plea of self-defense. "I-saw Pickens Gunter in Aiken on the night of August 27 last year, the night of the first primary election," said Mr. Holley. "I was at the bulle tin board looking at the returns as they came in, interested as I was for the reason that I was a candidate for the State senate. Gunter, who was my friend, came up. He was drink ing, I saw he was mad. He said he wanted to talk to me. We walked out of the crowd and into a park in the street. Then he wanted to know 'what in hell' we gave Hugh Long such a large vote here in Aiken for. I told him I had nothing to do with It. He said, 'If you'll go in that crowd and get Long and bring him out here I'll show you how quick I can kill - him." I told him if he wanted to shoot Long to go hunt him himself." The threat, the witness declares, Pickens Gunter made against Long's life, was made at Wagener. "I came 'back to Aiken and seeing Mr. Long I advised him not to go back to Wag ener. I told him what Gunter had threatened," continued Mr. Holley. "He replied that he thought the whole thing would blow over after the election and that he didn't think Gunter would hurt him." J. B. Permenter, a liveryman of Aiken, accompanied Mr. Holley when he went to Wagener just before the second- primary, and his testimony was in substantiation of that of Mr. Holley. Mr. Permenter also had a talk with Mr. Gunter at that time. "He asked me," said the wItness, "te deliver a message to Hugh Long. I told him I hardly knew Long. He said Long had better not come back to Wagener, and told me to tell him so. He said if Long came back he would kill him; that the two of them couldn't live there. He said he would take his rifle and shoot a hole through him and wouldn't think he had done anything wrong." A Minister Testifies. The Rev. 3. C. Holley, who lives at Wagener, told on the stand Wednes day morning how Pickens Gunter ap proached him during the campaign last year and said that if Hugh Long did not "take back" what he had said In his paper, the Wagener Edisto News, one or the other had "to take a whipping or one or the other had to die"; that that ariticle could not stand without retraction and both he and Long live in Wagener. The min Ister added that he was friendly t both parties and that as soon- as Hugh Long returned to Wagener af ter his election, he, Long, asked him If he thought it safe for him to re main there. "I told him," said the witness, "that because of the rumors that were afloat It would be prudent to avoid Pickens Gunter." Mr. Holley added that the morn ing of the second primary he met Mr. Gunter again and that Mr. Gun ter put his hand on his shoulder and~ led him Into the Bank of Wagener of which he was president. He said hE wanted to tell me that others of his friends had a svised him the same as I had' and having heard so muel' good advice, he had decided to take it. We shook hands, and he told me he was done with politics and was go ing to drop." That was a little more than two weeks before the shooting G. S. Cook. a farmer living near Wagener, told of meeting Pickens Gunter a week or so before the shoot ing, when Mr. Gunter stopped him and asked him what he would do to a man that had published an article about him in the paper. "He said," the witness swore, "that he was go ing to whip Long the first time he got a chance." On cross-examination the witness said he never heard Mr. Gunter threaten to kill Long or any one else. T. C. Fanning, a merchant of Wagener, testified that on one or two occasions he heard Pickens Gun ter say he thought he "would give Hugh Long a -good thrashing". It was brought out in cross-examina tion of Mr. Fanning that Hugh Long had published in his newspaper arti cle reflecting upon 3. W. Lybrand and Pickens Gunter, but the copies of the papers were not put in evidence. Wit ness said he begged Mir. Gunter not to fight Long. and that at last 'Mr. Gunter told him he would npot, and they "shook hands on it". When J. B. Harley of BarnwAl. 'w outh tand a witness for the~ prosecution, Tuesday, one of 31r. Long's attorneys asked him if Pick ens Gunter did not pass him at the cotton platform, a few minutes be fore the shooting took place and give him a message to deliver to "Jake" Lybrand. Mr .Harley denied this. Joe A. Garvin, of Wagener, took the stand Wednesday morning and testi fied that he saw Harley and Gunter talking together at the platform about ten minu-tes before Gunter ap proached Long in front of Hayes' Gunter's store where the shooting took place, and heard Pickens Gun ter say to Harley: "Tell Mr. Lybrand the fun's going to begin." D. H. Easterly, who served as a special policeman at Wagener during a part of the campaign, swore that while Hugh Long was away from Wagener after his election to the general assembly, Pickens Gunter of ten met the trains at the depot. That after Hugh Long shot Gunter he was overheard as he walked away from the scene to say that he intend ed to kill him (Gunter) anyway, as testified Tuesday by witnesses for the State, was denied by Butler Smith, who took the stand Wednesday morning to tell him at the sound of the pistol shots he stepped out of a store to see Hugh Long standing in the street a few feet from where Gun ter lay. Long. bad his revolver. Smith said he reached Long's side first, when he was not more than ten feet away from the spot where he had shot Gunter, and took him by the arm. "I told him to go with me," said the witness. "He said it wouldn't do to leave there then. I insisted, seeing that there was likely to be trouble, and I urged him away. He kept his pistol in his right hand as he walked away, toward Cook's stable. I do not remember passing any one." Witness said he could have heard Long had Long made such a statement as that credited to him, as he was nearer to him than any one else, but that he did not hear it. He declared that when he looked back a crowd, armed with shot guns and pistols, was following. On cross-eamxination, Mr. Smith declared that he urged Long away from the scene of the shooting for the sake of peace, "to save not only Hugh Long's life, but other lives as well". He said he lived then near Wagener but had since moved, as he heard and told some of Gunter's friends that -threats had -been made against him because he had saved Hugh Long's life. .The Morning Session. The morning session opened with the testimony of Dr. Frampton Wy man and Dr. Hastings Wyman Jr., who examined Long when he was brought to the Aiken county jail. They testified that Long had a con tused wound on the left side of the head caused by congested blood; there was also evidence of blood set tied under the eyes caused by severe blows, also contusion and scratches on the throat caused by a man's fin gers. The defendant was Wednesday morning examined before the jury, the physicians declaring afterwards that there are still evidences on the scalp of a contused wound. Dr. R B. Jennings of Colum,bia took the stand to tell of an examination he made of Hugh Long when he newly elected legislator was carried from Aiken to the State penitentiary for safe-keeping when it was feared a mob would lynch him if he was kept. at Aiken., At that time, declared Dr. Jennings,'Long had a bruise on one side of his scalp and there was discol oration beneath both eyes. The defense introduced Wednes 'lay morning testimony to show that Hugh Long was followed over the country while making his campaign last summer. Robert L. Holseback and S. R. Freeman testified that Pickens Gun ter, Dr. L. B. Ethredge and "a man named Gantt" went to the Warren ville campaign meeting and "tried to get several men to break up the meeting. An effort was made by them, the witnesses declared, to howl Long down when he spoke. Will Owens corroborated this testimony, and said he heard Pickens Gunter during the course of Long's speech say out loud: "That's a -lie, and If you'll get out on the ground and say that, off comes your head." This remark was occasioned, the witness declared, by reference made y Hugh Long to his political oppo rents at Wagener, who, he had de lared, had tried to rule him while he was intendant and had fallen out vith him because they could not do so. G. W. Anderson told of the War -enville occurrence and said that ickens Gunter threatened Hugh rong at that time "if he would go back to Wagener and say that". The State obiected and attorneys for the prosecution were sustained by udge Gary when attorneys for Long asked W. C. Fawls of Wagener If Pickens Gunter did not state to him that anybody who would vote for Hugh Long was no friend of his, Gunter's, and that he did not want them to speak to him. Oscar Garvin, who lives near Wag ener, took the stand to tell of a talk he had with Pickens Gunter about ten days before the shooting, when, he said, Gunter told him not to rent a house to Hugh Long; that "Long is not fit to live in Wagener and was a sorry man to oegin with." He said, declared the witness, "he want ed to get rid of him." Witness told Long what Gunter had said. It was brought out in this connection that the town of Wagener has been built up on the old Gunter plantation. Among the witnesses introduced by the defense to establish Hugh Long's reputation for peace and good order was Dr. W. P. Houston of Monroe. N. C. Dr. Houston, who is a dentist, is a brother of Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture, re cently appointed to the cabinet by President Woodrow Wilson. Hugh Long formerly resided at Monroe. Other character witnesses wh.o swore that the legislator's reputa n has aan~y bee n -oo ore R. W. Lemon IYOUNO MAN IROWN$ PROMINENT AIKEN LAWYER LOS ES LIFE AT ISLAND. WENT TO CATCH CRABS Cut Off on Reef by Rising Tide Not Knowing Safe Retreat, Steps in Deep Water.-Cries Mistaken for Calls to His Dog. The Charleston Post says Charles Ashley, a prominent young lawyer of Aiken, who was spending a few days at Sullivan's Island with his mother, at station 28, was drowned Wednes day afternoon off station 29, when, cut off by the rising tide while on a reef extending out from the beach, he attempted to return to the shore by the shortest route, and stepping into deep water, he perished, his cries for belp being mistaken for calls to his ttle dog who had accompanied him a a crabbing expedition. Mr. Ashley left his boarding house it about one o'clock Wednesday af grnoon, taking with him a crabbing net and basket, planning to catch a mess of crabs for supper. His pet dog went along with him. Friends in cottages along the beach watched his progress toward Breach Inlet, and saw him go out, the tide being low, along a reef that is notably treacher us. He waved his hands to watchers from time to time and was apparently enjoying the novel excursion. Meanwhile tide had come in, shut ding from sight parts of the sand reef, and when Mr. Ashley discovered that he was being cut off, he turned shore ward. Unfamiliar with the safe course to take, he tried to wade back across intervening waters, and sud Jenly found himself over his head. Unable to swim. and being physically weak, Mr. Ashley called for help, his voice reaching children playing on the beach,,but they misunderstood his calls, thinking he was command Ing his dog to follow him. perhaps. The unfortunate young lawyer dis ippeared from sight and his bady has lot been found, although diligent liligent search was made by organiz d parties. who went as far as the [sle of Palms, thinking perhaps that he had succeeded in getting out of the water's grasp, and had continued is outing across Breach Inlet. His rog made its way to the shore safely, and later the crab net and basket ere found on the beach. There is deep gloom at the Laird :ottage, known as Aiken Den, at sta tion 28, and in the neighborhood where Mr. Ashley and his widowed mother were staying. Mrs. Ashley is vercome with grief. He was an only on, his brother meeting death some i time ago from fatal burns. Mr. Ash- 1 ley had visited Sullivan's Island be- I 'ore, enjoying a large circle of friends i who admired him for his genial die position and charmintg manner. 1 For the past year or two the reef where Mr. Ashley met his death has been considered dangerous by those using it for bass fishing. The shift [ng sands in this section have chang d the character of the beach, and sow a long reef runs off from the shore, that is covered by water, when 'e is high, although any one famil *ar with the lay of the land can make uis way back safely to the shore by ollowing the course of the reef care 'ully. However, Mir. Ashley did not take this fact into account, and made the mistake of coming straight in from where he was stationed when he 'ound himself cut off by the rising waters. He was not a good swimmer, and when he sank over his head he must have been practically helpless. He was several hundred yards from als cottage when the accident happen d, but in sight from the shore, his movements being followed through opera glasses. Mir. Ashley was in his early thirties, and unmarried. Deep sympathy Is extended to his bereaved mother. Rounding Up the Lobby. A Washington dispatch says the lobby hunt assumed a new and sen sational turn when the Senate began issuing subpoenas for nearly sixty men, all of whom are said to be iden tified with the sugar interests. A flock of sergeants-at-arms started out Wednesday to summon the wit nesses for next week. Former President Corey of the Steel Trust, like Mir. Carnegie, thinks the Trust needs no protection. Going further, he says that talk about the Underwood tariff closing mills is "stuff". The World says this sounds like common sense. of Mionroe, former representative and former State senator and now clerk of court: R. F. Beasley of Mfonroe, editor and proprietor of a newspaper, former superintendent of county schools and a member of the North Carolina State board of internal im provements: W. P. Etchison of Co lumbia, who attended school with Long: the Rev. J. D. MIoore of Co lumbia, Baptist Sunday school sec retary for South Carolina, who at tended Wake Forest college with Long in 1892: Col. C. A. Armstrong of G'astonia. N. C., who was sheriff of his county for a number of years and is now mayor of that city; E. B.. Gunter of Wagener-. cashier of the Bank of Western Carolina branch there; Ed Toole of Wagener and W. J. Gantt of Wagener. When Mir. Toole, an aged man. was on the stand, the solicitor asked him if he had not heard many things concern ing Hugh Long since Long got into politics In Wagener, he provoked a great deal of merriment when he turned to the solicitor and replied: "Yes, Mr. Gunter; when you open up campaigns you open up lots of CIVIL SERVICE ABUSE WAS RUN IN INTEREST OF RE PUBLICAN PARTY. Shameful Conditions Are Said to Ex ist in Some of the Departments at Washington. Information laying. bare sixteen years of debauchery of the civil ser- . vice under Republican rule .will not be lacking if the Senate authorizes a probe int6 the administration of the service, in accordance with a resolu tion introduced by Senator Lee S. Overman. In fact the mere introduc tion of the resolution has arought out affidavits from government -em ployees which show not only the j rankest favoritiom for Republicans, but disclose shameful conditions d growing out of the employment of e negroes side by side with white peo- a ple, many of whom are women, and I even placing white women In posi- c tions subordinate to negro men and t women. . . s In almost every department of the g government, whites and negroes work together. In some of them c women are subjected to insults from p negroes, who hold superior jobs. In b nearly all of them the same lavato- i ries are used by white and blacks, c even in some cases the same towels. j White women stenographers take t ditations from negroes and their s veiled insults at - the same time. ( rhey are afraid to -protest, if they do n they lose their jobs or are transferred g to even worse positions tn one n ground or another. o Side by side in the bureau, as well ks in other departments of the gov- c rnment, are clerks receiving $1,000 t) ind clerks receiving $2,000, all doing j1 .he same work. The Inference that tM he higher.salaried. ones are Repub- n leans Is borne out. by the affidavits' A in the hands of Senator Overmar. S In the office of the recorder of p leeds there are twenty-two negroes p md fifteen whites. several of them r omen. In office is negro woman a ho loans money at the rate of ten a er cent. a month. Her "patrons" a n the bureau (which she has an ex- v cutive position) she rates "high" in n he government work, those whose iot so unfortunate to require loans h lo not fare so well, It is charged In fh in affidavit. t< Out of the .,905 employees in the & >ureau of engraving and printing w here are 583 negroes and less than d 100 Democrats. Here as in the other w lepartments whites and blacks work a n the same room and use the same p, avatories. Of 800. employees in the f( >ureau of the census there are forty L emocrats and ninety ' negroes. In he post office department there are tl 87 negroes. Under the sixteen years of Repub- h .ican rule the negroes in the depart nent have not only increased In w iumber, but they have advanced in P rades of work so that there are t nany white people subject to their n >rders. The only recourse white em- h loyees have had in these seemingly G nbearable conditions has been to 0 nit. Appeals have resulted only in u lismissal on some fancied ground or tlowering in pay. x TAYES CRIE ON HIMSELF. ai d Jonesses a Murder for Which Anoth er Was to Die. A "I alone am guiltyof the crime for vhich Fred Nye is under sentence of s eath. I fired the fatal shot and e' lanned to rob afiller. Nye knew a othing about it," declared David ~veritt, in a written confession to istrict Attorney Strouss.t Frederick Nye is under sentence of h leath for the killing'of Henry E. Mil er, at Sunbury, Pa., last year. Mil- t er was found dead in his pool room vith a bullet hole in his neck. The t orpse had been robbed of $90. Nye tl mnd Everitt were arrested- and at heir trials each blamed the other. Nye was sentenced to be hanged, t< Lnd Everitt received a sentence of a nanslaughter . for the crime.: The w ase was taken to the Supreme Court . >f Pennsylvania which declined to in- d; :erfere, and an appeal is now pending b yefore the pardon board..-i In his confession, Everitt said that d e could not sleep at night. "because t' t worries me so to think that anoth-. er boy is to'dies for a~rime I alone -s Sold Farewell Address of Lee. . a At Philadelphia the original copy u >f Gen. Robert E. Lee's farewell ad iress to his army at Appomattox was ci xold for $425 at the sale of the col- a ection of autographs and -manu- 12 scripts of the late John Mills Hale of Phillipsburg, Pa. - Among other auto- o ~raphs sold were Napoleon Bona- fi arte, $31; .Marie .Antoinette, $42; h mud Cardinal Richelieu. . . si Horse Isites Off Finger. .1 At Elberton, Ga., Mr. Jim Fleming t< Liad the end of his index finger bit- ti :en off by a hungry hiorse in his 'stable G Last Saturday afternoon.. The entire o nail was bitten, and the wound was il ~ery painful. He had a bundle of *e ~reen oats in his hand which he. was n' in the act of feeding the horse, and d the impatient animal took a prema- 'a ture bite.- t f Burnt Up Eight People. Eight Russian Jews .were ,burned t to death in the village of Pontneff p near Kaliss, Russian Poland. A band V of men 'whose identity has -not been fi learned, after nailing up the -doors t< and windows of the' homes in which a their victims resided, set fire to the h building and disap~peared. Killed by Base Ball..-.-.--.c At St. Louis, Frederick C. Whitte- ~ more Jr., a freshman- in Yale, died of ~ an Injury to his sj~ine which resulted from being hit bya base ball -several I years ao He un-t ty anera old. x [N 1$ SET FREE FORT TAKES ONLY NINETY SEC ONDS TO DO IT. (ERDIET IS - APPROVED lugh Long, the Defendant, on the Stand Tells the Story of the Trag edy, Declaring That it Was the Outgrowth of Political Differences of the Times. A precedent was established in Liken County Court history Thurs ay when the jury in the Long mur er case decided that they had about nough testimony and were ready to equit Legislator Long without hear ag any more evidence or any of ounsel's arguments in the case; that ley had already reached their deci ion and would have returned a "not uilty" verdict Wednesday. afternoon. The defence had just rested its ase and the prosecution was ready to lace on the stand witnesses in re uttal, but it was near the dinner 1 our and the Court announced a re ess, whereupon the foreman of the iry, Jas. R. League, of North Augus- 1 ), leaped to his feet, but when he tarted to make his statement the I ourt stopped him with the an ouncement that the State must be I Mven its opportunity to present wit- 1 esses in rebuttal to the testimony < Tered by the defence. When the State's testimony was I mpleted after dinner, the foreman ien informed the Court that the I iry had already determined upon 4 ie merits of the case, and that argu- , tents by counsel were useless. This :einmed a promised flow of oratory. D Judge Ernest Gary, of Columbia, residing, delivered his charge and I rmitted the jury to enter an ante- t om and draw in regular form the 1 quittal of. Long. They were out I out ninety seconds, when the clerk 1 Court, In sonorous tones, read the rdict, "Hugh Long, indicted for urder, not guilty." And to-night Hugh Long Is the f ippiest man in Aiken County. His I iends and attorneys are jubilant, oo, and his counsel, Messrs. Croft I Croft and Col. Claude E. Sawyer, ho so intelligently and skilfully con acted the defence for their client, ere the first to congratulate him id they were followed ,by throngs o1 t ople, some of whom were hereto >re absolutely indifferent as to Hugh i ng. With some few natural exceptions, ere is general satisfaction over the rdict and no one, so far as known, Ls presumed to question its justice. In the same Court room, where he t ill soon be practicing law, if re- f )rts be true, Legislator Hugh Long ok the witness stand Thursday c orning at 11:45 o'clock and teld >w and' why he killed Pickens N. unter, of Wagener. He remained i the stand one hour and forty min es. .t All day Wednesday and Thursday orning the defence had, 'by more tan fifty witnesses, been building up t id establishing Long's plea of self- I ~fense, and apparently the testi-e ony could not be shaken, and there as offered a fitting finale when the I iken County legislator took the l and in his own behalf, and in an trnest, straightforward manner pre-s nted his story. The prosecution'sa Torts to break him down were with .t avail. . When Mr. Croft began the exami- 1 tion for the defence he proceeded t Sdraw from Mr. Long the story of is early life. Long testifying that het as born and reared in iMonroe Coun , North Carolina. After graduat-c g from the high schools, Long I ught 'school for several years and l en went to Wake Forest College. om which he later received his di oma, going back to Monroe and In- 1 4business for himself. Mr. Iong irmed his ~personal acquaintance ith the several prominent North arolinians who were used Wednes- t ay as character witnesses in Long's shalf. Mr. Long has three brothers 2 t- the -ministry. His father foughtc tring the four years of the War be- i een th~e States. - ' The ~witness then proceeded to I ate that he moved to Wagener in 911, and that shortly thereafter, ithout any solicitation on his part I ad virtually without his will, he I as elected mayor of the little town. I In Wagener he owned and edited a untry weekly newspaper, and in dition to this had a good deal of tw work. 4 Then 'he told how, in the early palt last summer, almost innumerable iends approached him and urged im to run~ for the House of Repre mtatives, and as he expressed it, he was In the race before' he knew '. From .that point the witness ld. of his alleged political persecu on and how, he charged, Pickens unter and others followed hiim from ne meeting place to another; hound ig him all over the county, he alleg :. He enumerated several occasions hen they attended meetings and he eclared that Gunter and his friends 'ere at practically every meeting of e campaign, with maybe three or >ur exceptions. He said he remembered distinctly iat the deceased was at' the cam- 1 aign meeting at Warrenwille, and -ith him were several friends. -They led into the hall, Long said, and yok their positions in front- of him, ssuming, .he charged, attitudes of ostility, defiance and bravado. The witness said that while he -as delivering his address he had oc asion. to mention the name of and refer charges against Jake Lybrand, hen some one cried: "That's a d-n lie!'' "And when] asked for the name of the person1 "I received this answer: "'Pickens N. Gunter, of Wagener South Carolina, and if you'll say tha outside on the grounds, off come your head!'" The witness was elected to thi House, however, at the second pri mary ,and said he was informed tha his successful candidacy had madi "the opposition" in Wagener more in tensely bitter against him than eve before, and that it would be best foi him to stay away from Wagener foi a while. He said that more than 2 hundred people warned him of thi deceased's alleged threats to kill among them M. T. Holley and J. '? Permenter, and he corroborated the testimony that these latter two gavi Wednesday. Also, he testified, num ber of his friends in Wagener among them E. B. Gunter Jr., of the Bank o Western Carolina, and Van Jones who was acting mayor, advised hin that it would be discreet to remait a.way until the ill-feeling subsided Gunter and Jones testified Wednes. day, it will be recalled. Acting upor these many advices Long said he de termined to remain in Aiken for som time, and had his wife and child tc go there, where the family boarded until after the third primary election which was just a few days before the omicide. Long said he remained in Alker because he wanted to avoid any trou ble, but that after J. C. Busbee, "thi pposition's" candidate, was elected [n the third primary, he had though that would bring an end to the polit cal troubles. Further, -he said, that is home and his business were im Wagener, his money invested there, A fact everything he had, and he felt :hat he had a right to return to Wag mner; that under the circumstances xe didn't feel that he could do any :hing else. But before he went back to his iome he had published to the voters >f Aiken County a card of thanks, in hich he expressed to them his ap areciation of their vote, the confi lence they reposed in and the honor :hey conferred upon him, stating in he card that he -"could even forgive hose who had mistreated me, for I iave' not one tinge of hard feeling eft in my heart for any one". The ublished article was exhibited in ourt and accepted as evidence. The defendant then continued that rhen he returned to- Wagener, he ound that his newspaper office had oeen entered surreptitiously and his >rivate papers ransacked; even that is home had been surrounded and >ried Into, and, he declared, some >arty or parties had been at his -house Xfter midnight, 'but, after unseemly lemonstrations and efforts to enter at he windows, departed. Not accustomed to using or carry ng on his person firearms, Mr. Long aid, he had not a trustworthy wea ion In his possession id secured a ;un and revolver from Dr. 0. B. >rtwood and a revolver from one roe Brown, this latter weapon being he one, he believed, with which he atally wounded Pickens Gunter. 'And when I got them," he said, "I arried them directly home by the earest route. I did not, as has been lleged, walk the streets of Wagener ith a gun on my shoulder." The defendant then told of the ragedy: He had been to the post office, he aid, and was standing glancing over he headlines of a newspaper when te was approached by a man in his mploy. They stood there some mo nnts conversing, he testified, when te felt some one grab him, -jerk at Lim and strike him a stunning blow n the back of the head. He had not een Gunter, he declared, and was not ware that he was anywhere near. The blow stunned him, and as he elI to the ground he recognized the ace of Pickens Gunter, whose coun enance, he said, "looked like that of Swild man in a cage." The legisla or said that as he fell, he had an dea that the affair was the execution if the numerous threats made against Is life, and that this fear prompted tis deed of a few moments later. Ubout the time he fell, he said, his ssailant struck him a heavy ,blow etween the eyes and blinded him to uch an extent that he did not re nember to have seen consecutively or ery consciously anything else that ranspired until he got up. After they fell to the ground, Long ifirmed, Gunter's left hand .gripped iver his throat and was choking him nto unconsciousness. He was grap ling for his pistol and when Gun er realized this he grapped Long's vrist and tried to wrest the revolver from it. The first shot did not find ts mark, and Gunter, said Long, re ewed more vigorously than before uis efforts to secure the weapon, but ~ong fired the second and fatal shot, nd Gunter's muscles relaxed. At this juncture, Mr. Long, In a lear, steady voice, declared: "I shot because I believed my life o be In Imminent danger and that I nysef would be killed unless I did re. I fired the two shots in defence if my life. I knew that if Mr. Gun er secured my revolver he would kill ne, f his friends didn't." Mr. Long denied that as he left he scene, he encountered C. K. Ly rand, who testified that he heard .ong say that he had intended all tong to kill the. He said he couldn't recognize ayes Gunter as he pulled Pickens ack; was dimly aware only of a hu nan form, and "did not know wheth r he was friend or foe". Mr. Long went on , the house ie had already seen behind him the houting mob of armed men coming oward him-ran up-stairs, he said, Ld looked out of a window to see 3. 3. Harley and J. Chester Busbee run iing up with guns. Busbee is the roung man from Wagener who was ;elected to the House of Representa ives at the third primary election, Lnd who this week receives his diplo na from the law department of the south Carolina University. Long refused to surrender to Bald win, the chief, he saId, because the atter was his personal enemy. Fur. Lhrh aid, he did't care t en inr VERY QUEER CASE fATHER'S SPIRIT CALLS TWO AND ONE DIES WAS TALK OF THE TOWN Two Brothers Named Freedman at ri 0 New Brunswick, N. J., Have Exact ly the Same Dream, Neither One 3 ti Telling the Other, and Shortly w tZ After One of Them Died. A The deeth dreams of Joseph H. sl Freedman and Max Freedman, broth- U ers, of New Brunswick, N. J., follow ed by the passing away of Max, were discussed with awe in that city by t many people for days. A Ten days ago Joseph dreamed viv idly that the spirit of his dead father l appeared and begged him to join n him in the grave. This dream natth he, his wife nor any other member of al the family tpld to Max, who was dan- & gerously ill of a kidney disease, hi But his wife told Joseph's wife of rt a dream the sick man had had and Pl Mrs. Joseph Freedman was startled el nearly into hysterics, for in every de- h4 tail It was the same -ghastly dream 01 that had come to her husband a week a' before 9 Not merely did each man dream of the spirit of his dead father calling st him, but the words spoken .by the hi spirit were the same on -both occa- ri slons. Joseph Freedman is a produce sa wholesaler at 131 Burnet street, New m Brunswick, a man not given to super- a1 stition. Max was equally practical. ri One morning about ten days ago Joseph came to the breakfast table, In looking so pale his wife asked if he ai were ill. He told her he was still tb feeling the effects of a dream. A ki gray, gauzy apparition had appeared to to him, had stretched out entreating ri hands and had said: "Come with me, Joe. Come and b( we'll lie down together up there un- su der the grass, where we can sleep bc and not know or care what the striv- D. ing men are doing in the1 world. Learn with me the wonderful things ct that have come to me since I have W passed to where knowledge really is." Freedman said he told the appari tion that he did not want to die, as it would be cruel for him to do so and A leave his wife and children unpro tected. When that plea was made the ghost vanished. Max Freedman became very Ill a all few days later and Joseph and his ed wife went to (Max's home In Cedar in street. To the consternation of Mrs. m Joseph, Mrs. Max began weeping te< violently and said: UC "It is hopeless. Max is going to pr doe! That can only be the meaning w, of the dream he had two nights ago. P1 He saw his father's ghost and the old w4 man urged him to join him in the lei grave." be ed 'RATS WVERE THE THIEVES. mna Cc Built Nest Costing $50 Worth of t Postage Stamps. T St A Yorkers Dispatch to the New Cc York Herald says the baffling mys- G< tery of who stole $50 worth of post- pr age stamps from the Yorks post of- eig fice three years ago has been solved after postal inspectors and detectives cii had given up their efforts to find the f : thieves and clerks had to make gogod lu to Uncle Sam the missing stamps. ha Workmen on an addition to the office th found a quantity of the stamps chew- ra ed to bits and made into mice nests so under the floor. The fragments will tic be sent to Washington and the gov ernment asked to reimburse the in clerks. p MURDER OF YOUNG WOMAN. wi Body Found in Vacant Lot in a New wI Jersey Town.st At Bloomfield, N. 3., the body of a th young woman, from which the head mi had been severed and replaced, was found in a vacant lot on Friday. By St means of a handkerchief upon which pr her name was written, she was Iden- fe: tified as *Mrs. Alvira Cerciello, wife th of a Newark storekeeper. Two hun- gr dred dollars, which the husband said de she carried in her stocking, was mis- It sing. Her fingers had been severed let from her hands, and the ground in to the Immediate vicinity gave indica- a tions of a terrific fight for life, to There is no clue to the murderers. to Good Man Lands JTob. th Richard L. Metcalfe of Lincoln, re! Neb., editor of The Commoner, was th selected by President Wilson to be mi civil governor of the Panama canal fo: zone. This was announced by Secre- in; tary Garrison after ho and Secreta- M. ries Bryan and Daniels had conferred o'( with the president. is fu used for a guard house". However, au he told the chief to wire to Aiken for en the sheriff and the rural policeman, sil and that he would iWillingly surren der to them when they came, if they would guarantee safety to his person. When they did arrive, several hours W late'r, he surrendered to them. St He told how he and one of the re rurales slipped from the house, crawl- CC ed through the woods a foot in the be face of a cold, driving rain, losing le; their direction several hours after W midnight. As day broke gray and Fe misty, they wandered upon a house, fo where they secured a conveyance that re brought them on to Aiken, and Long was safely lodged in jail. Immediately after (Mr. Long left the stand his wife was sworn, and th discredited absolutely the testimony ge of the Wagener chief of police. Hayes cc Gunter, who has been indicted as an da accessory, very vividly repeated sto- ch ries told, and apparently cleared him- th sel of any main toward the deceas- of CREATED A SENSA UFFRAGETTE TR iD TO H UP A HORSE. ras Dragged Some Distance andW Seriously Hurt by Her AcL At Epsom, England, Th;uay' Lce for the Derby, the "blue rib the British turf, was one ' ost sensational on record.' It ade memorable .by a' daring nt suffragette- outrage, In w Cii; oman was terribly injired- W ying to stop King Qeorge's amer, when he was running at eed around- Tattenham corner.' .e disqualification for bumping -aganour, the favorite, afterh ilshed first; and by the award.. .e race with its stake of $32,50Ot boyeur, a 100 to I shot. King George, Queen Mary and rge assembly of royalty were wit %ses of these excting Incidents. While- interest In the classic was{,* its most tense point, just as tie teen horses were turning Tatten-K" am corner Into the stretch, a woman shed out of the- dense crowd and unged In front of Anmer and anoth horse, Agadir. Apparently she ped to interfere with the progress the race by seizing Anmer's rehinsx d placing not only herself In dair r but also the two Jockeys. - The horses were at the end of the ring or the consequences might Lve been more serious. Agadir, Iden by Jocty Earl, passed -.1n fety and unhurt, but .the woman anaged to cling to Anmer's reins id brought down both horse and ler. Jones, the king's jockey, received juries necessitating his removal in L ambulance while the woman was rown under Anmer's hoofs and eked. She was taken unconscioue a -hospital, suffering severe inju s to her head. Suffragette papers are said to have en found in her possession and A ffragette flag was bound round her dy. Her name was given as E. Lvison. Jones, the jockey, suffered from a t in the head but his induries other se were not serious. WILL DO MUCH GOOD. Cleaning-Up Conference to be Held Soon A conference for South Carolina mg the same lines as those cover by the Conference for Education the South,- recently held in Rich )nd, has been advanced and promo by the leading Carolinians and ed ators interested in the welfare and sperity of the State. This idea Ls first presented to the public by of. W. K. Tate, and it had hearty come. In fuithering the plans a ter has been addressed to a num r of persons believed to be interest in the general good of the com wealth, inviting them to meet in lumbia and map out a program for' a conferences. This letter is signed by Prof, W. K. to, E. W. Daobbs, president of the te Farmers Union, E. J. Watson, mmissoner of Agriculture, W. -E. nzales and Dr. William E. Weston, esident of the State Medical Aeso tion, and Is in part, as follows: The coming summer seems espe Mly appropriate for the united of it. The movement must be abso ely free from politics, and must ye as its aim the advancement of a welfare of the people of the State ther than the furtherance of per ial ambitions and political aspira ns of any individual. This Is, In a measure, an. off-year politics. Matters relating to the blic welfare 1nay be freely and Lnkly discussed, and public Issues [1 not be obscured by their asso tion with the personality of men o are seeking office. We may now re every man an opportunity to ete his grievances and may discuss Sneeds and remedies with open nds. It has been suggested that the Lte conference should either be aceded or followed by county con -ences and by public discussion in a press of the State. Such a pro am requires careful planning in or r to prevent dissapation of effort. Is our opinion that we should se :t for discussion one fundamental yc from each domain or interest or few subject of most vital concern all and that we should not attempt cover the entire field. In order to prepare this programn s committee has invited many rep ~entative men and women who have welfare of the State at heart to et with its members to discuss and -mulate the program. The prelim try meeting will be held at the P. C. Auditorium, Columbia, at 12 lock on Tuesday, Juno 10, and it desired that the meeting will be lly attended. The movement to in gurate such a conference or confer ees as proposed is In every way do 'able and commendable. Lesson Proves Fatal Charged with homicide, Mrs. S. L. aodford, wife of the former United . tes ambassador to Spain, was ar ted Wednesday at Bridgeport, nn., and placed under $2,500 bond cause the automobile she was tning to drive ran down and killed illiam Stanhouser, a laborer, in ifield, near that city. Mrs. Wood d and her chauffeur were both ar sted. Could Not Stand the Shame. A Vienna cable says disclosure of a fact that Col. Albert RedI, of the neral staff of the eighty-eight army rps, committed suicide last Mon y week rather than face trial on a arg of high treason, Is made In a military gazette. Ho was accused