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SAVINO Bill FIGHT MEXICAN FEDERALS AND REB. ELS MEET AT OJINAGA. ARE IN DEATH iRAPPLI Federal Troops, Though Outnumber ed Battle Desperately for Theii Capture Means the Execution o: Many of the Officers Whom Vilb Has Ordered Gen. Ortega to Slay The battle between 5,000 rebels under Gen. Torbio Ortega, and th, northern division of the Mexicai Federal army, entrenched aroun4 Ojinaga, Mexico, across the borde from Presidio, Tex., still was in pro gress when darkness . fell Tuesda: night. No bullets came across th, border. The forces had been engag ed for 36 hours and many 'had beei killed and wounded. Gen. Ortega, executing a series o flank movements, steadily kept o the offensive, gaining foot by foot th approaches to the Federal strong hold. The Federal forces, cripple and disorganized by the first rebE onslaught, clung to the hillsid trenches, where their leaders had dc cided to make a last stand. They rallied somewhat from th panic that seized many of them wit the first volleys of the rebels whe daylight disclosed the position of 01 tega's men, and put up -a pluck fght against heavy odds, althoug their losses were heavy from wound And desertions. Many wounded an deserters waded waist deep throug the river to the American side. It was impossible to even approx Inate the number of dead and woun ed. Fifteen Federal wounded wb waded the river were allowed to r4 mn and. were cared for by Unite States army physicians, but sever. score unwounded 'Federal desertei were disarmed by the United Statt border patrol, under Major McName and sent back across the border. Army officers were convinced thi casualties had been heavy and Re Cross representatives sent reques for' more help and hospital supplie They also requested permission I cross the border to attend the woun4 ed on the battlefield. Neither of tl opposing forces is provided with ho pital facilities and wounded ha' been left on the hillsides where the fell. Although 5,000 rebels were el gaged, much of their fire was ineffe tive In the early hours of the batt because of the position they occupif below the village. Ojinaga, a cluster of adobe buil ings, stands a mile from the bordi at the top of high hills which line ti valley through which the rebels ai vanced. When the day .dawned 0 tega's men had gained the foot of hill three miles from the villag 'where the Federals had planted fort to command approaches to tV town. They spread along the hil sides and opened a fire which wa maintained all day, and which we supported by 10 machine guns th< * had dragged across the desert fro: Chihuahua. *-Foot by foot the rebels approac1 ed the Federal trenches, until the fire became too severe for the d tenders, who retired until. as darl ness fell, all Federals who had n fled were huddled in the shelter the town itself. A small Federal force made a ga lant stand in the custom hous which stands on an elevation midwi between the village proper and ti plain. They swept a hail of bulle icrnss the main approach to tV town, and for a time held the reb forces in check. As the day wore oa however, the sputtering fire from ti loopholes of the custom house grai ually diminished and finally cease entirely. When their last cartridge had be4 fired the little handful of Fedora deserted the building and scurrie acrioss the mile and a half separatix1 them dfrom their comrades in ti town. -Their retreat gave the robe -an additional advantage of positioi have imuch advantage, the outcort -of tlie struggle was not clearly dofil ed. That the Federals will surrei der- Is Improbable, because Gen. 0: toga has explicit orders to execui the so-called volunteers and the commanders, Gens. Pascual Orozc< Ynez Salazar, Antonio Rojas, Bb Orpinal, Lazaro 'Alanis and Roqi Gomez. Eighteen hundred volu; teers also come under the sentence< death Imposed by order of Gen. Vill: That the Federals with all their go: orals, except perhaps Gen. Francisc Castro, Gen. Jose Mancilla and Geo Manuel Landa, of the regulars, wi be forced over to the United Statt in case of defeat, was thought on tl American side to be most likely. The land which slopes down to tI shallow and muddy PRio Grande-oc American side all day presented ti busy aspect of the roar of an army action. Cavalrymen of the borde patrol galloped along the water edge ready to send back any Mexica soldiers who attempted to cross or t stop a possible general rush of th whole Federal army across the boi der. Only wounded soldiers wer given assistance. A few civilians wh dared remain in Ojinaga until th last came across unmolested. FIYID BODY IN STREAM. Bethune Citizen Disappeared Fror His Home on Friday. The body of 3. M. Watts, who dis appeared from his home in Bethun Friday about 12 o'clock, was foun< Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock i the middle of Lynche's river, abou one mile from his home. He wa tracked from the house to the river Parties had been looking the com~ munity over since early Saturda; morning. Mr. Watts had been in bat health for over a year. He leaves wife and several children and a hos of friends. He was a highly esteem ed citizen of this community. Burned to Death. Mrs. James Coyle, 35 years old fell into a fireplace at her home nea1 Cowpens Monday morning and was burned to death. There was nobod: else In the room at the time. It is snpposed she failed. BLOODHOUNDS CATCH HIM NEGRO WHO ASSAULTED WHITE WOMAN CAPTURED. 4. - Wife of Confederate Veteran Attack ed in Her Home During Her Hus band's Absence. On Wednesday about 12 o'clock Buck Hill, alias Buck McLeod, a ne gro, assaulted a white woman while she was at her home near Brown's chapel, which is ten miles southeast of Columbia on the Leesburg road. The negro was trailed by the blood hounds from the State penitentiary and captured about 4:30 o'clock by Sheriff McCain, Coroner Scott and the members of a posse who left Co 1 lumbia in automobiles at 1 o'clock I Wednesday for the scene of the r crime. The negro was lodged in the - Richland county jail that night. V The negro's victim, who is about e 35 years old, is the wife of a Confed erate veteran, a man of excellent I standing in his conmunity. She was alone in the house at the time the f crime was committed. Her husband a had gone to Columbia on business e and did not leave for home until about 2 o'clock. He was informed I of the affair after I e had gotten a 4 few miles from Columbia. e There were threats of violence against Buck Hill after he was cap tured. While Sheriff McCain talked e to the crowd which had been aiding h In the man hunt, the negro was put nL in the automobile of Coroner Scott .- and carried to Columbia. The Y crowd, which grew rapidly as the h news of the crime spread over the s Brown's chapel section of the county, d was not difficult to handle, but Sher h iff McCain took the precaution of get ting the negro away from the scene as soon as possible. - The unfortunate woman is said to 0 be in a serious condition as a result - of the negro's assault upon her. She d was badly bruised about the face and a neck, while one of her hands was s hurt in the struggle with the negro. Is The sheriff's office was notified by 9, telephone of the crime about 1 o'clock by Mr. Gaston, the principal Lt of a school near Brown's chapel, who d was one of the first men to go to the ts scene. After getting the dogs from S. the penientiary Sheriff McCain left :o immediately In aa automobile, tak - ing Guard Robbins, Officer Henry ie Dunning and Dr. J. E. Heise with 5- him. re The bloodhounds readily took the Y negro's trail away from the dwelling - house in which the crime was com c- mitted. The dogs followed the tracks le for some time, then became confus d ed by cross trails, but after a little they carried the tracks to Hill's I- house, which is only a mile from the ?r 'cene of the crime. The negro Hill. Le -lias McLeod, was found in the house I- with several other negroes. He was r- arrested and taken before the woman a on whom the crime was committed. e. According to Sheriff McCain, the wo a man positively identified the negro as ie the one who committed the assult 1- upon her. is When the negro was arrested at is his house by the sheriff, he Insisted ry that he must be allowed to change mn his clothes and shoes before he left home. He was taken before the wo i- man dressed just as he was. It Is ir said that the shoes he wore were of e- the same size as the footprints lead C- ing away from the scene of the as ft sault. GIRL KILLS BABY BROTHER. 1 e, Greenville is Scene of Pathetic leChristmas Accident. ts SLittle Edwin, the three-year-old el son of Mr. and Mrs. Childress, of SGreenville, was accidentally shot and Sinstantly killed by his 9-year-old sis . ter, Flora, on Christmas day. Bailey d Childress, 16 years old, had run a rabbit into a stump hole, and leaned his shotgun against the stump in or n der to get the rabbit out. His young ssister and brother were looking on. dFlora picked up the gun and acci identally discharged It, the load strik eing Edwin in the head, tearing away sone side of his face and the top of 'his head. The children picked up the obody and bore it to their home near te by, whlere the father was awaiting the return of his wife from William ston, she having gone there to pur rchase gifts for her children. r 3, FIRECRACKER EXPLODES. 1s te Allendale Lad Narrowly Missed 1 >fDeath in Firing Cracker. Little Warren Reeves, the 11-year oold son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert SReeves, of Allendale, was seriously 1injured by the explosion of a "can Snon" firecracker Wednesday at his e home. An iron pipe stuck into the ground was being used for holding the crackers. A very large one was e dropped into the pipe, and discharg ing beoethe litefellow could e move out of range, struck him in the nlower part of the stomach, inflicting r a errblewound, just as the dis s charge from a gun might have done. nThe doctors say the wound is not 0necessarily fatal, but very serious, erequiring a number of stitches. e Autoist Kills Child. e Although his automobile had fatal ly wounded a little girl, who was re turning from a Christmas tree cele bration Thursday, Judge Cassolli, an engineer of San Francisco, did not stop. When arrested he said he saw a no reason why he should stop. Sentenced to Walk 76 Miles, SEdward Leo and John Nolan, 17 e year-old boys of New York city, who :ran away from home, were arrested a at Middletown, N. Y., on a charge of t illegal train riding. They were re s leased on their promise to walk the 76 miles back to their home. Rebels Repulsed. I After four days of fighting the Mex E ican federal garrison at the seaport t of Tampico reinforced by the arrival -of gunboats with troops, amunition and dynamite Sunday drove the at-1 tacking Constitutionalists cut of 1 of their guns. Killed at Wedding. SWednesday afternoon Fred China,i ra negro, shot and killed Jacob Dar ; gan, another negro, at a wedding on1 i TRUNK MYSTERY EW YORK POLICE FACES PUZ ZLING MURDER CASE. [RUNK CONTAINS CORPSE [wo Men Rent Push Cart in Which They Carry the Truznk, Dumping It on the Sidewalk, - hle They Walk Off, Ostensibly to Return for it in a Few Minutes. A murder mystery, which promises lo rival the famous barrel murder of a dozen years ago, was brought to the attention of the New York police Aonday when a boy notified them that for half an hour he had watched a trunk which two men had unloaded from a push cart and left in the gut ter street, on the East Side. When the trunk was opened at a police sta tion the still warm body of a man about 40 years old, shabbily dressed and emaciated, was found in it. The body was later identified by Joseph Molloy, a former room mate as that of John Kremen, a Russian Pole, for merly employed in a coal mine at Charleston, W. Va. According to the coroner, death had been caused by strangulation. In forcing the body into the trunk, the man's neck had been broken. Stout ropes held the head and neck to the knees and feet. A large bandanna handkerchief had been used as a gag and a woman's petticoat had been wrapped about the head. About 10 o'clock Monday morning, Joseph Cooper, an employee of a "push cart tables" on Sheriff street, nearby, rented a cart to two men an swering the description given by th( boy who called the police to Piti street. One of the men had askec the boy to take care of the truni after it was dumped into the gutter Cooper said one of the men was tall and well dressed. The othe3 man, a little shorter and dressed In z dark sweater and cap, wheeled th( cart, and is believed to have beer merely the employee of the wel dressed man. When the cart reachei Pitt street the tall man gave his com panion a coin and then helped hin unload the trunk. After this the mar in the sweater returned the pusi cart to its owner, while the othei asked the street urchin to watch th trunk. By drawing in the net of investiga tion begun Monday when the bod was found in a trunk on the Eas Side the police are confident th identity of the murderers will be pos itively established. This is the thir< trunk murder mystery in four years The two previous mysteries have re mained unsolved. The police also hoped Tuesday t( gather in a number of men answer ing the description of the two wh< dumped the trunk containing the body from a push cart onto the side walk at the Pitt street tenement en trance. One of the men, evidentl: the employer of his companion, was tall and well dressed. He directe< the unloading of the trunk and em ployed a boy of the neighborhood t< guard it. promising to return in few minute.s The man who pushe< the cart wore a dark sweater and cal and is described as shorter than thi other man. Both disappeared after disposini of the trunk, the well dressed mai hurriedly, while the other trundle< the push cart down Pitt street an< later returned it to a cart yard in the vicinity from which it was rented. To identify the body the polici placed it on view in a police statior and more than 4,000 residents of the East Side-men and women-passes by it before Mike Molloy, proprietol of a Polish boarding house, declares that it was that of John Kremen,. former coal miner of Charleston, ~W Va., but more recently employed ir New York city by housewreckers an4 as a stableman. Although Molloy was positive ir his identification several headriuar ters detectives were inclined to be lieve that he might have been mis taken and that the trunk victin probably followed a higher vocatior than that of a laborer. Molloy' statement was borne out In part b: the calloused hands of the dead mar and by his stature and muscular de velopment that such work would make possible. The trunk, which was used to dis pose of the body, was 22 inches wide 22 1-4 inches high and 34 inches long. It was manufacturer, accord long. It was manufactured, accord ined it by the Petersburg Trunk and Bag company of Petersburg, Va. Bu1 for the tin corners, which were slightly dented the trunk was comn paratively new. The tray was miss ing and detectives hunted for it Tues day. One of the unsolved "trunk mys teries" was the murder of Moses Sachs, a jewelry peddler who was killed June IS, 1910. Just a year be fore the murder of Sachs, Elsie Sie gel's body was found in a trunk ina room occupied by her Chinese Sun day school pupil, Leong Lee, a Chi nese who disappeared, and was ac cused by the police as her slayer. Another unsolved trunk mnystery was the murder of Meyer Weishard, whose body was found in a trunk on Pier 11. East river on January 16, 1901, after the trunk had remained there for a day. Two Brothers Are Killed. William and Robert Russell, brothers, of Petros, Tenn., were shot and killed early Thursday, and Beecher Holmes and his younger brother, charged with murder, are mprisoned. The Russels had testi. ed against the Holmes in a liquor selling case. Tried to Sell too Cheap. When Jim Jackson offered to sell i Greenwood horse dealer a fine mule or $100 Saturday -he was at once :aken into custody. Sunday the own er a farmer, turned up and claimed :he mule which ha been stolen from ii plantation. Artist Kills Herself. Mollie Chatfield, an artist, was ound dead In her studio at New iork Monday afternoon with a steel >aper cutter driven through her lea Apparently it was suicide. FOR AN HONEST PRIMARY LEGISLATOR CALLS FOR BILL TO ] PREVENT FRAUD. Would Provide Penalties for "Irreg ularities"-Present System Leaks Like a Sieve. The St. Matthews Record will pub lish a few articles on primary reform written by a member of the legisla ture. They are strictly non-partisan and are designed to point out the changes necessary to eliminate frand without taking the ballot away from any South Carolina Democrat. The articles are In no way inspired by any candidate for office, and none know of their preparation. They are designed solely to assist the mass of Democratic primary votes to clean house. Bills to this end will be act ed on In the next legislature and South Carolinians are of course in terested in the subject at this time. Every lover of pure democracy must rejoice in those features of our primary system that give every true Democrat in South Carolina the right to vote whether he be rich or poor, learned or illiterate. Perhaps no where else in the world is there such universal white *manhood suffrage. The problem Is te make the vote pure as well as free. No matter who the voter is he does not want his vote killed by the bal lot of some repeater or outsider. What use is it for one county to be honest when some other practices wholesale fraud? or for you to vote once when others are voting twice, To decide on a remedy we must Freedom has to be guarded. first find exactly where the trouble lies. I am going to cite some in stances. See if you do not agree that the fault is twofold, first with you and ne and the rest of the rank and file who have been unwilling to be put to the trouble of obeying even the loose rules we have, and then with these rules which are so poorly ar ranged that the most conscientious election managers are helpless where voters set out to cheat. Tammany Methods. "There may have been some minor irregularities in this county, but we k believe that it was a fair election so far as county is concerned," reported one county chairman to the investigating committee a year ago. He adds, however, "I found that the club lists had disappeared. Our com mittee has been unable to locate them." Over night some one stole the record from the ballot boxes. A familiar device of Tammany thugs in the good old days practiced right here in a farming county of South Caro lina. The chairman was honest and sincere, though, when he called this a "minor irregularity", for every one - of us who has anything to do with our election management sees rules Sso violated on every hand that on-ly downright bribery is considered se rious. Early or Not at AII. In another Important county It is no uncommon thing for a voter to find on going to the polls that some one has cast a ballot in his name. Friends who had this experience laughed to me about it as a part of the regular order of things. remark ing, "Next time we must be at the polls when they are opened." The State executive committee called on the party authorities from that coun t y for a report on the election and Ithe reply was "no Irregularities found". There so mild a term as "irregularity" is too harsh a name for the most flagrant frauds and everything goes. Why Rules Among Friends? In still another big county the local executive committee found among other "irregularities" that: Men were alloged to vote whose names were not enrolled on the club lists. At one box 128 names of those who voted were found after a most searching examination to be ficti tious. The average of the poll lists of all the county boxes showed from 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. that could not be identified. At other boxes 340 names of actual persons were found to have apparent ly voted from two to five times, and after making allowances for a pos sible proportion as proper, a large number were seen to be repeaters. In a very few instances was the "lub roll certified to. Bystanders were called In by man avers to assist in counting the ballots, one of whom did destroy or attempt to destroy tickets. Managers of election were not sworn and other voters took no oaths. Yet this committee In summing up - poke of these things as "numerous irregularities", but found no evidence of fraud. Summarized in Another Way. Managers omit to take the hon esty obligation oath the party rules require. Regarding the rules, they allow men to vote whose names are not on the poll lists. These voters and others cast their ballots without swearing as to their qualification, though the party rules demand the oath. Uncertified poll lists with dead men's names by the score and scores of other men who had moved away written on loose sheets of paper and in old books years ago were used. But mind you, the party rules require that each list be certified to by the officers of the clubs. "Where We Are at." These Instances might be multi plied. but sufficiently illustrate the free and easy condition we have reached, when the most glaring in fractions of party rules are held In the highest Quarters to be merely Ir regularities that do not impair the integrity of an election. Don't blame the managers. All of us are to blame. For years we have shouted from the housetops, "It Is better that ten dishonest men should vote than that one honest man be de prived." We have tolerated and in sisted on these lax rules and laxer en forcement until any man can vote, be he resident or non-resident, over age or under age, whether he has voted before ten times or not at all. - A Remedy. noea It not seem tn von that the HOOTS MAN TO DEATH KLLING IN LOWER EDGE OF - BARNWELL COUNTY. Plain Man Said to Have Been Climb ing Fence Despite Warning When Fired Upon. Angus L. Main, a prominent cit Een and farmer who lives near Jen- 3 ays in the lower edge of Barnwell county, was shot and mortally wounded at the home of W. H. Mix son by the latter's daughter, Mrs. Susie Mizelle, about 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. Mr. Main died about three hours after beinf shot. The Mixson home is about six miles from Fairfax, and Main, who was the t last customer at the dispensary at I Fairfax Wednesday afternoon, was t on his way home in a buggy, having t with him a negro named -Calvin I Johnson. When they got to the Mix- c son home they drove the buggy into I Mr. Mixson's lot. Mrs. Mizelle, hear- 1 ing them using profane words and f not knowing who they were, called, "Who are you?" The answer came from Main: "It makes no difference t who I am; I'm coming in." She warned him not to come any farther, telling him she would shoot him if he did, and In the meantime calling to her little brother to bring I the gun. Main did not heed the warning but started to climb over the I fence between the horse lot and the I residence yard. As he was almost I over the fence about 25 feet from , her she fired the gun which was I loaded with bird shot. The load took effect In the left side of the face at the base of the neck. Main fell back across the fence, his feet being on the inside of the yard, and remained in that piosition until nearby neigh bors who heard the alarm came and removed him. Mrs. Mizelle and her husband, Robert Mizelle, and their child had come from Estill, where they live, to spend the holidays with Mrs. Mizelle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mixson. Mrs. Mixson was sick in bed. Mr. Mixson and Mr. Mizelle had gone to pay a visit at the home of friends about two miles away when Main and the negro arrived at the Mixson home. Magistrate L. H. Williams held an inquest and the jury rendered a ver dict that the deceased came to his death by the effect of a gunshot wound inflicted by Mrs. Susie Mizelle. Main, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Main, was about 35 years old. He leaves a wife and six children. He was an inoffensive man when sober, and his act Is undoubt edly attributable to his being unbal anced at the time. If he had told Mrs. Mizelle who he was she would not have hurt him, for she knew him well. It is probable, however, that he did not know where he was when he stopped at the Mixson home. TAiAEN TO JAIL. Chester County Man is Arrested on Murder Charge. Frank Grant, charged with the killing of Sidney 3. Ferguson Friday afternoon in the Capers Hill com munity of Chester county, was ar rested Saturday night and is now in the Chester county jail. The arrest was made at the home of Sam Varna dore, Frank Grant's uncle, where the young man was said to be in hiding. The Varnadore home is about three miles from Chester. Late Saturday afternoon Sheriff Colvin received word that young Grant would be at his uincle's home that night. He got together eight well trained deputies and with sev eral of them surrounded the house. w~hich was formerly the colonial man sion of Adam T. Walker, and a very large house. After the house was well sur rounded between 7 and 8 o'clock one of the deputies saw some one light a cigarette in the gable of the man sion. Immediately it was thoaght strange that anybody should be in such an add part of the house. Sher iff Colvin and several deputies then went to the house and asked Mr. Varnadore if his nephew was there. and he said, according to the depu ties, that he would not tell a lie about it, that he was up in the gable. He led several of the deputies, It is said, to where he was, and the youth was arrested. Grant. it is said, claims that Mr. Ferguson came to the barn and ask ed where his corn was, and not get ting a satisfactory response is said to have cursed young Grant and threw a hammer at him, which grazed his coat. Grant, it Is alleged, said that ho .jumped into the colt barn and shot Mr. Ferguson through the cracks of the door. NEGRO CONFESSES. Jeff Leans Tells of Slaying of New berry Negro. Jeff Leans, a negro of Newberry, confessed Tuesday that he killed Jack Toland, another negro. whose body was found last Saturday in a house on the plantation of James Renwick, about eight miles from Newberry. Leans said that with sev eral other negroes he had been gam bling at Toland's house last Tuesday night. After the other negroes left, he and Toland had a dispute about some money, and he struck Toland in the head with an axe while they were nuarrelling. Leans reported the dis covery of Toland's body to the county authorities last Saturday. Evidence gathered about the crime indicateds that Leans had been implicated in it. Hie was placed under arrest and Tuesday confessed. Comes to See Wilson. John Lind, President Wilson's per sonal representative in Vera Cruz, left there Monday night on board the scout-cruiser Chester for the Louis- ~ |ana coast. He is to confer with the t president. t time has come to replace this loose r system that leaks like a sieve at very joint by a law that will be short,'simple, definite and carry pen iltes? I have no bill of my own to pre- f sent but later will further describe TI the way frauds are carried out so you s1 an see how to stop the leaks. i Tegislator. n IIDEN FOR YEARS, tATH Of NEW YORK LAWYER RLVEAL HIS LIFE'S SECRET LIVED A DOUBLE LIFE 'o One, Not Even His Wife, Knew That His Affinity Lived in the Se cluded Room in the Rear of His Place of Business, a Willing Pris oner of His. The Esther Gobseck of Balzac's fic ion, transplanted from the romantic Warisian setting of the early Nine eenth century, came to life in Mon icello, N. Y., this week when Melvin I. Couch was found dead in the law Iffices he had long occupied in the Iasonic building, in that city. Mem ers of his family, entering for the irst time the inner room of his office, rhich he had always guarded so care ully from intrusion, found hidden here a frightened, tearful woman t stranger to them all. Yet this wo nan-Adelaide M. Brance-had lived n that inner room for three years, nd not a soul but her and Couch :new of It. If the woman went out at all it was ate in the night, when all the vil age was asleep, and if any "night iawk" ever chanced upon a strange voman slipping out of the Masonic uilding the story never reached the rillage gossips. For three years she iad endured her voluntary imprison nent for the sake of being the secret ompanion of this man, and so suc essfully was her presence there con ealed by the man himself that the members of his own family never ?ven guessed it. Dread of discovery grew with the passing of every month, and in the last year she had ventured out of the affice only once until one day this week when she ran from the building to the office of the nearest doctor as her lover lay dying of heart disease Dn a cot in the office. Couch was lead when the doctor arrived and when the latter looked around for the woman she had disappeared. The wife and daughter of the dead man were summoned to his office. rs. Couch, after giving directions for the disposition of the corpse, at tempted to enter the mysterious inner room of the office, but found the door locked. She asked one of the men to climb over the partition, but as he tried It he was halted by a woman's voice that came from the darkness beyond. "I'll come out if you don't harm me." There came the sound of the key in the lock and the woman stepped out into the office, stood for an in stant at the foot of the cot where the body lay, glanced at the dead man, then looked up and saw his wife and daughter. She made as if to speak, but suddenly sank to t~he floor in a swoon. Those present looked long and hard at the woman's face as they lifted her and one or two recognized her as one whom they had in years past seen frequently in Monticello and so frequently visiting Couch's office that there had been some gossip for a time-gossip that stopped, of course, when the woman had appar ently disappeared from the town. Miss Brance was revived, and the unique story was told. She gave her name as Adelaide Brance, and her home as Goshen, N. Y. She said that she had known Mr. Couch for 1 5 years. One day she had gone to Monticello canvassing for subscriptions to a book. She had gone to the office of Mr. Couch and had tried to sell him the book. That was their meeting and the relation which they formed began then. For years it was a matter of an occasional visit. Business would seem to bring her to Monticello and she would manage to spend some time with the lawyer. The visits became more and more frequent, and more and more they tended to stretch from a night at a time to a week at a time. It was three years ago that the two decided there was no reason why the secrecy hey had been able to maintain for a week could not be maintained for a ear or for a lifetime. The woman told Couch she would iome to Monticello, take up her quar ters in the Inner office, and never tep out in the daylight again. An oil stove, a table, some chairs nd iron bed were put Into the inner oom. Miss Brance came there under over of darkness. Couch announced it his home that he had become so rippled with rheumatism-trouble -eturning to a foot from an injury he -eceved while running as a boy hat It would be out of the question or him to mount every day the long till leading to his home. Hereafter. e said, he would live at the office. leen at the office, eat at the office. Once a week, with the coming of unday noon. he had walked labor ously up the hill to, the Couch homei tnd dined In state with Mrs. Couch.1 o that made It possible for him to1 ive at his office, and to take thIngs 1 rm the grocer's and butcher's to is office without arousing the gos- 1 ips of the town to any suspicion of he truth. With all the precautions it Is re- 1 marded as little short of marvelouF hat this secret could have been pre- ( ervedi with almost every moment of-a ering the risk of discovery. For thet isonic building in Court square ist n the heart of the village, and ten ther lawyers have their offices In the ilding. Only constant vigilance. h" determination of the woman her elf never to pass a window where she ould be seen from the street. and1 ever to go to the street except when 11 the villnge was asleep made pos ihe the keeping of this secret. Two Horses Are Killed. Two young me 1, sons of Mr. 3. S. mith, living in thL Carolina section. n miles above Dillon. were riding i a tournament on Friday, when h~eir horses collided, killing both nimals and seriously injuring both iders. Tragedy at Still. Jordan Will was shot, perhaps tally, and his wife killed outright 'hursday afternoon at a turpentine y ill near Marlow, Ga. Deputy sher- s fs are in search for the supposed d Absolufc Cakes, hot biscuit, other pastry, are i in the Amerlean fai Ing Powder will ir digestible, wholes No Alum-No Li KILING ON STREET POUR SHOTS FIRED INTO MAN AT CHARLESTON. Evidence Seems to Show That Man Acted in Fear of Serious Bodily Harm. Isadore M. Acosta, of Memphis, %onday shot and killed Edward J. %eehan at Charleston, better known n the sporting circles of that place s "Mickey". After examination by the coroner's jury Acosta was ab olved, on the grounds of justifiable .omicide. While the verdict practi ally means acquittal, friends of Aeosta put up $1,000 bond for his ,ppearance before the grand jury ext February. The evidence showed that Police man Bowick, who was standing at Narket and Meeting street Monday morning when he heard four pistol shots. He started down Meeting street to investigate and met Acosta ear the Circular church. He said that he asked him If he had heard the shots. Acosta replied, stated the oliceman, that he did the shooting, and supposed that he had killed a man on Chalmers street. Officer Bowick then informed Acosta that he was under arrest and took him to the scene of the killing. As they neared Chalmers street Officer Bowick said that Policeman Slattery came from around the corner, holding a pistol in his hand. He called to his brother officer not to fell uneasy, as he had the man who did the shooting. The next witness was Officer Slat tery, who stated that he rn to the cene on Chalmers street from his ost on Broad street, and found Mee an lying dead on the north side alk, a short distance from Meeting. The body was lying face down, and artly under It was a pistoL. He picked up the weapon and found that its contents were Intact. He rushed around the corner and met Officer owick and Acosta coming down the treet. At the police station the prisoner's ame was taken and he was charged ith shooting and- killing Meehan, whose name was given then as Ma on, because Acosta did not know the an well, and the police had not ime to find any one to identify the ody. He was lodged in a lobby cell nd was held there until the inquest. Acosta was asked at the inquest If e wished to make a statement, but as told that It was not compulsory. n a calm manner he related the de ails that led up to the shooting. He aid that Meehan had followed him o within a few steps of his boarding lace, on Chalmers street. At this oint Acosta said that Meehan asked im for $30 and threatened to kill im If he did not give him the money. Acosta said that he refused to give the money, and when Meehan whip ped his weapon out of his pocket he urriedly d-ew his pistol out of his right overcoat pocket and fired four hots. He said that he believed that his life was in danger and that If he had not acted as he dId he would ave either been killed or seriously vrounded. He said that he hated to kill the man, but that he was forced to do so. When questioned by a juror he said that he met Meehan about the irst of the month. He related that about two or three weeks ago Mee tan followed him and on Meetina ;treet, near Chalmers street. demand d at the point of pistol that he give im $1 00. He did not give him the oney then, he said, but the next day save him $60. He was approached igain, he told the jury, and this time rave him $20. According to his view1 f the affair Meehan was blackmail g him. He did not propose to give sim any more money, he said, and ,ought the weapon with which he! ~iled the man. He also stated that< feehan was a drug fiend of some <i rind and that he did not care to take LUy chances with him. A dispatch from Memphis says that< mdore M. Acosta of that place. who I hot and killed E. 3. Meehan at harleston..Is well known there.I ~here he has extensive property in-< erests. He resides with two daugh ers and is known as a quiet, peace le citizen.r Auto Runs Down Couple. While crossing Broadway at Sixty fth street in New York early Fri y Richard Lee. a Brooklyn mer hant, and his wife were run down r an automobile. Both were ren ered unconscious and Mrs. Lee died a chile being taken toA hospital. p Clogged by D~ead Rody. e When his car refused to respond to e ll current at an early hour Thurs y morning Motorman H. A. Strong, fTampa, Fla., was horrified, on ex nination, to find the mangled re- F rains of a human being clogging the 'F Lnning gear. si Newly Wed Takes Life.. Charles Candler Rowe. a wealthy oung business men of Calbert, Ga.,. iot himself through the heart Mon- a y morning. His bride of a week S nd his bodl. rAL POWDER lyPure hot breads, and laily necessities nily. Royal Bak aake them more )me, appetizing. toe Phosphates fEWER LYNCHINfS INLY FORTY-FOUR ARE RECORD ED FOR YEAR 1913 INE VICTIM WAS WHITE Philadelphia Paper Prints Abstract Showing That Lynchings Decreased During the Year-Two.Credited to the . North-Deiense of Spartan burg Jail is Noted. "Only 44 lynchings known to be uch beyond doubt have occurred In the United Sta-.s this year,'' accord ing to . dispatch from Chicago to the Philadelphia North American, "and this is the lowest number for many years, more than 50 being re :orded last year and as many as 253 [n some previous years. The decrease ie lynching in Southern states Is at tributed largely to efforts made by governors,, sheriffs and prominent cit izens to- prevent mob violence. "A notable example was set on August 18 by the sheriff at Spartan burg, S. C. . In spite of the fact that dynamite was used, he prevented a mob from lynching a negro who was accused of assaulting a white wo man. Later the negro was tried be fore a white jury and found not guilty. "The record shows decided im provement in. other respects than in numbers. So far as the newspaper accounts show none of the victims was burned at the stake. Nor were any of the lynchings accompanied by the so-called race riots; which always added to the -number of victims and intensified ~antagonism of the white and black races. "Harrison, Miss., furnished the nearest approach to a 'reign of mur der', when two drug-crazed mulatto. boys, on September 28, ran amuckh and started a riot, in the course of. which three white men, four negro men and one negro woman met death. As the two boys met death while resisting capture the case can not strictly be classed as lynching. "In the 44 lynchings the victims of all but one were negroes, and all but two occurred in Southern states., "North Dakota and Montana- were the two Northern states in which lynchings occurred. At Ray, -N. D., Cleve Culbertson, a white man, ac ased of the murder of three per sons, was taken from jail and hang ed. At Mondak, Mont., In April. ,T. C. Collins, a negro, who killed the sheriff and deputy sheriff of the county, was hanged by a mob. "The States in which lynchings oc eurr~d and the number in each were as follows: Alabama 2, Arkansas 1, Florida 4, Georgia 8, Kentucky 1., Louisiana 4, Mississippi 8, Montana 1, North Carolina 1, North Dakota 1, South Carolina 1, Tennessee 2, Texas 6. There w~as at least one lyn'ching for every month in the year, August, thie hottest month, leading, with ight. "'Double lynchings occurred at Blanchard, La., Cornelia, Ga., and Pauls Valley, Okla. At Houston. iiiss., two negroes were lynched a lay apart, being accused of complic ty in the same crime. At Drew, iiss., a negro was lynched by mem ers of his own race after he had ~hot and' killed two negro women and wo negro mon. "As in previous years, murders of vhlte persons and crimes or alleged rines against white women caus~ed nost of the summary executions. The nurders were in the big majority. mnd cases in which attacks on women vere charged showed a decrease. "Nineteen of the victims of the 44 ynchings were accused of the mur br of white men. Four wereci d with murdering white girls or vomen. Attempted criminal assault s on record as responsible for nine >f the lynchings. Two negroes were ynehed for frightening white wo non, one for insulting a white wo non, and another for being found oncealed under the bed in a wo nan's room. Two negroes were lynch d for shooting or assaulting white en, one for robbery and shooting, ne for assisting a negro murderer o escape, and another for horse tealing. In one case the crime harged was not stated." Trying to Catch Him. Investigations are still being made t Calumet, Mich., in an effort to ap rehend the identity of the stranger -ho yelled "Fire!" at a Christmas ?!ebration, starring a panic which iusd 72 deaths. Killed by Train. Jim Gibson. a nearo of Poston, in ronce county, was killed by a train riday. It appears that the negro :epped on the track to cross just as ie train, backing, reached the road. Tried to Lynch Him. An effort was mode by a mob of med citizens at Chestertown. Md., sturday night to enter the jail and.