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b 4 * **■*- i ' ■■■ -mm ■"v^V: • . , T . { . • s ^ * k ^ •^ r i> i .41* m'*i. ’■ ,*i V ii 1 VOL. II. FLORENCE, S. C M MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1895 No. 101. HOLMES HEARS HIS DOOM. JUDGE ARNOLD PASSES DEATH SENTENCE. THE Between the Judge and Holme’s Attorney—Holmes Had Nothing to Say When the Sentence was Pronounced. Philadelphia, Nov. 30,—Judge Arnold to-day refused to grant a new trial to H. H. Holmes, who was couvictechpf the murder of B. F. Pietzel in this city last year, and sentenced him to death. Promptly at 10 o’clock Hohnes, accompanied by his counsel, came into court. He looked careworn and seemed to have lost that air of confidence which has clung to him throughout his trying ordeal. Court opened with a brief tilt between Judge Arnold and Law yer Rotau, counsel for the defend ant. Judge Arnold charged that Mr. Rotan had offered an insult to the court by briefs to presiding Judge Thayer and Judge Wilson, w^o has sat with Judge Arnold, wtjen Holmes’ counsel had argued a new trial, but neglected to Id him a copy. * : j Mr. Rotan said that the briefs had been prepared hurriedly, and that if the Judge had been over- jjRRked it was a mistake. He said : “I do not want the impression to ’ ‘ forth that I have done wrong, tr.’t want to be attacked that There was no disrespect in- ..led when I sent the briefs to ^Judges Thayer and Wilson, and as ^member of this bar you should have thi« confidence in me.” Judge Arnold made no firther cutnment, but proceeded to read the Court’s answer to Holmes’ courNteP* reason for a new trial. He took \ip the fifteen excep tions to the verdict, one at a time, and dwelt at ler.jth upon each. The main reasons tor a new trial, which were put forth by the de fendant’s counsel, were tpe admis sion of the testimony of Miss Yoke who Holmes claimed as his lawful wife; the district attorney’s opening speech to the jury, when he brought the murder of the chil dren into the case, and that part of Mrs. Pietzel’s testimony in which she said the last time she saw her children “wag in the morgue at Toronto/’. In reference to Miss Yoke’s eli gibility as a witness, the Judge said that it was the opinion of the Cour^ that Holmes was not only married to the Williamete, 111., woman when he wedded Miss Yoke, but that he also had a wife in Gilman, N. H. Therefore' the marriage to Miss Yoke was null and void, and the evidence was admis sible. He closed by saying that the Court approves the verdict and re fuses a new trial. District Attor ney Graham then arose and asked that sentence be pronounced. Holmes was ordered to stand up. Judge Arnold said; “Herman W. Mudgetts, have you anything to say?” Holmes replied in a barely audible voice: “I have nothing to say.” Judge Arnold then pronounced the death sentence as follows: “It is the sentence of this Court that you be taken hence from whence you came and there be hanged by the neck until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul.” The expression on Holmes’ face remained the same. He was taken from the court to prison. Surprised. Washington, Dec. 1. — There were two distinct surprises when the bids for building the two big battleships authorized by the last Congress were opened at the Navy Department to-day. In the first place a Southern shipbuilding concern underbid all competitors, North and West, for building the boats on the plans drawn up by the Navy Department, and then Mr. Cramp offered to build two battleships with armor for the hulls anil throw in another ship of like type but without armor, all on his own plans, for the sum fixed upon by Congress as the ultimate cost of two ships. These boats will be of about 10,000 toi^s dis placement, but will really be larger than the Iowa, the largest of the battleships now under con struction. Alexander Dumas’ Funeral Paris, Dec. 1.—The funeral^oj Alexandre Dumas took day, and was unostentatnJ cordance with th c ' wislj deceased author and The remains were conv< day from the late rcsi<j Dumas at Marlyle-RoiJ in this city and ta'q latter place at noon terred in the cem^ mare in the presence course of literary actors. BACKED DOM NO EXTRA GUNBOATS TO ENTER THE BOSPHORUS- The British Ambassador Warns Turkey That If There Are Fur ther Disturbances His Country Will Move in the Matter Alone. Constantinople, Nov. 29, via Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 30.—After all the warlike talk of yesterday the British Ambassador, Sir Phil lip Currie, has hacked down and the Sultan and his palace advisers are triumphant. The British gun boat Dryad, ordered from Salonica Bay by Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, th^ commander of the British Mediterranean squadron, at the request of Sir Phillip Currie after the latter was assured on Tuesday last by Twefik Pasha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the Porte had decided to grant the firmans allowing the extra guardship re quired by the representatives of the powers here to pass the Dar danelles, has been ordered back to Salonica. This is, to the diplomatic corps, quite an unexpected denouement of a situation which had assumed a moat dangerous aspect and the general opinion is that the powers have befen placed in a somewhat ridiculous position. Following the repeated threats of' forcing the passage of the Dardanelles, if the Sultan persisted in refusing to al low the extra gunboats to enter the Bosphorus, this looks very much as if Abdul Hamid and his ad visers were well informed when they persisted in holding out against t AfcBB^nris of the repre- .V guar were^g^^^^^^p doing on the ^rs not in ^ claimed h :j r the h- embassies. • Even if this be true, it seems to show that the Sultan and his advisers have once more triumphed over the representatives of the powers since the latter were officially announced to be in com plete accord as to the drastic measures to be taken toward Tur key. Death of Mrs. Bernhelm. Mrs. Elizabeth Crow Clayton, wife of Rev. G. D. Bernheim, D. D., pastor of St. Matthew’s Eng lish Lutheren church, died last Friday night at. the home of the family in this city, in the (35th year ot her age. The funeral service- will he held in St. Matthew’s church this after noon at 4 o’clock, and the inter ment will be at the deceased lady’s early home at Phillipsburg, N. J. Mrs. Bernheim was born in Charleston, S. C., March 7, 1831, daughter of David and Elizabeth Hislop Clayton. Besides her hus band she leaves five children, Mrs. J. T. Hool, of Pineville, N. C.; Mrs. Dudley Burkheimer and Messrs. Clayton, Augustus aud Oscar Bernheim of this city. She was a woman of lovely Christian character, and notwithstanding her great and long suffering, was an earnest and indefatigable work er, especially in the Sunday school; and ever since she was blind ed ited a booklet for the instruction of children in the Sabbath sohoo: This sore bereavement? that hae fallen upon Rev. Dr. Bernheim evokes the deepest the community. - Star. Dr. Bernheim is a brother of Mrs. S i>. Parish, of this city, who has the sympathy of her friends sympathy ot. Wilmington Missionaries ’’'ordered. Antananarivo, Island of Mada gascar, vim Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, Nov. 30.— A serious an- ti-European riot has broken on’ at Arivonimarao. A mob * r of it.. ^ natives has attacked the Frie.^ Mission at that place and murd £(;v. Mr. Johnson, his wife. —i?’'Tidier attacks on f ■t * /.A » ? 42 'm ■ ’s. qm B