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- - qp , i m i ?1?p Utllmt iBcralb. ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY.^/1911. Vol. 17. No. 14. DISAPPROVES PETITION JUD6E MEMMINGER REVIEWS GAFFNEY MURDER CASE MAN WHO SLEW TWO ACTORS Scenes of Terrible Tragedy and Attendant. Pathetic Circumstances Vividly Recalled. Columbia, May 9.?Special: "So the verdict was a right verdict and t' e sentence following therefrom being fixed by law at life imprisonment, the question now is only, are , all the attendant facts and circumstances then and since such as to call for reduction of the legal sentence? "My heart may, and does bleed for this young man, who so early in life should have had such serious consequences follow in the wake of each rash act of his that fatal night and morning." Thus writes Judge It. Withers Memminger, of Charleston, who does not recommend a pardon at this time for George Hasty, the noted Cherokee prisoner, serving a life term for the killing of Milan Bennett, an actor, at Gaffney on December, 15, 1905. Governor Considering Capers. vjruvernor mease nas ueeu consiuering the papers in the case, but lie has not yet reached a conclusion. Judge Meuiminger, after setting out that he has given the matter considerable thought, gives a free expression of his views, being deeply impressed with the appeal for clemency for George Hasty and says that no doubt the letter from Editor Ed DeCamp, of the Gaffney litder, voices the sentiment of the community that Hasty has suffered enough and goes into the merits of the petition. "Yet, if it be," writes Judge Meniminger, "so the one or both of these young women had departed from the lines of proper and modest conduct and Hasty was encouraged to believe that to be true and regulated his conduct towards tnem accordingly, not reasonably anticipating hostile demonstration from their male companions, those are. perhaps, matters which may be taken into consideration upon an application for " JSjiecutive clemency. Says Verdict Proper One. "This point and that Hasty has made a good prisoner are all favorable to the petitioner, but whatever weight IheBe considers.ions may have )and without doubt they are weighty! and however much I feel inclined to yield to them, 1 cannot ?on-fiatcnviy recommend to your excellency that Hasty has as yet suf lered sufficiently to expiate, and as an example for the terrible tragedy, for the bringing about of which he was convicted and in the cast of which he was the principal character. "The view advanced in the petitloiia that thlo trial uroo > Hmo when public feeling was keen, is. in my judgment, of no weight in the case, because an examination of the record shows that the verdict was inevitable from the law and the evidence and a verdict otherwise would have been contrary to ;he law and the evidence." Voicing the sentiment given at the opening of this article Judge Memminger then says: Chuiu of \Vrong-I?oing. "His case has always appeared to me as more a sequance of wrongs, all leading up to the fatal end? murder at law; but not the premeditated murder which demands the extreme penalty and that the jury was right in recommending to mercy. i hat he should have mistaken the willingness of the women?that he should have chanced to get more liquor that morning? to have the pistol in his pocket? that that mere toy should have produced a fatal wound in the body of each of those men thickly clad as they were, hurriedl> aimed as it was?surely such a chain of ill \ chances all leauing to the death of these men in the prime of life, each full of the Joy of living, no doubt, and to have been with in a few minutes more away on their journey of Joy, was never so fatally linked 1. before! "And it often comes to me to think of George Hasty, who no doubt, had been to their pluy that night, must often have visions of the now dead Davidson in his rollicking role of 'Old Sport Davie,' and Bennett, drawing out the tones of his accompanying music?all joy, pleasure, harmony, innocent amuse THROWS 91..100 FROM TRAIN. Women by Rood Luck (icts Money Rack by Wire ami Hose by Mail. 1*ob Angeles, May 0.?While trav-i eling to this city, Mrs. Frances ;Held, of Danburry, Conn., inadvertently threw a pair of stockings out of the window of a fast Santa Fe , train a few miles west of Albuquer- , que. Soon afterward she discovered that she had left a roll of $1,500 in hills in the toe oft he her stockings, and she appealed to Conduc-. tor Milo Thompson for help to r< 1 1 cover it. At the next station Thompson wired back to the agent at Albuquerque to make a search, which was done, and the stockings and money were found. This information was wired to Winslow, Ariz., and when Mrs. Held's train arrived there the company representative' handed her the cash. The stockings, it is stated, art now on the way bv mail, becausethey could not be forwarded by I wire. NKtiKOKS KIliL MACH OTHKK. On" I'ses I'istol and Other <?m? and ltoth Meet Ih-iith at Frolic. Bennettsville. May 10.?William Jackson and Tom Woodward, two negroes killed each other near the Keystone Lumber company's plant in the lower part of the county last night. It seems that the two negroes were at a negro celebration, and got iavo a dispute. Woodward used a pistol and Jackson a gun. No one else has been implicated and the death of both negroes apparently onus the entire matter WUKCIi NKAK COWADDS. Seven Freight. Cars Derailed?Kn- I gitie Off Track at Cades. Florence Times. A very unusual accident occurred : near Cowards, on the Atlantic Coast Line, Friday, in which seven lx>.\ cars were derailed and wrecked. A through freight for the south wus running along at a pretty lively clip j when all of a sudden the engineer i spied ahead of him a "kink" in the ' rails. He was too close on to the! "out of line" rails to stop the train, but applied his brakes and made every effort to do so. The train wus composed of an engine and some thirty box cars and a caboose, j Twenty-three of the cars passed safely over the "kink" and the remaining seven ears, including a caboose, were derailed and piled tip in the ditch. The roadbed was blocked for j about eight hours as a result of the wreck, and all trains to and from the south were tied up until the linej ! was opened up by the wrecking t crew, which was sent from here ' quickly after the wreck occurred as ! they could be gotten out. Friday night an engine was de-! railed at Cades, and this "shut out 'all trains for three hours more, it ! was rather a bad day for wrecks on 'the old North Eastern, but they did business Saturday 011 time. ment for the multitude, and then the flash of the pistol?the look of cruel surprise upon their faces as they staggered about in that dingy hotel hallway?a veritable shamble, that cold morning and then ( agony and bloody sweat, and silence! and sudden death. Not Sufficiently i'linishcd. | "Five or six years is not enough j imprisonment for the man who brought about all this and who has been legally and properly con! victed of murder?of the ruthless; j and unnecessary killing of one of j I the men, though not to be tried fori the killing, and, therefore, even; considering the killing defensible, j | not be weighted against him. "This man for e killing of1 whom he was convicted did no ; wrong. In the mere resentment ! against injury to property a man ' would remonstrate as he did; how much the more strongly as to the woman wno was, at least for the, time being, under his protecting care. The mind must hark back to : all of this as we view this group, realizLng that we have before us the substance of the living, but only the shadow of the dead. , "Hasty has Indeed begun serving | an apprenticeship in going down-' ward. He is now serving one which ; may some day bring him up again. ] I think the time may come when he should have another chance in life, but, in my judgment, it is not yet; and the petitions should be refused." 'ROPOSALFROM N.&S.C. fILL PUT UP DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR FOR PASSENGER STATION ilO.OOBSTATiorTlS PROPOSED i lesult of ('oiift'iviirc llciwirii Hoard of Trade Committee ami IVsiilcnl of X. & S. (l(ailroa<l. Citizens of Dillon are still faliliar with the controversy bewcen the town and the N A: S. ('. ailroad over the payment of NEGRO SHOOTS SHERIFF F IN THE DARKNESS MISTAKES OFFICER M FOR MAN BEING HONTED. i SHOT IN HIHND ABDOMEN $ At Floydale Sunday Night Hunting j| Would-Ilc Wife Murderer, Slieriff IjMio is Shut Accidentally. At Ploydulc Sunday niglit while hunting Will Shevsis, a negro who n had attempted to kill his wife thutjt night. Sheriff Lane was accidental- i r ly shot by a negro who mistook the o Sheriff for Shevas. io Tlie load of No. 7 shot entered t the hip and abdomen and three of h the shot perforated the intestines, v Sheriff Lane is a! Mcleod's Infirm- h ary where he underwent an opera- e tion Monday morning. e Shevas arrived in town Sunday 1 morning from Wilmington in s;; v of his wife who left him some ' weekis ago. When he found her she ' refused to return home with hint and he emptied the contents of his r pistol at her. One of the bullets 1 took effect in the woman's right v temple and another took effect in J ' her hip. Shevas escaped down the jl> N. & S. tracks towards Mullius. The liour was late and no other as- ' sistiince being at hand Sheriff Lane instructed two negro men to follow Shevas down the railroad track 1 while the sheriff mounted his horse 11 and rode down the public road in r the hope of reaching Floydale s ahead of Shevas. Arriving at Floy- - dale the sheriff dismounted and 1 concealing himself near the depot * awaited the arrival of Shevas. Just ' before reaching Floydale the no-. groes met a party of negroes who $ told them that Shevas was just v ahead of them. The negroes in- s t reat* d their pace, but arrived at Floydale without seeing Shevas. ;l When they arrived at the Floydale * depot Sheriff Lane stepped out from his place of concealment and f commanded the negroes to halt. ;i The negroes mistook the sheriff for t Shevas and emptied the contents of v a shotgun into his hip and abdo- 1 men. When the sheriff fell the no- : groes beat a hasty retreat, fully he- e lieving they had killed the man for c wihom they were looking and it was j < some time before Sheriff lane v oould make them return to where, e snerirr Une was lying;. 1 < Physicians were summoned and! s Sheriff Lane was brought to Dillon ' 8 and then taken to Dr. McLeod's In- ' firmary on the 3 a. 111. train. He ' was operated on Monday and the ' sliot were removed, but it will be at least five days before all danger 1 is passed. His wounds are not c critical, but still they are of such s a serious nature as to cause his,8 family and friends some anxiety 1 until the danger period is passed. ' The last reports from the infirmary were to the effect that Sheriff, Lane had recovered from the shock of the operation and was resting 1 easily. 1 NO PARDON FOR .IO\K?v | Hare Chance of New Trial Union ' Man's Only Ho|m>. <'mulcted of ' Wife Murder. Columbia, May 14.?Special: W. ( T. Jones, the wealthy Union county! farmer, who is under life sentence ^ tor the murder of his wife, has been ^ denied a pardon by Governor Blease. ^ Barring the meagre possibility of a (| reversal ?f the Circuit Judge in ( the appeal now before the Supreme Court for a new trial, and the pos- (| silility of future Executive clemency. the noted prisoner will have to come to the State Penitentiary. ^ soon and commence the serving of ^ the long sentence. Governor Blease has written the following across the hack of the petition for pardon: "In view of the statement and recommend at ion made by the Hon. 1 T. S. Sense, then solicitor, and now ' who prosecuted the case against I1 the petitioner for pardon; of the I history of the case given by the a Hon. It. \V. Memmlnger, presiding Judge at the trial at which the;0 petitioner or applicant was convict-j a ed the case against the petitioner t for pardon; of the history of the t case given by the Hon. R. W. Memntinger, presiding Judge at the trial, at which the petitioner or applicant was convicted, and also of the present status of the case, I am constrained to deny this application for pardon, and the same, is therefore hereby denied. "Cole Ij. Blease. > "Columbia. S. C.. May 13, 1911." S 00 for the right of way in and out f Dillon which resulted in an elecion last fall when a proposed bond tsue to pay for the right-of-way V-s voted down. The matter has eon "hanging fire," so to speak, ver since the election, the railroad laimiug that it had spent more ban $ 1 o.ntio to secure the right-ofray wjiich had been promised by he town and the citizens claiming hat they did not agree to pay as audi <?s $10,000 for securing the ight-of-way. At the last session of lie general assembly a special act its passed authorizing another eleeion upon the question. nut the lection hits never been held. Several weeks ago a meeting was .el" in Dillon between the railroad mmissioners, the officials of the C. Ai S. C. railroad and a comtnitte appointed by the Dillon Hoard q T*:.de when the N. A: S. t'. railosd officials agreed to erect a pasonyer station to cost not less than President Honsal does not hlnk that $3,500 will erect a staion adequate to the demands of the tuhlic. but in view of the fact that it- wiis forced to spend more than i 10,000 to secure the right-of-way, vhieh lie says should have been ecu red bv the citizens of Dillon, he lots not feel justified in building i station that will cost more than 3.500. Monday Mr. Bonsai appeared l>eore the Board of Trade committee uid agreed to "break even" with he citizens of Dillon, provided they vould put up dollar for dollar with tint in building a large and comnodious passenger station? In othr words, Mr. Bonsai said if the itizens of Dillon would put up $5, 00 that he would supplement it vith $5,000 and build a $10,000 tation, or if the citizens of Dillon vould put up $10,000 he would upplement it with a like amount nid build a $20,000 station. In tlie vent the citizens put up one-half of he cost of the station he would reease them from further obligation. The committee from the Board of Trade agreed to call a mass meeting f the citizens and lay the proportion liefore them. Following is the tgreement between the Board of Trade committee und the railroad. To the committee representing the Board of Trade of the town of Dillon: The North and South Carolina tailroad Company makes the folowing proposition to the committee rom the Board of Trade of the nwn of I )i Hi in 'Hie North and South Carolina iailroad Company agrees to put up lollar for dollar in putting up a lepot. with the people ot the town if Dillon. In other words if he town of Dillon will subseribe ?-n thousand dollars the railroad nil subscribe a like sum; or if the own wishes to subscribe a greater >r lesser amount the railroad will duplicate the amount subscribed by he town. In case the town subcribes as much as five thousand lollars or over the amount will be ecepted by the railroad company in ull settlement of any amount or laim due hy the town of Dillon to lie railroad company. North & South Carolina it. R. Co. Ry, W. R. Bonsai, Pres. We, the comm'ttee representing he Board of Trade of the town of )illon agree to bring the above imposition before the citizens of he town of Dillon In mass meeting. .i.u <ik> ?*e iu uuvucaie oeiure me ame a settlement of the differences if the differences between the North nd South Carolina R. R. Co., and he town of Dillon on the basis of he above proposition. Signed: A. R. Jordan, N. B. Hargrove. M. A. Stuhhs, K. L. Moore, W. C. Moore. Miss Annie Joyner, of Kastover. i? dsiting the family of Mr. W. P. lurles . SHOOTS HIS WIFK. fl Will Sheens, Coloml, Kmpties I'is- * t<ol at Woiiuiii ami Flees. "The llottom," a district well El known to the police on account of its many tragedies, was the scene of another near tragedy Sunday night when Will Shevas shot and f seriously wounded his wife. Sever- ^ a I weeks ago Shevas' wife deserted him in Wilmington and cauie to ' Oillon. She took up her residence in the "Hottoni." Sunday Shevas came to town, looked up his wife and tried to persuade her to return ei to her home. She refused, a diffi- T culty followed and Shevas shot the n woman in the temple and hip. For- dtunately the bullet did not enter tin* skull, but plunged its way pt through the scalp making an ugly si and painful, hut not serious wound, a The wound in the hip is more serious, hut the woman will recover s after being laid tip for se\eral days, ai Shevas escaped down the X. A S ai tracks towards Mullins. m Shevas formerly conducted a as blind tiger in Dillon and has ser\- e< ed time on the chain gang for sell- tl ing whiskey. He was out on bond t< and ran away from Dillon some tt months ago, forfeiting a $100 bond, which a former white resident of Dillon had to pay. h IvII.I.KD AFTEH FIEKCK Fit;FT. i Two Negroes Dead. One Fatally Hurt and Five White Men Are Wounded in Fight Near Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala., May 14. ? Two negroes are dead and one mortally j wounded and four deputy eheriffs wounded, one fatally, as the result ( of a murder committed by one of the negroes and a speetacular bat- j tie that followed tin effort to eapture the murder. ti The dead: Tim Benson and Peter ( Foils, both negroes. Injured: Ike Primers, a negro; I Eugene Naftel, deputy, shot in ^ the shoulder; Harry McCord, depu- . ty. shot in abdomen, will probobly die; Owen Ellis, deputy, shot in the eye; Alford, chauffeur, shot in shoulder, hand and face. L About !? o'clock this morning1. Benson murdered Foils and shot , printers down, inflicting a mortal 'wound on him. What the trouble ! j between them was could not ho as- j I vv. W..CU. je Slieriff Hood was telegraphed for and he sent Deputy Sheriff Rives,, t Naftel and Kills to the scene in ( an automobile. They arrived al>out ^ 10:30 o'clock and found Benson barricaded in his cabin. He re-) fused to surrender, declaring he1 would die before he would submit! to arrest. |. The officers then opened fire on j him and lie returned it, wounding; Naftel. The officers failing in their ! ^ purpose, then telephoned for Sheriff jj, Hood and he went out this after- .. 141 ; noon with Deputies McCord and y Bridges. The posse opened fire u and a battle lasting an hour ensu- s. t il. Kllis and Alford were wounded t| i in the fight. si Failing to dislodge Benson by'S) their continuous fire, the posse sot ,.| fire to the cabin was filled with . smoke the negro stumbled through the door and was shot down. He; j, rose and returned the fire, wound- () ing Deputy McC'ord in the abdomen. Taking refuge behind a picket 0 fence which surrounded his garden, jj tile neirro hie filial ..r.a ? *" w was killed with seven from a 3X callible revolver and many other {j wounds. S( The wounded men were hurriedly l brought to Montgomery. e " m S( Talks Peace; Sharpens Sword. .( El Paso, May lf?.?While discuss- v' ing peace to-dii^-, Francisco I. Madero was preparing for war. ; He announced officially he in- j, ! tended to attack Chihuahua, ^ only conditions against this plan \ being a j>ositive agreement for an, ^ armitice of peace brought prompt-1 ,,y" ! a "An attack on Chihuahua is the next step in our campaign, and it is ^ inevitable," Senor Madero saiu. "Mexico City is our goal, and that lies between between us and it must c< fall into our hands. However, 1 ( am hopeful for peace and I trust J our adversaries will see the futility ^ of ODDOSinc 11 H wilhniil any more bloodshed. I Q "Chihuahua is a great city which h all along has had to bear the heav- I p| iest burden of the war. Her people are dtfferently situated than those on the United States border, a for, isolated in innumerable mining tl camps dependent on it, the city now fi has no means of securing supplies. G I feel sorry for the non-combatants ai I the:- ' u lOUNTY FAIR PROPOSED NTHUSIASTIC WEETINFi HELD IH THE :OURT HOirE SATURDAY QiViMITTEES MEET FRICAY 1?" l'ro|H>sition to (Viuuty Fair I'rotty Tltorati^tify DisCiasetl Saturday. At :i joint meeting oj .... Par... rs' 1' 11 ion and tin* Ifillmi Hoard co rnde at. the court house Saturday turning resolutions were nas-.-.-it euorsing the movement, to otgnmzt itinty fair and committees were aj>i?inted in each township solicit ibscriptions for the organizat ion o. permanent fair associalion Superintendent of Kducution R Rogers was called to me chair nd Mr. \V 'I'. Hetliea war. ae.ked t< t as secretary o ft.lie meeting. The latter of organizing a county fair isocii1 * ion was thoroughly disc nits I and it was decidi d to appoint ie follow ing township conimitte* s > solicit subscriptions to tie conn r fair fund Betlien TuwtiBlii|> .1 .1 Alkti. Manning Township.?Wade Stack ousc. K. Moorii, Frank Rage. I'lirllcisville Township. \t S rift, (' <" Bridgers Carmiehael Township R 1'. Ha ler, Jr Hillsboro Township. W. lUanis. Reaves Township. R S. Moore. Moody Township?T W. Kerry, I. A. Bethea, Kli B Manning. Kirhy Township.? .Jiu> l>. Fole nan. Secretary Bethea has addressed a etter to each of the township comnitteenien requesting them to tneet it the Bank of Dillon to-morrow Friday (at 11 o'clock The movement is well under way md the indications arc that Dillon vi 11 he among the several counties n the State that will have a couny fair next fall In addition to he exhibits there will bo horse shows and several first-class atractions will be provided for the i m use men t and entertainment of the >eople. There is every reason w hv i county fair in Dillon should be a >ig success It is to be hoped that every farms', merchant, manufacturer and rofessional man in the county will lecome a member in order that Wllon county may have a fair in peeping with the superior agriculural resources. "MII.I.IOV A IMf.< ri'U lt?l> iiivinmi. . mi iwnni ^uiirt. !. A. Ilrtmn Sajs lie Knows How The Other Half fjives. Kdwin A. Brown, the "millionaire ramp,* ?in cf W. Crown, resident <1 the Now York Oentr.il, nnounced on his arrival at the Waldorf Astoria last night that he 'ould neve; wear overalls again, nys tire New Ylork Times. He is trough seeing, as a part of f ... liow, the seamy side of life, he iy?, and from now ou, with the i<*li experience he has in learning ow the other half lues, he inuids to carry on his work of iuiressing upon cities the nect ssity of f providing municipal lodging ouses, Midi as this city has, by tlier means than "living the dog fe" liinisctf Ho has r.o intention 'hatever. lie says, of slackening the ndeavors. Out he now has seen lie inside of prison walls in every potion of the country, alwajs 011 iie sole cnarge t.f not having nough money to tniy a bed, and pes no reason why he should suf?r the "down and out*' man's priation further Mr. Brown is a resident of Doner, where he is one of the city's irgrst real estate holders. With 0 thirst for greater wealth than e has, he has for years heen trylg to learnn by actual experience tie sufferings of men who are ho list and willing to work, and of othrs who are shiftless and almost 'orthloss, as a result, possibly, ho lituks, of the government's neglect. Mr. Brown in known all over this nuntry. His efforts as a "friend 1 the friendless" have been praised y President Taft, and one of the enver man's treasured Dosseasions i a letter from the President inuiring about his experience* In elnlng the homeless men of large ities. Judge McRae requests The HerId to say that during his absence re duties of his office will be lied by Magistrate Edwards of uddys Mill. Mr. Edwards will bo t J ml go McRae's office every Sat