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MAY FASTEN BLAME. (Continued from page 1.) as if a body had been lain there. He observed the same odor. He declared that the peculiar odor was also noticeable at a point 100 yards from the barn where the weeds had been trampled down. Waddell also told of missing a plank o f footprints leading to barns. The Strange Woman. Glover Orr told of taking a strange woman from the home of A M MpPbII tn Hon dsrflnnvlllA Sunday morning just after Myrtle's body was found. She left the automobile, he said, near -the railway depot about the time the train would leave both for the north and the south. The five suspects one at a time categorically denied the seemingly incr'minating allegations of Waddell. They said the strange woman was Miss hiStelle Grant, a trained nurse from Atlanta and an old friend of the McCall family, who has been spending her vacation in the mountains and had visited the McCalls over Saturday night. Hal Cooper, Myrtle Hawkins' 17year-old fiance, and her brother and sister also tescified. The suspects have not been arrested, but are under surveilance. Medicine alleged to have been given Myrtle by Bradley and wrapped In paper supposed to have come from his shop, was introduced in evidence, together with torn scraps of paper bearing handwriting ! unfamiliar to her family. These were found in Myrtle's room by her sister, Mrs. Thomas. Max Henrici. Didn't Reveal Name. Hendersonville, N. C., Sept. 15.; ?The coroner's inquest examining Into the death of Miss Myrtle Hawkins. whose body was found in ! Lake Osceola, and whose death, it is alleged, was caused by an il-1 legal operation adjourned late this! afternoon until tomorrow morning. The coroner stated to-night that > the evidence so far introduced did j not justify any arrests in the case, i Homer Hawkins, a brother of the dead girl, and Hal Cooper, ?aid to ! be her fiance, stated on the stand j this afternoon they had no reason j tc suspect any person of the mur- j der of the girl. The feature of the ' inquest was the production of a letter found in Myrtle's room here by her sister, Mrs. J. B. Thomas. It was written to her mother by Myrtle and said: "Dear Mother: I promised Dady j to write and tell you of my mis-1 fortune, but 1 have not the face to tell you the name of the man who is responsible for it. He is not entirely to blame, however, for he has done all he can to help me. I am going away 6o that I will not be any more trouble to you. Tell them that I have gone to Atlas, good bye." The "Atlas" referred to is the i name of a girl friend who lives at j Concord, N. C. It was stated to-j night that unless the case takes a I more decided turn there is little probability of any arrests being made. ' Hendersonville, N. C., Sept 19. ?That George Bradley, a young ^ ^^marriett Jian^ was "With Miss Myr Tig Hawkins on the Thursday before her lifeless corpse was found floating in Lake Osceola, that he was a close friend before his marriage and thai his statements on the witness stand were not entirely true were charged at the inquest being held by Coroner Kirk into the shocking tragedy that has aroused indignation of an extent not known before in the history of ~.this fhountain resort. Wallace Reddin, on the stand, said that he saw Bradley with a little woman, on a road near the lake, and that the couple were earnestly conversing. He did not hear any of the remarks. He had previ- ! ously seen Miss Hawkins walking alone on the road. He was in a I buggy when he passed the couple, but, while feeling quite sure the! girl was Miss Hawkins ke could not swear positively. Couple Together Frequently Mrs. Daniel McCall was an important witness. She was closely questioned by Solicitor Johnson,who is conducting the examination of the( witnesses, with the assistance oi j other attorneys, Including Mayor Slaton and Rdbt. Waddell, the Mc-1 Call coachman, had testified to the odor of the bags in the barn. Mrs. McCall said Waddell was mistaken. She also said that none of the bags were missing. Waddell, she testified had not reported for work since Friday. Mrs. Reuben Wright said that she heard screams of a woman on the Wednesday night preceding the tragedy. Mrs. Mary Granger and her sister, Miss Rose SuDofsky, testified to seeing Bradley and the Hawkins girl together on many occasions, usually about dusk. Andrew Finlay saw Miss Hawkins on a bicycle near the Bradley and McCall houses on Thursday about noon, carrying a package. hanged them. Richmond Juries Have the Habit of Doing Ip Men Who Kill Wives. The suburbs of Richmond, so lately the scene of the sensational Beattie tragedy, has furnished the setting for two other murders that for melodramatic mystery equaled the now famous Beattie case. They were known respectively as the Jeter Phillips and the Cluverius cases, after the men who paid the penalty for the deeds, the law fastened upon them. Like the Beattie case, a woman in most intimate relation to the accused was the victim and in further analogy the evidence in both cases was wholly circumstantial. Here are the brief facts: The Phillips Case. Early in February. 1867, a farmer named Drinkard discovered hidV ' ?n under a brush pile on his planl fatlon, about five miles from Rich1 mond, the body of a woman, who evtdelnly had been dead some weeks. There were marks of violence on her, notably a bullet wound In her head. For some months the detectives (ailed to j identify her. On the ajolning farm was a young up a letter, presumably dropped . from Phillips' pocket while on a visit to his sweetheart, wherein the writer, a woman, addressed Piiiliips as her husband and stating tbat she was getting tired of separation and would join him shortly. , It was dated in January and I came from a small postofflce in a ; distant county. Inquiry then developed that Phillips had, the previous year married this woman, ; leaving her at her home while he went in search of employment, and that she had'left there late in Janj uary bo join him near Richmond. In June. 1867. more than four j months after the discovery of the body, Phillips was arrested, tried and though the evidence was wholly circumstantial, he was convicted and hanged at Richmond. Shortly before the execution he confessed to ! the murder, his motive being that : he might make way with his wife ; that he might marry his later I sweetheart. The Cluverius Case. The Cluverius case was one of the most melodramatic murder cases in Virginia's criminal annals. About the middle of February, 1885, some boys strolling along the embank-| ment of an abandoned reservoir in : the outer suburbs of Richmond, saw jwhat they thought was the dress of | a woman, floating in the water. They reported it and the next day there was brought to light the j body of A woman in an advanced j stage of decomposition. The sud-i den sensation died down after an i overseerer named Jeter Phillips. No) one knew from whence lie had come j when he obtained his position the j1 previous year. At the time of the j discovery of the body he was paying court to a young woman in the i neighborhood and rumor had it i was engaged to marry her. i In May, some months later a rel- i ative of this young woman picked 1 exhaustive inquiry failed to disclose any woman missing either in Richmond or any other part of Virginia. \ About that time a couple of j girls came up from Yorktown, about j 40 miles distant. Having an hour < to wait for their train, they strolled 2 to the morgue to see the body of I s the unknown woman. The features ] were net recognizable, but the cloth- i ing waB in a fair state of preserva- ] tion. j "That looks like a dress Lillian Madison used to wear," commented < one. "Yes," replied the other, , "but Lillian is over in Bath coun- j ty teaching." ^ However on their return to York- i town they casually mentioned it { to an aunt of Lillian Madison. The ] aunt assured them that Lillian was s in Bath county, but, recalling that , she had not heard from her for a , couple of months, addressed a let- , ter to her. It was returned with a , note stating that she had left just j after Christmas. The aunt later positively identi- j fied the clothing as that of her ( niece. Around the old resevoir , ran a high picket fence, and about this, encircling the lake, there ran , a gravel walk. On the path at this ( point the detectives discerned evidence of a etr>'.?s!c but all obllter- , ated by ihe weather, but close ex-j am'uation disclosed a watch key. There was nothing particularly j distinctive about the key. Hut a shrewd detective observed that it had once undergone some slight repairing, and on this flimsy clue, , without even remotely suspecting ' anyone, the ferrets took up the trail. They took this key to every jeweller in Richmond, Petersburg, Nor- , folk, Lynchburg and Bristol, but J not one could identify it. The spring had passed and the summer , nearly over when these tireless detectives, having been into nearly ( every town and village in Virginia, at last found themselves in a small cubby-hole of a watch repairer's shop on a side street in Alexandria. The white-haired old jeweller in that little shop looked at the key j through his glass, then he dug up a memorandum book and for some minutes poured over it. At length he spoke: "I mended that key just three years ago for a man who gave his name as Thomas C. Cluverius, of Yorktown." The detectives swiftly repaired to Yorktown, the home of the murdered woman. They entered the office of Cluverius, a rising young lawj yer, and arrested him. Among his papers they found letters from Lillian Madison, which told a pitiful | toU V ? ,1 V. I | tion and then betrayed her. Prom the purport of the letters h? j had agreed to marry her and had written her about Christmas to meet J him secretely in Richmond. Cluver! ius admitted all the letters implied j but denied responsibility for the | death of the youn< woman. He was tried for murder, and the 1 jury after two hours' deliberation found him guilty and he was hanged, protesting his Innocence on the gallows. Phillips confessed Cluverius did not, what will Beattie | do? TO IMPEACH GOVERNOR BI,KAS? (Continued from page 1.) for a few hours yesterday. It is i ; reported that he came to the city j for the purpose of holding a con- ] j ference with Attorney Thomas B. Pelder, of this city, but no con! firmation of this report could be! secured last night. "His visit was of special interest i in view of the fact that only a few I days ago it was reported from Co- j j muiDia mat an enort wotild be | made at the next meeting of the j | Columbia legislature to impeach j Governor Blease on charges growing out of his conduct while a state senator in connection with the old dispensary." Nothing Known of it in Cojhunbia. i That such a conference was held l in Atlanta Saturday was a surprise to the usual news sources in ' Columbia, when they were asked about the incident. Really there j was a very strong inclination in that city to discredit the ?ntlre story despite the fact that it was known a similar story had been published a few days ago in one of the Eastern papers, under a Columbia date line. It was further 4 assorted In telephone conversation, that the statements made in the storjr from Atlanta do not coincide with conditions known to exist in Columbia. In connection with the publication The Constitution yesterday of Mr. i.ynu's report had been received in Augusta Saturday n<aht and it was stated that he left Atlanta lu?- iu the aTc- rnoou, over Ihe SeaIc-ard road, for some point In South Carolina. Mr. Lyon Knew Nothing of Oanference. Mr. Lyon was reached by long distance telephone, in Abbeville, 8. C., at an early hour Sunday morning and when asked about the story from Atlanta, said: "There is absolutely not a word of truth in that statement, so far as I know. I never heard of it before this minute, and you are Kivincr me m V first Information There was no such conference, so far as I know." When asked the question of whether or not he had held any conference with Mr. Felder Saturday, of any kind, Mr. Lyon r plied that he had not. HIGHWAYMKx"KILL PAYMASTER Father mid Son Fired Upon?$3.400 Saved?Suspect Caught, Pittsburg, Pa., Sept 16.?While driving to the mines of the Superior Coal Company, near here, today, with the sum'-monthly p.iy tor the miners, Davis Steen was shot and instantly killed by a highwayman. His father, William J. Steen, who was in the buggy with him, caught the body of his son as it toppled over. The money, $3,400 was saved. Later in the day Quadrata Orrighelli, an Italian, was arrested suspected of knowing something of the crime and it was with difficulty that troopers of the State constabulary prevented the elder Steeo fron throttling him. The shooting occurred almost within a stone's throw of the Steen residence, near Woodville. Father md son were driving along the road when two men appeared and opened fire, one with a revolver, md the other with a shotgun. The Steens were armed, and remembering the experiences of other paymasters In the country of Western Pennsylvania, each had his hand on His revolver. * ive minutes aiter tney lert tne 3teen home with the money and were passing an abandoned mine a aian appeared in the road. Without warning he opened fire with a revolver, as another man came in o view from the other side. He lifted a shotgun and fired. Both ihots were directed at David Steen, who was driving and both took sffect. One shot tore away the right hand, cutting the reins, and the other buried itself in his body, near the heart. The reins dropped and the frightened horse sprang forward. With a dying groan the dying man toppled over toward his aged father, who encircled him with one arm, and drawing a revolver began shooting at the bandits. They did not reply, and after standing in astonishment for a moment, turned and ran swiftly toward the hills. The older Steen, after emptying his revolver caught up the reins and shouted for help, drove furiously to the Superior Mine. There he gave the alarm and summoned a doctor, but before the doctor arrived the man was dead. A posse was quickly organized. Prom their home, scarcely a hundred yards from the scene of the shooting, Mrs. John Nicholi and her sons, George and Joseph, had witnessed the crime and the flight of the bandits. The boys were eager to follow, but were restrained by their mother until the posse came up, when they went racing before them over the hills. Late in the afternoon State constabulary troopers captured two men answering the description given by .>cccii auu in * mem to n.'s ree'dence, near Bridgeville, where ne was impatiently awaiting news. "That's one of them," he shrieked, as he sprang toward the taller of the men and planted a blow in his face. Before he oouid be prevented ,he attempted to throttle the man, but the troopers interferred and held him back. Statement of the Condition of the BANK OF LITTLE ROCK, at the close of business Sept. 1st, 1911. located at Little Rock, S. C., Resources: Loans and Discounts, $118,429.66 Overdrafts, 1,840.60 Furniture and Fixtures, 1,049.06 Due from Banks and Bankers, 10,155.45 Currency, 637.00 Silver and other Minor Coin, 395.30 Cash and Check Items, 698.45 Total, #133.205.52 Liabilities: Capital Stock Paid in, $ 19,950.00 Surplus, 2,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid, 2,406.89 InrtiviHuol DonAoila K loof ?wuw* JUVJ/VOHO DUl/JCVW to Check, 41,576.37 Time Certificate of Deposit, 5,825.00 Cashier's Checks 15.00 Notes and Bills Rediscounted, 14.694.25 Bills Payable, Including Certificates for Money Borrowed, 46,738.01 Total, $138,205.52 State of Soutn Carolina, County of Dillon. Before me came Rufus Edwards, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement in a trno rnnrlUlr>r> aoM x?r.ir ~o shown by the books of said bank. Rufus Edwards, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th d>\y of September 1811. J. N. Oaddy, Notary Public. J. 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