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MAY FASTEN BLAME.
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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?
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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. S Thompson,
J. W. Hamer,
D. W Bethea, .
Directors. ?
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