Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 11, 1907, Image 1
THE FOftX MILL TIMES. *
1GTII. YEAR. FORT MILL,. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 11. 1907 NO. lo" |
BADLY FOOLED.
A Clever Negro Posing as an Indian
Lionized
BY THE RICH PEOPLE
Of Now Vork and Of her Northern
>
Oities and Summer Kesorts.?lie
Was Once the Guest of President
lioosevelt at the Union lion^ne
i . Club.?Kxposed by Two Artists
i Wlto Knew llim Well.
Those without the pale of Now
York soeiely will no doubt he interested
to learn that one of the lions
of the Smart Set, who has been ex
lensiveiy entertained by Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, Mrs. John R. Drexel
and others, and whom President
Roosevelt has consulted frequently in
regard to Indian affairs, is no other
tliau the son of Mrs. Russet Sage's
negro cook says the New York
American.
Though known in the circles of the
elite as Antonio Apache, grandson of
the famous chief Cochise, this dusky
Beau Mrummel began life as a Louisiana
pickaninny under the obscure
name of "Tony Simpson."
That such is the true identity of a
man whom they denounce as "tinmost
fantastic fakir that ever fooled
New York," was declared by William
M. Cary and Kdwin \V. Dealing, both
of whom are well-known New York
painters of Indian life.
"It is about time the true character
of this impostor is made publicly
known," said Mr. Cary. "lie is not
only a fakir, hut a scamp. lie is the
same negro who stole a painting
from me about nineteen years ago,
and in consequence served two years
in Sing Sing prison."
I "The alleged grandson of Chief
Cochise is a fraud." said Mr. Doming.
"1 am glad the American is going to
expose him for he has been trading
on the sympathies of a lot of good
people who believed he was an Indian."
Antonio Apache, according to the
testimony of Mr. Cary and Mr. Denting.
has been able to exploit t Incredulity
of the Smart Set for th?last
ten years because he made deception
an art. Not only did he ape
the Indian in physical appearance
but he also studied the habits and
language of the Redskin.
On top of his African curls he has
been accustomed to wear a wig of
coarse black Indian hair, which he
brushed almost as smooth as patent
le.ititer. Those who have won his
confidence say that he posesses an
elaborate assortment of scalps, with
hair of various lengths, and that he
shifts from one wig to another, as
Ills hair is supposed to grow. Finally
comes the "hair cut" when suddenly
lie jumps back Into wig No. 1.
Host the natural ebon of his features
should dispute his claim of Indian
ancestry, he is said to tint his
skin with a sort of bronze paint, doing
it so skillfully, that he has frenquently
posed to artists for "color."
As the lion of Fifth avenue drawing
rooms Antonio Apache lias been
wont to tell of his early life with a
great amount of detail which seemed
corroborative. It was a far different
story than that revealed by the
two artists who say he is a humbug.
He made 110 mention to Mrs. Drexel
or Mrs. Astor of the fact that about
twenty years ago he used to help his
negro mother peel potatoes and drain
spinach in the Sage household.
Instead I10 boasted that his grandfather
was the* fearless chief Cochise,
and that his ancestral realm down in
Arizona embraced a territory target
than Connetieut. That country even
to this day, he said, bore his name.
And when he was asked about the
habits and customs of the Apaches,
he was always ready to descrita
them minutely, as if to evidence tin
most intimate knowledge of ills peo
nlo
Society first begun t.i entertain tin
alleged grandson of Cochise ahout
two years ago, when Mrs. John R
Drexel invited a select ntiniher o
guests to meet him. lie was caller
Prince Anthony by the most charme*
of bis admirers, and at once Invita
lions from the nn?st exclusive home:
of New York and Philadelphia begat
to be showered upon him.
For a time he dropped out of the
social horizon only to appear a stil'
greater favorite last Winter at a ball
at the home of Mrs. John Jacob As
tor. ills dancing attracted specie'
notice, ami he was pronounced on<
i of the most graceful figures on tinfloor.
A certain New York society editor
wrote the following in his praise:
"Socit.v loves a novelty, and of late
it has been delighting itself with en
tainlng that splendid specimen of a
lost race, Mr. Antonio Apache, a full
I blooded Indian, who has the manners
of a Chesterfield, the education of a
Gladstone and the beauty of a graven
image. He Is a most distinguished
and interesting man and his society
has been sought for by the leaders of
the Four Hundred. Mrs. John R.
Drexel entertained him in her box at
* the Horse Show, and he has been dined
and feted by the highest. Mr
Apache dresses in the latest fashion
and carries himself with impressive
dignity."
A IIII>i:Ol S Cltl.MK.
v lliirned tier llushaml Alive to Will
An Old Suitor.
Mrs. Kindra Hosstro, aged eighteen
years, of Dun mo re, Pa., is in
^ the county jail, charged with having
burned her hushund to death that she
might be free to marry her former
suitor, Ignatz Hutro, who has been
arrested as an accessory. The police
officials say that Mrs. Hosstro has
confessed that she got her .uisband
drunk, and whon he was<4tnpelted in
bed. poured oil from a IVmp on the
bed and then set it on thy
SHOT TO DEATH.
A Young Man Meets Untimely I
Death In Darlington
Apparently Accidentally Shot In I
Store of J. Wiley Hliodcs, Who
Had Rilliculty With Negro.
A special dispatch from Darlington
to The State savs the fourth of )
July celebration was marred that
night by the unfortunate killing of
Dide Kilgo, aged 16. of Bishopville.
The killing of young Kilgo was a
most unusual affair. It seems that
young Kilgo had gone to the fruit
store of J. Wiley Rhodes for the purpose
of making a purchase. While in
the store it appears that a negro
named Sam Teague was there also
and, it is alleged, had insulted the
wife of the proprietor.
Rhodes came out with pistol in
hand, with the intention, it is said, 1
of resenting the insult, to his wife. In t
he melee which followed Rhodes'
pistol was discharged, the ball striking
the negro in the forehead, the
bullet glancing, entered Kilgo's head 1
just between the eyes, killing him in- \
Btantly. d
The negro, who was only slightly 'i
injured, made his escape, and at 10 |
o'clock Thursday night was being t
searched for and his arrest is expect- t
ed, as a witness before the coroner's d
jury.
The unfortunate young man, ac- t
companied by his father, Mr. J. P. s
Kilgo, came over from Rishopville to c
attend the Foutli of July celebration, f]
The elder Mr. Kilgo left in the after- j
noon for Rishopville. leaving his son
with some friends to return later. u
Mr. Rhodes, from whose pistol the
fatal bullet was discharged, is re- t
garded us a good citizen, and is a v
singer in the choir of the Baptist t
church. d
The affair is greatly deplored in
Darlington. f
Young Kilgo had just graduated at ^
the Rishopville public school and expetted
to enter Furman Jniversity (1
at the approaching session.
Sl,It'll ItOdlK.
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i Hated t'afe Cashier Skips With Five i
a
Hundred Dollars.
Charles Duncan, the cafe cashier
of the Hotel Knickerboker, of New \
York has disapeured with f.lrto
The Knickerboker has lost so many
cashiers since the ocean resort open- v
ed this Summer that Duncan was -v
snapped up live days ago, without "
even the usual formality of an Indemnity
bond.
Wednesday he was given the usual
bag of $.100 in bills and silver with I
which to make change during the
day. When night came the bag was
VUMIV7U inn III blllT I I I il 11 ?l 1^1'I Willi
rocks, rivets-and a couple of paper
weights. Not su8i>ectinR it was lockI'd
in the safe with the rest of the V
as h overnight.
Next morning. when the has was ''
untied, the substitution was discover- *'
ed: hut Duncan hasn't been seen e
since in spite of the efforts of the
Pinkertons. He is said to come from
New Haven, where his father is a ho- J
tel man.
NAISICOW KSCAI'i:. 1
t
The Captain of a Steamer Sandbaggril
and Itolilu'd. *'
0
Captain .1. Cimira, of the steam- e
ship Alabama, plying between Tampa c
Fla., and Nipe Hay, Cnlia, had a nar- i
row escape from death at the hands
it" SDViM'lll IDiHriliPix I\f prtUf vvh<?
sand bagged hlin and placed his unconscious
form beneath a car on the |
tracks of the Seaboard Air Line in
;heir water front yard.
The captain had obtained a vaea1
ion of a month and had made all
'lis arrangements to leave the city,
purchasing his ticket. Later he was '
found unconscious beneath the wheels v
;>f a freight car. When brought to. '
he complained that he had been rob- I
bed of his railroad ticket and $1X0
in money.
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KILI.LI) IIIS I'ATHKIt.
I
!au Shot to Death While Heating '
11 is Wife.
I
A man named William Taylor was
shot to death in Saluda County ont
lay last week by his son. It seems |
hat Taylor was beating his son.
.vhen his wife spoke to him and beg t
;eil his to desist. f
He let the hoy go and attacked his
wife. The son went to the rescue
if his mother and shot his father,
%illing him instantly. .
Taylor was present at the time
stockman killed his son-in-law in
Lexington county a year or so ago
and was a witness in that case.
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LF.l'T Til K l!.\HY.
x
Ihe Caotaiu Held The Ship Intil 1
>I<* Came.
At Now York Henrlk Von Slork. of '
t'oli. la., and his wife Alma, left for j
13urope. on tlie steamship Now AmHterdani
Wednesday without their ,
hahy. They had forgotten the infant ,
md left it at the hotel where tpey--^
had stopped over night.
The oflieers of the ship, when not- ,
iiied, agreed to delay the sailing of
the ship for ten minutes, and the
couple hastily returned to the hotel
and brought the sleeping baby
aboard.
UKKKN KYKI) MONSTKK.
Causes a Man to hill Ills Wife and
^ Brother.
Rexford Dew, living near Wilson,
N. C., Thursday shot and killed his
young wife, to whom he. had been
married only a short time; and a
brother whom he alleges has been
paying improper attention to the woman.
DARING RASCAL.
Chester Runyan, Teller of a Trust
Company Walked Off
In llmnd l>?y Light Willi Nearly Olio
Hundred Thousand Dollars of the
Company's Money.
A reward of $2,500 is offered by a
S'ew York surety company for the
rapture of Chester li. Kunvan, payng
teller of the W indsor Trust comtanv
of New York, who, it is charged,
>n Saturday, walked out of the trust
ompnnv's office with $96,517 of the
innk's money stuffed away in his
iress suit case. The theft was deetted
Monday. It had been executed
with a boldness as startling as
he deed itself was surprising to
hose who had known and trusted
he young man.
Runyan had announced his ititenion
of spending last Sunday with his
nother at Rochester, and no surprise
vas expressed when he brought his
Iress suit case to the hank Saturday,
"hough the paying teller cage is in
lain sight from the working posiions
of other employes the paying
oilers vault was literally emptied
luring the afternoon.
At 12.150 o'clock, Run.van locked
he vault doors and leaving the dress
nit case# filled with money in the
age went out to lunch. In fortyIve
minutes lie returned and piekng
up the dress suit case, left the J
ifflce. No trace of his subsequent '
novements have been discovered.
Runyan's wife is prostrated, at '
lirir modest four-room apartment
iptown. She, too, had understood 1
hat her husband was to spend Sun- '
lay at Rochester.
Runyan. who is 21 years old. lived 1
rugall.v, never gambled, it is said. *
ind no interests outside his otlico
nd home and was considered a most 1
uatter-of-fact, level-headed person.
Mrs. Runyan's brother, John Car
ley, a bookkeeper, who lived with
he couple declared that his sister '
lad been left penniless. His brother- f
u-law, he said, earned $1,S0(1 a year
nd the family lived simply.
Runyan was born in Rochester. '
/here he worked for a time in a '
rug store. Later lie got a place
ritli the Traders' Rank of that city,
nd then with the Alliance Hunk,
/here he was bookkeeper for five
ears. He went to New York about
due years ago.
KlLliKD II I.MS LLC.
t? jectci' Sul?or Found l>cu<i\ffit NewlOhkllt'
'.'wive,
Quarreling with her. Christen .Tanen
of Marwell. Ark., a hard-working
Iwede, took leave of his sweetheart,
jiila Jones, Sunday night, after his
iroposal of marriage had been turnd
down, vowing that he intended to
ml his life.
Nothing more was thought of the
nttter until a search was instituted
or .lansen, with the result that the
?ody was found in a newly dug grave
n the family cemetary on the Jones
ilantation, with a tiny hullet through
he brain.
The facts connected with his love
lfair were brought out at the inmost
with the verdict being returnd
that lie came to bis death from liis
iwn hand. A brother of the man r
onunitted suicide several years ago
t is said.
SIIK WAS A IIKIiOlNK.
laughters of Confederacy Unveil
Monuiiieiit to I'biinia Sansoiu.
Under the auspices of tlie Gadsen,
Via., chapter. United Daughters of
he Confederacy, a marble monument
vas unveiled at Gadsen to P.mma
binsoni, a heroine of the civil war
leriod.
During Gen Forest's pursuit of
lie federal auuy raiders in April,
the federal oihcer Colonel
>t i eight burned the bridge over
Hack Creek behind him and headed :
or itonie, Ga., to destroy the con
run in*' liiriui y .
Miss Sansoni rid ins on Genera I
'orest.'s horse behind him pointed
>ut tlie way to a ford a few miles
ihove the scene of the hurtling bridge j
'orest's troops then overtook the fed- '
rais and captured them. It is the
lilrd monument in (lie south ever 1
>rented to a woman.
WAR IN FIVK YKAIIH.
Is Predicted Between fapiin and the
United States.
A special ?o the Pos-Intelligencer i
'roin North Yakama saj>:
Rear Admiral W. J. Thompson, U.
3. N., retired, who has arrived here
for a short stay, predicts a war with
Japan wlthing Ave years.
Admiral Thompson says that war
is invetiable, but he does not believe
(hat Great Brltan will assist her ally
In such a struggle and thinks that
while the Philltppines may be the
real outset of the war, in the end the
resourses of the United States must
result in defeat for the Japanese.
He believes that in tlie event of hostilities
France would give Anancial
aid to Japan.
I\Il,l/KI> IIIMSF.I.F.
In I'rcNCiKr of Fight Hundred I'coplc
For KymltoMr Reasons.
At Seoul, Korea, at a demonstration
in celebration of the returning
Prince of Pak Yon Mo, a reformer
and forclful Korean statesman, who
after twelve years' exile, was a fortnight
ago welcomed by the emperor
as a possible Korean savior, Chung
Chain Ong. an educator, killed hlmBelf
In the presence of 800 persons,
to emphasize the subjection of Korea
to Japan.
DEAD OR HURT.
The Direful Results of Too Much
Patriotism in the
STATE OF NEW v0RK
Seven IVople Killed, Half a lN?/.en
Hying and Hundreds living Treat
?-?i in Hospitals in \cw York Day's
Kecoial.?One Man HisrliarKiii); 1 ?? volvor
Killed llis Aunt, anil then
Committed Suicide.
A dispatch front New York says
Independence Day, ushered in \...h
tnitch noise, went ont tonight in a
blaze ol pyrotecnics. the most imposing
that New Yorkers have ever
witnessed. A deafening roar maintained
throughout the day by the
burning of millions of dollar's worth
of powder, gave way after nightfall
to the exhibition of fireworks' experts,
who lighted the skies with effects
of surpassing beauty.
Viewed from its hrigmer side, the
holiday was truly glorious. A smiling
sun and moderate temperature
brought (lie tens of thousands to the
Ueacli. the public parks and atnusemc
lit resorts and everywhere there
tvas noise and fun making.
In the background the police and
ospllal surgeons went grimly about
their work of removing the dead and
ministering t< the wounded Tonight
he police were reckoning tin* cost in
asualities of the day's celebration.
At a late hour the celebratk n had
ost seven lives, a half dozen persons
were dying and hundreds of
>tl.era were being treated in the hospitals
for injuries, ranging from
slight burns, with the possibility of
tetanus developments. to bullet
wounds and lost limbs.
Of the dead three died in premature
celebrations. The others were
silled during the day. In an ecstacy
?f patriotism Arthur Carraro rapidly
Uncharged a revolver in his back
?*ard.
One of the bullets entered the head
>f his aunt, Mrs. Alfonzo Fucarino,
ind she fell dead. The nexi bullet.
iy design or accident killed the celeirator,
wlio fell dead over liis aunt's
tody.
KlICIll'lllO waii nril\runt"?l
mediately committing suicide by bystnnders.
Eighteen year old Nlnipa (Irizzanti
was struck by a bullet as she stood j
tear the open window of her room j
lresslng Iter hair. Several Italians
were arrested. No motive is known. |
Henry Englehardt, aged four years,
was killed by a bullet while looking |
nit of the window of his home. (
Jesse Guseviter, 111 years old, is ,
lying from another stray bullet ,
wound.
John Graham, I <i was mortally j
wounded by a charge from a toy
-an non.
James Reneso, t>. was all but burn- ,
>d alive, when a tire cracker igniied ,
lis clothing. ,
Arthur Carfoot. 25. is one of a
lo/.en, who had a hand blown off.
Lost eyes and lingers and scareaving
wounds added to the total of
smergency cases.
A FKAHFIL, KFI'OIIIL
I lie Niimlier Killed ami Wounded
<Vh-brating the Fourth.
Thirty-seven men, women and
hildren are dead and 2,153 are
maimed, lacerated or burned as a remit
of the Fourth's excess of patriotism
in the United States. The
number of dead does not include ttveirowned
dnrine the rtnv
The roster of dead is four more
than last year's mortality. A year
ago thirty-three persons were dead
>n the morning after the Fourth, not
Including five drowned.
Unfortunately, the death roll will
increase day l?v day, and even the
late days of August will witness additional
numbers. Tetanus, that grim
aftermath of gunpowder wounds,
laims its victims by the scores and
F?ven by hundreds for weeks after the
Fourt h.
New York leads the cities of the
United States in the number of killed
and injured. Ten persons are dear.
In that city, while six more are so
aeriously injured that it is expected
they will die in a few hours.
Pittsburg, Pa., ran a close second
to New York in the grim race, nine
persons yielding up their lives on the
altar of frenzied patriotism.
i meago, aiinougn i ne socona city
in tlie union, had only (wo deaths.
Springfield, 111., supplied three victims,
Chatham, III., two and Aberdeen.
S. 1)., two.
The following places furnish one
victim each: Des Moines. Effingham.
111., (Jreenup, 111., Harrisburg, Pa..
Hartford, Conn., Kansas City, Kan.,
Mont poller, Vt., Spokane. Wash., and
X. Y.
The total number of injured, 2,153.
is under last year's figures,
which were 2,789.
The causes of the 2,153 injuries
show that fireworks were responsible
for 1,046 cases; gunpowder for 347;
and firearms for 292. Cannon added
222, while toy pistols came next witli
205, and runaways, caused by explosions,
made up the other fortyone
injured on the Mat.
<;<>T~t\vfi.yf cents.
One Firm Ituy.s Sixteen Hundred
Rules at That Price.
A dispatch from Americus. C?a., to
the Atlanta Journal says sixteen hundred
hales of cotton for October delivery
were bought this morning by
an American cotton firm from farmers
willing to take the handsome
price of 1 2 cents offered. Tints they
have sold their crops already at assured
price and take no chances of
possible declines
NAVAL DISPLAY
To Be Made in the Pacific by the
United States.
Twenty or More llnttloships to Assoluble
in Sun Francisco llurhor in
the Winter.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf in
an Interview at Oakland. Cal., where
he is visiting confirmed the report
that a large part of the United States
navy will he seen in Pacific waters
next winter. Eighteen or 20 of the
largest batleships will come round
Cape Horn on a practice cruise and
will he seen in San Francisco harhor.
"Many false impressions have gained
circulation about the movement."
said Secretary Metcalf. "1 have held
all along that there was practically
no significance to this movement
from a military standpoint. I might
have stated before leaving Washington
exactly what I atn saying now.
Hut I thought that as \ We Ve\w< concerned
the people of Jf\le^'jufffic
coast, today would hemic appropriate
time to announce the plans, f
"It is the policy of the navy department
to keep the fleet in American
waters as much as possible. It
is also our policy to keep as large a
number of battleships together as
possible. We might as well spend
the money in American ports as
abroad. In the past we have sent
squadrons to various European nations
with less advantage than by
keeping them at home.
"I have planned this cruise around
Cape Horn for the practice of the
squadron. How long the ships will
remain here I cannot say. 1 can promise
the people of Oakland and San
Francisco that they will see one of
the finest naval spectacles ever witnessed
in Pacific waters.
"I hope the talk of Japenese trouble
and of international differences
may be dropped by the newspapers.
There is nothing to produce any feeling
except this talk of the newspapers.
The story that Ambassador
Aoki is in disfavor with his own government.
1 believe, is purely an invention.
I know of no reason why
Japan and the 1'nited States should
not be on the friendliest of terms.
SOUill f CMIOPTIC.VS 1ATK.
Kentucky Woman Courted Death
Through Snake IHte.
Mrs. Rose hloom, of Paducah, Ky.,
is at death's door, with the upper
part of her body swollen to frightful
proportions, as the result of an at
tempt to emulate Cleopatra, the
l-hiyptian queen, who. in ancient history,
is credited with clasping the
deadly cobra to her bosom as halm
to wounded feelings after a love episode
with Mare Anthony.
Mrs. Bloom went to Ohian, Tenn.,
several days ago from Union City,
accompanied by her husband, Mr.
Bloom has been missing for several
days, and when the doctors were callad
in to attend Mrs. Bloom for eonvul
sions, they found a live reptile in her
room and the woman in a semi-conscious
state.
Site said she did not care to live
longer, and that she had driven into
the country for the express purpose
of obtaining the poison-spreading adder,
a species of native snakes, whose
bite is considered fatal. The woman
had placed the snake in her corsage
and the snake bit her many times.
IMlSKli WF.I.I, WITH SALTS.
Woman Will I'uy Two Hundred Hollars
For Doing It.
If Justice Young's judgment stands
on appeal to the higher courts, Mrs.
Annie Bennett, of Shippenville, Lake
Hopatcong, will have to pay Sani
McConnell $2(id for having dosed his
well with rochelle salts. They are
relatives.
One day recently McConnell's
daughter saw Mrs. Bennett throw a
white powder into the well. Her
father sent a sample to chemist
lie also put some on a piece of meat,
which a wandering dog ate and died.
McConnell hoarded the well over.
A neighbor then told him that
Mrs. Bennett had I toasted of having
dosed the well with five pounds of
the stilts. Chemical analysis confirmed
the story. Suit was brought
in Justice Young's court, and the
$200 judgment resulted.
TIIK KKNTK KY WAY.
Slew n Man Before the .fudge and
the Jury.
A dispatch front Pamtsville, Kyv
says while listening to Attorney F.
A. Hopkins argue a case in the Prestonhurg
co.urt house. Joe Fit /.pa trick,
it is alleged, walked up behind Andy
Coburn and shot him three times in
the hack, killing hint. Coburn was
sitting near the bar and knew nothing
of the man's movements until he
was shot.
During the panic which followed,
Fitzpatrick and a crowd of relatives
quietly left the court room and went
home. No attempt was made to arrest
him. Coburn was lately indicted
upon a charge of killing a cousin
of Joe Fitzpatrick, and the case was
t r.? thlo fnem
MJt l*H iirni iii^ i 111 n vOTssi;
had .in/rhi> 11ic.
And Sim Went (Binning for Him ami
Herself.
At Now York Mary Balasi, a young
Hungarian, shot. Harry Stern four
times while he was asleep in i>?d at
hia homo In East Hundred and Seventh
street Thursday afternoon, believing
she had l>een jilted. She then
shot herself in the left breast. Both
were removed to the hospital with
slight chances of recovery. A year
ago the girl entered suit for breach
of promise against Stern.
MILLS FOUND GUILTY
Verdict in Gaffney Trial Quickly
Rendered.
A Kceoiiiiiiemlat ion to Mercy Attach
?*1 to Jury's Finding?Many
Surprised at Verdict.
A special to The News and Courier
from Gaffney says the case against
William H. Mills, for the killing of
G. Frank Deal, went to the jury Saturday
afternoon after four o'clock
and In about an hour a verdict of
guiiiy oi murder with recommendation
to mercy was agreed upon. The
verdict was a surprise to many.
The charge of Judge Purdy practically
removed the possibility of any
other verdict. He stated that there
was no such thing as the written
law recognized by the Courts of the
State, and that the pardoning power
was in the hands of the Governor
and not in the hands of the jury.
The jury was instructed not to consider
anything pertaining to the unwritten
law.
The arguments of counsel were
able. They took about a day. They
were begun Friday afternoon and
continued until dinner time Saturday.
Mr. Wilson madea n admirable plea
to the sympathy of the jury. He
referred to Mrs. Mills, who was sitting
by her husband, when he pointed
to her and said:
"That woman was once a beautiful
woman. I knew her whenshe
was a student at Converse College
and she was considered one of the 1
most beautiful women tit that institution.
Hook at her now. She is 2-1 1
years old and looks every day of 30."
Solicitor Sease made a very strong
argument and one that told on the
jury.
A motion has been made for a new
trial and will he argued on Monday
morning. Should the judge not set 1
the verdict aside the case will he
fought out in the Supreme Court.
Sentiment is very much divided as
to the verdict. Many thought that <
the prisoner would he turned loose, j
while some thought he would get
some punishment and a few years' <
sentence as he did. A petition for a s
pardon would get many signatures at
this time. 1
mcAYKitv kkcog\izi:i>.
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Walter Stewart, Colored, Awarded a '
Pine Gold Waeli. I
Waller Stewart a poliu-nil i???rt.?.
*>n Southern train. No. lit!', running ,
l?etween Columbia and Savannah, ,
who showed so much bravery in his efforts
to save the life of Knginner <
Gibson in the fatal wreck on May it0. ,
litis been awarded a handsome watch |
by the local branch of the Brother- ,
hood of Locomotive Engineers in re- }
cognition of his faithfulness. ,
The circumstances of the wreck i
will be well remembered. All who ,
read the accounts of the accident
were struck with the presence of .
mind and courage displayed by the ,
porter. (
Stewart, who was the first member j
of the crew to reach the point where (
t tie engine went over the trestle. ,
crawled down the trestle, through the ,
stream, into the dark swamp beneath.
where Engineer Gibson would have ,
died had it not been for the porter's |
quick thought.
Calling for a rope and mail sacks ,
he had Engineer Gibson lifted to the
bridge and there did everything possible
for him. Mrs. Gibson, who
joined her husband at Allendale said
afterwards that never would she forget
the kindness shown by Stewart.
The watch presented to Stewart
bears the following inscription:
Presented ..
. r . To
Walter Stewart By
R. L. E. Division K."?
For Bravery In Rescuing
T. K. Gibson in Wreck tit
Savannah River, May X<>. 1!??>7.
HP I DOI N G \VltK('ki:i).
IJy Rag of I'oivdrr Thrown Over the
Transom.
Mxstorious explosions partly wrecked
two buildings, one in Manhattan
and one in Itrnoklvn Wednesday. In
the former case a hag of nun powder
was thrown over the transom of
Winghing's Chinese laundry.
A fuse was evidently attached, for
the powder exploded, damaging the
laundry and llosenthai restaurant adjoining.
The laundry and restaurant
are under a five story apartment
building.
A panic followed, though no damage
was done to the upper .floors of
the building. The explosion was evidently
carefully planned. Winghing
says he is at olds with none of the
Chinese tongs and Rosenthal denies
that lie has received any threats from
(Hack Hand or other similar organizations.
The Mrooklyn explosions was under
ai Broadway tenement, it is unexplained.
The exxplosion did litth
damage, but a fire followed, which
was quickly extinguished.
KIIXKI> ON IIAIX FIKLH.
Lightning Strikes One Player Head
and Stuns I'.ight Others.
At St. Anthony, Iowa, lightning
struck one man dead and shocked
eight others Sunday afternoon while
tliov were nlaving a game of baseball.
Albert Laplant, on second base, was
killed as he was catch lot? a ball
thrown to him by the catcher.
A blinding (lash of lightning was
followed by a deafening peal of thunder,
and the startled spectators ^aw
nine players lying on the field apparently
lifeless. Kight were only stun
ned but young Laplant was dead
when help reached him.
All of the others ure In a serious
condition. Laplant was twenty-two
years old. More than one hundred
people witnessed the tragedy.
TERRIBLE CRIME. ?
Buried His Wife's Little Daughter
Alive in aRefuseHole.
MYSTERIOUS CASE.^j
Pretty Little Seven Year Old Mary *
New I in Burled Alive lly ller Step- I
father, Irwin Lewis, Who Is Now
In Jail.?Lewis Admits llurybig
Her Hilt Heelares That lie Thought
Her Dead.
Hurled alive by her stepfather was 3
the tragic late or pretty, little sev- ' fljl
en-year-old Mary Newlln, for whose
death Irwin i,e\\is is now iu jail at
Chester, Pa., awaiting the action
of the grand jury. Lewis, thought
admitting that lie I"! r it?(i lis little-' V
stepdaughter, declares lie did not
murder her, or snow she was living
when he buried her. "I thought ^
her dead when she fell from the car- tl
riage barn," he moaned in his defense
?it the coroner's investigation.
Hut his excuse was so flimsy,and
the weight of the evidence against
him so great that he was quickly
remanded to <"il to await the January
term of court, and it was only the
prompt work of the sheriff and his
deputies in getting him quickly out
of the little courthouse at Avondnle,
where the hearing was held, that saved
the young Pennsylvania farmer
from death at the hands of tne mob.
Lewis' partial confession was
wrung from him by District Attorney
MacRlree on the day iu which his
stepdaughter's tiny body was found
by \V. C. Shelley and John O'Drloti,
deputy sheriff, in a hole thai Lewis
had declared ho dug to bury soino
refuse iu. The one essential feature
to establish the murder without r.
Jon lit on tho young stepfather, the
>idmission that he killed the child,
MacKlree was unable to get. Ou
the contrary, the farmer insisted his
stepdaughter's death was due to her
fall from the carriage shod roof, and
that he buried the body after finding
I he child dead, giving as his reason
that he wished 10 spare his wife who
is in a dedicate condition, the shock
if her daughter's death.
But the alert prosecutor was procured
for just such a move as this,
ind startled the vast audience at tho
Inquest by producing medical evileiico
to show that the child died
>t' strangulation and suffocation.
There was not a mark nor a bruise
... I.n.l.i ,-.f I >-" ol.tl,* ' ?... ? -?
?*? * in i??Mj ui ' i " * 'i r.111- II<II.
i?t boon assaulted, us iutiinntoil. On
lier nook, however, were Lho marks
>f tinners, showing some one had
gripped the child h.v the throat, and
.vound tightly around the neck there
ivas also a piece of string, fixed tight
nough to produce suffocation.
This partial confession upon the
stepfather's part removes all question
>f kidnappers being mixed up in the
jase, as was at. flrst thought, and it
is the opinion of everybody in Chester
county that when the cell doors
dosed on lrvin Lewis, the girl's real
murderer had been safely secured.
I'ho prosecution Is said to liavo two
witnesses under cover who will say
that Mary Is ?"Md to have told them
that some one in her own home had
tried to kill her twice during the winter.
The child is said to have divulged
the attempts rpon her life while
telling how much afraid she was of
her "dad," meaning young Lewis
"I always run and hide when I
see him coming," the dead child is
reported to have said to the two witnesses
before she finally disappeared.
That she stood In deadly fear of her
stepfather has been learned from
men and women who have worked
about the Lewis farm or visited it,
and who, on several occasions, watched
meetings between the dead girl
and her accused parent. There aro
lunnv who reside in the vicinity of
the allowed crime who helieve that.
Lewis is crazy, and that it will bo necessary
to either ,ake him to an insane
asylum or have a commission inquire
into his state of miml before his
trial, still months distant, is heguu.
MtOWNLH TWO I'KOI'LH.
llilge Fish, Hooked to 't rolling Line,
'I*iti-ii Ileal Over.
One day last week ('. T. Chambers
and Mrs. (I. Cutter, of Ionia, die-It.,
w? nt fishing in Chippewa Lake. Their
boat was turned over by a fifteen
pound pickeral, and both of them
were drowned. The fish lifironiipj
hooked on a trob.i.g tied to a
cleat in the boat ran under tlio craft,
and upset it. Searching parties on
rafts with grappling limits I rought
Ho fish to the surface, dead, and still
attached to the hook. The body of
Chambers was found later, but that
o| his companion is si ill missing.
FATA L FHHIT.
One Negro Kill Another In Charleston
on Thursday.
A dispa tch iToin t'ltnriesmii ssnya
among th< moat aei lout* eat untitles A
..i the Fourth of .f 111> ?r;ii ion wan M
the stabbing affra.v on t eorner of
South and Drake slreols, when Mart r
Plckney killed Sainl. (irnnt. The no- I,
groes had a hand to hand light, nnop
armed with a razor and the other\
a knife, both being hadly eut, butl
Grant getting the worse J
i ii;i:i> o\ Molt. <
Five Persons Killed mid Twelve
Wounded Ity Soldiers.
Seven workmen were &rr< od in afl
ilio i.nit.a v of Tei eh-. Prussia, and^|
ill i 1111 ?i inn III effect tlietr release
furred if) tt^^H
mob, killing five and wounding
twelve. /
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