Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 10, 1907, Image 1
THE FORT MILL TIMES.
10TH YEAR FORT MILT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907 NO. 28
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CHASING TIGERS.
The Dispensary Authorities Getting
Busy In Charleston.
AUDITOR WEST BUSY
Getting Out Injunction!* to Stop the
Sale of Illicit Booze in the City by
the Sea.?The Isle of Palms Permanently
and Other Places Temporarily
Enjoined.?Blind Tigers
Are Surprised But Not Worried.
A dispatch from Charleston to The
State says Auditor W. B. West arrived
In Charleston Thursday morning
with a bundle of injunctions
ironi me supreme court, anu Hastening
to the sheriff's office, placed them
in the hands of an officer for service
on the Charleston hotel, the Argyle
hotel, the Occidental cafe, the Schuetzenplatz
and the proprietors of the
Isle of Paints. Ail of these places
of business have been restrained
from selling intoxicants, the Isle of
Palms permanently, and the other
four temporarily.
Humor coming along with Mr.
West says that a hundred or two
more of these temporary injunctions
are hound" Charlestonward to be served
on all places where liquor is said
to be sold, the revenue license list
furnishing a basis for service, and
that Charleston will also have at an
early date a force of constables, to be
paid by the county dispensary board,
to enforce the dispensary law rigidly.
The coming of Mr. West to Charleston
and the closing of the cafes
of the hotels, restaurant, an^ at the
tichutzenplatz have naturally thrown
the clt> in a state of tense excitement.
The injunction proceedings
were made up of a petition for k
temporary injunction, the order of
temporary injunction on affidavits
which have been made out by agents
of the auditor and through his personal
work.
The blow struck is a natural consequence
of the success attending the
efforts of Auditor West to close the
Isle of Palms cafe permanently.
From the outlook at preseut every
cafe and club In the city and every
other place where liquor is sold will
be Himilarly cloned.
In the Ave sets of papers serveu
all the owners and the cafe managers
were reached. A Mr. Crneton, said to
be the future chief constable for
this county, has been In the city for
a couple of weeks at work getting
evidence. He accompanied the sheriff's
officer In the service of the papers.
A few days ago a copy of the
permanent Injunction ngainst the Isle
of Palms cafe was filed in the office
of the clerk of court and along with
service of the permanent Injunction
papers came also the unexpected
tcmjiorary Injunction proceedings.
THE OORP8K HOSE
* In the Coffin and the Mourners Left
in a Hurry.
Relative of Mrs. Fred Hartsell.
wife of a farmer living near Hunting
ton, W. Va., were bemoaning he'
death over her coffin, a few minute:
before the minister arrived to con
duct the last rites, when she guddenl;
sat up, and with a dazed look, climb
ed out.
There was a rush of mourners fothe
open air. windows l??ln'? u*es as
exits. Tho mourners were terro
striekon and the minister swoone<
when a pale-faced woman, ove
whoso remains he had been ca.led ti
conduct met him at the door.
The family were too poor to hara
physician, and the woman toll int<
a swoon. In which she remained thro,
or four days.
Her husband thought he- dead nn<
sent for the undertaker Me prepar
ed the supposed corpse for in:ormen>
without discovering that life stil
lingered.
COMMITS HI'ICIl)K
Recattsc He Had Accidentally Killer.
His I'et Hog.
At New York Albert Schuuer, a
well-lo-do manufacturer, who had
just returned from a hunting trip in
Maine, committed suicide apparentl>
because of the death of his pet settei
dog. which he had ac cldentally shot
during his hunting trip.
He was inconsolable over his loss
when he returned and finnllv shot
himself with the gun that had killed
his pet.
CAVMKD PANIC.
Tongue of Bell in Church Steeple Fell
During SerTices.
The tongue weighing sixteen hundred
pounds, of tho bell in the steeple
of the Church of the Resurrection at
St. Petersburg. Russia, fell during
morning servi><?s recently, creating a
panic and endangering the chapel, re<*ontly
erectwj over the spot where
Emperor Alexander was assar inated.
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MADE RESTITUTION.
Some Stolen Property Returned
After Ten Years.
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Nut a Very Common Thing But Sometimes
Conscience Stricken People
lk> Send Money to the Officials.
Supt. D. W. Newell of the Rock
Hill division of the Southern railway
received a letter the other day with
a special delivery stamp on it which
told him that a man had stolen some
of his property ten years ago, and
that he wanted to make restitution.
It seems that the writer had been
converted to Christianity lately and
has been conscience-stricken over the
offense which he committed over ten
years ago. Capt. Newell had forgot
ien un anoui me loss oi Dis propertv
and the letter was a great surprise to
him.
A prominent railroad official of Columbia
was asked recently if it were
not unusual for a person to return
stolen property us was doue in the
cuse of Capt Newell.
"Well," he replied. " we run up
against some peculiar things in the
course of a year which the public
uever hears of. It is not often that u
case like the one referred to gets into
the public prints. These men whosa
conscience prick them becausa of
some known wrong which they have
done usually add a request at the
foot of their letters that their name
be not divulged.
"I have known of a number of
cases where some party had defrauded
the railroad company or had stolen
something from them and returned
it in after years after undergoing
a change of heart, but Supt. Newcll's
case is the first that has come under
my observation where anything stolen
from an official of the company
has been ceturned.
"Not so very long ago a case came
tinder my observation where a man
who had 'beat' a ride on one of our
trains returned the price of the fare
to the conductor some months later
by mail, adding that he had been converted
and wished to be forgiven for
his act. Another case was where a
certain man in this State had for
months been taking his children with
him on the train without paying for
them, assuring the conductor that
they were under age. The amount
he returned was no small sum. He
-dated In his letter to the conductor
that he had been converted and deired
to make restitution for this
wrong and asked to be forgiven. As
I said, the amount this man returned
was no small sum and he must have
had a genuine conversion."
POKER MEN GONE.
Hpartunburg Man Out $000 and Two
Expert Curd Players Missing.
John Davidson and Albert Dearman,
alleged to be expert stud poker
players, are missing from the city,
md D. W. Thomas, a well-known
young man, has between nine hundred
and a thousand dollars less than
he had Tuesday night.
Mr. Thomas sold his business Tuesday
for $3,000 cash. He deposited
wo thousand in a bank, and kept
due hundred expecting to pay off a
:laim the next morning.
Tuesday night, it is said, he visit
><1 the room where Dearmun and Da/laon
hung out. and the next morning
^hen Thomas came to himself Pearnan
and Ravidson were gone, and he
vas short about nine hundred. Pavi;on
and Pearman left Spartanburg
hat morning for the Jamestown Exlositlon,
and the wires are being used
n an effort to bring them back. InMotments
have been handed to the
trand Jury by Solicitor Sease.
SEKVEP HIM ItlGHT.
Negro Sliot Who Attacked Man anil
Wife in Buggy.
Mr. Pauicl Hoseman and Mrs.
loseman. living fifteen miles from
Salisbury, N. C.. had an experience a
veek ago that has never been given
he officers and fell into newspaper
lands by accident.
They were on their way home from
Salisbury, when near tht Yadkin
ail road crossing at Faith, they were
it tacked by a negro. The fellow called
to Mr. Rodman to stop, but no atontlon
was paid to him. Then he
-.topped the horse and slipping up belling
the buggy, seized Mrs. Roseman
vho railed to her husband.
Mr. Roseman drew his pistol from
ho bottom of the buggy and fired ino
the negro's body, causing him tc
'all. Mr. Roseman shot a second
inic and snapped the weapon a third
tire when ihe p<*gro scrambled to hif
feet and made his escape.
ARM JERKED OFF
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Uhilf Trying to Take Some MntgM
of Cotton Ctn.
A terrible accident beppenot^B
Johnson Humphrey's cotton gin.^H
las. N. C., Thursday afteruoon^E
which Mr. William Pmi'h. ; pro^H
ous farmer, was the unfnrtunat'.^H
tim. While trying to take somrH
out from under fhe gin his right
wa? caught by the saws and was MB
pletely Jerked off. At present l^H
resting very well. fSBI
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THE LOST BONDS
' Of Mr. Adolphus Cornelson's Estate
Cannot be Found.
; INTEREST COUPONS
: Cashed by a Farmer iu Australia,
Who Says He Found Them in a
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, Hollow Tree.?It is Said Mr. Cor1
nelsou Died by This Tree Out
There, and His Brother Is Trying
To Solve the .Mystery.
Mr. Adolphus Cornelson, who will
be well remembered by the people of
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vsi i K, da ? wcn-iu-uu lurmer
living afew miles out in the country
on his valuable plautation, and whose
dead body was found leaning against
a tree in Australia about six years
ago. where he had gone in quest of
health after a trip to the Fatherland.
was the owner, along with a
large amount of other property, of
$10,000 of South Carolina State
bonds which will likely uever be recovered
to his estate.
A strange and interesting story of
the lost bonds is revealed by the experience
of Mr. George H. Cornelson,
of Orangeburg, in his long quest to
recover this and other property left
by his brother, who died without
leaving a will nor any explanation as
to his property. Mr. George H. Cornelson.
who is executor of the estate,
is a wealthy retired merchant und cotton
mill man, whose own estate Is
valued at a million dollars.
After several years' work the executor
has just been able to trace
possession of the interest coupons for
one year, which turned up in a mysterious
manner at the State treasurer's
office for payment the very day,
and perhaps the very hour, that the
legislative committee reported favorably
011 a bill introduced by a friend
of the Cornelsons to have the State
Issue certificates of State stock for
(he lost bonds, Mr. CornelBon being
prepared to put up an indemnity
bond of $30,000 to protect the State
In case the lost bonds should ever
turn up.
iThls Interest bill amounted to $450
and in order to reimburse the Australian
brokers, who cashed them
through the Bank of Australia, the
farmer who sold thmi to the brokers
has had to mortgage his little Australian
farm. This farmer saya that
these interest coupons we-o all that
he had, that he has never seen the
bonds and never heard of them. He
goes on to explain that the coupons
were found in a hollo .v tree on his
place hy a farm hand.
Possibly It was this same tree
against which Adolphua Cornelson
leaned when he breathed his last. He
was living in that neighborhood and
it was his custom to go out for long
walks, and he died whi'e out on one
of these trips. Whether this explanation
needs further elucidation,
whether he was murdered, whether
these bonds are not now being held
secretly in New York by persons
awaiting opportunity to present them
for payment the public are- left to
guess.
When (he coupons were presented
at -the State treasurer's office for payment
through the Palmetto National
Hank of Columbia along with 30,000
others amounting to $1 43,000, which
represents the Slate semi-annual Interest
bill on the bonded debt, Chief
Clerk Carter had much difficulty in
tracing their arrival in South Carolina.
Finally it was discovered that
they were sent here by the Hanover
National Bank of New York. Armed
with letters of Introduction. Mr. Geo.
H. Cornelson went to New York,
here the president of the Hanover
Hank informed him that the coupons
ante from the Gerald National Hank,
through whose president Mr. Cornelson
found the New York brokers who
had cashed them.
The brokers refused to give any
iiiiorimmon, mil nnnily hy a court
order they were made to explain. Mr.
Cornelson knew from the stamp on
the back of the coupons that they
had been cashed by the Bank of Australia
originally, and the brokers
1 gave him the name of the Australian
' brokers firm who srnt them to New
York.
A decision of the South Carolina
Supreme Court just rendered makes
a South Carolina bond as good as
currency, decides that the innocent
purchaser of even a stolen bond has
a perfectly valid claim against th<
State for the face of his bond. So it
would seem If these Cornelson bonds
are being secretly held they can now
he easily transformed Into cash. Fur
iher Interesting revelations are there
fore expected.
The case on which the Suprem<
Court has just passed involved th<
validity of >12,500 worjlLof Stat*
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fDASHED IN SIDING.
Eight Killod in Wreck on Baltimore
and Ohio.
Failed to Throw Switch and Sharp
Curve Completed Arrangements for
the Accident.
Eight were killed and a score injured.
a number fatally, at Bellaire,
1 Ohio, at 3.15 Saturday afternoon
when the Chicago and Wheeling express
train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railrohd crashed Into a freight train
| which was slowly moving on a siding.
i iiw wrecK was aue. it is said, to
the failure of an operator to throw a
switch. The westbound freight had
roceved orders to meet the passenger
at the western limits of the Bellaire
yards, and was moving slowly along
the siding. At the point where the
wreck occurred there is a very,sharp
curve which prevents the engineers
of the eastbound trains from seeing
more than a few feet ahead. The
passenger train swunk around the
curve very rapidly, being three hours
late, and should have gone on in
safety on the main line.
The switch to the siding, however,
had not been turned and the train
shot on to the siding and into the
freight. There was scarcely time to
apply the brakeB and no time for the (
engincmen to jump. The two big
engines were reduced to junk by the
impact, but the worst damage was
done to the smoker, which was telescoped
so completely by the baggage
car that every seat was thrown out
of the coach. Every occupant of the
coach was badly injured. The passengers
in the other day coach and
the two Pullmans were tumbled ?roni
their seats, but not seriously injured.
Engineer Galbraith was burned to
a crisp by escaping steam. The in- '
jured were taken to the Glendale, W
V., and Bellaire hospitals.
General Manager Fitzgerald, who
was in the neighborhood on an inspection
tour, and General Superintendent
W. C. Loree of Wheeling,
personally superintended the rescue
work. Great difficulty was experienced
in removing the injured pas
sengers from the wrecked smoaker.
Work was alow because every movement
of the debris caused some one
to shriek with pain, as the victims
were entangled in a mass of timbers '
and twisted iron.
Among the passengers on the
wrecked train were the members of
Richard Carle's "Spring Chicken" 1
comic opera, which was to have played
at Wheeling that afternoon and
evening. All the members of the
company escaped serious injury except
Alfred Dolby, the musical director.
It was found necessary to amputate
his right arm, thus ending bis
career in the profession. He was
riding in the smoker and was found
with a heavy timber tightly binding
him by the arms.
The wrecked passenger train left (
Chicago for Pittsburg and Wheeling
at 9.30, last train. The train is divided
at Chicago Junction, part going '
on to Pittsburg by way of Akron and
the other part coming through to
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fT MWIIIIP) ?io iicnai i\. t lie: n nwi"
ing end of the train consisted of six '
coaches.
At the office of Superintendent 1
Loree Saturday night it was said that
they were not yet certain which operator
is to blame for the accident, but
a thorough investigation was under
way.
The property damage will amount
to about $60,000. A curious feature
of the wreck is that the baggage car
and the smoker were the only cars on
the passenger train damaged.
HAM) OF ROBBERS.
Tlicy Hold lTp a Train and Set It
On Fire.
At Odessa. Russia, a train having
on board over 200 passengers was
held up by a band of robbers, who
opened the mail car by exploding
dynamite.
The explosion set the car on fire
and the flames were communicated
to a crowded passenger car, with the
result that several women and chit
dren were badly burned before they
could escape.
While the robbers were trying to
blow open the safe in the mail car
they were attacked by some gen!
darracs, who were passengers on the
! train. Several on both sides were
wounded but the robbers escaped.
STEAMER Rl'RNED.
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, Itoat and Cargo Lost and Two Negroes
Drowned.
The steamboat Raymond H., which
runs on the flint river between Als
bany and points below, was burned to
> the water's edge at Jones Landing
> Thursday morning.
The boat was loaded with cotton,
I naval stores and cotton seed. Two
' negro boat hands wore drowned. The
i boat and cargo are a total loss.
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. three State treasurers on their per
sonal bonds for the amount the State
, has lost by the thefts, which extendi
ed through three administrations,
s and which were not detected until
i four years after the bond clerk was
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BURGLAR BAND
Led by a Woman at Glen Cove, '
Long Island,
ARE BOLD ROBBERS.
They Have Stolen Twenty Thousand
Dollars in Six Weeks.?The Track p
of an Automobile and the Foof- ?
prints of a Woman the Only Taugb P
ble Clews.?Rich Residents lie- 0
conies Yigilants.
In the strangest burglar hunt ever p
known about Xow -?
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wealthy cottagers are nightly patrol- 13
iug the shores of Glen Cove, L. I. u
With guns on their shoulders and
revolvers at their belts, they have
replaced the paid watchmen of the ^
villages about the Cove, through a
whose lines the looters slipped In and
out like eels, and they are looking
for a daring band of land and water '*
pirates led by a slender-footed woman
of beauty and good taste.
During the past six weeks the
thieves with their woman leader have c'
secured more than $20,000 worth of
silverware ar.d jewelry; that in one w
of their marauding trips they chloroformed
a well-known niatrou and her
maid, and that on severul occasions. al
by the aid of swift motor boats or
automobiles, they escaped almost un- ''
der the eyes of the posses. n
None of these wealthy sleuths has
seen the much-feared wouiun Reader l>
of the pirates yet, though some ser- w
vants have. But the rich vigilantes T
have found her tracks?made by nar- ^
row, pointed, htghheeled No. 3A ^
shoes?leading from their homes to B)
the beaches, where she got into the s'
motor boat or to the roadways, where "
she entered the automobile. c<
The latest of the robberies occur- P
red Saturday night. The home of Mrs.
John Lillie, widow of a prominent P
politician in Mineola, was broken into
in the usual mysterious fashion. ^
and $1,000 worth of silverware car- J1
riea on. Wheel marks, apparently
made by an automobile, were found
in front of the house the next morning.
A well-dressed woman, rlad In ^
a tailored suit of blue, hud been seen
walking about the grounds just be- ai
fore nightfall. Not only does this
fact and the tracks of a pair of dainty ?'
shoes indicate that the woman is of
the burglar band. There are other ai
evidences. For instance, in several n
houses rare linens and laces, whose di
value few men could possibly know, *1
were taken. Half eaten bits of candy s(
were found about one or two of the
looted houses, indicating the feminine
leader's sweet tooth and also her
calmness while on a job. A
Her band apparently was not deterred
by the fate of that other band
of Long Island burglars who were
rounded up during the Summer by jc
District Attorney Coles and Sheriff n]
CJildersleeve, of Nassau County. They ^
were sent to jail for terms ranging ^
from fourteen to forty years. Officials al
say no lighter sentences will he im- H
posed upon this band if Its members e|
finally fall into the millionaires' drag (c
net.
One reward of $1.0o0 has been v
standing for two weeks. John Alvin j1(
Young Sunday added an individual ))(
reward of $300 more. It is expected tj
that no less than $300 additional will a|
lie gained through the play, "The
Woman Pirate." H
A feeling that the burglars are al- w
most uncanny has spread through the ^
towns. So completely have they dis- ,r
appeared within a few minutes of the j
lootings, that it seems as though they j,
dematerialize themselves. (j<
"I determined; with some friends, e<
it would be best to go out and hunt
the burglars ourselves," said Mr.
Young, the bank president, Sunday.
"They looted my house and got off >jclearly,
though my coachman fired
upon one of them?a masked man.
Last week the burglars were audacious
enough to come back after
what they had left from their 'first ~
visit. But they were scared ofT. One '
of the band was seen quieting my
watchdog with a piece of meat. We
hope to get them some of these ''
nights."
The robbery of the home of Frank 1
S. Smithers is responsible for the n
coming theatrical performance. Mrs. Z
Smithers may be the Impersonator of |>
the mysterious woman leader.
It was at their home the feamale r<
desperado's tracks were first discov- c<
ored. Charles Williams, a watchman, tl
pointed them out to the rich Vigi- a
lantes. Then the procured rules and ?
tape measures, did some Bcrtillon u
work in the sand, and learnod from a p
shoe man that the woman wore dainty
No. 3A oxfords. u
"I watched her house for awhile n
and heard a whistle that sounded like n
a signal when darkness fell," said h
Williams. "Three hours afterward N
the Smlthers home was robhed. s
though I could not legally connect o
the woman with it." ii
An automobile was used in connection
with the Weidenfeld and p
Stevens robberies at Oyster Ray. v
Wheel marks were found on the I
lawns of the houses next morning, a
From the Weidenfeld house a i
great chest of silver was taken whose f
weight must have taxed the strength h
of three or four men. The empty j
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THREE KILLED
tnd Three Injured by the Explosion
of Crude Oil.
I'iudow Glass in Houses aiul SI reel
Cars Was Shattered and People
Terribly Shocked by Explosion.
At New York on Friday three uieu
ere killed and three Injured, one
robably fatally; windows in houses
ud trolley cars were shattered and
ae residents for severul miles around
anic stricken by the explosion of a
ink of 20,000 gallons of crude oil
n Protectory nvenno
The dead are:
James Cooper, 2 6 years old. Untonort.
Richard Smith, of Van Ness, of the
ronx.
John Riley, address unknown, body
ot recovered.
The Inured are:
Allun Johnson, 26 years old. of
nionport, volunteer fireman, burned
bout body, head and arms, probably
Rally.
Arthur Jordan, mounted policeman
urned about hands and arms tryiug
> rescue Cooper.
James Conway, burned about the
ands and arms while trying to resile
Cooper.
The bodies of two of the victims
as secured after four hours work by
te light %..* the illumination of the
anie a Lcadred feet high. Hoys
nd men searched houses and there
)und the bodies. The explosion was
idirectly due to the automobile
ices at Morris Park track.
The men who met death were
limping oil from the tank with
hlch to oil the track for the races,
he tank was thirty, feet high and
venty feet in diameter and stood beveeu
two abandoned gas tanks. The
crinkling wagon was drawn up bode
the tank, a ladder placed against
le side und Cooper and Smith as>nded
to the top of the tank to
ump out the oil. Riley remained
le wagon. Just what cuused the exlosion
is not known.
Without an instunt of warning
lere was a terrifying report, a colmn
of flames shot hundreds of feet
i the air and the huge top of the
ink was hurled a thousand feet,
illing In the woods in the ground-of
le Catholic Protectory.
The shock was felt for miles
round, breaking windows and rating
dishes alarming the occupants
f shaken houses. In the Catholic
rotectory, there was almost a panic
aiong the 1,500 inmates. They
ished from their beds, but the fire
rill was put in force by the Chrisan
brothers in charge and order
>011 restored.
J? KITH Kit WANTS 111 M.
11 Atlanta Man in Trouble About
Two Wives.
Following the action of wife No. 2
1 filing an application for the anuullent
of her marriage, or pretended
larriage, with Benjamin .lames
amilton. a well-known young insurace
man of Atlanta, Mrs. Ruth 11.
amilton. his lawful wife, nee Robots,
filed in the superior court for
>tal divorce.
In the meantime, Hamilton, who
ent to Atlanta from Rome, where
e was well thought of. has disap
jarea irom me city ana is (lodging
le bigamy charge brought up
gainst him.
Miss Emmie Louise Wood of 2 20
ast Georgia avenue, is the second
ife. and the alleged marriage with
er took place on September 17. He
larried his first wife on January 21.
906. The two young women met
tst after the second marriage and
Isclosures followed. Hamilton learn1
this fact and made himself scarce.
COTTON GINNED.
he Census Bureau Ite|M>rt Up to
September 24t.
The census bureau reports 1,430,63
bales counting round as half
ule3, ginned from the growth of
9 07 tip to September 23. as com pa r1
with 1,199,423 bales for the same
erlod of last year. The report show1
the number of active ginneries to
e 2,177. Of seven hundred counties
inetv-flve are not heard from.
ox was found by the roadside later.
"i firmly believe a woman led the
obbers, said Mrs. Weidenfeld reently.
"A woman came to my house
lie day of the robbery, looked around
nd told the maid she intended purhasing
a house just like it. From
here she stood in the hall she could
iniuiy see ine silver cnesr.
"After the robbery I found broken
p bits of candy 011 the floor. I
111st have been chloroformed that
ight?and my maid. too. All the folawing
day I felt heavy and drowsy.
Iy maid, who is troubled with lnomnia
and sleeps only in little naps,
verslept herself by hours the mornng
after the house was broken into."
The boldest robbery of all was perpetrated
at the home of Charles Oswald,
a farmer, living near Mineola
n broad daylight three men ran an
lUtomobile up to the farmhouse,
mocked down Herman Schwerter. a
arm hand, and forced chloral down
lis throat. Then they looted the
dace before Oswald returned.
WORK OF FIEND
A Brutal Negro Shot the Escort
of Young Lady.
AND ASSAULTED HER.
John William .Mullen nnd llis FIhiiw,
Miss Amelia Weiss, Had
Paused to Sit oil Ia>k in lH'adiu&n'a
Hollow When Hurl; Klaek Rushed
From Hushes, Kuoeked lliin Sense
less and Shot Him Twice.
Shot and probably fatally wounded
bv an unidentified negro, who then
attacked the young woman who accompanied
him, and to whom he was
to have been married within a few
days, John William Mullen, of 140fi
Thirty-fourth street, N. W., Washington,
D. C.. is at Georgetown Hospital
in a critical condition.
Miss Amelia Weiss, ti? years of
age, his fiancee, is at the home of
Crandal Mackey. commonwealth's attorney
to Alexandria county, at Rock
llill, Va., and is also in a critical condition.
The colored assailant made
his escape and up to a late hour the
posse, which scoured the woods in
the vicinity, had not located hint.
George Bradley, a negro, was arrested
earlv, and although he answers
the description given by the
girl of her assailant, he has virtually
proven that he was nowhere near the
scene of the crime at the time it was
committed.
Mullen and Miss Weiss had paused
to rest on a log in what Is known as
"Dcaduian's Hollow," a swampy piece
of land near the Aqueduct bridge.
A burly negro rushed froru the
bushes in the roar and dealt Mullen
a blow over the head with a club.
The man fell backward. Without
a word he drew a 32 caliber revolver
and bred several shots at the prostrate
man.
One bullet struck him in the mouth
cutting his tongue in half and knocking
out several teeth, while another
struck him in the small of the back
and is believed to have lodged in the
abdomen. It is this wound that the
physicians fear will result fatally.
The negro then sprang upon the
helpless girl and dragged her into the
thickest of the woods, where he kept
her prisoner for nearly an hour. At
the expiration of this time he informed
her thut he was going back to
where he had left her fiance and kill
him. Me told her that he would bury
the man, and that she might visit his
grave, near the scene of the attack
and weep over his remains.
The negro then disappeared and
the girl staggered from the woods
and made her way to her home.
Mullen in meantime had recovered
sufficiently to drag himself to the
railway station, some distance away,
from whence he was assisted to the
hospital by a policeman.
Posses were immediately formed
and a sharp watch has been kept in
the vicinity. Unless the negro Bradley
proves the assailant no clue has
been obtained of him.
AUt'fSKS ItltOTHHIt.
Virginia .Man Who Was Attacked 1>?*clare
It Was Not a Negro.
Froin his bed in the hospital at
Washington where he is critically ill.
as the result of being ambushed and
shot while out walking In the woods
near Roysslyn. Va, Sunday night with
his fiancee. Miss Amelia Weiss, John
W. Mullen, Tuesday positively identified
Charles Weiss, brother of the
girl, as his assailant.
Mullen from the outset stoutly
maintained that it was not a negro
who attacked him, but a relative of
a girl. Weiss approached the bed of
the prostrate man. reminded him of
his precarious condition and asked
him to take another look at him, because
It meant so much to him. Mullen,
however, dramatically declared
that. Weiss was the one who attacked
him. Weiss was taken back to
his cell to await requisition papers
from Governor Swanson of Virginia.
Foi it
In Port (union and Three Persons
laist Their Lives.
Capt, Aamat, of the Norwegian
fruit steamer Bertha, which arrived
at Mobile Thursday evening, brought
nows nf a <1 luufctrmis flm Aiinnnupri
of incendiary origin, which visited
Port Limon last Wednesday morning
and entailed a I oss estimated at
$100,000. Four blocks in the heart
of the business section of the town
were destroyed, and three persons
lost their lives in the burned buildings.
korK^Pwreck.
Forty-Two Persons Killed by Derailment
of Train.
Forty-two persons including thirty
Japanese soldiers, were killed or injured
by the derailment of the south
bound train from Seol, Korea. Responsibility
for the wreck is not plac