THE FORT MILL TIMES.
17TH TEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1908 NO. 6
WHITE FIEND.
Assaults a Little White Girl Near
Langley Thursday.
HE MADE HIS ESCAPE
Hut the Kntagcd Peoplt Hcourrd
the Woods for Him. He Met the
Little Nino Yenr Old Girl Going
Home From School and (Yiniiually
Assaulted Her.
A distpatch from Augusia to The
News and Courier says Cula May
Leohard, the little nine year old
daughter of Mr. Poliver Leohard. of
Langley. S. C.? was criminally assaulted
Thursday afternoon by an
unknown white man and Is In a critical
condition.
Thp Hour! W u
cn<-a|;ru. niMIU'Oielll WHli
at a fever pitch Thursday night at
Langely and the woods around the
Tillage were literally swurmiug with
crowds of armed men. Had th"e object
of their search been caught a
lynching would have followed despite
the fact that Sheriff Rayburu was
urly on the scene, and did everything
he could to persuade the crowd to be 1
satisfied with capturing the assailaut.
At an early hour Friday morning
scores of citizens and a number 1
of officers were still scouring the
county. i
About 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
Li the little girl was returning
home from school, she was approach- <
ed by the man. who told her that he
had lost four dollars and would give i
her half of It if she would assist him
in her search. The child agreed, but i
later showed signs of fear and turned i
back when the man seized her to i
force her to accompany him i
The girl attempted to call for help,
but her captor tightened his grasp 1
and choked the little one into tnsen- |
nihility. He dragged her almost life- |
less body to the odgo of a swamp i
and tbero she was found some time
afterward. She had been assaulttd i
and the man had escaped. * i
I
SAI) ACCIDENT. I
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Little ltoy and Girl Drowned on a
Pleasure Hail.
A very sad accident occurred Fri- [
day afternoon iu Charleston harbor
by which .Tiuimie and Myrtle Mit- i
chum. and 10 year old children of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitcluim, were
drowned near Drum Island. in the
overturning of the small sail boat in
which they were taking a pleasure
trip. in the boat were Capt. Mitchum,
his mother in law and four
children.
The boat was on a tack when a
sudden gust of wind struck the suil
and before tne party could readjust
themselves to steady the craft in the 1
water it capsized. The towboat Cecilia
wont immediately to the assistance
of the party and the crew of
the boat with the assistance of Capt. J
Mitchum and his it! year old sou ,
managed to rescue the rest of the
party struggling in the water. *
KXTF.ltS 1).\M AGK SI IT.
Young l.ady Says She Was Insulted
on Train.
A dispatch from Spartanburg to
The Stato say a Miss Sullie Bragg of
(Xtupobello, through her attorney, I.
A. Phlfer, has commenced a suit
against the Charleston and Western
( aroMna road for damages in the sun
of $.">0,000. alleging that while shewas
a passenger on one of the train*
of the company between Augusta and
Laurens she was grossly insulted b> >
the conductor of the train. Mist
Bragg is a native of Spartanburg
county, her home b^.ng at Catnpobelio.
She is seventeen years of age
and an orphan. *
IfANGKD H'OK MtKBKR.
One Negro Pays the Penalty for Killing
Another.
At Walterboio on Friday Thomas
Washington pnid the penalty on the
gallows for killing Frank Richardson
on Fenwlck Island last August. wasnington
and his victim were both negroes.
and the murder was a deliberate
one. The execution took place In
the corridor or the jail, where a scaffold
had been erected. In the presence
of about :tft people. The rope
was cut at 10:55 and 15 minutes
later the physicians. Or. H. A. Willis
and I)r. W. B. Ackerman, pronounced
life extinct. Ills death was easy. *
, Negro Murderer Hanged.
At Lawrencevllle. On.. Friday Henr\
Campbell, colored, was hanged for
the murder of Ella Hudson, a ne^ro
tvoman, Inst January. John Hudsou.
husband of the murdered woman,
had previously been git en a life sentence
for the same crime.
Killed by a Rooster.
Max Crockett, Jr., fifteen yeais
old died Wednesday at Lewishurg of
a wound Inflicted by a rooster
ATLANTA SUFFERS. '
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PIKK CAI/8E8 BIG LOSS IN III 81- |
NESS 1H8TR1CT.
Hlgn Wi?d mh?I Light Water Fresaur#
HciKlernl the Firefighter*' Work
Harrier.
On* million and a quarter is the
loss conservatively estimated Friday
on a fire which started at 3:30 o'clock
Friday morning and which swept two
blocks of Atlanta business property.
Friday night the fire was under
control with ruined buildings in the
district bounded by Forsyth, Nelson.
Madison and Hunter streets. Late
Tl'irfnv t ho nnlii'P unrf firp HAtyaflnionlc
? - d
dynamited what wa? left of the ragged
walls. Friday night half of the w
fire lighting force of Atlanta was ft
playing water into a dozen razed 'r
structures. sj
How the fire started is a mystery. s<
It was discovered in the building oc- ?
cupied by the Schessinger Meyer coml?uny,
bakery. From there it ran Its n'
st
way in all directions until it struck P(
the Terminal hotel, one of the largest ct
In the city, and gutted that. During
the early morning hours every one in et
the Terminal hotel and In numerous S<
other smaller hotels in the district tt
had warning. There was no loss of pi
life und no serious injuries from the T
conflagrniou. et
'? -e insurance on the property de- gi
ntroyed is placed by insurance men m
at ITJIO.OOO. One of the heaviest w
losers in R. M. Intnan of Atlanta, who gi
owned the rutire block bounded by n<
Forsyth. .Mitchell and ..elson streets aj
and Madison avenue, and In which
were located the Schessinger-Meyer G
company, nrsnch E of the city post- K
office, the t.iquid Carbonic company. n<
a branch of Central Trust & Ranking ta
oinpauv and mnny smaller concerns, sa
The fire was discovered In the ele- h
trator shaft of the Schlesslnger build- w
Ing and is supposd to have originated wi
from crossed wires running to the tv
motor which operated the elevator.
Ry the time the firemen had arrived w
I V, ? fl ? ? ? A V 1. . 1 l- ?>-- -
uauiix> uuu uiunru iliruUKd 1 u* {jj
roof of this building and owing to n a
light water presure, It was Impossible w,
lo check their progress. !u a short
time this structure was completely
gutted and the fire was eating its tjj
ivav through the Station 11 of the ov
Atlanta postofflce where mails rereived
from the terminal station just ^
aero.-s the square ure distributed. Pa
The employers of the poatoffice, (j<
however, by quick work managed to jjj
nave all the mail and most of the u,
equiptment.
.Jumping across Mitchell street, the
tlames made short. work of the Terminal
hotel, the Terminal annex. je
Childs" annex, at which point the b
firemen succeeded in checking the
onslaught on the uorth side of Mit hoil
street. On the south side, how- ja
over, the llames continued to sweep
everything in their path until Forsyth 8n
street was reached, gutting the buildIngs
occupied by McClure s Ten Cent |)#
store, the brach bank of the Central ,j,
Banking and Trust company, the Paragon
Scspender company. Moon Shoe as
store and the Liquid Carbonic coin- (r
pany.
The Schlessinger building extended j?
half a block on Nelson street and
from it the flames soon Jumped tc tj,
numerous atritcures on Forsyth street _
and destroying the places occupied by
Alverson Bros. Grocery company, the
Bingers Frame Maufacturing company,
and he Walker Ccoley Furni- m
ture comuanv. A strong west wind i?
funned the Mantes and scattered burn- n
ing embers over the whole business- -sc
setlort of the city, threatening for a p,
time to cause even greater loss. tt
The firemen had many narrow es- y
snpes from fulling walls, but no in aj
:uries of a serious nature are report- sj
>d. ?c
The guests front the hotels hug j?
oomittg houses in the burned section e]
iuceeeding in saving most of tltolt
'sffecta having been warned in time ,|
o remove their trunks, which were jr
oiled on the plaza in front of the Teroinal
station, from which point theii 5
owners and many early risers watch- t|
ed the progress of the fire. * ^
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And Will (iiMxl at Charleston, Short- p
A(
est Konte llonir.
A cable froin Secretary of War t'
Taft. from Colon to Mayor Goodman. b
of Pensacola, Kin.. In reply to an in- o
vltation for him to return to the d
States via Pensacola. states that as n
his presence is needed at once in ?
Washington. he will take the shortest t<
route, landing at Charleston, S. C., ^
about May 20. ti
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Chance to Make Money. g
Senator Mcl.amin has introduced x
\ bill in the United States Senate on "n
Tuesday providing that the govern- J1
ment shall offer $50,000 to he paid 1
to any person who ?hall within two
years, discover practical means for '
the extermination of the cotton l?oll 0
weevil. 8
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Texas For Bryan.
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Texas decided by a large majority
in the primary election on Tues- ,
day to send a solid Bryan deiega- c
tion to the National Democratic con- (
Mention T
HUMAN SCORES
few Yerk Banquet Where Whites
Dined With Negroes.
WILL HURT BLACKS
th? Kenatr. Who DeclarfH (h?
IxcidfHt Mttkea ProgrrsH Toward
Inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts
that Northern Feeling Differs Very
Little in the Have Question From
tlio Southern.
Senator Tillman gave on last Frigy
to a representative of the Atlani
Journal a ringing interview in
hich he spoke in his characteristic
isliion of a banquet recently given
i New York and attended by white
nd negro men and women, who sat
de by aide at the banquet tables,
pnator Tillman was severe in his
condemnation of the banquets, and
-ated thnt the speeches made were
at for New Yorkra, but specially for
>uthern consumption, as was indicati
by some of the orators of the ocision.
The story of the banquet which
.'oked the sentiments expressed by
?nator Tillman appeared recently in
le Washington Post, the Philadellia
Telegraph and the Washington
imes. and all the eastern and westn
dailies. The entertainment was
veil under the auspices of th?> f ?sopolltan
society of New York. White
omen were sandwiched betv.< :i n< o
men. and listened to tpe.. io? lv
agrees which advocated inl?- rm.rrire
as a solution of the race Mem.
Some of those ptesent were Harold
. Vlllard, editor of the New York
veniug Post; William II. Ferris, a
?gro graduate of Harvard; "Capin"
H. A. Thompson, a negro who
iid he was a soldier nt San Juan
ill: Miss Mary W. Ovington, a
hite woman prominent in settlement
ork in Brookljn. who sat between
to negro men, and Bdward C. Walkpresident
of the Sunrise Club,
hlch sanctioned the recent "af-|
lity" idea of F. P. Earle, who took
notion to quit his wife for another
oman be liked better and whom he
isignuted as his "afllnity."
Such ideas Senator Tillman stated
iat the south would forever resist at1
ery hazard. He said that the best
ay to eliminate the suggestion of
iclal equality was to remove politlil
quality, and that the best way to
> this is by the repeal of the fifteenamendment
and the niodiflcnt ionof
fourteenth. This not having
wu done, it was pointed out that
ie states of the black belt, with the
ngle exception of Georgia,had taken
gal steps to disfranchise large numsrs
of negroes, and that it. was the
ity of Georgians to join her sister
ntes by the passage of ^ similar
w.
"My views on the race problem."
iys Senator Tillman, "are so well
jown. by reason of the great nmn>r
of lectures I have delivered on
ie subject, that t do not know that
is worth while to discuss this latit
phase of It. But this nncldent,
ival in itself, only marks the rapid
ogress we are making toward the
levitabie catastrophe. I have connded
Tov years that existing condlons
con inevitable have but one end
-bloody race conflicts.
This banquet, or dinner, or whatrer
yon call it, at which a few
inatics like Villard and other white
en of that ilk. had drummed up a
t of denegrade or lunatic white woen,
to illustrate their practice of
>ctal equality and launched the probanda
of amalgamation between
le race, will do no harm in New
ork. and it was not intended to
Efect conditions there. It. was defined
for southern consumption and
> affect the south. For instance. Dr.
et ris. the colored Harvard firaduate.
mphasixed this, when lie said:
" 'Tills means more to (he negro
r the black beU- of the north.' The
icident is a revival of the old scheme
f those radicals who. with Thad
tevens and Charles Sumner, caused
be re-construction deviltry in the
>u*h in T>8. That Stevens practiced
liscegnation. and Charles Stunner
ndorsed it. and nothing but the imerial
manhood of the southern white
eople?men and women alike?savd
our civilization then.
"The negro newspapers throughout
he country will publish and send
roadcast over the south this story
f black men and white women sitting
ow u to dinner, with what results I
eed not say. Roosevelt's luncheon
rith Broker Washington caused unaid
mischief, and. as one of these
peakers said, "conditions are going
o got worse in the south betore thev
et better." When the colored poop!'
et educated, th whites in the South
.ill have to recognize them.' Closing
is statement with assertion that 'de ortation
is imiK>sslhle. then it must
ie amalgomation and education.
"A few statistics will indicate what
his means, South Carolina has 225,iiiO
more negroes than whites; Mistssippi.
265,000 more negroes than
bites, and the six southern states o{
?outh Carolina. Georgia. Alabama,
'lorda. Mississippi and Louisiana,
onstituting the black belt, have 10.>00
more negroes than whites. V'r.ui
>wn state of Georgia has over 1.000,
>00 negroes and less than 200,000
vhite majority.
TWO BAD MEN.
, WHO MIST BE HUNTING JITKiE
LYNCH.
Ncgroco ANiicI * Woihm mml After
Robbing Her Leave Her in tha
Woods.
A dispatch from Charlotte says
1 John Boyd, a one-armed negro, who
I is bell boy at the Selwyn hotel, and
Wilson, another negra hackman.
have Just been bound over under a
$1,000 bond each to await trial at
the next term of criminal court on a
very grave charge, that of robbing a
welldressed lady, who gives her name
as Mrs. J. M. Morgan of Atlanta, and
who was stopping at the Buford
hotel. Mrs. Morgan was found in
the woods near the city, wandering
aoout in h stupefied condition. A
tenant on a farm discovered her and
summoned the police, who have been
diligently investigating the case, with
the result that sufficient evidence was
found against the negroes to hold
them on the charge above stated.
According to the storv told by Mrs.
Morgan, and which story is backed
up by circumstantial evidence, Mrs.
Morgan took a cub to go to the depot.
Iustbud of taking her to the station
the two negroes are said to have held
her in the carrienge and to have
carried her to the woods, where she
was later found unconscious.
She says she was robbed of two
diamonds worth $200. Dr. Boyd
was the slur witness at the trial. He
told of finding Mrs. Morgan with her
arm badly bruised and her body badly
bruised. He says she was in a dazed
condition, as if Hhe had been doped.
He further testified that he saw in
the woods where she was found a
plac where a struggle had taken
place.
A bottle was found nearby and a
number of matches. A watch charm
was found near the scene of the
struggle which belonged to John
Boyd, a vicious negro bearing a bad
repntaiton. At this time full details
of the case have not been ascertaned,
but the further the matter is prot>ed
the more dastardly becomes the crime
chargd against the two negroes. Mrs.
Morgan had been at the Duford several
duys and was well dressed and of
tractive appearance.
"If this program of the '"illards
should be carried out, the future trsveler
through the heart of the Confedracy,
when the niixing of the races
has been completed, could discovei
nothing here except mulattoes. or
even a darker admixture. It Ih needless
to say t hat this will never occur,
because, If deportation is impossible, ,
the destruction of the black race Is
not. Aud those who sow the wind,
inav live to reap the whirlwlud.
"I know better than any other
souhern man for I have tested It,
that the northern feeling on this
question differs very little from our
own. And if the Republican natioal
conveutiou shall adopt the Ohio
program of reducing southern representation
it would be the duty of the
Democratic convention to meet it
with a plank declaring 'this is a
white man's country and white nien
must govern it.' "
Iu answer to the question whether
such a plank would gain us votes In
the North, Senator Tillman said "if (
the Republicans should press the (
Issue. 1 have no earthly doubt of It.
Southern men would only have to go
among the northern people and discuss
the question as I have done,
boldly and frankly. No Republican
speaker can meet the arguments and
facts that c.an be presented, and the
feeling of caste, race superiority is as
indelibly fixed there as here. The
nnestion never will se settled
j until the North shall agree to the repeal
of the fifteenth amendment and
modification of the fourteenth, so as
to set at. rest once for all the negro's
aspirations social equality, by taking
from him political equality, or leaving
it to ea?h state to settle."
When asked If the action of South
Carolina in regard to negro suffrage
was unanimous Senator Tillman said
"in a manner yes. and then again, no,
because there was considerable discussion
and threats in certain quarters
of mobilizing the negro vote
and controlling the state constitutional
convention by those who claimed
to be the guardians of vested interest
and corporations. If you should ever
have a death grapple in Georgia
along these lines and your negroes
are not disfranchised, you can readily
understand how many thousands of
them would have their taxes paid so
that their votes could be used at the
polls.
"It is well understood now by a
great many northern people that the
negroes are the balance of nower in
many northern and border states,
such as New York, New Jersey, Delawarc4
Maryland, Kentucky, West
Virginia. Ohio, Indiara, Missouri and
Kansas, and there is intense bitterness
of feeling ill Washington because
of the impending control of the national
Republican convention by negro
delegates from the South, who.
said to me. can deliver no electoral
votes, but will nominate a man for
' the safe Republican states to elect
" The South, and least of all fieor,
gla. cannot afford to yield one Inch
or father in this conflict. Our clvili
aatlon, aud everything which makes
ife worth living, depends on it. And
1 all other issues sink into insigr.lfl.cance
in comparison.
WANT BRYAN
The South Carolina Democracy
Will Vote For Him.
THE DETAILED VOTE.
A Majority of the Delegates to the
j State Convention Instructed to Vote
for Instructed I)? legates to the
National Democratic Convention
Who Will Vote for the tireat Commoner's
Nomination.
There will be 332 members of the
State convention two
emu ui me
4 2 senators and two for each of the
124 representatives. Of these 332
there are 170 who are instructed by
their county conventions to vote for
delegates to the national convention
who will support \Vm. J. Bryan for
the presidency. This is a majority
of 8. definitely instructed.
The Columbia Stute says of the
102 delegates from comities which
have not instructed delegates, there
are quite a number who will vote
to instruct for Bryan. In some counties
the matter was not brought up
at all, in other counties resolutions
of endorsement for Bryan were adopted,
but the delegation to the State
convention were not instructed. In
Richland, for instance, the convention
took uo action, and these 10
votes are placed in the uninstructed
column, although it is known that
live anti probably more of the ten will
vote for an instructed delegation
Ex-Gov. D. C. Hevward ~atd that
he will go to the Stat? Democratic
convention a Bryan man. lie is not
entirely wedded to the idea of instructing
the delegates to dcnver. but
he does believe in endorsing most
heartily Mr. Bryan's career.
Gen. Wilie Jones, who is a candidate
to go to Denver, is out jpoken
for Bryan. Both Gen. Jones and Gov.
Hey ward have attended national conventions
before. Therefore it appears
that the majority elected from Richland
county will favor endorsing
Bryan, the county convention having '
tailed to instruct the delegates one
way or the others, resolutions on i
hoth sides being tabled simultaneous- |
ly.
There was a strong Bryan sentiment
in Barnwell, and Chester, and i
urillln??I."? * ?1 '? "
t inmiuauiiifi, i/CMiiBion enoorsea
Bryan. Nothing has bean heard from :
Georgetown and these counties, therefore.
are put in fne uninstructed col- 1
umn. although as a matter of fact
there are perhaps a score of the 162
which may be counted upon for in i
atructlon and a few others may be
classed as "doubtful," but are classi- l
fied as "uninstructed" in order to err :
Dn the side of liberty.
ins. Unins i
Abbeville 8 . . i
Aiken 10 |
Anderson 12 I
Bamberg 6 i
Barnwell.- 8 |
Beaufort 8 .. i
Berkeley 8 i
Charleston 18 |
Cherokee 6 . . |
Chester 8
Chesterfield 6 . . |
Clarendon 8 !
Colleton 8 i
Calhoun 4 .. i
Darlington . - 8 <
Dorchester 1 I
Edgefield 6 1
Fairfield 8
Florence 8
Georgetown 6
Greenville 12
Greenwood 8
llRmpton . -i 6
Horry 6
Kershaw 6
Lancaster C
Lee 6
Laurens 8
Lexington 8
Marll>oro 8
Marion 8
Newberry 8
Oconee 8
Orangeburg 10
Pickens 6
Richland 10
Saluda 0
Sumter 8
Spartanburg 14
Union 6
Williamsburg 8
York 10
Totals . . . 170 162
WEALTHY CONVICT.
Left a Fortune Hut Has Five Years
to Serve.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says
Howard Hall, a.hurglar serving a 7vear
sentence at Riverside penitentiary.
has fallen heir to $50,000
throught the death of an uncle in Alio
gheny. Hall has yet five years to
serve, and has offered to turn over all
of his new fortune to any one who
will get him out of prison at once.
The Pittsburg police and L. R. Cook,
an attorney, who is handling the estate
for the burglar, refuse to divulge
the name of the dead relative
saying he made his will and died in
ignorance of the ract that his nephew
was in Jail. *
WILL KILL BATS
BY Bt'RNING PATRICK HKNRY't"
VIRGINIA MANSION.
.Millions of llif IVsl Hiitc liikrn Pov
session of it and People Driven
Krtmi It.
A dispatch from Aylett. Va.. says
Montville. one of the most famous
and historic places in Virginia, is to
be burned to the ground by its own
owners, the great grandchildren of
Patrick Henry, because it is overrun
with bats. Since the warm weather
began there is no living in or near
the place. Hats by the thousands
hang about the grand parlors' and
spacious bed rooms of the colossu!
mansion. Attempts to exterminate
them by poison and with clubs have
failed.
They ave in every room. They
hang in long stripes, as is their
nnblt. from the furniture, from the
celling, from the walls and they are
in such numbers that they form curtains
before the windows, darkening
the house during the day. At nightfall
they loosen themselves from each
other and dart to the yards in such
numbers that they strike each other
in their flight.
Recently Philip Aylett, one of the
owners of the place and an engineer
attempted to make the house "bat
proof." Every crack, every door, and
every chimney waa stopped up, but
the bats found a way to enter. They
c.oulg get through cracks which
would hardly admit a roach. Montville
was built about the time the
Americans drove the English out of
the country, and its woodwork is old
and brittle.
Montvllle is now owned by the six
children of the late William Aylett.
They inherited the home from their
father, who had inherited it from his
grandmother. Elizabeth Henry, who
had married an Aylett. After the
death of William Aylett, half a dozen
years ago, his sons and daughters
married and moved away and Montvllle
was rented for the first time
since it. was deeded in 1670 to the
flrst Aylett who came to America by
Charles II.
From the day the lease was signed
bats began to invade the place. The
leesee tried living in the mansion
with his family, but it was impossible
During the day there were strings
c?f bats yards long. The first of the
grewsome creatures would cling to a |
piece of woodwork, to the wall, the!
window sill., or to a stick of furniture
und his fellows would cling to him,
forming a string of sneaking, repulsive
objects.
The moment the sun set the string
would dissolve and the bats would
seek the open, squeezing through the
racks of windows or doors and
through the floors and walls.
The lesse and his family took quar
iors hi a cuiutgc i,vuu v a ruts uwhj
^nd the nianson was abandoned.
The Aylett children offered prizes
!o the negroes who could kill the
most bats. A child stood in the
front door one afternoon and with n
tennis recquet knocked down 2.000
Oats. The negroes for a time came
from every direction, hoping to win
the "bat prize," but after thousands j
ind thousands of the creatures had
been put to deaah there was no appreciable
diminution.
Poison was then paced !n every
part of the house, but the bats only
seemed to thrive on it. This spring
the tints have become a pest to the
neighborhood. and the owners of the
jld mansion have determined to burn
It to its foundations. The bats can
lie got rid of in no other way.
TRAGEDY IX GEORGIA.
I'wo Young Men Shot and Killed
Near Eastman.
A dispatch from Eastman, (la..
Bays Tom Spiers shot and killed Oscar
Stuckey Wednesday afternoon
about dark. If seems from reports
that an altercation arose over some
work on the farm of Mr. J. S. Stuckey,
which resulted in Spiers shooting
and killing the young men. The
Stuckeys are among (lie best families
in Dodge County, being highly respected
and esteemed as quiet and
lav abiding citizens. The community
is very much wrought up
over the affair. A deputy sheriff and
posse left for the scene of the killing.
CONVICTED OF MI HDKK.
For Killing Man Who l.ived in House
With Him.
A disputrh from Greenville to The
State says Benjamin McAbee, a young
white man, was convicted in the
Court of General Sessions Friday of
murder, a nd was recommended to
the mercy of the Court. He shot atid
hilled John Fowler, a man who lived
in the house with him, in March. He
claimed that Fowler was intimate
with his wife. McAhee's attorneys
have given notice of a motion for a
now trial. *
Eleven Browned.
The steamer Minnie E Kelton was
wrecked off New Port, Ore., on Tuesday
and eleven of her crew drowned
The steamer shifted her cargo of
lumber during a storm, and when a
big wave struck her became unmanageable.
TALE OF HORROR
' Eleven Bodies Found Buried in
Farmhouse Yard.
, HAD BEEN MURDERED.
1 Anxiety of John Helgfloln Ofer Dig*
?
H|>|H>Hi'nnoe of llis Brother Leads
(o Dlacomy of Murdered Bodies
of Two Men, a Woman and Two
Children in Yurd of Woman Re?
ceutly Burned to Death.
A dispatch from Laparte, lnd., says
one of the most grewsome murder
mysteries ever unearthed in that section
of the country came to light
Tuesday when the bodies of five persons.
all of them murdered, were
found in the ynrd in the homo of
Mrs. Belle Gunness, who. with three
of her children was burned to death
on the night of April 2S.
So far only two of the bodies have
been identified. These are Andrew
Iielelee, who came to that city from
Aberdeen. S. I)., for the purpose of
marrying Mrs. Gunness, whose acquaintance
he had made through a
matrimonial bureau. Tht other is
thut of .lentiie Olson Gunness. a Chicago
girl, who had been adopted by
Mrs. Gunness. She disappeared ia
September, lb06. and it was snis
gone to Los Angeles to attend school.
The other bodies were those of a
man and two children, apparently 11
years old.
The body of llelgeneln was dismembered
and the arms. legs, trunk
and head were buried In different
parts of th yard. It is believed by
the authorities that Guy Larapherc,
who has been under arrest since the
burning of the Gunness home, on
the charge of murdering Mrs. Gunness
and her family, committed the
Helgeleln crime. Lamphere is a carpenter
and the manner in which the
body of Hlgeiein was dismembered
lends to the belief that it was done
by somebody familiar with the use
of a saw.
In some quarters it is believed that
Mrs. Gunness may have known something
of the murderers of the five
people.
A possible solution of the Gunness
farm mystery, which was deepened
Wednesday when four additional bodies
weie found in the barn yard, developed
Wednesday night. Evidence
Lending to show that the nine dlsmemben
d corpses unearthed Tue?lay
and Wednesday had been shipped
to l.aporte. probably from Chicago,
came to light. The testimony
of draymen who had carted trunka
and boxes to the Gunness home lent
olor to this supposition. The Laporte
police also received information
that two trunks, consigned to .'Mrs.
Belle Gunness, lynporte, Ind." are
help In an express office in Chicago.
Two of the nine mutilated bodies
were identified with reasonable certainty.
Anton Olson, of Chicago,
viewed the body supposed to be that,
of Jennie Olson, 11> years old. foster
daughter of Mrs. Gunness. and pronounced
it to be that of his daughter.
A flater of the girl, Mrs. Leo Olander.
of Chicago, confirmed the
father's identlflcntion.
Ask K. Helcgcin. whoso innn?ro?
regarding his missing brother, Andrew.
led to the first dacoverles on
the death haunted farm, became sure
ihat the largest and best preserved
of the corpses Is that of his brother.
Against tl?Is identification, however,
is the result of the autopsy performed
on this body by Dr. J. H. Meyer.
He found conditions which, to hia
mind, proved that the man perished
long after Andrew Helegein disappeared
last January. Dr. Meyer said
the corpse showed evidence of having
been in the ground less than two
weeks. Ask Helegoin. however, refused
to bo convinced by these findings.
and his certainty led the coroner
to accept his identification for five
present.
PAST BIOVCIJC RlDTNti
Caused I lie Death of ? Colored Boy at
Spartanburg.
A colored boy about 13 yeara old
was killed Monday morning in Spartanburg
by being thrown from a bicycle.
The boy was riding down the
street, at a great speed when he came
in collision with acolored woman and
was thrown over the har.dle lia.c, re
ceiving such a severe i>i,>w on the
left side of his head that death recalled
in a few minute:*.. Th? colored
hoy was employed at Wrighton's
market, and had heen up South
Church street to do some errand.
Corning hack he speeded down Kirbv
Hill, which Ik the custom of ninetenths
of the cyclists. The Ice wagon
was standing in tlie street, and
Mrs. Connor's servant girl was getting
a piece of ice. As she turced
from behind the wagon the bicycle
was ni?on her. There was no time
for her to get out of the way. or for
the hoy to turn his wheel, so there
watt a collision. Strange to say. the
woman was not injured.
Cotton Firm Fails.
Inman and Co.. of Augusta, Ga.,
one of the largest cotton firms in
the South has heen forced into bank'
ruptey with llabbtllties of about $t,J
500,000 and assets the same. *