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MURDER SOLVED Negro Confesses to Killing of Three Women at Sa?anuah. AWFUL TRIPLE CRIME Which Occurred on December 9 Laid Dure by Prisoner in Chutham, (ia., County Jail, who was Arrested and Held as a Suspect Five Days After the Tragedy Occurred. By his o^h stolid confession Bingham Bryan, a negro, is the man, who, on December 9, killed three white women, Mrs. Eliza Grlbble, aged 7(5; Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, her daughter, and Mrs. Maggie Hunter, in their home on Perry Street, In the heart of Savannah. The negro is a prisoner in the Chatham county jail in Savannah and has been in custody since he was arrested December 14 for a minor crime. The negro's story tallies to minutest details with appearances about the house of murders after the dead women were found. His story, simple, but terrible, follows as be told It. He declares his motive In entering Mrs. Grlbble's home was robbery only. Bryaa said in his confession: "I was working around the Grlbhl* house, cutting wood. "I picked up a hammer la the little house in the yard and hid it lu the bosom of my shirt. "Then I went in the back room and went to work on a trunk. I was trying to prize the trunk open, and it made some noise. "The old lady grabbed me from behind and shook me pretty hard. I took the hammer and gave her a lick on the side of the head. The first lick did not knock her down, and I gave her a second lick. 1 "Then the second one came up, 1 the younger one, and grabbed me at the door in the back of the hall, and I gave her a lick with my fist. Then I hit her a lick with my hammer on the side of the head, but 1 1 did not kill her. "I heard a noise at the front door, like some one wanting to come in. I tried to keep her from coming lu, 1 but she pushed the door opes asd came in. She grabbed hold of me; ' I took her by the throat and choked Vi#>r with nnn tmnrt Thcr. T ?a vv>?r 1 a lick with the hammer, but did ' not kill her. She was alive when I left." ROUE TO DEATH. ^ Terrible iouriiey of Hoy on a Huge Ice Floe. Death was the station where 12year-old Albert Pakulate deharkei after as exciting and terrible 18 mile ride down the Naugatick river In Connecticut, ob au ice tloj Thosands of people witnessed portions of the boy-B perilous trip and hundreds of men made efforts to save him, but all in vain. A boat could not live in crunch Ing mass of ice, rocks and debi<s, and the only hope for the lad was tha the cake of ice on which he was riding would bo caught by au eddy and carriod near the shore. But it remained in the middle of the stream until it was caught in an undertow, and the boy was dragged under some logs and drowned. , The boy wgs playing with the ice !n a cove near his home at Waterbury, Conn., when his foot nlippel and he fell into the river just as an Immense ice floe drifted by. He clambered up on the cake which sob i .IflftoH Allt tA mlHoirnom ? h.. boy was held a helpless prisouer . For 18 miles he drilled down thj stream encouraged by the shouts of his would-be rescueres who raced * along the stream but could make no successful effort to get the boy from his perilous position. Finally t ?e cake nnd the boy disappeared when an undertow drew them under som? logs. SMALLPOX ADJOURNS COURT. Lawyers Prevail on Judge to Call ' Off and Quit. A dispatch from Statesvllle says Iredell superior court, which convey- ' ed Monday, adjourned for the term before the State docket was hardly finished. From the first some of the lawyers were rather pan iky about 1 smallpox and when a cas" was found < in a suburb of the town Wednesday 1 that was the last straw and at a I meeting of the local bar it was de- f cided to prevail on the presiding ( Judge, Judge William J. Adams, to t adjourn tho court. Some of the at- t torneys opposed adjournment as un- ( necessary, but acquisced to the will i of the majority. 1 Many Claim Him. I Dr. Karl Emll Von Miller, or Mueller, the "Marry Count,' stood seSge In the county jail In Jersey City by a small army of women who claim him 1 as husband. Miller is said to be so i plentifully wived that a trial for; ? bigamy on some nineteen or twenty * counts probably awaits him. ' , I A MEETS FEARFUL DEATH ] MIIS. MOLLIE SIiOAN l'EIlISHES I IN PI HE SHE STARTED. 1 Wife of Merchant, Her Mind I'nbnlan,oed, Locks Herself in and 1-ires Bnilding. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Mrs. Mollle White ' Sloan, a well-to-do merchant and farmer of i'acolet, committed suicide Saturday morning by locking herself in an outbuilding and setting fire to fho l.nllHInir V. .. 11 J 1 UU..U.UC). M UG UU1IU1II6 WUB burned completely, and when her remains were extricated from the charred tiniebrs, the body was burned beyond recognition. Strong cords were U found about the limbs, and it is be- ft lleved that, after setting fire to the (] building, Mrs. Sloan hung herself. Ill health which impaired the mind (j was the cause of her suicide. It was (j a carefully planned, deliberate taking of life. Saturday morning Mr. Sloan went to Spartanburg. Mrs. Sloan, who waB (( seldtam left alone, was feeling so j well that her son said that he be- ^ lieved that he would step down to the store. This left Mrs. Sloan alone Ci with only the colored woman who ^ did the housework. When the col- ^ ored woman went up stalra to sweep \ and make up the beds, Mrs. Sloan j locked all the doors of the house bo that the negress could not interfere 11 in any way with her plana. Mr. Sloan 1 had a new rope at the house which ^ was lying on the back piazza. Mrs. Sloan took this rope and the kero- ^ st ne can and went to the outbuilding. s Directly the negro woman upstairs '* raw a blaze in the direction of the ? barn, and thinking the stables were afire, and the horses might get burned, she ran downstairs to tell Mrs. s' Sloan. She found the door to Mrs. a Sioan's room locked. She then rush- K ed to the back door, but it was ? locked. Finding all the doors lock- K ed, the negro woman jumped out of b a back window and gave the alarm. ? Neighbors rushed to the scene and 11 began to fight the fire and keep the barn and stables from patphin? w building was totally destroyed. As they fought the flames one of th* I men noticed a human foot. The 11 body of Mrs. Sloan, charred beyond P recognition, was pulled from the a smoking embers. Coroner Turner was notified of the tl uclde, and he left on the morning a' train. When he arrived on the Y Bcene he found there were no suspi- tc rlons of foul play, and he consider? 1 o: it unnecessary to hold an inquest, tl The body of Mrs. Sloan was almost ni completely cremated. c< Mrs. Sloan had been in bad health for the past two or three years, and tl for the past several months her con- ei dltlon was such that It was not deem- cj ed advisable for her to be alone, n Some members of the family always l> kept close and watched over her. It Is said that some two years ago she U attempted to set fire to her clothing, tl mm* h I>KATH OF A HKAVY MAX. w tl House Torn Apart to Permit Kgrcss 'f of the Remains. y 01 Mr. Joseph Patrick, who recently , located in Wadesboro, N. C., coming 1 from Aurora, 111., has received au a Aurora paper telling of the death of r a remarkably large man, whose weight is given nt f>95 pounds. The 1 story is as follows: Peter Kless, police magistrate at ' Aurora, 111., weight C>9f> pounds, died ,l suddenly at his residence Wednesday, l> of last week, and now relatives face the problem of his burial. He was ' six feet three inches tall and of im- ' mense girth. A portion of the front of Klee'* house will be torn down to permit ' the body to be carried out. No '' hearse big enough to accommodate ? the casket is obtainable and the cof- 11 flu will be placed on the bobsleigh '* if snow still covers the ground when 1 C the funeral will be held. The casket will be seven feet two ? Inches long, three feet ten inches 1 high. It will be lowered in the grave with strong ropes, operated 11 from a tripod derrick. Ten of the p strongest men in Aurora will act as n pal 1 bearers. Klees was thirty-five rt years old. '' ? ? tl .lAlts eoev IVT/. ..... "? ...... iw inn m 1*1. t f< Mniost Tears the Member from Its Socket in How. T At Durham, N. C., Tom Drowning n 8 In jail and Charles Younn in I.In- \ oln hospital as the result of a fight (} ate Friday afternoon in which the 'ornier, a white man, stuck a pitch- r, ork into the negro's eye and destroy?d it. The men disputed over the (J rival matter of a naif nay's wont ind Drowning says the negro advanc- (l( d upon him wit it a rock. The white ;< nan threw the fork hard into the .. 'ace of the negro and in drawing it K. Jut the eye was almost remove I C{ Tont the socket, ,, Fiend Hanged. At Kingstree John Rose, a negro., r< 18 years of age. convicted of assault C( .vith intent to ravish, at. noon Frl- .. lay paid the death penalty on the ?< tcaffold for his crime, to which ho lad confessed. *la * i 0 LUST FOR BLOOD ie Ripibly Growing Crime Ware is th Country's Greatest Danger A WARNING IS SOUNDED r. White Shows that the Nation la in Awful Danger, and Predicts that Five Thousand People Will lie Murdered this Year and Only a Few Murderers Will Die. "I will make one prophecy for the ulted States nation. It is now the rst of February. I say that before he first of next February comes round, 5,000 men and women in his country shall hnv.? * v UWII 111 U 1 ered. But for the nialadmlnstraon of the criminal law in the Unitil States they would have escaped." In this paragraph is the essence f the warning Bounded by Andrew . White, the first president of Corell university, and former ambasador to Germany, against what he onsiders to be one of the gravest angers of the nation. In his opin>n the besetting sin of this land is tie taking of human life, fostered by ladequate criminal laws, and lax lethods of enforcing them and the rickery and chicanery of the lawers practfcing at the criminal bar. The noted statesman and educa or as for the lest eight years made a tudy of the homicide condition has ecome so alarming and the increase f the crime so rapid that h? has ?lt called upon to protest publicly j the nation itself. His figures Itow that the United States is always head of all other countries on the lobe in the proportionate number f murders?easily outstripping Belium, a country which has no capital unishment?and away behind all ther countries in the porportunate umber of murderers punished. He eclares that the situation is one ell worthy of serious consideration. "Human life is so cheap in the nited States that men and wornea lay be murdered almost with intimity," declares Dr. White "There re men in the City of New York >day whose title to admiration is lat they have killed a fellow man ud have not been punished. In New ork. it is safer to kill a man than > kill a deer in the forest. Some f the worst criminlas today are lose who have most influence with it-u in power, men who sometimes imtrol elections." I)r. White derides the sympathy lat is being worked up for muiderrs and becomes Indignant and puristic at the efforts being made to lake their deaths as easy as poisle. Dr. White has prepared the fo1iwing illuminating facts. First, lat Belgium, which is the highest as no death penalty. In Canada, hich is the lowest, seven-eights of tie men tried for murder were punshed, generally with death. In Lonou there are 13 homicides in one ear; 11 of the ofTenderB were hangd. In this country about one murerer out of 7 4 gets the death penlty. The average life sentence is educed to seven years. "Another illuminating fact is that l the whole British Empire, includig such new and supposedly wild ountries as Australia, New Zealand nd the like, no lynchings were roorted. la the United Stnie3 in 909 there were 87. In other years he number has been as high as 00." When asked to explain the causes nr this crime wave. Dr. Whit? leand forward in his chair and emphat*ally said: "It seems impossible that n one side of an imaginary line omieide could be so much preva nt than on the other side, :ib in lie ease of Canada and the United tates. Hut the reason is that on ne side the yaw prevails ami not hicanery and that on the other side as taken place a break up in the drnlnistratlon of criminal law. The reatest of all causes is that the adilnistration of criminal law in this Duntry has become a game between ivo or three lawyers and the whole ling is very much of a farce. "We are also careless in admitting ireigners to this country. I know f a Sicilian who made the boast lat there was greater liberty for dminals in this country than abroad, hen the influence of evil literature lust be taken into consideration, ovels and plays with the pistol as ie solvent; theatrical showbills with I K t n 1 uii11iirun niiowed to carV pistols, prisons and jails as nuriries of crime! intemperance unucstion.ibly a groat cause of crime." Dr. White was unsparing in his Dndemnation of expert testimony, o called the pr< s nt procedure scandalous and a disgrace." He lid he hoped that the efforts of the smm it tec of the New York State ar association to bar out insanity s a defense in a murder trial would ecomplish a great deal of good. He 5undly denounced the granting of rtifl-ates of reasonable doubt by ny judge in the state to whom the ?ntimental appeals. He scored the procedure by whien, new trial could be obtalued and I SLAIN BY HER LOVER TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTE1 IN BALTIMORE. VounK Woiuao Dental Studeat Klllei by Medical Student from Porsin who CorainltUt Suicide. Leaving behind him two rathe rambling and incoherent letters, Eli jah Baba Badal, a Persian, 31 yean old, a student at the University o Maryland School of Medicine a'. Ha' tlmore Thursday afternoon shot an< Instantly killed Miss Marie Lewsou 2 4 years of age, of Portland, Me , i student of dentistry at the same in stitution, and then shot himself, d> ing shortly afterward. The letters, which were enclosei In an envelope addressed to the sul cide'e brother, N. E. Badal, 1,71' West 9th St., Des Moines, Iowa, were found in un inner pocket of Badal'i clothes. One of them bore the da*.of Jan'uarv i 9 nn<i ?? ^ vuo viiici I LIJLI U January 25. They told of Badal's love for Mia Lewson, and his belief that she re ciprocated it fully until her mind wai poisoned against the Persian by I boarding house mistress, who cann between them, the letters state. Tin tragedy occurred at a boarding housi in West Lafette street. Just after th< pair had finished their midday lunch eon. Conflicting stories regarding th relations of the couple to each othe were set afloat. Iladal became enam ored of her, friends of the slain wo man say, but the resented his atten tions, although it is said their re lations were outwardly pleasant unti Thursday, when, at breakfaBt am lunch, a marked coolness was obBerv ed in their manner towards on< another. Some time after the Bhooting th< police found a letter written by 11a dal, telling of his intention to com mitt the deed. He declared that h< had loved the woman, and that ah? loved him and encouraged him t< continue his attention. Then sud denly she apparently turned agalns him, and without giving him an: reason, refused to have anythin> more to do with him. Tladal wrot< that he carried the revolver for sorni time intending to slay her, but h< could never summon the servo to dc it. A close girl friend of the slain wo man said that Hadal was deeply i: love with Miss Lewson, hut that. sh? did not care for him at all. nnd oftei made light of him. Itadal apoke im perfect English, which amused Miss Lewsen,, who it is said, used to an ger the man by laughing at his ef forts to talk English fluently. 'Fellow students of Hadal knov little about him sate that he was o a serious disposition, and very relig ions. It was understood that hi came from Persia to get an cduca tion in this country and that woult fit him to return to his native lani as a medical missionary. He wai such a devout Christian, it is said that his zeal approached fanatic ism. ' BLAMES THE WOMEN. Their Competition Causes Insanit; and Suicide. "Woman is largely to blame fo the considerable increase in recen years of suicides and insane per sons." is the opinion of Prof. Ma: G. Schlapp, who is delivering a ser iea of lectures on public health be fore the New York Academy of Mod icine. "There are nearly twice a many cases of suicide and insanit; at the present time as there were i generation ago. And the chief causi for these conditions is the steady in Viclon .......... ui numuu iiuo ainerent sort of industries, h -lped by the tensioi of the times in which we are IIv ing." I'Ol .Nh l?F.\DOX STISKET. Young White Man Found on Side walk Fold in Dentil. At Wadeshoro Henry Thbaias, f white man. was found dead on tto sidewalk at 10:30 Thursday night l)rs. Covington and Dennett at mid night performed a post mortem tr ascertain the cause of deain. rh? possibility that death was due to i blow received some time ago, wher was struck on the head by yount Terry Smith, an employe at J. E. C Hill's store, adds interest to the mystery. Thomas was a carpenter and was at work with Contractor IJir mingham, but quit work at noon. 1 Tried to Stab Driver. At New York Mrs. Mary Latto grief crazy at seeing her seven-yearold daughter, Anna, crushed 10 deaf, under tlie wheels of a truck in Ninll avenue, turned sci^aming on tn< truck driver and tried repeatedly u stab him with a hatpin. The drlvei was ' cited instances in which murderen had gone fr?*e, reciting one case o: a man who had been convicted sever limes before he was punished. "Th< history of the Thaw and other notor ious trials in New York State are t disgrace to justico," he aald. ' "saved the crew I) from Steamship Kentucky Which Sauk Off Coast by Aid of ' WIRELESS TELEGRAPH r Vessel Sprang a Ijoak After Being , Buffeted by Storms?Nearly Fifty f Men Transferred to the Mallory < Liner Alamo, wliose Assistance j | mils Secured '?> Wireless. The News and Courier on Friday " told a thrilling sea tale of how fortyj six men had been rescued from a _ sinking steamship at soa by the aid T of the wireless telegraphy. The s steamship was the Kentucky, and B she was ou her way to Seattle from j Washington. The rescue was mad" by the Mallory Liner Alamo a huus dred miles or more off the coast. The foundering vessel when the B Alamo reached her at 3:50 o'clock , Thursday afternoon was in lattitude t 32.46 and longitude 76.43 according ^ to a wireless message received from P the rescuing steamer as she came e alongside the Kentucky. Then bit _ by bit out of the air came the electric flashes to the station of the e United Wireless Company at Savanr nah telling of the rescue in small . boats of Capt. Mo ere aad his men. . > First word of the Keutuck's plight _ tucky was received at Savannah at _ 4 o'clock Thursday morning. The 1 sharp call, "S. O. S. ' which has tak- | \ en the place of the famous "C. Q _ I)." as the Insistent call of a ship e In distress, was received aud immediately the Savannah operator began e repeating the call. The bonbardment . of the call reached the liner Alamo, . bound from New York to Galveston. s Tho Alamo put on full speed. * pointing her nose in the direction 3 given by the Kentucky, and as she . drew within range of the letter's I supposed position , began to sen 1 f thick, black smoke from her funnels r to give heart to the crew of the dis, at>led vessel and warning of the ap3 proaeh of rescue. , In the wireless room of the Ken, tucky sat Operator W. G. McGlnnls hammering away on the call fo ali and receiving the assurance that help 1 was coming as fast as the engines of , a liner and two revenue cutters could t drive them. It is eveident of his heroism that v' " * ? w V/U|/V> OtUUI O lUiinK tM I ^ the operator for his work aud the _ rescued crew cheered him. He sat at his instrument until water rushing in. drowned out iho 7 dynamo that enabled him to send out r his signals. Then the wireless was . choked and the Kentucky's crew B could but wait until the vessel was _ found. Just as the electricity failed I the first sign of smoke from the Alaj mo's fires was seen. 8 The work of transerrlng the crew was attended with little danger. . Wireless reports are to the effect that no one was injured, the boats of the Alamo and the Kentucky being used to transport the forty-six men. The Alamo did not stand by until ^ the sea had claimed the Kentucky, but proceeded towards her own destitution. It was evident that the r Kentucky could not stay above water t long. Capt. Mcintosh of the Mal. lory liner, learned that the revenue v cutter Yamacraw, which was inter. cepted at sea while in search of a _ derelict, was rushing towards the . Kentucky and left to the Government s vessel the task of ?fw?tr?<r ? -' I I1C CUU III y the sinking steamer. She was originally the Lincoln, ann B in service on the Florida coast. Sail. ing from New York she touched at s Newport News, leaving there Febru! ary 2. Almost Immediately she . found herself in rough seas, which ? buffeted her sides and opened her seams. Heavy weather was encountered off Cape Hatteras and grave fear were felt lest the steamer might add he bones to the hundreds already in the graveyard of the Atlantic. The Kentucy Thursday morning began leaking very badly, and Capt. t Moore saw it would be useless to , attempt to navigate his ship further. Then the shorp call for aidbegan to " go out in every direction. The Kentucky was built at Hath, Me., thirteen years ago. She was 200 feet over all, strangely enought, she was equipped with wireless not more than two weeks ago and was ' on her first voyage after being equip' ped when the apparatus served to save the lives of all on board. Thorp wont down with tho ship $1,500 j worth of now silverware that had just hern plnrod aboard her. Negross Commits Suicide. Annlo James, a negress from ( Georgetown, who wont to Greenville , about a month ago as a servant to a , > white family that moved there, died , at tho home of a friend there from r the result of taking an ounce of laudi anurn in a negro restaurant on Thurs. day night. * ? [ l>io<| on Train. i Mrs. K. J. Love, a wealthy Phila? dolphin woman, died on train No. 37 , - at Greenville Friday. She was en i route South for her health, accom? panlod by her young daughter. ( t . " %: $ HIRED THEIR VICTIM iCLKKK Ml'KDEltKD AS PART OP INSURANCE FRAUD. Guilevich Rmthcrs Collected $AO,OOO Rut Hwl Only a Short Time to Enjoy It. Two suicides in the Central Police station in Paris, France, last week hare scaled forever the lips of the murderers of a young man named Poillutsky and ended a most determined search on the part of French detectives. Andri Guilevich, the murderer, was arrested in the bank of St. Petersburg in the Rue Lafltto while getting a check cashed. While ! being interrogated he managed to slip a cyanide of potassium tablet in his mouth. Two minutes later he was dead. His brother, arrested as an accomplice, committed suicide in his cell by hanging. The case of the Guilevich murderers has attract I *.-u nvnu-wiue anenuon. In May, 1908, the engineer, Andrl Gullevich, who was owner of a flourishing soap factory near Moscow, Russia, insured his life for $50,000, clearly with the intention of murdering some unfortunate individual whose body would be passed off for his own and claiming tho money through his brother, who necessarily was an accomplice in this diabolical plot. Ho began by advertising in tho papers for a secretary. Among the applicants for the position was a student named Lebedeff, who was about the same age and size as Gullevich. The latter took the intended victim with him to Kieff, and twice attempted to poison him with wino and coffee; but L#ebedeff was suspicious, and actually saw his master pouring liquid into the cup f*om a mirrow that reflected the action, so that he had a violent quarrel and quitted his service wlthou.t however, apparently saying anything about the matter. Guile/ich advertised again, and chose a young man called Podlutsky, whom he took with him to St. Petersburg, Russia, and installed in a small furnished apartment In a lonely house in the Leschuakoff Pereulok. Here he murdered him on Oct. 15, 1909. The body was discovered in a horrible state of mutilation, the features being cut to pieces and the head scalded. The remains were dressed in the clothes of the murderer, who left his papers in his pockets, and the police were at first deceived as to the identity, and the insurance ?company paid over the $r>0,000 to Guilevleh's brother. The family of Podlutsky, however, were not satisfied and fancied that the body was his, and a second inquiry was instituted while Guilevich continued to write to his pretended parents letters from abroad. Thanks to oue of the ears of the victim that had been left <on the head, the anthropometric department, which had Podlutsky's measurements, proving conclusively he was the murdered man, and it was then found that while stripping him of his outer clothes Guilevich had left Podlutsky's own shirt upon him. The crime being thus established beyond doubt, the search for the assasI sin began. llKIlOISM HKSri/TS FATALLY Saves Little Girl liut loses His Own Life Doing the Deed. Frederick Mayer, a fireman, driver of the truck of engine company. No. 141, is dying in the Mrooklyn hospital after performing a splendid deed of heroism while driving to a fire late Thursdav n-icht n?? 1 i i in UUISeS were on a full run when directly in his path Mayer saw a young girl who stood panic stricken. Close to her on one side stood a trolley car filled with passengers; on the otherside was one of the tall Iron pillars of the elevated railway. If ue kept on tie would run down the girl; If he turned to the right he would endanger the lives of the passengers. In the twinkling of an eve Mayer yelled to the fireman clustered along the sides of the truck to jump, gave the reins a iuLghty tug and ran full tilt into the iron pillar. There was a crash, the horses were thrown down and badly injured, the truck was overturned and Mayer waa pinned under it, with his skull fractured. leg broken and body badly crushed. * Ignorant Immigrant. At New York Jan Hesotsky, a Slovak, who says he Is a farmer, could answer all the questions of the immigration inspectors as to his views on polgaiuy and anarchism, hut when they asked him "How many legs has a horse?" he did not know. Jan went t<? Ml tin ^ ?? * * ....... oiniKi iui runner examination. lie will have to do better before he in allowed to try farming in this country. Died all Alone. At Aaheville Mrs J. i). Siiri orough who, with her husband occupied a residence at Overlook where they were caretakers for Overl3o\ park property, wji/ found dead on the floor of a room in the upstairs portion of the house Thursday afternoon by Mr. Scarborough. J&