Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 10, 1910, Image 3
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
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MEETS FEARFUL DEATH ]
MIIS. MOLLIE SIiOAN l'EIlISHES
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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
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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
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House Torn Apart to Permit Kgrcss 'f
of the Remains. y
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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
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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. ''
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Mniost Tears the Member from Its
Socket in How.
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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
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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
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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
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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. *
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[ 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. (
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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
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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.
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