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I5K -V ' 'WFC& " *** r rs %.. \ J MUST GET A WIFE . Or Lose Twee'? Thousand Dollars Left Hfm by His Father GIRLS TRY TO HELP HIM By the Hundreds They lire Willing to Help 11 i in out of his Predicament, and lie l'usses out Some Samples of their Epistles Written to llilll. John E. Mason, an Englishman, is the sole heir to $20,000, but simply because he must get anirried to get it he is bumping into all kinds of trou TT-- ...211 9 A wnn re /tld In Mil? U1C. Iiu w 111 uc uv JVU.O w.w ... ?, of this year, and by the terms of his father's will be expects to get the family ducats. Well, here it is the first of March, and Mason has neither married nor settled down. Of course, he has had plenty of chances, in fact, this has been his trouble. He has made hi3 predictment known and as the result ^there hare been hundreds of American women willing to aid him in his trouble. Girls, women and maiden ladles from all over tho country, have written him that he Is their choice for a husband, until now the hapless Hrltisher shudders at the very Bight of a postman. Mason declared that the American public has obtained a wrong impression of him. In an interview he is credited with saying: "I don't want a wife, I want a Job. I don't care a hang for the girls." However, he qualified this stateemst later by saying: "Of course, if I found a nice Cirl I might marry her, provided she had some money. "You see," he continued, "by the terms of my father's will I am the sole heir to $20,000. llut I have to (get married and Bupport my wife for a year before I can get the inheritance, and I've got to get married before my thirtieth birthday, which comes in Maf of thiB year, I don't want the girl first and the Job afterward. I want the job first, then I will think about a wife. "I have received letters by the Hundreds lrom giris an over me country who want to be my wifo. but most of them appear to have no money. One exception to this Is a Now Jersey heiress, of uncertain age. who says she has a nice home and a summer cottage besides. Another writes me from Washington that site is in the same predicament as myself, and that unless she is married before 1911 she will lose her inher? itance. 1 received ouo letter from a married woman in Chicago who declares that she wants to leave her present husband, join me and be happy for the rest of her life. Here si a sample of the letters I received: "A 'Titian-haired' girl wrote from a Broadway address: Bear Sir: Seeing ai article concerning you in the paper, I am very much interested. I am an only child going on 19 years of age. My parents are well provided for. People call mo good-looking, tall, Titianhaired, brown eyes; light housekeeping and cooking. If you are looking for a partaer to enjoy that $20,000, think of me. "P. S.?Have a good voice and can play the piano." "A Brooklyn girl, 'under 90* anxious to hear from Mason, wrote: "Mr. John Mason: Reading youi personal for a wife, I should like tc Join you, as I feel we can he happy I am fond of a good home and verj domesticated and of a cheerful disposition, and should you desire w< can cau exchange photographs. 1 shall be anxiously waiting to heai i./M. uUo m n u UII1 juu. mioa *u. w. "P. S.?Age under 30." A girl writing from Park avenue New York, seeks a chance to become a 'true and loving wife.' Mr. Mason?Dear Sir: In reading a paper 1 saw a piece where it sale you are looking for a wife, so 1 thought I would write you for t chance to become a true and lovin.t wife for you, and also to help yoi to get your $20,000| I am a verj good housekeeper, and can do anything from mending stockings tc rocking the cradle. Am young am: fairly good-looking and am willing to exchange photos with you. S< hoping to hear from you, I remain Yours truly, Miss T." ' JiCgs Come High. A Jury in the Supreme court o: New York, this week found a verdic of $6,000 in favor of Patrick O'Don ovan. His log was broken when h< fell into a hole in a roadway anc was an inch and a hair short after h< was discharged from the hospital. 1 Blind Ti}?ers Found. Sumter has been making war 01 the blind tigers. The fines so fa amount to nbout $2,500. What thi detective work and prosecution havi cost has not been me do public, bu will probably be about $1,500. | Negro Is Sentenced. Henry Poe, a negro who was con vlcted Tuesday at Hot Springs, Ark of assaulting a 10-year-old white glr of that city, has been sentenced to b banged April 1. r FEARFUL TRAGEDY THREE MEN SHOT IK)\VN IN THE STREET. A Brother of Governor Kitchin and a State Senator Two of tlie Men Were Shot. State Senator L. C. Travis and Representative A. P. Kitchin, brother of Gov. W. W. Kitchin and Congressman Claude Kitchin of the Second North Carolina district and Deputy Sheriff C. W. Dunn, ail of Halifax county, were shot down 011 the main street of Scotland Neck, N. C., Friday afternoon by E. E. Powell, a wealthy and prominent citizen. Travis and Kitchin are seriously, and Dunn fatally wounded. Details of the shooting are meagre. According to the best information obtainable, Powell met his three victims, walking along the street together. Ho approached Senator Travis, it is said, and asked him hiB reason for not replying to a letter he had written him. Representative Kitchin thinking that Powell was out of humor, placed his hand gently on his shoulder and tittered words intended to placate him. Without further words, it is alleged, Powell drew a pistol and shot Ktichin down, and in quick succession iired on Travis and Dunn, both victims falling to the ground. Powell then walked to his store. No efTort was made to arrest him, and that night he surrendered to an officer and was taken to tha county jail at Halifax. Tho bullet, which struck Kltchi* at close range, entered the face below tho eyo anil was later taken out below the ear by surgeoaa. The ball which struck Travis knocked out several teeth and split his toa guo. Dunn was hit below tho left should'r blade, tho bullet ranging upward. Roth Travis and Kitchin are among tho prominent citizens of the stato and Powell is a wealthy property owner. * ItOHllF.l) IN T1IE STREET. Ilehl up Wonuui and Child in the Centre of Charlotte. m unariouo, ."N. c.. and on one >f tho principal streota, negroes Saturday held up and assaulted a white woman and child and robbed them of their pocket "bouka. dontaining sums of money. These bold robberies came as the climax to a long series of nightly hold-ups in which women hare been invariably the victims. On the boulevard in Dilwortb Friday morning, an aged woman was knocked down and severely hurt, the negro escaping with the woman's pocketpoob. That afternoon on the main street of the city a child was knocked down and robbed of a purse The police chased both crimuals wltl bloodhounds and automobiles anci made two arrests. Great crowds fol lowed each prisoner to the station but no violence was attempted, al though for a time great excitemen revailed. . llOld) KOItllEllY SCHEME. Impersonating Health Inspector Trh Entered Home of Citizen. "Personal inspection" is the lates pretest sprung in Memphis, Tenn, . to flooco the unwary. ( Declaring themselves to be "in spectors" from the board of healtli ' three unidentified men gained en trance to the home of Max Angi , late Friday afternoon. Despite hi , I protests, tho men insisted that it a/-. \ imperative Angol submit to a "pel sonal inspection." After strlppin the man of his clothing and the clotii ing of his bank roil amounting t [ $41, the trio departed, admonishin Angel to remain quiet until they re r ported to headquarters. Finally re j ali/.ing that he had been dup d, An I gel notified the police, but the "in ( specfcors" were then far away. BOVS IM,.\N.NKI) TO LOOT. r - Moving Picture Show ("aused At ) I tempt at Crime. Five boys are under arrest i ' Oreenwich, Conn., charged with at tempting to wreck a N< w Have Railroad express train. They opene a switch but were seen by switchme who prevented a disaster. The trai f carries a special club car 011 whir I travel K. c. Cpnverse, the steel tnaf nate; William G. Rockefeller. of th ? Standard Oil company; K. C. llomlii 1 and a score of other multi-milMor i aires. The Iwys under arrest ar 1 all between th- ngt s of lb and 1 years. All conf? ssed their pur pot of looting the bodies of the dea j and Injured and that they got thel r ideas of outlawry while attendin G moving picture shows. e ? t Singular Aeeident. Early Saturday night, while si ting at the supper table, John Tu ner, a highly respected firmer , - Jones county, Ga., accidentally dro] ,, i ped his pistol from his pocket wil 1 the result that his wife was slit e and instantly killed, lie had to 1 I restrained from killing himself. MANY KILLED Ninety-Two People Crashed to Death by Another Avalanche WERE CLEARING ROAD Another Disaster in the Mountains of I the Northwest is ltesponsihle for j the Wiping Out of One llftndred \ or Mare Railroad Workers While 1 on Duty Clearing the Track. i A dispatch from Vancouver, B. C., says the ninety-two Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackmen and laobrers ' buried by au avalanche in Rogers Pass on the summit of the Selkirk range of the Rocky mountains early ' Saturday morning, all are probably dead. Twenty-five white men and ' tifty-seven Japanese are thought to have periBhed. The bodies of only five have been J recovered. The work or recoverlug the dead and opening the tract Is greatly impeded by a blizzard now raging in the pass. The total number of victims are considerably more 1 than one hundred. There was another big Blide of saow and rock Saturday morning a mile east of the spot where the men were overwhelmed. It destroyed a portion of a snowshed end buried the track for 4 00 yards to a depth of SO feet. | Till-] WAlt IS AT AN END. Nicaragua!! Revolution Seems to Have Petered Out. No wholesale executions of rebel leaders are to bo expected in Nicaragua following the collapse of the insurgent cnuse, according to a statenieat given out at New York Friday by I^ouis Filipe Corea, special liplomatic representative of the Madriz government in New York city. "I have received a reassuring cable from President Madriz," said Dr. Corea. "He expresses the opinion that the revolution is nt an end and i declares that it is only a question of a few dajs until peace and quiet are restored. "There is no malice in the heart of l).r Madriz, and I feel sure that he will cherish no spirit of revenge. The civil conflict has been a most trying ordeal for Nicaragua. Now Pres i<l??nt Madriz can proceed with the work of reconstruction unhampered. "There will not be any punishment meted out to Gens. Estrada and Chamorro and the other revolution's leaders. On the contrary, Pres' ident Madriz pro|tbaly will urge these insurgent leaders to remain in the | republic and help him in the great work lie has undertaken." * , PAYS MURDERER'S INSURANCE. I Company Gives Widow of Executed Man a Check. The novel contention that the applicant misstated his occupation as that of a traveling salesman, when, in fact, he was a professional burglar, has failed to support the refusal ? of one of the large insurance companies of New York to pay a IS.OOU policy on the life of Adolph Berchey, t alias "Big Bill" Travis, a burglar, who was electrocuted in the State prison at Trenton, N. J., last August for murder. The company decided not to force the issue in the courts ^ and sent a check for the amount to . "Big Bill's" widow. The company nlno J ? * unu nun coniencieu that death by s legal execution was not contemplated in the contract with Bertchey and ir that, as his own act in killing a man ( was directly responsible for his death, he was to all intents and purp pose a suicide, which absolved the * company from responsibility. * TILLMAN STILL IMPROVING i * But Will Not Be Able to Return to Work this Session. "Senator Tillman has every pros> pect in the world of complete recovery. but we agreed he should not resume work this session," said Dr n .1. W. Babrook. who returned to Col, umbia Friday from attendance upon n Senator Tillman in Washington. ,j "That be can recover is the rew.rd of a temperate life. None of bis organs seem to be aftected, his niem( lory and mental vigor are unimpaire ! and he is in good spirits. One of th? first subjects lie brought up after he ( recovered the power of articulation was the way we celebrated the I fourth of July together in Italy. * ^ i 9 i |e : It lew Out the (?HH. (1 ! One of tlie most picturesque chlefir | tains of the Indian race, and his ~ I nephew. Ixith members of the Cliip pewa tribe in Minnesota, were found dead In a Washington hotel Saturday, the victims of asphyxiation. | t r. Two New Battleships, iif A dispatch from Washington says [>- the house committee on naval affairs :h voted Tuesday for the construction >t of two battleships, one repair ship, >e two fleet colliers and four subma| rlnea. #. THEY RAN HIM DOWN OllGAMZEK OF A TRUST COMPA NY IS CAUGHT. Through the Operators of It's Concern He Swindled Many People and Churches. Quite a number of people in different sections of the State will be interested in the news of the irrest in Oklahoma of W. J. Nicaoilr. srgauizer aud for some time pre silent and manager of the Metiopalitan Loan and TruBt company of greenwood. An indictment aguirst. S'icholls was handed out by District Attorney Ernest Cochran some tone 1 err* n n /I n ' 1'1 ? * ' * u. n uu Mill Wiis IOUT1 L'y * Federal grand jury, so the arr?st of Nicholls is the next step iu the proceedings which as stated above will be followed with much interest, lot only in Greenwood, but especially by the Baptist congregation of llartsvillo. the Pendleton street Baptist church of Greenville and others. The two churches lost a pretty good round sunt seach, though the Hartsville congregation by timely action, which however precipitated the fall of the concern, managed to got some of its money back . Nicholls went to Greenwood in the spring of 1907, or perhaps early in the beginning of the year. He organized the Metropolitan I>oaa and Trust company proposing to lend money at a low rate of Interest, five sad six per cent. One part of the scheme was that the proposed borrower should pay monthly instalments before securing the money, nad later when a certain per cent had been paid in, than the borrower could secure the amount wanted as a lona. To one who wanted m.oney right now. this was not attractive aad in many cases it was proposed to the concern and accepted that the money should be paid in a lump sum, and the money secured at oace. The Ilartsville Baptist church at that time was engaged in building a new church and the Pendleton street Baptist church was building as extension. Both sought the benefits of the low rates of Interest, and paid down the required "bonus" or whatever it should be called. The Hartsville people, did not get their money when they had a right to expect it, as it is nlleged, and as they sent the Xicholls' coacern a check a for about $1,200, a member of their building committee, Mr. J. J. Lawton, came here posthaste to investigate. Nicholls had the day before left town lonvlni* ?\i? effects in the hands of a clerk and stenographer. Upon the advice of his attorneys, Messrs. Grior & Park. Lawton had attachment issued of the funds of the concern in a local hauk and got a good part of it back. COM 1*1.1 ME.NT POHMKIl FOKS j "Never Braver Men Wore Uniform" Than Confederates, Before his departure from New Orleans Friday night for Houston. Texas, (Ion. L. R. Van Snnt, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was given a rousing ovation by Confederate organizations there. "Comrades," deciiarod General Van Sant, "never braver men wore uniform than the Southern soldiers." The old veterans broke forth into a spontaneaus "rebel yell," which was followed with a stiring eulogy of the Confederate soldier by the Grand Army commander. Commander J. A. Brookshlre of the Louisiana-Mississippi division of the Grand Army of the Republic supplemented : "On Decoration Day let us plant a flower on every soldier's grave, not hppflnon Ha n?or/v *1'" U1 - -..*> nun- tnu uiue or me gray, but because he was an American soldier." 0 ItUlTISH F1KNI) HANUEl). Made a Full Confession and Warned His lUu-e. Unable to stand as a result of wounds received when he was captured, Roland Flowers made a full ronfession from the gallows at Tampa, Fla., Friday just before the trap was sprung and he was sent into eternity. Flowers advised several iiiuiuren negroes who heard him to | remember that there is but one re| 411 It. of such crimes as he committed. When he had finished his statement he was lifted to his feet, the noose adjusted and the trap sprung. Flowers scaped from a convict camp near Tampa on February 10. went to the home of a white woman and assaulted her. He was chased with bloodhounds and, when discovered by otlicers, attempted to use a gun. He was shot through the thigh and side. The execution was perfectly orderly and was witnessed by 2,000 persons. (Jets Four and ? Half Years. "Red" Adams, a swindler, convicted of fraudulently using the malls, was Tuesday in New York City, sentenced to four and a half years in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined $1,500, 1 GETS A GOOD TERM 1 N THK STATE Pit I SON FOR RUINING A YOUNG GIRL. le Had Reared His Victim from Her Infancy After the Death of Her I.Vllw.. SUCK SCHEMES " Remarkable Cases io Which Daring Swindlers Made Fortunes BY INSURANCE FRAUDS Some of the Methods Used by the ii Swindlers to Work the Different s Coui|Miiiies.?Murder and Other v Schemes Used to Deceive the In- '' v suraiue Companies and the Public. Insurance frauds have a recoguiz- '' h ed place in the history of crime, a says Answers, and the whole world w was recently startled by the accounts of tho man Guilevitch, who, after in- * suring his life and nominating the -j amount of the policy to his secre- 1 tary, actually murdered the latter. Q and, assuming his identity, claimed the insurance money which would have been due had ho died himself. c The abuses of insurance were never more terribly illustrated than by f the case of Herman W. Mudgett. g which a feW years ago caused a blaze of indignation throughout the United States and Canada. Mudgett and a man named Pltezef went into partnership with the deliberate intention of swindling the insurance companies. Guilevitch's method was to select a victim who was to act as his double and murder him by means of poison. Mudgett and Pitezel wor" not murderers from the first. They imply procured dead bodies from mortuaries and elsewhere, purchasing them under the pretense that they wero medical studeats and re- ^ rmirori thnm f<\r fUeoAnfUn - ? 1 "" I dead body would be arrayed la Pitezel's clothes, and Mudgett would net the certificate and draw the insurance for Pitezel's death. Then the two scoundrels shared the spoils of their crime. Thus they swindled various companies out of ?17,000. Eventually Mudgett got into debt, , and found that he must have all the x money and not merely half. Then t Pitezel died in earnest. He was ?] found done to death by chloroform in . his office iu Philadelphia. Pitezel's , children rame to Mudgett asking , about their father. Mudgett, in ter- ; ror of discovery, deliberately murdered them one by one and hid ( their bodies in cellars iu various | places. Iu each case ho drew in- . surance. Mudgett, when in priaon, confess- t ed to twenty-two seperato murders , for the sake of insurance money. f I This is probably a record; hut there are many cases of a number of dif- j ferent Individuals victims to the ; greed of one man. The arch-criminal Meyer, for In- | stance, most certainly poisoned sev en different persons. Yet a New ( York jury was idiots enough to let him off with his life. Mrs. Van der Modem of Leydea when convicted of the murder of an unfortunate , girl?one of her relatives?for the sake of ?800 insurance, coolly confessed to having poisoned or other wise ended the lives of fifteen other people, and the "Liverpool Sisters," of evil memory, were put on trial for killing four persons. In spite of the laws which prohibit the insurance of a life by a third party, unless "insurable interest" can be proved, industrial offices are frequently imposed upon. At Rlackburn a case came to light not long ago of a woman, a lodging house keeper, who held no fewer than 4 0 insurance policies on the lives of men, most if whom she had never seen. The amount she paid in premiums was twenty-five shillings a week. In July last a very clever Insurance swindler was run to earth in Paris. The einthod of his arrest was curious. One wet day a smartlooking man tried to force his way into an omnibus, which was already I full. When the conductor told him to get off ho hit the man in the face. He was at once taken to the police station. No fewer than 3 0 accident insurance policies were found on him, and presently it was discovered that ho was head of an organization which existed solely for the purpose of swindling the insurance companies. He and his confederates owned a number of motors so constructed that accidents occurred constantly. The drivers?his accomplices would arrange for heavy indemnities, and then put their cars in order again. Other members were accustomed to fall beneath passing vehicles, always so cleverly as to escape serious injury, yet as to be able to get medical certificates whereby they could claim damages. The extent of the fraud is proved hy the fact that the Count Do Thuln, as the head swindler called himself, had been making as his own Bhare ?S,000 a year. Kvidently Crazy. After an acquaintance of two hours during which time he proposed mar- | riage and was rejected. Frank March of Hillondale, Ohio, shot and prob-j Iably fatally wounded Grace Han at Chicago Tuesday and then killed him ' self. He was 27 yvars old, she 30. One of the most sensational cases C i the recent criminal annuls of that action was concluded last Saturday, rhen It. A. Richey, a prominent lanter of Abbeville county, was conicted of criminal assault, with recmmendation to mercy, the charge eing that he ruined in his own ome a young girl whom he had dopted after the death of her father 'hen she was a baby. Tho girl was at the time of the lteged crime under 14 years of age, he constitutional age of consent, 'he girl is now an inmate of the )oor of Hope -in Columbia. Richey s a man of family. No force in the ommission of tho crime was allegd, the State relying upon the theory hat the girl was uuder the age of onsent. Judge Dantzler refused a motion or a new trial. Under the special tatute covering tho case the r?ommendation to mercy reduced the mnishment from death to not more hau fourteen year's imprisonment, he child being at the time over ten rears of ago. Judge Dantzler gave tichey the full penalty of the law, lentencing him to fourteen years in he penitentiary. Richey went into a convulsion vhen sentence was pronounced and nedical assistance was necessary. Arer examining him the doctor said llchey had paralysis on the entira ight side and possibly of the throat, ie may not recover, as lie seems to >? pretty sick. IIKAYY FLOODS WEST. Finnic is Tied l p on Half a Do/en ltailronds. Flood conditions a.most unprecedented have cut off the entire Northvest and tied up trailic on half a iozon trans-continental rai'roa is. riiaws in the mountains have caused ivalanclies that have swept away nouutain towns and sections of raiload tracks in various places front Nevada to British Columbia The exact number of den iis caup>d 1 iy avalanclies in the R?ckies in dalio and in w stern Mon.aiii prohihly will not be known until the iumnier sun melts the gr-?\* musses if snow and ice on the canons into vliich several mining towns weie iw pt. In the Cascade mountains in Washngton a train with or .">n passengers is reported buried under a snow slide. Flour trans-continental ines into Washington and Oregon ire blocked. Only one railroad is nperatlng into Salt Lake City. Several hundred westbound passengers ire helg in Ogden. Through trailic on the Oregon Short line was suspended Tuesday hut will probably he resumed at an early date. The Denver and Rio Grande is the only road entering Ogden that reports through trains in operation. Reports from the Hooded regions in Nevada are that water is higher than for 10 years. SHOT TO DKATil BY FOSSE. Negro Entered House, Assaulted man and Steals. A dispatch to tile Atlanta .Tnnmil from Vidalla, Ga.. says failing to obey the command of a posse to halt. Will Williamson, a negro desperado, charged with attacking Mrs. 11. C. Maun and seriously stabbing her husband at Cedar Crossings Wednesday, was shot and instantly killed at Petros, a station on the Georgia Southern and Florida about tivo miles from Vidalla. Williamson was discovered in an outhouse at Petros. The posse surrounded the building and ti?<> negro attempted to escapo by dashing through the lines. Members of the posse called on him to halt, and when he continued bis flight, the pursuers fired. Mann was seriously stabbed by the negro when he entered tie* home. The negro attacked Mrs. Mann and when her husband came to the rescue Williamson stabbed hini with a long bladed knife, fatally wounding him. The house was then robbed by tho negro. Fatally I turned. At St. Louis, Mo., two unidcntifi'-d men were burned to dentil an 1 two others were seriously hurt in .1 ft'" .n the building oecupi d by the Orinan Waiter's Association as a club and rooming house early Tuesday morning. Thirty other roomers escaped to the street in their night clothes. Serves Fifteen Years. At Lyons, Ga., VY. L. Darby wns sentenced to serve fifteen years in the penitentiary after a Jury had returned a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter against him. He killed O. G. Moore in a business dis pufo iast year. Lloth men were wellto-do. i# * -