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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
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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.
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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.
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- Moving Picture Show ("aused At
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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.
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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
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the Northwest is ltesponsihle for j
the Wiping Out of One llftndred
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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
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* 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. *
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|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.
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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."
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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,
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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
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SUCK SCHEMES "
Remarkable Cases io Which Daring
Swindlers Made Fortunes
BY INSURANCE FRAUDS
Some of the Methods Used by the
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Swindlers to Work the Different s
Coui|Miiiies.?Murder and Other v
Schemes Used to Deceive the In- ''
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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.
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and, assuming his identity, claimed
the insurance money which would
have been due had ho died himself.
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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
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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.
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