Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 31, 1910, Image 3
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CRUELJfURDER
Yoang Woman Lnred to the Den of a Fiend
Who Brutally Killed Her.
HIDES THE DEAD BODY
Decoyed by OlTcr of Employment.
Body Discovered in Sock on Fire
Kscape.?Victim Strangled, Hacked
and ltumed Hejond Kecognltion.?Identified
by Jewelry.
New York liaB another sensational
murder. The body of Ruth Wheeler,
the little girl graduate, who was
lured from her widowed mother on
Thursday last by a decoy offer of
employment, was found late Saturday
afternoon, huddled In a gunny
Back on a fire escape outside the
apartment of Albert Wolter, the man
charged with her abduction. She
had been strangled with a short
end of three-eights rope, hacked with
a knife, burned beyond recognition
and thrust carelessly out of doorB
like bo much rubbiBh.
Identification was only possible by
shreds of clothing and fragments of
jewelry, but there was abundant evidence
of how the murder had been
done. Around the neck were the
charred fibres of Manilla burnt into
the flesh. The apartment reeked with
the odor of kerosene. There were
oil stains In front of the newly painted
fire board that hid an open grate
The girl's body, fully dressed, and
the clothing and hair saturated with
kerosene, the fire board h^ing removed,
was thrust up the chimney,
standing. W/hen the match was
touched to her, she burned like a
torch.
Saturday afternoon a neighlmr living
on the same floor of an adjoining
house had noticed the lumpy bundle
outside his window and thinking it
iciuor, ituu puivuu 11 uu I uo
escape into the back yard with a
broom handle. The bundle moved obstinately
and fell with a crash. HiB
curiosity, more than his supicions,
aroused, the neighbor hurried down
the stairs for the janitor to investigate.
When the two men cut the
strings that bound the sacking, there
rolled out before them tho full horror
of an atrocious murder, lloth fled
for the police.
Ruth Wheeler was 15 years old,
the youngest of three sisters, bred by
their mother, a dressmaker to sHfBupport.
lloth the elder sisters were
4 stenographers, and Ruth had just
graduated from a business colleire.
eager for employment, and proud of
her diploma. An employment agency
for graduates is conducted by the
college and Ruth called the*o Men
t look for a situation. Thursday
morning she left home on he* usual
errand and never returned.
The girl had been carefully
brought up. She was never on the
streets at. nitrht niid her fninrc tn
come home for twenty-four hours
meant more than a caprice. The
next morning her sister. Pearl and
Adelaide, in serious concern, went
to the college and learned that the
following post card had been turned
over to her:
"Dear Madam: Please call in reference
to position of stenographer at
residence of the secretary. Signed.
A. Wolter, 224 Fast 75th street."
Investigation at the address given
soon showed that Wolter. whom his
landlady described as a sickly, white
faced youth, of about 20, with flashy
clothes and elaborately curled hair,
had left the appartment, where he
lived with his wife, earlier in the
eamre day. He received many calls
from young girls, said the landlady,
and she had particularly noticed that
the one who called Friday was fresher
of face and better dressed than
the ordinary run of them.
With Wolter gone, the detectives
waited for his wife and when she
appeared they trailed her to a corner,
where she met a man answer
lag Wolter's doseription. He was
immediately arrested, taken back to
the rooms he had vacated and there
searched. At first he denied writing
postcards to business schools, but
when the detective turned up answers
from business schools addressed
to him at various house numbers,
he admitted the correspondence,
but could not explain it. Before a
magistrate he had nothing to say,
but to others he admitted that, the
woman with whom he was living was
not his wife.
The discovery of the body immediately
brought a second search of
Wolter's vacated apartments, and a
strick cross-examination of the tenants
adjoining. Jn the ashes of the
fireplaces were found the charred
bones of human toes, a portion of an
arm bone, a woman's garter and a
bundle containing a man's nightf
shirt, on which was embroidered the
initial "W". The parents of Wolter
when found, told in voluble, but
broken English, of the difficulties
their son had brought upon them
"He was always crazy about wo
men," said the mother. "From the
time he was a little hoy it was always
dancing, pleasure, women, women
with htm."
Katie Miller, or Catcher Mueller,
the girl with whom he lived, was
SAVED BY THE POLICE
A MAN MADE DESPERATE Bi* BE
INC EVICTED.
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Four IJttle Innocents On the Point
of Being Butchered by Insane
Father on River Bank.
At Hartford, Conn., an insane
father was prevented from butchering
his four little children on the
banks of the Connecticut river Sunday
by the timely arrival of the
police. When located back of the
hlish OR hlc f Alt P Itnvo worn -nnrlif ?
dressed were lined in a row, the
mauiac father standing over them
with uplifted axe. A boy of four
was to have been the first victim.
The child was standing beneath the
shining blade with a crucifix in one
hand, calmly awaiting his fate. The
others, under orders from the man.
had partly removed their clothing
and were terrified spectators.
The police dashed through the undergrowth,
threw the man aside and
gave their immediate attention to
the children. The father was then
taken to the police station and locked
in a padded cell. He is a Pole,
Valente Chongle. He had been
evicted by his landlord and the occurrence
made hint desperate.
Chongle was heard to tell his
children to prepare for death, his
original plan being to throw them
into the river. Later he changed his
mdnd and decided to murder them
first, and then throw their t>odics into
the swollen stream.
Like sheep he led the quartette,
whose ages range from 2 to 7 years,
to the isolated spot where he was
traced.
The officers, who prevented the
wholesale killing, said they crept up
from behind and overjKJwered Chongle,
who fought deperately.
The maniac disputed the right of
the officers to interfere, claiming
that as their father, he had a right
to do as he pleased with his children.
BLACK HANI) IX KENTUCKY?
Incendiary Fire Cuusiiig Hearvy Ijoss
Credited to Italians.
Fire, supposed to have been of
incendiary origin, early Friday at
Morgansfield, Ky., destroyed proper
ty to the value of $200,000 In the
business section of that place.
The fire was discovered in the I
Green River Department store, which
was destroyed, together with the fol-1
lowing buildings: Masonic Temple, j
the opera house, the new Baptist i
church and parsonage; John Conway
& Co.. vehicles and groceries; the
Bank of Union county, the Nathan
Dyer company, dry goods, and a
number of offices in that building.
The Green River department store
claims to have received several
threatening letters lately from the
black hand.
Ijong lint Pins Tal>ocd.
A misdemeanor for any woman
to wear a long hat pin In public
places in Chicago. Any woman
caught wearing one is liable to arrest
and a fine of $r>0. After a
month's discussion the city council
by a vote of 68 to 2 Tuesday night
passed an anti-hatpin ordinance.
Crushed to Mis Death.
Joseph Rhamstine, 4 6 years of age.
claim agent for the Southern rail
road, Sunday fell from the ninth
floor of the Columbia building in
Louisville, Ky., to the street below,
crushing through an iron grating
and dying instantly.
arrested Saturday as she appeared
at the house where the murder was
committed.
She was reading the details of a
German newspaper as she walked and
was smiling as she read.
During1 a long questioning, she
held firmly to the statement that she
knew nothing about the crime, except
what she had read in the papers.
She said that she noticed Thursday
night that the stove in front of
the fireplace had been moved. When
she asked Wolter why he had done
this, he answered that summer was
coming and they would not need the
stove.
She had not even known that Wol
tor lia<l roceived a visitor, sho says,
until Pear! Wheeler, the dead girl's
older sister, called on Friday morning
to ask if Ruth had been there.
Wheeler had denied it. but the Miller
girl says he was uneasy after the
interview and that she became joalous
and accused him of harboring
another woman in the flat. Again
he denied It.
When she was shown the shirt
in which part of the charred body
had been wrapped, the girl positively
identified the garment as Wolter's.
"The letter 'W'," said the girl,
indicating an initial worked on the
shirt, "was embroidered by Albert's
mother." She also idendlflod the gunny
sack, in which the head and
trunk of the victim had neen placed.
as having been used by her and
Wolter to hold kindling wood.
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" GRAFT GALORE
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The Grand Jnry Airs Pittsburg's Appalling
Corruption.
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> BRIBERY IS EXPOSED
The City Government of Pittsburg,
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PaM Seems to be in the Hands of (
as Had a Gang of Thieves and d
d
Hribe Takers as Ever Infested tJiis ^
Country. t
Republican misrule, bribery and 1
corruption is being laid bare in the ^
City of Pittsburg, Pa. The grand ?
jury has ordered indictments against
thirty-one present and past council- n
men and making a demand upon the ^
directors of the city depositories to
investigate their own bards and as- j
certain the bribe-givers in connec- s
tlon with the ordinance designating s
their institutions as city depositories, i
formed the meat of two presentments f
made by the grand jury Friday.
The presentments make a sensa- ^
tional story of the inside history of c
corruption in the municipal bodies
in 1908, and the demand made upon
the banks named indicates that even ?
more sensational developments than
have l>ecn exposed are expected on c
Monday, when the bank directors. n
complying with the demand of the iI
grand jury, make their report in v
Court. t;
A further result of the present- M
ments of the Jury of City Controller i,
Morrow late Friday for the with- w
drawal of all city funds from the a
six hunks, and the practical nulli- M
fication of the ordinance designating a
them as custodian of city funds. c
There is about $3,(540,320 in these
hanks now and this would he in- n
creased many millions during next 0
week by taxes that are being paid, h
According to the controller, the with- w
ilrawal of funit? ?.-in i.? j--- *
..?!? uc ftlttUUUI, O
however, so that the iustitutions a
may not he embarrassed, or any un- ^
due alarm canned depositors. The ri
extract from the presentments, call- j
in>? upon the directors, reads: w
"We call upon directors of th<- K
six banks named as city depositories h,
to investigate who paid for each of rj
said hanks the bribes herein set d<
forth, and report the same to this Qi
grand jury, not later than Monday, tt
March 28. 1910. And we further si
denuand that said report be in writ- i?
ing and certitled to by directors of ul
said banks individually. e<
"We strongly recommend and in- r<
sist that the proper otiicials of tue
itv of Pittsburg take immediate leg- w
al action to nullify the ordinance n
naming the Farmers' Deposit Na- tj
tional Hank, the Second National j
Hank, of Pttsburg; the German Na- jv
tional Hank, of Pittsburg; the German
National Hank, of Allegheny; C1
the Columbia National Hank, of n
Pittsburg, and the Workingman's w
Savings Hank and Trust Company of C1
Allegheny, as city depositories, in e(
order that the bribe-givers inay not n
benefit by reason of their own wrong ,,
doing and criminal conduct." ei
The presentments give the full de- t)
tails of the plot on the part of the w
council men to obtain bribes from the a
six banks, of the means adopted for ?,
paying the brills and the story of n
the transfer of $45,000 by an un- V(
armed man to former Councilman
Charles Stewart In the Hotel Imperial,
New York, is told.
It is related that Max G. 1-eslie, ^
rnPTn^i* I *
viiuii iiinu 01 mc Republican 1
county committee, received $25,01)0
by arrangement from E. H. Jennings
and F, A. Griffin, of the Columbia
National Rank, and that Leslie gave a
VVm. Brand, who was then president w
of common council, directly or in- s>
directly $17,500 to obtain the city tl
deposits for the Columbia National w
Rank. An unnamed man is said to C
be interested and concerned in the
payment of the money by Leslie to d
Brand, either as intermediary or S
principal. n
It is declared that Morris Einstein ri
received $15,000 from the Workingman's
Savings and Trust company to a
have that bank named as a city de- v<
posltory, but the name of the bank b
official who paid him the money is
inknown. pi
It is further declared In the pre- H
sentment that the members of the
grand jury are of the opinion that
the lK>oks of the Workingmen's Rank It
have been mutilated, three pages re- ol
ferring to this deal having been cut I It
from the ledger. Einstein, it is also I s<
aeciared, kept $500 for his services ?
In arranging the deal. hi
Further declarations In the pre- 01
sentments are that two city clerks al
were given $1,000 each, and $l,7r>0 ei
was ? t apart for newspaper men, h
and then Henry M. llelger, the saloon vi
keeper, already convicted of bribery, b
was given $500 for his services in g
' ringing about the meeting between n
'he officials of the Carman National u
Hank of Pittsburg and the council- d
men. w
Indictments were recommended o
against Charles Stewart, Wm. Brand
and Hugh Ferguson for conspiracy; tl
against Stewart for soliciting bribes d
from the six hanks; against Stewart J
for distributing portions of the $
money to several councllmen; against a
Brand for soliciting a bribe from the n
Columbia National Bank, and for g
THREE IN ONE NIGHT
THREE NEGROES ARE MURDERED
UY ANOTHER NEGRO.
>hot Down in Their Cabins by the
Murderer, Who Was Accompanied
by Another Man.
A special dispatch to The State j
lays in the vicinity of Parks Station,
hree mile* east of Laurens, Saturlay
night Toney Anderson was shot
lead in the cabin home of Ida Mc'oy
Nelson, the negress herself morally
wounded, dying a few hours
ater, and Alex Ray, llvlug a milo
listant, was called to his door and r
1h,? through the heart, expiring alnost
Instantly.
Anderson and the woman wore ^
tiurdered by Claude Ferguson, who F
ras accompanied by another negro, ^
1m Davis, on his death dealing tour. ^
Ferguson was armed with a shotgun,
>avis wlth^ a pistol, according to a ?
tatement made by the woman before e
he died, and that of her daughter,
tosa, an eye-witness to the tragedy ?
n their house.
It is believed that Ray was killed
iy the same murderers, though the
oroner's jury Sunday returned a ver- n
lict to the efTect that he came to
ds death at the hands of parties
inknown.
"Ferguson and Davis made their es- J
ape, although every effort has been
lade to apprehend them, both lived
1 the community in whloh the crimes (
. ere committed, and it is known ,
hat trouble, Involving all parties, 1
rith the i>ossll>le exception of Davis,
ad existed for some time. Ferguson 11
'as only recently liberated from jail 11
fter the settlement of some misdey
leanor with which he was charged *
nd preferred by one of his'brothrs.
^he ante mortem statement of tho ^
lurdered woman and the testimony
f her daughter, who was in the
ouse when the shooting occurred,
ere to the efTect that Ida and two ,,
f he- small children had retired ^
tjri that Andersn was h caller. Re
.Veen 9 and 10 o'clock some one ^
ipped on the door, saying it was
Im Davis. The door was opened.
hereupon two men rushed in. Feruson
leading with a shotgun in his ^
and. Without a word Ferguson
Used the gun and shot Anderson
end in his chair ^pver against the
ther side of the room, and then
lrned and tired into the woman as )
le attempted to raise herself in ^
ed. Roth her hands were mangled
r riddled with shot, but she manag- ^
1 to escape from the room and had
;nched tho road, some 50 yards ^
way. when the murderers came up n,
ith her and shot her down. Roth
ed. The woman was carried to ^
le house of h??r lipntlin'
w.v/vuci) n licit* sue
led two hours later. She was literal'
shot to pieces.
About an hour after the double
-inie at Ida Nelson's, Alex Hay. was ^
nised by some one in the yard who
ished to see him on business. Ray
line to the door and his callers ask- ^
i if he could change a dollar. Ray
iplied that he probably could, and
I>on getting his pockethook returni
to the door when he was felled to
le floor with a ghastly gunshot
ound in the chest. He never spoke
word. His wife heard the talking ?
efore the shot was fired, but did ^
ot recognize any of the visitors
oloes. | ?
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RAFT TEHUS OF DISASTER.
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t<
lie Mute Evidence of Hiss of Hum- g{
ber Schooner.
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A raft 30 feet long, wave-swept, C(
nd with only a broken mast from h
hich fluttered a torn fragment of a e
illor's shirt, was passed at sea by t<
le German steamer Soharzfels, b
hich arrived at Philadelphia from
alcutiu Friday.
rru A _
i us mine evidence or a possible ?
isaster was encountered l>y the c
charzfels March 17 in latitude 37.4 4 J1
orth, longitude 4 5.37 west. The
ift hail been substantially construct- P
:1, presumably by the crew of an ft
ban-doned lumber schooner; but the * '
essel on which the raft had been
ullt was nowhere to be seen. h
The following day the Schorzfels
as?c<l a brown painted wooden dere- e<
ct with keel above water.
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More rioting in Bogota. Up here w
would be called a demonstration K
f Labor's sacred rights; down there w
is South American Incapacity for l)
>lf government. '
tl
living received bribe money directly 81
r indirectly from Max G. Leslie, and n
Isvo receiving bribe money from othr
banks and against Brand charging w
lm with distributing bribe money in *
ariotis sums to various other memera
of councils; against Hugh Fer- a
uson for soliciting, dcmaiuyng and fl
eceiving money from banks to be '
sed to obtain votes to got the city a
eposits for those institutions and P
1th distributing bribe money to c
ther councilmen.
A paragraph of the presentments P
hat was added at the last moment,
eclared that former councilman, c
acob SofTel, refused the tender of s
r.,000, which was then set apart as I
defence fund in case any of the c
members of the clique got within tbo r
;rasp of the law. t
DIED IN FIRE
7ooj1een Persons Probably Perished in
the Chicago Born.
DEATH TOLL FEARFUL
^ailing Walls Halt the Search for
Bodies.?tJraplc Description of
Horrible Burning of Men and Women
in Fire Caused by Accidental
Kxplosion of Benzine.
Search of the wreckage for the
emainirg bodies of those who lost
heir lives in the Fish Furniture
Company tire horror at Chicago on
Friday was discontinued Friday afernoon
owing to the danger from
he falling' walls but not until twelve
f the dead had been recovered and
leven of those Identified.
While earlier estimates placed the
lumber of victims trapped on the
ourth and fifth floors of the Fish
uilding as high as twenty, later and
lore thorough investigation indicates
rith. considerable certainty that
here were but sixteen. Two of these
scaped with their lives, which Leaves
iut two more to be accounted for.
Leo Steckel, a clerk of the Fish
lonpany, who by accident is said to
iave started the fire, told his story
o Fire Attorney Frank Hogan Friay
afternoon. Although Stoeckel,
/ho is but 20 years of age, is adlitted
more unfortunate than culanle,
Attorney Hogan says that he
rill bring some charge against the
oung man to insure his attendance
t the inquest.
Stoeckel was brought before the
re attorney with his hand, which
ad been burned, swarthed in banages.
Ho appeared heart-broken,
nd told his story with difficulty.
"About 4.4.r> p. in..," Stoekel said,
Mr. Mitchell, who is a member of
le firm, gave me three piece cigar
ghters, and told me to go to the
nishtng room on the fourth floor
nd fill them with benzine. I had
lied two of the lighters, consisting
f a gallon can and was working on
le third, when there was an exlosion.
"A sheet of flame almost blinded
ic, and I did not fully regain my ,
nses until 1 had reached the street. ,
he lighters contained a contrivance (
> make a spark, but whether 1 igighted
one of them or not, 1 don't
now. 1 either dropped the can of ]
iMizine when the flame shot up in
out of m>e, or it was blown out of
ly hands."
Alexander Hush, a sireet car conuctor,
identified one of the bodies
3 that of Kosie Bruncke, whom he <
sis to have married on Faster Sunay.
He recognized her through the
tedium of a number of trinkets, inluding
an engagement ring he had (
iven her.
One of the victims lost his life in a
esperate endeavor to rush mvstairs
> the aid of the women and girls
n prisoned above.
T?.'n women and girls it is said
rere at work on the sixth floor when
he explosion occurred. The spread
f the flames was almost instantanous,
and when the girls rushed to
tie stairways they found escape cut
ft. They next turned to the front
f the building, smashing the willow.
Horrified spectators in the
treet saw Kmnia Ltchenstein step
o the window ledge and heard her
cream for help. Then she jumped,
'ailing on the awning over the front
ntrance to the store, she lay unonseious
until I)r. Wan. L. Kings?y,
crawling out on the canopy, liftd
h? r up. She was ,taken at once
o 6t. Luke's Hospital, only a few
locks away, but died soon afterward.
>r. Kingley suffered slight burns.
Emma Lichtenstein was 20 years
Id, and was employed as a filing (
lerk. Death was due to internal inurles
received in her fall.
Soon after Miss Lichtenstein's deserate
leap, a crash as if of floors
tiling was heard, and the faces at '
tie window disappeared. I)r. Kins?y
graphically describbed his expermee
a* follows:
"I was nearby when the fire startd,
and when I reached the scene the
!ght fairly made my hair stand
n end. Tho floors of the building
rere a mass of flames. Smoke in
reat clouds was rolling out of a 1
indows. I noticed 'something must '
~ uvup, uul ikl' many ot tiers there, 1
was so stricken by the sight of
tie faces half revealed in the sixth ?
tory windows that I could scarcely >
love. The girls were shouting 'for 1
od's sake send us help,' and others 1
rere crying for the firemen to raise 1
he ladders. I tried to get up the
ront stairway, but at the third floor
Mint ui name nurnt me ;il>ont the
we and hands and the next thing i
knew I whb back In tlie street i
gain. Then came the cries of th/* 1
oor girls trapped in the upper story I t
ante to my ears and I saw one of the I <
girls throw up her hands and
lunge out of the window.
"Her body crashed against the
anopy over the front end of the
tore. Scarcely knowing what I did
ran up-stairs to the first floor,
rawled out on the window and then
arried her down a ladder which a 1
ireraan had raised."
BRIBERY SCANDAL
MONEY U8KI> TO SHAPE INSURANCE
LEGISLATION.
Investigation Shows that German
Companies and National Fire Underwriters
Worked Together.
The fire insurance inquiry started
in New York City last week, bld?
fair to assume national importance.
The testimony adduced shows that
foreign companies niaue their boasts
that they were spending money freely
in Albany, N. Y., to assure passage
of the Grady reinsurance bill. Witnesses
also told that oven $19,000
was expended in the West to securo
the passage of favorable and to block
unfavorable legislation.
The most far reaching piece of
evidence yet produced was the fact
that Emmet Rhodes received $10,000
in 1903 to be used in securing
the repeal of the stamp tax act, passed
by Cougress during the SpanishAmericau
war. It is declared an
investigation will be asked to showwhen
and ui>ou whom this cash was
used.
Concerning the Grady bill passed
by the New York legislature, E. H. A.
Correa, vice president of the Homo
Insurance company, told that two
German re-insurance companies made
open statements to the effect that
they were seeking to dominate things
at Albany. They were the Munich
Reinsurance company and the Prussia
Reinsurance company. The Munich
company made no bones about
spending its money for the passage
OTtioq jo sjso jojtl oyj ojplsop '.w?i
^tllis sj m?i OIUL *9061 "I luodoj sif
piOAOjd oj puu '*061 ?1 lliq oin jo
coni|>anies.
The largest casa payment yet mentioned
in the inquiry w>s quoted
by Col. A. H. Wray, manager of the
Commercial Union Assuiance company,
limited, of London. Cel. Wray
is a member of the National Hoard
of Eire Underwriters, lies' itel that
$19,000 had been paid ir !no West
o establish and keep up a syitem
for controllng legislaMo* that it
might be favorabie to insurance companies.
The National Hoard of Fire Underwriters
was touched to" Ji?\000 in
1903, according to the testimony by
Mr Correa, a member ol Lis board.
Emmet Rhoades secured this money,
'for service rendered ir connection
with the repeal of the stamp tax."
The law in question w t passed by
Congress at the time of the SpanishAmerican
war, requiring a tax,
nmong other things, uj'in !ire iterance
policies. How the money
was used is not known.
INSANELY JEALOUS.
Carpenter Tries to Wipe Out Ills
Whole Family.
Enraged because his wife had gone
to the theatre Friday night with her
brother, taking the children of the
family with her, Alfred Mitchell, a
carpenter, Saturday shot and probably
fatally wounded h<-r, seriously
wounded their 12-year-old son, and
Bevn-year-old daughter then shot
himself in the head dying instantly
at New Orleans, La.
Mitchell lived on the Gentilly
road, several miles from New Orleans.
When he returned home on
Frday night and found that his
brother-in-law, Conrad Palk, had
taken his family to the theatre, he
leoaded a double barreled shot-gun
and waited for them. When they returned,
he fired two shots at Falk,
who ran down the road and escaped.
After heaping abu9e upon his wife
and children he went to bed hut was
in a had humor. When ho arose
Saturday morning he commenced a
quarrel with his wife which culminated
in the shooting.
The wounded woman and children
were brought to a hospital in New
Orleans. Mrs. Mitchell received a
load of shot in the abdomen and her
condition is critical. The daughter
is badly wounded In the shoulders
md breast and may not live. The
boy will probably reooer. Mitchell
reloaded the gun after shooting his
n'lfn A -V- " "
auu uunuren, and placing tho
muzzle against his forehead blew off
he top of his head.
( rave Is Itohhfd.
A dispatch from Forest Hill, La.,
lays the most unusual robbery in the
listorv of that section of Ixiuisiana
ivas perpetrated Friday night, when
he remains of R. I). (Jainer were
;xhumed and gold teeth, ,a diamond
ing, a gold watch and cuff buttons
ivere taken from the body. The body
ivas sealed in a tomb more than :i<>
/ears ago.
After White Slaves.
The American consulate in Antwerp
is engaged in an attempt to
trace two New York white slave
Importers, who are believed to have
shipped 90 women from Paris on
outgoing steamers. British and continental
ports are being watched, and
the American and Canadian authorities
hc -e been notified to scrutinize
closely all incoming passengers.
The country will not go to war
over Manchurian trade. A single
warship scuUled would take the profits
out of the business for years.
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