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* * * r J CAR HEP UF Mortorman Killed nod Conductor Fat tally Shot by Highwaymen. % ^ ATLANTA IS SHOCKED &nd Commit* a Brutal Murder and Bobbery. At the end of the Druid Hills car line, a lonely si>ot in the outlying section of one of Atlanta's residential surburbs, three negro highwaymen Saturday night shot and killed Motorman S. T. Brown and after robbing Conductor W. H. Bryson of $35, fatally shot him in the back and made their eecape into the nearby woods. Half hour later the crime was discovered and Atlanta's entire police reserve was rushed to the scene. There were no passengers on the car. The car had just reached the end of the line and the motorman was reversing .his trolley when the attack came from the negroes, who had conoealed themselves behind a clump of bushes. Motorman Brown was shot down as he started to re-enter his car and with revolvers leveled at the conductor's head, h was ordered to throw up his hands. On complying, one of the men relieved him of all the cash he had on his person aad then he was told to "hit the grit." He was shot in he back by one of the men after he had rua about tifty yards and fell in bis tracks. Two shots penetrated his liver. The injured conductor was rushed to a hospital where it was stated that there was no possible chance of his recovery. The dead motorman and injured ???'1 woeo hv Vfntnminn VUUU Utn/I W T;1 H/ II IIU irj ....... Tinsley and Conductor Royster, who were In charge of the car, t.hut reached the end of the lino just twenty minutes later. Brown was lying face downward beside hiH car, a'bullet through his heart, and along the track fifty yards distant was found Bryson. Before losing consciousness Bryson told of the attack. "Motorman Brown was shot to death by the negroes," h.^ said, "and then they turned their attention to me. After takiag all the money I | hnd one of the yegroes yell <1 'hit the grit,' and while running I was shot In the back by one of the men. I didn't have an opportunity to get away." * The 'county bloodhounds were at once rushed to the soene of the holdup and immediately took a trail, which led In the direction of a construction camp, where a number of negroes are employed on grading work. Tho camp wan placed under i a heavy guard, and early Sundayi every negro in the camp was forced | to submit to a thorough erer.itnatlon j at the nuTiGfl or une omcers. nevfrui arrests were made. Sunday whites were not permitted to go near the camp because of the excitable condition of the crowds. Fifty police officers continued to scour the woods in the vicinity of the hold-up and several negroes were placed under arrest, though without any convincing evidence?, or guilt. In a moment of consciousness Sunday, Conductor W. H. Bryson identified one of the negroes caught, in the police dragnet as probably one of the guilty trio. This negro and four others w.ho are held on suspicion are prisoners. All kinds of rumors have gained currency and the oflie rs- found it i necessary to prohibit negroes visiting the neighlvorliood where the crime occurred. T.here were even *xpressions of disapproval from the crowd at the presence of the fed negro chauffeurs who piloted automobiles to the scene. Brown was 3 6 years of ace an 1 leaves a wife and four ch'ldien. Bryson Is about the same ape and | married. Bryson is a native of j Laurens county. South Carolina, and has a brother living at Rockmar'. j Ga. * Deputy Shot by Negro. Posses with bloodhounds are now scouring the vicinity of West Palm Beach, Kla., In search of an unknown negro, who, early Sunday shot and probably fatally wounded Deputy Sheriff Robert Baker. Baker was attempting to arrest the negro on a minor charge, when the negro shot him with a shotgun. Killed lllmsc-lf. Dr. Mark W. Blackburn, member of a wealthy and prominent family, of Wilson, Pa., died Sunday of BelfInflicted wounds, following his recent attempt to kill Miss Viola Getty, after she refused to elope with him. llllmnl in Wisconsin. A blizzard was raging throughout almost the entire State of Wisconsin. Several Inches of snow has fallen In Milwaukee. Marinette reports a depth of two feet. Temperatures are below freezing. . i \. . ^ By tiie Crime of Three Negro Footpads, Who Attack a Street Car ?* #lin nf u QttrKiarhiin I .im* FOUND GUILTY WOLTER MUST GIVE HIS LIFE FOR KILLING GIRL. Horrible Murder of Ruth Wheeler, the Pretty Young Stenographer. Will Re Avenged by the Law. Albert Wolter, a degenerate youth of 19 yearB, who gloated over lewd pictures and was "crazy" about women, must die in the electric chair for the murder of Ruth Wheeie-*, * pretty sixteen-year-old stenog-npaer. After only one hour and fifty minutes of deliberation in the court of special sessions found him guilty of murder in the first degree at 10'30 o'clock Friday night, bringing to a olose a trial marked by its swift movement and Its testimony of horror. Tho boy's counsel said with eloquence that Wolter was too tenderhearted to harm a cat but twelve men decided that he had strangled Ruth Wheeler and thrust her yet alive in his fireplace, soaked with oil, her crumpled body writhed and burned. With the same waxed-faced indifference that he had shown throughout the trial Wolter evinced no emotion when the verdict was announced. With almost inhuman complanc he has been asleep in his cell?and sleeping soundly?while the jury was deliberating on his fate. This was made known by a court attendant who said that he had to rouse tho prisoner to bring him into court. He will be sentenced on Wednesday. I The jurymen themselves showul j emotion, while tho boy who must I die showed none. As tho jurors! filed in the prisoner was led into the 1 room and took his sent facing the judge. His face was the color of putty, but his complexion is naturally unwholesome, and Its nshness n ivo ttuvrm uHii'u uy i ill* urn I in III lights of the court room. When nuked if they had found a verdict, William V. Kulp, foreman of the jury, answered In a shaking voice, "we have." Ho then announc-! eu no ana nts associates had found j Wolter guilty of murder in the first I degree. All eyes Immediately shift- ! od toward the prisoner, but he was as stolid as a piece of stone. As he [ was being handcuffed to officers pre- ( partory to being taken to the Tombs, , he looked around unconcernodly and then wobbled out with his custodians. No relatives of the murderer or of his victim were in court to hear the verdict. His aged parents wore in court durlnir t.he afternoon, but as he heard the decision which means death, he was alone among strangers. j Efforts were made to get a state- | meat from Wolter on his way ?o the Tombs, but he refused to talk. "I don't want to talk tonight- I'm tired and I want to get a little good sleep first." Ruth Wheeler was killed on the 24th of March, falling to dispose of her body in the fireplace, Wolter cut it apart and left the bust and head wrapped In burlap on a fire-escape from wlwre It was pushed into the yard below. He was arrested on the 2 6th and was placed on trial on Monday last, lie denied ever knowing Ruth Wheeler, but testimony showed that she had been lured to I his rooms expecting to obtain work as a stenographer. There Wolter had attempted to criminally assault her and had murdered her In the | struggle, strangling her with a rope tied about her neck. * PIN1) SOME Old) THINGS. Ancient Flooring, Old Pipes and Fire Wi-llc It.... i-.. The News and Courier snvs work ! I In laving the new sewerage system in that oity is progressing very satisfactorily, considering the many obstacles that the workmen have to contend with in digging up the streets. It appears that tJie pick comes in frequent contact with a varl? d assortment of pipes and drains that were laid a very long time ago. The pipes include both gas and water pipes and the drains Include brick, box and pipe drains, and hesides that old fire wells are also encountered. All this, of course, retards the work to some extent, but with a large and competent gang of workmen, it is being pushed most satisfactorily. A most peculiar "find" made by the workmen In Elizabeth street was a two-inr.h solid flooring. It is about a foot beneath the su-face, and extends for a distance of between three hundred and four hundred feet. The flooring was evidently put down to better the condition of the street in a low spot. It is estimated that about a .hundred cords of wood have been taken out of Calhoun street. * Heavy Snow Storm. Chicago has been in t.he grasp of a heavy snow and violent wind storm for several hours and there aro no signs of its abating. The snow followed one of the heaviest rainfalls of the year. The wind'Saturday was so strong during the night that it lifted the roof of a barn and dropped it on the cab of a passing locomotive. k - 1. MANY HIT HARD ! By the Isstuoce of Forged CoUoq Bills of Lading to Bayers by A LARGE COTTON FIRM Which Recently Failed at Decatur, Ala., With Liabilities of Nearly Six Million Dollars and Assets of Only Five Hundred Thousund Dollars to Offset the Huge Liabilities. The Atlanta Journal saya Southern representatives of New York cotton arms, wno rushed to Decatnr, Ala., I from Atlanta and other cltieB Wed-1 nesday and Thursday, to ascertain ' the true status of agairs in connection with the failure of Knight, Yani cey & Co., declare that the g'gantic transactions Involving millions, which preceded and precipitated the crash, may end in prosecution in the federal courts. It is averrod that forged cotton hills of lading attached to draftB for heavy sums were sent to New York firms and to big cotton houses in Europe. They say these drafts were honored and paid, and that investigation has proven many of the bills of lading worthless. New York firms, they believe, have lost about $1,000,000. while the total losses of European houses may run between $4,000,000 and $5,000,- . 000. No southern cotton firms have been involved in the smash-up, It is said, i It seems that all banks with which i Knight, Yancey & Co., did business are amply protected. I It is predicted, however, that the 1 affair will revolutionize the cotton i business in this country by destroy- | Ing tlu> confidence of buyers in bills < of lading, which have hitherto been honored as if thov were the actual i cotton Itself. i The firm of Knight, Yancey & Co., i is comiH>sod of .1. W. Knight, of i Decatur; W. J. Yancey, of Memphis; , E. H. Nesbltt. of Sdartanburg; and t W. D. Nesbitt, of Birmingham. All t of the men are prominent in cotton ( circles. W. D. Nesbltt is one of the best known business men of the ] south, is a state railroad commis- j sioner in Alabama, and a close friend ( of Governor Coiner. } J. W. Knight was in charge of < the Decatur office. In an interview \ published in the Birmingham papers, W. I). Nesbitt declares that he has | not been in active touch with the t i business for four years and that the < crash was a -terrible surprise and | revelation to him. The irregular!- i ties, says ."Mr. Nesbitt, appear to have i originated in the Decatur office. The question cotton men are asking all over tho world today is whether or not the affair will end by a criminal prosecution In the federal court. While representatives of firms which have been heavily hit do not hesitate to condemn the bill of J lading transactions, no one is yet I ready to tako the resronsibility of saving that prosecutions will actually be instituted, for the affair has not yet been gone into deeply enough and it is not known what attitude Knight will take in defense of the transactions for which he is held responsible. The Knight. Yancey AL- Ct firm, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the south, with oflicvs in Decatur, Ala., Mobile, Huntsville, Birmingham and other cities, went j into involuntary bankruptcy on Wednesday. The business of the company has ! been large, t.he bulk of which is with European firms. Last year 60,000 hales of cotton were shipped from the Mobile port to llarve alone. Judge W. I. Qrubbs. of the United States district court, at Decatur, ap- ! pointed Frost AL- Lowell receivers for | t.he bankrupt firm. Their bond was j fixed at $L*OO.ono. According to j Jito Murphy, referee In bankruptcy,! the liabilities of tho firm will aff<-rreKate. $.">.777,908. Tho nssots are ' 1 eatimated at about $r>00,000. Creditors of tho company, it ia said, bold securities to the amount of $411,157. | Was lludly Hurt. At Doula, France, I.<ouis Tlroguet, tho French aviator, who has appeared in numerous aviation contests, , suffered a fractured skull Tuesday from a fall while makinc a flisrht. His aeroplane capsized In a strong wind at a height of 60 feet. Rreguet is In a very serious condition. ( Tragedy at Sanford. In a negro restaurant at Sanford, N. C.. Sunday afternoon a quarrel arose between Edward W'oinaek and Fred Melver, l>oth colored. Woraark, , shooting Melver through the hear,., killing him Instantly. Womack then made his escape. Iloth were drinking. Demands n Court. A dispatch from Columbia says Col. Hrork has filed an application with t.he Governor for a court of inquiry into the row between him and Gen. Royd. The Governor says that ho has not had time to consider his action yet. * "BAD" WHISKEY KILLS iBVKN DIE FROM DRINKING PRODUCT OF DRUG STORE. Little Towns Were Suiv Modern Rorgia Was IxHxte, Rut It Was Only CauwHl by Wood Alcohol In Rooze. As the result of drinking whiBkey )f the "made-while-you-wait" brand, three women and four men are dead In or near Westerly, R. I., and so ;reat is the excitement over the tragedies that the Attorney General at Providence, R. I., has ordered an investigation into the deaths and also the places In which Bocalled medicinal whiskey is made and sold. The dead are Lena Blanchard, Yfro n ? ?* * - - ....o. n.icn luunuy ana mtb. Albert Tucker, of Westerly, R. r.; Edward Dougherty, Charles H. Hood and Henry Larrow, of Pawtucket, Conn., and W. D. Perrln, of Hopklnton, R. I. Thus far reeponsibllity for (V deaths has not been placed, but the Westerly authorities have Information that they were due to the blunder of a drug clerk who used wood alcohol instead of the grain product in making the whiskey. An arrest is looked for soon. So far as can be learned all the whiskey was purchased in the same drug store, and the symptoms shown by the victims in each case, all of whom died suddenly. are reported by the attending physicians as identical. One physician has reported that his analysis of the contents of the stomach of Dougherty showed the presence of wood alcohol in quantities large enough to produce death. Coroner Brown, of Stonington, who has some of the whiskey remaining in the bottle from which Barrow and Hood drank just before their deaths, says wood alcohol is present in U In sufficient quantities to produce death when taken freely. The first of the deaths from the whiskey was that, of Mrs. Murray, who died last Tuesday. An empty whiskey bottle was found at her side, ?ut the physicians stated that heart lisease hnd caused her end. While he authorities were investigating :he Murray case they loarued of that jf Mrs. Tucker, Wednesday night. Then on Thursday came those of Hood and his father-in-law, Harrow, it Pawtucket. On the aame day the leath of I^ona Blanchard occurred it Westerly, and then that of Perrin an Friday, aud Dougherty oh Saturday. Until It was fairly establlshded hat the mysterious deaths were due to drue store whiskey, t.here were wild rumors to the effect that a Bor-) sia had found her way into the little communities and was administering the poison my* wlioV sale. Fain iin-s KKipiK-u mcir nuiK supply and were extremely cautious as to where they obtained raw food-stuffs. Westerly is a no license town, and t.he result is that the druggists have been doing a thriving 'business in the sale of all kinds of substitutes. In the last few years several druggists, two of them men of prominence, have been convicted and sent to jail for selling liquor. * IHKit A REAL IIEUO. Lost His Life Trying to Rescue a Neighbor's Child. At Chicago Nelson Harris. 4 4 years old. was burned to death while trying to rescue a neHlghbor's child, which he supposed was sleeping on tlie second floor. Mrs. Elanor Harrison. his wife was badly burned and will prolmhly die. The four children wene severely burned. Harrison, who slept on the first floor, was arous >d by the smoke. Aftor helping his wife out he went upstairs and aroused the children and after getting t.he in out he thought that a neighbor' child was still upstairs and he went back. His lifeless body was found by the police after the interior of the building was practilly destroyed. * SHOT DOWN IN WOODS. Second Victim of Mysterious Murder Within Week. The body of Tom Cason, a hard working negro, was found in the woods In Gantt townshin in Green ville County Friday. A gunshot wound in th*^ abdomen told how the man had died. From what can be learned of the mystery, it appears there < xists a feud among the negro families of that neighborhood, this being the second mysterious killing within the week. The row started last Sunday at camp meeting, when the negro who was found dead accidentally stepped on the foot of a negress. Five Iinrn to Death. Near Ponca, Neb., Mrs. Jerry Miner and five children were burned to death Sunday morning when their cottage caught fire. Miner saved his 2-year-old baby by throwing it out of the window. The father made a desperate effort to rescue the other members of the family and was burned so seriously that he is not expected to live. -*V < , *?V?, .,4 NIPS THE CROP Snow, Sleet and Very Cold Weather in Many Parts of the Sooth. CAUSE OF MUCH ALARM Record Breaking Weather Throughout the Southland, Damages the Young Cotton and Other Crops to tile Amount of Millions of Ik>llarM, If They Art* Destroyed. An Atlanta dispatch says with snow storms of blizzard proportions j raging throughout east Tennessee, northern and central Alabama and the greater part of Georgia, and freezing tomperatures in other sections of the South, thiB section of the country Monday faced the greatest loss in early cotton, fruits and yegetables experienced In manyyears. In Georgia alone, according to the Commissioner of Agriculture fully 50 per cent of the cotton crop is killed. More thau 90 per cent of the crop was a1>ove ground and reports indicate that a scarcity of seed will prevent replanting of vast acreages. It was sleeting in Atlanta Mondaynight. A snow and sleet storm struck northern Alabama Sunday night and Monday morning, and# according to the weather bureau in Birmingham extreme cold weather is general throughout the State. At S o'clock Monday morning the thermometer registered .13 degrees, with no indications of it going up. Reports are coming in that fruit is being damaged, while truck will be Killed altogether. The records show this to be the coldest April day in the history of the Stute. Reports received Monday from many sections of Louisiana and Mississippi Indicate that thousands of acres of cotton have been severelydamaged by the cold of Sunday night and the night before. In many in-! stances replanting will be necessary. ! Truck and fruit farms have Buffered considerable Injury. At Nashville, Tenn., snow bf gan falling between 3 and 4 o'clock Monday morning and continued until x o'clock with a fall of 1 3-4 inches, the tlrst snow in April since 18S6. There was also a trace of snow the first of last May. The government thermometer regist* red 3 2 degrees at 6 o'clock Monday morning. While early vegetables will no doubt suffer from this unprecedented cold snap it is believed that fruit will escape serious dam a re by reason of its protecting foliage. A special from Adiarsville. Ky? reports a snowfall of six indies at that place Sunday night and Monday morning. Reports from Ronton, Polk county, show a two-inch snow in that section Monday morning prrreened by a heavy frost Saturday, which it Is believed practically destroyed tin* fruit crop and growing vegetables. Snow and freezing weather extended as far south in Alabama as Montgomery, the greatest losses failing in the northern part of the State, where the damage is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Right snow is also reported in Northern Mississippi, while extreme cold in northern and western Texas has also wrought considerable damage to crops of all kinds. C.otton growers in the vicinity of Memphis declare that the present unprecedented visitation of wintry weather has killed or injured all the crops. Replanting will he necessary in a wide area. Monday the mercury registered 3 6 degrees at 10 d'f'lnPlf Thn rnoAr.lo " ^ ' ? 1 1 ? 1 tvui WO oill'W UU piirilllei In 4 1 years. Five inches of snow covers the section about Hopklnsville. The cold found many persons unprepared for it and there has been some suffering among t.he dependent classes. Advices from Columbus. Miss., says that snow and sleet fell Sunday night. Karlv cotton and fruit was killed and farmers in the Prairie section of the State will be forced to r> plant the cotton crop. Advices from Dallas Monday state that eastern Texas is experiencing the coldest weather ever known. There was a li-'ht frost Sunday night and cotton will be retarded in its growth. Fruit was badly damaged. AXOTIIKIt M1XK HOIUIOK. Klglitcen Miners Are Probably Dead l Aoar stoiit>em ille. Eighteen of a night fore*? of 2e machine men employed in the mines near Amsterdam, Ohio, are thought to he dead as the result of an explosion In the mine late Friday night. So far six bodies have hcen found and seven have been taken out in an unconscious condition. Twelve men are missing. Rescue parties began work a few minutes after the explosion. It is thought 'hat the explosion war caused by coal gas being ignited by the lights on the' miners' helmets. * ?? ? - . , . > . t * YOUNG GIRL VICTIM XKW YORK REAL ESTATE MAN ACCUSED. His Scheme Was to Entice a Maiden to His OHlce and There Assault Her. Th? police of New York City have effected the arrest of Joseph T. Shipman, a real estate operator, on the charge of attempting to assault Miss Emdly Richie, who appeared at hlB office In answer to an advertisement for a stenographer. Hearing in mindthe recent Wolter case in which a young woman was assaulted and murdered when she appeared at an ofllce under similar circumstances. Miss Richie invited Mrs. Emma McCully to accompany her. The presence of a third party, who carried an infant child on her arm, was no protection but it did lead to a disclosure of Shipmau's methods and will put an end to his activities for some time to come. When in his coll in the Fulton street station, Shipwan gave his address as 144 West Twontv-somnH street, "but changed It later. At that addross Mrs. Anna Hillshire said that nine weeks ago she had rented a room to a man named Shlpman. He remained there Ave weeks, spending his time writing advertisements and answering those girls who wrote for Inquiries. She said that more than 25 girls had called to see him and that she became suspicions and finally put a stop to his activities and ho left her house. Another woman called and claimed to lie his private secretary. He directed t.hat she write to New Jersey and secure bail. A woman who said she was Mrs. Shipman. believes her husband is innocent of the charge brought against him. Miss Richie is about IS years of age. and had been working as a stenographer in Brooklyn. When she read Shipman's advertisement ofTerthe hope of bettering herself. Shipman stated that he was not able to hire a first class stenographer and for that reason .he advertised for young girls whose experience was not such that they would demand the highest wages, lie explained to tho girl that a lodge went with her position and that lie would show her to those quarters on Lexington avenue. Mrs. McCully went along. When they reached the lodge they found it contained two rooms. Shipman directed Mrs. McCully to one and then locked himself in a room with the Miss Richie. Then, according to her story, he seized her. held his hand over her mouth and tried to choke her. He threw her on a bed in the room, but sh kicked and screamed and struggled so that lie finally released her. she said. Then she unlocked the doors and both she and Mrs. McCully ran away as soon as they could get out of tho hotel. The girl related her experience to her mother, who in turn lost no time in informing the police. The arrest was effected by Capt. flallagher and Detective Quinn. when Mrs. Ulc.Mle, togetle r with Miss Richi??. directed tlio officers to Shlpman's quarters. IIOMR or roit-MllIt liOVKR. Dynamited by tlie Young Woman lie Ilad Deserted. At Prairie City, IoVn, the residence of Jesse A. Quick was demolished at midnight Sunday night by a charge of dynamite which had been placed under the front porch, near the sleeping apartments of Dr. Alex Hall and his bride, formerly Miss 'Miyrtle Quick. Miss Mary Guthrie of Carthage, Til., was arrested on suspicion. It is understood the doctor and Miss Guthrie were engaged to be married at one time. None of t.ho other occupants were injured. The house was valued at $12,000. FATAL IIOTKIj FlllK. Four Bodies Are Recovered and Two More in Debris. Three bodies have been recovered from the ruins of t.he Hotel Tbomo at Cincinnati, Ohio, which was burned Saturday night. The bodies of the men were found in a ruined upper story, where they had been suffocated. For more than an hour adjacent property. Including two t.heatres. was in imminent peril. The fire spread from the cellar, where It started, to the roof with great rapidity and pedestrians who were early on the scene assisted scores of guests in escaping by windows. I>ic<l 1'tider Auto. An automobile plunging from a I 1 r?-foot culvert in Chicamauga park | on Friday night resulted in the instant death of Arthur Barrett, honkkeeper in t.he bottling; department of the Chattanooga, Tenn., Brewing | company, and the serious injury of James P. Byrne, traveling saleman for the same company. Browned by Automobile. Margaret Brennan. a nurse, twenty-two years of age, was drowned in two feet of water in Muck Creek, 19 miles from Tacoma, Wash., Friday, being pinioned under an automobile. 3