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SUGAR FRAUD * Trail Develops Some Sensational and Demoting Evidence. "THE MAN HIGHER UP" Laahed bjr Hi* Conscience, Oliver flpltser Obtains Pardon from PresKent to Giro Evidence in Trial 6| of the American Sugm- Refining (4Mb-1 pany employees at New York was created Monday morning by the an-: noonccment that President Taft has pardoned Oliver Spitzer, superintendent of the Williamsburg docks of the compai), who some months' ago was couvi. ted of underweighing and sentenced to two years in the Federal prison in Atlanta. As Snitzer testified it developedthnt President Taft granted him an unconditional pardon on May 19 last. Spitzer testified thnt he arranged signal lights operated by a switch to warn weighers of auV."sudden danger." The trump card In the prosecution of Charles B. Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company. was played at the opening of the trial, when Prosecutor Sfimson called Mr. Spitzer as the government's first witness. John 11. Stanchfieh'. for the defense, claimed that under the Federal statute Spitzer, as a cenvi ted man, could not t siifv., It was then announced in court that Spitzer had been parasned by Presl. (Ant Taft. Hcike Is 011 trial in Hip United States court with five former c.aploje s of the American Sugar it fining company orv the r?'i r^e H conspiring to dc train! the government by un it i>i' iini'.g cai; >?s of sun imports. On the evi lencc of Richard Parr, a goverrpner.t i sp etor. P'.iltzer win convicted with ! ur cbi i . a employed U'.' K i 1 ill the io . ir acv to jjierpelraio iv? s v'u . povi *nMift'i r c' i * I o < i i ii I lion* of ; !' 1 i . iii i. <:>..! s "V?V } four < ' t' -lie l?, C'I i'*o, Ivo-' i nil f Uni-n y?w to it to tne B'nckw; * vl.ntii peai'enrii'.'.-y for ; yet <. tSpitftpr pra'crt'd ign<oranej of frauds on t'ae docks. M.-u " he kup" weie nnl't <!i H-ike. the s-.-creter.i of tin trust, mmI Err F. Gerbracht, t.ho refinery sup-rinte.nd nt, * or.- In ie ti Wit.h tin *n on trial now besides four other former eomps ny clunkers is .lames F. l nderniv*!. th i. finery can bier-, who ttio tin- i s .in nnii 'r ana li 1 oi.'i- ' er c.h "CkiTB, The jury disagreed cs ! ' to whether Bemlernar 1 had a pari In t'ie < <n - ir.it'.}. an i it was ? Ho to i -try htm. It v. ;.s reported that Spit'er was j going to m ke a clean breast of the alleged Iran Is. tie described the iso, about 18-30 and 1SU5, of 1 small hav'S of lead on the beams of i fthe scabs, causing tho recorded ' weights-to be sometimes forty pounds short to a draft, and also the stuff- ' log of newspapers underneath the 1 floors of the scales for the same pur- 1 pose. The use of the paper was an ) t absolutely new development in the 1 fraud Investigation. Heike listened ' to Spitzer's testimony with tnse In- 1 terest. Spitzer demonstrated in court 1 t.he use of the bags of lend and < testified about the steel springs say- < l,ng that first heavy ones were used and later light ones. The springs, 1 he said, were substituted for lead 1 and paper when Deputy Surveyors ot ^ Customs Vail took office, while the !1 use of springs was abandoned after 1 the sugar trust .had paid the rebate to the government as a result of the Federal suit. "Did you ever arrange a system of signal lights In the scale house?" suddenly asked the prosecution. "Yes, sir," replied Spltzor, who then related that the signals we?e used to warn the weighers of any sudden danger. I "How were the lights worked?" "By a switch In my office. re plied Spitzer. who Bald that the switch was turned whenever a goy- * ernmont official was seen to ap- o preach. Spitzer said that an electric light t had been used in tho scale houses for many years, but that he made a 1 change in the tignal system by in- n stalling red lights. In reply to an C Interrogation of the prosecution if ^ ho had ever told of the weighing frauds to any one. Spitzer replied c that be had informed a man named Lercy, who worked in the Wall street e office of the sugar trust. ;S The witness said when he wanted ? to raise any of the chorcker's wages :h he was obliged to put the matter ,h before Cashier James P. Benderna- . gel and Prank W. Oerbracht. The checkers of the government ri weighers were %favorltes over those ' of the city weighers in the matter H of wages, he said, and every efTort ai possible was made to conceal this fa from the other weighers on the tl< dock. Spltser said that in the fall he 1906 he received a "phone message aB from an unknown person, Earning th of Sugar Trust Officials Cluirgfrt With IHtfrauding Government. : I Thft hi*froBt BftnooHnn r\t SHOT FULL OF LEAD UY HIS COMRADES WHO DID NOT MOW HK WAS THERE. With His Body Literally Shot U> , | Pieces, Private Hethertoa Lived For Two Days. A dispatch from Monrere/. Cal., relates a singular occurrence by which a soldier lost his 11'.?. His 'body an unBeen target to the rain of * bullets of a firing squad at rifle practice. Claude Hetherton, a piiVatf of Company K, Thirteenth infantry, stationed at the Pheaidlo. who was taking measurements ot the range, was literally shot to pieces and..died after lingering in the reservation hospital for two days. ' ^The accldon* occurred last w*ek. but the fac?3 have just come fo lig'd. An investigation of the affl ur delayed the funeral until Sunday. ' All during the afternoon of the day h'e was shot, Hetherton crept about on the embankment, pepered wUh lead, while the bullets w.hizzed about him. His cri^s could not be hea 1. After the first bullet had brought him down .he made an effort ?.o drag himself out of ranze, but no matter which way he turned, his ssoape was' cut off by the flying missiles. "Finally he sank on the sand mound awaiting the shot that would end his'torture, Bullets sped about him, ripping his clothes and tearing his flesh. When markers found him, his head had be?jn shot almost oil. l^etUecton was married. SAW If KK SOX 1?1K. y >ung Man Accidentally Shoots and Kills Himself. Frank Richard, a young white mati, nocllonially shot and killed himself at his homo, about one mile t : outJi?of l.dimui ! s. lociugtofn county, 1 te Friday ftf crn on. From inVoiiu'.tion gathered it ffiefflS that utii; ; uicvrn n.wl Ilnv aed bis wnr^ fir the <Jay and ha 1 gone to tho u . *M.h is loc t* a J w hi ml red Ml fr tlv- h< ir . tr Spend the v 1:: ,.! t'.r nft 1-n r- flshinff, ? > in .his f.kV r.'u wiih Inui. !' had , : l ' > w i . t*r 1 It; the ro. n;l ( f a j ill.. F , i.i ' i , ' . ? t.pp to the e- t-e. I b n arrival . t ' 'lie pcuthy.' foun J the young rfi . t: j ?yi?U fiat in th<- bfit. r -ipi for h. t . ill -e t- -t of sh i . i r l j ,,{> m<Hv wouml. 11o IIv .1 but a j r w n:c ''iits. dyi.ig wit! out m..king ' a statement. * i;looi>y i ii>, ival. Nino Negroes it? <? Wuaitilfd mul Sevc: ill Will Lie. K?-?) rts f the wounding nc r C 1I. r.\ .i, I ; .. ,, r i : r in . I" whom will die. were received at. tin sheriffs office at Monro , La., Sunday, and a s<iuad of deputies left immediately for Calhoun In an automobile. What had be?n advertised as a 'peace festival" was .held that night iy the negroes living near Calhoun's. During the entertainm nt two neiroes, opened a revolver duel and the fight became general. Homer Davis, a negro man, and two unidendfied negro women, wore fatally vonn(led. Six other negroes who lroMA AUW ?i A * * - - ? rr<r.c cuiici ?tiut or staoned will recover. I Several negroes alleged to be ring- t eaders in the shooting escaped, i rhese will be trailed by the deputies, vho loaded a pack of bloodhounds ] nto the automobile before they left don roe. < ( Ouiised Blood Poisoning. According- to the coroner's an- louncement a cat and fly were re- s iponslble for the death of Edward H. t 'ratt, a manufacturer of Jersey City. White petting a kitten a week ago I le wa? ecratched on the hand and a < lear' hours later crushed a fly In liat; hand. Septic blood poisoning, vhioh even amputation could not he supposed kidnappers. -j lltn to be careful of the wire Bprlng, is the government was watching the locks. This caused a letting up in fl he frauds. y Following the raid In November, t 901. by the government, the wit- r i<r?? a?iu ne with iniormea t>y .Mr. ^ Jerbracht that the weighers and 0 ilmself would he taken care of. ^ "When the six weighers were dis- e harged what happened?" "I paid them the same wages evry week at my home," replied Mr. ^ pltzer, addlug that the money was t< lvc? him each week by Mr. Ger- 0( racht. who left it in a package at is garage. * p "When did this money sease?" p, "When I was sentenced last Feb- e, jary," answered Mr. Spitzer. 0j Spitzer said he knew Secretary Vi eike, but did not connect him in ^ ty way with knowledge of the ^ lse weighing. The cross-examlnaon of the witness was deferral Prosecutor Stlmson said Spuz- r fy icaine conscience s'.ricken in pris>r id desired to .? . i.ll he knew of ca e alleged frauds. m, ANSEL SHOULD LLIISIJ REQUISITION OF GOVERNOR WHO TURNED HIS DOWN. ^ Patterson, Governor of Tennessee, Is Cheeky Individual and Needs a Leuon. Governor Ansel has now under I consideration the matter of whether 1 or not he should honor a requisition requested by Governor Patterson, of Tennessee. Overshadowing the mere question as to the merits of the case, there is great interest to the public at large, not only in this State, but throughout the country, in the fact that last (all Gov. Patterson, who 1 has since come into such notoriety 1 by his pardon of Col. Cooper, refused 1 to honor a requisition sent from this 1 State for C. J. Herbert, wanted in connection with the Seminole scan- < dal. Governor Ansel has not yet decided whether he will honor the requls- ' ition, but he gave a lengthy hearing to both sides in his ol&ce recently, I where appeared attorneys from Ten- < nes^ee and South Carolina, in the < interests of the two parties to the 1 | cause. 1 j The case centres around A. Shep Pearlstine. of Branohvllle, who is < charged with embezzlement Ijy Pal- t mer Brothers, of Charleston. Tenn. < There are eleven counts in the fn.lict- i uient, involving nearly $20,000, al- ' toe'tber. Mr. Pearlstine is perfectly * tiling to be fried in South Carolina, rbut is resisting the requisition by 1 which he would be carried to Ten- ' uess e and placed 011 trial In a v strange state. I It appears also that the question is ' largi ly one of law, and that the c merits of the case itself have but lit- '< tie bearing in the way cf public Interest. Bnt for the f. < t that the 1 question cf evtiadlction came up, ti l the fact that tl?. matter is with ' ;he Si'tie of Tonne:., ee. the story it- * elf might a t hav< 1)' < 11 g v r. to the public. Under the cir.cumH. -s, ? however, it could in t bo wiihh Id. f( ?vcn thoiuh t.ho charge against Mr. Pearlhtluo has not b cm pr >vel. f One of the points in the a. at'meat ; the ell> of Augusta^ Stele of (' . org) a, * '.row a draft on Pa mer uroTf.e,-. * Vi. 1*1. -.on. r- u?? 1 i the v. ui ^ ' R??. Sin'd that the s.-hl Ui' ft v i> id and iv In the pooe3s'a>n of Palm ' r ft:*!* , as ,U..0eJ.t belie; s, ' .ltd that t e rail chat . of rnPcr.Mf I a t f h 1 .vh if t ie 1 (ii ' \ (1 f Nc.tn . . 1... 1 that n.,.1 r? ! " elve. of ?Id Palm; r B?< t! .-a .1 let- I .. ... u i aiuiI, J fun., US O | ' ?. id i!at ;uid r. < iv . 1 .1 note : , m: Nov m or 20; ti i i 1< i f .1th exhibit heretofore sot forth a? ' ' Tx!:fbit 'N'. That as to this at ount * 1. jtori> nt . I so aubml.s af. i;.xlt of 1. 'T C. Rlc . v i bm ,vs tht't dtotnnt '' . ;.s iu tne town of Do. :uar<i on J; '* hereabout: at t.ho tiro nuntic!?"] 'a t11 is count of in ."let mo v. t. T h | l( :: s reference to the second count r' >f tho indictment. There are i 01 ounts involving amounts from $.">0 o $r.00.v ri Mr. Fearlstine's attorney submitted aifidavis from well-known Den- 'e mark p ople to the effect that the ,M lraft3 were deposited by Mr. Pearl- ,r stlne in the Dank of Denmark. There were a number of affidavits submitt- w ed in the case and Governor Ansel heard tlurm read. ' "1 There appeared before Governor Ansel Attorneys W. D. .Mayfield of Ramberg, and W. H. Townsend of h( Columbia, for Mr. Pearlstine, and At- 1,1 toruey G. W. Chamble, of Chatta- te aooga, for the Palmer Company. Mr. Pearsltine does not think that ^i he would get a fair trial in Tenneslee and his attorneys contested the extradition on this and other points if law. j OTl The contrast between Governor \nsei'9 resnerffiii -? _ . ..e?i >ub ui ootn " tides of the ease auil Governor Rat- tP erson's refusal last fall to honor the jxtradltlon for Hebert is marked. It 111 s Interesting now to see the future levelopnients of this case. OOXh'KSH 8KCX>M> MIKRF.R. fo DC Clunking His Petition for Pardon Had Been Denied. an Cc Relieving that his application for fr) i pardon had been denied when It te, lad been continued for further inestigatlon, Mo 1 sea FYeyas, n Mexi- ^ an serving a life sentence for murlor In the state penitentiary at Can- W( n City, Cal., .has sworn to an atflavit declaring he committed anothr murder for which Juan Duran, a an allow Mexican is serving a sentence. The two murders which wore juuiniiea in tne vicinity o{ Trinidad s" ;n years ago, were closely connect1. fCot until he had signed -his con salon to the second mur.ler did v" reyas know that his application for irdon had been recelvod with wa tough fnvor to warrant the board ' pardons in making a careful In- ' stigation in his case The Inves- chs gatlon will now be transferred to Col e Duran's case. he me The danger to a girl of being pret- pen is she thinks she's prettier. and The reason a man bets is so he nev n brag If he wins and forget to wei fntion it if he loses. yea '& :rx& ' PWS UP BADLY !?J. Brack's Accoint Inspection Trips jy SPENT MOfjfY FREELY \ccording to the Testimony Col. Brock's Expenses Were Two or Three Times m Much fui Those of Lieut. Cabaniss, the United States Army Officer Accompanying > lim. The Boyd-Brock controversy Is besoming quite interesting. Sensational allogatlons were made before the court of enquiry on Tuesday as to how Col. Brock charged the State with expenses of his Inspection toui In the spring of last year. L/teut. Cabaniss. the army officer attached to General Boyd's office, who made Inspection with Col. Brock wn8 placed 011 the stand and comparison made between his expenses at the various points where Inspections >ccurred with Itemized vochers filed l>v Col. Brock and on which warrants were issued to him. The evidence showed Col. Brock iharglng the State at every point wo to six times as much as Cabaniss sharped the federal government. At various points teams and hack fare vere charged when apparently no earns were used as they w re guest? >f local milltirmen. In some places -lout. Cr hanDs made no charges for io*el hill?, as he and Col. Brock vere crests ef frlen During those nspectlons, Mr. Cahnriss used 1,500 lilies cf mileage, while Co!. Brock 1 harped the State *;p with four thous- ! n ' mPes. Proprietor Molnlr of the hotel at | tarnwell test'.flo ' that the hot ! hill j here, amounting to ?1. h id never I icen pal 1. Cnpt. Cole had said lie ould pay it. The v uHior on which | hd. Brock v.. s Issued a warren' how $2.7r. each charged for .hotel , or him? If and T.Ieitt. Ilori etr. I.lent, (''i imls was t'i< n pkice 1 en \ he pf-'tid. He read from his record-j 'lowing that his inspection export's re" 1 ft(?7 wore 102.07. for 1ft ': \ ! ' .72, on.' for 10 ?' 0:.'. C ' irr ck's were r?? erni hundred del-j 1 tr f#ir vi . In detail tho inspection trio of | i* v-iH c v> ' :. i o \ nlsg telMfvir.-t from his votioiier: 110 records from-the con otrolicr > ral's ofifc.t. At H' "t vil'c wherf hot.h n > xvti 1e ffiir:" (' ?{ C? ]: r m!! <i >.t :l> -miss pall nothing. C'l. Crick ^nps-.Ml up a 1 ' ' ! ' :,1 of s" 1. A .hni lestc a. 1 dent C ib i is-- p ti l i. >thig. while the Si tte w s c! ir n "o for cm. r-r-i-.v h-M >i b-.f , i nd'ition to of ir el >" r, *. At to't !i 1 lent C ' i in it ti 1: to' 111 of fl.no while C>1. Brock elu pi the fhite with $12. In n lritl i tern Aiir<* of $4. ov U lot <:le to the rifle rang as the gin.-;-.: a f a loci ofPcr. .In a trip by private conveyance om Cheraw to Chester, witness ii;1 his share of the cost, which was ss than $4, and Col. Brock's vouch- " showed a charge of $4 for this ip. Thorp was a similar showing i the trip from Chester to Cornell. At Florence Col. Crock charged [> f4 for hotel bill. $3 for team and ) cents each for hack and transfer, lent. Cahanlas' expense was $2 for >tel bill. So far as witness knew. iere was no need for a hack or a am. At Darlington witness bad a hotel 11 of $3.75, whereas Col. nrock larged up $12 for hotel in ad<lt mi to other charges. At Rennettsville the stop was for ? ily 9 part of a day. witness' hotel J 11 being 75 cents, whereas Col. *ock charged $4 on account of ho1 bill. At Rock Hill Col. Rrock charged > for a trip on the train to Fort ill, a few miles distant, 50 cents 1 r a team to carry .him to Fort 1 ill, although he had gone on the ain. $3 for hotel bill and 50 cents r a telegram. Lieut Cabanlss had i charges to make. At Winnsboro the stop was brief d witness had no c.harges to make. >1. Rrock charged $4 for hotel, ?1 r hack and ' ransfer and $3 f> r am, although the two had ridden t to the point desired to be r^achas the guests of a local o[Ti-'r At Yorkvllle Col. Rrock's oha-ges re $S for hotel, $3 for team and for hack and transfer. WRness' r. o?~ " f,vros ior noioi, ami ho d Col. Hrook had ridden out to 0 riflo range as Col. Lindsay s r est. Similar showings were made as to artanburg, Union, Clifton, Gcconle, Anderson, Denmark, E 'geld, 'Laurens, Timmonsville, Cony, Oraugeburg, Georgetown and oree. U When asked whether he had ever irged up hotel expenses while In lumhla. Lieut. Cahanlss said that I had not construed the war depart- I nt's ruling as allowing him ex- mJ ises of this kind while at home, | 1 to be on the safe side he had jj or made such charges. Vouchers J e lntroducted to show that in one >( r Col. Brock had charged up ho SINKS Ml H CREW TWENTY THREE MEN RDOWNED BY AN ACCIDENT. A Submarine Boat is Rammed bjr a Mail Boat and Immediately Goes to the Bottom. A telegram received at the British Admiralty at London says a French submarine was rammed and sunk in the English Channel by a mail boat running between Calais and Dover. All aboard perished. The foundered submarine's name w"s the Fluviose. The crew numbered twenty-three. All were lost. The submarine was sunk by the ferry boat Pas De Calais two miles northweBt of Calais. The Pluvlose sank in 160 feet of water. The crew had no chance to escape as their craft plunged to the bottom in a moment after the collision. The submarine's length was 160 feet and its displacement 398 tons, and was one cf the best in the French navy. MET FEARFl'L FATE. Little Two Year Old Girl Falls iu Hurtling Oil. The State says Gertrude Isabel, the two year old daughter of C. G. Oehmig, died Sunday as a result of burns sustained Saturday afternoon by accidentally falling into a Alt of hot cooking oil. Mr. Oehmig, a baker, was absent from home nt the time and the oil was for lis in the preparation of doughnuts. The child in some manner escaped the vigilance of the family ntul wandered to tho spot where the oil h; d b? - n placed. The child's back and 11 nbs were severely scalded. l)r. DnH was hastily summoned and the btlo cliil i's' suffering all vi t ' f -r tho tii e. but medic 1 ' ; 1 ft . 1 hit vsiting, the ha: ns r v. dug so argc a portion cf the b:< ly and being of so Pt've e a r.ati iv, lluits the <' [e-. If-11 ( iv l p ( ;' ally all or lrods f : < r , y o<" fri it trees :mi strip> >i\ of iv> '*ri I]?l] i ore t: n t\ :> fret hi 'i \x<*r foun ' !:i l 1 v? h ' 'I .rough >/< .>) Ov-ioii. 1 f.r,J r>*'l*"l llt|,>'"ll I ( . If {> tow "1 c it n-ul u H-o o.f. I/O ai; I prot. milling Iiiwh. 1.1' W j?f C? v. ' > / * " - ? . " r y ; ; ; UQL'CRond D?ttG HADITJ ft l)V g# and y SELECTED-?' DO^YOU FEEL LET DOWN 1R fcTINriQ ri nnr a ULJV/V/L> WILL BRING BACK Y( BOOST your LP your S^V MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD NOW IS ALSO TH BOWEL TI )R. KINGS DIAR ENTERY ( IGHTS ALL WRONGS AND 18 GL' A Kwlll force water to kll anywhere about the p hard water, and have or attic tank to freeze Columbia Supply \ v vgs-V'p I Killed at His l'ost. Closing bis address before the Randleman Township Sunday-school convention. In the auditorium at Randleman, N. C., Sunday afternoon, with the fervently uttered blessings, | "May God be with you till we meet again," Wilson Davis, the aged superintendent of St. John's Sunday i school, dropped to the floor and expired. He wag In good .health and was no intimation of the approaching end. Reform is always headed for reaction. ~Ci ASSiFitb r.ni umn ? V "fill vyV<^"S/V^N^N^N^N^V?^>^N^V^?^N^VrV?N^V^N^V^N^N/*W^^Fop Sale?100 bushels fine cotton seed, Laten strain.. *1.00 per bu. f. o. b. R. E. Edward's, Elloree, S. C. i ________________________ For Sale?Juniper telegraph and telephone poles. 20 feet to 65 feet long, 4 to 8 inch tops.. Reeder 'Bros, Edmund, S. C. Wanted?To buy wool, beeswax, tallow. Write for prices. Crawford Co., 508-510 Reynard St., Augusta, Ca. Wanted?Names of those wanting teachers; names of teachers desiring positions. No charge to school otlicials. Address with stamp. Piedmont Teachers' Bureau, Durham, N. C. i Wanted?Hardwoods, logs and lumber. 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