Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 08, 1910, Image 2
BRUTAL MURDER
foauaeat Citizva al Braasoa Found Dead
Jasi Oatside Taara.
WAS KILLED BY A NEGRO
Mary Harris, a Young White Woman,
Says She Saw Richard Williams,
a Negro Man, Strike Mr. J.
R. I*angford from Behind With a
Heavy Stick, Causing Death.
The tragic death of Mr. J. R.
Langford, a prominent resident of
Brunson, whose body was found
Tuesday night just outside the limits
of that town, has created considerable
excitement in that section of
State. It developed that Mr.
mgford had been brutally murderl
by a negro man by the name of
iohard WHllams, who has been arsted
and sent <#> Columbia for safe
.jeping in the penitentiary.
Mr. Langford left his home about
o'clock in the morning to go to
hia saw mill, about three miles
away, stating his Intention to return,
aa usual, at dinner. His absence
from home until after dark alarmed
his wife, who sent In search of him
and learned that he had not been at
the mill during the entire day and
nothing could be learned of his
whereabouts or of his horse and
huggy. A search was at once Instigated
for the missing man by his
friends.
After some time the searchers
were rewarded with success. In a
copse of thickly wooded land skirting
the broad road and at a point
not more than fifty yards from them
and about one-half mile from the
town, the horse and buggy were
found; tHe horse securely hitched
a tree, still harnessed to the bugr.
About thirty feet away Lang?rd
lay dead. He was lying on bis
ick on his buggy robe, which had
jparently been carefull spread upon
,ae ground. There were no signs of
violence or blood upon the body and
the theory of suicide was suggested.
There were certain appearances,
howt-ver. which reputed the suicide
suggestion. and closer examination
revealed a bruise on the back part of
the head near the ear. Extreme
rigor mortis and other apon,an*?s
Indicated that death had oc*?rre.l
nine o cjock m morning,
a short time after he had left his
home.
News of the And was nwedlhtrly
ent Into the town and the resident
magistrate and a large number of
citizens hastened to the scene. After
careful examination of the corpse,
the premises and surroundings, the
body was borne to the home, wlnen
be had V.t In such -t htilth
only a few hours before.
After the consolidation of certain
facts and Indications, suspicion pointad
to a negro man, whose home
la several miles distant, hut who has
been working in the immediate vicinity
of the town of Rrunson the
greater part of the year. He was
nd and arrested and contradictory
. vers to questions propounded
ngthened the belief of all In
1 guilt.
ear where the body was found
Mrt-re lives a white man who was
a farmer tenant of Langford. His
family consists of himself and four
daughters?the eldest about 20 and
the youngest about eight year of
age. The eldest daughter was arrested.
and after slight hesitation,
admitted that she was present when
deceased came to his death, and
*k At .1a? I k ...A A t UA ?AA..1t A r a I. 1 ~
mni m-.nil vmn i in- irnini ui ;i um?
delivered by the negro under arrest;
that ho stole stealthily up behind
l.anglord and dealt the blow
with a stick; that after the blow deceased
did not move nor speak.
The crowd of men by this time
was rapidly increasing, the negro
was dexterously slipped from the
crowd, carried beyond the county
and lodged In the Harnwell jail, lie
Is about 30 years of age and of nver3
Intelligence. The young white
man. Mary Harris, was placed In
> Hampton county Jail. The deisod
was about 50 years of age.
was a brother of former County
treasurer Langford and leaves a
childless widow and many relatives
In the county.
Fell in * Fit.
Pierre Faulk. a well known young
man of Abbeville, was drowned in
fteen inches of water Friday n.gM.
He is supposed to havo be^n ae'.-. "
with a fit of epilepsy near th? sh '
low pool In which his bodv was
found
Dying from Itat ftltc.
With fourteen rat bites on her
hcdy Llebe Lewis, two years old, is
dying of blood poisoning at Washington.
D. C. Mrs. Lewis was awakened
by the child's cries and saw a big
lat disapi-ear
limiting CntinunltifS.
During the deer hunting season,
wh'eh opened on November 10 and
elosed December 1st. there were 4(?
accident In the upper peninsula of
Michigan, twenty of which are fatal.
Five thousand deer were killed.
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CORN IS MIGHIV |
MO SAYS FRESIOKNT FIN LEY OF j
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
II? Thinks More Corn Mesne More
Cattle and Hogs and Increased
Attention to Stock Raising.
W. W. Finley, president of the f
Southern railway, spending several
days in Columbia, attending the
[tearing or me merger suit bas become
very much Interested In the
South Atlantic Corn exposition to be
held In Columbia from December
5 to 9, and has given the movement
his oordlal Indorsement, declaring
It to bo one of the most helpful '
signs of the times.
"Nothing is more important to the i
South than an Increasing attention I
to raising food supplies at home," '
said Mr. Finley, "and the ilrst move 1
in this direction must be in Increas- <
ing the corn crop. South Carolina's 1
efforts alonjj this Hue and the splen- t
did results attained have attracted <
national attention, both as to the I
gross production of the State and I
the greater yield per acre, which has t
resulted from the Improved methods i
of culture now being used.
"It is particularly appropriate that C
the great advances which have been ?
made in this and adjoining States I
should be celebrate'd by this corn ex- f
position which will at the same time ?
"how what has been done and the
great opportunities for further ad- ?
vancement that lie In the future. The a
one great need of the South just now <!
is greater diversity in agriculture, j '
More corn will mean more cattle c
and ho*s. and increased attention | *
to live stock raising will enable the e
farmers to bring their lands to a 1
higher state of productivity. 1
"In every proper manner the "
Southern Railway company has 1
sought to encourage these important
and kindred movements and it is with
lecided pleasure that I have heard , t
>f the great interest being taken by <
the planters of South Carolina, Nor'h 1
Carolina and Georgia in the corn >
-how to be held In Columbia. I *
sincerely trust and confidently bo- i t
II.... . I. - ? 1 1 -
ucie nun uie eA|)OBinon will oe 21 |
treat success and will prove of lasting
benefit to tills and surrounding
States."
CHILI) EATS MATCHES.
Dies of Phosphorous Poisoning In
Few Hours.
Little Mary Houseal Fulenwlder
the two-year-old daughter of the
Rev. Edward Fulenwlder, pastor of
the Lutheran Church of the the Redeemer
at Newberry, died Wednesday
as the result of phosp.iorout
poisoning, from eating matches Tiie
little girl was at the home of a
neighbor, Mr. William Ruff, tjrok*
the street from the parsonage. While
the occupant of the home at-*-, ped
out of the room for a moment. Mar?
went Into an adjoining ro_>m ant
.rot upon a chair, wh^re n.'~ reached
a box of matches on the bureau. She
?te the heads of about 20 match***
ind the stomach pump brought forth
several p'eces of stems.
FOOTHALL STAR KILLED.
Wninu right Meets Mysterious Death
at Cincinnati.
Edward Walnwright, of Hanover,
II.. a former Da-tmou h college
football player, was found uicouscloua
in an alley at Cincinnati, 0.,
Thursday and died while being re 1>
? j?| A n h Acnli . 'I ? -
. <1 >iua;i <l l IHJIC ? 11 ;i ]
gash four Inches long over h - icr i
* y l Tb'? 's \""\ eved ' have '.a j y
ed bis death. Friends of Wain- (
wrlght who Identified tlie l?o1y i.e- j
Ueve that he was foully d?alt will ! (
while the police are of the opo'oi ,
that his death was due to an nc*t- j
dent. Walnwright went to Cincinnati
from Hanove- two yeirs :mn ?o (
work for the United (las and Electric
company. He was graduated :ii
the class of 1901 and was i slar
I alfhack of the team of 1900. *
. I
First This Yenr.
The lynching of the negro at Utile
Mountain was the only record of
mob violence in South Carolina during
the present year. It was the
second lynching to occur in the state
within the past four years. There
have been several negroes convicted
and hanged for the same crime that
the Little Mountain negro was lynch
<1
VniiNiml Display of -Verve.
Cutting off his hand with a razor,
after It had been crushed In a corn
shredder. J. nruce Vaughn, of Eureka
Mills. Charlotte County. Virginia.
carefully bandaged the stump
and awaited the arrival of a surgeon
to put the finishing touches to the
operation
Man Weds in Hurry.
While golnz to Savannah from
Beaufort by boat Monday Mr. I.
Kerserling. of Dale. S. C.. proposed |
marriage to Miss Cecilia Levitt, ot i
Yew York and upon ?he arrival of
the boat in Savannah they sought a
rabbi and were married.
COOK _NOT SORE
lays He Does Not Know Whether He Di?covered
Pole or Not.
WILL TELL HIS STORY
itatement May Be Startling, bat H?
In Willing to Startle the Worle
if He Can Present Case end K*gain
Sympathy and Confidence ???
Hia Fellowr Men.
"Did I get to the North Polt
Perhaps I made a mistake in think
ng that I did. Perhaps 1 did no
nake a mistake. After niatur
bought I confess that I do not know
absolutely whether 1 reached tb>o!e
or not. This n?ay come as ai
imazlng statement, but I am will
ng to startle the world If, by ?<
lolng, I can get an opportunity tc
present my caae. By my case I
nean not my case as a geographies
llscoverer. but my case as a man
duch as the attainment of the Nortb
"*ole once meant to me, the sympa
hy and confidence of my fellow m?i
nean more."
In this way Dr. Frederick A
?ook, the Brooklyn explorer. In as
irtlcle which will be published It
dampton's Magazine, confesses thai
le does not know whether he reacb
id the North Pole or not.
The publishers of the article Is
med a statment Wednesday nigh'
aying that nowhere in his narratlv*
Iocs Dr. Oook either cast any re
lection on Peary or question Peary'i
Inlms. Dr. Cook, who has been it
tiding for over a year, has Inform
id the editors of the magazine pub
Ishlng his story that he will returt
o the United States with his wlf?
md children. December 22, in ordei
o spend Christmas here.
Continuing Dr. Cook says:
"Fully, freely and frankly I thai
ell you everything. Tell you ev
irythlng?and leave tho decislot
vith you. If. after reading my stor*
'on say, "Cook is sincere and hon
st: half crazeij hy months of Isola
ion nnd hunger, he believed that b?
enched the pole; he l? not a faker
hen I shall be satisfied."
Dr. Cook tells the story of hb
Ife and pictures what he calls th?
>ver-powcrin? ambition of explore
ion, until it finally culminated ti
us effort to reach the pole. Dr
2ook declares that at the time h
onvlnced his wife that he discover
;d the pole, he was half mad. H>
ipent two years In his quest anc
luring that time endured hunger anr
>rivatlon that, he says, would un
lalance any mind. Dr. Cook say*
hat It would be Impossible for an>
nan to demonstrate beyond oue*
Ion that he had been to the Nortt
?ole. He characterizes the reglor.
is a region of Insanity, when on*
an not believe the evidences gatb
ired before one eyes.
"I have been called the great
st liar in the world, the most mnr
imental Impostor In hlBtory," say
")r. Cook. "I believe that In ;
mdeslrnble way 1 stand unique tb*
)l>ject of Kuch suspicion and vltuper
ition as have assailed few men."
With this realization. Dr. Cool'
vrote his story and says that to u'n
he honor of discovering the Nortl
^ole no longer means anytt?:u/?. Th?
xplorer has been wo k11 r ? n h>?
itorv since last August, ari say*
iccording to the editor of Hamp
on's Mavazine, "that his sole dt*i->
s to make the peoide of the Dniter
states realize just what he wen*
hrough during his two and a ha'"
rears in the Artie fastness, and t<
nake them see whit processes o'
thinking?or lack of thinking?'
tvas that Innrl lilni in <in t ?v.. -.
vhich condrilled to the average inlnc
lie worst suspicions against him '
Dr. Cook then tells the story u'
he days in Copenhagen and later ;i
S'ew York aud of the crUts in lib
life that led to his flight from New
Vork and his voluntary exile fron
'lie United States.
Struck (.'old Mine.
While dlging post holes on his
farm near. Hendersonville. Ky., Jas.
H. I.ove discovered gold in the dirt
rjovernment assayists pronounced it
worth $1.80 per ton. Since getting
the report of the assay office ?t
Washington he has taken out dirt
in the same locality which he believes
will run at least $8 a ton.
Iliclitirds Appointed.
Governor Ansel Friday appointed
John G. Richards. Jr.. of Kershaw
county, railroad commissioner to
succeed the late J. M. Sullivan. Tlit
term Is fo- 26 months. Capt. Richards
ran for governor last sj .in if,
He was 12 years in the General assembly.
Destructive Bomb K\plosion.
A bomb explosion early Tuesdai
morning shook up one of the niosl
populated blocks In New York. Ii
did extensive damage and created J
panic in the neighborhood. Th?
bomb exploded in the doorway of tbt
Delia Trlniacin saloon
Before taking any action In thi
Pink Franklin 'ase Gov. Ansel shoti't
look well into it. After doing so, hi
ill let the law take Its course.
CURE FOR TYPHOID
VALUABLE DISCOVERY OP SPARTANBUFO
PHYSICIAN.
Hire? Hundred Million Dead Typhoid
Genu Injected.?Effected
Speedy Cure.
Dr. J. J. Lindsay, of Spartanburg,
has aroused much Interest among
1 h#t m aH irol fra lorn e, P ?Ks*
..Whw.ui*/ VI UMAfc ViVJ
by telling of excellent results obtained
In a typhoid fever case through
a new treatment. Serum was Injected
after the fever had reached
a very serious stage and It caused
almost Immediate Improvement.
If this treatment proves as effectual
In future cases It will prove It*clf
to be ono of the great discoveries
of modern medicine. The serum
treatment has been used in cases I
cf erysipelas and possibly one or
two other diseases, but so far as
in known has never been used in a
typhoid fever case before.
The patient was a boy of 18 years
whoso sister had recovered from typloid
fever early in summer and
whose younger brother had succumbed
to the disease about a week before
Dr. Lindsay took hold of the
case. At this time the patient's
temperature was 103 and waa rapidly
rising. By constant use of ice
baths the temperature was prevented
from exceeding 104 on the three
following days.
At seven o'clock on the afternoon
of the third day 300.000.000 dead
typhoid germs were injected into the
system . Three hours later there
was an evidence of reaction and the 1
patient began to complain of a pain
near the heart and one-eight of a '
Main of morphine was injected, after
which the patient said that he '
felt much better.
At 10 o'clock in the morning of
the following day the temperature
was 104, and by evening had fallen
to 101 1-2. The next morning the '
temperature was 100. and two days
later was normal. There is no doubt.
Dr Lindsay said, but that the serum
treatment has a scientific effect. lie
raid that next time, however, he
"ould not use as many dead typhoid 1
germs as 300,000.000.
ORPHAN IIOI SK Ill'KNKI).
A Most Pathetic Sight Witnessed by
Kaptist Convention.
The cnu6? of Connie Mnxwell Orphanage
was presented to the RapMet
State Convention at Laurent)
Thursday in a most etriking manner.
It-nd the response was most hearty
and sincere. That morning twentyfour
little girls oame from the OrI
phanage at Greenwood and were presented
to the Convention, while Superintendent
Jamison was speaking
I .jf the work at that splendid institution.
and many eye? were wet with
Ifprs when he concluded.
I Within an hour afterwards. Dr.
I 'emJaon again took the platform
I \nd announced that he had just
learned by 'phone that the Convention
building at the Orphanage was
totally destroyed by firb Thursday
morning, hut that no one of the lnI
mates was injured.
I Dr. Jamison left at once Tor
fiieenwood, but Thursday afternoon,
the Convention took up the matter
and In a few minutes subscriptions,
aggregating more than $4,000 were
secured to replace the burned bundling.
Work will begin at once. The
II urned building was erected with
funds raised at the Convention of
J tOM'J. and was valued at $4,000, with
insurance for half the amount.
SWKl'T INTO TIIK SKA.
I Landing Sledge Dragged in Caspian
I
**en Carrying 5JOO.
A dispatch from Astrakahn, Russia,
says during a sudden tempest in
the Caspian Sea Tuesday a landing
sledge on which were three hundred
Persian do-k workers was dragged
from its moorings and swept out to
sea. The storm was so violent that
attempts at rescue were futile and
all hope that any of the men \\i)i
the saved has heen abandoned. Scores
I of ships, several with their crews o.>
I hoard, were sunk at thetr moorings
I at different Caspian coast town3. i
Seven towns along the coast were 1
flooded, the inhabitants in hundreds
being forced to seek safety.
(iiveii llenvy Damage*.
Mrs. Georgia Fonville. tm!ow of a
ocomotlve engineer. W. J Fonvllie,
( killed on the Southern railway at
, Duncan, a year a.?o, got from a
, Greenville Jury damages In the sum
of $1 5,000. The negro who open,
?d the switch and eauBed the wreck
s now serving a life sentence in the
penitentiary.
Must I'ny &HIO Damages.
t Because the Western Union Telezraph
Co.. failed to transmit a mcs- i
, -ase from Detroit. .Mich., to Kansas I
, City, .Mo., after accepting it, the
. United Stat?? supreme court held the
elegruph company for more than
i300 damages. The company recelv,
-?d forty cents to send the message.
I
, f.et everyone start to do their
Christmas shopping.
> aV'> ^ ' '
AWFUL TIMES
Oa the Circas Train on Wbich Yonng
William Was Mnrrftred.
TRUE BILL IN THE CASE
George Nichols, John Wilson, Elijah
Clark and Garland Brown Are
Charged With the Brutal Murder
of the Young Man From Columbia
While on the Train.
At a special term of court ordered
by Governor Ansel, the general sessions
covirt for Lexington County on
Monday entered upon the trial ot
several defendants for the murder
and robbery of young Paul Williams
of Columbia, which occurred October
2 last, on a special train over the
Southern railway, carrying the Ha?enbeek
& Wallace circus to Augusta
from Columbia. Judge George W.
Gage of Chester Is presidlug.
The evidence Monday gave some
idea of the wholesale pillage of the
first section of the Hagenbeck-Wallace
circus train by bands of riotous
circus employes, white men and negroes,
which took place In the early
morning of October 2, between Columbia
and Augusta, and during
which Paul Williams was shot and
robbed.
The circus men were paid ofT In
Columbia on October 1. In the
"privilege" car on the first section
of the train going to Augusta there
was an abundance of whiskey. The |
roughs and toughs of the circus gang
proceeded to get tanked and robbed
or "red lighted" their fellow employes.
In circus parlance, "red
lightln;" Is throwing a man ofT the |
train and letting him see if he is
able, the red signal lamps on the
caboose. Felton Gilbert, a negro,
who testified against Dave Woods
and Ed. White, was among thos?"red
lighted" during the riot.
Masked bands of negroes an>!
white men. armed with pistols, roamed
the train on the night of October
2, robc'.ng and "red li.-hting" promiscuously.
Members of one of thest
gangs shot Paul WJUiams and threw
his Ivody overboard. George Nichols.
Elijah Clark, Garland Ilrown and
f rtMi?? - 1 .....
UU..U ?? nrwis iire cuargeu Willi Doing
the guilty men. In their stories each
excepts himself, but declares that
the other three did the bloody work
The first indictment handed the
grand J?ry by George Ilell Tlmmer
man, solicitor, was that charging
George Nichols, Elijah Clark, John
Wilson and Garland llrown with the
murder of Paul A. Williams anu
with carrying concealed weapons.
The grand jury returned a true bill.
The four men charged with the
murder are very low types. George
Nichols, the white man, about thlrt>
years old, has a weak, vicious face
On his chin is a heavy growth of
beard. Elijah Clark is a coal-black
negro, with the features, arms and
torso of a gorilla. He was named
in two of the true bills returned by
the grand jury, besides the one
charging that he murdered Paul Williams.
John Wilson and Garland
Brown are both mulcttoes, John
Wilson, the younger of the two is
uot over twenty years old. He claimsthat
he was born in London, England.
He has a letter from his
sister, written from Springfield, O
In which she advises him to "commend
himself to God."\ Garland
Brown is a thick-set mulatto, with
a low. receding forehead.
In the case, the court appointed
is counsel rcr tlie dtrenso Messrs .1
II. Winward of Lexington, and H ir
rett .tones of Tlatesburg. Solicitor
Tlmnierman lias securer] several Important.
statements, practically con
fessions, from various ones of the
defendants and witnesses. The substance
of some of these statements 's
as follows :
Garland Drown. colored: 1 was In
it. mo. Elijah Clarke. John Wilson
and C.eorge Nicho's. (Nichols is a
white man). Nichols said: Connon.
I know exactly where he Is
Made two fellows jump off. Paul
Williams said: "Don't kill me, don'i
kill me." John Wilson said: "(J?
d? you, I am going to kill you.
You are too damned hard on negroes
down here In the South." And then
ht shot, hiin in the head and Made
Cabe (J. O. Cabe, white, a witness)
jump, and shot again. I had a pistol
Nichols had a sack, making as If tt
was a pistol. After that he goes to
another wagon, where I work. E.
Clark hit another fellow called
"Shine" over the head with a pistol.
Geogre Nichols was savin*: "Give
me the gun." Geoi ee Nichols had
on a black shirt with sleeves rolled
up and a big black slouch hat.
John Wilson, colored: Me. Clark.
Garland Brown and George Nichols
were tog"fher. At the first stop we
| went to the flats. We got to wagon
| 78. I saw "Chickens" and Frank
Clark in it. Garland Brown and
| Georse Nichols hail this strangt fo'low
In the corner of the wagon wher.
I got up. Garland said: "Give me
that pistol," and he said: "I haven't
got any." He said: "Let me see,"
and searched him. Garland had a
| pistol. He then reached down and
started to take off one of the boy'e
shoes. I aaid: "Oh, come on back."
IS FOUND GUILTY \1
COMMITTED DARING CIUMB I
CIRCUS TRAIN. \' ^ I
Young Columbian Met Death oa Stg 1
Train the Same X ight.?Cnnflklt- 1
ing Testimony Expected. j
The trial of Roy Rich, one of Ma 1
clrcu? employees on the Hagenneofe- \ '
Wallace circus train, on the night fen \ |
which Paul Williams, of ColumMa.
met his death, which was began tat
the special term of General Session* v\
Court Monday afternoon at LettingI
r**w J ? ?*? ?fi?
pun auu was concluded Tuesday afternoon
with a verdict of guilty. ^
Rich was charged with assault and
battery with Intent to kill, and robbery,
the direct charge being that ha.
together with several ether niea. assaulted
Rarlle Hightower, an lfiyear-old
boy of Knoxville. Ten a., ?
the circus train. The only feature
of the trial was the powerful argument
of Solicitor Gcor?e Hell Tlmmernian,
which was the subjeet *f
I much comment throughout the afternoon.
N. H. Hullock, Bpeclal agent far
the Southern Railway, with headquarters
at Washington, stated that
he had been in many Court roaaa*
throughout the country, but that k?
had never heard an argument tha
equal of that mnde by the solicitor
in this case.
Rich was defended t/ Attorney BF.
Asbill, who made a strong and
able fight In his l>ehalf. The taatiinony
in the case was practically tko
same as that adduced at the triad
of the negroes convicted Monday,
and showed beyond doubt that in thw
circus crew there must have bee* &
number of thieves and robbers. Riofc
was charged with having relieved
Hightower of forty-five cents in mosey,
which he had tied up in bl?
shirt. The young man said that
Rich covered him with a pistol, whil?
others took the money.
"Trix" Raker, a nejro, who wns
captured by Sheriff Corley in Owen?horo.
Ky.. a few days ago, testified
that lie saw Rich on one of the w*
gems, on a flat car, and that ther*>
I were six or eight with him Rtab
had a pistol in his hand swinging
by his side, but di !n't see him assault
anyone or use the weapon
all.
Clarence I.aniborson. white, wb?
had only been with the circus about
i month swore that lw. ? > > ??
- ..v ??? ? III I-?V
baggage wagon; saw a man with *,
white r.ig tied over his fare aid
with a pistol in his hand. Didn't
recognize Itich, however, as being
the man.
Special Avent Ehney, of the Southern.
testified as to his being on the
train on the night in question, and
that he saw a number of people on
the flat car. when the train stopped
at Lexington to get water There
was shooting and general rodylsro on
the cars; did not recognize the defendant.
Deputy Sheriff Miller was the last '"^T*
witness for the State. He testified
is to having been shown the tor?
shirt by Marlie HIghtower. v
Frank Anderson, another circa* *
hand and a negro, was the firsl witness
for the defense. He swore that
he saw Roy Rich in bed on the car,
that Rich had been sick and hnd left
the show before it was over in Columbia.
Kiijah Clarke testified
the same. Clark said that lie himself
slept on a flat car. while HieJ
was in the sleeping car.
J. S. Rowell, the Southern's a rent
at Lexington, saw four men on the
'1 >! cars, when the circus tt In paused
the depot, one of whom Ir
thought was special Agent Ehney.
Tho defendant then took th?
*tnnd Rich said that lie was sick
in lied on a property ear joinec* 'hr
circus in May or June and received *
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Van's, for furnishing them i.e. .-.oap,
towels and $10 per week from tns
Vow He denied being drunk on
tlie night of the crime denied that
l:n I ever be? n drunk in h:s life;
ienled th t hi ever gambled in his j
' ' it w( ild ha ^ c |. a lm p > - A
id'- i. ba e gone from the < ;?r n? (
was in without going through the
boss's ear. and this car was always
kept locked.
Sets Self on Fire.
Because he had a quarrel with hie
rife, an aged white man at Augns:a.
Ga.t drank whiskey to alleviate
lis sorrows and then poured oil on
lis clothing and net fire to it. Ne ~
.us rescued with difficulty |H
Killed (lie llnndit.
At San Francisco, Cal . with oat
well directed shot, Augustus Warmbold.
a saloon keeper, killed 010
bandit and caused another to m?kt
i hastv escape from his snln
I had a pistol too. The train gars
a jerk and a shot was fired: "Coiao
oil, ilium II 1 III Ull. Ill- IUOR f*0 OT6F
and said with an nnth: "lie is still
on there, and pot down ami threw
him off. I had a ..18; Garland had m
.32; R. Clark had a .44.
Geor.'" Nichols, white; John Ctirley.
Wilson, Rlljah Clark, and Garland
Grown, all together, -.hot into
the wagons-?two shots. Pon't know
who did shooting. Clark said:
"Throw him off, Grown ' Grow*
l said; "The got me all over with
blood." Saw all three with pistola.
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