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" ' ' " ' T " COUPLE KLXSCntOCUTKD Snyder nod Gray Pay Supreme J'r# ally For Murder ?>ing Sing Prison^ O&sLning, N. Y., Jan. J t.? Mr*. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd died in the electric chair tonight, she crying out for forgiveness and he inaudibly muttering prayer*. Mrs. Snydej was pronounced dead at 11:00 o'clock and Gray at 11:10. Both hud been announced resigned to their fate by their spiritual advisers shortly before time for the r executions, and they walked to the chair without assistance. Neither had been given any opiate or stimulant of any sort. As each sat in the chair, a priest, for Mrs. Snyder, and a minister, for Gray, murmured prayers. The execution was carried through without the slightest hitch. Just before 11 o'clock Warren Luwes called the official witnesses, four doctors and 20 reporters, into his office and told them that the time had come. Briefly he outlined the procedure, to avoid possible confusion, and then all started for the death chamber. The way led outdoors across the prison grounds, into a walled court and so through a door directly into the death chamber. This is a large bright room, about f)0 feet square, with four doors, four short benches for witnesses and tho chair. There are no other furnishings. The plaster walls are a light cream and the floor stone. It is a room giving no impression of sadness but for the central chair with its straps and metal. Besides the official witnesses, seven doctors, half a dozen guards, the j executioner, his assistants and .the warden were the only ones in the room. After all had entered and scarcely before the witnesses had seated themselves or found standing room along the walls, Mrs. Snyder was brought in. She entered through a door bohind the chair over which a large sign bearing the one word "silence" was fastened. At first her utterances were incomprehensible beyond the fact that she whs railing on the deity. "Have mercy on my soul" were the firRt words plainly distinguishable. Aa she was strapped in.the chair by four guards, the matrons stood between her and the witnesses. As the prison priests murmured prayers, she was asked if she had any last word. Then suddenly she seemed to realize to the full the imminence of death and pulled herself sharply erect. Her voice came in a shrill tense emotion. "Forgive them, Father," she cried, in this strange unnatural voice, "for they know not what they do." She was silent then, and as if at some unseen signal, the black mask was placed o\er her face ami the executioner, Robert Klliott, standing in ji little alcove, pulled down the switch. Buried Treasure? 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When he was aaked if he had any word, however, he made no response, merqjy continuing hi* soundless prayers, and the mask was strapped in place. Warden laiwes stood about ten feet to one sidefrjaf the chair during both electivetjfrons, but he kept his head bowed, and, so far as coulJ be told, he did not once look at either prisoner. As soon a- Gray had been pronounced dead, Warren Lawes opened the door into the walled court, and the sole procession of witnesses back to the warden's office bonin, When the office was reached, the main door was thrown open. "All right, boys," a guard called to the reporters among the witnesses, and all dashed to their waiting ears. There was a mad race of roaring engines then for half a mile to the roadhouse, where two score telegraph wires had been installed to carry the news reports of the executions. Last Messages of Ruth and Judd Oasining, N. Y., Jan. 13.?Hope that her life would serve as a lesson to the world was expressed by Mrs. Ruth Snyder in a conversation with attorneys shortly before her execution, while Henry Judd Gray told his attorney that he real-, ized that enormity of his crime and agreed that justice must be served. Mrs. .Snyder was sitting in a chair with her head in her arms when Kdgar F. Hazleton, Dana Wallace and Joseph Lonando, of her counsel, visited her shortly before 9 o'clock. "I forgive everybody who holds anything against me," they quoted her as saying. "Please tell everyone that I bear no malace." Ivonardo, who remained with her until 9:15, said when he asked Mrs. Snyder whether she had any last message, she pointed to the clock which showed it to be 9:05. "1 have an hour and forty-five minutes to live," she told him. "I am very very sorry. I have sinned and 1 am paying dearly for it. 1 only hope that my life?that I am giving up now?will serve as a lesson to the world." "I asked her how she felt toward Judd," said Lonardo, who quote! Mrs. Snyder as saying: "Well, we sinned together, and I guess we will go together, God knows where." ; "I asked her about the child, what she hoped for the child. She said: If I had my life to love over ugain, I would want to be what I want my child to be?a good girl." Samuel L. Miller, counsel for Gray, who remained with his client until after 9 o'clock, reported he left him entirely resigned. Giay, said Mr. Miller, "feels that his punishment is entirely just. He parted in tears from his mother. It was most affecting. He is spending his last tninutcs writing letters thanking people who have written him consoling letters or sent him gifts of books and other things. "He indulges in no self-pity. He realizes the enormity of his act. He said that the only regret he felt in dying for his crime was the suffering that he was bringing on his family, His mother and his sister and his brother-in-law. "Previously he had said to me, it was a cruel crime and justice had to be done, but still I feel that I am not a criminally disposed man but one who became involved in a terrible deed without knowing why. 1 don't know yet. I have never been able to understand whv I did it." "He spoke only in kindest terms of Ruth. He said, 'we both sinned. I have nothing to say against her.' "He was astonishingly cheerful and said: '1 am now at peace with my fellow men and G<xl." Officers Saturday were seeking an unknown slayer who fired into a cabin on a farm near Gray Court Thurs_ (ia> Highland kilied R. C1pvp1?.^i Smith, farmer.- Smith's body was found several hours after his death. A shattered pane of glass showed j where the load of abot was fired horn without the ^vuilding. Sheriff's forces said little evidence was found i at the scene of the slaying. Contract to build the Piedmmu Print Works near Taylors, at an estimated cost of $1,000,000, will hv let in Greenville on January 30, :t was announced here. The company pbins to construct a village of sixty houses and homes for their employes. Benjamin Adger Hngood. attorney and president of the South Carolina Power Company, died at h - home Charleston at 11:30 o'clock Frida. night after he hat! been seriously ill about two weeks. He was dl yCar?n A practicising attorncfor 10 years, he was member of the firm of Ha good. Rivers and Young at the time ot his death. The temperature range in the Sahara Desert, the. largest desert in the world, is as much as forty degrees between day and night. ^ - -i- * IN THE CAROLINA8 Krmh of InUrtui Glesurd from Newipaper* of Two States. M. S. Edge, a farmer of White Oak, N. t ., was acquitted by a jury of the I charge of killing a neighbor, Charles V. Owen, by iH>i?oning a watermelon last July. The watermelon wan taken from the field of Edge, Walter II. Wilson, 47, prominent farmer of near Huuternville, N. C., and brother of a former mayor of Charlotte, died at Charlotte from concussion of the brain when he fell while alighting from an automobile and struiK hie head on a concrete roadway on the Statesvile highway. The man who had lived in Hickory, N. C\, longest, A. S. Abernethy, aged 7H, who came there as a boy, died there Sunday. He was born in Catawba county and was a prominent business man in Hickory for yeara. He was a charter member of the Methodist Church there and one of its stewards. A burly negro attacked a doctor's wife in her home at Lexington, N, C., smothered her screams with one hand and tore off her clothing with the other, and just before she collapsed from exhaustion and terror, the standby timq a radio station ended and the announcer begun to talk through a loud speaker in the room. The negro at the sound of a man's voice ran away and escaped* A negro who fits the description of the one who attacked a Lexington, N. C., physician's wife and was chased away by a voice over the radio was shot and killed by W. A. Baker, superintendent of the Kaleigh sanitary department while the negro was trying to break into a home in thai city. Mr. Baker was exonerated by the coroner's inquest. The negro, Jack Huggins, completed in December a six months' sentence in Wake county. Rev. Dr. J. E. Abernethy, a prominent Methodist divine of the North Carolina conference and formerly pastor of Trinity church at Charlotte, was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Maiden last Saturday. He remained comatose for a long time, and his surgeons fea1pneumonia from injuries to his lungs. He will be in the hospital at Statesville for months, if he lives. He is presiding elder of the Statesville district. The accident | occurred twenty miles above Statesville when his car collided with one from South Carolina. The only time his mother neglected to put a screen before the fireplace when going to visit a sick neighbor, little Benny Harper, two years old, at Durham, ignited his canton flannel nightgown while helping his little sister cut out paper dolls and burn the scraps of paper and was burned to death, dying after two hours of agony. The mother left the children asleep in bed and expected to return before they awoke. The baby's entire body was burned. The farmers around Hamlet, N. C., are planning to grow sunflower seed which will be profitable with the recent establishing of a mill there. Mrs. Bessie Otren has sued Harrison Troutman, of Statesville, N. C., for $10,000 damages for killing her husband the night of December 27 by shooting him. Troutman is under indictment for first degree murder. Over two hundred men of Morganton, N. C? spent Sunday night hunting a negro who tried to drag a young white girl from her bed through a window. Croat excitement relgnetT, the fire department trucks were utilized to afford search lights, and all the surrounding country was scoured. Mrs. Cornelia S.' Pickens, o f Hendersonville, willed about $40,000 *to the North Carolina conference of the Methodist Protestant church and the First Methodist Episcopal church of Hendersonville, N. C., Her library and that left by her husband, a -promlTTFnt attorney now dead, wa? left to the city library-there. ' A woman arrested for trafficking in narcotics with a $5,000 stock of drugs on hand, near Charlotte, had a big bank account with some large deposits shown in her hank book in the Inst few months, showing large profits. Her name is Mrs. Harry Rea, and in her home in Charlotte the police found a stock of drugs after a farmer telephoned about seeing her and her * negro : chauffeur, Henry Kennebraw, hide ! something in the woods from a costly j automobile. Papers found on the ' woman indicate that she did a big business in a number of North Caro lina towns and cities. Her husband is now serving a Sentence at Utant* for dealing in narcotics. The . legislative committee of the State Teachers' association, at its recent meeting determined to spoMOr a compulsory attendance Uw will * Assure the co-operttloti frf parents and get the'' children IfAo GOATS GO TO MtAZflL I! KourtMa Mm f*W Bucks || l/Oiitd Absurd B*^rMi Car. || Eighteen Nubian milk goats, each 11 in an extra large crate with proven-1 der and water eufficieht to laat for | several days, were loaded at the ,See* |j board station yeeterday by the Amer-| icau Railway Express Company qp | board an express car for New York! from which port they will be shipped aboard the steamer Dalrooulh to | Kio de Janerio, Brazil. The goats, to be used at breeding | stock on a ranch in South America, | were from the milk goat farm con-1 ducted by Mrs. Belie V. Miller whose place is located about nine miles | from Columbia, one mile off the Jef-1 ferson Davis highway. Mrs. Miller,! who has been in the business of rais-| ipg goats for about fifteen years, has I been shipping goats'.for some time| but the shipment yfss^rday was the! largest she ha* made since coming | to the State and she was right in the J j car yesterday to sec that everything | j was ship sh.apc before the car was | locked. . I The goats will be on the water 30 days ufter leaving New York and the I crates were made large and airy so I that the animals would have abun- j dant space in which to move about || The shipment was directed to Velas-|| co aud Company, New York, thisjj concern making the shipment on tojj South America. The goats will be shipped from New York next Tues-j) day. * p Mrs. Miller has on her farm a j] herd now of about forty-five milk | goats, the shipment of eighteen hav- I ing depleted it considerably. She I brought the nucleus of her herd from Southern California, and after | visiting several other states, came to I Columbia. She said yesterday that she hoped she was located "for I good" now. |j The milk of the Nubian goat is | said to be held in high esteem by L dieticians, it being especially suited | it is said, for infante and persons suf-1 fering from certain intestinal dis- j orders.?Saturday's Columbia State. Young Boy Killed. i Spring Hill, Jan. 18.?Alva Reynolds, ten-year-old son of Mrs. Geo. Pate of the Luckmow section of Lee I county was run over and killed by a two-horse wagon loaded with lumber last Friday afternoon about 3:30, while on his way from the Lucknow graded school. The child with some playmates was playing along the road and in some way ran between the wheels of the passing wagon. The wheels passed diagonally over his chest severing the artery to the heart. He was immediately taken to the home of his uncle, Mr. Hopkins, nearby, where he died half an hour later. His Body Brought Here. The remains of Mr. /John Boykin who died in Milledgeville last >Yednesday night were brought here last Friday for interment in the Camden cemetery, and the funeral was held at the grave at 12 m. He was a native of Camden, where he lived until a few years ago. He was the son of Col. E. M. Boykin and at the age of IB joined the Confederate ranks Tor the last years of the war. He is survived by a son Thomas Ancrum Boykin, of Colum-^ bia and a daughter, Mrs. S. N. Roberts, of Atlanta, also a sister, Mrs. : Sallie Boykin Wilson of Charleston and a brother, Edward Mortimer I Boykin, Sr., of Camden. The active pallbearers were Edward Cantey, Willie Haile, W. E. Johnson, Jr., C. P. DuBose, Dan Jones, B. H. Boykin, Jr., A. B. Boykin and Willis Cantey. The honorary pallbearers were Dr. John Corbett, C. H. Yates, C. J. Shannon, Sr., W. S. Burnet, James deLoache, Burwell Boykin, Sr., A. J. Boykin, L. W. Boykin, W. L. DePass, F. M. Zemp, T. J. Kirkland, W. E. Johnson, Sr., H. G. Carrison, B. B. Clarke. Sr.. G. T' Little and f)r S F Brasington. The Death of a Good Woman On last Sunday morning - Mrs. Sarah Bradley, age 66, departed this" life. She leaves a large number of relatives and a great host of friends in and ai-ound Camden. She was loved by all who knew her and shall be missed much. i$he was a faithful member of the Hermitage Baptist church. The funeral service was at Antioeh, near Camden, Rev. C. L. Norman, her pastor conducted the service. Aged Lady Died Here Miss Bertha Meyers, 81 years of age, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Jacob Hirsch, in this city at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon following an illness of several weeks. Miss Meyers came to this country from Frankfurt, Germany, 20 years ago. I Funeral set vice* were conducted by Rabbi F. K. Hiraeh from the family residence at 1209 Lyttleton street Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. " "1 MM l>j,l "News From Mt, Zion Camden, S. C., rfd 2, Jan. 17? Things look brighter towards our church as several piles of lumber greet the eye in passing. We hope to start the work in the early spring as a new church as well as a Sunday School is badly needed. We have services every first and third Sunday's and an invitation is cordially extended to the public by the pastor, Rev. Dabney, and his congregation. Miss Willie Moora Lyles, of Hamlet,. N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hildreth, and little son, Charles, of Wadesboro, N. C., were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Stokes. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell Collins, of Lancaster, spent Sunday with the "* ' ' ' yr* ; ... .? ; : latter's parents, Mr. andlH Truesdale. 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