The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 29, 1905, Image 4
Of Tom Culbertson, Who Busted
Moute Carlo Bunk And -
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
H« Wm Om HoMlrtd ud Fifty Tb«u««<i
Praaci tmi the Next Mornlaf He
. : ' «rr
Was PsaaS Dead CUapiaf a
Womaa’i Red Morrocco
Packet Beck.
Mown Carlo, Jane 23.—Tom Oul
bertson, from Texas, murderer and
aoldde; Marietta Torini Culbertson,
of New York and Texas, strangled
end the French republic richer by
160,000 francs because the bank-burst
er burned up his winnings—such are
a single night's happenings in "gay”
Monte Carlo,
▲s your correspondent stops at the
Hotel de Paris, opposite tbe Casino,
where the tragedies were, In part, en
noted, be is In a position to supple
meat the scent cable reports.
At 4 o’clock yesterday morning most
of the second story lodgers of tbe
"Faria" were awakened by a pistol
shot. My room mate said at onoe:
"It’s a colt, I smell copy,” and hast!
ly donning our trousers we ran out in
tbs hall. The lights had already been
toned on full blast. Watchmen,
night clerks, scrub women, porters,
etc., came scurrying up tbe stairs. A
hundred questions In a dosen tongues.
Every door on tbe corridor wasscoes-
aively tried, the occupants responding,
save that of No. 13.
"Burst In the door," cried several
exalted guests. Notnecoessary, it wm
unlocked. The room wm pitch dark,
but the fumes of powder and burned
paper meeting us a we entered, indl
oated that we were on the right track
I tuned on the electric light. On the
lounge, fully dressed, wm a man's
body.
By G the American, who burst
the bank," 1 beard the night clerk
whisper. ——-
Indeed, Tom Culbertson, of TexM,
the " n * n who promised me "a big
story" only a few hours before. Here
wm the story: A bole large enough to
admit one’s thumb in bis right tem
ple. From the wound blood wm oox
ing lastly, but a minute ago it must
have gushed forth like a fountain.
There wm a big pool on tbe carpet and
in the midst a giant colt revolver, ly
ing below the now llfelSM right hand.
The left, raised to the heart, clutch
ed a red something, a woman’s pom
padaur, velvet and gold, it proved to
be. Strange, the silken carrying oords
were out.
Meanwhile a police Mrgeant and
three Carabinieri had marchdd in.
They took charge of the body, the
room and tbe semi-dressed mob filling
It. The sergeant held a whispered
conversation with tbe manager and
night clerk. Then he demanded aloud:
"Does anyone recognise this dead per
son?"
m d'win men and women re
spooded and your correspondent de
posited what be knew about Tom Cul
bertson's story in Monte Carlo. Fol
lowed the preliminary investigation.
"As to the body: Life had been extin
gulahed some fifteen or twenty minu
tes. Contents of tbe pockets: A box
of cartridges, some American silver
coin and a blood stained bankerchief.
The officer dispatched bis men to
guard the doors. He also sent for as
sistance. "Until further notice, I
will be obliged to regard you u my
prisoners," he Mid politely but firmly.
‘‘Please take notice that not a soul Is
permitted to leave here." The order
wm not surprising. At eleven p. m.
Tom Culbertson had 160,000 francs of
the bank money. Five hours latter
he wm dead, maybe murdered, and
not a hundred-franc bill left. The
guest prisoners were requested to with
draw to me part of tbe very large
-menl, while the sergeant and
officials continued the search for
the missing fortune. Suddenly they
came open a letter stuck behind the
rate card at tbe door, adrwsed to tbe
hotel keeper. "Tbe A merlcan report
er living on the seme floor, will trans
late this for you,” said a note in the
corner of the envelope.
"To the Hotel Keeper and to Whom
It May Concern: I am Tom Culbert
son, of,Texas, wm a well known opt
ion planter up to ten years ago. Hav
ing norelatlves, tbe authorities can
do with my oaroass m they please;
better sell It to tne saw-bones to pay
expenses. As the story of my life oon
veys valuable lessons to old and young,
the American newspaper, chap whom
I met In tbe cafe yesterday, may have
It for what It is worth.
"Ten years ago when on s business
trip to New York, I met my destiny
In Marietta Torini,' daughter an
Italian violinist. Ear father, used to
play In tbe Bowery cafes and restau
rants, Marietta accompanying blm on
the guitar. 1 fell In love with the
girl at sight. She became my wife,
and after settling a comfortable In
come on tbe old man, we moved out
to our lonely ranch. I am a man of
40, she having Just budded into wo
manhood. 1 tried my best to make
her forget the difference In our years.
Her faintest, inarticulate wishes were
commands to me. I bought her every
thing she oould think of, but in the
end had to reoognizi the fact tbklkl
wee too old, too eerious minded for my
girl-wife. Frequently I found Mari
etta In tears. She said she wm very
homesick, but I wouldn’t let her go.
the was my first love, and the vary
thought of a separation wm madden
ing to me. Then en angel came to us,
a daughter, beautiful m the mother.
But Marietta hated tbe 0ild. She
Often mistreated her despite my pro-
tent. 1 upbraided, I threatened her,
ttgbs dared rate a finger ecainst my
My telegrams,
by the authorities, thousands
spenton private detective* did not
bring her beck. But I had Maud.
The child wm both mother and daagh-
ter to me. I wm her slave. And Yel
low Jaok cam* and robbed mf of her.
That happened whan I wm 48. It
whitened my hair and life lost all Ita
charms for me. ' I no longer took any
interest in business. Curing only to
forget, I took to drink and whiskey’
did me up Id tbe usual space of timt.
I wls forced to sell the plantation and,
gatnbring the rest of my money, be
came a wanderer, following tbe race
tracks, for excitement at first, finally
to eke out a scant and disgraceful liv
ing. -• ■ ; ...
This spring I happened to win a
considerable amount at ’Frisoo and a
good woman, whom I met there, per
suaded me to try and begin a new, a
better life. I calculated that to do so,
I must have money and resolved to go
to Mont* Carlo, to win a fortune. If
luck smiled upon me, r would re
turn and begin ail over in the cotton
businesa.
' ‘A week ago I set foot in this earth
ly paradise, snd had no sooner don* so
when, for some reason or other, my
mind snd heart became fljoded with
Md robtw); the btnt of Monte Otrlo lnlM , n0M 0 , Mlrleiu j th „ ugtll
“bultt” ud ptlnoe tftheM tMll» r H raTlii. her e mr
wee the signal for much do
wners. Evsry fresh red mouth Mem
*d to be Marietta’s, in every dark,
flash eye I recognized Marietta’s
"Yesterday, late in tbe afternoon,
m 1 was going up the OmIdo steps,
thought I mw her, s lovely vision, on
the arm of one of thoee international
dandles with whleh Moute Carlo is
running over. I felt lure it way her,
my poor, beloved, deluded wife. She
smiled, she coquetted, ah* behaved
outrageously. 1 heard her -laugh
sh, it wm Marietta's laugh. She passed
a remark within my hcarlng. So Ma
rletta used to talk.'
"1 felt that I must
’tvhll* excited and for half an hour or
longer wandered'about almlesely in
tbe gardens. There wm a good breeze
from the bay and the silt air finally
restored my equilibrium. I ventured
to tbe Cm!no. "Try black," an in
ner voice advised. Black loet. I forced
it. ‘Noir perd!’announced the rou
lette manipulator five Or six times in
sucoeasioQ. The gold in my pocket
wm getting low. I wm just think
lug of qulUing when I heard
me the frou-frou of silken
when I perceived Marietta’s
her voica. And I gathered up all
possessed in the world and put it on
black.
" ‘Noir perd!’ I wm a beggar In a
strange country, witb nothing to look
forward to but death. Quietly, re
signedly I walked out to take my
medicine. As soon as I found a half
wij secluded spot, I would end It all
Once I thought I had discovered i
place of safety, but s carabinieri,
making the rounds, cussed me to meva
on, snd not knowing tbe roads I found
myself, after s while, in the neigh
borhood of the Casino again, I wm
about to sit down for s moment’s
rest, when I espied an elegantly
dressed woman on s neat by bench.
Sbe had tbe sylph like, yet luxurious
figure of my Marietta, she had Ma
rietta’s eyes, her hair, I saw it all in
the bluing arc light, And as I faced
her, she instlnotlvdy recogniz .d me.
" ‘Mother of my dead Maud,’ 1
whispered hoarsely, ‘so I found you at
iMt ’ — v
" ‘Don’t make s scene, she re
turned; let’s go where It’s quiet and
talk It over. 1 I took her to tbe out
skirts of tbe park, from where tbe pa
trol bad Just driven me It wm safe
new;
"And there I talked to her like a
father, like a lover and a father, in
every way I tried to move her oold
heart for our dead Ma^d’rsake. But
the minute sbe saw that r wa^soften-
ing; her diabolical \sp!rit y returned.
She called me cra^y, mad; She said
such m herself, beautiful, young tal
ented wm not for such m I, old griz
zled, wedded to life in the semi desert.
And then the devil took hold of me,
too: 1 reached for my revolver. Ma
rletta tried to call for help but, losing
all self control, 1 took bold of her by
the neck.. Sbe struggled, pushed her
bejeweled fan Into my face. Her re
sistance ceased, before Treat i zed wbat
I wm doing I held a dead woman in
my arms.
‘'The fright, tbe horror of my mis
deed nearly killed me on tbe spot.
‘Why didn’t I use that revolver an
hour ago?’ I moaned, ‘then I wouldn’t
have this crime added to my list of
■iiifi' 1 ", ” 1 1 ' ■
"But now; vole'8 In the distance:
they stimulated tbe instinct of the
self-preservation and I dragged the
body further into the bushes. Then
as I bent over Marietta to take a Ust
look at her, I noticed tbe red pocket
book banging on her arm. ‘A sou
venir,’ I thought, they shall bury It
with me.’ I out the striogs and,
prompted by jealous curiosity, pressed
the lock. I expected to find love let
ters, men’s visiting cards; I saw a
crisp thousand francs note. And my
thoughts of suicide were gone all at
onoe, the craziof gamble, gambler's
madness seized me.
"‘Play red, red,’ whispered tbe
voice of passion. 'This pocketbook ii
your talisman, rouge means a fortune
to you. ’
1 raised my hand to my feverish
temple and, withdrawing it, found it
red with blood from tbe wound Ma
rietta bad inflicted upon, me with her
fan. More red, It wm Inevitable that
1 should win, I stilled the blood, clean
ed my cheek and walked to the Casino
with buoyant steps." Entering, I re
garded myself in one of the high mir
rors. Nothing in my appearance re
called the adventures of a few min
utee ago, recalled my crime.
"With the feelings of a winner 1
walked up to one of the Trente at
Quarante tables '500 on rcuge ’ L won.
1 lea original and winnings on tbe
same card. 'Rouge again,’ 1 won. I
left original winnings on the Mm"
card. ‘Roug* again,’ 1 won. ‘Rouge,’
‘Rouge/ ‘Rouge,’ ten .thousand on
rouge,’ 'twenty thousand!’ I won and
won again 1 won. I won 20 times,
and, by the Lord Harry woo 25 times
and bunt tbe bank of Mont* Carlo.
"I burst the bank, I wm rich, but
—tbe recollection struck me like a
bullet from a catapult—rich because
I had mardered my glrl-wlfe. I wm
happy because she was dead, aud here,
under my coat was tbe talisman, her
red pocketbook taken from her dead
to ma only
after I bad changed my load of gold
Into thonaand francs notes. Up to
then, each Is the utter baseness of a
gambler’s nature, I bad eetaallv en
joyed my triumph, though neve? quite
forgetting that it was won at the ox
of the dreedfnlleet of
Yet not nntll I had weighted all my
pockets with papermoney, I realised
my situation In full: I wm a mur
derer, nay won*. I had taken the
wages of my poor wife’s sins to gain a
fortune for myself.
"TbOM who mw me throw away
money, In the safe last night thought
I wm; ‘celebrating.’ As a matter of
fact I wm anxious to get rid off as
many hundred and thousand francs
ootes m possible. May they do some
good to tbe waiters and others.
The money I could not spend, in
the abort space of time allowed me, I
burned in the open fire place In this
room.
"This is all I have to say.
"Tom Culbjersoh, from TexM, U
-U, A^— , xu
« « •
Your correspondent went out with
tbe police sergeant to aeaeh for Ma-
retta’s body. We soon found it In tbe
spot indicated, where it would hare
been discovered anyhow in the early
morning,'^
search tbe woods for suicides. The
sergtat recogniz d Marietta m a wall
known demtmoodalnc, that hung
about tbe gambling establishment
during the last two seasons. As
stated in the confession, she had been
strangled. —__—
Today two fresh graves were filled
In the "Suidde’s and Murderer’s
Cemetery." The gambling concern
burled Tom and Marietta aide by side
in the clothes they wore at the time
when fate overtook them.
The Prince of Monaco and the
Freneh Republic who profited about
not risk my all f 160,000 francs when Tom Culbertson
burned his winnings, did not eyen
•end flowers. Emils Bkrdau
THE WAR 18 OVER.
Tbe Confederate Dead Honored in
Wiaoonaln by Union Veteran*.
Qover-
letter
from the son of a Madison, Wis.,
Grand Army veteran, in which be is
Tbe Atlanta Journal uyi
behind Lnojr /PirreHlt In receipt of a
skirts,
laugh,
informed that tbe graves of many
Georgia Confederate veterans at Madi
son, Wis., were cared for on National
Memorial day, May 30th. The letter
wm written by Herbert Siggelko, a
prominent attorney, who is first Mr
geant of tbe Henry Marnden camp,
No. 2, Sons of Veterans.
• The letter follows:
Maoisom, Wis., June 16^ 1906.
To His Excellency, The Governor of
Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.
Respected Sir:—You are deubtli
aware of tbe fact that in our cemetery
are buried many Cjnfederatea who
died here while prisoners of war
Among the number are many from
the state of Georgia. It give me
great pleasure to inform you that on
Memorial day, May 30th, the grivee
of these Confederate dead, m hM loog
been tbe custom, were decorated with
flowers and uniformed squad of Henry
Harnden Camp No. 2, Sons of Vet
erans, fired three volleys in honor and
memory of the Gray resting her*.
The members of our G. A. R , Lucius
Fairchild Post No. 11, marched Into
tbe enclosure and stood thsrs with
beads uncovered while the exercises
were being observed. e ~ •
I am sure I voice the sentiment of
the old soldiers and of the veterans in
saying that bitterness and enmity to
wards you who fought for tbe Gonfed
erscy has passed away forever and wlli
never again be harbored. We realise
that you of tbe south fought bravely
and conscientiously, believing your
cause to be right, and the soldier of
the north fought in tbe Mme way, be
lieving his cause to be rlgbt. We
may clasp bands across tbe bicody
charm of war and bv word and by
deed we make known to one another
that we are brothers.
In submitting tills, I have tbe
honor to remain,
Very respectfully.
liEKBKRT S. SlOGKLKO,
1st Sergeant, Henry Harden Camp
NO.fi. — - 1 ^
You’ve come, old Johnny Rebe, and
we enre are glad to see yon, says the
Louisville Times. We’ve gotten ns a
new waatbyr man sine* tbe last time
youeasae, and. If any of you get wet,
It’ll have te be on tbe Inside, and not
from tbe outside. Tbe old town is
bound to you on every-day oceaetone
by tbe ties of kindred blood, by one
ness of interest, by a common beri
tags, and the single iparpoae to prove
worthy of it; bat the preoeot i» not
en every-day occasion. Whatever we
are In plain, ordinary times, we are
that and a leetle to tbe rise endurin’
of this week. W# Kentuckians think
we know a man when we see blm, and,
better still, know how to treat blm
after we have seen him, and tbe fact
that about 60,000 of you old fellows
In gray Jackets, with now and then a
sleeve empty, or
decided that you would like to spend
a few days with us In a body and talk
over old time* for old times’ lakeland
forth* reason that tbe memory of
them is an 1 aspiration and tbeir lemon
L
Ncfro Says He Wm Hired by the
Rawlins* to Kilt
THE CARTER FAMILY
Asd Bora Their Hease After Ik* Marder.
A Fenner Friend of the Rawliags
Gives Seam Daaiafiag Testi
mony AfilMt Them, Ac-.
cesiag Them of Deed.
rttb now end then a What la believed to be the sequel to a
a leg miming, have feud of long standing resulted sA Val
in the
fid sop
of rW?
ter. The vouiur neonl* were attracted
men
we’te sort o’ been expecting you and
your sisters, god your wives and your
cousins end your aunts, to say nothing
of some 30,000 or 40,000 sponsors and
maids of honor. We belong to yon
tor 366 days out of the year, but for
these three days you belong to us; and
If there’s anything vou’d like to have
done that we happen to have over
looked, just let us know, and we’ll
not be long In fixing It From Vir
ginia to Taxas, from ArkansM to
Florida, from Kentucky to the Gulf,
from little old fighting ‘Joe’’ Wheel
er to the biggest Tarheel private that
ever slunsr a knapsack or squinted
down tbe bar’l of *n old squirrel rifle,
you are welcome to the best on the
table, the oobwebbiest lu the cellar,
and tbe tenderest In our hearts.
THE DIVORCE EVIL,
Says Archbishop Parley, la Under
mining tha Walls of Society.
Archbishop Farley declared at Car
negio Hall, In New York, one night
Uat week, at the commencement exer
ciaes of St. Francis Xavier that the
evils of divorce were fast undermining
tbe walls of our scoietj and that tbe
dosta, Ga., Tuesday night in the
amaaslnation of the 17-year-old
and the 16 year-old daughter
L. Carter, formerly a Baptist ndnls-
_ Died Making n Speech.
At Cblcpgo S. P. Sherin, formerly old age,
stocetary of the demccTjttio national “
c jmmlttee, dropped dead on tbe fl x)r
■of tbe convention ball in tbe Auditor-1*1. New Pin* street
lum hotel while making an addrem be
fore the delegates to tbe convention
of tbe National'Interstate Independent
Telephone association Wednesday, of
apoplexy. Mr. Sberin wm president of
the new long distance telephone com
pany of Indianapolis-, and had been se
lected by arrangements of the com
mlttee to deliver tbe addrees of wel
come. He had proceeded well along
with hie readlngjfhen he suddenly
stepped backwafd and fell to the
floor, expiring within a few minutes
Mr. Sherin, a moment before his col
lapse, remarked to Col. Powers, of
Louisville, temporary chairman, that
lie was not feeling well. S. P. Sherin,
Jr., his son, wm present when his
father expired and Immediately took
charge of the remains.
Old Lady Drowned.
Mrs. David Latham, agad 76 yean,
wm drowned w Saturday afternoon
about two o'clock in Ron creek, 3
miles oortb of Atworth, and within
three hundred yards .of her borne on
Mr John Gargle’s farm. Sbe wm ap
parently well and ate a hearty dinner,
but soon afterwards strolled off from
the house. Her shoes were found on
tbe creek bank and bar bonnet hang
ing on a limb near the creek. The
water wm not over- two feet deep,
where tb* body war found. NO rea
son is known why sh* committed sal-
eld*.
Frightful Storm.
One death and damage to property
amounting to thousands resulted from
an aleotrio storm and eloudburit,
which cecurred at Tampa, Fla., Wed-
oesday afternoon. Beatrice Collin,
aged 7, wM killed by lightning while
standing In the door of her home
it
Exchange, fell la,
switchboard and Injuriav
young lady operators,
whole structure would shortly coilspM
should do hand be raised to ward off
tbe advance of ibis tendency. The
Archbishop said in part:
"A continuance of the evil of di
vorcc, of tbe sligbtest regard tot the
marriage, must shortly lead to tbe
downfall of society, nay, It is even
now falling, and must soon be dragg
ed In the dust. We see that It la
going to pieces.
‘‘President Roosevelt, who holds in
his hands the trust Imposed by the
people of the United States, and who
wields his authority in no mistaken
manner, has openly announced how
be deplores the awful oondlUbo of io-
eiety in this regard.
"I believe no president since Wash
ington's time hM made a more bene
ficial effecta on tbe roots of society
and the family than Roosevelt has by
means of his frank declaration. Not
only does the president preach tbe
doctrines be believes, but be exempli
flee it in hfi~own life, and his own
family stands m an Illustration of
wbat the nation’s executlvs thinks
mid says of the raoe standard*
"It is likswisw gratifying to find
that the president bM not conflaed
to Investigate, followed by a younger
child. They were fired upon by some
on* from behind the smokehouM. The
young lady fell dead, the young man
crawled back to the hooM, where he
lied, and tbe younger child
wounded. Carter fired upon some one
prowling in his yard early Wednes
day. He says tbe Intruder wm a ne
gro. He believes tbe aasMaelns are
negroes, but says others may have
been instigators of the crime.
A dispatch from Valdoeta, Ga., says
Alf. Moore, a negro, who wm arrest
ed Saturday in connection with tbe
aanastnatlon of the two Carter chil
dren not far from that place last
week, hM mad* a startling oon fas
lion. He declares tliat he wm em
ployed by Rawlings, a white man, now
under arrest for the crime, to aid In
the bloody murder which resulted in
the assassination of two children.
The negro says there wm a plot to
kill the entire Carter family and bum
tbeir home. Ha declares that Milton
Rawlinga shot Carrie Carter and that
Jessie Rawlings shot Willie Carter
The victims were the 16 year-old dsu
ghter and 17 year old sou of W. L.
Carter, against whom, it is alleged
.the enmity
on account
At Philadelphia one of the meat
neatlonal oaess of forgery that has
ever bseu^bsought to light in financial
drolasof that city wm dieoloesd last
week when It was announced that
certificates calling for small numbers
of shares of stock had been trad alsot-
ly raised to hunditds of tharee, caus
ing a loss to certain banka end trust
companies of this city of from 8760,-
ooo to ti.odo.ood. forgery ia-|
valves the name of Benjamin H. Gaa-
kUl, whs went to hie grave four weeks
ago. Gasklll wm the sole member cf
the banking and brokarag* concern
tnbwn as BehJ H Glikin fr Comps
ny. He had offices in the financial
district and his credit wm considered
gilt edged. —- v -
Gaaklll died about four weeks ago.
and at the time of his death he wm
believed to be worth about half a mil
Hon dollars. He left no will and ad
mlnistratora began to dose op his
business. A patron of .the firm,
whoa* name Is not given, bought from
the estate 100 shares of Philadelphia
Traction company stock. This wan
sent to tbe Philadelphia Traction
company’s office to have the trapsfer
recorded. The certificate did not
agree witb the company's books, and
an investigation showed that toe oer
tlfloate had bjeo raised from six
shares to 100. The stock exchange
of which Gaekill wm a member, then
lint out notices to its members not to
receive stock certificates Trom the
GMkill estate.
A further investigation brought to
light a surprising state of affairs. It
wm found that Gaaklll had credited
himself on bis own books witb 6,000
shsret of Palladelpbla traction stock
valued at approximately 8800,000
wjhile|be traction ecmpsny's back-*
showed lie dm only 400 share* It
wjlsvmuii «v MAac^STUj msjvrwvu *sv uuij -ww vm- aw hCBl
of Rawlings wm directed was alio discovered that he bad rstaed y«u
of
his labors in this direction to bis own.
circle, wholly, bat the fact la made
known to me that tbe cab'net hM
taken this question up and will deal
with It. When tbe beads of our gov
ernment take' up A problem of this
grave nature there cin be no need of
the people doubting that the ques
tlons must be gravely considered, snd
we feel that much good will bo done
if effort Is properly directed."
DEATH 0V AUNT EASTER.
field to Have Been the Oldest Woman
In the United States.
The oldest person In,,Augusts, and
probably the oldest in the United
States died Wednesday afternoon of
sajs the Augusta Hsrsld.
Euter Matthews wm her name. She
wm a colored woman tnd llved afc'm fdt
her age wm 136
years.
"Aunt Easter," m she wm called,
wm born in 1770, and while In slavery
sbe belonged to a number of promi
nent families of the city. Sbe bad
for her iMt owners, tbe Clayton fam
lly, and she often spoke of Mr. Tur
ner Clayton In her Ust days.
The old woman died from old age,
she never having ae ache or piin in
her Ilf* For the past 76 years the
had been living in the city,.and bM
resided on Pine street for the past 20
year* The people wbomrshe was
living with at the time of her death
claimed that she had never complain
ed in tbe l#Mt of having an ache or
pain.
One of tbe ways the old woman had
of telling her ag* wm that abe re
membered several years before tbe
Springfield Baptist church wm built
In tbe city, and this institution Is 106
years old. - She claimed Miat she re
membered when the spot where the
church now stands wm in a awamp.
The old woman wm liked by all of
the people, both whlto and ojlored, m
the often interested them by telling
of tbe times she need to have in the
days gone by. Her reoollecUon
perfect, oven in her last day*
Drowned In Salndn River.
A dispatch from Newberry
The State says news reached
there late Wednesday evening of
young Robert Langford In Saluda
river near Kempeon’s ferry, about 2
o’clock Wednesday. Ho had gone oat
to hU uncle’s, Mr. Preston L. Living
ston, to n seining parly and with his
friend, Homer Steven* preceded tbe
older mew end went into tbe river.
When tbe other* Mr. Livingston, Mr.
Chapin Lake, Mr. *»vir and Mr. Pick
Tbe roof of the Roberta building, oo- ena Steven* arrived they wen met by
copied by the Peninsula Telephone Homer Stevens, who told them of thi
drowning. Up to 8 o’clock on Wedaw
day "trritri tha body had not bom
a long-standing feud
Tbe negro says that Rawlings, be
fore leaving fur Valdosta on the tbe
afternoon preceding tbe night of crime,
earned bis supper to him lu order to
keep him from going home. A gun
with which one of tbe children wm
killed wm found near the seen*.
Tim McDonald, a well known citi
zen of the Hahirs distrlet, and
neighbor to Rawlings, cam* to Yal
dosta on Saturday morning and
made a statement to Solicitor Gene
ral W. E. TbomM, which Is more
damaging to the Rawlings. MjDod
aid bad been a friend of Rawliags,
but on bad terms with Carter, ho hav
ing angaged in a light wlthhlma year
or more ago, in which be inflicted a
knife wound on Carter that came near
being fatal. Presuming on Me Don
aid’s bad feeling toward Carter and
friendship for himself, Rvwiings talk
ed freely to McDonald of his comity
to Carter, and threatened the Utter’s
Ufa, and made an Implied threat to
murder tbe entire family. He went
to McDonald on the day after th
tragedy to borrow money, saying that
be bad been to town to get ItCbut
wm unable to do so, and must have a
xmslderable sum. Riwllngsalao went
to McDonald on the day of the trage
dy to get bis gun, which be bad loan
ed to the latter some time before.
The Cirter children were shot to
death Ust Tuesday night in their yard
at Hahlra by assassins wbo fired on
them under oover of darkness from be
hind the smokehouse. Mr. and Mr*
Carter and (heir children, unoons3k>us
of danger, were pleasantly conversing
in the sitting room of thel? home.
About 9 o’clock tbe bark of the fa ml;
ly dog wm heard and the father rose
to Investigate. At tbe same time,
the children, a boy and girl, left their
seats, telling their father that they
would go. The father remained and
tbe children left tbe house. Hardly
had the boy and girl stepped in tbe
yard when the report of a pistol wm
beard. It wm followed by a second
shot. Realizing that something aw-
happened, the father ran to
tbe Window. Although the night was
dark, Carter saw several men hiding
about the house. He knew at onoe
that his own life wm In danger, and
after telling his wife to keep quiet,
he began whet afterward proved to be
an all-nigbt vigil.
Groaning with pain, tbe seventeen
year-old son of Carter crawled into
tbe house. He said he and his sister
bad boe.i fired on by men in hiding
behind the smokehouM and he ex
preasd tbe belief that on* of them wm
a Rawlings boy. His sister wm in
stantly killed. The boy lingered but
a short time when he died. Oar lex
and bis wife, seated beside tbe body
of their dead son, remained watching
all tbe night through. As the streaks,
of dawn began to appear they saw fig
uree in the yard stealthily move away.
The body of the dead girl whteh wm
left on tbe groued all night, wMaf
ter daylight removed to the houso by
the heartbroken man sod bU wife
As quickly m possible, Carter comma
□lost* d witb bin nearest neighbor and
soon others gathered at his home.
Track* made by tbe Imprint of shoes,
were seen about ‘ the smokehouse and
other portions of th* yard. As these
tracks are of various sizes, the fact is
establlsbfd that several perrons were
Implicated in tbe killing. Tbe arrest
of th* Rawlings followed. There la
eablo- talk af lynching, _ end
only the assurance that a special term
of court will be called to try tbe a»
eease to have any effect on tbe
enraged men. The Rswllhgi are all
in jail, where they will remain until
thay are tried.
Drowned lw River.
Virgil White, a promising young
lawyer, wee drowned lu the Dae
Moines river Monday morolug by the
oapeUlng of a canoe at Dae Moines,
low* . He wm the eon of Hon. Fred
E. Whit* ex member of oongrem and
Dineratlc candidate for.gov-
of low*
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stock certificates of the United Rill
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Gaekill kept two accounts, one re
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Harry Hammond, a oonviet In the
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and Haunsob
penitentiary.
id wm taken back to the
Fatal Boiler Explosion. .
A boiler at the mw mill of the
Curtis Attalla lumber plant exploded
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