The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 10, 1906, Image 1
■
m’t
VOL. XXXI.
BARNWELL, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY lO, 1906
NO. 86.
HOT SHOT FIRED
lato Several United States Judg-
f ' - .''' ' 4
es in the Senate
BT SiNATOR TILLMAN
H« Claimed Hat SRoatf Hid Acted
Haralily Towarda &■, M Said He
■ i '
DM Nat Ofclact feteia* Call
ed “Bode." Decease He
Was a “Bade Maa.”
DarlDR the debate tn the Ualted
i Thureday on the rail-
bill senator Tillman took
the floor to pat Into the Record annm
her of atatementfe he had fathered to.
Juafelfy hie position that the people
distrust the federal ooarta. Prelimi
narily he Announced that he did not
Inland a wholesale onslaught upon the
Jodlolary and he acquitted the eup-
rama court especially of questionable
proceedings, although, he said, it had
"wobbled” more orleee.
In the couth, he went on. there
were excellent Judgee, but on
the ofche ha ' some of them had bee O';
polity ol questionable and dis
creditable sets.” M • ny of them were
ha said, utdoly prt )ud eed In faror of
tbs railroads add were wholly ui 11 i to
ba trusted with the power of psaelrg
on railroad questions. Hsnoe he ar
goed that there would be no a real
Florida, although he oould review In-
stsnoee in his own State of acts of ty
ranny and indecency, Ant tbs judge
committing them is dead and has set
tled his accounts elsewhere. The sen-
'itor aald he also knew some oases In
Georgia, but that ba would take op
the ease of Oiroult judge Pardee Id eo-
j tying the J'torlda rallroa&eommission
from. Instituting suit to compel the
Lou 1st 11 le and BashTlUe railroad to
reduce Its lares irom four to three
cents a mile. Be onarged that Pardee
ought to be Impeached for his course.
Mr. Tillman next paid hie reepeojs
to the ease of Judge Charles S. Wayne '
of Florida, whom the senate refused
last Bsaaion to impeach and asked to
incorporate In hie remarks a statement
-prepared by Representative Lamar of
Florida. Mr. TiHman than dosed
with en apology, explained that the
situation was such as to require tbe
administering of ‘‘some physic.” He
would not allow the fudges to "roam
up and down the land, doing whatever
tbe railroads want and refusing to
grant relief to tbe people.”
' Senator Beacon of Georgia made s
spirited defense of the federal Judici
ary and deplored the fact that their
misdeeds were given such publicity
which would necessarily mult from
this recital in the senate. Tillman
asked him if he had not Voted for the
Impcachocant of J adg ? Swayue. BesUbn
made reply to "tins buuoh of ques
tlons,” as he called them. ,0# had vo
ed for Swayna’s Impeachment, but
that be aald was a diffirent thing from
orlticislDg a Judge before he had besD
formally accused. Senator Beacon was
risk to preventing their l^ierleiance. djplary of the United-8-atse
In such esses. T Kli i
to show ttat the
utterly absurd
Judges are higher
Ba rafemd in the division of tbe
supreme court on the income tax ease
my lag that In that ease one Ml tbe
Judges bad changed bis mlhd./'Tflus”
ha aald, "tbe practice cf century
reverend and the country Aubmltted
merely because of tbe plea that tbe
highest court of the country must be
WANTS TO HANG.
Murderer Rawlings, -of Georgia,
Asks the Governor Not to
hUSPBND SENTENCE.
He Bigs tbe Qoveraer Not to Pay Aey
AUsatfen is Silly Appeals lor
His Reprieve, Bn{ Let Him
Bo Executed At
Once
applauded by the Republicans as bt
sat down. ^ k
Announcing bis oouvlotlon that Mr
Tillman needsd no assistance in pre
senting bis case to tbe senate, Mr.
Billey- took tbe floor in opposition" to
Mr. B3aoon'» contention that the Ju
diciary should not be criticised on the
floor of the senate, he believed lu
branding wrong wherever It made lie
appearance and while as a whole he
bad the utmost ooLAdesoe In tbs Ju-
oot overlook tbs fact that there
somer Unworthy members of it.
BHorirour.
were
Be Also cited other oxsee In other
conrti Intended loi show that some
Judges are not only not Infallible, but
not Incorruptible.". Tbe first of the
references was to Judge Smith Mc
Pherson of lows, who was represen
ted In an article in the New York
World ofthi 30th of March last as
. -having appOkred at a bar quit to Gov:
Cummins at Council B uffs in siich a
condition as "not to be able to
stand up without clinging to the ta
ble.
Mr. Tillman next referred to a
pleasure trip to Tampico, given b>
three Kansas railroads to Fjdera 1
Judges MoPbersou, Polhips and Pol.
lock. The account was condensed
the Kansas City papers ano
that the Judges bad beer
transported in a special oar aod wtre
accompanied by the general eoRcttors
.of the railroads giving the exouiskin.
Mr. Tillman eald that Judge Ba I 111 pi
had been es peel ally commended by
the president In connection with tbe
Paul Morton case and he erntrasted
<*£be president's course In thia case with
course In critic zing Judge Bump-
; In the beef packers ease,
believe it has come to be cinsider
/ed | ood law to Imus Injunction* a-
g*8bststrikers,” said Mr. Tillman.
KMrfflded, "if it is not tbs senator
from Wisconsin (Mr. Spooner) _wlll
comet.” The manner of this up pea
to him evidently angered Mr. Spoon
•r. Be rose and replied sharply say
log: "Tba senator from Sjuth Car
olina forgets wtat Is deoent when he
o&aUeniee me In that way.
Mr. Tillman maintained that Mr
Bpoonar had acted very harshly tow
ard him, and chanted him with hav
ing been -UndeeeBtr 11 —To-thl«” Mr
Spooner responded that he would
withdraw tbe word and eubetltute
"ipde.” This mtUflad. Mr. Tillman
who said he did not mind being oalled
the word, because he was a rude man
and did not care. Mr Tillman con
sidered the ease of Editor Daniels of
tbe Raleigh, N. 0., New and Ob
server, who had been pieced In prison
because of a refusal to pay a fine of
IS,BOO for erltfcislng the appointmeut
■of atecelvor for a railroadHy J udge
\Purnell.
Mr. Tlllmrn insisted upon with
drawing his question and apo og z'ng
bat Mr. Spooner remarked that he
asked no apology. Upon an apparently
good-natured command to Mr. Spooner
to sit down, Mr, Tillman and tae
•hair became involved In a cplilbed
ooUoqoy as to wto had the floor. Th<
doolelen wee favorable to Spooner, who
miafkad that in ordering him to
take hie seat Mr. Tillman merely had
Twj Young Men Tried to Kill Knob
Oiher.
The Columbia State says a sense
tloual shooting sffslr between Dr.
Rowland K. Smith, formerly of Co
lumbia, and Mr. T. H. Brown, a welt
known lumber man of Chapin, occurr
ed at that p 1 ace Thursday morning.
Both men, It Is said, emptied their
guns at each other, but neither of
them was hit. The shooting occurred
as tbe train from Lzurens over tbe Co
lumbia, Newberry and Liurens rail
road was leaving tbs station, and It h
alleged to be tbs result of the rale
Hops between Dr. Smith and tbe wife
of ifr. Brown.
It Is said by those who esw tbe
s looting that Dr. Smith wee boarding
the train on It way to Columbia when
Mr. Brown opened tire on him from
me side i f the track. Tne doctor dash
ed into tbe baggage car and returned
the lire througa the door. The passen
gers on the train were greatly alarmed
by the ttrlng, but no one was hurt.
Dr, Smith continued on tbe train
and came as far as Irmo, where be
stopped, and, it Is said, went btek
through Chapin on the next train
in that direction and went on in tbe
direction of Laurena. Mrs. Brown left
Chapin oo the nigdt before the shoot-
trg and went from there to Laurena.
Rumor has It that the names of Dr.
Smith and Mrs. Brown have been con
nected by gossip for some time, bur
that on Wednesday they
From his cell In a Georgia Jail a
condemned murderer Is sending Jorth
appeals to stop aU efforts to save his
life and demanding to be hanged.
- This unique example among mur
derers bae written a letter to Gover
nor Terrell, of Georgia, Inshttng upon
hie rights as a murderer legjJJy.
condemned to go to the gallows on the
day named by tbe trial court—May 4
Through the newspapers, when they
interview him, he makes the same de
mand.
This anomaly among condemned
seuteneed murderers is s former cler
gyman, the Rev. J. G. Rswlingt. Id
Jail with him at Vsldostg, Ga., are his
three sons, Leonard, Milton and Jeest
convicted for oompl c ty In the mur-
•♦r last June of little Willie and Gu
ile Cuter, children of W. L Carter,
wl b whom Rawlings had bean at feud
for years.
As tos actual shooting of tbe chil
dren was done by Alt Moore, a negro,
who luofetard, d* firing that Raw
lings paid him to do it, many persons
interested themselves In efforts to
have the sentences commuted to life
impriiioament, and the cast #as even
carried to tbe Supreme Court of the
United States.
Rawlings's emphatic and open re
sentment of these t fforts to save his
life crested a sensation In Georgia,
which has not yet subsided. In his
letter to Governor Terrell he said:
”1 respectfully urge your ExosUsn
oy not to interfere with the speedy
execution .of tbe death sentence. I
am tired of the business, and I want
to be hanged as soon as possible.. ^
UKQKD TH* OOVKRNOK TO LKT HIM
HAMO.
Mr boy are ‘ hnt 1 do
not believe there Is any nope for toem
and they feel as 1 do, that the sooner
we are hanged the better. We ue
suffering more than death now. Tbe
delay aod uncertainty are fu worse
than the gallows, and I hope you
will do nothing to prevent a speedy
execution of tbe death sentence.”
Being interviewed for this newspa-
Ifr Rawlings mads this remar cable
Demand still stronger. Hs sale:
“I am desperate. I flbn’t oare any
thing about the decision of the So
preme Court, and 1 Usd rather be
dead than to stay shut up In this duk
and stifling cell another day. It will
«uit me exactly to be hanged to-mor
row, and tfle sooner It is done tbe bet-
imlshaUlike it. —
"I have written to my attorney
Mr. Cooper, liking him not to take
together walling in the a cods and
was this and the subsequeit depsrturt
of Mm Brown that bruignt the mat-
terto a crista Tuursday. •
Tbe affair was reported to President
Childs ol tbe Columbia, Newberry a!
L'.urease rail oad soon after the arrty
M of the train in this city. Mr. Child,
innstlittsd tbe matter carefully and
announced, Taursday afternoon that
as would piaoa the east In tha handt
*ny further steps in the matter, and
o let it go as it stands. I have writ
.sn to the Governor demanding my
igbts. I don't Care any thing about
my own fate, no far as it affsots me
Ifrand I have only wanted to
ivs thus long In hops of 'being able
to do ecmetbiog to save my Innocent
OOVS. ..
—"I expect to die like a man, and
one of the greatest regrets I have la
un account of nay mother. I have
ir, though, that I shall
go to my death bravely. Sae Is old
now, and can’t bear up uuder such
wall as
and tbe monotony of a dingy 10 by 12
foot oell has told sadly oo their spirits
end demeanor. They occupy a corner
sell Iqjthe Jail, with windows over
looking busy thoroughfares on two
•Ides, sod as they sit day by day look
ing out through the bare at tbe peo
pie passing by, or as they paoe rest
lessly up and down the narrow con
fines, rt fleeting on the time when
they, too, were free to go and come as
they pleese, It is not hard to under
stand that they have found Jail life so
Irksome.
The elder Rawllngi maintains that
he has absolutely no hops of hi* soul’s
salvation, and says be Is eertaisly
doomed to go to hell. He believes he
has committed tbe "unpardonable
sin,” and has appeared to become In
oensed with the spiritual advisers who
during hie long luoaroeratlon, have
gone to the Jail to minister to him,
and have attempted to dhkbuse his
mind of tbe idea that he Is doomed to
eternal punishment If he repents of
his etas. He was once a minister of
the gospel, and Skye he has studied
the Bible etoseiy for years, with ths
result that he Is oonvlnoad that mor
tals sometlmrs reach a stag* where
they are beyond the pale of Gad's for
giveness.
The crime for which Rtwlings and
his three sons—Milton, Jesse and
Leonard—were oouvloted was oommlt-
ed on tbe night of June limvos. - O i
that night Carrie aod Willie Carter,
daughter and eon of W. L Carter, a
farmer, living ten miles north of Vsl
dosta, were shot down In the yard o
their father’s home, and.an attempt
made by the asstsslns to kill ths rest
of the Carter family.
The girl, aged fourteen, and her
brother, sixteen years old, want out
of their father’s house soon after the
evening meal to Invistluste the in
cessant barking of tbelr dog, and sa
they reached a point near the garden
fence, a few yards from the huuse,
both of them were shot down, the
little girl being killed almost Instant
ly and the boy living to drag himself
back to the door of his home. For
sometime his parents wars afraid to
open the door to take him In for fear
that another volley from the assassins,
wbo were secreted In the shade of
some trees nearby, would end the lives
of other members of tbe famllv.
The boy lingered until avout sun
rise oo the following morning, and
the girl’s body lay In the cotton flsld,
where she fell until after daylight.
In the trial of RxwPngs and his
sons, witnesses swore that the girl’s
head had been battered Into the
ground by the heels of the murderers,
or by the stocks of their guos, as she
lay dead.
Suspicion at once fell on J G R»w
lings, as he and Carter had been
enemies for a long time. It developed
that Rtwlings spent the night at Val
dosta, and at the Coroner’s inquest
the next day Carter and hie wife and
daughter swore that they had recog
nixed the Rtwlings boys as the assas
sins, as they walked around the Carter
homestead in tbe moonlight on the
night before.
The boys were arretted that day,
and on the following day, aa the elder
Rawlings and his wife drove Into town
and to the J Ul with aome clothing for
their eons, the father was taken into
custody and looked up with his boy*.
A If Moore, a negro was arrested at
Staunton, thirty mllea north of there,
two days later, charged with compli
city in the crime, and made a confes
sion of the whole affair. He sworr
that the elder Hng* hired him Co-
go and kill the Carter family, prom
ising him 2100 for the work, and
•ending bis three sons to see that the
above tbe average In appearance and
Intelligence..
BOYS SAY FATHER IS CRAZY.
Rawlings was a well-to-do farmer,
and before his numerous troubles wltb
Carter, aod even up to tbe Ume of
the murders, was a very popular man
among a great number of people. In
fact he bad more friends, It Is said,
than Carter bad He was very hospi
table and a good neighbor and his
home waa always open to his friends
where they were entertained In the
beet manner pn—ihu, —
Milton Rawlings, the eldest eon,
has written their attorney, John R.
Cooper, of Macon, requesting him to
Institute luoeoy proceedings against
bis father and. If possible, have him
committed to ths Insane asylum, as he
and his brothers are oxiflient that
the elder R iwlings Is a oraxy man. It
Is understood that this will be tbe
negt step of the attorney, and If hs Is
unsuccessful In that, the last psga of
tbe famous case will have been writ
ten and Rawlings will expiate his
crime on the gallows as he Insists is
his right. . ^
Since hie conviction the elder Raw
lings has spent much of hie time read
1 g the Bible. He haa a habit of read
ing aloud, and this habit nearly
caused a duel to tbe death between
Rawlings and Henry Hickey, said to
be from New York, who Is under sen
tence for picking pockets while a cir
cus was exhibiting her last Fsil.
Rawlings was reading tbe Bible
aloud when Hickey oursel him Riw-
lings made at Hickey with a knife,
which be had been allowed to nave
and Hickey drew a razor, which no
one knew be~had Tne men wen
soon slashing one another and inflict
ed several wounds ^before th y wen
separated.
Such episodes as Mils, manifesta
tions of an ungovernable temper, bav
been frequent jn Riwltng's caree; —
though, up to the Ume of the murder
of Use Carter children, be was sbis o
keep out of serious d'ffhulty. There
le no doubytttst he was sincerely re
ligions, aod when Ills passions were
not Inflamed by-soae Infringement’ of
what he considered hie personal rights
be was a kindly and charitable man
It la characteristic of him to still
insist upon his personal rights even
when they condemn him to the gal
WILL FIQAT BkklUB.
The
Anti-Dispensary
k
Lose Hie Seuetorshlp.
Leader May
STOLEN BONDS
Most Be Paid For by Responsi<
ble Parties.
GOVERNOR HE1WAED
The dispensary people of York
eounty have organ's>d their Lire** i
ous*. State Senator J. Steele Brice, thr
anti-dispensary leader and aath >r of
the Brlcs act under which fourteen
oeunties have voted out their disped-
eariea.
•The correspondent of Tie Chariet-
ton Evening Post, who was at Rjok
Hill last week, was Informed by
oumbar of dispensary leaden that
Senator Brice’s defeat for reeleotloo
aeoounty chairman on May 7 was now
practically certain; ^enough delegate*
have been else tad last week to accom
plish that end.
W. H. Stewart, who bat served a
long number of yean as reading clerk
of the Senator and wbo Is a splendid
orgkelzar, le to be put up to beat Mr.
Brioe In addition to this a ejoferanoe
Is to be held at Rick Hill in the Im
mediate future -for the purpose of
Dominating four strx'gbout dispensary
men for the Legislature;
Mr. Brice’s term as Senator does not
expiree for two yean and bt then fore
oan not be put out altogether until
that time, but his defeat as county
man means almost cartalniy hi*
defeat as Senator two yean hence and
ffl Jtlon iven as
nay wife
murden were carried out as arranged
At the trial Moore claimed
when they reached the Carter home'
tteae, about a mile from the home of
Riwlloga, that his nerve failed him
and he refused to take any part In the
murdere. He maintained that Milton
and J js*e Rawl ngs fired tbe ehots
that killed the two Carter Children,
and-that he (Moorr) then
frightened and ran away. Hie testi
mony was o irroborated In many p ilots
by the testimony of the Carter fam-
iy. . , , ,
After the conviction Of the men, thatf vent other counties in all probab
ility fo 1 w suit.
Writes a Letter to State Treasercr Jee-
lists oe tbe Subj x*. Notbiag Was
Dose by Legislature to Make
Provisions tor R^deewisf
Woithless Bold*.
Gov Heyward Wednesday made
f ffl rial loq itry Into tbe matter cf the
bonds purloined from the offloS Of the
State treasurer says The State. The
amount so lost to the State approxi
mates 116 000. Tie fact that pur*
iolning had b^en going on waa flls
covered last Octrber and was made
public arthattlms.
Tbe defalcation then amounted to
116 403 75 Tba ficr value of the
oouds purloined was ei2 600 and thr
interest was 13.903 75^ Between that
time and January 1st the aoeru*) in
terest was 1281 26 and to date is about
6400 additional.
As no announcement of a.iy move
ment to pay bas been maho and as
the Interest Is Increasing dwily, the
legisla'ure having declined to make
\n "appropriation to tska up these
worthless Uud certificates, Gov
Heyward thought it his duty to make
ume hiaurj. The officials responsl
hie for the making good of the lotw
*uff*red by tbe State are Oapl..R U
Jennings, Stale treasurer from 190J
to dab; Dr. W. H. Timmerman, from
1895 to 190tjaod Dr. W T.O filteg,
from 1891 to 1895
Accordingly, U»v. Heyward ad
dressed the followu g letter to (lipt.
leoaiogs as mere had been some dts-
ouwlun as to tbe, maui>er In which
^he loss should be prorated arid Oapt.
Jeaolrgs Is the lacuobent lu that
fflee:
—* May 2 19 8 -
Mr. R H Jsanlngs, State Treasurer,
Oolomma, S C.
My Dm Sir: I beg leave to call
u< * o»-rt’ u to tbe last annual rs*
port of tae ojmptrolier general to the
general assembly relative to an Jo-
/es .igatlon of oertala irregular)ties in
ibe State treasurer's offloe. This In-
vextlgstlou revealed tbe faot thkt Id
the exchange of oertala Brown Ooakul
coupon bonds tbe State has lost, by a
number of fraudulent transactions,
the sum of 612,590, together wltb
63 903 75 InUraat paid by the State,
making a total of 616 403 71, and I
will be glad If you will inform me
what steps, if any, have been taken
locking towards the reimbursement,
of the State for tbe loos Incurred. A*
chief magistrate I feel It my duty fr
call your attention to this muter,
and desire to have thte informattoi
requested'In order that I may refer
t to the offloe of tbe attorney general,
so that the interest of tbe State may
be protected.
Yery respect folly,
D. 0 H ’yward,
Governor.
In rep’y to tbe letter of inquiry
from Gov. Heyward, Oipt Janaing*
made an ifflo al answer la which he
■eld: ^
ed Into a stcci oertiftoste
that, Judging irom the
State appeared to have
amount of said hood and
at 4 1-2 per CML,e.noe that dam;
and he requested that ths eimptroJ-
ler general make a full LuvesUgaMofl
of tbe tutus of Urn Stated eeeurl-
ttes, as requited b/law. The Invwtt-
getlju wee immediately'made to per*
sou by the comptroller general, wntet*
ed by I T. Carter, bookkeeper, and
J Ful er Lyon, bond etark In the
S-ate treasurer’s tftoe. Tbe resalt
of the investigation caused a amnn>
Hoc over tne State.
general, In reporting to the
treasurer, said: —
"Tbe examination reveals the fast
that the bond clerk duringtit^e period
in which these traneaetlone appear
upon tbe books, bee faisifled or erased
on tbe books the numbers of oertala
bon 3 * surrendered for esohaoeo, aid
as abstracted bonds previously oan*
> led, and has sabatltuted tbe SAmo
at a later date for aneh bonds ear- r ,
tenderer; and has evidently, as shown
by the Interest aooount, pat the
bonds so erased and unoanoeied on
the market. Tula la elcarly shows
br ibe fact that all traneacUoas dar
ing this period appear in the **««“*-
writing of tbe asms bond clerk, tfe
•tesos that the hood elork In the
SU'e treasurer’s offloe has charge of
til bond transactions.”
There has been some calculating to
ascertain for how much of the lorn
Dr. T.mmerman will be reepooslblo
and for bow much Uapt. Jennings, aa
Dm bond qjerk referred to was to
Capt. J aiming’ administration hot
s few days However, that la a mat
ter to be adjusted elaewhife and not
by tbe State.
Tfure are now two ends to tbo
transaction—the proeeoutlcn ef the
oood clerk aod of Mr, ]W. Gibson,
indicted inooaneotteta with himiaS
tbe other end Is the nearing of tho
noney lost by tbe Vtato. Than la
*ome dispueiUon to ttltlotoe tho lagte-
lative oommi tees Which made per-
fuactory exsmioatlocui of the bookE
ip tbe State treasurer's offloe hot
theae committees are not onder bond
*hd while morally. they might havo
neglected their duty, yet legally they
are not responsible sad tae Stale
treasurers cannot and will not make
the effort to contest wnecber or not
i bey t iould be amenable after tbelr
books tud been ojacked and approv
eU.
WAITED It TA*V.
It r»k e a Wens*a to Chans* A v
Miad ”
"It takes a woman totharfe her
mini Returned b/ the appH<**nt t pq%
c 1 ’ Tue above legend loserlb d
across the back of a asa rtage license
of the attorney for tbe company wltb
a view to having both parties arrested
for firing Into and from the train. He
was Indignant that the passengers oo
his rosd shculd have been submitted
to this danger, and seems determined
to bring tbe case Into the courts.
Dr. Smith is a son of Oapt. 0. M
Smith of Columbia, the local agent of
tbe Atlantic Coast line. He is about
28 years of age and le a married man
M/> Brown is from Virginia and is
connected with the lumber mill of
Charles f. R blnson of Chapin.
what ha regarded at
neat piece of rudenem.” After Mr
Tillman v had offered an apology Mr
Bpoooer sat down with the statement
that De did so of his own volition.
' Ml. TTr** had read an editorial
from the Columbia, 8. C, State eon
No R*ln tor Fourteen Years.
"The meet parched country In thr
world is located on the west coast tf
South America,’’ said Oapt Reid,
master of the British steamship
Aooheaerag, which arrived at Tbomp
eons Point, Philadelphia, from Jqui
qua and Taetal, with a cargo of
nitrate of soda for tbe DuPont nitro
glycerine works at Gibbs boro. When
the AuobSneng lettlqilque It bad
hot rained for fourteen years, al
though the tope of the Andes were at
times snow-capped.
• They Oan Do It
Charleston Poet says "If the
itment can’t hoadjcff Fath
a on hlamarcb to the sea It
of the old
irihen
a fiut that can’t be helped. I am
entitled by sentence of the Court, to
‘be hanged by the neck until dead,’
and In simple Jistloe I demand.my
legal right—I Insist upon no Interfer
ence with my execution.”
Tbe United States Supreme Court
nas decided not to interfere with sen
tence of the. trial court. But Raw
lings’s attorneys have still ttie plea of
insanity to argue—and the condemned
man’s strange demand, In itself, la
considered a good ground for such a
plea. But thia fact doea not give rise
to any susplelou that the muroerer is
playing an ^‘Insane dodge.” as he Is
woo earnest end emphatic and logical
in his demands for his right to be
hanged.
Milton and Jesse, who are to hang
with their father, are not m anxious
to go to the gallows, and they aaj
that the old man Is oraxy and bas
been for years. Both of the boys have
made a pathetic appeal to the Gover
nor for elemenov, stoutly claiming
that they arc innocent of the crime
for which they were convicted.
GLAD WHEN HE IS HANGED.
When Rawlings waa told that the
United Sutes Supreme Court bad re
fused to Interfere in his case ne was
whittling "How firm a foundation, ye
saints of theJLord.” He continued to
whistle as the news was broken to
him and finally said:
>*It te no moroOkan I expected and
ikx nojavors
tbO tUtM ttttekfil
the elevation In his place of Mr, Stew-
I art. 1 —
Mr. Brioe attended the recent anti*
[dispensary secret oonfereflee here re
| oently. The meagre information glv< n
out shout its doings-disclosed that it
the intention of the antl-rtlipah- incurred:
sary people to organixa throughout the
State. So it is thought likely that the
anti dispensarx-paoplA-of York will
also put out a legislative ticket. In
conviction oT
BawUagaJhkpowUdged that he hired
the negro Moore to kill the Carters,
but that bis boys were not present,
Icuew nothing of the arrangement be
tween him and the negro, and had ab
solutely nothing to do with the mur
ders He has stoutly maintained this
all tbe time.
Furthermore, Rawllngi says be did
not intend to have any of tbe Carters
harmed except tbe old man, and that
It was not any part of his arrange
meat to kill other members of the
family. On the other band, Moore
swears that Be had positive tnstruo
tlons, as also had the boys, to kill the
entire Carter family and then burn
the house.
If Moore was actuated-, In turning
State’s evidence by a hope of escaping
the full penalty of the law for hit part
in tho tragedy, he was doomed to
appointment, as the Jury brought In
a verdict of murder In the first degree,
and he, too, was sentenced to death,
along with J. G. Rawlings Milton and
Jesse: Leonard Rawlings was sen
tenced to tbe penitentiary for life;
and nerved a few weeks, later being
brought-back to Jail here on an order
from Governor Terrell, to await the
result of the appeal made by their
attorneys to the Supreme Court.
Alf Moore has also escaped the
death penalty, so far, as his testimo
ny was onosidered very eecential In
oase the Rawlings obtained another
trial.
J. G. Rawlings la forty-nine yean
old, and in addition to his three sons I log for
the father of ^e Interesting girts, | rubber
The York fight appears to mark the
beginning of drawing sharp Hues oo
the dl*pen ary isau* In the c mlng
summer campaign. Toe storm center
at York appears to be at Fort Mill,
where a straight S .ewart delegation
has been chosen to the eounty oonven
tlon. The hidden band seems to be
that of ex Representative J. R Haile,
of that place, who le backing Mr
Stewart. ,
The YorkvlUe Enquirer is sgpport
ing the Brice faction, though all the
other newspapers of the county are
said to have lined up on the other
side.
KJ.ieU by tivaib.
A dispateb from Paris says a bomb
explosion occurred In the forest of
Vinoennee Thurlday Afternoon, Jrill-
Iag a RoMlan .named Strle and
dangerously wouqgjag a' companion
named Bouisnoff. The men were
proceeding through tbe woods, each
carrying a bomb wltb the evident
purpose of hiding them for future
use. While so doing tbe bomb which
Strle carried exploded, killing hhn in
stautly. Bouasncff Wxs struck by
fragments of the bomb and fearfully
lacerated. Tbe remaining bemb has
not yet been examined owing to the
danger In handling; 41. ~
Krv^4
-'Sts’ vViViaE
Bola Thief.
A hone thief operated on Broad
way, Just above City Hall Park, New
York Thursday Afternoon, and pick
t pits i a handsome bay am
tired runabout, valued at
by Maurice J. Locks,
r ‘I am in receipt pf your, letter of
this date lu re tbe matter of frandu-
lent transactions in exchange of cer
tain. Bro «n consol bonds of tbe State
You ask what steps. It any, have
been taken lojklng towafdi tbe relm
bursement of tbe Suite for the loti
"I answer for myself that I have
arranged for a loan with which to
purchase a 61 000 State bond, whtcb
will be deposited In bank to await
tbe decision of tbe proper tribunal
my indvldual liability aa State
treasurer, Jbat wltb Interest being
the amount reported so far ea having
been fradulently taken during my ad
ministration.
”1 am tut author z d to speak for
Dr. Bates aod Dr. Timmerman, for
mer treaaurere, as tberhavs not In
formed me as to their intention.
Neither do I know whet further ac
tion 1 will bs r. quired to take In the
premises, but await ioatruoUooa from
the attorney general and yourself.”
The amount of tbe shortage to In*
creasing dally and It apDears that
there should be some way of securing
it Each of tbe State treasurers wbo
has-been hurt by the peculations of
some ooe has stated that hi* bonds
men shall not suffer and that
individual will pay the losses Incurred
in hie administration, with Intereat
There le a criminal indictment
against D. Zimmerman, bend c)*rk
during the ptrlod of all of the trans
actions. On account of the fact that
Mr. Geo. Ball Timmerman, solicitor
from this elrouit, la a eon of one of
the et-treasuren, he haa baea relief
edxpt tbo proeeoation by courtesy
and So) id tor James E. Davis of Bart,
well bae been entrusted wltb tbe case
It 16 believed that the State trea-ur
er and hla predeoeaaora Interested In
these proecfedlnge will ask for ooonse
to assist Mr. Davis.
In a letter dated 0:t. 7,1936 from
Hon. B. H. Jennings, State treasurer,
to the omptroller general, be oalled
attention to what appeared to be an
Irregularity in tbe matter of the tx
change of a certain 61,600 Brown
a certain
& mfepop
returned te the Supreme 0 urt of ike
district of 0 »tu;p r jiA u u ed, sum me *---
sed tbo tad vmirg o f tin tomanoc cf
James H M ff-*t, uf New Y>rk.
Moffett wav ready t> m«rr/ Mtfli
Harriet E Wobb, of No. 1642 Jersey
avenue, Brooiiyn, Thureday, 6c tbo
xteot of being at tba try sting plno*
in Washington with a pceao mr, Me
iioenae and a hopeful aSKriltei Webb
iad promised to bo there promptly a6
icon.
It was a heartreillag earn fir M>!»
tett of waiting at the oiurou all toe
afternoon aod far In toe nig it mta
a despair he was moved to a nd Osek
legal permit with the paMmilo
commentary on tbe ‘party of tbe stdh
ood part aod bar sax 11 geaerel
Mr. Moffett sset M ee Webb In
Brooklyn eevotai mootoe eg >, aod tbo
sounshlp which began at <
in wiihoot a Mtch to ffl trloafpb.
ant and logical oooelosloa Whoa she
gave her answer to Mr. MeffraiCMi
Webb aleo gave a very tm«y ualtaMoo
if a young woman wbo bad found tbo
ffloltv she had kaown In severaletatea
t previous ixieteoee and bad been
anxiously waiting for in tUe life.
Moffeot was so etueerely
of tbe warmth of thOpOUBir
ff o .Ion for him thn iie mfflpMiyil in
go te WeaMuiUm ate BOe ajf of tbo
aeeeasary arrangements for tbo eere-
nony and await tbe bride elect He
carried oat bis part of the eon trait
to the letter wltb a glad hears ualtl
he became eonvlneed that he was
overdoing the waiting end. Mr. Mof
fett took tbe first train from tbo top*
ttal to New York. '
He Is carious to know just wbnfe do*
tained Mim Webb. \
How to Daotroy Fu—.
A prlkv of 63.000 has bees awarded
by the Parle Matin to the anonymtoaa
Inventor of a now method of gottlv
rid of house fliea. Tbo it
trlotly edeoufle, end, It Is ehtmed,
will completely destroy the egga
which are usually deposited In drain
pipes. Crude petrol mixed with
water le used for hooeahold dlelnfeel-
log purposes. The drain pipes he
me lined with the eH,wtiioh hulk
kills tbe eggs already tbereahd pro*
eludes tbe deposit of others. Whan
desired tbe petrol oan bo poured on
flue soil and tbo latter sprttkted tn
corners. Thls,ltie nld,1s tbocoagh*
ly efficacious in deetroyiag tbs egga.
The operations should bo oarrriod oat
la tbf spring to obtain tbo
suite.
Jcbo Pd.slcy, aged 16, tn
Alberto vile, Ala., reoaotly dra
laudanum and died fas % hdepltal
Obottenooga Thurday. In bis to
over a restaurant where bt wail
100 love letters, tom to
found. One of thaw wi
to Mbt Era Ooaley, <
Stveral letton wan
.- -«***: .iCiu . *■ wK x w -‘ ' >-^\^f JC* ' Tg.■ - ur *
.*■ v-.-- ' '»■*•> V.'
' ft. *\jt
I ' /IG .'iV