The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 12, 1908, Image 1
GARY IS CHOSEN
Senator on the Eighteenth Ballot
to Succeed Latimer
BY SMALL MAJORITY.
\
Mr. Gary Han Hail Long Service In
tbo legislature. Also an Original
Trustee of Winthrop and Member
of Constitutional Convention-—Ex*
Ciov. Sheppard Shows Strength in
Two Hallots. •
On the eighteenth ballot In
joint assembly Frank B. Gary, of
Abbeville, former Speaker of the
House, was chosen Friday for United
States Senator to fill the unexpifed
term caused by the death of Asbury
C. Latimer.
Mr. Gary secured 79 out of 154
votes, one more than necessary to
elect, it was the fourth ballot of
the day, taken after a strenuous ef
fort was made to postpone.
Ex-Gov. John C. Sheppard, of
Edgefleld, was entered and showed
great strength, getting 34 votes on
the third ballot, but he w aa not vot
ed for in the final liailot.
Mr. Gary's friends are jubilant
over the Outcome and he is being
warmly congratulated on every turn.
His long service Tn |>b11ttrw;ha» ma^te
him known throughout the State. He
served continuously from 1891 to
1901 in the House, being Speaker in
his retiring term.
He was a candidate for Governor
APPOINTS [BOARD
iudgt Pritchard Asia Commission
to Manage Dispensary Fundf
trthur, of Union, Accepts, But the
Other Members of the Commis
sion Will Decline.
At Asheville on Friday application
was made to Judge Pritchard in the
United States Court by counsel in
the case of Flelschmann & Co. vs
*
W. J. Murray, et als, and Wilson Dis
tilling Company vs. W. J. Murray, et
als, for the appointment of a tem
porary receiver for the South Care-
llna dispensary fund.
The defendant commissioners were
represented at the hearing by Daniel
W. Rountree of Atlanta, Ga., who
waived the-required notice of motion
as to the Flelschmann Company, and
after hearing the petition, the Court
granted an order appointing the de
fendants, Messrs. W. J. Murray, C.
H Henderson.' Avery Patton. John
McSween and B.. F. Arthur, as tem
porary receivers for the dispensary
funds now in their posesslon.
The petition upon which the mo
tion was granted stated that a bill
had been introduced in the South
Carolina legislature directing the
defendant commissioners to returfa
the funds now in their hands to the
Stalp Treasurer.
The commissioners were imme
diately notified of their appointments
as receivers, but up to a late hour
Friday night only one response had
been received, that of Mr. B. F. Ar
thur, who stated that he would ac
cept and would act as a receiver.
Dr. Murray has declined, since to
diction of the Federal Court. Messrs.
Patton, McSween and Henderson will
not accept. Whether or not Govern
or Ansel will call an extra session is
now the question. •
WHO HE WAS.
In 1900, when Miles B. McSweeney jaccept would be-Xo admit the. luris-
. was elected. He was a member of
the constitutional convention in 1895
Mr. Gary is a trustee oi the city
schools of Abbeville. He was a
member of the board of trustees
that located and built Winthrop Col
lege at Rock Hill. He is forty-eight
years, of age. _^ .
The deadlock had caused some* ahx
iety to Mr. Gary's supporters, but all
the while they contended he would
eventually be the choice of the Leg
islature. Eighteen ballots were nec
essary to choose. - *
The first joint ballot for United
States Senator Friday morning re
sulted: Gary «8. Walker 28. T. G.
McLeod 14, J. Wright Nash 13, Maul
din 8. Coker 14, Ira B. Jones 5,
Wllie Jones 4. Total 154; necessary
to a choice 78. •
Mr. Gary had gained five votes
from the last ballot Thursday night.
The House immediately proceeded to
another ballot. Congressman Lever
was nominated in spite- of protests
from friends that he was not a can
didate and ^particularly did not want
to l>e entered. 'Mr. Nash a name was
withdrawn.
The second ballot resulted; Gary
70, Walker 28. McLeod 11, Ira Jones
Jones 4. Mauldin 7. Coker
ov. ■> John C. Sheppard of
WouId'Be Assassin Proves (o Be
Lazarus Averbush.
The man who was slain by Chief
of Police Shippy, of Chicago, was
identified as I>atarus Averbush, who
*tr three weeks had lived at 218
Washburn avenue on the West Side.
His identification was established
thioug a sister, who was taken *»v
jjie r" ce to the undert’kmr rooms.
Ave-l ush was 22 years old. He
fcm! iK^upied rooms with his sister,
Oiga. Ha was a RmiaUn student.
Hu came to America three months
ago from Austria, to whl?n country
he fled two years previously, follow
ing the, massacre of Jews in Kishi
nev, Russia, where his home v had
been. His plans to kill Chief Shippy
are believed to have been formed as
a direct result of the chief’s Interfer
ence with a parade of unemployed
men through the clty’'s streets sever-
yM, anew entry, 15; ^' onKress ' weeks ago. Averbush had been
..ever 7. This Is the fl^ leent "|e in pi 0 y e (j recently by a produce com
mission firm. • ,
It was learned that Chief Shin-
py’a interference several weeks ago
with a parade of unemployed men,
headed by "Dr." Ben L. Reltman.
coupled with the more recent an
nouncement -that Emma Goldman
will not be allowed to speak in pub
lic, Jn Chicago, led Averbuch to at
tempt to "remove” the police head
in Russian "terrorist” fashion.
ballot. Mr. Lever's friends now nom
inated him. . • ' -
The third ballot resulted. Gary <3.
Walker iFTMcl^od 4. Sheppard 3 4,
Lever .9. Mauldin 7, Ira B. Jones 1.
Coker 2, State Senator D. F. Mc-
Kelthan 1. I'otal 154. An effort to
take a recess failed and a fourth bal
lot-was entered.
The fourth and final ballot on
which Frank B. Gary was elected;
Gary 79, McLeod 32. Mauldtn 11. Ira
B. oJnes 4. Wllie Jones 2, Coker 1.
McKeithan 1, Walker 24. Total 154^.
Necessary to choice 7 8.
FIVE AT A BIRTH
When bis wife became the mother
The San :» Family Hub Had Twins ^ twins, eight months ago, John Ol-
?n. TripMa Before.
Five perfectly formed children
were born at Steubenville, Ohio, to
Mrs. George Campbell. Three of the
babies died within an hour. One
boy and one girl will live, he ; h>si-
cians think Mrs. Campbell weighs
less than 100 pounds. The combined
weight of the Infants waa twenty-
four pounds. —-—- ——-
Campbell who is a mill worker,
has four brothers. In the families
of two of these twins have been bo»n
and each of the other brothers Is
the father of- ! -tHplets. Campbell’s
first wife died after becoming the
mother of triplets.
Campbell was for twelve years in
the United States Navy and fought
under Schley of Santiago. Twp of
his brothers are now with Admiral
Evans* fleet In 'the Pacific.
Shot Wrong Man.
A double killing occurred at Jones
boro, Va., Wednesday night, when
Sam Hampton, colored, a mail car
rier. shot and killed William Wileon,
a well-to-do negro of that place, and
then, seeing that he had killed the
wrong man, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. —
Killed Invalid Wife.
William Lewis, aged 80, of Buck-
horn, K C., killed his Invalid wife
■ by knocking her in the head wth an
axe. fie then tried to kill his son
with g butcher knife, but failed in
his attempt, he fled to the woods,
where a rltarl* and posse are hun*
Me for. him.
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.
Twins Were More Than He Could
Stand Up Under.
son. of 1 033 North Albany avenue,
Chicago, ran away from his home.
Yesterday Mrs. Olson notified a po
liceman. According to her story
when the twins were born, Olson
grabbed his coat and ran out of the
house. After waiting for him a
week she appealed to the neighbors
for aid. By hard work and the neigh
bors’ aid she has managed to sup
port herself and her children,. She
has two other children besides the
twins. _
Torpedo Station.
Impressed with the importance of
'utilizing to their utmost the auxiliary
vessels left on the Atlantic Coast for
Its protection, the navy department
has practically decided to make th*-
naval station at Charleston, S. C.,
a torpedo station. ,
Herts Greeted by His State Con
vention With Cheers.
SOLID DELEGATION
Instructed to Vote for Him as the
Democratic Candidate for Presi*
1 a
dent.—Platform Adopted Favors
Many Reforms.—"Equal Rights to
AH, Special Privileges to Xorfe"
On# Hundml ami Stvanty-flvn
Uttln School Childron
J? -•***
MEET AWFUL DEATH.
Tfce Terrible Hollocaus: in School
House at Collinwood, Ohio.—The
Furnace Was Overheated and the
Fearful Disaster Followed.—Chil-
Harmonions Meeting.
A dispatch from Oihaha, Neb.,
says Thursday was "Bryan Day" in
that city and throughout Nebraska.
With the Democratic State Conven
tion as a nucleus party leaders from
every county and practicaHy every
primary district In the common
wealth gathered there to pledge al
legiance id the presidential aspira
tions of Mr. Bryan and to consider
means for* furthering his Interests be
fore the Democratic national conven
tion.
Enthusiasm was prevalent through
out the day. It broke loose early In
the afternoon session of the conven
tion and gradually gathering volume,
brok» out' In tumultuous vocifera
tions when at the beginning of the
evening session the platform com
mittee presented this resolution:
"The Democratic party of Nebras
ka again declares confidence in and
admiration for. WBItsm Jenuinge
Bryan. In him Wf behold ideal
American citizens—the i >1 demo
crat. We rejoice that tfc ■ minciples
which he has so a-Uy advocated have
been gladly ret. ved by ,he Ameri-
can people. .‘.'.B£aoIyetL , J liat_Lh.e de|'-
gates by this contention chosen be,
and are hereby, instructed to vote as
a unit for the nomination of Mr.
Bryan for the presidency.^ “
This official endorsement of Mr.
Bryan's candidacy met the full ap
proval of the delegates. The iron
clad instructions tp the 16 men se
lected during the afternoon to repre
sent the State at Denver will, it was
thought, leave no doubt as to where
Bryan’s home State stands.
The platform as a whple was large
ly Mr. Bryan’s own work. That it
reflected the leader’s view as to what
should form th Issued upon
which the party should go before the
country next fall, was not denied.
Mr. Bryan, however, said that the
declarations of ttfe platform were
necessarily noomplete; that some sec
tions undoubtedly will be included
in the "national ’platform-that were
omitted, while others were treated
in the Nebraska document in a pur
posely brief manner so as to allow
amplification at Denver. *
Senators Tillman and Dapaw
Lock Horns in Senate
Over the Bart the New York Banka
Play in Speculations in Loaning
Money to Gamblers.
A lively colloquy between Senators
Depew and TiUman took place when
the South Carolina senator attempt
ed to have the senate pass his resolu
tion calling on the comptroller of
he currency to furnish a detailed L 4ren in Rooms on Second Floor
statement of all loans made by na
tional banks In New York upon col
lateral security’ during the 6 months
from June 1 to December X, 1907.
Mr. Aldrich suggested that as
drawn the measure had many objec
tionable features, but he thought a
resolution would e framed to give
the information desired if It should
be referred to the committee on fl-
nance. ,.~
Mr. Tillman demanded to know the
objection to the resolution, Mr. Aid-
rich replying that the chief objection
was the provision calling for the
names of people making loans.
“1 think that would be the very
worst thing we could do In the pres
ent condition," said Mr. Aldrich.
Mr. Tillman disavowed any special
purpose In having the names and Mr.
Hale asked that the matter he al
lowed to go over so that the chair
man of the finance committee and
Mr. Tillman might -agree On a form
of resolution. Mr. Tillman »*id he
did not want to go into the pri
vate affairs of banks but merely
wanted to get at the facts concern
ing stock gambling and the loaning
of funds of depositors for stock
gambling purposes. •
Mr. Depgw,i«ald that what was done
In New York was done elsewhere
and the inquiry might be extended
HOMICIDE NEAR LAMAR.
Old Dispute Over Land Line Ends in
a Murder.
A dispatch from Lamar to The
News and Courier says Wednesday
afternoon J. S. Parnell shot and In
stantly killed Robert Randolph about
two miles from here. Both parties
are white. It appears that trouble
has been brewing between Parnell
and Randolph for several years over
land line.
While laying off rows in his field
Wednesday Randolph, who fs a quiet
and well liked man, was placing a
guide stake when Parnell approached
from the side, and. taking deliberate
ai»~with a breech-loading shot-gun,
fired at Randolph. The entire load
entered the neck and face, killing
him instantly. Parnell went to his
house, and getting his coat fled, car
rying the gun with him.
Two deputies of Sheriff Blackwell
re on their way to the scene and a
Ijosse is being formed to hunt down
the sjnyer. A .lynching is feared if
Parnell is captured before the officers
arrive. Randolph was about 4 5
years old and leaves a wife and three
small children. Parnell is a man of
about fifty years. The tragedy was
witnessed by Havld Paul, a negro.
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SWINDLER’* ARRESTED.
In
Sold Game Birds,
a Magistrate court at Sumter
on Tuesday the case of the Dixie
Cafe waa tried for unlawfully offer
ing for aale game birds, and the cafe
owners were found guilty by a Jury
of selling six birds, one offence, and
fined 112-50 or fifteen days in j&il.
The fine was paid.
"J. ,W. Bayard," Wanted in Aiken,
Located in Philadelphia.
A
J: W. Bayard who went to Aiken in
the guise of a "tourist’’ a few weeks
ago, and, representing himself to be
the close personal friend of Mrs. Mat-
tie J. Brown, of Philadelphia, secur
ed $120 from Mr. G. T. Holley, of
Aiken, upon a worthless check drawn
upon the Wiikinsburg National Bank
and then skipped, has been located
In Philadelphia, after considerable
effort on the part of the Aiken au
thorities.
Marked for Mnrder.
Father Jacob Just, pastor of St.
Stanislaus Polish Catholic ch&rqh,
of Haxelton, haa received a letter de
claring that he la one of aix priests
of this country marked by the anar
chists for death In the tame manner
la which Father Heinrich, of Deliver,
waa recently murdered.
Knocks Out Dispensary.
The supreme court holds that-the
election In Chesterfield on the dis
pensary question waa legal and valid
end the dispensaries are therefore
to go. This is the first decision the
court haa ever made against the dis
pensary.
Took the Wire Route.
F<jr a murder committed leas than
three months ago, George Wilaon, a
negro, paid the extreme penalty In
the electric chair at the state prison
Trenton, N. J., on Wedneeday. ,
to other places. . . ,
t’But,” shouted Mr. Tillman. **—tii* 0 ."^y^****..*** j** 1 * 1 ** to , ft door
states have closed their bucketshops
and New York has not shut up Its
bucketshop or gambling house that
Is swallowing up the little fellowa.”
"South Carolina would be the first
door was locked as well.
When the flames were discovered
to suffer* H^the New” York exchange flfb 6 ,. teache *’ B > "ho throughout seem
were closed,” said «ir. Depew, "and
her industrial institutions would feef*
the effect of a loss of credit if Nei^
York is hampered."
"I have never discovered that New
York is supplying money from, dis
interested motives.” retorted Mr.
Tillman; “we pay for everything we
get." • ’•
Mr. Depew said It was safe to say
that a majority of demand loans are
made for legitimate purpose
added that he was ready to co-operate
in the suppression of gamming in
New York,
The resolution was then offered to
the committee on finance. •
MAN FOUND DEAD.
Familiar Object of Charity at Green
ville Passes Away.
A dispatch from Greenville to The
News and Courier says P. A. Ham
mett. a well known and pathetic fig
ure on the streets for the past year,
was found dead in a lonely and al
most-unfurnished room he called
home early Wednesday morning.
The body was taken In charge by
the coroner. Heart disease was de
clared the cause of death and no In
quest was deemed necessary. The
body has been enbalmed to be kept
for Identification. He was about 60
years old and because of a disease
of the eyes could not work. The
Salvation Army gave him a room and
he begged on the streets. He had
no friends and no one knows where
he came from, or whether he left
any relatives. There was nothing to
5ive way definite clue to his identity.
FELL INTO BOILING WATER.
One Dead and Two Fatally Burned
at Jersey City.
Three men fell into a tank of boil
ing water Wednesday in the chemi
cal works of M. Calm & Bro., on
West Side avenue, Jersey City, and
before they were rescued by fellow
workmen were badly scalded.
The injured were Joseph Wesag,
Joseph Belassay and John Ashaz, all
of Jersey City. Wesag died of his
Injuries the next afternoon. Belas-
say and Ashaz, the doctors say, can
hardly ^survive the effects of the ac
cident.
It Is believed that the men who
were standing at the edge of the
tank, were'overcome by ammonia
fumes and that this caused them to
fall Into the boiling water.
BEATEN BY NEGROES.
Report of • Vicious Assault at Greer
Reaches Spartanburg.
A special from Spartanburg to
The Nevis and Courier says a report
reached there Tuesday from Greer
to the effect that a white man named
Fleming was set upon by a ga^g of
negroes and badly us^d up. The ne
groes used rocks, clubs and a knife
The assault. It is sa'u was without
provocation. Fleming's clothing was
traced the stomach, ln3\ting a ser-
tmu wound.
«nd In Attic Perished in Flames.
An awful tragedy occurred Wed
nesday morning In the public school
ol Collinwood, Ohio, which has some
eight thousand population. One hun
dred and alxty-flve corpses were tak
en out of the ruins up to ten o’clock
Wednesday nighti Six childron arc
•fill unaccounted for and all the hos
pitals and houses for two miles
around contained numbers of chil
dren, some fatally and many less
seriously injured.
All of the vlctime were between
six and fifteen years of age. The
school contained between 810 and
325 pupils,,and of this entire number
only eighty are known to have left
the building unhurt. It will be sev
eral days before the exact number
of killed Is known, as the ruins may
still contain other bodies and the
list of fatalities may be increased by
Ml n umber of deaths among the ehll
dren who are lying in the hospitals
hovering between life and death.
The school house was of brick,
two stories and an attic in height,
normally large and the smaller chll-
part of the building. There was hut
dren had been placed in the- upper
part of th building. There was but
one fire escape and that was in the
rear of the building. There were
in front and the other to a door in
the rear. Both of these doors open
ed inward and it Is claimed the rear
cut into strips and the blade of a
kr.lfo .n the hand of on* negro »eue- gather and the work of identifying
to have acted with courage and self
possession and to have struggled
heroically for the safety of their pu-
pija marshalled the little ones into
column for the “fire d$ll.” which
they had often practiced' Unfortun
ately the line of march In this exer
cise had-always led to the front door
and the children had not been train
ed to seek any. other exit.
The Are came from a furnace sit
uated directly under this part of the
building. When the children reach
ed the foot of the stairs they found
the flames close upon them, and so
swift a rush was made for the door
that in an instant a tight ly packed
mass of children was pilled up
against It. From the second floor
none of those who were upon any
portion of the first flight of stairs
had a chance for their lives.
The children* at the foot 6f the
stair started to fight their way back
to the floor above, while those who
were coming down shoved them mer
cilessly back Into the flames below.
In an instant there was a frightful
panic, with 200 of’the pupils fighting
for their lives. Most of those who
were killed died here. The greater
part of those who escaped managed
to turn back and reached the fire es
cape and the windows in the rear.
The school was a two-story and
attic brick building, constructed six
years ago. It was overcrowded with
pupils and it was found necessary to
utilize the attics for those of the
ages between six and eight years.
Nearly all the’ children were kill
ed in the mass at the first floor door,
which finally was opened by men
from the Lake Shore Railway shops,
who hurried to tire scene. A wall
of flame had formed across R, how-
ever, and most of the hcildren were
dead by the time the doors wer6
swung.
Miss Catherine Weller, one of the
nine teachers In tho school, loss her
life In a vain'effort to marshal 1h0
pupils of her class and lead them
to safety. She died in the crush at
the rear door. Her room was on
the second floor and when the fire
alarmf sounded she marched her pu
pils into the hall, thinking It was
only a fire drill. There the truth
dawned upon both the teacher and
pupils and control was lost. The
children In their frenzy plunged Into
the struggling mass ahead of them.
Miss Weller attempted to stem the
rush, hut went down under it, and
her3ody was found ah hour later
piled high with those of her pupils.
Miss Fisk, another teacher, was taken
out alive, but she cannot live. After
the fire had practically burned it
self out the work of rescuing the
bodies was begun by firemen and
railroad employees from ^ the • Lake
Shore shops.
The railroad company turned over
one of its buildings nearby to be used
as temporary morgue and hither the
charred and broken little .bodies
were removed as fast as they could
be dug from the rjuins. They were
ever, and most of the children were
Identifications were made only by
means of clohtlng or trinkets. The
fire had swept away nearly all re
semblance to human features.
Distracted parents soon began to
the blackened and mangled corpses
began. Thegrewsome task of taking
The Crime Was Committed for the.
Hake of Mnrder and Two Suspects
Are Caught and Lynched.
A dispatch from Hawklnsville. Oa..
says a terrible murder shocked that
community Wednesday and a whole
section of the county near Empire,
Ga., Is wild with excitement, over
1,000 people being gathered at the
scene of the tragedy.
Just at daylight Wednesday morn
ing some person or persons, attack
ed Mr. Warren Hart as he went out
to feed his stock, crushing his head
to a jelly, and killing him Instantly
ly.
They then went to the kitchen,
wjiere Mrs. Hart was preparing
breakfast, and attacked her with an
axe, leaving her for dead. She was
found Iylng,.oe the floor with a fork
In her hana and her breakfast horn
ed to a crisp.
The object of the plot to murder
Is supoosed to have been for robbery,
as they had about $1,000 In the
hopse, which the murderers failed to
find.
The report reaehee Hawklnsville
that two negroes have been arrest
ed, and it Is expected they are the
assassins. A later report from the
scene says that the two negrpea ar
rested have been lynched by the In
censed citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Har k . were about 65
years old, and were highly respected
citizens.. The people of the section
are wroug.it u» to s frensy
BENT CHECK
To Cover the Amount of Which State
Was Robbed.
The State aaya that Col. Felder
and Mr. Malvern Hill, In going over
the old books of the State dispensary,
discovered that on an order for too
casks of beer sold to the State Dis
pensary in 1004, the Indlanapolla
Brewing company overcharged the
State the sum of $260. A settle
ment in full had been made with
this concern nearly four year* ago
and their firm name did not appear
on the ledger of the dispensary when
the commission took charge.
Col. Felder addressed a communi
cation to the Indianapolis Brewing
company calling attention to the find
ings of the commission as to their
dealings with the offleers of thf
State and advised that the amount
of overcharge, $266. be remitted to
the attorney general without delay.
By return mail came a check for the
full amount of the overcharges and
no questions were asked. *
Clothing Caaght Fire.
• While passing In front of a fire
in an open fireplace the dreea of the
seven-year-old daughter of Jule
Thompson, of St. George, Ga.. caaght
fire and in her fright she ran Into
the yard. She was so badly burned
that she died.
out the blackened torsos and bits of
human remains was one of horror.
A line of rescuers was formed, back
ed by a dozen ambulances. As the
bodies were untangled from the de
bris they were passed along to the
stretchers and then loaded in the
ambulances.
At the tempory morgue in the
Lake Shore shop the scene became
fourfold in the intensity of human
suffering as fathers, mothers, broth
ers and sister passed up and down
the lines formed of one hundred and
sixty corpses. To facilitate Identifi
cation the bodies were numbered as
they were received at the morgue.
“The first Identification was made
by ,the mother of Nell and Tommy
Thompson, aged six and nine yeara,
respectively. The heads and arms
had been burned from both bodies,
but the mother recognised the shoes
on her children's feet. And so the
disheartening Went work on, accen
tuated now and then by the piercing
shriek or plaintive moan as a loved
one was recognized by clothing or
token, such as ring or necklace.
Miss Golman, one of the teachers,
said: "It was awful. I can seen the
wee thinks in my room holding out
their tiny arms and crying to me to
help'Them. Their voices are ring
ing in my ears yet and I shall never
forget them. When the alarm gong
rang I started the pupils to march
ing from the building. When we
started down the front stairs we were
met by a solid wall of flame and
clouds of dense smoke. We retreat
ed, and when we turned the children
became panic stricken and I could
not do anything with them. They
became jammed n the narrow stair
way, and I knew that the only thing
for me to do was to get around. to
the rear door If possible and help
those who were near the entrance.
When I got there after climbing out
a window I found th children eo
crowded In the narrow passageway
that I conld pot pull even one of
them out Those behind pushed
forward and as I stood there the lit
tle ones plied upon on# another.
Those who could stretched out their
arms to me and cried for me to help
them. I tried with an my might to
pull them out ead stayed there un
til the Haases drove me ewny.’'
IN CITY OF CHTCAGO.
Would-Be Murderer
chi* and
the Home el
the Chief of Police end Tried he
Stab Him, But Wes Killed in the
Fight That Followed By the Chief
Hlmeelf.
At'Chicago Chief of Police George
[; Shippy, his sou Harry, and his
driver, ames Foley, were wounded by
an anarchist who attempted to as
sassinate ths police ofllclel In th?
hall of the latter’s residence, 31 Un-
coin Court, shortly after • o’clock
Tuesday morning. The desperate
struggle, in which Mrs. Shippy and
her daughter, Georglotte, Joined,
was tsrmlnatsd whan ths chief drew
his own revolvr and killed his as-
sallant. ■
Harry Shippy waa shot through
the breast twice and was prpabbly
fatally woundsd. His father wan
stabbed in the arm, while Foley re
ceived e bullet In the wrist. Mrs.
Shippy was kicked by the desperado. '
but her hurts are slight.
Following ths attacks, squads of
police ware sent Into the Italian and
Ghetto quarters of the city. Places
known as headquarters of secret so
cieties suspected of anarchistic ten
dencies were raided end a score er
more arrests wern-made —-
That the attempt to kill Chief aup~
py resulted in failure was due large
ly to the policeman’s quickness in
anticipating the purpose of his vls-
ttor’s presence. The men had twine
celled et the house end naked ior
the chief Monday when he wee told
that Mr. Shippy was at work and
♦»! Tuesday -morning when
e servant Informed - him that the
chief could not be seen before nine
o’clock. When he rang the door bell
at the letter hour, the chief Mmrrlf
answered the cell.
"As I opened the door,” sold Chief
Shippy later, "the men raised his
hat end 1 allowed him to step lute
the hallway. He handed me an en
velope, I glanced et it end than the
thought struck ms that the men wee
for analysis, the police being of the
an anarchist. I grabbed his arms
and called to my wife who wee In
another room. When eh# ran Into
the hallway I acid: ‘$fother see it
this men has e revolver. She fait
In on# of hie coat pockets end said
that he had.
“I tried to hold him with one hand
end drew my revolver with the other
but he Jerked sway end fell egalnet
the door. I caught him again and
while we were struggling my son,
who y*s up stairs, started to my
eld. He was only n few steps from
the bottom of the stairs when the
man freed one hand, drew hie re
volver end fired two ehote et Har
ry.
’"Then Foley, who had been sum
moned by my daughter, stepped in
to the hall and ths man shot him.
The anarchist kicked my wife to ono
side and by this time I had got my
volver, and both Foley and I oped-
ed fire. At my first shot, which
struck him In the head, he fell. But
I fired three more one Into his head
Foley’s shots also struck the assas
sin."
Foley and Harry Shippy were tak
en-Ao a hospital. The body of the
anarchist was removed to e morgue.
A search of the corpse failed to re
veal any marks by which It might
be Identified.
—In a pocket of the
ever, the police discovered a small
box of losnges, the package bearing
e label inscribed: "Trowbridge, Con
fectionary "Company, MeadvtUe, Pa.”
The loxengee were sent to a chemist
for analysis, the police king of the
opinion that they might contain pole-
on with which It was the men’s In
tention to commit suicide If arrest
ed.
The police ere firm in the belief
that the attack on their chief waa
due to an anarchistic plot. Theories
that he may have had a personal
grievance against the official because
of an arrest or some similar affair
were given up when detectives of
the department failed to rcognlse
the, corpse as that of any known
criminal. Two members of tbs fores
asserted that they had seen the man
at a meeting of anarchists about ten
days ago.
Both the chief and Mrs. Shippy
assert that the former’s life
ed by the appearance of their mm.
The young man, who Is 18 years of q
age, is a student at a mlliatary
emy, in Culver, Ind. He Is at
because of Illness and hastem
hls father’s aid when he heart
struggle in the hell.
At New Orleans the hot
of the Mardt Gras Carnival
Wednesday night when
were killed by a street
gross wme In a —
of the
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