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MAN FATALLY HURT
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MAN PIAYED THE JBKYI.L AND
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BY corns
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Million Dollars In-
▼estad la New Concerns, the Park
er Merger Included in the Total
Capital, Which is a Most Excellent
Showing.
Twenty-live million dollars is a
▼ary large amount of money and it is
approximately that much that has
Wan oat iato new enterprises In
South CafoMna during the first nine
months of the year, according to the
reports on file in the office of the sec
retary of state, says the State.
This amount is much larger than
for the same period last year. The
charter fees for the o. .ce this year
are several thousand dollars in ad
vance of the fees for the same period
in 1910.
Greenville county leads the State,
with $16,21 1,000, and Charleston
comes second, with 2,122,900, and
Richland county third with $1,012,-
800. Charleston comity really lei
the State as $15,000,000, the capital
stock of the Parker mill merger be
ing Included In the return from
Greenville.
The following shows the amounts
that have been invested in the va
rious counties of the State:
Abbeville $ 25,000
A*ken . . 18,000
Anderson 274,000
Bamberg 3,000
Barnwell 1 4 6,000
Beaufort 35,000
Calhoun 115,500
Charleston 2,122.900
Cherokee 132,000
Chester . . . 110,ouO |
Chesterfield .. 1 85.000 I
Clarendon . . . .—i»fl,Sft0t
Colleton 75,000 I
Darlington 784.500
Dillon 767,500
Dorchester
Edgefield
Fairfield
Florence ,
Centre, Kansas, Plead Guilty to
Centre, tnsas. Plead ullty to Tar-
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Tarring Girl Teacher.
Pleas of guilty were suddenly an
nounced In the circuit court at Lin
coln Centre,-Kansas, on Thursday, by
three of the prominent citizens Ac
cused In connection with the tarring
of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the Shady
Bend school teacher. These announc
ed pleas of guilty: Everett G. Clark,
president of a Shady end milling
company: Watson Scranton, Shady
Bend farmer; Jay FiUwater, Shady
Bend farmer.
A flood of affidavits was let loose
In court at the beginning of the hear
ing of an application by Everett G.
Clark, the wealthy miller of Shady
Bend, for a change of venue in the
case, in which he with eight other
men are charged with “assault and
battery’’ in connection with the tar
ring of Miss Mary Chamberlain last
August. Miss Chamberlain was In
court, accompanied by her mother
and brother.
Since Mias Chamberlain was de
coyed to a lonely spot on a country
road, seized by a band of a dozen or
more men, her clothing torn off and
her body coated with tar, she has re
mained In close retirement in her
home in the little Shady Bend com
munity, where she taught school and
where it Is said her popularly with
the men caused jealous wives and
sweethearts to inflict on her the tor
ture which created a storm of indig
nation throughout the State.
Another confession of gutit *n the
tar party case came on Thursday
when Edward Ricord, a barber, ad
mitted he decoyed Miss Mary Cham
berlain, a school teacher, to a point
near Shady Bend, where she was
“tarred’’ on Aug. 7. He went before
Judge Cover and entered a plea of
guilty. Sentence was suspended un-
Died at the Union Station at Colum
bia aa the Train that struck Him
50.500
75,400
8.700
331,600
Georgetown S?? ?^|'he ’;tar party
Groenville .. -- . . 16»211.5dQy
Greenwood
75.000
Hampton
45.000
Horry
26.000
Kershaw
1 40.000
Lancaster
123,000
Laurens
.. 234,000
Lee
22.500
Lexington
1 1.000
Marion
91,500
Marlboro
76.500
Newberry
455,000
Oconee
5,000
Orangeburg
102,000
PlCkefls
Richland
. 1,012,800
Saluda
75,000
Spartanburg
.. 581,700
Sumter
.. 624,000
Union
. . 1 06.000
Williamsburg
28,000
York
. . 102,500
SEEKING HEART
BALM.
til after the trial of the other accused
| men
I R‘cord has t>een in Jail for the last
I three months, awaiting action on an
appeal of a Justice court sentence of
| one year for complicity in the attack
on Miss Chamberlain. He was the
| first man arrested in connection with
case. It is alleged he
received $5 for his part in the affair.'
According to Miss Chamberlain
she accompanied Ricord on the night
of the attack under the fmpremion
Palled l4.
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The State says unknown and ap
parently far from aome, a young
white man, about 21 year* of age,
was sruck by a south-bound passen
ger train of the Southern railway,
coming from Charlotte, near
Chappels, Richland county, Thurs
day morning and was fatally Injured.
He was brought to Columbia, but
death came as the train rolled into
the union station.
Acting In the absence of R. D.
Walker, coroner, Jas. H. Fowles,
magistrate investigated the case anu
deemed and inquest unnecessary. It
is alleged that the unfortunate man
was sitting on the crossties, seem
ing asleep when passenger train No.
3 5 rounded a curve and struck him.
He never regained consciousness. His
skull was fradtured and left leg brok
en.
The dead man left little clue as to
his identity. He was dressed In a
pair- of blue overalls with a black
coat, and carried as his only baggage
a small bundle of underwear. On
the Inside of his coat collar was the
name “H. M. Lewis, Staunton, Va.”
The name was sewed on a little tag,
and was evidently the firm from
whom the coat was bought. The un
derwear was wrapped in paper mark
ed in two places, “C. A. Carter,
Smith’s /Turnout, S. C.” Smith’s
Turnout is on the Southern railway,
between Chester and Rock Hill.
Judge Fowles Is doing everything
Smith’s Turnout Thursday In hope
of getting some information as to
who the man was, but secured no
news. On the man’s coat were a few :
cotton Itntera, and the presumption
is that he may have been a cotton
mill operative, going to some manu-
frrturing town in search of work He
was seen at Ridgeway on Wednesday,
and asked an old negro the distance
to Columbia.
Juge Fowles is doing everything
In his power to identify him. He was
five feet, nine inches in height, had
blue eyes and rather light hair, was
clean shaven, and looks as if he part
ed his hair in the middle. A promi
nent side tooth is badly decayed, and
he had at some tirfie' fit'efi operated
on for appenlcltis. The body is be
ing held at the undertaking parlors
of J \V McCortutrk on Hampton
He Wm • Highly Respectable Gen-
WHAT WITNESSES SAID tleaiea by Day But Burglar and
Murderer at Night.
The trial of Bertram G. Spencer,
who Is charged with murdering Miss
Martha G. Bl&ckstone. a Springfield,
that he was taking her to a dance.; street for identification.
Ricord expects leniency as the result! •
of his confession.
SLIPPED ON PEEL OF BANANA.
KILL GIRL IN JKtliOUN RAGE.
Enraged Because Site Accepted At
tentions From Another.
•Crared^by jealousy, Ed J. Drazell,
May Result in ('rippling for Life oi
Man Who Stepped on It.
The Greenville Piedmont says tes
timony to the fact that the city ordi-
Austrian Officer Demands $25,000
From American Girl.
A breach of promise suit for $25,-
000 was filed against Miss Helen Mc-
Murray of New York by Lieut. Ed-
k ward Stars of the Austrian army. He
alleges that Miss McMurray prom
ised In Vienna, in 1910, to marry him I whRe 'the' Dimcan giri
and that thereafter he did all he!
could to make himself pleasing in
her eyes, taking a year's leave of
absence from the army and losing his
opportunity for advancement, sell
ing his racing stables and taking up
the study of English. He also claims
to have given Miss McMurray many
of his family heirlooms, wreaths and
bunches of flowers, and that he pur
chased “at enormous cost” a civilian
outfit and evening clothes. When he
came to New York in July last to
claim his bride she saw him but once,
he alleges, and then only long
enough to discard him.
a white cotton mill operative, forty-
two years old, shot and killed Carrie
Helle Duncan, a sixteen-year-old girl,
in the presence of Brazell's sick wife,
Thursday morning
Before the man could rqload the
single barreled shotgun and turn th.e
weapon on himself, his wife, thougto
weak and feverish from illness, wres
tled with him and prevented him
from accomplishing his purpose. Of
ficers soon arrived and placed Brazell
under arrest.
Brazell and his wife and the dead
girl and her family lived in the same
tenement house. He was enamored
with the girl and was insanely jeal
ous because of her alleged acceptance
of attentions from another man.
was in the
room with the wife and just after
she prepared breakfast for the Rra-
zells, the husband seized a gun and
blew the girl # brain# out. —
The wife is prostrated and Brazell
refuses to talk, although letters
found in his pocket stated that he
loved the girl, was jealous of other
men and that he intended to kill her
and end his own life.
GAVE IT ALL TO CHARITY.
CASE SETTLED AT LAST.
Bottom of the Maine AVas Blown In-
-
ward by Explosion.
Exploration of the bottom of the
Maine Wednesday at Havana, Cuba,
about 140 feet raft of the bow, re
vealed a plate identified as forming
i portion of the outer hull of the
ihip on the port side near the keel
and under the magazines as having
been blown inward, the upper p£i*t
being folded Inward. This appar
ently could result only from an ex
ternal preseure. The engineer in
charge and the other officers are
maintaining reticence, but the dis
covery is strongly confirmatory of the
theory of an external explosion. One
body was recovered from tho boiler
room. It was that of an unusally tall
man.
Woman of the Underworld Disposed
of Fortune That Way.
Anna Willson, a woman of the un
derworld, who died recently in Oma
ha, Neb., left her fortune of $250,-
006 to charity. Margaret £llce
Piatt, lived in St. Louis witu her pa
rents until she was seventeen years
old, when the family removed to
Memphis. Three brothers were
steamboat engineers. Margaret
eloped soon after they went to Mem
phis, but was followed by one of her
brothers and forced to return home.
In ,1,867 the family removed to Jack-
eon county, Illinois, but Margaret re
mained at Memphis, where she was
employed as a maid in the family
of Dr. Thomas. Anna Wilson^was a
character of considerable notoriety
in Omaha for forty years. She died
four weeks ago and objections were
palsed to accepting her bequests on
the ground that the money was
"tainted.”'
nance against the IhrowFn^ ba
nana peels on the sidewalks of the
city's streets is not enforced as it
should be, and that failure to en
force the law puts pedestrians in a
precarious situation is borne by a
sad incident that occurred recently,
barely failing to cause death to a
Greenville resident.
Mr. Robert Nash, a man who has
lived here for about eleven months,
having come here from Virginia,
was walking down Main street near
(the postofflee building a week ago.
| Near the corner of Main and Broad
streets be slipped on a banana peel
and fell to the sidewalk, the base of
1,1s spine striking the pavement. The
foot that stopped upon th“ peeling
went high into the air and he suf
fered a hard fall.
Persons on the street came to the
aid of Mr. Nash and he was taken
to the Salvation Army citadel where
be was glveb medical attenrton and-
Dr. Black and Brown have been at
tending him since. It was found
that the base of Nash’s spine was
fractured and that the nerves were
badly deranged.
Nash has suffered terrible pains
and R is likely that he will never
walk again. The attending physician
said that the injuries may heal, but
the chances are that he will never
again have the use of his limbs.
His legs have been numb and feellng-
lesB since the fall. It Is thought that
the break in the spine will heal but
that his nervous system will never
lie whole aOMn and that this will
prevent furth* use of the legs.
Nash is a young man and rather
tall and it is believed that his height
made the fall more serious. It is
thought that If it had been an old
mean to suffer the fall death would
have resulted. However, Nash, be
ing a young man, the wounds will
not, it is thought, prove fatal.
?fary Harris, the White Woman in the
Case, the Principle Witness for the
State, Testified that Tutcn, the De
fendant, Did Uie Killing of Lang
ford, Which the State Claims.
LeRoy B. Tuten, of Hampton
County, Is not guilty of the murder
of J. R. Langford, according to the
decision reached by the Jury in the
case early Thursday afternoon. Two
and a half days were consumed in the
trial of the case which was brought
to Bamberg from Hampton, and ac
cording to statements made, it took
the jury scarcely three minutes to de
cide the case, once the matter was
in its hands.
The case of the State against Le
Roy B. Auten was begun in the court
of general sessions at Bamberg on
Tuesday. The defendant is charged
with the murder of J. R. Langford,
just outside of the town oi Brun
son, in Hampton county, about a
year ago. Both the deceased and the
defendants come from large and
prominent families. The case was
transferred to Bamberg County on the
ground that a fair and impartial trial
could not be had at Hampton. Below
we give the testimony in the case:
The first witness called by the
State was Dr. J. W. Mole of Brunson,
vrho held an autopsy the day after the
killing. This witness testified that
the body of Langford was found in
the woods near Hampton, and that a
wound was discovered near the left
ear. The skin was not severely in
jured and the skull was not fraetur-
ed, a hemorrhage near the brain be
ing the Imedlate cause of death.
Dr J. L. Folk, the next witness,
testified that he was the family phy
sician of Langford .and that he had
never seen any evidence of apoplexy
about the deceased.
E. VV. Addison stated that he saw
Tuten the day after the burial, Octo-
1, and that Tuten told him that
he had been near the place where
the body was found, on the morning
of the killing, and that he had been
hunting birds there The witness
testified that a horse and buggy was
tied to a tree about 3 6 feet from the
spot where Mr. Langford’s body was
discovered.
It wag testified by Gray Rivers that
he saw Langford leave Brunson on
the mronlng of the killing, and that
he himself was In the party that
found the body about 8:45 that
night He a la ted that laagford w#*
IDAHO EXECUTIVE INDIGNANT
AT MAN'S PARDON.
Attorney General Wlckersbam's
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alar OtBclaJs In fittate of Idaho
Mass., school teacher, has begun.
The killing took place on March 31,
1910, but the trial has been delayed
In order that the prisoner might
be watched by alienists, for the de
fense will be insanity of a “Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” type.
Spencer has admitted to the police
that he was responsible for a series
of holcl-ups and robberies, which for
nearly two years kept the city almost
panicstrlcken. He was known among
his acquaintances as an honest, hard
working young married man.
About three years ago, while em
ployed as a railroad man, Spencer
fell in love with an attractive young
woman from a highly respected fam
ily and not long afterward they were
married and went to housekeeping.
A baby was born, and the couple
were to all outward appearances hap
py and deroted.
Yet during all this time Spencer.
'>crording to his statement to the po
lice, was terrorizing the eity by bp d
robberies. Most of these were com
mitted in the early evening, ao that
by 8 o’clock he might be at home
with his little family.
On the night of March 31, 1910,
Mias Blackstone was visiting at the
home of Miss Harriet Dow when a
man entered aod ishot both women.
Miss Bl&ckstone was killed, but Mlaa
Dow was only slightly Injured. After
the police had exhaused every effort
to run down the murderer and had
about lost hope, a locket which had
been found In the yard of a home
robbed several months before was
turned over to them.
The locket bore the initials “B. O.
S.” and by a coincidence the only
name in the Springfield directory
with these initials was Bertram G.
S>peneer Pictures in the locket were
Identified as of his wife and a rela
tive Spencer was arrested. He ad
mitted. the police say, every crime
laid at his door and told a remark
able story of his dual personality.
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Killed in Wreck of Train.
Engineer W. A. Kinney waa killed,
Fireman Ed Townea, colored, seriouv-
ly injured, and the mail clerka and
passengers were badly shaken up
when Southern railway train No.37,
from Washington to New Orleans,
was derailed between Benaja and
ReidorlUe, about $0 miles north of
Greensboro, N. C. Thla Is one of the
finest trains In the SonttM
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Buried Dog in Flag.
Maggsle, the little terrier mascot
of the aeronautical corpa of the army,
la dead and burled at College Park
at Washington In a United States
flag. Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball of the
Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to
the Grand Army of the Republic, is
highly indignant and has appealed
to the Secretary of War, demanding
kn Investigation. -
Beattie Will Have to Hang.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says
the supreme court of appeals denied
the petition for a writ of error by
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., convicted of
-uirderlng his young wife last July.
This decision on the appeal from the
judgment of the Chesterfield court,
which sentenced him to die in the
electric chair November 24, Is final.
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“Unloaded" Pistol Kills Boy.
At Chattanooga, while playing
“jail” Tuesday evening, Dewitt
Clarkson, 13 years old, a son of A.
Clarkson, a prominent real estate
dealer, was shot and killed by Dennle
Hughes, 11-year-old son of J. N.
Hughes, s contractor and builder.
The pistol was not snppefod to be
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found lying on a lap robe, and that a
horse and buggy was hitched to a
nearby tree.
J. C. Dowling told of finding the
body of the deceased in the woods,
and also stated that about a week
after the killing Tuten had said to
him that he had been near the place
of the killing on November 29, look
ing for a covey of birds. After find-
ng the body, several men went to the
house of Mary Harris, and took her
to the Hampton Jail
John Allen, a colored hand of Tu
ten, testified that Tuten offered to di
vide $100 among Allen and some oth
er negepes if, they would tell the
truth at the trial. Allen swore that
Mr. Tuten was in the field with his
hands at about sunrise, and was in
their sight almost all the time until
the train went by, which other wit
nesses testified was about 9:30 In the
morning
A good deal of Wednesday's ses
sion taken up with the testimony
of Mary'^afris, who has played a
most important part in the case. The
night of the killing this woman was
arrested, and after bting confined in
the Hampton jail for a time, she was
removed to the penitentiary, where
she had been kept since. Richard
Williams, the negro, whose name ap
pears often in the testimony, has
also spent some time in the penltem-
tjary, where he was hurried soon af
ter the homicide, the offlers faring
that he might be lynched.
The testimony of Mary Harris, the
principal witness for the State, was
greatly weakened by the proof
brought out on cross-examination
that she had made a number of con
flicting statements as to who struck
the fatal blow. Sne stated on the
stand Wednesday that the defendant,
LeRoy B. Tuten, hit Langford on the
head with his gun, but it was shown
that soon after the killing she told a
number of people that the act wa<.
committed^ by Richard Williams, and
told another man that Mr. Langford
dlod a natural death. Several spirit
ed contests by counsel over the ad
mission of evidence arose during the
examination of this witness.
The defendant sits In the court
room beside his counsel and appears
very eool and collected. He Is a tall
man, with gray hair, and Is very
prominently connected In his native
county.
. R. C. Brant testified that as the
wound on Mr. Langford’s head was
so slight he was not fully satisfied
that It had been cansed by a blow,
and ao about two weeks after the
death he examined carefnlly the
ground upon which the body bad
been found. He stated that he had
found no roots, sticks or other ob-
. .'
Jects in the ground which could have
produced the Injury, but that the
land at the place w&g quite open.
Mary Harris was then placed upon
the stand. She Is 21 years old, and
lives with her aged father near Mr.
Tuten’s house She testified that on
November 29 I^kngford came by her
house, where she waa cutting wood,
and asked her to go with him. She
said that the two then sent out
In the woods together. Tuten walk
ed up, the girl testified, and struck
Langford on the bead with his gun,
and then told the girl that if she did
not say that Richard Williams had
hit Langford he would kill her, as he
had already killed two men The
girl says she then ran home, and
went into the cotton field, about 100
yards from the scene of the killing,
passing a colored man in a wagon on
the way. The witnesa said that she
was afraid of Tuten after this, and
that this was why she told Herman
Llghtsey, J. G. Bowers, and a detec
tive, in the penitentiary, that Wil
liams had struck the blow.
The witness said that after she
had been taken to the penitentiary
she told several men that Tuten had
killed Langford. She stated that Tu
ten had been intimate with her for
three or four years, but that the ne
gro, Rlcharde Williams, had never
made any improper remarks to her.
It was brought out on cross-exam
ination by Mr. Welch that at the
coroner ? inquest, a few days after
the killing, Mary Harris swore that
Williams had struck the fatal blow
with a stick. The witness admitted
having made this statement at the
inquest. It was shown that she had
made similar statements to Mr. Dowl
ing, Mr. Harter, Mr. Gray, and in the
penitentiary to Capt. Roberts, Mr.
Griffith, Dr. Butler and members of
the penitentiary board.
Some testimony was also brought
out that Mary Harris had told sev
eral men that Richard Williams had
been intimate with her. The witness
admitted having told J. P» Bowers la
the Hampton Jail that^o one struck
Langford but that he had died from
natural causes. In addition It was
shown that the woman had told the
solicitor at the penitentiary that Tu
ten had never been inimate with her.
The girl testified that Langford had
bean attentive to her for about two
years.
Three negroes were placed upon
the stand In order to throw light up
on the whereabouts of Richard WlL
Hams at the time of the killing. E.
W. Rouse testified that on the morn
ing of November J!9, as he was drlv
Ing Into Brunson, be met Williams,
near the Cossawhatcbie swamp, and
took him In his buggy. John Hil
liard swore that as he was driving a
two-horae wagon out from Brunson
on he Matthews Bluff road, he bass
ed Mary Harris near her house, walk
ing fast and looking back several
times, and that later after driving
two miles further down the road he
met Rouse and WllUgms in a baggy,
coming toward Brunson. In haasing
near he scene of the killing, he saw
s horse and baggy in the woods, and
It was between this place and Mary's
house that he saw her. Jphn Preach
Governor Hswley, of Idaho, Wed
nesday gave out at Boise s signed
statement, addressed to the people
of Idaho, in which he condentfif the
action of President Taft In granting
h pardon Wednesday to Clarence W.
Robnett, bookkeeper In the Lewis
ton National Bunk of Lewiston, Ida
ho. He was convicted of embezzling
‘funds of the bank and was sentenced
in the federal court at Idaho Springs
to ten years’ imprisonment. He nev
er entered upon service of his sen
tence.
‘‘I feel that the pardon of Robnett
is a fitting sequel to the proceedings
In the United States coart during the
last four years, while &e special as
sistants to the United States attorney
general have been usurping the func
tions of the United States attorney
general and his assistants and have
been running the cases In which the
United State* has been Interested
with a high hand, regardless of Jus-
tlce or decency,’’ the statement muluMtar.'Bam*/
forth
“I am not surprised at this psr-
’on. In fact, no act ever dons in
connection with the courts of Idaho
has brought Justice more into dis
repute and weakened the courts mors
in the estimation of our people. For
more than four years, in every im
portant case in which the United
States was interested, the regnlsr
prosecuting offlesrs bars been retired
and these special assistants to tbs at
torney general have been given full
control.
“Without the slightest interest In
our State, caring nothing for our
people, simply dsslroqs of establish
ing s reputation in the department
of justice, these special prosecutors
have done more to Injure Idaho and
retard Its development alnce the fall
cf 1 907 than all other causes com
bined.
“The Injustice of this action of
President Taft, inspired without
doubt by the special prosecutors, will
long rankle in the minda of our citi
zens and will inspire them with a
wholesome contempt tor such dis
graceful methods. '
“It Is probably unfair to severely
blame President Taft directly for this
unspeakable setien, os he undoubted
ly acted on the request of Attorney
General Wickershsm, who evidently
had been In collusion with his asso
ciates In charge of this prosecution.”
the leiw's
With the frank
statement that he belleyed in t
prisoner’# guilt* Governor Mann of
Virginia declined to grant n respite
to Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. eenvtaApd
tn Chesterfield County, fiaptmfier t,
of wife murdey. The
Governor to Interfere with the
tence, which the Supreme
dared on Monday to be plainly right,
means that Beattie will die !» the
electric chair at the State
Gary on Friday, November t4.
Being aware that a final
would be reecbed in 1
JUDGE 9PEER ON COTTON.
Tells Jury to Investigate Conditions
('nosing Urn Price.
Judge Emory Speer's charge to
the Federal grand Jury Wednesday at
Savannah was featured by his refer
ence to the present low price of cot
ton and the probable forces that are
alleged to be at work holding the
price down.
He read a newspaper Interview
with the Attorney General of the
waited expectantly for
from the Governor’s offles. His
hairqd father, utterly
it and strength, who
Monday that an appeal bad
nied, waa spared the ordeal of edb-
veylng a second ms—ga that aB
hope was lost.
Rev. Benjamin Denaia, as Epis
copal minister, who had imtarsadsd
In the young men's
quickly and quietly to t
Inform him that every
fort to oave him hod failed,
hoard tha snnouncemeat la
though ha Wfl0|
Later In the afternoon hla father,
brother end young eisted called to aa#
him.
T'nllke the Supreme
filed no writtsa opinion ta
a writ of orror. Governor
out a statement, in which ha'
that BsotftMfeii
“the purpose, If poootblo. of ax
the consequence# of a crime
he knows he is gnUty.”
The Governor also stated that
•ocallod i
not worthy of eonaidormtioa aa evi
dence. in * signed
Seattle's lawyers and the
Governor Mann sold:
“While I sympathise ve
foundly with tha father of H. C.
Beattie, Jr., sad would be glad 'ta
help him If I could do so with proper
regard for the public Intereste, I
cannot with any consideration far
those Interests interfere with the 4m
execution of the seateace of jlfc*
Court In the Beattie case.
I followed that ease during the
trial, and as its horrible facts ware
developed, regretted that a
cruel and motlcloea should h»«t
cur red within the confines ef‘
State. In the decision of every ques
tion which wee presented to the able
and Impartial Judge who praaldoi at
the trial, he was careful to give the
benefit of every reasonable doubt to
th*
sible prosecution by the governmont
of cotton "beers” holding the pHcs
of cottoh so low. | did not
The Judge charged that It would I
be the duty of the grand Jury to In
vestigate such conditions, if any are
found In the southern district of j
Georgia. He said that it would not
be necessary for any Instructions to
the
“““ * po -1 'J'SJLi «>,
oner could
trte the
elusion of evidence or la hla
tlons given to thb Jury, tvqshowa la
the refusal of the Supreaie Court 'of
Appeals to grant a wrU of error.
Thera is go question of the
esty and fairness of the Jnrors try-
h. r r ;,.4 Attorney M ""
eral before that body could proceed
in this district.
or any other evidence or
Uon brought to my
Sclent for that purpoee, nor do I
question the wisdom, 1 might odd.
the necessity of
In cases where human life heo 1
the buggy with Rouse.
After argument the Court allowed
the introduction in evidence of what
Mary Harris said to her sister when
she reached home Just after the al
leged killing, for the reason that the
girl should be permitted to explain
her conflicting statements.
Florrle Harris, the sister of Mary,
pHntnd'in"til,
29th of November Langford came to 1
her house in his buggy and entered
into conversation with Mary, who
was inthe yard cutting wood; that
soon after he left Mary followed him
Into the woods, and (hat in a short
time Mary hurried back to the cot
ton field and TaTd Yd the MHlh—f
“Florrie, Roy has killed Mr. Lang
ford.”
Soon after Langford had left the
house, stated the witness, and before
Mary returned, Tuten passed by, and
after a talk with Robert Harris, he
went in the same general direction, , n .. ... _. k .
Langford had taken. On crooe^x- CMe wo “7 , *
amination It was shown that Florrie r 0 d U, f
had said nothing about Mary’« »^te-
menf until a very abort time before J ^^g^e j LuevL
the trial. i *
At this point Mr. Davis annonnesd 1 W * y te *° Ch f™ 8 *?
that the tSate rested its case. After. ,
a conference of the defendant’s o-{ ** n '•
torneys, Mr. Welch stated to the L" 4 *™* of JjT
court that the defense would put up 7" ,T** a . .
no testimony, but would rely upon j rect WUBOUl lnl ® rier ® n **
the weakness of ths State’s case. It I • • • H
was agreed thgt each aide have three I
hours for argument. Col. W. S. Til- John Y.
linghsat made the first argument for Young, <
the defense followed by Solicitor Gnn- J Securities
ter for the State.
defence made by law
yers of character and ahilUy obtained
for H. C. Beattie, Jr., every advan
tage guaranteed by law to poraoM
charged with crime. ,
“That Beattie ts guilty of the wil
ful, deliberate and cruel murder,
his young wife I have not the
eat donbt, nor la It insisted that
shall be any greater reHef
than the commutation of his aememee •
to imprisonment for life.
I do not think the affldavtt* of «
On the contrary. I
this punishment hi
protection of society, and If on a j
I would not hesitate. In n proper (
to agree to a
for life.
To grant a
adequately, I
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>®te» 'j
in Saturday’s issue of Mr. Dun-
er stated that he saw Williams got In can’s
John Duncan for Clover—r.
Mr. John T. Duncan of Columbia
announces his candidacy for the gov
ernorship. 7 Tha announcement
Jijwdi
on the
to
company.
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