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The Barnwell VOL. BARNWELL. S. CL THURSDAY. AUGUST 8.] 912 GRACE TALKS AGAIN TELLS OF A CONVERSATION HE BAD WITH BIEASE. DISCUSSED INTERVIEW BIDS GRACE SPEAK GOVERNOR TELLS MAYOR TO SAY WHAT HE PLEASES. BRANDS THEM FALSE BLEASE DENIES ALL THE CHARG ES MADE BY GRACE Buys Blearo Told Him McDnffle Hampton Was Elected on Southern Railway Money, Which Was Han dled by Blease, Who Acted as Wet Norse to Hampton. In a statement given out by Mayor Grace he says I said 1 would prove Governor Blease was guilty of cor rupt connections with the southern Railway. This I have also from his own lips, and to the best of my recol lection, it was in the same conversa tion. We had been talking about the primary through which he had just passed and about the primary in gen eral and its operations in our State. I told him that he never could have been elected Governor but for the pri mary system. He admitted that, but replied very contemptuously about the primary In general.*’ Mayor Grace then continues, and In support of this second charge in •which he stated that he would prove Governor Blease guilty of corrupE connections with the Southern Rail way. Mayor Grace declares that Gov ernor Blease told him In the course of conversation that he. Blease, prac tically paid the campaign expenses of a candidate for railroad commission er (whose name Is given by Mayor Grace) out of monev furnished him by the Southern vouchers signed by the candidate In question for the amount. Commenting his statement Mayor Grace said: I want the people of South Carolina to consider this last statement with the greatest discrim ination of judgment. What does it mean’ The railroad commission is established for the purpose of stand ing between the people and the extor tion* of railroads. They are practi cally judicial officers and upon their decrees rest indefinitely mo Interest of the people than any oc caalonal decision Court In litigation ard individual railroad commlss cides, perhaps to the extent of mil- lions of dollars at one time and it | in vstlgating commit! can decide either for or against the: Here the Mayor quoted from the] people. jrecords "Governor Blease insinuated that, (Janie Rooster Incident, hla cousin. Ren Abney, has been us-; "As to his statement that I have ing Charlie Jones as a megaphone never been in the Mansion but one SAYS THE MAYOR LIED Blease Denounces Whatever State ment Grace May Make About Him a Lie in Advance. The following statement was issu ed by Governor Cole L. Blease after hu had read the story sent out from Glenn Springs, and In which Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, prom ised to make startling revelations concerning the Governor provided the latter would authorize him to tell anything he desired: "I notice this morning in The News and Courier, In large headlines, ‘Grace dares Blease to let him tell all,’ and, In the article purporting to be from John P. Grace, he says that there are things which I have told him in confidence which he would love to tell if I would release him. "I desire to state that I have never made a confident of John P. Grace In any manner, shape or form. I knew that he opposed me In the first pri mary two years ago, and I have never believed that he supported me or ev en voted for me in the second pri mary, and, as I have before stated, he was appointed upon my staff upon the request and upon the insistence of Mr. Rossler. 1 have never made any statement in my life to John P. Grace that I am not willing for the world to know, and he Is at liberty to tell anything he pleases I have ever said to him, but I hope that he will con fine himself to the truth. He has never been In the Mansion that I know of. but one time, and that was when he came to get a fine gamecock which I gave him, and to request me to appoint his brother to a position In case war came on with Mexico. I of man with whlte b , ood , n have never had any confidential talk! h)a velns Mr P McDuffle Hampton Mease Tells of His Political Rela tions With Grace and Possession of the Famous T. B. Letter and De nies Southern Railway Story and All the Others. Denying the charges made by May or John P. Grace of Charleston, at the Glenn Springs hotel this week, branding them as "infamously false and contemptible,” Governor Blease Thursday gave out a statement for the press. He says: "I have read the statement sent out by John P. Grace from Glenn Springs, S. C., which contains that foul and dirty lie, displayed in large headlines in The Columbia State—“A Negro Sto ry.” It is so infamously false and contemptible that I do not desire to lower myself as a gentleman to fur ther notice it, and am satisfied that all of the people of South Carolina will agree with me that nobody with any gentlemanly Instinct whatever would make such a rout and filthy statement. "As to hla statement about the Southern Railway,—that is absolute ly and maliciously false. I never made such a statement to him or any one else in my life, and when he speaks of the son of South Carolina's grand old hero, Wade Hampton, as a common drunkard, he speaks falsely and places himself beneath the notice WOUNDED IN SCUFFLE with him on any subject, have never end myself were on the campaign to- years ago: we were trusted him, because his eyes set too,„„,. .. , . ., . , , . . . 1 gether two vears ago -c -cio close together In hs head, and any:, •. . .. , * v, , „„ friends; I treated him kindly and po- man who Is anv judge of human na- „ t . . n Ige ture knows that that Is a fatal sign to veracitv or strict honesty; so he Ittely, as I treat all gentlemen The statement that I handled money for the Southern Railway and SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE GRACE TRIAL. ♦ Mrs. Grace Claims that Grace Waa Choking Her and the Pistol Went Off During Row. The Grace trial in Atlanta has tak en a sensational turn. Eugene H Grace was shot in a scuffle with his wife in their room during a quarrel over a sale of Mrs. Grace!* property, according to Attorney Branch, who outlined the defense's case in a state ment to the Jury. Be said Grace tried to shoot his wife after choking her and during the scuffle which followed the weapon discharged and he was shot. He said Grace made her leave home because he did not think he was badly hurt and feared he would be disgraced If it got out that he had been shot in a "nigger row” with his wire. At the opening of court, the de fense submitted a list of fourteen witnesses to be called. Mrs. Grace appeared pale and nervous. Grace had arrived in the court house, ready to be carried into the room the minute the accused, his wife, was called to the stand. Attorney Branch then addressed the Jury, outlining the defense’s case. He said they expect ed to show that "every fine of the State s case was rotten.” “The State’s theory that Grace was shot during the night or early In the morning is utterly untrue. We will prove that he was shot after eleven o'clock in the morning and that he was not doped when shot. We will prove that he got up that morning and wrote a check and that he talked over the phone as late as ten o'clock. "It was rediculous to say that Mrs. Grace married Grace and tried to get rid of him for his money. She had given him between $15,000 and $20.- uuO In a year and he waa going to Philadelphia to sell her property to get money for himself when the shooting occurred. "We are going to show the whole miserable facts. The truth is that DENIES THE CHARI STOTHART SATS HE WANTS FULL INVESTIGATION, AND DLEASE WILL GIVE IT POUCE SEIZE DOOZE WAS BEING HAULED TO ITS OWN ER WHEN CAPTURED. Chief Constable Expresses Willing ness to Accept Proposal That, If Any Two Men Whom Rhett Will Believe Will Swear They Gave Him Graft, the Governor Dismiss Him. B. H. Stothart, chief constable at Charleston, whom J. P. B. O’Neill, a liquor dealer, swore he paid “protec tlon” money to by slipping under the door, in a letter to Governor Blease that he is willing to accept the prop osition that if any two men can be found who swear that thojr gave him graft, and Ex-Mayor Rhett states that he will believe them on oath, the Governor dismiss him from office. He says that he will not tender his resignation, for that would be retir ing under fire; that he has done noth ing dishonorable. “The cowardly liars, who have attempted to Injure you over my shoulders, know It," says Stothart in hla letter to the Gov ernor. Replying, the Governor says that h“ believes that Stothart has done his duty in an honorable way, but that at the proper time he, the Governor, la going to lay the whole (natter be fore Solicitor Peurifoy, with Instruc tions to make a rigid investigation, and when the solicitor makes his re port, “I shall take such action as is best for the best Interest of the en forcement of the laws of the State,” concludes the Governor’s letter. Stothart’s letter to the Governor follows: State Detective Office. Ben H. Stothart, Chief, 69 Society Street, Charleston, S. C., July 26, 1912. BIT URGED BT BEOEI ROSENTRAL LATER. U at liberty to tevt anything he mu ‘"’- v 1 ”' l “'’ ™umrru nan«ay anu miserable tarts. The truth is that! Hon. Cole L. Blease. Governor of pleases, and when he belrhes it forth. 1 ’® ok vnuf ' ,,erR fro ™ Hampton for, Grace wanted to get his wife out of, South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.— If ^ |a the truth, F shall gladly admit ’ , san)0 ls as fnu a 0 88 wa8 eVPr * ,wn first. Mrs. Grace suspected that, Dear Sir; 1 notice that Judge Jones non i neir It: if it is false.' I shall so brand it. RI '° ken or wriftp n by ah uman being J he had an engagement with another, in his speeches, or what he calls re of the as I did his Charleston falsehoods, to ’ handlp<1 » dollar of woman. She accused him of It and speeches, is continuously referring to Fifty-Seven Barrels of Beer Was Shipped to the Same Man, Says the Drayman. The Greenville Piedmont says ten barrels, supposed to contain beer, seized from two dray wagons Wed nesday morning as they were being hauled to the store or John Quinn near Poe Mill. Policeman Fortner was standing on Main street and aaw the wagons loaded with beer pass. As the barrels looked suspicious Fortner stepped into the street and halted the drivers. Upon Investiga tion he found that the barrels con tained beer or some bottled drink Ho then directed the draymen to drive to the police station, where the stuff was unloaded aim put away In one of the rooms or the police de partment. By queaUojilnjf the tfraymen very closely Chief Holcombe learned that the said John Quinn had already re ceived ten barrels of the “drink”. This, it is understood, has been stor ed away at hla place of business near Poe Mill. It was also said by the draymen that seven barrels at the C. & W. C. freight depot awaiting to he hauled to John Quinn’s place. There were In all fifty-seven barrels shipped to Greenville. Chief Holcombe and hla men are the barrela and found that aome of the bottles were labeled “malt beer” while others had no label at all. Some of the beer waa brewed by the Firemont Brewing Company of Ohio. Chief Holcombs and hla men are row Investigating the case and It la likely that there will be new devel opment* by Saturday night. On account of lack of room In the sher iff’s office the barrels were stored at the police station. The seizure Wednesday morning Is the biggest that has been made by the police In many a day. In fact there has not been such a quantity of beer seized at one time thla year. >4- HAMITON DENIES CHARGE. a i J l Vi U i P v ll i i r o i. ' ' ii I ex i d’ 11 w ' i * n, i w q . IJll - - .( 14/ j - ~ r»-~ his face and In a meeting where he ‘ 1 ‘r n a wa ' ! n ? n< ' , n n ’^ Halu * aH R<>!ng take the power me and saying that 1 should be re- |> M Hro«d rommlseioner Hays He Can and 1 n a v tip v 0 r n p 11 v at*/»n a nniinr ,./ — „ 1.^.1 ui * ^ „ 11 1 * 1 by the Supreme wa 9 surrounded hv his police force an,i 1 ha '‘‘ ne ' 0r dP ! lve^ '‘ <, a d<,, ' ar of attorney she had given him to sell j moved from office. )n between railroads and manv of his'friends and sup- '.V an '' ,, '^ pr Ru "' nf [" onpy 10 Mr '"‘r pmpertv from Grace, when he be- I I beg to say that I cou sul^r When the Porters, and when hv sat silent and Hampton dunng the entire campatgn. „ n to scuffle with her to keep her.or any fair and just trlt .Ion decides it de grinned " , and 1 havo nf>vrr 80 ,,ta,ed ,0 an > from taking the document. He began and free Investigation of • ion decides, u ae- gnuiieu n.on in foet t did ir.<.n m,„ , ^.. ... ... ... Charleston. 1 have absolutely noth ing to conceal from the public and through which he could reach the time, that Is also a lie. and he knows Supreme Court. He has never prO-J'.t 1 do not myself know exactly how duced any proof of thta and It many times I was there, but several amounts to an Impeachment of our times, at any rate and particularly whole Judiciary If he Is a good wit- when he begged me to come to the ness upon that point about which, Governor's reception, w hich I d:q. •"-r” hp . , l PPS n . 0t r f 7\ f0 Vv’n " Thp inc ' id, ' nt of ffip c-ime rooster , :i | v rccei vcd'fi?. ?, votes in the entire anything of his own knowledge, hen j r ,. n;( . n iber well He said I came to county of Charleston rt from you tribunal a full „ „ .. all my acts man in fact, I did not even loan him swearing and threatened to kill her, as chief constable of the county of I any amount of money. j grab 1 ing up his revolver. Mrs. Grace On Grace’s SupjKirt. j grabbed Grace s hand in an effort to ' As to Grace's statement that he protect herself. In the scuffle the re-lfcave not received one cent or one dol- supported me; he told me himself ] w lver was discharged and Grace was| lar or any other amount from any that he did not support me in thejshot. Grace did not think he was nource or stfurcea for illegitimate fi st primary, and I was informed byj badly hurt and made his wife leave purpose*, or to attempt to perauade those who had chargr of affairs for the house without calling a physician, me in CharWston that he was against: He said he was afraid of the disgrace n e and for McLeod, but that he that would follow If It came out that ( 'aimed to he for me In the second he had been shot In a “nigger” row race. If he was for me and worked with his wife. So he made bis wife :<>r me in the first primary, he must promise that she would say nothing :t\e had very little Influence, for I, about it.” Refute It. a hundred times more ts he a good get a fine gamecock, which ),.• gav, witness In respect to a matter of cor- n)p alf , , , 0 Mm th aj) . , ruptlon In which he was the stake holders.” Mayor Grace declared that despite the fact that Blease had been elected Governor after a campaign In which he posed as the people's friend, the artl corporation man. and at the very time when he was making “his hypo critical speeches'' against corpora tions he waa dealing out money In driblets for the Southern Railway to a candidate so that the railway might point my brother to a post! on in case war came with Mexico in the first place I never knew he had a game cock until I got, upon one occasion, to the Mansion. It may haie been a' the time when I dpi go with my brother, who is a graduate of West Point, and who has e\<r since been a private citizen, stopped many times ‘ As to appointing him on mv staff, with him: that he boarded at the ho- have already said that that was 'el during the four sessions of the and a full Investigation of the charges 'tie at the request of Mr. Roeseler b gislature that he w as State Senator.! preferred against me, me or to control me from doing my full duty. You know the reports that I have given you any money are most ma licious and foul lies and no man can tell me so to my face. 1 am proud of my reputation and I am glad that my character is clean and 1 am Jealous of both, and for that reason at the proper time I shall demand a hearing “The charge in the allegation that I received any money from the South ern Railway through Governor Blease is false. 1 can refute thla charge at the proper time In the proper way. I have no further ataiement to make at this time," was the statement dic tated by Railroad Commlsaloner Mc Duffie Hampton Wednesday morning when asked It he had any comment to make on the charge of Mayor Grace that Governor Blease had told him that two yean ago he acted aa "wet nurse” for Mr. Hampton and paid his expens* s for running for railroad commissioner out of Southern Rail way money furnished him, and with vouchers. Mr. Hampton said he pre ferred to wait for Governor Blease’s CALLED THEM COWARDS Two Accomplices Claim That Ideal. Becker Instigated the Plot to der, Flans Being to KOI Ten Days Before Fatal * .f Actually Committed. J New York Police Lieut. Charted Becker, head of the “strong ana**^ 1 squad of gambling /aldera, who hi charged with instigating the murder of Herman Roaenthal. was Wednes day night further implicated in the plot to get rid of the gambler, when “Bald Jack” Rosa and “Bridge” her added another chapter to the** already amazing allegations. They told Diatrict Attorney Whit man that Roaenthal was to have been killed, at the Instigation of Becker, ten days before he actually met his fate, and that the ptot faded be cause the underworld thugs selected to do the murder lost their nerve at *ho last moment. The district attorney spent the greater part of the afternoon with Hose and Webber, In thetr cells at the West Hide police station, and nn- der the promise of leniency which the 1 rcsecutor has given them they talk- e 1 freely. They gave little addition al Information regarding the 000 fund which they alleged tdacnl resorts paid for police protection'!* thr city every year, but their story of the alleged anxiety of LlenL Becker because of Gambler Rosenthal's threatened exposure who ampltfted to the district attorney, and in the prosecutor’s opinion strengthened his evidence agalafet Becker. The "plot that fatted” was to hare been brought to its climax at the Garden restaurant on 61st street on Saturday night. July 6, when Rosen thal and his wife were dining there, according to the account told by to the district attorney as spoks for the two gamblers. With that and his wife at the time wan Jack Sullivan, the newsboy, now aa- d* r arrest for alleged complicity la the murder. answer to the Grace charges before I know and y°u know, and all the 1 rT ' ak ' n K #n y fur,her statement. Mr people of South Carolina know, that Hampton Is a son of the late Gen 1 dd not want Grace on the staff, but and that he always behaved himself wanted Mr R oeeeW Mr. Roeseler in a clean gentlemanly manner; that , . f ._ , ] insist, d that 1 appoint Grace, which there w as never any carousing or ( these charges are trumped up Juat at Hampton I did Lcneral drinking in his room at anythin time to endeavor to injure you ‘ As to showing him the T B ’ let-' t me. and that he and the other mem- 1 oolitirally. I am more than willjng 'er When It was given to me some hers of the hotel family looked upon weeks after my Inauguration, along, the governor as an esteemed kuest. a lieutenant in the I mted States with the other letters, I Immediately j “i Signed) R C. Wright, army, stationed in the Rhillipines. It looked it up in my safe and soon i “Sworn to before me this 3 1st day was a perfectly natural request for t i hereafter transferred It to a strong of .Inly, A D. 1912. 1 me to make of one under such deep '„, x get at least one man on The ra " roa( l obligations to me and fur one to where commission. I w pom I am most tenderly attached “Perhaps.’’ said Mayor Grace, “he can tell whether or not he la now do ing the same thing In Ms campaign so that they might get another. IMscuskv"* Blease’s Interview. "And now as to Blease'* character istic Interview. I am very glad that but it was not to get a position in the army. Of my own belief that Please would give any preference to him. when It was the easiest thing in the world for Blease to do it. if he would designate him under some Act which permitted him to n the Palmetto National Hank, it is now, along with the oth-1 < rs and has been except when It was! presented to the grand jury, and dis pensary commission, and shown for publication. I never consulted Grace; about It or mentioned It to him In myj Pa ] who. btdnc duly sworn, says that life, and this is but another one of, during f a ]] 0 f 1910 he attended the false fabrications of a diseased g 0 | p [, Please for three or four '(Signed) Fred H. I>ominick (I.. S.) Notary Public for South Carolina. Inauguration Illness. 'State of South Carolina—County of New berry 'Personally came Dr. W. G. Hous- he has spoken at such length and Federal Governmen that he has again lost his head be cause he Invariably tells lies when he does so, and lie* that are *0 easily detected. I will take It up seratlm. “He says, speaking of me. 'I know that he opposed me In the first pri mary two vears ago and I have never believed that he supported me or even voted for me In the second ' This, of course, he knows Is a lie, and fortunately for me the proof Is In writing. Not only did I support him before and In the primary, hut I wrote the strongest kind of editor ials. which were sent to him and cop ied In some of the few State newspa pers that were supporting him, If I mistake not. In the Newberry Herald and New* for one. "I am at Glenn Springs and have no accesa to my letter flies, but I re member distinctly receiving a very appreciative letter from him thank ing me most cordially for this support, that Is, in the second primary. More over, everybody In Charleston knows, as they knew at the time, that it was practically through me that tn the first primary he got the votes he did get. I had been entreated to support McLeod and In supporting Blease I went hostile to overwhelming senti ment of Charleston and all its politi cal leaders. Including his friend. Capt. Martin, who supported McLeod, as he well knows. I was severely blamed by the people of Charleston for this and It operated seriously against me In my subsequent cam paign for Mayor. “But so clearly did Blease himself understand the situation that imme diately after the first primary he sent a man to Charleston, and it was through him, acting In direct commu nication by telephone with Blease from my office, that all arrangements and conditions for the second pri mary were made and I am satisfied that when I go to Charleston I will be able to dig up the original sten ographic notes of my stenographer taken down over long distance in re spect to what Blease would do for Charleston If we elected him. and which I st once made the basis for the campaign against Festherstone. Tn fact, when I g ft t hack to Charles ton I will make this lie of his perfect ly clear. “I have told before aboot my ap pointment upon his staff and I went tot® It In detail qndtr oath before the designate to the m (nd. malicious heart or a mind dl- WPPkg the 8ald Blease being very 111 t the officers m , seased from vindictiveness and a de-] with cholecystitis and jaundice: that in the latter part of December, 1910, the said Please had a relapse and was desperately ill and that this de ponent was very uneasy about him; that Please was not allowed to leave his room, but was confined to his charge of the South Carolina regi-isire to do Injury to those It hates merits. ! He has never seen the 'T. B.' letter “If it was on this occasion, and I while It has been In my possession, am almost sure that It was not. but! and I do not believe he has ever seen on whatever occasion it was. i recall the original at all. that when 1 was about to go Blease] Denies “Carouse". called me and asked me if I liked | << to r h ar p e that there was bed; that on the night before his in- game chickens. I told him that I did rarong j n g at Wright's hotel the night nuguration as governor, tnls depon- very much. He said, Well, I have a'j )P f orp inauguration, I herewith ] ent, assisted by some others, carried gamecock that was sent mo a su b ra it statements which I think will; the said Blease from his bed room days a ^’ j * ,y a J nan >i w _ pa > d ^ p i ptove to the public conclusively that ] to the depot, on a cot, at Newberry— avlng been sent In ad- Pullman conductor to ^lUAOtUlAitJ^UUIlLVUULIUOlvctlJ lUPl.lUlIlfUt'pUl.L was Rending; me the best cock | S a deliberate and designing; falsi-1 a telegram hi Fouth Carolina. I don t want it andi an( j (he proof of this is ad-1 vance to the T 111.— I* T ♦ w Vs 1 f «■* /1 _ I will give it to you.’ I took it and have it yet. The T. H. letter. ‘‘But in connection with this visit, if it was this visit, when my brother was there with me, 1 distinctly re member this incident and it seems to me to throw a flood of light on whether or not he trusted me. About this time there was a great deal be ing saidfl about the dispensary and Please's corrupt connections with It, particularly the charges made by Fel der. He said to me, ‘I have some thing In my pocket that I want to show you and I want to get your judgement upon It,’ he went down In his coat pocket and pulled out a let ter and handed it to me and said, 'Read this.’ It was none other than the famous letter signed T. R., alleg ed to have been written by Felder to Hub Evans, In which it was proposen that Evans and Felder organize some gigantic graft scheme In connection with the old State dispensary. As I read this letter I recalled a scene at Wright's Hotel the night before the Inauguration. It was the first Insight I ever had Into Blease and the atmos phere in which he moved, and I think I can say that without exception It Is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It was a grand carousal, and I remember that Hub Evans said to me, ‘John, I am going to call on you some day, because,’ he said, ‘you are Just the man I want.’ He then went at length into his approval of the way In which I had won the Morde- rai-O’Nelll will cate, which waa at that time stirring through the news papers. He said, ‘I am going to want you to take charge of all this dispen sary mesa, and in that connection 1 to accept your proposition that if any two men be found who will swear that they gave me graft, who Ex- Mayor Rhett will state mat he be lieves on their oaths, that you Im mediately dismiss me from office. I shall not tender you my resigna tion. because that would be consider ed retiring under fire. I have done nothing dishonorable and the cow ardly liars, who have attempted to injure you over my snoulder, know it. Yours respectfully, (Signed) Ren H. Stothart. The Governor replied as follows: July 30. 1912. Mr. B. H. Stothart. 69 Society St , Charleston, S. C.—Dear Sir: Your letter of July 26 received. The same would have been answered earlier, hut, as you know, I have been out on the campaign and have been very busy. 1 have never believed yon dishon est, but, on the contrary, believe that yoi have always done your duty and In an honorable way. I think the proposition is entirely fair. At the proper time I shall turn H*- was elected a member of the railroad cnmtnlaalon two years ago for a term of six years. THOUGHT DEAD, TURNS UP. ditional evidence of his lies in the other Instances. “State of South Carolina—County of Richland. "Personally came Robert Courtney Wright, who. being duly sworn, saye that for ten years he was chief clerk and manager of Wright’s hotel In the city of Columbia: that he remembers very well 'ndeed the night before the Inauguration of Governor Cole L. Please; that the said Blease arrived at the hotel about 11 o’clock at night, accompanied by his physician. Dr. W. G Houseal, and members of his fam ily; that the said Blease was a des perately 111 man and was taken Imme diately to his room In the hotel and put In bed, and that only a very few of his most Intimate friends were’al- lowed to enter his room; that every- have a berth made down and ready when he reached Newberry; that the said Blease was Immediately put to bed in said car; that we arrived In the city of Columbia about 11 o'clock: that Blease was taken from the car and carried to Wright's hotel, whsre he was Immediately put in bed and only a very few of the members of his family and hi* closest friends allowed to enter his room; that this deponent was so uneasy about Blease's condition that he persuaded •Mrs. Blease to occupy an adjoining room with some of the other lady members of Blease’s family, and thla deponent remained In the room, dur ing the entire night, keeping watch over Blease, as he considered his con dition very serious; that he has no ticed a statement made by John P. thing was kept quiet and Dr. Hous- Grace, published In The Columbia eal, being very apprenenslve of said'State of July 31, 1912, column 3, p. Please’s condition,- remained In the 3, in which he says: room with him during the entire night; that he has noticed In this morning’s State the following state ment made by John k. Grace: “ T recall a scene at Wright’s hotel the night before his inauguration. It was the first real insight I had ever had Into Blease and the atmosphere In which he moved, and I think I can say that without exception it Is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It was a grand carouse.’ "The above statement is absolutely and Infamously ^false. On the con trary, the room where the aald Bleaee was, was guarded in order that no noise might be made, for we all fear- Georgia Man Missing Ten Years Found in fU. Loais. Clyde M. Sims, who disappeared from Charlotte, Ga , ten year* ago, and whose wife sued In Louisville for $.'i.OOO Insurance, under the Impres sion that he was dead, waa found at St. Louis Wednesday. He admitted his Identity, and said that he bad gone under the name of C. E. Von Wormer. Sims declared he had left his home because of a family* dis grace. His wife was in a detective's office when Sims was brought In. They greeted each other cooly. Sims expressed the hope that, hla wife would take him back. DIED IN A MINE RIOT. this entire matter over to Solicitor Pemrlfoy and ask him to make a thor ough Investigation thereof, with In structions to prosecute any violations o' the law, whether it be those who f.-xe bribed or attempted to bribe you, or you if you have accepted bribes. After Solicitor Peurifoy makes his report to me I shall take such action as is best for the best In terest of the enforcement of the laws of this State. Very respectfully, (Signed) Cole L. Blease, Gov. W. F. Caldwell. Body Brought to His Home at Cross Hill for Burial. Augustus Pinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Pinson of Gross Hill, was killed July 26 while trying to quell a riot among miners near Muckier, W. Va. His remains were brought to Cross Hill Tuesday and Interred In Old Baptist cemetery, Rev. J. A. Martin officiating. Little is known af Cross Hill of the details of"the-* deplorable affair. Mr. Pinson was 29 years of age and was in the em ploy of the Baldwin Detective agency at Muckier. He was well known there aud numbered his friends as many. “ ‘I recall a scene at Wright’s ho tel the night before his inauguration It was the first real Insight I had ever had into Blease and the atmosphere In which Ke moved, and I think I can say that without exception it is about the nastiest recollection of my life. It w as a grand carouaA^ “The above statement is absolutely false. There was absolutely no whis key drank by Governor Blease for some weeks before his inauguration and certainly none tke night before or the day of the Inauguration. There waa certainly no carouae in hia room, for those who entered the room were very quiet and walked on tiptoes and ed that the result of his trip from his; were very apprehensive about the home in Newberry would prove fatal.; condition of Blease. If mere was any There was no carouse in the hotel ( carouse around the said hotel daring _ during that night; if there waa it waa the night, the aaid Blease had abao- want to tail you one thing, I have one'not known to this deponent, and most lutely no connection whatever with letter that is going to put Felder out of buslnesa.’ “The first thing that occurred to (Continued on last page.) assuredly there was none in Blease’s It. and knew absolutely nothing about room, or in any in which hs took part or knew anything about Deponent further anyt that Governor Bleaas, aa it, and I certainly knew nothing abont it; that on the next morning, this deponent went with the governor elect to the State hous*. assisting him along, and stayed rlgnt by his side during the entire ceremonies of the Inauguration, and that this deponent knows that the said Blease did not take a drink of whiskey, and had not taken one, as above stated, for sev eral weeks before; that Immediately after said ceremonies deponent ac companied the governor to Wright’s hotel where he was placed in bed, and where he was when I left him, Just in time to take the C. N. & L. 5 p. m. train, and I directed that he remain in bed until next morning and he then taken to the governor’s man sion. "(Signed) W. O. Houseal, M. D. “Sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1912. “(Signed) W. B. Wallace (L.S.) (Seal) Notary rublic for S. C.” “If Grace wrote any editorials In my behalf before the first primary, I have never seen them and I defy him to produce a single one from the file# of his paper—the only ones eter hav ing been brought to my attention be ing his articles in the two issues of his paper between the primaries. “As to hla support of me in the second primary and the condition thereof, hit statements are wilful and malicious Use. which ekn he testified to hr Mr. L. 0. A. Boeeeler, Grace’s mayorality campaign manager, and others, If necessary. "As to the charge of his having had a certain conversation with me over the phone. In which he says he had his stenographer sitting by his side and taking It down, I desire to say that this is somewhat Jitrange. for when he went to talk todne, if he was the friend he says he was, that he would have a stenographer to sit right at his end of the line ready to take down every word said. 1 re member of having no conversation with him over the telephone, but whether I did or not, he and hia sten ographer could fix up any kind of a Tie and say that that was my state ment. I presume he worked this up In his mind after he read of the dic tagraph. Any one could elt down In his office, take a stenographer, pick up a phone, and say I am now talking to so and eo and have the stenogra pher take down a supposed converts- tlon, and, of course, Grace it low enough down to do that, and I have no doubt that he could employ some stenographer who would be equally as low as himself. “I am very sorry to have to pay any attention to this fellow’s filthy Insln- ustions, and would not do ao, hut for fear aome might misconstrue jaj ah- : solutely Ignoring him.** Rose himself engineered the “job” and brought to the restaurant “a fleet of thugs” who were to do the actual shooting, according to Rose. Two of the hired assassins were “Gyp the Blood” and “Lefty" Loots, who are wanted by the police as two of the men who actually snot Rosenthal ten days later In front of the Hotel Metropole. Becker at that llase wee down-town. Rose aald. watting for the murder plot to be conenauanted. “Becker had talked with me every day.” Roae said. “He Kept saying to me, ‘why don’t you kill this fellow off?’ Rosenthal would have killed off that night If the bench not lost their nerve. They got the notion after they reached the reetae- rant that a detective was onto them. After giving up the sssssslnetion we went to ‘Rridgl#’ Webber’s place and there we met Becker. He denouno- ed u* all up and down. " Yon are a lot of cowards,’ he •aid. Til have to do It myself.* “ Roaenthal, it was recalled by the district attorney, when he heard the story, had but a few days before this made hla first complaint against Becker, charging that the police lieu tenant was partner In hla gambling house. Although Recker, still in the Tombs, has thus far refused to make any statement further than that he Is innocent and that his plight Is the result of a "frame up” on the part of his enemies In the gamhtiag fraternity, Rose predicted to the dis trict attorney that the police nonten ant eventually would break down. The district attorney expressed confidence that If Becker would talk frankly hls evidence would open the door to the larger phase of the Ros enthal case; namely, the general ex* tent of the police graft system. In which Roae has declared several high police official* are Involved. So far Mr. Whitman hu obtalnedA little real evidence agslnat the men mentioned by Rose u heads of the “four graft bureaus”, through which Rose alleged that about $600,000 each was collected aa vie* protection, money and distributed. The district attorney Is not relying solely upon Rose’s story. He expects to call up before the grand Jury scores of wit nesses who may have knowledge of graft relations between the gamblers and the police. Bridgle Webber told the district attorney that his own payment to Becker for police protection of hls gambling house was $200 a month, hut that this rate wu a small one compared with the sums levied open larger establishments. He and Rose both said that In Man hattan alone there were probably n hundred gambling house ptylng tri bute to the police and that the tqUl of $2,400,000 paid annually wu a conservative figure. Webber Inci dentally said that Becker wu present w hen the money was produced which went to thugs hired to kill Rosen thal. Soon after the mnrder, he said, Becker met Roee and Webber In front of the Murray Hill baths snd( said: ' “Nojv, Bridgle, you will hare to give them boys some money to get out of town. I’ll fix It op with yon later.” Webber said that he then handed $1,000 In large bills to ROM, who lat er transferred It to Sam ft.* - ■* on that afternoon Scheppe _ “Gyp, the Blood," and "Lefty" Lento in front of the Murray “““ corrobratlon of thle ueertloi ber’s, the district attorney names of two witnesses, Stth jk man. who. he Mid, wonld they uw to Becker tn baths