The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 10, 1913, Image 4
STOLEN BY GYPSIES
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BOV BURGLARS SHOT
HATE BATTLE WITH POLICEMEN
STATIONED IN CELLAR
FIFTEEN SHOTS FIRED
HI T 18 FINALLY RECOVERED BY
HER MOTHER.
Greenville Officers of the Lmw After
Spending Six Nights 'Waiting for
Burglary Are Repaid for their Vig
ilance.—One of the Roys Son of a
Prominent Family.
A special dispatch from Greenville
to The News an$ Courier says upon
breaking into the basement of a fash
ionable dry goods store, shortly after
three o’clock Sunday morning, Leon
ard Smith, seventeen y^ars old, son
of a prominent and wealthy family,
an dhis twenty-year-old companion,
Rowley Martin, engaged in a pistol
battle with three policemen, who had
concealed themselves in the store in
anticipation of a burglary, with the
result that the young men were shot
to death and one of the policemen
s> \< r< ly wounded.
With five bullets in his holy and
a wound ihrout-Mi his heart, young
110tli ran u" i (tight of stairs to the
•.>!: 1 floor. v hen- two employees of
t' e * ■ i, im ; y itioiK.d themselves in
waiting. He w as met at the top step
i ' <> . • i f t' i lerks, who shouted to
him not to tire again, and passing on
by. tearing a mask from his face with
one hand and gripping his pistol with
the other, sank to the floor and ex
pired.
Martin ran to the rear of the base
ment. with a bullet hole through his
head and another in his hand, and
cencealed himself In a closet A
poluema nfollowed closely upon him
and pulled him out. a’ the same time
tearing a m»*tt from the tad‘» fare
Mar’ln w is i laced in the police am-
The Kidnapped Girl Did Not Know
Her Mother, But Wm GUd to
Leave Life of Gypny.
An Atlanta dispatch says Mary
Gretchen Small, ten-year-old daugh
ter of Hagar, nestled in the arms of
the mother who has sought her three
years and lisped her renunciation of
the gypsy life she has been leading
ever since she was able to walk.
Mary Gretchen was recovered from a
band of gypsies at Elberton, Ga.,
after a search that took her mother,
who used to be a gypsy herself, Into
nearly eve;-y corner of the country.
United and happy, Mrs. Small and
her beautiful little daughter stopped
over In Atlanta to break the long
journey back to Auburn, N. Y. “I
knew you were looking for me, moth
er,” said Mary Gretchen. "Every
where we have been I have looked
from the wagon Into the strange faces
along the street, and something told
me you were not far away. I would
ask the fortune teller if mother
would ever come for me, and when
TRAILED BETRAVER
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VBO FOOLED HIS SISTER IN A
HRCI MARRIAGE
FOUND AND KILLED HIM
FREAKS OF TORNADO
ONE MAN SHOT INTO MIDST OF
DINNER TARTY.
The Avenger Was Held in Jail Five
Years Before He Was Acquitted by
a Jury and Is Now Bendy for
Death in Kansas City Hospital.
W. Temple Linson Is dying in a
Kansas City hospital. Before he dies
he wants to tell his story once more
to the world. It will relieve his mind
and put him right before his fellow
men. He is sixty-five years old and
suffering from tuberculosis. Physi
cians at the hospital say he will live
less than a month. Here Is his story
as he tells it:
"It was May 10, 1869, (he has
tcld the story so many times to the
nurses at the hospital that he remem
bers the dates perfectly), when I rah
(be first locomotive of the Union Pa-
ARMY OFTHE LORD
SIX HUNDRED FOLLOV SDNDAT
SCHOOL BANNER
, , , i cific out of Denver. The road had
they (old me you woubl never come . jUSt bp(>n cornpletpd that far W est. 1
j had been in the employ of the Union
i Pacific longer than any other em-
; I loyee. Tluy trusted me with their
, first big engine. I worked for them
I knew they were telling stories.’
Mrs. Small was the happiest moth
er in th“ land. Still clinging to the
child as If she feared the little one
might he again taken from her. she
told of her plans for the future and
of the happy meeting when little
Gretchen was restored to her.
"When we get back I am going to
work very nard to give Gr-nrhsn a
good education. You see, I have no
forty years.
"I was engaged to marry n young
woman who lived in Centralja, 111.
My home was In Macon, Mo , where I
l.ved with my sister, Frances. Iky
speculation 1 made a lot of money
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, and determined to give my sister the
money now to amount to anything J education rajr parent8 had b ^ n un .
and will have to work for everything ab , p tQ afford for her ^ ^ her
I get,'’ she said "nut I don't mind
working now and nothing will be im
possible
"Gretchen will be a great lad) I
am going to sand her to school, give
her a good educa’ion and mavbe send
her to roll-ge She in ever>thlng I
l ave :t\ the worll and all I \wll have
to work for
■ one w as very unhappy
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"After my •later, Frances went
to arhool she would writ® me every
week One day the lettera stopped
I wonderel. but thinking she wan
busy with her school work, waited
patiently Two fears passed and I
did not hear from her I d c.ded to
go to the school and find in' s'ster
"When I arrived at the * | > I the
. • s * r ’ i > ’ o r toll n i e t h 11 K r ,v i.
t amed a r h tt. m .tu 1 I.a 1
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had
Only One Negro Out of Twenty-Six
in * Pool Room That Wm Wreck
ed Escaped Death.
Among the freak tragedies of the
tornado that wrecked a large portion
of Omaha, none is more remarkable
than that of the Idlewlld pool hall.
Twenty-fourth and Lake streets.
Twenty-five negroes were killed. The
story is told by the single survivor,
John Brown, who was dug from the
wreckage twelve hours after the de
molition of the building.
"Eight men were playing pool at
one table," Brown says. "The rest
of us were standing about watching.
Without a moment’s warning a ter
rific roar swept down through the
room. The roof suddenly was lifted
from above. The pool table shot
straight upward, many feet In the air.
All of us still were unhurt."
Insane with fear but wondering the
negroes rushed beneath the open roof
and gazed upward. Then the heavy
pool table and pieces of the roof shot
down. All were caught. Drown was
dug from the wreckage twelve hours
later, uninjured.
An Easter dinner party was in pro
gress at the home of Benjamin Ed-
holm, 1*936 Charles street. Nine per
sons were at the table when the tor
nado struck. Mrs. Edholm ran to
the window and closed the shades.
A minute later a human seream
mingled with the shriek of the blast
Straight through the dining room
window and onto the table shot the
nude body of a man. Idaho* crashed
to the floor Soon the human me
teorite Mtt up very much wllve and
hanttly converted the table -'loth Into
a toga A pair of truaers were lent
to him and Yte raced to his home,
without leaving his name.
Muddled with his family In the
basement of bis home at 3229 Cum
min g s’reet. Prof K W Hunt saw
tin 1 house split asunder \\ hen he r**- I
(o'ere.) consi lois v r.ehH beneath th*
» r< i kuge he dt-cov ered that a last
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SnrCt was,, mployed bv the Arm until
a short while ago. and the witnesses
sfe’ed. siippicton polnt*'d to him For
five ii’chts one of the policemen con
cealed himself in the basement of the
store, he said, and each night o':>#erv-
ed a party or parties come to the rear
window* of the basement and flash a
pocket lantern.
I ast n'ght, he testified, three po-
IT-emen w.-re stationed in the base
ment shortly before midnight. Tt had
been planned to have two members
of the firm stationed on the second
fioor of the store, in charge of the
s'.vGrh governing the electric lighting
svstoin. The three policemen con
cealed themselves behind a counter
in th-’ har.-ment and waited.
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the testimony ran, the policemen ob
served a pocket lantern being flashed
on the outside of the rear basement
windows. They waited and present
ly an arm was slipped through a
broken glass, set In f r ont of the bar
red window sash, and the padlock
holding down the sash unlocked.
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Democrat* Now.
A Washington diKpa'ch to .The
News and Courier sa>s having seen
the announcement that the treasury
department will not make any ap
pointment In the custom service until
July 1, In order that vacancie* oc-
turlng in the meanwhile may be sav-
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fore They Bepin to Raiae Bkg
Families.
Juat as soon aa the farmer finds
that some pest Is destroying or dam
aging his crops he begin* nt onea to
try some means of destroying that
pest. He makes this attempt because
he can see with his own eyes that his
crop will be cut short or even de
stroyed if the destroyer is allowed to
go on unchecked.
When it comes to some danger,
the result of which cannot be seen,
we often let it alone, simply because
we cannot see the damage done. You
remember that for a long time it
was not known that malaria is con
tracted only through the bite of n
certain kind of mosquito. When this
fact was established, then we began
to study about the mosquito, which
were malarial and which were harm
less, and the conditions under which
the malarial kind breed.
It has been proved, also, that yel
low fever is not contracted by con
tact with yellow fever patients, neith
er is it carried in clothing; bnt that
a mosquito which abounds in yellow
fever legioss conveys It by its bite.
Ttie danger of the common house
fly to mankind was unsuspected un
til about twenty years ago. Later,
during the Spanish war, it was clear
ly shown that the cause of the spread
of typhoid fever, which killed so
many of our men, was due to flies.
This Insect is so active in the spread
of typhoid fever that It is often spok
en of as the "typhoid fly”.
The fly is responsible for dtseams
which can be spread by the taking la
of germs with food or drink. Soma
of these germs are dysentery, chol
era. typhoid fever and tuberculosis.
During the civil war there was aa
outbreak of gangrene among eome of
the wounded tn s hospital. The phy
sicians used, as they thought, all pre
cautions to prevent It* spread, but
(’.«■> were not effectual
In recent years tt Is known that
tbIs g inkrent* was sprea 1 by the flies.
tb« ' iigbting ipon the,sore, getting
It-' poison upon their feet, then flying
t - in.- »(.uiuj of another patient,
b. r»- dr;-oi.lt the germs from ths
Kant. r. nous pattrnt
\ 1 he hoed of a fly ts covered with
atifT bristle* like a head of ripened
■wheat the foot ends In a pair of
pinchers, the mouth and bead being
rough When you push a atlC-bria-
^ tle.1 broow in a pile of refuse
then lift It. some of the dirt
too That la just the way ths fly
does, when tt Jsavss tbs refuse soma
| filth sticks to tts body Set the broom
I down and tbs dirt shakes off. Jest
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d.»< t.arvee. get the germs on their
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l-nuit; room, rrnal over your food or
Sr nday School Convention in Sumter
Was a Grand Success.—Rev. YV*. I.
Herbert Chosen President.—Meet
ing in 1914 Will be Held in Ander
son.
A dispatch from Sumter to Thu
State says every feature of a beauti
ful spring day seemed to lend itself
to contribute towards the success of
the men’s parade—the big feature
cf the 3 6th annual Sunday School as
sociation convention, which comes to
a close with this evening’s ses
sion. The parade was composed of
it tn and boys who stood for the Bible
and believed in the Bible.
At four o'clock the parade formed
itt the intersection of Main street and
Oakland avenue. It was headed by
a squad of mounted police and the
Sumter band: the leaders were R. I.
.Manning, S. H. Edmunds, C. C.
Brown, Bartow Walsh and .1. B. Fras
er. Some 600 men marched tii it. Of
these special train., had brought dele
gations from Ddshopvllle, Darlington
and Columbia. The part of the line
ti at attracted most attention was
that given over to the boy scouts, the
troops from Columbia and Sumter
marching and making a fine appear
ance.
The line of march was through six
blocks of Main street to Calhoun and
these were thronged with onlookers,
all doors and windows being full and
tre sides of the streets lined with au
tomobiles Every street in town was
closed during the hour which the pa
rade consumed Through Calhoun
s t r**et to Washington and down
Washington to th-- monument souare
marched the Bn.* and halted there in
front <>f the handstand from wh!< - h it
a is reviewed by Bresl '.-nt Green Mr
I'.-arce and I r Mi’, h. 1!
After ’.'t- hand bad p!.«\.-d Dr
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'.’ate .1 ■ s d » u r ' - u n -1 <-d t- y tx -is of
,!■ ght »<ar',ef verVtia. an 1 every
! ere o.ik t . It) the lira green of
t • !r fr- «h 'oliag.
I Dr M ’.-b. ll spoke of the armies
So’i'h G-»roUna had sen’ oot In Vhe
pa "t and t h oti * h t that this a: my of
Sun lay »( 't>. 1 » rk.-rs was »n Im
portari’ in ’he trust that It must ful
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hark to the states So did I Me was
three weeks ahead of me now Down
to New Zealand and Australia 1 trail
ed him Me whs gaining ail the
while Then I los* him I came hack
to California with half of my fortune
•pent.
"It w-as Christmas night, tki»7 j
was dining at the Yosemlte hotel at
ed for deputies tn the service whose Srorktoni rol Hp ram „ ln j Bhot
poHltlona are to be abolished by the fl vp times and killed him
c: nsolldation then to become effee-
tne James F Byrnes, of the Second
South Carolina district, will at once
take up the subject with Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo, by way of pro
test.
.Mr. Byrnes said Friday that he
does not think that Robert Smalls,
the colored colb-ctor at Beaufort,
whose term has expired, should be
allowed to hold on until the first of
July, or that any special trouble
should be taken to preserve the offl
"I spent the rest of my fortune,
$1 '.0,000, for my trial Toe trial
lasted six years. Four hung juries
and the fifth acquitted me in 1902."
•»<-n*t<>r Tillmwn R«-<urn* f<>r lie-
trs S*^»*i»»n.
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CAl SE DEATH OF THREE.
Religious Differences Cause ^-af
Triple Tragedy.
Angered because his only daugh
ter. Katherine, is to marry a man of
rial status of his colored subordin- different religion. George Brown, Sec-
ates. The Second district Represent- rf t*ry of the \\ estern Ivouisiana
alive will urge that a Democrat be ^ * an ^ er8 ^ a9 ° c ' at ‘ on ^ ac ^ e ^ or ’•
appointed collector at Beaufort for F ’^°t nnd ki’Ied her In bed recently,
the period between now and .Inly 1. j ordered the servants from the
house and blew out his own brains.
Her fiancee wss Frank Ford.
A dispatch from Motil, Miss., says
when Frank Ford, a wealthy young
The question of the date of ap
pointment in the customs service af
fects Charleston also, if the apponit-
ments are all to be held up until the
There whs a slight commotion as j consolidation goes into effect, then planter, received a telegram announc-
tlie boys slipped through the window
and into the basement. As soon as
they had entered, the witnesses tes
tified, the boys placed masks over
their faces, took out their pistols and
held them in shooting position, and
flashing their pocket lanterns, ad
vanced toward the staircase leading
to the second floor. As they drew
opposite the counter behind which
the policemen were concealed, Police
man Mayfield, said witnesses, arose
and called to the boys, "Hold up your
hands, boys.”
Without answering the challenge,
it was testified, the boys opened fire
first. They fired two shots, it was
testified, and then the three police
men, reallring their danger, opened
fire. A total of fifteen shots were fir
ed. An examination of the revolvers
the now Congressmen from the First ing the murder of his fiancee, Kather-
district, whoever he may be, will ine Brown, he went to his room and
have the naming of the collector at fired a fatal bullet through his brain.
Charleston. If the appointment is He left a note "Can’t live without
made before that Congressman quail- her. Goodbye.” He recently inherit-
fies, the endorsement of the Senators ed two hundred thousand dollars,
from South Carolina may control,
and it is understood that they are for
Capt. W. J. Storen.
Queor Place for Still.
Col. W. G. Beach and E. Elmore,
Secret Service men from Philadel
phia, discovered a full fledged distil
lery in the basement of & hotel at
Scranton, Pa. The paraphernalia was
confiscated.
men twelves times together.
During the shooting the clerks up
stairs, hearing the terrible commo-
showed that young Smith had fired ; tion, threw the electric switch and more than that wtU
Th*‘ Columbia corr.*fcp<ind**nt of
Tin- N. wh and Couru-r Hay* S»-nati)r
r»ilrnan ‘•p*‘rtt Thurada) In the rity on
h ih way tr> Wauhlngton Me in look
ing remarkably well and Ih getting
about without the aid of a stick and
his mental at’itude and machinery
are working with much more ease
than ever
Me expects the session of Congress
to last at least until August, per
haps longer Me hopes the Congress
will deal with the money questions
as well as with the tariff, and says
that the Democrats have a great deal
to do in undoing all the "devilment"
of the Republicans for the past fifty
years.
Senator Tillman now thinks it was
a Providential act that kept him from
the chairmanship of the appropria
tions committee, as that might have
involved more work than he was able
to stand, and he is anxious to give
attention to the modelling of the new
Democratic plans and particularly
anxious to take a part in South Caro
lina politics.
They Stole the Beer.
Out of the ninety-six barrels of
alleged beer that were confiscated by
the Greenville city police last fall
eighty-three were found missing
Thursday morning when an investiga
tion was made of the warehouse in
which the beer Was stored.
Prizes for Twins and Triplets.
Attorney Charles S. Sparks, of Cin
cinnati, O., announces that he will be
the patron of all twins and thiplets
born in Hamilton county. For each
twin born he offers $5; for each
triplet RIO. Twins and triplets must
live three weeks before they will be
entitled to a prize. • ■ -
Over a Million Given.
Friday’s contributions to the Red
Cross relief fund brought the amount
over the mllUon-doljar-mark. Much
needed for the
once, Marti ntwlce and the police- j the basement waa flooded with light, flood sufferer*.
Drowned in Escaping.
At South Dayton, O., Chas. S. Por
ter, his wife and six children were
drowned while attempting to escape
from their wrecked home. The wagon
In which they were being conveyed
to a place of safety overturned and
all lost their lives.
Court Justice Rilled.
Justice Henry Btschoff, of the New
York State Supreme Court, plunged
eleven stories down an elevator shaft
to his death Friday afternoon in the
Emigrant Saving* Bank building,
where he had office* He waa near
sighted.
'!>■ f'.-'-l of tiaf f tj' i, r ]
l i'ini-n In t!.»* Christian chnn h
I rough* forth much atiplau*.*
Anotli’-r po nt Dr Mitchell deeired
to HtrrsH wua that tii** Sunday school
t.*achor should devote his time to
teaching the eeeoutlals of Christian
ity. for every decade of teachers
hrnught different Ideals of most
things, hut this w.ip unchanging Dur
ing bis address he took occasion to
refer to the "big four”. Public
schools, pub’ic roads, public libraries
and public health At the close of
the address Dr. Mitchell and the Doy
Scounts were roundly cheered
The convention hall at the Thurs
day evening session of the Sunday
school association was thronged to
overflowing, many standing thro»gb-
out the evening. The large choir,
under the leadership of Messrs. Tul-
lar and Meredith, again furnished
the song service. The chief address
was made by Mrs. E. C. Crcnk of
Columbia, her subject being ‘Teach
ers That Teach”. Enthusiasm was
the main note of the address. W. C.
Pearce of Chicago spoke on "Divi
dends on Our Investments.”
At the close of his address he call
ed upon the counties and individuals
for pledges for funds to carry on the
field work of the association. Three
thousand, three hundred and forty-
t-cven dollars and forty-one cents was
pledged and $118.61 paid in; Spar
tanburg following last year’s plan
donated $;iOO, the largest county do
nation, which Is the largest Individ
ual pledge ever given the association.
Friday morning the attendant®
was again excellent, the interest and
«nthuslasm in the work continuing.
Several more addresses were made,
then came the reports from countie*
given by their presidents. It was de
cided that Colleton was a front line
banner connty and that Spartanburg,
Florence. Union and Soluda are ban-
i.er counties.
The report of the treasurer, Mr.
Lanham, showed receipts amounting
to $3,069.24 and a balance of
$473.13 on hand.
Both Anderson and Rock Hill ask
ed the privilege of entertaininff the
association In 1914 and on Anderson
felng selected *■ the place of meet
ing. Rock Hill left its invitation open
i li»* irvrtii «>f dlseas* Thvn you woi.-
!. r ho* the disease was contracted
ft r 1 9 1 L>.
Flection of officer* recalled in to*
following. President, the Rev. W. L
Herbert, Bumter; vice-president, C*l-
len Sullivan. Anderson,
tl.e Rev D. I) Jones, Easley,
out secretary, W. A. Harrison, Co
lumbia; statistical secretary. Cheater
F Harris, Spartanburg; treasnrsr, 8.
T. Reid, Spartanburg Department
Superintendents: Elementary—Mrs.
b. N. Hurls. Spartanburg; secondary.
Prof H. A. Wise, Columbia, adult.
PaQl Quattlebaum, Conway; teacher
training, Rev. T. W. Oregg, Rock
Hill, and Prof. L. B. Haynes, Wll-
klnsvllle; home visitation, the Rev.
J. S. Coker, Charleston; missions,
Mrs. 8. T. Lanham, Spartanburg;
temperance, Dr. Joseph Quattlobamn,
Columbia.
Meembers Executive Committee—
Prof. T. W. Keitt, Clemson; John
D. Capplemann, Charleston; 8. C.
Fledges, Greenwood; W. E. M. Peo
ples, Brunson; C. W. iBSrchmore, Cam
den; W. C. Thompson, I.aueaster;
Jas. McCutchean, Blshopvllle; C. M.
Efird, Lexington; 8. W. Smith, Ma
rion; W. Si Morrison, Clemson; Rev.
L. S. Barrett, Elloree; W. Crouch,
Saluda; O. iM. Mitchell, Rome. At
I. argo—Rev. J. B. Green, Green
wood; Horace Bomar, E. F. Vandiver,
J. W. Simpson. Spartanburg; J. R.
Walked, Edgefield; Jas. E. Penilfoy,
Vtalterhoro; R. C. Newton, Bennetts-
vllle. ' '
Sick Child Roosted in Bed.
Playing with matches while he was
ill in bed, Andrew Cobleskie, a four-
yeai^ld boy of Philadelphia. Pa., set
fire to his bed and w*h literally roast
ed to death. Firemen succeeded In
extinguishing the blase with chemi
cals.
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Five Ofieers Drown.
Two French naval offleers. Li eat.
Achilla Lava bee and Ensign Losis
Adam, and three petty officer*
swept from the deck of tbo
rine Turquoise and droi
engaged In maneuvers in
ranean early Friday. ' >£.
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