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TILLS SORDID TALE liriESENTATITE N’DEIMOTT IS TIE CHIEF FIGURE LONG VIGIL MAY END (• I KI.'H SKAIUlf Ftm KATHKH’H 1M>I»V NKAHI.V OX KK. HE TOOK MUCH MONEY Hlow <'K««*|*lnjc (ilarler Will (ilve l'|» ('orpur of Alan Who JMmI Forty* two A"ears Ago. House Lobby Committee Startled by Disclosures Made in Testimony of J. H. McMichaels, Dismissed Page, Who Says Representative From Illinois Threw Him Down. In a dramatic statement, J. H. Mc- MicLiaels, dismissed chief page of the House of Representatives, Saturday night presented to the House lobby investigating committee a sweeping charge of corruption against Repre sentative James E. McDermott, of Il linois, for years his sponsor. With intense earnestness McMichaels, in picturesque language, corroborated the allegations of M. M. Mulhall against McDermott and made addi tional charges, at times shocking the committee and spectators with out burnt.- of profanity and slang. The uitio'ss declared that for years I bad exert' d every effort to support M lmrinott, had loaned him money had helped him in his campaigns Now, he said, McDermott had 'brown him down" and be felt h* l:. bit t. !' tho truth. In aidi' on to th*‘ charges already i ole. Mi M i h.o N -worr that t!o* (Jr.- < ico It.pr*-ftit a* D o told him that he r--' • i. • ! I of a fund of J ! e .- * ■< rn -< d hy the pawntirokers of a-! Inct m to oppos.- a Lull po-scd in t •• la»’ 1 ingrt"** regulating Interest rate* :n the lextrb't of I'olumh a In t 1 » • .0 *.• ' ■' m Mi Mb told of a tr p * . N.* York when W Derm o't « » th a member of an a«»o H MURDERER PAROLED BY BLEASE AFTER SERYINC LESS THAN A MONTH KILLED A WHITE MAN After waiting forty-two years for the body of her father, who was one of a party lost in a storm while climbing the Alps, the long vigil of Miss Edith Randall, of Boston, may end this year. Summer after sum mer Miss Randall has journeyed to Chamonix, Switzerland, to w'atch the giant glacier slowly creep down the valley from Mont Blanc, hoping against hope that the mighty moun tain of ice would deliver the body of her father, John Randall. The guides and scientists are ex pecting the giant glacier to deliver its dead this year. The rate of progres sion of glaciers has been observed for many years, and, according to the calculations of the scientists, the bodies held in ice for more than forty years should reach the valley late this summer. On August 1S70. two Ameri cans, one Scotchman and eight guhjes started the ascent of Mont Blanc Tin* weather was threatening and they were warned not to go up. but they thought that it would clear up. ami started. But the storm lasted eight days and nights. Not one of the party was ever s<*en alive again. A w.i-k later fourteen guides tried to mak< tin* ascent, but were driven bark b ^the storm. <>n September 17 a party of twentv three guides set HUSBAND KILLS HIS WIFE TKM-M POI.ICK A MKXHATION AL NTORY OF FKiHT. out fur the sum ml’ Th t he\ M • *; found the bodies of five of the men, burled In 'he snow The bodle* were fmren hard The body of Mr Ran dall an! these of 'be other gird'-n w «• re ne *er found The broken heart eii daurb'er wal'e! ail summer tien returned t" Vu ern a M i' • »' h rear s i e has r* t a r n e d t" the ■-* . - » rex >r' wal' tig '■ r r.ter ' I •• to gDe ip Rich Anderson ('ounty Man, Sent up for S*ven A'ears, Secures a Parole From the Governor.—Considerable Surprise is Felt Over the Action of the Governor. A dispatch from Anderson says the paroling Saturday of John C. Ellison caused considerable surprise to the people of Anderson county, for they had no warning whatever and were not prepared for such an act on the part of the governor. Ellison was a merchant farmer of Brushy Creek township and is reput ed to be worth one hundred thousand dollars. Early in 1912 lie killed R. A. Hunt, a farmer who called at Elli son's store to trade. Ellison was drinking on the day of the homicide and when Hi.tit called for some naiD Ellison told him to go hack to the scales and help himstxlf; that ho trusted him ami lie could wait on himself. Eater as II ,:it was passing Ellison to depart by 'he front door of the store Ellison ' ramlMied a pistol and a quarrel and -’rugg!** ensued Hunt w rent lied the piste] from Ellison's hands, wh<*re .pen Ellison left the store, going i:. th" direction of hi- home nearby. ' *i taring that he would again arm htn -elf Mrs Ellison who »as in the store room Implored Hunt to depart, hut Hunt declared 'hat El! son had run other men awn :n tills faahlon and that he would ••■main as he was no' Ellison returned the store with an he quarrel was re « out in ' ' e »• i-e MOD ATTACKS JAIL SPARTANBURG OFFICERS BEEP PRISONER SAFE afraid of Ellt*' to t 1 e \tr:nitjr o'her pistol an x u rued H int Taper Found in Handbag Indicate* Probability of Her Being a Keal- dent of Thia State. Guests of & hotel at Hamlet, N. C., rushed into a room from which they saw smoke issuing Friday, and found stretched on the floor the dead body of a woman who had given the name of Mrs. George S. Nance of Macon, Ga. Her skull was fractured in sev eral places, her clothing had burned off, and besides the body lay an em pty beer bottle. Her husband, who came to the hotel with her, was ar rested in a room three doors from that of the woman, and told the po lice of a sensational story of killing his wife after they had engaged in a struggle. According to the report given by the police, Nance said that his wife had told him she knew she was crazy, and that she was also Insane “and would stop at nothing.” They struggled and he seized the beer bottle and fractured her skull, then h»* poured kerosene over her clothing and the furniture and set lire to the room. After the coroner's jury had re turned a verdict that Mrs Nance had been killed by her husband, George S Namo, he was hurrlef to jail at Rockingham, where he was charged with murder and arson In Mrs Nance's handbag was a re ceipted bill from S H George Go Greenville. S ('. addressed t n y r s George S Nance. : l I.aureus street. Gri-erivir.e Her shoes tn*ar the mark of a Knoxville. Tenri Arm Nance appear* to tie about 4 ' * ears oil He bad more than I'-"" In hla ; orkrt together wMh a government bond for I I/"i an! a deposit slip whom n* |! i Vp a ted In a Macon 'la THREE MEN FANATICS DLL GOO. FRENCH XATIVKd ACT I* TIVE FAftHIOX. Sheriff and Deputies Cause ('rowd Bent on Lyncliing Negro Gharged With ('hiniinal Assault to Disperse By Threatening to kill First Man Entering Prison Gates. “Gentlemen, I beg you not to pro ceed through this gate. I am in dead ly earnest. 1 will kill the first man who advances a step, though he should be my best friend." \V. J White, sheriff of Spartanburg Coun ty, thus addressed a mob t>ent on lynching Will Hair, a negro prisoner, accused of assaulting a white woman, when a crowd of five hundred men, after being repeatedly repulsed with pistol shots, blew down the gate in the outer wall of the county jail lat* Monday night with dynamite. The mob were impressed with what tie sherliT -aid an! di.-pervl Earlier in the evening three men were -lint when efforts were made t< hatter down the jail gate with logs and steel rails Sheriff White and a deputx held the < rowd at ha\ at first to tiling (dank <artridgex Members "f*he mob returned the fire with toil b t» hoAex, r ,nd :n (to* confusion and darkness Krank Eppix J * nw • • 11sb\ an 1 lohn lurrier w.-re wound ed. t ho lr Tt H undr.* wer* r • dvnarn ed onlv ' II I ef [ ' » ' X *. u 'H » r t 1 ' gh It |X t.elO'Ve.) not serious ' w.-r, taken to a hospital I x of pistol and rifle shots ! * ’ • n th,- mo', began to ua** but so far as < an be learn »- nan » a• w o ind.*d / i - •••■! ■' ro ig u h • 'and Ml » i • r. ■ < ■ a r *. < 1 far a negro arr #••*•» a '■ e r *, .or •. ar *. d • tb as ► a ti i.• ' t. . .-ar ■ t » b:! • a - X ’ • ne Mon da . ' ' » » • a 1 ' ' pa«' ' ■ '• <sa ' • a e g e.J * Father, Mother, Brother aad Slater “I>ri»e Devil Away” by anbbtag Her to Death. Religious fanatics participated In a bloody tragedy near Avigon, Franca, recently, in which a young girl, sup posed to have ‘been possessed of a devil, was murdered. Her father, mother, brother and 'sister are under arrest, pending an inveBjgaiiun. They are accused of the 'piilo. Their arrest was brought about by a priest to whom the brother and sis ter confessed they had succeeded in driving Satan away. He suspected what had happened, informed the po lice and caused the arrest of the en tire family, including a grandmother, aged eighty years. The eldest daughter of the French family became the victim of the bloody orgy at the Avignon home. She asserted she was possessed by Satan Every day she had new tales to t'-ll about the demon whose power she believed herself to be in. The other members of the family, exeept- ng the grandmother, were so work ed up over the statements that at last they believed h'T. . The climax came one noon when the entire family was In the house. The girl lay down on the floor and be gan crxing “Go away. Satan’ Go away Satan “' Suddenly her brother and sister Join»*<l their father and mother In the performance and all < r|e«f all ud. ' [w-mon. go away'" The grandmother tried to comfort th»*m but th«y tied h**r to a chair Th»*n they »"ught clubs and beat th* girl s head up until It was an unr*r- ognliahle n.aaa Then they began to »'tig an 1 ahout for Joy becauae they had aurreed. d In driving Satan out Sexera! day• after the death of th* girl they reported (o the police that they had driven Sa’an out and th* who!** famll* arreat. d " ‘■a M > ( V F i < . * v ■ O * r.' V V • Tl l X lake Mu! ter mot! In •at. ng I * a* ■ to a! ! wr.paign 1 i »..u re* that rr.onev ’' • x.-nta'l» e Garre". ••r al Jus’. !: ,1 aatd V ; * \ \ r " r . » a the ‘ '• t T \S her.' naked R..; M . n MiVictia* * an i I wa* executor for my moth*' a will The money was In H f'ank here fo the credit of tlie es tate and I rax.* Mulhall a check for It I hail to hustle to put It back I never got any of It from MolWmott McMichaels told at length of mak ing trips to various pawnbrokers In Washington to secure money either for McDermott or himself ' McDermott told me." he said, “that the pawnbrokers had raised 110,000 to fight the loan shark bill and later he told me he got $7,000 out of it. When I asked him why he didn't pay me what he owed me with a part of it, he said, ‘My God, man, I had to pay it on debts and I still owe $9,000.’ ” The witness said that he, McDer mott and Mulhall, after conferring at the Capitol, would adjourn to a din ing room in a small hotel, near the Capitol, for “extended sessions”. He described the room provided in the Capitol for the conferences as a “good place to sleep off drunks”. “How would you or McDermott know about the other having money after these conferences?” said Chair man Garrett. “We’d just smile at each other,” he said. “Both of us was careful not to let the other know about how much money we had. If Mulhall gave me two bills I’d hide the larger one and flash the smaller one, be cause every lime I flashed anything over two dollars he copped half of It. He would go to the cashier and give him his money and draw two ddllars and come back to where I was. He’d say to the cashier, ‘For God's sake don't let Mac se«> this ' We were both doing this ’’ Attempts by Mulhall to dispose of a collection of afTldavlta. which. Mc- Mlchaela said showed that Burns’ de fective* had committed perjury In a X —er*-si >*. •* r »■ ' i ’ * »* r. * ! •» r r « V V *a * * r r • 1 r. f 4 ».- • '*. 'he I A V Ml h.Ac . ' ! r Af ' X »' A ' A ; ' » 1. r ■ >. n A» A '. 1 M . “ A ! r r ■ 1.; . I ! r. « '. r H * P u b: a ■ ■ a . i*. *rr*p. n len* *• *• He . tk ! tAt Mr! 'eru. S, ♦- a a »• r 1 irk M a I n Irr • ood snd K*xp ’ Maud sr.d If they ».*r»* it:, a i ..hi of * a ; a r • ' r 1» r 1 f"*-!! ■ . r.'' x ! > '« %• 1»e I X a . F" 11 At’ • the J u r v 1 hs'. rot. x tnr>fi» i* t^ix mu*' i • . A ' I XB A • ' 'r'XAn ' tr* U»bh ^ m *r of 1 *<i as! a t>' e ' A ■ • t, 'r rer. - * * x r. * * r t * r 1 • - W I x^-m *" a ’*•<>; utli*n pro U of 'he Mu! I d'W -J men!* ' ’ Agrrr ! to 'tty r.«-Ad.*r an ! ra!*r 'a* ora’’x in r|!n»*d t.x intr iju.e th** ri-aolutlon tn the Hous*- Thre** days later " va ! the x»it r.»*es, MrD.*rmott told Mulhall that he had seen the leaders ami that they advised against Hie Introduction of the resolution McDermott lied about that. He hadn't seen the leaders “ “How do you know he lied"" asked Chairman Garrett. "Why he'd rather lie than eat," said McMichaels The chairman had some difficulty in restoring order tn the committee room after this outburst. From the fall of 1 909 until Jan uary, 1912, McMichaels said he was almost constantly on tho pay-roll of successively Democratic chief page of the House, attendant in the House press gallery and elevator conductor in the Capitol. He told of introduc ing Mulhall to Representative James E. McDermott, of Illinois, for whom be worked as a kind of secretary, and said that McDermott worked with Mulhall and provided the latter with a rob min the basement of the Capi tol, where McDermott, McMichaels and Mulhall conferred. “Did you ever .see any money pass between Mulhall and McDermott?” asked Chalrmana Garrett. “I never saw any money actually pass between them,” said the witness, leaning back in his chair and pausing to puff at his cigarette. “But I had reason to believe that plenty of it was passing. I got mine open and abow board.” “Why do you say you had reason to believe money was passing?” The witness leaned forward and pounded on the committee table: “1 am not a fool.” he continued. “When two guys like me and McDermott sit dox»n to a table and the two of ua ain't got a penny, and a third guy comes in and we have eats and drinks and get up with the dough. 1 know that dough don't grow on tr*es. or on Ik* febl«a ” M-tdam* Sl-r. mr,-* •srmrr » aa : arol* ' a so 'aa! ■ «-*k m»k f th l • kin! for x "a* » r*-k X 1 Apat V 'mm F'aa>x tax* Mr ’ hr. G FG'A. n x» h \ x^a- ar 'a*' Var-h ah- t ar. ! ki:> ' Mr U X Hun' a' tt r 'orrr.er ■ «!nrr a’h.u' ' > 'i' ml.** a. uth of F'.aa!'*y ant * aa arntrnr* ! to A«*rx«* A«*v**n x*ar» r t*r j.^nltrr • arx I» now a! hla t rn** Mr F! ► on »rr,’ to the penl’**:, t a r x a Ah^rt » t. '<• ago but r**tur' ***! h >rr.e Sat urday a'tf’n'Hxn Th** killing of Mr Hunt bv Mr El'iaon caused a Porxifj**rahle atlr throughout th** entlr** communltv as both x» ere promt: o-nt and well like,! men Ttie trial took place In Anderson county and attracted much Interest Epon the conxlctlon of Mr Ellison an appeal wa* made, and something like a month since, the supreme court of the tftate refused to chance the decision of the lower tribunal. Mr Ellison was according ly taken to Columbia and entered up on the service ofthls sentence. His wife recently went to Columbia for the purpose of securing clemency for her husband if possible. She has evidently accomplishe*d her purpose as Mr. Ellison is now back at his old home. Cotton Worm in Greenville. Reports have been received from Greenville of the invasion of a small worm, which is said to be devouring • the cotton bolls. Large fields have been affected, it is said, and the far mers are much perplexed. They say they have never seen anything of this nature before, and declare that un less the ravages of the worm are checked the cotton in the lower sec tion of the county will be seriously damaged. The worm, it is said, bores into the boll and subsists upon the cotton lint. a n 'T \ » t I'F < ll'F I' suI/ *-» and l.I x nt« 'Mill <<.nl*-«1lng F '•*■ (»«>«•■*»<•* a l >(Tl* r X a ' u * ! ' f i ■ * * * V ** ; * *-A**f ! Alt . A ' !. * j r* f f f. I f 1 r ' h-«? : , r f ^ f • *. p * S • » 1 rh M»’» m*-'*! ' i«x v r r *...r s . irr ant ! .1* utab'.ant Goxarnor . Gen AA a ".ng '.<j*Arcor tlgnad of filial pai^rt >aturSay A.a*t from iit».a l !.«* »*« * * •ktvmtAfi « aa !*■# aau | :r. g ' » 1 .. x r r n. r ^ * .t*r of a r <- p'» to Mr i, » r t. • !*• riA'Ujn of tug g*»atlon 'tar hr r 1 "<-r«*ni-ra '-* taaru at on. r : ■ i our* G. xrrno* Su irr t* pl irx** th!* dr. r.atl .n p-. n'.ng out '►-at l! » I pri ba'ox Ira 1 to tr xubla an ! lltlgAtlon T' « purp-.a** of 'ha Auggnatlon hr AtalrU. » aa to avo.d •hr Apr.-'a. lr i ' tw » prrw na r’.aiming to act aa Govrrnor of th.» great Htatr atthraamrtlmr Mr Glvnn left h a official fort on the third fl..*or of thr iap.tol early Saturday afternoon, but Goxrrnor Sulrer stood by hla guns on th© floor below throughout the day WIFE DENIES <"ONEKSSION OIJ Suitor, Acting aa IV*c«naker Shot Huakand. Repudiating her confesalon of shooting her husband. Tom tmi. a baSx’ball player, of Galnesvllu Ga , and charging an unnamed man with firing the bullet, will be the defence of Mrs. Peal Wood, before the Grand Jury. The man was a close friend of Mrs. Wood before her marriage, she says. When her husband told her he was going to desert her, she appealed to this man. He went to Wood to try to make peace between the two. A quarrel resulted and the peacemaker shot her husband. Wood Is In the hospital, dying, but all the time he was conscious, he vehemently accus ed Mrs. Wood of shooting him. ! f Gets Good Job. James E. Harper, who lives near Greenville, has been, at Representa tive Joseph T. Johnson’s suggestion, chosen hy the Secretary of the Treas ury as appointive clerk In that de partment at a salary of $2,000 a year. Saved From the Flames. Heroic work by people living In the vicinity of Provo. Etah. Friday, sav'-d the lives of all of the forty in mates of the Etah Gounty Infirmary when the building waa destroyed by Are. Mashed Between Cars. Mr. W. R. Moore, of Greenville, who has been a freight conductor for the Greenville, Spartanburg and An derson Railroad since Its Inaugura tion, was painfully hurt at Pelzer Thursday afternoon by being crushed between two box cars. He was at once carried to the city hospital. His injuries are serious. Mistaken for RobEier; Killed. Fred Childe, aged twenty-three was mistaken for & robber hy his friend, Leslie Smith, a barber, in Adrian. Ga , and shot to death. Both voung men were unmarried. Youth Take* Hla life. Despondent because of ill health. John Miller Graton of Deland. Fla twenty two xear* old. ended his Ilf© at Asheville Saturday by drinking polaon .> > «■ ' ► t ! r f , * • ' . Al l a AA X'.Ati • *.* ' * «■ • r | * ' A p ' e f • A • a ■ " *■ n ■X . ! t *■ t, ’ X •’* F. e*fj r<e *»'*P« at '■ *f ba k ant a!m<«t Immediately a ' ar. t thr it! twhlad her waa P'eaerd «Goe* x a g a ns', her mo a Ik. ar* t’.er ha«**! a* led ter by th# perk. a- ! 'he r"Uih voir# of a nw*ro aald ' V.>U Veit ! ’, | kill you The girl '• **n 'h-ew evrry ounr# of her energy an effort 'o ewcai*# from th# n# gr«. a rlu'che# but )n vain Picking p a heavy At.rk. which lay on the » n 1<>w All! th# black brought It d '#n upa>n her hnad with rruahlng '"fee and the girl bleeding from an utlr #< alp wound droppeal Ilk# a lea l pe-aon \X hen the rega n©d con " ouane«A a half hour later she had •e. n dragged to another part of the r < *o m The unfortunate ralaed herwelf un steadily to her feet, thinking to fir© a shotgun which waa auspended from th© wall and thua summon her bus band She swooned again aa ah© was reaching for th© gun. and was lying on th© floor unconscious when her husband happened to enter the houae a Jew mlnutea later. The husband took hla wife to hla father’s home, a haJf-mlle away, call **d a doctor and then went to Glen dale and gave the alarm. At>out flOO people, Including a number of Glen dale Mill operatives, atarted In search of the negro, of whom a good deacrip- tlon was given by his victim. Sheriff \V J. White headed one posse and Chief Moss P. Hayes, of the Spartan burg police, another. A posse of which Samuel J. Nichols, a wel known Spartanburg attorney, was a member, found an old negro who said he had seen within fifty yards of the scene of the assault a negro corre sponding in description to the assail ant, and told of the direction In which the man was walking. He said the negro they were seeking was named Will Fair. Will Fair was trac ed to Glendale, where he was seen to board a car for Spartanburg. Other clues were obtained which led to the arrest of Fair several hours later at the Southern Railway station In Spartanburg by Rural Policeman J M. Williams. Officer Williams con cealed the negro In the bottom of an automobile, which he pressed Into service, and carried him into the county jail by the rear entrance be fore any but one or two people knew of the arrest. Fair denied that he was the negro wanted, but officers “aid they felt confident that the chase was over and were only waiting for the Identification of Fair as her as sailant by the negro s alleged victim to make sure When he learned of th© asaault Mayor O I. Johnson or dered all the social clubs to E>« clo**d for the day Members of Lb* mob brok* is to Lb* M *\ EKNOM MINHKIfe MMERIFF ♦ llr-fu**** Iti I’rvmll IUrVl«rl| < • * r#T Nrre#« \ll«-*»*»1 MTxVrvv Th* foxe*a,*r <if uth Ga*oM*a F r! • a x Mg'! **•'■_ a* ! 'aH<># * '■ • r ff J P Moms to arr*«( aa a!i#***l m*r- fl-rrr '* ,tn Georg a Sheriff Morris <1 N***'0 r#.j«*-#t#M by th# sheriff of K '■hn . n 1 i <.#or*ta to b« o* h# lookoat tor Will Hash a a#*ro, i ho 'a rX arg«*.J • ih having <*om- m tt~i tt. ur i#r last lv#«#m'^r H #*h • aa luca’el at Oiwr ia Uwr* w#il rvxuaty aa<l a »arr gat for bt* arraat • a© ©eat to th# aheriff ('a#t Morris • •at to <FF*r rn<J*y alffbt to fol bis man aad fo*ad blm la lb# employ of I>r I ^y too Hartsoff Dr Mart nog ob jected to hoiag d#pnv#d of bis ©oob. aad as hod that 1* bo alfemod to eom- »a a trot* wife th# govoraor H* 114 this orwr tho tol*phooo aad th* gov ernor ta formal ('apt Morrta* that ho bad ao right to arroot tho aogro wttb- oot rwqaieitloa popora Th# goearaar told I>r Martsog that If roqaiotUoa pop#re w#r* gottoa ho wool! sot a dat# for a h#artag that aa tho Osar (la officer* rofoood to arroot fngltJeoa wanted is tht© fttat# th#y woald bo accorded the earn# troatmoat KIND TEETH AND HAIR New York Police Police authorities la Now York and nel(ht>orlnf cltioo ar* looking for a short, hesvy got man with brood teeth and brown heir, b*U*md to bo the slayer of Mias Anna C. Lopoek, a maid. Her body was found in Lovar’a lane, Inwood Hill, near Now York, shortly after she was slain. It waa covered with marks and bruiaea; bar head almost severed from the body. Both hands and anna were slaahad by the fiend who slew her. A aboo- maker’s last was found near the spot, as was nlso a cheap four-inch knifa, which gave mute evidence that It had been used In killing the girl.. In the girl's hand was a tuft of brown hair, believed to have been pulled from tho scalp of her assailant. ■♦ ♦ ♦ Taken for Highwayman. A suburban street car conductor told the police of Columbus, O., that four highwaymen were working on a road not far from the city. He had seen them tying a fifth man to a tree. The police gave chase immediately in their motor patrol, but found the sus pected highwaymen to be Indignant farmers who were tying a chicken thief to a tree to keep him until the police came. ♦ ♦ a Cow Injures Man. Getting up from a milking (tool rather suddenly, George Simmons, of Meeker Junction, Wash., scared hla horse. The animal swung around and kicked Simmons, fracturing threo ribs. Then the cow, seeing him help less on the ground, walked on him. . | ... , . ... armory of a military company after midnight and took seraifean rlflaa. A militiaman with loadad rtta aa» prised the msnraadera, and If threatening to kill them, anil tfcea rwrara the