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LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN.
Negro Who Entered Converse College
Room Convicted.
Spartanburg, April 17.?Life imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentiary
was the sentence administered
to Harvey Bradford, colored,
convicted in the court of general sessions
to-day on the charge of burglariously
entering the room of Miss
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Julia Reed on the second floor of!
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the morning of April 5, at 1:30:
o'clock. Miss Reed was the star!
witness in the trial. The conviction
of the negro hung on the identification
of the hat found in the room of
Miss Reed, which was lost by the
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burglar in his haste to get away
after the alarm had been given. It
was proved that the hat belonged to
Bradford and that he wore it on the
nisrht of ADril 4 when he left home
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and that he returned home without
it early next morning. S. G. Finley
represented the defendant. A majority
of the Converse College girls
and the faculty were present during
the trial, which lasted from 11 a. m.
till 6:30 p. m. Solicitor Otts and
S. J. Nicholls appeared for the
State.
Never before has a trial awakened
^ so much local interest. The court
% V ' room was crowded all day, and
L r ! standing room was hard to find in
any part of the house. Many ladies
of the city were in the audience.
When the dinner hour arrived everybody
hurried home and ate in haste
' in order to get back at 3 o'clock
.. and miss no part of the testimony.
A great number of witnesses were
examined, both.for the State and for
" * the defense. The State's witnesses
gave a chain of testimony that could
not be broken even by the most
skeptical. It was all circumstantial
v; evidence, but the circumstances all
i& y pointed to * one conclusion?the
guilt of Bradford. Of all the witnesses
placed on the stand the coolest
and most competent was Miss
Julia Reed, whose room the burglar
entered early on the morning of the
5th of April. The young lady is
vvl * the daughter of J. C. Reed, of Pittshnrar.
Pa., a retired naner manufac
i turer, who is at present residing at
Hendersonville for his health. Mr.
^ Reed was physically nnable to atend
the trial himself, but Mrs. Reed
came down. During the trial she sat
beside her daughter and which of
the two appeared the coolest would
be hard to say.
A Fine Witness.
It would be hard to find a better
f witness than this young lady of the
sophomore class of Converse Col
lege. The story that she told on the
stand was the most trying ordeal any
heroine ever went through?dealing
with a ourly burglar in the dead
hours of night, alone and in a hand
to hand scuffle, in which the brute
was trying his best to choke her.
Miss Reed's testimony was in substance
as follows:
"I was asleep and I woke up
' quickly. When the door cracked I
was aroused. It was dark at the end
of the hall in which my room is located,
only a light burning in the
farther end. At first I thought it
was one of the girls, I looked up and
saw the form of a man a^inst the
light, I smelled an odor like tobacco
: or a strong pipe and I knew that I
had to deal with one stronger than
myself.
I "I attempted to scream and a
hand was thrown over my mouth. I
began fighting the burglar, but he
v had every advantage, as I had to
strike upward to hit him. I tried to
scream and partially succeeded. The
man then thrust his fingers in my
mouth and I clamped .them as hard
as I could with my teeth. I bit him
so badly that he drew his fingers out
and I got in a good scream. The
struggle was a hard one. I knew
that I had everything to fight for. I
could not state positively how long
the struggle lasted, but to me it
seemed an age. Directly I heard an
. answering call saying 'I'm coming,'
? . and soon some of the girls were at
hand. The man rushed for the window
and made off down the fire escape."
Miss Frances Cleveland, a student
of Converse, was next put on the
stand. She said that there were
trunks on both sides of the hall in
that part where Miss Reed"s room is
located. One trunk, she said, was
found open after the burglar had
gone. This trunk had been closed.
The top tray was out and the bottomm
tray pushed back. The things
in the trunk appeared as if they had
been stirred up.
Poor Tired Doggy.
Little four-year-old Marian was
walking one day with her mother
. when she saw a dachshund for the
first time. Like all dogs of that
class, his body was long and his legs
very short.
Marian gazed at him with wideopen
brown eyes for a moment, then
said excitedly: "Oh, mother, mother,
look at that queer doggy with legs
at each corner of him? Was his legs
long once, mother, and did they get
wored down by him using them so
much?"?The Delineator for May.
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MECKLENBURG HOTEL BURNED.
Beautiful Frame Structure at Chase
City Completely Destroyed.
Danville, Va., April 16.?The
beautiful Mecklenburg hotel at
Chase City, 70 miles east of this city,
on the Keysville and Durham
branch of the Southern railway,
was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon.
The hotel was an expen- j
sive frame structure built 10 years
ago by the Mecklenburg Springs
corporation at a cost, including furnishings,
of $200,000. At the time
of the fire it was owned by the estate
of M. L. T. Davis, of Norfolk, and
was leased and managed by W. T.
Hughes, who had conducted it for
several years. The owners carried
only $75,000 insurance on the hotel
and equipment. Only about thirty
guests w.ere registered at the hostelry
at the time of the fire. The structure,
situated on an eminence just
outside of town, had 200 guest
chambers, all well furnished.
The flames were discovered by
guests on the lawn who saw smoke
issuing from the slate roof and the
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the fire-fighting facilities were
wholly inadequate to cope with the
fire. All of the guests escaped and
most of them saved all their personal
belongings.
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The Way the Money Goes. ,
An Atlanta man just back from
Panama gave these figures and facts
to the Spartanburg Herald on Saturday:
There are now 111 steam shovels
at work, digging out five cubic yards
each, every 17 seconds. There is a
great contest going on on the isthmus
between steam shovel men as to
who can show the best report at each
week's end in the 'canal record,' so
'Old man Yardeye' is boss on the
isthmus.
The big dam at Gatun is a wonder.
It is really a mountain being
thrown across the Chrages river val
ley. It is to be 5,000 feet long, 15,000
thick and 125 feet high. This
great dam is necssary to hold back
the sudden rise in the Chrages river,
which has been known to rise 75 feet
in six hours. This is not surprising,
though, considering the fact that the
rainfall recorded on the canal has
been known to reach seven inches in.
four hours. This great dam will
make a great inland sea, which materially
aids the furnishing of a waterway
across the isthmus, reducing
materially the amount of digging
necessary. It will also furnish the
base of the great electric power
which will be used for running the
Panama railroad trains and moving
the great gates of the locks as well
as to furnish motive power for many
manufacturing plants destined to
spring up on the isthmus.
For many of the Americans have
found a pleasant place to live down
there where its summer all the time
and with a death rate less than that
of Georgia they are satisfied to cast
their, lot there for life.
The figures shown of the work are
large. Every two minutes a ton of
coal is burned up at Panama, every
minute twelve carloads of rock and
gravel are torn from the earth,
every hour 1,666 pounds of dynamite
are exploded in mountain and
jungle, every minute $124 is spent
for labor.
The American mechanic on the
steam shovels and in the shops gets
about 65 cents per hour and his
room, lights, bath and service are
furnished him. If he is married,
quarters are furnished, meals are
served at 30c. each. The fare is
good.
The visitor to the isthmus in 1915
will have many pleasant scenes to
meet his eye. He will doubtless disembark
at Colon and take the electric
car line across the isthmus. He will
see his ship glide through the locks
at Gatun. He will then pass on
through the magnificent tropical
foliage skirting the way; pass Empire
on to Culebra, where he will
take dinner at the great tourist hotel,
which will be built there on the
mountains. He will then enjoy a
magnificent view, catching a glimpse
here of both the Atlantic and Pacific.
In the afternoon the visitor
will go on past Nura Floris (look at
the flowers,) on past the locks at
Bosopisbo and as the westering sun
is throwing great bars of light across
Panama. Bay?making gold the tops
of the big Arem hospital, and embark
again in his ship as she weighs
anchor in Panama harbor.
Swept Over Niagara.
This terrible calamity often happens
because a careless boatman ignores
the river's warnings?growing
ripples and faster current?nature's
warnings are kind. That dull pain or
ache in the back warns you the kidneys
need attention if you would
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or Bright's disease. Take Electric
Bitters at once and see backache
fly and all your best feelings return.
"After long suffering from weak kidneys
and lame back, one $1.00 bottle
wholly cured me," writes J. NR.
Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only
50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. C.
PREFERRED DEATH TO CELL.
Noted Dr. Rosa Monnish Kills Her- '
self in Atlanta. *
Atlanta, Ga., April 19.?Preferring
the chill of the grave to the
chill of a prison cell, and the shroud I
to the garb of a convict, Dr. Rosa S. t
Monnish drank prussic acid and died 1
to-day an hour after she had been ^
sentenced to serve two years in the 1
Federal penitentiary at Leaven- c
worth, Kansas. Deputy United ?
States marshals, in whose charge
she had been placed, found her after
they had broken open the door to
her room.
Mrs. Monnish has been more or
less in the public eye in the South
for several years. She built a sanitarium
in the most aristocratic part
of Atlanta a few years ago, despite
the efforts of neighbors to prevent
the opening of the place. Later her
methods came under the scrutiny of
the postoffice inspectors, but it was (
not until she had trouble with her 1
husband that the officers could get 1
evidence against her. They charged 1
her with sending improper and '
threatening letters to a young woman
and secured her conviction. Her '
attorneys applied for a new trial, 1
and it was overruled this morning (
by Federal Judge Newman, who at 1
once sentenced Dr. Monnish to serve
one year and one day in prison, and
to pay a fine of $1,000 on each of 1
two counts. {
Dr. Monnish fainted when the sentence
was imposed, but recovered !
and asked to go to her home. The ^
officers consented, simply stipulating
that they lock her in her room and 1
remain on guard outside. While her 1
attorneys were preparing an appeal 1
bond she accompanied the officers in
a cab to her home, and went to her
room. About 2 p. m. the guards called
to her to come to luncheon. Re- 1
ceivlng no reply, they forced the
door and found their aged prisoner
dead on her bed. !
Dr. Monnish was sixty years of
age, ana Desiaes ner nusoana, aiso a
physician, she leaves a daughter,
Jeannette, aged 13.
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Chester Kennedy Granted Bail.
At Aiken last Monday morning ]
Chester Kennedy, white, of Barnwell,
who is charged with promoting
the murder of Perry Ussery, .
also white, applied to Judge R. C. 1
Watts for release on bail. He has <
been confined since his arrest in the
Barnwell jail. : ; ,
It will be recalled that Ussery was |
killed in Barnwell during the time a ;
carnival was in the town. No mo- .
tive could be ascribed for the crime,
as Ussery was not known to have
had any enemies. Suspicion was 1
directed toward Quitman Johnson, |
a negro, as circumstantial evidence
against him was strong, and he was ;
arrested on the streets in Aiken. He
was subsequently conveyed to Co- ;
lumbia for safe keeping and later 1
carried to Barnwell for trial. <
Being convicted he made a confession
and said he murdered Ussery
by mistake, having intended to kill
Marvin Holland. He said in his
confession that CheBter Kennedy
hired him to kill Holland and he
was the man he intended to shoot. :
He was to have been paid, he said, 1
by Kennedy and also by a woman in
Augusta, whose name was not an- ]
nounced, but whose name is said to
be known.
Another negro; Grubbs, was also
convicted with Johnson, but was
recommended' to 'mercy. Ife maintains
his innocence.
The Judge granted bail to Kennedy
in the sum of $5,000.
Body Returned in Coffin.
Shellman, April 13.?Particularly
gruesome are the details connected
with the return of the body of Ross
Manior to his father, J. B. Manior,
last night. Manior was killed last
Friday night, it is stated, in an encounter
with the negro Alfred Iver- '
son, whom Manior and his companions
had attempted to whip. The 1
members of the mob carried away 1
the lifeless body of their comrade
after he and the negro had been
killed. It was discovered that
Manior was missing.
His father was told to place a cof- j
fin in a certain spot. He complied i
and the der.omnosed bodv of voung {
Manior, half clad, was found in the j
coffin when the father returned. The (
members of the mob are unknown. <
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Words to Freeze the Soul.
"Your son has consumption. His f
case is hopeless." These appalling 1
words were spoken to Geo. E. Ble- 1
vens, a leading merchant, of Spring- 1
field, N. C., by two expert doctors? i
one a lung specialist. Then was ]
shown the wonderful power of Dr. ]
King's New Discovery. "After three <
weeks use," writes Mr. Blevens, "he <
was As well as ever. I would not
take all the money in the world for
what it did for my boy." Infallible
for coughs and colds, its the safest,
surest cure of desperate lung dis- i
eases on earth. 50c. and J 1.00. Peoples
Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.,
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle 3
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FOUR CATTLEMEN LYNCHED.
lob Formed in Commercial Club
Without Attempt at Concealment
or Disguise.
Ada, Okla., April 19.?Four
jro'minent cattlemen were to-day
aken from the city jail here and
ynched by a mob of 100 citizens.
The victims are: J. B. Miller, Fort
.Vorth, Texas; B. B. Burrell, Dunan,
Okla.; Jesse West, and Joe Alen,
Canadian, Texas.
Th-e mob is said to have organized
n the Commercial Club rooms and
narched to the jail at 3 o'clock a. m.
;o-day. One man stood guard at the
jrison and he was quickly overpowered
and the four prisoners seized,
;aken to a nearby barn and hung
:rom th-e rafters. The bodies were
nit down about 9 o'clock this mornng.
There was little excitement
luring the lynching.
The men were held on the charge
)f complicity in the murder of Former
United States Marshall Bobbitt,
lear Ada, last February. Bobbitt
was shot from ambush on his way
lome. The examining trial was held
rhursday, but no indictment was
*ver returned. Miller has killed six
men in his time and was a "chum"
Df the late Pat Garrett, the famous
man-hunter, and was with Garrett
Krhen he was killed at Las Cruces.
The mob was composed of many
prominent citizens of the city and
3nly a few were masked.
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The authorities were powerless to
prevent the lynching, as the early
hour placed them at a disadvantage.
The entire formation of the mob and
the lynching which followed were
performed in a most methodical
manner.
No Lynchers Arrested.
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So intense was the feeling during
the preliminary hearing of the men
that Judge Brown prohibited the
publication of the evidence. Burrell
was a nephew of Miller and turned
State's evidence against Miller and
told of the complete plana of West
and Allen to murder Bobbitt, a longtime
enemy of both. No arrests of
lynchers have been made yet.
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INDIANS LIKE LUXURIES.
Furnish Homes with Opera Chairs
and Travel in a Hearse.
Nowhere is the Indian's simplemindedness
more apparent than in
the homes. They are either devoid
of furniture or crowded with encumhroriMJo
TViq nwnnflnta nnuMfl
Iron and brass bedsteads or display
as their chief treasure a highly polished,
elaborately carved folding-bed,
never used. Rolling themselves in
blankets, they seek repose on the
floor.
One home boasts as its principal
furniture four opera chairs of upholstered
leather, with movable seats,
such as are to be found in any theatre.
A Spokane Indian was the proud
possessor of a shining black hearse,
bearing four huge ornamental sable
plumes. -Riding his cayuse into town
one day he encountered a funeral.
The hearse caught his fancy; he followed
the procession, awestruck, to
the cemetery. Nothing would do but
that he must have the grand chariot
for his own. Disposing of some
land, he purchased the hearse and
was wont to take his wife and numerous
children out for a drive sitting
on the floor of the hearse, bouncing
from glass side to glass side as the
road became rough, trying to appear
dignified and nonchalant, but grinning
literally from ear to ear, the
brave on the box outside the proudest
man in America.?The Delineator for
May.
Tragedy in Folding Bed.
New York, April 19.?The folding
bed accident which used to be common
some years ago before the
patent beds were as well constructed
as now, has caused the death of
James F. Maher, a feather curler in
Williamsburg.
During the night the bed began to I
rise as if pushed by an unseen
hand, pinning both Maher and his
wife, despite their struggles and efforts
to release themselves.
A son, who was sleeping on the
floor above heard his parents' cries
and. ran to their assistance, but before
he could extricate them, Maher
expired. Mrs. Maher was taken out
unconscious. She is little the worse
for the experience.
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