The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 05, 1909, Image 7
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BOLD NEGRO BURGLAR CAUGHT.
Charlie Williams is in Lexington Jail
4 Charged with Many Robberies.
Lexington, July 30.?Charlie Williams,
a negro, is in jail here to-night
with several charges of burglary and
larceny resting against him, having
confessed to having entered five
stores at Swansea on Wednesday
night, and the residence of Mr. Wil
lie Wise, near Gaston yesterday, taking
therefrom a watch chain which he
secured by breaking open a trunk,
and Brookland's dispensary last
night and taking four quarts of
whiskey. we was capiurtHi m i\cn
Brookland this morning. Williams
entered the stores at Swansea by
breaking the glass from the doors. He
rifled the cash drawers in each store,
and secured a small amount of
change. He took several articles of'
v*' clothing, however. He says his home
is in Newberry, and that he was on
his way home from Savannah when
he took a notion to rob. He is an
idiotic looking negro and does not
seem to realize the seriousness of the
offense. He was run by hounds for a
long distance yesterday afternoon after
he had entered the home of Mr.
. Wise, but even this did not scare him, |
for he went right straight in to
Brookland and continued his depredations.
Quit Job in Bank and Played Raffle*.
While confessing to a number of
daring burglaries at Rockaway
Beach, New York, Ralph Sherman, a
. tall young man of fine appearance,
has admitted that five years ago he
?. was the foreign teller for a large
banking firm in William street at $5,000
a year.
Sherman's method of burglary was
so bold that he was able to commit
many crimes, he had confessed, without
being detected. His capture was
quite accidental, a detective imaginj}
ing that he might have information
about a man the police were seeking.
I When the detective approached Sherman
the latter ran and when he was
o. caught he had jewelry on him from a
number of burglaries. Sherman said
that he had been in the habit of
watching for cottagers who went into
the surf and that during their absence
he boldly walked into their
homes.
Sherman left the bank to establish
a translation bureau, being able to
' speak half a dozen languages. He
failed in this and said that then he
took up burglary as a profession.
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Caught With Stolen Horse.
Asheville, N. C., July 30.?The police
are holding Joe Teems, who has
k confessed stealing a horse valued at
about $150 from J. J. Fretwell, of
Anderson, awaiting the arrival of an
officer to carry him back to South
Carolina. He has promised to go
without requisition papers.
Suspicion was first aroused when
he tried to sell the horse for $40, little
more than a fourth of its value.
A short while afterwards a long distance
telephone message from Anderson
told of the theft of Mr. Fretwell's
horse and stated that the thief was
supposed to be headed toward Asheville.
When accused, Teems said he
supposed it was all up with him.
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Charged With Criminal Assault.
Lancaster, July 30.?Sheriff Hunter
received by mail this afternoon a
-warrant for the arrest of Cecil
Broom, a prominent young man of
Waxhaw, N. C., who is charged with
criminally assaulting a young lady in
the Van Wyck section of this county.
^ Broom is said to have run off immediately
after the alleged offense.
His present whereabouts are not
known, but the sheriff spent several
-dollars in telegrams this afternoon
trying to locate him.
It is reported that the unfortunate
young lady was so overcome with
grief and humiliation that she att
tempted suicide by taking carbolic
;> acid and that her life was saved with
, great difficulty by physicians.
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Injured by Stone Crushing Machine.
Lexington, July 30.?Isaac Walker,
a negro laborer at the Casparis Stone
Company, met with a painful accident
while at work around the crusher late
this afternoon. His overalls became
caught in a set screw and, before the
engine could be stopped, his left leg
was broken at the knee and all the
flesh scraped from the bone between
the knee and ankle, making a horrible
looking wound. He was given
prompt medical atteption by Dr.
Frank Roberts, and it is thought tfiat
the leg can be saved.
'Twas a Glorious Victory.
There's rejoicing in Fedora, Tenn.
A man's life has been saved, and now
Dr. King's New Discovery is the talk
of the town for curing C. V. Pepper
of deadly lung hemorrhages. "I could
* not work nor get about," he writes,
"and the doctors did me no good, but,
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aiLCi using ui. mug o wiovvvij
three weeks, I feel like a new man,
and can do good work again." For
weak, sore or diseased lungs, coughs
and colds, hemorrhages, hay fever,
lagrippe, asthma or any bronchial affection
it stands unrivaled. Price 50c.
and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Sold
.and guaranteed by People's Drug Co.,
Bamberg, S. C.
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DOG FINDS MISTRESS' BODY.
Yellow Cur, After Five Days' Persistent
Whining, is Rewarded.
Pittsburg, July 29.?A dog's
mournful whines at his mistress' door
resulted in the finding of Mrs. Annie
Graham dead in her trunk in her
home, last evening. She was a widow,
aged 65, and lived alone, and was
last seen last Friday. Coroner's deputies
report that she fell, accidentally,
her neck being broken by striking
a trunk, into which her body turn
bled.
It was evident by the state of the
body that she had been dead several
days.
"Jack," a little yellow cur, was
Mrs. Graham's only companion.
When neighbors were awakened last
Saturday morning by his barks and
whining, and saw him leaping
against the widow's door, they paid
no heed. For five days Jack persist-J
ently continued his tactics and finally
was rewarded.
An insurance agent .went to the woman's
home yesterday. Several
knocks on the door were not answered,
so the insurance man lifteed a boy
so he could peer through the tran-I
som. The little lad shrank back at
what he saw inside. A policeman
found the body.
Senator Stone Slaps Negro's Face.
Baltimore, July 29.?Angered at
what he considered the persistent insolence
of a negro porter on a Pullman
car, United States Senator William
J. Stone slapped the negro in
the face ,and was hauled to the Cen
tral police station on the charge of
assault. The episode happened on a
Pennsylvania railroad train on the
way from Philadelphia to Washington.
The senator had ordered a luncheon,
and was provoked because after
all the others in the car had been
served he was still kept waiting 20
minutes before his modest repast was
brought to him. The senator sharply
reproved the colored man, who became
surly and impudent. The senator
tried to ignore the waiter's remarks,
but the latter became so offensive
that Senator Stone slapped
the negro across the face. The conductor
of the train appeared on the
scene about that time, preventing any
further disorder, and when the train
reached this city Senator Stone was
turned over to a special officer, who
conducted him to the Central station.
Brown, the negro, followed and
laid a charge against the senator,
who was permitted the freedom of
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higher police authorities could be
reached. Senator Stone argued that
he was immune to arrest unless
charged with a felony or treason, but
he was detained until Commissioner
Whettle was reached, who ordered
his release for a hearing to-morrow.
In the interval the senator was
rather ill at ease. He paced up and?
down the assembly room, talking
about habeas corpus proceedings. He.
smoked one cigarette after another,
his excitement growing as he learned,
first, that Senator Raynor, for whom
he sent, was out of town, and then
that Representative Gill was likewise
out of hailing distance. Finally he
thought of ex-Senator Wellington,
but Cumberland is several hundred
miles away.
The senator's composure was restored
by the time the order for his
release had arrived. He finally joked
about the affair, and as he left the
station house said the porter would
have got it a good deal worse had the
affair happened in Missouri.
WHITE GIRL ASSAULTED.
White Brute Escapes?-Young Lady
Attempts Suicide.
Lancaster, July 30.?It is reported
here that a young lady living in the
Van Wyck section was criminally assaulted
yesterday by a prominent
young man of Waxhaw, N. C., who
has since left the country for parts
unknown. It is said that the young
lady was so overcome with humiliation
that she attempted to commit
suicide by taking carbolic acid, and
that it was with great difficulty that
her life was saved by physicians.
TOOK TOO MUCH WHISKEY.
Chester Merchant Tries to Shoot WoMan
while Crazed by Liquor.
Chester, July 30.?J. E. Sanders,
a merchant on Gadsden street, who is
ordinarily sober and quiet, while
crazed with liquor, tried to shoot the
wife of a neighbor, and was on the
point of committing other misdemeanors
when taken in charge by the
police. He was conveyed to the lockup,
but when he reached there was in
such condition as to make it unsafe
for him to be kept in that place of
confinement through the night. He
was carried home, where he soon recovered,
and got on his war paint
again. He was subdued, however,
without further serious results, and
will be tried in the mayor's court as
soon as the feeling of the "morning
after" subsides sufficiently to allow
him to appear for trial.
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WOMAN FAINTS AT FORTUNE. (
Several Thousand Dollars in Coun- |
terfeit Looked Like Millions. ^
Pittsburg, July 29.?In the federal ^
court Tuesday John Cordua, the ,
fourth suspect arrested in the $2
counterfeiting case, was called for
hearing. Several thousand dollars in
counterfeit currency were found by
children in the cellar of a house occupied
by Cordua at No. 102 Washington
street. Cordua was held for
court in 32,500 bond. Cordua lived
in the house with the family of Jacob
Bgrbrow.
"When those children came to me
with that money," testified Mrs. Barbrow,
"I fainted. It looked to me
like millions. I thought that all my
prayers had beem answered. I tried
to count the money, but when I had
run through a few of the bills and
stopped to think how many things it
would buy, my nead swam.
"The first thing I did was to take
one of the $2 bills down to a fruit
stand and get oranges, bananas and
plums. Then I went out and bought
shoes for Mollie and a lot of nice
things. All the time I was afraid to
count all the money."
Calm Counsel for the Vermonters.
The Daily News, published at Bur- <
lington, Vermont, where the Tenth
cavalry (negro) is now quartered,
has these words of sound counsel to
offer to its fellow citizens, who,
strangely, have been inclined to resent
the stationing of these negro
troops at Fort Ethan Allen. We
agree fully and completely with our
courageous Burlington contemporary;
we have little or no patience
with these people who are guilty of
prejudice against men because of
their color. Hearken to the proper
rebuke administered by the esteemed
Burlington News:
No "Jim Crow" cars are needed in
Vermont. This State is not going to
blot out the theory and its past history
of equality at this late day. The
negro troopers will be treated exactly
as well as they deserve by every real
iVermonter?setting down nothing to
color, birthright or previous condition?and
giving the same recognition
that we accord to soldiers of
white skin in similar circumstances.
The uniform of our own national government
ought to settle promptly all
questions of equality. The uniform
will not stay long upon an unworthy
man. The negro soldiers while here
are our protectors, and if they are
ever seriously needed to do that service
we have no doubt that our lives
could be safely placed in their hands.
No good Vermont man, no gentleman,
will insult or offend a negro soldier
because of his color. Our State is on
trial as well as the negro trooper."
The only queer thing about all this
is, why is it necessary to say these
things?in Vermont? Are these inalienable
New England truths amen9
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appeal to the Vermonters to give the
poor "down-trodden black" a square
deal? Angels and ministers of abolition
defend us?and the black men!
?The State.
Served Her Right.
A doctor was one day stopped in
the street by one of his women patients
whose malady was purely imaginary.
The doctor, who was known
for his intolerance of and non-sympathy
with such invalids, after listening
somewhat impatiently to the woman's
detailed account of all her feelings
and symptoms, told her to shut
her eyes and put out her
tongue. She promptly did so. On
| opening her eyes in a few seconds the
doctor was nowhere to be seen, and
the woman awoke to the fact that
he had left her standing by herself
in a busy thoroughfare with her eyes
[shut and her tongue hanging out.?
! Chicago News.
Did Right to Knock Negro.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, "Gum
Shoe Bill," knocked a negro waiter
I down in a Pullman car between
Washington and Baltimore the other
day and was arrested on complaint of
the negro on reaching Baltimore. He
was released on his own recognition,
after tinkering with red tape for
some time, and appeared yesterday
for trial before a ponce magisiraie,
who dismissed him, assuring him that
he had done right, and the public had
to put up with too much insolence
from the negro porters and waiters.
Senator Stone will make the Pennsylvania
road sweat a few for his delay
and inconvenience in being ar
rested.
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lie in the low, marshy bottoms of the
Potomac, the breeding ground of malaria
germs. These germs cause
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jaundice, lassitude, weakness and
general debility and bring suffering
or death to thousands yearly. But
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"They are the best all-round tonic
and cure for malaria I ever used,"
writes R. M. James, of Louellen, S. C.
They cure stomach, liver, kidney and
blood troubles and will prevent typhoid.
Try them, 50c. Guaranteed
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