The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 30, 1909, Image 3
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KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF
TRAGEDY IN WOODSIDE MILL
VILLAGE NEAR GREENVILLE.
Only Small Children in House When
G. W. Gallaway Committed
Dreadful Deed.
Greenville, Sept. 24.?One of the
iri&st horrible domestic tragedies that,
has taken place near Greenville in a!
number of years occurred at Woodside
village this morning when G. W. j
Gallaway, a mill employe, shot and
instantly killed his wife, and then
blew his brains out with the same
weapon, a double-barreled breech
loading shotgun. The crime was
committed about 5 o'clock, and there
were no witnesses, save two small
children, who can not give a coherent
account of the terrible happening.
It is supposed that Gallaway and
his wife had been on unfriendly
terms for a long time, having had
sharp words about the son, Ben.
There is also a rumor that the
husband was suspicious of his wife.
When found by Deputy Justice of the
Tillage the two bodies were 4ying
cuddled up on the bed, side by side.
The woman was shot through the
hack of the head and the entire face
of the man had been blown into a
mass of bloody flesh. In the arm of
the man lay the weapon which had
been the instrument of the tragedy,
a short double-barreled breech loading
shotgun, in which were two discharged
shells. A lamp was burning
in the kitchen. Tiny clots of blood
and brains were scattered over the
bed and both bodies.
Neighbors heard two shots in the
early morning, one within a minute
or two of the other. No notice was
taken of them, however, until about
8 o'clock when the older daughter
of the Gallaway's came frightened
and crying to Deputy Justice saying
that her father and mother were
dead.
The officer immediately went to
?>?*? house took in the situation, and
notified the coroner.
TOLD OP BURIED HOARDINGS.
Aged Virginian's Savings of $6,020
Transferred to Bank.
Roanoaks, Va., Sept. 24.?There
was deposited in the First National
bank of Logan, W. Va., to-day the
sum of $6,020. This specific deposit
has a history as strange and interesting
as ever shadowed romance or
figured in the tales told of the oldtime
misers.
Milton Mullins, an aged man who
lives at Rolfe postoffice in Logan
county, is the owner of this small
fortune and. the sum deposited represents
the savings of fifty years.
When quite a young man MuHins began
hoarding his savings. At every
opportunity he would exchange silver
and greenbacks for gold and two
or three times a year he would go to
the treasure crypt in the rear of his
house and make a deposit of gold
coin. Year after year he watched j
the pile accumulate. Even before
the War Between tne states ne was
reputed to have had a considerable
sum of money hidden on his premises
and bands of marauders often
tried to compel him to disclose its
hiding place during the war, but
those attempts were never successful
and the secret remained his own until
two days ago.
A few days ago Mullin's wife died
and he, feeling that he could not
long survive her, decided that it
would be better to disclose at once
the hiding place of the treasure
which represented the slow but regular
accumulation of 50 years. Summoning
J. M. Perry, a grandson, and
some other near relatives, he related
the story of his hoardings and gave
.them directions how to find the
money. They went and dug in the
yard and found even $5,000 in gold
and $20 in silver. Then they proceeded
to the barn where, in the exact
spot indicated by the aged man,
they discovered $1,000 in $20 bills,
making $6,020 in all.
Mr. Mullins has always been considered
a frugal and honorable man
and the finding of the money and the
remarkable details have not surprised
those who have known him for years,
since It was commonly known that he
was hoarding his gains somewhere
about his property.
* FOURTH COST 215 LIVES.
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The Largest Total of Deaths in Five
Years.
The Independence Day celebration
ot 1909 claimed as its grim toil 215
lives, according to the figures contained
in the current number of the
-innmill nf the American Medical As
aociation.
This year, in which the "sane
Fourth" sentiment was supposed to
' have reached its height, had by far
the largest total of deaths in the last
five years.
For the first time since 1903 tetanus,
or lockjaw, was responsible
for more deaths than all the other
causes combined. Tetanus claimed
125 lives.
Philadelphia led with nine deaths,
New York seven and Boston, Pittsburg
and Lawrence Mass., five each.
Chicago did not have a fatality.
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Bcrnette Released on Bond.
Aiken, Sept. 27.?Mason Burnette
was released to-night on $600 bond,
from the county jail, Messrs C. K.
Henderson and Dr. J. H. Burnette,
father of young Burnette, going on
his bond. Burnette is charged with
forgery and breach of trust with
fraudulent intent, in connection with
the alleged shortage in the Bank of
Graniteville, Burnette being formerly
book-keeper,
r It is rumored here to-night that '
the shortage in the bank is much less
than was at first estimated. An
auditing company has been employed
to check up the accounts.
The Herald Book Store is headquarters
for school books and all
y kinds of school supplies. Send the
children here for their school outfit.
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NEGRO MURDER LYNCHED.
Slayer of Florida Officer Pays Penalty
at Hands of Mob.
Live Oak, Fla., Sept. 26.?Swinging
from a limb in front of his shoe
repairing shop at Perry, Taylor
County, the dead body of Charley
Anderson was found early this morning,
a mob having imposed the death
penalty as a reward for the bullet he
sent into the heart of Marshall Hawkins,
of Perry, last night.
The place of the lynching was almost
at the spot where Marshal Hawkins
was slain, the officer having been
in the act of placing the negro under
arrest when he met his death at the
hands of the man he meant to make
a prisoner. The negro's body was
allowed to hang until late in the day,
when it was taken down and shipped
to this place.
The killing of the Perry officer occurred
at 8 o'clock last night. Anderson
was wanted for a minor of
fence, it is said, and was in the shoe
shop when the officer went to arrest
him. Hawkins was at the door of the
shop when the negro appeared armed
with a pistol, and before the officer
could defend himself, shot him to
death.
Anderson escaped for a time, but
was caught several hours later, and
at 2 o'clock was in the hands of the
crowd of men that pursued him. He
was returned to his shoe shop and in
front of it a rope was placed about
his neck and he was swung into the
air. Bullets were fired into his body
and he was left swinging.
The excitement incident to the
murder and lynching has disappeared
and Perry is quiet to-night.
Minute Hand 612 Feet Long.
The longest minute hand in the
world?that will be the tower of the
Singer building, if a plan proposed
by Commander E. E. Hayden, U. S.
N., in charge of the department of
chronometers and time service of the"
naval observatory at Washington,
goes through to completion.
The towering illuminated shaft
caught the commander's eye on a recent
visit, and he at once conceived
the idea of making the illumination
mark the five minutes preceding midyiirrV*f
f% minnto VtOflH 9
a rniuuw^ uuuu ovt VAM
feet in the air.
The plan was first broached to
shipping men the latter part of August
in a circular letter by Commander
Hayden. He suggested in this
that by connecting with the ""minute
break" of the transmitting clock
at Washington each night the 31
searchlights that now make the tower
a pillar of flame could be made to
stop for the first second of each minute,
giving an exact time signal visible
to all shipping in port.
Lieutenant Ridgley Hunt and Ensign
B. S. Dent of the branch office
here have been sounding ship masters
for the last fortnight, and without
exception they favor the plan. It
has been indorsed unofficially by the
maritime exchange.
Oh, Scissors!
The first grade teacher had been
able to spank Tommy with the greatest
enthusiasm, but his next teacher
had not reached the point where she
felt she could do justice to him in
spite of all his naughtiness.
"Send him to me when you want
him spanked," said the first grade
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leacner one morning, uuer ucr vuileague
had related his many misdemeanors.
About 11 o'clock Tommy appeared
at the first grade teacher's door. She
dropped her work, seized him by the
arm, dragged him to the dressing
room, turned him over her knee and
did her duty.
When she had fifinished she said:
"Well, Tommy, what have you to
say?"
"Please, miss, my teacher wants
the scissors."?Everybody's Magazine.
Was Recommended to Mercy.
Lexington, Sept. 23.?Jesse Coleman
a young negro boy yet in his
teens, was tried in the sessions court
to-day upon the charge of criminal !
assault. His alleged victim was a
white married woman of the Dutch
Fork. The woman was the first wit
ness for the State. She described the
rooms of the house, and the particular
room in which the boy slept. She
stated that the boy had broken the
window to his room, in order to gain
entrance to the room in which she
was sleeping. She testified that the
boy placed his hand upon her. She
awoke and seized the boy who man- ?
aged to get away. In 15 minutes he .
returned, this time attacking her, ]
grabbing for her throat all the while, \
She said she picked up a stick and ;
proceeded to use it with all her force, i
beating the boy off. She said that i
the boy had been sleeping for two
years in the same house with the i
family, but in a back room. j
After a heated discussion between i
the attorneys, during which time the ]
jury was excluded from the room, a ]
newspaper correspondent was per- i
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had had with the negro a few days i
after he had been placed in jail. <
The boy was put on the stand and
he denied his intention of wrongdo- :
ing, stating that he was just passing
through the room, and in this way,
accidentally touched the woman.
After remaining in the room a few
minutes the jury brought in a verdict
of guilty with recommendation
to mercy, and Judge Wilson sentenced
the boy to serve 15 years in
the penitentiary.
By appointment of the court, Col.
J. Brooks Wingard and T. C. Sturkie
represented the boy, and a brilliant
fight was made in his behalf.
A Perfect Man.
There is a man who never drinks,
Nor smokes, nor chews, nor
swears;
Who never gambles, never flirts
And shuns all sinful snares?
He's paralyzed.
There is a man who never does
The thing that is not right;
His wife can tell just where he is
At morning, noon and night?
He's dead.
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BUYS BUILDING SITE.
Independent Oil Company Purchases
Ground Near Charleston.
Charleston, Sept. 23.?The Texas
Independent Oil company, which is
to establish a large plant in Charleston,
has purchased its site on the
Cooper river and is proceeding with
the arrangements for the location of
its plant.
A large tract comprising 38%
acres, has been bought from the
Burton Lumber company, the deed
of transfer having been recorded today
at the office of the register of
mesne conveyance and on this site
will be erected the plant which is to
be one of the largest oil depositories
in the South. The purchase price
was $15,000 and the papers were
made out in the name of William A.
Thompson, Jr.
The deal has been pending for some
time and now that the site has been
purchased, there seems to be no likelihood
that the plans will not be carried
out and the big oil works established.
The people who are behind
the plant here are the hardest competitors.
that the Standard Oil company
has met and the establishment
of the plant at Charleston is in accord
with the policy of the independent
corporation to enlarge and extend its
field of operations. The establishment
and development of the Charleston
navy yard with the certain
demand for oil for boats of navy
has probably especially attracted the
independent company to Charleston.
The oil plant is only another of the
many new enterprises that have recently
been added to Charleston's industries
and it further emphasizes
the commercial awakening of
nharloetnn
In a few days a representative of
the big oil company will come to
Charleston, prepared to proceed further
with the construction of the
plant and it is expected that he will
make an announcement respecting
the plans of the company.
Controversy Arises Over Murray.
Sumter, Sept. 23.?Deputy SherifT
James S. Sykes returned from Columbia
this evening after having seen
Gov. Ansel as to the requisition papers
for George Washington Murray,
who is in custody in Chicago as an
escaped convict with a three-year
sentence awaiting him for forgery in
this county in 1904, and with another
indictment pending against him for
perjury.
Mr. Sykes says that Gov. Ansel
was willing to make requisition on
the governor of Illinois for Murray,
but would not consent that the State
pay the expenses of bringing Murray
back to South Carolina. Gov. Ansel j
said that as Sumter county had collected
the bond of $3,000 Sumter
county would have to pay the bills.
Mr. Sykes says that the law on
the subject provides for the payment
Vvtr Ctoto nf eiinh pytiptirpr whPTl
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a sheriff or his legally deputized
officers go out of the State with
requisition papers. The sheriff of
this county, Mr. W. H. Epperson, will
have to be authorized by the county
commissioners to expend enough
money to get Murray back, or the
governor will have to pay the expenses
out of the State funds, or
Murray will go free.
Arrests His Father.
Newark, N. J., Sept. 27.?Policeman
David Flemming was arraigned
in the First Criminal Court on complaint
of his son, John, who also is
a special policeman. The son arrested
his father because he had been
drinking hard and had abused his
wife. Then the son arrested the
father. The younger Flemming did
not care to press the charge against
his father. The prisoner .was remanded
by Judge Hahn and the case
was continued one month.
Put His Clothes on Limb.
Stamford, Conn., Sept. 27.?Charles
Benjamin, twenty-three years old,
a real estate man from Tarrytown,
N. Y., who has been confined in a
local sanitarium, receiving treatment
for a nervous trouble, escaped last
night, and was found early today
ringing the door bell of Edwin L.
Schofleld, a lawyer.
Benjamin had disrobed and hung
his p.lothine on a tree half a mile .
from the point where he was found.
He was sent back to the sanitarium.
Jails Son to Save Bondsman.
New York, Sept. 27.?John Murray,
Jr., aged nineteen, of No. 217
Nineteenth street, Jersey City, is in
Jail to-day, having been given ub by
his father to save a bondsman friend.
The boy was arrested several days
ago for robbing freight cars. The
Father, in his trouble, hurried for aid
to Freeholder Richard Fallshee, who
had been his friend since their boyhood
days and who promptly bailed
the young man.
The father later overheard the
son planning to jump his bail and
go west. It was a pretty hard question
between his love of his son and
his loyalty to his friend, but he finally
stood by the latter, and hurrying
to Fallshe's home he told him to have
i policeman arrest his son again and
return him to jail again before he
:ould get away. That was done.
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yOU'LL feel
UtLL^l 1U1
play or rest if you
eat Quaker Oats
at least once a
day. ?
J. H.DIXON
Macfciafot and Engineer
General Repair Shop.
We repair all kinds of machinery
and carry a full line of
Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, Injectors,
Lubricators, Oilers, etc.
Bring your engine and have the
cylinder bored. Make it run like
new and give you more power.
Bring your cotton gins and
press parts and have them repaired
before the busy season.
A stitch in time saves nine. We
repair saw mills, grist mills,
cane mills; in fact we run a
hospital for sick and disordered
machinery. Bring it in and
have it cured. Gas engines and
automobile engine cylinders
bored, and new pistons and
rings made that won't leak.
Gives you more power and better
efficiency. We repair and
charge storage batteries. Call
when in trouble and see what
we can do.
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NEW
ARRIVALS
Curtis Brand Peas, per
can 15c.
Jumbo Tomatoes, 8 lb.
can, 10c
Mackerel, fine, 2 for 25c.
Misletoe Hams, per pound
16c.
Good Old Country Syrup,
in barrels, 50c. per gallon.
In quart bottles, sealed, 15c.
a quart.
Just received fine line of
10c. packages Lowney's
Chocolate Candies.
The finest lot of Fresh
Prunes that ever hit the
town.
Seeded Raisins on hand
all the time.
Have you ever tried our
Butter? We only ask 85c.
the pound.
Don't forget that we
handle Snowflake Flour, the
best that is put up, in sacks.
Don't forget to ask for
anything in the grocery line.
Wo mmn mlffhtv iwap hpv- I
lug it.
E. BART PRICE
BAMBERG, S. C.
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Remember the Place
to get polish for the brass
.work on your car.
Top dressing for your top.
Compression grease in a density
that will suit yon.
Automobile Oil
that will please yon by eliminating
half the trouble yon |
are now having.
Remember that the winning
car in the New Yorkto-Paris
race run 21,000
miles without carbonizing,
on this oil. We have oil for
air cooled engines, too.
Say, have you heard about
our gasoline contract to automobiles?
We also rebuild any kind
of automobile and sell new
tops.
The Delk Motor Co.
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DENTIST
BAMBERG, S. C.
Office in Telephone Building.
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Charleston, S. C.
State Distributers
5 Cents, 10 Cents; One-Half, One, Two Pound Packages,
Five Pound Boxes Fine Assorted Almonds, Nougatines,
Chips, Cherries, Pineapple, Chocolates or Bon Bons. .J||
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When you buy from us you are not ex
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^ Monday morning, but 1 am still turning out >?|?
T work just as promptly as ever in the shop f
? in the rear of the one that was burnt. 1 have <mi ^J?
J all new tools and am )ust as well prepared as :
^ before the fire to do your work. Come see! 7
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2 The Repair Man Bamberg, S. 0. Z ||#|
Southern States Supply Co! i
H. L. HARVEY, President.
Plumbing Supplies I
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810 to 818 Gervais St. Columbia, South Carolina
In my new Store ?
I have moved into my handsome new store, and I have opened np a
bran-new stock of everything in the hardware line. All bought for cash,
and you will make a serious mlstakelf you buy hardware without getting
my prices.
I have one of thehandsomest stores and stocks in town, and my fixtures
are new and in keeping with my store and goods. We are rather
proud of our display now, and we cordially ask you to visit us whether you
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buy or not.
J. A. HUNTER 1
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The Hardware Man, Bamberg, S. C.
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Ladies whose systems are poisoned and whose blood is in an impure condition
due to menstrual irregularities, are peculiarly benefitted by the wonderful
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Boot and Potassium.
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