The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 23, 1910, Page 3, Image 3
WHITE MAN LODGED IN JAIL.
Charged with Criminally Assaulting
Several Colored Girls in Spartanburg.
A white man by the name of W. X.
COT
Kennedy was arrested at Arkwright
ore
Mill village yesterday on the charge
* of criminal assault on several negro ma
girls. Kennedy was arrested by Sher- (IU1
x iff White, Captain of Police H. P.
Hayes, Deputy Sheriff Ed Vernon
and Special Constable J. L. Williams. 01
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These officers had been on the search
the
for the man for one week. They dePa
clare he was the hardest man to run
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? down cnev nave nau iu ucai mm m
ma
years.
Kennedy is alleged to have been
Dl3
working a scheme whereby he abducted
colored girls from their home '
and after getting them in the woods
attempted and in some instances did ?
accomplish his purpose of ravishing
> them. The officers had but one clue pa<
bac
in running down Kennedy. He had
told the last colored girl upon whom
he is alleged to have attempted as- f?ffi
sault that he would kill her and throw a]
her in a hole where he had already
thrown three others, and that the
only way she would be identified on ]
judgment day was by a badge he the
pinned on her. This metal badge was jnt
a detective badge, bearing the words mi]
* "The Southern Detective Agency." wo
The colored girl broke awray from the to
man before he accomplished his pur- no1
pose, and when her parents swore out am
the warrant last Thursday they gave pe]
the badge to the officers. When shown s0]
the badge by the officers Kennedy at Ed
once recognized it as his own. tn?
Kennedy claims Habersham, Ga., as ter
his home. He is a man of rather ec- nej
centric habits. He lives in one part the
of the city and works in the other ex- S0I
treme. His mode of procedure in the tri;
last case has been his method all we
along. Last Thursday he went to the
i father of the girl he is alleged to have pe]
L assaulted and asked him to hire his wjj
I daughter. He told the old man that ^ht
p he had plenty of money and lived in a
mansion on East Main street. He said ^er
he had a wife and one baby, and that
* ' all be wanted the girl to do was to
nurse the infant and be company to ma
his wife. For a small stipend the scj.
father agreed that he could hire the Pu
girl. Accordingly he went by the vic
' house of the darky to get the girl to on]
/ go home with him. pa]
According to the story told by the as
father, as related to him by the girl ^
instead of going home the man took .
her into a woodland on Lawson's e(j,
Fork. He threatened her and when C01
she refused he told her that he was a ^
not a married man, and that all he
wanted was to do with her as he pr(
pleased. He pinned the badge on her an(
and said that he would kill her and
' throw her in a hole. The man gather- Bu
ed rocks to throw at her and gave glQ
* chase. A white woman was in the pQ,
woods nearby picking berries, and she tri
asked the man what he meant and he jog
\ replied that he was going to kill the fir]
> Sirl. mf
/ As soon as Kennedy learned that ^
the officers were looking for him he
i moved. He shaved and changed his an
personal appearance. When he was du
* locked in jail yesterday members of yv^
the families of the different negfo aQ
girls whom he is alleged to have at- of
' ' atmpted to assault were brought be- c^a
fore him to see if they could identify
him. They were taken to his cell one
at a time, and in every instance they cQ]
identified the man. cQ]
Kennedy is said to have carried his an
k fiendish scheme to such an extent
that the negroes in a certain com- th(
munity were terrorized and would ^
scarcely open their doors by day or
no
by night, and their daughters they ^
kept concealed. He was known and
pe:
regarded as a bold, bad white man. a^.
"^hen arrested it was proved that
mc
Kennedy was a married man. His
wife came to the jail to see him im- j,
a mediately upon hearing that he was
under arrest.
Sheriff White said last night that
he wished to express his thanks to ^
cr<
all who had so kindly aided him in . .
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locaung j\.enneay. ne scuu mat
everywhere he went to seek informa- .
tion the people, both colored and
an
white, aided him in every way they
> could.?Spartanburg Herald. jjT
How a Roller Helps Prepare Land, ue
no
\ I have a clod crusher and roller pa
that I would not know how to get dr
along without. Instead of being a Or
smooth face roller it is made of ten ye
wheels with something similar to be
cogs on a gear wheel. These cogs Tt
mash the clods and pack the land, "ii
and leave it rough instead of smooth fr<
like the smooth roller. The land, dr
Jr will not wash as bad after this as
after the smooth roller. On all red to
stiff land you will have clods, and ob
sometimes so badly you can't get we
dirt enough to cover the seed; and an
^ the disc harrow nor any other imple
t ment I have ever tried will put it in to
condition to work. This roller will co
do the work perfectly. I run it over fo
the cotton and corn after it is plant- Si
ed and sometimes after it is up. It th
won't hurt the plants as they will is
/ slip between the cogs. It pays for le
4 itself every year.?A. C. F., in the T1
Progressive Farmer. id
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FOR ROBBING THE MAILS.
gro Committed Charged with Of-: ^
fence Against Uncle Sam.
Columbia, June 16.?United States
mmissioner Beverley Sloan has |
nmitted to jail Israel Gadsden, col-1 r
'd. who is charged with robbing the
ils. He was unable to give the re- s
ired bond, $750, for appearance s
trial, in Greenville, in October. }j
Saturday, Gadsden was arrested by 0
nstable Thackham. at Ridgeway, ^
i brought to Columbia, to await
f preliminary hearing Thursday. ^
dsden was a mail carrier, it be- ^
; his duty to transfer sacks of mail n
tter from trains to the postoffice b
Ridgeway. Postoffice inspectors t
,ced a $5 bill and a $10 bill in a a
il cant wbifh was latpr nnpnpd and ?
> bills extracted. Gadsden, it is p
irged, spent the money in Ridge- ^
y, and, from merchants whom he ^
;ronized, the money was traced n
;k to Gadsden, it is alleged. The p
:k is a favorite method of post- ^
ce inspectors, and has caught many
pless employees. p
An Ideal Newspaper.
o
[f we wish to keep abreast with a
> times, we must read and read a
elligently. In the first place, we 8
ist have something to read that is d
rth while. Time is too valuable ^
be wasted in something that does ?
t benefit' or instruct us. The first *
d most important duty of the pa- '
* is to chronicle the news; but with
ne (no reflection intended, Mr.
itor, I refer to, papers in general) J
it seems to be the only one. Af- *
the happenings and doing of the c
;ghborhood have been scanned, c
?n, if we are tired, we would like s
nething entertaining; or if the c
als of life seem a bit more than ^
can bear, something uplifting. 1
Many of us have a variety of pa- c
-s and we can discriminate, read c
at we choose; but in some homes I"
i county paper is the only paper. r
ey have to put up with its con- c
its. A variety should be there or the s
V
1 of fare will not be satisfactory.
To my mind, the paper can be 1
.de a great educator. We have free' 1
looIs, it is true, for that purpose, 8
t sometimes the children's seres
are needed elsewhere, and their
ly chance for information is the
per. Pieces that instruct as well
entertain would be beneficial to
im. i
The Germans have compulsory
ncation, that is, the children are
c
npelled to attend the schools; as
latural result, Germany is the lead;
European power to-day. France
jvides.free lectures for her people
i many have fairly good educans,
who can neither read or write.
?
t thrmp-h more hrilliant than the
w, painstaking Germans, her
wer is waning. One writer atbutes
this to the fact that she has s
g
t her national religious ideals, her
m belief in her own destiny, her *
>ral authority, and further adds
it Germany is replacing her beise
she has pressed these ideals,
d rigidly upheld the authority of
ty. But' now, the Kaiser, Emperor s
illiam, of Germany, detects danger, 1
d has expressed his condemnation *
their beer-drinking habits, and de.res
that it has caused a deteriora- 1
n in the physicial and mental C
.mina of the German nation, in
isequence of which it is unable to
aipete successfully with England
d America in the battle of life. j
Here it is left to the volition of ^
s parents and the children whether ^
sy attend school or not, and many,
t realizing its importance, neglect (
sir opportunities. To these the par
and whatever books are availle
are the only means of enlighten- ^
mt.
It seems to me the paper could j
ly an important part in the up- T
ilding of the masses, helping them
higher, better life; that they may ]
d for what purpose they were
sated, and finally recognize their j
aship with God. There the paper
11 have accomplished its true mis- ]
m. Of course it will take time i
d means to do this. Healthy i
owth is necessarily slow. Aim ]
gh and work up to it gradually, j
itil the goal is reached. There is '
such thing as standing still, the i
per must either go forward or ]
op out. A new era is dawning. <
ily faint gleams the discernible as <
t, but as we advance our path will i
come more and more illumined, i
Le earnest seeker after truth, for <
t is the truth that will make us <
?e," is now entering a realm of un- ]
eamed-of posibilities.
In climbing mountains it is fatal (
look down. So to overcome the ]
stacles that beset life's pathway, i
i must ever look up for guidance i
d protection.
Last year all the papers were filled
overflowing with every tragedy
nceivable. There is a lull now,
r which we are devoutly thankful,
ich reading is depressing and gives
e young a morbid view of life. It
news and must" be published, but
t it be done as briefly as possible,
le papers should hold up high
eals for our boys and our girls.
LIVING ON NERVE.
Vithout Means of Support, New
Yorker Creates $24,000 Debt.
An enterprising individual in New
"ork has filed a petition in bankuptcy,
and the schedule shows that
e has liabilities of $24,000 and asets
of $25. This list of creditors
hows that the bankrupt was a good
iver and enjoyed a goodly portion
f the luxuries of life, although he
ad no visible means of support.
A man must be a genius at bilk '*"*
Vva oKlo f a fro en for* in
llg IU UC auic lvj ovy 1ui
ebt with no capital except cold
erve. There is a considerable number
of such fellows in the world, and
o their fellows who labor arduously
nd regularly they are a source of
onstant wonder. How can they do
t? To the mind of the man who
elieves in personal effort and in
tonorable dealings, with the rest of
nankind there is no possible exilanation.
It is simply incompre.ensible.
It may be that swindlers, like
oets, are born, not made. Undoubtdly
it must require no small degree
f capability to buy food and clothing
nd jewelry and flowers and books
nd automobiles and stationery and
olf outfits and paintings and hunireds
of other articles, as this man
iid, on mere assurance and with no
rospect or expectation of paying for
hem. What a happy time he must
tave had dodging bill collectors!
It must be a peculiar sort of man
t*ho can enjoy a life like that in
reference to some "gainful occupaion."
It must require a tremendous
amount of mental labor and a
orresponding amount of physical
ide-stepping to flourish on an inome
represented by a cipher. It
^ould be a pretty bad world to live
n if persons of this bankrupt's peuliar
class were sufficiently numerous
to represent anything more than
i feeble but rather /troublesome mi
;ti-Vin Vioo onv ccnsp nf
lUilCV. 1U LfUC ? 11V J-L&W uuj wvmwv w.
(bligation, and conception of duty,
uch a career of dead-beating would
?e infinitely less preferable than the
nonotonous process of shoveling
nud, breaking rock, or pounding
and.?Louisville Courier-Journal.
After Contest Fee. v
Washington, June 16.?Aaron Pri>leau,
the Charleston negro, who Has
>een running for congress for the
ast six or eight years, turned up in
Vashington Wednesday. He dedined
to say whether he had come to
issist Dr. Crum in -nrfaking preparaions
to go to Liberia, or to see what
vas holding up his last' contest fee.
It has developed recently that cerain
members of the committee on
dections, which heard the last conests
from South Carolina, are getting
ired of seeing the government waste
leveral thousand dollars at every
lession of congress in these cases and
ire inclined to scrutinize the expense
iccounts very closely hereafter.
Prioleau is said to have had his
ast $2,000 tee neia up. vvnen me
3ink Franklin case was under consideration
by the supreme court here
ecently, Prioleau occupied a conspicuous
seat just in front of Chief
lustice Fuller, which is reserved for
nembers of the bar. He did not dis:uss
his business here at all.
Where Was John?
A San Francisco woman whose
lusband had been dead some years
vent to a medium, who produced
;he spirit of her dead husband.
"My dear John," said the w^dow
,o the spirit "are you happy now?"
"I am very happy," John replied.
"Happier than you were on earth
vith me?" she asked.
"Yes," was the reply; "I am far
lappier now than I was on earth
vith you."
"Tell me, John what is it like in
leaven?"
"Heaven!" said John. "I'm not
n heaven!"?Lippincott's.
Let them know what is expected of
fliem, then our manhood and our
womanhood will become more and
more noble. Then there will not be
so many horrible things to publish.
Too often our young folks have
:o learn by a sad experience when a
little forethought on the part of
others might have kept them "in the
straight and narrow path." When
he papers undertake to bring about
this happy state of affairs, then they
will have found their mission. Viewed
in this light, the mission of the
paper is a high and responsible one.
Every paper should have a man
of the highest character at its head,
for the paper is a reflection of the
man. It cannot rise higher than its
source. * ^
To be a great people we rfiust be a
reading, thinking, moral people, and
more important than all, let us remember
that "Righteousness exalteth
a nation but sin is a reproach to any
people."
The paper that helps people to
right thinking and right living is the
paper par excellence.
T. V. BRABHAM,
Olar, S. C., June 13, 1910.
PROBE FORT I^REMONT TROUBLE.
Seven Soldiers to be Tried by CourtMartial.
Savannah, Ga., June 16.?Seven
soldiers from Fort Fremont will face
Court-martial, at Fort Screven, on
Tybee Island, beginning next Tuesday
morning, as the result of the
trouble between Fort Fremont soldiers
and negroes in the vicinity of
that post, which caused the death of
private Quincy.
Capt. J. M. Williams will preside
? it- - ? ? ? ? 1 T i AH t
uvtfr tut; uuurt-nicti ticii. ottuuu tucuu
Rufus F. Maddox will be Judge Advocate,
and First Lieut. Fred T. Coyle
will represent the defendants.
The seven soldiers who will be tried
are: Harris T. Llewellyn, John
McGhen, John McNally, Edgar V.
Moore, John P. Steenson, W. J. Sul- ?
livan and Emil Thimra. '
A number of witnesses will be ?
heard, including probably one of the J
Potter brothers, negroes, who fired 1
the fatal shot at a party of soldiers 1
at the negroes' home. The whole
trouble will be thoroughly probed.
? ;
The Cotton Crop. e
t
The final figures^ of the government c
place the cotton crop of 1909 at 10;- j315,382
500-pound bales and the val- a
ue of the crop at $812,089,833. This c
is 3,271,924 bales or 24.1 per cent. ^
less cotton than was produced in 1908. c
$130,858,877 or 19.2 per cent, more
but the value of the 1909 crop was
$130,858,877 or 19.2 per cent, more
than that of 1908.
The cotton crop of the United a
States in 1909, although grown in r
only a part of the Southern States, ^
was about half that of the corn crop, ^
which is grown everywhere, and j
$110,000,000 more than that of the e
wheat crop and about double the jvalue
of the oat crop.
During the last five years the price g
of {jotton has averaged about 11
cents a pound. The average price of 5
cotton seed in 1909 was $27.73 a.(
ton as compared with $13.76 in
T906.
The value of a 500-pound bale of
cotton, including the seed, was I
$84.31 in 1909, as compared with i
$50.37 in 1904 and $30.32 in 1898. C
While the crop has more than doub- e
led In the last 30 years, this increase f
has " been due to an increased g
acreage rather than to any marked
increase in yield per acre. _
The uncertainty of cotton produc
tion is shown by the facts that the I
crop of 1909 as compared with that I
of 1908 was 45.6 less in Louisiana, I
34.3 per cent, less in Mississippi and I
33.4 per cent, less in Texas; while in I
^ Pomlinoo and nonro'ia til o mn I
LUC Laiunuao UUU Vl^Vi^iU v,uv * vr
of 1909 was only 6.3 per cent, less
than that of 1908. The loss in production
for the whole United States
was 24.1 per cent. -Louisiana has
suffered most in her cotton production
in recent years, from the boll
weevil and other unfavorable conditions.
:^The crop in 1908 wras only
70.1 per cent, of that of 1907, while
that of 1909 was only about onefourth
of that of 1906. J
Another Smuggler Caught. ?
Pleading guilty to an indictment m
charging her with smuggling, Mrs.
Charles W. Allen, wife of C. N. Allen,
of Kenosha, Wis., a director in the
Leather Trust, appeared before Judge
Holt on Wednesday and was fined
$100?which she paid. {
Her attorney, W. Wickham-Smith,
asked District Attorney Wise to have
Mrs. Allen arraigned in chambers on
the ground that she was very nerv
ous. His request was refused. Assistant
District Attorney Dood told the
court that the smuggling began in
Europe, when Mrs. Allen sent certain
things by mail in an attempt to avoid
paying duty. He argued this showed
premeditation.
Mrs. Allen's counsel said she had
gone aboard as chaperon of three
girls, and that her violation of the
law was through ignorance. To get
the goods held by the customs offi- cers
Mrs. Allen must pay the full ?
home value, amounting to more than
$3,000?that is to say, she must buy ^
the goods all over again, and in ad- ^
dition pay full duty on them. r
WERE ALL FLORIDIANS. ' h
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Mob in Pensacola Disbelieved Sheriff 1
and Calmly Searched Jail.
Pensacola, Fla., June 16.?Believ- _
-~ ciVkSNMi-pp iron boH snrmila.t
lJLig L licit Oiici xu v au x vio umu ~\j * a vt**v?v
ed the report that R6bert Matthews,
a negro, was in another jail in order
that he might keep the negro charged
with criminal assault safely in the
Pensacola jail, a mob of several hundred
determined men surrounded the
prison here and demanded that the
prisoner be turned over to them. 1
When the situation became critical, J
the sheriff offered to let a delegation ]
from the mob search the jail, which ]
was done, with the result that the i
negro was not found. After the mob {
dispersed it was learned that there !
may be an attempt to storm the jail ;
at Milton, Santa Rosa county, in an |
attempt to get Matthews. Feeling '
runs high in the surrounding country.
Farmers should "eat
more oatmeal.
Although the farmer of today is able
to buy almost anything he wants to
wear or to eat he isn't paying enough
attention to food values when it comes
to his own table.
If he has been watching the extensive
researches and experiments on
the question of the best human food
for muscle and brain he will heed the
advice from all sides to "eat more
niini'ar note n
vuvw*
Quaker Oats is mentioned because
it is recognized in this country and
Europe as the best of all oatmeals.
Feeding farm hands on Quaker Oats
means getting more work out of them
than if you feed them on anything
else.
It is packed in regular size packages,
and in hermetically sealed tins
for hot climates. 61
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JOHN BUSH, ,
Watervleit, Me.
Used Them Four Years.
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ire the best I ever tried for the
elief of headache. I have used
hem for nearlv four vears and
hey never fail to give me relief.
have tried many other rem:dies,
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The best feature of this renarkable
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irst package fails to benefit, your drug*
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.'NTVERSITY OP SOOTH CAROLINA
Scholarship Examination.
The University of South Carolina ^Bj
offers scholarships in the Department
of Education to one young man from
each county. Each Scholarship is
worth $100 in money and $18"term
fee with free tuition.
Examination will be held at county
seat July 1st. Examination of
students generally for admission to
the University will be held at the /J:
same time. Write for information to
S. C. MITCHELL, President, ,
/ Colupibia, S. C.
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