The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 13, 1910, Page 7, Image 7
PAYS PENALTY.
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Negro Bunk Sherard Hanged Las
> Friday at Greenville.
Greenville, Oct. 7.?The first lega
execution in Greenville in sevn year;
occurred this morning in the jail yart
4 when the negro, Bunk Sherrard, pai(
the penalty with his life for havinj
murdered SDecial Officer WaldroD a
Piedmont two months ago.
r Dead in Few Minutes.
Sherrard was pronounced dead ii
12 minutes after the springing of th<
trap. His body was cut down anc
after being prepared for burial waf
turned over to his family. ^
* There were few spectators admit
ted to the jail yard, only the countj
officers, county physician and twc
newspaper men being present. The
I Sherard case has had some peculiai
' sides throughout. Officer Waldrop
the slain man, was returning with c
party of officers from quelling a dis
t turbance at a negro church near Pied
mont, and becoming aware of a partj
of gamblers in the woods near th<
town they closed in on them, with th(
result that the negro Sherard openet
fire, killing Waldrop almost instantly
The negro then made his escape anc
titoo Viiin + a/i !? mnh fnr npnrlv twf
days. When finally exhausted he sur
rendered to the sheriff.
^ Confessed After Conviction.
During the trial late in Septembei
Sherard declared his innocence, bu
after being found guilty and when th<
V- judge ordered him to stand up anc
receive sentence he fel into a fain
and many people supposed he hac
been literally frightened to death
For several days Sherard was uncon
scious and under care of a physician
Finally he rallied and soon after sen
tence was passed upon him he sern
for his lawyer and made a confession
Many Homeless From Flood.
Louisville, Oct. 7.?Almost unpre
cedented rains have fallen in the
Ohio river valley during the pasi
three days, and as a result the Ohic
threatens to reach a flood stage in ?
J few days.\ In the past thirty-sis
1 hours the ri>er at Paducah, Ky., hat
risen 6.3 feet and continues to rise
At Evansville, Ind., the river was rising
at the rate of three tenths of ?
foot an hour. The rainfall at the lat
ter point totalled eleven inches in 4?
I hours, breaking the record in thai
section for the past 40 years.
At Louisville, Owensboro and other
points in Kentucky, Eevansville
Booneville and other points it
Southern Indiana, the rain of th(
t past few days has caused damage
amounting to hundreds of thousands
of dollars, it is estimated. Bridges
have been caried away, crops are totally
destroyed, railroad tracks wash
ed away and various otner losses
,. have been caused.
< A dispatch from Boonville, Ind.
states that 500 people are homeless
^ there and that the deluge has destroyed
more than a million dollars
worth of property in Southern Indiana.
Damage to bridges and roads
x in six counties in Kentucky has beer
placed at half a million dollars.
According to the officials of the
*?: weather bureau here the rain sieg
was one of the longest and most damaging
in years.
k How's This?
We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh thai
cannot be cured "by Hall's Gatarrh
Cure.^
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f We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the past 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions anc
financially able to carry out any ob1
ligations made by his firm.
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inf
ternally, acting directly upon the
A blood and mucous surfaces of the
i system. Testimonials sent free
\ Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold bj
all druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
^ Mob Hunting Marshal's Slayer.
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Macon, Ga., Oct. 9.?With Charles
Bush, the town marshal of Monte
zuma, dead as a result of a shot bj
Joe Napier, a negro whom he was arresting
this morning, fully 100 mer
and boys of Montezuma are ranging
the woods and adjacent territorj
looking for the negro. Lynching wil
probably be the fugitive's fate if captured
by any but the meagre part}
of the law.
Details are meagre, the first inti?
mation here being a wired advertise
ment by Mayor Walker, of Montezuma,
to The Telegraph offering a re
ward of $100 for Napier's capture
Mayor Walker also wired here foi
bloodhounds, but they are not to b<
had in this section of the State
Bush was shot on the main street a;
he went to arrest the negro.
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ASYLUM LANDS BOUGHT.
t Commission Has Purchased T
Thousand Acres.
1 Columbia, Oct. 7.?The asyli
3 commission to-day announced tt
i 2,000 acres of land had been pi
1 chased in Richland county near'C
I lumbia. The new asylum buildir
t will be erected on this site, which
made up of seven tracts. An avera
of $25 per acre was paid, which w
i represent an outlay of $50,000.. T
} new site is located about six mii
i from Columbia, on the line of t
s Southern railway to Charlotte a
between the asylum and Koon roa<
- This announcement was made folio
r ing a long session of the commissit
) The names of the owners of the t
v riAiits rtf o m o l'i n rr n r\ f Vi/i + ro nt Vi
; a iv/no uavto uxaivtug up navv ?j
r not been announced.
[ Desperado Shot Near His Cabin.
Winter, Wis. Oct. 8.?The fii
- shooting in the attempt to captu
? John Dietz, at Cameron Dam, sta
- ed to-day, when John and his sc
- Leslie, exposed themselves outside
I their cabin. Every rifle in the pos
of nearly ninety men -surroundi
1 the Dietz home flashed fire.
) John Dietz suddely dropped to 1
- knees. He remained there for
moment and then jumped to his U
and ran into the cabin Leslie bac
[* longer distance to run, and show
t some fear. Whether he was hit
? not could not be learned.
1 It is not definitely established tk
t John Dietz was hit. Mrs. Dietz w
1 in the midst of the hail of bulle
but was not hurt. One scream w
- heard from within the cabin, wh
Helen; aged fourteen, and Johnn
- aged seven years, ..were shelter*
t One of the watch dogs was kill*
. In all, about 100 shots were fir
and five shots were fired from t
cabin.
It appears that John and Les
Dietz walked into the trap set by t
deputy sheriffs. Leslie left the cat
to go to the far side of the cleari
for a cow. He had proceeded abo
250 yards when a single shot w
fired at him, followed by ten
twelve more.
Leslie jumped back and ran alo
the crest of the hill on which t
cabin stands, to get behind a lumt
pile. For a distance of about 2
* feet he was a fair target for the gu
^ of the officers. He weakened as
ran, but whether it was from fear
because he was wounded can not
? stated.
1 John Dietz, when the shooti
' started, was between the barn a:
i the lumber piles. Behind one of t
5 piles of lumber were some depu
J sheriffs and he received the full fi
from these men.
He suddeply pitched forward a:
5 down on his knees and then lay pre
trate for a moment. Then, sera:
' bling to his feet, he ran for the hou
5 and darted inside the door.' M
Dietz was about 100 feet from t
' door when the bullets began to f
She ran inside the house and app?
5 ently wa9 not injured.
1 Meanwhile the fusillade was ke
up from all sides of the clearir
' the crack of high power rifles min
1 ling with the rapid fire of automa
pistols.
Neither John or Leslie appear
to be armed. When they were i
within the shack, five shots we
. fired back through the window
i That was the only reply. The gu
of the besiegers soon quieted dow
Before the shooting began Jo
Dietz, for two hours, walked about
> the early morning fog on the edge
1 the trap laid by the officers. Ov<
night the Dietz farm yardNhad be
taken possession of by the officers.
John F. Dietz came into the lin
light about four years ago when
[ defended Cameron Dam, on t
Thorn Apple river, against one
r the largest lumber comapnies in t
State. He claimed the dam was
his property and tied up several wi
ters' cut of logs valued at thousan
of dollars by refusing to allow tht
to pass the dam without paying tol
, He was fought in the courts by t
lumber company, but defied the ord
of judges and held off, at the poi
of a gun, all officers who attempt
to serve papers upon him. Di(
won. The lumber company paid hi
' a large sum and he allowed the lo
j to go through.
The sheriff deputized men from ;
over the State to make the arest
f
Dietz, and several people were sh<
In one engagement Dietz's son w
shot in the head but recovered.
The latest controversy dates frc
September 6,-when Dietz shot a
seriously wounded Bert Horrel, in
wrangle.
Dietz first quarreled with C.
O'Hare, president of the Winl
* school board, it is said, and Horr
taking O,Hare's part, struck Die
Dietz then shot Horrel, and has sir
claimed he shot in self-defense.
Since the shooting uieiz n<t& u^u
. the sheriff to serve a warrant on hi
- The international prison congre
which met in Washington last we<
debated the question whether drur
t enness was a crime or a disea
Why it's both.
CARLISLE TO BE TRIED.
wo Special Term of Federal Court for
That Purpose.
im Greenville, Oct. 6.?A special term
iat of the United States district court
ir- wil convene here Monday morning
]Io- for the purpose of trying Milton A.
igs Carlisle, former president of the Nais
tional Bank of Newberry. Judge
ge Boyd of the North Carolina district
'ill wil probably preside in the place of
he Judge Brawley, who will be unable
[es to attend.
he Mr. Carlisle was indicted at the
nd term of United States court in Greenis.
ville on October 22 of last year. The
w- indictment charges misapplication of
>n. funds. Mr. Carlisle immediately
ra- gave bond in the sum of $10,000.
tas Mr. Carlisle was president of the
National Bank of Newberry until
the first of last year. The action
was instituted against him as the
iai result of an investigation into the
[re affairs of the bank by a bank exrt_
aminer.
)n> The indictment is 340 pages in
0f length and contains 162 counts. The
5Se defendant is charged with the misng
application of funds and a false certification
of checks. The total
2iS amount alleged to have been misa
applied to the personal account of
jet the defendant was something over
I a $18,000, while the total amount aled
leged to have been misapplied to
or the amounts of the Cold Point Granite
company of which Mr. Carlisle
iat was president and treasurer was
as something over $15,000.
ts, Mr. Carlisle will be represented by
as Cole L. Blease, Democratic nominee
ire for governor, and his law partner,
ie, Fred H. Dominick. The case was
>d. originally placed on the docket of
id. the United States circuit court but
ed at the. spring term was transferred
he to the district court.
The regular term of Federal court
lie will convene in this city Monday
he week, uctODer jly . ine ust 01 jui(in
ors for the special term and the
ng regular term have not yet been reiut
ceived in the city,
as There is much interest throughor
out'the State in the approaching trial
of Mr. Carlisle as he is well known.
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Circus Negro Tells of Murder.
er Lexington, Oct. 8.?After being in
00 jail since Tuesday night and refusns
ing to say anything for publication,
he William Grayson, a mulatto negro,
or who is held as a witnes against the
he party or parties who killed young
Wililams on the circus train Saturng
day night, made a statement:
od Grayson says that he was on top
he of a box car immediately behind the
ty flat on which Williams and his chum
re were riding. He says that he heard
loud voices on the flat car and looked
od over to see what the trouble was.
>s- There were several men in a wagon
on the flat car fighting. A man
se whom he does not know had Williams
rs- down in the wagon choking him,
he but could not manage him alone and
ly- called for assistance. Then, he says,
ir- John Wilson, a negro, who is in jail
here, charged with being implicated
in the crime, placed a pistol in Will??
liatns's face and fired.
There was a trail of blood for a
tic hundred yards or more from the
place where Williams was found back
ed toward Columbia, and it was thought
that the murderer held his victim
re until they reached the cut and tnrew
him in there to keep the body from
ns being found easily. Grayson says
'n- that Wilson immediately threw the
1111 body out of the wagon, but that it
in fell on the floor of the car and it was
several minutes before itj was discov*T~
ered that it was still on the train,
en and that when it was found it was
immediately thrown off.
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gs The Retort Courteous.
all Whe Davy Crockett sat in the naof
tional legislature as a representative
ot. of the State of Texas, he had many
as clashes with men of more education
but less wit than himself. It is told
>m of him that one day, while standing
nd in front of his hotel on Pennsylvania
a avenue, a drove of mules trotted by
under the custody of an overseer
G. from one of the stock farms in Vir
:er ginia. A congressman from Boston,
el, who-was standing near by, attracted
tz. Crockett's attention to the unusual
ice sight, saying:
"Hello, there, Crockett; here's a
ed lot of your constituents on parade,
m. Where are they going?"
The celebrated hunter looked at
ss? the animals with a quizzical glance,
and then turning to the other, said
quietly, but with much emphasis,
se- "They are going to Massachusetts to
teach school.?Harper's Weekly.
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DROVE TEAM INTO RIVER.
Olid Confederate Veteran Drowns in
Chattahoochee.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9.?Blinded by
darkness Howlett Joyner, aged 6l?,
brdther of former Mayor Joyner,
drove a team off a ferry landing intc
the Chattahoochee River, eighteen
miles west of Atlanta, about midnight
Saturday night, and was drowned in
the swollen stream. Jack O'Mara,
who was in the buggy with Joyher,
hid a narrow escape from death,
i swimming several hundred feet before
reaching land. He was asleep
| when the team, which was also lost,
j fell into the river. Joyner was a
1 Confederate veteran and prominent
member of several secret orders.
Fashion and Grief.
To the Editor of The Bamberg
Herald:?The News and Courier of
October 4th treats editorially a subject
that to my mind needs agitation,
and I ask that you publish it in full
that the readers of The Herald may
consider it. It is as follows:
"A writer in Leslie's Weekly questions
the right of those who have
suffered bereavement to inflict their
personal griefs upon their friends by
trailir.g their crepe through our thoroughfares,
by the use of black-bordred
mourning cards and stationery
and in other similar ways. Color,
we are reminded, has its distinct
effect upon the nervous organization
of every living creature, and the
suggestion is made that the health
of persons of high strung temperaments,
may be seriously affected by
thpsp constant rpminders of sorrow
ful experiences.
"This thought seems to us a pertinent
one, even though it relates to
but one phase of a matter which is
of much greater importance than
most people imagine. It may seriously
be questioned whether our
mourning customs are those which
one of a right ought to expect in an
enlightened civilization. Sorrow for
the dead is natural. To publish to
the world that one's heart is heavy
with sadness because some dear one
has been taken is proper. Embarrassment
both to one's friends and to
one's self may thus be avoided. But
in our obedience to the decrees of
fashion as to how we shall mourn
the departed, it cannot be gainsaid
that much inconvenience and expense
and suffering are caused to no
good purpose.
"Often it happens that death visits
a family of relatively slender means
just after wardrobes have been purchased
for perhaps a number of th#
family's female members. To lay
these aside and purchase other clothing
of the kind decreed by fashion
may run the family into debt at a
time when it can least afford to incur
additional expense. Gay colors, it is
true, would not appear seemly in one
who has recently suffered affliction,
but why would it not be posible to
indicate in some simple way the loss
of a loved one rather than to spend
money needed for other purposes,
and, perhaps, to impair the health
of some girl or woman by the purchase
and wearing of gloomy black.
Moreover, our mourning customs
work an especial hardship upon the
woman. Because of the cares of maternity
and for other reasons, woman's
opportunities for the full enjoyment
of life are more restricted
naturally than those which belong to
man. Why limit them yet further
unnecessarily? Why make grief artificial?
Why add to the burdens of
nature?"
Another custom of funerals prevaling
still in some communities,
needs to be discouraged, and that
is the opening of the casket in the
church or at the grave for friends to
take a last look at the deceased.
The reasons most objectionable are:
1. The bereaved family, already
prostrated, ought not to be forced or
permitted to endure thisalmost heartrending
s -ene. Fainting under the
strain is not unheard of.
2. It a"ords an occasion that
tends to an ostentatious display of
mourning, censorious criticisms by
the thoughtless and unsympathetic.
3. It frequently calls for\the removing
of the lid of the casket that
th^ body may be arranged for inspection,
and thus becomes a means of
spreading contagious diseases; and if
not this, at least it fills the auditorium
with an odor that is unpleasant.
Of course this custom in these communities
can not be broken up at
once, for many will wish to cling to
the old ways, and their feelings must
be respected, but as a pastor, I always
advise against it, when I am |
consulted. After all is not tne uebi i
impression to leave on friends that
of the living person rather than the
horrible one the lifeless corpse will
make? J. EARLE FREEMAN.
Ehrhardt, Oct. 6, 1910.
The C. A. Phillips Western Comedy
Company will present "Broken
Arrow" in their canvas theatre in
this city Friday night of this week.
Hear the famous cow boy band at
noon Friday on Main street. Prices
20c. and 35 cents.
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