The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 01, 1910, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
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A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, Pec. 1, 1910.
Governor Ansel has again "made
good" in his appointment of John G.
Richards, Jr., as railroad commissioner.
J The governor has shown
[ good judgment in the many appointments
made during his two terms.
Our friend, Robert M. Hitt, is now
the sole editor of the Aiken Sentinel,
!associate, Mr. Walter E. Duncan, I
Ing retired to begin the publicaof
a State magazine. Hitt will
e good all right, even if he has
d double work.
rill the legislature be brave
igh to take steps to reform or
late the primary at the coming
on? It is manifestly the duty
>urk law-making body to throw
safeguards around primary elec\
as will assure the will of the
le being honestly expressed. It
>ped that sufficient pressure will
irought to bear on the general
nbly which will result in their
ig definite and positive action j
its important matter.
ie decision of the United States ;
t in the case against F. D. War- .
editor of the Appeal to Reason, ;
jcialist paper, shows to what j
ths the government will go in j
ession and Injustice against
i who expose their questionable j
There was no evidence that;
en had committed any crime, j
ID18 conviction in ?u uuu?6^j
. should make a free people
for shame mat such things are '
tted in the name of justice.
ige R. W. Memminger is to be
ended for his efforts to conduct
usiness of the courts with as
delay as possible. He made a' >
Bcord in this respect at the re-.
?rm of court here. While he.
cally cleared the calendar, he
quietly and nicely and did not
:he mischief with any witnesses,
i,. or lawyers for delaying proigs.
The judge is courteous to.
ked degree in the court room, |
( pushq^ the. work at hand and
>y saves money to the counties.
friend the Press and Standays
the matter of taxation has
ig to do with the proposed anon
of Warren township to Bamcounty;
that "the dissatisfacrises
from other causes which
legation already stand pledged
ledy." We were under the im>n
from the remarks of. our
for several weeks past that
m, bond issue, etc., were unscussion,
but if the reason is
ted above, why we have nothsay,
as we do not care to mix
a family dispute. In this disi
we have not attempted to in>
between the people of Walternd
Warren township, but when
>rg county and its advantages
liscussed, we have endeavored
e correct information. 1
FERS TO DIE FOR $200.
0 Man is Willing to Kill Himself
and Sell His Body.
1 of the struggle to eke out an
ce, but wishing to have a
time" before he ends his life,
Tyler, startled the Chicago
by offering to commit suicide
>0. "I mean it," said the man.
nay think I'm crazy, but I'm
f any medical college in Chiives
me $200 I will agree that
[y be given to it for (jissecting
es. Two hundred dollars
enable me to live like a king
tut two weeks, and at the end
t time I'd be ready to quit
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CASH DRAWERS RIFLED.
Two Stores at Brandhville Entered
by Means of Skeleton Key.
Branchville, Nov. 25.?Some unknown
person early this morning
took the liberty of going into the
front doors of the Branchville Hardware
Company -and the J. R. C.
Bruce & Co.'s stores, using a skeleton
key to open the front door locks,
and rifling the money drawers and
cash registers.
The hardware company found its
money drawers broken and destroyed
and several dollars taken therefrom,
while Mr. Bruce, who uses a register,
found the alarm cut off and the drawer
opened. However, the thief found
only a lot of trade checks and pennies,
and seeing that they were
valueless/he left them near the hardware
store.
Detectives are now working on the
cases.
BLEW SISTER'S HEAD OFF.
Small Boy in Cherokee Kills Little
Sister with "Empty" Gun.
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Gaffney, Nov. 23.?A little megro
boy named Phillip Morgan, about 10
years of age, shot his smaller sister,
Lula, in the neck With a shotgun,
near this city yesterday, killing her
instantly. Coroner Vinesett was
summoned, and at once went to the
scene, but decided that it was not
necessary to hold an inquest. It
seems from what could be learned of
| the affair that the two children had
been left in the house together, and
that the boy, not knowing that the
gun was loaded, threw it up to his
shoulder and pulled the trigger. The
child's head was almost severed from
the hod v. The narents were at work
in a nearby field when the accident* (
occurred. *
Knights of Pythias Oppose Raise
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Columbia, Nov. 2-6?Following a <
convention of representatives of the :
various lodges of the Knights of i
Pythias, in this State, announcement 1
was made as to plans in conectlon 1
with the efforts to have the courts <
pass upon the re-rating of fourth '
class policy holders in the order. That i
fully $2,000,000 in benefits and a i
large sum in assessments that was :
raised, are involved, is the statement
made by the representatives of the 1
policy-holders.
At the meeting, T. Hasel Gibbes;
formerly mayor of Columbia, was
mads treasurer,' ,and the executive
committee named in connection with '
the matter is: 3. L. Miller, F. J. Parham
and JC. %M. Clarkson. It was
also announced that a resolution was
adopted assessing* each policy-holder s
in this class $1 per $1,000 on his
policy to defray the expenses of the
litigation. The situation, as set out
by legal representatives of the policyholders
is this: Many years ago the
Knights of Pythias Issued a certain !
class of policies and charged a certain
rate. Now the persons taking
these policies are growing old, and
the effort is to, place a prohibitive '
assessment.
For example, one instance is given
where a man's monthly assessment
was raised from $6 to $26 on his
$2,000 policy. In the effort to stop
this raising of the assessment on this
class of policies, the policy holders are
organizing in this State. The resor^
to the court will probably be for in*
-? ?*" i -a TTMU/vjI
junction ana win mna m uu? uuuru
States courts. The supreme lodge of
the K. of P's., in this policy had re|
served the right to raise assessments,
but the position taken by the policy
holders will be that thiB procedure,
which would go into effect January
1, is a. change in rating. Legal proceedings
will be instituted at once.
The insurance commissioner has already,
practically, ruled that he cannot
take a hand.
Young Woman Badly Burned.
Lexington, Nov. 26.?While removing
the fire from an old-fashioned
oven about noon to-day, Miss Bessie
Kleckley, daughter of West Kleckley,
was painfully burned, her skirt being
consumed.
Dr. Derrick, who was immediately
summoned, stated to-night that while
the burns are exceedingly painful,
the recovery of the young woman is
expected.
Girl Accused of Murder.
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 27.?A
wisp of a girl just past her 17th year,
Hattie Le Blanc will be placed on
trial in the Middlesex county superior
court to-morrow, charged with the
murder at Waltham, November 20,
1909, of her employer, Clarence G.
Glover. The little French-Canadian
girl is the youngest of her sex to be
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tried lor uisi. ucgicc iuui uci iu
annals of New England courts.
Glover was shot in the back in
the Waltham laundry, of which he
was the proprietor, and before his
death accused Hattie Le Blanc, who
- was in the laundry with him at the
time. The girl, who was a domestic
in his family, was found three days
later under a bed in the Glover
home.
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WILLIAMS CASE TO BE TRIED.
Four Men Charged With Murder
Granted Delay.
Lexington, Nov. 28.?The trial of
the four former employes of the
Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, George
Nichols, a white man, Garland
Brown, John Wilson and Elijah
Clark, three negroes, all of whom
are charged with the murder of Paul
A. Williams, of Columbia, was postponed
.until Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock at the request of one of
the attorneys appointed to defend
them.
Dave Woods and Ed. White, two
of the negroes who have been under
arrest since the murder of young
Williams on October 2, were found
guilty to-day of robbery and assault
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ana Datiery ui .a, uigu auu aggravated
nature. The prosecuting witness
was Fenton Gilbert, a negro
off the train on the same night that
Woods and White were among the
men who robbed him and threw him
off the train on the same night taht
Paul Williams was killed. The negroes
were not sentenced.
The trial of Roy Rich, a negro,
charged with robbing and assaulting
Marley Hightower, a white boy, employed
as a waiter by the circus, was
begun during the afternoon session
of the special court. It will be concluded
to-morrow.
Look the Part.
The four men charged with the
murder of Paul A. Williams, the
young forwarding report clerk in the
Southern freight office In Columbia,
are very low types. George Nichols,
the white man, about 30 years old,
pale from his two months' confinement
in the Lexington jail, has a
weak, vicious face. On his chin is
a heavy growth of beard. Elijah
Clark is a coal-black negro with the ;
features, arms and torso of a gorilla.
He was named in two of the true;
bills returned by the grand jury today,
besides the one charging that he
murdered Paul Williams. John Wilson
and Garland Brown are both mulattos.
John Wils<?n, the younger of
the two, is not over 20 years old. He
:laims that he was born in Londou,
England. He has a letter from his
3ister, written from Springfield, Ohio,
In which she advises him to "commend
himself to God." Garland
Brown is a thick set mulatto with a
low, receding forehead.
Implicate Each Other.
George Bell Timmerman, the solicitor
in the Eleventh judicial circuit,
who is representing the State,
bas voluntary statements from all of
the four men accused of murdering
Williams. The statements do not <b?v
Permaterially, except 'that each, mafi
implicates the other three and denies
that he fired the fatal shot.
It is probable that only one more
case will be tried before the murder
case, as several of the eight men not
Indicted for the murder of Paul Williams
will be called on to testify next
Wednesday. Their evidence would
not be admitted if they were found
guilty of the various charges pending
against them. Solicitor Timmermah
will consquetnly call to-morrow only
the case against Frank Anderson, a
negro, charged with robbery, assault
and battery and carrying concealed
weapons. ,
Carnival of Crime.
The evidence in the two cases tried
to-day gave some idea of the wholesale
pillage of the first section of the
Hagenbeck-Wallace" circus train by
bands of riotous circus employes,
white men and negroes, which took
place in the early morning of October
2, between Columbia and Augusta,
and during which Paul Williams was
shot and robbed.
The circus men were paid off in Columbia
on October 1. In the "privilege"
car on the first section of the
train crninar to Augusta there was an
abundance of whiskey. The roughs
and toughs in the circus gang proceeded
to get tanked and robbed or
"red lighted" their fellow employes,
In circus parlance, "red lighting" is
throwing a man off the train and letting
him see, if he be able, the red
signal lamps on the caboose. Felton
Gilbert, a negro, who testified
against Dave Woods and Ed. White,
was. among those "red lighted" during
the riot. "
Masked bands of negroes and white
men,* armed with pistols, roamed the
train on the night of October 2, robbing
and "red lighting" promiscuously.
Members of one of these gangs
shot Paul Williams and threw his
body overboard.
"Hub" Evans Case Postponed.
Newberry, Nov. 28.?The case of
the State against H. H. Evans, who
io with areenttne a bribe
while a member of the board of directors
of the late State dispensary,
was postponed to-day on motion of
the solicitor, R. A. Cooper, at the request
of the attorney general, J.
Fraser Lyon, who is engaged on an
important case in Columbia this
week. This motion was opposed by
lawyers for Mr. Evans, who seemed
desirous that he should be brought
to trial at this term of court
BLACK BRUTE'S LIFE END!
HORRIBLE MURDER FOLLO\
ATTEMPTED ASSAULT.
Negro Finds Young Girl at Hoi
Alone?Thwarted in His Purpose
He Cuts Her Throat.
Little Mountain, Nov. 25.?Riddl
by 1,000 bullet wounds, the body
Flute Clarke, a negro, to-night 11
on the south side Of Little Mounta
mute evidence of the suddenly aroi
ed wrath of a mob of nearly 1,0
Lexington and Newberry citizei
maddened by the murder of the 1
year-old daughter of a promine
farmer of this section, who, Clar
is said to have confessed, met h
death while resisting his attempts
assault her. The girl's throat w
cut from ear to ear, and her bleedi
body was found about 5 o'clock tl
afternoon near the cellar door of h
home. The negro was caught a;
spirited away by half a dozen m
who concealed' him from the office
The mob got wind of this and t
negro's alleged confession to his ca
tors, and at once went in groups
the secluded spot, where the prison
was held. ?
Body Riddled.
Once the brutal negro was in th?
power, the enraged citizens pour
volleys into his body, nearly 1,0<
shots, it is believed, being fired. Wi
the bloody w'ork over, the crowd t
gan to disperse, and there was litt
further manifestation of disordc
The body was left where it fell, wi
a lantern hung on -the breast.
The young girl, who had two daj
holiday from school on account
Thanksgiving, was alone at home
the' time of the attack. Her moth
had just gone to a neighbor's. T1
negro, who worked for her fathc
approached her, according to his t
leged confession, to which there is i
corroboration, there being no ey
witnesses, and asked her for a drii
of water. She gave him the wate
and then he asked her to bring hi
some potatoes also. When si
brought them he attacked her. T1
girl creame^ and called out that si
would tell her father. The * neg
then slashed her throat from ear
ear, the head being almost severe
from the body. He then fled.
Finds the Body.
The girl's young brother, retur
ing to the house a short time aice
ward, found her body. The alar
was given, and the father of the vi
tim, who was plowing in a field abo
200 yards from the fatal see:
rushed to the scene. Medical atte
ttion was hastily secured, but the 13
tie victim was dead. Her resistan
had not been in vain, however, as si
had thwarted the negro's fiendii
purpose.
Clarke, with almost consumma
(cunning, returned at once to tl
scene and even assisted in ^carryii
the body of his victim into the hout
When the alarm was given the he
ton sheriff sent . the bloodhoun
from the county chain gang in char
of Capt. Pete Mack. M. M. Bufoi
sheriff of Newberry, also hasten*
to the spot
Upon arrival at the scene the do
at once took up the trail and cs
ried it to a field, where the neg
had been plowing. Here they etc
ped and the chase was given up.
y' Chase Renewed.
Then the crowd which had be
gathering since the first reports
the crime had gotten forth, separat
to beat the bushes for the negi
After a short chase he was captur
by a party of half a dozen and hi
ried into a place of seclusion. T
negro is said to have confessed 1
crime to these men. The mob lear
ed of the capture, and, while the <
fleers went off on a false scent, qui*
i*r oitnnoH oiuqv fn whprp the nee
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was held. What followed cannot
definitely stated, but a fusillade
shots was heard and shortly aft
the negro was found dead, riddl
with bullets, with a lantern hangi
on his breast.
The. girl's body was found lying
the yard near the cellar door, a
the surroundings show that a d<
rerate struggle was made by t
joung girl. The distance from t
well to where the young girl met fc
death is about 30 yards, and she w
dragged the entire distance. H
head was almost severed from t
body.
Raised by Victim's Father.
Flute Clai'ke had lived on t
place of the victim's father for
years, having been practically raia
by the family. He was married a
is said to have been about 21 years
age.
The lynching was in Newbei
county while the murder occurr
in Lexington county.
The crime of this afternoon v>
committed within less than two ml
of the place where Coot Lever :
tempted to assault the wife of
prominent young farmer about a y*
ago, for which he was legally hang<
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York required last year station*
valued at $1,300,000.
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