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k?v^ ? ESCAPED AND ASKS FOR PARDON Appeared in Person at Office of the Governor. Columbia, March 8.?Franklin Mc8r Allister, an escaped negro convict, today walked into the governor's office !: and presetned his own petition for a pardon. Half an hour later he was again a life prisoner at the State and presented his own petition for a pardon is before Governor Blease. "I want to see the governor and nresArit a nAlitmn for mv nardon." said McAllister, as he sauntered into ( 7 the chief executive's outer office today. Alex Rowland, the governor's secretary, asked the man his name and these were McAllister's words: "I am Frank McAllister, I got away * from the State farm last January 'K and went home to my mother, who I heard was blind, and my little sister, and also to get the petition my mother was keeping for me." With this statement he handed over a petition that had been presented during the administration of Gov. D. C. Hex* ward. After the petition had been filed a guard was sent for and McAllister was sent out to the penitentiary. The negro was convicted of murder in 1901 and was sentenced to life ^ imDrisonment. He was made a i "trusty," escaping in January, and he had not been heard from until today, when he voluntarily gave himself up and presented. his own petition. This is a unique case indeed. Edward Green, the pal of Fannie Carson, the last white woman life termer who left the prison last spring, was to-day refused a pardon by Gov. Blease. The apparent effect of the refusal is to criticise Gov. Ansel's pardon of Fannie Carson. Ed Green is also a life timer. Green ' and Fannie Carson were convicted more than 15 years ago of the kill1 ing of Fannie Carson's husband, J. ^ O. Carson. On March 19, 1910, Gov. ernor Ansel pardoned Fannie Carson and to-day Gov. Blease refused to grant a pardon to her accomplice in crime. The killing of J. O. Carson was most atrocious. He was murdered ii-\. in bed, a careful plot having been made to rid the woman of her hus: ? band. The crime took place in Spartanburg county. ^ gpj; Box Car Burned. Orangeburg, March 8.?Conductor Scott and a few other trainmen of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad ex k-< perienced a narrow escape last night from a burning car in which they were sleeping. A local freight was ordered to remain over in Orange' burg eight hours last night and the train crew were sleeping in a blind baggae car equipped with sleeping apartments. When the fire was discovered one end of the car in which the only end door was located was a mass of flames. After some difficulty - * a j at- ^ ra Siae aoor was opeiiea auu iue tiammen managed to escape in their night clothes. The personal effects as well as a fine watch were burned. Tuten Hopes for Bail. Hampton, March 9.?LeRoy B. Tuten, who is charged with the killi ing of James R. Langford on November 29 is still in the local jail [ here. He is very composed at all times and receives his many friends and relatives in the best of spirits and denies the charges made against him. Mr. Tuten is a handsome man of p . about 42 years of age and has a wife and two children, a boy and a grown girl. His only brother, Dr. T. Hugh Tuten, president of the Hampton Loan and Exchange bank, who is now in very bad health at his large plantation at Almeda, and at this time is confined to his bed with a physician and a trained nurse constantly at his f side. The Tuten family is among the largest in wealth and name in Hampton county. Therefore the trial of LeRoy B. Tuten will be watched with a great deal of interest throughout Tiriian /?rkiirt prvnvenes here in .Tune. VTUVU W <A * V Mr. Tuten hopes to get bail through 4 his attorneys very soon. Child Brutally Punished. Hackensack, N. J., March 8.?A 12-year-old boy, whose body was shrunk by. ill nourishment almost to the outline of his skeleton was found ? stark naked this afternoon in the cold barren attic of an old shack on the Ramapo Mountains near here. Five of his toes were gone from the effects of freezing. The case was discovered by agents of the Bergen County Children's Society, who caused the arrest of the Y boy's father, Wm, Jennings. He was j jf. committed to jail, charged with keep-1 || ing the lad a prisoner. It is alleged he fed him just enough to keep him alive. When araigned the father said that he would kill the manfwho started the trouble. "The boy is mine; why don't people mind their ? 1 own, business." pv The child was brought to the Hackensack hospital to-night where amputation of both legs will probably be necessary. w 4 s FOR CAPTURING JEFF DAVIS. Item of $293 Stricken from General Deficiency Bill. Washington, March 2.?"For capturing Jefferson Davis, $293." This paragraph in the general deficiency anDropriation bill, taken/up in the house of representatives aroused the violent opposition of Southern members. Represen ative Tawney, of Minnesota, the appropriations committee chairman, who had made a motion to pass the bill, which carries more than $8,000,000, saw that he had no chance of succeeding unless he got busy. So he consented j to have the item stricken from the bill. Back in 1895, a reward of $100,; 000 was offered for the capture of Jefferson Davis. This sum was distributed among the United States troops that made the capture. Recently John P. Smth, alias John Wagner, proved to the satisfaction of the war department that he was one of the men who helped captured Davis and taht he had never received his share of the reward to which he is entitled. Mr. Tawney didn't propose, howj ever, to delay the general deficiency | bill by a fight on this item, and it I looks as if John P. Smith, alias John Wagner, of Milwaukee, Wis., has a slim chance of getting his money. Stopped Feast of Human Flesh. _____ Paris, March 8.?Colonel Moll, just back from the French Congo, tells fn11n-a'iner storv: ! tJUV .q ? - ? - V "On one of my expeditions into the interior, I fell in with a tribe of man-eating blacks, and I happened to arrive on the eve of a funeral of a chief. According to the customs of the q^untry, the dead chief's ^ives were to be slaughtered and then fried for the benefit of the tribe. There were 24 or 25 of them. At first I did not know that they were to be killed, and I wondered why the funeral commissioners gave them each a very careful bath, washing and scrubbing them until their bodies shone like mirrors. "That over, a barrel of flour was emptied on the ground, and the ladies were rolled in the flour. That caused my suspicions. Are they, going to fry or roast them like sprats? I asked myself. "As the women looked rather woebegone, I asked the man in charge what fate was in store for them. "Tiri,r. TTT/% amir> or fa oaf tho Wl'd VV 11 ?, ? c ai c gviug i.u vuv >._ ows," replied the native. "Of course, I forbade the atrocity and caused the widows to be set at liberty without delay, giving a head of cattle for each of the ladies. This suited the funeral commission, as a cow weighs so much more than a chief's wife, but the tribe acted as if very much disgruntled. "These people had made up their minds for hujnan flesh and had walked 10 to 20 miles to obtain the delicacy. Now, that roast beef was substituted for roast widow, they felt that they had been cheated, and I might have suffered severely at their hands if I hadn't been attended by a large force." Injunction Issued. Beaufort, March 9.?Judge Gary to-day at Walterboro issued a temporary injunction against the men recently appointed township commissioners in Beaufort county in oppo- ; sition to the recommendation of the legislative delegation, and they are < cited to show cause why the temporary injunction should not be made permanent. Gov. Blease in appointing the township commissioners, entirely ignored the recommendation of the legislative delegation in six of the seven townships in spite of the provison of the code that he shall appoint them upon the recommendation of the delegation. The appointments were made, it is understood, after a conference with Thomas Talbird, a political follower of the governor, who opposed the election of the members of the Beaufort delegation. The governor's action caused indignation in Beaufort and as it is believed that the appointments made by the governor are illegal it was' determined to take the case to the courts. It is especially necessary that there be no question as to the legality of the township commissioners because they are to be entrusted with the spending of $300,000 for the erection of a bridge from Beaufort to the opposite island. Now that the restraining order has been issued the case will have to be argued upon question of making the order permanent and the decision of this case may be a precedent that will settle the other disputed appoinments in the State. Gov. Blease was not in Columbia yesterday and therefore no statement as to the case could be secured from him. If your business demands printing of the better class, give your work to The Herald office. e V BOILER EXPLODES. Unusual Accident in Southern Railway Shop Yards. Fragments of Southern engine 3S15 were scattered over an area of 400 yards yesterday afternoon after an explosion of the boiler and there were some freakish results and some narrow escapes. The fact that several people were not killed or seriously injured is explained in the words of Henry Williams, superintendent of this division: "No one knows where an explosion will land." Engine 3815 was one of the oldest in service on me uoiuinuia uivisiun and had been used on a number of the branch lines out of this city. Yesterday afternoon it was taken to the coal chute near the corner of Laurel and Laurens streets. According to D. B. Watts, the hostler in charge, there were about 138 pounds of steam pressure showing in the cab indicator. This steam pressure threw about 150 pounds of metal over in Gregg street, crashed through a house occupied by Sam Williams, a negro, and sections of the bell and sand dome split a wagon in half at the corner of Blanding and Laurens street. Explosion Not Earthquake. This happened so quickly that the fragments were being gathered up before it was realized that the boiler of the engine had bursted and then the railroad men began to take an inventory. Mr. Watts, who was standing beside, the engine at the time found that he was slightly bruised and Dave Jenkins, a negro, discovered that he was thrown out of the cab. Several others standing around saw the casing of the engine go up in the air and a few minutes later residents in Waverly, half mile distant, telephoned to The State that there had been an earthquake shock. On Near-retired List. The engine has been on the nearretired list for some time and the explosion of a locomotive boiler is almoft unheard of now. Had the explosion occurred a few minutes earlier, there would have been a number of lives lost, as the engine had just been taken from the roundhouse under the pressure of steam shown on the indicator. The force of the explosion, while wrecking the entire front of the locomotive, did not move its wheels from the track and it was taken back to the repair shop without difficulty.?Columbia State, Friday, March 10th. FINED FOR GAMBLING. Teacher of Negro School Convicted of Running Gambling House. Marion, March 8.?The mayor's court had an unusually full attendance Monday morning. There were seven charged with gambling and each was fined $10 or given a term on the gang. John JBrewer, teacner of the colored graded school, was found guilty of conducting a gambling house and fined $25. Two were charged with selling whiskey and some cases of disorderly conduct brought the aggregate of fines up to $315. IS PARDONEDBY GOVERNOR. Burrell Thomas Extended Clemency and Act Approved by Citizens. Hampton, March 8.?News reached Hampton to-day of the pardoning of Burrell Thomas by Gov. Blease. This meets the approval of many of the citizens of Hampton county. Thomas and Ben Bennett were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1896 for the murder of John Lightsey at Varnville. Bennett was conditionally pardoned by Gov. McSweeney and later died in the penitentiary serving a sentence for wife killing. Various petitions were sent to Gov. Ansel for the pardon of Thomas, signed by the leading citizens of Hampton county. Burrell Thomas of Hampton county who was serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary for murder has been pardoned by Gov. Blease. He was convicted with recommendation to mercy in 1895 for killing John Lightsey at Varnville, in Hampton county, and was sent to the penitentiary for a life sentence. Benjamin Bennett was convicted at the same time with Thomas on the same charge and was pardoned in 1903 by Gov. McSweeney. In a previous petition for pardon of Thomas, the pardon was recommended by G. D. Bellinger, former solicitor, and Judge Aldrich, who heard the case. Man Perishes in Well. Swansea. March 9.?A rather unusual accident occurred yesterday on Green Livingston's place about five miles east of Swansea in which Sanky Nelson lost his life. He had gone down into a well wihch is 85 feet deep to clean it out and when about 50 feet from the top the sides of the well began to cave in and Sanky was caught and when the people, after digging all night, found the body about 3 o'clock this morning, he was dead. BLEASE TALKS TO AUGUSTANS. Says the Supreme Court Will Eventually "Wake Up," Augusta, March 9.?The Chronicle this morning published the following: "Governor Cole L. Blease of South Carolina passed through the city last night en route to Atlanta, where he will be in attendance at the Southern Commercial congress. "Gov. Blease was met at the Albion hotel by Mr. J. L. Williams who accompanied him to supper. In a conversation, at which a representative of The Chronicle was present, Gov. Blease rehearsed his fight during the - recent campaign for the executive chair. The Press. "Gov. Blease stated that the Carolina press^with a few exceptions had fought him with an unwarranted bitterness and that the Columbia State and the Charleston News and Courier had fought him for personal reasons, disregarding his ability as an executive. Enemies and Opponents. "Gov. Blease stated that the idea of trying to force him to appoint his enemies to office in the State was foolish, saying that he had no idea of doing so. He, however, said that some people misconstrued his meaning and did not understand the difference between an enemy and an opponent. 'There are some of my opponents that I would not hesitate to appoint to any position they were fitted to occupy, but I will not appoint my enemies,' said the governor. Ambitions Gratified. "Gov. Blease stated that he had won his fight by telling the people, in his speeches throughout the State, what he intended to do and that he had stuck to his platform promises. He stated that his ambitions had been gratified and that if the people of South .Carolina wanted him to serve another term as governor he woi^Jd An on Hut tViaf Vici wqc trnvornrvr nnw I for a term of office .:r-d he was going to fulfill the law to the letter while holding the chair. The Supreme Court. "When asked what the outcome of his altercation with the supreme court would be, the governor stated that that body would eventually wake up. He said that he had the law on his side and that he would be locked up before he would appoint his enemies to any position, no matter what the supreme court wanted. | "Gov. Blease stated that in fulfilment of his life's ambition he had written his name on the pages of the history of South Carolina so that it would never be wiped off. He can have this satisfaction if defeated in tVia tron vears from nnw Anybody Except Tillman. "Gov. Blease does not believe, however, that he will be defeated. He said that he could lick any man . in South Carolina for the United States senate except Ben. Tillman. and that he could lick any man for governor. "He thinks that the people who elected him believe in him and he said that he would not go back\on them. "Gov. Blease stated that the Carolina press was of no consequence to him, and that he paid no attention to the articles they printed on him dur- i ing his race or during his administration. He could reach the people in other ways and that was all that he would ask. Hey ward County. "Gov. Blease had nothing to say in' regard to the new codnty, but suggested to Mr. Williams that the Savannah river's course be changed to: I include Augusta, which city he would j then recommend for the county seat." The Real Benefactors. i Brown Jones and Smith respectively legal, divinity and medical students, were discussing the merits of their future professions. "We punish the rogues," said Brown, "and give honest men their own." "Yes," observed Jones; "but we show people the way heaven." "We've the best after all," remarked Smith, "for we send people there."?Tit-Bits. Misdirected Energy. The motorist emerged from beneath the car and struggled for breath. His helpful friend, holding the oil can, beamed upon mm. I "I've just given the cylinder a thorough oiling, Dick, old man," said the helpful friend. "Cylinder," said the motorist, heatedly, "that wasn't the cylinder; it was my ear!"?Tit-Bits. An Irish judge had a habit of begging pardon on every occasion. At the close of the court, as he was about to leave the bench, the officer j of the court reminded he had not I passed sentence of death Cn one of i the criminals. "Dear me," said his | Lordship, "I really beg his pardon, ' bring him in." Legal blanks and blank books for sale by The Herald Book Store, Bamberg, S. C. 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