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~~ MOUNTAIN GIRLS SHOT TO KILL. ' Daughters of Kentucky Moonshiner Defeated a Revenue Posse. & ?When the circuit court convenes in June to hear the pleadings of such offenders agaipst the law of the sovereign State of Kentucky as Pike county has produced 'tween sessions, two girls from the mountains will be put on trial for murder. They are Fannie Tackitt. aged 15, and Bettie Tackitt, aged 18?sisters. Sl-v ' A new-made mound in the burying , . ; I <. ground back of town marks the place where lies the body of Charles Smith?Charlie, the deputy marshal?a bullet still embedded in the muscles of his heart. The sisters > are charged with killing him. One or both may admit it, which is different from confessing, and one or j? both will tell the story of a tragedy such as even Pike county, schooled I alike to civic and official quick trigger, has not seen since the last feudist slid from his horse in the jv shadows and died like a snake in the first warmth of the dawn. There's no harm in being strictly fair to the Tackitts. Revenue nostrils "which catch the scent of stewing mash, even as a cow finds a saltlick, discovered a still on the side hill in which corn was being converted into whiskey in violation of at least seven pages of government statutes, and of course it had to be raided. The job was assigned to Deputy. Marshal J. Mart Potter, who picked Levi Smallwood and Charlie Smith for such moral support and physical participation as the occasion might require a?trio of men with nerve. They crept up the gulch while the scrub oaks and walnuts were still dripping with dew, and came to a mountainside clearing at midday. "Uncle George" Tackitt, head of the family, was away from home? unimportant where. Charlie Tackitt, who learned how to coil a worm for a still and vaporize spirits before he could bound Kentucky, was carrying !"water from the spring, and in the direction of the mashtuh. Mother Tackitt was in the kitchen. Fannie sat in a swing screeching a song about some one who loves me ever true, and Betty was busy working a yellow cupid on a red tidy on the porch. In an instant this domestic scene shifted. Charlie Tackitt, down in the gulch, cried, "They're coming!" and the three revenue men emerged from the roadside brush. Two of them grappled with young Tackitt, trho at 20 was as strong as a bull, aird as unmoved by fear as the mountain pines. . Three to one is losing odds, and the nippers were Ife. snapped on Tackitt's wrists. KlSf' Smallwood and Smith ran around i|? * to the rear of the house, expecting to R*capture Uncle George. They came face to. face with Mother Tackitt, /who was carrying an armful of stove-size wood in from the shed. They laid hand on her and she deRrfc fended herself well and ably with a ?1^ fillet. Much occurs in an incredibly short time on occasions of this kind Bp|>~-action is swift, intermission brief. There was a pistol shot and Mother J Tackitt's gray hair became crimson. A bullet had coursed along her glv-4 temple, just breaking the skin- Then another bored its way into her shoul^er, and she sank on the threshold. ferS/'v The next puff of smoke came from a rifle, the muzzle of which showed > under the kitchen window sash. Fannie Tackitts finger pressed the trigger. The bullet opened an airhole in the crown of Deputy Smallp3? wood's hat one inch above his thinking machinery, which he ducked naturally, knowing the revenue p;- method. fp - Charlie Tackitt had been thrown on the grass by the deputies after 5*;.^ he had been handcuffed. They exfe footed him to lie there, but he didn't. As the conflict became warmer the Rfiifci . ror>n(rni7inc in him fl nnn Kf- " ?vvv0ulu.u0 ~ - ? combatant, massed for the larger p^v struggle. Then Charlie crawled to W' & protected place behind a rock p where he could make signs to his J fighting party. Two shots cut finger-size holes in the window pane, and Small wood backing away toward a tree, was reg?.' loading when a bullet from another %< - window entered his left arm, which 0supported his rifle. He knotted his ife- handkerchief above the wound and 0 . returned the fire, gv Mother Tackitt was at this moment fer. at the back door yelling for help. ?0; Charlie pointed with double fingers in the direction where a good aim would count. Deputy Smith was the |,J; target. Bettie Tackitt now took her place at the porthole in the fortress, armed with a late model shotgun. She fired at Deputy Smith, but the window falling threw the gun out of line and the shot simply riddled - his loose blouse. Mother Tackitt had by this time S5* crawled into the house. Her hand g?.; was gashed in a half dozen places. Marshal Smith had beaten her with the butt of his revolver, she moaned. There was no time to dress her wounds, no time to carry her to bed. She lay upon the floor, feebly trying ft: >' % : ; to stop the flow of blood with the crumpled folds of her apron. And the fight went on. All three of the deputies now had positions affording some protection. .Marshal Potter was at the edge of the winter cut of cordwood, Smith with a tree between him and danger, and Smallwood, from a point to the left, blazed away over a stump. There's no earthly use of being a mountaineer if you haven't guns < onlontv on/1 nn nee Viavin <r mina with a^l^UVJ UUU UV UWV UUT AitQ QU&.U TT 4VM out amuuition. Pike county knows this rule, too. Three shots to the minute was the average of fire from both sides. Smallwood was not in good shape, the deep wound in his arm trickling blood at his finger tips each time he raised his gun. Growing bitter as the fight advanced, Bettie Tackitt threw open the door to the end that her aim might be direct. A bullet from without passed over and plunked into the cupboard. Bettie's gun was at her shoulder in an instant. Before Cmollu'ftrtd oniil/1 lnwpr his wP/innn tjxiiun n v/v/u vvv44u *v i? v* ?v she pressed the trigger. The shot j went true. It tore the finger from j the hand that held the gun. A man ! twice shot has the status of a dead man. so far as warfare effectiveness | is concerned. So Smallwood's rifle became silent and the fight was now two to two?men against vzomen? and one wounded on each side, a man and a woman. And so, for a full half hour, shots from the open were answered^ by shot from the house. Marshal Smith was inclined to belittle the bravery of the mountainside garrison. He wanted to take it by storm. Creeping out from his sheltered spot he advanced with gun muzzle moving like a side-playing pendulum to cover both windows. He saw a.girl at one window and momentarily forgot the other. A spit of fire was the answer. n .*11. J J J ? ohiiin uiupyeu emu ucvci muvcu. Marshal Mart Pott didn't wait for that. He hurried down the gulch and the fight was over. Later in the day when the shadows had settled on the mountain, he came back for Charlie Smith, who was lying openeyed and unconscious where he had fallen. Potter dragged him on a pine bough along the bank of the laugh*ing brook and into valley civilization. The country doctor did what he could for Smith, which was nothing at all. The rifle bullet had cut into the muscles of his .heart and there was no hoDe and no need of drugs or advice. The riddled heart pumped on slower and slower for four days, and stopped happily on Sunday. Mountain folks have an abiding hatred for "revenues" and, strange to say, a sort of respect for peace officers of a county's choosing. Deputy Sheriff Osborne and a posse went later on to the Tackitt home. Charlie Tackitt was not there. A sharp file had cut the steel bands that held his wrists together and he had become a fugitive. But the girls were there and ready to give themselves up. They were taken to Pikeville and arraigned before County Judge Fud. The town and country side turned out to see them; some to applaud, none to condemn; for Pike county admires bravery and has rude respect for women. The girls were bound in bonds of |2,000 each for appearance at court. Freeholders stood ready to become surety for them. The girls rode out of town through thin lines of interested folks and back to their home hanging on tbe cliTside. Fanine, whose sixteenth birthday wJ'il /\ an Tnn a 1 O tttliiln ehn icj win tuiiic v/u u uu^ i ^ | n ung ouv io on trial for her life, is a mere child, buoyant and happy. She doesn't quite understand how the law views what she is accused of doing. Possibly she doesn't care. "I don't suppose any one could much blame us for what we did," she said, sitting in the swing and with little toe kicks swaying back and forth. "We fought for our poor old mother, who is lying in the house now and we fought bravely, as girls for their mothers should under the circumstances. The revenues treated her brutally. They beat her. Think of it! They beat a poor old woman! Why don't the revenues deal with men? We want to live under the law, like other people, but if the law puts us in prison I don't know what we might do next." And these things she said as a girl might say them?innocently and without boldness or bravado. i "Because I could shoot and shoot to the spot," she continued as she led 1 the way to the house, "I lost no time. Some one had to come to mother's ( rescue. I was nearest. We killed +"ho rkffi^Q-r that tj-o rirm't H onv Wo will outlive and outgrow the charge that the Tackitt girls are murderers." The elder girl was spreading the table for \ dinner, and your correspondent was asked to sit by. He did, with a girl at either elbow. The meal was plain, well cooked, well served. After dinner the girls went into the open and the photographer posed them just as they were in simple frocks. Marshal Potter says he was lucky to escape with his life at the mountain fight. "I escaped without a scratch," he said, "but shots flew thick and fast FIRE IN SPARTANBURG. Tremendous Detonation Ascribed to Dynamite.?Aged Negress Rescued. Spartanburg, May 26.?Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed eight frame houses, tenanted by negroes, on Ridge and Vernon streets, near Spartan Mills, in an unsually short time late this afternoon. The total loss is about $4,000. Seven of the houses were owned by J. I. Green, recently a candidate for alderman in Ward 5, who lives nearby, and the eighth was owned by Tom Nesbitt, an old negro. Mr. Green said his loss was about $3,500, and he carried only a small amount of insurance. While the fire was in progress there was a terrific explosion in one of the blazing houses, the home of Oliver Young, the roof of the structure was blown off, and huge pieces of scantling and burning brands were hurled high into the air. The noise was deafening and the tremor of the earth could be felt distinctly several hundred yards away. Fortunately, there was nobody near the house, else there would have been some injured. The firemen were approaching with a hose at the time, but were 75 feet away. There was much mystery for a while as to what caused the explosion. Some one recalled, however, that Oliver Young had been employed by the city in work on the rock quarry,' and it was supposed that he had taken home with him one or more sticks of dynamite used in blasting He could not be found to verify the supposition. Another exciting feature of the fire was the rescue of Tom Nesbitt's wife, an old woman, who h'as been sick in bed since before Christmas. The flames had reached her home and were making rapid headway ^before any one thought to rescue her. She was unable to help herself and had become almost frantic. She was lifted up by colored men and carried to the home of Eva Porter, a colored woman, who lives not far away. It was said that the shock would probably prove fatal to the Nesbitt woman, as she had been very low before the fire. While the fire was raging there was a fist fight between spectators, which, while of short duration, was interesting while it lasted. Cholera and Immigration. During the year 1910, cholera attacked 214,000 persons in Russia, with a mortality of 46 per cent, and claimed 5,000 victims in Turkey. There was an epidemic of cholera in Naples, and four cases were reported from Marseilles. In general the disease continued to advance westward, and there is no hope that it will be extinguished in all of the nln AAD ITrVl A%?/\ if AVIflf A/1 O f f ll A pjuauco wucic? it CAiDiy;u at tiiT7 ucginning of the present winter. In a communication to the Paris Academy of Medicine, Drs. Chauteruesse and Borel cite several facts which prove that cholera can be carried in a latent form and demonstrate the important part played by immigration in the propagation of the disease. Germs of cholera have been found in persons 30 days after their departure from an infected district. ?Scientific American. A Terrible Blunder to neglect liver trouble. Never do It. Take Dr. King's New Life Pills on the fifst sign of constipation, biliousness or inactive bowels and prevent virulent indigestion, jaundice or gall stones. They regulate liver, stomach and bowels and build up your health. Only 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. The Herald has received an invitation to the commencement exercises of Winthrop College, , at Rock Hill, to take place June 4th, 5th, and 6th. Dr. S. A. Steele will make the address to the graduating class. Ninety-three young ladies will graduate there this year. around my head, and more than once it seemed that I would have to retreat. However, after my best man, Charlie Smith, was shot down I thought it best to get out. I did so, and after everything calmed down I - * * - 1 H - J 3 went baca ana carriea me wouuueu man to the home of a physician and had his wounds dressed. Smallwood was hurt hut little. Charlie Tackitt escaped, and I have not heard from him since. The Tackitt girls are certainly brave." J. Mart Potter is considered one of the bravest officers in the South. For seven years he has been in the services of Uncle Sam, ana more tnan twice he has shot off moonshiners who fired upon him. To-day he is baffled at the thought of Kentucky's brave girlhood; of having to fight them in battle as he did the Tackitt girls?and yet he says, like almost every one else he admires the bravery of the Tackitt sisters. "I will never stand and fight them again," said Potter to your correspondent. He means it, too. It is said that Uncle Sam will offer a lib-! eral reward for the arrest of Charlie Tackitt, brother of the Tackitt sisters, who is yet at large. Potter says he will not want the reward. ?i.? I I I SURVEY STARTS SOON. Will Spend About $3,000.?-Specifications Rigid as to Mules. As it is now only a very short time before the surveying party will be in the city to begin the work of surveying the Edisto river preparatory to opening the stream to navigation, arrangements are now being made to purchase the necessary supplies and equipment which will be used by the party. All of the supplies which can possibly be purchased in this city will be bought here, and it is stated that the amount which will be expened in this equipment will be between ?3,5U0 and ?b,uuu. A letter has just been received from the department by Mr. W. L. Glover, of this city, asking that specifications be placed in the hands of live stock dealers, and all others who may desire to sell mules, the specifications, which' must be complied with in the purchasing of the mules which will be used on this trip. It is announced that the specifications will be strictly followed in the pur-j chase of the two animals which will be purchased for this trip. The bids will be opened at noon on May 27, and all bidders will be held strictly to all requirements. The specifications for the mules are as follows: "The mules to be between five and seven years old; not less than fourteen and one-half hands high, and to weigh about eleven hundred pounds; to be short coupled and stocky in build; free from any defect of sight, and sound in wind and limb, and guaranteed to work both in double and single harness; to be sufficiently gentle to be handled without exercise of extraordinary care, and with no vicious habits that will impair good service. "Bidders will give a full description of the animals bid upon and state where they may be seen. "The mules selected will be subject to a rigid * inspection and trial in double harness before accepted by a representative of this office." The other supplies Which will be purchased for this party will be subject to as rigid examination before they will be purchased. There will be three parties; one on each bank and the third party on the river.?Orangeburg Evening News. Lightning Kills Few. in iyot) ligntning Kinea oniy it>ir people in this whole country. One's chances of death by lightning are less than two in a million. The chance of death from liver, kidney or stomach trouble is vastly greater, but not if Electric Bitters be used, as Robert Madsen, of West Burlington, la., proved. Four doctors gave him up after eight months of suffering from virulent liver trouble and yellow jaundice. He was then completely cured by Elecetric Bitters. They're the best stomach, liver, nerve and kidney remedy and blood purifier on earth. Only 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Negro Insults Girl. Dillon, May 25.?Squads of men were out all of Monday night looking for a 20-year-old negro youth who made improper proposals to a 15. year-old child on the streets of Latta Monday morning. The child was on her way to the graded school where she was to rehearse her part in the closing exercises of the school when she was met by the negro. She was in an isolated part of the town where there are very few pedestrians and the negro took advantage of the situation and made indecent proposals to her. The child was badly frightened and hastened home and told her parents of the incident. A posse was organized and search was instituted, but realizing the enormity of his offense the brute had left town, going in the direction of Sellers. His pursuers followed him to Sellers where all track of the fugitive was lost. The negro did not lay hands upon the child, but his conduct was so full of brutal significance that the child, although quite young, did not fail to comprehend his meaning. Some members of the searching party were in Dillon early Tuesday morning. It is thought that the negro is in hiding somewhere in the county, probably in a swamp and the search will not be abandoned until he is caught. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ! ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear! ing, and when it is entirely closed, ic tho result and unless the iW VAAV A VM ? I inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. 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