Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? . / * / . - I I ' . ; ' . ?v :*5-x.. ? lambrrg Ifmlh I Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1911. One Dollar and a Half a Year. I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS | SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Nov. 20.?The little tots 4 ^ are already w-riting Santa Claus let; ters and mailing them in their usual * postoffice, the fire place, and as the smoke goes up Santa gets the information from the smoke rising from the chimneys and reward them with a variety of toys, etc. The hunters are trying their guns J and dogs. The birds don't seem to he anflPerinfr miifh from their shots. Always an excuse when a few birds are bagged on a hunt. v Some parties went on a deer hunt. The party killed three or four deer, some squirrels, a turkey, and a black bear. The latter game you see is hunted and captured by. others than Teddy. Court in Bamberg takes some of our town's folks away as jurors this i - week. The News and Courier Co. failed to get their Sunday news to our of fice. Their failure to get them to us on Sunday seems to be a mystery. The subscribers haven't gotten but a few papers on Sunday during the year. All talk of cutting it out entirely. The .Mount Pleasant parsonage and lot is now on the market, and any one wanting to buy a nice home cheap can do so by interesting themselves enough to^-put in a bid, after Y looking at the property offered. The committee means business. Our 'phone system is in good shape for business now. The long distance has been put in central office, and , Miss Kittie Dannelly is ready to connect you with other 'phones with whom you want to talk. The toll station is there now in place of Ehrhardt grocery as heretofore. Cotton is very low, so say the farmers, but they say nothing of the * poor quality they have to offer. Mr. Henderson, a brother of Mr. A. F. Henderson, cashier of Ehrhardt Banking Co.. is spending a few days with Alex, and will go on a partridge fA-dav Mr Rilp.v nf Rambersr. UUU v W ^ will take care of the bank for the day for Alex. Heard a Thanksgiving gobbler making a fuss in the chicken yard this morning. He doesn't know his - days are numbered and the decree . gone out that his head is to be am* Dutated for that occasion. Bad luck must have^come to all the autos in town at one time. None N on the go except Dr. Copeland's. A few country grown pecans are coming to town, but lots'of the owners of groves say the nut crop is small this year. Trees didn't bear many. Mr. Miles Warren has a very fine crop of persimmons on his Jap. The dwarf bush has clusters on them and [ they are extra large to be so clustered on its limbs. Mr. W. M. Warren says he has a seed of pindars that one don't have to plant but a few seed to the acre, i as one buch spreads about fourteen feet in diameter. To prove the assertion, he brought about one-half * of a bunch to exhibit in town. Said he had com^ in his buggy. If he had come in his wagon, would have ' brought the whole bunch. Every one you see now-a-days says they are suffering with a bad cold. ? * nf ^ A1F. JiiUltor, nave ^vu evci ucaiu ui any one having a good one? JEE. Man Found Dying. Allendale, Nov. 18.?An unknown man who gave as his name as James White, and thought to be Williams Emerson, of Endicott, N. Y., wife i murderer, was found in a dying condition in one of the section houses of the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway near Appleton, a station a few miles from this place, Thursday night. He wore a Masonic ring, and convinced those present that he was a Mason. A physician was summoned at once, and after strychnine had been inserted in his arm, he revived for the moment, but died a few hours \ ^ later. He stated that, he came from Binghampton, N. Y., that his mother was living, and that he had a broth- j er, G. L. Emerson, a locomotive engineer, at Sayre, N. Y. He also said he was a member of Masonic lodge No. 177 of Binghampton, N. Y. vHe| was, he stated, a workman of the Vajughn Construction company of Clio, Ga., and that before he came here he had been working with the crew that is building a bridge for the Seaboard Railway across the Savannah river, and there he took ma3 larial fever and left a few days ago. j The local lodge of Masons took I charge of his body and buried it in the Mt. Arnon cemetery near here, j He was about 35 years of age, five feet ten inches tall, of fair complex- j ion and dark brown hair. From the reports received irom Binghampton, N. Y., it seems that i the dead man is Williams Emerson. Church and Parsonage Burn. Branchville, Nov. 20.?The Baptist church and parsonage were destroyed by fire to-day about 12:.*>0. The fire originated from a flue in the kitchen. For a while, the fire fighters were able to keep the flames from j spreading very rapidly, but 011 ac% count of the scarcity of water it soon began to gain headway. Practically everything in the church and parsonage was removed. The church was valued at $4,000 with no insurance. The parsonage was valued at $2,500, j with insurance of $1,500. This is a | great loss to the Baptists. Only a few months ago they confpleted remodeling the church. j SLIPPED OX PEEL OF BAN AX A. ; May Result in Crippling for Life of j Man Who Stepped on It. The Greenville Piedmont says tes- J timonv to the fact that the city ordnance against the throwing of banana peels on the sidewalks of the city's streets is not enforced as it should be, and that failure to en| force the law puts pedestrians in a precarious situation is borne out by a sad incident that occurred recently, barely failing to cause death to a Greenville resident. Mr. Robert Nash, a man who has lived here for about eleven months, having come here from Virginia, was walking down Main street near the postoffice building a week ago. Near the corner of Main and Broad streets he slipped on a banana peel and fell to the sidewalK, tne oase 01 ms spine striking the pavement The foot that stepped upon the peeling went high into the air and he suffered a hard fall. Persons on the street came to the aid of Mr. Nash and he was taken to the Salvation Army citadel where he was given medical attention and Drs. Black and Brown have been attending him since. It was found that the base of Nash's spine was fractured ana tnat tne nerves were badly deranged. Xasli has suffered terrible pains and it is likely that he will never walk again. The attending physician said that the injuries may heal, but the chances are that he will never again have the use of his limbs. His legs have been numb and feelingless since the fall. It is thought that j the break of the spine will heal but that his nervous system will never be whole again and that this will prevent further use of the legs. Nash is a young man and rather t^ll and it is believed that his height made the fall more serious. It is thought that if-it had been an old man to suffer the fall death would have resulted. However, Nash, being a young man, the wounds will not, it is thought, prove fatal. LIVED A DUAL LIFE. Man Played the Jekyll and Hyde Role for Years. The trial of Bertram G. Spencer, who is charged with murdering Miss Martha G. Blackstone, a Springfield', Mass.,. school teacher, has begun. The killing took place on March 31, 1910, but the trial has been delayed in order that the prisoner might be watched by alienists, for the defense will be insanity of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" type. Spencer has admitted to the police that he was responsible for a series of hold-ups and robberies, which for nearly two years kept the city almost panic stricken. He was known among his acquaintances qp an honest, hardworking young married mar About three years ago, wnile employed as a railroad man, Spencer fell in love with an attractive young woman from a highly respected family and not long afterward they were married and went to housekeeping. A baby was born, and the couple were to all outward appearances happy and devoted. Yet during all this time Spencer, according to his statement to the police, was terrorizing the city by bold robberies. Most of these were -comiii thp pnrlv pveninsr. so that by 8 o'clock he might be at home with his little family. On the night of March 31, 1910. Miss Blackstone was visiting at the home of Miss Harriet Dow when a man entered and shot both women. Misc Rlarkstone was killed, but Miss Dow was only slightly injured. After the police had exhausted every effort to run down the murderer and had about lost hope, a locket which had been found in the yard of a home robbed several months before was turned over to them. The locket bore the initials "B. G. S." and by a coincidence the only name in the Springfield directory with these initials was Bertram G. Spencer. Pictures in the locket were identified as those of his wife and a relative. Spencer was arrested. He admitted, the police say, every crime laid at his door and told a remarkable story of his dual personality. Law-Makers Must Act on Petition. Columbia, Nov. 16.?By the refusal of the governor to entertain a petition for an election on the Heyward county question, the entire matter will have to go over until after the session of the general assembly, j At the last session orthe general asj sembly a measure was passed aimed ' at ill-formed counties, and the new | county that it is proposed to form out of parts of Aiken and Edgefield counties would have come under the act. When the measure was sent to the governor he vetoed it. although I he had annulled the election order ' J ^ A nrtrtl tliA orrAiinHe I maue uy uuv. n.uoci un uic a vaajlvaw j that one of the lines of the new county would pass through the town of Ellenton and that the constitutional! I requirements as to area had not been met. Since the^question was! I agitated last year a parr, of Edgefield! county, that would have been includ- j ed in the new county, has been an-1 nexed to Greenwood. i The promoters of the new county, j of which James D. Jackson, of Au-! i givsta, is foremost, declare that a-j I new survey will be made so as to j j come within the requirements of the ! constitution. This petition will be j j presented to the governor next year, j Should the general assembly pass! the ill-formed county act over the i veto of the governor, then the Hevward county movement would be forever lost. The monument to the Women of the Confederacy will be unveiled in Columbia December 14th. ; '" - -.-V. - '>-J'-'aiiVi IN THE PALMETTO STATE I I SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS j KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. j i State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Bids will be opened on the -7th for a new school building for Greenwood, to cost $16,000. The citizens of Aiken will get up a relief fund for the family of Mr. Wade Patterson, the policeman who was shot and killed last week by a Mr. Seigler. An unknown person threw a stone into the C. & W. C. passenger train near Bradleys on Friday night and ? i ** Tr; ? ? struck xMr. jonn mciyissick, ui I Greenwood, in the face, cutting a|deep gash. j It is stated that it will require ! more than $1,000,000 to run the State government next year, and that a levy of 5 % mills for State purI poses will have to be levied to meet | the legislative appropriations. Six "social clubs" were raided on | Saturday night by the police of Coj lumbia and 1,500 bottles of beer and several hundred gallons of whiskey were captured. Bond for $40 was given in five cases and in one case for $80. Henry Suber, colored, who was sentenced to the penitentiary in 1893 from Laurens county for killing another negro at Cross Hill, and who escaped three years later, was captured in Camden a few days ago while passing under the name of Tack Fuller and was returned to the institution to serve the remaining four years. It is stated in the dispatches from Columbia that Adjutant General Moore, in his annual report, will recommend that the office be taken out of politics and the appointment made by the governor. This will require a constitutional amendment. South Carolina is one of the few States where the adjutant general is elected by the people, it being an appointive position in most States. At the Whitney stables in Aiken, just beyond the southern limits of ' i - -1 ?'i- A J ? V,..n mai city, are quttntrreu uc?nijr a Hundred' race horses with their keepers. Among the horses are some of the finest racers in the world. The owners are Carman, Taylor, and Hitchcock. The horses have been stabled there for the purpose of training [ them for the approaching Charleston I races, which will take the place of" the races once held at Jacksonville. HOLDING MAY FORCE PRICE UP. Campaign of Cotton Fanners Gives Much Concern. New Orleans, Nov. 19.?This week the cotton market will again struggle with market reports, and it is hard to tell now how they will affect prides. Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, the census bureau will issue a report,* on ginning up to the close of business 011 November 13, and Saturday morning it will give out a rea . A 1. _ 1? a port on tne suppiy aiiu uisinuuuuu of cotton up to November 1. The report on ginning has caused a great deal of guess work, but the trade is undoubtedly looking for rather bullish figures. There was a tendency to predict figures of 12,000,000 bales, but the average expectation at the end of the week appeared to be for about 11,500,000 bales. It is claimed that the weather interfered with the handling of cotton this last period, although many people contend that enough cotton was store in the seed to keep the gins running full blast. It is not improbable that the holding movement has had something to do with keeping the amount of cotton ginned down. Many telegrams were receivfrnrn Hiffprcmt nnr+s of the hftlt during the week, stating that farmers were holding seed cotton as well as baled cotton. In this way the crop is picked, but the yield is not counted. One reason for holding cotton this way is the prevalent belief that it increases the percentage of the yield of lint at the the expense of the seed. The report on supply and distribution is not likely to cause much stir, although once in a great while one of these reports contain something that sets the market by the ears. The chances are, however, ?that it will have little effect one way or the other. The holding movement and the spot demand will be watched closely. The holding movement is having more effect on the market than most people imagine, and if it grows much stronger it can hardly help putting prices up. It may be that a demand to fill end of the month shipments of actual cotton will develop this week. If it does, the advantage will be with the bull side. Shoots Edgefield Fanner. Edgefield. Nov. 18.?Albert Lyon, j a young farmer who resides eight j miles west of Edgefield, was shot this i morning by a negro, Otis Harris, a j shotgun being used. Young Lyon also ! shot the negro several times. Harris; made an insulting remark to Mr. i Lyon while in Ldgeneici last satur-; day and is said to have purchased a j gun with which to shoot him. While I .Mr. Lycn was on his way to town j this morning with a load of cotton j he met Harris in the road, and after ] some \fcords were passed, the negro fired upon Mr. Lyon, almost severing his left arm above the elbow. Mr. Lyon returned the fire. While the wound is exceedingly painful, the attending physician thinks the arm can be saved. ' INQUEST INTO AIKEN TRAGEDY. Eye-Witnesses Describe Killing: of Officer Wade Patterson. Aiken, Nov. 18.?The inquest over the body of Police Officer Wade Patterson, who was shot to death here yesterday afternoon by James Seigler, was held this morning at 10 o'clock. The autopsy was conducted by Dr. Frampton Wyman, and showed eight wounds on the body of the dead man, four wounds of entrance and four of exit, every one of the four bullets fired passing completely through the body. Two of the bullets entered the left side, one just under the armpit, one at the end of the ribs, both passing through the body and out of the right side. The.two remaining wounds showed that the bullets entered from the back, one immediately below the left shoulder blade, the other below the right shoulder blade, passing out through the breast. The bullets were of steel. There were three eye-witnesses to the shooting, Rural Policeman Holley, who arrested Seigler; John Overstreet, owner of the store at which the tragedy occurred, and Mr. J. R. Abercrombie, an employee of Mr. Overstreet. With some few exceptions the testimony of these witnesses coincided. The first to testify was Policeman llolley, whoee testimony is essentially as follows: I was standing in front of the Greek restaurant on Park avenue yesterday afternoon, it was nearly 3 o'clock, when Mr. Patterson walked up and remarked that he had some-| thing to tell me. We stepped to the door of the club room, a few feet above the restaurant, and were standing there talking, when Jim Seigler and another man walked up?the man with Seigler was a stranger to me. They spoke and Jim playfully reached down and slapped Mr. Patterson's dog, which was sitting at i his ffeet. Then I jokingly "sicced" the dog at Jim. The dog bit at him and Jim kicked but missed. He kicked hard, too, and had he succeeded in striking the dog would have injured it. Mr. Patterson told Jim that the dog would not bite him, but Jim was mad and kept cursing. Finally Mr. Patterson said: "Jim, don't curse so." Mr. Patterson then walked off, and so did I, thinking that the incident was ended. I walked on up the street until I came to John Overstreet's store? neither Seigler nor Patterson were [ there then?and was standing there | with my face away from the door, I talking, and had forgotten all about [ the matter. I had been there about five minutes when I heard someone curse. Turning I saw Mr. Patterson standing in front of the Main street entrance, while Jim was walking back and forth in front of him, uttering one oath after the other. Mr. Patterson told him to stop cursing, but Jim paid no attention to this, and directly Mr. Patterson said: "Jim, I'll just arrest you," and caught Seigler in the belt. Jim immediately offered bond for his appearance and placed a bond of $5 into Mr. Patterson's hands?it was a five dollar bill?and began to curse more violently than ever, declaring that he he had not been profane on the streets. He grew more excited every moment and so did Mr. Patterson, who stood perfectly still and kept his eyes squarely on Jim, but all the time he was nervously twirling the bill in his hands. About thi9 time some intuitive knowledge, it may have been Seigier's manner, or the expression on Mr. Patterson's face, but something seemed to tell pie that there was bad trouble on hand. I ran up to Jim and grabbed him by the left arm, but he whirled angrily away from me and threw me beyond Mr. Patterson. I turned and started back to him, and just as I got even with Mr. Patterson, Jim drew an automatic Savage pistol, 32calibre, from the right side pocket of his trousers and pointed the barrel directly into my face. I expected nothing of the sort and quickly threw up my hands, exclaiming "Jim, for God's sake! You're wrong, you're wrong," and he immediately switched the pistol from my face onto the person of Mr. Patterson and fired four times. With the first shot Mr. Patterson screamed, threw his arms over his face and turned to the right, falling on his face. Seigler then turned and walked from the side entrance onto Park avenue. 1 followed him and effected his arrest without any trouble, relieved him of his pistol and carried him to jail. In reply to an inquiry from Solicitor Gunter, Mr., Hoi ley stated that Seigler was drinking a good deal. He further declared that the policeman never made any effort to use his club or draw his pistol during the entire trouble. Overstreet and Aber crombie also testinea to tnis enect, and those who rushed up to Patterson and to the dead man declare that his pistol was securely fastened in the holster, which hung near the hippocket, Mr. John Overstreet testified that Mr. Seigler cursed just as he entered the store, and that this attracted the attention of Mr. Patterson, who had been standing in front of the door, glancing up and down the street, Main street. From this point the testimony of Mr. Overstreet corroborated that of Policeman Holley. Likewise the testimony of Mr. Aber-i crombie. Dr. Frampton Wyman was the fourth and last witness called. He had seen the officer fall and had rushed up immediately. Dr. Wvman stated that he was kneeling by ^he side of Mr. Patterson three seconds after the shooting, but that the officer was already dead, in fact, had never known what killed him. Officer Patterson had been a mem: s ; HAMPTON GIRL ASSAULTED I ENRAGED POSSE OF FOUR HUNDRED IN PURSUIT. 9 Negro Fiend* Shoots and Seriously Wounds J. R. Fitts, Member of Pursuing Party. Hampton, Nov. 21.?A criminal assault upon a 14-year-old white girl of a respectable family on the C. | & W C. railroad near Hampton this j afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, by a negro brute named Dave Rivers, has causI ed a fever of excitement here to| night. An enraged posse of some 400 citizens of Hampton, Brunson, Varnville and the community is scouring the woods in search of the villain. John Reid Fitts, manager of the telephone company of Hampton, was shot about 5 o'clock from ambush by the negro and is seriously wounded. The attack was made upon the little girl at the home of the girl's father. The screams of the girl attracted the attention of her father, who was working in the field near the house and when he came to her assistance the negro fled. The child was attacked in a cruel manner, but the negro failed in his purpose. Up to this hour, 11 o'clock, the negro has not been caught although a determined effort is being made to trace him with bloodhounds from Barnwell county. One of the searching party, J. Reid Fitts, was wounded by the negro who shot from a clump of bushes and continued his flight into the woods. IMPERSONATED* FERRALL. j W. E. Peeler Declares He Secured i i\f Ttlvrniorafion Gaffney, Nov. 20.?In the Gaffney Ledger to-morrow will appear a letter from W. E. Peeler, a well-known young man of this city, in which he says that he was the man who impersonated Rev. W. A. Ferrall, appearing before an Atlanta police judge and securing a statement that he was not the man who had been hailed into the police court by a young woman with whom he had had dealings following the publication of a classified ad in an Atlanta paper. Ferrall was alleged to have answered the ad and to have described himself as a minister of romantic tendencies and unmarried. Peeler, in his letter, says that he and Ferrall became very good friends. As a result when Ferrall's name was brought into public notice in connection with the Atlanta episode the preacher, he declares, asked him for help. After some thought, Peeler says, he agreed to the plan. Together, according to the letter, the two men went to Atlanta, where Peeler interviewed Judge Broyles and secured the statement which tended to exttierate Ferrall. The letter then goes on to tell of the investigations made by a Gaffney newspaper man, with the result that a picture of Peeler was sent to Judge Broyles. When this was known, Peeler's letter says, he decided to "fess up." Peeler defends his course on the 'ground that there was really no criminal offense, and that Ferrall was his friend. HOLDS UP MERGER. Maple. Dillon and Hamer Consolida tion Restrained. Charleston, Nov. 18.?In the United States circuit court to-day, an order was signed by Judge Smith, restraining the proposed consolidation of the Maple, Dillon and Hamer mills, in the case of J. H. Lane & Co. and John M. Tallman against the Maple Cotton mills and others. Under the order of the court, the defendants are enjoined from transferring or delivering any of the property and assets of the Maple mills to the Dillon and Hamer mills and from consolidating or commingling the property and assets of the Maple mills with the property and assets of the other corporations in pursuance of any purpose for effecting or carrying out the consolidation complained of. The defendapts are further restrained from making, signing or executing delivery of any bill of sale, deed, order or instrument of assignment or conveyance of the property, assets and franchises of the Maple mills to the other mills to carry out the proposed consolidation. The complainants are required to file in ten days a bond for $500 to cover any damage which may be done individually or collectively to the defendants, under the restraining order. The injunction is of interest in cotton mill circles, sustaining as it does the contention of the complainants that the franchise and property of a going corporation, can not be transferred as was proposed in the organization of the Hamer mills merger. Many interesting questions of law are said to be involved in. the case, as has been pointed out. and probably more will be heard of the case later on, on account of its probable effect upon the mill mergers which have been effected during the past year. ber of the Aiken police force for nearly thirty years and possessed the fullest confidence of those whom he served. Wholly void of fear, he was considered cool, courageous and resourceful to an unusual degree. He was thoroughly conscientious and never failed to perform his duty. His tragic end has filled the hearts of all with keen regret, and the expressions of esteem and pity have been numerous. He was 55 years old at the time of hjs death. / / N ' t ' V VICTIM NOT IDENTIFIED. Unknown Man, Struck by Train, Die^ in Columbia. Columbia, Nov. 16.?An unknown man was struck by Southern passenger train No. 35 this morning, near the Fairfield county line, and fatally injured, death resulting after the man had been put aboard the train and brought here. His skull was fractured above the left ear and his left leg broken, he never having regained ? v consciousness to the time of his death. The body is held at a local undertaking establishment and efforts are being made to identify the unknown man. ?3 The man was said to have been sitting on the end of a cross-tie, ap- 7. parently asleep, and evidently did not % hear the approach of the train, the .' pilot of the locomotive striking him and throwing the body clear of the track. He was placed in the bag- ; i gage car and brought here, but died ' M as the train, pulled into the union station. The dead man was dressed in a suit of blue overalls and in his hand carried a bundle of underclothing wrapped in manila paper, which had : I printed in two places the name ^ "C. A. Carter,* Smith's Postofflce.'V ;;;| Cimth'c Ic q atntinn nn thft Charlotte . i division of the Southern, between Chester and Rock Hill. The coat ' '|| which the man wore had the name j . ^ "H. M. Lewis, Staunton, Va./' printed on a slip of cloth sewn inside the * collar band, /evidently the house which sold the coat. The man was about five feet, ten inches in height, clean shaven and - , with no marks of dissipation. It is / : simply a matter of conjecture that he was a cotton mill operative, wandering towards Columbia in search of work, and had stopped on the sicie - <0, of the railroad track to rest awhile ; >. /I when he was struck by the train and killed. Magistrate Fowles stated late this ^ afternoon that he had communicated v $ with Mr. Carter, a merchant at ^ Smith's and the storekeeper said*he knew ?o one answering the descrip- ^ tion o: ae dead man. The body will be kept here awaiting identification, as it is the opinion of some that the r x g young man probably came from Vir- - -Je ginia. ' ;i||3 AIKEN POLICEMAN KILLED. Wade Patterson Victim of Jaj Seigler's Gun. Aiken, Nov. 17.?One of the lIUIUrLUUctLC dUU ucyivtai/ic uugvviv. . ,W. in the history of Aiken occurred here Wja this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, when Mr, . ]'.?$ James Seigler shot and instantly kill- , . : ^ ed Officer Wade Patterson, one of the oldest and most valued members "v-| of the police force of this city. There were several eye-witnesses to the tragedy, but they refuse to be SM quoted, and the coroner's inquest has^ ~J;?j been postponed until to-morrow ?morning at 10 o'clock. Beginning of Difficulty. The story centers around a dog * -1 belonging to the dead policeman. It seeips that Mr. Seigler had been playing with the dog, when the animal became enraged and bit, or attempt-** " *' ed to bite, Mr. Seigler, whereupon, ^ V| the latter became incensed and kick- ;'. " vj ed the dog. This drew a warning rebuke from Officer Patterson, who reminded Mr. Seigler that he had trifled with the animal. Mr. Seigler, it is said, replied to the warn- > ing by cursing several times and the VsJ officer threatened him with arrest. Trouble Renewed in Store. This seems to have closed the in-',, srcident. The two men then separat- ' ^ ed, Mr. Seigler walking into the store . ) 'I of Mr. John Overstreet, entering 3 through the side door from Park nirnmia Affl nflT< PoftOVCfin Tl'Qllrod tf\ AVCUUC* VlUVVi j. uvi/ViwwiA *i the Main street entrance of the same store, where the difficulty was re- j " newed. Words passed, which, it seems, provoked considerable profanity from Mr. Seigler, and for this M Mr. Patterson arrested him. Mr. Seigler immediately offered bond for his appearance, ^nd Mr. Patterson. ^ accepted the bond of $5.. The Fatal Shots. The report goes that Mr. Seigler ' Vjjf handed Patterson a five-dollar bill, and without further words pulled - | from his pocket a 32-calibre automat- \ ic revolver and fired four or five shots into the breast of the officer, produc- ? ;; ing instantaneous death. - . x Bystanders rushed up and found - : * Officer Patterson still clutching the money and his revolver securely fas- , tened in its holster, the barrel pointing upwards. Mr. Seigler was arrested by Rural Policeman Hollev, who was one of the eve-witnesses, and taken to the jail. Mr. Seigler is one of the prominent men of the county, being a son of the late Capt. A. S. Seigler, and has a host of friends, who deeply regret the , ' _i ? SUUUI.Illg. _ . yf. Held in Esteem. Officer Patterson came from Edgefield to Aiken about 35 years ago and has almost continuously since been a member of the Aiken police force. He was recognized as one of the best and most conscientious officers on the force, and was a man wholly and altogether void of any tear, being at all times cool and" resourceful, and his untimely death has cast a gloom over the city that he has guarded so long and well during the dark hours. He leaves a wife and five children. Haywood, a suburb of Chicago; is in furors, because of the establishment of * home for negro girls there. The home is a branch of the Iliin- \ ois Industrial school for girls. The village board has ordered it removed within ten days. An indigna- *. tion meeting was held Friday night by citizens.