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McNAMARAS PLEAD GUILTY.
Confession Comes Like a Thunder
Bolt?Make No Statement.
Los Angeles. Cal., Dec. 1.?James
B. McNamara pleaded guilty to murder
in the first degree in Judge Walter
Bordwell's court to-day. His
brother John J. McNamara, secre;
tary of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers; entered a piea 01 guiuy to uaving
dynamited the Llewllyn Iron
Works in Los Angeles on Christmas
day, 1910.
James B. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of
the explosion and fire, which at 1:07
o'clock on the morning of October 1,
3 910, wrecked the plant of the Los
Angeles Times at First and Broadway
and caused the death of 21 persons.
For 19 of these deaths the
McNamara brothers were indicted,
and J. B. McNamara was on trial
specifically for the murder of Charles
J. Haggerty, a machinist, whose body
was found nearer than that of any
other to the spot where the dynamite
was supposed to have been
placed.
Both men's sentences were set for
December 5, when it is expected District
Attorney John D. Fredericks
will ask for life imprisonment for
James B. McNamara, the confessed
murderer, and probably 14 years imprisonment
for his brother. The
men's lives are considered saved. The
great contention that the Los AngeTil
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beyond resurrection or argument.
To-night as the two brothers sat
together in the county jail, refusing
to see any one or make any statement,
an interest second only to the
jr occurrence itself hung about the
question with reference to James B.
McNamara?"Why did he confess?"
To this oposing counsel gave the
same answer.
v: r "He confessed because he was guilX?
ty, and that's all there is to it," declared
District Attorney Fredericks.
"" "He was counseled to confess be^
cause that was the best thing he
x could do, in the opinion of counsel,"
said Attorney Clarence S. Darrow,
3&:'i > chief of counsel. "I will say now that
there was no other reason or motive
in it. I've studied this case for
months. It presented a stone wall."
x Darrow's statement was made as
looking squarely in the face of the
/ charges that the recent arrest of
Burt H. Franklin, an investigator
employed by the defense, and two
t othsrs with him might have precipi*
tated a situation untenable save by
confession of the prisoners.
"Negotiations have been on for
weeks," asserted Darrow, and this
was corroborated by District Attor
ney Fredericks. "We expected at
one time that Jim would confess last
Monday, but he would not," said Darfc
v row.
Bad Cotton Seed Coming to Mills.
Owing to the fact that the cotton
in such large quantities has remained
in the fields this year in the Augusta
section, the local oil mills are
having a deal of trouble with the
seed.
A representative of one of the
largest mills in the vicinity is authority
for the statement that the grade
, of oil turned out by the seed from
this cotton now being harvested is
such that claims for off grade are
repeatedly coming in. In fact such
is the inferiority of a large part of
the seed, he said, that one of the
largest mills has practically dropped
out of the market, until a better
grade of seed is offered. Several cars
of seed recently received were, he
said, converted immediately, and the
oil obtained was of such quality that
it was sold for much less than the
prevailing price for oil at that date.
Farmers are urged to take especial
care with the seed now being ginned,
as the oil mill men say that even a
small pile of it, if placed in a close
Toom, will heat in two or three days
4 \ to suoh an extent as to render it
most unsaleable for mill purposes.?
Augusta Chronicle, November 29th.
.Officers Break Up Cock Fight.
Aiken, Dec. 2.?An old game was
revived here yesterday when a cock
milln/1 nff Katnroan twfl
1I&UL wao yuncu v/u u^tn vvu vow.
blooded fowls of the fighting' specie
at Barton's pond, three or four miles
from the city. The "stage" names of
the two cocks are Tennessee and
North Carolina.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
, fight had been arranged with a certain
degree of secrecy, a large audience
was circled around the pit, the
crowds having come from Augusta,
Horsecreek Valley and Aiken. Betting
was lively, and the stakes high.
Ten rounds had been fought, eight
of which were won by the representative
of the Old Tar Heel State, when
Sheriff Rabon and Rural Policeman
. Busbee appeared on the scene. The
11th round was never completed, because
the audience, the roosters and
their owners all took to the bushes
with more rapidity than grace, leaving
the sheriff only a few feathers
that marked the scene of the con?
flict.
> It is understood that the fight had
been scheduled by Augustans to come
off in Augusta, but it seems that the
city authorities interfered, whereupon
the promoters of the fight adjourned
to Aiken and began the fight before
the county authorities could interforo
Tbp hpttpr rlass of citizens are
highly indignant over the fight.
CAINHOY MEN IN JAIL.
Two White Men and Negro Charged
with Criminal Assault.
Moncks Corner, Nov. 30.?W. H.
Metchum and his son, and Geo.
Johnson, a negro, charged with criminally
assaulting a white woman at
Cainhoy, were lodged in jail here
yesterday, having been sent here by
^lagistrate P. R. Donnelly. The story
of the alleged crime has already
been published in the News and
Courier. The men who are charged
with the crime assert that they are
innocent and are repared to prove
their innocence, when the proper
time comes. From rumors afloat,
when the true story is told, something
sensational will develop. W.
H. Metchum is quite an old man.
A
BITES BEAR'S BRAINS OUT.
Some Exciting Chases Over Moun- ]
tains of Western North Carolina.
Bristol, Tenn., Nov. 25.?David
Blevins, the most conspicuous of liv- 1
ing bear-hunters in this region, was s
here this week from his home in i
Shady, Johnson county, Tennessee. 1
He is 63 years old, and for more i
than thirty years has been chasing i
bears along the mountain range that j
divides Johnson county, Tennessee, 1
from Watauga county, North Caro- 1
lina. He assisted Nat Willis and i
other hunters in the capture of "Old (
Kettlefoot," the mightiest bear that <
ever roamed the mountains of this (
region, and whose paw was likened i
to the foot of a mastodon in size. <
When asked about bear-hunting i
experiences, Blevins said: "I have i
killed 56 bears during the seasons T 1
have hunted, but this is nothing to i
boast of when compared with the t
records of men who roamed the <
mountains before me. _?ears are t
nothing like so plentiful in the re- i
gion of my home as they once were, i
and yet an experienced hunter never t
fails to find them in sufficient num- S
bers to make a chase interesting. (
You may gain some idea of the ]
abundance of bears in earlier days f
when I tell you that my great uncle, t
William Blevins, killed on Beech 1
mountain in Western North Carolina, '<.
in a single season, 82 bears, and al- 1
though naturalists assert that the s
buffalo does not exist east of the Mississippi
river, he captured a buffalo
calf on the same mountain the same
season. Napoleon Blevins, another
relative of mine, exercising the warlike
spirit of his namesake, slew 38
bears on one ridge.
"You may not believe it," continued
Blevins, "but I once knew a man
tc bite a bear's brains out. This
happened in Shady, and but a little
way from my home. Old Daniel
Gertman, a hunter who used to go
out with me, is the man who accomplished
this feat. We had shot and
killed a belligerent she-bear. Advancing
up the hollow, we discovered
a lot of cubs of very tender age.
Gertman lifted one of these little
fellows from its bed and stood it on a
its hind feet on a log. The bottoms <3
of its feet were white and tender,
making it plain that it had never yet *
roamed from the spot of its birth, c
After eyeing the tender little inno- s
cent for a few minutes, Gertman, as a
if impelled by a sudden viciousness, i
opened wide his jaws, placed the t
head of the cub between his teeth ?
and actually bit its brains out. I s
have often recalled this tragic inci- t
dent, but not with any idea of find- c
ing excuse to vote Gertman the lau- t
reis ui a uei v. c
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For Shooting Conductor. s
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Moncks Corner, Nov. 30.?James 1
Gaddy and Arthur Gather were held ^
in the sum of $500 each to-day for d
appearance before the court of gen- i
eral sessions next March, charged c
with having shot Conductor Inabi- c
nett on his freight train, as it was t
approaching Moncks Corner last Sat- a
urday night a little after dark. c
Magistrate John .0. Edwards was .
In the midst of the preliminary t
hearing, demanded by the defend- c
ants, when James Gaddy, at the con- t
elusion of the examination of one d
of the witnesses, turned to Mr. Oc- i
tavus Cohen, who was acting for a
the State, and asked if he might ^
make a statement. Permission be- t
ing granted by magistrate, Gaddy ?
said that he had done the shooting, *
being so drunk as not to realize the a
enormity of his offence. He prayed s
the mercy of the court. He stated r
that as the train came along, Gath- i
er, who had a small pistol belong- s
ing to one of the water boys, shot a t
couple of times into the box cars, 1
and then he (Gaddy) taking the pis- s
tol from Gather, continued to shoot t
into the train until the caboose 1
came along, the last shot unfortu- r
nately striking Conductor Inabinett. t
The conductor was not well enough t
to make the trip to Moncks Corner t
for the pieliminary hearing, but r
there was an abundance of testimony a
notwithstanding, to warrant Magis ?
trate Edwrrds in holding the pris- t
oners. The other two' defendants, a
Jim Gary and Chester Allred, were a
released on bond for their appear- a
ance as witnesses at the March, 1
1912, term of the criminal court. t
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After Dodgers of the Income Tax.
In order to enforce more stringently ^
the law requiring all citizens to pay
a tax of 1 per cent, on their incomes
in excess of $2,500, Mr. A. W. Jones,
comptroller general, has sent out to i
the various county auditors general f
letters, giving information with re- h
gard to the manner of enforcement of
this income tax law. t
The first move in the matter is to e
be made in Greenville county, where,
the comptroller estimated, over 100
parties are liable to pay the income
tax, although only six made returns J
during the present year. A letter has s
been addressed to Auditor M. L. Gul- C
lick, of Greenville county, enclosing a e
list of parties known or believed by 1
Mr. Jones to be liable to the income t
tax. Two forms of "summons" are f
also enclosed, one of which is to require
the party supposed to be sub- r
ject to the income tax to appear be- t
forfe the auditor and testify as re- s
gards his income, and another to c
subpoena a witness who shall testify t
to the income of the first party. Both c
the circular letter and the letter to. t
Mr. Gullick are endorsed by'the gov- t
ernor, whose comment, written as a c
postscript to the comptroller's letter,
is a laconic. "A word to the wise
should be sufficient."
Carrying Survey to Completion.
The survey of the Edisto River to
determine whether or not it is available
as a navigable stream, is being 1
rnnirllv nnshpd to onninlptinn Tt. is ?
expected that the work will be fin- i
ished sometime during the middle of |
January. At present the party of t
engineers have reached a point be- i
tween Branchville and Jacksonboro, 1
and are getting on rapidly with the t
work. }
The survey was commenced in this
city during the summer, and in all t
it will require about six months to <
complete the job.?The Orangeburg i
I Evening News. 1
LOW PRICE OF COTTON. ?
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Reduced Acreage the Only Remedy
Says "Old Timer." ?
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Wanderer's Rest, Nov. 29.?To- J
norrow is Thansksgiving and all ?
should throw off all care' and with a !
'ree heart give thanks for the many <
blessings we have. Last spring ?
iearly all the newspapers published ?|
n substance a well worded and ap- *
parently a sincere article stating that
;he world was short four and one- <
lalf million bales of cotton and that jj
i 14 or 15 million bale crop was the ?
)nly hope of the world and that a *
:rop of that size would bring 14 *
;ents, upland. How the farmers ;
-ead and reread that statement. Not jj
loubting the statement in the least, 3
*esult, deeper plowing was done and >
nore of it than ever before, more $
.'ertilizer used by far than any pre- *
rious year, just enough rain to bring %
;he young cotton up, no grass to ?
:rouble and dust (everywhere. In j
:he nick of time the rains came as *
f made to order and that big crop ?
-ealized, but a late one for very lit;le
August cotton was' sold here. %
Still all was joy at the scene and ?
ivery prospect pleasing for a bum- 3
per crop, and 12 cents was a cer- %
;ainty, for it had been promised in ?
;he newspapers by some one paid by *
fVall street to help the bears out of T
1 hole or to lay a trap to catch the *
'armer, and an old farmer down this 2
lide was caught but not napping, for ?!
J- J. ? A +
in enon was uiaue lu giuw icgaiu- m
ess of expense a big crop of cotton, U
ilso corn and pigs, and the day ti
ireams on cotton more than realized *3
tnd almost on corn and pigs. !?
Now comes the 28th of August, a w
itorm, cotton injured, corn blown ?3
lown to rot, and rain,1 rain ever m
;ince to retard the harvest, lower ?!
he grade and hundreds of bales un- i]
)icked at date, there to remain it *i
>eems. Not 12 cents but 6, even
>, for some is the case, and still *3
ower the grade and corresponding !
>rice perhaps, and while the old !
armer smokes his pipe in silence {J
hinks of that promised 12 cents or
[4 cents of the spring writers not J
ealized he almost wants to say cuss
l man that makes a promise but to 2
leceive.. {
But "so it is, and the unexpected
las happened, that the big crop of 2
otton has brought almost ruin to 35
ome and no gains to the grower,
tnd now the speculator and spinler
can clink the glasses and drink
o the thoughtless farmers of the
louth, and give a handshake and a ?
mile to the writer or writers who 35
telped to deceive the cotton growers
?f the South into the folly of trying 2
o grow, and helped out by the best 35
;rowing season in years, a crop too %
arge to gather or sell, stands in the
ad plight of being laughed at by 35
lis far off friends who now clap their n
tands in glee and yell supply and a
lemand, while the supply bill justly 2
lue the merchant, fertilizer bills and S
lotes on high priced mules in many
ases unpaid, fields as white as snow 2
>n all sides, even the ground manled
with a white carpet of cotton,
.11 go to prove for all time that a|l !{
otton farming is wrong. " t|
Now the remedy what to do with =
his cotton still in the field, much ?
>f it so low in grade if gathered to jl
>e on the market for years only to jS
[epress in the years to come. Would ?
t not be better to turn it all under A
is a fertilizer? Most assuredly so \5
vhere men are in shape to stand ?
he loss, for loss it will be to the )1
rro.wer in the end to try to market V
t, yet to grow an expensive crop as ?
l fertilizer only derived from the ?
eed, no money to buy wraps and
ibbons for the long-suffering wife, M
lor for bee gum hats and white /I
clippers for Maud and Chloe, the >
toys longing for a soft paying job, &
lis other girls in town, seems to
ay: "No, gather that cotton if it S
akes until May next," and five dol- (C
ars a bale over cost of picking is 2!
eceived, and thus it will be, but not Sr
o the advantage of the grower. Cut ft
he acreage next year half in two is 2!
he remedy, and it is time for all to
ealize this fact, but like a certain ft
agricultural commissioner after ad- qk
ising in every way for the farmers a[
o cut theirs went to his own farm H
,nd planted all cotton. On being ?
.sked why he did so, replied: "Why, Jj
.11 the others will cut and I will ?
nake big money." So it is, and now ft
he old farmers feels like the disap- 5
jointed lover exclaimed: {S
'I'll hang my harp on a willow tree ft
And off to the wars again;
Iy peaceful home has no charm for IS
me, ft
The battle field no pain."
After all, clothing the world for v!
caught but worry don't pay, and ft
rom this on will one say: "I'll try to
telp feed it." OLD TIMER. ?
N. B. Next week will try to find ft
he cause of all cotton, and look for
oore remedies. O. T. ?
Prison for Killing Betrayer. )S
Philadelphia, Dec. 1.?Frank M.
IcMahon, who was convicted of man- w
laughter last week for the killing of ft
ieorge Leary last May, was sentencd
to the penitentiary to-day for not ?|
ess than five years nor more than og
en years. The maximum penalty S
or the crime is 12 years. Q
McMahon shot Leary after a quar
el on the street over Leary's refusal
o marry McMahon's daughter. The
:o-called unwritten law figured in the
;ase and attracted considerable at- ai
ention. It is said that McMahon's cr
:ounsel waived an appeal for a new et
riol in nrrior tn irnmorliotpl v talrp
he case to the State board of parions.
COTTON PICKER AT WORK. 7
Machine Roes Good Work in Test at
Bennetts ville.
Bennettsville, November 30.?The
Drice-Campb'ell cotton picker made
l demonstration here to-day. On _
iccount of recent heavy rains the S.
ground was too soft for the machine
o get over the ground without bogging,
but the machine was operated
?or a short time and it is estimated
hat fully 90 per cent of tire cotton
vas well picked.
The machine was on exhibition here Si
;wo years ago, and while it did won- pi
lerful work then, it has been made ta
nore perfect. Other exhibitions will ti
3e given during the next few days, t*
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