The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 07, 1912, Page 3, Image 3
JOHN J. JONES LOSES AGAIN.
Abe Fearlstine's Slayer Denied NewTrial
by Judge Shipp.
Orangeburg, March 2.?In an order
filed here to-day, Judge S. G. W.
Shipp denies the motion for a newtrial
in the case of John J. Jones,
the Branc'nville lawyer, who is under
sentence of ten years and one
month, having been convicted in January,
1911, of manslaughter in the
killing of Abe Pearlstine. The killing
occurred in the postoffice at
Branchville, of which town Pearl
> stine was a prominent merchant.
Judge Shipp's decision holds that
the ground upon which the motion
for a new trial was based was a
mere irregularity. The defendant's
counsel, in arguing for a new trial,
contended that the grand and petit
juries, which indicted and convicted
% Jones, had been declared illegal at
a subsequent term of court, and that
Jones had, therefore, been illegally
tried. Judge Shipp holds that the
contention is erroneous and denies
the motion.
Jones's attorneys have not stated
whether or not this case will again
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already affirmed the judgment of the
circuit court without, however, passing
on the issue as to the legality of
the juries, raised in the motion before
Judge Shipp.
Jones is in the jail here, having
come down from the penitentiary to
be present when the motion for a
new trial was argued. He had been
in the penitentiary since shortly after
his conviction, but had not y*t
entered upon the service of his sentence.
Any new move in this case will
be watched with interest as probably
no case in the history of the country
has been harder fought.
TRAGEDY REVEALS ROMANCE.
Engraved Wedding Ring Found on
Bank Robber's Body.
> Montreal, March 2.?The killing
to-day, by a vigilance committee, of
a bank robber ./ho was shot to death
during the pursuit of a gang which
tried to loot a branch of the Royal
Bank at Montreal, West, ended a romance
which apparently was to have
culminated Tuesday. In the clothes
ef the dead bandit were foiyid the
picture of a girl pasted in the back
of a pocket mirror and a new wedding
ring engraved with the words
"Will to Kittie, March 5, 1912."
The ring with its engraving and a
.tattoo mark on the chest of the man
bearing the words ,fIn Memory of
Mother and Father" are the only
clues on which the police hope to establish
the identity of the robber.
In their opinion the party of safe
blowers came from the United States.
Four members of the gang escaped
after a running fight with the vigilance
committe which attacked the
robbers before they could obtain any
booty. The fugitives were supplied
with snow shoes, which enabled
them to outrun their pursuers.
The wedding ring found in the
man's clothes, the police say, undoubtedly
was intended for the girl
whose picture he carried. The expenses
of the marriage ceremony,
set for Tuesday, they believe were to
have been paid for with the money
the robber hoped to get.
Woman Banks Ancient Coins.
Monticello, N. Y., Feb. 28.?Nearly
eighteen hundred dollars in old coins
was deposited to-day in the Monticello
National Union Bank by Miss
Cynthia Pintler, which amount represented
the savings of her brother,
Hiram Pintler, for more than seven
I ty years.
Early in life Pintler formed the
habit of throwing all his small change
in a tin box. He was never forced
to draw from it, and when he died
a few months ago his relatives found
the box filled with a small fortune.
In the collection are many coins
* of ancient dates. Large, old copper
pennies, two-cent pieces, three-cent
> pieces, old nickels and dimes, eagle
pennies, quarters and half dollars, a j
few gold pieces and several one dollar
bills which were of such an outof-date
appearance that the ordinary
person would consider them counterfeits.
Some of these coins have an added
value because of their age. Never
in the history of the bank has such 1
an antique deposit been offered.
Mill to Resume.
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Walterboro, March 1.? It will be
with interest that the people of the I
community learn that the Walterboro
cotton mill will resume operations i~
the nonr fnfiirp The stockholders of
the mill will hold a meeting in a few
* days at which plans will be matured
for beginning work on tlie 11th of
March. The authorities of the mill
are anxious to begin operating all
its departments, and are desirous of
having all its former operatives return.
We have 100 tons of kainit that
i we will trade for cotton seed meal.
See us. HUTTO & COPELAXD, at J.
* D. Copeland's store.
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MAN FOUND IN TAMPA.
Memory Faulty, Money Gone, Mis
sourian's Plight.
Tampa, March 2.?His mind al
most a total blank, without mone;
and scarcely a sufficient amount o
clothing to cover him, J. R. Etchi
son, a well known St. Joseph, Mo.
man, was located here early thi
morning in a cheap rooming house
Search for him has been in progres:
for several days, on request of attor
neys for Mrs. Etchison.
Mr. Etchison's vague story of hi:
adventures indicates that he ha
either lost or been robbed of cur
rency and bank certificates to th<
amount of nearly $100,000. To i
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menu Ul HiC launi* 11^1^, 11^ oai<
he left St. Joseph early in Februar;
to go to Excelsior Springs to tak<
mud baths. While getting on th<
train he stumbled and fell, bruisinj
an old wound on his head. Thj
next he remembers he was in a roon
with barred windows, at Kansa
City.
Lands in Tampa.
There several strange men, h<
says, placed some papers before hin
and told him to sign them or hi
would be killed. He said he was s<
weak that he dropped the pen an<
did not remember anything else un
til he landed in Tampa with $250 ii
his pocket. He does not kno\
whether he drew all of his mone:
out of the banks or what became o
T -ii Oi
II. jueuers iiuiu aiiuiucvs ai oi
Joseph say that he drew all he ha(
deposited in three banks there.
Left Penniless.
He has memorandums of deposi
of over $60,000 in banks at Wichita
Topeka and Kansas City, but say:
he thinks he drew this out. Hi
charges in his disconnected story tha
while he was seeking a hotel hen
he was set upon by several negroe:
and robbed of the money he carrie<
when he arrived. A brother of thi
unfortunate man will arrive here to
morrow to take charge of him.
Missing Several Weeks.
St. Joseph, Mo., March 2.?Johi
R. Etchison, found in a dazed condi
j tion at Tampa, Fla., has a famil;
| here. He started to Excelsio
| Springs, Mo., several weeks ago am
wrote from Kansas City that he wa:
sick there. Until located at Tamp;
I no trace of him could be found.
Drew Money from Bank.
Etchison is a retired farmer. H<
drew $10,000 from each of two St
! Joseph banks before leaving home
Members of Etchison's family hen
received a telegram from Tampa tei
days ago advising that he was there
DUl couia get no lurtner yaiuuuiai &
and did not credit the dispatch
They visited local banks and fount
that he had drawn out all his money
and a friend was sent to Tampa.
Held Captive by Robbers.
Etchison saiti in Tampa that h<
had either been slugged or fell fron
a train in Kansas City, and then wai
taken to Excelsior Springs, Mo.
where he was chained in an abandon
ed house until he was taken to Tarn
pa by the persons who robbed him
Members of his family think he wa:
followed to Kansas City by person:
who knew how much money he hac
drawn from the banks.
TO CONSIDER CARLISLE CASE.
President Holds Up Mandate Send
ing Aged Man to Prison.
Washington, Feb. 28.?In respons<
to an appeal made to him to-day b:
Senator Tillman and Representative:
Finley, Johnson, Ellerbe and Byrnes
in behalf of M. A. Carlisle, of New
berry, President Taft has directe*
Attorney General Wickersham t!
hold up the mandate 01 tne cour
sending Carlisle to the Federal prisoi
at Atlanta until the president coul<
look into the matter and conside
the petition for pardon. The man
date would otherwise have issue*
next Friday.
Representative Lever would havi
accompanied the delegation but fo
an important committee engagement
and he will write to the presiden
urging clemency for the aged bank
er. Senator Smith and Representa
tive Aiken were not in Washingtoi
to-day. Mr. Legare took no part ii
the effort in Carlisle's behalf.
Street Cleaners Strike.
Macon, Ga., March 3.?A blow witl
a buggy whip in the hands of i
stableman was too much for th<
pride of Macon's "white wings," an*
the entire force of street cleaners
numbering ten. went on strike yes
terdav afternoon. Carts and broom
were deserted, where they were be
ing used in the streets.
"We can stand for jeers an:
dicers." declared E. Hollingsworth
the leader, in stating bis case t*
Mayor Moore, "but we can not stan
! Mows, especially when policemen re
fuse to arrest those who strike us.'
The trouble started when (i. F
Riley, a stableman, slashed Whit*
Wing J. F. Herd with a whip durin;
a quarrel. An entire new force prob
ably will be put to work to-morrow
If you owe us anything, remembe
that we need the money and expec
prompt settlement.
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BOY OPENED SWITCH.
- Had Just Been dosed When "Spring
Maid" Passed.
Florence, March 1.?Sheriff T. S.
y* Burch arrested Jesse Byrd, a small
f negro boy, this morning for throwing
- a switch on the Coast Line at a new
, siding that is being put in for waters
melon shipments, near the city lim.
its. The construction gang had just
3 finished the work and gone to dinner,
- having tested the switch and locked
it. The boy was interested in the
s working, and when the gang left he
s undertook to work it himself, break
ing \ ..e lock with a spike and opene
ing the switch. It happened that
a the foreman of the work wanted to
1 look at it again after dinner before
y moving elsewhere, and he saw that
2 it had been opened. He had barelv
e time to close it before the special
I train carrying the "Spring Maid"
e company from Wilmington to Columi
bia dashed past. The members of ^
s the company will never know how
clos-e they came to a wreck. The boy
is half-witted.
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3 SHIPPED STUDENTS TAKEN BACK
B TW?nl?lfk At UnivArsitv of Arkansas
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j Settled by Trustees.
1 Fayetteville, Ark., March 2.?The
v six days' contest between the 500
v students of the University of Arkanf
sas and the professors of that institution,
who last Monday expelled 36
j of the collegians, ended to-day in the
reinstatement of the latter. The expulsion
resulted from an article in
the "X-Rav," a semi-official university
publication. On the heels of the
g expulsion the students struck, the
e faculty sternly ordering them to ret
turn and the young men and women
g answered by calling on the board of
s trustees to assemble, hear the evij
dence and render a verdict.
a A committee representing the
strikers went before the trustees this
morning and presented their grievances,
the exact nature of which are
not disclosed, except they claim the
j right of free speech has been abridged.
This afternoon representatives
v of the faculty were called in, and afr
ter two hours deliberation the board
j proclaimed that the rules are too
5 stringent and would deny the right
, of peaceable assembly to discuss 7
grievances. A committee of five was
appointed to "make a thorough in3
vestigation into any charges that may
be formulated." The students took
their victory calmly. Instead of jubia
lant crowds on the campus, the dorT
mitories are filled with persons intently
studying.
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Can Cut Medicine Prices.
* Washington, Feb. 29.?Patent medi*
cines and other patented articles may
be sold without reference to the
prices fixed by the patentee.
2 * This was the opinion handed down
1 to-day by Justice Wright in the
5 equity court, when he refused the ap'
plication of a drug manufacturing
concern for an injunction to prevent
a local druggist from "cutting" prices
* without the manufacturer's permis5
sion. The court declared that the
3 patentee of an article could control
* the price by which it should be sold
by a "license," but that once the article
had found its way to the open
maraer Dy outrignt purcnase, an
- rights to fix the price passed from the
patentee.
2 It was admitted that the retail
P druggist was not a "licensee."
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Commits Suicide by Drinking Water.
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Huntsville, Ala., /Feb. 27.?After
numerous attempts to kill himself,
3 James Weaver, a cotton mill opera*
tive, succeeded last night by drink1
ing himself to death, his beverage being
spring water. Standing at a hyr
drant in a cell in the county jail in
" which he has been confined on a
charge of insanity, Weaver drank
dipper after dipper of water in plain
a
sight of the officers. Before they realized
his object, he fell In a stupor
and expired.
Some weeks ago the man attempted
to end his life by leaping from the
window of a moving train, and later
by cutting his throat. He is-, said to <
have believed that "John the Baptist (
was making his life a hell on earth."
JEWELS TAKEN FROM BODIES. '
Robbers Plunder Graves in an Old
Cemetery Near New Orleans.
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, New Orleans, Feb. 21.?Robbers
- plundering the graves containing
5 bodies buried more than 70 years
- ago. securing jewels valued at several
hundred dollars, was the story
1 brought to this city last nigh from
, Pointe-a-la-Hache, Plaqucmine Par )
j ish.
1 ! The water-soaked caskets with
- j glass smashed, containing wasted
' i bodies were found above the ground
i on Monday by persons living near
e j the cemetery.
g j They had been recently removed
- from the private burial ground of a
. wealthy ante-bellum family to the
present cemeteries by the parish
^ officials. There is no clue as to the
identity of the robbers. ^
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