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"NOT GUILTY" IN HAWKINS CASE
Case Given to Jury Tuesday at 7 p. m. S
Decision at 11 a. m. Wednesday.
Hendersonville, June 12.?The
verdict of not guilty as to the seven R
defendants tried for the killing of a
Myrtle Hawkins, whose body was a:
found in Lake Osceola on September sj
10, 1910, was greeted this morning y<
at 11:25 o'clock with a wild demon- a:
stration by a crowded court room ei
{ when the prisoners and some of their S
friends shouted with joy and leaped tl
to the 12 farmer jurors, whom they hi
kissed and embraced in the moment tc
of extreme tenseness. ir
The defendants, Dan W. McCall, tc
and daughter, Mrs. Beatrice McCall, h>
and her husband, Abner McCall, gi
George Bradley and Boney Bradley, sc
and Mesdames Lizzie Shaft and Nora
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Britt, were found not guilty under h
the four counts in the bill of indictment,
thus leaving the oft-repeated u
Question, "Who killed Myrtle Haw- oi
kins?" unanswered and the whole ir
mystery intensified. T
The jury took the case yesterday aj
afternoon at 7:25 o'clock. They immediately
retired from the court
room for supper and retired early at
night. Shortly after y o ciock mis
morning it was announced that the ,
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jury had reached a verdict, but in
the absence of Judge Foushee and ^
the solicitor, the verdict was not p<
taken until after 11 o'clock.. The j1'
court bell was rung to announce that
the jury was ready to return the
anxiously awaited verdict of one of '
, the most interesting trials of the
time. The court room was packed
and jammed with women and men
a]
that they might hear the decision,
which was reached with but little de- e"
liberation. The decision was in ac
cordance with the majority of predictions
in this case. J
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For several minutes after the verdiet
was rendered and the jury had
Vj
been thanked and embraced, there
were expressions of gratitude as some
of those who had been tried for their '
lives wept for joy and kissed and embraced
their loved ones.
101 Years Old, Rides in Special Train, ol
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Macon, Ga., June 8.?So careful w
are his relatives of his welfare and |
safety that when Jonathan Miller, of
Augusta, 101 years of age, decided to
visit his son, Judge A. L. Miller, in
Macon, no chances were taken with 91
regular trains, but a special train n
was engaged for him. He arrived ei
yesterday afternoon on this special,
; which required twice the usual time
to make the distance, because of the e<
slow speed maintained by it.
In Mr. Miller Augusta has prob- h
ably the oldest citizen of Georgia. At w
his remarkable age he still has al- a:
most all of his faculties. Recently
he joined the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. d
He lives with his soif-in-law and tl
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robert- d
son, on lower Broad street, Augusta, a:
and has lived in that place or in Augusta
practically all of his life. He b
remembers distinctly the building of
the first railroad from Augusta to c;
Charleston in the early 30s. When h
he was a young man, Indians were
roaming through that section of the e<
"^untry. Wild game was abundant,
\ W deer, bear and wild turkey could
be' bagged within a few miles of Au- s<
I gusta.
Mr. Miller recalls distinctly some a:
of the first duels ever fought at Sand ( g
Bar Ferry, the famous duelling
grounds of the Augusta section. Mr.
Miller has had a remarkable life, and,
with the exception of his eyesight,
still retains the greater portion of
his faculties. He converses well, eats
v;
* heartily, and is calmly and peacefully *
resting in the evening of life.
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One Bean for a Meal. Ci
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Atlanta, June 12.?A string bean N
two feet lopg is the contribution to t<
the fame of Georgia soil made by J. b
. W. Fields, a farmer of Faith Cross- n
ing.
Although the bean was grown at fi
Faith Crossing you don't have to fc
take the story on faith, for it is there w
to show for itself, and he didn't cb- h
tain the result by crossing any va- c<
rieties of the plant, but simply grew
it from seed sent him by his congress- w
man. d;
Mr. Fields already had the record h
for these parts on growing red rad- e:
ishes, having grown one that weigh- cl
ed over four pounds.
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JUMPS SIX STORIES, DEAD.
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xoung Uin s ixkh muticii xix uuvcessful
Suicide Attempt.
New York, June 13.?Bertha Kininsky,
a young girl, bent on suicide, m
to-day jumped from a six-story build- B
ing in Brooklyn. She landed on her li
feet, and, although her back was si
broken, she walked some distance be- w
fore she dropped unconscious. Miss m
Kininsky was taken to the hospital, n:
where she died a few minutes later. v<
An examination showed that the bi
patient had died from a broken back, hi
It is said the girl killed herself be- w
cause her sweetheart, said to be a
Brooklyn youth of good family, had w
gone away a short time ago and fail- a
ed to write. n<
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SPANKED BY THE MINISTER.
tory Telling Girl's Mather Asketl
Him to lay it on Hard.
Woodbury, N. J., June 12.?The
ev. J. C. Stock, of Woodbury, was
illed upon yesterday to spank a girl
nd was told by the child's mother to
jank her hard. Margaret Jackson, 8
ears old, ran away from home. She
rrived in Woodbury and the station
mployes telephoned to the minister,
he told him that she was an orphan,
lat her name was Brown and that
er home was in Salem. Dr. Stock
)ok her there, to find that she lived
l Woodbury. Back to Woodbury he
>ok the. girl and turned her over to
er mother, with the advice that a
ood spanking might do the child
>me good.
"Ycu spank her. I can't hurt
urt enough," said Mrs. Jackson.
Dr Stock demurred at first, but
pon the mother's insistence he gave
ae of the finest exhibitions of spankigs
seen in Woodbury in many a day.
he child promised never to run away
?ain.
Eagle Attacks Little Girl.
South Norwalk, Conn., June 15.?
he largest eagle ever seen or shot
l these parts, attacked Emma Truald,
an eight-year-old girl in Westart
yesterday. The bird, which measred
seven feet from tip to tip of
le wings, swooped down on the child
3 she was picking flowers, grabbed
er by the back of the gingham
ress with its claws and started to
y away with her.
The material gave way, however,
ad the child fell into the grass. The
igle was returning to the attack,
hen the child's cries alarmed her
tther, who came with his shotgun
ad brought the bird to the ground,
ven then the eagle put up a stuborn
fight and clawed at Truwald
[ciously when he approached it.
The girl was lacerated somewhat
y the bird's claws and was bruised
i n i-ot-O nnt
y ner ian, uui uei iujuhco
jrious. It is against the law of the
tate to shoot an eagle, but in view
f the fact that it was to preserve a
uman life, it is thought that Truald
will not be prosecuted.
Postoffice Romance.
He was a gallant postoffice clerk,
lys the San Francisco Star, and busiess
for the moment was slack. Presatly,
to his joy, there entered a
eautiful young lady.
"What can I do for you?" he ask3,
with unusual affability.
"I want a two-cent stamp," said
is customer. "And would you mind
eighing this letter for me, as I'm
fraid it may be a little too heavy."
Mind? The very reverse. He was
elighted and chatted glibly about
le weather while he executed her orer.
He even volunteered to lick and
ffix the stamp for her?a courtesy
hich she accepted with a dainty
lush.
Just as he was laying the stamp
arefully on the precious envelope,
owever, she stopped him.
"Put it upside down," she request3.
''Why?" he asked.
"Oh," she replied, "that means
amething to Charlie!"
And the clerk's interest. vanished
s the clouds of monotony once more
athered on his horizon.
Cat Reared Rat to Eat.
How a mother cat fattened a young
it for personal consumption is
ouched for by Charles E. Gilmore,
ardmaster of the Terminal Associaon,
says the Kansas City Times. In
cabin along the tracks a black cat,
illed "Nig" by the yardmen, has
een a star boarder. Several days ago
ig became the mother of two kit3ns.
The yardmen got a roomy
ox for her, filled it with straw and
lade the little family comfortable.
Tuesday Gilmore was amazed to
nd a baby rat sharing all the com)rts
with "Nig's" kittens. Word
ent through the yards that the cat
ad adopted an orphan rat and many
ime to wonder.
Last night the rat shared a meal
ith the kittens. But to-day a tragey
had happened in the cat houseold.
There will be no funeral. Not
aough of the late lamented foster
aild was left.
AMILY TRAGEDY IX GEORGIA.
armer Kills Wife, Wounds Son.
Then Commits Suicide.
Blackshear, Ga., June 13.?Information
reached this city to-day that W.
. Mercer, aged 50, a white farmer
ving near Hoboken, this county, had
lot and killed his wife, seriously
ounding his son and then had committed
suicide some time during last
ight. Mrs. Mercer had been an inilid
for years and had been at home
nt two days, after a long stay in a
Dspital at Douglas, Ga. The family
as well-to-do.
W. T. Mercer, the son, while badly
ounded, probably will recover. No
iuse for the tragedy is known by
eighbors of Mercer.
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NABBED BY UNCLE SAM.
Kingstree Star Route Carrier Charged
with Robbing Mails.
Kingstree, June 12.?Isaiah Pressley,
a colored mail driver in the employ
of J. Z. McConnell, the contractor
of the daily star route leading from
this point to Indiantown and return,
was arrested here yesterday by
United States Marshal G. W. Shoenberger,
of Charleston, on the charge
of violating the postal laws.
For some months registered packages
had been tampered with, and
when Mr. Shoenberger and his assistants
started the investigation it de...ftl
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YtJlUpeu ULLdt tuc man yuuwitj uuu
been tampered with and holes cut in
them. dose watch was kept on
Pressley, and it is now charged that
he used his knife in cutting the
holes to rob the mails. He was taken
to Florence to-day for a hearing before
the commissioner.
"Lookout" at Still.
Greenville, June 15.?A fifteenyear-old
white boy by the name of
Early Pierce, who was brought down
from the mountains about the middle
of the week by Federal Deputy G. C.
Corn, charged with working in an illicit
distillery, will be given a preliminary
hearing this morning before
United States Commissioner E. M.
Blythe.
T-> u J- ?!J * ? J {? nn_
jrierce, 11 is suiu, dcicu m luc vopacity
of a "lookout" for some men
who were actually doing the work in
the illicit distillery. It is said that
he took up his watch on the crest of
a mountain and when he saw the revenue
officers approaching fired a
gun as a warning to the "moonshiners,"
who were working down in the
ravine to "beat it" while the going
was good.
He was arrested and brought to
the city by Officer Corn, and gave
bond of $300 for his appearance before
the United States Commissioner
to-day. The boy's bond was put
up by his father, who is a man of
considerable means, owning several
hundred acres of land in the upper
part of the county. When the magistrate
who received the boy's bond
asked the father if he could "justify,"
this is, if he was worth $300
over and above the home-stead, the
man said he only had a thousand
acres of land and all of it was his
home-stead not knowing that the;
"home-stead" stipulation is fixed at
$1,500.
Winthrop to Get $90,000.
Greenville, June 15.?Ex-Gov. Martin
F. Ansel, trustee of the Peabody
Education Board, yesterday received
a warrant for $40,000 made payable
to the University of North Carolina.
Gov. Ansel affixed his name to the
warrant and sent it to Ex-Gov. Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, a trustee of the
board for his signature. Gov. Smith
will send the warrant to J. Pierpont
Morgan, who is treasurer of the Pea
body Fund, and the money will be
paid to the University of North Carolina.
Several days ago Ex-Gov. Ansel
affixed his name to a warrant for
$40,000 made payable to the Univercity
of Alabama.
Gov. Ansel is expecting a warrant
of $90,000 drawn in favor of Winthrop
college to arrive any day for
his signature. The Peabody trustees
have always been great friends to
Winthrop and she has come in for
several gifts from them, $12,000 was
given them several years ago to help
build the Johnson building and $5,000
at another time.
Placed His Wife in Charity Ward.
Atlanta, June lo.?suppose me
man who married you and promised
to cherish you in sicknes and health
packed you off to the charity ward
hospital the first time you had a fit
of nervous prostration, what would
you do about it?
Mrs. Lililan R. Snead, who claims
she was thus treated, decided mighty
quickly what she would do, and filed
a suit for total divorce against her
husband, Dr. J. S. Snead. She makes
other allegations of neglect and ill
treatment in the bill which was filed
in the Fulton county court this
morning.
The thing which Mrs. Snead said
made her humiliation complete was
the fact that her husband, a well
known physician, is himself the proprietor
of a private sanitarium, and
that rather than care for her in his
own sanitarium he moved her out of
it and sent her to the charity ward
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Hog Fasts 100 Days.
Mobile, Ala., June 11.?Pinned under
the ruins of a church near Evergreen,
Ala., which was blown down
on February 21, a hog was found today
alive. While weakened from the
long fast he was able to eat and
drink. The animal was over a hundred
days without food and water,
perhaps a record for fasts. Several
persons were present when the debris
of the church building was removed
and the gaunt body of the hog came
forth.
SNAKE'S BITE PROVES FATAL.
Prominent Georgia Man is Killed by
Rattler.
With little or no suffering and conscious
to within an hour of the end,
Robert F. King, a prosperous farmer
and lumberman of Dorchester, Ga.,
died at his home on Colonel's Island
yesterday morning at 2 o'clock from
the effects of a rattlesnake' bite received
less then eight hours before,
says the Savannah Morning News bf
Friday.
Despite heroic efforts on the part of
Capt. A. F. King, his brother, to draw
from the wound the venom of the rattler
by sucking out the infected blood,
the bite proved fatal. A singular feature
of Mr. King's tragic death is the
fact that he suffered but little and re
tained consciousness up to within an
hour of his death.
Party Inspecting Timber.
Accompanied by W. C. Peeples, of
H. H. Peeples & Sons, Ravenel Gignilliat,
civil engineer for the HiltonDodge
Lumber company, and his
brother, Capt. King, Mr. King went
into the woods Wednesday afternoon
about a mile and a half from Dorchester
to inspect some timber that
Mr. Peeples and Mr. Gignilliat were
about to purchase. The party went
out by automobile from Dorchester
and spent the greater part of the afternoon
in the woods.
It was while they were returning
to the automobile preparatory to
starting back to Dorchester that Mr.
King was bitten. It was then about
6:30 o'clock and they were hurrying
to get back before dark. Walking in
Indian file, with Mr. Gignilliat and
Mr. Peeples in the lead, the procession
filed past a rattler that was coiled
just off the path.
Mr. Peeples and Mr. Gignilliat
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passed sateiy Dy me couea rauier.
Mr. King was third. None of the
party had seen the snake up to this
time. Suddenly Mr. King felt a sharp
stinging sensation in his right ankle.
He looked down and saw a large rattler
scurrying away through the
brush. \
"I Have Been Bitten."
"I have been bitten," he cried.
The men stopped and Capt. King
stepped quickly to his brother's side.
With quiet heroism and without hesitation
he opened his knife and made
an incision just above the wound.
Stooping, he sucked the blood from
-the wound in an endeavor to draw
out the poison and offset the effects
of the bite. Having done all he could
in this respect, he quickly made a
bandage about the wounded ankle
' just above the bite to prevent, if
possible, the circulation of the infected
blood back to the heart.
The automobile was not faraway
and with Mr. King limping between
two of the party, the four hurried to
the car and rushed into Dorchester.
There the services of a physician
were procured and the wound cauterized.
It was still early in the night
when Mr. King was taken to his
home on Colonel's Island.
Suffered No Pain.
Although he grew considerably
weaker as the night wore on, the
fact that no swelling appeared and
his apparent lack of pain or suffering
from the wound gave rise to the
hope that the prompt and heroic
measures adopted by Capt. King had
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proved suueeBoiui auu L,UV
bite would not prove fatal.
At 1 o'clock Mr. King, who had
been conscious up to this hour and
had conversed with the members of
his family and the friends who had
gathered around his bedside, lapsed
into a state of unconsciousness, from
which he never recovered. Without
sigQs of suffering or swelling of the
infected ankle, he died at 2 o'clock.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF HOLDUP.
Negress Held at Florence on Charge
of Attempting Robbery.
Florence, June 13.?There have
been a number of complaints recently
of holdups about the neighborhood
of the old passenger depot, which is
on a curve of the Charleston road,
and just where a number of men
jump from the trains as they stop at
the Church street crossing at night.
Last night the holders-up got hold of
the wrong one, C. P. Bailey, a traveling
man. One of the two women ran
against him and he struck her. She
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IOUgnt DaCK ana SiaSUCU uim mm a
knife, but he gathered her in and
delivered her to the police. On examination
it was found that his pocket
book and valuables were gone, so
he got the police to return and search
the place. They found the pocketbook
cut open and went at once to a
house where they thought likely that
they would find the mate to the woman
in jail, and they recovered the
money on condition of no prosecution.
The other woman, Sarah Diggs,
is in jail on the charge of highway
robbery. She has been there often
before.
NOTICE?Summer clothing, blue
serge $12.50, all wool, mohair $12.50
up; wash suits $4.00; linen dusters
$1.25 up. All kind, of summer wash
pants $1.00 up. F. G. MERTINS,
the tailor and clothier, Augusta, Ga.
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BEES SWARM ON HOTEL PORCH
10,000 Singing Insects Afford Intei
esting Sight on Meeting Street.
Ten thousand bees and then som
swooped down in a dark cloud upo:
the porch of the St. John Hotel thi
afternoon, and swarmed against on
of the pillars a couple of feet fror
the sidewalk, forming a mass o
crawling, buzzing insects the size c
a pprize watermelon. The sight wa
rare and interesting, passersb
watching the massing of the bee
at a resepctable distance, an
for about half an hour, the sting
ing honey-makers had entire charg
of the hotel porch until Dr. Benja
min Mclnness and his sons cam
along and calmly scraped the hug
bawl of sledge hammer stings into
small barrel, thousands of the angr
insects, however, flying about thei
heads in busy protest. Nobody wa
stung, but a lot of people who stop
ped to see what the fuss was aboui
did not linger close at hand.
A colored woman came along whil
the bees were swarming, and put he
right foot upon the concrete founds
tion of the hotel fence, intent upo
adjusting her afocking, but she sue
denly looked up, saw the bees, an
postponed her hose adjustment to
more peacable location.
Dr. Mclnness owns 14 hives c
bees and while it is a bit late in th
year for them to swarm, some 10,00
of his little friends took it into thei
heads this afternoon to seek a ne1
home, and consequently rose froi
their yard, clouded over the fire sts
tion, and descended into Meetin
street, picking out a squatty whit
pillar of the St. John Hfctel plaza fc
a resting place. Their performanc
served to amuse a number of peopl
for half an hour, and did no harm.Evening
Post, June 13.
GIRL SAVES THREE OF FOUR.
Flames Drive Back Rescuer froi
Blazing Room. '
New York, June 13.?Dashing int
a bedroom filled with flames, Mis
Rosa Friedman yesterday saved thre
of the four children of Morri
Schwartz, but was unable to rescu
the fourth child, Rebecca, an i
months-old baby, who was burned t
death. The fire was so furious tha
after making three trips into tb
room and seizing one at a time th
other three children, Miss Friedma
had to abandon the baby to its fat<
She was severely burned, and had t
receive medical attention.
Schwartz conducted a fruit store i
No. 449 Willet avenue, and afte
breakfast went there to attend to hi
business. Mrs. Schwartz had steppe
across the street from the house t
talk with a friend. When she returne
she found three of her children saf<
but the fourth one dead, and she b<
came so hysterical that a physicia
had to attend to her. It is suppose
that someone passing by threw
lighted match into the bedroom an
ignited the lace curtains.
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