Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, SAW 17 LED PAS! CELL TO ^ \ Man Who Spent a Year i Sing Sing Prison Rel Experiences W New York, July 11.?Pew of the|dl? living dead in the Sing Sing prison bai death house have shared those cramp- of ed uncanny quarters and all their * horrors with 38 condemned prison- we ers, have seen 17 men marched past fcoi him to the death chair and then pia been brought out of the gloom of nei the place to tell about it. Maurice til M. Lustig is one who has and he we yearns to forget his experiences. rna He shuddered at the thought of fce them yesterday as he related them nsl to a reporter. He doesn't like to ? think of them at all. Lustig is the , young pharmacy clerk who went to the death house on June 30, 1910, ^ , after he had been convicted of killing his wife Rhoda, with arsenic. The rea court of appeals has granted him a new trial and he was brought back to the Tombs yesterday to await it. ^ Few of his friends would have rec- the - * '? * nn|a f ognizea mm. ne was gaunt, c-^ faced and hollow cheeked. Keepers ^ of the Tombs who saw him daily , when he was there before said he an< was completely changed. . erJ Yesterday morning when he emer- nj ged from the prison handcuffed to Sheriff Jacob Schmiedigner, Lustig gQ] saw daylight for the first time in ^ '* 7 over two years. Moreover, he was acc badly in need of exercise. As soon ^ as he arrived at tne Tombs he was j*, ' ?+ x I . 1 turned into the yard with a keeper jU? and was still pacing in the hot sun fa( when the reporter called. A keeper ^ assured the visitor that those few ^ hVurs had worked wonders with the prisoner. But there was still great room for improvement. j * "I hate to think of it all," said Lus- ee, *' ^ 'tig to the reporter, "much less talk about it. I saw 17 men go to the ^ chair. Three went away only yes- fr(. terday and though I had already been 29 granted a new trial I was compelled ^ to stay there and witness the death mwm, . march, to say nothing of the agonies ; of their last night on earth. ''Let's see; I think I can give you the names of the 17 in the order of t ' < their 'going away.' There were two m, t.rinle and two double executions, * ~ f . \ Carl Lutz and Joe Carnetti went off ^ together. Then Sam Osnek. Then y Robert Wood. The next were Frank ^ Schemmerhorn, Bart Brown and Ped- ^ ro Foletti, who died together. Then Phil Meganno, Joseph Zemacko, ^ , Charley Swinton and Albert Waters went. ' Thomas Barnes and Fritz .. th! Gebhart were led out at the same go time and yesterday Santa Zangara, an Guiseppe Garielli and George Williams. That makes 16, doesn't it? jQ 'ij - Let me see? I can't think of the ^ Y 17th, but I am sure there were that * ? Wf many. All of the boys kept a record Tfc of the names on the wall of their i ? ? ! wa . ? cells with pencils and I did know the names on the wall when I left ja there. If I could only forget the ^ others I'd be very glad. yjj ' "You couldn't imagine what I've an been through in those two years to ^ save your life. I was in cell No. 4, j which faces the only door to the place through which the 17 doomed _ * pn - ? fellows were marched for the last . ? -. to S time. an "The night before the 'going an away,' as we called the executions up ^ there, there was a 'living wake.' The " "?' 1 j -'i ?--i-v. <-i i living WOU1U bit uy witu luc iiviu5 soon to die. None of the prisoners would be allowed out of the cells, of course, but all hands did all they could to make the 'going' easy. The a \ spiritual advisers were the only ones an allowed in the death house that night Vii besides the death watch of three thi men. sei "Everybody stayed up all night, agi The watch would pass Bibles around 15 from cell to cell and the boys would be< each read a chapter. Then we would he: all sing hymns, and then read another chapter. We didn't lose any goi time on the job either. Once in a At / while some poor fellow's groans could ab< be heard as the end drew near. Then to to comfort the poor fellow we'd start kn up another hymn and stick to it sta .until the groaning was over. fri "It was my lot to see the bunch he come in with straps and other para- sin phernalia to prepare for the death set / march. I've seen old prison pals ors with arms strapped behind them led out of cells opposite mine. I've seen as others carried out bodily and I'll nev- in er forget it, I'm afraid. he "Se my hair? There isn't much he left, is there? Well, I had plenty of sur / it when I went to Sing Sing. Do you pai wonder at it? Notice also that I'm | for k ?. getting gray. I've seen men's hair to ? turn white over night in that death house up the river. See my part's Vii lost, too. You know our cells were wa o dark we could never see to part his ur hair. I never saw a ray of sun- ver hint or daylight the whole time I wa was there. The only light whatever fiv( In that place comes from the 16-can- ma * L ' ; : his ' die in chair. in the Death Honse at , lates His Awful 1 hile There. ! ~ 1 i power incandescent globes that , ag one at each cell on the outside < the bars. 'We used to have a bath once a 1 ek In a common tub in the death ise. You know everything takes ce in the death house. The boys , rer get out of those four walls unthey are taken out for good. Wa re allowed three newspapers and ! gazines a week, but they had to '* mailed to us direct from the pub- 1 iers. 1 'We had little light to read by and say, would you read if you knew ^ 7 day might be your last; if you sw that you were living and yet a? 1 as dead? I bet you wouldn't . id the sporting news anyway. It's stly the church news for the boys, see 'em poring over papers to find the court of appeals had decided sir cases or the governor had deed to reprieve or pardon 'em was iful. 'We were allowed to buy tobacco 1 cigarettes every two weeks. Evrbody chewed tobacco day and ;ht. It's a habit that sort o' helps make one forget his troubles, me of the boys learned the habit er they went there, just on that ;ount. We had?let me see a mini?six feet by one foot makes six lare feet, don't it? W'ell, we had ;t six square feet to a man to pale in, dress in, chew and spit in. e cells are six by four feet. The Is take up a space three by six, ving us a space one foot by six. "I musn't forget to tell about the ion dentist. I had him sent to my 1 once. That was shortly after I nt there. I guess I was at my best in until after the good news came >m the court of appeals on June . I had several gold crowns that d worn through and I had him re>wn those teeth. He charged me the gold, but not for the labor, was plentifully supplied with >ney, and I am glad I Jiad enough help less fortunate boys in the ttter of tobacco and newspapers. "Mrs. V. P. Fields, a missionary >m the Field Home in Fishkill, N. , used to bring four or five other lies to the place once a week, and iy would sing and pray with the ys. Do you wonder that some of 5 poor fellows were so booby from inking of what was coming to 'em it one day they would bless those od women and the next day curse d threaten them. "It was the same way with Mr. hn Lowry, another missionary, of >.158 Fifth avenue, New York. We >re mighty glad to have them come, ey are real human beings. And I .nt to say right here that Warden hn S. Kennedy, Principal Keeper mes Counaughton and Father shin, the chaplain, ar<e the same, ey are all princes. Nobody's got y kick coming on the treatment By got from them. They do their A ~ A t\/\A* KiTWc <TA Tiro XT fp LC LVJ UCiy CilC yuui uwjo fc>v ? ?;> District Attorney Whitman exgssed doubt yesterday of his ability convict Lustig now. Two importt witnesses have left the State, d if found they may not consent to >tify again. Lustig himself fully pects to go free. Told on Friend for $25. Atlanta, July 10.?For the sake of ?25 reward some nameless Atlantihas turned informer on Arthur aing, a well known young man of s city, who is alleged to have de ted from the U. S. navy years ' d?he entered when he was only ?and who since that time has 3n engaged in steady employment re. Young Vining had practically fortten all about his youthful escape. least he had ceased to worry 3ut it. He had told the whole thing his father, W. S. Vining, a well , own city official, and the circum.nces were known to the intimate < ends of the family. Entering when didn't know his own mind, he had iply run away, like a boy from tool. There was nothing dishon- i ible behind it. 5 But after this lapse of years, just the young man was getting on well % his chosen vocation, somebody? thinks it was some friend in whom him nn fAi" tho V/UUUU^U V.U1 uv^U liijju U|/ fcvi VUV n of $25, which is the price i d by the United States to such in- 1 mers, and the boy has been taken ] the prison ship at Norfolk. ] The family and friends of young i ling are naturally very bitter to- ] rd the unknown informer, and if i identity is disclosed he will not be j y popular in Atlanta, for Vining 1 s a well liked boy, and twentyi pieces of silver are not even as i ny as thirty. \ /" FEEDER READY TO TALK. Itlanta Lawyer Promises Politiea Annihilation of Gov. Blease. Augusta, July 11.?"When I ge :hrough to-morrow, no man of an; lecency, whether Bleasite or Antl Bleaseite, can have any doubt bu ^hat I have the goods on Cole L Blease, and when I am through wit] him every one in South Carolina wll be convinced that Blease is not fit t< sit in a convention of buzzards," sail Bol. Thos. B. Felder, of Atlanta, whi arrived here to-night to testify be fore the dispensary investigate committee to-morrow. Col. Felde reached the city shortly before mid aight and is quartered at the Albioi Hotel. "You can tell them that I am her and that I have the goods on Bleas and every decent man will be satis Bed of it when I am through wit] my testimony," said Mr. Felder, ii reply to a question from the news paper men. Mr. Felder is in fine spirits am says that the only reason he hasn' testified sooner ana toia wnai n knows on Blease is because he ha been restrained. However, he prom ises to tell it all to-morrow. The arrival of Mr. Felder was th event of interest here to-night and h is ready to go on the stand to-moi row before the dispensary investigal ing committee, which will assembl in the Richmond county court hous at 10 o'clock. Most of the investigai ing committee reached the city tc night and the rest of them will b here for the meeting to-morrow. Interest in the testimony whic Col. Felder will give to-morrow i intense and is awaited with the keer est interest by the people of Sout Carolina. He has promised to te of the connections and dealing c Gov-. Blease with the late dispehsar and his testimony is expected to pre duce a sensation. / As Felder himself expressed it, " haT?? tVlQ uatc vu^ fewuu. Col. Burton Smith, of Atlanta, brother of United States Senate Hoke Smith, is here with Col. Feldei as his attorney. ' Col. Smith is on of the most prominent lawyers i Georgia. The air is surcharged wit excitement and rumors are rife c sensational possiblities. It is reported that several persoE from different parts of South Can lina will be in Augusta to-morro' to hear Felder's testimony. Mr. Felder is much interested i the race of Judge Jones for the goi ernorship and asked how he was ge ting along. When told by a newspj per man that probably 20,000 vote depended on what he would sa; Col. Felder replied: "Oh, well, th? is settled; Jones will get 30,000 mor votes." Kansas Sheriff to Open 18,000 Bo ties of Beer. Not many persons would conside opening more than a dozen bottle of beer without taking a sip of on of them, but Sheriff John Millhaub of Wihita, through orders of the a torney general of Kansas, has ei gaged to act as official "opener when he will have to pry the ti caps off 18,000 bottles of beer witl out taking a drink of the coolin fluid. Sheriff Millhaubt's job, predici ment or official position of "opener was secured through a compromis that was made with Attorney Gei eral Dawson and a Cincinnati brev ery. Last October a special dete< tive for Gov. Stubbs seized here tw carloads of beer from the Cincinna company. It was ordered destroye but the company effected an agre< ment whereby the liquor will t poured out and the bottles an cases returned to it. Each bottle i to be emptied separately, accoram to the agreement and this will mea each n.jst be opened by the sherif Tight Shoes. With the nails of her toes so badl turned in by tight shoes that the do( tors had to cut them out, Miss Minni Rogers, 19 years old, No. 2,004 Sout Garnet street, was removed to S Agnes's hospital last night a victii of tight shoes. According to he story, Miss Rogers first put on th shoes three days ago, and, althoug they were excruciatingly painful, sh persisted in wearing them, eve though they were fully a size to small. She had them on last nigh when she went out for a walk, bu when within a few squares of th hnonitQl cho Inct oil nnwer nf bp feet and fell to the sidewalk. She was removed to St. Agnes' Hospital, where the doctors foun that the shoes were so tight tha they had deflected the nails into th flesh to such an extent that ever nail was ingrowing. After receivin; the young woman's permission th aails were cut out, cotton was care fully packed underneath, and withii i few days, physicians say, she wil be all right. For her own part, Miss Roger ?ays she is through with tight shoes ?N. Y. Sun. FATHER AXD SOX TESTIFY. X Floyd Allen Weeps During Trial of His Boy. t Wytheville, Va., July 10.?The y prisoner and his father both testified - to-day in the trial of Claude Allen, t alleged slayer of Sheriff Webb, in i. the Hillsville court house tragedy, i The defendant denied being a party 1 to any conspiracy, and claimed he 0 shot only in defence of his father. 1 Floyd Allen denied threats against o the life of Commonwealth Attorney f- Foster, which a former witness had a testified he had made. During one r point in the examination, when his - son, Claude, was mentioned, the old a mountaineer broke down and wept. The prisoner's fiancee was in the e court room all the afternoon. e i- Voted for Jackson. I* ~~?? a New York, July lu.?un me noih test day of the year, yesterday, when young men sweated over the burden jj of carrying around Panama hats, ^ ''Uncle" George Cliton Paine, of No. e 99 Clifton avenue, Newark, N. J., who g celebrates his 100th birthday at the L_ home of his daughter there to-day, was up early and taking his heavy e sample package of books went out e to Montclair, tramping from house to house in his regular occupation of book seller. e Late in the afternoon, when Clife ton avenue was a hot, glaring furn-j ace, with pedestrians asleep under the park shrubbery across the way, the e old man sauntered up the avenue, with his handkerchief tucked inside h his collar, the picture of unconcern s and coolness. He stopped at a little candy store opposite the police sta-| k tion to continue a discussion with II the proprietor he had begun in the ti-? cr UIW1 ULilXfe. y "As I was telling you," he said, "there is only one man in sight for the presidency this year, and that tj man is Woodrow Wilson. He's got a clean, open and shut chance and none a of the others will be in the .running. ir I cast my first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson and I'm going to ' live till November and vote for Wiln son-" h The candy store proprietor was for >f Wilson, too. Then the old gentleman sauntered on, and turned in at his LS daughter's gate. ). Mr. Paine was born July 9, 1812, w at Newton, N. Y., but for years has lived in Newark, where he is known a as the ''cheerful book agent." For j. 20 years he has been selling his t- books. i- "The two great things that I at>s tribute my long life to are fresh air f, and exercise and never worrying," it said he to a reporter at his daugh'e ter's home. "I lived for a number of years among the Quakers and they taught me how to talk little and think much and take things as they come without worrying. It is easy not to worry if you keep your appetite good by exercise and use no stimulants like tobacco, liquor and meat. ie . They are the great worry makers. I, l "I used to be prety athletic. I could walk, run and jump with the ?? best of them?and even now I n wouldn't be afraid to meet any one lfc in the 100-year class at any of these g feats." The centenarian had been talking in the garden, but now he started up ? the stairs to" the second floor parlor with a step that was like that of a 10 man of 30. ^ "I am tremendously interested in the way things are going in this country," he continued. "We don't want to get too far away from the d old things that made us great. While admitting and using all the good new inventions and reforms in government let us keep in touch with the thought of the men who founded this country. You see I can remember S the days when their influence was fresh in the minds of all. "My grandfather, Col. Briton Paine, was the friend of Washington. The first president gave my grandV 1 fnthpr n fripnrlRhin erift. of a fancy s- vest that he treasured all his life and e that has descended to my niece, Mrs. h John Mallory, of Franklin, Pa. She t. has made it into a little sack and n shows it around at the county fairs, ir We don't want to have our good old e American principles become so antih quated that they will be looked upon e in the light of that little old heirn loom. c "We have a good many errors to t rectify in the body politic. Besides t the cost of living issue, which it is e up to the country to settle, I would r suggest that better times might be brought about partly by an old folk's s pension. I\ot tnat l want one, uui d there are some old folks who can't t work as I do. These old people worke ed in their youthful days and helped y make the wealth of the country. Now g they are old and helpless and the! e country owes them something." - To-day Mr. Paine's son, Irving n Paine, of Plainfield, with his family, .1 will go to Newark to help celebrate his father's lr0th birthday. Many s old friends will drop in. There will t. be a birthday cake with candles and a family dinner at night. GIFTED SOPRANO. Birds Come When London Girl Thr< Sings. j G; Possessed of an exquisite soprano paig voice, a young singer has just been! as c discovered who has the power of at- j gpre trading birds to her side. hoo... | VVQ V She is Miss Aileen Norma, and she! is b? is at present living at a studio at \ are Brook Green, W. Miss Norma is gCor young, tall and slender. She was Tl born in Scotland, and has spent much ter?i of her life in the country. and Both Miss Norma and her music govt teacher, a lady very well known in bein London musical circles, state that ?when she sings the birds come to the' mm open window or door and break into |jfaj song. bH ''One little robin became so tame ^B that after a time he used to come into jjj the room through the window," she ^B said, "and sit on a table till I had finished." BB Miss Norma sang for a caller and, H| although no birds actually came to IB the door, several were to be seen on IBB the surrounding bushes and trees ac- jgfl companying the song. "I generally ^B have to sing for nearly an hour be- ^B fore I can get them to come to the Bn window," she said. SH Miss Norma is very anxious for her B| yoice to be given a trial in a London ^B concert hall. ^B When in Cornwall, in the heart of |H the hilly downs, she says, she used to go out on Gipsy, her favorite horse, every morning, and hide from Bfl everbody. IB "I would sit on dear old Gipsy and I P|Jj sing all the beautiful airs I could BH think of," she said. iH "Gipsy liked it very much and be- BH came so pleased and used to it that |H after a few days he would stop dead |B on the same spot and prick up his ears as much as to say 'Go on, do sing ffiH to me.' N "After a time I noticed that the birds also liked it, and quite a number of thrushes and blackbirds used to flock round me directly I began to sing. They also would burst into song. - 86 "The same thing happened day af- ta ter day, and after a time I used to see the birds waiting on the spot for U! me. t 1 - ' I ."I have got over the nervousness I used to feel and am, now simply dy- * ing to sing in public."?London cable tO to Chicago Inter-Ocean. pis Stetson hats and other fine makes, |2.50 up. Also straw hats to close out cheap. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. Rub-My Tism will cure you. CORTF METAL SHI iiutt'. .an.kowtdid Hip I |8jfn- "look |he|h|. ! "cortrigfl * ^ip '* accept no su m '' 11111 : will last as long 1 ^ ao occasional coa \ * Fireproof? Stmrnmm?a?m yje JQCaJ j none in four itnncdUte locality, write us direct I "* CORTRIGHT METAL ROi SO North 23d Street \ j PONT Fi "J When yon have use for a gi V one that will not fail to fire v so, one that you can feel satis (Z, "just right." Bring your gui repaired and you can then ha jF ing" when you have use for Bicycles, Automobiles, Lock 4 prices. All work guaranteed j|?J* B? BR ^f! I I Has since 1894 given "Thorough instruct influences at the lowest possible cost." RESULT: It Is today with Its faculty o Its student body of 412, and its plant worth THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOOL $150 pays all charges for the year, inchidin heat, laundry medical attention, physical c except music and elocution. *For catalogue REV. THOMAS ROSSER REE' BLACKSTONE ? PRICE ON THEIR HEADS. ?e Cents Each for Rats, to Pre" vent Plague Spread. . 4 alveston, Tex., July 10.?A camn to exterminate rats, regarded me of the chief factors in the ad of the bubonic plague, has in here. Three cents a head . sing offered for the rodents. They being brought in to-day by the es. lie campaign was decided on afi conference of government, State city authorities. Regulations srning the arrival of all ships are I g rigidly enforced. rniim jm . uur service lucmis ore than merely lling tires: it means king care of Tire sers. *rompt delivery of Diamond res in all types?all sizes, fit every style of rim. In lin, Grip, and the famous ^ ety Treads. W. H. PATRICK GAS ENGINE EXPERT -J{ Bamberg, S. C. MGHT NGLES WWTHEGENUINE^ FOR THE STAMP IT" Reg. U. S. Pat Off. bstitute, if you want a roof that as the building, and never need leed attention of any kind, except it of paint Storm-proof? Lightning-proof representatives almost everywhere, but if for samples, prices and roll particulars, DFING COMPANY "* PfciladalphiaPa Ml I mi r an or pistol you want rhen you want it to do V ified that it is working v"Vtv a or pistol to me to be JL ve that "satisfied feel- L them. 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