Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Stir lambrrg ferali ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in Th< Herald building, on Main street, ii the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a printing office tfhich is equipped'with Mer genthaler linotype machine, Babcocl cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a line Miehle cylinder press, all run b: electric power with other materia and machinery in keeping, the whol< equipment representing an invest ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150 six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payaDU strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per incl for first insertiog.*subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad vertisements at the rates allowed b: flaw. Local reading notices 10 cent a line each insertion. Wants ant other advertisements under specia ^ head, 1 cent'a word each insertion Liberal contracts made for three, sis and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso lutions, cards of thanks, and all no tices of a personal or political char acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertisini not subject to cancellation after firs insertion. Communications?We are alway glad to publish news letters or thos< pertaining to matters of public inter est. We require the name and ad I - dress of the writer in every case I No article which is defamatory o offensively personal can find place ii our columns at any price, and we ar nn*- rnonnnpiKlA foi* fho rknininns py UUb l^opv/uoiviv IVI (/UV ?.. pressed in any communication. ???????????? Thursday, Sept. 19,1912. I ' . | WOMEN TAR AND FEATHER GIRI Ohio Flirt Roughly Treated by Eigh of Her Own Sex. Norwalk. Ohio, Sept. 13.?A youns girl of Clarksville, Ohio, it becami known to-day was the" victim of eigh married women, dressed as men, wh< on Sunday night induced the girl t< take a walk and then tarred am feathered her. The girl heeded thei warnings and disappeared. She wa: charged with flirting. The girl, alleged to have beei flirtations with several men of th. town, was induced to go walkin; shortly after dusk by three member of the tarring party. A short way up the road five othe women, in male attire, joined thi convoy. The party then proceeded t? r a lonely spot along the pike, an< stripping the girl, administered thi tar. She was warned to leave towi or "worse would follow." ??X KISSING ON STREET NO CRIME. Philadelpliia Judge Says Lovers Nee< Not Hide Affection. According to Magistrate Scott it ii no crime to kiss a girl when on th< streets of Philadelphia. The magis \ trate was called upon to render thii ' decision when Harold Luders was called before him, having been ar rested for kissing Miss Hilda Youn? of 3216 Montgomery avenue, his fi ancee, when he was leaving her tc board a car for his home. "Why, this boy has committed nc crime," safd the Magistrate. "Things have come to a prety pass, when i man cannot kiss his girl on the street. If this keeps on it will be high time for the young people tc move out and the crippled and feebleminded to move in. If a good, clear young man must hide his head undei a bucket or crawl under a barn wher he wants to kiss a nice, sweet girl then I say it's about time for Gabriel to toot his horn and set off the bi? blast. "Where do you think a fellow ought to kiss his girl? Down in a big cave? If a girl is good enough to be kissed she ought to be kissed out in the open so that everybody can see it, and no one likes to do il and see it more than I." He discharged Luders forthwith. ?N. Y. Sun. Clergymen's Salaries. A bishop is on record as saying that a clergyman's salary ought never to be less than $1,000 per year. Ii the clergyman is married the minimum should be $1,200. It seems a modest deal. One thousand dollars a year is a little less than $20 per week. Milk drivers in Chicago get $23 per week, with a bonus on sales. Drivers of wagons get from $20 tc $25 a week. At the time the pressmen struck on the Chicago papers they were getting wages ranging from $25 to $45 per week, and there has been no attempt to reduce that scale. But to the clergyman a minimum salary of $1,000 per year seems almost too good to ever be true. It is not so long ago that a responsible church authority declared the averoolow r\f tViQ Monsrvman of Wic. CL&XZ aCLlCLl J V/i tuv viv j vi. ?? *?w? consin was only $700 per year. This was the average, mark you not the minimum, and to get thai average a good many $5,000 salaries were included in the total.?Chicagc Journal. ^ j A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. . \Y. Paul Riley Shot and Killed by i Moye Dickinson. No doubt the most awful ar : heart-rending tragedy which has ev 3 happened in Bamberg was that whi< . occurred last Thursday; night abo % eleven o'clock, when ^Ir. \yv; Pa 3 Riley was shot to death by Mr. ' * Moye Dickinson. j The two men were representativ 1 of the most prominent and influenti 3 families of the town and both sto< high in social as well as business ci ; eles, Mr. Riley being cashier of tl ? People's bank, and Mr. Dickins< 3 manager'of the^oj^l cotton oil mi {' -They had. not been on friend - terms for several-years and it is ha ' to imagine what induced Mr. Ril g to visit the premises of Mr. Dicki 3 son at such an hour of the night. I 1 was not a drinking man and had bei ; seen on Main street only about o: * hour before the tragedy occurred ai - at-that time he was in his usual j - vial and happy mood. Some thii ~ he must have suddenly become me g tally unbalanced and while in th t condition wandered into the pren ses, where he was killed. ? The whole community is deep - grieved over the unfortunate affa - for there were few men in Bambe !* more universally loved and respect a than W. Paul Riley and his slayer, e Mrs. Riley and little son, Jeffe ~ son, were spending the summer Hendersonville, N. C., with her pa " ents, all of whom were notified once and came home on the fir - train. Mr. Dickinson surrendered to t] sheriff immediately after the Shoe r ing. his residence being, next door the jail, and he remained in thefcu tody of the officers until his attc 1 neys, Mayfield & Free, appeared b 2 fore Judge H. F. Rice at Aiken < t Saturday morning, who granted bj ) in the sum of ?2,000, and Mr. Die 3 inson at once gave bond, which w 1 about nine o'clock Saturday mor r ing. Solicitor Gunter represent s the State at the inquest and befo Judge Rice when the application f 1 bail was made. The coroner's ju 2 rendered a formal verdict, mere ; that Mr. Riley came to his death fro s a gun shot wound at the hands of M Dickinson, r The body was found in the lot e Mr. Dickinson, and death must ha 2 occurred instantly. Persons w] 1 heard the shots rushed to the see: 2 and found Mr. Riley lying on I l face with a gun shot wound in t hnr.1.- nf head and one in t' shoulder. The weapon used was breech loading shot gun. No happenings since we have bei * a resident of Bamberg has been much discussed nor has caused sm a shock to the people of the tov 5 and community. Both parties a 3 popular and prominent, and the si cere sympathy of ail goes out to tl 3 families of all concerned. Mi 3 Riley and t Mrs. Dickinson are fir cousins, Mr. Riley married Miss Kat * leen Copeland, a daughter of Mr. ai Mrs. J. D. Copeland, and she and oi ) son about eleven years old survi' him. \ Personally the editor of this new 5 paper feels this tragedy as much 1 any man in Bamberg. Both parti i were our good friends, and we c< * never forget the many acts of cou ) tesy and kindness shown us by Pa Riley as well as Mr. Dickinson. Gc 1 knows we would have given anythii in our power to uavc avcucu ouvu. 1 tragedy. We publish below the stat ' ment of Mr. Dickinson, made in a ' plying for ball, and the testimoi ' given at the coroner's inquest by Mr Dickinson, their little daughter, R becca, and Miss Eolia Leighton, wl L was a visitor in the Dickinson hon 1 that night. This is all the offici ^ record so far: Dickinson's Statement. "Personally appeared before me < M. Dickinson, defendant in, the abo^ entitled action (of the State vs. ( M.. Dickinson) who, being du sworn, deposes and says: "That on the night of Septemb* > 12, 1912, he carried his little son 1 ' a vaudeville show in the town < Bamberg, S. C., and returned ther from at about 10 o'clock at nigh going to his home situated in tl county and State aforesaid, on tl i intersection of two streets within tl corporate limits of the town of Bar ! berg. "That upon returning home, h > together with the other members i his family, retired. A guest, Mi; : Olar Leighton, occupied a front be< room. ? "That shortly after retiring, dep nent does not know how long, as 1 was drowsing and perhaps sleepii i slightly, his daughter, Rebecca, a gi - of about 12 years of age. who, t > together with his little son and wif ? were occupying the room with dep - nont cuid tn ripnnnpnt that 'a trarr is at the window.' Deponent, thin ing that his daughter possibly ht , been dreaming, told her there was i t one there, but upon being assun 5 by his frightened child that the ) was someone near the window, look< out and saw the shadow and the ou lines of a person creeping along the J ground on his hands and knees. 1 Gr. "That thereupon deponent, in his night clothes unarmed, went through his back door and out into his back id yard and saw the figure of this man pr still hurriedly going in a stopped and ( crawling position toward the gate at leading into deponent's barnyard. U1 v "That d^ptrae^nt twice called to tfcip G. man to stop and hold up his hands, deponent running after him, but that es this man, instead of heeding this sumai mons, rushed into the barnyard; at )d the gate deponent stopped. At this 1 ,r. moment deponent's wife called to him i iue to get his gun. a )n "That deponent thereupon hurried- t 11. ly secured his gun from his house c ly and, loading the same, again return- 2 rd ed to his back yard and ran to his ] ey barnyard gate and stood there in his 1 n- night clothes some moments trying to ie see the man, but in the meantime * an. waiting for his wife to bring a light 2 ae so that a search could be made of 2 id deponent's premises, and if possible o- to arrest the supposed felon. * iV: "That after waiting some time de- 2 n- ponent's wife not having appeared T at with the light, he called to her to T ii- bring him the lantern, which she did 1 after some minutes, ly "That upon the appearance of his J ir, wife with the lighted lantern, he, t'o- * rg gether with his wife, approached his 2 3d barn and examined part of the sta- c bles, finding no one. * sr- "That deponent preceding his wife, 1 at then went to another stall, leaving Lr- her with the light some distance, and ? nt calling upon her to bring the light, st and as deponent entered the doorway ( of the stall the man hiding therein ( tie struck a terrific blow at deponent, it- and deponent, evading the same, was * to rushed upon by the man, who seized 1 is. deponent's breach-loading shotgun * ,r- with which deponent was armed, and 1 ie- attempted to wrest it from deponent's ( ~jn grasp, but failing -in this, either * ul sprang off from deponent or in the 1 k- struggle was shoved off from depo- * a3 nent. That deponent called, 'throw n. up yojur hands,' and the command not ? ed being obeyed, deponent, laboring un- * re der great excitement and conscious of ( or personal danger from the supposed ? ry culprit, fired his gun. Deponent is ( ?jy not conscious of having pulled but 1 ,m one trigger of his gun, but is inform- * [r. ed that two wounds were found upon deceased. Deponent further states of that the struggle over the gun was ? ve brief, and that the assault upon him ] ho was sudden and fierce. ( Qe "That immediately upon the body ( tis having fallen deponent's wife was ] ho caled upon by deponent to hasten ] he with the light so that it might be as- ' a certained who deponent had shot. ? This investigation revealed to depo- < en nent and his wife that this man was ( 30 Mr. W. Paul Riley, of the town ofr j Ch Bamberg. s vn "Deponent did not know who the \ rp man was he shot until after he had ] n_ done so, and had made an examina- t he tion with the lighted lantern. Could \ -s not tell who it was in the dark. ] "Deponent was on his own premi- g ses, and deceased was at the time de- ^ ponent fired, and deceased fell in the , ae said barnyard of deponent. ve "That deponent and the deceased j had had a difficulty some five years s s_ ago, ana from that time neither had j as spoken to the other; that deponent \ e<5 cannot account for the conduct of the ^ m deceased, nor can he explain the ac- ( r_ tions of the deceased in being upon g ul the premises of this deponent in the night time; that deponent regrets the f lg unfortunate tragedy and the circum- i a stances which led deponent to firing i _ upon the deceased and thereby taking ? p_ the life of the deceased. That the t iy above deponent saith (being a brief t ,g statement) and no more, being ad- t e_ vised that the same is sufficinet for g 10 this motion for bail." ie The testimony of tEfeMvitnesses who aj were examined at the inquest to-day was as follows: v Testimony at Inquest. t ^ Miss Olar Leighton, being duly j sworn, says: "I was at the home of f re t 'G. Moye Dickinson last night. I did ?' not see or hear anyone at the win- + ly ^ dow. I heard someone outside, and ^ say 'halt, hold up your hands.' When ^ he said that I heard the running.* ^ to 1 "It was Mr. Dickinson that I heard ? Dl ^ say halt. Mrs. Dickinson and her two 2 children were in the house. Mrs. g ' Dickinson and her two children had 16 retired. I was the last to go to my _ 16 room. I thought I heard someone ? 16 run. Mrs. Dickinson told Mr. Dickin- ? SQfi to get his gun; he had been in the t yard and came back, I guess he got ^ ^ his gun, and I heard him go back out; j. later on I heard some shots. Mrs. ? ss s Dickinson was^in the yard with Mr. ^ Dickinson; she had the light. In about three or four minutes I heard v o- * the shot; after the shot Mr. Dickinson ie said, 'Oh, I have killed Paul Riley.' - - f ? I did not go out; I didn't hear them rl say anyone was there. I don't know ?* what kind of gun it was. I have seen ^ e' Mr. Riley on the streets here. I 1 ?" hadn't heard Mr. Dickinson speak of t ^ Mr. Rile^' at any time. "I am 17 years of age. I am second v lc* cousin to Mrs. Dickinson. * 10 "EOLIA LEIGHTON." 6 id 1 re Rebecca Dickinson, being sworn. ^ says: "G. M. Dickinson is my father. ^ :t- (Continued on page 8.) t SEW YORK OU1 CAPTURI 'Gyp the Blood" and With Shooting Herr York, Caught j New York, Sept. 14.?"Gyp th< Blood" and "Lefty Louie," the miss ng gunmen indicted as two of th ictual slayers of Herman Rosenthal he gambler, were found by the poli :e to-night living with their wives ii l flat in the Brownsville section o Brooklyn. They were arrested b Deputy Police Commissioner Dough >rty and a squad of detectives, wh' jrought them to police headquarter ind locked them up. They will b irraigned Monday. The two men had been occupyin; he flat since August 15, and wer tlone until last Tuesday, when the vere joined by their wives, throug: vhom clues to their whereabout vere obtained by the police. The four were sitting at tea whe deputy Commissioner Daugherty am lis men burst open the door of thei ipartment and with revolvers draw; irdered them to hold up their hands Neither of the men made any show o -esistance. "Drop your guns. You've got us, ;aid "Gyp the Blood," calmly. "Give us a little time to get dress id, will you?" said "Leftie," wit iqual composure. Scarcely another remark was mad :o the police by either man until the vere examined at police headquar :ers later by Assistant District Attor ley Moss, acting for District Attorn iy Whitman, who has gone to Ho Springs to take testimony of' person vho talked to Sam Schepps, a witnes n ine case. The women, however, made scene, throwing their arms aroun ;heir husbands' necks and sheddin copious tears. They had to be tor iway from the men before the polic lould get their prisoners out of th lpartment, and were later brough ;o headquarters. How Men Were Caught. With the arrest of "Gyp" an 'Leftie," whose real names are Harr Horowitz and Louis Rosensweig, a )f the seven men accused of the mui ler of Rosenthal, of which Polic Lieutenant Charles Becker is the a! eged instigator, are now in custod] The capture of the two men came a i result of what is regarded in polic circles as the best detective wor ione in the history of the deparl nent. It was the fruit of unbroke surveillance of the wives and rels :ives of the men since their disar pearance on the day of the murdei luly 16. This surveillance was mair ;ained by 60 detectives, working i *elays, who kept Deputy Commis sioner Dougherty constantly in touc vith what they did and where the vent. The final clue came as the result o )iecing together a number of convei sations overheard by detectives an eported to the commissioner at dii erent times. The first conversatio: vas that "they are not lonesome, be ;ause they can see a moving piciur ihow from their back windows." A Another conversation gave the in ormation that there was a laundr; n the house, where the missing mei ived, which was named either th< 'New Brighton," the "Bright" o he "Brighton Hand Laundry." 1 hird conversation supplied the fac hat the neighborhood "was full o Swedes and Germans." Search for the Laundry. It then became Commissione Dougherty's task to discover some vhere a hand laundry in proximit: o a moving picture show in a vicin ty inhabited by foreigners of the na ionalities named. The possible nam* if the laundry was obtained less thai wo days ago, and the commissione liscovered that there^ were half ; [ozen laundries of similar names ii Jew York city and many more in oth ir cities for the commissioner did no .ssume that the gunmen were neces arily located in New York. "When we found the laundry witt . moving picture show close by, then yere no Swedes or Germans in th< leighborhood," said Mr. Doughert; o-night. "When we found a laundr: vith the foreigners in the neighbor iood, there was no moving pictur* how. One of our laundry clues tool id +r\ \W Havon anrl WP wftrP ills bout to investigate another in Pitts mrg." Early to-day Detectives Meyer anc lassasso discovered in Brooklyn th< 'New Brighton Hand Laundry,' t-hich perfectly fitted all require cents. They set themselves to watcl he apartments situated above th< aundry and late in the a/ternooi rere rewarded by seeing "Gyp th< flood's" wife leave the building am lo an errand at a store. Both wive: lad been missing since Tuesday vhen they very cleverly evaded detec ives by jumping into a waiting au omobile after leaving an "L" trail rLAWS ED IN BROOKLYN "Lefty Louie," Charged nan Rosenthal in New After Long Hunt. on which they were riding in the di rection of Harlem. The detectives, e therefore, felt certain that they were [, with their husbands. The women had - several other times eluded surveilu lance by the use of automobiles but f previously had always returned to y their homes in New York. The arrest 1 followed as soon as the detectives o could collect reinforcements, s Commissioner Dougherty said toe night that "Gyp" and "Leftie" had fled immediately after the murder g to Parkerville, N. Y., a summer ree sort in the Catskill Mountains, and j y remained there over a week. His b. men had traced them back to New s ! York by their baggage checks but had J lost them at the Hoboken terminal. li ; Where they were between July 26, d the date of their arrival, and August r 15, the commission has not definitely n deternlined. ;. Short of Funds. f Neither gunman appeared to be in funds, "Gyp" having only eighteen " dollars in his possession and "Leftie" ten. A thorough search of the aparti ment, which was poorly furnished h with fittings, bought, it was learned, on the installment plan, revealed no e other valuables, nor were weapons y of any kind to be found. Search, - -however disclosed the presence of a fifth person in the apartment, i- Michael Polichuck, who has a police it record as a pickpocket. The man s was taken to police headquarters and s may be detained as a witness, Mr. Dougherty said, on the ground that & ne migm nave uvtjrutjciiu. tuuveioad tions relative to the Rosenthal murS i der. ' i n To Secure Sworn Statements. e Hot Springs,, Ark., Sept. 14.?Dise trict Attorney Charles A. Whitman, lt of New York, an^ Assistant District Attorney Rubin are expected to arrive here to-morrow and secure d sworn statements as to what Sam y Schepps, arrested here as a witness, 11 said to various citizens of Hot > Springs while here concerning the e Herman Rosenthal murder case. I- Douglas Hotchkiss, an editor; j. Thomas J. Pettit, an alderman, who ,s was acting mayor at the time of the e arrest of Schepps, and Police Capt. k George Howell, who held Schepps in t- Irs personal custody before the witn ness was turned over to the New L- York authorities, probably will be )- questioned. Each of them has indicated that [. what he may say as toSchepps'sstaten ments while Schepps was detained here, will serve to strengthen, rathh er than attack, the testimony which y it is understood Scheeps gave before the New York grand jury previous to if the returning of the supplementary - indictment against Police Lieut, d Becker in connection with the killing > of Rosenthal. j 11 j St. Louis, Sept. 14.?District At"i torney Whitman, of New York, stope j ped here to-night on his way to Hot I Springs, Ark. "So Gyp the Blood and Leftie Louie y are arrested in New York as soon as a I leave," he said, when he was ape prised of that fact. "They were arr rested by the police as soon as I got | Real B IN EVE! J of our stock. We give i r ment which you pay fo ' simply GIVE REAL B LOTS of GOODS OFFER! 1 3 Our fall lines are pouring 3 and best values money c and Miss Lemacks, have eastern markets with at a LATEST IDEA 1 2 Date of our fall millinery ,| ed next week. Remem i! THE LATEST; VALUE ;| THE LOWEST at [The Millir ij C. W. Rents, . 9S VICTOR ALLEN ACQUITTED. Verdict in Last of Hillsville Cases * > Greeted with Applause. Wytheville, Va., Sept. 13.?"Not guilty" was the verdict rendered by the jury in the case of Victor Allen, charged with participation in the Hillsville court house murders on the ^ 14th of March last. The announcement brought a demonstration from the spectators, a large portion of whom were women. Arguments were completed this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and the case was given at once to the jury. It was out 30 minutes considering their ver- > .. diet. When it was announced, Mr. Poague, of counsel for the Common- , wealth, addressed the court, stating that he and his assistants desired to do no more than their duty, and with the permission of the court the other indictments aginst the defendant would be dismissed. This . \ : was done, rne prisoner, surround- - ed by his four small children, received the congratulations of many in the room, and as he shook hands with the jury tears coursed down his * 4 cheeks. Many of the court room spectators were women. This is the last of the trial growing out of the shooting up of the Carroll county court last March, when the presiding judge, the sheriff, the Commonwealth's attorney, a juror > x and a witness met death at the hands x of the Allen clan. For the murders, two men have been sentenced to the electric chair, Floyd Allen and Claude Allen, father and brother of the man who was acquitted to-day. Two other memoers of the clan, Friel Allen and Sidna Edwards, were given long y< terms in the penitentiary. f ^ j BRANDED YOUNG HALIBUT. Fisherman Catches it Two Years Later Weighing 60 pounds. A remarkable incident happened ^ during the recent trip of the schoon . or ivalnn tvhioh nrrivpH iri fi-lonces ter, Mass., the other day from halibuting, there being included in the craft's catch a small halibut which bore a distinction very much out of ordinary. Two years ago, one of the crew of the Avalon brought up a baby haUbut on his trawl Vhile fishing on Green bank. The fish weighed about fifteen pounds and was thrown overboard. Before releasing the fish, however, the fisherman cut the initials "L. R." plainly upon its jj ; i back and nothing more was thought of the incident. A few weeks* ago, while fishing on Western bank, some Jt of the crew were surprised when a halibut was hoisted on board bearing the familiar innitials "L. R." Instantly some of the crew recalled the ; incident* of two years ago, which nearly had been forgotten and singularly enough the fish had been caught again by the crew of the same craft. To give an idea how fast a halibut will grow, the baby fifteen pounder of two years ago had grown to four times his former size, tipping the ^ scales at. sixty pounds.?Lewiston Journal. ? )% away and they are turned over to the police and now are in the custody of f * the police. ^ "Well, i nave aiways saiu me muiderers were in New York and could be arrested by the police whenever the police wanted to make the arrests." District Attorney Whitman did not continue directly to Hot Springs. He t 1 [ said he would remain here over! night. argains IY LINE 10 baits or other inducer in the long ruA. We lARGAINS. ID NOW at HALF PRICE . \ in. These are the latest an buy. Miss McMillan > just returned from the [ the 5 AND FADS display will be announcber our STYLES ARE IS THE BEST; PRICES 1 f iery Store Proprietor.