Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. EXPRESS MESSEP DUEL Hides Valuable Package By Robbers.?Hold: i Until Amuniti Fort Smith, Ark., Oct. 11.?Four masked bandits bungled in an attempted hold-up and robbery of a northbound Kansas City Southern passenger train between Hatfield and. Mena, Ark., early to-day, one was wounded and captured and the other bandits escaped after a battle with RxDress Messenger Merrill Burgett. of Kansas City, Mo., in which. Burgett exhausted his ammunition and was badly beaten about the head , and shoulders and refused to disclose the hiding place of valuable packages. Burgett shot the robber who was discovered an hour later after his companions had deserted him. The robber is being conveyed to Mena. Fifty or more men in an armed posse are pursuing the bandits. BuVgett is in a hospital at Mena. His recovery is expected. Hid Valuables Before Firing. The train, known as No. 2, arrived * at Hatfield, Ark., about 2 o'clock. The train started and Burgett was busy in his car when the bandits clambered up the side door of the car and smashed the glass with their revolver butts. Burgett sprang to his most valuable packages, estimates of fhe moneytary value of which vary, and while the robbers poured into the car a deadly hail of lead secreted them. Once the messenger < says a bullet piercea nis snirt aui ms this interval. The packages hidden, Burgett turned his attention to the invaders, who had now abandoned for a time their firing into the car. ? As Burgett fired at them the robbers managed to reach through the small apertures made by smashed glass and ' . undid the catch securing the door from the inside and sliding back the door sprang into the car, firing on Burgett at brief intervals. The messenger leaped to shelter behind a pile of baggage and met the robbers' onslaught, shot by shot with revolver and shotgun. The train had attained a speed of about thirty miles an hour and apparently none of the train or locomotive crew knew that a holdup ^as being attempted. A last shot fired by Burgett before the robbers gained the inside of the car wounded one of the bandits who cried out that he was hit. One robber assisted the wounded man and as the others sprang into the car a few more shots and Burgett's shells were gone. The robbers closed in on him and by sheer force of numbers overpowered him al though he gave battle to tne tnree, wielding the butt of his short shot v gun effectively until conquered. Overcome by Xumbers. The bandits clubbed the messenger repeatedly over the head, crash * ed their fists into his face and belabored him over the shoulders, meantime demanding to know "where is that package of money?" Bleeding, Burgeet crouched in a corner of the c^r while the robbers brutally beat and kicked him but the messenger did not reveal the hiding place of the valuables. The train conductor turned on the air and the train started again. The robbers varied their search for the j supposed money package with heating and kicking the messenger. They searched the car carefully but Burgett had been too wily for them and they could not find what they sought. Again they cut off the air and made another careful search for valuables This time the train conductor feared something was wrong and began an investigation. As the conductor came fnwowd -nri+Vi Viic? lonfprn thp rnhhprs iv/i naiu w a ex* uaq iwu a* v-v * ? . took fright "evidently, for they fled. In answer to repeated knockings on the door of the express car by the conductor, Burgett struggled to his feet and staggered to the door which . . he unlocked and fell in a heap at I Lockwood's feet. He was revived long enough to give a brief sketch of ] the attempted hold-up and the train i rushed into Mena, where physicians attended the messenger and a posse was organized to pursue the robbers into the hills. A special train bore the posse to the scene. Near there the wounded robber was found. By daylight the hunt was on and later in the morn- j ing the posse was augmented by j scores of others pressed into service I by the authorities. So far as is known the robbers took absolutely nothing from the ex, press car. w v Report of Capture Denied. Fort Smith, Ark., Oct. 11.?Reports of the capture of one of the four masked men who attempted to rob Northbound Kansas City South- j ern train No. 2 near Mena, Ark., early to-day were discredited to-night, j telegrams here from Mena say no j capture has been made. A trail of | I 4 4GER IN . WITH ROBBERS T 01 When Train is Attacked ia > Desperados at Bay J' ion Gives Out. a Ol J blood from the express car indicated hthat one of the robbers was wound- cj ed. S|.Express -Messenger Murrell Bur- rr gett, who battled with the robbers | and who prevented the plundering j of his car, is reported to-night rej covering from wounds received when | he was kicked and beaten by the men j in an effort to force him to reveal rc the hiding place of valuables. p In addition to the recent holding m : up of twro Kansas City Southern' i trains, a Rock Island train was held 3 , ?, i up and robbed of a small amount several nights ago. Yesterday a "tip" came to the officials of Haskell coun- ^ i ty, Oklahoma, that a Midland Valley j train was to be robbed. The train, ^ however, completed its run without be incident. he Because of the frequency of bank j robberies in Oklahoma, the Oklaho- W1 ! ma Bankers' Association appealed to : Governor Cruce of that State to-day br ! to adopt energetic measures to rid s* ; the State of criminal bands. h* None of the robbers have yet been sl: captured. ' th Pickens' Boy's Big Yield of Corn. S? Pickens, Oct. 11.?Ralph D. Gil- ^ i strap, 16-year-old son of* Mr. E. E: Gilstrap, who lives about two miles ^ I from Pickens on the Easley road, is , ^ probably the champion corn grower ^ ! of Pickens county. From a measured | acre he has gathered 125 bushels and : 26 pounds of corn. The corn was SI] measured Tuesday. w m The young man is a member of a ru bovs' corn club and the corn was TT Hi measured according to rules furnish- g ed by the government. in The two members of boys' corn | clubs who make the largest yields of | corn to an acre in Pickens county ^ ! will be sent to the corn exposition in ^ ar ! Columbia next January, and it seems . : likely that Mr. Gilstrap will be one ^ of the boys to go^ . The fodder and shucks from this i th ; acre of corn will pay for the fertilizev j er used on it. ?? Di Arrested Under "White Slave" Act. Philadelphia, Oct. 10.?Harvey pr Randolph, a negro, and Mrs. Mary Rich, said to be his sister, were ar- ^ : rested here to-day charged with en- ^ : ticing Lola Devine, a 16-year-old gc | white girl, from her home in Germantown.^Md. They were found asleep with the girl in a poorly furnished room near the negro quarter. gc After a hearing they were held with1 out bail to await the action of the ^ so federal authorities. The arrests were made at the request of the depart- _ CO rx?4- iiiotiAA of AVocViincrtnn TViP J.UCUC \JL JUClILt CI I. If houiuqvvu. <. | prisoners will be charged wi?h trans- ^ ; porting a girl from State to State for t i immoral purposes in violation of the m j "white slave act. ' The girl is being nc | cared for by the authorities. Augusta Motorman Killed. ^ at Augusta, Ga., Oct. 9.?To-night, in a dark spot adjoining the Schuetzenplatz, a small crowd of men ran out ! and boarded a car coming down from 2 = Summerville. When theyattempted to ! catpure the motorman and conductor, ha strike-breakers, one of them fired on p3 the crowd. Immediately a dozen or more shots were fired and the attack- ,. tn ing crowd left the car. One of the ^ injured men fell over the back of the car onto the track, the other one, falling off the still moving car, made CO his way into the hallway of an adCO joining residence and fell. The car was stopped nearly two blocks becli low the scene of .the shooting. Both the wounded men, strikeic breakers, were picked up by a passing CO automobile and rushed to the city hospital. They were unconscious and for a time their names were unknown. ^ nc Motorman Frank Kelly will die 111 but Conductor Allen Brooks will probably recover, it is reported since v,< lii examination by hospital surgeons. None-eft the crowd of strike sympathizers who fired on the two men has been arrested. That section around the Schuetzendc platz, which is just below the Bon S3 Air Hotel in Summerville, is now . , ti( quiet. ^ CI Business for Father. ag The small daughter of a practicing bu physician, who evidently has an eye ex to business, told her mother, in no uncertain terms, that she must call ze at once on their new neighbor. de "And why must I call on her?" of asked the mother, amused at the an child's positiveness. 1 ail "Well, in the first place," explained fo the little ladv. "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother th herself don't look very strong."? G? Kansas City Star. ge I t 4 A BANK BOBBED OF-$1,200. wo Men of Cheap Concert Compan Suspected of Crime. Stillmore, Ga., Oct. 9.?The Ban J Wesley was entered by burglar st night, and after blowing up th ife, the thieves made away wit 1,200. This robbery occurred jus week after the robbery of the Ban : Register in the same county. Yesterday the marshal at Wesle id arrested two men belonging to reap concert company which ha lown in Register the night of th bbery there and in Stillmore Mor iv . night when at unsuccessful a! mpt was made to rob the Bank c illmore. He turned them loos rout dark, as he had nothing to hoi ? ? - ? nnu ? 4- Vir?r?lr TT'O ttflll UI1. 1 licit IllgllL tlic UCLU.JX tV C4 >bbed and the two quandam sus ;cts were nowhere to be found thi orbing. * Hissed Circus; Committed Suicide. Atlanta, Oct. 10.?Alph White >ad, a young North Georgia farme >y, attempted to commit suicide o e street here yesterday afternoo 'cause he had come all the way fror >me to see the circus parade, an en missed it by standing on th rong street corner. His disappointment was heart eaking, and before anybody coul op him or ask what was the" mattei i whipped out a pocket knofe an ashed at his throat. He misse e big veins, however, and two o ree stitches taken in a corner dru ore and then a mummy like swath g of bandages put him on his fee ;ain. The young man had only been i tlanta once before in his life, an at about five years ago. At tha iriod the Atlanta Journal buildin as on Broad street, and it seem ^ knew it. What he hadn't learne ace was that the Journal has bee oved and now on Forsyth streel :nning parallell, only a block awa} e read that the parade would pas road street, and stationed himsel front of the Journal building. At the end of about two hours, h und that the gorgeous wagons an e prancing horses had been passin tother street a block away, he burs to hysterical tears, and decide at life was no longer worth living He had been counting on seein e parade for weeks pass, and ha 'en dreamed of it at night he saic ime Novels the Cause of Undoing The detectives are working to dis ove, if possible, the voluntary cor ssion of Tom Tankersley, the 17 nr-old boy of Atlanta who boast at he intentionally wrecked th mthern train near Cornelia las set. The wreck cost two lives. The boy was arrested for stealin horse which he rode away from th ene of the wreck. He tells a rathe elodramatic story of how he an me boy companions decided t reck the train and rob the mai ach in true wild western style. The police are not yet prepared t ilieve that the boy's confession i ue. It is said that he read a grea any detective and wild west dim >vels, and that this may account fo e tale which the police.' think i vely to prove a wcfrk of his imagin ion. Congressmen Ignore the Law. Washington, Oct. 9.?Mo^e tha ? per cent, of the candidates nom ated for representatives in conrges ive failed to comply with the cam Lign contributions and publicit ts, which require them to turn i: eir expense accounts oeiore ana ai r the nominating primary or con intion. The failure to turn in expense ac unts in due time may be use'd ii ntests for seats after the election ough the law on this point is no 3ar. A feature of the expenses turned i: the small size of the average ac unt. Speaker Clark invested $5' his nomination; Majority Leade iderwood, $250 in his; Minorit; >ader Mann, $284; ex-Speaker Can >n, $197; William B. McKinley, o inois, nothing; Nicholas Long irth, of Ohio, $68.50; Theron Cat l, of Missouri, $10; Barchfield, o mnsylvania, $805; Bartholdt, o issouri, $200, and Hobson, of Ala ma, $1,500. John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, wa feated. He spent $259.35 an< ,499.65 trying to get the nomina >n, and his successful opponent, M yde Kelly, $150 and $1,110. Senator La Follette made a figh ainst John J Esch, of Wisconsin it Mr. Esch was nominated, at ai pense of $65 and $59. Messrs. Fitzgerald, Harrison, Sul r and many others of the New Yorl legation spent "nothing." Lenroot Wisconsin. Sherwood, of Ohio d Llyod, of Missouri, also ar< iiong those who were out nothin: r their nominations. Among those who have n<*t mad* eir returns are Aikin, of New York irdner, of Massachusetts, and Ber r, of Wisconsin. ? \ 11 In Bamberg and Barnwell County's Shopping Centre | | JI Established ^ 7Jears^ In a _ i Second Great Fall Sale for 31 Davs ,41 - - . ^ e' ? i COMMENCING SATURDAY, OCT. 124, AND ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER THE 16lh rl n I n / : Our Method of Opening Season > And Demonstrating That Here Values Are Best Always. Others preach, Pearlstin Brothers practice. Others claim to undersell; d do they, can they? Expensive locations, trading stamps, entertaing ments, commissions, fashion promenaders, coupon slips, advertising v >- agencies add heavily to the cost ot doing business, i he customer pays the bill. We prefer straighforward merchandising, concentrating on value. J Which Do You Prefer? Which Pays You Best? I REMEMBER OUR OFFERINGS ABE ALWAYS COOPS OF MERIT AND UP-TO-DATE. We have an enormous stock of everything nrnnrl tn pat anrt nf PVPrvtKinff suitaKlp tn I wear, and the month of September, with ung favorable weather, afforded us no outlet for 1 disposing of same. With this sale we intend '' to make up for lost time in unloading to the benefit of the public. Our store will be gorl geously decorated for this sale, everything ^ I marked down in plain figures before your eyes ! \ r. = o a aii Hnnrlc rbarcrp/1 Onrincr Tills Salp at Rpornlaf PrirAS I I J. &11 \>WVtU wwvsv www ?WQ www ? ..WW. Will not be responsible for neglected telephone or mail orders during these 31 busy days t e . . I Don't forget to keep the dates of this great sale in mind and be sure to attend in full fofce from our opening day, - Saturday; Oct. 12, to Closing Day Saturday Nov. 16 ^ { To Inaugurate this sale we Quote a few Prices to Substantiate the Above I GROCERIES. || CLOTHING. IFoote's Best and Maryland Chief To- $12.00 and $15.00 Men's Suits f Q AO I matoes, 1,000 three-pound cans, 1ft? at only ^ | @each i.. I"!' 65c Sweaters being sold at the I low price of tIC 1 Pi nb.Salmon, 500 cans, tails, @ JQC 65c Fleeqed Underwear to g0 on ? sale at ' DRY GOODS. SHOES AND HATS. - Khn.nas and other Standard o ,3 ? ?"* 89C . u ings @ per yar . $1.50 Shoes, good ones for the <M "jn f Calicoes, very good, at the low C low price of ?p 1.1.7 price per yard $3.00 Shoes during this sale @ 1 on 10c, 1214c, and 15c Dress 019 per pair tpi-O*' ? Ginghams, per yard 0 l-Jl Same prices on all Hats. jj - ========================== I In like manner all the way through. Our word is our bond I for what we will do. We make everything good at this sale. I , I COI 15U11 UlUdil I PL AR : : : : : : SOUTH CAROUNA| ?