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VAUGHN CONFESSES. Trial at Greenville Comes to Dramatic Close. Greenville, October 26.?T. U. Vaughn, on trial for alleged immorality during his term as superintendent of the Odd Fellows' Home here, was put on the stand by his lawyers to-day and made a clean confession of his awful crime. The trial wras brought to a sensa tional close when Vaughn broke down and confessed all. He named two other victims in addition to those included in the indictment. The jury was out but four minutes and made no recommendation for mercy, the verdict carrying the death penalty. Tears streamed down the face of Judge Purdy, named by Gov. Blease as special judge for this trial. Many jurors, court officials and spectators alike made no pretence of hiding their tears as Vaughn, pale and broken, acknowledged his crime. Some iurors went aloud. Sentence Pronounced. In the afternoon Judge Purdy, before sentencing Vaughn, overruled a motion for a new trial, which was argued by one of Vaughn's lawyers, after his client made confession. Judge Purdy, in sentencing Vaughn to death in the electric chair, set December 20 as the date for his execution. When court opened there was no intimation that the accused would make a confession. His attorney had fought stubbornly since the beginning of the case to break down the strong evidence developed by the prosecution's little girl witnesses. Immediately after court opened to-day attorneys for both sides consulted, resulting in an agreement to let Vaughn confess in an effort to save his own life, and that the case would go to the jury without argument. <<T 1 ? ?J T Vjovd 1 nave auieu ucvmoixij, ? nu. ^ acted shamelessly," began Vaughn. "The devil tempted me and I have fallen." He pleaded eloquently but vainly with the jury to save his life. Vaughn begged the jury to spare his life, not so much for his sake as for his wife and little daughter. Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her daughter were in court to-day, though they have been with the accused since the trial opened. He was formerly assistant superintendent of the First Baptist church Sundayschool, one of the largest and most fashionable in this city. He was a ministerial student and frequently occupied pulpits of churches in and around Greenville. He owns considerable property. Vaughn's Confession. Facing the jury, Vaughn made his confession. In all, his statement makes three thousand words. Briefly summarized it is as follows: \ "Gentlemen, it is useless to say that in this instance I am greatly humiliated, and for months and months I have had agonizing hours over the whole matter. I wish to say this in the outset, that I have never wished to conceal one whit of the truth when the time came to make a clear state-mont t bQvp hppn so cautious in these particulars that some have inferred that I had denied my guilt. I know that some have had that impression, but I knew that I was guilty and would tell it at the proper tinje. For that reason, I have made impressions tl^at were unfavorable to me. "I want to say here and now that I am going to assume full responsibility. I want to take it off of that girl. I want to say that I have loved the girl always, but that love has been misdirected and misused. I don't think the girl will deny to-day the reality of my love in many re* . spects, yet my conduct towards her would , make her take the position towards me which she now takes, and justly takes. "As superintendent of the orphanage, I had entire control of her." I realize that now. I did not .at the time realize just what I was doing. I do now. I did it under circumstances about which I do not care to go into details here. At the very point I thought myself the strongest, I found myself the weakest. I found that the devil had attacked me with a more subtle and powerful temptation in the very place I thought I could not be tempted. I cannot now go into the details of the circumstances surrounding me when I fell, ;tnd I now assume full responsibility and ask God to save that girl. "Now, as to the treatment of the children out there; of course, I; whipped them, but I never did w'sh to be cruel. I did not abuse them, and had no desire to do so. But as hellish as this weight of sin has been, and despite the suffering of my body and soul, It has brought an entirely i new viewpoint of life. I am not speaking of this for sympathy; I am simply stating it to make my position elear, and I want to say this, that if it took all of this to save, to bring me to where I stand, and in spite of all this prosecution, of all this shame and suffering, if it has taken all of this to redeem my soul and save me MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED. Prisoner's Confession Explains the 1 Death of Two Bartenders. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 23.?Frank Smith, a negro, to-day confessed to < the police that he killed Frank Fox- i all and Phillip Lepher, white men, c near the State fair grounds the even- 1 ing of October 2 last. The negro was i arrested in Louisville, Ky., and re- "< turned to this city this morning, l Smith in his confession said the 1 white men first called him names and i then hit him with stones before he ? began shooting at trhem. i Foxall and Lepher, bartenders, i were killed after a holiday with two 1 women. One of the women left the i scene before the murders, and the 1 other's story of the negro was dis- < credited by the police at first. The 1 girl said that the negro, after killing t the two men, assaulted her. This 1 the negro denied in his confession. ^ Wounded Himself. r Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23.?Patrolman Arnold shot himself this morning t without knowing it, being saved from t injury by a thick manuscript in his i pocket, in precisely the same way i that the bullet fired at Col. Roosevelt ^ spent its force. e Officer Arnold fired two shots at c close range at a mad-dog, which he = killed. Without his knowing it one of the bullets was deflected sharply upward from the pavement, tearing through the side of his coat and lodging itself in a thick pocket-memorandum that he carried there. I Being naturally more interested \ in the mad dog at the time of the \ shooting,, he did not know about his curious escape until he returned to t police headquarters and threw off his ( coat, when the bullet tumbled out on ] the floor. Adevrtisers must give us copy for their ads. not later than Tuesday morning. from hell, I am thankful for it today. "I now have a better conception of God and of man. With that fact in view, realizing the cheapness of life, I can be of better service to God and to man. I feel that if you will give me another opportunity, after pleading guilty to this charge, and let me have another chance, I can be of more service to God than ever before. I feel that I can live a life of sublime service and consecration to God. As dark as it may seem, as disgusting as it may seem to you, as hellish as it appears, I feel that in the depths of my heart I can go forward in better service, and I make this plea to you. "What is life? It is a very small thing. It is a very short time here and I do not regard it as much. So far as miy suffering it would soon be over and I would be dead. Then it is a matter of eternity. But my present plea is that I have sinned, that I have suffered the tortures of the damned, that if I am given another opportunity, that the hold I now have on God, with the strength of the new faith I have in Him from out of this awful sin, I believe that I can go mi*- intn the dives of sin in this State and be of service to my State and my God in reclaiming the evil-doers, in saving the State great expense and in redeeming them of their crimes and sin. "I believe truly that I can be of great service to my God and my fellow man. I love my life, it is true, but I simply feel that in view of this new conception, life is a very small matter. Life is not eternal; it is a mere temporary existence. That which comes from God, to God must return. So far as death is concerned it is very small; it is the greater something which comes after." In closing his confession Vaughn made a plea that he be allowed to live in order to prove to his wife that he could reform and be a good man. Vaughn Taken to Columbia. Greenville, Oct. 26.?Immediately on leaving the court house to-night officers in custody of T. U. Vaughn boarded an automobile going to Spartanburg, where they caught a train for Columbia, where the condemned man will be nut in the penitentiary for safekeeping. This was done as a precautionary measure it was said at the sheriff'6 office to-night. Arrives at Penitentiary. Columbia, Oct. 26.?Sheriff Poole reached Columbia after midnight with T. U. Vaughn and landed him safely behind the walls of the State penitentiary. The trip from Greenville to Columbia was made without incident and Vaughn is now safe within the penitentiary. ^ Blease Orders Removal. Pnlnmhia Oct 26.?Gov. Blease to-night instructed the sheriff of Greenville county to bring T. U. Vaughn to the penitentiary as soon as sentenced is pronounced on him. His telegram to Sheriff Poole reads as follows: "Bring Vaughn to penitentiary on first train after sentence has been passed on him. Allow no delay. See ; Acts, 1912, page 702." J LONG IS RELEASED. kVagener Man Furnishes Bond in the Sum of $5,000. Aiken, Oct. 26.?Hugh Long, mayDr of Wagener, charged with the nurder of Pickens N. Gunter, presilent of the Bank of Wagener, was reeased from jail yesterday, having nade his bond of $5,000. Mr. Long vas brought back to Aiken the early ?art of the week from Columbia, laving been carried to the State pententiary for safekeeping a short time ifter the tragedy at Wagener when it vas persistently rumored that a mob vas gathering at Wagener to come lere and wreak summary punishnent upon him for shooting to death Pickens Gunter. Mr. Long experi meed no difficulty in making his )ond. 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