The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 31, 1912, Page 2, Image 2
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.
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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.
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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.
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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. It is understood, however,
hat he will not return to Wagener
>efore his trial, but that in the meanvhile
he will make Aiken his home.
Mrs. Long had already taken up her
esidence here.
As Mr. Long has been elected to
he State legislature, and as the next
erm of general sessions court will' be
leld in February of 1913, while the
egislature is in session, it is thought
rery likely that Mr. Long will not
itand trial until the June term of
:ourt.
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