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, ' "PORTLAND NED" PAROLED. ^ i ^ Yeggman Serving Ten Years to Be Turned Loose. Columbia, April 25.?James Johnson, alias Edward Murphy, alias Edward Howard, alias Edward Smith, alias George Howard, alias Portland i. Ned, the yeggman whose pardon Detective Reed, of the W. J. Burns V agency, posing as H. N. Porter, a Chicago lawyer, alleged that he tried to buy last 6ummer and failed, was this , afternoon paroled by Governor Blease (ikiring good behavior. Johnson, or $ "Portland Ned," as he is better known, is being held until a reply can be had from a telegram the G9vernor sent the Federal authorities asking w him if they have further charges against him. If they have not he will be set free at once. / ? Robbery Committed at Enoree. Johnson was convicted, largely through the efforts of Postoffice Inspector Gregory, of robbing the postV office at Enoree, in Spartanburg County, and served a term of seven years ' " in the Federal pTison in Atlanta. When his term there expired he was tried in the State Courts and given ten years in the State penitentiary in 1911. The prisoner came ino the limelight during the sessions of the dispensary investigating committee in r Augusta last juiy. At mat nine detective Reed of the W. J. Burns agency, gave the dictagraph proofs of a conversation he held with Sam J. Nicholls in Spartanburg, at which time, it is alleged, Xicholls agreed to enter as associate counsel in the case and undertake to get a pardon for Johnson. Reed said that he represesented himself as Porter, a lawyer of Chicago, and that they were anxious to get Johnson pardoned as he was heir to a large estate in Chicago. ^ Felder-Reed Incident. It was during this sitting of the W committee that Thos. B. Felder, the ^ * Atlanta attorney, was presenting his V charges against Governor Blease and ? Detective Reed was telling of an atW tempted "frame-up" whereby they hoped to show that they could buy a pardon. But no pardon was obtained, and how that investigation, with its charges raised a storm in South Carolina is still fresh in the public mind. ? The scoring which the committee, Felder and Burns received at the hands of the South Carolina Governor in public speeches, charging that the whole Augusta business was an attempt to blacken his reputation and injure an innocent man, and how these speeches and subsequent de?iPont>aH r>amnnifn into veiwpnirru. us iauu^. u v..-.."t 0 white heat, is recalled by the paroling of the prisoner who figured in the sensational dictograph testimony at Augusta. "Portland Ned's" Pleas. "Portland Ned," from his cell in the Penitentiary, has addressed several letters to the people of Spartan, / burg, which were published in the > newspapers there, asking for one more chance and begging them to use their influence to get him his free% t dom and give him another chance. Several strong appeals were made to the Governor in behalf of the prisoner, begging him in the name of humanity to give him clemency. Tonight the Governor finally yielded and extended mercy. His reasons are set forth in the following: Reasons for Parol?. "Johnson, James, (white,) alias Edwara Murphy, alias Edward Howward, alias Edward Smith, alias c-onrp-p Howard, alias 'Portland Ned.' convicted at the August, 1911, term of Court for Spartanburg County of housebreaking and larceny and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in * the State Penitentiary. "The following letter was received from the clerk of Court of Spartanburg County: " 'Spartanburg, S. C., April ^3, 1913. v In re James Johnson. " 'Mr. John K. Aull, Columbia, S. C. ; * " 'Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of April 22d instant, in regard to one James Johnson, you will find cer> tified copy of sentence imposed, and as to Johnson being the same person who served a term in the Federal prison for breaking into the postoffice at Enoree, S. C., will say that he is the same person. This is about the only reliable information that I can give. " 'Yours very truly, (signed) "'X. Leonard Bennett, Clerk of Court, by E. W. Miller, D. ' . C.' Many Appeals for Parole. "The defendant had already served nearly seven years in the Federal prison in Atlanta for breaking into the postoffice at Enoree, S. C.. when A-: ?3 """in i?-> 5nartnnhnr> flG was invu again ?ii ^.. . under the laws of this State and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, of which sentence he has served nearly " two years, making a total of nearly nine years which he has served for this offence. "I have received several personal letters from prominent people of this State in reference to the man, asking .k that he be shown mercy. A petition MAY DISSOLVE MYSTERY. New Evidence Promises to Clear Up Mystery of the Dunbar Case. Hattiesburg, Miss.. April 24.?New evidence which promises to clear up the mystery surrounding the Dunbar kidnaping case was obtained here today when several persons identified the photograph of the alleged kidnaper as W. C. Walters, of Jones county, Mississippi, who, with two other men, served a six-year sentonop in thp federal Drison at Atlanta for the murder of a negro who was homesteading government land in that county. Last year a man named Walters, believed to be the 6ame man, lived in this city in the house with a man named Bruce. He left home in the spring of 1912, carrying with him his wife's two children. He was gone six months, and. according to neighbors, returned to his home after dark the latter part of last August, bringing a strange child, in addition to the two children he had taken away. The strange boy was about four years old, according to the neighbors, who say Walters later left home with the boy. He is said to have told his wife that while he was away from home with her two children he had been working in a saw mill in Louisiana. It is believed that the child which he left for several weeks last July at the Bilbo home, near Poplarville, Miss., was one of the two children whom he took away from Hattiesburg. Bluff Exposed. Bob Dwyer, fresh from college, opened a real estate office in an attractive suburban neighborhood and hoped to make his fortune. For days he sat undisturbed in his little office, staring out at the dusty roads or twiddling his thumbs. On the afternoon of the fourth day he saw a man crossing Ogden boulevard diagonally, headed for his dooor. Surely this was a customer. He must be made to feel that business was flourishing. As the man stepped over the threshhold Bob had the telephone receiver at his ear and was talking earnestly into the transmitter. "That's correct," he said, as the man stood before him. "Right. We will accept your $15,000 cash tomorrow and let the $30,000 remainder stand on a ten-year mortgage. What? Yes. I'll bring the deed around at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Good-by." Bob hung up the receiver and turned an important visage to the visitor. "Now, sir," he said, "what can I do for you?" "Why, I just came over," said the man, grinning, "to connect your telephone instrument with the wires."? Harper's Weekjy. 1? was presented signed by the foreman and members of the jury who tried the case, by Col. B. G. Landrum and many of the other good, substantial citizens around and about the place where the crime was committed. "The following communication was also filed with the petition: " 'Department of Justice. Office of the United States Marshal, District of South Carolina, Charleston, S. C., April 12, 1913. "I>eserves Consideration." " 'James Johnson, care State Prison, Columbia. S. C. " 'Dear Sir: I have yours of the 6th inst requesting me to write the Governor and ask clemency for you. You say that you have resolved to 'have done with the old life and be a man in the future,' and I think that if you can convince the Governor that you would carry out this resolution and intended to do it, that your case deserves consideration, and I will write him to this effect. Your long imprisonment as a Federal and State prisoner, for practically the same offence, appeals to me and I think will to all fair-minded and sympathetic men. and I feel confident that if you can convince those who have the power to help you to liberty that you will in the future live an honest and straightforward life and everyone would be glad to see you released. " 'Respectfully, (Signed) "'J. D. Adams.' During Good Behavior. "Thp dofpn riant having served nearly seven years in the Federal prison in Atlanta, and nearly two years in the South Carolina Penitentiary, for the same offence, and in view of the petition, signed by so many of the jurors who tried him, I granted the defendant a parole during good behavior on April 25. 1913. in order that he may have an opportunity to go forth and redeem himself in the eyes of the world." The Governor this afternoon late sent the following telegram to District Attorney Cochran, United States Tudge Smith and Marshal J. Duncan Adams: "Have paroled James Johnson, alias Uova \-/\n onv fnrthpr rui Uctiiu .\eu. nair u".' . ? ww charges against him or do you wish him detained?" Pending replies to this wire Johnson is being held at the Penitentiary. MARY AND HER LAMB. She Took It to School in Massachusetts Ninety-Eight Years Ago. Anxious to ascertain beyond question whether there was ever a "Mary" who "had a little lamb,' as the widely known nursery poem recites, Mrs. L. W. Owens, of Pueblo, Colo., traveled to Massachusetts?a distance of more than 2,000 miles?to make a thorough investigation. She has done it. She has found that there was a real "Mary," and that she had a real lamb. The lamb went to school, too, one day, as the famous verses assert. The young poet, John Roulstone, who immortalized Mary and the lamb, took some poetic liberties with the facts, Mrs. Owens found, but the poem is correct in the main points. Here are the verses as they were written and handed to Mary, the owner of the lamb: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, Which was against the rule; It made the children laugh and play To see the lamb at school. And so the teacher turned it out. But it lingered near. And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear. "What makes the lamb love Mary so?" The eager children cried. "Why Mary loves the lamb, you know," The teacher then replied. The "Mary" of the poem was Mary Sawyer, and later Mary Sawyer Taylor. She lived at Sterling, Mass., and when she was S years old, 98 years ago, she owned a lamb. Mary's lamb was a pet. She kept its fleece nice and clean, and sometimes tied a ribbon about its neck. One day she took the lamb to school. When she went to the platform to recite the lamb clattered after her. Tnat maae a laugn. Mary then took the lamb outside and fastened it to a shed. She took the lamb home at the noon recess. John Roulstone, who was studying for the ministry with Rev. Samuel Chapen, of Sterling, was on a visit to the school that day. The next dayhe rode up to the school and handed Mary the poem. Mrs. Owens, who is president of the Loyal Boy's Club of the West, made the trip from her distant home for the sole purpose of delving into the past and getting the truth about the lamb episode. Mrs. Owens will -write a book on the life and death of Mary and her lamb. In a talk about her investigations Mrs. Owens said: "I came from Colorado purposely to learn if it were true that there existed a Mary and a little lamb, who followed her to school. I am satisfied beyond question. "Years and years ago in the town of Sterling, near Worcester, lived Mary Sawyer, who later became Mrs. Taylor, and, like her lamb, which was celebrated in verse by a clever young Harvard man of the times, John Roulstone, she also became noted. "Mary Sawyer, at the time she came into possession of the lamb, was 8 years old. That was in 1814. The lamb, I find, after interviewing old residents of Sterling, was born about March 1 of that year, and, therefore, was a spring lamb. The little thing lived until the next November, when it met an untimely and tragic death. "I find that on Thanksgiving morning Mary was playing in the barnyard at her home. The lamb, which had before this become very fond of her and had created the incident of the school, was following her about, frolicking. Unfortunately for the lamb and also much to the sorrow of Mary, the little thing got within range of a vicious cow, which seized the opportunity to dispose of it. "I have been led to believe that the cow became jealous of the affection which Mary showed for the lamb and seized the opportunity to dispose of it. "The incident which John Roulstone made famous by verse as related to me by Mary's old schoolteacher, Rebekah Kimball, deviates in some ways from the verse. "It is true that the lamb on the morning in question followed Mary and brother Nat to school. They discovered it as they were crossing a stone wall, and at the suggestion of Xat the lamb was brought into the schoolhouse and hid in one of the desks, but it was discovered by the teacher and the woolly little animal was removed by Mary."?Xew York American. Thp Sins of the Father. Tommy came home from school very morose. He said that he had been whipped and kept in. "Tt was because you told me the wrong answer," he added, turning to his father. "Last night I asked you how much was a million dollars, and you said it was a 'hell of a lot.' That ain't the right answer." ? I have purchased tl^e interest of Mr. Clarence Free ? ? in the business formerly run under the name of H. jg ?! G. Delk & Co., and will continue the business at the @ same stand, giving you the same high-class service @ @ as heretofore. Remember we carry a full line of & ? 5c and 10c goods as well as run an up-to-date Meat ? ? Market where vou can secure the best to be had at ? jlj all times. 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