The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 05, 1913, Page 6, Image 6
NEGRO IS FACING
SERIOUS CHARGE.
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Alleged to Have Attempted
Assault on Little Girl.
IS IN COUNTY JAIL
AT AIKEN.
Officers Have Kept Cause
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of Arrest a Secret?No
Violence Anticipated.
Aiken, June 2.?Elliott Jackson, a
negro of about 35 years of ?ge, captured
by the Aiken police after a
search lasting several hours late Saturday
night, is in jail charged with a
heinous crime.
Abojit dark Saturday evening the
13-year-old daughter of a farmer who
lives just outside of the city limits of
Aiken was sent by her mother to a
store near their home and on the edge
of what is known as "Baptist Bottom,"
a negro settlement, in the lower
part of the city, for a package of
coffee. The little girl went to the
store, made her 'purchase and had
started back home when she was
overtaken by the Jackson negro, who
had evidently been loafing about the
store and saw her leave there alone.
Although it was rapidly growing
dark, the little girl suspected nothing
when the negro spoke to her and
walked by her side until the negro
suddenly caught hold of her and
v placing his hand over her mouth.to
stifle her screams, bore her to the
t ground.
The child struggled in the grasp of
her assailant, who, at the sound of
cnmonno annrnanhinsr from the oppo
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site direction from that in which they ,
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had come from the store, released his
intended victim. Crying for help, the .
P child ran in terror back to where the
lights of the store glimmered. Terrorstricken,
she ran into the store, fol.
lowed by the negro brute, and sought J
?? 'v shelter behind a negro woman, who, .
shielding her, fought off the attacking
negro with an umbrella.
In the darkness the negro escaped.
The police were notified by the little
girl's father of the attempted assault ,
upon his daughter, and they began a '
systematic ^search. Persons at the
store were able to furnish the name ,
of the negro. Every officer on the
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force was pressed into service, but
the matter was kept absolutely secret,
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only the police and a few others ^
, knowing of the attempted assault.
A little before midnight Officer
Cleckley, who had been watching in .
the vicinity of the negro's home, after
the house had been searched, saw
a dark form moving in the weeds a
few yards in the rear of the house.
Approaching, he captured Jackson,
who was unarmed. 4
The police, fearing that if the mat- J
ter became known a lynching would
follow, kept it secret, arresting the 1
negro and docketing an insignificant j
charge against him until this morning.
This morning the facts became
known.
No apprehension that the negro
will be lynched or that efforts will be 1
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made to lynch him is felt by the police
and county officials.
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The negro denies attempting to assault
the little girl, but states that he 1
was merely playing with her, and 1
that he followed her into the store (
when she ran for fear that she had
become frightened and might miscon- ]
strue his intention.
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Here Comes the Bride. :
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There are 728 Kansas girls taking
the courses in the "Brides' School"
at the Kansas Agricultural college
this year, and when they complete
their work next June there will be
that many prospective brides ready
for home; brides who know how to
do it, in keeping house properly, says
a Topeka dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer. There will be graduated
738 girls, who will never feed their
husbands on sour biscuits or look
dowdy in the new dress hubby last
bought.
No one knows just exactly how
. many engaged girls there are in the
school this year. The instructors can
only guess, and the best guess is that
fully 500 of the girls now taking the
course are already engaged.
The work is all a part of the do
mestic science department at tne Dig
state school, and it was organized
three years ago especially as a training
for prospective brides.
Paper, envelopes, pen staff and pen
for 5c at Herald Book Store.
T. B. OA UGH MAX DENIED BAIL.
Slayer of Sumter Rural Policeman in
Jail Until Trial.
Sumteh May 29.?Bail was refused
T. B. Caughman, the young man whc
several days ago shot and killed Rural
Policeman A. M. Bateman, yesterday
by Chief Justice Eugene B. Gar>
at a hearing in Columbia, this being
it ie oairi tho refusal to errant
bail ever made by Chief Justice Gar>
in his judicial career. Oil the showing
made the Chief Justice would no!
allow Caughman to be released or
bail and he will therefore be held in
the county jail until court convenes
on June 23.
On Caughman's first trip to Columbia
he stated it was the first time
that he had ever ridden on a train
and he asked the deputy sheriff whc
had him in charge to show him a
skyscraper, saying that he had heard
of them, but had never seen one before.
His ride from Smithville to the
county jail the day of his arrest was
the first he had ever taken in an automobile.
NOVELTIES IN TAXES.
When Whiskers, Babies Bachelors
and Horses Had to Pay Fines.
The happy lot of Lloyd George,
chancellor of the British exchequer,
who, it is estimated, will have a budget
surplus of $1,125,000. forms a
striking contrast to that Austen
chamberlain, who in 1904, had to
provide for a deficit of $3,000,000
in the national balance sheet. Some
startling suggestions were made to
the member for East Worcestershire
on that occasion by those who
considered themselves fully capable
of teaching the chancellor of the
exchequer his business.
Among other things on which it
was said duties should be imposed
were such necessities as boots, baths,
lamps, hats, umbrellas, perambulators
and theatre tickets. Extraordinary
though these suggestions were,
however, they were not more so than
some budget schemes which have
actually been carried out in the past,
in order to raise the country's revenue.
In IS95, for instance, a tax of 2
shillings had to be paid by the parents
of every ' little stranger" born
in England, except by the people in
receipt of alms. This tax fell heavily
on the masses, to whom a florin
meant a great deal more than it does
today. The nobility and the gentry,
too, found the tax very irksome, for
it increased according to rank, the
birth of the duke adding $150 to the
revenue.
No small amount of fun has been
made of the New Jersey state legislature
sometime ago in proposing the
?r?dnated tax on men with beards.
But it is by no means an original
proposal.
Queen Elizabeth put a tax of 3
farthings on every beard of a fortnight's
growth, while two centuries
igo Peter the Great insisted that all
nobles who were beards should pay
LOO rubles for the privilege.
On several occasions it has been
>aid that the selfish individual who
*efuses t& lead another man's daugh:er
to the alter and provide for her
for the rest of his life, should be
multed a certain .amount each year,
ft is an old idea, for at one time a
-esident of England who reached the
ige of 25 was liable to a tax of 1 shiling
per annum until he married.
Furthermore, widowers without chil
Iren were obliged to pay the same
amount until they married again,
ivhile the gentry and nobility paid a
ligher tax in proportion to their rank.
As chancellor of the exchequer,
Pitt rendered himself very popular oy
:he extraordinary means to which he
resorted in order to improve the state
3f the country's finances. He it was
ivho first introduced the income tax
in 1798, and he also levied one upon
horses, which caused a certain farmer
to use a cow for the purpose of riding
to and from the market.?Philadelphia
Ledger.
Clock Without a Spring.
A unique timepiece has recently
been invented by Eugene Walser, a
watchmaker in Los Angeles. Four
years of work has perfected a clock
which keeps accurate time but without
a spring in its make-up.
The motive power is gained by the
clock rolling down an incline, regulated
by a wonderful arrangement of
weights on the inside of the clock.
There is no winding to be done, but
every thirty days the clock is lifted
* ~ nf tVin in^Iino onH ho^ina
LU Ciic ui I. lit. 1UV/11UV U.UU
to slide downward.
The dial does not revolve with the
case, but remains as an ordinary dial
with the figure 12 at the top. The
incline is of polished wood, sixteen
inches long with an 8 1-3 per cent
grade. There is no relation between
the wood and the clock; it is simply
a matter of properly adjusted weights
which move the hands and control
the downward motion of the timepiece.?The
Strand.
PROMINENT MAN ,
DIES IN WRECK.
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Harris D'Antignac of Au- *
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gusta Killed.
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l Two of Them Seriously In- ti
jured. J. Smith of Co- a
lumbia Hurt. lt:
Augusta, Ga., May 31.?Harris H. si
D'Antignac is dead and four com- y<
i panions who were with him in an au- 11
tomobile are more or less seriously ^
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injured as the result of an accident 0]
at a point about a mile bevound the m
Dan Bowles place, near Double y<
Branches. li
At a point where the Savannah ai
road is intersected diagonally by the bi
road leading to the Richmond County ti
Agricultural Society club house, the s
automobile, which was being driven c
by R. W. Spofford. "sideswiped" a 01
loaded farm wagon, spun around in
the road and turned over. The occu- w
pants of the car were panned under si
it and sustained injuries. 1c
Columbia Men Among Them.
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In the car were: R. W. Spofford,
superintendent of the Augusta-Aiken
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Railway and Electric corporation:
H. H. D'Antignac, son-in-law of
Thomas Barrett, Jr.; Albert A. Davidson
of the Augusta-Aiken Railway .
and Electric corporation; John A. x
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Swallow of the engineering department
of the Charleston & Western
Carolina railway; James Smith of the .
division department of the Southern .
railway, Columbia, -S. C.
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Of the five in the car Mr. Swallow
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and Mr. Davidson are now the most
seriously injured, the former not having
fully recovered consciousness at
midnight,. and the latter apparently
suffering most from a severe injury
to the back. Both are at the city
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hospital and information is that it .
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will be impossible to tell until proba- ^
.bly tomorrow afternoon whether or
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not Mr. Swallow has sustained in- ^
ternal injuries. Mr. Smith's injuries
are slight.
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Struck Farm Wagon. Ti
The men made up one of the par- h?'
ties leaving the Carmichael Fishing g<
club a little after 8 o'clock, after at- M
tending the annual barbecue of the ni
cotton exchange. Mr. Spofford, driv- hi
ing the car, was making an effort to or
get to the city as quicKiy as possioie.
At the point where the accident oc- M
curred the road has a slight bend, de
partly obstructing the view to the ce
highway beyond. Driving at a high pc
rate of speed, Mr. Spofford attempted su
suddenly to cut around a loaded farm th
wagon, which he saw almost upon d<
him. The front wheels of the auto- St
mobile swerved clear of the wagon, a
but the rear wheels struck the wagon
on one side of its front and drove it
backward nearly 50 yards. The automobile
was spun around and top- ?
pled over, catching the occupants
under it.
MURRAY IN CHARGE. of
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Receives His Commission as Walter- a
boro Postmaster. bj
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Walterboro, June 1.?P. M. Mur- ta
ray, who was recommended by Congressman
Legare before his death for .<p
the Walterboro postmastership, has
received his commission and has j0
taken charge of the local office. Mr.
Murray is well trained in such work,
having been postmaster at St. George bi
for several years under the last Democratic
administration, and the peo- e]
pie here are well pleased at the choice 0j
of Mr. Murray. It will be remem- vj
berd that the appointment of Mr.
Murray was oppoced by Congressman
Whaley and that several delegations fC
from here went to Washington to
present the different sides of the matter.
However, Congressman Legare's
recommendation was supported by
the two South Carolina senators and pi
Mr. Murray received the appoint- tc
ment. fc
Mr. Murray succeeds B. Levy, who s'c
has been postmaster here for 15 t
years, Mr. Levy having succeeded the m
i late Col. A. J. Izard. During Mr. ol
T Qiri-'e innnmhonw nf tVlP OffifP VlP
"V ? J ??? iiiVUUX WV*iVj w* ? ? ?
; has worked the office into a high de- p
gree of efficiency. y<
Mr. Murray has appointed Sinclair yi
i Glover as assistant postmaster to succeed
Henderson Fraser, who held that y<
position during the Levy administra- w
tion. e;
FIND HUSBAND'S BODY. jj
lTas Caught in Sand Slide and I
Smothered to Death. ^
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Frank Martin, a miner, was killed t
y a landslide while working on his !
roperty along the Feather river, !
ear Orville, Cal. He was found en- J
Dmbed in the dirt by his wife, who j|
-ent to hunt for him when he did not |
eturn to his home at the usual time. |
Martin owned some mining claims I
'hich he had been working himself. |
'ho nthor mVht hf> failed to Dut in I
n appearance at the usual hour, and f
is wife, becoming anxious, went out |
3 search for him.. She saw the cave- g
1 and becoming alarmed hastened to s
,ie claim. S
She made her ghastly discovery I
nd found her husband crushed and f
ead, buried in the earth and rock |
lat had fallen on him. She return- |
d to her cabin for help and with the g
id of her children dug the body from |
s untimely grave. |
Find Skeletons in Ashes. f
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Atlanta, Ga., May 29.?Mystery g
irrbunds the finding by neighbors j
esterday of two charred skeletons I
i the smouldering ashes of a house f
hich had stood on the McDonough |
>ad, two miles from the federal pris- |
q, and which had been occupied by n
[rs. Sarah C. Stevens, her son, 17 |
sars old, and her adopted daughter, J
5. The three were seen at the house fi
bout dusk Tuesday, it is reported, |
nt no one has been found who saw ?
ie house burn during the night. Mr. a
tevens left Atlanta Tuesday for
hattanooga to attend the reunion j
: the United Confederate veterans. |
Near the two charred skeletons!
ere found the metal portions of a |
lotgun, including the barrels and j
tck. A local dentist declared one j
f the' skeletons was that of Mrs. I
i-ovpns basins: his oDinion upon the I j
ilse teeth, which still clung to the !
)of of the mouth. The other skele-!
)n is believed by the authorities J
> be that of the daughter, as the j
Ddies were found together, and it j
said Mrs. Stevens and her daugh- j
;r were accustomed to sleep in the
ime room.
The authorities of DeKalb county,
l which the house was located, are
ivestigating the tragedy. The girl
as taken in infancy from an orsianage.
Police are searching for the son,
ho has disappeared.
After careful examination of the
rcumstances surrounding the death 3
: Mrs Sarah Stevens and her adoptI
daughter, Nellie, the coroner's
iry, late today, ordered the appremsion
and detention of Wade Stevis,
son of the dead woman, pending
irther investigation.
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Nothing has been learned of the
ovements of young Stevens since
aesday night, when he is said to
ive announced his determination to
> to Chattanooga. It is stated that
rs. Stevens wished her son to reain
at home, and that she had sent
s clothes to a neighbor's house in
der to prevent his departure.
DeKalb county officers believe that
rs. Stevens and the girl were mur;red
and the house burned to con
:al the crime. Mrs Stevens was re- 9
>rted to have kept considerable I
ims of money in the house, and it is "
[Ought that the motive for the mur- =
jrs was robbery. The skull of Mrs. g
evens was crushed as though from ?
blow with some heaviy weapon. ;:i
ASKS DAMAGE OF $2,500. |
ne Atlanta Man Sues Another on g
Charge of Mayhem. fi
Atlanta, May 29.?Mayhem is an g
fense that seldom comes un in Geor- g
a Court procedure, but it figures in ?
$2,500 suit for damages brought ^
j O. M. Sutton against W. M. Henry. ?
lttori charges that his assailant attcked
him with an umbrella and
ied to DOke out his eyes with it. Jai
he Court paper is a lengthy one, and
ascribes in detal how Sutton nearly
st his eyes.
He charges that Henry jammed aft
im into a corner in a local office soi
iiilding corridor, and that after he hu
id him cornered, he began to delib- mi
ately aim at his eyes with the end 2 i
f the umbrella, jabbing and poking
iciously at his face. In addition to th
Ddily injuries, Sutton charges that en
enry ruined a $50 suit of clothes cn
>r him. an
She Was Wise.
A negro woman in Savannah was
reparing to get married, according
> the Chicago Record-Herald. For ?n
tie
>ur weeks before the ceremony she
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ived her wages ana immeaiaiei> *l- ^
;r the wedding she hunted up her
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listress and asked her to take charge j
f the fund.
"I'll take it, of course," said the
an
uzzled woman, "but Mandy, won't
ou need your money to spend on
our honeymoon?" ..
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"Mis' May," said the bride, "does
ou think I'se goin' to trust myse'f
id a strange niggah an' all dat mony
on me?" He
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and see what we really have. ||
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Branchville, May 30.?Yesterday 4(1 AAA l/fl IP CO f
:ernoon about 5 o'clock Jake Hud- vUlilUU fUlULWl
a, of Pickens county, was seriously J
rt at a mill of J.U. Watts', about a Many Ar. the Voice, ef Ban*.*
le from town, and died today about People -|o
clock. Thirty thousand voices?What a
He was caught in the main belt and jrand chorus! And that's the numrown
around the fly wheel of the her o?f American men and women who
gine. Both of his legs were broken, are publicly praising Doan's Kidney
e hand crushed, a gash in his head PiUs for relief from backache, kidney
d bruised in the back. bladder Ills. They say it to
, friends. They tell it in the home par
Caught in His Trap. pers. Bamberg people are in this ^
^horus. Here's a Bamberg case.
A student had been bragging of Mrs. R. A. Delk, E. Church St., Bams
various accomplishments, until berg, S. C., says: "I have been greatly x
e of the company, growing impa- benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills,
>nt said* " which I procured from the People's
"Now, we have beard quite enough D * stOTe- 1 t<x* a"
what you can do; just tell us what i*n ?aln? wither
' J removed trouble that existed with my
u can't do, and I'll undertake to do ^(jneya??
myself." Tiie ab07e statement must carry
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Amid the hilarity of the company ! Kidney Pills, the same that Mrs. Delk
e guest redeemed his rash promise. ^ad th? Temedy hacked by home tes Tit-Bits
timony. 50c all stores. Foster-MilM
bum Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
See those wire wall baskets at The "When Your Back is Lame?Re- ?
jrald Book Store. member the Name."
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