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(Ehf Bambrrg Ifrralbj _ i ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. ' i ? Published every Thursday in Thei Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam- j berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by i electric power with other material ; and machinery in keeping, the whole j equipment representing an invest- j ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, j 50 cents. Ail suDscripuons payauie strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions. cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, July 10,1913 We thought the parcels post system was a good thing until this c. o. d. attachment went into effect. Now we are agin it. The Columbia State says four aces beat four kings, "if we be correctly informed.'" Just as if Billy Ball don't know one thing about the na lional game. We are publishing in this issue a speech delivered by Senator John L. McLaurin at Elloree on the fourth of July. When the Senator speaks at any time he has something interesting to say, but in view of the fact that he is viewed with suspicion as having gubernatorial aspirations his public utterances at this time will have a peculiar interest for the voters. It will be noted that the Senator seems to advocate woman suffrage, while his discussion of the labor question and the currency problem is timely. The speech is a good one, and is well worth a careful reading. That the members of the Press Association are as honorable an agl gregation as ever assembled none can dispute, but for the life of Mike, we cannot understand the cause of inviting Norman Hapgood to deliver the annual address, when it is recalled that a few years ago he wilfully and wantonly made a tirade upon the womanhood of the South. We have never heard of his recanting and until he does, he justly belongs to those unworthy of consideration or esteem. None but who themselves are false hearted cowards and lowbred miscreants would allow such statements to come from their head or pen. Notwithstanding the fact that he was wined and dined.?Lexington Enterprise. Train Robbery in Mississippi. Memphis, Tenn., July 4.?Four bandits held up southbound passenger train No. 1 on the Illinois Central railroad, south of Batesville, Miss., early today, awed the train and locomotive crews with weapons, blew open the safe in the express car and ransacked the mail packages and then escaped. None of the passengers were molested because the bandits compelled the locomotive crew to detach the mail, express and baggage cars and run them some distance from the passenger coaches. After they had finished their work in the mail car the robbers ran the locomotive to Enid, Miss., and fled to the open country. Bloodhounds were placed on their trail, and a few hours after the robbery a big posse was in pursuit. Passengers on the train awoke in surprise this morning to find their coaches still standing on the main line of the track, where they were abandoned when the bandits detached the mail and express cars. Express officials here say the robbers did not secure over $5,000. Four charges of dynamite were used and the explosions blew out one side of the express car and completely demolished the safe. The bandits carried away 50 pieces of registered mail. Train Xo. 1 usually carries a heavy mail from Chicago and St Louis to New Orleans, but post office officials stated the mail was light on this run. After the dead engine was found at Pope, 15 miles from where the pas senger cars had oeen cur on, me train was reassembled and the line re-opened to traffic. It was found that the robbers had cut the telephone lines. AIKEN PRISONER WOUNDED. Shot by Chain Gang Guard while ? Trying to Escape, Alleged. Aiken, July 1.?Anderson Permenter, colored, who is serving a 25-dav r sentence on chaingang No. 1, was i brought to the city this afternoon t desperately wounded. Permenter, it ? is alleged, tried to make his escape t aiiu w ao oiiui. This gang is working just this side ^ of Bath, and it is stated that about 1 c o'clock Permenter went to the guard i and told him he was going to leave r the camp, and immediately he tried c to make his escape. Guard Powell gave chase to him, but Guard Frank Sorgee, seeing that the negro was c about to make his escape, opened % fire with a gun loaded with buckshot, c Permenter fell with two shot through I his body, one penetrating his lungs f and another going into his abdomen, t The wounded negro was brought to i Aiken this afternoon and is being I given medical treatment. Permenter was sent up by Magis- t trate Coley, of Windsor, on June 23, a for violation of contract, being sen- ^ tenced to $25 or 25 days. He is rec- t ognized as a bad character and there are several other charges pending t against him. s m f The Dispensary Election. 1 f Editor The Bamberg Herald: Will a you kindly permit a citizen of Col- e leton, one who lives very close to the Bamberg line, to offer a word of t solemn protest against the re-estab- s lishment of the dispensary in Bam- j berg county? The pro-dispensary f \ people of Colleton and Hampton have t failed in their efforts to call an elec- s tion on the qestion. But Bamberg is t a close neighbor, and should her ( citizens vote ior tne re-esiaunsumcui. o of this iniquitious institution it would i doubtless prove a curse to that part f of Colleton's territory which lies near c that of Bamberg. We have learned r to think well of Bamberg county. Will f she imperil the weak of a sister t county? We are exposed but we can- t not vote. Surely j'our good citizens L will consider this appeal. We can deal successfully with the "blind r tigers" in our own territory, but if I you legalize it and put a dispensary d on the border of your county near us c we are powerless to deal with it. It would prove a curse to us and to you. But some one may argue that we should have allowed the dispensary to have been re-established in our own county. The answer to that argument may be stated thus: we will not have a rattlesnake in our own v house for the reason that some un- ^ wise or vicious neighbor may see fit . to keep one in his. We have protect- . ed ourselves as far as we could, and now it is but right that you be asked t to remember us and protect us when ^ you go to vote. It ought to be safe to assume that . d the good people of Bamberg will put up a strong fight against the institu- . b tion. They have the courage and the ability and so need no admonition from me. May God help the good people of your county to fight it to the last ditch and win the victory. _ J. C. LAWSON, n Lodge, S. C., July 3, 1913. GIRL MAKES ESCAPE. Aided by Chauffeur, Pretty Italian Balks Abductors. _______ s Youngstown, Ohio, July 3.?With 1 her clothes torn and her face ccratch- e ed, Lena Guairioro, 17, a pretty Italian girl of Leetonia, Ohio, reached her home late today after escaping t! from five men who tred to abduct ? her. y Edwin M. Gergal. the chauffeur n who was forced to drive the automo- h bile in which the girl was carried off, n aided the girl to escape. When the kidnappers approached d Youngstown, four of the men became n frightened and got out. Gergal and the girl overpowered the other man, who is said to have been a rejected ~ suitor, and threw him out of the machine. On reaching this city, Gergal put the girl on a car for home. Police ^ are searching the country for the five men. ? ?? Psalm of Advertising. p s Tell me not in mournful numbers c Advertising is a dream, p For the business man who slumbers p Has no chance to skim the cream. v Life is real! Life is earnest! Competition's something fierce; If for dividends thou yearnest, Learn the parry, thrust and tierce. * o In the business field of battle a Mollycoddles have no place; v Be not like dumb, driven cattle? d Be a live one in the race! I f Lives of great men all remind us ^ We can bring the bacon home, And. departing, leave behind us ? Footprints on somebody's dome! Let us, then, be up and doing, a Otherwise we may be done; ^ Still achieving, still pursuing, Advertise and get the mon' ! v VETERANS FIGHT. several Wounded when Veteran Re sented Remarks About Lincoln. Gettysburg, Pa., July 2.?Sever nen were stabbed tonight in a fighl n the dining room of the Gettys>urg hotel as a result of a fight which ;tarted when several men aroused he anger of a veteran in blue b> Lbusing Lincoln. Several of the rrmnrtpri men are in a serious con lition at the Pennsylvania hos>ital. The State constabulary art naking efforts to find the men who lid the stabbing. The wounded men are: Edward J. Carroll, sergeant of the luartermaster's corps, U. S. A., Dadd Farber of Butler, Pa., membei >f the State constabulary; John D daugin, Harrisburg; Malcolm Grifin of Bedford City, Pa., Charles Suser, West Fairview, Pa., Hayder Rans Becker, Gettysburg and Harry A loot, Jr., Harrisburg. Faber, Maugin and Griffin are in he most serious condition. Surgeons it the Pennsylvania State hospital vould not venture predictions as tc heir chance of recovery. According to all the information he authorities could gather the fight itarted suddenly and was over in a ew minutes. It began shortly before o'clock when the dining room was ull of people and caused a panic imong the scores of guests. The vetiran who was unhurt and disappear;d in the melee was sitting near Fa>er and Carroll, when he heard the lighting remarks about Lincoln. He umped to his feet and began to deend the war president and berated lis detractors. The men who were tabbed, according to the information he surgeons gathered, jumped to the iefense of the veteran when the 'thers closed in. The room was thrown nfrt on nnrnar Tt was all nvpr hp ore the rest of the men in the roopa ould get their breath and the men esponsible for it all had fled. The ight spurred the medical men again onight in an effort to have the Getysburg saloons closed during the reaainder of the celebration. The constabulary later arrested a nan who gave the name of W. R. lenry and said his home was in Camlen, N. J., as one of the men conerned in the affray. PLEADS GUILTY, FIXED $20. "onjig Man Caused some Excitement at Lexington Barbecue. Lexington, July 8.?Taking offence ;ecause, it is said, the young lady rhom he carried to the barbecue at Gilbert took a liking to another oung man with whom she took a hort stroll, Joe Rose, it is alleged, roceeded to raise a "rough house" at he Fourth of July barbecue at Gilert on Friday, swore vengeance gainst the young man, threatening eath and destruction to him on the pot. Sheriff Miller, who happened to e on the ground, took hold of the ituation, arrested Rose and carried iim before Magistrate Ioor Hayes. roung Rose pleaded guilty to the harge, asked for the mercy of the !ourt, whereupon the magistrate imosed a fine of $20, took possession f the weapon and Rose left promisng to be good forever afterwards. The Kind that "Oughter." Raymond, according to a recent tory, had been playing hard all day. n fact, he was so sleepy that he wantd to omit saying his prayers. "But dear," his mother remonstra9d, "you must be a good boy and hank God for all His goodness to ou. Just think what a nice time ou've had all day, playing, and relember all the other little boys who ave no nice home or nice clothes ot lother to love them." Raymond's eyes opened a little rowsilv, and out of his relaxed louth came this protest: "But, mother, I think them's the ellers that oughter do the prayin'!" -Chicago Record-Herald. i>iri?nT AT RDGEPIELD BURNS. outhern Station Destroyed with Considerable Freight. Johnston. July 4.? The Southern Labway depot at Edgefield was detroved b> fire this morning. The fire >riginated on the interior of the uilding and it is thought was caused v rats. A large quantity of freight ias lost. Injured by Dynamite Blast Spartanburg. July 8.?Claude Wilard foreman of a construction gang >n the Greenville, Spartanburg and tnderson Railway, near Saxon Mills, was painfully injured last night by a [ynamite blast. The shortness of the use prevented his getting to a safe [istance before the explosion came, dr. Willard has been removed to the Ipartanburg Hospital.. Edward Jackson, a negro, was shot nd killed early Sunday morning by Villie Hayes, another negro, on Dr. Veeklev's place near Ulmer, Barnwell, county. SHOT AT THE PRISONER. ' . Uncle of Assaulted Girl Tries to Kill Accused in Court. t Tampa, July 3.?Just as County : Judge E. V. Whitaker adjourned ] - court Wednesday in the preliminary : l hearing of W. E. Maddox, a white I man who is accused of criminal as- ' r sault upon the person of Hazel Oliver, i a 13-year-old girl, E. E. Green, of i Sylvania, Ga., an uncle of the girl - and who was attending the hearing, 1 ; drew a revolver and fired three shots ' ) at Maddox. All three shots went ; wild and Orpp.n was disarmed hv a court deputy before he could get the ; ? range on his intended victim. Green . was placed in jail. 1 The first shot fired by the infuri- . . ated man struck the ceiling. The . second punctured a lawbook, thethird ] . splintered the top of Judge Whita- ( . ker's desk. , Maddox was seated between his counsel, former Supreme Court jus- , i tice C. B. Parkhill and Municipal ; Judge H. P. Bailey. As the first shot [ was fired Judge Whitaker dodged bei hind his safe door, Judge Parkhill leaped out a window, Judge Bailey [ and the prisoner dived beneath the . ; magistrate's desk. Green was about , i to fire at the prostrate man when the i deputy sheriff grabbed him. s The hearing had just been post; pored becuse the main witness, the . girl, had not been produced. And 1 . there was some question as to wheth- 1 . er she was within the boundary of the i State, it being alleged that Maddox's ; wife had taken her to Georgia. ^ Left Eye Shot Out. < 5 Mr. Isidore Ussery, a young man ] L 21 years of age, will lose his left eye i ' as a result of being shot with a rifle 3 5 in the hands of one of his compan- ? 1 ions with whom he was shooting fish : ' near his home in Elko, S. C., Satur 1 day morning. . ] 1 The story of young Ussery is that ! he, together with several of his , 1 friends, was out fishing, and they < ' were shooting fish with their rifles. ' He says that he had shot and wounded a fish of extraordinary size, and 1 1 had jumped into the water to capture , it when his companions evidently be' came excited at the thought that the ' fish would get away, and shot at it i again. , The shot struck young Ussery in i the left temple, passed through his 1 j left eye, and made its exit just below ] the right cheek bone. The attend- < ing physician attributes the consci- , ? ousness of the young man to the fact j - that the ball, which was of 38-caliber ; from a rifle, never touched the brain. ] An operation was performed upon l the young man Monday morning, i , His condition is not considered dan- ] ; gerous, but the wound is necessarily painful. : NEGRO LYNCHED IN FLORIDA. J Florida Posse Shoots Man Who Killed ' Sheriff of Clay County. Jacksonville, July 6.?Sheriff T. S. Cherry, of Clay County, Florida, adjoining this, Duval County, was ( shot and killed by Roscoe Smith, a negro, at Yellow River this morning, * the negro later being captured and 1 lynched by a mob of infuriated citi- ( zens. 1 Sheriff Cherry, hearing that gambling was going on at Stuart and Har . rison's turpentine still at Yellow ( :? f/\r> + V> o + nni n f o _ ] XVIVtJl j SIdl ICU 1U1 tuai jk/viuby uvwu* panied by one of his deputies. As * he reached there he met the negro, Smith, who, armed with a shot gun, ' was walking down the road. Sheriff ] Cherry hailed the negro and asked: * "What are you doing with that gun, .wait a minute I want to see jou." 1 The negro made some reply and ? the sheriff left his buggy and started ? toward the negro. As he neared 1 Smith the latter took aim and fired, 1 the load entering the sheriff's side s and killing him instantly. The dep- 1 uty, who was armed with a revolver, * started in pursuit of the negro, but J his revolver failed to fire. As the * news of the tragedy spread, a posse was formed and fully one hundred ( * 1 1 1 A? K1 /\ A/1 men, neaaea Dy a pacit ul uiuuuhounds from Highlands, started in pursuit of the negro, who was finally 1 captured. He was taken back to the ' scene of his crime and commanded to ' take a walk down the road. As he 1 started, fully one hundred guns and ^ revolvers were fired at him, the bul- 1 lets riddling his body. The angary ] mob then surged around the dead negro and his ears were cut off for souvenirs. ' Sheriff Cherry was one of Florida's 1 most popular officers and was well ! known in this city, where he spent 1 much time. Reports from the scene 1 of the crime to-night are that everything is quiet, but the negroes, fear- 1 ing further trouble, are keeping with- ^ in doors. "Booze Everywhere" in the head- 1 ; ing of an article in The Bamberg 1 ' Herald this week. Probably that it < , was the way it appeared to Knight : after getting away from the dry Isle of Palms.?Greenville Piedmont. i / CAPTURE OF EDWARD COFFEY. Detective Tells How Chance Meeting in Barber Shop Led to Arrest. I never knew a more desperate and puzzling criminal than Edward Coffey. He was a lawbreaker because he was moved by impulses that he could not control, or at least he apparently made no effort to respond to the efforts that were made by his friends to make an honest man of him. I had known him as a boy, and in later ^ears I made earnest efforts to direct him towards a law-abiding career. But all in vain. Coffey's parents were most respectable and his home influences were of a kind that should have stimulated him to honesty; but long before he had finished his grammar school course, he had committed so many offenses that the police reluctantly marked him as a lad bent on o life of crime. Eddie Coffey became notorious even in Pittsburg, where there was no lack of reckless and hardened criminals, un one occasion wnen ne .vas brought before a local magistrate, the judge remarked that he never had met a lad who showed such obstinate opposition to the kindly efforts to reform him. "If you do not change your ways," said the magistrate, "you are bound to end your life on the gallows and that very soon." This warning was indeed prophetic, and very nearly came true. Coffey had a taste for neatness, even elegance.' He was noted for the Gne clothes he wore. Eddie was a bookworm, too; his knowlege of literature was unusual. But he could not seem to combine his criminal instincts with the prudence and cunning which often act as a safeguard for the person who makes a livelihood by violating the law. It was not long before Coffey showed his reckless daring in a way that astonished the city where he was so well known. In company with a crook known as "Three-Fingered Jack," Eddie dashed into Workingmen's Bank in Allegheny City, just across the river from his home, and seized a huge roll of bills from the counter in front of the astonished cashier. The latter snatched a revolver and pursued the desperadoes, firing at Coffey as he ran. Coffey halted in his flight and shot at the intrepid cashier, but did not hit him. The robbers ran along Chestnut and Ohio streets and jumped into a skiff that they had provided for a getaway. Being powerful oarsmen they made their escape despite the hail of bul-1 lets. But immediately a red-hot pursuit began. The robbery was the| most daring ever committed in Pitts- j burg, and Coffey and his pal made away with thousands of dollars. The entire police force and all the private detective agencies practically drop- j ped everything to take up the chase. A score of people, as they rushed to escape the fusilade, recognized sne of the fugitives. "Why, that was Eddie" Coffey!" :hey gasped. They were astonished :hat the lad should commit such a desperate crime where everybody was sound to know him. As I had known Coffey for so many rears, I was assigned at once to the ;ase. "Get him, no matter how long tou go without sleep, no matter how :ar you follow. But get him." It is an axiom as old as life itself ?as old as the art of catching criminals?that the first thing to do to ind a hidden man is to discover the woman with whom he is in love. That was my first care. I was for:unate enough to locate the home of i girl who was known to have fascinited Coffey. Unseen by her, a close vatch was kept on her every movenent. An espionage was set up of so ;ecret but thorough a kind that every nessage that she received, every let:er that came through the mail, first passed through the hands of a detec:ive. At last came a clue, faint and indefinite, but it was a clue. A letter was received by the girl that bore a Chicago postmark. There was no time to find out the contents of it. I did not dare to arouse the suspicions Df the young woman. It was enough | to know that Coffey was in Chicago, j because that letter was addressed in J the handwriting of the much-wanted fugitive. So off I rushed to the western city. [ made up my mind to make a search Df Chicago in secret. I knew well that if I notified the police there such a hue and cry would be raised that Coffey's friends would help him to make off again. I realized that it wasn't the easiest task to take Coffey single-handed. He bad told his pals before embarking on his desperate adventure that he would not be taken alive. He in- j variably carried a gun and knew how j ~ j* u,'/. nKntrirtnc ronnrrl cVimv IU use It. XJ.ID JJICIIUUJ n/vv.u uuv > ?d that he was afraid of neither man tior God! Fortunately, I was unknown to the underworld in those days. I was able -r* . _ ' - ' - I V to visit all the haunts of the crooks without being recognized as a sleuth. But a week went by and I could find no trace of my quarry. I was beginning to feel nervous, and blamed myself for not taking a chance and finding out the contents of that letter. But I was soon reassured. A letter came from my cheif bearing the good news that the young woman who was * still under watch had received another communication from Coffey, and that also was postmarked Chicago. Still I was baffled. Two weeks A elapsed, and it began to look as if I would have to return to Pittsburg empty handed. There was no trace of Coffey. Then happened one of the most unusual and thrilling experiences of my life. I was reclining in a barber'schair in a Wabash-avenue shop. It is certainly true that I was very down in the mouth. The barber had covered my face with lather and was strop- ^ ping his razor when I happened to W raise up slightly and glance in the mirror. To my dying day I shall never forget what I saw in the glass. Coming down the steps into the shop, hardly six or seven feet away from my chair, was Edward Coffey. I had to use all my wits in a twink! ling. To have jumped up and tried to capture him would have been suicidal. Coffey would have fired before i I could have drawn my revolver. I realized that in an instant, and I sank back to my reclining position. All j the chairs in the shop were occupied, ! and the head barber motioned to Coffey to sit down and await his turn. j The lather on my face would keep Coffey from recognizing me. My shave was finished. But when I would be obliged to stand I knew it was only a question of who woutd >- - x- .e? ?j. ? j ufc! auitJ lu lire iiisl auu buuui an aigui,- y est. ' f But I formed a plan swiftly. While the barber was busy with his razor I managed to transfer my revolver ' <Q| I from my hip pocket to my right-hand I side pocket. Then I whispered to him. "See that man over there?" I said, ( describing the robber. "Call him , ^ . over. He's a friend of mine." \Coffey was off his guard. The barber motioned to him and he walked slowly toward my chair. It took only " a moment, but it seemed like hours. At last he was standing by my chair. In the wink of an eye I had whipped out my gun and pressed it against his stomach. "Coffey, I've got you," I cried. "If you don't put up your hands you're a dead man." % "Roger O'Mara!" he cried. He was petrified with astonishment. In. another second I had slipped the nippers on him and had him secure. 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