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BANDITS HOT BIG KAl'L.
SEVERAL A II BESTS IX ALABAMA
TKAIX BOBBED Y.
Men Held at Eutaw and Tuscaloosa
l>e3iy All Connection with Daring
Hold un.
Tuscaloose, Ala., Sept. 26.?Deputies
from Birmingham and Montgomery
and armed farmers of Tuscaloosa
county have abandoned the
search for the three men who held
up and robbed the express car of the
Alabama Great Southern train near
Bibbville, Ala., last night, and the
case is now entirely in the hands of
the railroad special officers. Five
men have been arrested at Eutaw,
Ala., below Tuscaloosa, none of whom
is over 30 years old. and five others
have been landed in the Tuscaloosa
county jail by Special Agent Hall.
All of these men deny connection
with the hold-up.
Mail Clerk Leander Poole to-night
said:
"The robbery was committed by
three masked men, only one of whom
appeared to me to be at all experienced.
The other two were young and
nervous. One of them did considerable
promiscuous shooting and cursing
in the mail car. Bullets passing
through the mail car narrowly missed
four men. I am confident the robbers
doing the shooting were drunk,
while crouched under the counter I
had the presence of mind to save a
few registered letters.
Dynamited Safe.
"The last charge of dynamite that
blew the express safe was very heavy.
It jarred us. one hundred yards away.
They had modern appliances equipped
with lights that threw rays so
that they could see us but we could
not see them. As they were marching
us back to the passenger coaches
I fell into a cattle guard and sprained
my ankle. One robber warned us of
the cattle guard just as I fell.
"The fireman stated the' robbers
got off with mail sacks full of booty.
My impression is they left the car
before we reached Vance, letting the
engine run wild to throw the posses
off the trail. I believe I can identify
the robber who did the shooting and
cursing. I got a good look at him.
The smaller robber, who guarded the
rear end of the express car, seemed
experienced. The express messenger
* had no chance to defend himself."
Covered with Revolvers.
According to statements of the
train crew, Engineer Daniels and his
fireman were covered with revolvers
when the train was stopped on the
block danger signal at Bibbville. Fireman
was forced to uncouple the express,
mail and baggage cars, and
they were run down the track some
distance from the passenger coaches.
There the mail clerks and express
messenger were driven from trie
ears and the safes blown open with
nitro-glycerine. After the robbery
the three men jumped upon the engine,
forcing +he fireman to open the
throttle. They forced the fireman
i to jump from the engine a short dis*
tance from Bibbville.
C. C. Jinks, who was a passenger,
says the conductor notified all the
passengers of the hold-up and advised
them to hide their valuables. The
coaches were not entered. A negro
porter engaged in a hand to hand
tussle with a robber, but was struck
on the head by another of the gang.
Late to-night conferences were held
by Sheriff Palmer, his deputies engaged
in the chase, railroad detectives,
express company officials private
detectives and detectives from
national agencies. It is estimated that
fifty thousand dollars were stolen, incfuding
a heavy shipment cf currency
from the East to New Orleans.
Car Badly Damaged.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 26.?The
entire train that was held up at Bibbville
last night was taken to-day to
Meridian, Miss., the southern terminus
of the division. The baggage
car had a large hole torn through the
roof by the explosions, which blew
the safes and the mail car showed
bullet holes.
The negro porter, who last night
was removing a velocipede usually
used to flag trains, when ordered to
halt by one of the robbers, pushed
the pistol away from his face and
grappled with the highwayman,
throwing him and holding him securely
until another masked man stepped
up and hit him over the head. The
negro then ran under the baggage
car.
MOTH EH ANI) BABE BURNED.
Found J)ea<l in Celiac of Home De
stroyed in Forest Fires.
Napa, Cal., Sept. 24.?Mrs. M.
Hutchinson and her infant son, of
Foss Valley, were found dead today
in the cellar of the Hutchinson home,
which was destroyed by a forest fire.
The forest fire broke out again today
in Connecticut Valley, near St.
Helene, and is still burning. The
property loss in this vicinity exceeds
$100,000.
TO CONSIDER FREIGHT RATES.
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Xoith Carolina Legislatu. ? Convene
in Extraordinary Session.
| Raieigh. X. C.. Sept. 24.?Th
j Xorth Carolina Legislature convenei
in extraordinary session to-day t
consider proposals made by severa
railroads tor readjustment of freigh
rates to and from Western. Xorthen
and Eastern cities. After effectin
organization, both houses adjournei
until to-morrow, when Governo
Graig's message on the propose
rare ohanees will be received.
At a mass meeting of shippers thi
afternoon Governor Craig declare
himself in favor of accepting th
roads' proposals. He said such
recommendation will be incorporate
in his special message to-morrow.
Reductions amounting, it is esti
mated, to approximately two millio
dollars annually in freight rates fror
Northern, Eastern and Western citie
have been proposed by the carrier*
Commodity rates on west-boun
freight have also been offered. Ac
ceptance of the proposals has bee
recommended by the State corpors
tion commission. A lively contest i
expected in the Legislature.
At its opening session to-day th
House of Representatives electe
Walter Murphy, Speaker.
Hurt in Fight With Constables.
Anderson. Sept. 25.?A telephon
message from Pelzer at 9 o'clock tc
night states that John Sargent,
white man, suffered a crushed skul
at the hands of Constable Allie Step
of the sheriff's office and Constabl
Smith of Pelzer this afternoon whe:
he resisted a search of his premise
by the officers. It is understood tha
Stepp and Smith appeared at Sat
gent's home to malie a search fo
w
contraband whiskey and Sargent se
cured a gun and offered resistance
j The gun was taken by the officer
and in the melee that followed a bio*
v. as dealt Sargent. His condition i
critical, so it is stated.
It is said that the officers found 6'
j pints of whiskey on the premises.
Constable Stepp reported the mat
i ter to Sheriff Ashley and Ashley an<
Stepp went back to Pelzer tonight.
Schoolboy Drowned in Reservoir.
Union. Sept. 25.?Little Amo,
Singleton, the seven-year-old son o
Mrs. Pearl Singleton, met a tragi'
death late Tuesday afternoon b:
drowning in the reservoir of the gin
nery at Santuck.
It appears that the boy was re
turning from school with some com
j panions when he left them and wen
I alone by the ginnery reservoir, when
j he apparently looked over into th<
j water and losing his balance fell ii
| and drowned in the water which was
j four or five feet deep.
For several hours Mrs. Singletoi
i thought that her little son was ou
j playing with his schoolmates, bu
j when night approached and he die
| not return she became so alarmec
j that a search was instituted, anc
when the boy's cap was found neai
the reservoir it was not long before
his body was seen and recovered.
Mrs. Singleton's sorrow has excit
ed for her much sympathy, as thii
tragic affair adds another to the lis'
that marks her life, her father beinj
Sims Gilmore, who was shot and in
stantly killed at Jonesville about si?
*ears ago. and her husband, Roy Sin
gleton, having been killed by beins
struck by a derrick engine when he
was working on the dam at Grea
Falls about three years ago.
Little Amos was a bright lad ant
I
besides his mother he leaves a^ little
brother and sister.
(Greenville .Man Under Heavy Bond
Greenville, Sept. 24?Benjamin F
Chapman, charged with violating th<
Mann white slave act, having trans
ported a Greenville woman from this
place to Augusta, Ga., for immora
purposes, was given a preliminar;
hearing in Augusta and placed undei
$1,500 bond for his appearance a
the next term of the United State
coart when he will be tried on th<
Federal charge. The preliminar;
hearing was given before Unite<
States Commissioner C. J. Skinner
Jr., Mr. Sidney Smith, white slav<
officer for Augusta, arguing the cas<
for the United States.
Deila Dixon, the white womai
from this city, whom Chapman i
charged with transporting to Augus
ta, was present at the hearing. Judgi
Picquet finished reading tlie affec
tionate letters which passed betweei
Chapman and Delia Dixon, pnd tliei
made an eloquent plea for the dis
misal of the charges against Chap
man.
The Dixon woman is said to havi
lived at Xo. 11 First street, thi
city, and she claims to have beei
born in Pickens county. A full stor;
of the case was carried in yesterday'
issue of The News and caused con
siderabie comment, ine outcome o
the case is awaited with interest.
Full line of blank books at Th<
Herald Book Store.
KITTEN BY MAI) DOG. if
s Lady and Physician Attacked by j
Animal in Spartanburg.
e Spartanburg', Sept. '! >.?Miss Bar-;
3 ' bara Brown was attacked and bitten j
o! by a dog on .Magnolia street yesterday \
11 evening. Dr. M. \V. Chambers, of j
t1 Jonesville, tried to drive the dog j
a I away and was bitten also. There
^ * li o ctront ortH !
gi were 111<111 \ ycuyitr wjll w c?.~^ .
d I the incident caused excitement. The
r! dog's actions led to the report that it
d was suffering from hydrophobia and
there was a rush^o places of safety,
s Somebody called a policeman, who
d killed the dog.
e Miss Brown and Dr. Chambers
a were taken to Dr. B. B. Steedly's
d hospital, where their wounds were
dressed. If the dog did not have hyi
drophobia the lacerations which it
n inflicted will soon heal. The dog's
n bead was sent to Columbia for exams
ination. If it develops that the animal
was rabid Miss Brown and Dr.
d Chambers will take the Pasteur treat- i
ment.
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^ Lazy Husbands Go to Kockpile.
3 Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24.?Nursing
hands decorated with large water
e blisters and backs that ached after a
d long day under a blazing sun on the
county rock pile, six recalcitrant husbands,
who, according to their wives,
are possessed of a chronic objection to
work, sat in their cells in the county
^ prison Friday night muttering curses
on Judge Bregy. From the bench of
^ the Desertion court Judge Bregy sent
them to the rock pile for ninety days,
with orders that the 65 cents a dav
e
that the county pays for their labor
be given to their wives. The men had
s
t been ordered on previous occasions to
, pay various sums to their wives each
week, but had failed to obev the orr
- * .i *
ueis 01 me uwun.
All six of the men had hands white
and soft as women when they went to
s
t lie workhouse. On the way they
seemed to regard the whole performance
in the light of a joke They
laughed and chatted about it. But
their mirth did not last long. Bright
and early in the morning they were
, roused out of bed to a breakfast of
3
coffee, butterless bread and molasses.
Then a big guard led them to a piie
of brand new sledge hammers especially
bought for the occasion. It seems
ed to the guard that a couple of the
f husbands were a little slow in picking
c up their hammers. He gave them a
i heart to heart talk and illustrated his
- remarks with forcible gestures. After
that the hesitancy disappeared. j|
Out through the jail the men were [j
- marched to a pile of big rocks. There t
they halted.
1 "Gwan!" said the gu&rd. "This is
2 for you. Get busy and make these /
i big ones into little ones. And remem5
ber this: The county is paying 6a
cents a day for what you're going to
i do? and I'm here to see that we get
t all of 65 cents' worth of work done?
t and then some. Go to it, now?and
1 the first man I catch loafing will wish
1 he hadn't. Get me?"
I The husbands evidently underr
stood. Each picked out a particular
5 spot and began to wield his sledge
hammer. While they didn't display
- any undue enthusiasm about it, they
s kept at it steadily.
t The sending of these six husbands
y to the rock pile was the first practi
cal application of a new law designed
c especially to meet the cases of hus
bands who won't give any money to
y their wives. Under the old law men
? were sometimes sent to jail, but they
t did not mind much. Besides, the
mere fact of having them in jail did
1 not help the wives from a financial
> standpoint.
Judge Bregy threatened to enforce
the new law about a week ago.
Can Trove Her Charges.
Atlanta, Sept. 25.?Do Atlanta so5
ciety girls get drunk? Shorn of eu
phonious qualifying phrases that's
5 the bold question that has been raised
1 by a recent Christian Citizenship
y meeting. Has aroused a storm of
r indignation and denial? You bet it
t has.
s Mrs. G. B. Lindsey of College Park
2 secretary of the Civic League of
y America, who said in a speech here
i that "many society girls are carried
, drunk from fashionable cafes and
a elnhs." has todav reiterated the truth
b of her statement.
The ladies who first said that Mrs.
i Lindsey was mistaken, now declare
s she is a slanderer. They say Mrs.
- Lindsey has never been in any of
b the fashionable clubs whose morals
- she denounces, and that she has simi
ply repeated slanderous stories that
.1 have no foundation in fact.
I
But Mrs. Lindsey declares that she
- based her statement on absolute and
inoontestible evidence and that if she
s | is pushed to it she will produce proof
s! to back up her assertions.
.1! Mrs. Lindsey wants it to be undery
| stood however, that she it not trys'
ing to indict Atlanta society as a
- j whole or Atlanta society girls as a
f I class. She insists, however, that
j some of them drink straight whiskey
j and get drunk on it. She says they ^
e I also swear, gamble and smoke cigarettes.
Pap Tnwr
JL \J M. til V A V/ TV 1
We have receiv
HORSES A
an extra nice load
as usual, we an
was the first loa
county this seas(
to see them, eve
needing an anim
can suit you. Th
up to the Jones \
quality and styl<
an extra nice lot
Buggies, Carri
Harness, Lap Ri
We have a number of
Harness, and feel sure
requirements, 110 matte
We have the styles a
Come to see us. Yot
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JONES B1
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I invite the attention
customers and the pu
Saturday, the 4th
and contir
Tnno/I 117 (UlU
lUGOuajr, i/tiuuu
.1 will offer my entire
cept Groceries) at
have a large stock of
GENERAL MERCHANT
Which 1 intend to sel
? 1?- ?t M/l
iiveiy nu guuud uiai g
all, you will be met a
my store headquarter
I have to make roor
arrive later. This is
do your early fall s]
forget the date. ^
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EHRHARDT, SO
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~~~ " ? B {
Ae Season
i and County |*
ed a car load of J
ND MULES
I, by the way, and, 31
s ahead, for this
d received in this
)n. We want you
n if you are not
al just now. We
esefully measure
ligh standard for
We also have
of
iages, Wagons, ^
obes, Whips, Etc
styles in Buggies and J
that we can meet your |
r how exacting they are. I j
nd the prices are right. 11 {MM
i are always welcome. j
ROTHERS 1
- - SOUTH CAROLINA ||
L JL 1VIIVV
of all my friends and
blic generally that on
of October, 1913
* 0
luing until
the 14th, 1913
s stock of goods (ex
J L_1 i. i i
ana oeiuw cum. a
USE m FDRMIDRE ji
11 off for cash. Posi- J
ed. Come one, come ||
nd waited on. Make
s during these 10 days,
n for goods that will
; a chance for you to
hopping. Now don't
Jery truly, j
NNeLLYI !
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