The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 18, 1913, Page 7, Image 7
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1 COMMITTEE'S STRAXtJK REQUEST
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Asks Sheriff to Let Them Lynch
Xegro and (iets Turned Down.
Anderson. December 12.?Between
fifty and seventy-five men gathered
on Church street near the county jail
t to-night at $.30 o'clock, while three
of them went to the jail door and
made demand on Sheriff Ashley for j
Will White, the negro who stabbed J
to death Ollie Kinard in the Orr
Mills village this afternoon. The
three men. who were recognized by
the sheriff, when he answered the
* alarm at the door, told the sheriff, it
is said, they had come for White;
that he, Sheriff Ashley, could make
a big "bluff" to convince the public
that he tried to save the negro from
them and that the crowd could then
take the negro.
Sheriff Ashley replied very forci|
bly, it is said, saying that there is
\w not any "bluff" in him, that he has
sworn to protect the prisoners, and
that he intended doing so with all his
might. He told them, further, that
they wouldn't get the negro unless
they did so over his dead body.
Threatened to Return.
The three men withdrew, one of
them remarking that they would be
back later to-night.
i The crowd dispersed soon after. It
is rumored here at 10 o'clock that a
crowd has gathered just South of the
city, but the sheriff and his deputies
do not give the story any credence.
The sheriff has the jail well barricaded,
having called in four of his
deputies and two of the city policemen.
They are well fortified.
* Instantly Killed.
Ollie Kinard, a white man employed
in the frame room of the Orr cotton
mills, was stabbed to death late
to-day by Will White, a negro employed
in the picker room of the
same mill. Death was instantaneous.
Testimony adduced at the inquest
* is to the effect that Kinard had been
drinking, and that he. in company
with two friends, met White and
asked him to accompany them to the
$ woods. Kinard teased the negro until
the negro became angry and without
any warning, it is alleged, drew
his knife and stabbed Kinard to the
heart. White ran off but was captured
and is in the county jail. The
officers do not anticipate any trouble
although the homicide attracted large
1 crowds to the scene and a fair-sized
crowd appeared near the jail when
the negro was brought in.
The Orr mills did not run to-day,
power being cut off on account of the
destruction of the Portman power
plant, this being the reason why opi
eratives were out.
HOMICIDE NEAR AIKEN.
Negro Held on Charge of Killing
* White Man.
Aiken, December 14.?Early this
morning Rural Policeman Holley
<_ brought to Aiken Daniel Berry, colored,
charged with the killing of a
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wmte man Dy cne name ui .umua
Elmurray. The killing occurred on
Beech Island last night.
It seems that a wagon load of darkies
wewe returning from Augusta,
all said to be in a drunken condition.
McElmurrav was along. Berry and
McElmurray got into a fuss, it is said
The negro, it is claimed, struck the
white man over the head twice with
... an iron pipe, crushing his skull.
McElmurray lay down in the wagon
then and was put out at Dobson's
store, where he soon died.
There are two other stories about
the killing. Berry says McElmurray
and a policeman got into a fight
in the city of Augusta and the policeman
struck him over the head with
his stick and he died from this lick.
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Others in the wagon say McElmurray
insulted Berry's wife and this brought
on the fight between Berry and McElmurray,
and that Berry was the one
lvVip prnshprl tllP lattpr's skull.
Coroner Spradley held an inquest
late Saturday night and the jury held
* Berry, v/ho is now charged with the
crime.
SEEK TRAIN ROBBERS.
Detectives Suspect Them of Causing
Lake Shore Wreck.
Cleveland, O., December 13.?Train
robbers to-night are suspected of
responsibility for the derailing last
night of passenger train No. 16, Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad,
- at Wickliffe, IS miles east of here.
'Acting on this theory, a score of detectives,
aided by bloodhounds, followed
trails this afternoon and tonight
that possibly will read to arrest
to-morrow. It is thought that the
heavy load"of registered mail led to
the attempted robbery. The theory
{ that the derailment was caused in an j
attempt to kill Alfred H. Smith, new- j
ly elected president of the New York i
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It is regarded as impossible that any j
one could have known of his presence |
cn the train.
The nicest line of Xmas books ever
shown in Bamberg now on display at
v Herald Book Store.
RESULT OF SICILIAN FEUD.
Italian in Cliicago Called to Door ant
Murdered.
Chicago, December 14.?Mike La
porta was called to the door of hi:
home to the South Side Italian quar
ter earl;- to-day by cries of "Hurry
your brother is dying." A momern
later he was struggling with thre(
men, who left him dead with 20 stal
wounds in the body.
Antonio Laporta, the brother, cam<
home soon after the police arrived
He said he knew who had killec
Mike, but when questioned about the
identity of the assassin, he replied:
"It is my affair; I will find them.'
Laporta said the murder was the re
suit of a Sicilian feud of 20 years
duration. "My brother was not th<
first; he will not be the last," La
porta added.
Valuable Violin.
When Fiddler Bobo lays his rougl
cheek against the warped sides of tin
violin and slowly draw the bov
across the strings, there is a farawaj
light in his blue eyes as if he coir
jured up pictures of 300 years ago.
Perhaps he is thinking of the da;
when the Stradivarius on his arn
came across the seas, packed away it
the hold of a merchantman of th<
seventeenth century; perhaps In
catches a glimpse of the many gooc
fiddlers who have played the Strac
in the years that have passed since
then; perhaps he is only conjecturing
whether he will next play "Turkej
in the Straw" or "Old Blind Fool.'
Fiddler Bobo sat in the Journa
office and while his knotted fingers
slowly caressed the cracked sides o:
the Stradivarius, told its history, as
it had come down to him in legend
and story of three centuries.
"I have had the Strad seventeen
years," he said. "And before that il
came down from generation to generation
of Backesters. It cost me
$10. I once had agreed to sell il
for $4,000."
And yet the Stradivarius is only a
piece of wood, seamed and scratched
along its sides, white with rosin at the
bridge, a blackish-brown on the rest
of its surface. A piece of wood worth
thousands of dollars.
"I have been a fiddler all of my
life," said Mr. Bobo. "From the
time I was fifteen years old and was
playing at country dances until today;
My fathers were fiddlers before
me, and my sons are fiddlers
too. In 1896 Frank Back ester and 1
were knockins around in Colorado
playing together. In Durango he
went broke. He came to me and offered
to sell me liis violin. His was
old and black, but I didn't know
what kind it was. And I had a good
one already. So I told him that l
didn't want it, but that I would let
him pawn it with me for $10. And
that'e how I got the the Strad.
"It was not long after that in
Christone that I and the Strad both
were almost drowned in a waterspout.
It was that storm that
wrecked the town and washed the
name out of the old fiddle.
"So in 1904 I wrote to Frank
Backester from my home in McCarthey,
Ohio, and asked him what kind
of violin this was. He told me that
it was made in 1672 in England,
was brought over to this country by
a Backester and from generation tc
generation had been handed down in
the Backester family. He got this
information from Frank Gray, of St.
Louis, who patched the old violin
forty years ago. Gray -told him it
was a genuine Strad.
"Now 1 know of but two other
Strads in existence. One was sold
by a lady in New* York to a musical
college for $6,000; the other was
cnl.-l onnthov 14A ft V To i* HpnVPf
musical college for $3,500. I have
heard that the Denver fiddle came
over from England at the same time
this one did.
"I nearly parted with my Strad
last fall a year ago. A gentleman in
Philadelphi offered to buy it from
me for $4,000. I made the deal in
September and was to hand it over
to him in November. He died in
October."
Mr. Bobo is in Atlanta for the winter.
staying with his son, Jasper
Bobo, general foreman for Jones
Bros. & Co. He is ready and willing
to show the Stradivarius to all
who wish to see it.
He can play anything they want to
hear, from a sailor's horn-pipe to
grand opera.
"If there's any fiddier in Atlanta
thinks he can beat me, let him come
on." said .Mr. Bobo. "I don't know a
note, but I've been playing at fiddlers'
conventions for fifty years and
I reckon 1 can shake a little music
yet out of this old Strad."?Atlanta
Journal.
Both Duellists Killed.
Arcadia, La., December 14.?D. A.
Rogers, town marshal, and Thomas
Cethey. shot and killed each other in
a revolver duel in a drug store here
late last night. The marshal had
warned Cathey to go home and approached
him to make an arrest.
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For further particulars, schedules, reserva- g
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Ask the Boy Who Won .
how he raised the Blue Ribbon ear.
In Boys' Clubs all over the country the prizes are going to the
boy who uses the right fertilizer. That means enough
POTASH
> to make a solid, well filled, and perfectly shaped ear.
_i Use 200 to 500 pounds Kainit per acre to balance either
s Vr* r\ green or stable manure and be sure that the fertilizer you
J V- use contains 8 to 10 per cent Potash.
Ask your dealer to carry goods of that grade. If he
1 \ doesn't we will sell you any amount of Potash, from one
200 ^ UP' anc* y?u can ac^ yourself.
CHILLS AND FEVfB ?^IS^F II1HNSPN1
i i /%n <\ ivi %/ p p i/ p n 30 years op success a| i j
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LODGE MEETING. PIP F lNIQITP ANP
Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights * 1I\J-* lllOUIX/'lllV/
of Pythias meets first and . fourth
Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visit- Qld Line Companies
ing brethren cordially invited. ^
GEO. F. HAIR. _
Chancellor Commander. I k Kill K A at
A. M. DENBOW, F# AS1,
Keeper of Records and Seal. bamberg, S. C.
COLDS & LaGRIPPE JOHN D. HADWIN
5 or 6 dotes 660 will break watchmaker and jewele
. any case of Chills & Fever, Colds Fine Railroad and Complicated I
., & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver pairing a specialty.
.! better than Calomel and does not 35 Years Experience
Stipe or sicken. Price 25c. Denmark, s. c.
FOR SALE ! FRANCIS F. CARR0L1
I Attorney-at-Law
7?> acres of land, 3 miles of Olar, |
GO acres under cultivation, with 4- j Office in Hoffman Building
room house, barn and stables, loi ; rFWR i t pp a PTTn?
. eight hundred and fifty dollars cash, j GENERAL PRACTICE.
1 ! A real bargain for some one. Only ! BAMBERG, S. C.
: reason for selling at tliis price owner *
> living awav from the State. Apply I 25 head well broke mules for si
i I to H. M. GRAHAM or J. T. O'NEAL, j by J. M. DANNELLY & CO., El
I Bamberg, S. C. hardt. Weight 1,000 lbs. and up,-*
Xmas cards at Herald Book Store. Read the Herald, $1.50 a year.
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| I FOR SAU
f. I A beautiful home, situated on
& g and containing 1% acre lot, with 2
a 1 dwelling, with large closets and ha
? I fine water; smoke house 16x18; la
k I stables; fruit trees and shrubbery;
| I in fine condition. Will go at a barg;
| I See me at once, as the time is limite
I I J. T. O'NEAL,
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! AUTOMOBILES 4
? For Sale, $125 up. Let 'jJh
c me know your require- ||Sj^
& ments in used Autos
? and I can get a machine to suit you. ft
< Prompt Attention to Repair Work
Patrick's Garage, Bamberg, S. C. j
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for sale. Weight
H pounds and up.
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gj. M. DAMLLY
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NOTICE! AUTO 0
We haveopened a Wholes
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H will carry a full line, o
Specialties and Supplies,
connection with above, v
an up-to-date Vulcanizinj
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^ Commencing December 1st
cotton only on Tuesdays,
p Saturdays. Parties interestc
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