The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 12, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
SUICIDE IN THE UNDERWORLD.
Pfcetty Woman Who Posed Here as
Man's Wife Suicides in Florence.
The Florence Daily Times say6 a
nice looking and very young woman,
one of the colony on north
Dargan street, shot herself with
suicidal intent on Saturday night,
and is now being prepared for burial
fcy the generosity of those of her
associates on that street, according
to information from the
coroner's office.
I lie UlH.UI lUIia.Le ?UUUJ, n uiuau
was known in Florence by the name
of Myrtly Paterson, but the chief
of police and coroner are doing their
beat to find her real name.
From information in the possesion
of the coroner the woman came
here from Dillon about four weeks
ago, she had been living there as
the wife of a man at the hotel.
The coroner thinks that he has
? a definite assurance that the young
woman is the daughter of a lawyer
and farmer at Albany, Ga. He is
'n
trying to get in communication with
lier people now,
The woman before she died said
to OSfic 7 A. L. Powell and to Dr.
... w
il. M. Alien, who was called to attend
her, that she had fired the
dhot with suicidal intent, that she
wanted to die.
The case is a very pitiable one
and would make a heart of stone
bleed.
She is to be buried in this city
pending the inquiry into her parentage
and the wishes of the family.
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JURY FREES WOODWARD.
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Returns Verdict in Trial Lasting
i Three Days at Walterboro.
1 ) Walterboro, March 7.?At 11.40
?"clock this morning the jury in the
case of the State against C. L. Woodward,
indicted for murder, brought
in a verdict of not guilty.
This trial was started here Wednesday
and finished only to-day. It
was one of the hardest fought cases
ever tried in the court of Colleton
/ county, an able array of attorneys
appearing on each side.
The killing for which Woodward
was tried occurred at Tabernacle
cfcurch, in the upper portion of this
county, last July. Haley, the deceased,
and Woodward were both
citizens of Bamberg county. Over
one hundred witnesses were sumv
znoned for the trial and about fifty of
these gave testimony. It was brought
kout in the trial that hard feeling
had existed between the 'parties for a
long period of time, and that at the
time of the killing Haley was out on
bond, pending trial in Bamberg on a
serious charge.
Prior to this prosecution Wood\
ward it was stated had gone to the
A house of Haley and shot him with a
, load of buckshot, placing four in his
. arm, and that another wrent through
ho hmisp and struck the* sister of
Haley. The defence alleged a series
of threats against the life of Woodward
by Haley, extending over a
period of approximately twelve
months, and attempted to show that
at the time Woodward shot Haley,
>t Haley was attempting to shoot Woodward.
A bullet during the difficulty
** struck a lady, who was standing
v
i _ nearby, causing a painful, but minor
wound. It was the theory of the de
fence that this bullet was from the
pistol of Haley and not from Woodward,
in that several witnesses testified
that, from the position of the
parties, Woodward could not have
shot the lady. The State, however,
put up several witnesses to testify
that Haley was not armed, did not
have a pistol, and that Woodward
had shot him from the back.
An interesting portion of the tes
timony was tne conuicuug upimuus
given by the two physicians who
made the post-mortem ex a mm nation,
one of them leaning to the conclusion
that all of the bullets entered from
the rear while the other was of the
opinion that one entered from the
front.
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TRIED TO HANG CELL MATE.
Georgia Negro's Life Saved by Rope
Breaking.
Atlanta, Ga., March 7.?George
and William Hart, of the trio of negroes
sentenced to be hanged for the
murder of Mrs. Seth Irby, near Loui6ville,
Ga., early to-day tried to execute
their cell mate, Robert Paschael,
r at the county jail here, according to
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the latter s siaiemeiu, wmui mc
county officials believe. Paschael also
is under death sentence for the
; murder, the date of the triple execution
being March 21. Paschael told
the jailers that the Hart brothers
tried to hang him because he refused
to take the full burden of the crime
upon himself, exonerating them. He
said the two negroes tied a rope
around his neck and hanged him tc
the cell door, but that the rope broke,
saving his life. Jail officials said the
negro's neck plainly showed the
marks of the rope. He was transferred
to another cell.
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NO CLUE TO TRAIN ROBBERY.
Southern Officials and Police Work- ^
ing on Bandit Case.
Columbia, March 6.?A full day's
search for the bandit, who last night (
robbed the mail car on the Southern 1
Railway Train No. 11, just as it was *
entering Columbia, has resulted in no *
developments. The Columbia police, <
the sheriff's deputies and special *
agents are at work on the case. *
The amount of booty secured by 1
the robber is not yet known. Postal ^
officials say that no estimate of the 1
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vaiue or rne regiswjreu man sluicu
can be obtained for the present. Tliey
point out that until the department
has traced every missing letter can
the exact amount be known. Tracers
are now out. They are unable even
to approximate the amount.
The robber looted the mail car last
night just as the train was entering
the Columbia city limits and made his
escape before it reached the union
station.
Got on at Royster?
Train No. 11, of the Southern Railway,
which was robbed by a masked
bandit as it was nearing the Union
station in Columbia Thursday night,
was in charge of Capt. Charles A.
Speissegger, of Charleston, as conductor.
Capt. Speissegger said yesterday
that he knew little or nothing
of the robbery, except when a report
of it was made to him. after it Had
occurred. ,
He says the bandit, in his opinion, (
entered the mail car from a platform, j
while the train was at a standstill at (
Royster, a station two miles out of <
Columbia. "It was about 10.25 whenj.
we stopped at Royster," he said, }
"and when I went to register I no- j
ticed a man walking toward the ten- (
der of the engine, but didn't think
anything of it, as this is not an unusual
occurrence. After we started, t
going slowly, I left the emergency j
brakes applied, but then released. <
At first I thought that probably we t
had met with an accident. But when
the train did not stop I did not give it j
another thought. When we got into f
the station the baggagemaster told
me that my train had been robbed, j
He said that some one had held up j
the mail clerk and had taken the ]
packages, but no pouches. I investi- j
gated and found the story to be j
true." c
C . E. Thomas, the riiail clerk, j
said Capt. Speissegger told him that (
the masked robber told him to face j
the wall, and that if he turned around (
he would blow his brains out, as he <
pointed an ugly looking weapon at
his face. . ? ,
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The robber tried to get into the t
train from the door into the express j
car, which was next to the tender,
but found it locked. The mail car ?
was a combination mail and baggage ,
car.
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CHARGE AGAINST CREECH.
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Representative Accused of Giving J
Worthless Checks.
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Columbia, March 6.?Norman C. 1
Creech, member of the Barnwell dele- <
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gation in the lower house of the general
assembly, when brought before
Magistrate Fowles to-day. charged '
with uttering worthless checks on {
banks of Blackville and Rock Hill,
procured his release by pleading the
constitutional immunity of a legislator
during the sessions of the assem- <
bly and during the ten days preceding
and then ten days following the ;
session. The warrant and the checks 1
in question are held by the court <
pending developments. The checks, j
one for $4, the other for $4.50, it i
was charged, were cashed at a drug ,
store in Columbia. ,
SMALL BOY FALLS TO DEATH. (
Son of Greenville Man Takes Fatal
l*ro[> of Twenty Feet.
Greenville, March 4.?Playing with
other children on the second floor
of a dwelling house under course of
construction here, little Frank Howell,
the three-year-old son of Henry
G. Howell, of this city, fell twenty
feet or more to the floor below and
was killed almost instantaneously.
The child's head struck the sharp
sills, crushing his skull and mutilating
his features to such an extent
even his father hardly recognized
him. The tot was the pet of the
neighborhood. His mother was ill
at the time and is now prostrate.
Mauldin is Examiner.
Columbia, March 9.?Ivy M. Mauli
din, cashier of the Pickens bank of
Pickens was yesterday appointed by
the governor as State bank examiner.
> Mr. Mauldin was appointed for a
. term of four years and succeeds B. J.
t Rhame, who was appointed by Gov.
( Ansel in January of 1910, to fill out
i the unexpired term of Giles L. Wil>
son, who was named as a national
, bank examiner.
t It is expected that the appointment
i will take effect some time in April.
- Mr. Rhame said yesterday that he
had no definite plane for the future.
MAY MEET EXPECTATIONS.
Income Tax Law Kids Fair to Produce
$50,000,000.
Washington, March 6.?The in- *
:ome tax law bids fair to live up to *
:he expectations of the administra:ion
by producing about $50,000,000
mnually in revenue paid by close to .
125,000 individuals. Although j
:reasury officials decided to-night not \
:o make public for the present the t
eports of international revenue col*
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eciors on me income ia.A, n. uctaiuc
mown that more than 400,000 indi- *
riduals had made returns in the six- ^
;y-three collection districts up to ^
Monday midnight, when the time
imit expired. From these individ- c
ials it was understood that the gov- (
jrnment probably would collect more t
:han $40,000,000. ?
It has been the opinion among J
officials that thousands of individuals j
vould take advantage of the thirty i
lays' extension of time granted in <3
;ases of absence and sickness, and
;hey expect the fine.: figures to show
it least 25,000 more reporting than ivere
given in the preliminary lists l
'rom collectors. If they are not mis- J
;aken in this view the actual results
vili be close to the estimate made at
;he time the legislation was before
longress.
Train Robbed Near Columbia.
Columbia, March 5.?A bandit to- i
light robbed the mail car of South- 4
jrn Railway train No. 11, Charleston
;o Columbia, just as the train reachid
Columbia. The robber entered as
:he train slowed up at the city limits,
md covering the mail clerk with a
evolver, secured several sacks confining
registered mail and jumped
>ff the train.
No arrests haVe been made.
The robber did not molest the let- *
:er mail, going through the mail care?ully
while he forced the clerk to
stand with his face to the wall of
:he car.
C. T. Thomas, <n charge of the I
nail car, reported the robbery when
:he train reached the Union station.
The robber, Thomas said, entered
:he car as the train slowed up at the 1
irst street crossing inside the city
imits. The clerk was under the impression
that the man boarded the
:rain when it stopped at Royster,. a
station about three miles from Co- 2
umbia where the Atlantic Coast Line
irosses the Southern, and timed his i
novements carefully, entering the I
par just in time to escape before the *
:rain reached the station. *
The man was masked and the only j
description the postal clerk could
?ive to-night was that he was about
ive feet, eight inches tall.
The bandit seemed very nervous, (
Thomas said, but went about his 2
vork with neatness and dispatch. J
Two years ago Southern Railway
:rain No. 14 was robbed at the same *
place, the hour and the circum- "
itances of the robbery being exactly
:he same as those of to-night's holdup.
The obber who held up the
:rain two years ago made good his
sscape. His booty was not consiaeraole.
Postal officials to-night said it was
'i possible to estimate the value of
:he package taken.
Legislature Adjourns.
Columbia, .March 6.?Speaker
Smith of the house announced at
1.25 this morning that the house was
adjourned sine die. At this hour
the senate is still in executive session
considering appointments. It
is rumored that the senate is held
up over the appointment of Dr. Babcock.
but this rumor could not be
confirmed.
The usual rousing songs and
cheers accompanied the adjournment
of the house. A rising vote of thanks
was given X. O. Pyles, postmaster of
the house. Mr. Pyles made a short
speech.
Mrs. Virginia Moody, new librarian,
was also tendered a rising vote
of thanks.
A vote of thanks was also tendered
the negro porters who have
served during the session of legislature.
The house then adjourned.
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Both Houses Act Quickly on Veto by
Governor.
Columbia, March 6.?Voting almost
continuously at the morning,
afternoon and night sessions yester
day, the'house last night at 10(. 10
o'clock finished consideration of the,
general appropriation bill and sent j
the measure to tne senate. au oms
and resolutions on the calendar were
continued at the morning session.
At midnight last night the general ,
appropriation bill, having passed
through both the house and the senate.
became law. The senate overrode
every veto which had been overridden
by the house, except as to the
item of $4,000 for the rent of 22
offices, to be occupied by State offi- ;
cials in the Union National bank
building. The veto on this item was
sustained by the senate.
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