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WON'T HANG SAYS BURNS. Detective Declares He Knows Wlio Killed Mary Phagan. Chicago. April 3.?William J. Burns, the letective, declared late to-day that lie knew who murdered Mary Phagan. the Atlanta, Ga., girl, for whose death Leo M. Frank is un der sentence of deatn. \\ neuier the murderer is Frank or someone else, in his opinion. Burns would not say, but he intimated that from his investigations and comparing their results with the conclusions of the . coroner's jury that he did not consider Frank the sort of a man capable of making the attack on the girl r alleged to have preceded the mur\ der. Burns, on his arrival to-day .from Kansas City, related the story of his investigation. He said his- attention first bad been called to it by a young man from Atlanta, who was a passenger o" a steamer on which Burns was returning from Europe. The young man expressed his regret that Burns had not become interested in the case "before the arrest and conviction of Prank. Through him Burns read in newspapers of the trial, and concluded, from the accounts he saw, that Frank was guilty. Later, while he was in Key West, three citizens of Atlanta, including two personal friends of Frank, saw the detective and asked him to undertake an investigation of the case. Bums Takes Case. At first, Burns said, he refused, on grounds that if Frank were guilty his investigation and final conclusion to that effect could only hurt the defendant, while if the investigation tended to throw doubt of guilt on him, it might serve to thwart justice. Frank's friends declared that they believed he had not been given a J fair trial, that he was innocent of the crime, but that if guilty, they wanted indisputable evidence of his guilt. Burns then took the case. His investigations soon showed him, he said, first, that public clamor, after a "crime wave" had resulted in the police making extraordinary efforts to adduce "evidence tending to con* vict Frank," and second, that a re. port making out Frank a man of abnormal characteristics was commonS^J ly circulated through the city, putting the house open strongly against him. His inquiries then convinced Burns that Frank was a perfectly normal man. On the other hand, the testi} mony'of physicians was to the effect that the man who attacked Mary Phagan was abnormal. Then Bums interviewed many of the witnesses who testified' in the Iv case. At the conclusion of this phase Of his investigation he said he was convinced that he knew the murderer. No Mystery in Case. "There was no mystery about the murder of Mary Phagan," said Rums. "The tracks of the murderer were plain and there is no doubt as to his identity. "The whole story will be clear in & few days. I have made a complete report to Frank's attorneys in Atlanta and in a few days it will be given out. "I cannot anticipate my report, and, therefore, I cannot say more definitely than I have what the report will contain. The murderer of Mary Phagan is known to me and he can't get away." "I will say tat, in my opinion, Frank will not hang on April 17 for the murder of Mary Phagan. I believe the Supreme Court cannot ignore the evidence we have gathered." "Hparin? of an exraordinarv mo tion for a new trial in Frank's case is set for April 16, the day preceding that on which Frank is sentenced to die. HOMICIDE NEAR LEXINGTON. G. Levi Rish Shot to Death at School Closing. Lexington, April 4.?G. Levi Rish, a prominent farmer of Lexington county, was shot and instantly killed at Smith Branch School House, twenty miles south of this city, at 10 o'clock to-night. James Clark and Elliott Gantt, two well-known farmers, are accused of the crime, according to a message received here by Sheriff Miller at 11 o'clock. Details of the tragedy at this hour are meagre and hard to obtain because of the fact that there is but one telephone line to the community in which the shooting occurred. According to reports Rish, Clark and Gantt met at the school house wher^ there wasx'&n- entertainment in progress in connection with the closing of the )ol. The killing occurred just *Xk the building and seven or by tyi.*? . bv>ts are said to have been r \vr hrc G*.e bullet struck Rish in ther head, causing instant death. The deceased was a man of about 38 years of age and is survived by a wife and four children. Sheriff Miller and the coroner have left for the scene. FIXKKAL SHIP AKKIVKS. Bellaventure Beaches St. John With Victims of Arctic Storm. St. Johns, X. F.. April 4.?Amid silence like a funeral hush the sealing steamer Bellaventure steamed slowly up the harbor at dusk to-day. bearing sixty-nine of the dead and fifty of the crippled survivors of the disaster that overtook seal hunters from the steamer Xew Foundland 011 the ice floes near Belle Isle Straits in last Tuesday's blizzard. Thirteen of the living were removed to a hospital in a critical condition. Several others were seriously ill, and all but one of the remainder bore scars of their thirty-eight hours' exposure in the Arctic gale in which seventy-seven of their companions met death. This uninjured survivor was stricken blind after being picked up, but it is believed he will recover his sight. Five thousand persons, many of them relatives of the victims, had lined every vantage point along the harbor front all day, waiting for the Bellaventure's arrival and for some new6 of the missing sealer, Southern Cross, carrying 170 men. Not a word has been heard from the latter vessel since she was seen driving before the storm Tuesday morning. Hope aroused by reports that she had made harbor were dashed when investigation proved an error in identification had been made. There still is faith in many quarters that the Southern Cross weathered the blizzard. No wreckage has been reported. Caring for Wounded. In the absence of Governor Davidson and Premier Norris, the acting premier, .Mr. Bennett, directed the work of caring for the dead and wounded. Every physician and nurse in tne city volunteered for service. They were aided by squads from the naval reserve ship Calypso and various military organizations. The; new Grenfell Institute was turned into a morgue. The disaster which overtook the New Foundland's hunters was unavoidable. according to Capt. Randell. of the Bellaventure. Tuesday dawned somewhat overcast, but witn no hint of blizzard conditions, he said, so that it was quite permissible to put men on the ice after seals. The storm broke with typical Arctic suddenness. The hunters from the Bellaventure and the Florizel were fortunate enough to reach their ships safely. The Stephano's men, being near the Florizel, hurried on board her. The Stephano steamed towards the spot where her crew had been seen before the snow shut in. This took her away from the New Foundland's group, who were far from their own 6hip. As soon as the Stephano was notified by the Florizel's wireless of the safety of her men, she headed back into the storm to pick up the New Foundland's hunters. CouM Not See Ahead. It was impossible to see a ship's length ahe^d into the snow curtain, and when the Stephano's captain thought he was within a mile of the stranded hunters he lay to and kept his whistle going in the hope that they might be guided towards him. As hours passed and not a man reported he concluded all had reached their own ship. But the New J 1 J ^ ^ n'ir?Al aoc o n r? oil F OUIlUlctUU XldU nu nucicw, uuu that day and Wednesday, while the blizzard raged with unabated fury, the fleet remained in ignorance of the fate of the 150 men marooned on the floes. The main party of castaways were four miles away, over a broken field of ice. The Bellaventure was driven toward them with all possible speed, but so bad were ice conditions that it required nine hours to cover the four miles. In the meantime Capt. Randell's men had reached the castaways. Only a few of the hardiest were conscious and able to help themselves. Many were in a stupor. Some were raving, others had been stricken with ice blindness. Many bodies were found frozen so fast in the ice that pickaxes were necessary to chop them out. Two of the. survivors; were nearlv mad from their own sufferings and from grief. Each had watched a brother die. By good fortune thirty of the New Foundland's hunters, who had not strayed far from the vessel, had been able to reach their ship, else the death list undoubtedly would have been greater. In the meantime the Stephano had worked within striking distance and had picked up a few of the survivors and recovered a few bodies. After the snow-filled hollows had been searched for more bodies the Bellaventure turned her prow homeward. battling severe ice conditions and a second gale nearly all the way to port. Cape Charles. Va., March 22.?A large unindentified steamship which went ashore off the Smith's Island life-saving station to-day was floated later and is supposed to have proceeded undamaged. CLEMENCY SHOWN TO 1,176. Governor Overshoots Mark He Set in Pardoning. Columbia. April 4.?There have been 1,176 convicts who have received clemency at the hands of the governor since he was inaugurated for the first time on January 17, 1911. Of this number about three-fourths were released under paroles and the rest were given full pardons or had Uioir cpntpn^ps rnmmuted. These figures were compiled this morning from records in the office of R. M. McCown, Secretary of State. With nearly 1.200 to his credit, the governor seems to have beaten the mark he set for himself. At the annual conference of governors in Richmond, Va., in the falTof 1912 the governor, in boasting of his pardon record, which was over 400, said that he hoped to make the number 800 by the end of his second term. With a little less than a year of that second term gone the governor's pardoning record has reached nearly 1,200. There is much speculation being indulged in as to the effect the pardoning record is going to have on the governor's race for the United States senate. He stated after his re-election in 1912 that he was proud of his pardon record and that he considered the people had endorsed it by reelecting him over former Chief Justice Ira B. Jones. Since that time 600 more prisoners have been freed and there is every indication that the pardoning record will again be one of the main issues in the campaign for the United States senate this summer. Depopulating Prison. The governor is apparently carrying out his declaration that he would depopulate the State penitentiary by August 1. A great many prisoners have been sent back to the county chain gangs of the counties from which thev were sentenced and oth ers have been released under paroles and pardons. There are only 186 prisoners left in the penitentiary, of whom just 150 are men. There are in addition some 57 prisoners employed on the State farms, but is is stated that this is much less than the number necessary to work the farms and operations will have to be greatly curtailed. Should the governor carry out his intention to depopulate the penitentiary there will be no prisoners left to work on the State farms. Married at Branson. Brunson, April 3.?A marriage of much interest occurred here yesterday afternoon, when Miss Mildred Brunson, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus W. Brunson, became the bride of Dr. J. Perry Lamar Harrison. The church was beautifully decorated for the occasion and to the strains of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," rendered by Miss Iva Lee Brunson, the bridal party proceeded to the altar, where the Rev. Mr. Johnson, pastor of the bride, pronounced the solemn words that made this popular couple man and wife. During the ceremony Mr. R. W. Harrison, brother of the groom, sang "O, Promise Me." They left amid a shower of rice on the afternoon train for a short trip, after which they will be at home to their many friends in Hartsville, where Dr. Harrison enjoys an extensive practice. TAKES REVENGE IN BLOOD. Arkansas Youth Shoots Man Accused of Killing His Father. Blytheville, Ark., April 2.?T. H. Musgrove, wealthy planter, was shot to death near Blytheville late to-day, and to-night John Walker, a 16-yearold youth, whose father Musgrove was charged with having killed fifteen years ago, surrendered to the sheriff here to answer for the killing. Musgrove was tried on a charge of murder in connection with the killing of the elder Walker and acquitted. According to the authorities the youth asserts that he acted in selfdefence and that the shooting to-day was the culmination of an argument between Musgrove, another planter, and himself over the ownership of a stretch of timber land. Villa Buys South Carolina Cocks. Anderson. April 4.?S. J. Hester, of Hester Station, just south of this city, to-day shipped twelve extra fine fighting cocks to Gen. Villa, the Rebel leader in Mexico. The order from the general is the second that Mr. Hester has filled since Christmas, which goes to show that Villa is interested in more than one kind of fighting. Mr. Hester says that he has sold his cocks for $18 in Mexico, but the war has decreased the demand, and he was able to get only $6 each from Villa. In all, Villa has been shipped twenty-four cocks by Mr. Hester in the last three months. OFFICER PREVENTS WRECK. a Stops Runaway Freight Cars in Nick E of Time. I Spartanburg. April 2.?Policeman 8 Nash is receiving praise to-day for a the manner in whch he prevented E what might have been a serious ? wreck on the Charleston and Wes- 9 tern Carolina Railway. As he was 1 patrolling near the Crescent Knitting a Mills he observed fifteen runaway S f-rai arY,+ no re onnpnantlinpr Thov h ?? fl 9 1.1^1^111, VU1 O U^{/1 vuvitiu^i x ?*%* become detached from a train without being noticed and were running down a grade in the direction of a passenger train due in a few minutes. The runaway cars had gained considerable momentum and if they had crashed into the passenger train, the result would have been serious. Nash swung aboard the first car, climbed to the top and applied the brakes, stopping the cars before they had passed from their siding on to the main line. A few minutes later the passenger train rushed by. Pensions for Widows. Washington, April 1.?Pensions for widows and minor children of officers and privates who served in the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China would be authorized by a bill passed late to-day by the house, 276 to 76. The bill would grant $12 monthly to the widow of an honorably discharged soldier or sailor and '$2 monthly for each child under 16 years of age, provided the widow shall have married the soldier prior to the passage of the bill. The pen- S sions are to be limited, however, to a widows without means of support a other than their daily labor and an a actual net income not exceeding $250 ^ a year. 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