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> One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1914. Established 1891.
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STATE CANDIDATES SPEAK
CHAIRMAN FOLK DENOUNCES
THE GOVERNOR.
All Candidates Given a Respectful
Hearing.?Meeting Decidedly
Anti-BJease.
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Y? 1 kU 11, V/. *
ing, the campaign meeting for seekers
after State offices was opened here
Wedne8L*.y morning at 10:30 with
prayer by Rev. W. H. Hodges, pastor
of Trinit* Methodist church, who
prayed hat the candidates rememb?r
that thiy wer^ neighbors and that
they be mindful of the golden rule
and temperate in their language, ,
At no time was there any evidence
of a desire on the part of the crowd
whch numbered poesibly 600, to be
boisterous, and each candidate was
given an attentive hearing.
A distinct departure from the usual
conduct of such meetings was the
reading of a statement by Chairman
, Folk, in which he denounced the con
duct of the governor at the senatorial
meeting here On the 29th of
June, when, in answer to questions
from Mr. Folk, the governor
tore up and spat upon a copy of a
telegram, which was handed him by
the chairman and included in the
questions propounded. The statement
^ follows:
Statement by Mr. Folk.
"I want to thank those of this audience
who were present at the senatorial
campaign meeting for the
splendid order that, under the circumstances,
was maintained and for giving
each speaker an attentive hearing.
"I commend you especially because
; had I realized, as many of you did,
what happened, I would not have
remained silent as you did, and the
governor, notwithstanding the presence
of his armed body guard, would
have apologized then and there or he
would not have spoken from our
platform that day.
s "My unfortunate physical disability?blindness
in one eye?prevented
or, rather, spared me from witnessing
v the disgraceful spectacle of the governor
of our proud old State tearing
up and, as an insult to the Democratic
party, of which I am the head in
this county, spitting upon a paper
containing pertinent and legitimate
questions propounded in the name or
the Democracy of Bamberg county,
by the chairman of this meeting.
"Such an act cannot be justified or
approved of even by his most blinded
and partisan followers and was
but a spontaneous portrayal, by himself,
of his ill-breeding and the lowness
and dirtiness of his character.
It would be ugly in the extreme coming
from the ignorant lackey
boy around a third-class livery stable,
where the governor probably
learned his code of manners, but utterly
unpardonable coming as it did
from the governor of a proud State.
"This insult was primarily aimed
f at me, no doubt, but it was no less
an insult to every Democrat of the
county, for, by virtue' of your votes,
I am the head and spokesman of our
party, and an insult to me as your
county chairman, is an insult to every
Democrat in the county, and should
be resented as such.
"But why did not the governor answer
the Questions? They were sim
pie, pertinent and legitimate and
read as follows:
Telegram.
*' 'In the primary you swore to
support the nominees of theparty.
I supported you as the nominee
for governor. Are you support^
ii^g me as the nominee for master?
If not, why not? Answer.
(Signed) <"H. C. FOLK.'
Question.
" 'Is a man who violates his oath
at the ballot box a fit person to senr
to the linited States senate?'
"These were the questions. Why
did he not answer them? Surely he
did not find himself in a hole from
which he could not extricate himself
by foul, if not fair means!
"But it is a fact that he did not
answer, and by his failure to do so
r has he not admitted that he perjured
himself at the ballot box? Has he
not admitted that one Vho perjured
himself at the ballot box is unfit to
be sent to the United States senate?
These are the legitimate conclusions
to be drawn from his actions and by
them he stands self-convicted of the
charges preferred. *
"Why then does he not retire from
r the race?
"Oh! he says he stands as the
friend of the poor man!
"He has fooled us twice and he
thinks he can fool us again. His
record shows that he stands as tne
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EXPOSED SECRETS OF NATION? I
Magazine Men Accused of Revealing
Panama Points. S
San Francisco, July 10.?Warrants
for arrest of Charles K. Field, g
editor of the Sunset Magazine, Robert
J. Fowler, an aviator, Riley A. Scott,
a writer, and Ray. A. Dupem, a
photographer, were issued today
at the request of District Attorney
John W. Preston. The charge .
against all four is the disclosure of
military secrete. The penalty is ten
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years' imprisonment or a fine of $10,000.
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In April the Sunset published an
article, "Can the Panama Canal be e
Destroyed From the Air?" 0
Reproductions of photographs tak- ^
en from an aeroplane and showing ^
some of the fortifications of the ca- 1
tho Son Frflnriano S
Presidio accompany the text. As c
soon as a copy of the number was
called to the attention of the war de- c
partment it requested Preston to in- a
vestigate. c
Field, Fowler, Dupem and Scott '
were served with the warrants and h
taken before United States Commis- c
sioner Francis Krull. They were re- E
leased on their own recognizance. e
At a special session of the Federal P
grand jury tomorrow the -govern- f
ment will present its evidence and P
ask for indictments.
The editorial comment of the magazine
on one of the photographs
against which the war department t
nflrtirnlarlv comDlained was as fol
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lows:
"This is one of the most signifi- ^
cant photographs ever published in v
this country. Below the aeroplane
from which the picture was taken lie
the Nao6 islands, in the Bay of Panama,
on which the United States govn
ernment is mounting batteries of the j
heaviest artillery in the world, to
protect the Pacific approach to the ^
Panama canal.
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"On the island, almost directly under
the aeroplane, can be seen the
emplacement for the most powerful
weapon ever constructed, the first ^
16-inch disappearing gun, which has g
an effective range of about 12 miles.
"Here is the significance of the ^
photograph: The aeroplane might
have come in time of war from a bat- ^
tleship out of range of the big gun, .j
flying a safe height and carrying
500 pounds of high explosive instead
of a camera. Would not the big gun n
be helpless against such a foe?"
The editors described the circ'umo
stance in which the photograph was .
taken and who took it, adding:
"Shortly afterward President Wil- n
son issued an executive order forbidding
such flights under heavy penalty. ^
The photographs made on this flight ^
probably are the only pictures that ev.
,, , n a
er will be taken or tne canai irom i ^
the air except for purposes of war. j
LEPROSY AT GEORGETOWN
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Patienl Hafe Been Isolated by Health s
Officers s
A well-defined case of leprosy is ii
under observation at Georgetown.
The patient, a Georgetown negro, has t
been isolated by the county health o
officials and is under observation. n
Information concerning the case b
was obtained today from the office of t
the State beard of health. Dr. F. A. d
Coward, of the State board, is already o
on the way to Georgetown, to ex- a
amine the patient and make official v
disposition of the suspect.
PHARMACISTS IN SESSION. ?
Of Twenty-seven Applicants Fourteen
Pass Examination. ^
Greenville, July 14.?The South ^
Carolina State Pharmacists are in j
session at CiiicK springs. ;uonaay t
and Tuesday the State board of ex- b
aminers gave the test to twenty-seven
applicants, the following being
successful: O. Z. Hicks, J. P. Sim- j
mons, G. F. Bigley, J. M. Rhame, C. j.
E. Harris. C. H. Legrand, S. B. Bri- ^
son, C. L. Stover, C. H. Milton, J. P. t
Halford, P. L. Brannon, W. P. Gillan. j,
L. Roy Cates and R. A. Williams. .
XEW RECORD FOR ALTITUDE. V
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Heinrich Oelerich, German Aviator, t
Soars 4.75 Miles. c
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Lepsic, July 14.?A new world's
record for altitude for an aeroplane t
was established here to-day by Hein- y
rich Oelerich. a German aviator, who ]
rose in his biplane 7,500 metres, or i
approximately 24,606 feet, nearly a
four and three-quarter miles. v
The official world's record, 6,600 v
metres, or approximately 21,654 e
feet, had been established only on r
July 9, at Johannisthal by Otto Lin- ]nekegel,
another German aviator. . r
See H. H. Hill for prices on c
melons.?adv. c
N THE PALMETTO STAT!
OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU!
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
itate News Boiled Down for Qoicl
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
By a vote of 70 to 6 at an electioi
ield last week Walterboro voted t
ssue bonds in the amount of $30,
00 for the purpose of establisbini
rater works and sewerage for tha
own.
While preparing to attend the fun
ral of Mrs. Medora R. Duncan, wid
w of Bishop W. W. Duncan, at Spar
anburg Monday afternoon, Mahilli
Valker, an aged negro servant o
he Duncan family, dropped dead
he was deeply attached to Mrs. Dun
an. ,
L. D. Jennings and W. P. Pollock
andidates for the United States sen
te, at Abbeville Tuesday emphati
ally denied the charge that the:
-'ere in the race for the purpose o
elping to elect Senator Smith. Thi
harge was made by the YorkvilT
Inquirer. Mr. Jennings called on th<
ditor of the Enquirer to produce tb
" -Viortro r\T retract It nf
I UUi U1 tV* *vv?t?v? ..r w.
ering to withdraw from the race i
roven.
Cotton Grading in the South.
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We must never let up on this cot
on grading question until the farm
rs get into a position to get th
eal worth of their grades above mid
ling, and in a position also toikno^
. hether or not the b\iyer is righ
;hen he claims that a grade is be
ow middling.
Only a few days ago one of th<
lost thoughtful agricultural leader
a the South said to the writer: "
m pnnvincprt that cotton buvers ge
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alf of the increased prices that th
aills pay for grades above ordinar
uality." In oth.er words, under ou
resent system half of the hard-earn
d wealth the farmer creates in qual
ty of staple is confiscated by buy
rs instead of going to the growers
eedy wives and children. Ou
riend then gave us an illustratioi
I was in a cotton buyer's office las
all," he said, "when a farmer cam'
a with a few bales to sell. Ordi
ary cotton was going at 12c am
fraction, but the buyer told the far
aer that as these bales were of su
erior staple he would pay 14 cents
r two cents extra per pound. Am
hen Mr. Buyer told me that the cot
on was really worth 18 cents o
early 6 cents extra on the pound.'
In other words, on eaca (rOO-poum
ale the buyer made $20 clear profi
y two minutes' sharp practice o
bout one-third as much as the far
ler and his family had made throug!
. year of weary toiling and plannin;
?breaking the land in winter's cold
reparing, fertilizing, planting ii
pring; hoeing and cultivating unde
ummer's suns and laboriously pick
ag the crop in the fall. /
How long will free people submi
o such a system? How long wi]
ur cotton growers be content to b
aere laborers, surrendering all th
usiness side of farming to alien in
erests? "Who makes himself a wore
aust not complain if he is troddei
n." If cotton farmers shut their eye
nd invite buyers to do their worsl
/hat may they expect?
It is true of scores of markets al
ver the South that there is no rea
ompetition among the buyers. Th
/riter has himself witnessed the pri
ate signaling by means of whic!
uyers would "divide the spoils," a
he farmer's cotton comes into sight
luyer A makes his bid and Buyer
}, C, D, and E do not interfere^ fo
hey will take their turns with late
ales. And with such a system it i
Iways possible for the shrewd buy
r to get the farmer's cotton fo
such less than its real worth. W
now, of course, that many hones
uyers will not take advantage o
he weak, but it is not fair for th
aborer to be thrown bound and help
ess before whomsoever wishes t
lunder him. And it is not fair t
onest cotton buyers for them to hav
o compete with dishonest ones whei
onditions give such an advantag
o dishonesty.
Well, then. .Mr. Farmer, let us pu
his question squarely up to you "D
ou know that cotton will be proper
y graded on your market this fall?
fnd if not, what are you going to d
bout it? Take up the subject i]
our county farmers' union. Or i
ou have n't a county union, or oth
r farmers' organization, just re
nember that this is only one of
lundred problems affecting the far
ners' welfare which can be solve
>nly through organization and cc
iperation. Talk it over with you
[J GUNTER TO SUCCEED TATE.
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Head of Rock Hill Schools Rural
3 School Supervisor.
Columbia, July 14.?Superintendt
Lueco Gunter, of Rock Hill, has been
appointed State supervisor of rural
schools, to succeed Prof. W. K. Tate,
who resigned some time ago to accept
the chair of rural life in George
1 Peabody College for Teachers, Nash0
ville, Tenn. The acceptance of Mr.
Gunter means much to the country
5 schools of the State, said J. E. Sweart
ingen, State Superintendent of Education,
in discussing the appointment.
" Mr. Gunter is a native of Aiken
' county. He graduated from the
State University in 1900. Since that
1 time he has *^en actively engaged in
* teaching and in superintending. For
the past three years he has acted as
" superintendent of the public schools
of Rock Hill.
' FEEDING A LINER.
y Food and Drink Bill for One Comf
pany $6,519,000 Last Year,
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e The tdtal bill for food and drink
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0 01 tne ^iorin uerman juiuju iur tuc
e fiscal year amounted to the enormous
- sum of $6,519,000, as against $5,f
125,000 during the preceding year,
according to the official report just
made public by Oelrichs & Co., general
agents of the company.
The stokers shoveled into the
ships' furnaces 1,791,013 tons of coal
worth $7,768,868. During the pree
ceding year the ships consumed 1,743,016
ton6 of coal, valued at $7,v'
581,370.
' For these two items alone, coal
and provisions, the North German
Llody spent during the year $14,e
287,868, a large part of which fell
8 into the coffers of Uncle Sam v;hile
1 a great Dart of the remainder went
* to the Germans. All of the coal for
e the east-bound steamers is purchased
y in this country and the same is true
r of provisions.
For fresh meat alone during the
year the North German Lloyd paid
~ $2,111,250; for fish, $737,750; game,
' $531,000; fresh vegetables, $163,000,
r preserves, $313,250; while miscel11
laneous articles ran the bill up to
1 $2,662,750 more.
8 The passengers and crews con~
sumed 7.801,604 eggs; 2,925,287
oranges and 1,000,000 apples and
pears. They drank 36,661 bottles of
champagne; 168,516 bottles of other
^ wines; 291,998 bottles of beer, and
2,214,641 quarts of beer, in kegs, in
addition to 428,914 bottles of min,,
eral water.
3 NOT SO MANY GOOIXG CRAZY.
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r Illinois Man Says Insanity is on the
v Decrease,
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g Chicago, July 14.?Dr. George A.
; | Zeller, of Peoria, 111., member of the
a I Illinois board of arbitration, took
r issue to-day with other speakers at
- the meeting here of alienists and
neurologists by denying that insanity
t is on the increase. He asserted that
1 an apparent increase was due to ime
proved .conditions that resulted in
e minor proportion of such cases being
reported.
q Dr. Julius Grinker, of Chicago,
a said that the primitive custom of casts
ing defective children into the river
again, might become a custom if better
remedies could not be discover!1
ed.
.1 Resolutions were adopted cone
demning the use of liquor and urg
ing public hospitals for inebriates.
h WAITING FOR THE BOSS.
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Labouehere Showed an American
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r What British Reserve Was.
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s Wherever Henry Labouehere went
_ his strange and interesting personalir
ly made itself known. He was one
e of those men about whom numberless
t good stories, authentic and otherwise,
f J cluster. The following is a..true one
e that appears in "The Life of Henry
Labouchere," by Mr. Algar Labouch0
ere Therold:
0 Labouchere was appointed an ate
tache to Mr. Crarapton, the British
Q minister at Washington. During one
e of Mr. Crampton's absences from the
legation the young man had opport
tunitv of exercising the official re0
serve and discretion for which the
_ English diplomats have always been
" so famous. An American citizen call0
ed one morning to see Mr. Crampton.
q "I want to see the boss," he said,
f "You can't?he's out," replied La_
bouchere. "But you can see me."
Full line of Waterman's Ideal
a Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store.
d brother cotton growers. It is high
i- time for something to be done.?The
r| progressive farmer.
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NEGRO WOMAN LYNCHED.
ORANGEBURG COUNTY SCENE OF
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Negro Woman Confesses to Crime,
and Summary Vengeance -is
Dealt Out to Her.
Elloree, July 12.?One of the
most brutal crimes ever perpetrated
in Orangeburg county, committed at
midway between here and Vance late
yesterday afternoon in a dense bay
near the Two Chop public road, was
brought to light thi6 morning, when
the body of little Miss Essie Bell, 12
years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Bell, was discovered after an
all-night search, foully murdered and
carefully covered by the confessed
murderess, Rosa Richardson, a negro
woman, about 35 years old. A grim
and a horrifying spectacle is witnessed
today in that community. The body
of little Miss Essie Bell, with her
head beaten into a pulp by a lightwood
knot, lies prepared for burial
in the quiet home of Daniel Bell,
while two hundred yards away, near
the scene of the crime, swinging to
a tree, is the body of her alleged assassin,
Rosa Richardson, riddled with
bullets.
Guilt was established, the woman
confessed, a volley fired, the unknown
silent, sober men mopped their brows
and dispersed. Thirty negroes who
gathered near the scene of the crime,
would have fired the volley if permitted,
and went to console the griefstricken
family.
While the crime has cast a pall over
the community, and hundreds
of people have gone to the scene,
there was no race feeling whatever
evident.
Story of the Murder.
The facts substantially told were
as follows: The murdered girl went
to graze the family cow in a field
on the public road a short distance
from the home which was hidden
from view by a dense field of corn.
Just in front of this field on the opposite
side of the road is the house
where Rosa Richardson lived. Mr.
Daniel Bell was reading his newspaper
and the mother, Mrs. Bell, was
leaving with one of her sons to board
the afternoon train at Vance for
Charleston. Mr. Bell was absorbed
in reading and presumed that little
Essie had gone to the station with
her mother and would return with
her brother. When the young man
returned home without his sister. Mr.
I Bell inquired for Essie and the young
man told his father that she had gone
to graze the cow when he saw her
last. Mr. Bell immediately gave the
alarm, and searching parties were
formed. The whole community was
scoured. Rosa Richardson was suspected
of luring the girl in the woods,
She, with her sister, was held during
the night by some of the searching
party. She told several disconnected
stories, which led more strongly
to the belief in her guilt. A message
reached Elloree late during the
night that the girl was missing, and
the penitentiary bloodhounds were
wired for, but it was later learned
that they were out of the city.
The suspected were rusnea to me
Elloree guard house.
Body Found. '
The local telephone being out of
commission, connection was established
at St. Matthews. Sheriff Salley
was notified and Columbia was
asked to have hounds make a crosscountry
trip, but before either reached
here the body was discovered, and
a dash was made for the town guardhouse.
Rural police, the magistrate
and the intendant and several citizens
of Elloree, who did all they
could to protect the prisoner, were
choked, thrown to the ground and
the crowd held at bay by six shooters.
The victim was placed in a
[ waiting automobile, taken back to
the scene of the crime.
The woman was examined. Blood
was on her clothing and other evidences
of guilt was established. She
confessed to the crime, without giving
any reason for having committed
it.
The posse had tracked the little
girl and the woman into the bay, both
tracks fitting the shoes. The woman
was tracked to her home, evidently
returning after committing the deed.
Xo Reason Assigned.
There is no reason assigned for the
deed, except that the woman was a
bad character and had refused to
work for Mr. Bell, on whose place
she lived. On several occasions it
is alleged that she grew dissatisfied
and sullen, and the theory is advanced
that she lured the little girl into
the woods on the pretext of showing
her something, and murdered her to
get vengeance. Sheriff Salley, of Orangeburg,
who was notified of the
crime too late, reached here this af
SALl HA IUI.M1 HUUltllW.
Coroner's Jury Renders Verdict of
Justifiable Killing.
Saluda, July 14.?Joe Abney, alias
"Boy" Abney, was killed by W. S.
Adams, a young white man of the
Owdom section of this county, at a
negro supper Saturday night. It was
brought out at the inquest Sunday
morning that the white man and the ?
negro became involved in a dispute
and that the negro went home and
secured his shotgun, and that the
killing was done in self defence. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was "justifiable
homicide."
Adams came to Saluda Monday and
surendered to the sheriff and will remain
in jail till his bond is granted.
A single barrel shotgun, loaded,
.
'ah ?? A T tt4 "! rr TlOPTft Qfl
was iuauu 1 jiug ucoiug uvq*v(
were several loaded shells and a bottle
of whiskey.
The wife of the dead man stated
that her husband came to the house
and got the gun and went into the
trunk, where he kept the shells, and
that he came and went in a hurry.
He was killed on the place of P. L.
Adams, -father of W. S. Adams, and
about 200 yards from the home of
the deceased.
LANDSLIDE KILLS MULES.
Driver Jumps From Wagon in Time
to Save Himself.
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Abbeville, July 9.?Two mules belonging
to W. A. O'Bryant were killed
Wednesday afternoon when from
twenty to forty tons of dirt fell on
1 tham. The wagon to which they
were attached was completely demolished
and the driver barely escaped.
Dirt was being hauled from a banK
about fiteen feet high. The driver
! had just finished loading the wagon '
and was standing on the back of it
when he noticed the wall of dirt move
1 and jumped in time to save himself.
The mules seemed to know that the
bank was about to fall for they started
to run just as the wall of dirt
gave way and caught them.
PROHIBITION IN IDAHO. '
, . / Western
State Will Probably Soon be
"Dry" Territory.
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s West Virginia became this month
the ninth State to put into force a
prohibition law. Idaho seems likely
, to be the tenth. All three parties
held their conventions in that State
on Wednesday of last week, .and each
of them adopted a prohibition platform.
The Democratic platform
pledged the Democratic members of
thevLegislature to submit to the voters
in 1916 a constitutional amendment
forever prohibiting the liquor .
traffic. The Republicans and the
Progressives went further, not only
pledging their votes to a constitutional
amendment, but promising, in case
that failed in the Legislature, to pass
. prohibition statute. The amendment,
> of course, cannot fail in trie J^eg[
islature if the three parties keep
? faith.
[ This looks very much like prohibition.
After such a declaration by
i all the parties the Legislature must
submit a constitutional amendment
no matter what its political complex'
ion may be. The people will still
. have to vote upon it, but it is reason
able to assume that they are likely
; to do so, since nothing but a general
. demand could have produced such
. union of sentiment in the three par;
ties. Nor did the proposition go by
default, either, for in the Democrati
ic Convention, at least, there was a
. sharp fight, though the plank finally
won by a vote of 122 to 5.?New
? York Times.
Russia is making great efforts to
develop unproductive parts of the
Caucassus by preventing river floods
and increasing irrigation and canal
I construction.
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ternoon and viewed the remains. The
body of Rosa Richardson was cut
down and buried while the victim of
this horible tragedy was laid to rest
in the presence of a large crowd of
grief stricken relatives and friends,
at Gerism Baptist church.
While the community where this
crime was committed are steady and
law-abiding citizens, and have always
held themselves against mob violence
the action of the posse, it appears,
has appeased the horror of the crime.
tviq nnitofi contimont nf hnth races
seems to be in favor of the course
taken in the case. The crime is the
second one committed in that community
within the past seven or eight
months. Mrs. Sue C. Cannon, who
lived in the Millican section, several
miles away, came near losing her life
some months ago at the hands of a
colored woman, who has not as yet
been apprehended.
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