HEAD CRUSHED TO PULP.
Aged Father Finds Body of Murdered
Man in Anderson County.
Anderson. .May 12.?Another brutal
murder, similar to the Dodd and
Hutto murders of several years ago.
. when blunt instruments were used
in crushing the heads of the victims.
occurred in Anderson county just before
daylight today.
The victim this time was Will
Pierce, a white man, aged forty
years, employed as ferryman at
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His dead body, with his skull crushed
into a pulp, was found in the road
near the ferry by his aged father at
6 o'clock this morning. The fact that
$25 had disappeared from his pockets
leads local officers to believe robbery
was the motive.
Probable Method of Attack.
After making a complete investigation
officers say that Pierce was evidently
called from his shanty, located
near the ferry: that he. with a
lighted lantern, left the shanty to
answer the call, and as he was going
down a steep hill into the main road
someone concealed behind a tree
made an a'ttack on him with an axe,
and that the first blow was a glancin<r
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head and the axe glanced, striking
into the bank. The second blow
completely crushed the entire part of
his head. Death was instantaneous.
Coroner Beasley empanelled a
jury, but took a recess until additional
evidence can be secured. The
lantern was picked up by the murderer
and the li?^it was extinguished.
The murderer's hand was covered
with blood and he left bloody finger
prints on the lantern. These finger
prints will be examined by experts.^
Say His Actions Suspicious.
The action d-uring the inquest of
Tom Jordan, a white fa/mer, aged
forty-five, living near by, attracted
suspicion and officers s?v they found
tracks leading to and his home
and the scene of the murder. They
also say, tftey found marns wnere a i
boy had concealed himself behind |
bushes. The tracks are said to have
resembled the tracks of Jordan andhis
fourteen-year-old son. It is also
said that Jordan was seen in the
vicinity of the ferry some time during
last night.
The officers detained Jordan and
. his son and have lodged them in the
n county jail until, further investigation
can be made. Both father and
son refuse to talk. Physicians
examining the aead
body say that in their opinion Pierce
must have been murdered about 4
o'clock, two hours before his body
was found. Pierce came to South
Carolina four years ago and had been
employed as ferryman for that length
of time. He was a man of good reputation,
peaceable and quiet. Jordan
moved from Georgia about two years
ago.
Attacked By Jersey Bull.
Laurens, May 12.?Mr. S. L.
Moore, a prominent farmer of the
Waterloo section of this county.\is
at the loca*l hospi'tal hefe. suffering
from a broken leg and other injuries,
received yqsterdav fhen he was attacked
by a Jersey bull in a pasture
near his home. Physicians say he
is resting fairly well although both
bones in the lower l'eft leg are broken
and his left arm painfully bruised.
It is stated that Mr. Moore was successful
in warding off with a pitchfork
the first attack of the bull, but
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after retreating a short distance, the
animal returned and, with a more ferocious
attack, hooked his leg with
such force that both bones were
broken. After some further effort to
do injury to the man, who was then
lying on the ground, the bull went
away and Mr. Moore crawled several
, yards to a wire fence for fear of a
third attack.
BYRNES TO PRESS MEASURE.
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Arranges Hearing by Appropriations
Committee.
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Washington, May 12.?Congressman
Byrnes, of South Carolina, a
member of the house committee on
appropriations, today made arrangements
with Chairman Fitzgerald, of
this committee, for a meeting Monday,
at which time it is expected See
retary Houston and probably others
will be present to consider the $10,000,000
Smith nitrate purchase resolution.
Mr. Byrnes has also informed Sent
ator Smith that the meeting will be
held.
Mr. Byrnes stated that he could
not forecast what action the committee
would take, but that he was in
favor of the resolution and would do
his utmost to facilitate its passage
by the house.
This resolution, which has already
passed the senate, authorizes the
government to purchase nitrates
from other countries and sell them to
the farmers' in the United States at
cost.
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FIRED AT TWO SUBMARINES*
American Vessel Ha<l Exciting Experiences.
. May 13.?The American
steamship Mongolia, from which
the country's first shot in the war
with Germany was fired with such
accuracy that a German submarine
was sunk, arrived at an American
port today from Europe, bringing a
report of another apparent encounter
with a U-boat.
The second adventure was on May
4. according 10 mem. tsruce m. \\are.
the man who commanded the naval
gunner crew which disposed of the
submarine on April 19, the anniversary
of the battle of Lexington.
The Mongolia was on her homeward
voyage, Lieut. Ware said, when
about midnight on May 4 the wake
of what was believed to be a torpedo
was seen ahead in the moonlight.
The missile, if it was one. passed under
the ship's bow. No submarine
was sighted, but a shot was fired
from one of the Mongolia's guns in
the direction from which the supposed
torpedo had come.
The gunners on the Mongolia were
jubilant on their arrival. They reiterated
their conviction that the
shot on April 19 sank the submarine.
It was fired. Lieut. Ware said, by
James A. Goodwin, gunner's mate, of
Portsmouth, Va. Lieut. Ware declared
that through his glasses he
saw the? shot strike the U-boat's periscope
and that the hit was followed
by a cloud of white vapor as if an
internal explosion had been caused.
After that the submarine did not reappear.
he said.
Meml>ers Urged to Send Proxies.
Columbia. May 12.?C. Fitzsimmons.
general manager of the local
branch of the Southern Cotton Oil
company, has given out the following
statement for publication:
"A meeting of the Audubon society
of South Carolina has been called
by Dr. E. C. L. Adams, president, for
Saturday, May 19, at 12 o'clock noon,
at the'Jefferson hotel, Columbia. S. 1
C.
"Inquiry shows that many of the
old members who bore the burden
when the society needed money have
received no notice nor has one been
published in the papers.
"These old members have not forfeited
their rights simply because
they have not paid dues that have
not been called for when they have
not b?en needed.
"There were 500 of them who paid
$6 each in a lump, with the under
standing that their membership
would continue. All these old members
are urged to send their proxies
to Mr. W. A. Clark, Columbia, S. C.,
immediately, so that they can be used
for the good of the society and the
State." ' i C
Seymour Carroll Freed,
Orangeburg, May 9.?Seymour
Carroll, son of the Rev. Richard Carroll.
the well-known negro leader, ot
Columbia, was acquitted of a charge
of arson in general sessions court,
Judge I. W. Bowman presiding, here
late this afternoon. The jury deliberated
about an hour. Carroll was
accused of attempting to burn Morrill
hall, one of tfre buildings at the State
Colored college here, in January,
1915. He was a student at the institution
at the time. The case was begun
yesterday.
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