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- r - ' / Slip Hamburg ijmtlli ' $2.oo Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5,1919 Established in 1891 .4 " : ' " ~ """ TRAGEDY ENACTED ON RIVER BRIDGE OFFICER E. M. LANCASTER KILLS WIFE AND NEWTON LORICIv. Eleven Shots Were Fired Motor Cars Meet and Husband Empties Two Revolvers?Man and Woman Die in Car. Columbia, May 30.?E. M. Lan-rv>/-.f^ nffipar in tTlP Co ' vaaici y U1UIUJKJWV uuivvt ?? lumbia police department, emptied A two revolvers yesterday afternoon shortly after 4 o'clock and Newton S. Lorick, Lexington county farmer, and . Mrs. E. M. Lancaster died in a motor car from the. bullet wounds. The \ shooting occurred on the Congaree river bridge and the automobile containing Lorick and Mrs. Lancaster rolled about 200 feet and stopped beside a 25-foot embankment, after knocking a tier off the railing. Lancaster fired 11 shots and Lorick's body showed the scars of seven wounds. Mrs. Lancaster was struck by five bullets. Officer Lancaster used P* two 38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolvers. Lorick carried a 32-caliber Smith and Wesson pistol in his pocket. ,1 The inquest over the two bodies was held at the Van Metre undertaking parlors Friday morning at 10 o'clock. The verdict of the jury was that "Mrs. E. M. Lancaster and NewV ton S. Lorick came to their death from pistol shot wounds in the hands oH3. M. Lancaster near c~e entrance of the Congaree river bridge, on Ger' vais street, Richland county." ( The most sensational feature de. / veloped at the inquest was that Lancaster had killed the couple the first two shots fired. Then hobbling back - ,into the transfer, drove on up to the place where Lorick's car had rolled after the driver had been killed, and then proceeded to empty two pistols into the bodies of his wife and Lorick. Remains of both were laid to rest yesterday afternoon. The funeral services over the remains of Lorick were held at St. Andrew's Lutheran jT; church in Lexington county at 5 f: o'clock. Interment was in the church . yard. The funeral of Mrs. Lancaster 'was held from the residence at 911 Broad river avenue at 6:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Interment was in Elmwood cemetery. J.: W. Richardson, chief of police, said the call came to heau quarters about 4:15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon that two people had been killed at the Congaree river bridge. He and several other members of the force hastened to the ^ scene. Arriving there, they founa Policeman Lancaster, who was almost delirious over shooting his wife and her companion. He told the chief that Lorick had ruined his home. He begged the chief to shoot him or to let him have a pistol to end his own life. Dr. W. A. Boyd, who made the post mortem examination, testified that five or six bullets had been fired into the body of Lorick. One of these went through the nose and crashed clear through the head. Two were fired directly into the chest and one or two into the neck. Another had gone wild and had brushed one leg just below the knee and had gone through the other leg. The woman had four or five bullets in the chest ^ between the neck and the waist. James Harmon, transfer driver, was easily the star witness. -Harmon said Lancaster hired the car at the Jefferson hotel between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They drove out Laurel street, and when they got near the park, the policeman asked that the driver put up the curtains. When this order had been complied with they drove on through the west^ era part of the city until they came to Gervais street, and thence to thw river. Reaching the bridge, Mr. Lancaster ordered the negro to stop. The negro was then ordered to drive the car up into the road along the canal r bank and to turn the car around. The v policemaii then, the negro said, ordered the machine backed up close to the side of the bridge. "He told mo hp wne priinf tn malro pn arroct " the negro testified. The officer kept his position on the rear seat of the machine, and maintained a steady watch on the bridge. During the interim he had taken one of his pistols and had laid it beside the negro on the front seat. fn By that time the negro said Mr. Lancaster shouted out, "Here they come TRAGIC DEATH. Carl Bouye Dragged by Mule?Flesh Torn From His Body. Lexington, May 31.?Carl Bouye, 16-year-old son of Mr. and 'Mrs. Pickens W. Bouye, residing one and one-half miles west of Lexington, met a horrible death at noon today when he attempted to ride a young mule to the house from the field, where he had been plowing. While no one witnessed the accident, it is supposed that the mule threw tne lad. The trace chains were loose and the unfortunate child was entangled and dragged for a quarter of a mile, while the frightened animal was running at a fast gait. The mule did not stop until it reached a rye patch near the house. It was necessary to remove the chains from around the boy's legs and body, so tightly had they become woven about j him. The sight which' greeted Mrs. Bouj'e, the boy's mother, was a ghastly one, she being the first to reach his side. The boy lived but a few moments after he had been released and examination revealed the fact that all of the flesh had been torn from both legs and from one arm and the skin almost completely removed from his body. Colston Clippings. Colston, June 2.?The faimers are very busy now trying to kill some grass. The'rain sure has caused it to grow. Miss Flossie Davis, of Orangeburg, is spending a few days with Miss Natilee Kearse. Messrs. B. W. Beard and B. D. Bishop spent Sunday in Savannah. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Beard and little son dined with Mr. and Mrs. Isham Goodwin Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Will McMillan and Mrs. Frank Kearse were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jake McMillan Sunday. Miss Nettie Clayton spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Natilee Kearse. Miss Bessie Kirkland was at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kirkland, Saturday night and Sunday. The week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clayton were Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clayton, of Walterhoro; Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Witt, Mr. and Mrs. Cook, of Callison; Mrs. David Zorn, of Charleston, and Miss Mary Clayton. The many friends of Mrs. W. P. McMillan were sorry to know she had gone to the hospital to undergo an operation. We hope to have her back with us soon in perfect health. Mrs. J. B. Varn is viisting her sister, Mrs. Pate, of North Carolina. | Hewett?Do you think a college education pays : Jewett?Sure! Don't the professors get their living out of it??Boston Globe. now." Without further warning he began firing point blank into the machine driven by Lorick. The first shot struck Mrs. Lancaster, Harmon said, for she fell to the side, the head hanging out over the door of the car. The second shot struck Lorick, whose head sank down behind Mrs. Lancaster's form. Mr. Lancaster only recently had brokea his leg and in attempting to jump out of the transfer he fell to the ground. He fired simultaneously with the leap and it was this shot that went wild, the negro said, as Lorick had dropped from the steering wheel and the car was running loose into the fence. The policeman then ordered the negro to help him back in the transfer. The negro obeyed. He was then ordered by the policeman to drive the. transfer out to where Lorick's car had rolled. Again Mr. Lancaster hobbled out of the car. Harmon said Mr. Lancaster began crying and said something about his darling wife. He then fired four or five shots into the breast o? the woman and several more into Lorick's chest. Both were apparent-j ly dead before the second volley was fired, the negro said. R. Howell and G. P. Smith, young white men, were in a cold drink stand nearby when the shooting began. Both testified that they saw Policeman Lancaster get up and get back in the transfer and then drive | to the other automobile and empty both pistols, which fully substantiated the negro's testimony. At the conclusion of the inquest the jurors inspected the bodies. The jurors were: George SI Morrison, J. B. Brunson, G. E. Murtiashaw, .T. W. Leaphart, E. S. Barsh and F. D. Boyles. MANNING SEES BIG FUTURE FOR COTTON FORMER GOVERNOR, BACK FROM EUROPE, TALKS OPTIMISTICALLY Touched Many Subjects Says President Wilson Is Regarded Abroad as Country's Greatest Leader. Sumter, June 1.?Signing of the peace treaty and readjustment of the markets of the world to postbellum conditions will have an optimistic effect on cotton, according to ex-Governor Richard I. Manning, who has just returned from Europe, where he attended the peace conference as the delegate of the league to enforce peace, which organization is headed by former President William Howard Taft. \s the former governor has been in contact with the moving drama in Europe and has been intimately associated with the great leaders there for two months, any utterance of his on international politics and his observations of world conditions are not only interesting, but are of analytical and authoritative worth. Interesting Story. Governor Manning speaks interestingly of his and Mrs. Manning's trip abroad and of those international personages with whom he was associated. He and Mrs. Manning sailed from America on the Adriatic on March 22, and the^* trip across was in a log ana rougii, uui uu iuwuycuience was suffered, he stated. They landed at Liverpool and went to London by train, thence to Southampton, where they crossed the channel to Havre. From Havre they were taken by train to Paris. Returning, the South Carolinians arrived at Halifax on Sunday, May 25, reaching Sumter over the Atlantic Coast Line railway yesterday morning at 11:20 o'clock. Thej* spent a few hours at Sumter and went to Governor Manning's farm at Boykin yesterday afternoon and they spent today at the home of B. H. Boykin, at Boykin. They were met at the train yesterday by their son, Col. W. M. Manning, of Columbia. i "This is the most picturesque scenery I have seeh in some time," said the former governor as he got off the train. "I return home a prouder, a better and a more enthusiastic American than when I went to Europe. The old U. S. A. is good enough for me." In Best cf Health. The ex-governor and Mrs. Manning appeared to be in the best of health nnH thev hnth stated that they had an interesting and instructive timt> while in Europe. The former governor's first idea was to get' into cooler clothing, as he was wearing a heavywinter suit, which was not exactly conducive to bodily comfort. Both he and- Mrs. Manning wore pins with six service stars, one of which had turned to gold in memory of Major William Sinkler Manning, who was I killed in the Argonne forest fight and whose body is buried on a hillside near where he fell. They visited his grave. In dealing with the cotton question, j the former governor said that uni doubtedly the shelves of the world | ar? bare of cotton goods, and that the raw staple is, next to foodstuffs, the world's most badly needed material. He is firmly of the opinion that there is need of all the cotton the South intends to raise and that this, together with the supply now on hand, will be consumed. With the signing of the peace treaty and the lifting of the blockade, he said, the world markets will be open for the influx of cotton goods. However, the taking of the staple necessarily must be slow, he stated. He pointed out the deflation of the European monetary system, stating tnat tne mars, wmcn, normany, is worth about 20 cents, is now rated at 7 1-4 cents, while the franc, which is about the same value in American money as that of the mark, is now exchanged at 16 2-10 cents. In addition, he explained, the resources of the warring countries have been depleted. Must Extend Credits. "I am not in favor of further government loans," he said, "but I fealize that corporations will have to be formed in this country to export goods, and credits will have to be extended on a larger scale than heretofore. Therefore, while all the cotton ultimately will be taken, we must WHITE MAX SLAIX. Jay Lynch Taken From Courtroom and Lynched. Lamar. Mo., May 2S.?Shortly after Jay Lynch had pleaded guilty to the murder of Sheriff John Harlow and his son and had been sentenced to life imprisonment here late today. 24 men entered the courtroom, took / Lynch from the hands of officers and hanged him in the yard before "a crowd of a00 persons. When Lynch's body was swung into the air, the spectators, including many women and children, cheered. Lynch is one of few white men to be lynched in Missouri. Immediately after Judge B. G. Thurman passed sentence, he- or dered Lynch taken to his office under guard of seven deputies. Here he I was allowed to greet His wife, oaov, mother and sister. His handcuffs had been removed that he might hold his baby and he had just given the child back to its mother when the men entered and seized him. Lynch was brought from Hutter, Mo., today, where he had been held in jail since his arrest in Colorado several weeks ago. There were no threats or show of violence beforehand and, according to witnesses, the mob gathered quietly in the corridors of the courthouse and in the yard. Capital punishment is not possible under a law enacted by the legislature in 1917. An attempt was made to repeal the present law shortly after the Lynch shooting and the chief supporter of the repeal of the law was Representative Henry Chancellor of Barton count/, where Lynch was hanged. Lynch was arrested at Lamar, on the request of St. Louis authorities, where he was charged with box car robbery. On March 3 Sheriff Harlow, in response to a request of Lynch to use the long distance telephone, opened his cell. Lynch drew a revolver and shot the sheriff, killing him instantly. The son of the sheriff came to his father's rescue and was also shot by Lynch and died two days later. A posse with bloodhounds attempted to trail Lynch but failed. Leaving Lamar, Lynch, according to his confession, went to Kansas City and from there to St. Louis, where he obtained funds from friends and going to Jacksonville, 111., he purchased a motor car and started West. He was refused permission to cross the Mexican border and continued on to Los Angeles. Coming back east, he was recognized at La Junta, Col., by a resident of Lamar, and arrested on May 14. He was brought back to Missouri and confined at Butler, the authorities at that time believing that he would not.be safe at Lamar because of the intense feeling. After his return to Butler, Lynch confessed that he had tramped through the country surrounding Lamar after his escape and once while being trailed by the posse with bloodhounds had stood on one of tbe street corners of the town and watched the posse work. While Lynch made no confession as to where he had obtained the weapon which he used to kill Sheriff Harlow and his son, his mother and wife were supposed to have smuggled it to him They were held immediately after his escape on the charge of being accessories to the crime. Capture Six Stills. Williston, May 29.?W. F. Usserv, State constable, and J. G. Fanning, deputy collector, captured a whiskey still and a quantity of beer near Ashley Station Tuesday and arrested and placed in jail two white men, C. S. Sulsbee and E. McKinney. Wednesday these same officers capfiiro cHUa in Allonrialp pnnntv All of these stills were in a radius of three miles. Warrants were issued for Willie Lee, Ed Martin, Asbury Frederick and James Sanders, all white. ^ < > Husband Killed; Wife May Die. Rock Hill, May 29.?Burton Massey, a prominent business man of the city, is dead, and Mrs. Massey and one of the two children are not expected to survive the accident which occurred this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Catawba Junction when a northbound freight train on the Seaboard crashed into their car which was headed for home. exercise patience and judgment in feeding it to Europe. This must be done slowly and gradually. If we undertake to feed it fast, the market will be glutted and disaster will follow." < DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN ALLENDALE CO. J. \V. HOGG AM) H. I). MARLEY BOTH SLAIX. * Did Each Kill Other? First Kepoit Is Denied by Woman at Hearing Before Solicitor?Alleged Marley Killed by Others. Allendale, May 29.?J. ,W. Hogg, one of Allendale county's largest and most prominent farmers, residing near Allendale, and H. D. Marley, of Cohens Bluff, Allendale county, shot each other to death at the latter's home this afternoon about 4 o'clock, both dying almost immediately. Only 1 _ u i. _ UU meager aeiaiis are uuumauic iuui5ui but it is reported that Hogg, accompanied by a man named Lewis, went; to the Marley house. Marley's dog bit Hogg, it is said, and Hogg shot the dog. Marley, it is claimed, then opened fire on Hogg with an automatic shotgun loaded with buckshot. Hogg fell mortally wounded but drew his pistol, so it is claimed, and shot Marley to death as the latter was running away. The buckshot inflicted a horrible wound in Hogg's chest. Marley was shot four times. H<*gg, who is survived by his widow and three children, is from one of the most prominent families of this section. Marley is unmarried. An inquest, it is understood, will be held tomorrow morning. NEW DEVELOPMENT. Woman Swears Crowd of Farmers Shot Marley. Aiken, June 2.?Apparently new light has been thrown upon the mysterious killing of Jim Hogg and H. D. Marley, the two well-known planters in the Allendale section, last week. The report first sent out J it- 4-0,^ + Droaacasi over me cuuuu j ma. i Hogg was shot by Marley, and then, t while Hogg was wounded and lying on the ground, that he shot and killed Marley, has been completely upset, according to the testimony of Carrie Stanley, at Aiken before Hon. Robert L. Gunter, the solicitor of the circuit. , From the evidence of Carrie Stanley, who is separated from her husband and has been Marley's housekeeper, it appears that a crowd of white farmers of the Allendale section shot Marley to death after coaxing him out of his house with the promise of protecting him on his way to surrender to the sheriff. Woman's Testimony. Carrie Stanley appeared before Solicitor Gunter here and has sworn that a crowd of men, consisting of Herman Lee, John Dunbar, George D. Kirkland, Henry D. Best, Paul Black, Hughes Reeves and Buck Lewis, came up to the Marley place after the shooting of Hogg by Marley, and after getting him to come out on the ground, John Dunbar shot him twice with a pump gun which he (Dunbar) had taken from the hands of Buck Lewis. According to the report it appears tffht a gathering of 10 farmers were attending a fish catch and dinner at Cohen's Bluff. Jim Hogg and Buck Lewis, whose home is on the Georgia side of the river near Brier Creek, went down to the home of H. D. Marley, about three-quarters of a mile from Cohen's Bluff, to pay a visit. As Hogg reached the Marley gate he was attacked by Marley's dog, and being afraid of a bad bite from the animal, is alleged to have shot and killed it forthwith. Marley, seeing the dead dog, and Hogg with his gun in his hand, came out of his home and is said to have fired one load of shot in the breast of Hogg, who fell face down on the ground. Lewis then dodged behind a tree until Marley entered his home, when he ran to the other members of the fid-iiner nortr Q n frn'M thpm r?f tJlfi XJLOU.1Up?lWJ UUU ?w . shooting. Marley Fatally Shot. It is testified by Carrie Stanley further that the whole party, some eight in number, then hastened to the Marley home, and after coaxing him outside shot him to death. The affidavits of each member of the party conflict with the woman's statement, the party claiming that Marley was standing over the prostrate body of Hogg when the party arrived, and that Marley appeared in a threatening manner. The testimony of the woman states i TESTIMON Y AT INQUEST. Farts Developed as to the Killing of James C. Harley. Allendale' May 30.?Testimony today at the inquest into the death of James C. Harley, a prominent farmer of Allendale, who was killed here last Saturday night in a duel in a Main street grocery store, clearly establishes that Greene Williams, also of Allendale, and now held in Barnwell jail for participation in the shooting, did not fire all of the shots that hit Harley. The shooting, which began in the presence of a city policeman and within a few doors of where the chief of police was standing, occurred just inside the door of a grocery store. The testimony is that several shots were fired from the outside into the store. Williams was using a 32-caliber pistol, from which one shell was fired. The bullet causing the death of Harley by penetrating the abdomen is said to be similar to the unfired bullets in the pistol used by Williams. Two other bullets struck Harley in the head. Steel-jacketed bullets were found in the doorway of the store. Harley's pistol has not been found. He was buried Monday. The inquest was continued pending certain investigations. Carolina Airmen Decorated. New York, May 31.?The famous ninety-fourth pursuit squadron, formerly commanded by Eddie Rickenhacher, returned today on the transport Louisville. The squadron had been officially credited with downing 70 enemy planes and unofficially ' with 42 others. \ The squadron returned in command of Major Read Chambers, of Memphis, Tenn., a wearer of the D. S. C., Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. Others in the organization included: Captains William N. Palmer, Bennettsville, S. C., Croix de Guerre and D. S. C.; Sampel Kaye, Jr., Columbus, Miss., Croix de Guerre, and Lieutenant Robert C. Cates, Jr., Spartanburg, S. C., Croix de Guerre. PINK BELLINGER HOME. Popular Young Lawyer Returns Home After Service in France. R. P. Bellinger, Esq., a prominent young attorney of this city, returned home this week, after completing his service in the army. Mr. Bellinger was discharged about three weeks ago. For the last two weeks he has been visiting his sister, Mrs. W. J.' Faulkner, in Atlanta. Mr. Bellinger served a little more than a year in the expeditionary forces in France, where he was detailed to do legal work connected with the army camps. During his stay in France, he took occasion to visit many cities of interest, about which he wrote many very interesting Awfoi'ruVff loffnrc fViriCQ 1 DftDfQ emu cuici (.aiuiug ?v.vw>~ appearing in The Herald at intervals. Those who read Mr. Bellinger's letters will be delighted to know that he has half-way promised to make some more contributions after he rests up a while. Our readers will' recall that he promised to make a visit to Paris and tell The Herald, subscribers about it. About fhat time, however, he learned that he would soon depart for America; consequently the Paris trip was never written up. Mr. Bellinger, however, succeeded in making a visit to the French capital and will doubtless enlighten our readers in the near future on the sights and interesting things he saw there. ^ ? > ' < Place your order for any magazine with The Herald Book Store. It will be reserved for you. that whiskey was on the breath of several members of the fishing party; she especially designates John Dunbar, whom she charges with firing ohntc into Marlev's body. LUC inu ouwi.u * Physician's Statement. Dr. Johnson Peeples, sworn, stated: "I find nine shot holes from the back of Marley's body. Five in the front, and complete laceration of the lower part of the skull at the back, as if from a number of shot. Some of the wounds were due to shot going through from the front. "JOHNSON PEEPLES, M. D." The people in the Ellenton section and many in this locality are well acquainted with all the parties concerned and great interest is being taken in the ferreting out of the killings. The men are under arrest but will apply today for bail. / \ z ; i' t.c * JC-JM