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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^
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY
IN ALLENDALE CO.
J. \V. HOGG AM) H. I). MARLEY
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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