The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, April 22, 1903, Image 1
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VOL III BATESBURG, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22,1903. $o 12
MAI) MISSOURI MOB
Takes Charge of Joplin and Hangs
an Unknown Black Tramp
WHO KILLED A POLICE OFFICER.
The Mult HaIiIh Negro Quarter
and Driven the Illack* from
the Town Defying the
Authorities.
A mob took possession of Joplin,
Mo., Wednesday evening, and took an
unknown negro tramp from the city
jail and hanged him to a telegrapli
pole at the corner of Second and Wall
streets, two blocks from tire Jail. The
negro was charged with having murdered
Police Olilcer Leslie, who was
shot dead Tuesday night in the
Kansas City Southern railroad yards
while endeavoring to arrest several
negroes suspected or tlieft.
Olficer Leslie had ordered several
negroes who had taken refuge in a 1k>x
car to surrender and when Lliey failed
to do so he tired several shots at the
car. During the shooting a negro
slipped from the car and coining up
behind the otltcer, shot him through j
the head. The negro then tied and '
within a short time posses were after I
him.
About :t o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
Lee Fullerton, aged 21, located j
. the fugitive in a slaughter house just '
east of Joplin. The negro was armed :
with a rille and detied arrest. Fuller- I
ton slipped into the structure unobserved
and crept up behind the negro.
Suddenly lie sprang at ttie unsuspecting
fugitive and before resistance j
could be made lie had the negro on :
his back with a knife at his throat.]
The negro then surrendered his rille, j
and pointing the weapon at him Ful- |
lerton marched him out of the build- ;
ing. With the assistance of another
man the negro was brought to Joplin
and placed in jail.
News of the capture spread rapidly j
and the jail was speedily surrounded ;
by hundreds of people. There were ]
cries of "Lynch him!" on all sides and
City Attorney II. II. Decker mounteo 1
mil -1-- i
VllC j f 11 I r?tup"? Iltiu iliilUC il AtlUIl^ |Hta j
In behalf of law and order. This
served temporarily to stay the mob
but did not appease it and a short
time after Decker's speech the mob
"""" started to batter in a section of the '
jail wall. Every eirort was made to
prevent the entrance of the mob, but
without avail and within 15 minutes
the men had trained entrance to the
jail and secured the trembling negro. 1
As he was dragged forth City Attorney
Decker again interfered and urged
that the negro he given a trial. For
half an hour he talked and the mob
listened to him with the negro in their
custody.
At one time it seemed that the
city attorney would win, as members
of the mob began dispersing, but sud- ;
denly a rush was made for the spot
where the negro was being held and
he was dragged two blocks from the
jail with a rope fastened around his
neck, and after the rope had been
thrown over the crossbar of a telegraph
pole a score of men attempted!
to pull the negro from the ground.
As many more seized the negro and
pulled to prevent him being hanged.
For some moments it was a veritable
tug of war, but reenforoements on the
free end of the rope proved the
stronger and the negro, despite his
protestations of innocence, was finally
swung into the air and strangled to
death, while shouts of satisfaction
went up from the mob. The name of
the negro was not known and he was
a stranger in .loplin.
The lyuching of the negro served
only temporarily to satisfy the Malignance
of the mob and leter Wednesday
night hundreds of men again as- ;
sembled and rioted through the negro
section of the city, burning bouses,
stoning negroes and dually driving I
every negro from the routines of the
town of .loplin. The police were powerless.
The llrst act of the molt after i
hanging the negro was to demand the
release from jail of a local character
known as "Ilickory Hill," wtio was
under arrest on the charge of assaulting
a negro. In the hope that this
would appease the moh t he prisoner j
was set free.
Hut the mob did not disperse. In-1
stead a rush was made t hrough Main
street, the nrineinal street of .Innlin I
and every negro was frightened oH the
street and lied to tlie nort hern part of
the city where t lie negro population j
resides. In this way the negroes were i
driven from all parts t?f the city to the
i negro section. Then the inob charged '
down on the section. Stones wenthrown,
doors and windows of negro
houses were broken in and finally several
were tired. The fire department
responded, but many of the houses
were burned to the ground. The mob
made endeavors to prevent the lire department
from extinguishing the
flames and were partially successful.
All theotlieers of the city, township
and county were called out, but the
mob swept them aside and proceeded
with the rioting. Mayor Trigg ran
from corner to corner and mounting
boxes made earnest appeals to the
I mob to cease, but beyond cheering the
mayor vociferously the mob swept on
and the depredations continued. The
' saloons were hurriedly closed by the
mayor. After the hundreds of frenzied
men composing the mob bad
vented their wrath in the north end
of the city they rushed to the south-|
em end where lived a number of ne- j
groes. Their homes were vacant and
not a negro could be found. Three
more bouses were tired and two were i
consumed. All efforts to reason with
the rioters were futile, as apparently
a frenzy had seized upon them.
A dispatch from Carthage, Mo , ?
which Is ouly a few miles from Joplln,
says the negro lynched was Thus. Gilyard,
a tramp. lie hud confessed that
he murdered Leslie In Tuesday night's
tight. Early Wednesday Sheriff Owen g
hurried off to the county Jail at Carthage,
I>an Milliard, a negro who was
with Gilyard Just before the police- n
man was killed. Wednesday night
Mullard was spirited away from Cartilage
for fear of an attack on the
county Jail.
"BELONGS TO OUR COUN TRY."
Secretary Moody'* Tribute to the Con- VV|
III
lederute Torpedo Bout Heroes. |);
Secretary of the Navy Moody, in a \
cordial letter of acknowledgment, lias *
completed a pleasant interchange of ^
tokens of good feeling between the
Nortli iind South. On the battery, s '
in Charleston, S. C., there is a hand- ^
l'i
some granite monument to the men ^
wlio lost their lives in the operation j,j
of the Confederate torpedo boat M
"Hundley," called by the Federal s'
authorities the "David." On Secretary
Moody's return from the West q.
Indies he received through Mayor hi
Smyth, of Charleston, a handsome CI
double frame containing photographs lo
of the two inscribed faces of the "tor- by
pedo monument." The following letter
from Mayor Smyth accompanied it: ce
"You expreescd a wish for a pho- he
graph of the monument on our bat- at
tcry to oui torpedo heroes during a tli
drive I had the honor to have with co
you when recently in our city. I ev
mentioned your request to Mrs. S. E. tli
Conner, president of the Charleston wl
Chapter of the Daughters of the Con- I 1
federaey, and also your remarks as in
you stood with head uncovered liefore ge
that monument, 'Mr. Mayor, this belongs
to our country, not to Charles-, T?
ton alone!' \ nc
"It gives me great pleasure to pre- si:
sent tliis photograph to you and to de
thank you for your kind words and t lie of
interest you have manifested in thD of
old city. Such feelings as you ex- fc
pressed do honor to your brain and ch
heart, and will he cherished by us all Ix1
as typical of the true and broad Ameri- m
can citi/.en you have always proved te
yourself to he." Mr. Moody's response is
was in the same kindly vain. a i
m
What was known as the "Fish tor- le:
pedo boat," a submarine, was built at ti<
Mobile, in 186:1, by Hundley and Mc- po
Clintock. Hundley lost his own life hi
within his noat and eventually she da
went down for the last time with her wi
victim, t ho Hniivntonio 'l'ho " r>;i vid" ll(
was an entirely different type of tor- pn
pedo craft and was never entirely sub- 1
merged. -Ed. The N. and C. so
St
A SerinuM Charge.
A dispatch to The State says war- Cn
rants have been issued in Anderson for
the arrest of Mr. J. W. Pooser, an in- pe
surance agent who spent s< me time in ij3
that city last winter. The dispatch pr
says Mr. Pooser while in Anderson ??o
represented tlie Pennsylvania Casualty io
company and possibly one or two other tp
reliable companies. lie collected ar
money for a number of policies that p<
have never been received by those who ^
paid for them. Mr. L. C. Houston of ie
(irecnvillc, the agent of the company,
lias informed parties in Anderson that :ij
ho never received the money for tlie m
policies and has stated that he, t(?o, ze
has a warrant issued for Pooser in cr
(Jrcenville. The warrants charge him
with obtaining money with fraudu- in
lent intent a no breach of trust. Mr. of
Pooser went to Anderson froraColum- j 0f
bia and wont back to Columbia from I aj
here. A letter was received here a 1 re
day or two ago from one of his friends j U|
stating that Pooser is now in Califor- jc
nia. 'Phis statement w ill lie fully in- \ u
vestigated and every clTort will bo ()(
made to have the warrants that have , p;
been issued served upon him. so
A W ar Slop Kuiscd. 1,1
The warship Hcina Christina Ilug-L.
ship of Admiral Montejo, which was j,
sunk liy Admiral 1 )ewey in Manila
May. was raised last week. Skeletons ,
of eighty of her crew were in the hulk. . j
(>ne skeleton evidently was that of an ! /'
( nicer, for it had a sword by it side.
There were fifteen shell holes in the 1^'
hull of the boat, one being made by an I
eight-inch gun, and the others were ,"
small. The main injection valve was ,l
missing, showing the ship was scuttied
when Admiral M ante jo abandoned ('
her. The hull is in a fair condition. "
Captain Albert It. Couden, commanding
the naval station at Cavite, Look
charge of the remains of the Spanish j'
soldiers, expressing his pur|>osc t ai
give them an American naval funeral.
The Spanish residents are eager to l)'
ship the remains to Spain, and it is
suggested that the United States t-<
transport Summer convey them to
Spain by way of Suez canal in dune. m
Ik
A Total Wreck. cj
The section of a southbound Louis- n<
villt? and Nashville passenger train t!
which left Montgomery, Ala., at 12.-i n<
:<0 Wednesday night, was wrecked at, tl
Castleberry, ten miles south of di
Montgomery Thuisday morning. Two ! w
memt?ers of the crew were killed and di
John Wright of Montgomery, the ni
engineer, sustained a fractured skull, w
No passengers were injured. The h
dead are II. I,. Donovan, Mobile, rail- n"
way mail clerk, and Major Knox, p
Montgomery, negro fireman. Almost si
in front of the station at Castleberry b
the engine st ruck an open switch and si
plowed through an empty freight car. jo!
The mail and baggage cars which fol- . tl
lowed caught lire and were entirely d
demolished and the wreckage took j ft
fire. j tl
THE RACE ISSUE.
x-President Grover Cleveland Seems
to Grasp the Case.
SOLUTION OF NEGRO PROBLEM
eNtN oil Southern Hbouldcrx. Those
Who Liift the Weight Must
Stuml Next to It
Says He.
Former President Grover Cleveland
us the principal speaker Tuesday
ght at a meeting held in the concert
ill of Madison Square Garden New
ork, in the interest of the Tuskegee
ormal and Industrial institute,
mong those on the platform with Mr.
eveland were Mayor Low, who preicd;
Hooker T. Washington. Edir
G. Murphy, I)r. Lyman Ablxitt,
resident Nicholas Murray Hutlcr and
eati J. Van Amringe of Columa,
W. II. Hold win, Chaucellor
fipKU/il'An TV# \r 1. ?
wiuvncu <11 new iurK uuiverty,J
olin DeWitt Warner and George
. Peabody. Mrs. Cleveland, sat in
le gallery with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
irnegie, who are Mr. Cleveland's
>sts while he is in the city. Mr.
eveland, who was greeted with pronged
applause as he was introduced
' Mayor Low, said:
"I have come here tonight as a sinre
friend of the negro and I should
t very sorry to suppose that my good
id regular standing nee<j* support at
lis late day either from certificate or
infession of faith. Inasmuch, bower
as there may be differences of
lougiit and sentiment among those!
tio profess to he friends of the negro,
desire to declare myself as belongg
to the Hooker Washington-Tuskee
section of the organization.
"1 believe that the days of 'Uncle
iin's Cabin' are past. 1 believe that!
ither the decree that made tlie j
ives free nor the enactment that sud- j
nly invested them with t lie rights |
citizenship any more purged them ;
their racial and slavery-bred imperctions
and deficiencies than it
tanged the color of their skins. I
lieve that among the nearly nine
illions of negroes who have been inrmixed
with our citizenship, there
still a grievous amount of ignorance,
sad amount of viciousness and a trcendous
amount of laziness pod thrift,isness.
I bellvc that these condijns
inexorably present to the white
ople of the United States, to each In
s environment and under the manite
of good citizenship, a problem
hich neither enlightened self interest
>r the higher motive of human symilhy
will permit them to put aside,
believe our fellow countrymen in the
uthern and in the late slave-holding
.ales, surrounded by al>out uinenths,
or nearly eight millions of this
itire negro population, and who reird
their material prosperity, their
;ace and even the safety of their civl- j
.ation, interwoven with the negro j
llhlnm nrn nnl itl.ul f ^ ? - - * '
uiv buuivicu w uui Ul UUSl
nsidcration and sympathy and felwshlp.
I am thoroughly convinced
iat the etT iris of Hooker Washington
id the methods of Tuskegee institute
?lnt the way to a safe and beneficent
lutlon of the vexations negro probm
at the south and 1 know that, the
mkI people at the. north, who have
ded these efforts and methods, have
ustrated the highest and best citinship
and the most Christian and
ihghtened phllanthropism.
"I cannot, however, keep out of my ;
ind tonight the thought that all we j
the north may do, the realization j
our hopes for the negro must, after |
1. mainly depend, except so far as it |
sts with the negroes themselves, :
jon the sentiment and conduct of the
ading and responsible white men of:
te south, and upon the maintenance
a kindly and helpful feeling on their '
irt towards those in their midst who
i much need their aid and encourage- j
ent.
"1 need waste no time in detailing
ie evidence that this aid and encour- i
jeinent has thus far been generously
rthcomlng. Schools for the educaon
of negro children and institutions
r their industrial training are scutred
all over the south and are libally
assisted by the southern public
id private funds. So far as 1 am binned
the sentiment in favor of the
. i auiouiii umi uruuucsc mini-j
ice of Tuskegee institute and kin-1
ed agencies is universal, and I bej\c
that without exception the ne*oes
who tit tlicinselves for useful oci
pat ions and service tind willing and
leerful patronage and employment
nong tiicir while neighbors.
"I do not know how it may be with ;
her northern friends of the negro,
it 1 have faith in the honor and sin rity
of the respectable white people
' the south in their relations with the
igro and tiis improvement and welldug.
Tliey do not believe in the so- 1
al equality of the race and they make
> false pretense in regard to it. That
lis docs not grow out of hatred of the
L'gro is plain. It seems to me that
icre is abundant sentiment and abun-:
int behavior among the southern
hites towards the negro to make us
Dubt the just ice of charging this deial
of social equality to prejudice, as
e usually understand the word. Peraps
it is born out of something so
inch deeper and more imperious than
rejudice as to amount to a racial induct.
Whatever It is, let us remcmer
that it has condoned the negro's
tare in the liumilation and spoliation
F the white men of the south during
le saturnalia of the reconstruction
ays and has allowed a kindly feeling
>r the negro to survive the timo when
tie south was deluged hy a perllious
Mood of Indiscriminate, untelligent i
and brlghting suffrage. Whatever it !
Is, let us try to bo tolerant and con- j
slderate of the feelings and even preju- *
diced racial instinct of our white fel- |
low countrymen of the south, who In i
the solution of tlie negro problem t
must, umid their own surroundings, t
bear the heat of the day and stacker <
under the weight of the white man's l
burden. s
' There are, however, other consid- ?
orations relating to this feature of the i
negro question, which may l?e regarded ;
as more in keeping with the objects i
and purposes of this occasion. As l
friends of the negro, fully believing in I
the possibility ot his improvement and
advancement, and sincerely and con- <
tidently laboring to that end, it is folly <
for us to ignore the importance of the I
ungrudging cooperation on the part of I
the white people of the south in this I
work. Labor as we will, those who do <
the lifting of the weight must be i
those who stand next to it. Tills co- i
operation cannot be forced; nor can it |
be gained by gratuitously running i
counter to tirmly lixed and tenaciously i
held southern Idea s or even prejudices. .
We are not brought to the point of do- .?
ing or overlooking evil that good may ]
come when we proceed upon the theory ;
that before we rcacli the stage where i
we may he directly and practically i
confronted witli the uuestion of the i
negro's full enjoyment of civic advantges
or even of all his political privileges.
there are imtmdiatcly before us
and around us questions demanding
our immediate care and that, in deal- ;
ing effectively with these, we can con- i
tidently rely upon the encouragement j
and assistance of every thoughtful and
patriotic citizen of the land, wherever i
he may live and whatever may be his I j
Ideas or predilections concerning tlie 1
more remote phase of the negro prob- '
lem These questions that are so im- '
mediately pressing have to do with the i i
practical education of the. negro and I
especially with fitting him to compete * .
with his white neighbors in gaining a
decent, respectable and remunerative I
livelihood. Hooker Washington, in !
speaking on the conditions and needs
of his race, has wisely said: 'It is at
the bottom of life we must begin and j
not at the top: nor should we permit
our grievances to overshadow our op- j
portunitlcs.' i
"In summing up the whole matter, j
there is one thing of which we can lie |
absolutely certain. When we aid Tus-!
kegee institute and agencies like it. j
striving for the mental and manual
education of the nefro at the south,
we are In every point of view render- j
lng hhn the best possible service. I
Whatever may beriisaiTimTte deJiemy
we are tbus helping to tit him for filling
his place and bearing Its responsibilities.
We are sowing well in the
soil at 'the bottom of life' the seeds of :
the black man's development and usefulness.
These seeds will not die, hut
will sprout and grow, and if it be
within the wise purpose of God, the
hardened surface of no untoward sentiment
of pejudiec can ore vent the j
bursting forth of the blade and plant I
of the negro's appointed opportunity |
into the hrii/ht Kimlicrltf of -a nlniifilncc !
day. '
I
OTITER srEECITES.
At the conclusion of his address Mr. <
Cleveland introduced Edgar G. Mur- 1
phy, who said: "I think that wiso j ?
men everywhere are recognizing In the '
principal of Tuskegee one of the great- 1
est moral assets In the life of our I
country today. The south has not np- 1
plauded him with undiscriminating 1
agreement or with monotonous,
thoughtless, profitless acclaim. The <
south has sometimes blamed him. Hut <
the south is too fair to him and to his I
race to allow these occasions of dis-1
agreement to distort the broad per- ; ^
speetivc in which she has viewed and i
appreciated that arduous public ser- ]
vice through which, for 20 years, in i
cheerful patience and unaffected i
modesty, lie has labored for the up- j t
building of Ids humble and untutored i
fellows. He has greatly done a great j <
work in response to a great need, j
North and south there have been (
those who have seen perial In the lie- <
gro'b progress, but If the progress of i
the negro bring peril with it that
peril is nothing in comparison with the i
perils attendant on the negro's ;
failure."
I?r. Lyman Abbott, who followed. <
said that the south deserved great :
credit for taking up as It had an un- i
tried problem, in helping the negro to |
help himself. "And the north," he , i
said, "lias given her scant credit, i
She has given him schools that the I
north has refused him and done many ! '
other things towards his future that
the north never thought of."
I>r. Abbott next spoke of the great |
work of booker T. Washington and
praised him in the highest terms, de- |
daring lie had done as much for the
white race as for thecolored race. 11 is
work had really brought, about tlie
union of north and south in the work
that he had taken upas his life task.
Quoting a remark made by Henry
Ward Hceeher, to the etTeet that we
should "make the negro worthy tirst
and then give him sulTrage," l>r. Abbott
said: "We made the mistake of
giving him sulTrage tirst and the unfortunate
negro has had to sulTer ever
since. What the negro wants is education.
It all depends upon education
whether the negro will l>e a shackle to
our feet or wings to our bodv.''
HOOK Kit WASHINGTON SI'KAKS.
Mr. Cleveland, in introducing!
Hooker T. Washington, the last
speaker of the evening, said: "I have
to introduce to you a man too well
known by every man in the United '
States; a man who has been spoken of
; too frequently and too favorably for it |
\ to be necessary for me to say more
than?here Is Hooker T. Washington." j
Hooker Washintou then spoke as I
follows: "The Tuskcgee Normal and (
Industrial institute at Tuskcgee, Ala. J
Is the outgrowth 0f the efforts of Gen.
3. C. Arm?.rung of the Hampton inititute
in Virginia. Gen. Armstrong
was one of tlie great seers and pro- *
phels who realized that the task of the
nation was not fulfilled when the
ihackles of physical slavery were
ttruck from the limbs of the millions
A slaves of the south. He realized 1
that nine millions of human beings '
itceped in ignorance, minus experi- (
Mice could be but free. He foresaw 1
that the nation must have a new birth i
ind a new freedom and that this re- <
generation must include the Indus- j
trial, intellectual and moral and re- (
ligious freedom of the ex slaves. r
"in this connection 1 am glad that i
we have another great American and j
Jhristian statesman in the person of 3
lion. Grover-Cieveland, who is maulresting
by his presence and words here 1
this evening that lie too is conscious c
>f tlie fact that the lifting up of the c
legro is not alone Tu. kegee's problem, I
not alone tlie soutlfsduty, but is tlie <
problem of the nation, because the
whole people were responsible for the
ntroduction and perpetuation of
American slavery, in behalf of our
itruggling race I want to thank you,
Mr. Cleveland, for your deep interest,
md to say to you that because of your
ntcrest and faith in us we shall see to
t that the nation is not disappointed
11 our progress nor in our usefulness."
PROGRESS IN FARM WORK.
Ih'liorl of I lie I'limting Operations of
the i'ast Week.
Mr. J. W. Ffciucr, section director of
die weather bureau, last week issued
iiis weekly report of farm operations,
^implied from letters from correspond?nts
throughout the State. He Bays,
n part:
"II appears tint the frost of the
>th reached to within a tew miles of
die coast, and that thin Ice formed
?ver the northern counties, but that
die damage was slight and was eonined
to white potatoes and other tenler
garden truck. Fruit escaped inlury.
"There were quite general rains 011
die 8th, heavy in the western and
inrthern counties, that delay farm
work materially by making the ground
wet to plough in the already
tamed divisions, where ploughing was
practicable on one or two days only at
lie close of the week.
"The rainfall was light over the
'astern hc'.f of the State, and farm
work was scarcely Interrupted by It.
rhe week closed with warm, cloudy,
.hreatening and showery conditions
jrevailiiig that are favorable for
rrowth of vegetation, but are unfavorLble
for the rapid progress of farm
work.
"Planting operations made favora>lc
progress In the eastern and southeastern
counties, where they are as
ar advanced as usual at this season.
In the western counties planting is
'rom 10 to 15 days later than usual,
ivith but little corn and no cotton
planted.
"Corn that was planted early is
eoming up to fair stands. ?nd some is
jcing cultivated, birds are destroying
itands in a few counties.
"Cotton planting lias not advanced
jeyond the central counties, and in
places in the eastern Is being purposey
delayed, awaiting more settled
weather.
"Oats look well in a few localities
>nly. Generally they have been seri>usly
damaged by a grain aphis and
>y rust. Some fields ore ruined.
"Wheat has an unusually rank
;rowth, but in places the plants are
turning red, in other localities rust
las appeared, both conditions tending
to mar its prospects.
"lticc planting has made fair progress.
except in tlie Georgetown district,
where tlie lands are still too
wet to work.
"Tobacco plants are plentiful and
;arly. Transplanting is actively utiler
way. Some farmers have almost
inlshed this work.
"Strawberry shipments are being
made from all the eastern truck districts.
"Melon plants are sickly in the
Jharlestun district, owing to defective
seed. Other truck crops are gr iwing
slowly. Hugs have appeared on white
potatoes. Pastures alford tine grazing.
i iuii (iius(n:uut itppciir iu ue uu- 1
Impaired, with, however, a few locall- 1
Lies that report peaches sparsely set." <
<
Too Many Wives. 1
Chas. 1>. .Smith who recently married
a young widow in Charleston and
was carried hack to his old home in ,
Monroe, Mich., on the charge of biga- j
my, pleaded guilty on Monday and ,
was sentenced to four and a half years
in the penitentiary. He had been (
married twice before coming to this
State and it was his second marriage
for which lie was convicted. When (
arrested in Charleston, Smith was mak- ,
ing arrangements to go in business in
that city. His last victim believed
in Smith to the last, as he assured her
everything would l>e cleared up.
I'aid 11 iin to Kick.
Isaac II. Stratum of Colorado
Springs, Col., realized $2.'lf>,000 net on
Thursday from $1150,000 paid him in
the compromise over the contest alxiut
his father's will. His lawyers got
$115,000, ex-Senator Wolcott receiv- |
ing $02,500 for his foe.
A Mvntery.
Further investigation In tlie de- j
fnlcatiou of James S. Campbell, late !
trt-a urer of Kichland county, now
deceased, reveals a shortage of $11,ooo.
Mr. Campbell was regarded as j
an honest man, and tho shortage Ua
mystery.
THE CRACKSMBN CONVICTED. f]
ineg l?) I'rlMon lor Five Yuart and ^
Pay u Fine.
After being out two hours the Jury
eturned a verdict of guilty Thursday
n the case against William MoKinley, ^
Charles Howard, Thomas Nolan and
Edward Dugan, in the United States A
;ircuit court, at Charleston, on the
charge of conspiracy, breaking into
)ostortlces and larceny of govermeut
unds. Immediately upon the anlouncemcnt
of the verdict, Judge Slnonton
sentenced the men to tive
rears in the peneitentiary and a line
1500 each. t
The trial last d exactly one week,
it began on Good Friday, which was
considered by some people as being a
imninous for the robbers. In all over fc
00 witnesses were put on the stand. ^
)f this number, the defense put up
ess than a dozen and these were only s
o prove an alibi for the accused. The ^
awyers for the defense did not at- w
,empt to sustain the private character si
if the men, which the government n
iuii^iuii-u casuy ny me many witnesses.
In fact, Nolan, the only one
?r the defendants who was put on the f<
Land, did not nesitate to admit that d
ic was of the sporting fraternity and ];
.hat lie made his living by gainhling. '
The Columbia witnesses gave cer- r'
,aln testimony of the disreputable j
ilaces which the accused frequented. '
rhe lawyers for tlie defense pitched r
.heir case on the common principle of *
aw, that the case against the men
ihould be proven by facts, which they ^
lharged had not been shown, and not
laving been proven to be guilty, the s'
nen should be judged not guilty. The ^
mrden of proof was put on the govirnment
by the lawyers for the deense.
It was gladly accepted b> the J1
government attorneys and they made
i strong pre-ent.?tion of their testinony
for the jury to pass upon.
The case has been followed with n
nuch interest, not only in Charleston,
iut through the State and especially ('
n the several communities where the .
xistofHces were robbed. The defend- !l
inLs have shown that they had friends *
ind means, by the employment of V*
Messrs. Nelson and Karle of Columbia,
tnd 11 a good < ?f Charleston, to represent
them, for without gool hacking ^
hey could never have made the de'ense
that they did. It is understood !?
hat some of the sporting fraternity .
!\*en followed the accused to Charleson.
attending the trial and giving .
luch assistance and encouragement as 8
vould come 'from their presence, not
0 speak of the financial aid which J?
,hey contributed. The trial has been
1 lung hearing, but the case has not ;l
>een without a good deal of general j
nterest, and every day the large court e
oora was crowded with spectators. :l!
S|
The Murtler of Gov Goebcl. h
The facts connected with the assas- P
.ination of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky a:
ibout two years ago, are slowly com- G
ug out. Frank Cecil, who is under
ndictment for complicity in the crime, tl
s a witness at the trial of Jim How- st
ird, who is charged with tlie mur- h<
ler. Cecil only recently surrendered tl
limself to the commonwealth, after ei
joing a fugitive for a year in Califor- w
lia and Honolulu. He is now under y<
wiiu. c.ecu 1 a story substantially t<
,he same as the testimony of Culton, b
iolden and Broughton, former witlesses,
who detailed, and alleged plot ai
x> bring about the death of Goebel. fit
>cil says Caleb Powers adopted the h
suggestion of Henry Broughton that g'
le tCecil) might be contracted with to gi
:ommit the crime and asked him to
10 it. Continuing, Cecil said. "On
lanuary 30 I was in Taylor's office and
Taylor said: 'Goebel has to !> killed n
?r I'll be robt>ed. 1 have $2,.r?O0 of b
.he campaign fund and I'll give that d
md a free pardon to the man who a
vlll kill him. "I told Taylor I was n
lot in that business," said Cecil, h
Jeeil said he went into the agricultur- ?
11 olllce after the shooting and was a
.here until the soldiers came, lie *
aw Harlan Whlttaker arrested and o
imposed to help take Whlttaker away p
'roui the man who had him. The h
Taylor referred to by Cecil was the h
Republican governor of Kentucky p
Alien Goebel, who* bad been elected t
Juvernor to succeed him, was murder- 1
;d. He ran away from Kentucky* to a
<eep from being tried, and is now a n
resident of Indianapolis, the Gover- p
lor of Indiana refusing to honor a r
requsitiun for his return to Kentucky, h
viiere lie is under indictment as one
jf the murderers of Gov. Goebel. a
Jccils testimony puts Taylor In a bad t
lights before the country. s
Million Doiiur Kire.
II
A dispatch from Beaumont, Texas, j r
iays a careless workmen kicked over a ^
lantern at one of the Caldwell oil a
wells on block ;<*. 1 logg-Swayne tract, (j
on Spindle Top Wednesday and start- i
2d a tire that resulted in the loss o u
property valued at $1,000,000 and the ^
bankruptcy of 20 or more of the small- ^
it companis. There were 17.1 wells on (j
the three blocks of the tract and only r
five of the derricks and pump house ^
are left standing- Every company r
that had property in the Hogg- i
Swayne tract is a loser. The tire f
swept the three blocks covered with \
derricks and pump houses clear of all j
its buildings. The derricks left are on
the edges and are few and far be- ^
tween. None of the companies had a (
cent of insurance. j t
.\ Fearful Accident.
Enoch and William White, two,
brothers, attempted to plug a hole in } (
an iron furnace at Bristol, Ya., Wed- j 1
nesday before all the molten Iron had i
passed out. The iron exploded it, |
covering the faces and bodies of the <
men and burning deep holes in the i
llesh. The scene w*s sickening. Both <
will die. 1
tm ^ k
rELLS OF THE CRIME.
lenry Youtsey at Last Makes a fall
Confession.
AMES HOWARD KILLED OOEBEL
ind, Said Yoateoy, "Oo?. Taylor Directed
Kverythlng We Did." Regarded
am Deader by th e
A?aealna.
James Howard is now on trial for
lie second time at Frankfort, Ky.,
jr the murder of Governor Goebel bout
eighteen months ago. Henry
!. Youtsey Thursday for the first
iine told on the witness stand ids
U.?ry of the killing. He named James
IllWnrH tlll> llnfonrld >if no ??" ?"
, v.?v %tv?vuvauuU| cw* UllC lliUll
'ho Hred the shot. Youtsey satd he
iw Howard for the lirst time a few
ilnutcs before the shooting. Howard
ad a letter sent him several days beire
by the witness at Gov. Taylor's
ictation. Youtsey says he took
toward into tlie office of Caleb l'owers,
hen secretary of state, which had
een especially arranged for theshootlg.
lie showed Howard the Marlin
lie, tlie bullets and the window from
rhlch the shooting was to be done,
ie says Howard asked what he was to
et for doing the shooting.
"What do you want for it?" Youtjy
says he asked, and that Howard
lid he wanted a pardon for killing
feorge Ilaker.
"I told him he could have that and
lore too," said Youtsey. "About
hat time," said the witness, "Goeb 1
ime in the gate and 1 pointed him
ut to Howard and then ran from the ^
x>m. As I disappeared down the
tops to the basement I heard the
rack of Howard's ritie."
Youtsey said that after the shootlg
he passed through the State house
asemeut and a few minutes later
ime back into the executive buildlg,
from the east side entrance.
"I stayed in the office of Assistant
ecretary of State Matthews," said he,
for a few minutes and saw Matthews
reak open Caleb l'owers' office and
nd the guns that had been left in
Youtsey said that at the time of the
looting he was private secretary to ' ??
.uditor Sweeney but that while his
olitical status v/as not definitely
xed it was understood he was to have
good place under Taylor. "Gov."aylor,"
said Youtsey, "directed
verything we did. We regarded him
s our leader and he was morally re[xinsible
for all we did. We knew we
ad the governor and the pardoning
ower behind us and we were not
fraid of punishment for killing
oebel."
Youtsey, on cross-examination, said
lat after lie was arrested and later
>Ilt. t<> M)P ncnilpnt inru lin utill ImH
ope of gaining his liberty. lie
aought Yerkes would be elected govrnor
and would pardon him. Yerkes
as defeated, however, and about a
ear ago he decided to talk and did
:11 his story to Prison Physician Toin.
Youtesey said further that he had
n additional incentive to tell the
,ory, as Taylor, Powers and others
ad used him as a catspaw and scapeoat
and then deserted him when he
ot into trouble.
A UurKlMr Killed.
In a battle following an unsucccssx\
attempt to rob the First National
ank of Wainpum, Pa., early Saturay
morning, one man was killed and
other seriously wounded. The dead
lan was one of the burglars, and he
as not yet been identified. The
rounded man was Henry Willoughby,
Isiker, who surprised the burglars
rhile at work, llis injuries are serius,
but not fatal. Willoughby was
asslng the bank at an early hour on
is way to work when he was sudden7
confronted by a man, who at the
oint of a revolver ordered him to
brow up his hands and keep quiet,
le did so, but in bis right hand was
revolver, and a moment later both
jen tired at each other. At the reort
of the revolvers two other men
ushed from the bank and took a band
a the shooting.
The three-cornered revolver tight
roused the people in the vicinity of
he bank, and they were soon at the
cone of the battle, but before their
rrival the burglars tied. While the
nen had broken into the hanking
ooms they had not completed the _
Irilling of the safe and their attempt
t robbery was unsuccessful. Saturlay
morning the body of one of the
urglars was discovered in a vacant lot
n the upper end of town. As the
iiillet wound w;is near his heart it is
iresuni"d that iiis companions had to
Irag or drive their dying comrade
roin the bank to where lie was found.
Vhile he was dressed in only an ordilary
suit of clothes he was not shab>ily
dressed, and on his body was
ound a gold watch and $41 in cash.
iVillnughby was shot in both legs, and
t is supposed he tired the shot tiiat
tilled the burglar. Great excitement
irevailcd in the town and a posse was
>rganixod to pursue and capture the
nirglars.
Given Ten Yearn.
At Bamberg on Thursday Judge
iary pionounwu sentence on Joe Daids
forthe killing of J. B. King, givng
the prisoner ten >cars in the
[lenitentiaiy. Davis was found >;ullty
it manslaughter on Wednesday withjut
recommendation. This ends one
it the must widely discussed murder
trials ever held in Bamberg count.y