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HE GAVE UP. Allen Emerson, Murderer of Mi. Drake, Voluntarily Surrenders ENTERS ON LIFE TERM. A Rowan! of $1,100 Was Offered for Ills Capturo.-Hr Says Ho 1H Not Worried About, tho Crime Ho Com mittee], Hut Was Iteniorsoful Be cause lt. Was Suspected That Ile Had Hoon Aided hi ICscupe. Allon Knierson, convicted, mur derer, refugee from justice, with a Standing reward of $1,100 for his capture dead Or alive, gave himself up to the authorities of Anderson county and donned the garb of a convict at tho South ?Carolina Peni tentiary. Ile was 111 lllditlg foi' live months and np lo (hf very minuto that he walked ont into tin-, middle ol' the lone public road in I lie soul beril part of Anderson county last Satur day night, and retooled himself to an oflieor ot' tho'lnw his whereabouts were a niysleiy to the authorities. rcmcrson was delivered io tho pen itentiary authorities Monday after noon at 4:30 o'clock hy Sheriff 1 drei ii of Anderson county. ICmerSon was shaved and got the regulation ? hair cut and a brand new suit of ' stripes and was registered on the en try hook as No. I7,G29. Aller being 1 weighed and measured and a general inventory registered l?morsou sat j down and told the following story of 1 his escape and wanderings: ; "I did Sheriff Cheon a dirty trick by breaking ont of j::il and going olT 1 leaving him to bo criticised/1 said E] merson. "1 never hid a belier 1 friend in all tho world than thal man. and 1 haven't got a hotter friend than bim today. I was a 1 long ways from home I don't caro to say exactly where when my con science told nie thal 1 mus! come ' bach and give up. 1 had figured oil going farther, Cod knows whore just farther away. Hui that though! that 1 had done Sheriff Creen a low down trick stayed with nie, 1 saw in the newspapers whore ho was sus pected of aiding mo. Finally I made up my mind to como hack and from the day J I urned my tracks in this direction 1 never for a minute thought of turning hack. The near er I got to my old home tho helter 1 felt. "Saturday I roached the Savannah river and rowed across in a bntleati. 1 had two good pistols with me, load ed all around, and no one looking for the big reward should have tak en ino. I had made up my mind lo conni back and surrender and 1 did Hot want, anybody io gol any pf the reward. 1 didn't want Sheriff OrOOU ol' the State or the relatives of Hu man that I killed lo have anything to pay. 1 just wanted to give up. "I made up my mind ot go lo tho house of Will Adanis, a magistrate's constable, who liVos about l ;: miles from Anderson. 1 was on my way 1 to his house when I met him in the road. Ho was in a buggy. I don't, believe he would have recognized mo bul 1 called out and asked if that ? was Hill Adams and he said il was. I told him who 1 was and what my I pUI'pOSO was. HO said he would he ' glad to lake nu; to Sheriff Creon's and turned bis buggy around righi 1 Ihme in tho road and cari ?ed pie I Straight to tho sheriff s, house. li? I told (hp sheriff thai 1 surrendered i to him on the terms that no reward I was to be paid. "I was sure glad 1.0 ire! back and l put myself in Sheriff Creon's hands again. lt's an awful thing to bo in i this place but i feel better than I did any day 1 was away because the i thought, that I had done my best i friend an injustice left, mo it just made me miserable and if I hadn't : Como back' I never would have seen any peace. I wouldn't be in tills trouble now if I had listened to that man, but that's done and lhere ain't DO use to talk about that now. "lt wasn't the crime that worried two. I killed Drake and tho. Judge sentenced me hero, for lifo and I am hore to serve my sentence. 1 don't bel (OVO I should have been found guilty of murder In Hu- first pince, but I am here and t'VO got nothing to say against ibo court's decision now. lt wasn't tho crime, but il was tho thou ghi thal I had done Sheriff Creen a mean trick, that brought me hack-and tho Jailor 1 want to char thom boll:." (Omorsoil waa asked to tell about Iiis escapo, and Ibis is his story about that feature of tho affair: "I was in the upstairs part ?d' tin? jail and nobody else was np there. Ono day, about a week. I guess, be fore, I got out. some plumbers were up there fixing Something about Hie newer and they had to go back to tho court house for some tools or something. They loft their thines in Ibo jail and while they wore gone 1 hid a pi COO of the solder. Tiny never mlsod it. anyway I never hoard' anything about, il if they did. "I know the shape <>f tho key thal unlocked (he door which led up Ibo upstairs ((dis for I had been de pilly sheriff under Sheriff Creen two years and had handled Ibo key hun dreds of times. I wont to work on that piece of sohier to make a key. THE RACE ISSUE Discussed Before the Member; of the General Assumbiy. MORE WHITE PEOPLE Needed In this Minto.-Bees in This thc Only Solution of tho Hace Question.-Constitution of i?i>5 Was But a Temporary Subterfuge Which ?Must Loose Kllieiency. Favors Immigration. Before several hundred people Senator H. U. Tillman Thursday night delivered In tho State capitol aa address on Immigration as lt hf-' leets the rare question. Ile spoke in responco lo an invitation from the muterai assembly. The address Inst od not unite two hours and was closely followed hy those present. Nh; utterances on thc Immigration question are" perhaps his il rsl from ti platform in this State and w'ere therefore of particular Interest tp the mem hers. On the race problem tho senator touched. argulug in the main l'or a repeal of the 15th auiendmeal of the , ?oust Huil?n of the United States, , hut his nmin argument was thal ? .louth Carolina needs more settlers , if tho right sort, the kind author!- , ?ed in tho act creating tho depart ment of agriculture, commerce and immigration, and the only way to ! .-ct these selliers ls by advertising ( Lhe ndrantagou of South Carolina- , i plan now being used in tho West; where there are also many advan- . Lagos, where wages are higher and whore tho negro is not mel in com motion. ( Senator Tillman anayll/ed the re suit of bis lectures ia the North, told . :>f tho dlsappearonco of sectional j reeling and closed with a st ron .' plea . roi more education of the whites, ( nailing attention to tho growing ex- ( tent of the education of the negroes, . pointing out the fact that tin: con stitution of 1805 was only a lem- , porn ry remedy and emphasizing lhe i growing dan;;er of the uso of thc , educated negro for political purpos e's. , After hoing introduced hy Lieut. \ Oov. McLeod ho expressed his grati fication on account of the invita tion and declared that be would try to comply with its terms. Mo bo- , lleves the discussion of immigration , and (he race question to bo so close ly Interwoven that ono can not t?o } handled without the Other. There is still a wide divergence of o|?inion on the race question, but he is not disposed lo quarrel with those who di fte rod with him. Mb ls wiil Ing to debate his views Willi any one. however, because ho liol loves lib h. rlgliti Ile is now three score years of arc and be had round that young men who were infants in tho nays of I lampton. Cary and 1 ST?*, are under taking to lay down rulos of con . iluct on the subject. Secs a Crisis. Ile hoi ie ves that the most dread ful crisis is ahead of us and claimed "A small knife which was loft in ! lhe jail hy II prisoner who had gone . ivas tho only (hing 1 had to work iv lt lt. I used this to cut the koy , nil of the solder. <if course, the i rsl limo I tried it it didn't work, ? ut hy turning it Iii the lock I could < ?' jnsl hoW and where il needed 0 he trimmed and cut and I kepi ?rt working at it until I had it all made sb it would db the work "About a quarter of one o'clock in the night of August 20, lO?t, I unlocked the door and slipped down tho stairway Into the Jailer's ellice, turned thc thumb-latch on the out ide door 'which ls not a steel door) md went out that and then climbed the wall and gol down by resting my foot on a little house which Blands Just outside the jail yard. "I won't say Just where I went to, no where 1 have hcen since I have got out, hut this I will say, 1 cross ed several States and ta one time I figured on going a mighty lom: ways from home only that thought about the trick I played on Sheriff Creen kept Working on me until I made vip my mimi to come back, and 1 Wit lit Od most of the way from where I was back to Anderson I slept ail right at hight, hui while i wau awake thc thin;'; troubled me. "There ain't a helter man in lhe world than Sheriff Creen and I atc just, as glad as can he that I cami hack. Il was a dirty trick, a mein, low trick and I am sorry I ever did lt. That man's been too good to mc for me lo treat him that way, hut lt ls all right now, as much all righi as I can make lt." Allen Linorson was convicted of having shot and killed Thomas 1". 1 Drake, A Uglis! 1 1!. I DOC. Drake had ?a daughter to whom he hadn't spoken for til I rt COU years. The woman had married William Halley, who was al 'leged io have been the author of lier downfall. Hui Hailey disclaimed this ami deserted the woman. She two years later her ame a mot del and allen I'.nierson was alleged lo .have been Visiting ber claude:.lively. in cons?quence of her Immoral con duct, her father became completely estranged from her. Huit he could provo lt to an lnte.UJ ij'oul audience. Some have "m? ld there la no ruco problem ; that-lt was BOIV Od hy tho convention, of 18U.5; that tho negroes nro now quiet, why Bttr it up? Those very mon wore oppos- ' . .d lo this convention and as "1 war. imo of those who advocated tho con vention I have a right io speak and . ihow that everything ls not quiet." lt IK true that the new constitution lisqunllflcd many negroeH and that ' he government ls now conducted by vhito men, but bl? analysts or con? lltions ls that despite the education ii and sn if rage qualifications, the r?pudient ls only temporary, not a ?emedy but tho best that could be 1 lone at the time. Therefore he want- I ucl to warn the people that the terms ( of tho constitution requiring u man { to read and wrlto or pay taxes on <:',D0 ol' property before he could ' .oto. might react. The report from S "very county showed that moro ne : groes were going to school than , white children. There are more of : hem. Ile reviewed the work of the con- ' titutional convention of 1 SOS, which t lie aid was atti nded by throe-four- ( hs negroes, and,.nearly all tho car- .. aothaggei'S. The people, seemed to oiiiet thc negro rule of eight .long ' voa rs thai followed. Of course this ." ran liol return, hut something worse ? cnn. The school attendance by the . negroes shows that," at our expense,' i hey are now golling Un- ability to read and write and can comply with ? ibo roqulroiuonis of tin- constitution, , Ile was liol olio to object to their i oductillon, bul bow long would lt .be f, before enough of them can read and J write to equal the white vote tuid,... lu-u balance the power? Ile was (, int objecting to the negro schools; s he wauled to emphasize this, but ,, hey aro here. . Tin? i-iib and ir>tb amendments ?J ire staring us in the face and the s Southern people are manacled to t hom. With the millions of dollars ?, loing poured into the South for no ire education it can not he denied j, hat in the future there will ho a ? strong struggle for mastery no ^ loubl urged by unprincipled white (. nen who wish power. And yet lt is (. -.barged that "Tillman is running up ?nd down tho country making money j5 n lectures on tho rac) que-aam. ' u Those who believe this were ell a rac- p orl'/Od as either ostriches, who hid j from danger by st iking their hoad.-, j in the sand, or fools. , Nothing has saved the South from (? ho uogro being the balance of power nit Die Democratic primary. He re- , ferrod to North Carolina and "the | .aptnre of that State by Pritchard." , .Jiicll a thing would not happen in (1 South Carolina in his day. c Immigration tho Comedy. Coining to a question of remedy he t wanted to say first that tho problem | litld not yet berni safely solved but be c believed there was only one ans'.v-i Lo the question -tho white race must tie reinforced. We have no race michie or divorce and we have tho j turest blooded citizenship in America villi the inost glorious history. All his should nerve us to got at once nore Will to men and women in South 'andina. In his travels across tho > .uniment In- had noticed that other ' - tales want more sei Hers and a gre.il nany of these States have far more idvaillagOS ami it could be easily un Icrslood why the people are not ?renk lng their necks to get. hore, !' lt's a good State, but a great ninny ?Oldblooded people will see the gul- *S cys and tho swamps and may go ^ "lsewhero." However there are things in this Utile WO have to offer and these ?ul qihtages can lu; displayed, ile has ! Olliul people who do not want new comers, lie would like to adopt Huit hoOry, but conditions are such thal . eltlers an- needed and are nocssary. 1 \s lo what kind ar best, ho declared bat he had a fellow feeling for tho " .higlisli, ('.orman und Irish, having hat blood in his veins. Ile, however, r a going through this Slate was trink with Hu; good stock, [ho purer ilood and the fad thal every i ill- (' ..en was proud of Ibo Stale. Aloro of (' his kind aro needed. ' Tho general assembly a lew years igo passed a bill foi a department of ' inmigration. Now what is wanted ' ne homescckers. Those of us who lave thousands of acres of land and H ne facing labor trouble with thc logr?os, realizing that th?? negroes ire more and more Independent, 1 know that something must be done. % The difficulties grow day by day and what would he tho result of an InllllX J >f 200,000 people who seek to ho- 1 [.onie South Carolinians? 1 Can WO expect them to come hero, ' liowover, When th'' advantages ol' the ' West, with its high Wilges, are being 1 constantly advocated everywhere and . ?lu- government spending millions of . dol?ais on the desert land'.' He had 1 served notice, however, thal if this ! government was going to pul waler : on the desert lands ol' the West he ! expected Ibo government to I; ko Hu 1 water ott' ol the lands ol' tho coast ol : South Carolina. Itu! suppose this is 1 done. The settler will lind the no- 1 gio there, live and lb to one. lie believes firmly that immigration ls Hie solution. True, he did not bo- : Iii ve in the certain classes now pour ing Into the country, bul the oilier kind make good citizens and they are needed. l 'i fleeiK b Amendment. When l.ee Barrendero I al Appo mattox wo knew (hat Hie (Inion wai; one and I bal slavery existed no h tig er. Hut we did not know that BOC? (Ional haired would make tho North forgo! all the long past and declare Hu-, negro as good as (lie while. While ItndtohMsht has |>e?h thrown off temporarily there ls only one ?rio? / LOCKER CLUBS iver in Georgia Wiil be Put Out of Business. nit?1?' States Judge Speer Itu les that l'?ach Member of Thom Munt l'ny Twert y-Five Dollars Licenser. A dispatch from Savannah, Qa., to ho Augusta Chronicle says "trou >lo of a deep nature la looming ahead or the locker clubs of Georgia hose 08668 in tho desert Into which he prohibition havo converted the Unto, and unto which those who aro ;ore at thirst are wont to wend their vay. ' "This trouble Is not that which Is inking in tho approaching session of he legislature, but it awaits the iuiis lu tho tomi of the United Untos court for the Southern district. >f Georgia, which ls to convene in hivannuh on February L'u. Judge Omory Slicer sounded tho docket for he Jenn. tte will iel urn (ci hold unit beginning February L'o. "Asked about tho status of tho ocher clubs in Georgia, Judgo Speer .a'used surprise when ho said that ie \,auld chiirge t ho United State tr add jury thal tho dubai are rou lneted in opposition to the statute ?quirillg (hat each place when? li |Uor ls.sold or dealt in in any way hall pay a license of $26 to the red ial government. lOacli and every itembor of tho clubs, said Judge ?peer la, nader the law, liable for I neb a license. Ho is required to I alto Out such a license and to post 1 ll a conspu ions plata?. ? "Thus far the members in no case ? laye compiled with the law, and the t udge says he will charge the jury to < iivestiguto this omission, This, of i ourse, means tho death of locker lu bs. "Judge Speer said tho Impression i rovalls up tho Slate that no Savan ah jury would take cognizance of allures io observe the prohibition tlW. This, he is not Inclined to liC lOVO, hC said, for ho had found Sa annuli citizens ovor ready to do their uty as jurors. '.However, the judge naively con Inued, that If he found it necessary ie might call upen the 'sturdy yeo nanry' of Bullock, Fnianuel, Screv n and other neighboring counties ti) onie to his aid in enforcing the law. "lt Was quito evident that Judge ?peer was fully Informed of thc ra lbi mushroom growth of locker lubs In Savannah." t YOUNG MAN MURDKKRD. Us Gun ami Garments Found in all Negro's House. Tin* dead body of Thomas Farr, IS ears old, was found a short distance ] rom his homo in Ontop county, the . ther morning, with a gunshot wound ii bis heart, Young Furr left home tho day be orb In the early evening riding a Hilo. The animal returned at dsy Igllt, riderless, With blond Oil the addle. A search revealed the murdered Ody in ll Held and, later Farr's gun. agethcr with blood-stained gannon ts ..ere found in tho cabin of Susie VultB, a negress, near the scene of ho cr Imo. The woman, together with a ne ro man, Charles Stratford were ar ested, charged With the murder of he >onng man. I 'mite and permanent remedy lhe epeal of the ?5th amendment. Ile was told that ho was tue only , lout berti representative who advo-1 ated tills. Ile had talked to hun-I reds of .Northern audiences und j oillld that they had very lillie use or tim negro, although tlu-y wanted! ii;; vote and ?in? consequently very! lollte to the colored brother. ll was a question with him, he ?lld, whether or not it was not Hmo or (he South to unite and call for he repeal of this amendment, if he South never asked for lt they VOtlld never get lt. In roaming over the land be was ible to hiing Ibo news hack that rec ional feeling was dead. There were i lew old men who still cling lo (he lld ideas. Hut thero are many who lave COIllO South during the Span :ii-American war, have Invested heir money heia? and have visited lore and they have tho sanio Ideas ,ve have. Ho claimed that ho had Housed mon? enthusiasm In Wiscon illl than here on the matter of white iiiprcnuicy; he had followed his old dyle ol' hand primaries and usually wen rod a unanimous vote, it ls now i question of nerve or courage to BO lUire a repeal of (his amendment and the South should demand lt. Ile wishes lo have credit for fore sight Ile wanted, however, to press upon the people the fact thal the lime will come when the negro vote In Ilia South will count. Moro white men are needed and we can not gol them we must say lo the North that this amendment must be repealed. The question must be pressed upon I hem ben uso the North knows noth ing about it. 13v?ry dav lie BOOB evidence of more and ?aue friction between the races. Ile had no purpose of creating more of lt, hut all that he wished lo say was thai South Carolina would novor BUbmIt to negro domination. t BRUTALLY. ASSAULTED. Hit in tho Hood With n Brick ou tho Street. A Sumter disputch says Mr. Law rence Du DOBO of tho Meehanlcsville Section waa going down south Mar vin street Tuesday night ut 7 o'clock he was assaulted by a negro and his skull crushed hy ?a brick. Ho WHS taken to tho Suinter hospital and is tn n very critical condition, hlb skull being KO crushed that lt rests upon the brain and a very delicate opera tion had to be performed. From all that can bo learned of tho affair Mr. Du Hose was in com pany with a Mr. Musterllug and they were going to the Coast Dino Passen ger depot. It is said that thc nergo ran against Mr. Du Bose on tho street and then attacked Mr. Du Hose. Mr. Masterllng went to the residence of Alderman P. P, Pinn, told him of tho attack and asked that n physi cian bo culled, which was done Im mediately, Dr. Walter Cheyno re sponding. Westerling is said to have mys teriously disappeared after the as sault, and it. is alleged he took the train. 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