The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 29, 1905, Image 4
THE SAD STORY \
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Of Tom Culbertson, Who Busted *
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Monte Carlo Bank And i
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COMMITTED SUICIDE. *
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He Woo One Hundred and Fifty Thousand ,
Franca aud the Next Morning He '
Was -Found Dead Clasping a 1
Woman's Red Morrocco
. Pocket Book. (
Montk Carlo, June '23.?Tom Culbertson,
from Texas, murderer and i
uloide; Marietta Tortnl Culbertson, |
of New York and Texas, strangled
and robbed; the bank of Monte Carlo
"burst" and the prince of these realmH
and the French republic richer by
150,000 franos because the bank-burst
er burned up his winnings -such are
a single night's happenings In "gay"
Monte Carlo.
As your correspondent stops at the
Hotel de Paris, opposite the Casino,
where the tragedies were, In part, en
acted, he Is In a position to supple
ment the scant cable reports.
At 4 o'clock yesterday morning most
of the second story lodgers of the
"Paris" were awakened by a pistol
shot. My room mate said at once:
"It's a colt, I smell copy," and basil
ly donning our trousers we ran out in
the hall. The lights had already been
turned on full blast. Watchmen,
night clerks, scrub women, porters,
eto., came scurrying up the stairs. A
hundred questions In a dozen tongues.
Every door on theeorrldor was stores
slvely^rlod, the occupants responding,
save that/of No. 13.
"iBun.t'ln the door," cried several
excited guests. Not neccessary, It was
unlocked. The room was pi toll dark,
but the fumes of powder and burned
paper meeting us a we entered, indl
oated that we were on the right track
I turned on the electric light. On the
lounge, fully dressed, was a man's
body.
}iV (t? tlin A worlnnn toVia
? + ? uuv ?Lutviiv/aU| n iivy uuint
the bank," I heard the night clerk
whisper.
Indeed, Tom Culbertson, of Texas,
the man who promised me "a big
story" only a few hours before. Here
was the story: A hole large enough to
admit one's thumb in his right temple.
From the wound blood was ooz
Ing lazily, but a minute ago it must
have gushed forth like a fountain.
There was a big pool on the carpet and
in the midst a giant colt revolver, lying
below the now lifeless right hand
The left, raised to the heart, clutch
ed a red something, a woman's pom
pad&ur, velvet and gold, It proved to
be. Strange, the silken carrying cord*
were cut.
Meanwhile a police sergeant and
three Carablnlerl had marched in.
They took charge of the body, the
room and the semi-dressed mob tilling
It. The sergeant held a whispered
conversation with the manager and
nlghtclerk. Then he demanded aloud:
"Does anyone recognize this dead person?"
Half a dozen men and women responded
and your correspondent deposited
what he knew about Tom Quibertson's
story in Monte Carlo. Followed
the preliminary investigation.
As to the body : Life had beeu extln
gulshed some tifteen or tweuty mlnu
tes. Contents of the pockets: A box
of cartridges, some American silver
coin and a blood stained hankerchief.
The ofllcer dispatched his men to
guard the doors. He also sent for assistance.
"Until further notice, 1
will be obliged to regard you as my
prisoners," he said politely but tlrmly.
Please take notice that not a soul is
permitted to leave hero." The order
was not surprising. At eleven p. m.
Tom Culbertson had 150,000 francs of
the bank money. Five hours latter
he was dead, maybe murdered, and
not a hundred-franc bill left. The
guest prisoners were requested to withdraw
to ono part of the very large
apartment, while the sergeant and
_. . ^ _ hotel oflloials continued the search for
Che missing fortune. Suddenly thev
came upon a lebter stuck behind the
rate card at the door, ad reused to the
hotel keeper. "The A raerican reporter
living on the same floor, will translate
this for you," said a note In the
oorner of the envelope.
"To the Hotel Keeper and to Whom
It May Concern: 1 am Tom CulberbBon,
of Texas, was a well known cotton
planter up to ten years ago. Having
no relatives, the authorities can
do with my carcass as they please;
better sell It to tne saw-bones to pay
expenses. As the story of my life con
veys valuable lessons to old and young,
the American newspaper chap whom
I met in the cafe yesterday, may have
It for what it is worth. #
"Ten years ago when on a business
trip to New York, I met my destiny
In Marietta Torinl, daughter of an
Italian violinist. Her father used to
play in the Bowery cafes and restaurants,
Marietta accompanying him on
the guitar. I fell In love with the
girl at sight. She became my wife,
and after settling a comfortable income
on the old man, we moved out
to our lonely ranoh. I am a man of
40, she having just budded into womanhood.
1 tried my best to make
her forget the difference in our years.
Her faintest, Inarticulate wishes were i
oommands to me. I bought her every ]
thing she could think of, but in the 1
end had to reoognlze the fact that 1
was too old, too serious minded for my i
giri-wire. Frequently I round Marl- 1
etta in tears. She said she was very I
homesick, but I wouldn't let her go. |
She was my first, love, and the very j
thought of a seperatlon was madden- I
log to me. Then an angel oame to us, i
a daughter, beautiful as the mother.
But Marietta hated the child. She ]
often mistreated her despite my pro i
test. 1 upbraided, I threatened her, (
If she dared raise a finger against my i
child. 1
"This was the signal for much dot
msstlo unhapplness. One fine morn- i
)f lng Marietta was gone. My telegrams, 1
'ro. researoh by the authorities, thousands f
luct spent on private detectives did not r
aooou bring her back. But 1 had h the r
having The child was both mother arv?o Oran^ ^
and the right, tosu nmon witmennw names drt
Tie resolution proposes that th? del -gatiors
committee ibould L% empowered t<> the or atrc a
racks, for excitement at first, finally s
o eke out a scant and disgraceful 11 v- Y
og. r
This spring 1 happened to win a a
onsiderable amount at 'Frisco and a a
ood woman, whom I met there, per- 1
uaded me to try and begin a new, a t
>etter life. I calculated that to do so, (
must have money and resolved to go f
o Monte Carlo, to win a fortune. If s
uck smiled upon me, I would reurn
and begin all over in the cottcn I
msiness. <
"A week ago I set foot in this earth- I
y paradise, and had no sooner done so I
when, for somo reason or other, my
nind and heart became flooded with
eminiscences of Marietta. I thought
of her all the time, saw her everywhere.
Hvery fresh red mouth seem- I
ad to be Marietta's, in every dark, i
Hash eye 1 recognized Marietta's.
"Yesterday, late in the afternoon,
as 1 was going up the Casino steps, i
l.hniiirht I uaui hor :> IiivaIv viulnti nn
the arm of one of those International
dandles with which Monte Carlo is
running over. I felt sure it was her,
my poor, beloved, deluded wife. She
sTilled, she coquetted, she behaved
outrageously, i heard her laugh?
ah, It was Marietta's laugh. She passed
a remark within my hearing. So Marietta
used to talk.
"1 felt that 1 must not risk my all
while excited and for half au hour or
longer wandered about aimlessly In
the gardens. There was a good breeze
from the bay and the salt air finally
restored my equilibrium 1 ventured
to the Casino. "Try black," an inner
voice advised. Black lost. I forced
it. 'Nolr perd!' announced the reu
lette manipulator live or six times in
succession. The gold in my pocket
was getting low. I was just think
ing of quitting when I heard behind
me the frou-frou of silken skirts,
when I perceived Marietta's laugh,
her voice. And I gathered up all I
possessed in the world and put it on
black.
" 'Nolr perd!1 I was a beggar in a
strange country, with nothing to look
forward to but death. (Quietly, re
slgnedly I walked out to take my
r.-. ^I A., I ,1 ? I..I#
IU^UIUILIU. /vn OUUIl US 1 IUUI1U U lltfcll
way secluded spot, I would end It all.
Once I thought 1 had discovered a
place of safety, but a carablnleri,
making the rounds, cuased me to move
on, and not knowing the roads 1 found
myself, after a while, In the neigh
borhood of the Casino again. 1 was
about to sit down for a moment's
rest, when 1 espied an elegantly
dressed woman on a nearby bench.
She had the sylphllkc, yet luxurious
figure of my Marietta, she had Ma
rielta's eyes, her hair, I saw It all In
the blazing arc light, And as 1 faced
her, she Instinctively recognized me.
" 'Mother of my dead Maud,' 1
whispered hoarsely, 'so 1 found you at
last '
" 'Don't make a scene, she re
turned; let's go where It's quiet and
talk It over.' 1 took her to the outskirts
of the park, from where the patrol
had just driven me. It was safe
now.
"'And there 1 talked to her like a
father, like a lover and a father, In
every way 1 tried to move her cold
heart for our dead Maud's sake. But
the minute she saw that I was softening,
her diabolical spirit returned.
She called me crazy, mad. She said
such as herself, beautiful, young talented
was not for such as I, old grizzled,
wedded to life in the semi desert.
And then the devil took hold of me,
too: I reached for my revolver. Ma
rletta tried to call for help but, .losing
all self control, 1 took hold of her by
flsA .SAAU o -4 1-J - - *
uno uuuiv. omj s^ruggiea, pusnen ner
bejeweled fan into my face. Her resistance
ceased, before I realized what
1 was doing 1 held a dead woman In
my arms.
"The fright, the horror of my misdeed
nearly killed me on the spot.
'Why didn't 1 use that revolver an
hour agoY' I m aned, 'then I wouldn't
have this orime added to my list of
deadly sins.
"Hut now; volcis In the distance:
they stimulated the instinct of the
self-preservation and I draped the
body further into the bushes. Then
as I bent over Marietta to take a last
look at her, I noticed the red pocket
book hanging on her arm. 'A souvenir,'
1 thought, they shall bury it
with me.' 1 cut the strings and,
prompted by jealous curiosity, pressed
the lock. I expected to find love letters,
men's visiting cards; I saw a
crisp thousand francs note. And my
thoughts of suicide were gone all at
once, the oraze of gamble, gambler's
madness seized me.
" 'Play red, red,' whispered the
voice of passion. 'This pocketbook is
your talisman, rouge means a fortune
to you.'
"I raised my hand to my feverish
temple and, withdrawing it, found it
red with blood from the wound Marietta
had Indicted upon mo with her
fan. More red, it was inevitable that
1 should win, I stilled the blood, clean
ed my cheek and walked to the C tsino
with buoyant steps. Entering, I re
garded myself in one of the high mirrors.
Nothing in my appearance recalled
the adventures of a few min
utes ago, recalled my crime.
"With the feelings of a winner 1
walked up to one of the Trente at
Quarante tables *f>00 on rouge.' 1 won.
1 left original and winnings on the
same card. 'Rouge again,' 1 won. I
left original winnings on the same
card. 'K >uge again,' i won. 'Rouge,'
'Rouge,' Rjuge,' ten thousand on
rouge,' 'twenty thousand!' I won and
won again 1 won. I won 20 litres,
and, by the Lord Harry won 25 times
and burst the bank of Monte Carlo.
"I burst the bank, I was rich, but
?the recollection struck me like a
bullet from a catapult?rich because
I had murdered my girl-wife. I was
happy beoauseshe was dead, and here,
under my coat was the talisman, her
red pooketbook taken from her dead
hands.
"Theso thoughts came to me only
after 1 had changed my load of gold
Into thousand francs notes. Up to 1
then. such Is the utter baseness of a
gambler's nature, I had actually enjoyed
my triumph, though never quite
forgetting that it was won at the ex j
pense of the dreadfullest of crimes. ,
Vet not until I had weighted all my (
pockets with papermoney, I realized |
ny situation In full: 1 was a mur- (
ierer, nay worse. I had taken the j
wages of my poor wife's sins to gain a c
'ortune for myself. ,
"Those who saw me throw away (
non'ey, in the safe last night thought t
[ was; 'celebrating.' As a matter of t
'act, I was anxious to get rid of as \
nany hundred and thousand francs f
totes as possible. May tbey do some j
;ood to the waiters and oUbsrs. a
"The money I could Jol spond, in ,
received cumco T ?
Me. half tons o
mi.h, af'oit c allotment | travel at t
pot Indicated, where it would have
>eeu discovered anyhow in the early
nornlng, when the Prince's police
oaroh the woods for suicides. The
lergeat recogni/. d Marietta as a well q
mown demimondalne, that hung
ibout the gambling establishment
luring the last two seasons. As
dated in the confession, she had bsen
itran gled. A
Today two fresh graves were filled
In the "Suicide's and Murderer's
Cemetery." The gambling concern
buried Tom and Marietta side by side
In the clothes they wore at the time
when fate overtook them.
The Prince of Monaco and the
French Republic who profited about fi
lf?0,000 francs when Tom Culbertson
burned his winnings, did not even c
send flowers. Kmilk Hkiidau. *
THE WAR 18 OVER. <
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The Confederate Dead Honored in 1
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WShcomhIm by Union Veterans.
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The Atlanta Journal says Qover- <
nor Terrell is in receipt of a letter
from the son of a Madison, Wis., 1
Grand Army veteran, in which he is i
informed that the graves of many i
Georgia Confederate veterans at Madison,
Wis., were cared for on National I
Memorial day, M iy 30th. The letter ,
was written by ll3rbert Slggelko, a
prominent attorney, who is first sergeant
of the Henry M&rndeu camp,
No. 2, S ins of Veterans.
The letter follows:
MADI80N, Wis., June 16, 1905.
To His Excellency, Tue Governor of
Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.
Respected Sir:?You are doubtless
aware of the fact that In our cemetery
are burled many Confederates who
died here while prisoners of war
Am >ng the number are many from
the state of Georgia. It give me
great pleasure to Inform you that on
Memorial day, May llOth, the graveof
these Confederate dead, as has long
been the custom, were decorated with
lljwers and uniformed s^uaiof Henry
Harnden Camp Nt 2, Sons of Veterans,
Ure:l three volleys In honor and
memory' of the Gray resting here.
The members of our G. A. It , Lucius
Falrchllfl Post No. II, marched Into
the enclosure and stood there with
heads uncovered while the excrolscs
*erc being observed.
1 am sure I voice the sentiment of
the old soldiers and of the veterans In
saying that bitterness and enmity towards
you who fought for the Confed
eracy has passed away forever and will
never again be harljored. We realize
that you of the south fought bravely
and CjOhCientlously, believing your
cause to be right, and the soldier of
the north fought In the same way, believing
his cause to be right. We
may clasp bands across the blcody
charm of war and bv word and by
deed we make known to one another
that we are brothers.
In submitting this, 1 have the
honor to remain,
Verv respectfully.
HkkiikutS. Siuoki.ko,
1st Sergeant, Henry Harden Camp
No. 2.
KILLED HY PIRATES.
Over One Hundred and Fifty l'eople
Hlain'on Tyherian Coaat.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
details of a terrible massacre by pirates
of 150 natives on the Tyborian
coast has been received In a letter
from Petropavlovski, on the coast of
Kamchatka. A M orogravlenof has
written to his brother, a resident of
San Francisco, that in the early part
of the year, the natives In one of the
small settlements down the coast ob
served a yacht, or schooner, drop her
anchor in the harbor, and Its coming
was hailed with cries of rejoicing.
Off the vessel came a number of
small boats. The natives could see the
crew pulling what they thought supplies
into the smaller craft. Then the
men pulled for the shore. During that
and the next day there was heard the
tiring of arms, and, later, smoke and
tire were observed. This led to an investigation
from Petropavlovski and
other towns on the coast, and a horrible
tale of pillage and massacre was
brought to light.
About the streets of the settlement
writes Morogravlenof, were strewn the
bodies of 150 of the inhabitants, shot
and cut to pieces. Under the pretense
of friendship the pirates had gained a
landing on the coast Robbery was
their motive, for every hut had been
ransacked, and anything of marketable
value had been taken. Who the ma
.'auders were, those who managed to
make their escape could not say, beyouod
giving the Information that
some Japanese were in the party.
When M uogravlenof sent his letter
the people of Petropavloskl feared an
attack on that town.
M?kliiK a Mpeeoh. 1
At Chicago S. P. Shcrln, formerly
stcrctary of the democratic national
committee, dropped dead on the il >or !
of the convention hall in the Auditor '
lum hotel while making an address be- 1
fore the delegates to the convention 1
of the National interstate Independent
Telephone association Wednesday, of
apoplexy. Mr. Sherln was president of <
the new long distance telephone com- (
pany of Indianapolis, and had been sc- f
ltcttd by arrangements of the c ?m- i
mlttee to deliver the address of wel- (
come. lie bad prooceded well along ]
with his reading when he suddenly ,
ftteDDed backward and foil
a r wmm ?vi? %t\J UIIO b
floor, expiring within a few minutes \
Mr. Sherln, a moment before his col- (
lapse, rtmarked to Col. Powers, of
Louisville, temporary ohalrman, that <
he was not feeling well. S. P. Sherln, t
Jr., his son, was present wheo his {
father expired and immediately took c
charge of the remains. a
IjcH I'rlHon In Box,
llarry Hammond, a oonviot In the |
M ssjuri state penitentiary sent up .
from St Joseph in 1898 for fifteen years
for murder In the second degree, es
raped in a shoe-box, and but for the
fact that he had failed to provide suf- a
Ictent air holes would probably be a a
freeman. Hammond oonceah d him- v
telf In the shoe box In the prison fao- n
lory and was started on the trip to a
Jhlcago. At Cedar City, just across 3
<he river from Jefferson City, the box, 1
n which he was securely nailed up, 0
ay for some time on the station plat- 5
orm and the agent heard groans oom- s
ng from the box. The box was opened y
md Hammond was taken back to the
>enltentlary.
f COfll H imjr, c?iw v- t,i^_
he rate of four miles an J have to coB
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A GREAT FRAUD.
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maker City Banks Fleeced for About
One Million Pollars.
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l Bunker and Broker, Who Died j
Four Weeks Ago, Bought Gilt a
Kdgod Htocko and |liaised n
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Their Faoo Value. ^
At Philadelphia one of the mcst 8
ensatlonal cases of forgery that has
sver beon brought to light In tinancl&l c
'1 roles of that city was disclosed last ^
week when It was announced that
jertiQcates calling for small numbers c
)f shares of stock had been fradulent- 1
y raised to hundreds of shares, caus- ^
ing a loss to certain banks and trust v
companies of this city of from 1750,- t
)00 to $1,000,000. The forgery In- a
volves the name of Benjamin 11. Gas- kill,
who went to his grave four weeks *
ago. GasklH was the sole member of ,
the banking and brokerage concern s
known as Banj II. Gasklll & Com pa- 1
ny. He had ofllccs in the financial
district and his credit was considered {
gilt edged. i
Gasklll died about four weeks ago, 1
and at the time of his death he was '
believed to be worth about half a mil- T
lion dollars. lie left no will and ad- 1
ministrators began to olose up his <
business. A patron of the tirm, i
whose name Is not given, bought from <
the estate 100 shares of Philadelphia 1
Traction company stock. This was |
sent to the Philadelphia Traction
company's otllce to have the transfer i
icuuiuou. x ne cerwncate did not )
agree with the company's books, and i
an investigation showed that tne cer- <
UQcate had b'en ralsod from six <
shares to 100 The stook exchange. 1
of which Gaskill was a member, then
sent out notices to its members not to i
receive stook certllicates from the
Gaskill estate.
A further investigation brought to
light a surprising state of afTairs. It 1
was found that Gaskill had credited
himself on his own books with 6,000
shares of Philadelphia traction stock,
valued at approximately <600,000
while the traction company's books i
showed he had only 400 Bhares. It
was also discovered that he had raised
stock certificates of the United Killways
of New Jersey from 2 to 200 and
the certificates of the Frankford and
Southward Street Railway company
of this city from 2 to 20. The latter
stock is worth $450 a share.
Gaskill kept two accounts, one recording
the transaction of his customers,
which was correct, and another
giving his own transactions. Ills
hooks showed that he was losing from
$15,000 to $25,000 a year in his busl i
ness. lli.s method of operation was
to obtain certificates of gilt edged
securities calling for one, two, three
or some other small number of shares,
raise the figures and give them as securities
for large loans. At least sii
banks and trust companies of this
city admit holding fraudulent securi
ties for large loans. A financier who
has been making an investigation said
that the amount of money loaned on (
the raised certificates will aggregate
between $750,060 and $1,000,000. It
Is believed that very little will be
recovered from the estate.
DEATH OF AUiiT EA8TEB.
Said to Havo Been tho Oldest Woman
in the United States.
The oldest person in Augusta, and
probably the oldest In the United
States died Wednesday afternoon of
old age, says the Augusta Herald.
Eister Matthews was her name. She
was a colored woman and lived at No.
01, New Pine street?her age was 136
years. 1
"Aunt Easter," as she was called,
was b >rn In 1770, and while in slavery '
she belonged to a number of prominent
families of the olty. She had 1
for her last owners, the Clayton fam- 1
ily, and she often spoke of Mr. Tur- '
ner Clayton in her last days.
The old woman died from old age, 1
she never having an ache or pain in 1
her life. For the past 76 years she 1
had been living in the city, and has '
resided on Pine street for the past 20
years. The p< ople whom she was '
living with at the time of her death 1
claimed that she had never complain- 1
ed in the least of having an-ache or 1
pain. 1
One of the ways the old woman had ,
of telling her age was that she re- <
membered several years before the i
Springfield IVvptlst church was built '
In the city, and this institution Is 106 '
years old. She claimed that she re 5
membered when the spot where the 1
ehurch now stands was in a swamp.
The o'd woman was liked by all of
the people, both white and cjlored, as
ihe often interested them by telling
af the times she used to have in the J
lays gone by. Her recollection was J
perfect, even In her last days.
Crew to Blaine. f
The railroad commission Wednes- 1
lay tlnlsiied its report to the Leglsla- a
ture on the wreck of the Ogden t
ipedal at Greenville. The rep >rt ful v
v sustains the position of the railroad e
>ftlcla)s that the blame attaches to r
(engineer Hunter and Conductor t
(Vcker of the speoial for failure to ob e
serve the rule which required them p
o Cftme Into the Greenville yards un- a
ler full control. It finds this rule Is II
'In accordance with the best practice h
>f standard American railways, and t
.hat it Is wise and best calculated to k
>romote safety." The report lets the p
ire.w down with this finding: ''It u
appears from the evidence that they
lad been furnished with the rules and
lad been examined on and knew them, j
>ut simply In this action at least misDterpreted
them." 1(
FrlRhtful Storm, ft
One death and damage to property
.mounting to thousands resulted from b
n electric storm and cloudburst, 0
rhich occurred at Tampa, Fla., Wedteaday
afternoon, beatrloe Collin, b
ged 7, was killed by lightning while y
landing in the door of her home. 01
?he roof of the Roberts building, oo- t]
upled by the Peninsula Telephone G
Exchange, fell In, smashing the h
wltchboard and Injuring several &
oung lady operators, none seriously.
HI llo?1 In a Wreck* a|
At Newlngton, Conn., three men ^
in a colllslon between two w
' 1 VtAlwa rvn I
WEATHER AND CROpi |
here Han Been General Improveluent
In Cotton Conditions. ,jy
In his last orop report Section Dlrecor
ijauer says the week ending June 1
9 had a mean temperature slightly
bjvo normal, with extremes of a
laximum of 98 degrees at Hlackville f]
n the 13th, and a minimum of 60 derees
at Greenville on the 13tb. The
unshine averaged about normal, alhough
In parts of the state there was ^
onslderable cloudiness the latter
>art. There were no destructive high
vlnds, or other damaging conditions
The precipitation was In the form
if thunderstorms and local showers.
Che ralufall was heavy in places In
he eastern oountles, where It ranged
rom half an inch to over two Inches,
vlth scattered localities lu all parts
>f the state that had no rain or
imounts too small to be beneficial.
There were some heavy showers In
ihe northern border counties, but they
ye re widely scattered. The need of
aln Is indicated for the central and
kjuthwestern counties, generally, arid
n places elsewhere.
Cultivation made rapid progress and
tearly all fields have been rid of grass
ind weeds, except where laborers
were scarce, or where the ground has
become too hard to plow and cultivate.
*he weather was favorable for >i?r.
vfcstlng wheat and oats, which work 1
s nearly finished except for spring
>*ts. There was a general Improve
ment In the condition of cotton, with
exceptions In the case of fields that
liave not been thinned or cleaned of
grass, but only In exceptional In
stances have the plants attained normal
growth, Inlng generally underlined.
Blooming Is still sporadic,
though fairly general In the eastern
aountles. Sea Island catton Is in good
condition, b it as yet blooming sparse
ly. Lice are still present In sections,
but are disappearing. Chopping has
not been tinlshed.
There has been only Rllght Improvement
In corn, which continues small
and yellow, except On fields that received
early snd thorough cultivatl >n.
There are many complaints of corn
tassellng low, and of damage by
worms. There 1a considerable land
yet planted to corn. There Is little
ohangc In the condition of tobacco
which shows the effects of too much
rain, and lack of cultivation. Lllce is
receiving Its harvest water In the Colleton
district, and is generally doing
well. Gardens and pastures need rain
In the central and western parts
Melons are quite promising. Wheat
Is yielding poorly at threshing. Oals
also are generally poor, but with
numerous exceptlops where the yelds
range from good to excellent. A large .
acreage of peas, for forage, being
sown, and more lands will be sown as
soon as it rains.
THE DIVORCE EVIL,
Saya Arohl>iHho|> Farley, In (JndoriiilntiiK
the Walla of Hocloty.
Archbishop Farley declared at Car
negle Ilall, in New York, one night
last week, at the commencement exercises
of St. Francie Xavler that the
evils of divorce were fast undermining
the walls of our scciety and that the
whole structure would shortly collapse
should no hand be raised to wa/d off
the advance of this tendency. The
Archbishop said in part:
"A continuance of the evil of di
vorce, of the slightest regard for the
marriage, must, shortly lead to the
downfall of sooiety, nay. It Is even
now falling, and must soon be dragged
in the dust. We see that It Is
going to pieces.
"President Roosevelt, who holds In
his hands the trust imposed by the
people of the United States, and who
wields his authority in no mistaken
manner, has openly announced how
he deplores the awful condition of society
in this r gard.
"1 believe no president since Wash
Ington's time lias made * more beneticlal
effects on the roots of society
and the family than Roosevelt has by
means of his frank declaration. Not
>nly does the president preach the i
doctrines lie believes, but he exemplifies
it in his own life, and his own
family stands as an illustratlou of
what the nation's executive thinks
and says of the race standards.
"It is likewise gratifying to find i
ihat the president has not contlned i
tils labors iu this direction to his own i
Mrcle, wholly, but the fact is made <
mown to me that the cabinet has i
,aken this question up and will deal i
with It. When the heads of our gov- i
irnment take up a problem of this I
(rave nature there can be no need of i
ihe people doubting that the ques
dons must be gravely considered, and :
we feel that much good will be done I
f eff jrt is properly directed." I
I
lightning Freak, .
During a thunder storm last Friday i
ivenlng, lightning struck a tree in the t
'ard of Mr. J. CJ. Martin of Donnalds. j
V clothes-line was attached to the t
>ree, extending by another, and was i
nade fast to a third tree within two t
eet of the house The current fol- <
owed the wire, striklrg all the trees, i
md lumped the space between the last r
ree and the house. It followed the 1
vail plate, wrecking c ilumns. brack t
ts, etc., until It reached the sitting t
oom at the opposite corner of th i
touse. Here it seems to have ground- r
d at three points, tearing up the s
Mastering and wainscoting. Fortun- 1
tely no one was In the house, as the v
Ightning entered that part of the o
lOuse most used. The nnh n,o.... ?
j ....UK l
hlng harmed watt a hen which was e
tiled while hovering her brood by a i
I liar of the house. Her ohtckens o
rere uninjured. c
lie 11 Ail to Uo. 0
At Rookwell City, Mo., because the "
lev. 0. II. Marsh, of the Baptist X
hurob, flirted with a pretty parish- .
>ner, Jealous members of his flock ''
allowed htm about and he was finally
jrced to leave Swaledale, where he
ad just been given a charge. The
ther evening Mr Marsh met one of 8(
he Swaledale girls, and went with g
er for a five-mile drive. He had pre q
lously been requested to leave the b
ouroh there because of his atten- ti
ions, and when he came to Rockwell u
Ity his new congregation watched a
im Five members followed him on b
five-mile drive, and when he dropped q
le girl near home, halted his buggy
ad told him they expected him to
lok out a member of his own ilook
hen he went driving. He is young
id handsome. J He has left town. ^
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30NFESSESTT"ALL
' & ?
legro Say? He Was Hired by the
Rawlings to Kill
PHE CARTER FAMILY j
ind Burn Their House After the Murder. ;
A Former Friend of the Rawlings 1
Gives Some Damaging Testi- 1
mony Against Them, Accusing
Them of Deed. i
What is believed to be the sequel to a I
'eud of long standiiik' resulted at Val- 1
losta, Ga., Tuesday night In the ,
issassl nation of the 17-year-old son (
ind the 16 year-old daughter of W.
Li. Carter, formerly a Baptist minis- 1
wjr. The young people were attracted '
ay the barking of a dog In the yard
lurrounding their home and went out
t?o Investigate, followed by a younger
jhlld. They were tired upon by some
yne from behind the smokehouse. The
young lady fell dead, the young man
bawled back to the house, where he
lied, and the younger child was
wounded. Carter tired upon some one
prowling in his yard early Wednes
day. He says the intruder was a negro.
He believes the assasssins are
negroes, but says others may have
been instigators of the orime.
A dispatch from Valdosta, Ga., says
A If. Moore, a negro, who was arrest
ed Saturday in connection with the
assassination of the two Carter chll
dren not far from that place last
week, has made a startling confes
slon lie declares that he was em
ployed by Riwllngs, a white man, now
under arrest f ir the crime, to aid in
the bloody murder which resulted in
the assassination of two children.
The negro says there was a plot to
kill th? entire Carter family and burn
heir home. * He declares that Milton
ilawllngs shot Carrie Carter aud thai
Jessie Rawilngs shot Willie Carter.
The victims were the 16 year-old daughter
and 17 year old son of W. L.
Carter, against whom, it is alleged,
the enmity of Rawllngswas directed
on account of a long-standing feud
The negro nays that Iti^llngs, be
fore leaving for Valdosta on the the
afternoon preceding the night of crime,
carried his supper to him in order to
keep htm from going home. A gun
with which one of the children was
killed was found near the scene.
' Tim McDonald, a well known citizen
of the Hahlra district, and a
neighbor to Rawilngs, came to Val
dosta on Saturday morolrg and
made a statement to Soli itor General
W. E. Thomas, which is more
damaging to the Rawilngs. MoDya
aid had been a friend of Rawlins,
but on bad terms with Carter, he hav
ing engaged in a tight with him a year
or more ago, in which he lull c ed a
knife wound on Carter that came near
being fatal. Presuming on McDonald's
bad feeling toward Carter and
friendship for himself, R\wlin^s talk
ed freely to McDonald of his enmity
to Carter, and threatened the hitter'*,
life, and made an implied threat to
murder the entire family. He went
to McDonald on the day after th
tragedy to borrow money, saying thai
he had been to town to get itlMbut
was unable to do so, and must have a
considerable sum. Riwllngsalso went
to McDonald on the day of the tiage
dy to get his gun, which lie had loaned
to the latter some time before.
The Carter children were shot to
death last Tuesday night in their yard
at Ilahlra by assassins who tired on
them under cover of darkness from behind
the smokehouse. Mr. and Mrs.
Carter and their children, unconscious
of danger, were pleasantly conversing
In the sitting room of their home.
About 9 o'clock the bark of the famlj
ly dog was heard and the father rose
to investigate. At the same time,
the children, a boy and girl, left their
soats, telling their father that they
would go. The father remained and
the children left the hcuse. Hardly
had the boy and girl stepped In the
yard when the report of a plst >1 was
heard. It was followed by a second
dint. Realizing that something awful
had happened, the father ran to
the window. Although the night was
dark, Carter saw several men hiding
about the house. He knew at once ,
that his own life was In danger, ar.d
after telling his wife to keep quiet,
he began what afterward proved to be
an all-night vigil. i
Groaning with pain, the seventeen
/ear-old son of Carter crawled into '
the house. He said he and his sister
nad bec.-t tired on by men in hiding
oehlnd the smokehouse and he ex
pressd the belief that one of them was
a Ilawllngs boy. His sister was in 1
itantly killed. The b >y lingered but '
i short time when he died. Carter |
and his wife, seated beside the body ,
>f their dead son, remained watching ,
ill the night through. As the streaks
>f dawn began to appear they saw tig 1
ires in the yard stealthily move away.
The body of the dead girl which was ,
eft on the grout d all night, was af 1
r daylight removed to the house by i
he heartbroken man and his wife
\s quTCKiy as possible, Carter commu
llcabtd with his ne&rcat neighbor and .
oon others gathered at hits home.
Cracks, made by t.he imprint of shoes,
vere seen about the smokehouse and
>thcr portions of the yard. As the*e
racks are of various sizes, the fact is
stabllshed that several persons were
mpllcated in the killing. The arrest
f the Llawllngs followed. There is
onslderable talk of lynching, and
nly the assurance that a special term
f court will be called to try the soused
seems to have any effect on the
hraged men. The llawllngs are all 11
Jail, where they will remain until
hey are tried. J
Dies ?t His Post.
At Wilkcsbarre, Pa., Hiram Bosart,
a freight engineer on the Central
Lallroad of New Jersey, drank a large uantlty
of ice water Monday. He
ecame ill and called to his fireman to
ake oharge of the engine. Bossert
hen expired in the cab. He was removed
from the engine here and his
ody sent to his home in Mauch ] I
hunk. ?|
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