The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1905, Image 6
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S Solid Organdies in bluos, g;
10 and 12-}c values in floral
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^ 15c Swiss Muslin and TafTet
Knicker Zophors?big selle
28-inch Brown Voile, sold a
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A CHILD j/cTIWl
Of a Very Astonis Jng Cold Blooded
Tragedy iiwichmond.
HOW A SICB/Y BOY,
Only Six Years of Ae, Was Tortured
and Finally BAten to Death by
His Mother,Who Herself Had
Been Ijpnderly Reared
^ Luxury.
At Itlchm/nd, Va., for beating to
death her Sickly little boy, a child
barely six/years old, a mother who
had been tenderly reared in a luxurious
homa' and who comes of one of
the best7amilies of Virginia and New
Yoik, his been condemned to spend
five yea/s in the penitentiary. When
the vewlct was rendered the Public
Proseoutor fainted and fell to the
floor; he had striven for and expected
the death penalty.
Reside the accused woman during
the prr gress of the trial sat a man
who has more than a national reputa
- tion for wise, self denying and affectionate
care of unfortunate children
?Dr. Wiener R. Townsend, of the
Orthopedic Hospital in New York
Oity.
He is the brother of the woman who
beat her own unfortnnate child to
death, Mrs. Estelle Townsend Smith.
She appeared in court a physical wreck
and doubtless the great surgeon whose
wi oie proiessionai career naa marked
a disposition so completely the reverse
of that manifested by bis sister, attributed
her cruel acts to a physical
breakdown that had affected her
mind. '
JNot so the Witnesses for the prosecution,
however?those motherly
neighbors who had heard the child's
screams, who bad seen him pushed
into ice cold water in February, seen
his naked dead body lying on the
iioor of his mother's house covered
with brulRcs.
The facts brought out in the trial
made up a tale of a mother's cruelty
to an ailing child that is almost incredible.
This mother, always veiled
except when obliged to bare her face
for identification, listened for the 1
most part .,with stoical Immobility. <
The Coroner, an artist of no mean
ability, illustrated the wounds and <
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a to close at 8c the yard,
rs at 15c; to close now at 8o the yard,
t, loo this sale 10c the yard,
k Flaked Voile, lf>c values, now 10c ;
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bruiv.es upon the dead child's body by
means ol standingly IH'uke, lifesiz d
colored port raits. .To was a gh> s ly
and pathetic exhibit that caused
murmurs 0/ horror all through the
court ."turn?but the mother never
af'.ied nor even bowed her head.
GHASTLY AN1) PATHETIC KXIIIHITS.
Her life since the birth of the boy
had been in surroundings very differ
ent from those of her girlhood. Sue
had run away from her home in New
York to marry a poor man, and he had
steadily grown less prosperous. As
indicated by the defence, she had become
morbid over an ailment of her
little son, which he constantly aggravated
by his own acts, and on account
of which the mothers of other children
would not allow them to associate
with him. These acts cf the child
his mother sought to correct by punishment
instead of through the offices
of a competent physician?and im
possible task; and so finally she beat
him to death.
When the child's death was discovered
the husband was away from
home. Although he Is under arrest It
does not yet appear that he shared in
the acts of cruelty that ended in murder.
The lamentable story is best
told in the testimony of witnesses
who were tirst on the scene of the
crime. Mrs. Lucy Byrnes, a motherly
appearing, middle-aged woman, a near
neighbor, told of her visit to the
Smith jhome on the evening of the
day of the boy's death.
"I was upstairs undressing one of
my grand children when I hoard that
some one was dying at the Smith
house.
"Mrs. Orostiok and I went to the
house and knocked at the door. Mrs.
Smith opened it and we walked in.
She said nothing to us, but turned
and went to the body of the child,
which was lying near the sofa, covered
with a quilt up to its neck. She pick
ed it up and threw it on tire sofa as if
it were a dog, She wanted to know
if is was dead. The body was still
warm. Mrs. Orostick told her It was
dead, after we had felt the heart.
There were three bruises over tire
little heart and bruises all over the
little bowels. The back was brown
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mini ucaiiiiiKN. mure wuh a cu'i over
the eye and the back of the head wan
bleeding from another. One of its
little fingers looked as if it bad been
cracked with something. The mother
didn't show any sympathy. Poor
little fellow I"
THREW TIIK DEAD CHILD ON A SOFA.
"Did Mrs. Smith say anything i
about the chili having been sick?"'
"She said it had been sick for two
or three days, and nothing would stay i
on its stomach." i
"Did she offer that information of {
own accord?"
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"Mrs. CroRtick ti>*st asked her If It
had deen sick, and when sho said that
it had been, Mrs. Crostick replied
tliafc she knew nothing about it or
would have tried to have dene some
thing for the chll 1."
"Was there anything said about
whipping the child?"
"Y s; Mrs. Crostick asked her what
the bruises were doing on the body,
and Mrs. Smith replied that she had
whipped it that, night, and had a
right to whip her own child because
it had been disobedient. She said
that, she had undreased it for bed and
had then whipped it."
"Did Mrs. Crostick ask Mrs. Smith
if she knew that the child was sick
when she whipped it that night?"
' Of course she knew."
"Was there anything said about the
child being whipped the mornirg of
that, day?"
"Yes; Mrs. Crostick aeked her if
the child had been whipped that,
morning and she said no, that she had
whipped it that night. Mrs. Crostick
then asked what was all the disturbance
about in the house that morning
and Mrs. Smith replied that there had
been no disturbance."
"Did sho say what she whipped the
ohild with?"
"Yes; a razor strop."
"Was there any razor strop near
the body?"
"No."
"Did you Reeany strop that night?"
"No; but she got it for the officer
when she went into the back room. I
did not see it all "
"The officer asked for it."
"Yes."
"Were there any other neighbors
there that night ?"
"Yes, but she shut the door in their
faces. Sue didn't, u/nrit. t.linm
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bouse and I guess she didn't want us
either."
"Did Mrs. Smith Ray anything
about not wanting the neighbors to
see the bodj?"
"She dl( n't want them to see It,
and kept saying, 'Cover it up.' "
"When was that?''
"After the coroner had gone to get 1
his jury."
"What was the reason she gave for
beating the child?"
"Because it was disobedient."
"Did she say why the child was
naked ?" 1
"She said it had been undressed for 1
bed a< d had been whipped."
"You say she showed no sympathy?"
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"She did not, she didn't seem at all
sory to me."
Mrs. Turner, who readily admitted
her friendship for Mrs. Smith and the 1
intimacy which existed between the <
two families, gave^ very damaging '
testimony. <
"Did you ever see Mrs Smith hit e
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little Rilph with a mallet?"
" Yes, when she wos teaching him
and he could not remember."
"IIow hard did she hit him?"
"With all her strength."
INTO A TUll OF FREEZING WATER.
"Did you ever know her to tie the
child?"
"Yes, she tied him and threw him
on a sofa and went to Richmond for
two or three hours."
"Did you ever see any burns [on
him?"
"Yes, on his hand."
"Did you see Mrs. Smith treat him
badly during the winter?"
"Yes, I saw her throw him into a
tub of water in February.
"I was on my back porch and I saw
ftnnrlQ Allf ar\A n.inV. 1.1 1 5 a '
..v> vuiuv/ uuu auu ^U3U i_l 1 111 U6liQ [1THL
into a tub of water. It was very cold
and he was In his little night shirt,
lie was all trembling. lie rushed out
of his back door as though some one
was behind him. He was 'snitllog' as
though he wanted to cry and was
afraid."
"What kind of a tub was it?"
"A large zino tub?under a spout
to catch rain water."
"Were you called on the nfght of
Ralph's death?'
'Yes; she called me twice. She
asked me to come. 1 asked her what
was the matter. She said Ralph was
dead. I said I was too nervous, but I
would get word to the neighbors and
send some one to her. My husband
was ill and I could not leave him."
"Have you seen her whip him more
than once with a razor strop in your
life?"
"Yes; a lot of times."
"How many times have you seen
her whip him with a stick?"
"Lots of times "
"Have vou ever seen her use this
stick?"
(A long, round stick )
"No, sir."
"Did you ever see her strike him
with the tq'i&re stick?"
"Yes; often."
Coroner Broadnax testified that the
Dblld had died of traumatic shoe .
the result of the last severe beating 1
had received while weakened by lllnes>
As the witnesses gave their testimony
Dr. Broadnax's colored portraits ol
thfl nhilS'a nalffiS J
...nvu uwu/, nuowiii^r every I
out and bruise, were before their eyes
and those of the jury. What made
this exhibit all the more ghastly was
that the doctor artist had given a life
like representation of the dead face
and the curls < f 11 ixen hair.
TIIK JUltY 8AY8 GUILTY.
To sit in the preserve of thes9 exhibits
tellirgof her daughter's inhuman
3' uclty was a fearful ordeal for Mrs.
Townsend, the prisoner's aged mother,
who, with her son, Dr. Townsend,
?t near and gave what oomfort they
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Sale.
"-inch Fancy Figured Mohairs, were 2fj
3-inch Tan and It. lUuo Waistings, ver
the yard.
ouseline Do Soie, 20c values, now I2!c
'J UTE GOODS?An entire lot to close
* pocket.
innmer slioes and Straw Hats to go at o
ties there are many other things, just
)h will he ]>ut on the bargain counter?
lense fall stock, which is already comin
ml
We sell for C8
n be bought els<
y the most comp
Quartered Oak Si
?where there
could not sell "g<
i increase. Agai
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could to the unfortunate woman.
Once mother and daughter fell to
weeping in each othoi's arms, but the
audienca gained the impression that
the daughter's grief was more on her
mother's account than on that of her
dead child.
When, finally, the case was given
; to the jury, both the public prosecutor
and the chief attorney for the defence
were hysterical from nervou3 strain.
The prisoner looked as though in danger
of going to pieces suddenly. She
had not been called upon to testify. !
The defence relied upon the testimony
of witness who declared that Mrs.
Smith had been rendered frantic by
her failures to correct her child's discbedieDce.
and that. wac ? :
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allloted with an ailment wbich ren-1
ders women irresponBible for their ac- j
lions.
The jury was out only a short time.
This is the verdict they returned:
"We, the jury, liud the prisoner
guilty of voluutary manslaughter and
tlx her term of imprisonment at live
years in the penitentiary."
At these words the prisoner collapsed
and fell to the tloor. The publio
prosecutor fainted at the same moment.
The court room was in great
disorder, but a strange am affecting
spectacle restored silence. r. Towusend.
having applied restoratives to
his sister, Immediately gave his attention
to the stricken publio prosecusor?the
man who had done his utmost
to send a member of his family
to the gallows.
Dr. Townsend's manly attitude i
throughout the trial exalted him in i
the minds of every one in attendance.
There is yet to follow the trial of
the dead child's father, but in the 1
minds of those familiar with the evidence
the sole responsibility for the
cruel slaughter of this sickly boy of i
six years rests upon the mother, who i
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uoiocu oiijuyeu one nappiest of child- <
hoods. 1
Hattlesnakea In the Htreet. 1
Ten days ago a Dr. Arnold went to ]
Hasln, Wyo., selling eye medicine. To
attract attention to his wares the doc- j
tor brought with him a collection of 1
freaks, among theuu being a snake |
charmer with se\eral boxes of rattlesnakes.
Having no state license, the *
doctor was arrested, fined S(J0 and sent
to jail for a week. Upon being liberated
he found that his freaks had dis- .
appeared, the snake charmer leavincr c
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behind his collection of full grown
rattlers. About dusk Arnold went t
into the center of the town and open* ,
ed the doors of the snake cages, per- r,
mitting the twenty hve big rattlers to .
escape. Arnold then got out of town i .
on horseback. The alarm was spread .
and a night of terror was spent by the
citizens, who were afraid to leave their
residences because of the rattlers.
Arnold will be lynohed If he is caught.
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STATE IN* I XIr?
Will Ho Held ai Ch liison Collect; S otr~
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ond W??ck in AuKUHt. ^
The State institute for farmers will
be held at (Jlemson college next
month. The exercises will begin on
TllfifdsV. t.hP ftfr.h nn/1 ...111 1- 1
?j , v>au uhu| aun v* ill fUllC'LU 5
on Friday, the 11th. The programme
will be:
Tuesday, August. 8th?8 p. ra., address
of welcome ard preliminary exercises,
address by Senator B. R. Tillman
on "R vising Hrgs."
Wednesday, August 9th?10 a. m.,
address by Prof. W. J. Spillman,.
Unite d States department of agriculture,
subject, "Divorsiticatlon Farming
In the South;" 2 p. m , experience
meeting; 8 p. m., ardress by J. A.
Everett. Ind'anapolls, led., subject,.
"How to Solve all Farmers' Problems."
Thursday, August 10th?10 a. n.,
address by Dr. S. J. Summer*, subject,
"Farming in South Carolina as
an Opening for Young Men who will
Use Brains and are Not Afraid of
Work;" 2 p. m., experience mretinp;
Bp. m,, address by John A. Hamilton,
farmers' Jnstltut6\ specialist.
United States department/of Agriculture,
sulject, "The New Agriculture."
Friday, August 11th?10 a. m., address
by M. V. Rlcnards, industrial
agent Southern railway, KubJ?ct,
"Farmers' Interest In Immigration."
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ohibs uainerine Mulligan of Winbhrop
college will give a course in domestic
science during the institute.
Note?Ample provision will be J|
made by the authorities of the college
bo assist the visitors in examining the ^j|
college, station and all the Interests
belonging to the Clemson Agvicaltural
college Lodging will be furnish- ; ?
3d free to the capacity of the h s itu- ffl
tilnn. ??* ? 5 ?
Alivvv ttli\i autciid Will apply '
for tickets at the entrance to the bar acks,
where names will be registered,
ind a bed furnished if possible. Meal
iickets can be secured for 25 cents
lach.
Iiivod by
There was once a poan who was i }
leaf and dumb and in consequence jj
lad difficulty in earning enough to i
iupport himself. As often occurs, * '*
hose who are deprived of one sense
>ave another In an unusual decree.
This was the case with this man. He I
iad & sense of smell so remarkable I
hat he became an expert in detecting
he presence of oil wells. His nose I
vas purchased by a big company (nat- ' 9
irally the man himself went along II
vit.h his iiosi) and he managed to eke JH
rat an excellent living. II