The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 31, 1905, Image 6
A WEIRD STORY
About a Fine Mansion at New
Port, Which is
SAID TO BE HAUNTftD.
Strange Figures Have Been Seen in and
About the Qarden and Jhe House.
Strange Noises Have Also Been
u j t __ _ a > n ^ _ .1
nearu in bii raria ui
the Ui? Mouse.
The William Waldorf Astor house
on Bellevue avenue haunt* d?
Impossible! Kldloulcu?!
This is the query and some of the
answers that have been floating about
the Summer colony at Newport this
season, says the New Y. rk American.
The idea that one of the Helsevuc
avenue mansions, which has had Astors
and Yanderbilts for its occur ants,
could really be "haunted," like an
old-fashioned New England country
house, and looked at askance by all
passers by, seems past, belief.
Yet tuoh a tradition Is attachi d to
"Beaulleu," the big brownstone and 1
brick house that stands juBt south cf
the famous marble house owned by
Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont.
The taking of "Beaulieu" early In
July by the Thomas F. Walshes of
Washington, lately of Coloiado, re
vlved all the mysteries and traditions
that cling round this house, which is
one of the oldest of the mansions on
lower Bellevue avenue.
It has long been quietly told on 1
shaded verandas In Newport that a
nooaoo" nangs "ver wnat is commonly
called the Waldrof Astor house.
Death, misfortune, loss of riches and
other calamities have befallen the long
succession of residents on this estate
during the past forty years.
F. L. Barreda, who built it in 18G2,
then the tinest house in Newpoit,
made a rortune almost in a day in the
guano business in South America?and
lost his money and his house almost
as quickly.
In the quarter century that followed
before the property was bought by
William Walcorf Astor, the'*Barreda
Pa'ace," as it was then called, had
new owners and renters who cam j ana
disappeared in successive seasons, almost
as rapidly as dwellers In a city
tenement.
When Mr. Astor bought the estate
it was thought that then at last the
"luck" of the house and its occupants
would be changed. Tuat was abtut
1890. Hut the.,Astors occupied it oniy
three or four seasons and then went
abroad. Soon after that Mrs. Astor
died at Cliveden, England.
ECLIPSE OK TIIK PRICE FAMILY.
The Senator Brices leased it for sev- 1
eral seasons, bringing wilh them their
$10,000 a year chef, a big retinue and 1
all ihe Ovher evidences of ostentatious
wealth.
Than Senator "RrirtA dird?his ro.
puied millions proved but an Illusion,
bis family droppei from alllueuce almost
to penurv.
This and Mrs. Astor's untimely
death revived the story of the "boo '
doo" that hung over the cc upants of
the "llarreda ralace," which the pres- 1
tige of an Astor could not wipe out.
Mrs. Potter Palmer next occupied
the house during the Summers of 1899 :
and 1900. She entertained lavishly
and brought her social campaign to a i
climix by the wedding of Julia Grant
and Prince Michael Cautecuzene of 1
Russia.
This ceremony, performed within
the walls of the "Ilarreda Palace," was
one of the most spectacular functions
ever seen In America. It was like a
royal wedding In Europe.
Representatives of all the Pluropean
courts were present in the gold lace
uniforms and ostumes of their countries.
Yet, while the public was being
dazzled bv such brilliant displays, it Is
said that Mrs. Potter Palmer, cool
headed, practical woman of the world,
as she was, trembled within the walls
of the old "palace."
The ghost of the Iiarredas, It was
hinted, had returned, and was hauntiLg
t.he halls ai d rot els of Its old
hi me.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, It Is said, always
felt a shiver as sue went through
the big daTk front hall, after the
guests had gone. Every door opening
out of It had to be locked at night, as
well as every door that she parsed on
t.hA U/U.V iin t.r? hAr ulp.p.rii nir rnnm
w..w ?r --w- "---r ?o *
Fur noises were heard at night like
the rustle of silken skirts, as if the
unbidden guest of the past were passing
in and out the rooms and halls and
opening and closlug doors.
The climax came one night soon after
the Grant wedding, when Butler
White was putting out the lights on
the lower iloor.
In half darkness, he saw an apparition,
in white ball costume, with a
Spanish mantilla thrown over her
head, as if she had stepped from a
heated ball room out upon the lawn
and been suddenly chilled by the night
air and mist (lowing in from the sea.
TJIK BUTLER FELL IN A SWOON.
The tigure in white glided in
through the closed doors, swept past
the terrified butler, with a silken
rustle and passed up the broad staircase.
Tae backward glance given as
she ascended the stair?, while the
mantilla fell from her head, revealed
a faco of dark Spanish beauty. T<r*t
much Butler White saw, then fell
prostrated on the hall lluor.
Two footmen, hearing hit fall,
rushed up from the basement and
picked up the butler. They said he ]
looked like a dead roan as he lay there t
with arms wide outstretched, hands (
clenched, and white, set face upturned |
with wide open, but apparently sightlets
eyes, staring at the celling. I
The next morning, when the butler ]
had fully recovered his senses, he de- (
dared that nothing would induce htm
t? stay another day in the house. Fie
did stay the rest of the season, but <
ever after that when he wss In the (
front hall two footman were always ?
with him, either day or night, one ,
stationed behind each of the two tall j
bay trees that flanked the entrance to
the stalroane.
These experiences of Mrs Potter i
Palmer and hor servants were kept (
strictly secret. No word about the
affair was allowed to be br at tied out- t
side if the househo'd, for Mrs. Potter ,
P dmer could not bear to have It whiB
pered ab< ut that she believed In
ghosts.
Hut nevertheless the queer happenings
were talked about by the servants ;
and gardener's family and from them ,
leaked out to a few confidential
friends on the outside. ,
Then the query ro-?e, what could be
the cause of the haunting of the old
mansion? 1
It was recalled that during the lat- ,
ter part of the Barred&h'brief occupancy
of the house a young and beau- J
uful Cuban woman had been & guest.
She was a relative of Mrs. Barreda, or '
Senora Barreda, who was herself a 1
flllViS n Q nH nun r\t t (in luitirl jnrvtnut- ntr\
vyuuuii l?UU * 'UU \/l VIU' llrtrilliVUiCnU
men that ever graced Newport socle- ,
ty.
T1IK 8KNOUITA DISAPPEARED.
If or some reason that was not explained
at the time, and has never
since been accounted for, the young
senorlta suddenly disappeared. She
was not known to have gone away 1
from the city, nor was she ever again
seen In or about the houso.
Soon aft ^r the final collapse of the
IUrreda fortune came. The family
dt par1>ed and ever after was lost to
view. Senor IUrreda, the Spanish- '
American wholiad dazzled Newporters
with a fortune estimated at fifteen
millions, a fabulous sum in those 1
times?who had held the position of 1
United States Minister to Peru, and
was afterward sent on a diplomatic 1
mission by the Government to E ig- '
land and France, bccime all of a sudden
a common bankrupt.
Ten or fifteen years ago ho died
penniless In a small town in New York I
State. Ills widow went back to Cuba
It is believed, though no one seemed I
to think it worth while to keep track
of her. !
Everybody thought her dead, when
three or four years ago she reappeared
at Newport. She was an old, broken I
down woman with snow white hair, 1
the very ghost of the radiant beauty
of former years.
For a few days she stopped at an
unfashionable ihotel, vlsiud the old
mansion In the guise of a stranger
and went to see her old retainer,
Gardner Williamson. Then she dis
appeared, telling no one whence or
why she came nor whither she was
go'ng.
Hut her visit served the purpose of
reviving the old traditions ab >ut the
1 'Barreda Palace" and the ghost that
has been mpposed to haunt it during
recent years.
It raised again the question of what
really did become (f toe be* u iful sen
orita who mysteriously disappeared so
many years ago, and was it really hei
ghost that Butler White saw, or his
superstitious fancy?
But even these startling queries
soon died c ut again in the ru*h and
whirl of Newport's short summer seasons.
The cottage c )lony quickly forgot
all about it. Only In the gardener's
family the tradition was kept
alive.
Gardener Williamson is a canny
Scotchman. Never a word does the
ir qulsicive Summer visitor get out of
him about the traditions of the house
or the Astor family. Of all the army
of servants that come and go, season
after season, with the different occu i
pants, he alone stays on Winter and
Summer. He "goes with the estate,"
as the saying is. He is Mr. Astor's
special custodian and retainer, like
the old family servants on an English
estate.
In the Summer Mr. Williamson and '
his family llv3 at the lodge near the
gateway. In the F ill, after the Summer
tennauts of the big house are
gone, the gardener and his family
move into the basement for Winter
quarters.
Rarely :lo they go Into the upper
part of the house, which Is then desolate
and gloomy enough, with bare
iloors and chandeliers and furniture
swathed in ghastly white wrappings.
But on Autumn and Winter nights
they hear strange noises overhead, as
if heavy pieces of furniture were be
ing moved, aud doors opened and
closed.
At such times, years ago, Gardener
Williamson and his wife used to take
lamps and grope t.helr way through
the upper rooms and c irrlders to make
sure that no robbers had entered.
But no trace of a burglar was ever
found?and the gardener and his wife
gradually settled down to the conviction
that it was the ghost of the Bar
redan that was revisiting its old home
and ought not to be molested.
So of late years when the noises upstairs
are heard the gardener and his
family only huddle together closer
round the hearthstone. If a chance
family friend is visiting them the
ghost story is retold.
One such visitor suggested that Mr.
Williamson put chalk on the rollers of
the furniture, so that next day it
might be seen just what pieces had
moved during the night by the marks
on the polished wojden iloors.
WHAT ABOUT TUK WAUIIKS.
It wm also conjectured that this
night reveal a secret paonel behind
tome picture or tapestry, In wbiob
Kjme ghost or living Intruder might
oe lirtklug.
Another friend of the gardener'*
family expressed the belief that If the
louse were ever torn down the skele
bon of the senorlta would be found
within the walls of the lower story.
The parts of the house In which the
imlnous noises anil apparitions most
often occur are on the ground tl>or.
The mala hall, through whioh the
ghost seems to pass, is a big dimly lit
pisnage, finished in dark Flemish oak.
Out of this opens a reception room,
the library, almost as dark and som
bre as the hall, a rather gloomy
drawing room and a brilliant morning
room, dnlshed In white and gold, a
startling contrast to the other rooms
on the iloor. Into the morning room
pours a flood of light from the glass
walled conservatory on the southeast
aide.
Ah Mrs. Potter Palmer left the
house in 1900 she is said to have declared
that under no circumstances
would she ever pass another season In
that house or in Nowport, and she
never has.
When the yourg CornelluR Yander
bilts took the house on a live years'
lease in 1902, they knew nothing
about the gnosistories connected with
It. For three short seasons they c.c
cupied it during nineteen hundred
snd two, three and four. During
their tlrst Summer Mrs. Vanderhllt
did the most brilliant thing of the
reason in giving a great garden party
on the lawn, and had a play enacted
in an outdoor theatre, erected for the
nilrnn?P fnr whlnii ur? nnoral.tn "Am.
r ^ . rvuv/| TV (?I1 wpvimuiv/ * 'V in
pany was brought on from New York.
Hut even during these gay reasons
It Is said that the ominous voices and
ghostly apparitions appeared and so
frightened Mrs Vandtrhilt that she
lecided to rent it this year So while
the Yanderhilts have been sojourning
In Europe the Thorraa J. Walshes
liave come into temporary possession
jf the estate.
Old Njwporters are wondering
wither the hard-headed Colorado
mining king and his family, newly
risen into the lime-light of society,
will escape the Barreda blight that,
has fallen, in one form or another, on
3very occupant of the old palace.
Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and prett>
Miss Walsh have come from Washington
after a brilliant social season tin re
In their handsome brand new house,
which is quite the most dazzliugly
tit ted up mansion in the capital.
Everything in it is spotlessly new?
jo new as to carry with it the smell of
varnish and the upholsterer's shop.
How they will enj ?y entering into the
possession of something very like an
jld English estate, with a gardener
ind a ghost that "go with it," is a
matter that is now exciting the live
Host discussion in certain select social
jlrcles in Newport's bummer colony.
Whether the mystery of the stiangc
lolses and apparitions seen in the
(rand old house will ever bo solved is
mother question, which possibly is
tetter titled for the Boston Sccioty for
Ihiychlcal resiaroti to take ud than
'or trie ordinary layman to attempt to
lolve.
Clui'Kott to OnreloHHueMB.
The findings and opinion of the
jourt of icqulry which investigated
he fatal explosion on the gunboat
Benniugton has been made puollo by
Secretary Bonaparte. The court ex
jresses the opinion that the explosion
was caused by excessive steam pres
;ure in her boilers, resulting from
dosing the steam valve connecting
with the guage. The court says that
D. N. Holland, the fireman on duty
dosed tne valve. The court finds Eodgn
Charles D. Wade of the engine
lepartmcnt of the ship at fault in fating
to see that the steam and safety
fuage valves were closed at the proper
time, having accepted the report of
subordinates that this had been done
In March. lie was declared negligent In
the performance of duty and that he
diould be brought before a court
matlal.
Wind mini Hall.
A dispatch from St. Paul says devastation
terrible and complete was
wrought on all sides of the Twin
Olties by the storm of Sunday night,
according to reports just received
here. Through all the region from
Anoka to Fillmore counties reports
iell of disaster and lo-s of life and
buried under the debris, which was
strewn broadcast by the wind. Many
instances of maiming arc reported and
the total loss of llfe will not be known
for some days. Crops which had been
cut and were ready for threshing, suffered
in many places, and standing
corn was damaged by hall and wind.
Hall stones several inches ill clrcum
ferenoo worked havoc with the crops
la some sections.
Earthquake Htiooks.
A dispatch bora Chicago says Illinois
was shaken by an earthquake
Tuesday night of last week. The
shocks In the southern part of the
State, especially in the legion sur
T7! - - X- Ha. T ? ? -
luut.uinK I'i^b r>c. uuuis, were severe
enough to rattle dishes and furniture,
cause dogs to bark and children to
awaken and cry. Houses creaked and
in many Instances their occupants
rushed out in terror, fearing that the
straining beams and joists would give
w vy. St. Louis reports three distinct
hocks.
Infernal Machine.
Police Captain Miles O'Reilly, of
New York, received an infernal machine,
loaded with dynamite, through
the malls Monday. This is the third
instrument of ti e kind sent through
the New York mails within a week,
the other two having been sent to
bankers in the city.
V
JttAitS OUT NitOJtOKS.
An Ch o Town Where the Colored
Man Can't live.
Byr*?ua? la thn Name of the Place
Where Negroes are Not Allowed
to Hpend a NightF.
U. Q jlllien, In the Independent,
Hays lu the town of Syracuse, Oilo,
on the Ohio river, four miles above
Pjmeroy, a town of ab< ut 2,000 inhabitants,
no negro is permitted to
live. No negro is permitted to stay
in the town over night under any cons.deration.
Tals is an absolute rule
in this year 1905, and it has existed
for several generations. The enforcement
of this unwritten law for keep
Ing the negro from staying in the
town over a single night is in the
hands of the boys from twelve to
twenty years of age, while the at
tempt of a negro to bee <me a resident
of the town is resisted by the town en
masse.
When the colored man is seen In
the town during the dav he is gener
all/ told of these traditions, if he is
so ignorant as not to know them
already, and is warned to leave before
snndown. if he fails to take heed, he
is surrounded at about time darkness
begins, and is addressed by the lead
C.rs Of the irn.ni/ In fthnnt.t.hlo lnnim??o'
0 v,- n .? -VX/MV WV..U
"No nigger Is allowed tx) stay In this
town over night. We don't care
what you are here for. Gut out of
here now, and net out quick." He
rees from twenty-five to fifty boys
around him talking In subdued voices
and waiting to see whether he obeys.
If he hesitates, little stones begin to
reach him from unseen q iarters, and
soon persuade him to begin his heglra.
He is not allowed to walk, but is told
to "get on his little dcg trot." The
command is always effective, for It is
backed by stones In the ready hands
of boys none too friendly.
So long as he keeps up a good gait,
the crowd, which follows Just at his
heels, and which keeps growing until
It sometimes numbers seventy-tive to
one hundred boys, is good natured ana
contents Itself with yelling, laughing
and hurling gibes at its victim. Hut
let him stop his "trot" for one moment,
from any cause whatever, and
tiie stones Immediately take effect as
their persuader.
Thus they follow him to the furthest
limits of the town, where they
send him on ills way rej licing (?)
while they return to the city with
triumph and tell their fathers all
about the function, how fast the vie
tim ran, how scared he was, how lie
plead;d and promised that he would
go and never return If they wi uld
only go back ar.d leave him, how
Johnnie Jones lilt him with such a
big rock that it knocked him down.
Then the fathers tell how they i^ert
to do the same thing, and thus the
heroes of two wars spend the rest of
the evening by the old camplire, recounting
their campaigns.
The cause of this extraordinaryrace
prejudice is hard to dlsern. The
majority of the inhabitants are not
from the south hut, strange to sa.,,
are of New England stock. In the
early days of the town many Irish
lived there who wore so bitterly hostile
to the negro that somo people
attribute the present treatment of
the c lored man to their iuik?enee
The population is mixed, Including
many Veish and Germans. Most or
the peop'e are day laborers worktng
i n thi) o/ a 1 mh.oo nnd 1?
... vi>w v\ uii iij< ncn (Vim 111 ftcfcllJ liiAIlUfacture,
a..d perhaps they feel the
danger of negro competition. Oer
tamly they would as readily associate
with a snake as permit a black man
to work by their side. They almost
feel that ho detiles anything that he
touches.
To the women he Is an obj ?-ot to
be dreaded and feared, even in the <
day time The little children are
taught to fear the black man with all
the horror associated with that name.
The writer has seen many a child
frighteued almost Into hysterics at
tae mere sight of a colored man, and
he was himself imoued with the terror.
What has caused this fear? No
crime has ever been committed by a
negro within the town, although
many have occurred near by which
perhaps serve to maintain the prejudice
In spite of mauy things that
might have worked toward undermining
it.
Since the town was founded, about
1815, not a single negro family has
lived in it. About the year 1855 two
negroes were employed as domestics
by a family In the extreme lower end
of the town, praotlcally in the country,
but they did not stay long. Since
the civil war two attempts have been
made by negro families to settle in
the town, but both were summarily
driven out.
Wants to ^ iRht.
The New York Tribune says Venezuela
has placed orders in Europe for
torpedo boats, guns and ammuniti m
at the cost of about $2,500,000, a larger
amount than that little South
American republic has ever expended
at one time for war material. An
American, who has just returned from
Venezuela, nays that President Castro
recently declared that he was going
to tight the Yankee, which explains
the unusually large order for
ships, artnR and ammunition.
KiKlitvuon Drowned.
A report has reached Buenos Ayres
of the f undine of the British Dark
Bleston IIlll. Thereportsiat.es that
18 of the crew were drowned. The rern&lnd
r, who. were saved, are. expect
ed to arrive at Buenos Ayres by one
of tho Aryontlna steamers.
TIGERS OF CHINA.
The Cm* With Which Oa? Will Cferrr
OS m Dead Pig.
Am07 la an Island city on the China
coast, near For moan. There are mountains
west of Amoy, and, according to
a correspondent, there ure tigers lu
them, "These tigers lead an easy and
Independent life In tho cares and dens
which abound. They come out of these
eery evening Just as the ?i;idows
creep over the land and the bli* mists
rise from the lower ground and hide the
bill*. Then the Inhabitants get within
their houses and keep the door between
them and theeo savage brutes. Many
a poor woman coming with water from
the woll or a farmer delayed too long
In tlie fields has fallen victim to them.
The nights are spent by the tigers In
foraging, and the foxes and wildcats
that roam the hills and the dogs In the
village become their prey.
"There to nothing, however, that
gives the tigers such supreme delight
as the capture of a good sized pig.
They are truly Chinese In their tastes
In this respect. One of these animals
will go at a steady trot with n dead pig
thrown ovor Its back up tlnffcsldes of
steep hills, jumping over huge bowldors
nnd taking cro?s cuts ovor the
most Inaccessible ground. The physical
strength of a tiger Is something
enormous, and Its capacity for devouring
large quantities of food Is scarcely
less amazing."
THE TALL HAT IN INDIA.
Its lleljcn Im Kven More Dcnpotfo
Tliun It In In Runlniifl.
From noon till 1:80 p. m. Is tho calling
liour, and, though Calcutta even In
winter is a hot place, no man who ts
not an outer barbarian will walk Into
a drawing room without a tall silk hat
III II Ik 1 111 iwl lib i 1 rlvn aoniwl In n
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dog cart to pay Ills calls, the man
wears a helmet or a "sola tope," while
he drives, pulls up at a house door,
asks whether "the gate Is shut," and,
If told that It Is not, puts on a silk hat,
which the syoo produces from a hatbox
carried under the seat, and goes In
to pay his call. Another Instance of the
British worship of the tall hat, which
the natives consider an Interesting
form of piety. Is to ho seen at the Calcutta
races on the day of the Viceroy's
cup. On that occasion the lawns and
paddock are thronged by people as
smartly dressed as can he seen In the
royal lnclosure at Ascot, but during the
early hours of the afternoon all the
men wear helmets. Directly the sun
dips toward the horizon all the "hearers"
of the helmet hatted men may he
seen outside tho palings of the grand
stand lnclosure, Jumping up like terriers
to catch sight of their masters,
each with a carefully brushed silk hat
he haR brought for his employer to put
on.?London Onlooker.
BOOTH AND BARRETT.
IIow tlie Flrenoli Iletween These Two
( rent Actor* Occurred.
The great breach In the friendship
between Edwin l?ooth and Lawrence
Barrett occurred when Barrett was
playing "The Man o' Airloe" In
Booth's theater In Now York city. The
piece did not draw, and Booth decided
to have It discontinued. So (as he afterward
told of the Incident) he broached
the subject to Barrett, who Immediately
grew angry. "Do you mean to
say that I can't play It?" he demanded
hotly. Booth assured him In a conciliatory
way that ho gave the tlrst part
fairly, but not the last. In a greater
passion than ever, Barrett repeated,
"Do you mean to say that I can't play
It?" Booth, still trying to not offend
him, sakl, "I don't think you hove quite
worked into the last act." Then Barrett's
fury hurst Its hounds, and he terminated
a torrent of Invective with the
remark: "Your father's weakness and
your brother's crime placed you where
you are. But I will live to see you In
the gutter and will stand above you."
In spite of this the two grew to ho
friends again and starred In the combination
that drew the hlggest houses of
the time.
Chimney SInekN.
The broad brimmed stone and Iron ,
capplngs which one sees on the chimney
stacks In manufacturing districts
are not there for mere ornamentation,
for they servo an Important purpose.
On the opposite side of the stack to
that upon which the wind may he blowing
a partial vacuum Is formed, down
which the smoke would descend were
It not for the brim of the cap blocking
the way. A chimney stack without a
brim on the top would discharge Its
smoke In huge gusts for some distance
down one side.?l'earson's Weekly.
Jnju Womhlpem.
The Aro tribe, Inhabitants of southern
Nigeria, worship the "Txmg Juju."
This is a Jealously guarded circular
pool of water to which sacrlllces of human
beings nnd animals are made.
Each houso has also Its own private
"Juju." The boys of this tribe on reaching
a certain age are put through various
tests of physical endurance, one
of which is to run twice round the
town, about four miles, without stopping.
Ufa Ilad Day.
'T was surprised," said the Rev. Mr.
Goodman sternly, "to see you playing
golf last Sabbath. I should think you'd
do better"?
"Oh," replied Hardcase, "I usually
do. I was In wretched form last Sun
day."?Philadelphia Press.
The Office Seek* the Man.
Hoax ? Do you believe the office
should seek the man? Joax?1The tax
office generally does. ? Philadelphia
Itecord.
To willful men the Injuries that they
themselves procure must be their
schoolmasters.?Shakespeare.
Murdered tn the threes.
Mrs. B. E Mire, of New York, was
murdered Wednesday lo Chicago by a
robber while taking an evening walk
in one of the fashionable residence
districts on the South Side. For the
greater part of the summer Mrs. Mire
has been a guest at the Dol Prado
hotel which fronts on the Midway
Plaisanoe. Wednesday night In company
with Mrs. E. F. Wilson of Las
Cruoes, New Mextoo, also a guest at
the hotel, she went out for a short
walk. They had reaobed the oorner
of 69th street and Washington avenue,
two squares from the hotel, when
they were confronted by a man who
demanded their money ai d valuables.
All along Fifty-ninth street and on
Washington avenue people were sitting
upon verandas and in the front
yards of their residences, aDd Mrs.
M<zs evidently expecting help from
some of them, vigorously attacked the
robber, at the same time calling loudly
for help. Mrs. Wilson turned and
ran back toward the hotel. Mrs.
Mize was able to utter Just two cries
for aid when the robber shot her
through the heart, killing her instantly.
Mrs. Wilson, who was looking
hack at the time, fell in a faint. The
murderer escaped.
Telia of Awful Orimo.
The little daughter of Mrs. John
Lea, lately a widow by the supposed
suicide of her husband, a saw mill
man, wno resided near Cleveland,
Tenn., confessed to her grand mother,
at Murray, Ga., where she bad been
sent on a visit, that her mother and
James IIix, also a saw mill man, who
boarded at the home of the Lea's,
killed her father. The story is one of
the most revoltlng,tu the criminal annals
of TenneS&tfT Lea was found
hanging by a rope, which was attached
to one of the beams of the saw
mill, his n*ck broken. A coroner's
Jur> pronounced him a suicide. Then
Hix and Mrs. Lea disappeared Toe
little girl declared Flix held her father
while her mother broke his neck with
a weapon, Hix telling her where to
strike. They threatened to kill the
child if she told, according to the little
one. Hix has been arrested at
Spring Place, Ga., and officers are
looking for Mrs. Lea at Sherman
Heights, Tenn., where she is visiting.
It is hinted that others know of the
alleged crime but have not told for
reason not explained.
A Uaru Orhu.
John Paul, chiej steward of the
Ji iLrson Club in ll^w Y >rk, enjoys
the rare distinction of being a grandfather
and a grandson at the same
time. His baby granddaughter has
just been born and his grandmother is
living at the age ninety seven. John
Paul is forty-six years old.
Killml by Mavagoti.
A dispatch to the Router Telegraph
company frr m Zanzibar says that in
addition to the Catholic bishop of
Daresaadem, who was murdered at
the hands of Africau natives reported
several days ago, two ststers and three
missionaries, a German sergeant and
two traders, were killed according to
later reports.
Caught at Ijast.
Wallace Jeter, colored, wanted in
Union county on the charge of murder,
was capt ured In GalTney on Monday.
lie confesnes to killing Green
Woodson, colored, at a church about
a month ago, and nays he killed
another man six years ago, for which
he was never tried.
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