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WAS IN THE WAY. Crime Caused by Hate for a Helpless Little Girl. IN NEW YOKK SLUMS. Man Admit* that He Struck the Little Child and it Died. Horrified Mother Washes the Little Corpse and Goes Out to Hide It. People living in this section of the county have little or no conception of the wickedness of a big city like New York. If you want to get a glimpe of slum life in that city r;ead the following from the New York American: Whilo all the city was holiday making Monday the police, working over tlie mystery of & baby's dead body found in the hallway of the tenement at No. 464 E'eventh avenue, brought gradually to light a tragedy of or me blacker, more fiendishly cruel and more hopelessly sordid than had cofaced their rec. rd for years. Gustave Diuser and Agnos Renoude lived at No. 481 "West Forty-fifth street. The woman had a two year old child. The man hated and abused it. It was in the way. In the end he slew it with all the ferocity of a woifc. Then the body was hurried away under cover of night and hidden in a tenement hallway nine blocks distant. When it was found and Identified the police caught the pair and the woman broke down. Her storv was most shocking. The man also coil leased. It was 3 o'clock ; Tuesday morning, one of the few hours of quiet between midnight and dawn In a great jity favorable to the covering up of dark deeds, when a mother, her heart torn with anguish over the slaying of her first born, and with the pitiful dyiny moans of the fair haired girl still sounding in her ears, worked feverishly at her task of washing the baby's body by the light of a candle. All others in the tenement building were asleep except this man and wo man in the top story back fiat of No. 431 West Forty fifth street. In the adjoining room, whero the man sat reflecting in the gloom of the night and his own deed?a crime against his maker, man and nature, In taking, by brute strength, the young life that he could not restore?three little ones of his own llesh and blood were sleeping .fitfully. They had been awakened by the agonl^a cries of their little playmate the child of their foster mother whom their father detested and whom he was beating to death. With the doIc nant fear of childhood they smothered their sobs in their pillows and waited until sleep blotted out their terror. "What are you doing? Wl at's keeph g you?" a^ked the man iu a petulant tone. lie had told the woman simply that they would have to get rid of the body of the child, thus making her in the helplessness of her grief and in the terror of death a partner in his crime, The little white underwaist had been buttoned, shoes and stockings hurriedly drawn on, and the mother could go no further. Sickening grief was again gaining the mastery over her when the man called again and came into the room. His mood was still sullen and he ordered the womsn to put on her hat and coat. Mechauically she obeyed. Then he wrapped the little girl's body up in a news paper, thrust the bundle Into the woman's arms, and bade her be quiet and follow bim. Down tbe dark stairs they crept softly, starting when a board creaked beneath their weight. They finally stood Tn the darkness and sileuoe of the street landing. The outside door was closed. The man opened it softly and the night air rushed in and soothingly touched the woman's brow. She stood In the shadow as the man looked outside. Street lamps were burning, but there was no one in sight. "Come," be said, and she obediently followed. Down Forty-fifth street In the direction of the river they stole, and the woman thought she deviled the man's purpose. "Not that, not that," she whispered, clutching his arm, and when they reached Eleventh avenue he responded to the touch on his arm and turned south. Several persons passed, but Dlnser was walking rapidly, and the woman gained courage from him and paid no attention to the passers-by. She had gained the courage of the criminal who seeks to hide his orime and her mind turned to the same channel. Down Eleventh avenue the pair stole, keeping close to the shadows. Past Forty-third street, then across Forty-second street, where the lights burned brightly and the hum of the trolley cars smote their ears, on, hurrying, moving slowly and cautiously, stopping and on again they went until Thirty- eigth street was passed. Then they paused. The street was dark and deserted there. A door stood partially open. 'Tn there," the man said. And while he stood outside the woman entered the dark hallway and, with a whispered good-bye, staggered out to where the man waited. J* ,> i >, y ' J I A man and sobbing woman whose arm he firmly clutched made their way back over the same route, back into the tenement building where many slept unconscious of the grim tragedy that was going on about them and back up the dark and creaking stairs to the rooms they called home, where the man's children still sh pt. The man swurg the door to behind him, locked it, lit the candle again and looked Into the eyes of the wo man. She understood. She had made a sacrifice and must bear the burden of her grief in silence. Then the man went to sleep in a chair, and the woman in the rooms where every object was a reminder of the killing of her child, paced the Moor or threw herself upon the bed and sobbed in the conflicting emotions that racked her soul, that played upon and tortured every string in the in comprehensible chord of a woman's nature. When daylight came and with it the stir of life, many began to talk of their neighbor's doings. They little dreamed that their gossip would so soon turn upon those whoso names they mentioned the vengeance of the law and before nightfall put one, if not both, in the shadow of the electric chair. It was known throughout the houRe that Gustave Dinner had no oarticu lar love for little Gertie, the child of A guns ltonoude. Tlie bahy was a source of annoyance to him. He cruelly punished his own children, thr< e little girls?Barbara, eight years old; Florence, twelve years old, and Madeline, nine years old?and the Children's Society often promised to interfere. It was to remove a cause for thi? lnfcerf* ronce after the death of his wife, s >mrthing more than a year ago that Dinser, a master plumber and a man of more tban ordinary Intel11I gence, broui/ht to his home the pretty young woman, Agnes Itmoude. Dinser declared that the woman deceived him when she brought her little child to live in the poor quarters lie provided. She had not told him that she had a child dependent upon her for support. He wanted no other child than his own and ho hated Gertie ltonoude. There had been some loud talk in the Dinser home that the neighbors overheard on Sunday night, and after midnight the neighliors heard the cries of the little girl, heart-rending ories of pain, and the sound of the blows upon her little body. "Stop, stop, for heaven's sake stop!" came the voice of the child's mother. "Don't beat her any more, and tomorrow I'll get rid of her. I'll scud her away." Several of the neighbors, who had come to their doors, started for the Dlnscr rooms, but Just at this time the cries of the child gave way to deep moans, aud It was believed that the beating was over, the child was moaning In grief and pain, and not badly hurt, and the neighbors did not interfere. The moans continued for some time, and then they ceased, and by this time the other tenants were In bed and asleep. NOTICED THAT CHILD WAS MISSING. Tuesday morning, while they were discussing the beating, Dinser's three little girls came down stairs. The man and woman did not appear. It was noticed by the ne'ghoors that little Gertie did not acccmpmy the children. "Where is Gertie?" they were asked. "Oh, her grandfather came and took her away," said the eldest girl. She had been told this thing by her father and the children believed him. The neighbors thought it was a good thing that the child was taken out of Dinser's hands. They had heard him only a few hours before threaten to throw her out of the window, and feared that he might carry out the threat, But the crime that, thev were ignorant of was quickly developing only a few blocks distant. Shortly after daylight J vines Corrlgan, the son-in-law of the janitress at No. 4(54 Eleventh avenue, had discovered the body of the murdered child In the hallway of the house. The police of the West Thirty seventh street station was notified and detectives were quickly on the scene. Coroner Schoier also respor ded and gave permission for removal of the body to the morgue for an autopsy to determine whether murder had been committed. Thero was no marks of lndentlficatiou on the few articles of clothing worn by the child. No one in the neighborhood recognized it. The tallow marks suggested some crime of an unusual nature and the mystery promised to prove a ba ill lug one. The story of the finding of the body of the murdered child began to spread and reft tK/v nova /v# f h/w a *\jurvuvu uuo tain \Jl uno iiC'I^HUUrS U1 Dinger and Mrs. ltonoude, and stirred them with suspicion. It was then about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and arriving at a quick i decision, Mrs. John Graham, who occupied the front Hat next to Dinger's and had heard the cries and moans of the little girl; Miss Annie Da/.et, who lives on the lloor below, and Mrs. Amelia Twaller, another neighbor, went to the station house and told Sergeant Nash that they were susplcl ous about the disappearance of little Gertie 11 yland and thought that It might be her body which was found In the hallway of the tenement. Sergeant Nash questioned them and immediately dispatohed them to the Morgue with two of his men, after consulting Gaite'n Ward. Then Detectives Buckrldge and Price were sent to Dinger's hat and brought him, Mrs. llonoude and the three Dinner children to the station house. The ohlldren were questioned and knew only what their father had told them about little Gertie's disappearance in tbe night. The man and woman were taken into the captain's otlice and the children sent to the Gerry Society. At the morgue the neighbors quickly Identified the murdered child as Gertie Ilyland, and returned to the sta tlon house and made their statements to the olllcera about the occurreeces of the early morning in Dlnser's rooms and the threats they had heard. Dinser, a man of thirty-seven, with dark hair and a slight dark mustache, not large but of well knit frame and great strength, appeared perfectly cool under the. examination of the otllccrs. Mrs. Renoude, as she calls herself, is rather small, of good ligure a pretty face that tells of her French blocd, gray eyes, with dark lashes and dark, wavy hair. Sue was dressed carelessly in a gray accordion pleated skirt of light material, white waist, gray checked jacket and a jaunty straw turban caught up at one side with a bunch of cherries. She was plainly nervous, but seemed to catch he courage from Dinser. who kept her almost constantly under his eyes. They wore questioned to gather, and told a story about sending Gertrude away by a man who bad called for her. Then Dinser was taken from the room and put in a cell. lis was ccol and aided thee Ulcers In a search of his clothing. Dut In the Captain's office Mrs. llououde had broken down as soon as Dinser was out of her sight i ai d was sobing, with tears stroamtrg from her eyes she told the story of the nribal murder <>f her little child, attempting to shield lis father, and of i how she had a d d In taking the b; dy < cut of the house and hiding It In the i doorway. The skirt that she wore was < blotched with blood stains. It was the same one she had worn when she washed the child's body. Dlnscr was brought back and questloued alone and admitted that he had beaten the child, but said that he did not know of Its death until he had come back to his rooms later, and tried to shift part of the blame for the crime on the child's mother. IO. kio.mI of Hoii'h Dnath. Mrs. Wi'.ilam Gerrlt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., started from Capt. Ilarkln's uilce In police headquarters Wednesday for Allentown, l'a., to recover the body of her oldest son, William, aged tifteen years, who was burled in the common cemetery at Allentown early in May last, In the grave of an un known, The boy was killed by falling between the platforms of two cars of a special train that was carrying a circus from Allentown to another place. The little fellow had been a hanger-on of the circus. Mrs. Gerrity had been a strange portent that her boy had been killed on a train for she had dreamed of the tragedy colncldentally with her husband, but the details of the dreams had been different. She bad dreamed that he had fallen from a train and that his leg had been orushed, and that he had died while doctors were amputating his shattered limb. ll'lT Ul lw.nl IJ .. ...... . 1 j ?? IM<\yl HUM nin Four men were killed, another Is ! missing and Is supposed to have been ( blown to pieces, and tbree more were 1 seriously Injured Friday afternoon by the bursting of a tiy whrel at the Na- j tiona) Tube Co., Mclvcesport, Fa. j Two of the dead were skilled workmen , and Americans. Their names were 1 John Farmer and John Massurg. The others were foreigners. The explosion occurred shortly after 1.30 o'clock, 1 while ouer 400 men were at work In ( the mill. The wheel vwas 55 eet in diameter and It went to plecc^ with a ( loud report, tearing a big hole iu the j side of the mill and wreakino thous i ands of dollars worth of machinery. \ The explosion caused much excite < ment and hundreds of people were at- j traoted to the plant. About a year ] ago a tly wheel exploded tn ti e same department, killing a number of men. Dattlind to Doath, During the performance of "Fight- ( log the Flames" at the Pittsburg Ex- | position, Miss Janette Lawrence, twerity-Ove years old, a vaudeville < performer, was dashed to her death 1 from a window, thirty feet above the J stage. The accident was witnessed | by about two hundred spectators J crowded in a little theatre, but no 1 panic ensued. The scene in which ( Miss Lawrence met her death Is where 1 men are rescuing the Inmates of a ji _ i ? - - - tuippuNtjuiy Durning oulkling. The 1 women are taken from the windows 1 and carried to the ground. Miss ( Lawrence is said to Ijave jolted John 1 Herean, the man effecting the rescue, 1 causing her to slip from between his feet whioh were wrapped about her body, while he was clinging to the life rope with her. Herean was saved from death only by the prompt aotlon of other men. ] Beat His Mother. 1 John Trimble, of Augusta county, j Va., severaly beat his mother, Mrs. F. M. Trimble, Sunday with a pitchfork because the bread served for , breakfast had too muoh soda In It. , Alter orutally beating his aged ' mother ovorthe head and body, he ( turned upon a little girl of the neigh- . borhood, who came to the old lady's , assistance. After his cowardly act, . John left his mother lying on the . gound and (led to the woods. The younger son and another boy, Harry Humphreys, declare that the old man urged his son, John to kill his mother 1 since he had started it. The old man ^ stood by and saw the attack and fall- f ed to go lo her assistance. They live f on a nice farm and are substantial c people, and the neighborhood is much c aroused. c 1 EIILD TO BK VAL11>. Judge Townseud Sustains iho Validity ot the Brice Law. Ail Appeal It an Been Taken to the Htato Supreme Court t>j the Dlaponaary t'eoplo. The prohibitionists have won their tight in Union County. On Tuesday of last week Judge Townsend auueune ed his decision, lie says: '"After careful consideration and full argument, 1 have reached the conclusion and so adjudge the act of 1904, by authority of which the said electiou was held, as constitutional and has none of the vices charged against it herein, and that the petition upon which the election was oidered contained the required number of qualiiled electors and that the said election held hereunder, which said election was author;z d by the said act of 1904 was fairly and legally conducted by the machinery provided by law, and that it resulted in a decided majority for 'no dispensary'.', In closiug he said; "Therestraining order herein by me granted August 22, 1906, bas expired at this bearing, ana is hereby declared no longer operative. Therefore, let ti e dhpensarits in the iaid county be closed." The papers will at once be served upon the parties named as defendants IV yd Evans is reported as saying after the hearing last Monday that If the leciston was adverse to his interests he certainly would carry the case to the iuprenie court. THE OHDKlt IN FULL. Juc^ge Towusend's order in full is as follows: "This action was originally commenced hy 0 Harnett vs. G. U. May, I. G. ilowel and J. Lt. Askew, a.^ iounty dispensers, and also against he county hoard of control as named n complaint of cases above written for the purpose of restraining the said lefendants from closing the Union jounty dispensaries and for the fur ther purpose of declaring the election oeld on the 15th of August, 11)05, for dispensary' or 4no dispensary' uncon ititutional, illegal and void. "On the 22nd of August, 19C5, I Issued a rule against said defendants, requiring them to show cause before me on the 4th day of September, 1905, why they should not be perpetually enjoined from closing said dispensaries as a result of the said election held cn the 15th day of August, 1905, in the meantime restraining said defendants from so doing. DefendantsT. J. Uetanbaugh, E. C. Ilouze and Joseph Sanders presented a petition to me asking that an order be granted to make them parties defendants to said action with leave to make return to said rule and to defend said action. Permission was granted by order dat3d 32th day of August, 1900, at the hearing whioh was heard on the 4th af September, 1905. The original defendants as above set rut made returns and joined in the prayer of the comrvl n Ult h A /I n rt 4 M 'G T fimuiu iuo ucicuuauia) x. u, ucicubaugh, E. C. Ilowze and Joseph Sonera made returns denying some of the allegations of the complaint and asked that the complaint be dismissed and that the law relating to the closing of dhpenaries be enforced in accordance with the retult of the election held the 15th day of August, 1905. "After careful consideration and (ull argument, I have reached the conclusion and so adjudge the act of 1904, by authority of which the said election was held, as constitutional, tnd has none of the vices charged igainst it herein and that the petition lpou which the election was ordered contained ttie required number of qualtied electors and that the said election held hereunder, which said election was authorized by the said act of 1904, was legally and fairly conducted bv the machinery provided by law, and that it resulted in a decided majority for 'no dispensary' which result has oeen duly declared. ''It is therefore the duty of the said defendants to at once close the dispensaries of Union county aforesaid, is n quired by said act of the legisla ture, and this application for an injunction to restrain and prevent them from complying with mandatory retirements of law must be and is derived. "The restraining order herein by Me granted August 22, 1905, has ex pirea at tins Hearing, and is hereby declared no longer operative. TherePore, let the dispensaries in said county be closed. "D. A. Townsknd, "Circuit Judge. "September 5, 1905." Old Conflict) Hold. A dispatch from Columbia says at a private sale the buildings and ground A the old Columbia Female College weie sold to Mr. F. H. Hyatt for (30,000. This is a valuable piece of property. Mr. Hyatt stated Thursday that whllfl hA hud novo??l # ? w .. ??w ?w uw ? piaun In view for the future disposition of lis purchase, he had not fully decided as to what he would do with It. 3ne of the things he Is considering Is ihe conversion of the property Into a Irst class modern sanitarium, another s to make there a modern apartment louse. Killed Himself. A sensation has been caused at op cow by the suicide of Mme. Witte's nephew, M. Kbotinsky, who ihot a girl through the heart and then ihot himself. Kbotinsky was In a lragoon regiment. Four of his brothers died under somewhat traglo oiriumstances. :?Twr ATTOUB Bookkeeping,"""Shorthand, Typ guaranteed course 20 weeks. Sin/a hand,]|8 mos. 12 calls for graduates mand. Write. Machinery Supply I WE SELL E Headquarters for EVERYTHING All kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, Supplies for Saw Mills, Oil Mills an Lartfe stock of Well Pumps and Cyi COLUMBIA S rolmnhia. ? 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Over the greater portion of the State there was no rain during the week, and in places the ground is becoming dry and the need of moisture is indicated, especially in the coast truck districts; showers were general, though mostly light, over the western 1 half of the state begining on the night of the 1st and continuing to the close; there were also rains in the eastern tier of counties with occasional heavy showers. On the whole, the weather was fa vorable for general farm work, espe clally for haying and saving fodder and for picking cotton. In localities where the soil has been too wet here tofore, it dried sufficiently to permit gardening and plowing. Some oats have been sown in the central localities. Cotton continues to deteriorate on sandy lands owing to rust and excessive shedding, so that practically the plants have erased to grow or fruit, and nearly ail the top crop has dropped off; on clay lands the conditions are better, but rust, has appeared in places. Ou sandy lands cotton open ed rapidly, and picking made rapid progress over the eastern a.id central counties and will be general over the western ones during the coming week. On clay lands It Is just beginning to open freely. Caterpillars continue numerous on sea-island cotton. Tobacco curing is finished. Rice harvest is underway and some has been threshed. Peas and sweet potatoes are doing well. Pastures continue good. Strawberry plants being set out. Fall truck being planted ex tensively in the coast districts, but toe sou is too dry for favorable I germination. "Ble8skd are the peacemakers," said the Master. President Koosevelt will be remembered for his good work at Portsmouth. Piano Removal Sale. We moyo about September 15th, tc No. 1432 Main Street, almost opposite Masonic Temple. We want to close out every PIANO and ORGAN in stock, and have marked down price an inducement. Write or call quickly if you desire a big bargain either in a PIANO or ORGAN. 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