The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 16, 1905, Image 5
I WENT BACK.
A Colored Christian Missionary
I Who Turned Cannibal.
SHOCKING DOWNFALL
Of the Rev. Wilberforce, Who Has Peen
ft Arrested for Butcheritig and Hating
the Human Beings He Once
Tried to Convert in DaikI
est Africa.
I Of all the fancies ever evolved In
th? imaginings of Lttder Haggard?of
I all the weird legends that. ?v?r
Ilnto the. light out. of the darkness of
the African foiesta there is none
stranger than that of the Rev. Dr.
Daniel Flickinger VVllherforce, of
Sierra Leone, once missionary general
and now reported to be the war chief
of the I nperlal tribe and a devotee of
cannibalism.
In the who'e history of missionary
labor among the races of the lOisttbc
story of this venerabi npastor of seven
ty vnjirs, sometime called Bishop of
the. Cornell of the United Brethren of
Amor'ci, who, according to many do
lailcd dispatches, after forty years of
missionary life, reverted by a gradual
process of avatlsm to his natural state
of pagan and cannibal, stands without
a parallel.
YVaerever missionary work is
known, wherrv >r good men and women
labor through many years for the
conversion of their benighted brethren
in Iiir i i, Asia or Africa, the stcry is
told and retold with lamentation.
Scientists and criminologists the
__ l J "i
wuriu over win accept the retrotfres- I
slon of this missionary, famous
through the East for his eloquence
ani learning, to the wiu paint of his
t ribe a; <1 a dinner of human ll sh, as
establishing the eternal truth that, the
original b >ast in the siv.igc can never
be quelled in centuries of o'.vihzition
ann that Mr. Wllhcrforce, stcrelly
hungering t? r ugh forty years of re
presslon of his natural self for the
tlftsh for which his hi od craved, and
the idols (if, his forefathers, has but
obeyed the law of his nature
Hut the good men and women of
the white and colored races who
through a lorg lib*. have labored with
blind, cea^less, single hearted devotion
for the enlighter ment of the heathen,
stand aghast and In face of this aw
ful living 9pectaele of d'generaoy asU j
themselves wnetnor their labor i l
loenturies Is, after all, labor spoilt in
vain, and whether it Is. indeed, the
immutable law of nature that the
i savage strain once implanted in the
heart can never be wiped out
Throughout tills country the story
has struc'i deep Into the hearts of the
ininiulorj nf all fronHa n?H t\f
V#* w ? k v/l WV/'IU) WMU V/I |>liuac>
who ^tve bounteously of their wealth
and substance to shed the li^ht of
\ Civil'zttiou on darkened places. And
^bver their hearts and the hearts of the
SI p'ous men and women of VV11 her force's
rac^ han^s a Mack pall of g'oom and
} s ame and doubt of the future.
I For two rations had Mr. Wtl
berforce stood as the exemplar for all
youiur ne^ro students of divinity of
the heights to which they themselves
mitfht reach In the pursuit of their
) sacred raissior; and for the missionaries
of the while race he served as a
beacon whenever their hearts failed
th( m In the stupendous wo k of conversion
of the West African savage.
To thousands of his fellows landing In
-West Africa, fresh from these shorei,
he has b ien as a dear and venerable
friend, rich In experience as In learn
In# and erudition; an adviser and Kuide
In the lirst few trouolcd months of
their adventure.
And now, back at home In America,
or In E inland, or lab >rlnur still In the
wild, they look blankly at each other
, and ask how In the name of Heaven
isuch things can be.
!! As If In replv fall the words of the
old man to hi s cap tors as he was led
to the prison at Sierra Leone, there
to await his trial for cannibalism.
"If I am to die It is well, I shall
Hie in tne faith of my fathers?the
faith that was born thousands upon
thousands of years a^o and which all
your Christaln teachings have not
driven out. The forty years in which
I lived In yourjakh were forty years
Iof a living lie. >be voices of my fathers,
of my people whom I had deserted
In my youth, of tne ?ods that I;
had worshipped, were ever calling to
I me to end my days as I had begun.
And at last I heard and went back."
The g >od men with whom his life
pad been passed pleaded with him,
even with tears, up to the very gates'
i>f the prison to return to the faith
that he nad abjured.
And now they urge, with some
'nger, that the stern action of the
Missionary Board of the Qoltrd Hreth
ten at Dayton, Ohio, in summarily
expelling him on evidence of his retrogression
precipitated the final
downfall.
a father's sacrifice.
Well might tne word of missionaries
wall over h's loss, for his story
ri ads like a rarely beautiful romance
k<f olden times.
It was in tiy days of half a century
agone, when fhe light of civilization
was drawing in darkest Africa, that
the great chief of the Imperial tilbo,
the most powerful warlike of those
timis, and the U>v. Samuel Fllcklnger,
pioneer among the missionaries of
the United Brethren, met In solemn
conference to arrarge a treaty of com
meroo and p^aoe. From that time the
friendship of the ciief for the enthusiastic
young missionaries warmed a id
grew deeper with the years.
Too old to change the faith of his
ancestors, h?? said he would male ro
til <rt to inrp> d i the work of the missionarles
among his p ople. l>r< bib
y the ag?*d ohn f saw the commir
cial value of a good, friendly understanding
with the gentlemen who were
in a position to bring him so much
g' od trade from Kaglaud ai d America.
C vlef of his people and heir apparent
to his pla^*1 was his line strapping
stripling of ti'tien years?the one
hope of his life, the sole remembrance
of the woman who died years before.
And wnen Mr. Fiicklnger, who had
the Wd und *r his tuition, at last, begged
the chief to rellngulsh htm for
good, saving that he would take him
to his own home in Dayton, America,
the old man consented
And so to school and to a college he
went, taking first prize in history,
literature and tue class e i
And the tirst years of the young
cilei'. life in America in the home of
btie good man who hud br- ughtyhlm
to this country wi re yea-s of golden
promise. From the earliest days o*
nis arrival his trend had been to roilg
on
"My path In life is chosen," he
said with a smile that showed v r>
gleaming tooth in his head. "I will
he a worker in the vim yard." To tin
the 'logical seminary he went, again
gr idu-vtuig with tue highest honors.
IIis way was c car. For West A rlca
he sailed, and on the coast for twenty
years he labored, winning couverts
every where ar.d becoming farn >us fur
t is elcquei a and power, until his re
turn to D i> tou.
And when he mtrried a woman of
his own race and settled down into a
ministry of tnc home CMi'Oh, ltsepra
ort Mint. Mio rnuln \u. .?-L? . ' 1<1" " ? -----
vw<?v W>1V UJII1U TM10| V? 1 Uin II I O '? tj,
complete. But the spilt between the
Ltadleal and Conservative faction* of
the United Brethren drove him tirst
to one side at d then to toe outer and
at last hack to West Africa.
And now those who know his story
cite two peculiar c rcumsratices almost
unnoticed at the time, batnow rtcall
e l In avtvid memory.
Taere was in his whole attitude a
crouch, an animal stealth that sent a
ct udder thuujh these who watcoed
hi 111.
It may he that in the storm of contention
between the two factions of
the o lurch die tirst sense of rebellion
against his ad jpted faith ? -he n-.bel
li n that had Iodk lain smould rn g in
nis tieari- arosestrong aii i clear with
in him.
Yet ho. bravaiy went I aik to his
duty. The remembrance < f the tr< od
rran?now so loi g hi tils gravi? vho
had taken him by the hat d, l eld him
fatt". I l I I t- "--'in rliiiiAt < rl hrtrt * 1 " d
i i?u v 1 'U u u< !0 \ir V vji i 14 i l\Jik 1 u i) ( i i\ ij i i dU
been part of himself, that bar) g.von
fervor and force to hi.s work was
gone. Yet to those who watched him
e.osely now?ae was seemingly th
same gentle protfctior of ihe poor a id
thestr.cken that he had ever been.
His mission school grew larg r and
larger; ids church grew more and
more powerful; his i- tluouct the w,tier.
Hh o nvetts to (Jurlaiiariity wt ri
found by the thousand along the wtioe
line id the West African eoast Ills
art as a preacher had nullowel and
ripened with in* years.
li was on the night cf a Sun'lay
Miree years ago ttiat he returned to
tils cottage looking very tired and old.
The services of that day had been
m >re than usually exhaustlrg N v r,
they said af erward, had he preacheo
so well. lie had take "Sine rit.>" for
uls text. It was an address to be re
meoabered for all time. 11 it it was
recalled afterward that right in the
heart of his sermon he had coma to a
sudden dead siod. his hand uolifi,?i
as though to bespeak slltno , bin eye.s
tixcd on vacancy, his whoie expression
as one who listens frmo afar. Tin n,
as If with a ureal t IV >rt he recovered
ills thou/hts, sighed pscpy and re
.turned his discourse.
"1 am very weary," he said to his
servants. "To night while 1 was speaking,
1 heard the snind of the prayer
sontf that I rt metnoer in my youth.
The sontf seemed to be born in upon
me from the v ry depths of the forest.
I heard the voIcjs of my brethren
raised an though to call me.
When they entered the room In the
morning his bed was empty. Yet they
did not search for him, hut after the
manner of their race, quietly sat down
at their doors and waited.
And at last there came a dark time
when, they say, for twenty one lori^'
days he vanished from the ken of all
who had known him.
Diwntd br yf'it and beautiful the
mjrrdntf of the twenty-second day,
and before the eves of his am;?y. >rl ser
vtnts he stojd?th". sam) -yet trjmformerl.
For the first time la forty
yearn he wan himself.
Within a week the church In which
he bad preached w s empty and the
<-Oho)ihous) a dismantled ruin. Trie
edifice of two generations was destroyed.
Little it r'cked to him that the
council of the church in far away
Arairioa had solemnly expelled him
/or lrll iellty to the brotherhood. For
the first time in his 11'e he breatced
the air of freedom.
And now from out the recesses of
the African forests, ten miles away
from the coast, came ghastly stories
of the sacritlces (flared up by the
tribes of the Imperial In return for the
restoration of their chief; of death
feasts in which the II ;sh A children
and women was eaten.
Sp es and scouts, creeping throuuh
a th( u<and paths, csmi upon tn^n
and toid *f the chief of the Impert
seated with his wives on a pile o<
rooks around him, his men danc.n^ j
the dance of death >ver a corpse.
And In a wild medley of juHtioeand
revenge, police and soldiers alike were
(> the trail of the former missionary
'o buot him, bv day and night, until,
in his own camp, surrounded by his
men, he was cai ght and forced to surrender,
and led, a captive, to Sierra
Leone. ? New York American.
C JiXUN 8 IILL KING.
tllgh I'rioo of ttio Staple Mak> h the
Soutli i'rowperoii*.
C ottou, unlike the Czar, is seated
on a staple throne. The good old
Southern monarch, despite all clforts
of speculators and market gamblers to
ihe contrary, holds p werful sway
throughout the world. Tne government
report of last Tuesday concerning
the present crop tends only to the
support of the c itton market. As
this orop, on account of the dry fall,
has been completely harvested, the
estimate this time btc >mes almost an
sc'.ual statement as to the number of
hales made. The report puts the
number at 10,107 818. As these tig
ores are considerably below the world's
oousi mptlon of cottou the surplus of
last year can easily be taken up without
reducing the price of the staple at
all.
Cotton tl &j is being held must In
the face of this rep >rt become
more valuable than It is at present
and as much of the holding* Ik ?mii in
the hands of the farmer the prospects
are that there will he nood times In
Dixie during the next twelve months.
Hut there Is more significance In
this small crop of cotton than thai
which attaches to the present year.
With only ten million bales, as stated
before, the surplus of the great 1904
crop will have to be used to meet con
sumption, and this will start the 1906
o-op with a cleau sheet. Tnere w;h
oe none, or very little, residue from
lormer crops to bear down i s price.
Taken all in all the conditions for
prosperity in the South are altogether
cheerfkl aud the people have but lo
use energy and judgment to gra3p
success.?Charleston Post.
N w Y?.rk Mysteries.
Three of New York's great high
ways, the river, tlie undergri uad railway
aud street aud that oark section
known as "Coiaatown, eacli furnished
a police rnys'ery 1 ist weik. Au unknown
mau j imped in front or a train
ssttswuug into 137th street and
Broadway station of the subway,
ilis body was literally ground to
pieces. Tae Chinatown mystery was :
the death of a white woman, Lottie
Line, wnose husband, a Chinaman,
oled a short time ago. Lottie Line
uad three callers Tuesday night of
last week, a Chinaman and a white |
man and a white woman. During ;
the idgnt these callers summoned a
physician and notified the p dice that
t itsr hostess had laiutud. The, physician
found her dead. Tne police
put. the three callers under arrest.
William Ilallinger, who baid he came
down from Yonkers and after dispos
u.g of his lohd of produce started oul
o ei j )y himself, was dragged from
the kiist river with a fractured skull.
Mabel Weber, a 20 year old 1 who
found lying bound, gaggo i and sense
less in the hallway of iter house In
West Forty-Fifth street where she
resided with two girl companions.
Attempted Huiculo.
Dr. J. H. Matthews, in jail at
G eensboro, N. (J., for wife murder,
came near ending his life bv cutting
his wrist with a spoon handle one day
last week. The physicians reached
him In time to stop the fl >w of blood
and he is now out of danger. A guard
nas been placed In the cell with him
A prison sr In an adjoining c 11 no
tioed nim lying on ins cot with his
bandaged wrist hanging down. Ask
ing what was the matter, Matthews
responded that he was cold and had
bandaged his pulse to make him
warm. Suspecting something wrong,
the jtilor was notified and on Investigation
found the prisoner with a tin
spoon handle, but he had failed to
sever the artery. He had tied a
handkerchief over It and was holding
his hand down with the edge of the
blanket conceling it while his blood
ll >wed in a bucket. Matthews swallowed
a quid oftobaco, several match
heads aud charred stumps of c'garettes
he had been allowed to smoke
during the day. The physician gave
him a powerful emltic and saved Mb
life.
MUHl i'KKlUOII 1 * A (MTH.
The State Supreme Court Is deter
mined to tind out what Is contained
in those alleged private letters and
other papers which Chief Beer Dls i
peuser James S. Farnum, of Charles
ton, on the advise of counsel had re i
moved from his dispensary, N >. 12 In
Charleston beyond the reac i of the
dispensary Investigating commission
toaro.her Soate and to this end '
Thursday passed an order requiring
him to place them before the c.urt.
Death lit hi. of it it i ft i <* rn,
The total numb3f of hunters killed
by accident ho far this year, vVhcjnsln
and Northern M ebitfan Is twenty six.
Fifty-one have been wounded. More
hunters were killed this year by ac
oi iental discharge of their own kuos
than evt r bef ;re. Many were shot by
mistake by hunters who took them
(or deer.
Miow l/oliect ion.
A London money lender pressed .
his claim for money loaned in a citv
o >urt and the Judge, after au exhaus
tlve inquiry Iqoj trie merits of tnc
eise, directel the defendant to pay <
the debt at the rata of one penny per
month, the entire amount to be paid
by the end of the 209 th year. <
8P>N[ x f
? - rril)ma?
CorUlyou Pis,ensed Nearly two Milli
n Pollars on Campaign.
it Cime (roiu Many Hourc'W, i ho
Subscription W?n()iio
Hundred IhouNtil Dollarv,
Ac:ordlug to a Washington newspaper
which, with evidence of friendly
handling, prints a long statement
about the expenses t?f Chairman Cortelyou
In 1904, the Republican national
committee used the sum i f $1,800,000
to elect It icsevelt and Fairbanks,
auu had in bank when the campaign
was ended about $100 000.
It is stated that Cnalrman Cortelyou
had $900,000 less that Chairman
11 anna had in 1000 and D"&rly $2,000,000
less ttian lie had in 1206 It is
also declared to be a fact mat the
I)?mo ratlc national c >mmittee in
1892, when Mr. Cleveland was elected
ino second time, had a fund exceeding
anything known in American politics
nefore or site.!?the sum of $1 100,
000.
Chairman Cortelyou, according to
this article, turned over to State committee
in New York, New Jersey,
West Virginia, Masiaohu setts, Con
neoticut, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Nev ida tlie sum of $700 000. No
amount is tix *d as to the sum ex iend?
d In New York by the national committee
through Gov. Oit 11, but it
must have bceu largely in excess of
$200,000 F >r literature, it states, t,he
uational committee expended $550,000;
for the speakers' bureau, $175,000;
for lithographs, advertising, etc.,
$150 OOOr for salaries and headquarters
expenses, $150,000, and for mlscellan
eous expenses, $50,000.
1t Is stated that the money expend
ed by Cnairmin C irtelyou came from
10 000 dliferent s? urces, about 4 000
contributors being known, leaving
about tj 000 unkrown, to the chair m in
of the national committee. The larg
est single contributor furnlsned upward
of $100 ooo, it, u stated, and his
Identity was not known to either
Uaalrman Oorteljou or Mr. Rllss.
Tne article is lactlng in details as
to the Identity of c irponti >ns and
c >rp -rati in managers that contribut
ed to the Republican fu ids- No refer
enoe whatever Is made to contribu
tions either fr >m life Insurance c >n,p
anies or railway companies, bin It Is
alleged that in every Instance where
a c mtrlbution was made conditional
on soma political favor to come the of
fer was r< j oted or the money returned.
In connection with the Republican
campaign fund, the statement Is made
that Rft sident Roost v.ill and Chair
man Conel>ou wtil c (operate to have
pa.t-ed a law providing for the publi
city of c >Dtributi< ns to political committee.
Chairman Cortcly'ou de clined
to alscu<8 the figures conneqted with
the camp ilgn of 1904 but intimated 1
tuai they were ''about right."
Wire). Tt-lrgi ? i>hy.
Reports received bv the Rureau of '
Equipment of the Navy at Washing l!
to.i fr in the c ? um:uit!ant of tue naval
station at K >y W. st, Cxnmander 1
Beehl r state mat tie wireless tele
graph operator there received ann 1
read wlih< ut trouble a message of
eight words sent by tbe station a> Coou,
a distance of more than 1 000
geographical miles. This new sta
tion at Ool ?n whs rqilpoed for the
government by the oe Forest Compi
ny. Messages passing between Beaufort,
8 C , and Havana, Cu >a were
heard and read by the station at New
port R. I at the same time. These
are ex raoriinary records, hub Rear
Adm.ral M \nney, the cuief of the
i ureau, has Instituted a system of
daily tests of the d 11' irent stations
and it is nope before no retires from
the servue to have this means of
c'mmuolcatign in Hucn perfect order
that those occasional records snail
have become a regular matter.
1 *mi but it !>> (j?ii it l lm> h.
Among the passengers who
arrived at San Francisco from A us
vrmiii on Lite iiner is mom a were uap
taiu Watts and O.oief Ortiaer Alex
Stlnson, of the American hiiip Sutquo
nanna, which founded shortly a:ter
she left Njhone, New (JaUdonla,
August 23 last, with a car^o o'
?hr'?m?? *r?'P for Delaware breakwater
The crew left the ship In three boats
which were headed for the Solomon
islands. Only one boat landed there.
The other two were picked up at hen
by a trading tcaooner. There the
men were kindly treated for a time
but finally bad to fly for their lives j
from a set of Oannlbals who threaten (
ed their existence. They were sub- i
sequently picked up by a trading vessel
and j )ined the rest of the crew at .
Sydney. i
Horrible Aoonh nl. I
Oa last Wednesday morning Mr
John U. Funches, who lives near 1
Itowesville, met with a most norribie j
accident. He was operating a su^ar
cane mill, and by some means his coat '
sleeve on the rikht arm T?/as oau/ht in
ihc cotfs. Ilefore Mr. Funobes ould
pull vletvecut hm arm was drawn <
la the cojt.h and crushed to the elbow. (
The machinery wa9 stopped as hoou i
as possible and Mr. Function was re- |
leased from tlio mill. Liter I)r. A. j
S. Jlydrlck, of this city, assisted by
Dr. J D. S. Fuircy, amputated tho
arm just abovo the elbow. We ex
te.id our sympathy to Mr. Punches
and ho. e that he will soon be up
attain.
Ktlkdlliiiivdlt.
At New York Allen Kllnedinst
committed sulcldb early Sunday nl^ht
by drinking carool.c acii. lie died
three hours afterwards In tne presence
of his youug<wlfe and child.
/
TLX PERSONS KILLER
And a Number Infiiml by a Hoadon
Collision.
Ten persons were killed and 11 train
employes and eight* passengers were
injured In the wreck of the Overland |
Limited passenger train No. li on the
Union Pacific, live miles west ol It ok
Springs, WyoM Thursday morning.
The Limited was run into head-on by
a freight train aud loth engines were
demolished.
The dyamo oar, mail car and dining
car on the limited burned to the
wheels. Several of the dead were
luelnerated. An extra freight train
was given an order before It left R >ok
Springs to meet four eastbound pas
senger trains, of wbich the Overland
limited was the last one, at Ahsay, a
siding live miles west of Rick
Springs.
The freight took the siding at All
sav and waited until three of these
had pa-sod east aud then pulled out.
When a mile aud a half west of Ahsay
the freight met the O /erland
Limited and crashed Into It, headon.
11 ?t,h engines were demolished and
the tirst three oars of the Overland
Limited Immediately caught lire and
were burned. Engineer Brink of the
freight train, who It is stated thiol
ally, was rt sponsible for overrunning
his orders was one of the killed. Sev
?ral trains had been badly doiayed at
Granger, with the result that four
passenger trains were ruahlng el )3o to
gether. The freight had received positive
or ders to meet all four of the
crams a t Ansay, and the < ill dais say
that the orders were either misunrler
stood or misread.
JuHtltiHl lit Firliitc*
In Altoona, Pa., the other night
ti7e young men serenaded the lady
love of one of the party. A neighbor
raised a nearby window and lired a
revolver at the party then called a
policeman and had them all arrested
for disorderly conduct and disturbing
the peace. In police court the next
morning the young men protested
that they were singing love songs,
at.d (IT red to sing for the ecu't by
way of proving their Innocence of the
charge against them. The court
heard them sin 4 two selections
whereupon the serenad ts were Ian
formed that if thecouro had preyiou
sly any doubt as to their guilt it hai
entirely disappeared. "Anybody
would b,i j :stl(ied for liring at you, if
vou were making a noise like that,"
Said the julge. lie lined them $5
Bica. x
I -ttmf'H n Call,
President liarvie Jurdon of the
Southern Catton association Friday
issued a cail for a general convention
t f farmer?, bankers, merchants and
others throughout the South t< be
he'd at New Orleans, Jan. 11, 12 and
13, 1900 The ot j ct of the c juven*
tion v111 be to discuss ihe work of the
association, with reference to orgaob
i, itlon, hindllng the crop of 1000,
trade relations between producers and
spinners, extending tiie market for
American c itton arid holding toe unsold
i> tiance of tiie present cotton crou
for I5cent8a pound. Many prominent
speakers from various parts of
the country have promised to be
present and a large attendance is
already predicted.
? ItuHHiau Hod Tnpo.
A storv of Russian red tape is told
by YV. T. Stead. Gen. Linevltch,
while in supreme command of the
Russian army in Manchuria, once
used a rubber-stamp signature for
tire papers which he had to sign
tvery day before he c ulddraw forage
for his own horses. The commissary
general returned the rubber stamp
signed papers as out of order and
dvery day tiie general commanding
an army of 500,000 men had to atlW
?iis auiograpa to the requisition for
liis horses' oats.
Aver?tfo WeiJrhr.
S'cetary IIenter makes the actual
average weight of 4,252 643 bales of
the cotton crop embracing port re
coipts and overland for the three
months from September to November,
inclusive, 519.10 against 523 53 pounds
oer bale 1 ist year, a decrease of 4.13.
Detailed avrajres are: Texas 533 56;
L tulsiana 522 16; Alabama, etc., 630;
Gior^la 508; Sou-h Carolina 500;
North Carolina 531.95; Virginia 496;
Tennessee, etc , including Memphis,
St. Louis and ovorland, 523.7.
Aiwa)h Clean.
I)ld you ever notice that tobacco is
always clean. If a man drops a pkca
of m^at, no matter how clean the
lloor may be, he will either tflve it a
pick or pick it up and lay it to one
lie. He will never eat it. Hut let
him drop his plutf of tobacco on the
ground and no dilTerence how dirty
the *pot was where It fell, he will I
Dick It ud and ulve it a ear?i?H4 nwino i
>n his coat sleeve or on tbe bosom of
lis pants and then take a chew with
greater relish Uvn evor.
HI lllu aui,
Attempts made last Friday, Saturday,
anh Sunday and Monday nights
to wreck passenger trains on the
Georgia Southern railroad an Heartpine
Pa , resulted In a watoh being
int. Tnis resulted In the arrest Wed
nesday of Will Born, a negro who
was caught in ahe act of la>lng a tie
across the track. A reward of 9260
has beeu olTered for the arrest.
Negro SUippiKI,
A dispatch from GatToey to The
State says Elsie Mar:,la colored, was
p?slbiy fatally stabbed by Son J )hnson,
col rjd, late Wednesday niglu.
Irjuries severe Result uncertain..
Johnson Is In j vU to await trlaj.
Poth about 15 years of age.
V.
HUNG AT LAST."
Mrs. Rogers Dies on the (iallows
lor Her Crime.
MURDERED HU3MNP.
Whom She Chlorotormed a? a M-etlng in
the Woods While She Was Caressing
Him. (ireat Efforts Werj
MaJe to Save the Woman,
hut The* Tailed.
A dispatch from Wlnlsor, Vt., siys
Mrs. Mary Rogers was hanged at tl e
Vermont State prison at 1:13 o'clock
h'rlday aftern >on for the murder of
her husbat d, Marcus U gers at lieunlngtoii,
on August 13, 1002. Mrs.
R >gers was pronounced dead by the
prison otllolals at 1:27 1 2
The execution toek place after tlio
woman had twice been reprieved on
account of appeals male by ncr conn
sel and after the U ilted Statos Sa
premc Court refused t> take action in
the case.
o.ily a omparatl vely few persons
wltue-sed the hauglng, tne number
being restricted to those per in it ted to
attend by the laws of Vermont.
Mrs. Rogers maintained her composure
to the last and m runted the
gallows with a steady step. Although
a deathly pallor overspread her countenance,
hardlv a mincle quivered as
Deputy SherilT ShblVrrd pronounced
the fatal words, "1 now proceed to
' xecute the sentence of the law and
may God have mercy on your soul."
VVneu the words were pronouueed
Deputy Sheriir Angus MoAuley sprung
the trap and the drop fell.
The crime for which Mrs. Mary
Rogers was sentenced to death was
the murder of her husband, Marous
Rogers, at Hennlngtou, on August 1H,
li)02. At the time the crime was committed
Mrs. R >gors was only nineteen.
Sue had been separated from
her husband for some time and was
desirous of marrying a young man
named Maui ice Kuapp.
t)i the clay of Hie murder Marcm
R igers went to Rjnulugtoa to vialo
his wife and thai night sin arranged
to meet him in the woids near the
Walloomsack rivir. While caressing
him she induced him to allow her to
bind tils hands, and while he was powerUssshechloroformedh.m.
In this
she was aided by Leon i'erham, a
halfwitted b >y who was Hie son of
the woman with whom she boarded.
Another woman, Estella Rates, was
present.
A fjw days after the murdor Mrs.
Rogers, Porham and the Rates woman
were arrested. . Perham made a complete
confession and both he and Mth.
Rogers were found guilty of murder
in the lirst degree. Perham was sentenced
to imprisonment for life and
.VPs. Rjgers was sentenced to the
death gallons.
Various attempts were made to
commute Mrs R igers' sentence but all
failed The date set for the execution
was February 3, l(JOf> Gov. Rail granted
two reprieves for tiie presentation
of new evidence, but the court denied
tiie petition for a new trial eacb time,
and the United States Supreme Court
refused to consider the case.
Certain disclosures regarding scandals
in the Vermont State prison at
Windsor, wtiere Mrs. Rogers has been
con lined, have, it is claimed, affected
public sentiment. According to testimony
before the prison investigation
c unmittee of the L? gisiature one of
the conv cts at Windsor had access
to Mrs. Rogers' cell some time after
the first reprieve was granted. It was
alleged that this was part of a conspiracy
on the pirt of certain prison
Hlicials to brini* aW.nf U..T.W - J1
r* uuwuu nuuu lb O Jliur
tiou mi would further postpone the excutlon.
Mrs. Rogers was the first person
sentenced to deatn In Vermont within
the past thirteen vears who was refused
clemency. The last woman to be
executed was Mrs. Emellne Meeker,
at Winds <r, on March 3d, 1883.
O i the march to the gallows Mrs.
Rubers declined the a;>sistance of deputies.
Her step was firm. She mounted
the scull' ild unaided and stopped
exactly upon the center of the trap.
Sue sat down In the chair for a mo npent.aud,
when asked If she had any
final stntemoDt to make she shook her
head jpegati vely.
Mrs. liters' body has been claimed
by, Ucr mother and sister, and will he
buried by them at Mo sick Falls, N.
Ym where the mother, Mrs. .Josie Calls
ban, resides.
Wher? Are Tho Hooks.
( There was a hearing In Columbia
'in Friday which Is regarded as significant
before the legislative comcpttteo
appointed to check no
? r- vw& V?? I LA
State otlloiais. Ttie object is to discover
the four mission cash to>ks
frt?m Secretary of State Gantt's ctil *<e
covering tranactions amounting to
many thousands of dollars. These
are the books about which there
such a heated controversy at the last
*esnlon of the Legislature. Tue committee
has Information that these
books were not burned as was intimated.
Clerk MoJowo testilled Friday
that ho was absent lu Florence
when toe books got lost, and Cierit
McLiurin did not know how the
!Kicks got awav. Secretary Oantt. is
tck and his examination along with
,bat of of Clerk Msans, of tho sna)ng
fund com nlssioo, is deferred uutil
they can be examined together.