Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WENT TO SEE. Mr. O. B. Kitrell Claims That Tt Ts Tan Murphy. Capt. Or tilth. >1 r. Klttrell and Mr. Hardv Will T?ko a Ijnok at th? Faiuoui Prisoner. The Csinobta State says that It appears that after all Dan S. Murph) may be In arrest In Swaipsboro, Ga. As has been published in T le S'ate Mr. Geo. H. Kittrell, of Orangeburg county has assurances from the shorltl at Swaitihb.iro that the prisoner b very much like a phot graph of M ir 1- -- * .. I U11- L _.jt i ptiy, liiiteu wriiiB nu ill Jill ID or angeburg awaiting trial. Sergt 0. C. Rjbtrts of the pen 1 ten tlary guard w*s sent to Swalnsboro about ten days ago to see If th^ m vr. in prison there was Murphy, as nad been all iged by th? chief of police of Augusta. Sergt K iberts reported b> wire that trie man was not Mjrphy, although It was singular that the tran convic ed of horse stealing at S vains boro attempt* d to take hU life when he heard that an rtlioerfrom South Carolina wan coming for him. H< broke a bottle ar.d with a jigged pie ?e of1 glass made a wound oa his wrist from which he bled profusely and his condition was discovered just In time to save his life. Whether It was from his emaciated condition cn acoouut of this blood let ting, or on account of the change of live years of out door life upon the countenance of one who had been confined In a cell, Sergt. Uiberts was uoable to identify the man as Murphy. However, on his return to Columbia he did report to Capt. Giillith, superintendent of the penitentiary, that;he suspected the man notwithstanding the fact that there was a marked discrepancy in the height of the min in arrest at Swalnsboro and the height of the man in the peultentiary as shown by the penitentiary records. Murphy had had several teeth miss lng, and the man In j ill at Swalnsboro had a gold crown in the place where these teeth were missing. Sergt. R ?b viva uvuiK uimiiio iaj wupiciv tllB U BU* titicatlon, Capt. Griffith had written to the sheriff at Swainsboro to send photograph of the man lu prison there, and this has not yet been done. Thursday Gov. Hevward took the matter up with Capt. Griffith and the ' latter, instead of going to Washington to attend the meeting of the commission to confer with Mr. R iosevelt in regard to a Southern interstate reformatory, decided to leave at once for Swainsboro and to take a look at the prisoner hlimelf. He will be accompanied by Corporal Hardy, one of the oldest men at the penitentiary, in point of service on the force. Mr. Klttrell arrived in the city Thursday night and will accompany Capt. Griffith to Swainsboro. Mr. Kittreil is tbe man who, with Mr. W. (). Tatum, ran Murphy down and accom pllshed his conviction in 1897. Mr. Klttrell was auditor of Orangeburg county at the time and was very much interested in the case. lie siid Thursday night that but for a miscarriage of Justice there might have been others convicted in counec ion with Dan Murphy. He is sure that the man in j ill at Swainsboro is Dan Murphy, for his actions have Indicated as much. Muiphy is known to have been in tnat part of the country anyway. Swainsboro is .n Emanuel county, c quldist.ant from Augusta and Savannah, and is not on a through line of railway. A special to The State Thursday night from Orangeburg says: "Tne impression here is that the penitentiary guard made a mistake, Murphy's wife's relatives moved to Swainsboro several years ago and it has been reported here several times that he ranged between Swainsboro ahd Jacksonville. "It is also reported that a party here had located Muiphy at Swainsboro just prior to t^e time the fact of Murphy's being a G .orgia convict became known and that this party had boperl ?o secure the reward. Thesenti ment here has never aanged, Murphy is still believed gulity. The statement of nis Georgia relative that he was in Augubta at the time of the murder of Treasurer Copes has been proven false It Is believed to have been unwise to have commuted the sentence of a man who so richly deserved his death, without making some (IT >rts to verify the statements made In Murphy's be half at the last moment and which could have been disproved without much trouble." m11 kittkell'8 statement. Mr. Kit rell made the following signed statement for T1 e State before he left home Tnursdav: Cope, S. C., Dec. 14, 1905. The State, Columbia, S. C. You ask my reason for bellevlo^ person at Swainsboro Dan Murphy. J have always felt like some one in au thorlty was bribed to ?ive hlra hl< liberty, and If they were and any ol Vintv\ oAfttfr f Viaiv nmi 1 rl o 4Vs\ 4/ tuuiii nouu vuc/ wkiu uwu auuiu ti identify him, so when I saw by th< papers it was not him J sent his picture to sheriil at Swainsboro and wrot< him my fears in the matter. 1 receiv ed letter Thursday stating that th< picture sent was the man he bad. ] sent the letter to governor in morn ing's mall and wired him Thursday night and ask him to call on W. O Tatum or a letter that would explain O. B. KITTKKLL, MUKPIIY IDENTIFIED. A special to The Savannah Morn log News from Swainsboro says: D O. Murphy alias Frank Smith, has < at last been identified as the murder er of County Treasurer K ?bert Copes, and O B K ttrcl of Cope Is fx to arrive here for his prisoner torn ?r row. Smith was arrested in thh ounty last May for hor e stealing He wai convicud in O)tooer, and ha* been serving his time on the count> ohatngang An < ttloer feit here frctr S' uto Carolina 10 days >g) failed t< identify the prisoner hut a oho'o graph of Smith gent here hy K'ttrel I made Ills positive identification com ' plcte, As requisition papers hav ! already been granted Smith will be aken to South Carolina ?t once. QONK TO SKK THK MAN. Cap l) J Griffith, superintendent of the State penitentiary, Mr. Geo It-n K't trfll, former auditor of () angeburg c uofcy, who prosecuted Dan S Murptiy for the killing of Treasurer Copes, and Corporal Hardy of the penitentiary guard went to Swalnsh ro, Ga., Thursday to tak* a look at the man "Smith" in j ill ther* 'or horse sua'ing Serge itit C. C Roberts of the penitentiary guard was nahle to fully identify the prisoner as Murphy. Tne followl"" lHter was received hv thn governor Friday from the sueriIT f K uanu M c uuty: Dear Sli: 1 have just re^eivrd 8 picture fri.in Mr. G. It Kittrell of Cop*, S. C., which he says is the p'c tire of D C. Murphy. If it is his picture, I have toe man. I do not underfrand why Mr. It borts d;d not take him fjr 1 and everybody that has *e?Hi the man and picture knows that it is the same man. So the mat ter seems to be in rather bad shape. Yours verv tru'y, J. W Fields, Sheriff of Emanue' County. MASOMIO GiiANO LODQS. Tlio (Jllihora Mlcotml tor the Kasuln Year at CharleHton. The following are the newly elected ottlcers of the Mvsonlo grand lodge. Grand master, F. E Harrisai, Abb-) ville; deouty grand master, J L MichD, Darlington; senior grand war den, James R. J jhuson, Charleston; junior grand warden, Geo. S Mover, Newberry; grand treasurer, Zi miner- I man Davis. Charleston ; grano ec?tiry, Charles S. IngDsby, Columbia; grand chaplain, W. P. Smith, Sparr.cnburg; senior grand deacon*, J P. Duokett, Anderson, and F. L Mor row, At bevllle; junior grand oeacODf; M. II Sandlfer, Rock Hill, and C. II. Roper, Laurent-; grand stewards, J. W. Rodgers, Darlington, and J W. Robert*. Greenville, grand mirshall, John Kennerly, C?kkestur>; grand pursulvaut, W. T. Williams. L incaster; grand tiler, W. A. Winkler, Charleston; district deputy grand masters, W. G. Mazyck, Charlestor; S. H. Rodgers, Beaufort; R. A. Gyles Blackville; W. A. Gyles, Gr&nitevllle; B. E. Nicholson, Edgetield; R. A. Cooper, Laurens; B F. Shirley, Roberts; J. H. Bryan, Newry; A. S. R >well, Piedmont; B. B. Bishop, I man; G. Y. Hunter, Prosperity; L. C. nar rison, Lancaster; J. E. MoDonald, Wlnnsboro; W. 0. Davis, Manning; J. Ilarleston Read, Georgtown; W E. James, Darlington; J. C. Sellers, Lat. .. . W T Alnnn > V mU uu , ?? . lj. vjia/.c, wi mi^cuui ^ . i m; delegates and officers of the grand lodgs were given a harbor excu-slon and oyster roast at the isle af Palms and otherwise entertained by the, Charleston and Mount Pleasant Misons. "The 15 Fellows of the Craft" mot Weduesoa.y A number of offlcersof the grand lodge were gu?sts at the dinner served at the Charleston hotel. N?<icr > Child Burned. The Columbia says State Matilda Carr, a little colored girl six years old, was burned so seriously Monday night that she died Tuesday. The circumstances were such that at tirst suspicion rested on a negro woman who lives in the same house, but at the coroners ir quest held Wednesday night the facts an brought out Indicate that the alTalr was an accident. The child lived with her father, .Joun Carr, lust north of the old race track on E m wood avonue. She and others were playing In the tire and throwing paper into the dimes. In some way hei dress caught and before the other* could stop her she ran screaming into the tield nearby. The burning dress , communicated the dames to toe broonc sedge and it was Impossible to rescue the child from the death that envel oped her. Sne lingered but a shorl time lier body having been charred lr i places. Shot at ttio Sultan. One of the chief officers of the A) banian bodyguard of Abdul Harald Sultan, has arrived at Geneva, Swltz erland, as a fugitive from Constantino pie. He says a serious affair occure< several nights ago in the palace be ' tween members of the bodygaurd * The sultan rushed to the scene am some one In the crowd dred at th sultan, but the bullet was dellootei from the body by a coat of mall whlcl he always wears. Trie sultan at one f returned to his rooms and threatene 1 punishment of all otlicers. The ottlce who reached here says he fled Immed! 4 ately after the scene was enacted, an r he does not know what became of th 3 other men. To Stop II a/.iUK. j Rear Admiral Sands, superlnten dent of the Naval Academy, reache j the department Friday morning ant conferred with Secetary Ronaparte . and Riar Admiral Converse, chief oi , bureau of navigation, regarding the hazing at Annapolis. The oonfer ence lasted until the cabinet hour and will be resumed Friday afternoor when the details of the condition o atTiirs at the academy will be takei up and a plan of campaign mapper out looking to the absolute abolish ment of hazing in all forms. r\ _* 8|fm^ By kT^H ;.j?- !"'-%> ' p and P thr feci Bobl De Rliei W-;f four > .- sine* unde ';!./ SUlt. ..' / say. med Ever RAUjS BUIolDK LAID TO CL UBS One Woman In Hixtoen IlrcomoH a ^ Mother After Joining. O'gi Louise Cadiah, a young Ohio woman has turned on her sex who be- * 1 ng to clubs and written dreadful ; ? things which she dettes club women to j8 denv. She pictures the club woman |f as a destroyer of the home In the gen- ^ uine meamn^ of the wurd, a woman f who commits a race suicide and en* 1 courages other women to do likewise. The average number of children to married members of the General Federation of Womensclubs, she declares, Is two, while the average number of children that blefsed the mothers of these same women three and onehalf. "The average age of the membership of the women's clubs in the country is thirty-three years The average age of the youngest children of the married members is eleven years. A careful investigation of the membership of women's clubs shows that oniv one married women in rixteen becomes a mother after she has allied hnwdAlf in ( f \i iif Arv> An 'o <?1 1 I Ku An I 11 Ann 11C1 act 1 vy i ly11 vtuiudu a v/Juuat uui/ vud < in fortythree during a period of eight i years iias become toe mother of two i children after her alliance with the women's clubs." The college bred woman is put down < as sellLh. The auther next presents i the following statistics to show the bearing of the subject of race suicide I on the modern church: With 45,915 Methodist mothers the < average number of Children was .1.218. With 26.231 10 p Leo pal mothers the i average number of children was 2 3' 12. With 42,825 Catholic mothers the average number of children was 3 3 7. With 21,103 Presb"terian m )thers the average number of children was 3.1 8. With 29,247 Congregational moth' ers the average number of children , was 2 9 14 Wun 31,626 Baptist mothers the l average number of children was 3 4i 10All the mothers referred to, the author declares, have been married from ten to iifteen years. Members of the General Federation , of Women's Cluns have gathered sta. tistics to refute the c targes of race . sulolde by Grover Cleveland. Miss 3 Jane Adams, of Hull House, says: "Tnere may be dissipation and over. indulgence in devotion to clubs, but rt the figures we are gathering will ree fute the lllngs made at the club wort men on the home and ciild quesh tlou." Rllieii H?h Ktiihur fr Wednesday night at Hills, Gi., George Gllsson, age about 25 years fj old, shot aud killed his father, W. C. Gllsson. The young man came home, it is alleged, in ? uruuken condition and was remonstrated with by his father. The old gentleman retired to his room and locked the the door, d Procuring a shotgun. G ;orge came 1 back looking for his father and iind> ing the door locked broke it open and f tired once, hitting his father in the > stomach, wounding him so badly that - he died in about an hour. It3aliz<ng , what he had done, the young man li d 1 > from the house. He was pursued by f his younger brother, John, who tired i at him, wounding him In the arm. I George ha9 not yet been arrested and - when last heard from was at W. C. I Parrish's, near his home. ; ONLY REMED"1 RHEUMATISM T I "Makes You Well All Over." eatens the entire system. tleat ing indicate that you need EMOVES THE , ~ Quincy. Mass.. July 18. 1905 3itt Chemical Co.. Baltimore. Md. ar Sirs: I was laid up last November wi imatism in my feet and ankjes, but after taki bottles of Rheumacide I have not been bother i. I tried every old kind of liniment and w r two doctors, and all I tried had the same 1 until I got Rheumacide. Now, I am pleased it has not been necessary for me to take a Icine for Rheumatism since February la ybody that I recommended it to lias had t ; results. Yours very truly. P. RANAGAN. Manager. Quincy Industrial Co-operative Society THAI ?<ND OF A DKIINK L Man Pavn Dearly for His Sunday Fun and Imposition. A white mad named Betted from >reers seolloo, visited Spartanburg Sunday and secured a physicians prescription to get gome whiskey from the hspeustry. He then hunted up Mayor Floyd, wuo has to sign these prescriptions in order to n ake them va id. To the doctor and to the mayor he related the story, which was to the : II.ct that his wife was a very sick woman, and that he wanted the whiskey to oarry he ma to her. Be 'ore sinning the paper, Mr. Floyd jaid to the man, "Jf you are foolng me you'll regret it." This caused jhe stranger to vociferously and veaemontly repeat his story, and his; mxiety about his wife's condition, 1 ind his desire to get back to his home leemed to be real. No sooner had he secured the quart of booze from a dilpensary than he liasteued In rear of the building, uncorked it and l>egau drinking freely. | ttiurl SKVCIttl 11UC1U1 a IU<4lflU!i? U1 the "rod," he hired a hack and be<au taking In the city. The police joon Hteered him to the lockup. When he greeted M tyor Floyd Thursday m /rniug, ou charge of drunkenness, he had no talk to make about the s.ok folks at hom*; hut begged the mjrcy of the cjuro. His Indisposition was too much for his honor, however, and he was sentenced to pay a ti te of $25, the ex .reme limit, lie pud up and left toe cuy a sadder, but wiser man.?Sputanburg Herald. Keoucilon I'ri Representative Bennett of New York introduced a bill to cut down the representation of Southern States in congress because of the disfranchisement of the negro vote. The bill reduces the entire number of representatives from 316 to 355. The several States would ha^e their delegations reduced as follows: Alabama from 9 to 5: Arkangris from; 7 to 5 ITlorJda fr< rn 3 to 2; Georgia from 11 to 6; Louisiana from 7 to 4; Mtssisslpp' from 8 to 3; North Carolina from 10 to 7; South Carolina from 7 to 3; Tenness?e from 10 to 8: Texas from 10 to 13; Virginia irom 10 to 7. Another Convention. Harvie Jordan has Issued a call for a general convention of farmers, bankers, merchants and others throughout the south to be held In New Orleans January 11th, 12r,h and 13th, with reference to handling the crop of 19 JH and other matters pretalnlrg to the cotton association. | - - ORGANS. . | 2 of the best puality $15 up i Upright Pianos j Z From $225 up. Z Write Us 1 X for catalogues and terms. | Malone's Music honse, J 1432 Main Street j Almost opposite Masonic Temple. I Columbia, S. C. f THAT CURES after all other remedies I sweeps all the poisonous germs i Those pains are danger signals, war laches. Pains, Bad Taste in the M VMWt : CAUSE OF ' Cured 80-year-old Mrs. Mary Welbo .? wa<L*uJ!crcd 20 V??re. Cured Rev. J. R th Methodist minister, of Relsterstown, M T mH.1'6, a,t9r Johns Hopkins Hospital ha< o.l Will,., of nillon S C after he had ba< as were drawn up against his back. Bett< re- at once. 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