The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 20, 1906, Image 3
- DEATHOFMOSES"
Who Was at One Time Known
As the jobber Governor
OF SOUTH CAKOLINA.
fie Gained Great Notoriety in Reconstruction
Days as a Member of
the Thieving Gang Which Plunk
dered the State's Finances.
Dies of Asphyxiation.
Former Governor Franklin J. Moses
of South Oarollna was found dead In
bed at his lodging house at Wlnbhrop
Beaoh, Mass., V^dnesday, death being
caused by asphyxiation. When
his room was broken into gas was
found esoaping from a small stove
which was used to heat.the plana,
Mr. Moses was 60 years of ago. Ho
bad resided in Wlnthrop for several
'years aud occasionally had aoted as
moderator at its town meeting.
Mr. Moses had a varied career and
although onoo was wealthy, it is said
that he died in comparative poverty.
He was governor of South Carolina in
1872,
MOSKS' OFFICIAL L1FK.
' Franklin J. Moses. Jr., was the sen
of FraDklin J. Moses, of Sumter, a
circuit judge urn > the whito government
in 1865, and oiilef juntioe of the
supreme court uudor the negro government
for eight years. The younger
Mosss was in the South Carolina col*
lego, from which he was honorably
discharged in the junior olaes. lie
was on the staff of Gov. F. W. Pickens
in 1861, and raised the Confederate
bag over Fort Sumtor when it was
surrendered to the Confederates on
April 12, 1861.
Just after the war ^he was a Demottrat
and attended one Democratic
3tate convention in Columbia. On
thn inaf.itnMnn r?f fbn "D
uw iu 'WJVUIIUU \JX vug XDOUVUOU1 UUU1UH
measures ho joined the Republican
party. lie was a delegate to the constitutional
convention in 18(18, and
was a member of the legislature In
the same year?being elected speaker
of the house of representatives. He
also held the otllce of adjutant and inspector
general, He was elected governor
in November, 1872, and held
that office for two years.
FRAUDS IN OFFICE.
As adjutant general and also speaker
of the houae of representatives
from 1868 to 1872, he defrauded the
State out of $70,000 in buying arms
for the militia. As speaker he received
numerous bribes for offiolally
aiding different sohomes by his rulings
and oommlttee appointments. He
thus received large sums from the Republican
Printing oompany and some
money also from John J. Patterson,
who was United States senator. He
Issued fraudulent pay certilloates aggregating
over $1,000,000. As governor
he rooelved bribes for approving
certain acis of the general assembly,
which were desired by the oorrupt
ring. He was believed to have sold
* many pardons and alBO to have received
money for attempting to procure
decisions of the supreme court,
of which his father was chief justice.
On the solicitation of one Thos. 0.
Andrews, senator fiorn Orangeburg,
ho appointed John L. Humbert treasurer
of that county. Andrews controlled
the treasurer and had the latter
to BUppl / Mosen with money to
the amount of r.bout $10,000. Hum
bert and M aes were indicted on the
charge of having ccneptred to defraud
the fcltato out of $16,200 of publio
funds.
numbert was arrested and a warrant
of arrest wm served on Moses
while governor by the Orangeburg
sheriff. He refu> d to be arrested,
and oallod out the negro militia in
Columbia to guard his residence and
the executive cilice. The indiotment
was afterwards quashed on the
ground that the governor could not
bo ludloted but must be impeached.
ELECTED CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Ho was elected judge of the ciroult
court in December. 1875, but the supreme
court decided the election void.
In 1877 he was indicted for various
frauds, as speaker, as adjutant general
and as governor, but was never
brought to trial?a general amnesty
having been granled the several
thieves Jndiotod f<y,. their oonduot between
1868 and l'A A
Moses was a conie'ssed bankrupt In
1874?bis liabilities being 8225,000
and his assets $67,000. He led a very
fast life.
The fo\fj iwing sketch of the life of
. V Franklin/ > Moses is taken from Mr.
* JohnS./ fynolds' book, "Reoonstruotion
In y ith Caroline."
Moses ado himself notorious, not
only In /is State, but in the other
States I the Union. The opinions
expreaseu of him by the Xiepublioan
minority that sought the eleotlon of
Tomllnson were more than justified
by his Course in the exeoutive office?
the white people's, estimate of his
oharacter was sho?*n to have been
v?
1
The wife of Pink Bates shot and
killed Joe Webster in her home in
Gaffnev Friday night?all oolored.
If a man takes too many eye-openers
he 1$ blind to his own interests.
more than fair to him. That Mqb-v?,
aa a member of the house of representative*,
and more aepeoially at
speaker of that body, had been frequently
bribed, nobody but the blindest
partlzans or the aotive participants
in his oorrupt transactions ever
affected to deny. In the executive
oftioe he justified every charge which
before his aooesslou had been made
against him?this by pursuing a
course which from first to last was
flagrantly dishonest and which was in
other respects a disgrace to him and
an outrage upon the wnole people?a
course which made him infamous in
the eyes of every fair minded man in
the country.
"Moses entered tbe governor's office
without money?all that be had previously
gotten having been spent In
his fast life some features of whloh
were grossly Immoral.
LIVKD IN EXPENSIVE STYLE.
"He very soon Indicated his determination
to live in most expensive
style. He bought for 140,000 the
residence then known as the Preston
mansion?having for a long time been
the home of John S. Preston, a
wealthy and prominentoltlzsn. This
building with its grounds and with
others erected on them has in recent
years been used as the Presbyterian
College for Women.
"Moses had this mansion elegantly
furnished and the building and
grounds he always kept in flrst class
condition. Ills style of living was
most extravagant- He had a handsomo
oarrlago drawn by a pair of
beautiful horses?the whole turnout
calculated to give the impression that
it belonged to som* rich man fond of
making adisplay of bis wealth. Away
from home?on the frequent trip*
which he made to Washington and
New York?he spent money even
mere lavishly (and more disreputably)
than ho did at home. He bad the
reputation of spending thirty bo forty
thousand dollars on his salary of
83,500. These estimates might have
been excessive because mado by people
who were unaccustomed to Buoh &
rliuixl a r\t thai11 4- I* u it "M .??. ?? a. "W ?. ??
uio|/?*7 wx TTCAIUU AO iiiuoui) ^1* VO bdOlIl.
'Die general opinion was that 1u bis
two years In the governor's oftloe be
must bave spent not less than $50,000
for bis living expenses. He expended
large sums otherwise. In M ay, 1874,
it was publicly stated that bis debts
amounted to more than $225,000 and
bis assets to $07,000. These tlgures
wero afterwards verified when he tiled
his petition as a voluntary bankrupt*
The corrupt means which he employed
to get money made him famous as
'the robber governor.'
UIS SOUKCK3 OF liKTKNUK.
"The frauds by which Moses procured
the money that he Bpent chiefly
In 'rloutous living' have been
stated by himself or by those who
joined him In hiB schemes. He received
a large share of the money paid by
Josephus Woodruff and A. O. Jones
to have their printing bills passed. Ifor
the approval of one printing appropriation
(December 21, 1872,) Moses
received ezu.uuu. uor & r.ke service
la relation to the act of December 19,
1813, he received 110,500, and on different
days in that mouth several sums
aggregating about 95,000. Moses him8<
If admitted under oath that on a
single occasion be had received from
Woodruff $15,000, whioh was used to
make the first payment in the purchase
of the Preston mansion.
"It was commonly reported that
Moses exacted money of numbers of
his appointees among the county officials,
and that he sold many pardons
for actual money. Certain it is tliao
whenever his official station gave him
opportunity he used it corruptly in
his interest. His conduct became so
brazen, his villanioa vrerc so much advertised
the dountry over that it was
plain to the Republican leaders in
South Carolina that unless they should
really 'turn over a new leaf1 they must
not expect the countenance of the national
party or the help of the cation&1
government."
Prayer IUIhihI the l)o*<l.
At Boston before a class In the
fashionable Emanuel church Thursday
night, Rev. Elwood Worchestor
gave an astonishing account of how by
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picDUU AUUU KUKK^BHUIi /iU LltkU
revived a Philadelphia woman who to
all purposes was dead. Seven doctors
had pronounced the woman dead. Her
heart had ceased beating and her ox
tremitles were cold, yet he revived
her so she lived 24 hours aud talked
with friends. Three hundred persons
in the class accepted the story without
question.
Barn Burning Hocloty.
Three negroes were arrested in
Newberry, being suspected of having
burned the barn of Press N, Hoozer
and one of the number has confessed.
Investigation leads to the belief that
there is an organization In that
county composed of neorroes who nr.
dered the work to be done. There
was considerable excitement at lirsb
bub all Is qulto there no*.
Forty Drowned*
At St. Petersburg, Russia, forty
factory workers were drowned Wednesday
morning while crossing the
Neva river on the loe on their way
to work. The ice oollapsed when one
hundred men were in the center of
the Btream. Sixty saved themselves,
but the others were washed under
the Ice.
When your neighbor begins to boast
of his honesty it's up to you to get
busy and put an extra bolt on your
back door.
Doctors have great apprehensions
bout the time their patient*' dlseass
reach a ollmas.
jQUEER MISTAKE.
A Supposed Dead Man Writes to
Augusta, Qa., and
DENIES BEING DEAD.
A Mysterious Case of Mistaken Identity.
Forty People Identified a Body
Found Near Augusta to Be
Rey. A. E. Rcjahn Who
Turns Up Alive.
A queer case of mistakeu Identity
has reoeotly occurred In Augui-fca,
Gil., aud the II. raid aays the announcement
that Rev. A E. R jthn,
the man supposed to lo mouldering In
his grave in a far-away Pennsylvania
home, is alive and enjoying a normal
degree of health will be greeted with
surprise akin to a shook; but such is
apparently the case and the f&ot will
place on reoord one of the most weird,
uncanny and mysterious occurrences
that ever originated in Augusta, and
will furnish abundant literary material
for those unusual stories universally
aooredited to the vivid imagination
and versatile pen of the novelist.
There are many cases of mistaken
identity on record, but there are few
Instances if any, of over forty people
identifying a corpse and all being mistaken*
The name of the unknown stranger
who died so mysteriously and so pa
thetically ?ln the woods near Gralc's
Crossing on Sunday afternoon, October
the 28th, and who ho closely re
sombled Kov. A. E. Rojahn, an Apos
tolic minister, that he was declared
to bo the preacher by over forty people,
will probably never be known.
Who he was, as to where he oame
from, and why he refused to dlsolose
his Identity, Is an Impenetrable mys
stery that will be discussed until time
erases It from the publio mind.
Undertaker R. E. Elliott reooived
Wednesday the following letter written
by & man whose funeral was hold
several weeks a^o.
kojaiin not dead4
Valdoata, Ga., Dec. 9,^1900.
Dear Friend:
I.reoelved aJotter from my mother
at Dallastown, Pa., that I should pay
the $100 you charged her to send a
dead man, by name Bruoe W. Bukoy,
or some other dead man to Dallas
town, Pa., and used my name to got
her to send $100.
I am only 29 years old and this man
was about 50 years old and bad nat
ural teeth. 1 have false teeth and
can't see how they could s&y It was
me. This was a terribio shock to mv
brother and ulster. It was a man they
did nut know at all. So I was going
to come over there myself to Augusta;
may be there yet and if you waut
to have a home in Heaven, Jesus says
Luke 6:31, "As you would that men
should do to you do ye also unto them
likewise.'
Please send me t?he man's address
of the house where the man died. 1
would like to have his charts, papers
and Bible if he had any. I can't understand
that U e man did not tell his
name at the houRe where he died, but
the good Lord knows all about it. If
you send me his papers or the things
he left at the house where he died, I
may tind out where his relations live
and If 1 oan llnd out them it will help
us. Yours In Jesus name and for Ills
glory, A. K. RoJAHN.
P. S.?Brother McGaw, a street
preacher, told mo If it was Bruce W.
Bukey, his lather lives in Los Ange
les, Cal.
8TOKY OK TIIE STKANUKlt.
The autumn occurrence that has recently
caused such startling developments
reads like a genuine romance.
The affair at the time it occurred attracted
considerable attention.
It will be rftmem',ered that on Sunday
evening, October the 28th, Coroner
Elliott was summoned to the country
to investigate a mysterious death.
A ragged, unknown and disconsolate
tramp died In the woods in the Craig's
Grossing vicinity, his deathbed the
fallen autumn leaves and the roof
above him the foliage on the thousand
J a- tv t - - -
miicu uroun. ius name ne rcrused to
tell and the suggestion of coming to
this olty for medloal treatment tilled
his eyea with terror. That ho was not
professionally a tramp was evidenced
by his offering his last nickel In payment
for a cup of ooffoe that some
kind-hearted woman brought him.
Coroner Elliott, who is also at the
head of an undertaking establishment,
brought the body with Its scoret forever
looked In its bosom to his place
of business and held It for identification.
THK IDENTIFICATION.
When the ciroumstances surround*
irig the death become known several
people oalled by the undertaking establishment
and viewed the remains.
Several stated that it looked like a
street preaoher by the name of Rojabn.
Later It was positively identified
as Rev. A. K. Rojahn b> Rev. J.
Every man on earth works too hard
?from his own viewpoint.
Stage oarpenters make more hits
than dc the high salaried stars.
Grace Glenn, colored, died in Columbia
on Saturday, aged 100.
H. Benton ot Lingloy, a-id tor?y oth r
oltUene of thai p'ace. lu subst-iDfetation
of the Identification, Me Hanson
brought swverel letters written In
red Ink by Mr. Ktjabn. The whereabouts
of the tree's family v^jus ascertained
through Infoi xafeiou of Mr
RoJ*hn and were not tied of the death;
1100 was Immediately sent to defraj
zpeuHes of seuclr g the body to Dallastown,
Pa.
Beforo rending the body to Dallastowu
and aftor kocp'ng it one week a
funertl service was held ?t the undertaking
parlors by Mr. Hanson and attended
by 40 p-H. ple Intimately acquainted
with Rev. A. K. Rojahn.
The casket was open and every person
viewed the bcdv,
As stated In The Herald some time
ago, the family refused to accept the
body, but very Utile attention was
given the mi iter until the receipt of
the letter Wednesday. The letter was
written tr> red it't and the handwriting
reveals tho fact that It was writton
by the same person who wrote tho
lettcid tc Mr. Benson.
That a mistake hts boen made and
an unkuown body shipped to Mr. RoJahu
Is certain.
Mr. Elliott states that while he Is
not legally responsible for the monoy,
In consideration of the fact that a
mistake was made, ho will refund all
but actual expenses.
INCREASED COBT OF LIVING.
Folt l>y aiomborH .of OongroHH and
Ttiey Want a^ltalHO,
Tho Washington correspondent of
The State says the increased cost of i
living and the Increasing cost thereof,
are interesting members of congress '
1a a ctngime way. They would like
to make the salary of members a little
more tangible also, aud they would,
beyond any mauner of doubt, If they .
weren't soared.
Humor after rumor of propositions
to Increase tbo salary of a mombor
from $5,000 to $7,500 has been heard
and John Wesley Gaines, that monumental
pile of brains, has already actually
introduced a bill to make it
$7,500, though he proposes to do away
with the present mileage arrangement,
by which members are entitled
to draw 20 cents a milo, measuring
every mile they travel from their
homes, aud substitute that the gov
ernment shall pay "actual expenses
in addition to tbo $7,000 salary.
it is said and now contidently believed
tnat the president will send a
special message urging an increase of
all governmental salaries 20 per cent.
Members want to take time by the
forelook, or by any other look, and
make an increase of their own of 50
per cent.
But, as stated above, they are
soared.
Thoy are, however, moving already
to increase the salaries of their olerks
from $1,200 to $1,500 a year* As !
many members have a llttlo way of (
doing without a clerk and putting 1
this amount lu their pockets, or part
of It?paying now and then a pretty (
stenographer the rest?an inoroaso 1
for the clerk will help out some of the J
more thrifty of the nation's solons.
Others, though, are slnoerely intor- '
estcd In the matter from an unseltlsh
motive. It stands to reason that if a
member of congress cannot live on '
$5,000 a year and support his family, 1
or & part of his family, lu Washing- 1
ton for five or six months in the year,
it Is not likely that a olerk can live 1
with his family, paying traveling ex- 1
porses, for tlioy have never had any
mileage, on $1,200. 1
Child Ilndiy llurnnd.
At Columbia the little eleven-yearold
da jghter of Fire Chief May was
painfully aod very seriously burned
early Wednesday morning and har
father was also painfully burned.
Tho little girl was standing before an
open tiro when her clothes caught,
the flames quickly spreading over the
Inflammable material. Mr. May
rushed into tho room, grabbing his
daughter In his arms and set to work
to extlnguah tho flames. Mr. May
was burned while thus occupied.
Drowned in a Wanhtub.
The llttlo tive-yoar-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kills, who live 10
miles south of Greenwood, was drown
ad Wednesday morning Id a washtub.
The little ohlld olimbed up In a
wheelbarrow standing by the tub and
fell In the tub of water. She wan
there 20 mlnutos before being discovered.
Dr. Ward the nearest physician
was telephoned for, but the little
ohlld was dead before he could get
there.
ISarkocper Hilled.
The Italian quarter of New York
was shocked Wednesday by tho most
revolting murder of years. Salvator*
Sterlozza, a saloon keeper, is the vie |
Mm. The assassin drew a circle on
the glass door of his saloon as a tar
get and then called the barkeeper. As
Sterlozza's bodv flOvamA thn i-,
the assassin lired with & shotgun
loaded with slugs, n.'nio balls and
shot. The man's ohost and head
wore literally blown to pieoes.
Ktllort a Homo.
One of the state constables shot and
killed a horse in Charleston on Tuesday
that was drawing a wagon load
of contraband liquor. The oonstablo
had ordered the driver to stop, and ho
refused. The horse belonged to Sottile
Brothers, notorious blind tigers.
An offlolal of the .Provisional Government
of Cuba declared it would
be Impossible for the Americans to
et away in nine months,
Love's young dream is apt to devel
p into a matrimonial nightmare.
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A. bl(i PHO.Jl.0i'.
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1'IiANH OF SOUTH OAKOLINA PUBLIC
BKHVIOH OOllUOItATION.
Electric Railway to Connect the
Coast with Orangeburg and
the Piedmont.
The Charleston Nows and Courier
says after having been qulesoent for
several months the Augusta-Charleston
Klectrlo mirage has again arlaon,
and '.his time lb has somewhat more
detiulte outlines than formerly,
though, of course, it is not yot possible
to say positively whether or not
the road will bo built. Judging from
the lone of recent utterances In the
newspapers trie projeot has by no
tnevis been abandoned, and at present
the outlook for an electric lino to
Augusta from this oily Is bright. It
ih not now, nor has it bver been, the
intention of the promoters of the enterprise
to construct a trolley Hue,
but thoy havo all along contended for
an oleotrlo lino, and It Is still their In
tontion of the parties interested to
make the line an electric railway.
Mr. Lawrence M. Pinoknoy is ono
of the corporators of the South Carolina
Publlo Service Corporation. He
has been in Now York during the
past few days, only returning yester
uay, slum round a numbor of lottcrs on
his desk relative to the line. Tho
Augusta Chronicle, In speaking of
the proposed Hue has tho following to
say*
"In oonnoctlon with the long talkad
of oleotrlo lins from Augusta
through Columbia to Charleston
hacked by Northern capitalists, and
for which tho surveys are well under
way, Mayor Allen' who roturued from
the Rivers and Harbors Congress Sunday,
found awaiting 1.1m on his
desk a communication from Orange
burg, S. 0., staling that the construction
company iu charge Is anxious for
jtafcistics regarding the growth of Augusta
for the past soveral years.
"Those were complied by City As lessor
John M. Wolgle, showing a re
markable increase slnco the census of
1900. Thcso Inquiries are considered
<ood ground to belie vo that
tho men behind the movement
Intend rushing forward from now on
with Increased vigor. It Is believed
the opening of this route from Augusta
t^ the sea will work wonders In
in hastening the commercial development
of this olty and all sections
through whioh the lino passes"
This line has been spoken of freluenty
before, and will, no doubt, be
sostructed, and from the present <
treud of things It would seem that lb <
will be built shortly. A number cf
mrreys hayo been made and the sue*
iess of eleotrlo lines In the upper
part of the State will no doubt, entourage
the promoters to begin workng
up tbe plans again.
The South Carolina Publio Service
Corporation proposes to build an electric
railway from Charleston to
Jolnmbla and Augusta, via Orange
nurg, and to the milling towns north
3f Columbia as far as Charlotte.
The August >Aiken line and the
Anderson-Bolton line, and numerous
sther electric lines in the State, aro
In good condition, and popular favor
jcenas to rest on electric lines,
The South Carolina Public Service
Corporation will'bo granted a commission
in the near future. At present
it is not organized with a president,
secretary and oilioers, though it Is
a well known concern and Is doing all
in Its power to build electric lines
through tho State. Charleston is to
the terminus of the lines and the
sucocss of the Augusta-Charleston
project will mean a great deal to thiB
city.
IYlu<;h Foi-iiliBorH Uho(1.
While tho farmers in some sections
of the State may have been hard hit
bv the autumn storms the figures in
the State Treasurer's oillce on the
privilege or fertilizer tax Hhow that
more fertilizer material was used this
year en tho farms than In any other
year since the establishment of tho
tax. The total received so far Is
101,738.41 against 127,282.78 for
the same period last year. Tho tax
is 22 ocnts per ton and the entire
amount goes to Clemson College.
Wouiiilful Man IJIob.
Former United States Senator Arthur
Brown, of Utah, who was shot
in his apartments at the Hotel
Raleigh in Washington Saturday afternoon
by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of
Salt Bake City, died at midnight
Thursday, at the Emergocfy Hospital.
Mrs. Bradley was arraigned In
polioo court on the charge of murder.
Her attorneys set up the defenso that
she was Justified under the 4'unwritten
law" In shooting Mr. Brown.
Masonic OrphAiiAtto,
Tho grand lodge of Masons in ses
nU.% I? /It V - --
rtiou tu vjn?rn;Huon neciaea to build a
Masonic orphanage. The truitaoB will
have this year $10,000 for this purpose.
They are J. R. Johnson, Geo.
8. Mower, G. T. Bryan, 0. F. Sawyer
and the grand master ex otlloio.
Kptrtcmio of Dlphthorta.
Owing to an epidemic of dlptheria
In several parts of Look Island a very
large number of schools have been
closed. A Dumber of deaths are reported.
The dise. so Is spreading.
John D. Rockefeller's lnoome for
this year will be $60,000,000 according
to the computations of Henry H.
Rogers and John D. Archibald, Rockefellers
closest friends. This means
a dally lnoome of $164,383, or $114 a
Minute.
I
TYPO MISSING
Left Note Saying He Intended to
Kill Himself.
HE MAY TURN UP.
>
Mis Shirt and Note Book Was Found ooj
the Bank of the Canal. He
Was Recently Marrried
and Was fn Bad
Health.
The Columbia Record says mucfc
concern, Is foil by relatives for the
safety of Louis K. Kvans, a printer
employed In the job department of
th?..Slate Company, who disappeared
Thursday morning, leaving a note declaring
that by tho time it should be
found, he would have ended his life
by Jumping from the Cotigarce bridge
into the river. 11 is shirt and suspenders
and the pad upon wnloh the note
had been written were found by a
searching party near the oanal, which
parallels the river, ?nd from the spot
tracks as of a man ruunlng led to the
water's edge, with nouo returning.
So far no steps have been taken to
drag the canal, because of certain Indications
that Evans may yet be alive
aud woll, but In hiding.
Evans Is a young man of twentythree
or four, who oamo to Columbia
eighteen months or two years ago
from Goldsboro, N. 0., and has since
been employed continuously by the
Stato Company. lie is a mombor In
good standing of Columbia looal, No?
34. of thfl Intnrnim ?
? x jr jjuk r?piilci\l
Union, and Is rewarded an a good
printer. He is not known as a drinking
man. About two mouths ago he
married Miss A.Burlls Pennington,
of 2015 Marlon street, who was for
some time a popular member of the
Hales force at the department store of
tho Jan. L. Tapp Company. Mr. and
Mrs. Kyans mado their home at 1417
Taylor street with Mr. Geo. D. Radcllffo,
stage manager of tho Columbia
theatre.
For some time Evans' health has
been falling and lately he has become
addloted to tho habit of using morphine,
which was prescribed for some
temporary relief by his physiolan.
This morning a small tire, whloh occurred
at the residence at about ft
o'clock, may have so aggravated
Evans' nervous disorders that his
mind became temporarily deranged.
Mr. Radcllffe is almost positive that
Evans was still In the house when he
started downtown at about 8 o'clock
this morning, but others are of tho
opinion that he left the city the night
before. Shortly after Mr. Radcllffe
left tho house a little white boy, Ben
Daniels, delivered to Mrs. Evans a
note signed by Evans, declaring his
intention of drowning himself in the
canal or tho river. Mrs. Evans notitled
Mr. RadolltTo and the police and a
searohlng party sot out to explore the
banks of the river and tho canal. In
tho searching party wore Mr. RidolUTo,
Coroner Walker, Ofllcer, Starling
of the S. P. C. A., Orderly Serjeant
catho&rt. Policeman HutnhlnHon
and several of Evans' prluter
friends. Dividing, the searchers
thoroughly examined tho banks of tho
canal and tho river.
About 15(ft yards below the long
trestle by whloh the C., H. aud L.
road oronses the canal and th? vlv?r
M?wars. Starling aud Radcliifa found
hanging upon a bush near the canal
Evans' shirt and suspenders and hla
pad and pencil, the pad bearing his
name. Presumably this was the pad
he used In writing the sinister note to
Mrs. Evans. From the bush, tracks
far apart, as If made by a man running,
led down to the edge of the water,
which Is here about seven feet
deep, but there were no tracks returning.
Further investigations are being
made this afternoon, it is known that
Evans has been broodidg over his
physical condition, and that the despondency
resulting from this bas been
deepened by worry over financial affairs
and the ex '* t use of mor?
phlne, but Evac ^ ^d the police
are not satiau. v?!t i evfc-*dence
that he is dean. hoped
that his mind merely beoam temporarily
deranged and that he will
shortly turn up safe and sound.
l*OHtuiAHtor Sontoiiood.
Judge 3 peer in the United States
district court sentenced former I'ostr
raas&er Gilbert Meoks, of Nicholas,
0 CTso county. Ga., to one year's imprisonment
and to pay a tine of 12,0118
for embezzling that sum from the
postotbee funds. The amount was
made good by Meeks when the short"
age was discovered.
Heard Uljclitoeii Miles.
Eighteen miles is said to be the
longest distance at whtoh a man's
voioe has been heard. This occurred
in the Grand Cauyon 0/ Colorado,
whore one man shouting the name
"Bob" at one and was plainly heard
at the other end, whloh is ljj miles
away.
Rilled In Chine,
News has been received in Anderson
of the murder by Chinese of the
ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Royal, missionaries in
Uhina. Mrs. Royal was before her maxraige
a Miss Sullivan, near Falser.
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