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\ WHY HE DID IT.
the President Gives Good and
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* HIS RECENT ORDER
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Discharging Certain Negro Soldiers from
the United States Array .reV10Ut
Honor. He Make* No Apology
and Says He Would
Do It Again.
In response to the senate resolution
oalllng lor an Investigation in
the "shooting up" of Brownsville by
negro soldiers and there subs-quern
diamissall therefor, President lioosevelt
sent to the senate a complete report
or the atlilr. The report is one
Of the strongest papers ever prepared
by the president, and is a conclusive
answer to bis critics. Wo make some
extracts from the report, which will
be read with iuteres. The presldeut
ays:
I am glad to avail myself of tl^^p
portuni&y afforded bv these resolutions
to lay before the congress the followl
} lug facts as to the murderous conduce
^ of certain members of the compai ieu
' a in question and as to the or nsplracy
[ by wbiob many of the other members
^ of these companies saved the orimll
nal8f rom justice, to tho disgrace of
the United States uniform.
I oall your attention to the acoom
panylog reports of Mr J. Augustus P.
Bioolcsom, of Lieut. Col. Leonard A.
Lover lug and of Brig. Gen. Earnest A.
Garllngton, the inspector general of
the United States army, of their Investigation
into the oonduot of the
troops in question. An effort has
been made to discredit the falrnors of
the lovestigaation into the oondivt of
vnese ooiorea troops ov poinuag out
that Geo. GarlinKtuu Is a Southerner.
Preoisely the same action would have
been taken had the trocpj been white
?indeed, ihe discharge would proba
bly have been made In more summary
fashion.
Gen Garltngfcon is a native of South
Carolina; Lieut. Col. Levering is a native
of New Harm hire; Ma i. Block
som is a native of Ohio. As it hap
^-_pena, the dlsolosuie of the guilt of
/the troops was made in the report of
fthe officer who comes from Oilo, and
ft he efforts of an officer who cames
-r from South Carolina were oontined to
a the endeavor to shield the innocent
r men of the companies in question, if
any suoh there were, by s curing information
which would enable us ad
equately to punish the qullty. But
I wish it dlstinoly understood that
the faot of the birthplace of either offleer
Is one which I absolutely refuse
to consider.
The standard of professional honor
and of loyalty to the flag and the ser
vice Is the same for all officers and all
nilstpd men of the United States
army, and I resent with the keenest
Indignation any effort to draw any
line among them based upon birthplaoe,
creed, or any other oonsidera
tion of the kind. I should put the
umo entire faith in thes reports If it
-? -bad happened that they were all mac'e
by men coming from some one State,
whether In the South or the North,
the Eist or the West, as I now do,
when, as it happens, they were made
by officers born in different States.
Haj. Blccksom's report is most
^ careful, m baaed upon the testimony
of scores of eye-witnesses?testimony
which conflicted only in nonessentials
and which established the
essential facts beyond chanoe of successful
ocntranlotlon. Not only has
no successful effort been made to traverse
his findings lh any essential partlotlar,
but, as a matter or faot, every
trustworthy report from outsiders
amply corrobates them, by far the
beat of these outside reports being
that of Gen. A. B. Nettleton, made
In a letter to the secretary of war,
whioh I herewith append; Gen. Net
tleton being an ex-Union soldier, a
oonsistent friend of the colored man
throughout bis life, a lifelong Republican,
a citizen of Illinois, and assistant
secretary of the treasury under
President Harrison. ^
The attack was made neasi'inldnight
on Auguit 13. Tae following
faots as to tnis auac* are uiauc uie?r
by MaJ. Blookgom's investigation and
have cot been, and, In my judgment,
cap not be, successfully controverted
From 9 to 15 or 20 of the colored sol
dlers took part In tbe attack. Tbey
leaped over tbe walla from the barracks
and hurried through the town.
They shot at whomever tbey saw mov
log, and tbey shot into hou<es where |
they saw lights. lp some of these
houses there were women and ohild-1
ft . ren, as the would-be murderers must
have known. In one house in which
there were two women and five child(dren
some ten shots went fchro^S at
a height of about four and a hah? feet
above the floor, one putting out the
lamp upon ttye table. The lieutenant
of polloe of the town heard the firing
and rode toward it. He met tbe rald|
?ho, as he stated, were about 16
L', c'Olbred soldiers. They lnstan ly startF
ed firing upon him. He turned and
I rode off, and they continued firing
A upon him until they had killed his
A hone They shdt him In the right
arm (It was afterwards amputated
I above the elbow) A number of shots
I were alto fired at two other policemen.
I The raiders fired several times into a
hotel, some of the shots being almel
I at a guest sitting by a wlndowJ They
I shot into a saloons killing the )*rfcen
der and wounding another man. At
the same time other raidora fired into
another houae in whloh woman and
ehildren were Bleeping, two of the
hota going through the mosquito bar
over the bed in whloh the mlatreaa of
the houae and her two ohlldren were
lying. 8everal other houses were
*truok by bulleta. It was at night,
and the streets of the town are poorly
lighted, so that none of the indiyldu
al raiders were reoogniied, but the
evidenoe of many witnesses of all olasses
was conolusive to the effect that the
raiders were negro soldiers. The shat
to red bullets, shells, and ollps of the
government rities, whloh were found
on the ground, are merely oorrobora
tive. Si are the bullet holds in the
houses; some of which It appears must,
from the dlr?ctlon, have been tired
from the fort just at the moment
when the soldiers left It. Not . bullet
hole appears in any of the structures
of the fort.
The townspeople were oompletely
surprised by the unprovoked and murderous
savagery or the attaok. The
soldiers were the aggressors from start
to tiulsh. They mat with no substan
tlal resistance, and one and all who
took part in that raid stand as deliberate
murderous, who did murder one
man, who tried to murder others, and
who tried to murdor women and children.
The act was one of horrible
atrocity, and so far as I am aware,
unparalled for infamy in the annals
of the United States army.
The white oilleors of the companies
were completely taken by surprise,
and at iirst evidently believed that
lirlng meant that the townspeopl
were attaking the soldiers. It was not
until 2 or 3 o'olook In the morning
that any of them became aware of the
t?rutn. l nave directed a careful in
vestigation Into the conduct of the
oilloui8, to see If any of them were
blame worthy, and 1 have approved
the recommendation of the war department
that two be brought before
a oourtmartial.
a 8 to be noncommissioned officers
and enlisted men, there o*n be no
doubt whatever that many were necessarily
privy, after If not bofore the
attack, to t?ne conduct of those who
took actual pari In this murderous
riot. I refer to Maj. Blocksom's report
for proof of tue fact that certainly
Home #nd probably all of the noncom
missioned officers in charge of quarters
who were responsible for the gun
racks and had keys hereto In their
personal possession knew what men
were engaged In th attaok.
N sjor Penrose, In command of the
pest, in h s his letter (Included in the
appendix) gives the reasons why ha
was reluotantly convinced that some
of the men under him?as he thinks,
from seven to ten?got their rifles,
slipped cut of quarters to do the
shooting, and returned to the barraoks
without being discovered, the
shooting all ooourrlcg within two and
a half short blooks of the barraoks.
It was possible for the raiders to go
from the fort to the farthest point of
tiring and return in less than 10 minutes,
for the distance did not exceed
350 yards.
Such are the faots of this case.
General Nettleton, in his letter here
with appended, states that neit door
to where was he writing In Brownsville
Is a small cottage where a children's
party had just broken up before the
house was riddled by United States
bullets, fired by United States troop*
from United States Springfield rifles,
at close range, with the purpose of
rilling or maiming the inmates,
including the parents and children
who were still in the wellllgh'jed
house, and whose esoape from
death under such oirouinstances was
astonishing. He states that on
anocior street he looks upon fresh
bullet soars where a volley from si ml
lar govarument rifles was fired into
the side anc windows of a hotel occupied
at the time by sleeping or frightened
guests from abroad who oould
u t possibl? ha ;e given any cffsnse to
the assailant*. He writes that the
chief of the Brownsville police is
again on duty from the hospital, and
oarrles an empty sleeve because he
was shot by federal soldiers frcm the
adjacent garrison in the oourso of
their murderous foray; and not far
away is tha fresh grave of anonoffend
ing citizen of th < place, boy in year*
who was wantonly shot down by
these United States soldiers while
attempting to escape.
The effort to confute this testimony
so far has consisted in the
assertion or implication that the
townspiople shot one another in order
to di.oredlt the soldiers--an
aos.rdlty too gross to need discussion
anrt iinaiinnrirhad hv a thrArl r?f avI.
UUkf Vt |T|rv/* WVVI ** J wm K VV4 \S A V V 1
dencu. There is do question as to
the murder and the attempted murders;
there is uo question that some of
the soldiers w^re guilty rhereof, jhen
is no question that nan/ of their
oomrades privy to the deed have combined
to shelter the criminal* from
justice, These oomrades of the murderers,
by the r own action, have
J... J 1 i. ^ Am A. a
reuuoreu it uoueaaary eibuor i/U leave i
all the men, including the murderers, I
in the army, or to turn them all out;
and under such circumstances there
was no alternatlye, for the usefulness
of the army would be at an end were
we to permit such an outrage to be
oommltted with impunity,
In short the evidence proves eonoiusively
that a number of soldiers
engagsd in a deliberate and oonoerted
attack, as cool blooded as it was cowardly;
the purpose being to terrorize
the community, and to ki I or injure
men, wcman, and ohlldren in their
homes and beds or on the streets, and
this at an hour of the night when concerted
01/ effeotlve resistance or defense
was out of the question,
and wnon detection by Identification
of the criminals in the United States
uniform w>s well-nigh impossible.
So muoh for the orlgiinal orlme. A.
blacker never stained the annuals of
s
/
onr army. II has baan supplemaoted
by another, on y leas blcki, Id the
shape of a suooassful oonsplraoy of
sllenoe for lbs purpcsa of shlaidlng
tbosa who took part in the original
conspiracy of murdsr. These soldiers
were not sohool boys on a frolic.
They ware full-grown men, in the uniform
of the United States army,
armed with deadly weapons sworn to
uphold the laws of the United States,
and under every obligation of oath
and honor not merely from criminally
but with the sturdiest rigor to hunt
downoriml ally; and the crime they
committed or connived at was mur
dor.
Thay pervorted the power put Into
their hauds to sustain the law Into
the most deadly violation of the law.
The noncommissioned othoers are pri 1
marlly responsible for the dlsolpline
and good oonduct of the men; they <
are appointed to their posltlous for
the very purpoao of preserving this
discipline and good conduct, and of
detecting and seouring the punishment
of every enlisted man who does
what Is wrong. They till, with reference
to the discipline, apart that the
Oommisftloued cUlcers are of course unable
to till, although the ultimate responsibility
for the dlsolpline can
never be shifted from the shoulders of
the latter. Undir any ordinary clr
oumstancos the tirat duty of the noncommissioned
cUlcers, as of the c >m mlsfloned
ctlloers, is to train the pri
vate iu the ranks so that ho may be
au etllolont lighting m&u against a
foreign fee. But theie Is an even
higher duty, so obvious that It Is not
under ordinary circumstances necessary
so much as to allude to It?the
duty of training the soldier so that,
he shall be a nroteotion and not a ?
menace to his peaceful fellow-citizens, t
and above all to the women and ohll *
dreu of the uation. Unless this duty i
is well performed, the army becomes c
a mere dangerous mob; and if conduct
such aa that of the murderers in j
question is not, where possible, pun fl
ished, and, where this is not possible, a
unless the chance of its repetition is t
guarded against in the meet thor- ,
ough going fashion, it would bo bet- e
ter that the entire army should be c
disbanded. It is vital for the army a
to bo lmbusod with the spirit which ^
will make every man in it, and above
all, the effiaers and noncommissioned c
officers, feci it a matter of highest t
obligation to discover and punish, c
aud not to shield, theorimlnal in unl- i
form.
Yet some of the noncommissioned
officers and many of the men of the
three companies In question have
banded together in a conspiracy to
proteot the assassins and would-be
assassins who have disgraced their
uniform by the.oonduot above relate.-.
Many of these noncommissioned officers
and men must have known, and
all of them may have known, clrcum-A.^
J U 1 ^ J ?. ^ AU.
Hbauuos wuiuu wuuiu uavo igu uu tub N
con vlct'on of those ongaged In the h
murderous assault. Tuey have stclld- y
ly and as one man broken their oaths c
of enlistment and refused to help dlB- 1
cover the criminals. \
By my direction every effort was
made to persuade those innocent of ,
murder among them to Heparat* ,
themselves fiom the guilty by help- ,
ing bring the orlminala to justice }
They we o warned that if t>?ey did \
not take advantago of the ( far they ]
would all he discharged from the ser- i
vloe and forbidden eg&in to enter the (
employ of the government. They re- |
fused to protlt by the warning. I ac- f
oordingly had them discharged. If
any organization of troops in the ser
vloe, white or black, Is guilty of slmi- ,
lar conduct in the future I shall follow
preoisely the same course. Undtr (
no circumstances will I consent to ]
keep in the servioe bodies of men
whom the oircumstanoesishow to be a
menace to the country. Inoldentally
I may add that the soldiers of longest ,
service and highest position who suffered
beoause of the order, so far from J
being those who deserve most sympathy,
deserve least, for they are the
men upon whom we seould be able es- {
peel ally to rely to prevent mutiny and ,
murder.
People have spoken as If this discharge
from the servloe was a punish- ;
ment, I deny emphatically that suoh
is the oaee, because as punishment it
is utterly Inadequate. The punish
meat meet for mutineers and murderers
suoh as those guilty of the
Brownsville assault Is death; and a
punishment only less severe ought to
be moted out to those who have aided
and abetted mutiny and murder and
treason by refusing to help in their
deteotion. I would that It were possible
for me to have punished the
guilty men. I regret most keenly
that I have not been able to do so.
Be It remembered always that these
men were all In the service of tho
United States under contracts of enlistment,
whloh by their terms and
by statute were terminable by my direction
as commander-In chief of the
army. It was my clear duty to terminate
those contraots when the public
Interest demanded It: and It would
have been a betrayal of ihe public Interest
on my part not to terminate
the contracts whloh were keeping In
the service of the United States a
body of mutineers and murderers.
After oltlng many precedents, both
In the United States and the Confederate
armies, for bis action In discharging
the negro soldiers, and sayIn?
that lie Is and alwavs has been
friendly disposed toward the negro,
President Roosevelt oonoludes by saying:
I would hold myself unfit to be
president .If I did not feel the same
revolt at wrong done a colored man
as 1 feel wrong done a white man. I
have condemned in unstinted terms
the crime of lynohing perpetrated by
white men, and I should take Instant
advantage of any opportunity whereby
I could bring to Justice a mob of
lynchers. In oreolselv the same spirit
1
I have now acted wllb reference t<
(base colored men wbo hen
been guilty of a blaok and daa
tardly orlme. In one polloy, as It
tbe other, I do not olalm aa a favor,
but I challenge as a right, tbe sup
port of every citizen of this country,
whatever bis oolor, provided only he
has In htm tbe spirit of genuine and
far sighted patriotism
Thkoooku Rooskvklt.
The White House, Dm 19, 1906.
MARRIED 81X SI8T1&8.
rtio lleiuarkablo Alatrliuoiiial Kxiierlcnoo
of JainoH Cruvon.
When James Craven, formerly of
Montana, and Lar a Lamproaht were
uaie one at Mount Gllead, Ohio, last
week by a justice of the peace, the
irldegroom had married tho last of a
family ot six sisters, live ofwhom bad
joen wooed and won by Craven only
jo meet with a violent death soon
ifter beoomlng his wife.
Thirty years *go Craven, who had
i trading post In Montma, met the
Liimprecht family, and beoame Infatlatad
with Nora, tho eldest of six
>ome!y daughters. The oourtshlp
was short but declsrvo, end the wed
ling followed shortly.
But Craven was unaware that Charey
Wolf, a half breed Indian, had sot
ds heart ou wedding the buxom Nora,
uid when ho heard the wedding balls
iuglog for tho trader the half-breod
tworo to he revenged. A fow weeks
ifter tbe marslage poor Nora was
hot dead In her doorway by tho halfjreed.
Wolf made his escape, and Graven,
iffcor four years of mourning, decided
ihat It was not good for man to be
done. So ha paid his address to
tiarie Lamnrecht. the next oldest
laughter.
With the half breed a fugitive from
usiio. Ciaven felt comparatively
>afe, but ene day ho fouDd that his
lecond wife had been laid low by a
>ullet fired by the same murderer,
vho had evidently taken an oath of
iztermlnation. Craven made an earntut
attempt to draw a bead on the aaasaln,
but Wolfe waa too adroit and
rot out of the way.
Then the widower reached the con
ilusicn that a period of quiet mitrl
nonlal life was before him, bo he
lourtcd and married the third slBter,
)y name Effln.
The couple had just uattled down to
i happy exlateuoe when craek went
ihe Winchester of Wolfe, and Craven
tas again a widower.
This had a discouraging effoofc on
(he trader, who deolded to leave Montana
and go to Ohio, where a man
lould live In psaoe witk his wife. Ac
lordlugly. he settled down in this
iown. He soon became restless, how>ver,
and wandered back to Montana,
vbere be prevailed upon the fourth
fitur t.r? i<nant him tr\r hatl.ar n* tr\r
I1BVV/A WW UIO* 1VI UVUVW* WA A V*
vcrio. She consented, bub ou bhe
joadiMon that he make an effort to
'do" the half-breed before he "did"
ler.
Craven admitted that thi3 was a
laocasary precaution, so, after the
wedding, he shouldered his riile and
went out in searoh of his foo. Wolf
a&d not been invited to the ceremony,
mt he came around shortly nf:er
Helen had taken po^sesflion of her
nomc. Craven, however, caught sight
jf him first, and with a well-dlreeted
bullet, removed Wolfe to auotner
jphere of usefulness.
But Helen Boon afterward was
taken ill and died, and Craven decided
that luck was against him. However,
be want to Bertha, the fifth daughtar
and prevailed on her to accept his
hand and heart.
Everything went along nioaly until
Bertha waa thrown from a horse aud
killed. Then Graven came to the conelusion
that he was indeed a matrimonial
hoodoo, and returned sadly to
Ohio.
But he raoolleeted that Lena, the
youngest and last of the Lampreoht
.1.1a _aa -till I? Unn4?..a dn Via
|iita, was avui iu iuuumum. nu is
lent'for her to come hero and be his
bride.
She oame and they were married,
and all the people in thle town are
wondering what will happen to Lena.
Immigrant*.
The families and friends of those
who came to South Carolina on the
Whlttfcklnd with Commissioner Watson
hate heard of the opportunities
In this Slate and are ooming over
themselves as soon as possible. Mr.
Watson reoeivod a letter from his representative
In Belgium whloa was In
part as follows: "Among those who
are booked now I have 20 ciioloe,
strony serious, peaceful - people.
Amour them are man/ members of
the families of those who left with
you. They received lettors from
those who went over with you In
whloh these people have expressed
great satlsfaot.on with the new ooun
try and in whloh they have insisted
on those who were left behind coming
over as soon as possible." The
letter is particularly gratifying to
Gov. Hevward and Commissioner
Watson In view of the many efforts
made to oheok tbe immigration
movement to tbe Soutb. It moans
tbe suooess of the work and that thi
predictions made by those friendly tc
tbe department would come true.
Monnontsm a Curse,
"Mormonism is a greater curse t<
the country than slave? y," declare<
Mrs. B'red T. DuBolse, wife of thi
Idaho senator, in an address in Wash
ington on "The Effect of MormODisn
on Eduoction." She said that shouli
President Roosevelt make a trip gout
in south-eastern Idaho be would n
longer be willing to deolare that ther
is nothing in the Mormon questlor
Six United States senators, she sale
owe their election to tbe influenoe c
the Mormon churoh.
; WATSON RIGHT.
I
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Violated No Law in [(ringing ImI
migrants on Wittekind.
OPINION KENDEBEP.
By Solicitor (or the Department of the
Interior That Commissioner Watson
Had a Right to Help
Immigrants Come to
This State.
An important decision has been
rendered by Secretary Straus, of the
Department of Commeroe and Labor,
as to the right of a State to lnduoe
immigration to that Stato, The doolslan
holds in brief that in the olr
cumstanccs there is no violation of
the Immigration laws or of the law to
prohibit the importations of alien
contract laborers in the action of the
State of Souto Carolina, In this particular
case, In cr.c< uraglng Immigration
to that State or In paying the
necessary expenses of the Immigrants
In coming to the Stato.
The case on which the decision is
based originated In South Carolina.
For some time past the agricultural
and manufacturing industries of
South Carolina have been retarded
and were In danger of material injury
on aooount of the lack of labor. In
ordor to relieve this oondltlon of affairs
the Legislature of South Carolina
passed an aot creating a State
Department of Agriculture, Commoioe
and Immigration.
E. J . Watson was appointed commissioner
of the department, lie
was empowered by the act to make
such arrangomonts with steamship
companies and the Immigration agencies
in this country and abroad as
would servo best the interests of suo
oofnful Immigration, tho rucessary expenditure
being made from an appropriation
pro ided for tho purpose.
Tho aot authorized the commissioner
to accept cohtrlbutlons from suoh oltizona
of the State as might wish to assist
In bringing suoh cltissnsof the
State as might wish to assist in bringing
desirable Immigrants to South
Carolina.
On November 4, 1901, the steamship
Witteklnd arrived from Bremen
at ths port of Charleston, S C., having
on board about 475 aliens destln
ed to various points in the State of
South Carolina. About 300 of these
aliens were induce^ to migrate to the
rr j rii.. a. t a.l a- a.i.
uuiioa abates uy tuu at?tu ui ouutu
Carolina, the State acting through
the medium of Its Commission of ag rlculture,
Commoroe and Immigra
tlon, who went to Europo some time
In August for the purpose of Inducing
desirable Immigrants to oomt to the
Slate, the passage money of the aliens
was paid by the State ffum a fund,
part of which was appointed by the
State, and the balauoe being contributed
by varlouB corporations and lndlv'duals.
This fund was expended
solely at the discretion of the State
and In so doing exercised his own
judgment aa to the person to whom
and the locations to which the several
aliens should be sent. The aliens
were free to accept or refuse any offers
of employ meet made to them.
The facts in this oase were brought
to the attention of tbe Secretary of
Commerce and Labor b> the immigration
officers at the port of Charleston,
S. C., and ho In return referr
d the matter to the solloltor of the
department for his opinion as to
whether or not the aotlon of the com
mlssloner of Immigration of South
Carolina in bringing these aliens to
the United States a violation of the
alien oo tract labor lens The Ltd ml
gration service was duly notitlcd of
the expeobod arrival of the Imrr.t
grants in qucs&ion anu ine rignt or
such ftl'en to land wan loft to the determination
of the otllcers administering
the Federal immigration 'hwh,
The question of the right of ~i itat^
under the national immigration was
raiaed by the officials of another
Southern State. It was referred to
the Department of Commerce anrl Labor.
Realizing its Importance Secretary
Metoalf reforred the legal quoQtion
Involved to Solloltor Earle, of
the department, for an opinion. Mr.
Earle considered very carefully the
facts of the case in connection with
the statutes bearing upon it and ar
rived finally at the oonoluV >n that
there had been no violation of the national
law by the author! ttos of South
1 Carolina. The opinion of Solicitor
1 Earle goes fully Into a dlsouaslon of
the law re pectin# immigration. He
1 finds that "bo far as the prohibition
1 against assisting the Importation or
1 mlgiatlon of foreign laborers by
* promise of employment through ad
' vertistmfuts abroad is conoerned.
States ..ad Territories are expressly
excepted from the operation of the
a law."
3 He says, further: "By the terms
e of the provision, States and Territories
may otter Inducements or make
Q promises to foreign laborers by ad
3 vertisement printed and published in
h foreign countries and they are not
0 forbidden to 'assist* in the migration
0 of the foreigu laborers to whom suet:
, offers were addressed."
j' While the opinion of Solloltor Earh
is general In Its application, he make
it dear that It relates to the facts li
this particular and Indicates
that differert .jueatlon might arlae It
the faota themaelvea were slightly
different.
Id ooDclutloc, It Is stated aa the
opinion if the department: 'The
plan pursued by Commissioned Watson,
as It Is shown to hare been carried
out, dees not Involve a violation
of the immigration laws cf the United
States prohibiting the importation
of contract laborerr ; and I am of further
opinion that there has been no
mtsapp Icatlon of the exemption In
favor cf States, Territories and the
Dlstrlot of Columbia contained in
section r> cftho ant ?.f Maroi 3, 1903."
DKITHLIKV THAN OB.
1 mpoHHibio to Woko ,\]?|'>r i'< rrj?Mo
ilAlTlCH the I'hjMloait
Another btrargo Incident In connection
with the remarkable case of
the "Sleeping Piexcher" who preached
to a number of physicians, newspaper
men and others at the tieatre
In Columbia recently says the Columbia
Reo<rd, in the Imposalbllity to
arouso him during his strange services.
Several test wore applied by the
doctors present and they not < nly
failed to arouse him, but also fsiiecl
to cause any interruption or pau e in
Ills cllsoourse. During the tvr.-ntysix
years of his strango ministry ho
hasundergouethesovfire.it tertb and
most thorough examinations, yet he
n&s never been awukened while
preaching.
While In this strange sleep ho is apparently
dead to ills surroundings and
life of his vaklrg hours.
His sei m uis are forceful and grammar
faultloks. Ho has never been
known to v ander fr^m his (heme lor
speak disconnectedly. His utterances
while, im aanliinir uruimi lllr/\
t? i ii i v VKUUIU^ OUU iiU liau H K |/1 VTduct
of the deepest oonvic'lun and
earnest, tbcctfht folios ed by careful
study and preparation. Yet he known
nothing of his strange power, lie Is
Indeed & strange subject.
Can a person go hito a deep sleep
from which it Is impossible to arouse
him without Bime lrllueneo interual
or external? Of course not. lmpos- %
slbie. And yet, Major Perry, perfectly
Illiterate without any hypnotic suggebtions
remote or approximate, has
gone to his bod every night for over
twenty veal's, fallen Into a mysterious
trance from whioh it was impossible
to arouse him preached a logical sermon
and awoke in the mcruiug none
the worse for his strange service,
li this a miracle? Is it dual personality?
Or Is it just a plain freak?
Who will explain it intelligently and
satisfactorily?
TRAVIS ARRESTED.
Ohartr Ml Willi ftlavinic CftMhod Two
WxproHH Money Orders.
T. S. Travis, tho telegraph operator
who o* sned two forced express monny
or3ers aD<? sklppel with tho money
has been arrested in Chattanooga,
Tenu., and v/as brought back to Columbia
for trial.
On Saturday, December b, Travis,
who was then employed in tl e dls
puncher's otllae of the Southern Railway,
secured the endorse, m ml of Mr.
Wilkinson, ohlof dlspatoter, to two
Southern Express money orders, one
for $50 and the other for $30 20, purporting
to be on the cilice at Elko,
Ga., where Travis had formerly worked.
The orders were cashed by the
express oince In Columbia and proved
to be forgeries. Travis was not seen
again. He left his young wife in Columbia
without funds, and a collection
for her was taken up among the
Southern Railway employees. She
was heard from Tuesday in Ashevllle.
Her home Is at Heiskell, Tenn.
The police at Columbia say Travis
has been in Savannah and Atlanta,
they have been close behind him all
the time. Ho was recognlzjd in Chattanooga
by an express man and admitted
his identity when arrested. The
Chattanooga police wired Chief Daly
that Travis would be held for him,
and it is expected that he will come
without requisition.
Llaya iiitixuAte Irloml.
An extraordinary orlmo has been
reported at Llbion, Portugal. The
uuit:i aukuiB wore owu rnnu won kuuwu
in Libion commercial olroles. One
of them was the husband of & young
arid beautiful woman and the other
his greatest friend whom the first)
had diioovared to be his wife's lover.
The betrayer was literally hunted to
his death by the husband. The enraged
husband In faet hunted bis victim
up staircases and down staircases,
into the cB338 of strangers. Finally
the pursued man fell In the house of
a str&nyer with a bullet in his
body. The assassin walked calmly
up to the body, turned It over and
lacked the betrayer squarely in the
face. "It Is he. He has his reward,"
he said. Then turning awav without
any ado he gave himself quietly to
the polloe.
Hhooto b'lio.llun,
In a row near the postoffloo of Blue
Crook, W. Va. Monday night George
Goodwin, a Kentuokian, shut live
men, one fatally William Armstrong,
whose lungs were perforated, will die.
The other wounded are: John Cart,
about the eyeb; Mark Cart, ahot in
the right hand; Walter Cart, shot in
i nip aud shoulder, and Laurie Kelly,
i shot in the arm. After a raoe with
I the sheriff, who shot at Goodwin six
times, Goodwin was captured and
) brought to j all. The light was the
i result of a trivial dispute between
II two of the men.