The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 07, 1907, Image 5
SHOT IN PARK.
v. An Actress Killed and Her Escort
Seriously Wounded,
BY UNKNOWN MAN.
Brown, tin* Wounded Man, Says the
i Man, Who Did the Nhnotlnff, Wits
^ Davenport, t{e Womanjl lltoaband
Davenport Denies the (Jhargc and
Hays That He Cuu ^ Prove An
Alibi.
The police of Drunswick, Ga., are
trying to solve a murder mystery.
Lillian Davenport, au actress, was
shot und almost iustantly killed, and
W. H. Drown, a bartender, who was
with her, was also shot, and will j
probably dio, in a secluded part of
WlnH?nr inirlr In r,,,_ I
.. -.. |'?> ?.i iiuu tu) , i nursday
tnght... It. L. Davenport, manager
of thoMajeetic theater, and husband
of the dead actress, is under
arrest suspected of the killing.
Davenport denies that he killed
the woman, Brown at first thought
f that Davenport Uid. but later, at the
Inquest, was doubtful. Davenport's
friends say he can prove an alibi.
Three shots in all were fired. Two
pierced Brown's body, and the actress,
trying to defend him, started
toward the man who shot, and herself
was shot. Before Brown could
bring assistance to the dying woman,
she succumed.
Winsor Park is a resort near
Brunswick, and it was there that
Brown and the actress went. They
sat 011 a bench in the moonlight, in
a secluded spot and had been there
only a short time when the man appeared.
The man, according to the bartender,
slipped up on them. Before |
Brown knew that he was being
watched, he says, lie heard two shots
and simultaneously fel over. Both
bullets had taken effect, one entering
the abdomen, and the other
following it closed?.
The woman Hcrwined, and In response
to Brown's appeal to shoot
his assailant, rose to her feet and
started toward th#? tmm nmi' in full
view in the moonlght.
She had none hut a few steps,
however, when a third shot was
fired. The bullet entered the actress'
breast, and she fell, mortally
wounded.
Tbou, Brown says, the assailant
disappeared under the trees, but he
himself, although probably mortally
wounded, went to the woman's assistance.
"I am dying," she cried. "Ix>osen
my dress. Let me breathe."
Brown, followed her instructions,
and placed her on a bench. Then
staggering from loss of blood. Brown
started toward the city for assistance.
He first notified the police,
and Assistant Chief of Police Owens,
with his mounted officers, and a physician,
hurried the park.
They were too late, however, to
render the Davenport woman any assistance.
She was dead when they
arrived, and near her, on the ground,
were found her wrap, jacket, a book
and a cluster of roses.
Meanwhile, Brown, having notified
the authorities, fainted from loss of
blood and was borne to the city hospital.
There the doctors said that
his chances of recovery were small.
The police, after a search, found
Davenport at his quarters in New
Castle street and placed him under
arrest . Davenport stoutly denied
thnt hn Vi iwl efwit tho .'if'frOHfl ?nH
Drown.
"I have boon right horo since suppor,"
ho declared.
Brown, however, thought Davenport
was the guilty man, and Davenport
was arrested.
Davenj>ort is the manager of the
Majestic theater, which was recently
oponed hero. He came to Brunswick
last Junuaryfvith the Parker
Amusement, coinp^fy. His wife the
dead uctress, was "Supcrba," the
loading attraction carried by the curnival
company. Brown is a bartender
at the Mecca saloon, and has lived
in Brunswick only a short time.
Gave Up in Despair.
At Cleveland, Ohio, live workmen
in the top story of the John Schaber
picture moulding factory had a narrow
escape from death when the
building took tire. The firemen
climbed to the third story and rescued
the workmen. Schaber, owner
of the factory, collapsed at the
fire and after he hnd been taken
home, shot himself with a revolver,
lie said he was too old to begin
life anew. He will probably die.
The loss was $60,1'^.
Confessed.
In IVia nnnrt In Cnllimlilll lllVlt WPI'k
*u ?-u\; wui v 1u v/viuiww.u.
Daniel Zimmerman confessed to
stealing State bonds and soiling
them, but claimed that he was led
to do it by T. J. Gibson, a bond broker,
of Columbia. Gibson was tried
and convicted on Zimmerman's testimony,
and both of them have been
sont to the penitentiary. Zimmerman
is 00 and Gibson 7G years of age.
A sad sjjght.
Killed by Ammonia.
In New York on Thursday two
men were killed and eleven rendered
unconscious by ammonia fumes
at a fire in the market ou Kight avenue.
One of the unconscious may
die.
Jealous Husband.
Because his wife refused to live
with him Will \Vagn{ of Covington,
Oa., emptied the contents of a
revolver into her body. Tho woman
will likely die. The sheriff, with
dogs, is In pursuit of the negro.
Ct,ST OF CRIME.
Figures ?at Will Surprise a Great
MMany People.
Over a JlUllion IKtllurs a Year Is
Spent in the I'ulU'd States On
Criminals.
The- cost of crime to the governn- '
inent reaches the enormous sum of
$140,000,000. Of this sura $80,000,000
is expei) led in a certain precen- '
tage of tne maintenance of the supreme
and federal courts. United
States district attorneys. United
States -<qfe^shals, and the secret ser[
vice rf*<?us; part of it is the cost
of c^pe^f the treasury department
to prevem smuggling, the cost of
crime to the army and the navy and
to the postolllce nnd to allied de- ]
pnrtnients.
The government losses by smuggling
and postal frauds, etc., add :
the $60,000,000 to make the afore- '
said total. In the last statement, <
which is only an estimate of what
the national government pays for
crime, it should be remembered that 1
[there are no reliable figures on the 1
1 subject. 1
In estimating the government (
losses tit $60,000,000 a year for
smuggling, fraud, etc., the writer '
has endeavored to keep strictly un- '
'tier the mark. It is estimated that i
| the government loses from $73,000,- |
000 to $100,000,000 a year by smug!
gling alone, while the postolllce
frauds are believed to have cost the
government something like $10,000,- i
a year. ,
The detailed cost of crime in the
United States represents some as- (
founding figures. In 1897 the cost <
of crime in Greater New York was i
1 $25.552,13:1.24. The state, county ,
! and city authorities outside of Greater
New York spent for it $42,605,- 1
4 72.75. In forty-live states (New I
York excluded' the expenditure was j
$697,080,000. Criminal losses by (
tires totaled $ 1 00.00u.000.
Itv customs frauds the national
i.orntiw.nl I* A AAA AAA ? \ ?
h*"* unique iuoi fuv,v;vu,vvv. iiur*
ing this one year the loss in wages
io 100,000 state prisoners was $28,*- I
080,000, while the loss in wages of :
150,000 prisoners in the city find
county jails was $28,000,000, The
grand total, therefore, of the cost
of crime in the United States reaches
the stupendous llgures of $1,076,327,605.99.
The cost of religious work in the
United States is enormous. The cost
of foreign missions, comprising all
denominations, is $7,000,000; home
[ missions expended the same sum.
Wo spend for education $200,000,000;
for church expenses and ministers'
salaries, $150,000,000. Hos- (
pitals and dispensaries for the sick ,
poor cost us $100,000,000; for Ran- (
itarlums of all kinds we spend $60,000,000.
City missions and rescue work of
all kinds demand and receive $3,000,000;
humanitarian work of every
kind, $12,000,000. Our Young
Men's and Young Women's Christain
associations cost $5,000,000,
while all other moral and social (
work in the United Slates requires
fin expenditure of $5,000,000.
The total expenditure for humanitarian
find religious work is, then,
$54 9,000,000. As against, this, the
total cost of crime in the United
Stfites for the year reached the incredible
total of $1,076,605.99. This
is to sav, we spend more than $500,
ooo.ooo u year more on crime than
wo do on ;ill spiritual, ecclesiastical,
physical, hunmniinrian, educational
;iii<l healing agencies put together.
Must Publish Iteports.
One of the important 5\cts passed
by (lie last general assembly required
all county treasurers to report
etich month, on or before the 16th
the amount of collections received
and the banks in which the collecticnc
sire deposited. The report is
to be published in a county newspaper
and is also to b<> sent in to the
County Commissioners. Just what
the publishing of this report will accomplish
we do not exactly see.
There is no question but thiit an intelligent,
plain report by thoTreasurer
or the County Supervisor would
be appreciated by the public. They
want one that they can understand
One thsit will tell for what the money
was spent and who earned it.
The nature and kind of service rendered
sind in whJit part of the county
it was rendered.
Serious Charge.
At Denver, Colo., Dr. Benjamin
C. Wright, solicitor for the intcrnational
correspondence school of
Scran ton, Pa., is in Jail on the charge
of murder, having confessed to the
chief of police that lie poisoned his
wife and daughter, who were found
dead in their home. Infatuation for
Stella Good, is the supposed motive
for the crime.
Constables Needed.
Relieving the proper enforcement
of the state anti-liquor law is impossible
in Oreeniville county without
the aid of specially appointed constables,
more than two hundred
prominent citizens have signed a
petition asking Governor Ansel to
reappoint certain constables recently
relieved from duty there under
the Carey-Cothran act.
Murdered aiul Itobla-d.
At Pawtucket, R. I., Mrs. Alexander
Henderson was murdered in her
little candy store Triduy by a robber,
who after emptying: the money drawer
and stealing a quantity of cigars
made his escape through a well settled
section of the city, leaving behind
him a trail of blood.
This seems to be a year of disasi
ters. Now comes tho news from Mn
nilla that the Philippine Islands
, have been devastated by a storm,
i and thht several hundred had been
i killed and thousands rendered homeless.
AN OLD BEAU
Sued on Valentine He Sent Th6rty-Five
Years Ago.
ASKS BIG DAMAGES.
rhe Widow After Long Interval of
Marriage Flounts Hh^inc, and
Sh)*n He Kenewed Troth, Hut a
Trolley Ninn?ih, it Seems, Jolted
All the Ijove Out Of the Old Gentleman.
,
A queer case Is being tried at
[lartford, Conn., which is attracting
considerable interest. Thirty-live
i'ears ago Thomas K. Fltts, of Ashwood,
who is now seventy-live years
old and wealthy, promised to be the
present Mrs. Bridget Theresa Gorman's
valentine. Although she afterward
married, and is now fiftythree
and a widow with three children,
she is seeking through the
courts $10,000 damages because her
whilom admirer declines to live up
to his ancient assurances af undying
love.
The breach of promise suit of the
widow against the aged and prominent
citizen promises to become in
court annuls as celebrated as the
case of Mr. Pickwick. Kvery action
of Mr. Fitts from the time that he
sent the valentine through the protracted
married life of Mrs. Gorman
and after death had freed her, is
recorded and its interpretation by
and effect upon the feelings of Mrs.
uornian airectlngly roc I tod.
There wore tears in the eyes of
Mrs. Gorman's lover and his voice
broke from pathos when he road
the fateful valentine, and the widow
sobbed through the recital.
"Maiden fair, to you I send
Thin token of affection true,
Showing where my feelings tend,
Like the magnet unto you.
"Worlds may pass away and perish
Every feeling die away,
Hut the constant love I cherish
Never, never shall decay."
When the lawyer had calmed himself
after lingering on the words
"Never, never shall decay," and the
comely widow hajl dried, her eyes,
Bhe took the witness stand to tell
of her romance and its sad ending.
Mrs. Gorman said that she had
known Mr. Fitts before her marriage
and that he had showed her
attention, but had not reached the
l>oint of a declaration when Mr. Gorman
appeared. This was in 1K7U,
and after the first announcement of
the banns in church Mr. Fitts called
on her. ,
"He said that he would have been
in Mr. Gorman's place if he had only
been more forward," said Mrs. Gorman,
"and then he cried, and 1 cried
and said to Mr. Fitts: #
" 'Now, Thomas, you never told
me anything like that before.' "
"Did he show VOII anv mark* of
affection on tho occasion of your
marriage?" Mrs. (.orman whh asked.
"Yes," she replied. with downcast
eyes; "on tho very day of the wedding
lie sent me three or four baskets
of peaches, and I understood."
Mrs. Gorman declared that, with
her husband's knowledge and consent,
her acquaintanceship with Mr.
Pitts was continued and that lie remained
a batcholor. They often
met, and went driving together, and
he always seemed sad and often
sighed, and site sighed, too.
She said that her marriage to Mr.
Gorman was a disappointment, because
of the conduct of her husband.
He left her and was gone four years,
and during this period Mr. Pitts
called upon her and they discussed
the possibility of Mrs. Gorman obtaining
a divorce! Mr. Pitts told her
at this time, Mrs. Gorman testified,
that he v/as worth $??fi,000, and that
if she got a divorce he would marry
her at once and make her life happy.
In April, 1903, Mr. Gorman died,
and in June Mr. Pitts called upon
the widow.
" 'Well, you are single at last,'
said Mr. Pitts to me, and I said,
'Yes,' " Mrs. Gorman testified.
He continued to call on the widowen
an average of twice a month, and
made presents to her and to members
of her family.
In ?- -- - -1 1
i iit-n in i^uyninuri , 11 t unili'U 111?*
to harry him," the witness testified,
"and I told hini that I would," and
her voice softened to a whisper
"And he said that he would come
at Thanksgiving and we would talk
the arrangements over. It was understood
that we were to he married
the next May and would go to the
St. Louis fair for a wedding trip.
"And because he had proposed
and I had accepted hini, and knew
that he was wealthy, I told all my
boarders nhout it nnd let them go
ana i naa iweniy-iwo.
JuHt at this time a trolley cm
butted into the romance. It struck
Mr. Fitts and Injured him so pain
fully that he had to go to bed.
"I went to ace him just as soor
an I heard of the accident." Mrs
Gorman coutinued, "and stooped
down and kissed him as he lay 01
the bed."
"Did he kiss you?" she was ask
ed."
"Certainly he did," she indignant
At Pittsburg, Pa., Prof. T. M
Taylor of the chomistry departmen
of the Carnegie Technical school wa
found dead Thursday in his room a
the residence of Mrs. W. H. Hartzo
There was a bullet wound behin
his left ear, and a now revolver wa
lying on the floor.
DID HE POISON HER?
Atlanta Has a New Sensation to
Talk About.
Mttll <iuvo Two Nullity Mild Arl.il
Otherwise Supiciousljr Before Woman
Died.
Atlanta has a now sensation to
talk at>out. While his wife, who Is
said to have died under mysterious
circumstances, laid at the undertaking
room of Barclay ft Brandon, awultlng
a coroner's inquest, the police
and detectives of that city are
searching for Edwin P. Wiutleld or
E. W. Pettus, both names, it is alleged,
having been given to the undertaker
and the attending physician.
An inquest will be held Friday.
It is said the man had another
w i f e.
According to the doctors, the woman,
whose maiden name Ih Lucia
Carter Brewer, of Marietta, (la.,
died, as her husband told them of
morphine poisoning.
Winflold or Pettus, gave his occupation
to the undertakers as that
of a telegraph operator, and said he
was employed by the Southern Kailway
in one of its block signal oltlces
near Howell's station. IB' is a man
something over f?0 years old. of slender
build, and with gray moustache.
Wiutleld, or Pettus, told conflicting
stories about his name, it is said,
and was much preturbod when Mr.
Brandon, of Barclay ft Brandon, told
him that the coroner would arrive
shortly t<> investigate.
(Mr. Brewer, father of tho dead
woman, said he knew little of WinHeld
or PettUB?he knew him as
Wintleld. lie said that the man had
a daughter at Agnes Scott, and a son
in New York.
The dead woman was 36 years
old, and was of prepossessing appearance.
The woman died early Wednesday
morning at her residence, 3 1 Pareluy
street. Dr. Andrew Slribllng,
of No. 113 North Boulevard, told Mr.
ltrandon that he had been summoned
by her husband the night before.
Pottus, as he gave his name to
the doctor, declared that his wife
had taken morphine, and said that
previously she had been attended by
Dr. C. E. Stone.
Dr. Btribling answered the call,
as it seemed to he an einergncy one,
and finding that the woman, as he
said, seemed to have recovered, ho
left. ller death followed the next
morning.
ller husband called on Barclay
& Brandon and gave an order for
the funeral arrangements. To Mr.
Brandon he said that his name was
Edwin P. Win field. When Mr Itrim.
don called on I)r. Htribling for the
death certificate. In* wjih informed
that the man had given the name of
Pettus. Neither doctor would issue
u death certificate.
TKKKI11LK TltAOKDY.
A llnlf Witter Midi Shoots and Kills
His Neighbor.
Anderson County was the scene
of a horrible tragedy on Tuesday of
last week, when Asbury Woo ten, a
white man of forty years, shot and
instantly killled Mr Duke Owens, a
man of seventy-two yours.
it is said that some boys playfully
rocked Mr. Woolen's home Sunday
evening, and that Mr. Woolen, being
half witted, became very much
wrought up over the action of the
boys.
Tuesday morning, Mr. Owens, ac o.npar.ied
by another gentleman
vent to the home of Mr. Woolen t<
tell him that the boys meant no
harm in rocking his home.
Mr. Woo ten ordered these gentlemen
off his place, and told Mr.
Owens that If he repeated what he
had said about the action of the
boys, lie would kill hint.
Mr. Owens remained to pacify Mr.
Wooten, who became quite angry.
It was then that Mr. Owens was shot
throuidi the heart, which caused Mr
instant (loath.
Feud Caused Killing,
Telephone messages from Clark's
Fork, Knott county, Ky., give details
of another feud battle between
the Stone and Clark factions. Michoal
Stone was fatally wounded and
his son, Richard was killed. John
Clark, the alleged leader of the Clark
faction, was desperately wounded.
ly replied. "He always kissed me
when he came to see me."
The result of the trolley accident
seemed to cause a coolness on the
part of Mr. Fitts. He did not. call
to see the widow from December
to March, and then told her that on
account of getting hurt he did not
want to make a change in life just
then. Later he almost stunned her
with the statement that he thought
sne was 100 old 10 g?u married.
" 'Hut. Thomas,' I told him, 'Yon
are no oldor than you were when
you asked me.' " Mrs. Gorman testified
Then Mrs. Gorman wrote him the
> following letter, and quoted the
lines of the valentine Riven above:
"Dear Thomas -1 have waited
patlenly for a cull, but the Summer
has passed and Winter Is at hand,
and I am yet waiting. 1 hope poor
1 health has not caused your non-appearance.
It is almost thirty-three
1 years since you sent me the lines."
1 The poetry failedto bring a reply
from Mr. h'itts, and after waiting for
a year Mrs. Gorman has tired and
began suit for $10,000 for breach
- of of promise.
[, The endless chain business hai
t broken afresh. We heard of on<
young lady who had received nim
H requests to copy a certain prayei
t nine times and send them to nim
I. different people. If she compile*
d with these nine requests she wouh
8 have to write eighty-one letters an*
expend $1.62 In postage stamps.
WHAT COTTON MEANS I
t
The Importance of the Staple to
the United States I
And to the World May lie Sr-cn From
the Article Which Wo Publish
llclow. .
Some idea of what the cotton In
dustry means may be Kathered from
a report by the National Dureau of
Manufactures recently Issued. It telle
us that cotton and Its products
brought practically five hundred millions
of dollars Into the United States
from foreign countries last year.
The value of cotton, raw and manufactured,
and its products In various
forms exported during the year
aggregated 485 million dollars and
thus formed more than one-fourth
of the total exports of the country
in the year of Its greatest export
record.
Figures Just compiled by the bu- C
reau of statistics of the department r|
of commerce and labor show that
the total value of raw cotton export- .
ed in the calendar year 1906 was _
$413,000,000, this being the llrst cal- a.
endar year in which the export ftgures
of raw cotton touched or crossed
the $4Q0,000,000 line. ^
Manufactures of cotton aggregat- '
ed practically $411,000,000, or more
than In any earlier year except 1005, "
when they amounted to about $06,- ''
500,000. Cotton seed oil exported ?
added another $14,000,000 to the
total, and cotton seed oil cake and '
meal still another $14,000,000.
Added to this is a quarter of a '
million dollars worth of cotton seed,
while presumably a largo proportion a
of the nearly five million dollars'
worth of lard compounds and sub- ''
stlfutes exported under the name of 1
cottolene, lardine, etc., was composed
largely of cotton seed oil,
thus bringing the aggregate expor- "
tation of the cotton fields of the United
States up to about $1110,000,- '*
<M?0, or US per cent of $1.7611.000.
000 worth of (lonioBtic products ox- "
ported iu (ho your.
In addition to this tho valuo of ''
cotton manufactures sout to I'orto tl
Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska, and not
includod in tho figures of exports to
foreign countries, was over $4,500,- c
000. a
Europe sent the bulk of. this a
$100,000,000 received as the pur- w
chase price of the year's ex porta- Cl
tion of cotton and its products.
Of the $413,000,000 worth of raw
cotton exported. $173,000,000 worth ^
wont to the United Kingdom, $H>9 - ft
000,000 to Germany, $45,000,000 to w
France, $3 1...uo.uoO to Italy, nearly a
$7,000,000 to Belgium, $5,000,000 t<
direct to Russia and $1,000,000 to H
the Netherlands; while to Japan the d
exports for the year were valued at h
over $1 1,000,000, and to Canada seven
and one-third millions. P
Even this large ilguro of $103,- c
000.000 worth of cotton sent to the h
United Kingdom fulls slightly below f
that of 1905, when the total value tl
of raw cotton exported to that coun- r
try amounted to $177,000,000; but ?
the increased movements to Germany
more than offsot the reduction in
those to the United Kingdom, the exports
of cotton to Germany in 1906
being $19,000,44 1 in excess to these
of 1906, and $16,000,000 in excess
to those ol' 1904.
The actual quantity of cotton <
from the United States reaching
Russia during the year was doubtless
nuch greater than that indicated
by the ilgures of direct exports to
that country, since much of the cotton
from the United States which
enters Russia is sold originally to
the markets of the United Kingdom
and Germany and thence resold unci
transhipped to Russia,
These figures are startling. Their
magnitude is so vast that wo scarcely
grasp their meaning. But they
prove the value of cotton and demonstrate
the importance of the South.
A half billion dollars wrung from
the rest of the world simply because
nature has made the South the only
place where cotton can be successfully
and largely grown.
The lesson to be learned is plain.
The South should get more out of
tills total than It does. Most of the
manufacturing should he done here
and instead of exporting the raw cotton
we should be sending out almost
all we grow in finished goods. This
will lie done some day and that day
Is not as far distant as some imagine
Yearly the disparity between the
cotton grown and manufactured
within the confines of the cotton
states is less. With the development
of our. wonderful reources taking
place every day the growth ofcottnn
manufacturing Interests keeps pace.
Some day we will grow almost all (
the cotton the world needs and we
will manufacture all except a small
portion.
It seems to us that the farmers of |
the South, who creates all ths wealth j
are entitled to more of it than they i
get out of it as it passes through .
our hands. Cotton enriches nearly ,
everybody who has anything to do
with it except the man who produces (
it. This is somewhat queer, but it j
is true. Now why is this? Are not. ]
the farmers to blame themselves?
While they have practically a monopoly
in the production of cotton, they
arc compelled to take what they are
offered for it, and have no hand in
fixing the price at which it is sold. .
Our farmers could easily correct
tliiu if f hov VL'onl/l of ii*l/ t/wntlutp
but sonic how or other they will not
do so. Why?
A Good lloanl.
VV. A. Courteimy, Kdward Khrlich
and A. K. Gonzales have been appointed
members of the commission
l to improve the capital grounds at
i Columbia. The legislature appropriated
$ lb,000 for this purpose.
3 |
The dispensary law has become so
^ popular in Charleston that a member
r of the Legislature has resigned so
Fj as he can accept a place on the
I County Hoard of Control. Verily.l
i as Brother Jasper use to say, "thel
sun do move." '
HARRIS TO HANG.
I
dan Who Murdered Mrs. Morgan,
Near Gaffney, Tells of
IIS HORRIBLE CRIME.
he Jury Returns ft Wrdiet nf Guilty
ami the Judge Rr?ntrraro? Ibe
Prisoner to bo tlnngwi- on IVklay,
Marrh 20?Harris Asks Hveryone
To Meet Him lit Iteuwu, After Ileiug
Convicted.
At OnfTnoy on Thursday In tbo
ourt of (Jeneral Ross ions Torn Haria,
alias Tom Childers, was convio?d
of the murder of Mr? ia>ria?
lii Morgan on November JO, 190G.
nd sentenced to be hanged ou Friay,
March 29.
Mrs. Morgan, an aged widow, 11 vi!
alone on the crest of a hill aU>ut
wo and a half miles from Uuffuey.
ho was brutally murdered about
lid way, hot* throat being cut from
ar to oar, and hor person robbed
f a largo sum of money.
flroaf Interest has boon manifest
d In tho case and fho t'ourt IIoiiho
/an packed vory soon after the
eots wore opened. A great imuiy
idles were present- Harris appoarnce
had greatly changed..
Several witnesses testified to seeiig
Harris at and near the oldlady'H
iouko on the day of tho murder,
'ho testimony was strong against
he man and there was not a shadw
of a doubt of his guilt. Before
he murder ho had very little mony,
and when arrested $i2tj was
ound on his person, which he said
e won gambling.
While confined in jail Harris conessed
to three people that he comiltted
the murder ami described
Is terrible crime. Harris said that
e and his wife and two children
ume from Grover, N. f?. His wife
ml children stopped at Blurksburg
ml he went to Gaff any. He then
rent out to Mr.H Morgan's and uoordlng
to his own confession hen*
i what transpired.
When he got to her house, he
)un<l her sitting on her front porch,
ppronehed her and pretended U>
/ant to rent a farm. Khe told him
11 her land was rented. She got ap
> go In the house, asking him to
tay for dinner. Ho replied that h?*
id not care for any dinner, following
her Into her room.
Khe stopped to the bed to get n
aj>er and he walked up behind herr.
aught her by the throat, choked
er down on tho bed, took his knife
Mini ii in ami UIKF Cut ner
hroat, after which waited in her
oon ton or twenty minutes until
he died.
After thin he searched a cupboard
r safe for her money. Not finding
I. he Hcarched hor person. Finding
ler money tied around her waiitt
n a pouch or Hack, he cut the string
roin her person, took the monev
rom the sack and threw the Back
own at the door.
llo then walked back to the road
nd walked buck to Haffney, going
rj a store and buying a new nult of
lothcH, overcoat, grip and u pair of
hoes, and expecting to got on train
to. 1 1 of the Southern Koad and
;o to Atlanta, (?a., and from there
0 Memphis, Tenn, never to return.
He nays no one else than himself
tud anything to do with this murder
lither directly or indirectly. He furher
states at the time he coramlted
the murder he hud lift of hi?
>wn money, and, thinking it wouldl
lot he sufficient for his needs de:ided
to rob Mrs. Morgan.
The jury after being out a very
ihort time returned a verdict of
;ullty. During the entiro time tho
he Judge was making Mr prelfmnary
remarks Harris wtood chewing
1 wad of tobacco. Aft^r Judge AlIrich
senteced him to be hanged on
Friday, March 2'J, Harris exclaim}d,
"Everybody meet me la Heaven."
DispeiiNiiry Auditor.
Ciov. Ansel Thursday announced
ho appointment of Mr. W. ii. West,
iuperintendant of the graded schools
if Oaffney, uh dispensary, auditor,
under the provisions of the Carey[Jothran
law. This position carrier
with It a salary of $2,000 per year
ind actual expenses. The incumbent
will ho the most powerful single*
official of the system.
To Help Mrs. Jackson.
Mrs. Myra A. Jackson, widow of
the late General Stonewall Jackson,
has been granted a pension of $2 0
a month by an act of congress. The
pension was granted to her as a wid:>w
of a Mexican war officer.
Senator Overman and Representative
Webb were instrumental in having
the act passed. Mrs. Jackson
lives in Charlotte, N. C.
Great Power Plant.
The Catawba po*er plant, not far
from Chester, has been completed
by the Southern Power Company.
This company owns the greatest water
power in this countrv. exocnt
Niagara. Their plants extend from
Hickory, N. C., to Camden, S. C.
and aggregate 200,000 horse power
Selling its Stock.
The dlspeiiHary commission hat?
agreed to Roll the stock of liquor?)
in the Charleston dispensaries to the
county authorities at 20 per cent discount.
ThlH will probably bo the
basin for dealing with other counties.
3
Preparing a Statement.
Senator Tillman is preparing a
statement for the press of his view*
of the Caroy-Cothran bill. Ho thinka
the law will he found undoslrahie
' and that an early change la likely.