The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 30, 1907, Image 3
BRUTAL MURDER1
I
Of a Prominent Citizen of Union
County by a Negro.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
Mr. Clarence C. fcUst Waylaid by a
Negro Pullman Porter at the Seaboard
Airline l)c|H>t and Assassinated.?A
Posse is limiting the
Murderer Down With Several
IMood Hounds.
A dispatch from Carlisle in Union
County to The State says Mr. Clarence
C. Gist was killed there Thursday
night near the Seaboard Air Line
depot by Arthur Davis, a negro,
whom Mr. Gist had arrested at the
base ball grounds Thursday afternoon
for boisterous conduct.
While being taken to the guard
house Davis made threats, saying
that lie would have further trouble
with him. After being released on
bond it seemed lie hid himself near
the depot and attacked Mr. Gist
wliile the latter was on his way to
. liis home. After the shooting the
negro made his escape hut the citizens
are determined to effect his capture.
A special to The State from Union
Thursday night about ten o'clock
stated that there was considerable
excitement there over the dastardly
assassination of Mr. Gist at Carlisle.
Parties left Union for Carlisle as
soon as they heard of the crime to
assist in hunting the negro down.
Bloodhounds were asked to be sent
from the State penitentiary, but as
the first train leaving for Carlisle
was over the Southern at 7:10 Friday
morning it was thought that the
dogs would not get there in time to
be of service. Capt. Griffith would
have sent the dogs Thursday night if
there had been any possible way.
Hounds were secured from Monroe,
N. C. The Monroe dogs are as
? I fine as can be secured in the South,
having been in several very successful
chases, It. will be remembered
that these dogs were used in the capture!
nf lhf> fnnr ksi f o ('.riiflffirs near
Monroe in 190 2.
A message from Carlisle at halfpast
twelve Thursday night stated
that no trace had been found of the
negro Davis. Conditions there are
reported easier. No violence has
been done and it is not expected that
the citizens of that town will commit
and rash act in their excitement.
Davis is a Pullman porter and has
a Pullman pass on his person, ltailroad
and Pullman officials and conductors
all over the State h.'ive been
asked to look for him and it is believed
that he will be caught in a few
days, if not sooner.
Mr. Gist was a brother of President
William II. Gist of the Hank of
Carlisle and a nephew of the late
Gov. Gist. ne was an industrious
farmer and was serving as constable
for the magistrate at Carlisle when
he arrested the negro Davis at the
baseball grounds.
Mr. Gist was about 25 years of
age. Tie married two years ago Miss
Wilbom, daughter of Mr. Stanford
Wilbom.. n prominent planter of
Union county, and who was at one
time county commissioner.
The negro Davis is about 22 to 25
years of age; between 5 feet G inches
and 5 feet 9 inches in height,
weight about 1G0 pounds. He is very
black and has bulging eyes, rather
red. Five hundred dollars reward Is
offered for his arrest.
Davis was arresiea on i? nuay ana
is in jail to await trial. Ho was
found at the house of another negro,
Chalmers Dawk Ins, who said he
had come to his house the night hefore
and asked to he allowed to spend
the night. As soon as the oftleers
reached Dawk ins, house he told them
that Davis was in an up-stairs room,
where he was found anjl arrested.
Wade Davis, father of the murderer,
George Davis, his brother, and
George Lyles, his brother-in-law,
have also been arrested as accessor
ies and locked up. The elder Davis
is a had fellow, and has heen before
the courts several times for selling
whiskey. One or?two of the last
named had pistols on their persons
when arrested. Davis claimed that
the shooting was accidental, winch,
of course, is all a yarn.
Not a word was heard about lynching
the prisoners, every body seeming
disposed to let the law take its
course. Mr. 'Gist was assassinated
for arresting Davis at the hall ground
by order of the Intendant of Carlisle.
Davis was disorderly at the grounds,
^ and the Intendant told him to hehave
or leave. This made the fellow
mad and he became more disorderly
than ever. Then Mr. Gist was order!
ed to arrest him, which he did and
locked him up.
In a short time Davis was turned
out on bond, his father and a white
man signing it. Davis then wont to
his father's restaurant and got a pistol.
lie way laid Mr. Gist on his way
home and shot him. There is no
doubt about the guilt of Davis, and
he will be executed accordingly after
a fair trial. The man at whose'house
Davis was arrested Is a well-to-do respectable
negro, and he had no desire
to conceal Davis. As soon as
the officers asked him if he had seen
Davis he told them where they could
find him. '
"Good for everything a salve Is used
for and especially recommended for
Piles." That Is what wo say about
DeWitt's Carbollied Witch Hazel
-- Salve. That is what twenty years'
of usage has proven. Sold by Conway
Drug Oe. ; , t?S|..
0*
VERY BAD MAN
k
He Is Wanted in Two States for
His Many Crimes.
An Officer Front Greensboro, Ga.,
Canto For Hint, Hut Papers Were
Not Hlght.
The State says William P. Lovett,
who is now in jail in Hamberg, is in
a had way. Two States are after hint,
and between tlie two he may serve a
long long time, in prison. The crimes
of which he is accused are the dastardly
kind that make men rejoice to
see punishment meted in return.
Those whom he offended were women.
or, in the eyes of tin* law, children.
One of these he misled, the
(tther two he married.
it. K. llcthea, chief of police of
Greensboro, Ga., arrived in Columbia
Sunday with requisition papers
issued by the State of Georgia.
Gov. Ansel turned the documents over
t<i the ji 1t nrnov iiT?i??rn 1 Imi VI
Lyon reported that the papers had
been made out improperly. Gov. Ansel
therefore declined to issue extradition
papers.
The warrant upon which Lovett
was arrested and is being held for
the Georgia authorities charges him
with seduction. There is a graver
charge against him now, that of bigamy.
Into the lives of three
women this man has come and
brought sorrow. It is probable that
before the Georgia authorities can
file additional requisition papers,
Lovett will have been arrested under
a warrant sworn out in South Carolina,
charging him with bigamy.
Mr. Hothea stated that the case is
indeed a sad one. Lovett was a mill
hand and was attentalive to the older
of two daughters of Mr. Di.lard,
supcrintendant of the mill at Greensboro.
Ga. His attentions were resented
by the parents. To the surprise
of all. Lovett qnd a younger
daughter, aged 13, were married one
night. It was then that the older
daughter, herself not 16, declared
Lovett to be a seducer. Lovett left
the night he was married, some time
in November last. That the marriage
was legal there is no doubt; it was
performed by a minister who signed
the legal certificate.
It is the custom of the officers
when they catch A fugitive to look
wise and say nothing of their methods
of capture, but 'Mr. Hethea talked
very sensibly about the matter
and said that it was quite easy, only
that it had required a little time,. The
colon mills, for t..eir own protection
and for the sake of law and order,
issue monthly circulars in which they
describe the new hands employed. In
tins way i.ovett was located.
Mr. Hethea sent the warrant to the
cheif of police at Orangeburg and by
the latter it was turned over to Sheriff
John H. Dukes, who investigated
at once and found that this same Lovett
had lieen a resident of Orangebur,
but after havng married in that
city had gone to Bamberg. The warrant
was returned to Chief Hethea,
who forwarded it to Sheriff Hunter
of Bamberg, and the man was arrested
under tlie Georgia warrant so
served.
Mr. Bethea was unable to get liis
prisoner, as the solicitor of the circuit
n which the crime was committed
had not submitted an aiiuiavlt to
the effect that the accused is wanted
for the crime specified. Not only can
he he arrested for seuuetion as charged,
hut he is also guilty of abduction,
for any one marrying a child under
10 ahainst the wishes of her parents
is guilty of abduction under the statutes.
WAR IX Til 10 CAM I*.
Head of Georgia Republican League
Issues Address to Kollowers.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says
Chairman Blodgett of the State Republican
League, which was formed
to fight the present national administration,
issued an address to republicans
of the South, in which he
takes the administration severely to
task for the appointment to office of
"Democrats and lukewarm republicans,"
and urges that no federal office-holder
be appointed to the next
Republican National Convention.
THE BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY
i
Wit lie.ss Saw Negro Soldier Fire Into
The Cowan House.
Herbert IClkins, of Brownsville,
testifying at the Hrownsville Investigation
at Washington said that he
saw two negro soldiers come up an
alley from the barrlson and fire into
the Cowan house. v
He said that others followed and
also that he saw the shooting fron)
the garrison which appeared to come
from the balcony of Co. B. barracks.
Later he said that, he heard a negro
soldier say that they would come
out the next night and f 1 il 1 sh the
town.
NOTED INDIAN BANDIT DEAD
Apache Kid's Skull Hosts in Physl(inn's
Laboratory.
"Apache Kid," the notorious In-1
dlan bandit, has been slain and his
skull now rests in a laboratory of a
Chicago physician.
It is said that the mounted skull
of the outlaw will be presented to
,Yale University .with the suggestion
that ancranium and submit a report.
Eugene V. Debs compares Haywood
and Mayer to the murderer,
John Brown, ail of whom he says are
martyrs. Our sympathies have been
altogether with Haywood and Mayer,
j but if they are like John Brown, as
|Debs claim they are, they should be
hung the same as Brown was.
SOME HOT WORK
An Attempted Outrage Calls Together
an Angry Mob.
FIVE PEOPLE DEAD
Xwo Negroes Lynched, One White
Man and Two Negroes Killed and
Seven Other Persons Injured as a
ltesult of an Attempt to Capture
Would-be Assailant of a Widow,
Near Manassas, C*a.
'1 wo negroes lynched, one white
man and two negroes dcrtd, and seven
other persons Injured is the result
of an attempt to capture a negro
who Monday night, attempted a
criminal assault upon Mrs. Laura
Moore, a widow living near Manassas,
Tattnall County.
The dead:
.John Hare, while, farmer.
Sim Padgett, negro, and daughter,
aged seven years.
Lynched:
Padgett's wife and son.
Injured:
VV. H. Pearson, shot in stomach
and amr, prolmhlp fatally.
James U. Daniel, shot in eye and
may die.
Dr. D. Ii. Kennedy, seriously.
Son of Padgett, seriously.
Flem Padgett, slightly.
Two daughters of Pagett.
Fifteen persons early Tuecday surrounded
the house of Sim Padgett, a
negro whom they suspected of harboring
another negro '\\ho had criminally
assaulted Mrs. Moore, and demanded
to he allowed lo search the
House.
Permission was given, hut when
within thirty feel of the house those
inside the building opened lire on
the posse, instantly killing John
Hare and seriously wounding Harlow
Pearson. Jarties Daniel and Dr.
J. ij. Kennedy.
The posse then returned the lire,
killing Padgett and one of his daughters,
aged ten, and wounding two
other girls, aged six and thirteen
especttivelv. and two of Padgett's
sons, aged twenty and twenty-two.
The nosse then retired, for reinforcements.
The news spread rapid
l\ and hv ten o'clock live hundred
armed men were on the scene and
started in nnrsnit of the negroes,
who had escaped.
One of them was captured and
taken bBToro Mrs. Moore, hut she
failed to identify him. The negro,
however was identified as the man
who shot Hare, and he was started
for Keidsville jail, together with Padgett's
wife and son.
On the way the oflieers were overf
*i1r mi 11tr nKnnf ooonn * %??!>#-?
v>?* w,? (li/V# III. n*3 V VI1 t%T - 11 ?C| W 11U
took the prisoners from them. The
woman was fold to run, and as she
did so she was riddled with bullets,
her son being shot to pieces where
be stood.
The negro who assaulted Mrs.
Moore has not been captured, but it
is reported.that he is surrounded in a
negro house, and that in all probability
ho lias been killed.
Sheriff Edwards, with deputies,
took nil the prisoners from the jail
at Reidsville and loft with them to
elude the mob, who, it is reported,
will attack the jail
Great excitement prevails an.d it
s feared that other trouble will occur.
Hare was a native of Monroe,
N. C., and leaves a widow and several
small children.
HAIIY 1UKNEI) IN CHADhK.
.Mother Charges an I'likuown Enemy
With Sotting It On Fire.
Frantic with grief over the burning
to death of her 18-inonths-old
son while she was absent, at a grocery
store, Mrs. John Pavett, of Chicago,
accuses an unknown enemy of
the crime. When she returned from
the store she found the baby, which
ghf) hiitl l#*Pt nuloon in i t cj an\rnL
oped in flames.
Mrs. Paavett declared that, a
strange man had been watching her
home for more than a month. The
police think that a burglar dropped
a match or the lighted end of a
cigarette into the cradle.
ONK INKIDK THK OTHKR.
Car Starter Yoiiguc of Columbia Has
Curioim lOgg.
The Columbia Record says Mr.
Jefferson S. Yongue, car starter at
the street railway transfer station,
was surprised, on breaking the egg
beside his breakfast plate, to find
that, it consisted of two eggs, ono
inside tne other. Roth were perfectly
formed. This is a curiosity seldom
seen. The egg came from a hen on
Mr. Yongue's promises at 1017 Green
street.
GREAT STORM IN CAROLINES
Pacific Island Said fo Have Been
Swept I?y Hurricane
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W.
says report has reached there that
a hurricane and tidal wave swept over
the Caroline Islands on April 3 0.
immense damage was done to property
and 2 00 persons are reported
killed.
Mrs. McDuff?This paper says thai
mice are attracted by music, but 1
don't believe it. Mr. McDuff?Whj
not? Mrs. McDuff?Because I nevei
fcee any mice around when I play th<
piano. Mr. McDuff?Well, that's nt
reason for doubting the paper's state
ment.
CROP LAST YEAR.
% , ???
Cotton Figures Compiled by the
National Census Bureau.
I
THE BANNER COUNTY
In This State In Orangeburg, Which
In About the Thlril Cotton Producing
County in the Cotton Belt.
The Total Crop Is Put Down at
13,305,205 Bales, Which Is a
Bumper Crop.
The census bureau of the department
of commerce and labor has
lust issued a bulletin (No. TG) giving
the production of cotton by states
and territories, with per cent of quality
produced in each, forms of the
total crop, and rank according to the
quantity produced from 1902 to 190G
Including linters and counting
round as half bales, the crop of 1900
is ^3,3 05,265 bales, compared with
10,725.602 for tun.' mwi i >
- . w ? i a \? 10,Ui7 I ,0 I U
for 1904. The 1 90d crop for Texas
exceeds all previous records 4,281,824
bales, or 31.5 per cent of the
country's production. The next largest
contributor is Georgia, with 1 ,026,824
bales, or 12 per cent. Mississippi
ranks third, Alabama fourth
and South Carolina seventh. The
states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia
each produced, less cotton in 1906
than in 1905, the combined loss
amounted to 338,702 bales.
South Carolina produced in 1 906,
in pounds. 447,505,001; in 1 905,
547,999,7 1 0.
The sea-island crop of 1 906, consisting
of 57.550 hales, or 22,281,889
pounds, is the smallest production
since 1 892, when the crop was but
15,4 18 bales.
The production of Sea-island cotton
in this country, s confined tit present
to fourteen counties in Florida,
24 in Georgia and 1 in South Carolina,
or a total of 42 counties.
South Carolina has 23,902 acres
in Sea-island cotton. The failure of
this staple in Texas shows that it can
only he grown to advantage in certain
places in South Carolina, Florida
and Georgia. The increased demand
for superior staples in recent years
Is developing better upland varieties
by seed selection and more careful
cultivation. The average price per
pound for upland cotton this season
Is*10.01 cents, while the sea-island
varieties sold from 1 1 to 3 0 cents.
States showing largest, per cent of
water power for cotton mills are
Florida, 19 per cent; Alabama, 12;
Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina, each ten.
South Carolina produced by counties
as follows, in bales in 1900:
Abbeville 32,925
AlKen 2H,0 18
Anderson 50,79 1
Hamburg 10,180
Mar n well ,11,03 1
Beaufort ; . . 6,041
Berkeley 12,224
Charleston 7,636
Cherokee. 12,4 60
Chester 23,013
{Chesterfield . . . 1 4,994
Clarendon 21,696
Colleton 11,324
Darlington 24,ol 3
Dorchester 8,313
Edgefield.: 2 2,20.1
Fairfield 23,578
Florence 2 2,f>7 4
Georgetown 1,3 34
Greenville 30,881
Greenwood 28,64 1
Hampton 1 1,343
Horry 5,997
Kershaw ? .. 15,04 2
Lancaster 19,880
Laurens 36,87 4
Lee 19,62 8
Lexington 17,144
Maron 33,565
Marlboro 4 0,8 2 1
Newberry 34,793
Oconee 11,876
Orangeburg. . 60,319
Pickens 13,501
Richland 10.549
Saluda 19,218
Spartanburg 48,328
Sumter 22,645
Union 15,436
Williamsburg 15,463
York 3 4,77 8
Every county in South Carolina
produces the staple of cotton. Georgetown
being the lowest with only
1,344 bales.
New Mexico, appears in the list of
states and territories, in the production
of cotton in 1906. for the first
11 mo. It shows a production of nearly
100,000 pounds. It is ahead of
Kansas and is expected to pass Virginia
soon.
The average crop for the past live
years is 11,790,558 bales!
Of the total production in 1900,
the territory west of the Mississippi
contributed 7, 233,2 10 bales, or 53.2
per cent, while the states east contributed
6,362,288 bales or 4 0.8 per
cent, showing that the country west
of the Mississippi has passed that
east of the Mississippi, nowithstanding
the ravages of the boll-weavil in
parts of Texas.
The production of Texas, 3 8.2 per
cent of the total for the country,
compared with 30.5 per cent in 1905,
a train of 7.7 nor cent.
The production of 9I8,f>87 bales In
Oklahoma and Indian territory gives
the new state a respectable rank
among the cotton producing states
beng larger than North Carolina and
Tennessee combined.
j" P.?I see you have my novel. I'l
f wager you had to look at the lasi
r page to see how it all came out. Q
3 ?No; I looked at the name of th<
3 publishers on the title page to set
how it came out, and even now
can't understand how it was.
FELL OFF SOME.
Not So Much Fertilizer Sold This
Year As Last
It In Thought That the Cotton Acreage
in the State Hun Been lted need
a Little.
It Is usually presumed that the
amount of commercial fertllllzor used
Is an Indication of the size of the cotton
crop, or rather of the acreage
planted In cotton, and if this is true
the acreage this year Is likely to be
found much smaller than last year,
hut still a great deal larger than in
1905 and 1901.
It was In these two years that the
efforts to reduce acreage were made
through the Southern Cotton Association,
but last year the acreage went
up again in a kind of reaction from
the campaign of the year before, and
now it seems to have taken a turn
I again.
The amount of fertillizer sold Is
determined by the amount of tax paid
into the State treasury. The tax is
25 cents per ton on all fertillizer sold
in South Carolina, tlm money going
to CIcmson (College, where under the
law the fertillizer is analyzed. To
date the amount of tax paid this year
is $1212,310.01 and up to the same
date in 1906 the amount of tax was
$143,889.14, which is $1 1,579.13
more than last. year.
The amount of tax paid this year
represents over live hundred thousand
tons?-529,240 ton to he exact
while the amount of tax to this time
last year represented 575,556 tons.
The total amount of the tax last
year was $167,157.89, which Is the
largest amount ever paid in on this
tax. The tax year ends June 30, according
to the books of Clemson College.
From the hooks of the State Treasurer
the following figures as to the
amount of the tax in the last seven
years are taken:
1900.. .. ' $75,21434
1901 84,073.43
I 902 . . . 81,744.94
1903 98,909.80
I 904 11 8,974.15
1 905 130,439.08
1 906 167 J 57.89
1 707 to date 132,310.01
From the last report of the Chunson
College for 1906, it is stated that
"the inspection tax amounted to
$164,996.82, and from this was deducted
for unused tags redeemed $6,642.79,
leaving a net amount received
from the inspection tax of
$158,350.03, which, added to the balance
on hand together with the income
from other sources amounts to
$224,093.07."
From this amount Is deducted the
expenses of analysis. The report explains
that the apparent discrepancy
between the tax tax figures as found
in the college report is duo to the
difference in the fiscal years. However.
most of the fertilizer is sold in
the spring, so that the difference is
not very great.
It MMAlUvAULi; FOUTITl l>M
A Man ' Watches A Surgeon (Cutting
OfY llotli Ills Legs.
Seldom has the nerve of man been
put to such a severe test as in the
case of Patrick Greely, and rarely
has man displayed such remarkable
, fortitude on the operating table as
did Greely at the Methodist hospital,
Thursday at Philadelphia.
With eyes wide open and totally indifferent
to the terrible pain he must
have suffered, Greely stoically watched
the surgeon amputate both legs,
one at the hip and the other just
above the knee.
When the operation was over,
Greely thanked the surgeon and attendants.
lie assured them that he
would be all right in a few days, and
the went to sleep. He awoke later
refreshed and confident of being out
of the hospital soon.
MA It SMVMItMl) IIY IIA/MltS
Student Disfigured Itecnuse lie llad
Worn Sideburns.
Captured by Freshman of the
Northwestern university, Chicago,
Charles Sanderson, n student of tin
Northwestern Preparatorn school,
u/ftu hii'/url fr?r wonrliiff uMnKiii'nu o n #1
" ?v/i ?f vi?? l?lR UIMVUKI HO, C4IIII
now ho is minus a portion of his loft
oar and h.s faco h disfigured by cuts.
Tho professore of both schools are
trying to learn tho identity of t?.e
hazers, who will be dismissed.
Sanderson was dragged from an
Entertainment hall to a secluded spot
on the campus and there choked and
his hands and feet held while freshmen
wielded the razor. When they
saw that they had cut their victim
the tied.
FOK NOT HAVING TAX TAOS.
Proceedings Against John Wohltmnn
Company by Inspector.
Tll? P/\al citi.ru
. .../ wi.Mi .x wvwii i wot o? r p aiinr-ir
ment proceedings were filed Thursday
in the ofllee of the clerk of court
and placed into the. hands of the sheriff
for service against John Wohltidhii
Company on 125 sacks of colton
seed meal, which P. VV. Mayor
inspector of fertilizers at Charleston
i alleged were exposed for sale and did
not bear the proper inspection ta>
, tags. The penalty for this offence Is
i $3 a sack, making the sum allegec
due tlie State * ii75.
1 Baron Moncheur, the Belgian mir
, ister to this country, after returninj
to Washington from a visit to th
three hundred Belgian immigrants i
2 the cotton mills of Greenville and Cc
3 lumbia, reports that he found th
I great majority of them contented
comfortable and happy.
CORPSE FOUND.
A Horrible Crime Discovered In
New York City.
HIDDEN IN A TRUNK
Woman Had 1'olirc to Open Trunk
heft try Two Lodgers, Who lln<!
la-ft Witliout I'ay i nt; Their Itrnt,
ami the Madly Decomposed llody
of a (ircok Minis! or is Found
Within.
Rev. Father Kaspar, of the Armenian
Apostolic Church, of Hohoken,
N. J., was murdered in the elty of
Now Yory some time last week. The
hotly was found Sunday in a trunk,
whit'll had been left as security for
their room rent I?y two Creeks, who
three weeks ago engaged a furnlsherl
room of Mrs. Henry Slierer, who occupied
tlie third Moor of a tenement
at West Thirty-seventh street
The body was i 11 a kneeling posture
with the head hound against the
knees hy a heavy strap that passed
over the hack of the neck and was
hackled under the shins. The murdered
man must have been about 60
years of age. lie weighed probably
1 60 pounds, and was about 5 feet 1
inches in height. A flowing beard
twelve inches long was streaked with
gray, but the long and bushy hair
was black.
An undershirt of balhriggan and a
cuff on the right wrist were all the
body wore, but on top of if had been
thrown three coats of clerical cut, a
white laundered shirt, two pairs of
black lace shoes, a soft felt tint, two
Itoman cnit^'-u .. *-*
- * ...i.i <i iit'imcned cuff.
The police think it is possible that
tho body was shipped by express
from Chicago and the authorities of
I that city have been asked to follow
one clew, bused on a meal ticket, alI
so found in the trunk. This ticket
I was issued by a restaurant at 1,222
jllalstead street. West Pullman, ChlcI
ago, and writ ten in ink across it was
I the firm name "S. lOrmoylan Iirothlers."
Through the word "brothers"
several red ink lnes were drawn. Itecause
of the condition of the body,
I tho manner of death was not immediately
apparbnt. Following an nuI
topsv at the inogue two men were arI
reste on susi>ician.
Mrs. Sherer told the coroner that
I when the two men engaged the room
in her home called themselves John
land Paul Sarkis, each about 2 5 years
I of age. John was dark and smooth
I shaven and the woman understood
I that he conducted a restaurant in the
I tenderloin. Tho other resembled his
I brother, but wore a mustache. The
Imen ..ad been visited, she said, by a
I man wearing a clerical garb, who
I looked not unlike the murdered man.
I She thought that tills man called at
1 8 o'clock last Wednesday morning.
I No one in the tenement that day
I heard any unusual noises.
I Lust Wednesday afternoon an exI
press wagon brought to the house the
I trunk which later, was found to conI
tain ttie body. One of the lodgers,
I with the aid of a young man, who
drove the express, carried the trunk
I with considerable dlHiculty to the
I room. That night Mrs. Sherer asked
I her roomers for the rent due. They
pointed to the trunk and sahl it
would he found to contain ample security
for what they owed. Later
the men said that the trunk delivered
to them was not theirs, but that a
mlstnke had been made.
The next morning the roomers left
before Mrs. Sherer was up. The next f
day unpleasant odors were detected
' coining from the room and to-day,
Mrs. Sherer appealed to the i>olico
and the trunk was forced open. The
body was removed to the morgue
and the police began a minute examI
ination of its hiding place. It was a
cheaply built affair and showed
marks of hard usage. Inside tho
, cover was printed a name that looked
like (iiiiseppe Sarkis. On the outside
of the chest was the name "Krmovlan."
The autopsy developed that the
neck and an arm had been broken.
Coroner's Physician Lehune declared
[ however, that death was due to suf,
focation. The nternal organs were
congested and Dr. Lehane gave it as
i,i0 *i-~* -
...r. </1> iim>11 inui me man wan thrust.
Into the trunk while alive, and the
cover of the air tight trunk hfld
, down until death ensued. The condition
of the organs were found to ho
similar to those in cases of asphyxiation.
A dspatch from Chicago says at
the West Pullman address on Halstead
street, the Armenians kept a
restaurant until five months ago under
the name of S. Krmeylan Brothers.
Tho Chicago police Sunday
night learned that on February 7. a
trunk said to answer the description
of that found iii( the New York boarding
house was shipped from West
Pullman by express to Sarkis Brmoy
Ian, 4 2 0 West FortieUi street, New
York city. It was shipped by a man
, who gave ..is name as K. Kenesiam.
i Lewis B. McDonald, agent for the
I Adams Fx press Company at West
t Pullman saidthat Kenesiam told him
that tho trunk contained silks valued
1 at $200. Search was begun at onco
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