The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 14, 1908, Image 5
WHITE FIEND.
Assaults a Little White Girl Near
Langley Thursday.
HE MADE HIS ESCAPE
Hut flu* Kntiiged Scoured
the Woods for Him. Ho Met the
Little Nine Year Old Oirl Coing
Home From School and Criminally
Assaulted Her.
A diBtpateli from Augusta to The
News and Courier says Uula May
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L,wn?ru, me little nine year old
daughter of Mr. I>oliver Leohnrd, of
Langley, S. C., was eriminally assaulted
Thursday afternoon by an
unknown white man and is in a critical
condition.
The fiend escaped. Kxcltement was
at u fever pitch Thursday night at
Langely and the woods around the
village were literally swarming with
crowds of armed men. Had the object
of their search been caught a
lynching would have followed despite
the fact that Sheriff Kayburn was
early on the scene, and did everything]
he could to persuade the crowd to be I
satisfied with capturing the assailant.
At an early hour Friday morning
scores of citizens and a number
of officers were still scouring the
county.
About 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon,
as the little girl was returning
home from school, she was approached
by the man, who told her that he
had lost four dollars and would give
her half of it if she would assist him
in her search. The child agreed, but
later showed signs of fear and turned
back when the man seized her to
force her to accompany him.
The girl attempted to call for help,
but her captor tightened his grasp
and choked the little one into insensibility.
He dragged her almost lifeless
body to the edg? of a swamp
and there she was found some time
afterward. She had been assaulttd
and the man had escaped. *
Assailant Caught.
A Saturday dispatch savs Sheriff
Unborn captured today Henry Leopard,
who raped Lula May Leopard at
Langley
The prisoner is a lirst cousin of
the victim. She positively identified
him at her assassin.
Sherff Raborn found part of the
shirt worn by the prisoner when committing
the assault. It is spattered
down tho front with blood. The
sheriff evaded the mob and spirited
the prisoner to Augusta, from whence
he was carried to the penitentiary in
Columbia. * j
KILLED BY TRAIN K<HIRERS.
Safe Opened and Contents Stolen by
the Outlaws.
Train robbers who boarded a Denver
and Rio Grande train at Castle
Rock, Col., shot and killed Express
Messenger Wright. From the dead
messenger the robbers took the keys
to a small safe in the baggage car,
which they opened and took out the
contents, in all worth loss than a
thousand dollars. Tho big safe in
the car, which contained a large snin
of money, was tampered with, hut
the robbers were unable to enter it.
Wright was found lying in a pool of
blood beside the big safe. *
HANGUP FOK MllltDEH.
Oue Negro Pays the Penalty for Killing
.Another.
At Walterboro on Friday Thomas
Washington paid the penalty on the
gallows for killing Frank Richardson
on Fenwick Island last August. Washington
and his victim were bo.th negroes,
and the murder was a deliberate
one. The execution took place in
the corridor of the jail, where a scaffold
had been erected, in tlie presortnsi
r?f utiniif 10 tw>onl<> Th? I'onft
was cut at 10:55 and 15 minutes
later the physicians, Dr. H. A. Willis
and Dr. W. B. Ackermau, pronounced
- life extinct. His denth was easy. *
IN A BIG HURRY.
And Will TiOml at Charleston, Shortest
Route Home.
A cable from Secretary of War
Taft from Colon to Mayor Goodman,
of Pensacola, Fla., in reply to an invitation
for him to return to the
States via Pensacola, states that as
his presence is needed at once in
Washington, he will take the shortest
route, landing at Charleston, S. C..
about May 20.
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Cotton Firm Fails.
Innian and Co., of Augusta, Oa.,
.one of the largest cotton firms in
the South has been forced into bankruptcy
with liabbilitfes of about $1,$00,000
and assets the same. *
.N SUBSCP
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???> 111 it11 directions until it struck
tin* Terminal hotel, one of the largest l
in the city, ami gutted that. During t
the early morning hours every one in '
the Terminal hotel and in numerous
other smaller hotels in the district
had warning. There was no loss of t
life and no serious injuries from the *
eonllagraion.
'i .ie insurance on the property de
stroyed is placed by insurance men (
itt $750,000. One of the heaviest j
losers in S. \1 Inman of Atlanta, who ,
owned the entire block bounded bv
Forsyth, Mitchell and .%elson streets
land Madison avenue, and in whicli
| were located the Schessinger-Meyer
I company, Branch B of the city post- .
ofliee, the Biqyid Carbonic company,
a branch of Central Trust & Banking
company and innny smaller concerns.
The fire was discovered in the elevator
shaft of the Schlesslnger build- ,
ing and is supposd to have originated .
from crossed wires running to the
motor which operated the elevator. ,
By the time the firemen had arrived '
the flames had broken through the ,
roof of this building and owing to a
light water prosure, it was impossible
to check their progress. In a short
time this structure was completely
gutted and the fire was eating its '
way through the Station B of the
Atlanta postofllce where mails received
from the terminal station just
across the square are distributed. t
The employers of the postofllce, j
however, by quick work managed to \
save all the mail and most of the |
euuintment. i
.lumping across Mitchell street, the
flames made short work of the Ter- (
tninal hotel, the Terminal annex, ]
Childs' annex, at which point the (
firemen succeeded in checking the ]
onslaught on the north side of Mil- j
chell street. On the south side, how- .
ever, the (lames continued to sweep ,
everything in their path until Forsyth .
street was reached, gutting the buildings
occupied by McCl lire's '"en Cent ,
store, the lunch bank of t.ie Central ,
Hanking and Trust company, the Par- ,
agon Srspender company, Moon Shoe (
store and the Liquid Carbonic company.
The Schlessinger building extended
half a block on Nelson street and
from it the flames soon jumped to
numerous strucuros on Forsyth street
and destroying the places occupied by
Alverson Bros. Grocery company, the
Lingers Frame Man factoring company,
and he Walker Cooley Furniture
company. A strong west wind
fanned the flames and scattered burning
embers over the whole business
sction of the city, threatening for a 1
time to cause even greater loss.
'I'lift fli'i.mon hnU nwinv narrnw es
capes fi*6m falling walls, but no Injuries
of a serious nature are report- 1
ed.
The guests from the hotels and
rooming houses in the burned section 1
succeeding in saving most of their
effects having been warned in time i
to remove their trunks, which were
piled on the plaza in front of the Ter- 1
minnl station, from which point their
owners and many early risers watched
the progress of the fire. *
ENTERS DAMAGE SUIT:
Young Lady Says She Was Insulted
on Train.
A dispatch from Spartanburg to
The State says Miss Sallle Bragg of
flr.ninnlifilln thrmiyh ntt<trnr>v I
A. Phlfer, has commenced a suit
against the Charleston an i Western
Carolina road for damages in tlie sum
of $50,000, alleging that while she
was a passenger on one of the trains
of the company between Augusta and
Laurens she was grossly insulted by
the conductor of the train. Miss
Bragg is a native of Spartanburg
county, her homo ba.ug at Campobello.
She is seventeen years of age
and an orphan. *
tlBE N0\
ATLANTA SUFFERS.
FIRK CAlSFS Bid LOSS IX IHSI- 1
N USS DISTRICT.
Hlgtt W ind and Light Water Prwwure J
Rendered the Firefighters' Work
Harder.
One million and a quarter is the
loss conservatively estimated Friday
on a tire which started at 3:30 o'clock
Friday morning and which swept two
blocks of Atlanta business property.
Friday night the tire was under
control with tuiued buildings in the
district bounded by Forsyth, Nelson,
Madison and Hunter streets. Late
'riday the police and tire departments
dynamited what was left of the ragged
walls. Friday night half of the
fire fighting force of Atlanta was
playing water luto a dozen razed
structures.
How the tire started is a mystery.
It \V!?S rllBfnv'nvnd in ? 1? - - 1... i 1.1 i ~ *
v . v u an tut- t'uiiuuiK ui;- i
cupied by tin- SchoHslURor Meyer company.
bakery. From there it ran its
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TWO BAD MEN.
WHO MIST IIK HIMIN<; H IKiK
LYNtll.
tfegroes Aluluct <? Woman and After
Robbing Her Leave Her in the
Woods.
A dispatch from Charlotte says
lohn Boyd, a one-armed negro, who
s bell boy at the Selwyn hotel, and
rVUson, another negro hackman,
lave .just been bound over under a
11,000 bond each to await trial at
he next term of criminal court on a
'ery grave charge, that of robbing a
velldressed lady, who gives her name
is Mrs. J. M. Morgan of Atlanta, and
vho was stopping at the Buford
lotel. Mrs. Morgan was found in
he woods near the city, wandering
i bout in a stupefied condition. A
enant on a farm discovered her and
iummoned the police, who have been
liligently investigating the case, with
he result that suflicient evidence was
omul against the negroes to hold
hem on the charge above stated.
According to the story told by Mrs.
Vlorgan, and which story 1; back"!
ip by circumstantial evidence, Mrs.
dorgan took a cab to go to the depot.
Instead of taking her to the station
he two negroes are said to have held
ler in the carrleage and to have
Mirried her to the woods, where she
,vas later found unconscious.
She says she was robbed of two
liamonds worth $200. Dr. Boyd
vas the star witness at the trial. He
old of finding Mrs. Morgan with her
irtn hadlv bruised and her body badly
iruised. He says she was in a dazed
condition, as if sh?? had boon doped,
le further testified that he saw in
he woods where she was found a
t>lac where a struggle had taken
dace.
A bottle was found nearby and a
lumber of matches. A watch charm
vas found near the scene of tho
struggle which belonged to John
ioyd, a vicious negro bearing a bad
eputaiton. At M.his time full details
?f the case have not been ascortaned,
nit the further the matter is probed
he more dastardly becomes the crime
hargd against the two negroes. Mrs.
ilorgan had been at the Buford sev>rul
days and was well dressed and of
ractlve appearance.
SKVKXTY-TWO MKN SAVKI).
Ii'sciihI by Ik'tinir Life Savers from
<'rumbling Wreck.
Seventy two men who for more
han twenty four hours had been fueng
death in a raging sea near Fire
island, were rescued from the crumbing
hulk of the big German ship
Peter Ilickniers early Friday.
Their rescue was effected after one
)f the most trying experiences the
ife savers on this exposed coast had
?ver been called upon to face. No
ess than a dozen times hope of saving
the men on the doomed ship was
ill lint abandoned, and it was only
the easing of the gale and terriilc
seas that made their rescue possible.
Fortunately not a man was lost
and it is believed that no one of
them suffered any permanent harm
us a result of their long light against
death. The great steel ship, one of
the finest sailing vessels that ever
rode a sea, is a total wreck. *
FATAL TENEMENT FIRE.
Flames Practically Destroy a Large
uii ut Vint' \o ?*L
At Now York four persons were
killed and twelve injured Friday afternoon
in a lire believed to Up of
incendiary origin, which practically
destroyed a five story tenement house
in Orchard street.
By the time the firemen arrived
men, women and children were so
closely packed on the fire escapes that
none could get down. More than a
hundred were taken from he fire escapes
on ladders by the firemen.
Those forced to remain inside had
a more serious time. Two of the
victims were burned in their rooms.
One woman attempting to reach the
roof with her child fell. The child
was burned to death.
BOLD THIEVES.
Broke Into Fever Hospital and Stole
Employes Wages.
A dismntrh fmm T.nnrlrm thnf
on Saturday burglars went to an
unknown extreme when, disregarding
a number of eases of malignant fever,
they broke into the fever hospital, on
Beagrave road, Fulham, and made
away with valuables estimated to be
worth $2,000.
The money had been drawn out of
the bank to pay the wages of the employes.
In order to reach the office
where the money was kept It was
necessary for the theives to pas*
through several wards whore patients
were lying. No one saw them, but
marks evidenced where they forced
uu entrance to the building. *
V TO
HAD BROKEN NECK
HIT HID NOT KNOW IT FOIt
YKAKS.
Senator Money Given Startling Information
When llo Visited Osttm-1
patli in Now York for Treatment.
A dispatch from Washington says
tin? tact that Senator Money or' Mississippi
passed through life for 3 5
years with a dislocated neck and did
not know it became known to some
of his associates recently and created
general astonishment. The condition
was discovered when the senator began
to take osteopathic treatment for
neuralgia. He has suffered intensely
from that ailment tor many years.
At the first battle of Franklin, in
April, 1X63, Mr. Money was a cavalry
man In the Confederate service.
While riding through the streets, hoi
was struck by a bullet that circled
around his ribs, doing no other injury.
The shock was such that Mr.
Money was thrown from his horse
and struck on his head. Heing helpless
he was captured and taken within
the federal lines, lie did not ask
t'liv )wve?%tt.?t ? ' - *
.... ..wni'ntii in"iiimen c, was exchanged
later, rejoined his troop and
funKlit until the war was closed.
Years passed and Mr. Money entered
tho senate. Neuralgia had taken
a lirni hold on him and his eyesight
had grown so bad as to approximate!
blindness. Senator Foraker advised
Mr. Money to try osteopathy, which
was just beginning to attract much
attention. Mr. Foraker's daughter
has been benefited by the treatment.
Senator Money wont to New York
accompanied by his son and visited
the osteopathist. Almost the doctor's
first remark was:
"Why, senator you have had your
neck broken."
Senator Money denied all knowledge
of such an affliction. The physician
declared that one of the vertebrae
had been entirely pushed from
the top of the column supporting the
head and was in a wrong position,
lie demonstrated U>at the muscles on
one side of the neck were tluhby and
useless.
"If you hud been old enough to
take part in the Civil war." said the
physician. "1 would say you were
thrown from a horse and sustained
Tne broken neck."
"That is just exactly what did
happen." replied Senator Money, recalling
the injury at Franklin.
"1 can cure your neck," said the
physician; "it will require but a moment's
time."
The osteopath laid the senator on
a table, took hold of the misplaced
voidable with both hands and snappod
it into proper position. The noise
made by the bones swinging
into place was like the report of a
pistol. The senator's son. who was
looking out of the window, turned in
alarm, saying: "Father, have you
broken your neck?" "No," replied tie
senator. "I have just had it set."
The physician told Senator Money
that he must exercise precaution until
the weakened muscles regained their
normal strength. He was cautioned
not to turn his head in looking at
anything, but to move the entire
body. These instructions were observed,
and the neck aparently became
as strong as it was thirty live
years before the operation.
COXVICTIOI) OF Ml ItDFK.
For Killing Man Who Lived in House
With Him.
A dispatch from Greenville to The
State says Henjamin McAbee, a young
white man, was convicted in the
Court of General Sessions Friday of
iiiiii iit'i , u 11(1 ? ?t?> i ill un iMi'd Ki
the mercy of the Court. Fie shot and
killed John Fowler, a man who lived
in the house with him. in March. Ho
claimed that Fowler was intimate
with his wife. McAbee's attorneys
have given notice of a motion for a
new trial. *
Use your head to think with. Hat
racks can be gotten at the 10-cent
stores.
CRASHED THROUGH OAR.
f.urgo I Cock Rolled Down Hillside on
I
Kx press Train.
While the Chicago and New York
express on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was passing Hammond, 7
miles east of Fairmont, W. Va., early
Sunday, a large rock rolled down
from the hillside and crashed through
the roof of the smoking oar, Injuring
three passengers.
Thirty-Six lU\scue<l.
A dispatch from New York says
! with the aid of the breeches buoy,
1 lifesHvers early Saturday rescued
! from the tank steamship Washington
1 stranded off Monmouth beach, her
- captain and crew of xti men. ft is
1 expected that the steamship will he
floated at next high tide. *
THE
WILL KILL BATS
BY III KMNU I'.ATBli'K IIKNttY'S
MIU.IMA MANSION*.
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Millions of itie Pest Have Takni IVssosslon
of it and People Driven
From It.
A dispatch from Aylett. Va., sn\s
Montville, one of the most fatuous
and historic places in Virginia, Is to
he burned to the ground by Its own
owners, the great grandchildren of
Patrick Henry, because It Is overrun
with bats. Since the warm weather
begun there Is no living In or near
tho place. Hats by the thousands
hang about the grand parlors* and
spacious bed rooms of the colossal <
mansion Attempts to exterminate
them by poison and with clubs have |
failed.
They are in every room. They
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uuug in tong stripes, as is their
habit. from the furniture, from tin- ,
ceiling, from the walls ami they are
in surli numbers that limy form curtains
before the windows, darkening
tin* house during the day. At nightf
11 i 1 they loosen themselves from each
other ami dart to the yards in such
numbers that they strike each other
in their flight.
Recently Philip Aylett, one of the
owners of tiie place and an engineer
attempted to make the house "bat
proof." Every crack, every door, and
every chimney was stopped up, but
the bats found a way to enter. They
coulg Kef through cracks which
would hardly admit a roach. Montvllle
was built about the time the
Americans drove the English out of
the country, and its woodwork is old
and brittle.
Moit t v I lie is now owned by the six
children of the late William Aylett.
They inherited the home from their
father, who had inherited it from his
grand mot her, Elizabeth Henry, who
had married an Aylett. After the
death of William Aylett, half a dozen
years ago, his sons and daughters
married and moved away and Montvllle
was rented for the first time
since it was deeded in H>7o to the '
i first Aylelt who came to America by
Charles II.
From the day tho lease was signed '
bats began to invade tho place. The '
leeseo tried living in the mansion
with iiis family, bul it was impossible. '
During the day there were strings
of bids yards long.1 Tho llrst of the 1
grewsome creatures would cling to a 1
piece of woodwork, to the wall, tlu* 1
window sill,, or to a stick of furniture
and his fellows would cling to him,
forming a string of sqeaking, repulsive
objects.
The moment the sun set the string
would dissolve and the bats would
seek the open, squeezing through the
cracks of windows or doors and
through the floors and walls.
The lesse and his family took quarters
in a cottage 1,000 yards away
and the manson was abandoned.
The A> let l children offered prizes
to the negroes who could kill the
most bats. A child stood in the
front door one afternoon and with ii
tennis Pecquet knocked down 2,000
bids. The negroes for a time came
from every direction, hoping to win
the "bitt. prize," but after thousands
and thousands of (lie creatures had
been put to deauh there was no appreciable
diminution.
Poison was then paced in every
part of the house, but the bats only
seemed to thrive on it. This spring
the bats have become a pest to the
neighborhood, and tho owners of the
old mansion have determined to burn
it to its foundations. Tho bats can
be got rid of in no other way.
I I i A . IU I I / I'i I i l.> lit t IV.
Tin* Ex-Senator, With Two Others, to
Get I iii rge Foe.
A Washington dispatch to The
News and Courier says Justice Ashley
M. Could of the District Supreme
Court, decided Saturday that Senator
Owen of Oklahoma, former Senator
Sutler of Edgefield, and Wylie O.
Cox, are entitled to a fee of $75,000,
payment of which from the United
States treasury was enjoined last year
on complaint of the law firm of
Shellep and Martin of that city. This
firm charged fraud in a $5,000,000
claim of the Cherokee Indians aguinst
the Government. Justice Gould held
that no fraud had been shown. *
LAUNCH ItltEAKS DOWN.
Four Voting l.ndies Were Drowned as
as a Desalt.
Four voting ladies. Misses Klmn
Webster, IS years, Kdith WaBster, 1 <5
years; Grace Lytic, 16 years; and
Hessie Lawrence were drowned in
the Neosha river at Hartford, 111.,
Saturday morning. In company with
Kate Griffith, Mary Griffith, Carol
Lytic, Kniil Steinholst and Howard
Lyon, they went boating in a gasoline
launch. When the party was a short
distance above the dam. at the Hartj
ford mill, the supply of gasoline gave
out and the engine-went dead.
10RRY HI
THE DEATH GRIP.
Terror-Strickon Plague City Has
Been Cut Off From
REST OF THE WORLD.
Iuk Guayru, Vonozuclu, Is |{? in? liepopulated
by the Terrible Disease
Known ns tin* liubonlc Plague-?
P?x>plo Fleeing From the Country.
?The Death (lute Very lleutjr.
La Citiayra, Vencruela, la * city of
loath. The plague is spreading there.
Vho inhabitants aro fighting It fu*nticnlly,
alono and unaided. From the
rest of the world they are out off,
on one side by the sea, on all ottiers
by military patrols under orders to
shoot, fugitives on sight.
News from the town Is hard to obtain.
so strict is I he quarantine, hut
enough has leaked out, however, to
prove the spot an Inferno.
ItuslnesH Is practically suspended,
stores closed, and residences shuttered.
None venture abroad, except under
absolute compulsion. Food is
hardly to ire had on any terms. Whoever
will may enter with supplies,
but having entered, none can leave,
even for the enormous prices offered
for provisions, few will accept the
cert 11 In t v ? *
. nui'i iniiuuiuiii ana the
risk i?I' death.
Front miles away the smoke can he
seen by day and the (lames by niglit
at" blazing houses where the plague
has been, of burning lumber piles
from which the people are trying to
ilrive the disease-laden rats, and of
the 11 res in the oil Hooded streets, a
plan adopted by the authoritis as the
readiest and speediest means of ridJing
the community of the accumulation
of tilth which probably was
mainly responsible for the epidemic.
Most of the workingiuen, who, panicked
by fear of the plague and rendered
desperate by famine, broke
through i he miliatary cordon and
scattered through the surrounding
country, have been herded together
ind driven hack by the troops.
The terrified villagers and country
people among whom they sought refuge
did everything in their power to
lid in the hunt. Dr. Gomez Porazu,
>f La Guayru, who iirst diagnosed
lite disease as bubonic plague, uud
was thrown in prison by President
Castro, only to he released later when
it became evident that Ids judgment
was correct, is leading the sanitary
workers In their efforts to stamp out
the epidemic.
hJxcept for a few persons who rushed
from tiie city before the cases
became numerous, the only ones who
have escaped have been those rich
enough to pay the skippers of small
eraft Jo smuggle them from the harbor
and land thorn surreptitiously at
distant places on the coast.
President Castro lias declared a
blockade at the -port, and regular
shipping is suspended. Mven the
blockade runners art; few. The prices
they charge for the supplies they
bring in, and the passengers they
take out, are enormous, and only the
most imminent risk of death at tho
hands of sanitary guards are they
able to break the embargo. The La
Cfiiayra railroad has ceased operations.
The rate of mortality from the disease
Is enormous and those who succumb
are said to do so in the majority
of cases in about twenty four
hours from the time they are stricken.
There have bee a few cases of the
disease outside of La (Juayra, but tlio
government is making herculean exertions
to prevent the disease from
getting a foothold, and tho sanitary
precautions promise to accomplish
the desired result.
Foreign resdents and wealthy Venezuelans
what are able to leuve their
businss are quitting the country in
largo numbers, however, lest tlie epidemic
spreads.
WUITK MAN AltltHKTKl).
On Charge of Assaulting a Young
White Woman.
John Groves, a white man 5 5 years
of ago, was lodged In jail nt Spartanburg
on a warrant charging him with
criminal assault upon the person of
Miss Annie Dobson, a daughter of
John Dobson, a well to do fanner of
the Wellford section.
The warrant for Groves' arrest waa
sworn out by Magistrate Dean of
Duncan. The defendant was arrested
at his home at Greer by Constable T.
Walker Moore and brought to Spartanburg.
He denies his guilt. *
Eleven I >row n?>d.
The steamer Minnie E. Kelton wan
wrecked off New Port, Ore., on Tuesday
and eleven of her crew drowned.
The steamer shifted her cargo of
lumber during a storm, and when a
big wave struck her became unmanageable.
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