The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 24, 1908, Image 4
THE TRUTH OUT
?
As to Who Did Really Shoot Up
Brownsville, Tex.
SHOOTER CONFESSES
To a Negro Detective, who lla?l Keen
Kniploycd to Work tlie Case l'p
by tlio War Department?A DIschaged
Negro Soldier Tells All
About it.
Washington, Doc. 15.?President
Roosevelt sent to tho Senate Tuesday
a special message in reference
to tho shooting up of Hrownsvilie,
Texas, by a bat all ion of negro soldiers
in the summer of 190(5. In
eluded in the message is tho general
report of inspection by Herbert I.
Brown, a colored detective, who was
employ&l by the war department in
conjunction with Capt. W. G. llaldwin
to probe the occurrence at
Hrownsvilie. llrown submitted the
following to the detectives agency,
which he says is the confession of
lloyd ConyerS; one of the discharged
negro soldiers, who now lives a;
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1*H ?ll i VM-, <111*1 >"? II*/ II* 1|?' * 4 "liwwi
lip the Texas town in August, I !MM?
In his confession to lVrown Conyers
says:
The rumors of trouble over tin
assignment of colored troops to
Brownsville were circulated before
the troops left Fort Niobrara, and
preparations were made anions th>
men to "get even with the crackers,"
so the whites were called. Some
cartridges were held out at. range
practice, but more en route to
"Brownsville. Pretence was made
that they were given away at stations
along the road. Some were,
but a large number were secreted.
At inspection in Brownsville.
Lieut. Lawrence, Company B, threatened
punishment to the men who
were short of ammunition, but nothing
was done about it, and the deficiency
was supplied.
The friction with citizens of
Brownsville began at once. In
Boyd Conyers' language, "Whiskey
made all the trouble. If we hadn't
been drinking we wouldn't have had
the nerve to shoot up the town."
It was agreed, as a gathering of
a few men in the saloon of Allison,
the colored ex-soldier, on the afternoon
of August 13, 190tl, that the
raid should take place that night aL
13 o'clock. It seems to have ho-a
delayed a few minutes to let
Taniayo, the Mexican scavenger, git
away from the B barracks.
John Holloman, the money loader
of Company B, was the chief con
spirator .'iiul loader in the raid and
custodian and distributor of tin*
cartridges, but his plans could not
have been carried out had not SergC
Goorgo Jackson, of Company B, in
charge of the keys to the gun racks
in B barracks, and Sergt. Iteid, in
command of the guards, co-operate 1
both before and after the raid.
The four men who led the rale
wore John llolloman, John Brown,
Boyd Convers and Carolina do
Saussuro, all of Company It (and
probably It. B. Collier, of Company
C.) llolloman was in barracks,
Brown in the bake alio]), Convers
and de Saussuro in tin; guard house.
The two latter were in the sumo
detail, and had been relieved at
about 1 1 o'clock, do Saussuro on the
post, at the guard house, and Conyors
on No. 2, around the barracks
and facing the town, llolloman got
the party together. Convers and do
Saussuro slept on the same hunk in
the guard house, claiming that they
wanted to get under the mosquPo
net, and they had the trick of taking
their guns into the bunk instead of
placing them in tne open hick, on
the excuse that they didn't, rust so
badly under cover, but really ho the
absence of the guns from tlie open
guard house rack would not attract
attention, and their own absence
would be ascribed to a visit to the
closet, which was back of the guard
house. These two men slipped out
the rear door of the guard house,
passed through the sally port, and
joined Holloman and Brown.
Thp party crossed the wall of
the fort dowi. near the end of A
barracks, wont up the roadway t'.
the entrance to the Cowen alley,
where the signal shots were fired.
These shote were immediately tallied
onto by the alarm shots of
Joseph B. Howard, guard on No.
and formed the series testified to by
Mrs. Katie E. Leahy, of Brownsville.
nrr ifmiiimiiiy i hi i ip'i uuniu iiiii
by the statement that not over thirty
seconds elapsed before a number of
men of Company B swarmed out on
the upper gallery and opened a fusillade
on the town.
It Is an absolute certainty that it
would have been impossible for
Sergct. Jackson to have opened the
gun racks, for the men to have assembled.
secured their guns, loaded
them, gone out to tho gallery, an:l
started firing, all after the first shot
was fired, all around, as they testified
unanimously, from sound
slumber, in less than two minutes,
In the confusion of a dark barrack
room. Beyond the possibility of a
doubt, tho racks had been opened
and tho inside conspirators wera
rondv to pour out on the signal
shots. Tho testimony is ample that
there wore Bcarcely twenty second;
between the last of the signal shots
and the lirst general volley from It
i barracks.
The number firing from the barracks
is unknown, but perhaps
twenty men were involved. A smaller
number went to the ground and
followed the leaders up the alley.
It will be remembered that one of
the witnesses testified to hearing
some one of the group of soldiers
exclaim, "There they go!" Whereupon
these men leaped over the wa'l
and ran up the alley.
Boyed Conyers is the man whose
gun jammed at the exit of the alley
by the Cowen house, testified to by
Herbert Elkins, and it was taken
from him by de Saussure and fixed
in the street where the light from
the street lamp at the corner of
Elizabeth street shone on them.
Bess than five minutes elapsed
from the time the first shot was
fired until these men were all back
inside the fort.
Conyers stated that Reid was told
that they were going to shoot up the
town, and he had laughed and said.
lion l go oiii 111* i i ;i ii(i iol uie
crackers got tho best of you."
When Conyers and do Saussur?
readied the guard house they ran in
the hack way and got into their
hunks. Sergt. Heid came in and
swore at them, but Conyers was so
excited and out of breath that lie
could hardly stand, so Koid stationed
him at the rear of the guard house
in the dark, where lie could not be
scrutinized so closely.
Holloman came around with extra
cartridges about daybreak and Koid
passed them out. The guns were all
cleaned before daylight.
CUM IKS l\ TIIK riKD.MOXT.
Homicides in the t'p-Country Stiv
the I'eople.
Spartanburg, Doc. 10.?Daw-abi 1ing
citizens of this county and section
are worked up over a perfect
wave of crime that, has prevail.!,
during the last few days. The record
since Friday night is three
homicides, one murderous assault
and robbery and one stabbing that
is likely to prove fatal.
Ceorge Mint/, white, has been arrested
on charge of knocking Mrs.
Sallie C.rcen, who lives at Camp
obello, in the head with an axe and
robbing lur of The old lady
is not expected to live.
on Saturday nighr. Dump norroh,
colored. shot ami Iti 1 loci .less Leak,
also colored, at Switzer. Dorroh \v;o
arrested.
On Saturday night# Griff Parks
and a colored mail named Kilgore
became Involved in a quarrel ,n
Laurens county, .iust. across the
Spartanburg line. Parks shot ami
killed Kilgore.
Two white men, employed in construction
work on the 'Carolina,
Clinchflcld and Ohio, foil out about
some work and one man drew hiknife
and stabbed the other. The
injured man is expected to die.
On Saturday two white men employed
a t Leonard & P.oekinan's
camp en the O. C. and O.. engaged
In a quarrel and one killed the older
Mrs. Thomas, an aged lady of
this city, while walking through
Spring street, late on Saturday evening
after a shopping tour, was struck
down and robbed by a negro, who
made his escape.
One white man shot and killed
1 another over in Cherokee.
KKXATOK TIIjLM.W.
Senior Senator in His Scat for the
First Time.
Washington, Doc. 15.?Senator
Tillman was for the first time during
this session in his seat when the
senate opened up yesterday morning,
having reached here this morning.
The senator is looking well,
lie is just in time to get into the
great Panama serap which threatens
to materialize if the senate and
the country does not let President
Roosevelt bluff them out of doing
anything. Whether the senator will
take part depends, he says, upon
whether lie can find any rocks t)
t hrow.
n The Tree of the Cross.
The Golden Star looked down and
smiled
Upon the Virgin and her Child;
It spread its splendor like a crown
Upon the roofs of llethlehem town
(Oh, little tree! Oil, little tree!
Why semest thou in agony?)
The shepherds, lidding with their
sheep,
Hearkened, as men in happy sleep.
To strains celestial, while their eyes
Saw choiring hosts of Paradise.
(Oh, little tree! Oh, little tree!
Dost tnou behold a Cross to 1)0?)
Tho honored oxen, mute with awo,
Peeped them from out their stalls
and saw
The wise men lay at .Testis feet
Their unctuous oils and spices sweet,
((Th, little tree! Oh, little tree!
Does some one whisper "Calvary?"?
The world that night won its
release
, From death through Him, tho Prince
of Peace,
Who in the manger lay at rest
Upon his happy mother's breast.
(Oh, little tree! Oh, little tree!
Seems if that One is nailed on thee.)
? Sue M. Host in Llppincott's,
THE POPULAR VOTE
DEMOCRATS MADE BIG GAIN'S
OYER LAST ELECTION'.
Hearst's Independence I'urty Polled |
Thau One Hundred Thousand
Yotes iii Whole Country.
Now York, Dec. 15.?The total
popular vote of tlio various presidential
candidates at the last
election was made known today in
an ofllcial form by the filing of the
last of the official vote, that of Michigan.
The total shows the following
votok cast:
Taft, (Republican) 7,637,676
Bryan, (Democratic) .. ..6,393,182
Dobs. Socialist) 447,651
Chafin. (Prohibitionist) . 24 1,252
Hisgen, (Independent) .. 83,186
Watson, Populist) 33,871
(lilbaus, (Socialist Labor). 15,42 1
Total for all candidates. 1 4,852,239
This grand total exceeds by 1,341,53
1 the total number of votes cast
In the presidential election of 1904,
when the grand total was 13.510,708.
Compared with that election the*
candidates of the Republican, Rom
oeratlo and Socialist parties inrreas-]
od their vote this year. The reverse I
is true of the candidates of tiie Pro-I
hihitlon, Populist. and Socialist I
Labor parties. The Independent,
party did not figure in the presidential
election of four years ago.
The biggest difference in a party
is shown in an increase for P.ryan i
of 1,315,211, over the total vote
cast iti 11)0 4 for Alton P. Parker, the!
Democratic candidate. Taft recelv- J
ed 11,100 votes more It ban were]
pylled for President Rons* volt in I
1004, and Dehs ran 45,368 ahead
of his predecessor on the Socialist
tiel< et.
'Idio heavist loss is shown by the
Populist, who, with the same candidate.
registered 83,3 12 less this
year than in 1 004, when their total
was 117,183. The Prohibitionist
candidate, Ohafln, ran 17.281 votes
behind the 1004 mark of his party,
and (lilhaus, the Socialist Labor
candidate, received only about 50
per cent of the vote given to Corrigan,
which was 31,219, in the previous
presidential race.
The following is the vote received
bv P.ryan and Taft in each of the
Southern States:
State. Tnft. Prvau.
Alabama 25,308 -74,37 1
Arkansas 56,067 87,0 13
Florida 10,654 3 1,1 04
< Jeorgia 4 1,602 72,350
Kentucky 235.711 24 4.002
Louisiana 0.5 SO 6 3,568
Maryland 1 1 1,253 1 1 1.117
Mississippi 4.4 63 6 4,260
Missouri 346.915 345,834
North Carolina . .114.887 130.92s|
oiuanoma Iio.noo 123.90V
South Carolina .. 3.8-17 02.289
Tennessee 11S.2S7 130,630
Texas 69.229 227,26;
Virginia 0 2. a 7 2 8 2.916
Tho Socialist pc lied irt.;;9S vot's
in North Carolina. 21,702 in Oklahoma,
8.021 in Toxas. In no uthot
Southern State did tlmy poll over
0.000. In South Carolina they i
polled 101 votes.
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THOUSANDS KILLED AND Mil.LIONS
AHK LVJUKKD.
At-oKlcnlH Are Excessive, Says Bureau
of Ijabor, and llecord Con 11
In* Much Hotter.
Washington, Dec. l(j.?IdetwecV
30,000 and 35,000 deaths and 2,000,000
injured is the accident ree
ord in the United States during tlu
past year among worklnginen, according
to a bulletin on accidents
I issued by the bureau of Ubor.
Of those employed in the factories
and workshops it Is stated that probably
the most exposed class are t' e
workers in iron and steel. Fatal
accidents among electricians and
electric linemen and cola miners
are declared to be excessive, while
railway trainmen were killed In tin
proportion of 7.-1G deaths per 1,000
employees.
The bulletin declares that much
that could be done for the protection
of the workingmen is neglected
though many and far reaching mi
i provements have been introducted in
I factory practice during tho last decade.
It is pointed out that the possibilities
for snores. fu! accident pre'vention
have been clearly demonstrated
in the cxporienc of foreign
count rios.
"('.ranting," iho bulletin states
"that the underlying conditions in
Euro|?ean countries are often quit
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dust rial accidents may be the result
of Unoranec, reckless indifference,
or carelessness, the fact remains that
an immense amount of human lifj
is wasted and a vast amount of injury
is done to health and strength,
with resulting physical impairment,
which has a very considerable ecu
noinic value to the nation as a
w hole."
It. is insi = ted that it should not
he impossible to save at least onethird
and perhaps one-half by in
telligent and rational methods 'of
factory inspection, legislation and
control.
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Quit dieting. You don't have to
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Another Vessel Sighted.
Tho Hague, Deep 1.".?If. Is reported
hero that the Dutch warships, operating
on tho coast of Vonezueli
have captur'Ml another Venozue'an
coast guard vessel, known as "3
do Mayo." The Mayo's crow was:
landed on tho Von ?zuelan coast and
the vessel herself is proceeding to
Curacao in charge of a prize crew.
Hewitt's CJarholized Witch Ha el
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