The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 18, 1909, Image 5
HELD UP TRAIN
Thru Daring Robbers Secured
Thirty Five Thoisaig Dollars
f CAREFULLY PLANNED
Most Successfully Carried Out,
as the Indications Are That the
Desperadoes Had Prepared 10very
tiling With Cunning and Careful
Foresight to Illlle the Mail Car.
Denver, Feb. 13.?A holdup of the
Dearer & Rio Grande passenger train
No. 4, near Denver, earl^this morning
\Vas the work of three instead of
two robbers, as at llrst was believed,
and the robbery of the mail car
gave them a loot of possibly $3 5,000.
This is indicated by the invest i?a
Hon of the police and railroad officials
today. So far no tangible
clew to the identity or whereabouts
of the robbers has been found, but
it seems probable that the men came
to Denver and are now hiding in this
city.
Eighteen packages^' of registered
mail were secured.
The robbery was re^mrkable for
its originality and daring. It took
place within eight miles of Denver,
within less than two miles of Fort
Logan, the United States military
reservation, and af1 the spot where
habitations are plentiful. Yet so
thorough was the ffVork of the robbers
and so well!were their plans
laid that they hrd fully an hour
and a half start of the officers.
Search of the vicinity of the holdup
indicated that a third man and
possibly a fourth, were engaged in
tlie robbery, that a rubber-tired buggy
was in waiting for the actual
holdup men and that torpedo and red
signal fires were, used unsuccessfully
in an attempt to stop the train before
the automatic revolvers of the two
men on the engine tender succeeded
in doing so.
Amid a fusillade of revolver shots
from one of tile?robbers, another
forced the mail clerk to open the
door of his car. The second robber
then cooly searched every piece of
registered mail in the car, threw the
nasckairos ht> desired Into m snok
and jumped off. At the points of
revolvers the engineer, fireman, baggageman
and mail clerks, were
marched up the track a distance,
then told to get back to their train.
fcTho robber; then disappeared with
-booty.
ArmJBhfcaKjVs'*' of deputies and
squads of regular soldiers from Fort
Logan and police are searching tlie
country around Fort Logan and the
foot hills in search of the two bandits,
but no trace of them has been
four.d. *
Mix SHOT DOWN"
And KilhJl in the Streets of Charlotte
Tuesday.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 0.?J. G.
Hood, for many years prominent in
business here, was shot through the
head three times this morning by
W. S. Riggers, a farmer.B Riggers
overtook Hood in front of the Central
hotel and fired four shots at
close range. One ball pased through
the hotel bus, missing the driver's
head by six inches, it is understood
that Riggers claimed he had been
swindled out of money in business
transactions. Roth men has families.
EXPLODED DVXAMITE
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In His Pocket aiul Dlel'Vrom Injury
Received.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 8.?Herbert
Fisher, aged 13 years, of Sparks
Gap, south of Birmingham, is dead
as a result of exploding a dynamite
cap which he had in his pocket.
Tho little fellow did not know
what he had and was knocking it
whon the explosion followed. The
boy's arm and hip were torn from
the body and death was instantaneous.
TARIFF ON PAPER.
Special Committee of House Wants
It Reduced.
Washington, Feb. 12.?The special
committee on pulp and paper investigation
consisting of Messrs. Mann,
Stafford, Banon, Sims and Ryan, mot
this morning and agred to recommend
a material reduction in the
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mini. oil grouuu wuuu uuuci
conditions as would put on the free
list pulp wood and ground wood
pulp Imported from Canada.
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MURDERER LYNCHED.
NK(JRO WHO nonilKl) AND KILL-1
Kl> MINISTER
At Houston, Miss., Several Days
A^o, Taken From .lull and Hanged
After lie Confessed.
Houston, Miss., Feb. 8.?Roby
Haskln, the eighteen-year-old negro
under arrest here, has confessed to
I the murder nf lir vv t
w. . If | 1 I 1 1 UU OU 11 ,
in Moore's Grove, near this town,
Saturday morning. Ho says he shot
Dr. Hudson because ho had robbed
him, and then decided to got him
out of the way. The governor ordered
out a company of militia to
protect the negro, but later canI
celled the order when he found out
I that there was no danger of a
lynching.
I Houston, Miss., Feb. 0. ? Roby
Baskin, murderer of the Rev. \V. T.
Hudson, was lynched by a mob here
this afternoon. A crowd of over 300
determined citizens took him from
the jail and hanged him to a nearby
tree. Not a shot was tired, and
whole proceeding was conducted quietly.
Sheriff Dean, of Okolona, arrived
just as the negro breathed his last.
Leaders of the mob said the negro
had not been given a speedy trial as
promised, and that they could not
bo blamed for taking justice into
their own hands.
TIip nrlsniuii' -- ??? *
- >uv?> i ii (in nri/icil ? lllUHU
resistance and accepted his faie as
a matter of course, sullen and without
a word of entreaty or prayer,
lie was hanged from an elm tree
within two hundred yards of the
county jail.
The representatives of the sheriff
here dec la' ul they considered their
action in surrendering the negro, in
view of the refusal of the court
to call a special term, justified in the
interest of law and order. Should
their action be criticised they declare
they will resign.
According to Raskin's confession
he first robbed and, in fear that he
would be arrested for the robbery,
shot and killed the minister, throwing
his body into a pond where it
was found by searchers.
KILLS SELF AM) WIFE.
.Man Gets Drunk and Commits the
Terrible Crime.
New Castle, Pa., Feb. 10.?Peter
Cupps and his wife were found dead
in their home tonight when neighbors
arrived in response to cries for
help of Cupp's stepson, Clyde Warneck,
who ran front the house with
blood streaming from a wound in I
his shoulder.
Mrs. Cupps was seated in a rocking
chair with a bullet hole in her
forehead. Cupps was on a couch i't
an adjoining room, shot above the
right eye, while his fingers still
| clutched a revolver. Warneck stated
that when he returned home from
work Cupps was intoxicated and
quarrelling with his wife. lie says
he interfered to protect his mother,
whereupon Cupps shot him
through the shoulder.
After he ran from the house he
says he heard two shots. Cupps
was present was GO years old. and
according to the stepson, frequently
quarrelled with his uife. Warneck
is expected to recover.
VALUAHLE MATTRESS.
Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Found
Sewed In One.
Lockport, N. Y., Feb. 9.?More
than $50,000 in cash has been found
In a mattress on the bod of James
Mahar, a civil war veteran, who died
hero on Saturday. His two sons,
James and Lawrence, will inherit
the money. The old soldier, who
died in his seventy-first year, had
been a prisoner at Andersonville
during the civil war and drew a government
pension. He had been ill
for fourteen years and during all
that time did not leave his room.
His pension money, together with
a large part of his life savings, he
had placed carefully in the mattress.
Danger Point Passed.
Washington, Feb. 10.?The President
today in talks with visitors expressed
the belief that the danger
of rupture with Japan was practically
over. Many think the war
scare all a hoax.
Theatres Corrupt.
New York, Feb. 8.?"The stage
is worse today than it was in the
days of Paganism," said Archbishop
Farely, in his sermon in St. Patrick's
cathedral yesteray.
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SOME WAR TALK
Russia Getting Ready to Give
Japan a Thrashing.
WILL EVEN UP SCORES
J Such Is the I*rediction of Congressman
MoKinluy, of California, Ad[
mirul ltoblcy 1). Kvans and Wilj
liam T. Snead, One of Knglaiid's
Greatest Editors, Who Is Here.
Washington, Feb. 11.?Recently
a single issue of a Washington news*
paper contained statements from
three eminent men, concerning directly
and indirectly the present roJ
lations between this country and Japan,
which are of much significance.
In a speech delivered in Washington
Saturday night. Representa
tive William S. Mf'Kinlay, of California,
defended the right of his State
to regulate its own Local affairs,
and made use of the following language
with reference to the relations
between Japan and the United
States:
"The question of war is idle.
Among those who really know conditions
in the far East, the concensus
of opinion is this: Japan has
only ended a preliminary skirmish
with Russia. The Russian defeat
is not ultimate.. Today Russia is
double-tracking the railroad whose
ridiculous inadequacy led to her humiliation.
She is preparing to protect
her frontier, is making up to
the present peace of civilization, and
has not turned her face from the
goal sot by Peter the Great.
"If Japan should turn for a moment
to engage in warfare with a
second, or even a third rate, power,
Russia would be at her throat. The
statesmen of Japan know this phase
of the question so much better than
we do that it is ridiculous to discuss
it.
"Fighting Rob's" Opinion.
The same issues of the newspapers
which reported Mr. McKinI
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!??,> ft spi't'cn carried an Associated
i Press dispatch reading as follows:
Chicago, Feb. 6.?"A few days
ago, when the Russian government
floated a loan of $250,000,000,
which was subscribed thirty times
over, that was Russia's notice to
Japan 'To get ready for war, and
stay ready, for I am going to lick
you.' "
Rear Admiral Robley I). Evans,
seated in his apartments in the Auditorium
Annex, tonight made this
statement:
"And what is more," added the
admiral, "Japan herself recognizes
and realizes the position in which
she is placed. The hand-writing is
plain. Japan can read."
A number of other predictions, of
international import, viewed from
the standpoint of "Rob" Evans, did
the admiral make. Rrieily summerized,
they are as follows:
The United States will have no
trouble with Japan, neither will
rmgiana. When the next RussoJapanese
war does come Germany,
France and Austria will espouse the
cause of the Russian. England will
find herself allied with Japan by virtue
of existing treaties. What the
result of it all will be no man can
foresee.
"Japan cannot go on at the rate
that she is spending money now,"
he continued. "It is out of the
question. Japan recognizes that a
conflict with Russia is inevitable,
and the government is straining every
nerve, exhausting every effort
to put itself in a state of preparedness."
W. T. Stead's View.
The third statement appearing
contemparaneously with the two
above quoted is from the pen of
William T. Stead, the great English
journalist. While it makes no direct
reference to Japan or her relations
with the United States, it is
significant that his remarks bear
out what Mr. McKlnlay and Admiral
Evans say concerning Russia. Mr.
Stead says:
"The great fact which ought to
command universal attention is
overlooked. It is the coming of the
Slav Into his kingdom, a fact compared
with which the fortunes of
kings and emperors are as dust in
the balance. The proposed annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
the Austro-IIungarlan empire is but
one of the signs of the ripening of
the Slavonic question, the gradual
emergence of the Slavs from the position
of subordination and political
1 aormam nn/l (ViaIk ""
i w* ?v?v/?ii mtau viivii uniaui i o ii iii*?ii i tt3
i i the predominant race in the heart
? of Europe.
i "Of all the great races of Europe
I tho Slavs have received the fewest
' favors from the fates. Providence
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)W TO
AID FOR A BOAT
THAT LAY HELPLESS OFF CAPE
HATTKKES8
Summoned by Wlwless, and Boven
Shifts llnston to Aid a Distressed
llarkentine.
Now York, Feb. 11.?Thanks to
a wireless summons sent by the
steamer El Norte of the Southern
Pacitlc Steamship Company, six oc!
eau-going vessels and the revenue
cutter Onondaga are keeping more or
less distant watch tonight on the
barkentine Matahzas, bound for
Philadelphia from Fernandina, and
sighted 12 miles southeast, of the
Diamond Shoals lightship, flying signals
of distress In a northeast gale.
The El Norte came up with the
barkentine yesterday and stood t?v
her until daylight, while the crew
jettisoned her cargo of lumber.
A wireless message sent by the
101 Norte to owners of the Matanzas
here apprised them of the plight of
the barkentine. A similar message
sent to the four winds was picked
up by the steamer Com us of the Southern
Pacific Steamship Company,
which hastened to the assistance of
the disabled ship. The 101 Norte
then proceeded upon assurance from
the captain of the Matanzas that he
could keep his vessel ntloat.
When the Comus came up with
the barkentine a few hours later the
water was gaining on the men at
the pumps at the rate of a foot an
hour, and her captain decided to
stand by. A wireless message sent
by him to the liatleras station and
out to sea a thousand miles brought
the steamer Larjtner of the .1. M.
Ctiiffey Petroleum Company to the
scene and the two vessels stood
guard over the little sinking craft
until 5 o'clock this afternoon when
she was reported 43 miles northeast
of the Diamond Shoals lightship.
The Larime then proceeded, leaving
the Comus on guard.
The Comus and the Capo Hatteras
station are in wireless communication
with the revenue cutter Onondaga,
which is hurrying to the assistance
of the Matanzas and with
the Prince Eitel Frederick of the
| Hamburg-American line en route
from Jamaica to New York; the Comaijchte
of the Clyde line, on her
way from New York to Jacksonville;
ih^ Seminole of the Clyde line,
bopnd from Turk's Island to New
York, and the Lampasas of the Mailory
line, out from New York for
Tampa, so that the hnrlrnnt Inn mill
not want for assistance should it be
needed.
ATLANTA HAS lilG SCANDAL.
I Wealthy Ileal Estate Mail's Wife ami
Hoarding House Mistress l ight.
Atlanta, Feb. 12.?The announcement
by Mrs. Evelyn Jarrell that she
will probably sue her husband, W. A.
Jarrell, the real estate man, for divorce
on account of his alleged intimacy
with Mrs. M. C. Evans, 25 years
old, a former boarding house keeper;
the arrest of Mrs. Evans on a
charge of disorderly and immoral
conduct, and an order by Recorder
llroyles that Jarrell be arrested on
the same charge are a few of the
most startling developments of a personal
encounter between Mrs. Jarrell
and Mrs. Evans in the lobby of
a theatre Wednesday night of this
week. Mr. Jarrell and Mrs. Evans
had attended the play and Mrs. Jerrell,
disguised, had followed them. *
A YOUNG SUICIDE.
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Eight-Year-Old Girl Takes Her Own
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Ijife.
Pittsburg, Feb. 8.?Word was received
here today from Bolivar, Pa.,
of the suicide there last night of
May Estella, eight years old. The
child's mother died some time ago
and she has since been caring for
I
j two younger children. Sunday night
tlie child said to her father: "Papa,
I am going to shoot." Before he
had time to realize the meaning of
the words, the girl fired a bullet
into her right temple.
has been to them a cruel step mother.
"From century to century thoy
have been the prey of conquerors,
European and Asiatic. When, as in
Russia, they were able to assent
their independence of Tartar and
Turk, they could only do &o by submitting
to an autocrat whoso yoke
j was seldom easy and whoso burden
i ; was never light. But for this Cin,
: der.ella of Europe the light is rising
I in the darkness and there are not
lacking signs that in the future the
, despised kitchen maid mav vet ho
>,the belle of the ball."
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A BOLD HOLD UP
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IN THK CITY OF UltKENVIMiE
LAST WEEK.
There Wort* Two Highwaymen md
They <jot the Sum of One Hundred
I>ollarH.
Greenville, Fob. 12.?The News
says two masked men held up Messrs.
Ell Kantor and A. Baron on Towues
street Wednesday night and took the
sum of $100 from the latter. The
hold-up occurred between the residence
of Mr. Tom Sloan and that of
Sheriff Poole about 7:30 o'clock,
but the fact did not become generally
known until yesterday as the ofllcers
desired that it be kept from
the public for a time.
Messrs. Kantor and Baron were
together and tho latter had $10i)
In his trousers' pocket and $200 in
ills watch pocket. The money in
the watch pocket was not taken, the
highwaymen forgetting to look in
it. A gun was taken off of tho victim's
person and Messrs. Huron and
Kantor were then told to beat a
hasty retreat up tho hill. This
they did.
Sheriff I'oole was notified of the
hold-up and he at once notified his
deputy, Mr. .1. S. llunsinger. The
search for the highwaymen was
continued until late in the night, hut
no arrests were made. Deputy Sheriff
llunsinger stated last night that
they thought they had the right man
spotted and that there would probably
be some developments shortly.
The two men were masked and
Messrs. Uaron and Kan tor are therefore
unable to give any description
of them. The officers have a clue,
however, which will lead to their
detention in all probability.
Messrs. Kantor and Haron noticed
the highwaymen some feet ahead
of them but did not pay any special
attention to them until a gun was
thrown in their faces and they were
ordered to throw up their hands,
which they did. Both were taken
completely by surprise. Mr. Kantor
did not have any money on his perso
n.
A passer-by was ordered to get
on up the street and that quick.
He complied with the orders of the
highwaymen. After having secured
all of the booty they could And the
same order was given Messrs. Kantor
and Haron. One of these asked
the highwaymen which way they
wished them to go and the reply was
"up the hill.' These gentlemen carried
out instructions and hence did
not see which way the robbers re
treated.
The robbery was 0110 of the boldest
committed In this city in many
years and every effort will he made
to locate the guilty parties. The
officers hope to catch them and make
an example of them so that there
will be no more robberies of this
kind in the city.
Just why the officers wished to I
keep the affair a secret is hard to
conjecture, but no 'publicity was
given it until yesterday. The news,
once started, soon spread all over
the city and was a topic of general
conversation all day. Mr. Baron
is the proprietor of a pawn shop
on Main street. *
GOT MOW IJOWIOK LIP.
Heinat'kable Skin Grafting Operation
On a Young Boy.
Charlottesville, Feb. 12.?A remarkable
skin grafting operation recently
successfully performed at the
University of Virginia hospital, has
given to William Jones, a ten-yearold
boy of Rio, this county, an entire
new lower lip.
The boy had his lip shot away
last September by the accidental discharging
of a gun. Yesterday ho
returned to his home with a new
lip that will answer every purpose.
Dr. H. S. Watts, of the University
hospital, first transplanted a flap of
skin from the abdominal wall of tho
patient to the forearm. After growing
to the forearm it was brought
up and attached to tho face and,
after remaining there about two
weeks to secure a blod supply, was
cut off from tho arm and molded
into position. ?
NEW TRIAL REFUSED JONES.
Sentenced to tlio 1'cnltentiary for
Life by the Judge.
Union, Feb. 12.?W. T. Jones was
refused a new trial after many hours'
argument. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Judge Memmlnger,
in passing sentence, told tho prisoner
he had better tako tho term, for ii
granted a new trial he believed h<
would be hanged. Jones is a verj
rich man, but his money won't sav<
him from deserved punishment a
the hands of the law. ?
RRY HE
JERSEY FIENDS
Roast a Man Alive on the School
Grounds
USED OIL ON VICTIM
The I'life? I in# WreUln's Hound and
Hugged tlic Cnfortunato Man and
Tlwl Hint Over a llontlro and
ltoUvSted llim to Death, and
Charred ltody Found.
New York, Feb. 12.?Hound with
ropes hand and foot and stretched
over a lire built on the grounds of
the Hazel avenue public school In
West Orange, an unknown man was
burned to death some time this
morning before the break of day.
The charred fragments of tho body
were found on tin4 lawn of tho school
early this morning by Samuel Salinardo,
a laborer employed in a quarry
near West Orange. At the sight
of the ghastly traces of the crime,
Salinardo, a superstitious Italian,
ran screaming to tho nearest house
and in this way had the polico informed
of what he had discovered.
The grass and a lot of brush under
the body?or what was left of
the body?were burned to carbon.
At one side was a new two-gallon oil
can and some old newspapers.
Chief of Police Danford, of the
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>> f?L vsraiigo rorce, llII 1*1*it??I to tho
school house grounds with all of
his available men and made a minute
study of t ho affair in tho hope
of getting a clue.
The victim of this most awful
of murders was a man apparently
about forty-five years of age. /V
little hair was left on tho head and
it showed red and long. He was
about five feet, ten inches in height
and had been strong of statue.
Tho only part of the clothes unconsented
by the fire were the legs
of the trousers. They were of blue
cloth of good texture. Tho shoes
were in good condition.
Near the body were tho charred
pieces of rope and the most awful
of all tho ghastly details was Immediately
noticed by the- police?the
man had struggled front the tire and
had rolled away front it in his last
moments of agony.
There wore every evidence that he
had come to consciousness toward
the end and had made one desperate
and futile effort to escape his terrible
fate. Who the victim is the
police have no idea.
What manner of criminal would
pick out the lawn of a school house
on which to build a pyre for a living
man the police cannot conceive.
The spot chosen for tho deed was
only about 200 feet from tho uniiAni
building and about 300 feet from a
row of fine family houses.
It is believed that the victim of
this crime was either struck on the
head and made unconsious or was
gagged before being stretched on
the fire. Had lie cried out for help
liis cries would have been heard in
the nearby houses, but so far as
the polico now know no one heard
an outcry.
The police said today that the
murder was done between 1:30 and
f?:30 in the morning. During theso
hours the nearest quarry works are
closed and the neighborhood is deserted.
electokal vote counted.
I art and Sherman Declared President
and Vice-President.
Washington, Feb. 10.?With sim.
pie but Impressive ceremonies, the
counting of the electoral voto for
President and Vice-President occurred
today at a joint session of tho
Senate and House of Representatives,
held In tho chamber of the lower
body. William II. Taft, of Ohio,
and James S. Sherman, of New York,
were officially declared to bo tho
choice of tho people for tho term
beginning March 4 next. The count
consumed exactly forty minutes.
CONVICTED OF MURDER
Voting White Man Uoen to Penitentiary
for Life.
Columbus, Feb. 12.?The jury In
the case of C. R. Smith, charged with
' the murder of E. A. Laurent at Ari
tosia, Miss., several weeks ago today
brought in a verdict of murder in
! the first degree. The jury made a
> recommendation to mercy. Under
' the verdict the court wll be compell3
ed to send Smith to the penitentiary
t for life. The defense gave notice
' of a motion for a new trial.
RALD