The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 18, 1909, Image 4
A PRIEST SLAIN
In His Study at Newark, N. J, by
Assassins
SHOT AT WOMAN ALSO
Three Men Walk into Room of the
Rev. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot
Him to Death?l>end Priest llad
Ousted Several Trustees, Cuusing
Much Dissatisfaetion.
Newark, N. J., March 10.?Three
men whose features appear to have
been concealed by their heavy overcoats
and slouch hats, walked Into
the study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansion,
pastor of the Polish Church of
St. Stanislaus, this morning and
opened lire upon him. Three bullets
from their three revolvers hit the
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I' i noi, i\ i i i 111 ^ mill i imicili i.l J
The trio turned to make their escape
and found their way blocked
by Mrs. Antonio Sewrzytska, tho
housekeeper. One of tho visitors
turned his revolver upon her, inflicting
a wound which is likely to prove
fatal. Then all three made their escape.
Tho police were put to work on
tlve case within a few minutes of
the murder and by noon had
rounded up four suspects, one of
whom the housekeeper, now in St.
Harnasbas Hospital, thought bore a
resemblance to the lead'er of the trio
who had done tho shooting. Tho others
she was unable to identify. All
four denied any knowledge of the affair.
No adequate theory to account for
tho attack upon the priest has been
presented to the police. It was learned
that there has recently been considerable
factional trouble in the congregation,
and Father Ansion, when
he came from Paterson to take
charge of the church five months ago,
made several changes which are said
to have caused widespread dissatis
taction.
All the men arrested are members
of St. Stanislaus church, and the
police ordered the arrest of all the
former trustees, whom the dead
priest ousted when he took charge
of the parish.
The police tonight arrested three
men, suspects, all Poles, who reside
near the church. At the same time
it was announced that the belief was
growing that the priest's assassins
were not Newark men, although it
was thought that the murder has
boon planned here and that some of
those under arrest may he able to
shed light 011 these plans.
A crowd of 5,000 Poles gathered
early tonight in front of the rectory
In lvklnk *1. ~ ? 1 -- 'I-- *
>11 n mull n\y inu nuuy in inu inurtiered
priest, expressing their grief and
demanding to see the body. The
police succeeded in getting it under
control by promising to grant its demand.
Accordingly, a double line of
police was arrayed from the street
through the house, and for two hours
or more the Poles marched in single
file past tho casket i-n which the
body lay.
KNC1INK OF DESTRUCTION.
A New Torpedo That Can be Controlled
Perfectly.
Paris, March 14.?If all that is
claimed for the new radioautomatic
torpedo, built at the Creusot Works,
is true, it promises to prove the most
terrible engine of destruction that
the genius of man has yet invented.
This weapon of naval warfare can l.e
used against a ship of the enemy's
fleet In motion. There Is 110 escaping
it.
Tho radio-automatic torpedo is
'Con!rolled and directed by the employment
of Hertzian waves, and by
aid of an apparatus which differs
very little from that now used in
wireless telegraphy. When loaded,
it would contain 1,000 kilogrammes
of guncotton and about ten times
the fiilOhtity Ot' explosive charge of
the ordinary torpedo. Its apparatus
Is synchronized so as to receive the
Hertzian waves from the "parent"
ship or shore station, and to refuse
those emanating from the enemy.
It will be capable of maintains a
maximum speed of nearly fifteen
Knoia ror live noma.
One of the moat Important features
is the wide radius of its action.
From its starting point, the
operator, be ho on ship or shore,
can control its every movement, stop
it, send it dead slow ahead or astern,
and alter its course, with as much
case as if he were on board tho
deadly craft. The inventor is M.
Oustave Gavet, who has long devoted
himself to the study of the
problem, and of the science of naval
warfare.
Josh Ashley in Limbo.
Anderson, March 12.?J. W. Ashley,
a representative in the legislature
from Anderson county, came to
the city today from his home at
Honea Path and gave bond in the
amount of $1,000 for his appearance
before the United States Circuit
Court at Charleston on March 10
ta answer to the charge of peonage.
.
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SERIOUS GHARGES
SUPHKME OOUKT DECISION UPON
A WILL CASE
IlriiiKs Out Sonsutloiml Allegations
Against u Minister of the Cospcl
of Cluromlon County.
Columbia, March 13.?Tlie Record
Bays a decision was handed down in
the supreme court today on a Clarendon
county will caso of unusual
interest. The case is that of Helen
Tlndal, et al., against the Rev. Richard
A. Stublett, a Baptist clergyman,
and his wife, Laura A. Stublett.
The contest was over the possession
of a plantation in Clarendon county,
which, nof.yording to the evidence
quoted in the opinion, Mr. Sublett
Induced his aged mother-in-law, 89
years old, to deed to Mrs. Sublett
for $7,500, payable after the motherin-law's
death, without interest, although
tho circuit court jury which
tried the case found that the properly
was worth $15,000. The decision
is against Mr. Sublett, the
finding of the lower court including
mi. ouimuli a itiuuvui aa uaouiuui
and trustee.
Among others the following questions
put to the juiy at the trial
were answered "yes" in their verdict:
"Was Mrs. Sarah Tindal (the
mother-in-law) so enfeebled by old
age and physical infirmities that she
did not have mental capacity sufficient
to understand what she was
doing at the time of the execution of
the said deed?"
"Did the defendants exercise tindue
influence on Mrs. Sarah Tindal
and did they thereby obtain the execution
and delivery of said deed?"
It appears from the language of
the decision that Mr. Sublett removed
to Texas after marrying Miss
Laura Tindal, and aftorward removed
to Atlanta, and failing in his
profession as a minister, came back
to Clarendon county to live on the
home place with his mother-in-law
and her son, Ezra, to whom the
property was to go, under the will
of the older Tindal, at Mrs. Sarah
Tindal's death. A year leater Mr.
Ezra Tindal died, after which Mr.
Sublett took charge and managed the
piace as the agent of Mrs. Sarah Tindal.
"Soon after," the opinion says,
"on account of these new and unpleasant
relations, Ezra Tindal's
widow and her children left the
place," and then on investigation Mr.
Sublet discovered that the place never
did belong to Mr. Tindal, the
elder, but was Mrs. Tindal's, from
her father, Ezra Allen.
In 1908 Mr. Sublett prevailed upon
his mother-in-law, is is alleged,
to make a will dividing the place
into three equal parts, one-third to
the children of Mary Rembert, another
third to the children of Ezra
Tindal and the remaining third to
Mrs. Sublett, Mr. Sublett being made
executor and trustee, with authority
to sell without advertisement. "Strict
secrecy as to this will was enjoined
by U. A. Sublett." Shortly afterward,
It is further alleged, he prevailed
upon Mrs. Tindal to execute
a lease to Mrs. Sublett for eight
years at $100 a year. In 1904 she
made the deed of the place referred
to above and died the following year,
"the mortgage being witheld from
record for a considerable time."
Mr. Sublett is well known
throughout the State, both his own
family and that of his wife having
wide connections among prominent
people. For some time after giving
up resident pastoral work Mr.
Sublet conducted evongelical meetings
in different sections of the State.
His sons, Alvah T. Sublett and Hubert
Sublett, were athletic stars during
their career at Furman university
and tho former was assigned
the position of full-back on nearly
every All-Southern football team
chosen during the three seasons he
played intercollegiate ball. *
HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE.
Six People Are Hurt by Walls Falling
on Tlicm.
Spartanburg, March 12.?Property
valued at $65,000 was destroyed here
tonight by a fire in tho very center
of tho business section of the city,
when half the Cleveland building
A ? J .. cs?..?u nu 1. -i ? i
ni unni muiu uuu ouuill Vyll UI DII HH'tJI M
was completely gutted and other portions
of It considerably damaged.
The Harry Prince clothing firm
lost a stock of goods valued at $25,000,
and R. L. Bowden, the oldest
dry goods merchant in the city, sustained
a loss estimated at $20,000,
while the loss on the building will
probably exceed $20,000.
The building is owned by J. B.
and J. P. Cleveland and is fully
insured. Insurance so far reported
coverers only about half the value
of the stocks burned. In the course
or ino lire live nremen ana one Wofford
student were Injured by falling
walls.
Odd as It may seem, throe tongues
are required In hitching a span of
! horses to a wagon. -
FOUND GUILTY
AND SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
TKllM.
The Defendunt Killed Ills Frieud
While Riding in a Kuggy With Him
and Young I^ady.
Laurens, March 12.?Overruling a
motion for a new trial, Judge Prince
tills afternoon senteneprl vomitr Wu<l?
Cothrau Pinson to a term of two
years in the State penitentiary for
the killing of Thornwell Boyce. Counse
1 for the defense will carry the case
to the supreme court, pending which
Pinson is released on a bond of $ 1,000,
signed by his father and uncle.
The appeal will be based on alleged
errors 'u the rulings and charge of
the presiding judge. Young Plnson
received his sentence without any
change of expression, lie to all appearances
being unaffected.
At 9:55 this morning the jury,
after remaining out more than 10
hours, brought in a verdict of guilty
of manslaughter with recommendation
to the mercy of the court. Mr.
Cannon, for the defense, at once
gave notice of a motion for ji now
trial, which was heard later in the
day.
People generally were somewhat
surprised that a verdict had been
agreed upon, since the jury had stayed
out all night, thinking that the
outcome would be a mistrial. It
is thought that the verdict rendered
was a compromise, some of the jurors
holding for an acquittal and
some for plain manslaughter. However,
the general opinion was that
manslaughter would be the verdict.
Judge Prince charged the jury very
clearly on the points of law relating
to involuntary manslaughter, defining
the distinction between accident
and death resulting from an act in
itself wrong, or "malum in se." The
point that the jury had to decide
was whether or not the effort 011
the part of young Plnson, who was
trying to adjust his pistol, when the
fatal shot w]as fired, constituted
an unlawful act because of gross negligence,
or whether or not it was
the result of a wanton disregard for
human life.
The tragedy which culminated in
sending Cothran Pinson to the penitentiary
was enacted after the midnight
hour on the public highway,
four miles below the town of Cross
Hill, in Cross Hill Township. The
young man, Pinson, and the victim
of his deadly pistol, Thornwell Boyce,
accompanied by Miss Brown, all of
Cross 11111, was returning from an
entertainment given at the home of
Mrs. Eugene Leavell, who resides
just across the lino In Newberry
county. The principals, Boyce and
Pinson, worked in the same town as
salesmen, and were boon companins.
Mr. Boyce was a son of Capt. Martin
Boyce, decoased, one of the prominent
men of the county for many
years. The defendant is a son of Mr.
Enoch B. Pinson, a substantil citizen,
and connected with some of the
leading families of the county.
NEGROES NOT WANTED.
President Tuft Will Not Appoint
Tlieni to Office.
Chicago, March 12.?"The passing
of the professional Southern negro
politician as a Federal olllce holder
by right of color has been made an
j essential feature In the proposed
policies of President Taft," says the
Tribune today in a news article.
"Hereafter Southern White Republicans
will receive the utmost
consideration In tilling the 'big' places
in the Federal service below the
Mason and Dixon line. The places
which has been allotted to negro ReI
publicans as a matter of custom will
go to Northern negroes rather than
to Southern black men.
"News of this complete change in
the administration policy has arrived
in Chicago directly from the White
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BRAVE TRUCK DRIVER
i Dies After Saving Boy by Pulling
llis Team Aside.
New York, March 13.?John Vant,
a truck driver, is dead after having
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old boy who darted In front of his
horses in East Twenty-second street.
In an endeavor to turn tho team
aside Vant was thrown from his seat,
falling under the wheels of his truck
and being crushed. lie died two
hours later in the Bellevue hospital.
INJURED RY MOLTEN STEEL.
Three Fatally and Three Severely
Hurt in Explosion.
Cleveland. March 12. ? Thre?
workmen were fatally Injured and
three other employes seriously hurt
by an explosion at the open hearth
furnace of the American Steel &
Wire Company today. Water coming
In contact with the molten metal
caused the explosion and hot
metal was thrown on the workmen,
severely burning them. The building
was damaged.
\
TRAMPS RITUAL
AS RECITED BY ONE OF THE
TRIBE
In a Police Court, Where Ho Had
Been Carried to bo Tried for
Loaflng.
Question?Who comes here?
Answer?A poor worthless candidate
for charity, who begs to have
and receive part of the free lunch
r^P fl.lc. ?
vi tmo tv;w u| art IUI I't'^UUir
customers, as many thousand tramps
have done before me.
Q. How do you expect to gain the
rights and privileges?
A. By being a man too lazy to
| work, uot ashamed to beg, and under
the tongue of generally bad report,
Q. Where can this report bo had
| of you?
A. It is in the police reports, inebriate
asylums and at the cafes.
Q. From whence came you?
A. From a town in Texas called
Booze.
Q. Then you are a regular tramp,
I perceive?
a. i am so taken and arrested
wherever I go.
Q. How do you know you are a
regular tramp?
A. By being often arrested and
tried and never acquitted, and exj
pect to be arested, tried and convicted
again.
Q. . Where were you first preparj
ed to be a tramp?
A. In a small bar-room adjoining
my place of abode.
Q. How were you then prepared?
A. By being kicked and cuffed
around until divested of nearly all
my clothes, having been previously
deprived of all my money and diamons.
Q. What first induced you to beconio
a tramp?
A. That I might travel all over
the land and indulge my ravenous
appetite for beer, and sponge my living
from an easily humbugged public.
now am I to know you to be
a tramp?
A. By the size and laziness of my
feet, by signs, grips, and words.
Q. What are words?
A. Certain plausible tales that
will best Induce the lady of the house
to give iip her cakes and pies.
Q. What are signs?
A. Dirty face and hands, torn
and dirty clothes, with a bad limp
in either leg.
Q. What is grip?
A. A tight hold on anything portable
that may be turned into ready
cash.
Q. Will you give me a grip?
A. No, get some other fellow.
Q. How did you first gain admission
to this town?
A. By a good long tramp at 'low
twelve," the time when all policemen
are called from labor to refreshments.
Q. How were you received?
a. ny a cop just on the point
of taking a Manhattan eye-opener.
Q. What did he do with your?
A. He put me in a cooler in due
form.
Q. What was next done with you?
A. He conducted me around from
east to west to the court house, and
told me to stand erect and face the
public judge.
Q. What did the judge say to
you?
A. He told me to say my name,
promise to obey the law, after which
he ordered me to take a step to the
left and follow the cop to the place
from whence I came?the jail.
CONK MADE HEAR ADMIRAL.
He Distinguished Himself With the
Atlantic Fleet.
Washington, March 12.?Liuet.
Commander Hutchinson I. Cone has
been appointed head of the bureau of
steam engineering of the navy, with
the rank pay of rear admiral. He
especially distinguished himself by
safely taking the torpedo boat flotilla
rrom Newport News to San Francisco
in company with the Atlantic battleship
fleet and was fleet engineer
under Admiral Sperry during the
around-the-world cruise, assuming
that duty at San Francisco. *
Killed by An to.
New York, March 11.?Mrs. Leopold
Raumann, wife of a wealthy
New York furniture dealer, was
was struck and killed tonight by an
automobile owned by Holly C. Estee,
a flour merchanit. Mr. and Mrs.
Estee with a party of friends were
in the car at the time.
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