The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 25, 1909, Image 3
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| T lie ^ fi n est
Royal is the
MAN STEALS BOY
And Holds Him For Ten Thousand
Dollar Ransom
FATHER WILL COMPLY
The I>nd Is a Soil of Attorney Wliitla,
of Sharon, l'a., and Was Taken
From School by a Stranger?The
Hoy's Hat Found in a Buggy in
Oliio.
Sharon, Pa., March IS.?Ten
thousand dollars ransom is demanded
for the return of William Wliitla,
Attorney James P. Whitla's eightyear-old
boy, who was spirited away
from school here this morning by
an unknown man, furnishing a mystery
which the detectives of the county
are being asked to solve. Accompanying
the demand for ransom
is t? covert threat that the boy will
be killed unless the money is produced.
Hundreds of telegrams and telephone
messages have been sent to
the police of various cities asking
their assistance in the search for
the boy and his abductors. The first
fruit of these came tonight when
Chief of Police Crain, of this city,
received word that a rig, in which
tne lad had been taken away, had
been recovered at Warren, O., with
the child's hat on the seat of tho
buggy.
At 9:30 o'clock this morning a
stranger drove up to the east ward
school house, where young Whit la
is a pupil in Room No. 2, and told
the janitor, Wesley Sloss, the lad
was wanted at once at his father's
oitlce. Sloss conveyed the message
to Mrs. Anna Lewis, the boy's teacher,
who dismissed the child. As she
was helping him put on his overcoat,
she remarked, half jokingly, "I hope
that man does not kidnap Willie."
The man in the buggy had a dark
complexion, dark hair and a stubby
mustache. He was stockily built.
He spoke excellent English and was
evidently American-born.
When Sloss appeared with the boy,
the stranger smiled and helped him
up to the seat beside him. He then
drove off in the direction of Mr.
Whitla's oflice. Several persons to
night say a confederate joined the
kidnapper before he had left town.
Little was thought of the incident,
and there was no belief thai a crime
had beeiwcommitted until the lad
failed ^Pwppear for his noon da>
meal. Becoming worried, Mrs
Whitla began a search, and at the
school she learned of what had occurred
there three hours before.
At 1 o'clock a letter directed to thi
mother, was delivered to the house
by a mail carrier. Mrs. Whitla ai
once recognized the handwriting or
the envelope as that of her son
Opening it she found the following
communication written in a Strang*
hand.
"We have your boy and will re
turn him for $10,000. Will see youi
advei^MUient. in the papers. In
sert i^^Wdlanapolis News, Cleveland
Press, Pittsburg Dispatch, Youngs
town Vindicator: 'A. A.?Will dc
as requested, .7. P. \VV Dead boys
are riot desirable."
The penmanship and spelling o!
the note indicated it had been writter
by a man of fair education. Mr
W'hitla decided to comply with th<
conditions of the letter, and sent foi
publication to each of the newspapers
specified the note it directed him t<
insert.
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Some of the gentlemen who pre
side over the finances of Uncle San
make great names as financiers, bu
there is many a mother who finance,
the expenses of a large family 01
the earni'^p of an industrious hus
band who does not earn more th*'
forty dollars a month that can teacl
some of the great financiers lesson
in finance they never dreamed of.
Many a man's cowardice has kep
him from getting in bad.
Everybody i3 on the job when i
comes to knocking a kicker.
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OOL
, most tasteful and
biscuit, cake and paside
with Royal Bakand
not otherwise.
i only Baking Powder
made from
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JURY SHED TEARS
SENSATIONAL MUltDER TRIAL
ENDS IN CHICAGO.
Defense Was an Alibi?.Jury Took
Rut One Rullot?Women Spectators
Hysterical.
Chicago, March 18.?Luman C.
Mann, was today declared not guilty
of the murder of Mrs. Frances Gilinore
Thompson.
Several members of the jury shed
tears when Mann, between choking
sobs, thanked them and promised to
1 -1 ? 1. ~ A A 1 : r^ A A 4 T.1 ..1,
icuu <t ut-Lifi niu. Auurucy ii#rustein,
who defended the case, was
fairly mobbed by dozens of weaping
women, who have been constant attendants
at the trial, and who insisted
upon kissing him.
The evidence against Mann was
circumstantial; his defence an alibi.
The jury took but one ballot.
With the words "not guilty" from
the lips of the foreman, the scene
in court became one of excitement
bordering on hysteria.
"I've been a bad man, but years
from now you will hear of me as
nil honest citizen,' Mann said in
thanking the jury. Tears were roiling
down his cheeks and his sobs
made it almost impossible for him
to speak.
"We knew you were innocent,"
said one of the jurors, his tears
flowing freely. Other jurors furitively
applied handkerchiefs to their
eyes as Mann returned to his mother,
throwing his arms about her neck
and crying like a child.
Under cross examination the dedendant
was compelled to relate a
sorrow story at which his mother
hung her head. lie told of drinking
bouts, during one of which he spent
$1,000 In a single night of gambling
I and of low associates.
Fanny Thompson, bound, gagged
and the finger marks of a stranglor
on her throat was found dead in a
rooming house at 1 242 Michigan
avenue, July 1st last. She had
been dead four days, and this period
Mann was compelled to cover in
minute detail to establish his alibi.
Besides himself, he produced more
than a score of witnesses.
The evidence against him consisted
chiefly of his acquaintance with
Mrs. Thompson, when she was a servant
in his father's house, the fact
that he wore a cap similar to the
one which Mrs. Hamilton, keeper of
the rooming house, said was worn
by the man who accompanied Mrs.
Thompson to the house, and a state,
ment made to his sister prior to the
f* r\ e\ %r h n f B /\ "lr tt /vnf n nr n ti
II UgUUj I 11 <1 L UU l\ I1C>Y (V ? Ullld II
r whose diamonds he would got if
ho had to choke her." This state,
mont Mann explained on the stand
was purely a thoughtless jest made
in the course of conversation in a
, light vein.
I TIED AGENT TO TRACK.
i
Was Liberated by Man Just Before
[
> Train Passed.
Roxie, Miss, March 18.?Ropes
r which bound Agent Shingleton, ol
- the Mississippi Central Railroad tc
1 the tracks over which a train was
- soon to pass last night were cut by
> a man who found him as the rumble
i of the locomotive was heard in the
distance. He had been knocked in
f the head and tied to the track by
l negroes who attempted to rob the
. depot.
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CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS.
3
' Though Pistol Was Unloaded and
Killed a Man.
1 Spartanburg, March 17.?While
t fooling with a pistol supposed to be
? unloaded, Sam James shot Perrj
i bolster, his brother-in-law, at Green
- this morning. James was tryinp
i to clean an old pistol and boistei
i was sitting in a chair watching him
s The pistol went off accidentally, the
ball entering bolster's forehead, pen<
etrating the brain and causing in
t stant death. James is prostrated
with grief.
t Men are never greatly moved bj
those truths they fully comprehend
THE OPIUM tATtR
THE MORAL RESI'LTS OE THIS
TERRIBLE HABIT.
A Word of Encouragement to Those
|
Mho May Have Acquired the Awful
Habit.
The name of Charles Dickens must
ever awaken a tender chord in the
hearts of the millions who love his ,
memory and who appreciate the efforts
so apparent in his writings for
the good of all humanity. in the
work upon which he was engaged
when that great . event occurred !
which touched as with an electric!
shock, the length and breadth of '
two continents, he gives to the world
an awful and direct warning against
the rapidly increasing vice of the
Opium habit. Whether from some
peculiar circumstances the attention
of this great and good man had been
recently and forcibly drawn in this !
direction we cannot know, but who
that has intelligently read the fragmentary
history of "Edwin Drood" I
can fail to see the writer's purpose in j
showing us, through the carefully j
drawn character of John Jasper, the i
fearful consequences of an indul- j
gence in this body and soul-destroy- i
ing practice.
Married from early manhood, for j
he was but twenty-six years of age i
when he was lirst introduced to the
reader, and, so far us his history
is given us, totally wrecked at last,
we see in vivid coloring the gradual
demoralization of an immortal be
ing, gifted in person and mind to
a great degree, Dickens has lain
for long years in his silent tomb
within the sacred precincts of Westminister
Abbey, but "being dead, he
yet speaketh," and through the magic
pages of the "Mystery of Edwin
Drood," he calls to you today, oh!
sad and suffering humanity of this
atllictod class, chained down by a
servitude far more galling (in that
it endures through all the eternal
years) than that which fettered the
hapless serf of l'oboeski.
The process of demoralization may
be a very gradual one; it. differs
widely in different temperaments and
with different constitutions, but none
the less is it sure and inevitable.
Jasper was a gentleman by birth and
educated, endowed with the heavenborn
gift of a rare musical genius;
his profession was that of chorister
in the Cathedral of Clolsterham. His
daily associates were men and women
of culture and refinement, yet
John Jasper could so degrade himself
that he sought out and then frequented
a low den in it filthy and
obscure back alley of London, there
to mingle In closest contact with
the coarse, the obscene and the vile
from all races on earth, smoking
even the same pipe with the priestess
of this Black Art, a miserable old
hag.
We are told, furthermore, in this
sad history of John Jasper, that
the ovil effects of his vice were not
confined to himself alone. Physically
and mentally his agonies were
appalling. Who can read of them
without a shudder? But poor, besotted
slave as he was, he contrived,
while under the excitement of
a powerful dose of the deadly drug,
to work a terrible wrong, to blight
the happiness of those who were his
best friends (even to attempt the
ruin of his only blood relation), the
man who had the misfortune to be
his nephew and ward. He became
a curse to all with whom he was
thrown in contact. The moral of
his nature entirely perverted, he
viewed things through a false medium,
was utterly unprincipled, unscrupulous,
restrained neither by fear
of man nor reverence for his God.
At the point where this story leaves
1 us, Jasper was an insane man. The
confirmed devotee to the Opium habit
cannot be a perfectly sane person,
The distorted visions supplant truth
and reality, and the strongest power
, and tenacious clutch. Here we are
forced to leave the miserable victim
of a fatal vice. What his end would
have been had the 'lamented dead'
lived to depict it, we can readily
conjecture. But let us turn now
> from this character of fiction to deal
5 with startling facts that lie before
r us. It has been ascertained by care>
fully prepared statistics that the
> amount of opium brought to the
i United States is ten times greater
' than it was thirty years ago; one
third of it is computed to be used
for medical purposes. What becomes
of the balance?
Is is not a subject calculated to
occasion alarm for the future mental
I and physical strength of our people?
Among the victims of this dire disease
are men and women of all classes?professional
characters of high'
est ability, writers, artists, lawyers,
5 physicians, ministers. Ah, little
r does this world suspect how often
\ the thrilling poem, the soul-stirring
; and eloquent address, the melting
' sermon, is the result of a powerful
. exciting does of Opium in some one
5 oi us many iorms. un, ine pressing
- necessity for a crusade more effec
tive than the first, so great as tc
I numbers and so powerful as an organization
that it will seize and drag
before the public gaze this terribl<
! vice with its Mephistophelian charms
. Oh! men and women with immorta
DON'T WANT THLM
TIIK NOKTHKItN PKOPLK OIMKCT
TO NKGllO TKOOP8.
There linn llcvii Trouble at Sackct
Harbor, New York, \\* it It a Color*
ed Itegimeiit.
Washington, March 16.?The colored
troops seem to be as unpopular
in the Northern section of the United
States as they were down at Brownsville,
on the ltio Grande. The Army
and N'avv Journal savs;
"Owing to many complaints against
some of the* colored soldiers of the
24th United States Infantry by citizens
of Sacket Harbor, N. Y., Col.
William Paulding, commanding the
regiment which is on duty at Madison
Barracks, issued an order on
February 2 7 forbidding the enlisted
men from entering that village without
first having secured a pass.
"A reward of $100 has been raised
by the members of the regiment
for the capture of the assailant of
Hdith Gambley, providing lie proves
to be a member of the regiment.
The self-respecting men of the 24th
are anxious, it is said, to aid in
bringing to justice any men guilty
of assault or other crimes.
"Miss Gambley was brutally attacked
recently by a colored man in
| a soldier's uniform, and alleged to
J be a member of the 24th infantry.
! Other women have been held up,
it is said, and the citizens have become
so incensed over the situation
! th.'lt flip Hit 11 of tlio vilhioo nrirtntl'/
ed a vigilance committee to protect
themselves and families.
"Private Philip Allsbury, of Company
P. 24th Infantry, was captured
by William Brill, Jr., a citizen, on
February 2J, and was held for an
examination. He was taken to Watertown
and was arraigned on tincharge
of attempting burglary in the
second degree.
"For the last two weeks women
living on the outskirts of the town,
it is claimed, have been kept in a
constant state of terror on account
of negro soldiers peeping in windows,
trying doors and demanding
admittance. Complaint was made by
citizens to the war department."
IlKINUM DOWN Til IFF.
Olllcer Shoots Negro Store ltobber
lattice Wit It Booty.
Chester, March 17.?Ike Feaster,
colored, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded at 2 o'clock this morning
by Officer .J. G. Howsee, of the
city police force. Feaster had broken
into the store of T. H. Ward, colored,
and was coming out of tlie
rear with bis plunder, when Officer
Howsee, who had been attracted by
the noise, endeavored to halt him.
Feaster refused to stop and the officer
fired in the darkness, striking
him in the head, lie was taken to
the Magdalene Hospital, where he
has remained in critical condition all
day.
m/KMCI> IIY GAS EXPLOSION.
Three Men Probably Fatally Hurt in
Washington.
Washington, March If).?An explosion
in the retort of a gas generator
of the Washington Gas Light
Company's plant at Twentysixth and
. G streets, northwest, early today re
suited in the burning of three men so
severely that it is not thought tlioy
i will survive. They are: Edward
i Anderson and Peter Kelley, white,
and a negro named Venable, all employes
of the company. The propi
erty damage was comparatively
' slight.
natures, be warned! Earnestly and
I gratefully should we believe in a
divinely restraining influence, but
- there is a point beyond which it rare
ly goes.
You should keep yourself from
the temptation and God will keep
you from the sin. The men or the
women who are conscious of a weak>
ness, and yet will deliberately place
1? 1 ~ 1 1 - A
i iiR-iiisiMVfs in mo way 01 lem[nation,
have small claim upon the sympathy
of their fellow-beings. "Touch
i not, taste not, handle not." "Pass
not by It.' Shun It?avoid It as you
i value the security of your precious
souls. If you have acquired this
awful habit let us whisper a word
of encouragement in your ear.
I Write to the B. M. Wooloy Company,
j Atlanta, Ga., and they will cure you
, | if you can be cured. We have known
s of some wonderful cures made by
i this company, and we feel sure that
; if they understand your case they
; will cure you. It they think you
1 can't be cured they will frankly tell
> you so. Write them about your case
; and get their opinion. We insert
this notice free for the benefit of
> suffering humanity. There is not
a cent In it for us. All we ask is
: that if you are addicted to this awful
? habit that you give B. M. Wooley &
. i Co.. of Atlanta, Ga., a chance to cure
I (you.
FARIFF REVISION. |J
, j
i iu;i:i> nv imu;sii>hnt tai?t in
[ 1
a mhssahk.
Ilo That 11 Hill ho l'roparod
at Once, so as to .Minimi/.o tlio l)i>turhamo
of lliisiiioss.
Washington. March 16.?President j ?
Tuft's ino.-sago was received by the I
Son a to and llouso today with demonstrations
in botli bodies. The nussago
was as follows:
"To the Senate and House of Representatives:
1 have convtned the
Congress in this extra session in order
to enable it to give immediate
consideration to the revision of the i
Dingley Tariff Act. Conditions af- ]
footing production, manufacture and (
businos-s generally have so changed
in the last twelve years as to require
a readjustment and revision of the
import duties imposed by that Act.
More than this, the present tariff Act,
with the other sources of Government
revenue, does not furnish income
enough to pay the authorized
expenditure. By July 1 next, the
excess of expenses over receipts for
the current fiscal year will equal
$ I 00,000,000.
"The successful party In the last
election is pledged to a revision of
the tariff. The country, and, and the I
business community especially, ex-'
pi et it. The prospect of a change
in the rate of import duties always
causes a suspension or halt in husi- |
ness because of the uncertainty as
to the change to be made and the
effect. It is, therefore, of the high- I
est importance that the new hill
should he agreed upon and passed
with as much speed as possible,
consistent with its due and thorough
consideration. For these reasons 1
have deemed the present to ho an
extraordinary occasion, within the
meaning of the Constitution, justifying
and requiring the calling of
an extra session.
"In my inaugural address 1 stated |
in a summary way the principles upon
which, in my judgment, the revision
of the tariff should proceed,
and indicated at least one new source
of revenue that might he properly
resorted to in order to avoid a future
deficit. It is not necessary for
mo to repeat what I then said.
"I venture to suggest that the
vital business interests of the country
require that the attention of
the Congress in this session he chief- j
ly devoted to the consideration of ,
the new tariff hill, and that the
less time given to other subjects
for legislation in this session the better
for the country.
("Slerned > w ri tact" I
"The White House, March 10,
1909."
The message received careful attention
on the part of Senators, many
of whom laughed when the President's
suggestion that no legislation
except in relation to the tariff be
considered at tills session was read.
DEATH OF I>H. JONES.
The Great War Chaplain of the Confederacy
Gone.
New Orleans, La., March IS.?By
command of Gen. Clement A. Evans,
general commanding, Adjutant General
and Chief of Staff William E.
Mickle Issued from the headquarters
of the United Confederate Veterans
today an order giving official notice
of the death of Chaplain Gen. J.
William Jones, which occurred yesterday
at Columbus, Ga. After reciting
his achievements in military
and civil life the order concludes:
"His devotion to his work and his
people, his ability as a writer, his
eloquence as speaker, his amiability
as a companion, stand out with conspicuous
brightness, and he has left
a record free from stain and worthy
of imitation."
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
Superintendent Swearingen Favors
Local Option.
Columbia, March 18.?State Superintendent
of Education J. E.
Swearingen gavo out a statement
tonight touching his views on the
compulsory education question. Mr.
Swearingen said In part: "While
compulsory education is neither needed
nor desired in many localities,
in others it is eminently desirable.
(j/l Vl AC\1 /Htll *?l At M A .. " ? 1 ?
Ljvuuui uimi igm, (.-.(mum y (iim incorporated
towns should bo allowed to
decide the question for Itself. The
passage of a law allowing each school
unit to decide this question for Itself
will soon show whether the people
wish compulsory education."
SUICIDE AT NORFOLK.
Act Duo to Despondency Ilecause lie
Lacked Work.
Lynchburg, Va., March 18.?Hans
A. Herzfeld, aged fifty-two, a native
of Savannah and bookkeeper for a
: brewing company here for some time,
i committed suicide at his homo today
1 by shooting himself In the head. He
; was despondent because he had been
> out of work since the saloons closed
| here.
STAYED IN TEXAS
Twenty Years and Was Brought
Back and
TRIED FOR MURDER
riu' Strain no experience of I'arkor
Mooro, Who Si are ISH!) Livol in
'IVxai.s Whore He Haul the Ksteem
of a\II Ills Neighbors?lie killed
ai Man auol I leal.
Che raw, Mareh 1t>. A case of
more than usual interest was disposed
of ait the court in Chesterfield
county recently. Nearly twenty
years ago, in 1889, I'arkor Mooro,
a young man not yet 2 0, of good
family, Bhot one Jordan, in the log
with a shotgun and immediatclv sur
rendered himself to the sheriff,
claiming that the act was done In
defense of his own life, and placed
in the county jail to await the result
of the injuries to Jordan. However,
about this time, the famous
Mcrrimun case for the killing of
Douglas was called up for trial and
Merriman was convicted and sentencer
to he hanged.
Public sentiment was stirred
throughout the county, the people
were demanding that some one
should be hanged in order to put a
stop to the several homicides that
had occurred in the country, and
Jordan having died, and young
Mooro, thinking that this was no
time to try a homicide case, escaped
from the old wooden jail,, which
furnished but little resistance to the
efforts of any one seeking to cscapo,
and made his way to the Southwestern
section of Texas, where he remained
until his recent arrest.
There he settled down and married
and reared up around him his
little family, leading a most exemplary
life and gaining the love and
esteem of all his fellows in that community.
Hut he was not to remain
undiscovered. It seems that sonio
one there, knowing of the unfortunate
occurrence In his early life and
having had some unpleasantness
with a member of his family, in
order to get revenge on another, reported
to the sheriff of Chesterfield
county that Parker Moore, who had
been so long away from Chesterfield
was there; and Sheriff Douglas, after
securing from t lie Governor a
requisition for Moore, set out for
Texas.
When he got there, lie found one
whose neighbors cooky hardly bo
made to believe that he had ever
done his fellow-man an Injury. They
gathered around Sheriff Douglass
and offered to give a bond for ten
thousand dollars, or for any amount,
if they could thereby keep Moore
from being brought back to South
Carolina. They said that they had
no better citizen in the community,
they said that if Moore had ever
violated the law, his life there had
atoned for any acts of his youth;
but the sheriff could do nothing bat
discharge bis duty, and so Mooio
was brought back and placed in
Chesterfield's new modern jail, which
has replaced the old wooden affair,
until he could apply for bail.
Soon he was released on ball, the
witnesses for t li c* State, w ho had
testified at the inquest making affidavits
of the facts connected with
ine Killing, making out a Htrong
case of self-defence. Mr. Moore icmained
lure from that, time amongst
his relatives, ami the friends of his
youth, and when the rase was set
for trial, the Court House was parked
with sympathizing friends, who
all wished him an acquittal, which
would permit him to return to his
home, family and friends.
Solicitor Spears thoroughly investigated
the facts of the case, and
after a conference with the defendant's
counsel, Messrs. Stevenson &
I Matheson, and W. I'. Pollock and
J. M. Hough, announced that in view
of all the facts of the case, the good
record which Moore had made in his
adopted home in Texas, the ends of
Justice would not he met if a heavy
sentence were imposed upon him,
even if a jury should so find, and
he announced that he would consent
to a verdict of guilty of manslaughter
with recommendation to mercy
and that he would join with counsel
. for the defence in asking for a full
pardon, after a brief timo had
elapsed.
Ilfiit- ? - * *
yy 11 n mis understanding, counsel
for the defense consented to the
plea, and Judge Gage sentenced Mr.
Moore to two years imprisonment
in the county Jail, the lowest sentence
that could be imposed under
the law, and stated in open court
that he had no doubt but that Mr.
Moore would soon receive executive
clemency. In a short time an application
will be made to Goveronr
Ansel for Mr. Moore's pardon, and
1 his friends have no doubt but that
' he will act favorably on it as the
1 Judge, the solicitor and almost everyeno
else will no doubt endorse it