The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 08, 1909, Image 5
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Mysterious Escape of) Safe
Crackers From Greenville Jail
Itmious COUPLE
R'luedito Have Hipnotized
fail Keepers and a Special
d Sot to Watch Over Them
either of Them Knew of the
pe Till Next Morning. '
Qvllle, April 4.?CK^oer
alias "Tennessee Dutch,"Vind
harton, alias "Chicagr Arlotorious
"yeggs," who were
in the Greeuville County
month to awult trial at the
^^ pning term of the United States
fl^H^urt, made their escape last night.
yeggmen had been arrested in
H^Vinuingham. Ala., by Inspector Gregcharged
with the robbery of
postofllce at Pelzer. Both have
^^^ftcords of crime, and "Dutcfc" has
^^Hperatcd abroad. Barton rfwmtly
FtMeral
I B at Atlanta.
They were confined In the rear
the jail in an especially strong
five by six feet. A guard has
on watch night and day since
a
^^HTtho floor of the cell through the
^JHsolid rock floor two feet thick.
Ti e indication that
sistancej was rendered from outside,
as drill (holes wero found underneath
the shin floor.
The instrument used was an improvised
gimlet, made from a wire
H umbrelh. handle. It is thought that
the sou id was deadened by wet
hlanUnK tutor foi.inl I *? ? """ t?u~
.vvy iMVV/k LUUIllt I XI LUC CCH. 1 lie
yeggs dug their way under the jail
cellar, then went through the jail
and passed the guard.' The guard
declared that he did not sleep and
that he did not see the men.
The city is much excited over the
escape, and Sheriff Poole Is at work
on the matter. Inspector Gregory
u'as arrived tn the city and has taken
up the search. There is, however,
little hope of capturing the men. The
yeggmen drew a picture of Gregory
on the wall, with dates of capture
and escape, and an inscription,
"goodbye, Gregory."
Moore Is a Hungarian Jew, a naLf
e. He has had a
Hmarkable career of crime. BarKn
is an American, and his right
^s been cut off at the elbow,
yeggmen had been confined one
onth, and had employed counsel
R fight the case against thorn. The
local jail has a floor of solid rock
two feet thick.
The space blown out by the yeggmen
was one foot wide and two
long. No one heard the explosion
and Jail Keeper Phillips and Guard
C. E. Carter did not know of the
escape until breakfast was carried
to the prisoners. The men were
to have stood trial on April 20. *
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Man and Woman Said to Have Killed
!a Little Gfrl.
Greenville, April 2.?A warrant
was sworn out today for Mrs. Palmer
Corn and Tom Childs, charging them
with the murder of Bonnie Louise
Corn, the 2-year-old daughter of the
former. The warrant was sworn out
by Palmer Corn, husbfcind -of the
woman. Corn alleges that his wife
deserted him and is living I^ith
Childs and that ^Childs had Ujeen
heard to say that he inten<^?^ to
tFJTSy >?rUh the child. The man
leges that the little girl can not
e located and that rhe is dead.
(Corn lives in North Carolina now
and his wife and child are in the
upper section of this country. *
m wunnn luntiiKii.
Masked Bandit Goes Through Conch
on Burlington Road.
^B Fairfield, Neb., March 29.?A
^B. . rain robber with a rtBlantstopped
a local passengeW train
the Burlington last night near
^^Bcre, boarded the train and forced
c conductor to carry a sack through
^Hc passenger coach and collect $200
11 watches from the passengers,
women and two men. He pock^Beted
the booty, dropped off the rear
end of the train and escaped.
Shoots Himself.
I B APril 2.?Walter
^^^^Hshorn, a s/Ixteen-yeor-old boy,
himself dead on the roof of his
in Brooklyn last night. His
huddled near a chimney, was
by his father. The boy left
^^^^^Lxplanatory note ann^H^brcnts
a loss to know^^^^^rkilled
DESTROYED BY FIRE
LARGE ARK A SWEPT CLEAN BY
WIND-FAN N K1) FLAMES.
Property Valued at Two Million Dollars
and Several 1 jives Lost in
Big Blaze at Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas, April 4.?To a
I
party of small boys and a carelessly
thrown cigarette la generally credited
the fire of yesterday, which destroyed
property in South Fort Worth valued
at two millions of dollars, caused
the death of ono person, J. J. Newton,
a bank emnlovee. tho Rprir?iu
injury of six others, rendered 3 00 j
families homeless and will cause the
temporary idleness of several hundred
workingmen employed in the)
manufacturing plants and business
houses burned. j
All of today and tonight the burn>
ed district is under the guard of State
troops to prevent looting, and, although
worn out by their continuous
labor, the entire fire fighting
force of the city is still engaged in
extinguishing, finally, the burning
embers, which, with the wind still
high, spasmodically spring Jnto a
blaze.
This morning a mass meeting of
citizens was held and relief committees
named. However, because
the fact that the burned residence
district was populated largely by
those in comfortable circumstances,
the monetary relief needed will be
small.
The fire started at May and Tucker
streets. Driven by a gale blowing
from the Southwest, the flames
quickly spread to adjoining buildings.
After eating their way through
the residence district, after reducing
to ashes 300 pretentious dwellings,
throe church buildings, the
Hrnmlwnv ? ? ?
...... i ut in lilll J1IHI ItiiptlSt
I Churches, and the Swedish Chapel
and Walker Sanitarium, the (lames
spreading to the south, attacked the
manufacturing plant of the Sawyer
Electric Company. The building was
quickly destroyed and live large
warehouses and several smaller business
houses suffered a like fate.
The yard of the Texas and Pacific
Railroad were next in the pathI
way of the fire. The round house,
repair shops, coal chutes and sevI
eral hundred box cars were destroyed
land twenty locomotives were reduced
I to twisted masses of steel and iron.
To the east, the stone and steel
I depot building proved a barrier to
I an encroachment toward the wholeI
salo district and, although, several
I times, (lying sparks would ignite a
I roof or flooring in this section, as
quickly would one of a hastily formI
ed band of volunteer firemen be on
I hand to check it in its incipieney.
Thus, after burning for four hours,
the fire was finally brought under
control.
The burned area is approximately
a mile and a half in length, and a
half mile wide. A careful estimate
places the aggregate of the loss
I about two million dollars. *
THE END OF TARIFFS.
British Officer Sees the Day When
Custom Houses Will Co.
Washington, April 5.?Aerial navigation
has reached such a state of
perfection that MaJ. F. B. BadenPowell,
an officer in the British army,
declared recently that a few years
more and the custom house will be
a thing of the past.
He declares that soon the wealthy
people of the world will own their
flying machines and that while it
may never become practicable to carry
coal, lumber, grain and the like
in airships, still it will be possible
to carry parcels of 100 pounds or
so, including such articles as wines,
spirits, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tobacco,
dried and canned fruits, Jam,
marmalade, condensed milk, chloroform,
collodion, ether, blacking,
playing cards and other small dutiable
articles.
Airships could be employed continually
going to and fro over frontiers.
Guards would be almost useless,
even if they were posted at
every few hundred yards,, which in
itseir would be an impracticable
proposition in Eurpoe or America.
Altogether it would seem impossible
to enforce any law as to machines
being compelled to descend at a
frontier,' and this according to the
writer implies that customs in the
main will have to be abolished.
Tariff he considers, will have to
be framed with duo regard to imports
like wheat and lumber, which
are not likely at first to be affected
by aerial transport, and a tax on
such commodities would seem to be
the solution to the difficulty of being
unable to continue the duties
on lighter articles.
SCRIBE
DIED FOR LOVE
Four Suicides Grow Out of One
Forbidden Match
THE GIRL LEADS OFF
Her Fiunco Followed Suit, and
Another Brother, a Secret Admirer
of the Girl, Was the Third, an
Old Friend the I^ast cYictim in the
Tragedy.
St. Louis, April 5.?A chain of
suicides has strangely arisen from
the love match of John Nichols and
Miss Bervl Stnmora ? *"
- ? - V/ L UCUlUllf ill.
There have been four self-indicted
deaths since March 3 and the superstitious
people of the village which
is just across the Mississippi river
from St. Louis, are predicting an
epidemic of self-murder. This
Strang array of deaths are as follows
:
Miss Beryl Somers, dance of John
Nichols, and beloved in secret by
Kobort Nichols, his brother, committed
suicide at Benton, 111., on
the afternoon of March 3.
John Nichols, in a frenzy of despair,
killed himself in sight of the
Somers home, two days later.
Robert Nichols, who has nourished
his passion in secret lest a revelation
might disturb the happiness of
the brother and sweetheart, killed
himself at his mother's home in
Madison, 111., March 1 I.
p I) ' ' * * "
v>. iv. ouiiiii, a mend of the brothers
ami the girl thoy had loved,
the first to 1 ut a supporting arm
under the h< ad of Robert Nichols,
when he fell dying, ended his own
life hy drinking carbolic acid 24
hours later.
I It was last summer when Robert,
I making a visit to each of his brothers,
gnally reached the country home
of his brother, John, near Denton.
The brother introduced him to Miss
Sinners, the daughter of a neighbor,
and Robert was greatly impresed
| with her. Rut it was not until he
J had fallen violently in love with the
girl that he discovered her betrothal
to his older brother. Loyal to John,
he resigned her at once and returned
home to his parents.
Several weeks ago, just as John
and Miss Nichols had perfected arrangements
for their wedding, an
obstacle in the form of parental objection
appeared. The girl's father
forbade the wedding and ordered her
to break the engagement. He would
assign no other reason than he considered
her too young to marry.
One evening, after a stolen interview
with her lover, the girl went to
her room in a very dejected mood.
She wrote Nichols a tender note,
then shot and killed herself with
her father's revolver. Two days
later friends of John Nichols found
a bottle of carbolic acid in his room.
They hid the poison and kept him
under surveillance. Rut the next
afternoon Nichols went to a little
grove, where he had often met Miss
Somers during their coursthlp, and
killed himself with a shot from a
revolver.
In his pocket was found a note to
VWc ?* - w *
? ??> Miuiuci, ivuutji't, uc mrid 1 son. After
he had read the note the younger
brotlvr grew despondent. He
bought a bottle of carbolic acid, and
with it went into a room at his home
where some guests of the family
were sitting. He drank the acid,
threw the bottle down and ran out
into the street.
At the gate he almost ran over
C. Ft. Smith. Smith, a man about 50
years old, had been Itobert's confidant
and had sympathized with him
in his trouble from boyhood. The
old man caught the boy as he fell
to the street. He followed him into
a physician's office and watched him
breathe his last.
Smith was foreman of a large
manufacturing plant, and had never
known a day's sickness. But the
next morning he said he was ill and
would not go to the mills. He
walked about his home in an abstracted
manner. About noon he
went to the home of a neighbor and
! asked for a drink of water. When
J the water was brought him he
| poured the contents of a three-ounce
bottle of carbolic acid into it and
drank the mixture. Just 24 hours
to the minute after the death of
Robert Nichols, Smith died. *
Sully's New Scheme.
Atlanta, Ga., March 31.?Daniel
J. Sully, once known as the "Cotton
King," Is in Atlanta, beginning a
tour of the South, which he says is
for the purpose of perfecting plans
which contemplate a conservative
revolutionizing of the manor in
which cotton is handled and marketed.
<0W TO
PAYNE TARIFF BILL
MEAN'S II 1C? II EH ritlCES FOll
MANV ARTICLES USED
By llio Poor aiul Lower Prices
on Many Articles Used by the
Rich.
Washington, April 5.?The rates
provided for In the Payne bill, as
It stands, average 1.56 per cent higher
than the Dingley rates. When
the maximum and minimum arrangement
begins operation, according to
Minority Loader Champ Clark, they
will average 21,56 higher than Dingley
bil lschedules.
In repeated instance the Paynej
Dill openly discriminates against ar- :
i ijuruciiiiiriy stocKtngs, gloves,!
hats, and woolens), of the class purchased
by women and children of
little means in favor of the more expensive
articles used by the rich,
i An illustration is found in the duI
tics imposed upon hosiery and knit
cotton goods. Women's and children's
hose, of the grade valued at
$.1 per dozen, which is very cheap,
I are increased in the bill, from 80
I per cent to 90 per cent. The expensive
grades of hosiery are left '
as in the Dingley bill, at G5 per
cent.
Women's and children's gloves
show the same largo advances in
taxation up on the cheaper grades.
The Increase in duty upon the cheap- i
est grade is from 53 per cent to 135 !
per cent which means that the poor
will have to pay 75 per cent more
on every dollar's worth of gloves
purchased. The increase in taxation
upon the costly gloves, or the kind as
purchased by the wealthy, is from j
4 3 to GO per cent, which means that I
the rich will havo to pay but 4 7 |
cents more on every dollar's worth of 1
gloves purchased. Contrast the figures?75
per cent advance on the
gloves of the poor who are least j
able to stand It, and 4 7 per cent on !
the gloves of the rich, to whom increased
living expenses have little
Interest.
In the matter of hats, the duty !
upon those which are valued at ,
$280 per dozen?the cheap hat of \
the working girl and the women of !
limited means?is placed at 7 6 per
cent. Hats valued at $25 per dozen
are made datable at 4 8 per cent.
The cheaper grades of blankets? .
the kind used by the poor?are dutiable
at 105 per cent, which means
that on every dollar's worth of blankets
shipped in at a tax of $1.05 is
added for the consumer to pay. Or,
another way of looking at it is that
the Payne bill will force the poor
to pay $205 for every $1 worth of
blankets used. The duty on the
expensive grades of blankets is fixed
at 6 8 per cent.
Fancy cotton goods used by the
poorer classes are dutiable at 50
per cent. Plain cotton goods and all
woolens of the lower grades show
an average above 5 0 per cent.
Tea is more costly. The maximum
and minimum plan will moan
a duty on coffee estimated from 7-8
to 4 cents a pound. There Is to he
no reduction in the price of sugar,
oil, nor in any of the other articles
which enter so largely into the daily
living expenses of the wage earners
of the United States. *
I.EPHOSY OK K.MS FOUND.
The Kcsiilt May Ilo a Successful War
oil the Malady.
Washington, April 5.?Dr. Moses
Clegg, bacteriologist of the Bureau j
/?* i * * ?i- 1
wi oticuw, <il malum, nas succeeded
in cultivating a leprous bacillus,
lie has made five separate cultures
with germs from living lepers anl
the bodies of victims of the disease.
He has been equally successful in
his culture of amoebic dysentery and
finds a relation tietween the two
diseases. The Bureau of Science
has prepared a leprosy vaccine and
proposes to carry forward a series
of experiments for the purpose of establishing
a specific treatment for
leprosy. Dr. Clegg is the son of a
prominent Arkansas physiciau. *
levell wants statistics.
. Commissioner Watson Asked for
Figures on Fertilizers.
Columbia, April 2.?Commisioner
Watson this afternoon received the
following telegram: "I am investigating
the duty on potash salts.
Send me immediately the number of
tons of fertilizers used in the State
and the percentage of such as will
be effected by the duty and the cost
to the farmers of the State if possible.
Give me the same figures for
the entire South. I will advise you
later as to the delegation of the
farmers coming here. Letter follows.
(Signed)
| "A. F. LEVER."
THE n
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KILLED BY TRAIN
KILLKI) AT HATKSHL'ltG IN MVS.
THlllOUS WAY.
A Popular Traveling Man?Native of
Seneca and Son-in-Iaiw of Capt.
Edmund Bacon of Columbia.
Columbia, April 4.?Much sorrow
was caused in this city yesterday
by the announcement that Mr. J.
W. Livingston had been killed at
Batesburg by being run over by a
train. Mr. Livingston is a cousin
of Mr. J. P. Livingston of the Atlantic
Coast Line and son-in-law of
Capt. Edmunds Bacon. Having been
a traveling man for several years,
ho has friends in all parts of the
State.
The deceased was a son of tlie lato
J. W. Livingston of Seneca. Mrs.
John C. Carey, formerly of Lockhart
but now of Greenville, Is a sister,
and Messrs. \V. lv. Livingston of
Seneca and J. F. Livingston of Cordele,
Ga., are brothers.
The inquest was held at Batesburg
last night. A number of friends
and relatives from (Jolumbla left
here in nutomoblles to attend the inquest.
The following special from I
Batesburg was received last night:
"J. W. Livingston, of Columbia,
was killed one-half mile south of
Batesburg this morning by Southern
Railway train No. 8, which was coming
into Batesburg on time and was
in full view of the passengers waiting
at the depot when the accident
occurred.
"Mr. Livingston was unconscious
and made no statement before death
about one hour later, lie was
brought into town and Dr. \V. I*.
Timinerman was called, but could
not revive the injured man. Train
was in charge of Conductor James
Weaver and Engine r Alexander.
"\'(t solution li l>"?" 0"? 1
vvl,.v.x/.i Iiuo u*-t3U I nil 11(1.
Engineer Alexander stated that Mr.
Livingston was walking in the track,
meeting the train. The signals were
made, but instead of getting off til?
track the deceased stopped and just
before the engine struck him turned
around as if to meet the shock. His
legs and one arm were broken and
probably internal injuries were sustained.
"The deceased once lived at Seneca,
but lately, is is understood ,he
has been living in Columbia. He
conies of a well known family, and
his wife, who was a Columbia lady,
is connected with a prominent family.
The local authorities have the
matter in charge, and everything
possible is being done to clear up
the mystery?which probably will
never be done. An inquest will be
held this evening as soon as the coroner
can arrive? to take chargo of
the remains.
"The deceased is a stranger in this
section, having never been seen here
before today."
MADK BIG HAUL.
Large Quantity of Whiskey Seized in
I
g
x. ? irnuin*
Chief State Constable J. F. Bateman
and his constables made a big
haul of contraband liquor of Charleston
yesterday at the establishment of
B. P. O'Neill, on upper King street,
captured 565 half-pints and 23
quarts of whiskey and 3 16 bottles of
a Kentucky brewery export beer .
The constables captured tho previous
night 15 gallons of gin and 4 8
half-pints of whiskey from the establishment
of George Barrincau, on
Line street.
These seizures are among the largest
which have been made in some
time, and they show that tho dispensary
constables are still after the contraband
stuff and are vying with
the police squad in the raids upon
the many blind tigevs about the city.
The constables have their eyes on
some other places, and tho stock
of contraband liquors at the county
dispensary on East Bay will be Increased
by tho raids which are in
prospect.
TRAIN KILLS FLEEING SLAYER.
Negro Who Kille<l Another Meets
Quick and Tragic Death. >
Augusta, Oa., lApril 4.>?Duqing
last night, Will Frederick, colored,
cut Frank Dougherty, colored, killing
him. At daybreak, Frederick,
I trying to make his escape, was struck
; by a railroad train and killed. The
I body was brought back to tho city
J and the coroner held an Inquest over
the bodies practically at tho samo
! time. Witnesses to the cutting unquestionably
put tho stabbing crime
on Frederick. A year ago Doughetry
' cut Frederick severely, and the SatJ
urday night stabbing was Frederick's
I revenge for tho 1908 assault upon
j him.
ORRY Hi
THE STATE WINS
Federal Supreme Court Sustains
Dispensary Commission
RECEIVERS REMOVED
Claims Hold Up Will Now Ho Paid
Off?Tln*so Amount to Iletweea
Three iind Four Hundred ThoushiuI
Dollars?TI?o Decision Save?
(lie State Thousands of Dollar?.
Washington, April 5.?The supreme
court today decided the dispensary
case in favor of the State.
The federal receivers appointed by
fudge rrltcliurd are removed and the
State dispensary commission is restored
to control of tin* funds of the
dis|M'nsary.
The decision read by >lr. Justice
White, reasons that claims against
the commission are claims against
the State, which can not he prosecuted
under the constitution.
I
In tliis respect tin* decision of tlie
circuit court of appeals at Itlchmond,
denying l)r. \V. .1. .Murray's petition
for the dispensary coiuuiission, is rcversed.
A minor ap[H>al of the case of tho
commission vs. Wilson Distilling company
is reversed. The reversal of the
main case includes costs.
INK A MO ASYLUM BUKN.S.
Siv Hundred Lives Imperilled at
Woodward, Oklahoma.
Woodward, Okla., April 4.?Six
hundred insane persons were In danger
of death today when flames, starting
from a prairie Are, destroyed several
buildings of the State Asylum
at Fort Supply.
The Are broke out In the laundry
building shortly after the Inmates
had returned to their quartets from
tho noon meal. Thdfl[^Mum Are department
was ordoroc?^\ and every
| effort was made to con .al from the
patients tho fact that the building
was burning. A woin^ii, seeing the
lire, however, excitedly gave tho
alarm. Attendants then rushed
among their changes and narrowly
averted a panic. The fire spread
from the laundry to the pharmacy
supply building and threatened the
asylum Itself. The inmates yielded
to tho entreaties of the attendants
and kept good order when the danger
was tho greatest.
Ily hard work, the Aromen saved
the various ward buildings. Theie
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.? ??o iiu iunn ui Mil?. "1110 StaOIeS,
laundry, pharmacy and employees
qaurters were destroyed. The loss
is $75,000.
TAX ON ALL DEADLY WEAPONS.
Measure Is Introduced l>y Oon|?n'ssman
from Mississippi.
WashliiKton, April 2,?Hereafter,
if the bill recently introduced by
Representative Sisson, of Mississippi,
becomes a law, all deadly weapons
manufactured and sold or stored in
any warehouse or factory in the
United States "by whatever name
such deadly weapons may be called,"
win imve ii iax or imposed on
them. Violations of the provisions
of this act are made punishable by
a fine not exceeding $2,000, or imprisonment
for not more than two
years or both.
HGIt COOKING
And .Made the l4indla<ly His Wife
on Short Notice.
Atlanta, April 5.?Joshua B.
Crawford, 85 years old, one of the
wealthiest men in Atlanta, who three
weeks ago married Mrs. Bolle Salvage,
of St. Augustine, a widow of
about 3 5, died this week. Several
months ago Mr. Crawford was in
St A ll L'llMt 1 nr? nrifl alnn riml nl Oa
? v.n v.?v. .?v u w/|; |/vjv* au uia
boarding house run by Mrs. Salvage.
Mrs. Salvage was an excellent cook,
and while Mr. Crawford became an
admirer of all the dishes she prepared,
he fell in love with her biscuits,
proposed and was accepted. *
December and May.
Columbia, April 1.?Mrs. Sarah
Montamat, a widow 64 years old,
gave up a pension of $15 a month as
housekeeper today to be married to
Turner Acton, 19 years old, who
worked at the same house with
^ her.
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