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A BRUTAL CRIME for Which a Fiend is Quickly Caught and Hu: g by OUTRAGED CITIZENS The Fiend Was an Ex-convict and Was Taken From the RherllY. He Wa?r Charged With Assaulting ; I and Murdering a Woman und Her Little 11a by. Henry Haylor, a negro ex-convict, charged with assaulting a white wo- j man Tuesday and then murdering her and her infant, was Friday af- j ternoon taken from the sheriff of i Willcox county, Ga., between Lumpkin and McRae, and lynched. The crime for which the negro was lynched by indignant citizens was one of the most brutal ever recorded in the criminal annals of Georgia. The negro's victim and her 8months-old baby were loft at their home at Lumpkins Ferry Tuesday afternoon and that night when the husband and father returned from his work both his wifo and baby were missing. A search revealed, tho fact that they were not at tho homo of any neighbor. Soon their disappearance, with suspicion of foul play, was known throughout tho neighborhood and search for thein was immediately commenced. Thursday afternoon the bodies were found in a small pond not a great ways from the woman's home. The woman had been assaulted and then choked to death, while the baby's skull had been crushed. Ilenry Taylor had told of seeing the woman with her baby, going in the direction of the pond in which ' their bodies were found. Suspicion was immediately directed toward him on the finding of tho bodies, but he had disappeared. Early Friday Taylor was arrested In Ben Hill county, near Lumpkin Ferry. He was taken In charge by the sheriff of Willcox county, who immediately started for Fitzgerald. Finding that his way was blocked ' by the presence of large numbers of aroused people, a circuitous route was taken. The citizens, however, learned of the change of plans, and, continually augmented by blood-thirsty men, the mob followed the trail of the sheriff 4 and finally came upon him between Lumpkins Ferry and McRae and quick work was made of the negro. After being strung up to a tree, Taylor's body was llled with bullets. Taylor had only recently completed serving a chaingang sentence in i this county. * AUTO STRIKES A TREE And Kills Two Persons and wounds ' Five Others. Two members of a prominent Chicago family met death in an automobile accident near Brunswick ,N. J., Saturday afternoon. G. A. Mac I Leon, Jr., whoso parents were re-J turning to New York after having ... made arrangements for entering Princeton University, was almost in- j stantly killed. Ilia father, George ; A. MacLean, said to be a depart- i ment manager for Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, was so seriously injured that he succumbed in a hospital later. Of a party of seven, including a negro chauffeur, none escaped MiJury. Mrs. MaiLean was injureJ ir. i.-nnMv and is in a nrocarious con ditlon. Ml^? Dorothy MacLean. a daughter about 2 0 years old, had both arms and both logs broken. I Miss Jeannette and Miss Harriet McDonald, nieces of Mr. MacLean, also of Chicago, were also seriously injured. One of them had her thigh i and arm broken. The MacLeans came came on from Chicago to install young MacLean In Princeton and were making tho Journey to New York by automobile, , preparatory to leaving for Chicago. Near this place, while tho car was < going at a good clip, something went wrong with the steering gear, the ; machine dashed to tho side of tho , road, and crashed Into a tree. All i of the occupants were thrown out violently, and young MacLean land- 1 ?d on his head with such force that death was practically instantaneous. , Pell Prom Pourth Floor. ] At Pittsburg, Pa., while placing i rigging to hoist a piano to the fourth 1 floor of the Nixon Theater Saturday, . v one man was killed and several in- I Jured when the apparatus collapsed, i precipitating them to the pavement, 1 f a distance of forty feet. i , SUBSC nil It ^ STABBED TO DEATH DEAD BODY OF A MAN FOUND WITH KNIFE WOUND. The Dead Mnn is Will Brooks of Augusta and Mark Duncan Is Held as Murderer. The swollen and partially decomposed body of Will Brooke, a white man of Augnsta, Ga., was Friday found in a corn held near Bath, with a wound in his left side, evidently inflicted with a pocket knife. The man had been dead at least two days. It is thought that the body was found by some negroes in pgLseing. The body was drawn up and showed evidences of the deceased having undergone excruciating pain before death. Coroner Johnson was not in the city at the time of the finding of the body, having gone to hold an inquest over the body of a negro laborer who was killed near Sand Bar ferry on the Savannah river by the caving in of said and tho inquest has not yet been held. The magistrate at Bath had Mark Duncan, white, taken in charge and ho will bo held in the Aiken Jail pending tho investigation of the death of brooks. On Wednesday night Duncan is known to have had a fight with Brooks near Duncan'3 homo. Durncan is a married man and an employe, it is said, in tho Bath mill. Brooks is alleged to have had or attempted to have illicit relations with the wife of Duncan. It is said that Duncan had warned him against these advances and warned him to stay away from his home. Wednesday night Brooks again paid a visit to Duncan's home, it is said, and when Duncan accosted him about it Brooks is said to have struck him in the face and pulled his knife, whereupon Duncan also drew his knife and they had a general fight, during which Duncan cut llrooks in the side. Brooks went away and from the fact that he went through a corn field it appears that he was attempting to get away from Duncan. lie evidently died after getting a short distance from the house. THE GREEN EYED MONSTER Causes William McIxHid to Kill a Young Lady. Declaring that ho had rather see her dead than married to another, | William MeLeod, a farmhand, Friday confessed to sheriff Ricketson that ho murdered Miss Mattio Graham, a wealthy and refined young woman whoso body was Thursday discovered in a swamp near her home at Ilokesboro, in Coffffeo county, Ga. Going into every detail, his statement is that he left his work and went to the house before dinner. Not seeing her he asked for Miss Mat tie and being informed that she had gone to her field for a melon, he followed and found her. Both started hack towards the house side by side. Coming to a branch nonr tho hniicn ho lot hop precede him. When at her back he caught her by the left arm and cut one side of her throat. She turned and looked him In the face and exclaimed: "Lord have mercy," the only words she ever spoke after the attack. Then he finished cutting her throat and cut her in the side as she fell. He stamped her in the face, washed the blood from his knife, face and (overalls and when dry went to the house and ate dinner. His only motive for his crime was that he had rather see her dead than to see her marry Byard Mobley. While he loved her, he had never told her, and if she was now alive no motive could induce him to harm her. His only fear appears to be of being lynched. He does not show any remorse. * , Young Girl Drowns. Tn a futile effort to save the life of W. Brooke Lessig, a well known Philadelphia lawyer, with whom sho was swimming In the surf at Wildwood Crest, N. J., Friday afternoon, Miss Virginia Paul, one of the leaders In the younger set of Philadelphia society was also drowned in the Bwlft ocean current. Neither body has been recovered. Gone on Trial Trip. The new battleship South Carolina left the Philadelphia navy yard Saturday for the Delaware Capes where Its official trial trip will be held. After the tests which Include time trials and endurance runs, the vessel will return to Cramps shipyard for a general fitting up before being turned over to the government. RISE NO STEAMER BURNS Many Exciting Rescues of Passengers and Crew. % - ENGINEER INJURED Ho Bravely Stood by the Pumps t'ntil Flames Licked Ills Face. ' I First (gangplank Veered, Many . Persons Thrown into ltivcr?l)ar- ' inj? Honcuo. The steamer Fred Swain, Captain I ) Verne Swain, of the Peoria and La- I I I Sallo Packet Company, with 25 pas- i sengers and fifteen sailors aboard, j burned to tho water .near Peoria, I ill., Friday, after tho flaming craft had beeu piloted into four feet of water and the occupants had escaped ( to tho bank of tho HHnoio i I II CI , up ; | which tho steamer was bound when it caught tiro. No lives were lost, but Jos. Gas rider, the engineer, was burned about tho face and body and Chas. lteichoj berger, of Peoria, suffered a broken arm. Tho loss is $35,000. Several of tho passengers lost their belongings. Tho escapo from the burning vessel of tho passengers, most of whom wore women and children, was exj citing. Fears woro partly calmed as , tho burning steamer drew nearer shore and scores of row boats wero j seen coming to tho rescue. The gang plank was lowered to tho water's edge when tho steamer j j had beached. Aftor two row boats ' had started for shore with passengers, the gang plank caught lire and j fell away from the steamer, letting | 15 persons, including women and children, (into tho water. Tlios. Powers, of Peoria, and K. A. Caron, I of Worcester, Mass., who were on , the plank when it fell, each saved tho lives of two children. The others who were thrown into the water by the collapse of tho ! gang plank were taken In boats to safety. Those still aboard tho boat managed to let out a new gangway. Tho fire started in a stateroom ! and spread rapidly. Captain Swain, | realizing that tho vessel was doomed, ordered tho pilot to beach the j boat and instructed his crow to doal out life preservers, j Engineer Casrider, after attendj ing to the bodies to guard against I an explosion, went to the pumps, i remaining thoro until the flames licked his face. Severely burned and almost blind, he turned to escape , only to find that a rowboat left for him was afire. He got It no the boat, | iiuvycyci, 1111(1 ueaung the flames I from him and rowing hard reached shore, lie was 'taken to a hospital. Miss Furbish, a cabin girl, who discovered the lire said, "I was at work dusting and cleaning a stateroom in which the ilro started. The whole room was In flames, the ; smoke blinding me. 1 gave tho alarm and rushod to inform Captain : ? ?? OWU1I1M, I). M. Swain, of Stillwater, Minn., owner of the burned steamer, was , In the Avery Manufacturing Company plant at Averyville, a suburb : of Peoria, near which the steamer caught fire and he aided In rescuing the passengers and crey. Ills son, Verne, captain of the vessel, was the I last to leave the burning ship. | Futile efforts were made hy the l Peoria and Averyville fire departments to save the hull of the boat. , The steamer, built nine years ago : was one of the finest on the Illinois I river. * Weevils Killed by Heat. Dr. W. D. Hunter, government entomologist in charge of the Southern field crop, in a bulletin, declares that the terrific heat of the last few days has killed more than 99 per cent of the boll weevils In Texas and Oklahoma, and that the heat and dryness of the season everywhere h.aa brought out small plants on which the bolls will soon open, so the crop may be picked at an abnormally early date. 4 I/onpod From a Train. Miss Sarah Parduo, aged 40, of Ronda, Wilkos county, N. C., whilo returning from a visit to Elklns Friday, leaped from a passenger train and sustained serious If not fatal Injuries. Miss Parduo, not being accustomed to railroad travel, and thinking that the train would not stop at her station, grabbed her baggage and Jumped while the engineer was making thirty miles an hour. IW TO liiiw . j? I WILL BE TRIED DISPENSARY CASKS WILL CX)MK VP NEXT MONTH. The Alleged Grafters Will Answer to the Churge of Wrong Doing at Columbia. The State says the trial of a numll?T llf ll o ov.nfflnlolo ? ?.! ? " I V..V UIIIVIUIO I1IIU Ullll"! O Vlllployed at the old State dispensary and charged with graft as a result will take place next month, if the plans of Attorney General Lyon aro not sidetracked in some way. This Is practically an oilicial statement given the attorneys representing some of those now under indictment. Judge Memmingor will preside at the coming term. There are now a number under Indictment, all being out on bond, but it has not yet been definitely decided which of tho cases will be taken up. However, Attorney General Lyon wishes to clear tho docket as rapidly as possible and ho will consult witn solicitor Cobb as to the disposal of the "jail cases." It Is probable tliat the llrst week will dispose of these and the ofllclals will be able to take up the dispensary trials. Among those now mulor Indictment are: W. O. Tatnm, John Hlack, John Bell Towill, L. W. Iloykln, Jos. B. Bylle, J. W. Rawllii9, W. A. Byers, J. S. Farnum and Norton A. Goodman. Warrants were sworn out for these men at various time, following the Investigation of the legislative committee and the work of the State dispensary commission, after evidence adduced by those interested In the Investigation. There is also an order for an indictment of J. I). Allsbrook, a former dispenser at Manning, who testified before the legislative c >mmlttee and vbcse arrest was afterwards ordered for perjpry. Allsbrook will bo remembered generally ; because of his remark, "Whose bread I *%at his song I sing." There will be a number ot attorneys 011 both sides In these cic.es and the testimony will bo read with interest throughout tho country, because of the prominence given the investigation and the resu'ts that followed the death of the State dispensary and the adoption of tho local nnl Inn ntn n 11 ml In nnnl. IKIt Inn I - \/|?L?v/u I'KiH U1IU) lUtUl | |M UU1IJ111VJU 111 many counties. In the testimony produced by the State or the defendants some of the most prominent men In the country will probably be involved. From a legal standpoint it is expected that there will be a battle from the start, but the outcome in the lower court probably rests with the jurors of Richland. The fall term of the court of general sessions will convene on Monday, September 6. * WEST POINTERS FIRED. President Orders Dismissal of Several for Ha/.ing. By direction of President Taft, seven cadets were dismissed from the United States military academy for being involved in the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton wad a brother of James N. Sutton, Jr., of the naval academy, whose death was investigated at Annapolis recently. The cadets ordered dismissed are: John II. Hooker, Jr., of West Point, Georgia, first class; Richard W. Ilocker, of Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre, of Richmond, third class; Albert E. Crane, of Rawarden, Iowa, third class, and Jacob S. Fortnor, of Dothan, Ala., third class. Unfiled in Ilurnlng Spirits. At New Orleans Allan Cartner, government gauger at a local distillery, was probably fatally burned Saturday as a result of an alcohol bath which ho administered to an employe of the plant who had been overcome by tho boat. Cartner's clothes became saturated and when he lit a cigarette his shirt caught fire. His clothing quickly became fl *V1 f\ ft ft /\ C (1 ?v* / V* am ? ?? ? - ' ' ' - ? Ct in ann wi iiuiuuts, Ulll IJ/ ruillll^ Oil tho ground ho succeeded in extinguishing the lire. Fatal Feud Fight. As the result of one of tho fiercest feud fights in tho history of Mecklenburg county at Huntersvillo a few nights ago, Roece Mucks, a prominent young farmer of Croft, lies dead at St. Peter's hospital; Lester Hucke, a brother, Charles Cox and Gilreath and Ttatte Davis, neighbors and substantial farmers, are seriously cut and shot, and several others slightly wounded. 4 mm mm m I HE HI A WILD RIOT Five Men Shot Down as Result of a Strike and MANY OTHRES HURT Mob of M?dden?y| Strikers Storm I c Work8 of tho Pressed Steel C'ar . \ ! i Company's Plant at Slioenvillo and j Pitched I tattle i.s Fought Itetween i * 1 Soldiers and Foreigners. t \ One State trooper, and one deputy ( sheriff, and three foreigners were ' j shot and killed Sunday in a wild riot J f at tho Pressed Steel Car plant, in H Schoenville, whose employes are now f 011 striko. (1 At least a score of persons were \ seriously wounded, ten fatally. I The rioting followed a day of quiet and broke without warning. (1 At midnight the following partial list of dead and injured was. made up \ from reports received from the t morgue, hospitals and several phy- r sirians' otlices: The dead: c John L. Wilson, State trooper. V- 1 --- 1 4 ? * " 11ci11 j rj.\iur, ui'puiy snorm. ;i Throo foreigners. a Fatally injured: John C. Smith, State trooper. Ducellan Jones, Stnto trooper. Seven foreigners. 1 (leorge Kitch and John O'Donnell, n State troopers, were seriously injur- 'i ed, and one woman was shot in the i neck. I) Over a score of persons received v more or less serious injuries. v The riot scene was practically In- t doscribable. Mounted State troops t galloped indiscriminately through ? the streets with riot maces drawn, () cracking tho heads of all persons j] loitering in tho vicinity of the mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke j] In the doors of houses suspected of v being the retreat of strikers, and f wholesalo arrests were made. c From 9:3 0 to 11:30 scores of per- f sons were arrested and placed In box ( jails In the mill yard. p During the early stages of the rioting women woro conspicuous. T Some of them were armed, others ( effectively used clubs and stones. ( These women, all foreigners, Insane j with rage, were mainly responsible f for inciting the men to extreme t measures. At midnight quiet reigned in the strike zone. I Shortly before 0:30 Sunday night , a mob gathered about the Scboen- ?, ville entrance to the car works and made a concerted attack upon the big swinging gates of the stockade. The attack was resisted by State troopers and deputy sheriffs, who used riot maces. In the melee Harry ^ Exler, a deputy sheriff, aged fifty years, was shot and instantly killed by a bullet fired, It Is said, by a striko sympathizer. f | In an effort to arrest the man ( picked out of the crowd as tho ono < who did tho shooting, State trooper Smith was instantly killed by a re- t volver bullet. I I For the first time sinco tho incep- t tion of the strike tho 3tate troopers , then opened volley-fire on tho mob. . Six trikers fell at the first round. { Three of them are reported fatally shot. I The members of the mob then ( opened fire with riffos. Two mount- v ed troopers dropped from their hors- f es fatally shot. They were taken to v the Ohio Valley Hospital In a dying f condition. As an ambulances made v its way from the car plant to the hospital carrying wounded troopers j the vehicle was attacked and tho ? driver forced to flee for his life. The ' frightened team of horses attached to the ambulance plunged wildly in f and about the crowd. Two men were ( trampled under the horses' hoof. Tho r ambulance was finally driven in tho f hospital by a detachment of troopers. R Sheriff Oumbert, at the county jail, called for fifty men to servo in the strike /one at 10:30 o'clock. At 11 o'clock the sheriff started in n an automobile for the scene of the v rioting. lie took with him ten riot ? guns and two boxes of riot ammuni- f) tion. v The county morgue has aent for * the bodies of tho dead troopers and * deputy sheriff. * The Ohio Valley Hospital has a treated ten injured, throe of whom * are reported fatally hurt. Pellngra at Rock If ill. There are two more cases of pel- o lagra in Rock Hill. No hope is ex- s pressed by the attending physician n for tho recovery of either of the ? patients?their death being only a d question of a few days. d JRRY HEI 0 PRICE OF BLOOD AL'TOMOIIILK HACKS CCA IMS TIIKEK MOHK VICTIMS. Hurtling Juirir<'ruutit (V/whi??i in?n - (Trowel of On-lookcrs, Kalsing New Speedway's Fatality Ilecord. Throo nioro Uvea ' wero sacrificed Saturday In tho mud speed carnival vhich has Inaugurated tho autonohlle speedway at Indlanapolia, nd. Ono mechanician and two peetators paid the penalty of their Ives to satisfy the extreme desire for ipeed. The flatal accident cam? vhen a Nnllnimi .. v?viv/i4(?i Ldi u11vt*ii uy Charles Merz In tho 300-mllo raco, ost. a tiro and crashed through a once Into a group of spectators, pleading death and destruction In he wake of Its wild plunge. Tho dead: Claude Kellum of Inllanapolls, Mechanician In the Naional car; Ora Jolleffe, Tralfalgar, nd.. an untdentlllcd man. Besides the three deaths, two selous Injuries resulted during tho lay. Henry Tapklng of Indianapolis vaa seriously Injured In tho fatal vreck sustaining a compound fracure of his right arm. a broken lose and several scalp wounds, truce Koene, tho driver of a Marmon ar in tho same race, crashed Into a >ost shortly after the National wreck md was badly cut about tho neck ind head. These three deaths raised the toll if the speedway to Rovon lives last reek. William Bourque and his mehaiilcian, Harry Molcombo, of tho vnox racing team were killed In .11 accident In the 2.r>0?niilo raco Tiursday. Cliff Littoral, a Stoddard)ayton mechanician, was kiiioe icing hit by a big racing machine vhilo on the way out to the speedk'ay. On Thursday Kiiner Orampon, a G-year-old hoy, was killed by ho automobile of Dr. Clark E. Day f Indianapolis while the latter was n his way to the speedway for the irst. day's races. The smash came after Merz had inished more than 200 miles and nis running fifth In tho race. A ront tire came off and tho car tore iway and went crashing through he fence, plunging Into a crowd. It ore through this group and into a ;?illy, turning a complete comersault Kellum was bleeding from lnnnnerablo Injprles when picked up. Jreat gashes were torn Into his atv lomen and liead and the blood had >egun to pour Into his lungs. Alhough practically dead when picked ip, ho lived for some timo without egalning consciousness. The unidentified man was instantV killed mid Inin.fP" -ii-i l .. ./iiviiu u IVU as UK WHS >eing lifted Into an automobile, rapkin, it is believed, has a fair :hance to recovery. STICKS TO IIIS COLORS. IVill Not Swear Allegiance to the United States. They have discovered a real Conederate, an unreconstruced Confederate, In Atlanta. lie is Col. G. Nlaussy of Sylvanla. Gov. Ilrown recently named Col. Jaussy a colonel on the governor'* >eraonal staiY and the adjutant gjn ral mailed the old soldier his comnission, together with the oath of illegiance to the State of Georgia md the United States. Col. Saussy made a few changos n the commission and more In the >ath| He erased the word blue vhere it appeared in the regulations or the uniform and substituted the vord erav. Thon ^? ?*" w_ ? . . .,v? no bi ancu 111(3 OHIQ o the United States constitution and vrote: "I except to the 12th, 14th and f?th amendments. I am a Conferi(rato soldier, still on parole, and vhile pledged not to again bear arms igainst the United States, I still reain tho views I had when I enered tike Confederate army. I have lever taken the oath of allegiance o the United States and while God lives mo life I never will." Engineer Killed. Engineer J. B. Robinson of A111? nre, Ohio, was killed Saturday night /hen his train, known as No. 215, n the Erie and Pittsburg division f tho Pennsylvania railroad, wan /recked at Youngstown, Ohio. The rain operates between New Castle, 'a., and Alliance, Ohio. When near 'oungstown tho engine left ? .w? v vtiv ui am nd turned turtle. No one except toblnson was Injured. Storm Causcfl Punic. At Pittsburg, Pa., one woman died f fright, a panic occurred in a treet car which was struck by lighting and a house roof was ripped ff while the Inhabitants lay in bed urlng a violent electric storm Friay. RftLD