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"W / "a foul crime" Pretty Young Lady Governess Craelly Murdered by a Read COACHMAN ARRESTED # Charged With the Crime, After Havin Attempted to Oonimit Suicide. 1 Wrote Note to His Wife Denying His Guilt and to Police Blaming Japanese Butler. Miss Sarah O. Breymero, aged 2 6 years, a pretty and cultured governess at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes Compton, at Milbrook, Dutchess county, N. Y., was found in her bed early Thursday morning strangled to death. Frank Schermerilorn, aged 2 6, employed as coachman on the Compton place, was taken to Millbrook, charged with the murder. Late Thursday afternoon he made an unsuccessful atwlth a razor. About 3 o'clock Thursday morning Mary Fennell, a maid in the tempt at suicide, cutting his throat Compton house, was awakened by a noise and says she saw a man's form disappear out of the corridor. She ran to awaken the governess, and not receiving any reply, entered Miss Breymere's room. The governess was found lying in bed, her face black and finger prints on her throat. Life was extinct. On a cot in the room was little Polly Compton, aged three years, unharmed. The maid quickly summoned the coachman and when he arrived the sheriff and i>olice of Millbrook wero notified. The oflicers question the maids and servants and the coachman, Frank Scherinerborn. They found that Miss lsreymere s hands had been tied, the big chest containing the silverware had been forced and several of the rooms were in disorder, making it appear as though the tragedy had been part of a burglary. Chief of Police Charles J. McCabe went to the coachman's house late Thursday afternoon to further question him, and not receiving any answer to his summons, went up Into the coachamn's bed room. The room was dark, and on throwing open the blinds, the chief's attention was attracted by a trickling sound under the bed. Investigation revealed Schermerhorn lying under the bed with his throat cut and blood dripping in a pool on the floor. Schermerhorn was taken into custody. On the table in his room the chief found a note, which read: "My Dear Wife: I am not guilty. (Signed) "Frank." Schermerhorn, although very weak, said that he stood watching under a window of the Compton mansion while Shtiro Chashi, the Japanese butler, committed the deed. This statement the police discredit, and say there is no doubt that Schermerhorn strangled the governess to death, either during or following a criminal assault. Tit AMP PAYS OLD SCORE. Timely Aid Given Him lirings Handsome Returns. Seven years ago James L?. Harvey, now a Rio Grande switchman at Denver, Col., was brakeman on a frieght in Oklahoma and befriended a tramp. /\ IOV UtlJ'S (l^u 11(11 ?c; IWUIVfU a letter from the tramp, Charles McNainara, now a rich miner of Murray, Idaho, inclosing a check for $500 as a Cristmas gift. Harvey permitted McNainara to ride over his division, gave him clothing, a meal, a bed and a $2 bill. McNamara says in his letter that he had resolved to kill himself when he met Harvey. But the help ho got gave him courage to renew his battle with the world, and he is now prosperous. He *tells Harvey to "give the high sign" when he wants anything. Y. M. C. A. BUILDING BURNS. Boston Branch's Home. Once Finest In World, Destroyed by Fire. * The Boston Young Men's Christian Association building, at the corner of Boyleston and Berkeley i streets, in the back bay district, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin a few days ago, entailing a loss of j more than $200,000. j a nreman was injured, not se- ] rlously, by falling from a ladder. ] Fireman Joseph Wood, In trying to control a runaway nozzle, fell and received a dislocated elbow and j contusions about the body. I Notre Damo academy on Perkeley f and Providence streets, close to the ( burning building, was threatened t several times. j The Young men's Christian As- < soclation building at the time It t was constructed, In 1882, was the A finest of its kind in America. i The building was a five-story brick j structure. luck are seldom lucky. y People wko are superstitious about t - . ? NEW REVENUE LAW tlAS KILLED C. O. D. JUG Will**KEY TKAFFIC IX)11HVKU. Ooauuoa Carriers Muat 1I? Carafill How TUej llaacLLo liquor Shipment* Now. It may not bo generally known, but it is a fact, that tlio C. O. D. whiskey business is a thing of the past. Time was when the railway uuu uApit-oa <v;uiu^ituiuti OL CCriUlU sections of tho United States derived an enormous part of their revenue from this form of business, and tho efforts of the government and State authorities to put a stop to tlie illegal phase of it, which they knew existed, proved all of no avail. Not so now. Tho time has com** when it is a c.,mo puuishablo by a heavy line, for any common carrier to collect tho selling price of any intoxicant, either in part or as a whole. To go further, it Is also a crime for any common carrier to accept for transportation or to handle any package containing iutoxicating liquor that does not bear a label (telling exactly what thte ^package contains and the quantity. Not content with this stringent law, another provision is that every shipment must be a bonafide transaction, between real persons and the agent of a common carrier accept ing or delivering such a shipment to a lictltious person, or a person under a fictitious name, is liable to heavy fine and imprisonment for several years. The carrier is liable also to fine and the property itself to confiscation. Sections 23 8, 23 0 and 2 10 of the Internal Revenue statutes are the ones which cover tho situation, and they cover it in a thorough and comprehensive manner. Section 23 8 says that any officer or agent acr*f>ntir? vt clilninnnt /-? f 1 I ? ,, , ... 0 uii.^mviiv Ul IIHUAIUillllls liquors consigned to fictitious persons, or delivering such .packages to persons under fictitious names, shall be subject to a lino of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than five ears or both. The next section is the one which deals with C. O. D. shipments. It says that any common carrier which shall accept for shipment a consignment of intoxicating liquor, for which it shall collect or attempt to collect the purchase price or a portion thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $5,000. The last section deals with the marking of all packages of Intoxications, and says that any common carrier failing to place marks upon shipments of intoxicants, showing the kind, quantity and quality of the beverage contained in the pack- I age, shall be subject to a fine of like amount to that in the above sections. In all cases the liquor itself is liable to confiscation by the government. The result of these stringent measures will be at once apparent. The shipment of whiskey and other intoxicants through mails will also come under this law, and the government officials all say that they expect to see that it is enforced. In all three instances the shipments referred to are those made from one State to another, known and designated as "interstate shipments." It is ^xpocted that the enforcement of the new law will greatly reduce the whiskey traflic into South Carolina, as much of this is of the "C. O. D." variety, and it is thought that not many men who have been in the habit of having whiskey shipped to them privately will care to do so if it bears the flaming label required. Remember TliiH, Farmers. The Marion Star says "when the farmers begin to plan for this year's crop they should not think too much about the present prospective high price of cotton, but remember that the price of everything else raised on the farm has advanced in proportion. Even if it were certain that the next crop would sell as well as the last, and that the seasons would be favorable for production of th stapl it would not pay South Carolina farmrs to neglect other crops and plant cotton exclusively, for everything they have to buy will cost them correspondingly high prices. Don't forget so soon the lessons of rotation and diversification, about which so much has been said and written in the past few years with such benefit to the agricultural interests. It might not pay to venture 'all the eggs in one basket.' " "Olavis and Plnchot," says The 3tate, "who have been dismissed From the public service, fell from ;race because they, right or wrong. ?poke in the interest of the public, 1 ind against a cabinet officer suspected by them of being the friend >f gigantic grafters, and enabling ,hem to ravish the public domain. 1 \nd in action against those public lervantB Mr. Taft has defended the iccused Ballinger." < Between the written and the un- ' written law Justice has no easy i ASlL t READS THEM OUT "Insurgents" Are to Be Treated as no Longer Republicans. TAFT SIDES WITH GANG A (Viticul Situation llrought About by the Pincliot Incident, Which Is Likely to Have an lmiKirtant Hearing in the West on Congressmen at Flections. 7onh I- bt- % . ? /idv rv i?icut7V| iu his asningion letter to The State, says this "insurgent" situation grows interesting, and, from the standpoint of Mr. Tuft at least, apparently critical. The announcenient a day or two ago tha* the Republican "whip" In the house had struck the names of the "insurgent" Republicans off the list of Republican to be notified when a full Republican vote is wanted in the house has created something of a sensation. The meaning of it was that not only are those who have opposed Speaker Cannon in the house to be deprived of the privilege of dispensing federal otllces in their districts but that in 110 respect arj they to be longer considered Republicans. As some of the old lino Republicans express it they are to be considered as 110 better than Democrats. That Mr. Taft is countenancing this determination there is 110 man ner of doubt. lie has placed himself squarely with his party organization, and ho recognizes that this party organization consists in the main of Nelson W. Aldrich and Joseph G. Cannon. These two men have evidently told the president that the salvation of the Republican party, and therefore of course that his own political salvation, depends upon his aligning himself with the regular organization and that he must assist them in putting down insurrection in the ranks of the party. And Mr. Taft, wholly without political experience, believes implicitly, it would seem, what these wily and potent schemers tell him. The Pinchot incident is but a iHii l oi me game directed by Cannon and Aldrich. Only Pinchot seems to know something about play himself. An investigation of the land fraud was pending, frauds of which the secretary of the interior, Mr. Ballinger, was accused. It was intended to appoint a whitewash committee for Mr. Ballinger, but in order that the whitewash mighe not have to bear too close an inseptcoin and Its transparency be noted it was intended that attention be detracted by sousing Mr. Pinchot with several colors of red paint, turning attention from Ballinger to Pinchot. But Mr. Pinchot by getting himself dismissed has forestalled this, and now the country will focus its eyes upon Ballinger and the whitewash | will have to he piled 011 pretty thick or it will fail of its purpose. The "insurgents" in the house have put Mr. Cannon out of business so far as selecting a whitewash committee. | Voting with the Democrats, they have had it fixed so that the house , and not Cannon will appoint the house members of the committee, j and that means that Mr. Pinchot and the country probably will have representation on the commttee and me wnitewash may be diluted. Meantime do not think that th? Republican party la completely rent asunder hy this temporary triumph of the "insurgents" and Democrats. It is true that this is one of the very few times that "Uncle Joe" has been flatly turned down in the house. And the really remarkable part of this is that the Democrats voted solidly against him. If there had been anything much at stake the old man would have bought up a few Democrats from Georgia and one or two other States to have carried the day. There are always a few Georgia statesmen for sale for a few committee assignments or other measly crumbs from the rich man's table. And always a few from Tainmany Hall and such places. Rut it is no great mattor this, so your Uncle Joe let It go hy. But !t does one thing?and that Mr. Can- ( non is not so very sorry about eith- , er?it has lined up these "insur- | gents" with the Democrats. It was i really a Democratic victory the oth- ] er day, the Democrats winning with the assistance of the few Republi- ] can "Insurgents," and it is intend- { ed that the fight shall he along th's ] lino. The cry of "Democrat" will j he set up in these insurgents' dis- , tricts. If they cry it hard enough j and with their usual vigor the or- f ganization Republicans may be able ( to defeat some of these men In hnlr ? 1 conventions, hut if they get nomi- ( nated there will be little chance of defeating them, for the very good s reason that the cry of "Democrat" will not hurt them before the peo- t pie, especially since their oppo nents will he real Democrats. t f Mayor Oaynor of New York Is re- \ quiring city employes to work from 2 9 to 5. It Is poor policy to overwork them so. They will soon need about six weeks leave of bsence 1 to recuperate. f ' 1 ,1 .1 a. . ...? WILL STRETCH HEMP A FIHN1) TIUED AND CONVICTED OF ATTKH PTINO A (Vimlul Assault liwt November the Beautiful Yoiiiik Wife of a Prominent Ix*xtngton County Maa. Coot Lever, the negro who attempted to commit criminal assault upon the beautiful young wife of a prominent Lexington county farm er last November, and who narrowly escaped being lynched, will pay the death penalty for his crime on the 25th of February, next. I At the trial, which was hold qt Lexington Wednesday, thrive wer*? four witnesses sworn for the prosecution, the victim and her husband and Constable L. I. Roof and Mr. R. W. M. Elezer, who made the arrest, and to whom Lever tirst confessed his guilt. The pretty victim, who is a woman of intelligence, gentle and refined, told of the attack in a plain, straight forward manner. She was unable to say in positive terms that Lever was the man who attacked her, but stated that she believed that he was the one. ller husband swore to the fact that he had seen the negro pass along the road where he was at work a few minutes before the crime was attempted. Constable Roof told of the arrest, as did Mr. Elezer. The judge ruled that the latter could not tell of the confession made by the negro, since Lever was told that he would be properly protected if he would confess his guilt. Lover was the only witness for the defence, lie denied that he was connected witii the affair in any manner, but was unable to explain why he was in the vicinity on the day in question. He told of his experience with the conjure doctor, \v11(iin iie caneu hom .nulgo, a negro. lie admitted telling the officers soon after his arrest that he was guilty, and that the doctor was the cause of it all, hut he said the reason for his telling this was the fact that he was scared. Ho said that he was 18 years old and married. At the conclusion of the testl- 1 mony Messrs. A. 1). Martin and T. C. Sturkie, who had been appointed by Judge Watts to defend the negro, briefly addressed the jury. ' Each of them pleaded for mercy for ! the negro, stressing the point that ' the woman was not able to swea" 1 positively that the defendant was the man who attacked her, and stat- ( ing that there might be some doubt 1 as to his guilt. Solicitor Thinner- * man, in a brief, but vigorous man- ' nor, addressed the jury, urging the conviction of the negro upon the ground that his confession, which ' was made freely to the officers and s others who had talked with him time after time showed conclusively that F there was no room for doubt as to his guilt. ' Judge Watt's charge consumed but ( a short while. It was clear and to 0 the point, covering the law as it 1 is laid down in the statute books. The jury retired and remained In the room about one hour, when they returned wtih a verdict of guilty. There was absolutely no demonstration, although there was a large crowd of spectators in the court room. Just what the jury was de- T noeriaing over, or why it took them v bo long to reach a verdict, it no* known, but it is presumed that there f were some on the panel who were in favor of recommending the negro to the mercy of the court. 'In passing sentence upon Lever Judge Watts took occasion to glvrt him a good lecture. When Judge r Watts had concluded, Lover said: "I ask for mercy." .Tudgo Watt" told him that it was not in his power to give him mercy, and ordered the sheriff to remand him to jail. The verdict of the jury meets with general satisfaction, the majority of the law will be upheld and the namo of Lexington will not Tie stained by e the ruthless act of her citizens. r ? v GARFIELD LAFDS PINCIIOT a ? f As the Most Act! ve Exponent of v d Teddy's Policies. P At Cleveland, Ohio, C.ifford Pin- j1 chot, the dismissed chief forester, } was lauded in a public address by '* ??? ri?? ?, - ? iwi inui ooiuBinry 01 mc3 interior Jas. r R. Garfield, as the most active exponent of the Roosevelt policies. ^ "Gifford Plnchot, who - has Just eft ihe service of the national gov- \ >rnment, is the one man who perhaps worked the hnrdest for the Roosevelt doctrine of conservation a >f our natural recources and his irlnelple of equal opportunities for w ill," said Mr. Garfield, speaking at 3oodrlch House, , a social settlenent, on "THta Roosevelt Poll- m des." t0 "His departure from the national tervlce Is one of the greatest loss- (,( js the national government has sus- cc alned In recent years." cl Mr. Garfield expressed the hope hat Mr. Plnchot's activities as a riend of the conservation movement vould be continued as a private cltl- cr ;en. i > > SI The right kind of a conscience has Y< landlcapped many a man In the race th or wealth. w< WILL SOON HANG Speedy Trial and Conviction of a Black Fiend at Kingstree FOR ATTACK ON CHILD Hie Courtroom Wiin rucked Willi >len When the Case Was Called, 1 Int Only the (Hikers aiul Witnesses Were Allowed to Hear 11 ?? Child's Testimony. Johnnie Hose, alias John Wood, a negro hoy about eighteen years of age, was tried and convicted at Klngstree on Tuesday morning of attempting to commit an assault on a little white girl and sentenced to be hung on February 4. On the t?th of last December a little whit* girl, 14 years of age. was on her way to school with her books and a stlak of sugar cane for lunch. in passing through h ti act of wooded land she was intero nteu by the negro who asked her for a piece of sugar cane. She granted bis request by handing him the entire stalk and after receiving the remaining portion from him, when she attempted to pass, she war seized by the throat and dragged from the road into the underbrush. Fortunately a passer-by heard her screams and rushed to the scene in time. The child, blending from the scratches of her assailant and suffering from the violent throttling, was placed in the hands of solicitous neighbors and an immediate search was begun for the negro. In a short time he was captured and after having been positively identified was hurried to Kingstree and placed in the county Jail, and none too soon, for a mob to lynch him was being rapidly organized. On the night of the same day a body of armed men from the neighborhood of the crime halted at the outskirts of the town and sent a delegation to Sheriff Graham requesting his influence in securing an immediate trial and threatening an attempt to prevent the law from taking its course. The sheriff prom Ised to use his efforts to have a special term of court ordered, persuaded the crowd to disband and return to their homes. The special term was ordered as luickly as possible and Tuesday norning the court was opened by Fudge T. S. Sease. When the Jury lad been empannelled there was lardly standing room in the bulbing and the sheriff and his bailiffs lad no little difllculty in preserving dlence. The victim of the attempted astault was the first witness called >y the State and out of respect or her the judge, upon the motion >f solicitor, ordered the court room ileared, allowing only the officers of ho court and the witnesses to remain in the building during the time hat the child detailed her story o| i he vicious assault. She unhesitatingy identified the defendant and told vlth considerable clearness the deails of the crime. After examining several other wltlesses, lite State rested and the lefense offered no testimony. Upon learlng the arguments on both sides ind the charge, the jury retired and eturned within 10 minutes with a rerdict of guilty. Judge Sease, afer admonishing the doomed man vlth a few appropriate remarks, >assed the death sentence that he ie hanged on the 4th day of Febuary. . .. TIfHKE AUTOISTS KILLED. luto and Trolley Car Meet With Fatal Itesulta. At Atlanta three men were klll(1 and two others Injured, one selously, when the automobile In /hich they wore riding collided with , street car late In the afternoon a , ew days ago. The automobile was /recked and the street car badly , amaged. The accident occurred on , 'eachtree road and resulted from an ttempt on the part of the automo- i lie driver to pass between another 4 ??? .tuniui/iit; in tno same direc- ( ion and an approaching street car. ) oth automobiles, it Is said, were t oing at a high rate of speed. The dead: Wm. \V. Garner, aged a 1; Frank George, aged 21; Harold ^ . George, aged 9. W. H. George, c ither of the dead brothers, and an 0 ntomobile dealer was slightly inired, and F. S. Gable, the driver, c as seriously injured. n Garner, for whom a demonstra- t on of the automobile was being a ado, Is an inspector of the Wes- B rn and Atlantic Railroad, and had ist a few days ago been discharg- j, 1 from a local hospital, after re- M ivnrtnrr ~ 1 ,. Mum a recent railroad ac- ^ dent. r * p Saved by a Corset. 'May Tnavis is aljvo because a n >rset steel saved her life. She was a lot at a dance given by an East t< de club at 665 First avenue, New ork. The bullet was deflected by e e corset and Inflicted a slight n ound, instead of a mortal one. < h ESCAPED PELLAGRA WHY OONFEDKKATR SOIJHER9 DID NOT OONTKACT IT. DilTw^ncc In the Methods of Hand* ling the Corn Crop In (Krd by Dr. Callaway. "If moldy cornmeal would cuiiho pellagra, what was the reason that the whole Confederate army did not have the disease?" asked Representative Lamb, of Virginia, of Dr. B. ro /? * * - * * i. uauoway, tut* chief of the bureau of plant Industry, before the house agricultural committee. "They were so vigorous they could j throw It off, 1 presume," answered Dr. Galloway. "Hut there have been great change^ In the method of handling corn. The old method of topping the corn resulted In better maturing and in better hardened grain than we got In the new process, although that has not been thorougly estnhlishcd. "Great quantities of corn are now shipped Into tlve South from the Mississippi valley and other corn producing sections of the country, and the movement usually begins soon after the corn is harvested and corn passing from the cold regions into the warmer section will sweat. It will undergo fermentation that we know very little or nothing about and large quantities of that * corn are sold in the market after it has gone through one of theso processes, and it deteriorates. "We are endeavoring to determine what these changes are and to seegregate or isolate certain of Jhese substances which might ho injurious, if taken in considerable quantities. As corn has been brought into the pellagra problem and the Department of Agriculture stands sponsor for the greatest crop the world has ever known, we want to know if It Is the cause of tho disease and if it Is not the caso we want to know it." _ "TKNNKS8KK" DI TCH SLAIN. ^ Noted YcK^iiian Victim of Tallahassee Iloy's Ilullet. A dispatch from Tallahassee, Fla., says one of the postofllce robbers who was killed by the boy, Sauls, Saturday, was identified by Postoffice Inspector Fred Itoege as "Tennessee Dutch," a notorious cracksman, who recently made his escape from the Greenville, S. C., jail, and who has been sought rt 11 over tho country. The other dead man was partially identified by a weeping young woman as a friend of hers who called himself Walter Roxt*<r. The real name of "Tenijlessee Dutch" was Garber Moore. lie was the son of Jacob Moore, of Clarlcsville, Tenn., and is said to have had a long criminal record. H9 escaped from the jail at Greenville, S. C., April 3, 1 009, by the use of dynamite, together with George Barton, alias "Chicago Army." Barton was captured at Craggy, N. C., after a desperate fight. Acting on information fiimisned by the young woman who identified the younger robber, the police expect to capture the third man, believed to have acted as a puket for the robbers when they attempted to enter the postofllce building Saturday. AMKRICA A\l) FRANCE"French Fdueator <*i\es His First Impression on Arriving in U. 8. "In France It is considered immodest. to speak about money or HOeijil Iinsltlnn '"till" ? iiiiu every OI14 speaks about love. Here every one discusses money and social position and it is immodest to talk about love," That is the first impression of America on Professor Charles Leverrier, the youngest member of the faculty of the University of Paris, and grandson of the discoverer of the planet Neptune. Ho 19 In New York to lecture on "Philosophy and Literature" before the Alliance Franchise. "The thing that has struck mo most about New York," he said, 'taking this city as American, Is he universal atmosphere of work. Everybody seems to work here, and 0 work well. "Even the customs men; T had 1 letter from our minister, but they vent through my trunks as thoruighly as if I were without a scrap ?f paper." Professor Levcrrier praises Amerlan theaters, saying that they aro fiore considerate managements titan . , v??.ii (iKi.y luninra. 1 illHIIlK Or n American author he met, he aid: "I have never seen such a type i Franco. With lis everyone who writes has a special pose a~d lives It 11 the time. Even our greatest and nosfc successful writers have the ose of being fine gentlemen.'* Professor TJeverrier Is accompa-led by his wife, Marie Louise Gerult, author, playwright and ama* but actress. hall all feel proud In the conscious* ess that we had a part, however umble, In taking this census."