The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 03, 1910, Image 5
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Vara Wards Pass la Hearing On Postal
Rate Increase
CHARGE OF GRAFT MADE
Representative of AgrliUiturai c
Press league Testifies Before the t'
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House Coiuiuittee iu YVaslii'ipton. j<
rot. i tt? -mmr ^
iiungH mux m unit nwu ? . ^
Spirited Discussion was Had- H
* "The American Republic can't
stand forever with this soit of o
thing being run in the people's ears ?
?theso anarchistic statements," ' c
angrily declared Representative c
Smith of California Friday, adiress-j"
ing Herbert Myrick, representative 1 11
of the Agricultural Press League, a v
witness before the house committee P
in Washington on postoillces and 8(
post roads at its hearing on the sub- |
ject of increasing the postal rate 011 *
eecond-class mail matter. tie was
referring to an editorial which Mr.
Myrick acknowledged came from "
one of the publications which he Ci
represented. i n
"1 protest that the farmers of 0
this country are not anarchists and | n
I protest that I am not a traitor," j fl
hotly retorted Mr. Myrick, who i Cl
shortly before had been further al- 1
luded to as being responsible for ( a
traitorous utterances. ; ai
Asked by Chairman Weeks if he "
had been canvassing the country with ()l
circulars and editorials in an en 1 01
deavor to defeat the proposed raise ai
for rates 011 second-class matter, V(
Mr. Myrick gave an affirmative re8ponse.
Mr. Weeks then produced 0(
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several or me circulars auu uuuurials
and Mr. Myrick acknowledged
authorship of them. They were entitled
"A Fresh Attack Upon Liber- A
ty," "Still Another Tax," and "New
Taxes and Fresh Robbery."
"Are these your conclusions? Do
you think there is any robbery?" p(
asked Representative Smith of Call- ja
fornia. co
"I saw that the postmaster gen-! oj
eral had reported that it cost 9 cents
a pound to carry second-class mat- j m
ter while the government receives ta
but 1 cent a pound. If the govern
ment intended to raise it to nine fjc
cents, it would conistitute robbery, .
in my opinion," replied Mr. Myrick ol
"Your editorial refers to fresh (ll
robbery. Do you mean that there Pc
have been other robberies?" asked jn
Mr. Smith. I
"Some peoplo," answered the wit.!cl
ness, "consider tho tariff a robbery, \ pr
and if this raise in rates occurred,
it would bo a fresh robbery."
\ Mr. Smith replied by saying that VG
there was 110 intention of raising tho p(
postal rate to 9 cents, but merely , re
^ enough to make up the $17,000,000 ( W(
postal deficit. |
One of the editorials referred to ja
"scheming" and "graft" going on in ol
! U I. AL ^
congress 111 conxiecLioii wilii me piu- ^
posed increase and Messrs. Weeks, j
Smith and Fassett, members of the ! ^
committee waxed angry over these
characterizations. D
Mr. Myrick stated that he referred
to the relations of the railroads
to the government In the carrying of
mail, and did not intend to rcllect
upon the members of the committee,
v "Don't you use the word "ltob- ?
bery" to mean something wicked?"
Interjected Mr. Smith. "Didn't you '
mean a slur upon congress?" a
"No," said Mr. Myrick. Ll
"That is the impression you con- j 80
vcy," said Mr. Smith. | J()
"I don't think so," answered the ai
witness. J fV
"Then you think the word 'Rob--,
bery' is a polite form for criticism j (
I suppose," continued the California ar
member. j 1
"I merely had reference to the pro-1
posed heavy increase in the postal . ar
rate," replied Mr. Myrick. | ?
Mr. Smith said that he was getting
a large number of letters speaking of n
CO
anarchy and giving the impression w
of hatred against the institutions of
the country. He declared such ideas
were fostered by the editorials in
question and others like them and
that they constituted treason. sa
Mr. Myrick hotly denied that tho Wf
farmers of the country were anarty,
chists or that he himself was guilty ^ai
nf troaann a
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.1 Representative Murdock of Kansas,
another member of the committee,
called attention to the fact that
the government was paying $50,000
a year for carrying the mails across re]
an old bridge at St. Louis, Mo., when , in;
it might be carried for a much small- j Ce
er sum across a new bridge which Ja
was now receiving only a part of th? , sic
business. th<
"I think that is what you mean ! ?
by your charge of graft, isn't it?" i a
> said he, addressing Mr. Myrick. | inj
"That's It, exactly," said Mr. My.. ha
V rick. I co
Chairman Weeks then stated that thi
SUBSCR
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MANY DIE IN WRECK
IF RAILWAY TRAIN NIC Alt LON
DON, ENGLAND, SUNDAY.
rwo Third Class Cars and Pallnmi
of Speeding Train Crash Into Station
at StoaTs Nest.
One of tho most serious railway acidents
in England since the disastei
o tho steamer truln at Salisbury, in
uly, 1908, when many Americans
3st their lives, occurred at Stoala
Jest near London on tho London and
Brighton railway Sunday afternoon,
light dead and about thirty injured
ere taken from the wreck.
Two third class cars and Pullman
f a train from Brighton, traveling at
speed of about 40 miles an hour,
rashed into the station. The third
lass cars were completely wrecked
nd a part of the building was delollshed.
The Pullman was thrown
iolently into tho air but was comaratively
little damaged. Us pasengers
escaped with minor injuries.
One account says that the wreck
ras due to the derailment of a porlon
of the train and another that it
'as due to the breaking of the coupng
between the first and second
irs. The two third class cars reared
lmost 011 their ends and toppled over
11 tho platform, bringing down a
lass of iron girders and timbers
*om tho station, with a tremendous
rash.
Doctors, ambulance detatchments
nd boy scouts with stretchers soon
ppeared. The critically injured were
iken to a local hospital while the
thers were carried to Londan. Sevral
of the injured will die, as they
re very seriously hurt. A rigid instigation
will be made into tho
luse of the wreck. Such accidents
icur very seldom in England.
STRIKES BLOW FOR OLEO.
tlunta Health Committee Urges
Congress to Repeal Tux.
Declaring the tax of ten cents
>r pound on oleomagarino> to bo
rgoly responsible for the increased
st of living, the Atlanta Chamber
' Commerce l/.alth committee a
w days ago adopted a resolution
emorializing congress to repeal the
x. The resolution sets forth that
e tax Is "class legislation, which
sprives the Federal government of
!,000,000 revenue, while it shuts
it of the market a wholesome promt,
made of milk, cotton oil and
)of fat, which otherwise would be
reach of the masses."
The effect of this tax, it is conuded
has greatly increased the
ice of butter.
It is announced that in a letter to
e Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Harty
W. Wiley, chief chemist of the
3deral government, states that the I
peal of Lhe tax on oleomargarine
ould in no way interefro with
ie enforcement of the pure food
ws, adding that ho considered
eomargarino a wholesome promt.
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nseii suspends magistrate
. Lester Guult Confesses to Ret
ting on Game of Chance.
Governor Ansel Friday suspendel
agistrate I). Lester GaulL of Kel
n, Union county, "for hotting a few
mes on a game of chance" last
Durth of July, in spite of splendid
fidavits from leading people of
nion county that Mr. Gault is a
her and industrious man and a
nscientious and ellicient magistrate
id that they had never heaid of his
imbling. Gault's own allldavit
e Governor sadly discovers, co isses
that "he did bet a few times,'
id this being a violation of the law,
e Governor decapitated him.
The affidavits in Mr. Oanlt's favo*
e from the mayor of his home
wn, J. W. Smith; II. C. Little, eight
ars a member of the legislature
r>ni Union county; J. H. Uartles,
unty treasurer; J. G. Long, sheriff.
W. Johnson, judge of probate. *
"Wrestler Killed.
A dispatch from Rluefleld, W. Va.,
ys Walter Lewis shot and fatally
ninded George Hall, in Wise coun,
a few days ago. Lewis is in
II. The men wrestled to settle
disputo. Lewis lost and later
ot Hall in the arm and abdomen. *
Five Men Killed.
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A special from Port Limon, C. R.
ports the death of five men and the
|nry of two others at the Planta
bedilla mine near Port Limon on
nuary 12. The premature explom
of dynamite was responsible for
0 tragedy.
sub-committee engaged In draff?
the postofllce appropriation bill
d discovered this evil and would
rrect It. It was the only one of
d kind they found, he said. *
IBE NO
" WOMANROASTED
Tied Hard and Fast and Gagged and Pnt
on a Lighted Gas Stave
REALLY BURNED ALIVE
Tli? Cruel Fato That Overtook Mrs.
i Alio? Van Zandt at Olncinnatti on
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Saturday Morning.?llor Husband
and Six Associates Are Arrested
Charged With the Awful Crime.
Hound and gagged the body of Mrs.
Alice Van Zandt, burned to a crisp, J
was found Saturday morning lying on j
top of the gas stove in her kitchen at (
Cincinnatti. The woman had met her j
death while her three young children
were playing, .unconscious of the
tragedy, in an adjoining room.
Jesse A. Van Zandt, the murdered
woman's husband, is being held as a
witness by the police. The man ad- ,
inits that he quarrelled with his wife
all Friday night and up until he j
left the house Saturday morning, an \
hour, he claims before the discovery
of the murder.
According to the coroner, Mrs. Van
Zandt was first chocked into unconsciousness,
then bound and gagged
with strips torn from a laco curtain
and placed across the stove with her
head in the flames of the burner. The
horror of the crime is increased by
the coroner's statement that the wohan
must have recovered consciousness
before her death.
When found all the clothes had
been burned off tho body and the
flesh charred to cinders. The police
discovered late Saturday evening that
Van Zandt had been paying marked
attentions to a young girl for some
unie. Tiic father of this girl had I
protested strongly against the daughter's
conduct and had finally brought
her before a police magistrate who
ordered he committed to the house of
refuge. On her father's recoinmen(in'ionp,
however, she was sent instead
to a convent.
Charles Berry, Edward Rattman,
Patrick Langen, Ada Friendship, Mrs
Mary Ford, and the latter's fourteenyear-old
daughter, Lillic Ford, were
also arrested. 1
The police assert they have infor-I
niation that Jesse Van Zandt, husband
of the murdered woman, who is
being held on suspicion, spent considerable
time recently in the house
of the persons arrested, in company
with Agnes Berry, sister of one of the
men arrested, and t h at it is believ-|
ed their testimony will develop something
on which a formal charge!
against Van Zandt can be based. I
Van Zandt spent the day in a cell
and continued to assert his innocence.
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DETECTIVE BOYER PASSES.
Succumbs to Wound Indicted by Negro
Car Thief in Columbia. |
Southern Railway Detective S. H. I
Boyer, who was shot through the
lung by one of three negro car
thieves whom he surprised at work
in the Royster yards near Columbia, I
died Friday morning at the Columbia
hospital.
The sheriff and his deputies apparently
have little hope of ever capturing
the negroes, and the police
are completely in the dark. From
the best information obtainable the
negroes are probably making their
way through North Carolina on ihnif I
way to the North or West.
The ollicers are looking for Eugene
Davis, Hen Little and Dave Richardson.
Negroes fitting their descriptions
were taken aboard the Coast
Line train going out of Columbia
the morning of the shooting . They
[ got off at Easter, in Richland county.
Thursday the same negroes, Sheriff
Hood of Fairfield, is confident, appeared
at the home of L. R. Free, 1
in the Buckhead section of Fairfield J
county. Sheriff Hood at once notl- i
fled all his county officers and also
those of Chester to be on the lookout
for the negroes.
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Two Killed in Wreck. I
Two pasengors were killed In a <
rear end collision of two westbound \
Lake Shore trains at Ashtabula, Ohio, I
early Sunday. Extra train, No. 19, 1
New York to Chicago, was struck by i
train No. 21, and only the fact that i
the fast train was proceeding under i
reduced speed prevented a serious accident.
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Couldn't Stand lecture.
Because his wife chlded him, Bank 1
Burrow, a mechanic, fired a bullet in
to his brain on the porch of hid hoe'o f
at Memphis, Tenn., late Saturday, t
The suicide followed a struggle w iL I
his wife and two small children fc t
possesion of the weapon.
W TO
WORK OF BOLD THUGS
HIGHWAYMKN SANDBAUKD AN I
IlOnnEl) TIUtKN CITIitKNH.
Victims Held Up Beperatelj and In
Different Sections, But Acts Arc
Work of One Band.
| l'he boldest robbory In the history
J of Goldsboro, N. C., occurred Satur!
day night when three men were sandI
bagged by several masked men, who
i relieved them of their watches, money
and everything olse of value.
Each of the victims was held up
seperately in different parts of the
city. Mr. Phil Howell, a prosperous
farmer of the county, was tho heaviest
loser, his loss being $500 and he
was badly bruised about the head
and otherwise severely used by the
bandits. Mr. Howell states that he
was on his way home and was passing
through the southern portion of the
city, when several masked men suddenly
approached in his path and demanded
that he throw up his hands,
and that before lie could comply with
the request, one of te highwaymen
struck him a blow behind his head
which rendered him unconscious and
when he revived he fovnd that he
had been robbed of everyting of value.
The second hold-up was reported
from the northern part of the city,
when a negro man was found in an
unconscious condition by a party who
happened to see liim lying in the gully
and when he regained consciousness
he told about the sanio story as
Mr. Howell?that he had been sandbagged
by a crowd of masked men
and robbed of his valuables.
The third holdup .was reported
from near the Union Station, but at
this time particulars aro meagre.
It is thought by the police that
the robberies were committed by the
same band, who wore bovond n dmiio
professionals and the boldest bunch
of crooks that over operated in that
city. The robberies have caused a
pood deal of excitement and the entire
police force is now 011 the trail
of the robbers.
"WIDOW" FOOLED A WIDOWER.
She Told llim She Was in "Love"
and Secured $20,000.
Detectives in the employ of A. E.
King, a retired business man in
Lincoln, Neb., are seeking to make
an arrest among tho social set of
Kansas City, Kan., as the result of
a peculiar love affair. It appears
the woman in the case represented
herself as a widow, when in fact
she is married and has a husband
living. Mr. King .alleges she told
him that sho was about to receive
a large amount of cash from New
York and secured money to the
amount of $20,000 on this pretense.
Later she declared the money was
only a loan and that the cash had
been spent. She is charged with obtaining
money under false pretense
and may be prosecuted. At present
she has two motor cars and lives in
a tine home with expensive furnishings.
*
MAIL CARRIER RORRE1).
Hold I'p by Highwaymen and Relieved,
of Valuables.
The star route mail carrier from
Dobson to Mount Airy, N. C., was
held up recently by three unknown
negroes and robbed of all his personal
effects, consisting of a watch and
$17. The hold-up occurred just outsite
the city limits of Mount Airy in
a dense wood and nearly frightened
the mail carrier to death. When at
the forks of the road the three negroes
explained to the carrier that
ho would have to change his usual
route on account of a bridge being
unsafe, and this necessitated his laking
the road that leads through the
woods. The negroes heid a gun in
tiis face, dragging him from his buggy
and relieving him of his watch and
money.
The Smallest Man.
A message, from Putnam, Conn.,
jays Reuben Steere, whom Barnum,
:he circus magnate, called the smallest
man in the world, is dying of
meumonia at his home near there.
f-Io is now seventy-two years old.
Steere weights fifty-flve pounds, and
8 forty-seven inches tall. He mar*ied
Miss Annie Mver nnnth?r t ni_
j MaavrvttVt UU?~
mtlan, in 1887.
Premier Mobbed.
Following the election of Premier
\snulth, the premier was mobbed
n London by militant suffragettes,
rhe women in a body charged time
ifter time in their attempts to reach
;he minister and there were several j
ively skirmishes with the police. Mr.,
\squith was convoyed to a place of
afety. 1
THE HOI
* DIED IN A MINE
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One Hundred Lives Snuffed Out By a
Terrific Eiplositn
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AT PRIMER, COLORADO
The Awful DlNAMtcr In Sulci to t>o the
Worst that Hon Kvor Happened lu
the History of Western Coal Mining
and Has Cast Gloom Over tho
Surrounding Section.
A dispatch from Prlmero, Col.,
says more than a hundred men are
believed to have been killed by a
terrific explosion in the Prlmero mine
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
at 4:.10 Monday afternoon.
Fight bodies have been recovered
and rescue parties are making desperate
efforts to reach tho Interior
workings cut off from the outside by
the caving of the main shaft.
Three men were killed at the
mouth of the mine slope by the force
of tho explosion.
Itoth fans with which tho mine is
equipped were shattered and it was
impossible to enter the mine until
they were repaired.
As soon as the fans were repaired
General Superintendent J. F. Thompson
and a rescue party entered by the
main air shaft, but they were unahln
to roach the main shaft, which is
completely blocked. The party returned
to tiie surface after securing
five bodies, which were badly burned.
A party equipped with oxygen helmets
replaced this party, tlio workings
were reached through an air
shaft and they are now searching
for more bodies.*
Miners were rushed to Primero
from Trinidad, Segundo, Starkville, I
Sopris and Coperville, and are laboring
frantically to clear away the I
main shaft, relieving each other ev-1
cry few minutes. It is impossible to I
determine how far the main shaft I
has caved, and it may lie days before
the shaft is cleared and tho total
death list known. j
There is little hope that any of thel
men in the mine are alive. The com-I
pany clerk reports that 7 9 safety J
lamps are missing, and it is sure that
that number of men are entombed. I
Many of the miners, however, say I
that 150 men are missing. !
Most of the men are Slavs and I
Hungarians. Pit Hoss Wllhclm is I
known to be among the missing.. I
The camp is a scene of indescribable
horror. While every ablebodled
man is taking his turn with pick and
shovel to clear the shaft, the women I
and children, kept back by ropes, I
have gathered about the shaft, weep-1
ing and calling wildly ui>on their I
loved ones, who have not been found. I
At ten o'clock Monday night iif-l
teen bodies had been recovered from 1
one of the main slopes. The bodies I
| were literally blown to pieces and
were unrecognizable. I
Officials of the company stato that
the disaster is the worst in the hts-1
tory of the coal mining in the West. I
A similar explosion, in which 201
were killed, occurred in the same
property January 23, 1907. [
Superintendent of the Wooten I
Mines, and J. E. Minley, mine inspector,
will head another rescue
party, as soon as batteries for electric
lights arrive by special train. |
Members of the special rescue par-I
ty say that the effect of the explosion
underground is indescribable. The
bodies reoovf?rn#i >
vi v<i m u nui i i my niirned
and unrecognizable. One ijody
was impaled on broken timbers.
lifjACK HANI) (1AN(J SENTENCED.
Leader Ciets Sixteen Years and Others
from Two to Ten Years.
A dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, says
all fourteen of the Sicilians, charged
with a "Black Hand" conspiracy,
were found guilty by a jury Saturday.
Salvotore Lima, the leader, was
sentenced to sixteen years imprisonment.
Agostic Marflsi, Vlncenzo
Argi and Salvotore Itizzo were granted
new trials and the others wore
sentenced from two to ten years. *
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Death Had to Steal Him.
Death in a violent form was
fought off four times by Joseph Itoevalle,
of Connersville, Ind., during his
61 years of life, only to find him
napping, this week, when he was
found dead in bed. When a young
man ho fell on a pitchfork, each
prong entering his body. His skull
was fractured In a fight and in his
last accident he was run down by a '
train. -
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Black Hands at Work.
A bomb Sunday blew out tho front
of Francisco Dalafarno's grocery In I
Queens, N. Y. No one was Injured. ,
The police say Delafarnos refused to
pay blackmail to Black Handera.
DRY HEH
ft , .. * > Jl L?' -* *'dXnllk*' -w - ' -
PARTNER WITH NATURE
SOUTH CAROLINA ROY WIN*
1 GOVERNMENT PRIZE.
A Ifl^ch Tribute Paid to Yonng
BoMcom 1'fther for th? Grand Production
of Corn on One Acre.
Wo got the following rrom the
Now York Evening Mail: There
probably is nothing moro prosaic
to tho superficial observer than a
one-acre cornfield, unless it Ib another
just like it, or possibly a little
more so. It is merely a patch of
growing crop, where the combined
forces of man and the favoring sunshine
are coaxing nature more or
less effectively to smile with a harvest.*
From the hour of planting,
down through successive booings to
the final processes of cutting and
husking, the field is nothing moro
to the unthinking man a commonplace
scene of human activity, in
which the work is hard and tho returns
uncertain.
Hut Bascom Usher's one-acre corn'Held
was distinctly different. It
was the theatre not only of an exploit
which charms one's imagination,
hut of an agricultural triumph
that should make every American
boy proud.
Bascom Usher Is 1 7 year old, and
lives in South Carolina. Now, every
year the Government organizes a
national corn contest for hoys, in
which $10,000 in prizes is awarded
for various achievements, including
one for the largest yield from a
single acre. Bascom Usher entered
! 1<>u? *
...ou J cm a uuniOSL. no ploughed his
aero, planted it, cultivated it an ha
believed It should be, and watched
and tended it as if it were some delicate
flower bed. The work was hard
?everybody that ever hoed corn,
knows that?but Bascom Usher forgot.
his fatigue in the sheer joy of
watching that corn grow. l*i due
season it was cut and shuckel, atid
a little later it was huksed. Then
the official committee came a-ound,
looked over the results,and decided
that Bascom Usher's aero had won
the first prize.
Please consider what this victo y
meant to Bascom Usher in a practical
way, and quite apart from tho
exaltation of pride, which it must
have brought to him. His oneacre
field sold as prize seed at $2
a bushel, making $305, and the fodder
for $30, or a total of $335
Allowing $135 for labor, tho oneacre
cornfield returned a net profit
of $2 00?a yield rich enough to mako
the average grown-up corn grower
gasp.
But tho sense of conquest was
worth more than the money. Bascomo
Usher has learned bow. He
is a master of the soil. Ho has discovered
a new charm in land and
become a joint partner with naturo
in a combination capablo of transforming
black loam and sunshine
into gold.
MUST WORK OX FARM.
Lexington, Ky., Woman Makes m
Novel Will.
A novel solution of the problem
of keeping not only boys, but tho
girls on the farm, is disclosed in tho
will of Mrs. Arthursa Epperson,
of Lexington, Ky., which was filed
in the probate court there a few days
ago. The last codicil of tho instruaoI
-J
jmuviucs ror mo division of a
largo estate equally among her children,
with the reservation "that If
any of my children marry or qu't
working on the farm, or on my real
estate before live years shall hav9
expired after my death, he or shi
shall forfeit all interest in my estate
when final disposition is made excep*
the amount of $1."
fluid Painfully Itemed.
A few days ago after Mr. and
Mrs. M. I. Sholor's little J-yenr-old
child, of Itessemer City, N. while
jdaying around the stove caught fire
and was painfully, though it Is
thought, not dangerously bit* red, before
the fire could be extinguished.
Mrs. Sholer, Miss May Woo!en and
Rev. Mr. Wooten, sister and father
respectfully, of Mrs. Sho'or. were
downtown when the accident occur
red. The little ono waj ' csting
very well at last report.
Tackled the Wrong Woman.
Rosa Miller, colored, who resides
between Ten Mile and Charleston,
heard some ono in her house latn
one night recently and she secured a
shot gun and went to investigate
The burglar ran into the yard an 1
began "sassing" Rosa, who shot him
in tne calf of the log. The thief
proved to bo Henry Lawrence, a no*
torlous negro character. He wa*
captured. The wound Is not serious.
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