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MUST GET A WIFE' Or Lose Twenty Thousand Dollars Left Hfra by His Father .GIRLS TRY TO HELP HIM 7 By the Hundreds They are Willing ^ to Help Him out of his Predica- ( nieiit, and he Passes out Sonic j 1 Samples of their Epistles Written ^ to 111 111. , John K. Mason, an Englishman, is < the sole heir to $20,000, but simply , because he must get amrried to get it <he is bumping into all kinds of trou- , ble. He will be 30 years old in May, of this year, and by the terms of his l father's will be expects to get the ( family ducats. Well, hero it is the first of March, and Mason has neither married nor settled down. Of course, he has had plenty of chances, in fact, this has been his trouble. He has made his predictment known and as the result ^there hare been hundreds of American women willing to aid him in his trouble. Girls, women and maiden ladles from all over the country, have written him that he is their choice for a husband, until now the hapless Britisher shudders at the very Bight of a postman. Mason declared that tho American public has obtained a wrong impression of him. In an interview he is credited with sayiig: "I don't want * wife, I want a job. I don't care a hang for the girls." However, ho qualified this stateemnt later by saying: "Of course, if I found a nice girl I might marry her, provided she had some money. "You see," he continued, "by tho terms of niv father's will I am the sole heir to $20,000. But I have to <got married and support my wife for a year before I can get the inheritance, and I've got to get married before my thirtieth birthday, which comes in Maf of this year, I don't want tlio girl first and the job afterward. I want the job first, then I will think about a wifo. "I have received letters by the hundreds from girls all over the country who want to be my wife, but most of tliem appear to have no money. Ono exception to this is a New Jersey heiress, of uncertain age, ' who says she has a nice home and a summer cottago besides. Another writes me from Washington that she is in the same predicament as myself, and that unless she is married before 1911 she will lose her inheritance. I receivod one letter from a married woman in Chicago who declares that sho wants to leave her presout husband, join mo and bo \kappy for the rest of her life. Here si a sample of the letters I received: "A 'Titian-haired' girl wrote from N n Broadway address: ^ Dear Sir: Seeing an article concerning you in the paper, I am very much Interested. I am an only child going on 19 years of age. My parents are well provided for. People call mo good-looking, tall, Titiankalred, brown eyes; light housekeeping and cooking. If you are looking for a partner to enjoy that $20,000, think of me. "P. S.?Have a good voice and can play the piano." "A Brooklyn girl, 'under 30' anxious to hear from Mason, wrote: "Mr. John Mason: Reading your V - personal for a wife, I should like to Join you, as I fool we can he happy. I am fond of a good home and very domesticated and of a cheerful disposition, and should you desire we can can exchange photographs. I shall be anxiously waiting to hear from you. Miss M. D. "P. S.?Age under 30." A girl writing from Park avenue, New York, seeks a chance to become a 'true and loving wife.' 'Mr. Mason?Dear Sir: In reading a paper I saw a piece where it said you are looking for a wife, so I thought I would write you for a chance to become a true and loving wife for you, and alsq to help you to get your $20,000) I am a very good housekeeper, and can do anything from mending stockings to rocking the cradle. Am young and fairly good-looking and am willing to exchange photos with you. So hoping to hear from you, I remain, Yours truly, Miss T." * Two New liattlcships. ^ A dispatch from Washington says the house committee on naval affairs voted Tuesday for the construction of two battleships, one repair ship, two fleet colliers and four submarines. Seven Persons Injured. At Camden, N. J., seven persont were injured Wednesday, one seriously, in a collision between twe , trolley cars. SUBSC T " FEARFUL TRAGEDY rHIlKK MEN SHOT DOWN IN THE STREET. \ Brother of Governor Kitchin and a State Senator Two of the Men Were Shot. State Senator L. C. Travis anil Representative A. P. Kitchin, brother )f Gov. W. W. Kitchin and Congressman "Claude Kitchin of the Second Korth Carolina district and Deputy Sheriff C. \V. Dunn, all of Halifax jounty, were shot down on the main iireei or scouanu .nock, in. u., rniay afternoon by 10. E. Powell, a ? wealthy and prominent citizen. Travis and lvitehin are seriously, md Dunn fatally wounded. Details of the shooting are meagre. According to the best in formation obtainable. Powell met his throe victims, walking along the stroet together. He approached Senator Travis, it is said, and asked him his reason for not replying to a letter he had written him. Representative Kitchin thinking that Powell was out of humor, placed his hand gently on his shoulder and uttered words Intended to placate him. Without further words, it is alleged, Powell drew a pistol and shot Ktichin down, and in quick succession tired on Travis and Dunn, both victims falling to the ground. Powell then walked to his store. No effort was made to arrest him, and that night he surrendered to an otllcer and was taken to the couaty jail at Halifax. The bullet, which struck Kitchl* at close range, entered the face below the eye and was later taken out below the oar by surgeons. The ball which struck Travis knocked out several teeth and split his tosguo. Dunn was hit below the left shoulder blade, the bullet ranging upward. Roth Travis and Kitchin are among tho prominent citizens of the stato and Powell is a wealthy property owner. ROBIHOI) IN THE STREET. Held np Woman and Child in the Centre of Charlotte. At Charlotte, X. C., and on one of the principal streets*, negroes Saturday held up and assaulted a white woman and child and rohbed them of their pocket !botoks, dontaining sums of money. These bold robberies came as the climax to a long series of nightly hold-ups in which women have been invariably the victims. On the boulevard in I)ilworth Friday morning, an aged woman was knocked down and severely hurt, the negro escaping with the woman's pocket pooh. That afternoon on the main street of the city a child was knocked down and robbed of a purse. The police chased both crimnals with bloodhounds and automobiles and made two arrests. Great crowds followed each prisoner to the station, but no violence was attempted, although for a time great excitement revailed. ' HOLD KOIlHEItY SCHEME. Impersonating Health Inspector Trio Entered Home of Citizen. "Personal inspection" is the latest pretest sprung in Memphis, Tenn., to fleece the unwary. Declaring themselves to ho "inspectors" from the board of health, t.lireo unidentified men gained entrance to the homo of Max Angel late Friday afternoon. Despite his protests, the men insisted that if was imperative Angel submit to a "personal inspection." After strinnine the man of his clothing and the clothing of his hank roll amounting to $44, the trio departed, admonishing Angel to remain quiet until they reported to headquarters. Finally realizing that he. had been duped, Angel notified the police, but the "inspectors" were then far away. * BOVS PJLANNE1) TO IAM)T. Moving Picture Show Caused Attempt at Crime. Five hoys are under arrest in Greenwich, Conn., charged with attempting to wreck a New Haven Railroad .express train. They opened a switch but were seen by switchmen who prevented a disaster. The train 1 carries a special club car on which 1 travel E. C. Converse, the steel mag1 nate; William G. Rockefeller, of the ' Standard Oil company; E. C. Bendicl and a score of other multi-millionaires. The lmys under arrest art all between the ages of 10 and 10 years. All confessed their purpose i of looting the bodies of the dear, - and Injured and that they got theii > ideas of outlawry while attending i nifivlnir nlotnrn aliAnin ' ???W ? ?IIQ 1'IVVUI v tJUUTTOi 1 RIBE NO MANY KILLED Yinety-Two People Crushed to Death by Another Avalanche WERE CLEARING ROAD Another disaster in the Mountains of tho Northwest is Responsible for the Wiping Out of One Hundred or More Railroad Workers While on Duty tMearinu the Traek. A dispatch from Vancouver, 11. C., I says the ninety-two Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackmen and laobrers buried by an avalanche in Rogers Pass on tho summit of the Selkirk range of the Rocky mountains early Saturday morning, all are probably dead. Twenty-five whito men and llfty-seven Japanese are thought to have j*erished. The bodies of only five have been recovered. Tho work or recovering tho dead and opening tho tract is greatly Impeded by a blizzard now raging in the pass. Tho total number of victims are considerably more than one hundred. There was another big slide of slow and rock Saturday morning a mile east of the spot where the nmn were overwhelmed. It destroyed a portion of a snowshed and buried the track for 400 yards to a depth of <0 feet. | Till'] WAIt IS AT AN FAD. XicArugtinn Revolution Seems to Have Petered Out. No wholesale xeoutioiiR of rebel leaders are to .bo expected In Nicaragua following the collapse of the Insurgent cause, according to a statemoat -given out at New York Friday by Ixuils Filipe Corea, special diplomatic representative of the Madriz government iu New York city. "I have received a reassuring cable from President Madriz," said Dr. Corea. "He expresses the opinion that the revolution is at an end and declares that it is only a question of a few days until peaco and quiet are restored. "There is no malico in tho heart of D.r Madriz, and 1 feel sure that he will cherish no spirit of revenge. The civil conflict has been a most trying ordeal for Nicaragua. Now President Madriz can proceed with the work of reconstruction unhampered. "There will not bo any punishment meted out to Gens. Kstrada and Chamorro and the other revolutionits leaders. On the contrary, President Madriz pro|?baly will urge these insurgent leaders to remain in the republic and help him in the great work he has undertaken." * PAYS MURDERER'S INSURANCE. Company (lives Widow of Execute* Man a (Theek. The novel contention that the np plicant misstated his occupation ai that of a traveling salesman, when in fact, ho was a professional burg lar, has failed to support the rofusa of one of the largo insurance com panics of New York to pay a $5.00< policy on the llfo of Adolph BeTCbey alias "Big Bill" Travis, a burglar who was electrocuted in the Stat prison at Trenton, N. J., last Angus for murder. The company dccidoi not to force the Issue in the court and sent a check for the amount t "Big Bill's" widow. The compan also had contended that death b legal execution was not contemplate in the contract with Bertchey an that, as his own act in killing a ma was directly responsible for hi death, he was to all Intents and put pose a suicide, which absolved th company from responsibility. TILLMAN STILL IMPROVING Rut Will Not Re Able to Return t Work this Session. "Senator Tillman has every pros pect in the world of complete r< covery, but we agreed he should nc resume work this session," said Di .1. W. Babcock, who returned to Co umbia Friday from attendance upo Senator Tillman in Washlngtoi "That he can recover is the rewa" of a temperate life. None of hi ursniib ri-imii io ue aneciea, ins in:i ory and mental vigor are unimpalre and he is In good spirits. One of th first subjects he brought up after h , recovered the power of artlculatio was the way we celebrated th . Fourth of July together In Italy." i Negro Is Sentenced. ; Henry Poe, a negro who was cot I vlcted Tuesday at Ilot Springs, Ark r of assaulting a 10-year-old white gl r of that city, has been sentenced to t * hanged April 1. W TO THEY RAN HIM DOWN OKCiAMZKIt OF A TKCST COMPANY IS CAl'OIIT. Tlm)iig!i the Operators of II's Concorn Ho Swindled Many IVopIo and Churches. Quite a number of people in different sections of the State will be interested in the news of the arrest in Oklahoma of \V. J. Xicnoih" organizer and for some time pre sident and manager cf the Metiopditan Loan and Trust company of Greenwood. An indictment aguirst Nicbolls tt'.'IH hnrnloil (III! K? Attorney Krnest Cochran some time ago and a true bill was found by a Federal grand jury, so tho arr?st of Nicholls is the next step in the proceedings which as stated above will bo followed with much,interest, not only in Greenwood, but especially by the Baptist congregation of Hartsvillo, the Pendleton street Baptist church of Greenville and others. The two churches lost a pretty good round sum seach, though the Hartsvllle congregation by timely action, which however precipitated tho fall of the concern, managed to got some of Its money back . Nicholls went to Greenwood In the spring of 1 907, or perhaps early ia the beginning of the year. lie organized the Metrojjolitan Ixma and Trust company proposing to lend money at a low rate of interest, five sad six per cent. One part of tho scheme was that the proposed borrower should pay monthly instalments heforo securing the money, sad later when a certain per cent had been paid in, then tho borrower could secure the amouat wuitcd as a lona. To one who wanted money right bow, this was not attractive sad in many cases it was proposed to the concern and accepted that the money should he paid in a lump slim, ami tho money secured at once. The Hartsvllle Baptlut church at that time was engaged in building a new church and the Pendleton Btreet Baptist church was building as extension. Both sought the benefits of the low rates of interest, and paid down the required "bonus" or whatever it should ho called. The Hartsville people, did not eet thoir money when they had a right to expect it, as it is alleged, and as they sent the Nlcholla' concern a check a for about $1,200, a member of their building committee, Mr. J. J. Law ton, came hero posthaste to investigate. Nicholls had the day before left town leaving his ofllces and effects in the hands of a clerk and stenographer. Upon the advice of his attorneys, Messrs. Grier & Park. Law ton had attachment issued of > the funds of the concern in a local bank and got a good part of it back. * (X)M1*LI.\IKNT FOHMKH FOES "Never Braver Men Wore Uniform" 1 Than Confederates, Before his departure from New Orleans Friday night for Houston, 3 Texas, Gen. L. It. Van Sant, com mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of tho Renilhlln urna I'lmin n v, ?. ...? n 1 ? c? a v/ iin I iiig ovation by Confederate organizations there. ^ "Comrades," declared General Van Sant, "never braver men wore uniform than the Southern soldiers." Tho old veterans broke forth lntc * a spontaneaus "rebel yell," which was followed with a stlrlng eulogj 9 of the Confederate soldier by tlu ? Grand Army commander. Comy mander J. A. Rrookshlro of the y Louisiana-Mississippi division of tlu Grand Army of tho Republic supple (* men ted: n "On Decoration Day let us plani 9 a flower on every soldier's grave not because he wore tho blue or th( 0 Kray, but because he was an Amer * lean soldier." < GRASS WIDOW JAILICD. o Kate rarluun of Spartanburg lick on Serious Charge. i- At Spartanburg Mrs. Kate Parkam *- the young grass widow who wai t bound over to court Monday morn i* ing on the charge of abducting fron 1- her home Miss Ethel Johnson, tlu n 1 fi-voar-old dsniirhtnr nt vfn on.i VI ?'tt . (tun 11M 1 O i. J. W. Johnson, was Friday committer d to Jail in default of a $200 bond. L Is i\ Epton, the well known real estatr i- man went of her bond, hut h< .1 withdrew. Mrs. Parham will b( e tried at the corning term of court e Another very important witness fo n the state lias returned to Spartan e bury, and has been bound over. ' ^ # ^ Itlow Out tlie Gas. One of the most picturesque chief l- tains of the Indian race, and hi ., nephew, both members of the Chip rl pewa tribe in Minnesota, were fount >e dead in a Washington hotel Satur i day, the victims of asphyxiation. J THE HO SLICK SCHEMES Remarkable Cases in Which Daring Swindlers Made Fortunes BY INSURANCE FRAUDS Some of til? Methods I'sed by the S?u*VV*i?*L I KiiYooititt Companies.?Murder and Other Schemes I'sed to Deceive (lie Insurance Coinpaiiirs ami the Public. Insurance frauds have a recogulzod place In the history of crime, says Answers, uud the whole world was recently startled by the accounts of tho man Guilevitch, who, after insuring his life and nominating the amount of the policy to his secretary, actually murdered the latter, and, assuming his identity, claimed the insurance money which would have been due had ho died himself. The abuses of insurance were never more terribly illustrated than by tho case of Herman W. Mudgott, which a few years ago caused a blaze of indignation throughout the United States and Canada. Mudgott and u man named Pitezel went into partnership with the deliberate intention of swindling the insurance companies. Guileritch's method was to select a victim who was to act as his double and murder him by means of poison. Mudgott and Pitezel worn not murderers from the first. They imply procured (lead bodies from inortiiarieB and elsewhere, purchasing them under the protonso that they wero medical students and required them for dissection. The dead body would he arrayed tu Pitezol's clothes, and Mudgett would get the certificate and <iraw the insurance for IMtezel's death. Then the two scoundrels shared tho spoils of thoir crime. Thus they swindled various companies out of ?17,000. Eventually Mudgett got into debt, and found that he must have all the money and uot merely half. Then Pltezel died in earnest. lie was found done to death by chloroform in his ofllco in Philadelphia. Pitezel's children cume to Mudgett asking about their father. Mudgett, in terror of discovery, deliberately murdered them one by one and hid their bodies in cellars in various places. In each case ho drew insurance. Mudgett, when in prison, confessed to twenty-two seperate murders for the sako of insurance money. This is probably a record; but there are many cases of a number of different individuals victims to tho greed of one man. The arch-criminal Meyer, for instance, most certainly poisoned seven different persons. Yet a New York jury was Idiots enough to let him off with his lifo. Mrs. Van dor Lindem of Leyden when convicted of th? murder of an unfortunate girl?one of her relatives?for tho sake of ?800 insurance, coolly confessed to having poisoned or otherwise ended tho lives of fifteen other people, and the "Liverpool Sisters." of evil memory, were put on trial for killing four persons. In spite of the laws which prohibit the insurance of a life by a third party, unless "Insurable interest" can be proved, industrial offices are frequently imposed upon. At Blackburn a case came to light not long * ago of a woman, a lodging house koepor, who held no fewer than 4 0 insurance policies on the lives of men, most whom she had never ^ seen. The amount she paid in premiums was twenty-five shillings a | week. In July last a very clever insur, ance swindler was run to earth in Paris. The emthod of his arresl was curious. One wet day a smartlooking man tried to force his waj j into an omnibus, which was already full. When the conductor told him to get off he hit the man in the face He was at once taken to the j>olict . station. * No fewer than .10 accident insur - ance policies were found on him, and 1 presently it was discovered that he 3 was head of an organization which existed solely for the purposo ol 1 swindling tho insurance companies. He and his confederates owned f 3 number of motors so constructed that accidents occurred constantly 3 The drivers?his accomplices would arrange for heavy indemnities, and r then put their cars in order again Othor members were accustomed t< * fall beneath passing vehicles, nlway! so cleverly as to escape serious in jury, yet as to be able to get mod - ical certificates whereby they coulc r% nl Q S ni /I ??* ?> L - 1 ? * " o uiiuiii uaiiinfiVB. I III! OXICnt Of till - fraud is proved by the fact that th< el Count Do Thuln, as the head swln dler called himself, had boon makini as his own share ?8,000 a year. 1 ins SETS A GOOD IBM IN TIIF STATU I'ltlSON FOR Ht'ININCi A YOUNG UIKL. lit' Had Iteurod Ills Victim from Her Infancy After the Death of Her Flit her. One of the most sensational cases In the recent criminal annals of that section was concluded last Saturday, when K. A. Richcy. a nrominent planter of Abbeville county, was couvicted of criminal assault, with recommendation to mercy, the charge being that be ruined in bis own home a young girl whom be had adopted after the death of her father when she was a baby. The girl was at the time of the alleged crime under 1 1 years of age, the constitutional age of consent. The girl is now an inmate of the Door of Hope In Columbia. Kichey is a man of family. No force In the commission of the crime was alleged, the State relying upon tho theory that the girl was under the ago of consent. Judge Dantzler refused a motion for a new trial. Under tho special statute coveriug tho case the recommendation to mercy reduced the punishment from death to not more than fourteen year's imprisonment, tho child being at the time over ten years of ago. Judge Dantzler gave Richey the full penalty of the law, sentencing him to fourteen years in tho penitentiary. ltichey went into a convulsion when sentence was pronounced and medical assistance was necessary. After examining him the doctor said Kichey had paralysis on the entire right side and possibly of the throat. Ho may not recover, as he seems to be pretty sick. SHOT TO DEATH IIY POSSE. Negro Entered House, Assaulted \\'o~ man and Steals. A dispatch to tho Atlanta Journal from Vidalia, (la., says failing to obey the command of a posse to halt. Will Williamson, a negro desperado, C 1) a r LTt * f 1 wilt) nttni'ldn ir VI ru II C r , .. . M? viwikiiipt ??? i ?J. Ai. Vy Mann and seriously stabbing her husband at Cedar Crossings Wednesday, was shot and Instantly killed at Petros, a station on the (Jeorgla Southern and Florida about five miles from Vidalia. Williamson was discovered in an outhouse at Petros. The posse surrounded the building and the negro attempted to escape by dashing through the lines. Members of the posse called on him to halt, and when he continued his flight, the pursuers fired. Mann was seriously stabbed by the negro when lie entered the home. The negro attacked Mrs. Mann and when her husband came to tlie rescuo Williamson stabbed him with a long bladed knife, fatally wounding him. The house was then robbed by the negro. nitl TIvSII FIIM) HAN(iKI). Made a Fall Confession ami Warned His ltare. Unable to stand as a result of wounds received when he was captured, Itoland Flowers made a full confession from the gallows at Tampa, Fla., Friday just before the trap was sprung and be was sent into otnr n i t o I/* 1 ... ^ 1 --:? * i/. iiuwuiM auviseu several hundred negroes who heard him to remember that there is but one re, suit of such crimes as lie committed. ? When he had finished his statement , he was lifted to his feet, the noose adjusted and the trap sprung. Flowt ers escaped from a (^nvict camp near Tampa on February 10, went to the home of a white woman and ast saulted her. lie was chased with . bloodhounds and, when discovered by officers, attempted to use a gun. r He was shot through the thigh and r side. The execution was perfectly t orderly and was witnessed by 2,000 persons. ' I;cgs (bine High. A jury in the Supreme court of I New York, this week found a verdict ] of $6,000 in favor of Patrick O'DonI ovan. His leg was broken when he , , fell into a hole in a roadway and was an inch and a half short after he i was discharged from the hospital. ' IIIind Tigers Found. I Sumter has been making war on I the blind tigers. The fines so far amount to about $2,500. What the , detective work and nroseeution havn. 31 cost has not beon made public, but will probably be about $1,500. | I Smoked for Ninety Years. 3 Thomas Sheridan, 103 years old, ? who boasted that he was an inveter ate smoker for ninety years. Is dead ? at the home of his grand-daughter in Chicago. IALD