The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 10, 1910, Image 5
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.
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