The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 17, 1910, Image 3
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One Rich Youog Man Found by Another
in His Palatial Home
ALONE WITH HIS WIFE
And Ho Proceeds to Tio Him and
Carve Him With a Knife in the
Most Fiendish Manner and Contin^
ed to do so Until Stopped by a
Policeman.
Finding Jere F. Lillis, a millionaire
local banker, in his home at
Kansas City, Mo., when he arrived
unexpectedly alone with his wife at
an early hour Sunday morning John
P. Cudahy, a wealthy packer, and
son of Michael Cudahy, the Chicago
millionaire, committed an assault on
the man, which led to his arrest on
v a charge of disturbing the peace.
J Lillis was pretty badly done up.
Cuts inflicted with a knife, are on
his face, limbs and arm. The cuts
have been made in criss-cross fashion.
Before cutting Lillis, Cudahy is
said to have hound him with a strong
rope. One of Cudahy's chaffeurs
was present. Neighbors heard Idllis
screams and groaning in the Cudahy
home and called the police.
Ten minutes later Patrolman Underwood
hurried to the Cudahy home
which is located in a fashionable part
of the city.
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v ping into tiie hall he heard screams* !
coining from a parlor. Then came
groans and cries for mercy. Underwood
found three nun were in the
room, which was brilliantly lighted.
Prostrate on the floor lay Lillis, half
nude and bound with a rope. His
lower limbs was bare. His few remaining
clothes were bloody. Above
him stood Cudahy. Me was in cor
rect evening dress, except that he
wore no coat. His sleeves were rolled
irp. Blood was on his hand. At
Ills side stood his chaffeur.
'None of the men noticed Underwood.
Lillis groaned and tugged
feebly at the cords that bound him.
"Dont' do it Jack; please don't
do it," he pleaded.
Rushing over to the trio, Underwood
addressed Cudahy.
"What, does this mean?" he queried
.
He has ruined my homo. He's
ruined my home," said Cudahy, turning
to the officer and making no attempt
at resistance.
After seeing that Lillis had boon
started to a hospital, the policeman
took Cudahy to t'.io police station.
The packer gave a cash bond and
was released. '
From the beginning to the end
of the affair Mrs. Cudahy was not in 1
evidence. Since Cudahy's marriage
to Miss Edna Cowin, who was a society
hollo, of Omaho, on December '
18, 1809, the family has been prominent.
On the day of the marriage
Cudahys father made him manager
of his Kansas City packing interests.
V" After a three months honeymoon,
which included trips on special trains
and the occupancy of a palace in
Italy, the couple returned and purchased
one of the finest homes in
Kansas City. The city readily received
them.
The Cudahys have five children.
Lillis is a bachelor, 47 years old. Ho
is manager of the Western Exchange
Bank and prominent socially.
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cntiiic Authority
s demonstrated that ot two
ives ol bread* one raised 1
th Royal Baking Powder* mm ?
d the other with alum bak- JrQIft
I powder, tho Royal raises! jp^
if is 32 gtcr ocntm ntoro
jcsliblo than tho other.
Avoid Alum
WHAT THE WIFE SAYS ||
MRS. CUDAHY MAKES A PUBLIC
STAT EME NT. '
Admits Taking Automobile Hides
aiul l>iiiin^ With Lit lis When Her |
Husband Was Away.
Mrs. Cudahy makes a statement In
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reference to the sensational happenings
in her home at Kansas City. She
declared that her husband's attack
upon Mr. Lillis was the culmination
of a long line of brutal treatment,
and his last act would result in the
seperation of herself and husband.
"It was all caused by an automobile,
a run-about that Mr. Lillis
had ordered," she said.
Lillis received a run-about last
Friday, Mrs. Cudahy declared, and
she told him she wanted the first
ride in it. she told Mr. Cudahy's
chauffeur, she said, of the fact that
she was to have the first ride in
the new run-about, "incidentally,"
she said, "I remarked that Mr. Cudahy
was going out of town, down to
Grainfleld, Kan., 1 believe,, to look
at some cattle."
She said she took a ride Friday
afternoon and again Saturday afternoon.
They went to the Baltimore
Hotel for dinner, she said, where they |
stayed only long enough to eat, and
then went out. They went riding in ,
the evening also, she said, and upon
their return to the Cudahy home
Lillis was about to drive away when ,
she invited him in. t
"We went to the library down- ,
stairs," she said, "and had been talk- ,
ins only a few minutes when Mr. j
Cudahy rushed in the room. Ho (
was accompanied by Fenn (.Johann
Moss) the chauffeur. They seized t
Mr. Lillis and began beating him." f
Mrs. Cudahy declared that her (
husband beat Mr. Lillis over the head <
with an electric searchlight, about v.
eight inches long and about the size j
of a man's wrist. (
"That was what he hit me with
too," she declared, displaying a bad- (
ly swollen eye, colored a deep pur- j
pie. \
At some length she then gave a f
detailed statement of the attack. j
She said she believed they would try .,
to kill Lillis; and "I though they
would try to kill me, too," she said.
Having finished tying Lillis, she v
said, "Mr. Cudahy came tearing up- (]
stair. He struck me over the head
and in the left eye, and you see what ^
he did," raising her handkerchief j
to her swollen eye. He rushed down- v
stairs, she continued, "and then I r
guessed he began to use the knife ,0
on Mr. Lillis." 8
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A Good Fish Story.
Hero* is a fish story of tho 101 ft
crop published by tho St. James S
Budget. "While Mr. McRorie, an an- n
OTIai* loH 1 n T /V/.L '
niu> tmuiii^ i /ucn i <iy, was nsning o
In the Killln waters with two rods, >
I wo salnvon took the halts simultan- 1
eously and l>oth were secured. The "I
salmon /welshed sevente*m pounds ji
each." Can any of our fishermen t
beat that record. e
Hold Up Hill.
Representative Rucker of Missouri
ranking Democratic member of the 1
House committee on the election of 1
the President and vice-President, as 1
serts. despite repeated demands by f
the Democrats that the committee ho I
called to consider the measure, that fi
the bill requiring the publication of r
campaign contribution is being held i
up in the committee. c
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CAN THEY DO IT?
[fforts Being Made to Wrest Control of
Cotton Production from
"?i nurno nr tttr paittm
'AiunLitd ur itiL auuin
n Germany and England Persistent
Work is Hcing Done for the Itupid
I)evelo|mient of Cotton Growing
in Their Different Colonies With
the Hope of Being Independent.
In commenting 011 the eiTorts of
he foreigners to enter extensively
nto the production of cotton to av>id
the American market the Baltinore
Sun says:
No doubt the South's monopoly
>f cotton production is fairly secure,
>ut American planters must not
hink that no effort is being made to
vrest it from them. In Germany
ind England very persistent work is
icing done for the development of
sotton growing in colonial posessions.
Cotton manufacturing employers
md employes have come together in
freat Britain to collect money for
otton growing. It has been arrangid
to collect two cents a month from
;ach cotton worker in all mills and
vorksliops in the cotton districts for
ifteen months, beginning with this
nosent month.
A committee in each town and disrlct
will look after the collections
md the hope is that Africa and cls?'a
here cotton growing can he so ex>anded
that'the price of America''
:otton will he kei)L in check.
At the meeting of the Internaional
Cotton Federation at Frankort-on-Main
last October, it was desided
to co-operate with the cotton
growers of India, and Mr. Armo
Schmidt was sent to India to ascerain
the possibilities of extending
iotton growing fhere.
Mr. Schmidt has Just returned to
Germany after a tour of 1,000 miles
hroughout India, in the course of
vhich he succeeded in affiliating the
otton associations of Horn hay, Cawn>ore,
Agra, Dilhl, Calcutta, Madras
md South India with the internationil
federation.
Experts assured Mr. Schmidt that
vith in four years India could proluce
10,000,000 bales of cotton. Such
. quantity, the Germans think, would
lave a powerful influence in checkng
American speculation. This
ear's Indian crop is estimated to he
icarly half as large as the American
rop and the quality of the lihro of
ome of it is very good.
Sheriff Dies.
Deputy Sheriff Dunn, who with
It ate Senator Travis and Assemblynan
Kitchin, was shot down on one
f the principal sheets of Scotland
Jeck, N. C., on Friday by E. 10
?owell, a merchant died on Monday,
"ravis and Kitchin continue to im>rove.
The removal of Powol: to
he stato prison has had a quieting
ffoct.
Result of ft Quarrel.
As tho result of a family quarrel
n which hia wife took aides with
icr father, Wm, Davidson, a farmer,
iving near Ithaca, Mich., struck hia
ather-ln-law, Julius Toet, with the
iutt of a shot gun, killing him initantly.
Seizing a razor, the man
silt his wife's throat and after niakng
sure that she was dead, blew
>ut his own brains.
BURNED TO DEATH
M118. IIAIIHI KT lit BY MKKTS \
THAGIC FATK.
Went into Burning House After Boiiifx
Warned Not to l>o So uiul
Was Burned to Dentil.
Mrs. Harriet Irby, widow of the
late John II. irby, of Marlbotto
county, was burned to death at tlie
home of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Kinney,
near Blenheim, Wednesday
morning, between (> and 7 o'clock.
Mrs. Irby's body was almost completely
destroyed and Mrs. Dudley
and Mrs. Kinney were saved from a
like fate by a faithful old family
servant, Pleasant Gibson.
It seems that the three ladies were
alone when the lire was discovered.
W. L. Kinney, a son of Mr. W. P.
Kinney, went over to his uncle's on
business before breakfast, and the
lamp was left burining in his room.
Mrs. Irby was in the back porch,
and Mrs. Dudley was in a front
room. Mrs. Irby went into the burning
house again.
She was warned not to enter again
but could not be kept back. It is
thought that she fainted, or in some
manner fell unconscious. Mrs. Dudley
was painfully burned in an effort
to rescue her sister, and she and
Mrs. Kinney were held from the
burning building by the negro. The
terrible news was a shock to tho entire
community.
Mrs. Irby, a member of a large and
influential family, was respected.and
revered by everyone. She leaves a
brother, John It. Townsend, and two
sisters, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Kinney;
also four children.
MAKKS ItlGIl ItKWAItP.
To the Man Who Saved His Daughter
From Death.
The saving of the life of May
Jcnnintrs. near Alnino ?
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made a millionaire of Francis B.
Stromo, formerly a tramp. Strome is
about 50 years of age, a machinist,
for many years a resident of a small
town in Illinois. He met with reverses,
and after the death of his
wife t/ook to drink.
He was heating his way westward
trying to make California and was
hanging around Alpine, Tex., trying
to catch a train when the girl was
crossing the railroad track just as
the train approached. The child hecame
bewildered and would have
been killed had Strome not jumped
on the track and snatched her clear
of the rails, just in time.
He disappeared, but the father of
the girl had him located about 50
miles away and brought him hack to
the ranch and kept him at the place
for sevoral days, learning something
of his history before telling him
what he was going to do for him.
Strome agreed. to_settle down and
care for his property. Last week,
Col. Sam Jennings, the cattle king,
filed ?i document for record transferring
a half interest in his 40,000
acre ranch and 25,000 cattle and all
the buildings of the Valvedere ranch
in Jeff Davis county to Strome. The
property is said to be worth between
$700,000 and $1,000,000. *
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| TBIKD TO POISON IIIM.
I "Fixed" Boils Left at the Door of a
Preacher.
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the State Laboratory of Hygiene,
completed an analysis which showe I
that a hag of rolls left a few days
ago at the home, of the Rev. A. .1.
Voeglin, of the Manhattan Park Presbyterian
Church, of Irvington, N. J.,
had been freely sprinkled with white
arsenic. In the judgment of the
chemist there was sufiicient poison
on each roll to cause the death of
four persons. The rolls were left
a few days ago at the door of the
clergyman. Th^v were sprinkled
with a white substance somewhat resembling
flour, yet differing sufficiently
to arouse the suspicion of the
Rev. Mr. Voeglin, who reported the
matter to the local authorities.
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THK FERTILIZER TAX.
Is tlio Greatest Ever Collected in
Its History.
The State treasurer's receipts of
the fertilizer tax are heavier to date
than for any similar period in the
twenty years such a tax has been collected.
The total tax up to We lie sday
was $141,762.38, over $2 bOO
ahead of the same period last year
when the high water mark was reached.
The tax collected so far this
year is greater than for any one
entire year up in 1 906. The total
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^vuar was $202,741.31. Two
weeks ago the receipts to date w re
$2f?,000 al>ove the same period last
year.
Hocnnso Ho Was Scolded.
A scolding by his school teacher
was more than Guy Moses, of Maplehill,
Kansas., fourteen years old,
could endure and he killed himself.
Tfis parents found his body when
they went to call him for breakfast.
"I don't care to live* becauso teacher
scolded me," said a note left by
the b?y- , It a:.
4 Bank of
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J OaplUl Stock
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A Total Anita
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A J. A. McDerinott, J
A T. McNeill, B. G. C
2? tlebaum, Hal. L. I
A The oldest Hank in llori
if&L olina. Associated with, (ho ri
the past decade. Our. policy
the "Independent Hepublie."
I ([Ijl to our customers every . ream
J /|\ tent with sound hanking. We
fals, firms and corporations.
1). A. BHIVKY,
rp \ ICO-I'resident.
HANK OF
Conwa
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.
SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS
DIRHC
Robert B. Scarborough,
II. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
Wo continue to jay T) per cent intere
it your account
UOHKUT B. 8CAKBO|{OtKiIl, II
Pit KSIDtHT.
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1U N ON HANK ION 1>S.
Depositors Withdrew Over Two Million
Dollars.
After a run such as has never been
known in Cleveland, Ohio, the depositors
of the Society for Savings regained
their equilibrium and Friday
afternoon the panic was over.
In the two days and a half that
tho run lasted, $1,250,000 was with
drawn at the rate of $1,225 a minute.
As the majority of the deposits
affected were small ones, the,
record made by the bank in handling
the withdrawals is regarded as remarkable.
Spurred by the offer of $0,000 in
rewards, $1,000 of which is personally
offered by former Gov. Myron T.
Herrick, president of the bank,
thousands of amateur and numbers
of professional detectives are searching
for the originators of the groundless
rumors on which the run was
based.
Tt was said that the bank officers
have practically located the source
of the canard. *
HKVKX MINIMIS KILLH!>. j
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Suffocated by Gas in .Mine H.vplosion;
One Man Mscape<I.
Seven miners lost their lives in
the number live shaft of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company near
Wilkesbarrc, Pa., Saturday night in
an explosion of gas. There were 8
men in the party and one of them
was away from the scene of th" ex- '
plosion getting some toe.Is and was
not injured. All the dead were suffocated.
The officials have no theory as to
Ihe cause of the explosion. When the
bodies were brousr.ht up there were
many pathetic scenes around the
mouth of the shaft where the rela*
lives and friends of the victims had
garnered. General manager Huber
said that the explosion did not cause
much damage. The eighth man in
the party left his fellcnv workers to j
get the tools about five minutes he- 1
fore the explosion occurred. Several
of the rescuers had narrow escapes
from the fire damp that filled the
mine.
UHNAT COKN STATU.
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South Carolina Stands at the (lead
of Tlieni All.
Dr. H. T. Galloway, chief of the:
bureau of plant industry of the department
of agriculture, the fore-1
most authority on the subject in the!
country, says that South Carolina)
is the best corn growing Stato in
the Union. So the doctor told Representative
Johnson a short while
ago. "Other States produce more
corn than South Carolina, it is true,"
says Mr. Johnson, "but what Doctor
Galloway -meant was that In all ,
the great corn contests the contestants
in South Carolina produced ,
more corn to the acre than those of
any other State, not excepting the
great States of tho Middle West." J
Slide Down Stairs.
At New York eleven year old John
Hughes is in the hospital with a
fractured skull, owing to his mother j
commanding him to make haste, j
Sent on an errand, ho undertook to ,
slide down the banister from the
third floor with a tin can in his
hand and fell three stories. He will
probably die.
Clifford Pinchot is conserving all
our national resources except the (
lemon crop, which is fnst being depleted
by Secretary Ballinger.
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250,000.00 M
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tno. C. Splvey, D. Jti
'nlliiiK, C. P. Quntluck,
L). A. Spivey.
y and a pioneer In Kaatorn Car- jn
11?icl progress of our Oounty for Mk
11?is been for the upbuilding of jLi
With this in view wo extend W
inafilo accommodation ronsis- fl\
Noiieit the account* of iudividu- /ft
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HAI,. L. HUCK, ^
Cashier. ?
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HOUUY,
y. S, C.
$ 50 (AM*
10 odj
50 odj
110 (XX
noks
W. H. Lewis,
\\\ A. Johnson,
Will A 1' reonmn.
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BUCK, VILI. A FKJ KMAM
Vice I'iiksioknt, Cahmirr
PROFESSIONAL CAltDS.
11. II. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At Law,
CON WAV, 8. C.
G. K. ST. AM AND,
Attorney at Luw
Conway, 8. C.
R. R. 8CARHROUGH
CONWAY, 8. C.
Attorney at Law.
W. K. McCORD,
BURGKON DKNT1H1
CONWAY, 8. C.
Over Dank of Ilorry
H. II. BURROUGHS
^liyn lelan mid Surueos.
CONWAY, 8. C.
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Attorney nt I,?n
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Pay Your Taxes.
If you haven't paid your taxes, you
had better do so at once, as the penalty
of 7 per rent, for failure to pay
county taxes went into effect Tuesday
and will continue until March
1 T.th, after whleh executions will be
Issued and served by th^ sheriff.
There are some who have failed to
pay taxes up to this time, and unless
they pay during the next few
days, executions will have to be Issued
by the sheriff.