The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 14, 1910, Image 5
HAVE A HOT TIME
II,/1 , 0
. SeisalMBal Scenes Are Enacted bj Twt
* Senators.
NEARLY COME TO BLOWS
Bribery InvesUgntion in Mississippi
Has Kngendered Much Bad Blood
and Some of tho Participants Seem
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# to Want to fignt u udi m n
Fisticuff.
The bribery Investigation of the
Mississippi Senate at Jackson is getting
warm. Senators Banks and
Tucker made frantic efforts to lay
hands upon one another's during the
Investigation late Friday, and a personal
encounter between the angry,
shouting men was only averted by
L strenuous work on the part of tholr
fellow Senators. Tucker, who is
counsel for Senator Bilbo, angered
by the use of the shorter and uglier
word, rushed at Banks. Banks, white
with. anger, rushed toward Tucker.
Other Senators intervened and roughly
pulled the men apart.
The quarrel camo suddenly and
unexpectedly. L. C. Dulancy, charged
by Senator Bilbo with having paid
him a bribe, had been on the stand.
He had denied the charge flatly, an1
was being cross-examined by Senator
Tucker, of counsel for Senator
Bilbo.
The witness was unshaken in his
denial of any crookedness, but declared
that Bilbo repeatedly hinted
that he could be bribed, and repeatedel
asked tor and received bottles
of liquor. He declared that Representative
Cowarl intimated that he
would not be averse to selling his
vote.
r"1- ? nvnlnalnn Dlilane'/
I'Ut'U V/OUIV luu unp.vw.x...
was asked by Tucker if Percy had
not paid the orpenaes of all Senatorial
candidates except Vardainan. Sena/tor
Anderson, who was a candidate,
arose, atern and angry.
"It Is an absurd and insulting
question," said Dulaney.
A number of Senators were on
their fee demanding recognition.
P-ei'dent Pd Tem Dear?, was pounding
for order, a dozen men were
shouting, and abv ve the uproar could
he heard the trembling voice of Senator
Anderson, shouting.
"I resent that question; I resent
the insinuation that I permitted any
one to pay my expenses."
From the rear of the Senate, slender
Senator Hanks came rushing to
the front. He got the floor and
shouted:
"Any man who says or insinuates
anvhntiv TKiid the expenses of
my friend, Congressman Byrd, is a
liar, as raise as hell." 1
Senator Tucker made a rush at
Banks, and Banks charged to meet
hinx. Senators turned over tables
and chairs to get between the angry
Bolons. It looked like a personal
difficulty could not be averted, but
some rough handling of the two belligerent
Senators ended in their being
jerked apart. After another
wrangle, the question was withdrawn.
Then several Senators demanded
that the newspaper men be "instructed"
not to mention either the quar}
rel or the wrangle between Senators
\ % Banks and Tucker.
\ "It was stricken from the record,"
? naid President Pro Tern Dean, "and
nowsnaners cannot print any
thing not in the record, or the result
of anything not in the record,
including tour little personal disa^reerents."
Then every one apologized. Dulaney
was excused, and when things
quieted down a bit, the testimony
was resumed. Several witnesses testified
to Dulaney's good reputation
for veracity and integrity.
At the night session W. W. Mitchell,
circuit clerk of Poplarville,
(L Senator Bilbo's homo, testified that I
' he knew Senator Btflibo's reputation
for truth and veracity, and that he
, "would not believo the Senator on
oath.
W. A. White, an attorney from
"nn^vi tnlrt of trvine out Senator
JLM IIVAIt v v . v. - ? w
Bll'bo In 1908. A bill was drawn
and sent by a man namod Hob Moseley
to Bilbo. Moseley returned and
t said:
{ "Bilbo did not give me a chance
^ ? A to -make him a proposition, he made
us one."
Robert Moseley, formerly town
marshal of Biloxi, said:
"I went to see Bilbo, and when I
explained the bill he took tout a little
book, ngured a while and said,
"It will cost you three hundred dollars.'
I offered him a check, but he J
asid he wanted money."
After (Moseley had testified the
Senate adjourned. *
SUBSf
ASSAULTED IN HER HOME
TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY LADY
OF SHANDON.
Italian Is Held to Answer Charge.
Victim Kept Her Awful Secret l*nder
Threat of Death.
The Columba Record says, Olindo
Sceser, an Italian dressmaker em'
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pioyea in me etrntmiDuuicui. vi * *.
Netzkar, on Hampton street., has been
committed to the county jail to await
trial on a serious cha/rgo?the penalty
upon conviction being death. It
is alleged that he committed a criminal
assault on a well known married
woman who resides in Shandonj
The assault is alleged to have been
committed a mouth ago at the victim's
home, where Seaser boarded
but the charges brought to light at
the preliminary hearing before Magistrate
Ftowles did not become known
until Wednesday. The woman said
she dared not tell her husband because
Sceser threatened to kill her
if she mentioned the matter to any
one.
Her husband said that for several
weeks his wife acted strangely, as
though there was something of a
sorious nature on her mind. Finally
she told him of her accusations
againt Sceser and the arrest of the
man followed.
The parties involved in the case
are well known in Columbia. The
husband of the woman is employed
at one of the leading stores in
the city.
At the preliminary hearing of the
case there was an incident out of
the ordinary. When Sceser entered
the court room in the company of a
constable the husband of the woman
leaped on Scesor and would have
sbruck him several times, but for the
interference of the officed and some
of the court attendants.
The charge under which Sceser is
being held is not bailable, so he must
necessarily remain in jail until the i
term of court, which convenes next
iruonth.
The victim's story is that on the
day of the assault Sceser came in to 5
dinner and finding her alone, dragged i
her Into a room and there acccm- l
plished his purpose. Sceser has con- !
tinued to live in the house. * j
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LOVE LEADS TO KIOTS. <
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Twenty-threo Lives Have Been Losl 1
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Because of Them. 1
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The love affairs of Saofet, a beau* (
tiful Turkish maiden, and Stefandoff, ]
a young Buglar, have caused much * 1
rioting on the streets of Ruszczuk- ]
on-the-Danube and the death of 16 |
citizens and seven soldiers. Crowds ^
have taken sides with the father of
the bride or with the young Bulgar,
who is a popular man and a bank .
clerk, and are fighting and quarrel- ,
ing because the parents will not al- ,
low his daughter to live with an j
"infidel" Greek Catholic. (
Saofet is 16, Stefanoff is a widow- ,
er of 110. She is a Mohametan, he is |
a Greek Catholic. She fell in love
with him but her father would not ,
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sanction a wedding. One night the (
two eloped to Stefandoff's mother,
and according to an ancient Bulgar- ,
ian custom this is equivalent to marriage.
Furious at this the bride's
fnthor atsilr* Ms rl ji n irh t or ji n rl n laced
her in jail.
The brides-groom gathered 2,00 0,
stormed the jail and carried the j i
bride away in triumph. The soldiers ' ,
were called out and stormed his ,
house and a bloody battle followed.
In its midst the bride disappeared;,
and two officers of the army were .
lynched on suspicion of having kill
ed her. The whole country is tak- ,
ing sides in the quarrel. * .
COKNS liKAl) TO MUKDElt.
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A Man Forfeits His Life in a Quarrel
on til? Street. | ''
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Stepping on a stranger's corns on <
a crowded street car in Minneapolis, '
Minn., cost the life of A. B. John- i
son, a native of Montreal, Can. He i
was shot through the head by the i
offended man and died before med- i
innl noolatnn<?a !irrkrf?i? Ilia } h I'Pti MR- 1
I V / (I I UOOID Vl? M v/v K l ( l T V/ v? I a. * > v>* W/ %%w
sailants escaped in tlio rix>t that fol- I
lowed the shooting. j
The car oil which the shooting oc- .
curred was crowded and when three i
men got on the rear platform they ,
jostled Mr. Johnson and in reoov- ,
ering his balance again he stopped j
on some man's foot. An altercation
followed and the trio left the plat- .
form, but as they stepped to the i
ground one turned and fired a shot ]
into Johnson's forehead. *
No More Tips in Washington.
The House of Representatives Is
considering a bill which will make
it a misdemeanor to give or receive
a tip in the District of Columbia. An
offense will be punishable by a fine 1
of $500. !
!RIBE NC
| SICK OFTHE JOB j
Tie Opiaiw 'retails ia Wasfeiaftaa That
Bill Tail is Tired
HE IS UP IN THE AIR
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Apparently the President Has Bitten
Off More Than He Can Chew, and
I>oe? Not Know What to Do About
the Problem Which Confronts Him
From Day to Day.
Opinion is quite common in Washington,
says Zach McGhee, in his letter
to The State, with those who go
In and around Mr. Taft, as it were,
tnat our president is not only tired
of his job but that he is sick and sore
of the whole business. He likes the
dinners, the receptlona, the garden
parties and teas, and that sort of
thing, and he does not mind the little
intellectual exercise of getting up
his speeches and messages; but the
real duties of the presidency, that of
being the political leader of his party
and moulding the political thought
of the country, he does not take to.
And more than anything else, that
miost inalienable function of his office,
the duty of being frequently
and comprehensively cussed really
gives him pain.
This is not mere surmise or speculatlnn
' nnr la It lnot nnn r\f Huiuk
U A IA A \J A A y 1U A V J Ukll V/11V V/ A bllV/k/v
frequent rumors which coming from
apparently nowhere spread about the
avenues of Washington and throughout
the long telegraphic tentacles into
all the country with growing force
until authentically denied, or until
some more thrilling thrill conies
along to take its place. It is unquestionably
true. A few nights ago
a close friend of the president in a
small body ot/ friends made'the remark,
"It is a tragedy, Taft is heartbroken."
Taft does not know what to do to
abate things. Here, for instance, is
the Indiana situation. Boveridge,
the one Republican Senator from that
State, is up for reelection. He voted
against the tariff bill, and made a
speech in Indianapolis the other day
denouncing it, got his convention to
refuse to indorse it. Taft had been
going about the country declaring
that that tariff bill was the best
tariff bill the country ever had. He
had an engagement to go to Indiana
the first of May, he expected to
make such a speech there. But now
In the light of this Beveridge busi...u
t ~ o TP K/n
m?ss wiiai is ue iu tiu : 11 lie guuj
tie will surely split the Republican
liarty wider and wider, not only in
Indiana but in other States. His
2joing. there to make such a speech
is he has been making elesewhere
would as surely be the death knell
to Beveridge and the whole Republican
party in Indiana as anything
could possibly be. And yet, and
yet, it looks like cowardise to stay
away.
On the morning after Beveridge's
triumph, the president announced
that he would not go to Indiana. The
papers published this announcement
together with the significance of it,
being that the president could not
so into Indiana and praise the tariff
without affronting. Beveridge and the
whole Indiana convention. But when
Mr. Taft saw the papers the next day
he had it again announced that he
had decided to forego his visit to
Indiana not on account of Beveridge
3r the action of the Convention ot
Indianapolis, hut because he had to
je back in Washington on May 6. And
what did he have to bo back there
for? Now what do you suppose?
Why, to a garden party.
The regular Republican leaders
have been doing all they could to
persuade the president again to
change his mind and go to Indiana,
and it is by 110 means certain that he
will not change his mind. He is not3d
for being able to change his mind.
These regular Republicans want him
to go, as strange as that may seem,
r/\ I* f R IM1 t*t\/\(i/k h i /dl f O tr lr ?\ A llf
HM IHC |J II 1 |juc?t? >>111111 tin j n 11 w n
Ins going will accomplish, namely,
to make sure that Indiana will go
Democratic.
They want to get rid of Beveridge,
and his kind, and they would rather
see a Democratic house elected in
the November elections that a house
composed of a majority of Democrats
and insurgents. If the insurgents
have more strength in the next
house than they have in this, and {
such men as Reveridge are returned, 1
the Cannon organization will be completely
broken up, the insurgents ,
will go in with the Democrats and
get up another tariff bill, which the
country \z demanding, ana Mr. Taft
will have more reason for joining
forces with the insurgents.
Roosevelt will be back then and infull
eruption, and Mr. Taft will no
doubt be easily shifted off of the
stand-pat reservation, especially since
EIGHT KILLED
KXPIiOSION CAUSED BY CARELRHSNE8S
BY A
Workmen on a Working Crow, Who
Accidentally Exploded Nearly a
Ton of Dyna*nite.
Eight men ar? dead, thro? badly
injured and one missing as a result
of a premature explosion in a deep
cut on the Santa Fe cut off line 22
miles northwest of Coleman, Tex.,
Sunday afternoon, at 2:33 o'clock.
The dead, so far as known, are:
R. C. Pryor, Fort Worth; C. H.
Blalock, Kentucky; Pat Ward, Paris
Texas; M. L. Burgis. Coleman; Ed.
Arlington, Fort Worth; Jack Reagan,
Texas; two Mexicans.
A. T. Warren, foreman of the
blasting crew, is missing and he was
in the immediate neighborhood of
the terrific explosion and it believ
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?u inai uis nouy was mown 10 atoms.
Eighteen hundred pounds of dynamite
touched off prematurely sent
men and debris hundreds of feet
into the air. The terrible accident
occurred at a point two miles from
Novite on the road the Santa Fe is
building from Coleman to Lubbeck.
The men were working in a deep
cut, right at the brink of Jim Ned
Creek. Only blasting work is done,
on Sundayxand most of the workmen,
numbering more than two hundred,
were in camp two hundred
yards distant from the mine.
The wornmen were just finishing
the midday meal and only 14 had returned
to the cut when the explosion
occurred.
A special train was at once dispatched
to Coleman for surgical aid
and all the dead and injured were
brought into Coleman Monday night.
The bodies are mutilated almost be
JUUU I t'CUKIlltllMI,
The cut is 3 4 feet deep and required
the removal of 110,000 yards
of solid rock. It is, thought that ono
of the workmen in tamping a charge
struck a dynamite cap which touched
off the 1800 pounds of dynamite.
HANGED AT PICKENS.
Pays the Penalty for Attempted Assault
on I>ady.
Hass Duller, colored, was hanged
at Pickens Friday for attempting to
commit an assault on a white lady
some months ago. The day before
he was hung he made a full confession.
His neck was broken by the
fall and death was almost instantaneous.
There was a big crowd in
town and around the jail during the
hanging. Everyone seems to be satisfied
that justice has been done. It
will be remem.bered that he attempted
a criminal assault on a young
lady one year ago, by slipping in her
window at night. The lady had
whooping cough, and when ho put
his hands on her she waked up and (
began to cough. That scared him
and he jumped out of 'the window,
and she recognized his as he went
out of the window. The moon was
shining brightly. Butler lived on her
father's plantation.
PECULIAR MALADY.
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Lady Lays in a State of Coma for
Oxer Four Months.
the prominent homes in Boise, Idateh
prominent homes in Boise, Idaho,
iMrs. Stewart, wife of Chief Justice
George C. Stewart, of the Idaho
Supreme court, swooned suddenly
and fell. From that day until the
present (Mrs. Stewart has remained in
a condition bordering on coma and
all efforts to arouse her have failed.
Her symptoms resemble paralysis,!
but she is not paralyzed. Experts
summoned from Spokane, Wash.,
Portland, Ore., and Salt Lake City,
Utah, have sought to arouse the wo- 1
man but none has succeeded. Twice
she has attempted to speak but was '
not successful. The only sign of life
is a twitching of the eyelids. *
Quits Pulpit for Politics.
The Rev. W. Lathrop Meaker, pastor
of the Revere First Unitairan
church, in Boston, Mass., has left
his pulpit and will seek election to
congress in the Cape Cod district. *
Roosevelt is believed to sympathize
at heart with the insurgent cause.
Such a house ,it is true, will get up
a tariff bill, but it would be more
radical than any the insurgents I
would stand for, and the senate
wouldd surely kill it, whereas with
the President and Roosevelt both
back of the insurgent Democratic
bill, the Senate might bo forced to
pass it.
What is Taft going to do? The
Lord only knows, and Taft would
give his right arm if He would but
tell him. |
THE H(
MUST MAKE TRIP)
OH Guri Makes Taft Recall His Dedi alias
(a Ge la IiHiau
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TO FIGHT INSURGENTS
Aldrich, Craw and a Few Other
Standpatters Think That the Pre*- (
ident Should Toe the Mark. Have c
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mo Informed Him, and ho He Will }
Go to Beveridge's State. 1
The Old Guard, Murray Crane,
senator from. Massachusetts; Senator *
Aldrich and a few others?have de- 1
cided that President Taft shall go to (
Indianapolis to make a speech. The (
president decided that he will keep 1
the engagement, despite his previous
cancellation of it. i
The president does not want to go.
He wants to shorten his coming
Western trip, according to a statement
from tho white house.
The observers of the politics of
Washington, however, charge that
Mr. Taft does not want to go to
Indianapolis because an issue lias
been presented in Indianapolis which
will not permit of a middle course.
President Taft would rather not fight
republicans, but the Old Guard and
the receivership told him differently.
The Old Guard wants Beveridge
and every other insurgent fought
and fought unto death. For that
reason the Old Guard will prevail
on President Taft to go to Indianapolis
in spite of Beveridge and the
Indiana republican platform.
\When President Taft cancelled his
engagement to appear in Indianapolis
on May 5 he did so forty-eight
hours after he had definitely promised
in a telephone talk with former '
Vice-President Fairbanks.
In view of the Indiana republican
platform and tho speech of Senator
Beveridge a motive lias been found
for Mr. Taft's sudden decision not
to go to Indianapolis. Political wis- 1
dom was accredited to Mr. Taft when 1
he cancelled the date. It was said
that he could not go out to Indianapolis
and ignore the Beveridge 1
speech. It would not be good policy 1
strategy for a republican president 1
to to out and make a speech to help :
defeat a republican senator was the
conclusion. 1
This roseate view of the matter !
was withheld from white house until '
evening. Then the Old Guard got
busy. It told 'Mr. Taft what it wanted.
The advice of the Old Guard
was :"Fish or cut bait." 1
lOne of the first bits of news the
president got after his Indianapolis
visit was called off came from the
Hoosier capital. It was a telegram
from the Commercial Club, the board *
of trade, the Columbia Club, th* J
Marlon Club and other organizations ,
asking him to change his m>nd and ^
visit them.
Senator John Kean of New Jer- 1
sey found out that he will have trou- (
ble being re-elected. The legislature
which will elect a senator is choosen i
in November. Already Gov. J. Frank '
lin Fort is a candidate, and reports !
from New Jersey are that he will '
make a brave try for Senator Kean's 1
seat, i !
Senator ivean is senator Aiuricn s
right hand man. It is his duty to 1
sit in the senate chamber and guide (
legislation through. He seldom does 1
anything 011 the tioor except to 4,ob- 1
ject." The privilege of objecting is '
the highest in the senate. The ob- 1
jection of a single senator prevents '
final consideration of any measure. 1
Senator Kean does Senator Aid rich's 1
objecting.
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Want Girl Habios.
Girls are in demand in Georgia, 1
Tennessee, North Carolina, South I
Carolina and Alabama, according to J
Dr. W. F. Summerall, superintendent ?
of Grady Hospital of Atlanta. Dr. <
Summerall had two babies to give 1
away, and said he received more than
sixty requests, the majority of them
preferring a baby girl. (Most of the
requests came by special delivery 1
and registered letter, few using the j
ordinary mails. 1
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Made Taft Ma?l. s
President Taft has cancelled his
engagement to visit Indianapolis 011
May 5. While no statement has been
issued in regard to this decision, it l
is believed to be the direct result of i
the events at the Indiana State R>e- *
publican convention, where the in- i
surgents had things their own way. ?
Ilorse in h Street Car.
A runaway horse jumped through
the rear entrance of a street car at <
Fourth and Main streets, injuring a
dozen passengers. The horse was ,
so tightly wedged into the car tha*
the wreckage had to be cut away. *
IRRY HE
MONEY AND LIQUOR ^
SAID TO HAVE FLOWED FR?EKf .? >
IN DILLON ELECTION. J|
Citizens Tell of Rocky Acta Said ti#
*gia
Have; Occurred and Asks If KIcim g
tk>n is Impaired. |
Fraud by the use of liquor sc,4s ;
iioney In securing votes in the re* ^
:ent electLon held in the new county .
>f Dillon Is charged in a letter re~ '
:e.ived Saturday by Attorney General
>yon from citizens of that co tut/,
rhe letter says:
"We have just had our first eleoion
in Dillon county and while w? ^
lad hoped that it would be a clean
ine, I regret to say that it was one
if the dirtiest I know of and there
ire a few things that came up that
[ would like to hove you advise me
on.
"I havo hnpn r#?llal?lv lnfrvrm?/t
that at several of the precincts, both
liquor and money were used freely.
In fact, I have understood that at
one of the precincts, two parties^'were
arrested and have made 8wort$.
affidavits that they were given liquor
and money.
"One of the parties states that he
knows of several voters treated an
he was. I have understood further
that men were carried to the polla
so drunk that it was necessary for
them to be bodily supported.
"Would not a condition like this
not only lay the parties liable to
prosecution, but throw out the poll?
"Another case brought to my attention
is this, one of the cotton mills
here has a voting precinct and the
voters are controlled entirely oy the I
president and superintendent. In
fact I have understood and am free
t<o say that I believe it; that if the
operatives refused to vote as the president
and superintendent directs,
they are promptly dismissed.
"The same precinct counted the
votes with closed doors and would
not make known the result, until
certain other results had been an.
nouneed.
"These are conditions that exist
here and if it is povssible to mot only
throw out these polls that were so
rotten, hut bring the guilty parties
to justice, I shall be glad to have
vou advise the course of proceedure."
Attorney General Lyon has taken
the contents of the letter under consideration
and will make a thorough
Investigation.
CONDUCTOR BALKED ROBBERS.
Ho Knocked One Down and the Oth?
or Promptly Fled,
An unsuccessful attempt was made
jarly Friday morning to hold up the
Pioneer Limited on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul railway, between
To mall and Oakdale, Wis. Tho
robbery was frustrated through the
x>urage of Conductor Sbumway.
As the conductor stepped from tho
ouffet car on to the platform of the
sleeper, two masked men sprang up
from the edge of the platform and
thrusting revolvers into his face, demanded
that he throw up his hands,
3humway promptly struck one of the
men down with his lantern and aa
passengers begun to crowd to the
floor of the buffet car the two highwaymen
leaped from the train and
fled. Shot after shot was fired after
them, but presumably without effect,
us when the train was brought to a
stop and search was made by a hastily
formed posse no trace could be
found on the men. *
Mistaken for Burglar.
At Harrisburg, Pa., Mrs. Catherine
lomgardner, wife of a well known
dumer, was shot by her husband,
lohn \V. Bomgardner, in m*?take for
i burglar at their home early Thurrvlay
morning. She died in a few
tours. *
Hammer Blows Cause Death.
Striking her finger with a hamner,
Mrs. George McComis, of Gfrirdville,
Pa., suffered severe injury
ast week. \not her blow 011 the
same linger this week so shocked her
system that she died. *
(Jirl Shot by Itejected Suitor.
Miss Freda Norrence was shot and
tilled in San Francisco, Cal., last
week, by Nathan Pollock, a rejected
uiibor. She was in company with
Samuel Goldbery at the time- of the
shooting. *
Novelist Held as a Smuggler.
Owen Wister, novelist and author
was held up and searched at Tueson,
Ariz., on suspicion of being a smug'
gler of opium. He was crossing from
the Mexican side and objected to being
searched by the customs otlice.
HALO