The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 21, 1910, Image 5
WILD MAN HELD
Arrested After Fighting a Whole Section
? of Lexington County.
A MYSTERIOUS TERROR
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A Coal Black Negro. Who Seems to
Be an Odd Character Has Been Put
in Jull in Lexington.?No One
8eenu? to Knows Where He Came
From.
A dispatch from Lexington to The
State says the negro who has been
terrorizing the {neighborhood near
Lexington for nearly a week has at
last been captured and is now be
hind the prison bars in jail. Thursday,
after the officers had been in
Bea/rch for him all day, aided by 4 0
or 50 citizenB of the community, the
negTo turned up at the home of
Isaiah Lindior, a farmer, about five
miles from the court house and asked
for something to eat with the request
that ho be allowed to do some
work in compensation for it. He remained
there all day and Friday
morning the officers were notified by
'phone that the man they had been
bunting for for several days had been
located. Shoriff Corley and Deputy
Bherlff Miller went to the scene at
once and carried the negro to jail.
lie is evidently crazy for he can
not tell what his name is or where
ho halls from. He says that hen has
been all over the world; has crossed
the ocean on boat and has viewed
all the old countries. He says that
his parents died when he was a child
just beginning to walk and that ho
has been walking ever since. He
Bays that the people call him so
Tnonv lift real
ly does not know what his right name
Is, but that he mostly calls himself
John Graham or Jack Graham.
Where the man came from is a
mystery, save that he came from
Columbia on a wagon with some
negroes who live on the plantation
of Mr. John Corley. He spent the
n*ght at one of the farm houses but
left early next morning. Since then
he has been turning up at first one
(house and then another, terrifying
the entire community by his strange
actions. I
On Tuesday more than HO people
were in pursuit of him and he was
traced from one end of tho territory
to the other and at times the posse
was almost upon him, but every time
tie would elude his pursuers.
lie is as black as tho ace of
epades and looks to be about 4.r>
years of age. His forefinger on the
right hand Is off at the joint. He
says that it was cut off by some of
the children when he was himself a
child. He was barefooted for the
most of tho time, but when he arrived
at the jail he had on a pair
of shoes that had evidently seen better
days.
It is the general belief that the
negro escaped from an insane asylum
some where, for it does not seem
possible that anyone so demented
would bo allowed to roam about the
country in any such manner. Tho
officers are making an effort to send
him to the hospital for the insane at
Columbia.
He was examined by Drs. Derrick
? and Roberts, both of whom pronounced
him insane. The difficulty in
placing him there, however, will
arise from the fact that absolutely
f nothing is known of his people nor
| of himself, and it is impossible to
give the usual desired information.
It would doubtless be a great relief
to the officers if those who know
anything of the man would communicate
with them at once. In the
meantime the people of the community
are now resting at ease,
since the "wild man from Rorneo,"
as he has been styled, is safe behind I
the prison bars. * I
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POSTMASTER SUICIDES.
Act Followed Report of Inspector at
Delnnd, Fin.
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David H. Margrave?, assistant puvmaster
at Deland, Fla., suicided Friday
afternoon by shooting himself
through the head, dying almost instantly.
Margraves' act followed the
Investigation of the office by a postoffice
inspector, who reported that
he was short in his accounts. At the
time of the investigation Postmaster
Allen was in attendance upon the
postmasters' Convention at Ocala.
The dead man leaves a wife and fo-flr
children. *
Shot by Cra/.y Man.
Frank Skala, an editor and mission
worker of Pittsburg, Pa., was
?ssassinated just after he had flnluhed
preaching a sermon and was
leaving the church. The man that
did the shooting was crazy. Skala's
co-laborer, John Gay, was also
wounded by the same man.
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Burned to Death.
In a fire which destroyed their
home at Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday
Luther C. Johnson and his 3year-old
daughter were cremated.
(Mirs. Johnson and her two-year-old
son escaped.
FIGHT TO THE DEATH
KIMi EACH OTHER IN ROW OVER
ROAD CROSSING.
Two Families Meet in Open and
Shoot Until Three of the Com.
batants Are Killed.
Two dead, one dying and probably
one or two others slightly wounded
are the results of a Sunday afternoon
battle In an inter-family feud
of long standing, which was renewed
Sunday afternoon near Emanuel,
Ga.
The dead are: E. S. Collins, road
overseer for his district, and a wellto-do
farmer, and his son, William
Collins, both of whom died during
the progress of the fight. Alma Lew
is is so badly wounded that he is
expected to die at any moment.
The battle was between the family
of Collins and the family of Lewis,
and was the outcome of a dispute
over a public road crossing. The
two families reside less than a mile
apart and the county line runs between
their homes. Fathers and
sons met in a lane Sunday afternoon
near the Lewis home.
Just how the battle started Is not
known. The members of the Collins
family were armed with pistols,
while two shotguns were used on
the otherside. A number of persons
watchod the battle, which was fought
in the open, both sides standing
bravely up to the marK.
Joseph Lewis, father of Alma
Lewis. Is alleged to have fired the
shot that ended the 1 ITe of the elder
Collins.
The sheriffs of both Tombs and
Emanuel counties have gone to the
scene of the trouble with physicians.
As both families ?re well-to-do and
well known, the shooting created a
sensation in both counties. It was
known that they were not on the
best of terms.
A dozen or more shots were fired
and it was stated that the others
who were wounded besides Alma
Lewta are but little hurt. It was
stated later that three arrests had
been made of survivors of the battle.
BARELY MISSED DEATH.
Lightning Struck Commissioner WatvSOIl's
Ofilco.
The records of the department of
agriculture for tho past five years
came very near being destroyed late
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ning struck the state house at Columbia
and passed down a ventilation
pipe to the oillce of Commissioner
Watson.
The Commissioner had just left
his desk and would have be*n instantly
killed had he been seated.
The pipe comes from the top of the
building and passes down one corner
of the room. Here, are located
the records of the office in shelves.
The shelves are of wood. All wires
in the office were burnt out.
Just before the l>olt struck Commissioner
Watson left the office and
walked to Main street to a drug
store. On goin.? out into the street,
he saw a mass of flames in his office.
He rushed to the scene and
with the assistance of a water cooler
extinguished the fire.
CltAZY NKdllO SHOT.
In a Desperate Street Battle at Marietta,
Gtn>rgia.
In a desperate street battle at Marietta,
Ga.t Friday, Charles Lloyd, an
insane negro, stabbed and seriously
wounded Sheriff McKinney, of Cobb
county, and Policeman Osborne. As
the negro started to flee he was shot
twice by McKinney, and when he
turned a corner of the street he was
shot twice more by Chief of Police
Grogan, who had just come upon the
scene. The negro Anally was overpowered
and taken to Jail. lie is
not expected to live. The fact that
the negro was crazy was all that
prevented a lynching. *
Assassin Caught.
The Chief of Police of Augusta,
Ga., lias, as the result of his invesgation
of Dr. C. \V. Hickman murder
case, turned over to the solicitor
general evidence, which he says,
warratns the indictment and conviction
of John Henry Mathls. This
negro, three weeks ago, was caught
in the act of trying to pawn the
watch torn from the vest of Dr.
Hickman the night of the murder. *
Good Fish Story.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ga.,
says during a heavy rain and hallstorm
Friday afternoon a trout four
in in <yf ii nnH vnrv much alive
1IU lll fl III IV ?.nw.. Ml.x? X,. t, was
picked up in the business see-1
tion of the town. Prominent citi- [
tr.r>c vouch for the statement that
the fish was rained from the clouds.
Death by Train.
A distressingly sad accident occurred
at Belmont Saturday niehf
about 10 o'clock when Mr. ttoy Metcalf
of Bessemer, N. C., was instantly
killed and his body horribly mangled
by southbound freight No. 75.
It is thought he attempted to board
the train and was thrown under it.
BURN AND LOOT
Foreign Buildings io Chug Sha, China,
are* Destroyed h? Mth.
THE GOYERNOR KILLED
Tlie Cliinwe Offlicials Iwiuod a Proclamation
That They Were Unable
to Protect Life and Property, and
Thereupon Foreigners Made Haste
to Leave the City at Oace.
All the foreign owned buildings
in Chang Sha, China, have been destroyed
by fire with the exception of
the British consulate. The buildings
rented by foreigners have been looted.
The Chinese officers issued a
proclamation that they wore unable
to protect life and property, and
thereupon foreigners made haste to
leave the city.
(So far as is known, no foreigner
has lost his life. The governor, Hu
Nan of the province of Wu TehungSlu,
and his son, were killed and several
other government officials fled.
Even yet a section of the city is in
flames. Six thousand foreign drilled
soldiers are stationed there and a
few of these protected the governor's
house for a time, but soon all joined
the rioters.
The riots began on April 13, when
the famine sufferers looted the rice
shops. A captain of police was
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wounaea wnne irymg iu rwwro urder,
but thousands crowded around
him and his assistants, and he was
obliged to flee to the yamen.
The rioters followed him there and
besieged the place all nitght.
The following day the disturbance
became anti-foreign, this being
a strong anti-foreign province. The
China-Inland mission and the Norwegian
and Catholic missions were
burned. The other missions were destroyed
on April 15th. Tho missionaries
attached to the American Episcopalian
missionary alliance, the
United Exangellc church and the
Wesleyan and Yale missions, numbering
41 in all, took refuge in foats.
They left all of their effects.
The destruction of all foreign
property, including the Japanese consulate
and the British warehouses
followed. Tho fate of the Standard
Oil company's newly erected tanks
Is unknown.
The British consul detained two
steamers for the refugees, who Include
70 Japanese. Owing, however,
to the shortage of provisions and the
hopelessness of tho situation, it was
decided to start for Hankow.
Tho official buildings were destroyed
tho same day, tho troops joined
the Tioters, who numbered not less
than 24,000. Eight Germans attach.%/ !
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Chang Sha when the trouble began.
They fled from the city, and it Is (
reported that three of them proceeded
to Hankow In a junk without
lights were run down by the British
gunboat Thistle and drowned. Another
report says the men drowned were
Americans but this is not confirmed.
The cause of the riots was the scarcity
and high cost of rice. According
to one report the governor of
Hu Nan committed suicide after notifying
the government that he was
responsible for the rioting.
SUSPECTED OF CHIME.
Two Men Charged With Murdering
Six Year Old Girl.
At Chicago two men taken into
custody in connection with the murder
of Alfreds Doverlska, 6 years
old, whose body, horribly mutilated,
was found in a shed Saturday afternoon,
Sunday were identified as having
been seen in company with the
murdered child shortly before she
disappeared. The men are Barney
Bizoska, a blacksmith's helper, and
Jos. Pilarski, a laborer. Blood stains
were found on Bizoska's clothing.
Another girl told the police she was
coming from a candy store with the
Deverlska girl and was chased away
by the men.
Fatal Lightning Bolt.
During a severe thunder storm
Sunday night at Salisbury, X. C., a
lightning bolt descended upon tbe
fishing camp ;on the banks of a
creek eight miles from the town, instantly
killing Charles Carroll, 1'
years old, and knocking into unconsciousness
Floyd Bost, a companion,
of the same ago. The other two in
the party escaped injury. The injured
lad has not regained consciousness
and is not expected to recover.
Sleet Breaks Wires. I
At Grandgorks, N. D., snow and
sleet has broken down miles of telegraph
poles along the Great Northern
railroad. Trains cannot be
reached by the dispatchers and are
running without orders.
Dentil of a Miser.
With a bank account of $250,000
and owning several blue grass rarms
in Kentucky. William M. Gold, who
worked for several years on a farm
for his board, is dead at Amarillo,
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| Texas. Gold up to tne nme 01 m?
death was believed to be poor.
LYNCHED TWO NEGROES
FIVE WHITE MEN ARE CHARGER I
WITH THE CRIME.
WmtadUi Are Sworn Out for their
Arrest by Two Negro Women and
Sheriff Makes the Arrest.
Quite a sensation was created at
Ashburn, Qa? Friday when the newB
of the killing of two negro men
near Ambroy, about four miles north
of that place, was received there.
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sworn out by two negro women and
charged five prominent white men in
that section of the county with the
lynchtixg.
The negroes who were killed were
Albert Royal and Charley Jackson.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
was delivered sealed and nothing is
known of its action.
The trouble is said to have started
over an alleged criminal assault
near Ashburn about two weeks ago.
Charley Jackson, one of the negroes,
was arrested at the time charged
with criminal aseault on a white
woman, but was released on ball.
Tho other negro, Albert Royal, is
said to have signed the bond of the
accussed man. After having kept
silent about the matter for a time,
the two negroes began to openly
boast of the brutal deed and spoke
of it with pride to their fellows. They
kept up their talk until tho matter
was brought to the ears of several
white men In that community. The
two men were chased down and capA
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in reu uiiu i>nrii iue nuuu^ ?o omu
have followed.
The local population is greatly evclted
over the matter. It is not
known whether or not the white men
implicated in the affair were exonerated
by the coroner's jury. *
AWFUL STATK OF AFFAIRS.
Thousands of School Children Debauched
by Cocaine.
The different forms in which the
drug cocaine is prepared fctfr sale to
its victims were exhibited to President
Taft Thursday by Dr. Joseph
H. Remington, of Philadelphia, chairman
of the committee on revision of
the United States pharmacopeia,
which holds its next convention ii)
this city May 10. Dr. Remington
told the president that the illicit sale
of cocaine had grown to porportions
In this country that seriously threaten
future citizenship.
It has been discovered in Philadelphia,
ho said, that the drug was
sold In large quantities to school
children, hundreds of them having
been debauched through its agencies.
Restrictive laws in cities and states
were ineffective because the drug
could be obtained by mail from other
States.
What was needed was national legislation
under the interstate com
merce clause of the constitution that
would forbid the handling or sale
of the medicine except by licensed
druggists and physicians. The president
was appalled by the facts told
him and promised to give his aid in
any way possible. *
KILLED HIMSELF.
Daughter, Sitting oil Porch Saw the
Horrible Deed.
Sitting on the porch of her parents'
home at Breekville, O., Mrs.
Alice Wehman, a bride of two weeks,
watched her father hang himself late
Thursday, unaware until too late of
what he was doing.
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tired farmer, had been despondent
through ill health for some time. Securing
a rope and some tools, he
went to an outhouse in full view of
Mrs. Wehman, saying he was going
to fix the docAr which was loose.
Not until her father had kicked a
box from under his feet and was actually
in his death struggle, did the
young woman realize the meaning of
his actions. Her screams aroused
the neighborhood, but Green was
dead when cut down. *
HKN AhliKN FOUND.
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A Hoarder Arrested is Charged with
Killing the Man.
Hen Allen, a white man, residing
at No. 204 Hammetl street, Greenville
was found in his bed Thursday
morning at 2 o'clock, with a bullet
in his head. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict that he came to his
death from a wound unknown to the
jury. Humors of suicide and murder
were afloat, and late Thursday
afternoon a man named Lindley,
who boarded at Allen's house, was
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T,indey denies his guilt. *
Attempts Murder.
A sensation was caused in the palace
of the justice of Paris Thursday
when an anarchist, in revenge, fired
four shots et M. Flory, the professor
of the court, which found the
man quilty a year ago. Florey was
not hit and the anarchist was arrested.
STORM SWEPT
DesUmdiofl of Property Follow ii the
' Wake of Seme Winds.
CROPS BADLY DAMAGED
(^orgl* and Alabama Report I?cal
Cyclones and Many Sections of
These and Other States Report i
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Damages to Houses that Had Reen
Unroofed by the Hurricane.
One of the severest storms in re- i
cent years, assuming the proporcuu? '
of torrential gales Is a number of
localities, swept over the southern
states east of the seaboard Friday. ,
leaving its trail of damage, death
and destruction. So far as known
there have been only two fatalities,
but it is feared that later reports will
show a still heavier toll of victims.
The storm of wind, rain and hail,
which swept through the lower potion
of Tennessee Friday night,
reached the Georgia line Saturday
morning and passed towards Alabama.
Towns of northern Georgia
severely felt the effects of the hail,
where the vegetation was damaged.
It is also feared that the cold wave
following close behind the rain and
wind will do serious damage. The
cold has already been feit in the
trans-Mississippi states. Damage to
fruit is reported as far west a3
New Mexico and western Texas.
,Local storms, which developed
cyclonic proportions, were reported
in a number of places, the most
serious being at Gainsville, Ala.,
where a hotel was unroofed and at
Woodland, Ga., where a number of
houses were unroofed and blown
down. It is thought that tho damage
will probably reach $750,000 or
more.
At Oakman, Ga., hall fell to a
depth of five Inches Friday afternoon
and drifted in places to 2 1-2 feet
deep. The rain was terrific, and
wind high, but no serious damage
from wind is reported. Hailstones
were as large as hen eggs.
The mountains are as white as If
covered with snow, and trees are
stripped of all twigs and small limbs.
All vegetation was beaten into tho
ground.
This was the heaviest hall ever
known In that section. All crops
that are up are ruined and will
have be be planted a second time.
lAt Dalton, Ga., a hail storm did
great damage Friday afternoon.
Wheat, cotton and corn was cut
down by tho hail atones, and several
local merchants sustained several
hundred dollars of loss from damaged
goods the water in several instances
beating through the roofs.
The peach orchards in the neighborhood
were almost entirely stripp
ed of fruit, and the crop In the immediate
vicinity of Dalton wll be
practically nothing.
Gardens were cut down and buried
beneath the heavy fall of hail, which
covered everything;. In drifts tho
hail in some places measured at least
six Inches in depth.
A dispatch from Chatsworth, Ga.,
says the longest drouth ever known
in that section was broken Friday
afternoon by an unprecedented hail
and rain storm of a few minutes duration.
The ground was covered with
hail stones as large as partridge eggs
and drifted in places several inches
deep, doing considerable damage to
young crops.
Manchester, Ga., experienced a destructive
cyclone Friday afternoon,
practically every house in the town
being more or less seriously damag1
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en. a. numuer ui huii'vb wciv ??most
completely wrecked, as were
several residences and large trees
wene uprooted throughout the town.
Several persons are reported seriously
injured.
The railroad suffered heavy damago
in the wrecking of two freight
trains and a badly damaged track.
When the blow struck Woodland,
five cars of a side tracked freight
were blown over onto the main lise
and a moment later another freight
dashed into them, making kindling
wood of the box cars and tearing up
the track for a distance of 100 yards.
No member of the crews of the two
trains were injured.
Only Husband Left.
With her husband, W. E. Griffin,
critically ill, Mrs. Maggie Griffin, at
Savannah was making arrangements
Saturday to bury her little girl, AnI
na, who died Friday night, when she
lay down on the bed to rest a lew
minutes and died of heart failure.
Wrecked by Storm.
Greenala Hotel, half a dozen stcries,
many residences were wrecked
Saturday at Greenville, Alabama, by
the storm. At Forest Hume several
houses were unroofed and two negroes
were injured.
Killed by Train.
'At Charlotte Doll Harris, a young
negro man, was run over by a Southern
train near the Carolina Oil Mill
Saturday night and both legs were
horribly mutilated, it being necessary
to amputate them. The negro died
shortly after tho operation.
BURIED BY LANDSIDE
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RAILWAY' CONSTRUCTION CAMJP
WIPED OUT.
Not a Workmen in the Oarap Escaped
and Practically Every One in
In Working Gsistfj Injured.
An Immense landslide, started by
a blast of dynamite early Friday,
carried a score of men down the
Bide of the steep hill and buried the
construction camp of the Ha Ha Bay
Railway at St. Alfonso, Que., under
tons of earth and rock. Not a workman
in the camp escaped and practically
every one in the working gang
on tho hill was more or less seriously
injured.
Lp to ft late hour Friday afternoon
a rescue party had taken out eight
dead, including Ladislas Gagne of St.
Joseph, Que., chief engineer in
charge of the work; his assistants
William O'Brien and Joseph Jennings
of Toronto, Out., and five laborers.
Seven are missing.
The men killed were asleep in the
camp at the foot of the hill when,
the blast was set off. All the m^n
in tho working gang who escaped
serious injury were at once ordered
into a rescue party and word was
sont to St. Alfonse for aid. It will
take several days to reach all parts
of the burled camp. *
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TUHNKI) ENGINE LOOSE.
Tho Fiendish Work of Bandits Who
Koblnsl a Trahi.
Tho China-Japan mail, which left
San Francisco over Southern Pacific
for tho East at 9 o'clock Saturday
uiight was held up by two masked
in on nl- .Snriiip fn 1 12.3ft o'rloolt
Sunday morning and robbed of nine
pouches of registered mail.
The train carried no express matter.
Four or the pouches have been
recovered, but the robbers rifled the
others and are now in hiding in the
hills and canyons between Martinez
and Oakland. Sheriffs' posses from
two counties, detectives and postofflce
inspectors on horses and in automobiles
are engaged in the manhunt.
The robberB were well armed,
and a l>attT~ is expected. The passengers
on the train were not disturbed,
and several of them did not
learn of the robbery until next morning.
After getting the sacks, the robbers
cut the engine and sent it wild,
the throttle open, down the main
track to the East. The engine was
thrown into a ditch In the nick of
time to prevent it colliding with an
oast-bound train. The train robbery
is the first in California in several
years. It was planned and executed
in a most daring manner.
BEAUFOKT MAX WOUNDED
Shot tn the Back While in His Store
By Unknown Assailant.
Mr. Paul Rauch was shot in his
back by an unknown party shortly
af'er six o'clock Friday sight, as he
was standing in his sto're on the
Po-rt Royal Ferry road, near Gray's
Hill, eight miles out of Beoufort. It.
is not now thought that the wound
will be fatal. Thirty small shot were
extracted from his right side and
arm. No arrest has yet been made,
though the victim has strong suspicion
a/gainst a negro, whom the sheriff
expects to get.
A Young Swindler.
A thirteen year old white girl has
been arrested in Greenville county
for raising a two dollar bill to $20
and sending the money to Sears, Roebuck
and Company and ordered false
hair and some other articles. Her
father put up bond for her appearance
in court.
Short on Oa?sh.
J. Alex Gordon, the alleged defaulting
assistant cashier of the Germania
Savings bank of Charleston
was arrested Flriday afternoon on
the charge of being short is his accounts
to tho extent of $10,520.27.
The warrant was sworn out by State
Bank Examiner Wilson.
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A White Rente.
At Hampton, Va., Earl A. Vandyke.
a white man, was convicted on
Saturday of attempted criminal assault
upon Rebecca Chandler, nineyear-old
negro girl, and given 18
years in the penitentiary It was the
first case in Virginia in which a white
in tii was convicted of such crime.
Costa Rica Quakes.
Senor Calvo, minister to the United
States from Costa Rica, received
a cablegram Friday from San Jose
stating that an earthquake shock had
been felt in all parts of the republic
Thursday. Slight damage was reported
from various sections but
there were no fatalities.
Drops Read.
At Columbus, Ga.f Dr. C. S. Swan,
a negro physician, fell dead from
heart disease on the witness stand In
tho city court Saturday morning,
cau si nig some excitement and a long
Interruption in the proceedings.
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