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WHO SHOT THEM? * Mystery Surrounds Shooting of Young Man and Young Lady. THE YOUNG WOMAN OIES Prom til? Wounds She Received and . , the Young Man is in the Hospital lladly Wounded.?He and the Ha <ly Makes a Statement About tne Mysterious Shooting. The Charleston Evening Post says Mr. R. C. Eastwood Grimshaw, the young man who was shot Thursday night on the causeway leading to West Point Mills, along with Miss Margaret LMiUsgrove, who died Friday morning at the Roper Hospital at about four o'clock as a result of her y wounds, gave out a statement for publication Friday afternoon, which confirms the theory that a third person did tho shooting, but which throws no light upon the identity of the mysterious assailant. "Miss Musgrove and I were on the causeway," said Mr. Grimshaw, "when a shadowy form appeared from behind some bushes near us and before we realized what was going to happed, several pistol shots were fired. I was hit in the back and having no weapon with which to defend i - a i-i myself, I ran in trie direction ot uie hospital. When some distance from the place, I heard another shot and a scream. I hurried to the hospital for help. "Earlier in the evening, before t.he Bhooting, we saw a dark form skulking around the West Point property, but we paid no paticular attention to this person. I do not know whether this person was white or black, and I can not tell whether the man who fired the shots was white or black." Mr. Grlmshaw did not know until Friday afternoon that Miss Musgrove was dead. He is at the Roper Hospital, with two bullets in his back, it Is now thought, dangerously wounded. He made a deposition to the coroner which will be read at the in- i finest when Miss LVTusgrove's dying declaration will, also be read. A post-mortem examination Friday made by Dr. I). L. Maguire, revealed the fact that two or three balls hit the unfortunate girl, who died by the hand of an assassin. The wound which caused her death was made by a thirty-eight caliber bullet that entered her left side, not far below the heart, and plunged nearly through her body to the opposite side. Another bullet whipped across her left arm, below the elbow, and either this or a third bul- ' let skimmed her stomach, where the wound appears to he powder burned. A policeman is stationed on guard at the bedside of Mr. Grimshaw, who la under formal arrest, as a material witness in this deplorable shooting case. He will not be able to j 4. Innnnof llllt .ll 1K SWOl'll I appear at uuc nu| statement of the affair will be read by the coroner. The bullets in his back have not been removed. Engineer Robinson, at West Point . Mills, was with two negroes, the first to reach the body of Miss Musgrove, Scaring the shots fired shortly after nine o'clock. Mr. Robinson is absent from the city, but is expected to return for the inquest, when he and the two colored men will appear. He may have important testimony to ^r' offer. Not long after Mr. Grinishaw stag04 gered into the Roper Hospital, nearly unconscious, and with his clothing bloody from his wounds, the hospital ambulance was sent for Miss Musgrove, l>ut the police had in the , meanwhile been notified of the affair ! Una hurried a wagon over to the | CAIIU xnivi ? v - w causeway, and Engineer Robinson I and the police brought the fatally wounded girl In. She was operated I. upon Thursday night, but it was seen ! j that hor wounds were fatal, and the n coroner was sent for at once. He i took her dying statement. Nothing ; of this could, of course, he seen FriJ ^ day, but from the statements gather- i ed at the hospital, it is presumed 1 ] that her version of the affair tallies ' < In t4ie main witk tho statement of j Mr. Grimshaw. < It seems to be pretty well establish- , ed tlyit the shooting was done by a ] third party, who is said to have at- j tacked Miss Musgrove ferociously, af- i ter hor companion had left .her. t There were evidences of a struggle ( i. at the scene of tho shooting, and | marks on the dead girl's face seem to j, bear out the theory that she was ( attacked. The police have made no j arrests, as yet, but developments may ( follow the Inquest. There is appar- . ently only a faint clue to the identi- | ty of the murderer, but the detectives \ will do their best to arrest him. It.M was comparatively dark Thursday | night at West Point, and the color of ? the man who did the shooting is not { definitely established. T.ho police are ( inclined to believe that a white man . | SUBSCi THE MAN DIES TOO MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING IN CHARLESTON UNSOLVED. In Their Dying Statements the Victims Roth Say a Negro Did the , Shooting. Another chapter was added to the ?- ?t ? a i 1 ^ e i mysterious sensational lumuui wi Miss Margaret 'Musgrovo, in the deat.h of C. K. Grimshaw, at the Roper Hospital on Sunday afternoon. Grimshaw was a Southern Railway conductor, and was shot with Miss Musgrove last Thursday night 011 West Point Mill Causeway in Charleston. The imrmedlate cause of .his death was peritonitis. When Grimshaw ran into the hospital last Thursday nig.ht, announcing that he had 'been shot, an examination revealed two wounds in the lower fleshy portion of Jiis back. It was at first thought that it was but ore bullet making the two wounds, but later it was discovered that twr bullots had im'bedded themselves in the l>ody. No serious concern was given to the wounds, although the bullets had not been extracted, and it was not until midnight Saturday night that the patient showed alarming symptoms. The injured man's condition rapidly grew worse and a few hours later it was apparent that the wounds would .. P.. 1 dcivu iv icitai it'i iiiiiiaiiuu. Grhnshaw's ante-mortem statement is of course guarded by the coroner, but it is not expected that it will show any material variation from the deposition which was made on Friday and submitted at the inquest over tho body of Miss Musgrove. His explanation was that he and Miss Musgrove were s.hot by a man, who looked like a negro. Miss Musrgnove's tante-mortem statement was to the same effect. Notwithstanding the theory of Detective Drennan that Grimshaw shot the woman and then shot .himself in the es.hy j>ortion of the back, to give the appearance of an assault, it is generally believed that a third party interested in the woman's family, did the act, having followed the couple to the dark and secluded causeway beyond the rice mill. * LIVE TO TELL THE TALE. Details of Mi? Loss of Cod fishers Near Stanley a M011M1 Ago. A special cable to Seattle, Wash., from Seward, Alaska, gives the details of the loss of codfishers near Stanley on March 2 8, w.hen their vessels went on the rocks of Sanak Island. When a rescue party reached the wreck they found the bodies of Capt. Koehler and Mates Bauers and Williams frozen stiff in the rigging. The cook bad been swept overboard and drowned. Five who survived?Seamen Harka, Legoer, Bjohnsen, Kandi and Roberts?jumped overboard the day after the schooner went on the reef and were picked up by dories that put out for the ship. The rescuers made valiant attempts to save the lives of the three men who were lashed to the rigging, but they were unsuccessful. Capt. Koehler died just before the rescuers reached him. * * (Jets Five Years. The jury in the case of J. R. B. Caraway, former teller of the National Bank of New lie rue, N. C., Friday returned a verdict of not guilty on the charge of embezzlement but guilty of the charge of misapplication and making false entries. lie was sentenced to five! years in the Atlanta prison and left j for that place. * ^ fired the shots which brought death to the girl and serious wounds to J Grimp.haw. Who he is remains a 1 mystery. Mr. Grimshaw is an extra conducto and switchman of the Southern ' railway. lie lived in Ilampstead square for some time, hut lately he moved to a room in King street, near Shoppard. He is young and unmarried. The dead girl kept house for her father in Magazine street. Her mother died some years ago. She tvas little over twenty years old. Lieut. Cantwell was the ofiicer of he day when Engineer Robinson sent' in n pjill for hole, statimr that a white woman had been shot on the j jauseway at West Point Mills. Defectives Hronnan and two police officers were sent to rosi>ond to the call, I find the four men carried the girl to the hospital. A search was made for :ho pistol that sont the bullets, but it could not be found anywhere, the police have a guard over Grimshaw. rhe interval of time between the shooting of the girl and the arrival if help gave ample opportunity for the assailant to escape. 1IBEN0 WINS THIRD TIME H. Grady Harden, Representative of Wofford College, Wins in ORATORICAL CONTEST He Is the Third Hrother, Representing VVwfTord College, to Win the First Prize.?Second Medal Won by M. G. McDonald, Representing Krskine College, of Due West. The 12th annual oratorical contest of the Sout.h Carolina Intercollegiate Oratorical association at Lander col lege, Greenwood, S. C., was won Fri- I day night by H. Grady Hardin of Wofford college with his oration "The | Jury and Its Future." It is a strik-i ing coincidence that for three suc-| cessive years three Hardin brothers, all of Wofford, have won the contest. Second place was taken by ?M. G. McDonald of Erskine, who spoke on "A Crusade Against Christianity." Handsome medals were awarded to each of these two young orators by the association. The relative standing given the 9 colleges in the contest by the combined graces of the committee on delivery and composition was as follows: Del. Comp. Total. Wofford. . . .15 6% 108 264% Erskine 152 107 259 Furman. . ..155 102% 257 % Carolina. . . 153% 96% 2o0 Clinton. . ..146 103 % 24 9 % Newberry. . .153 94 24 7 Citadel. . . .149% 95 24 4 % Charleston. .152 91 243 Clem so n. . .1 50 90 24 0 The committee on delivery was composed of the following: Senator Hen F. Townsend of Union, Rev. O. T. Porsher and Rev. J. B. Green of Greenwood. Dr. P. L. Duffle and Dr. Howard Lee Jones, who were to have served on this committee, did not arrive until after the contest had begun on account of a delayed train. The committee on composition had the following personnel: Dr. F. Y. N. Painter, Roanoke college; Prof. J. T. Brown, Jr., University of Tennessee, and John M. McBryde, Jr., University of the South. The committee of delivery graded on the basis of 60, while the committee on composition used 4 0 as a perfect grade. Mr. Hardin's oration, which won first place, was gracefull and effectively delivered. Henry Grady Hardin was born in Hatesburg, Lexington county, February 27, 1 890. His father, Dr. E. K. Hardin, practiced medicine in Batesburg for about 20 years; his health failing caused him to move to Clov v#.?i, i-t n a r. ,i i?si t*r, l u I r\ t'wuuijr? in i ,7 v tp t auu ucain followed in a few months. Mr. Hardin's mother was Miss Ida Clikscales, a sister of Rev. John G. Clinkscales of Wofford college. Mr. Hardin's three brothers have already graduated from Wofford, two of them winning the medal in the State oratorical contest. Grady Hardin entered the freshman class at Wofford in the fall of 1907, and is now in the junior class. His present home is at Clover in York county. G. McDonald, who took second place, handled his subject in a masterly manner. McDonald is the third 'iMiac" to represent Erskirie successively. The other two were McCormick and McMillan. The three were room mates. M. G. McDonald, representative of Erskine college, was born in Winnsboro in 1 889, and received bis early education at Mount Zion institute of that place. lie entered the freshman class of Erskine college in 1 900, and won the sophomore's essayist medal, offered by the Euphemian Literary society. He is editor in chief of The Erskinian and business manager of the college annual. The speakers and tlieir subjects were: Furman?Gordon Poteat, "Cosmopolite n ism." Clinton?T. W. Simpson, "Sorrows of Justice." Citadel?C. P. Cornwell, "The jury or the Judge." Carolina?I. F. Reiser, "The South Must Re Restored." Plnmonn TT W flmnior "A Glor ions Ancestry." Wofford?H. G. Hardin, "The Jury and its Future." Charleston?J. R. Paul, "The NeeJ of a More Enlightened Lawfullness in America." Newberry?C. H. Kreps, "Keeping the Trail." Erskine?M. G. McDonald, "A Crusade Against Christianity. * Kills Self and Sons. At Chicago, Henry Dahl, a carpenter, despondent because of ill health, killed himself and his two young sons by turning on the gas. * W TO FATAL FIGHT 1 ^ TWO PERSONS ARE KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED. A Desperate Battle With Shotguns and Rifle Brought on by a Divorce Suit. As a result of a pitched battle uear Hempstead, Texas, Friday midnight upon arrival of the northbound Houston and Texas Central passenger train, A. B. Shannon, aged 4 9, a 'merchant of Houston, and Clarence Pool, 19, of Hempstead, brother-inlaw of Shannon, were killed, while Sheriff J. J. Perry and two passengers on the train, names unknown, were wounded. Haines Shannon and W. J. Pool, well-known lawyers and brother and father, respectively of the dead men, are under arrest. The affair was caused by the efforts of A. B. Shannon, whose wife .had brought suit for divorce, alleging cruelty and praying the custody of iher live daughters, to secure possession of the children. Shannon had left Houston before the divorce papers .had been served. When the train pulled into Hempstead at midnight the Shannons were at the depot, as was also Clarence Pool. Sheriff Perry and Sonstable Brown were 011 hand to prevent any bloodshed. Almost immediately upon the arrival of the train t.he shooting began, more than 2 5 shots being fired. A. R Shannon killed Young Pool, who had a shot gun in his hand, and Shannon was in turn killed with a pistol bullet. All t.he persons engaged in the battle are prominent and the excite ment is intense. The passengers wounded are said to he men who stepped from the train to the plat[ form before the scooting started. The passengers 011 the train were in a wild state of excitement the gunshots being punctuated with the screams of the women and children, who thought the train was being robbed. Many passengers dived under the seats and the greatest confusion prevailed. Mrs. Shannon, wife and sister of t.he men killed, is at her home in Houston, prostrated. * ? FOOD FOR TRAIN'S. Northern Pacific Railroad Buys Farm of i ,000 Acres. The Northern Pacific Railroad company has made a departure in the matter of supplying its dining car system with fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, cream, cheese and meats at all seasons. The company has pur.twionrl a 1 finrt anro f;i I'm f I'VIl c I I ft OUH C4 1 , V W (?Vi V 11. i 111 VI * . X/ ? A bottom land near Seattle, Wash., and at present there are 400 dairy cows and several hundred steers feed ins on the broad acres. By a special arrangement wiMi t.h? Ctlifornia Fruit Growers' association norrhbound steamships will carry regular assignments of citrus fruits for the dining car service, which will be stored at the farm statiton at Kent. Under the supervision of Hazen ('. Titus, superintendent of the dining cars on the Northern Pacific system. 3 00 acres of land .have been planted in vegetables, including melons, cucumbers, cabbages and onions, radishes, lettuce, etc., sweet corn, beets, turnips, potatoes and other varieties of vegetables needed on the dining cars. Over 150 Japanese are now engaged in work on the farm tending the garden, milk and the feeding of the steers and hogs. All produce will be taken to Kent, Wash., where it will be kept in storage and there also all steers and .hogs will be slaughtered and stored. Under the present system the dining cars are furnished at the various terminals and division points, and none too satisfactorily. It is sometimes impossible to obtain first-class editables. * ? ? TWO WHECKS ON SEABOARD Engineer of Passenger and Negro Workmen Killed. Two wrecks, one of the west-bound passenger trains of the Seal>oard Air Line, and the other of the wrecking train, whioh was bound for the first wreck, in addition to causing the -i .1. ..f T a W'/w.ia r?l> tr\ n H 11 H Ut*<t(>(l Ul i) O. TT V I ...... | a negro workman, and the injury of several others, completely tied up' traffic of the western division of the railroad Friday, says a Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch. The engineer of th^ passenger train, on rounding a sharp turn near Kiver Junction, was confronted by the sight of a long wooden bridge on fire, and could not stop his train before t-he weak spot was reached. The bridge caved in, and the engine and two cars fell in. * THE HO! EATEN BY SAVAGES THE TERIUBLE FATE OF TWO MISSIONARIES. The Horrible Butchery Wiw Committed by Cann.iba.iN on Savage Island in the South Seas. Details of the killing: by cannibals on February 5, of Itev. Horatio Hopkins and his assistant, Kev. eHctor L. MoPherson, missionaries of the Presbyterian church on Savage Island. were brought bv the harkentine Mary E. Winkelnian, which arrived Saturday at Mukilteo, Wash., from the Tonga Islands in the South Seas. While the barkentlne lay at Tongatabu, in the Tonga Islands, a canoe load of mission natives from Savage Island, arrived at Fua, bringing news of the butchery. The natives said that Revs. Hopkins and McP.herson were teaching in the mission building standing on the beach in the little harbor of Savage Islands, when 200 unconverted savages. howling war cries and brandishing clubs and spears, and descended on them and took thirteen prisoners. The * missionaries .had twenty natives in training at the time, and only nine of them escaped. Both missionaries were bound with throngs and left lying on the beach in the tropical sun for several hours, while t.he savages took the native captives inland. The cannibals then returned to the beach and carried the missionaries on a litter to the crater of the extine volcano Van Iue, in the center of the island. There for two days and nights they held a corrohoreo. At times their dancing and revelling could be seen plainly by the fugitive Christian natives. While most of the cannibals were sleeping, the captive natives escaped. Their going was hastened by the sight of two of t.he cannibal chiefs donning the missionaries' clothes. The clergyman had already been eaten. * ? ? ? PASSES THE SEN ATE. Resolution May Uncover the Men Who Sold Short. Senator Smith's resolution direct ing the attorney general to inquire into who sold the cotton con tracts to Hayne, Brown, Scales and others went through the senate Friday. Efforts were made by Elk ins, Aldrieh and others to postpone it, fearing that time would be taken up for discussion, but when, after a speech by Senator Smith, it was found that only a vote was wanted, it was allowed to come up and it was passed without opposition. 'Senator Smith made another cotton speech in tho senate, arraigning the cotton hears as working great injury to the country, not only to (he people of the South, .he said, but to those of the whole country. Me sail' that already Mr. Wickersham's r.'ovenient against t.ho alleged pool had brought the price down a cent a pound, which he declared meant a loss to te country of $4 0,000,000. "The bear evils," he said, "are doing as mucJi damage as the boll weevil." * . POISON PLOT Al?IITTMI). Confesses He Sent Prussic Acid to Ten Superior Officers. The mystery of the origin of the wholesale poisoning plot directed recently against prominent officers of the Austrian army was cleared by the confession of Lieut. Adorf Hofrlchter at Vienna. Friday he admitted that tie had sent capsules containing prussic acid to ten members of the general staff with the object of poisoning them. The capsules were accompanied with circulars recommending their' use for ill health. Capt. Mader, one of the officers ad dressed, tooa i.no preparaium mm died almostv immediately. llofric.hter'K wife is suspected of complicity in the conspiracy and is undergoing an examination by the magistrate. * prrch ON A RANCH. Two Wealthy Texas Stockmen Fight on Horseback. Word was received at Austin of a duel to the death that was foug.ht on elly's ranch, near Reaver Lake, on (Monday between Emmett Newman and It. M. Ratlin, two of the wealthiest stockmen in that section of Texas. Their ranches adjoin. Ratlin nsed a six-shooter, while Newman used a rifle. A cowboy witnessed t.he duel. Newman was shot. through the head and ten aeaa rrom ms horse. Gatlin was shot through the body three times and died Thursday night. * . DRY HE) CRUEL BRUTES A Woman Shot for Refusing to Allow a Soldier to Kiss Her. HUNG BY THE THUMBS These ami Other Serious Charges Are Made in Paper Submitted to the State I>epartment, and the United States Government is Asked to Investigate Them at Once. A letter written to the American oonsol as 'Managua, Nicaragua, by Narcisso Areliaue, a citizen of Nicaragua, detailing incidents of cruel ties In the isthmian republic, has been forwarded to Washington to Senor Castrillo, representative of the Estrada forces in Washington. His letter says: "1 think it best that you should know that t.hese people are at their old work again. They are torturing men and even boys at Nandaimo and at Granada, whipping them, suspending them by the thumbs with cords, all this to wren oh out confessions from them as to w.ho carried provisions to Calito Talavoras' guerillas, beyond Nandaimo. "I will cite as an example the eu:ve of Octavio Marenco, a young man owning a ranch, a few miles from Nandaimo, who was dealt 20i> lashes with sticks at midnight on the 6th of April at the ja?l a* Granada He is now in the penitentiary in this town (Managua), and as it is a matter of common knowledge you must have heard the story from another source. "They have also burned property and wrought damage to an incalculable degree. "It is a real shame that such work is going on with warships a few miles of Carinto harbor, when just a wire from Admiral Kimball would stop this devil's work. Should the admiral send another missionary to investigate, lie would disclose a condition of things unparalleled even in the Congo Free State." tinder date of April 10 from Managua, a subsequent note to the American consul at Managua from Arellano states that the author has received reliable information of 17 cases in which men have been hung up by the thumbs. lie gives the names of the 17 victims and the name of one man shot and two lashed. Another document detailing those alleged cruelties and mentioning specific instances of insults to women by officers, alleged in one case that a woman was shot because she resisted a government officer who tried to kiss her. It has been submitted to the state department by Senor Oastrill. IX)ST ON COTTON CHOI*. From the Cold Will Ho Al>out Ten Per Cent, or More. T11 a statement Issued Friday by the National Ginners' association, it is estimated that the acreage planted to cotton in the Southern States on April 2 6 had ibeen increased by ! seven per cent., as compared witti the same date last year. In the Eastern States a small increase is reported, while the Valley States show a light decrease, because of the spread ot t.he boll weevil. Texas shows a slight increase and Oklahoma about 10 per cent., not as much as indicated in March in either State. This is explained by tho scarcity of food stuffs, increasing the acreage in corn, oats and alfalfa. iReports to the association show that 04 per cent, of the crop .has been planted. The greater part of the plants, which were up before the recent. cold weather, were killed except in central and southern Texas, and it is estimated that 1 4,000,000 acres should be replanted. With average weather a loss of 10 per cent, in yield is predicted. HOW IX SOLDIKH'8 HOl'SK. One of the Inmates ('barged With a Serious Crime. R. M\ Davis, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, at Columbia is in jail on the charge of assault and battery with intent t\> kill, because of an alleged attack upon Cammander Starling, at the home Thursday afternoon. The warrant was sworn out for the old soldier. It is stated that Davis attacked Capt. Starling with a knife, and that Capt. Starling had to strike the soldier down with a shair in order to protect himself. Capt. Starling is ill in bed, as a result of tlie tight and the hearing will be held just as soon as he is able ?o attend. * IflLO