The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 26, 1910, Image 6
CAN'T SAVE HIM
President
Taft Sinks Deeper and Deepe
in the Ballinger Mire.
REPUBLICANS AGHAST
rhey Fear Revelations Tliat Have
Conic Out in (lie Case Will Kuin
Not Only the Taft Administration,
Rut the Whole Republican Parly
Along Willi It.
The Washington correspondent of
Grit thinks that if the Ballinger
rumpus, the bane or the present Administration,
is not placed in the
discard soon, it is going to wreck
the entire Republican party. This
is practically the concensus of opinion
of the foremost Republicans in
the National capitol, a conviction
reached after what has been probably
the worst week the Taft administration
has experienced in the government
of the nation. The attempt
of the President and his advisors and
counselors to clear up the waters
muddled by the sensational Kerby
statement last Saturday weeK nas
been pitiful.
Instead of clearing it up, the explanations
and statements have stirred
up the whole unsavory mess even
more, and the blacker the affair
*ro\vs, the greater the blot on the
Administration is going to be. Some
one has erred somewhere in the past.
This much is admitted, llut some
one is erring ever greater now in
the course that is being pursued. No
names are mentioned by the disgusted
Republicans, for it is not proper
to openly criticise one very high in
the party ranks.
Secretary of the Interior Richard
A. Ballinger stands discredited before
the entire country. No amount
of "(investigation" or Government
whitewash will change the opinion
of the people as to Ballinger's guilt.
His actions since Pinchot first attacked
his policies, and the things
>rought out against him at the Congressional
investigation, still in progress,
brands the cabinet officer as
a man who is looking after the iu
*' - * ' . _ M A
terests ot "tne interests uim, uuu
then scraping up the crums for the
people.
And yet President Taft persists in
his efforts to whitewash thi6 member
of his official family. The wise
ones see that the Chief Executive
by his actions is not only leading
his own administration to certain
destruction, but he is seriously
threatening the very life of the party
that gave to him the highest office!
in the land. Still he persists, in
the name of departmental discipline,
in bolstering up the cause of Ballingerism.
iWhen Frederick M. Kerby, the
young stenographer working in the
Department of the Interior, made
public his sensational story of how
Lawler, and not President Taft,
wrote the Ballinger whitewash letter
which the President gave to the
country, it placed the Chief Executive
in a very bad light. Since that
time the President explanations and
actions have been even worse. With
Taft's consent, Ballinger immediately
dismissed Kerby from the service.
And the secretary of the Interior
discharged young Kerby, with a
stigning reprimand, because ho revealed
the manner in which Ballinger
obtained his exoneration from
tho President, and the deception
practiced upon t.he public in that
exoneration. According to Kerby's
statement, Secretary Ballinger grossly
deceived the country, and President
Taft was a party to that deception.
And he was not an inno'ant
party, either.
Kerby undoubtedly expected fo be
dismissed. A man of Ballinger's
type would necessarily regard the
affront to himself as far outweighing
the service Kerby had rendered
the public. The general belief is.
however, that Ballinger and the Administration
will suffer more than
Kerby.
Kerby merely goes to join me
growing list of remarkable men
who have proved themselves courageous
enough to protest against
wrong and place the public interests
above their own. The list now includes
Glavis, Pinchot and Price and
Shaw, the former assistants of Pin
chot, Hoyt, former assistant general
of Porto Rico, and Kerby. They
ihave aid been driven out *)f tin
public service, and are classed r.s
traitors by the Administration, but
the only offense committed by a~?y
one of them was that of telling the
truth, and of striving to prevent
wJiat they believed to be the perpetration
of a great wrong.
Others are to be added to the
list, unless all signs fail. They will
be H. Tiller Jones, the special agent
of the Rand ofllce, who joined with
Glavis, in the fight to save the Alaska
coal lands, Director Newell, of
the Reclamation service, and Chief
Engineer Davie, of the same service.
Many Republicans in Congress in
private discussion of the latest phase
of the Ballinger case not only coincide
with the dismissed stenograph
*
er in his estimate of the Secretary
of the Interior, but extend t.he judgment
to the President himself. They
are dumfoundod, disgusted and dishearted
at the manner 111 which
Taft has driven his administration
deeper and deeper into the mire, with
each move he has made in Ballinger's
behalf. They admit that never before
in our history, with the possible
exception of Andrew Johnson,
has any President brought such discredit
on himself and his administration
as Taft has done in this Hallinger
affair. The Republicans realize
that the effect of the revelations
of the last few days regarding the
President's set determination to
whitewash Ballinger, even at the expense
of his own honor and con- J
science, must prove disastrous to the
. ^lnnlinnc
pany 111 in is iciii r? vicv.uwnu.
It is known that the President has
not been animated in his course by
personal regard for his Secretary of
the Interior wit.h whom his acquaintance
before Ballinger entered the
cabinet was slight. The country is
therefore bound to seek elsewhere
than in personal considerations the
secret of Ballinger's hold on the
Chief Executive.
TJie question will inevitable be
asked how it came that Ballinger
was made Secretary of the Interior,
and how is it that Taft goes even
to the length of misrepresentation,
to put is mildly, to save Ballinger
from the consequences of his queer
maneuvering in relation to Uie Cunningham
claims.
The answer to these questions will
be found by persons not entirely
blinded by partisanship and the glamor
of high oflice, in the testimony of
Glavis, before the investigating com
niittee. In that testimony Glavis
told how the lobbyist and promoter,
Alexander Mackenzie, warned the
land agent that he was pursuing a
dangerous course in persisting in
his attack of the Cunningham claimants.
Theses claimants, Mackenzie declare:,
according to Glavis, had been
strong enougJi to prevent the reappointment
of James It. Garfield as
Secretary of tne Interior, although
Roosevelt had requested his retention.
And if they were powerful
enough to prevent the reappointment
of Garfield, they might naturally be
expected to develop sufficient influence
to secure the appointment of a
man of their own choice as Garfield's
successor.
Ilehind the Cunningham claimants,
the investigation has clearly shown,
were, the great Guggenheim and
Morgan interests, which are seeking
to get a strangle hold on the vast
wealth of the territory of Alaska.
The control of the Interior department
is essential to the success of
this great conspiracy and suspicious I
people will not be slow to reach
the conclusion that the appointment
of Rnllintrer hr Secretary of the In
terior was not unconnected with the
plot.
I 'Had the President kept his own
skirts clean, and held the balance
even between Ilallinger and his enemies,
he would have escaped suspicion.
But in many ways it is indicated
that he .has been working hand
in glove with Hallinger and his
friends to bring about the vindication
of the Secretary of the Interior, almost
regardless of the character of
the means employed, and he cannot
complain if the disinterested public
maintains an attitude of suspicion.
rvu ^ nnnnnP!i?rir!(? f 'A P1 Ci .* in t ilG
1 11C II l' t" Cll< Ulll . v. w ? .. .
situation is the apparent certainty
the attempts to save Hailing r wi-l
have exactly the opposite eff- j: to
that intended.
It is the belief in Washing*".".!! tba*
the revelations of the past [<jw v!a>*,
taken in connection wi'.fc the onrnj
illative effect of the testimony adduced
to Ballinger's drsve'it be tore
the Investigating committee, will
make it impossible for that body to
bring in a report white-was.hing the
Secretary of the Interior.
TAKES AN EXTHEME VIKW.
Dr. K. C. Dargait Says the Baptist
Are Only Ones Bight.
in presenting the report of the
committee on work in Cuba and Panama
to Uie Southern Baptist Convention
I)r. E. C. Dargan, of Macon, (ia.,
said he was as much a believer in
unity and fraternity as any man, but
he did not believe there was any
church on earth as good as a Hapt 1st
church. He had an idea that a Baptist
church, which had in front of
it the first letter with which Bible
was spelled was the best institution
on earth and it was the only one that
was right. If that was narrow, he
i had been living a narrow life for a
; long time among a lot of narrow men
1 and he exepcted to die a narrow
i death, to be placed in a narrow coffin
to sleep in a narrow grave and tc
wake up a narrow soul on the morning
of the resurrection to spend a
, narrow eternity with (rod to whose
teaching he had tried to be true.
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Two Are Killed.
) As a result of a boiler explosion at
the saw mill of J. R. Brown, in
Jones County, Ga., Thursday afternoon,
L. J. A. Brown, a prominent
planter, and son of the ownor of the
mill, and William Mutchins, a negro,
1s dead, and the mill is wrecked.
Brown was killed outright and
the negro died in a few minutes.
SEVEN NEW BISHOPS
ELECTED 15 Y THE METHODIST
GENTHAL OONETHENCE.
Two of the Seven Are Natives of
South Carolina and Graduates of
Wod'oid College.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
elect d on Monday and Tuesday seven
new His.hops. On Monday the
balloting commenced. On the tU'fu
ballot Rev. Collins Denny and Rev.
John C. Kilgo were elected. Out of
203 votes Denny received 229 and
Kilgo ITS. The former received 7 1
votes more than necessary to elect,
while the latter received 2G votes
more than necessary to elect.
On the second balTot Rev. \V. 15.
Murrah was elected by a vote of I Go,
or 14 more votes than necessity to
elect. Then followed on Tuesday
ot.her ballots, during which Vv'. R.
| Lambuth, E. D. Mouzon, R. G. Wat
erhouse and J. H. McCoy wore eiectI
ed. This completed the election of
the seven Bishops ns provide for
by resolution of the conference. The
following is the order in which the
Bishops were elected.
Collins Denny, Maryland.
John C. Kilgo, South Carolina.
W. B. Murrah, 'Mississippi.
\V. R. Lambuth, Tennessee.
E. D. Mouzon, South Carolina.
R. G. Waterhouse, Virginia.
J. H. McCoy, Alabama.
Both Revs. John C. Kilgo and E.
I). Mou/.on are natives of South Carolina
and graduates of Wofford College.
When elected Kilgo was a
member of the North Carolina Conference
and Mouzon was a member
of the Texas Conference. lie was
born in Spartanburg, where his father,
a most excellent man, carried
on the business of a photographer.
He is said to be a very able man,
and well equipped for the high posit
i a n +/? iv Vi \n Via h'jo hdon nallofl 11
is 45 years of age.
Of the seven Bishops elected all
are in the prime of life, and the delegates
are congratulating themselves
that the majority of the Bishops chosen
are still young men, who give
promise of long userullness to the
Church. Of the four Bishops elected
Monday three were engaged in school
work, the fourth, Dr. W. R. Lambouth,
being the only one not so
engaged. It is a singular fact that
none of the Bishops elected were engaged
in the regular work of the
pastorate.
South Carolina and Wofford College
are well represented among the
new Bishops, which shows that the
old State and the old college are a
great farce in Methodism. In the
last ten years three South Carolinians
have been elected Bishops by
the General Conference, but in every
I instance they were members of some
i other conferences when elected. Why
is it that so many of South Carolina's
| strong men leave their own State
and go to others? Why don't they
remain members of the South Carolina
Conference instead of joining
others?
STOLE BIG SI M OF MONEY..
Took Express Envelope Containing
Over $30,000.
Three packages of money containing
$32,024.24 were stolen from the
Pennsylvania depot at Oil City, Pa.,
at 3.30 o'clock Thursday morning,
while John J. Truby, the station
agent, was loading baggage on to a
Buffalo-bound train. T.he money was
being shipped by the Adams Express
company to Philadelphia.
The railroad detectives investigating
the robbery are or the opinion
that the theft was the work of one
man. T.he packages were too bulky
for storage in the small station sale
and Night Agent Truby placed the
money under a sack behind the ticket
counter, covering them carefully.
At ,'1.80 o'clock a train pulled into
the station and Truby stepped
out 011 the platform, closing the
otlico door behind .him. The door
is self-locking. While about 200 feet
from the station office. Truby saw by
the light on the station platform that
the office door was unclosed. Hurrying
back he discovered that the three
packages of money were missing.
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MKT AWTTb DKATH.
Enveloped in Gasoline Flames Child
Fatally llurncd.
i At Tampa, Fla., Manuel Hackney,
i a five year old boy. met a horrible
death Thursday while playing in his
' father's yard. A tank on a gasoline
i stove exploded and while it was still
1 burning was thrown into t.ho yard by
a fireman, who happened to be passi
ing the house at the time. The
( burning tank struck the child, the
gasoline spreading over him, burning
4iim so badly that ho died two
hours later. Two houses burned as
a result of the explosion.
Shot His Brother.
Dr. II. Burton Stevenson, a physician
of Sherwood, Baltimore County,
Md., was shot in the face Tuesday by
his brother, Allen Stevenson, who is
said to be mentally deranged. The
wound is not believed to be serious.
SOUNDSSLOGAN
Champ Clark Raises Tariff Rallying Cry
For Democrats.
THE MINORITY LEADER
Challenges the President to Direct
Test oil Customs Duties and Promises
Sii(>|K>rt for Deduction.?Tal't
Is Criticised for Lending IIis Sup
IHM'L and Charged W'itli Making
Contradictory Statements.
Denouncing the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law as a "transparent humbug,"
attacking the tariff views of its author,
Representative Sereno Payne,
(Republican) of New York, and vigorously
assailing President Taft for
his support of that law, Representative
C.hamp Clark, of Missouri, leader
of the Democratic minority, Saturday
delivered in the house what is
regarded as the Democratic keynote
speech of the coining congressional
campaign. Mr. Clark had prepared
his address with great care and
spoke at length, giving facts and
figures in support of his contention
that the tariff had not been honestly
revised and that the Republican
majority in congress had endeavored
to trick the people. Mr. Clark also
paid his respects incidentally to t.he
$250,000 item in the sundry civil
appropriation bill for the creation of
a tariff board.
Mr. Clark told, in bitingly humorous
style, of the tariff tilts in
which Mr. Payne attacked Senator
Dolliver and 'Mr. Fordney, of Michiwn
"n tffniihlioHu of hiirh degree,"
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attacked Senator Beveridge, "the
Republican boss of Illinois."
Mr. Clark continued:
"In making a speech in defense
of his tariff bill Chairman Payne
appeared to be performing a disagreeable
stunt. . . .
j"Mr. Chairman Payne was evidently
in a very fretful state. He
also seems to be afflicted with a new
disease, 'intermittent forgetf ulntcss.'
He remembered with great vividness
the soup houses of 1893 and 1 894,
but when it came to t.he soup houses
of 1907, a very recent occurrence
and the soup houses of 1873, his
memory failed him utterly. It does
not need a pschologist or phrenologist
to account for this state of mind
on his part, the reason being that
the soup houses of 1873 and 1907
were under Republican administration
and under tariff laws passed by
the Republican party, while the soup
hous? ? of 1893, through the outgrowth
of a panic caused by a Republican
tariff bill, sprang up when
a Democratic president was in office."
Tho .ninoritv leader then ridiculed
certain of Mr. Payne's arguments,
declaring that the Republican leader
was "playing both ends against
the middle."
Mr. Clark then attacked the sugar
schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law and ridiculed Republican
claims of benefiting the people by
lowering the tariff on refined sugar.
The reduction, he said, was so small,
"that every man with common sense
knows that the consumer will never
be benefited by it in any way whatsoever."
"In one breath the gentleman from
New York glorifies .his bill because
it shuts out importations. In the
next he glorifies it because it has
increased importations. The gentleman
from. New York must take one
horn or the other."
The speaker declared that while
American citizens would prefer to
use American-made goods and articles
rather than foreign productions,
they were unwilling to pay exorbitant
prices to American manufacturers.
Taking up the woolen schedule of
the tariff law, Mr. Clark ridiculed
tiki idea that the present tariff law
was responsible for the increased importations
as wool, in that, .he said,
t.'.ie tariff on No. 1 and No. 2 wool
was the same in the Payne law as in
the Dingley law.
Mr. Clark next took the matter of
the tariff 011 stockings and said that
the raise in tariff rates on that article
was not for the purpose of aiding
unemployed women, as Mr. Payne
had put it, but for the purpose
of giving the American manufacturer
a monopoly 011 the stocking trade.
Mr. Clark then quoted figures
tending to show that the payne-Aidrick
duty on stockings of the cheaper
grade amounted to 8 9.7?) per cent,
ad vatoren.
Mr. Clark declared that the Payne
suited in a shoddier class of goods,
clothing, but had increased it and resulted
in a shoddier class of goods.
The speaker then turned his attention
to President Taft.
"I will now drop the gentleman
from New York," exclaimed Mr.
Olark, "and get after bigger game,
to wit, the President of the United
States. He is not only the chief
traveler, but is the chief spokesman
of bis party. He deserves to be
treated with candor and respect, but
I have a perfect right to discuss h.s
utterances as 1 would those of any
other public man. I wish fo call
attention to all concerned to the
fact that tho president said on thn
Gth of August, 1909, that "the bill
Is not a perfect bill or a complete
compliance with the promises made
strictly interpreted.' I submit that
that declaration of the president is a J
flat contradiction of the assertion of
the gentleman from New York that
his bill is a jiifcrfeet compliance with
the promises made prior to t.h'1 elec
tion of 1908. In September, 1909.
the president went on an extensive
sp??jech-making tour,' beginning with
a speech in Boston, in which he eulogised
Senator Aldrlch to the skies.
That was the first serious wound
which the president inflicted upon
his own popularity, for right or
wrong, and 1 think right, the American
people hold Senator Aldrlch
largely responsible for the enormi v
of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. On
the 17th of September, 1909, the
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president said in Winona, .yuiiii.. kju
the whole, tyowever, 1 am bound to
say that 1 think the Payne tariff bill
is t.he best tariff hill that the Republican
party ever passed.'
"When the American people read
that declaration the next 111 jrning
and remembered the utterance which
I have quoted from the president's
statement of August 5, they wondered
what change had come over the
spirit of his dream. They could not
reconcile the two statement. They
knew that the tariff bill had not
changed since August 5th, 1909, and
they marveled as to how a bill, which
the president declared 011 that day
to be neither a perfect bill not a
complete compliance with the promises
made, could 011 the 17th day
of September be the. best tariff bill
that the Republican party ever passed.
All the perfumes of 'Araby the
Hlest' can not sweeten the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill to please the dainty
nostrils of the people. They believe
it to be the worst tariff bill 'ever
passed by the American congress.
That speech was the serious wound,
No. 2, whie.h the president indicted
on his own popularity."
Mr. Clark then devoted himself
to the steel schedule of the tariff
law and President Taft's indorsement
of it. He declared that what the
people wanted in a revision of the
tariff was a reduction of prices to a
just basis, w.hieh is "precisely what
they did not get."
Turning to the woolen schedule,
which he said the president admitted
was too high, and facing the Republican
side of the house, Mr.
Clark exclaimed:
"I have a fair proposition to make
to the President and to my Republican
friends which will promote harmony
and which will bring untold
blessings to the consumers in the
land. Let the president send a message
to congress, short and vigorous,
which shows that he means business,
proposing substantial reductions
in the woolen goods schedule;
let Mr. Chairman Payne report that
hill from his committee and put it
on its passage, and without having
consulted a single Democrat in the
house, I will give bond for the proposition
that every Democrat will line
up and vote for it. If he would recommend
it, it will go through the
house and senate with a whoop and
the people would rise up and call
him blessed. It is contended that the
reasons that no change in the tariff
in any manner whatever, however
meritorious, can be offered is the*
fear that, if the tariff question be
opened up at all, we wicked Democrats
will let slip the dogs of war
and open up the whole tariff question?to
the disarrangement of all
business in the land.
"I am so much interested in seeing
the American people have cheaper
woolen clothes that without having
consulted a single Democrat, 1
am certain that every one of them
agrees that, if the president will
send in a message recommending the
hilll which I have indicated and Mr.
Chairman Payne will report it and
put it 011 its passage, we will not
offer an amendment of any sort to
it. The whole transaction could he
consummated in less than a week
and a shout of rejoicing would ascend
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the Great Lakes to
the seething waters of the sunlit
Gulf. It matters not that the president
would receive the lion's s.hare
of the glory."
in closing, Mr. Clark commented
upon IV'fmocratic unity and Republican
discord, and prophesied a victory
for his party in November. He said
that he never looked forward to any
day with such joy as he did "to the
first Tuesday cifter t.he first Monday
of November, except to my wedding
day and the days 011 which my children
were l>orn."
iMr. Clark inveighed against executive
intereference in legislation. In
discussing the wood pulp and print
paper investigation last year, in
which Mr. Mann (111.), one of the
speaker's c.hief lieutenants, dissented
from the conference report, Mr.
Clark declared he had often wondered
why, while the Republicans
were reading insurgents out of the
party, they had not taken a whack at
Mr. Mann.
"You say you would go far to
hear a Republican debate between
Senator Dollivtr and Representative
Payne," said Mr. Scott, of Kansas.
"How far would you go to hear a
Democratic debate between Senator
Bailey and William J. Bryan?"
i would not travel steps," ani
s we red Mr. Clark. "I know as much
j about the tariff as both of those
Statesmen put together."
GOES FOR LIFE
Hyde is Found Guilty of Murder in the
First Degree But Only
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GETS A LIFE SENTENCE
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Sensational Murder Trial in Kansas
City IOihIn With the Conviction of
Dr. llycie, Whose Neck is Saved
hy the Jury Fixing His Duiiish*
nie.iit at Life Imprisonment.
\Tnndav
At Kansas un.v, v,
Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, was convicted
and sectenced to life imprisonment
for the murder of Thomas H. Swope,
a millionaire uncle of Jiis wife, who
had given her nearly two hundred
thousand dollars in his will.
Col. Swope died October 3 0 last.
His death certificate gave apoplexy as
the cause of death. Dr. Hyde wae.
in attendance. The State avers he
poisoned the millionaire by administering
strychnine to him in capsule
form.
The motive for the alleged crime,
says the State, was to obtain wealth.
By the terms of Col. Swope's will,
Mrs. Hvde was to receive a share of
her uncle's property and some money.
Desiring to hast* n the settlement
of the estate and also to prevent
certain changes, which the colonel
had planned, from being made
in the will, Dr. liyde, killed the aged
capitalist.
When indicted for t.he murder of
Col. Swope, ten other indictments
were returned against Dr. Hyde. In
them he was charged with the murder
of Chrisman Swope, a nephew
of Col. Swope, by administering poison
to him, negligently killing James
Moss Hunton, a cousin of Col. Swope,
by bleeding .him, and of attempting
to poison Misses Lucy Swope, Mildred
Fox, Sarah Swope, George Com
ton, Nora Hell Dickson, Siena swopi;,
Margaret Swopo and Leonora Copbridge.
All of these people were attacked
by typhoid fever, prevalent in
the Swope home, and it is averred
Hyde caused their illesH.
No indictment but that one relating
to the death of Col. Swope entered
the case which ended Monday,
however. He was a millionairo
real estate and mine owner, who
gave Swope park to Kansas City, and
who died suddenly on October 3,
1909, shortly after having taken a
capsule at the direction of Dr. Hyde.
Drs. Hektoen and Haynes, of Chicago,
two eminent experts, who made
an analysis of the- viscera of Col.
Swope, found strychnine in his stomach
and liver.
Dr. Dennett Clarke Hyde, the defendant,
is the son of a Haptist minister,
now retired, at Lexington, Mo.
He was graduated from the Wentworth
Military academy at Lexington,
and went to Kansas City in the early
90's and studied medicine.
A short time after he had been
licensed to practice Dr. Hyde was aprw^i
n t nnltro snrirpnn bv MilVOf
Webster Davis. Before .he had served
a year he was removed for unprofessional
conduct.
When in October, 1898, several
unusually bold grave robberies were
committed, i)r. Hyde's name b- came
connected with the matter, but no
sufficient proofs were found against
him. ^
Jit was three or four years later " W"'
that the announcement was made of {
Dr. Hvdes engagement to Miss Frances
Swope, daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Swope, of Indepenence, and the
niece of the late Col. Thomas H.
Swope.
fTlin onirn iroment wa stronirlv on
posed by Mrs. Margaret Swope, but
Miss Frances was determined to marry
Hyde and even the fact that several
breach of promise suits were
filed against him, which did not reflect
credit upon his character, did
not. change her determiniation.
She became the wife of Dr. Hyde, V
and, after a while, truce was de- ?clared
and a fairly cordial entente
established between the Swope family
and Dr. Hyde. The door of the
Swope home was opened to the young
doctor last summer and soon thereafter
l>egan a chain of events which
caused the death of three persons
and came near wiping out the entire
Swope family.
AVANT HAS SKIPPED TOO.
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Neither He Nor Bingham Can Ho
Found by Officers.
W. B. Avant left his home at Harper's
Saturday, just before the arr
I \ro 1 n f b /\ /l/\tM<itf w.t /v ^ ii M M
1KIM v?i lilt- Hllt'llU, HtilLlUK
that he expected to take the train for
Columbia and surrender himself to
the Penitentiary authorities. Not
having reported at the prison , it
would seem that he has taken tho
cue from his friend and accomplice
in crime, I)r. Bingham, and fled.
Both men are now fugitives from
justice, their whereabouts being absolutely
unknown to the officers of
the law.
Mr. Clark spoke for two hours.
His remarks were full of figures of
speech and anecdotes and were frequently
applauded. *