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BROCK ON STAND ^ Gives His Versioa ef the Ugly Charges Made Against Him. ? SOME OTHERS TESTIFY Col. Ilrork Explains From His Htandnnlnt. Tviwiise IlCniS ill llis Ac U, " counts.?Adjutant General Boyd Also Put l'p By Defense, at Suggestion From the Court. Tues lay afternoon's session of the military court of inquiry was yet another damaging one against Col. IIrock in the evidence wliie.h was taken for the prosecution. The most Important evidence was that introduced by the prosecution through Lieut. Cabaniss, U. S. A., Chief Clerk % Holmes of the comptroller general's X* office and Mrs. V. G. Moody, t.he stenographer in the adjutant general's otllce, to show that Col. Ilrock secured $100 from Mr. Holmes for a trip tor himself and Lieut. Cabaniss to Washington. Gen. Boyd gave a check on the Union Savings Bank to Col. Brock for $00, and a check to Lieut. Cabaniss for $110.07, although the vouch or filed with the comptroller general s office showed (wo itemized expense accounts to cover the hundred dollars of $fl0 eao.h for himself and Lieut. Cahaniss. The Cahaniss s'at'ment of $3 0 had been placed in General Boyd's private drawer, to be attached to the voucher later, but Mrs. Moody testified that Col. Brock, in the absence of General Boyd came in and in her presence removed the Cabinesg statement with a key to the private drawer. Another feature of the afternoon session was the reply the prosecution made to the position of the defense that so much money shown to .have been spent by Col. Brock for team hire at different points over the state was in Col. Brock's work inspecting rlflle ranges. It was shown by Lieut. , Cahaniss' testimony that he also had this rifle range business on hand for the federal government and his team (hire did not appear heavy, as frequently local officers would drive them out to the proposed ranges. And beside this the federal government was meeting the expense of thiB rlfHe range business. Still another feature was testimony from Mr. Holmes in contradiction of the position of the defense that the Brock statements attached to vouchers were mere estimates made out before the trips were entered upon, the difference between these and amounts actually spent being later refunded. Mr. Holmes testified that in no case was this refunding done. , The warrant was issued and the Itemized statement of expenses ren-dered afterward to cover. It was shown by the accused that two amounts had been refunded, after the row was on, aggregating nearly $75. The hundred and sixty-odd dollars Col. Brock got from the treasury to advance to Lieut. Bennett of the regular army, who accompanied him on one inspection trip, has never been returned to the State, but this matter will likely be straghtened out later. Lieut. Bennett, it is understood, has hardly had time to get his money from the war department, which requires its officers to advance money from their own funds for exw penses on occasions of this kind. ^ Gen. Boyd in his testimony on Wednesday said that when he w:jm out occasionally on inspectlo i* he paid his own expenses out of his uvr. private funds. He denied that Col. Brock paid his hotel bill in Charleston when Col. Brock's expense account for this trip showed him charging up $13.50 for hotel when Lieut Cabaniss had nothing to pay, whoa Lieut. Cabaniss was told by the hotel man that .his bill bad been paid by Charlestonians. Witness said he had stopped at the Charleston hotel and paid his bill by check. But ^ he had not saved the check to slic x v thM. When the cross-examination sta ted it developed that Gen. Bo/d was lot the defense's witness, bit ha} been put on the stand by the deCeive * of member* of the HI Lilt oiih^vuv. . _ court. The cross-examination was brief, the only object being to mak: more emphatic the point that wher. Gen. Boyd went out on inspections, 4 which were being conducted by Col. 4~. Brock, witness paid his own expenses, taking the position that the State could be properly charged with the expenses of only one man. Col. Brock then took the stand and the attention immediately displayed by the court and spectators showed that they were anxious to know .how he was going to explain various matters connected with the investigation. Witness began by explaining how when starting out on an inspection trip it had been his custom and the custom of the office fod years to draw a warrant for an amount sufficient to " ? " nn item carry him for a umr, 0 ized statements to cover these warrants later. When he first went out he put down everything and brought back vouchers I'm- everything. He was told a: !.!' comptroller general's office thai cbfs was unnecessary, thai I the office did not want to be encum' bered with all these vouchers. Ho then quit bringing in small vouchers and began submitting itemized statements to cover amounts previously drawn. At first it was the custom to have the amount drawn in advance and turned over to Gen. Boyd, who would give Brock his personal check, Brobk afterwards submitting itemized statement. Boyd knew all this and how the expenses were runing. Then when Boyd's health got bad witn?s.Q attended to all this business. "Now so far as the amounts spent are concerned, they are stated with absolute accuracy in my expense accounts. But I wish to explain th?t the hotel people. My expense accounts do not specify any hotels. "For instance, if I had small items to pay like laundry or gutting my leggings cleaned, I would put the whole amount to a charge for hotel. By way of introduction lie took up the matter of Cabaniss charging $5.25 for hotel at Anderson and his charging $8. This $8 included his expenses at Clenison, where he stopped for a short time, as was testified to by Cahaniss. Witness, in answer to further questions, said he could not remember all the details of expense accounts on his trips in 1907, 1908 and 1 909. For a while ho kept a small note book carrying the items in detail, but this had gotten lost. He had now only copies of his statements filed with the comptroller general. (Witness then explained his advancing money to Lieut. Bennett, which was agreed to by Boyd. Witness in explanation of so much team hire charges on the 1910 inspection trips testified that he had been instructed by Gen. Boyd to collect and turn in the obsolete maga zine rifles scattered over the State. In order to coved this expense he had estimated the cost of doing this and drew the money. He found later that this expense could he paid from .national funds. Consequently, he refunded to the State $22 in addition to $5 0 refunded. This was before General Boyd made any charges against his accounts. The defense offered in evidence receipt from Lieut. Bennett for all moneys advanced by Brock. T4iis receipt was itemized, showing amounts spent at each place. This receipt was given by Bennett officially and acknowledged officially . T.he army requires its officers to remain in the service until their obligations are discharged and witness was informed that the paper was good for cash to reimburse the State for the amounts advanced to Bennett. Explaining the hotel charge of $13.50 at Charleston when the local militiamen paid the bill, witness said the amount charged to hotel was for incidentals and part of it was for a hotel bill for General Boyd. T4iis flatly contradicted General Boyd, who testified that he paid his own hotel bill by check. In explanation of $4 charged for hotel at Pelzer when he was enteral J J.1 W .. /~1 ? T A Cmvth IttI tlt/il UlL* I t? U y Vycipt, \f i jrx. kj ui j i/u > Jr., witness said the amount was for a trip he had to make to Columbia to aittend to some duties of the office. Part of this charge was for hotel expense in Columbian which .he felt he had a right to charge as he had broken up housekeeping here for the time. TJie hotel charge at Barnwell of $2.7 5 each for witness and Bennett on which Proprietor 'Molair of the Barnwell hotel had 'testified that Capt. Cole still owed for this bill, which was only $1 for the two, was next taken up. Witness explained how expenses had been incurred in the stop-over at Blackville, which were not entered. All these details, amounting to $2.75 for each, were charged to hotel at Barnwell. They stopped at the hotel annex, where only t.he porter was in charge, and he paid the bill of $1. In explanation of Mr. Cabanies and his hotel bills at Camden being $1.50 for Cabaniss and $12 for witness, Col. Brock said the Camden hotel charge included hotel bills at Columbia and the $12 was for three days. As to charge of $4 for team between Chesterfield and Choraw, whereas Cabaniss had testified he had paid half this bill, witness said he thought Cabaniss was mistaken; that witness paid all this and would not allow Cabaniss to pay any portion would .have borne tht expense personally. Other hotel and similar expenses ? - ? ~ nln.l1nt.lir nvnlolnnd wera biiiuku ij Vnt<.u...vv.. Killed by Tricin. Mr. E. W. Smoak, brakeman on Train No. 62 of the Southern Railway, a resident, of Branchville and unmarried, was struck and almost instantly killed by his own train on Tuesday near the freight depot at Aiken. While the rest of the crew had taken a part of the train off on a spur track, Smoak evidently crept under a box car to avoid the rain Wfliile ther the engine and othei cars returned and caught him una< wares, knocking him from under th< cars and inflicting injuries fron which he died soon afterwards ? ? ? Hide Pleased Him. The Newberry Observer says: "J negro was carried to the chainganj on Tuesday in a fine new automobile 1 He remarked, 'Captain, I've beei ' wanting to ride in one of them thing - a long time.' " WOMAN FIGHTS THIEF ^ SHE FINDS IN HER HOUSE WITH DEADLY ROLLING PIN. She Belabored the Burglar Until He Fell to His Death from a ThirdStory Window. At New York Louis GratcJi, twenty five years old, painter by day and burglar by night, tell to his death from the third story floor of a Delancey street house after Mrs. Geo. Gietman, whose apartments .he entered, had attacked him with an iron cuspidor and a rolling pin. Gratch got into the house by climbing up the fire escape. To get to the Gletemans' bedroom he had 1 1 ? ? ' I"* '\?i ueVh'oIi steppeu acrutis a nuuun wn nmivn slept Miss Lena Kerkenholtg, a boarder. Gratch was searching Gietenvan"s clothing for money when Mrs. Gletman awoke suddenly and screamed. She leaped out of bed and seized the man. Enraged more than frightened, ahe rushed into the kitchen, ' where she seized an iron cuspidor and struck him over the head and shoulders. The man broke away and made for the parlor window. Mrs. Gietman pursued him until a boy boarder in the house ran up and handed her a rolling pin. (With this s.he belabored Gratch furiously. As the man struggled in front of the window at the side of the yard she struck him across the jaw. With a scream he toppled headlong into the yard, striking on the concrete pavement. An ambulance ' 1 * ~ ,1 A\ ,*A surgeon round tnai urmcn uuu uicu of a broken neck caused by t.he fall. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The Grand Ivodge Fleets Officers and Then Adjourns. The grand lodge of Knights of Pythias had a most delightful meeting at Bennettsville this week. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand chancellor, J. W. Walter Doar, of Georgetown; grand vice chancellor, Frank K Myers of Charleston; grand prelate, Frank S. Evans of Greenwood; grand keeper of records and seal, C. D. Rrown of Abbeville; grand master of exchequer, Wilson G. Harvey of Charleston; grand master-at-arms, C. W. Crosland of Bennettsville; grand inner guard, J. L. Reeves of North; grand outer guard, Dr. J. M. Oliver of Orangeburg. The following district deputy grand chancellors were chosen: First, A. V. Williams, Charleston; second, W. C. Henry, Timmonsville; third, J. F. Carter, Bamberg; fourth, A. M. Deal, Columbia; fifth, Rev. H. A. Knox, Mayesville; sixth, W. M. Dunlap, Rock Hill; seventh, A. V. Martin, Clinton; eighth, J. W. Shelor, Walhalla; ninth, Jas. H. Craig, Anderson; tenth, J. W. LeGrand, Bennettsville; eleventh, George A. Schiffley, Orangeburg. All of these are new except Mr. Deal, Mr. Craig ad 'Mr. Martin. The following appointments were announced by the grand chancellor: Grand tribune for three years? | Herbert E. Uyies, 01 Amen. Members of the board of publication of the South Carolina Pythian?M. Rutledge Rivers, reappointed. A past grand chancellor's jewel was presented to Prof. A. G. Rembe,rt by the lodge, Prof. Rembert is devoted to the work of this organization and has rendered to it much valuable service. PARTY NEARLY DROWNED. Life Saving Crew and Volunteers Save Them. At Chicago, the life saving crew in its power boat assisted by a volunteer crew of the Farragnt Yacht Club, after a desperate effort early Monday reached an overturned gasoline launch to which three men and two women were clinging, a short distance off the lake shore from Woodland park. The men had been shouting for aid. A strong northesast wind was blowing and the overturned boat was in imminent danger of crashing against the breakwater. Several persons kept the boat from the breakwater with poles until life-savers reached the scene. All Ave rescued will recover. Died in the Eire. At Elkhardt, Ind., the plant of iht . C. G. Conn Company, said to have ninnnfiipt lirpl'R Of Denn im? i brassband instruments in the world, : was destroyed by fire early Tuesday, . entaining a loss of $500,000, ard oijm * of the night watchmen, Roy Edgerly, - was burned to death. His body was i recovered from the ruins of the 1 buildings. ? ? The Augusta Herald flounders around in something like a half col^ umn in answer to our simple quoh? tion, "Can t.he Herald name a graftei >. who loves Bryan?" But fails to t?n? a swer the question for t4ie s'inpli s reason that it knows that no gvaftej loves Bryan. WAS, THROWN OUT REV. C. W. CREIGHTON'S APPEAL WAS NQT HEARD. He Gives His Version of the Action of the Committee That Refused to Hear His Side. The following statement is made by the Rev. C. W. Creighton in the Christian Appeal concerning the action of a committee of the Methodist General Conference in reference to his appeal from the action of the South Carolina Conference in expelling him from that body: There wt re two cases on appeal to that body?that of the writer and one other. At the lirst meeting ot the Committee of appeal the last mentioned case was uikch up him j by order of the bishop who acted as chairman of the committee. That appeal was not pressed by the oppellant and it might have very properly been postponed until ours was heard, but it was not. Of the nature of that case we are compelled to speak, that our readers may gather an idea of the method pursued in our case though we regret to do so. The appellant had been charged with seduction and being party to a subsequent crime which cost the life of the girl involved?a school teacher. On the iirst charge he was convicted and appealed; on the second he wa^ acquitted by the trial committee. No objection was raised to hearing his appeal; it was heard anu a new trial ordered. After waiting nearly a week our appeal was entered upon: The charge and specifications were reao, then the notice and grounds of appeal. At this point the bis.hop asked, "Shall the appeal be entertained? The prosecution objecte,* to hearing it on the ground that we had preached pending the appeal. We frankly said, "yes, as a layman we .have lone such work as we could, but we have performed 110 act or function of a Methodist preacher." The bish op objected to any statement from us, but we had strong papers from good men and we persisted in read, ing them. This was a surprise, they had expected to take us by surprise, bu we were ready. T.he bishop held that we had lost tne right to appeal and on this point a hot argument followed which lasted for more than two hours. The discipline provides that "the General Conference shall never pass any act taking away the right of trial by committee and appeal," and it was therefore held that if any conditions attached to an appeal those conditions were void, not attached, it was a constitutional rig-ht, absolute and that the only way by which it could be defeated was by death or voluntary abandonment by the appellant. The appellant insisted that no conditions attached to an appeal form a judgment of expuloirtn fHnt ho Unow nf none, and OIWI1 , nav BkMv > ? - ? ? ? had he known of any he would have performed them. In reply the bishop read the notice and grounds of appeal, called attention to the care with Wihich they were drawn, said appellant was a lawyer and should have known it and held his position. A member of the committee called his attention to the case referred to above and reminded him that no such point was raised in tha case. Another member pointed out the fact that the appellant had work ed only as a layman and turning to the bishop he said: "follow youi position to its logical conclusion and it amounts to this, a layman can't pray in the Methodist church. 1 question, he continued, the right or authority of the Methodist church to say that, any man who feels moved to lift his voice in behalf of the Master and fallen humanity shall not do it. The bishop held that by preaching the appellant had lost the right to appeal and that the appellant should have known this although it is not a condition imposed by the discipline* The bishop is a trustee of Vanderbuilt University, the trustees of that institution violated the plainly written requirements of the discipline in electing to the office of trustee men who are not members of the Methodist church and thereby the church is in danger of losing S9.aao.ooo worth of property. T?hat . . . _ bishop stood up before the committee on education and a crowded assembly and plead as an excuse for his act that he did not know of that provision in tbo discipline! A member of the committee remarked with a degree of pathos "some men must be sacrificed." The bishop let drop several statements which showed that he was perfectly familiar with the case and if sc he must have known that if the case went to the committee the appellant would win. It was an issue between a bislui throwing his influence on the clde of the adminstration and an humble preacher seeking to have a miscar 1 riage of justice righted; the bisli ij was the stronger and he won bv i vote of 13 to 6. 'The appeal was not hear I. i\< merits of the case were not touch 1 ed, but enough was elicited to mak ' this much clear: A preacher who wa charged with seducing a young KILLS BLACK FIEND BUT A WHITE FIEND SUCCEEDS IN GETTING AWAY. Charlotte and Vicinity Aroused Over Two Hold Attempts at Criminal Assault. A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., says two bold attempts at criminal assault in broad daylight in that immediate section Thursday, in which one of the assailants was a white man and the ot.her a negro, aroused the country people to a frenzy, with the result that the negro was fatally shot, while a posse of citizens with bloodhounds is scouring the country for t.he white man, with the intention ni lynemng iniii. The negro. Will Ross, entered thehome of James Bailee, near Fort Mill, and attempted an assault upon Miss Troy Bailes, his daughter, twenty years old. The girl's screams soon brought aid, but the negro escaped, Inter being apprehended in t.he suburbs of Charlotte. Ross ran when Officer Colthrap attempted to arrest him, and the latter fired, fatally wounding him. At noon an unknown white man attempted to assault Miss Carrie Bell, the fifteen year old daughter of John Bell, telegraph operator at Bessemer City. He too. was frightened off before accomplishing his purpose, escaping into the woods near Crowder's Mountain. A posse of angry neighbors was hastily formed, and with bloodhounds from a convict camp are scouring the woods. At a late hour Friday night the posse had not been heard from. TOOK HKI? OWN LIFE. Arranged Her Own Funeral I'yre lie fore Husband. Resorting to three different methods to kill .herself, wnile her family was asleep around her, Mrs. J. 11. Deal, who lives a little over a mile from Maiden, N. C., committed suicide Thursday morning beforeday by saturating herself with kerosene oil and setting herself on fire. Her husband was awakened by the flames from her dress and ran to her rescue, but too late to save her. A razor aud an axe were lying near. She tried first to cut her throat and then to cut her head with the axe. Ill health was the cause. She was 27 years of age and two children survive her. She suffered a great deal from the awful mode she adopted to put an end to her existence. HAD FATAL. EFFECT. * Cdmot Causes Two Sudden Deaths in Alabama. At Talladega, Ala., the appearance of the comet Sunday evening cause 1 intense excitement. Congregations of several churches left their pews and hundreds of persons stooi excited in the square and gazed at tne celestial visitor. Miss Ruth Jor Ian. daughter of a farmer living two miles from Talladega was called to tMo door of her home to see lb? comet axd Immediately fell dead, physicians assigning -heart failure as the cause. An unknown negro 01 the depot platform was shown the comet and instantly dropped dead. NEGRO FACTORY SUCCEEDING. Hosiery Mill at Durham is Doubling Working Quarters. Having started up under mosl promising conditions the Durham Texile Mills, the only negro hosier> miii in North Carolina, has met witt with such success that it has doubled its capital and working quarters, and within a mont.h will have in operation several new machines. The factory is owned solely by negroes ol Durham and the management comes from the texile schools of the country. It is the purpose of the company to make Durham t.he center o! negro hosiery mills in the Southerr States. t\>!d in Texas. At Amarillo Texas., following tin wind and hailstorm of Saturday night, a north or that bag sent tin temperature to the freezing point prevailed there Sunday with indica Hrtnc notntine to snow. It is fearet r' cj ? that immense damage to crops wil result. m Drank Twice and Died, i At Elizabeth, N. J., playing hous i while mother went to market Louis Crouch, 6 years old, her brothe ? Johnnie, 3 years younger, went t > the ice chest and drank freely fror : a bottle of tonic compound w.hie they had seen their eleders us* j man, a poor school teacher, and b< 3 ing party to her subsequent deat - .had a hearing without objection an i secured a new trial, but anoth< i preacher who had exposed wronj criticised oillcials and advocate! e? larger liberty for the laymen of tl - church and was expelled for it, w; : denied the privilege of having tl s methods by which t.hnt expulsion w; i* accomplished investigated! " HAVE HARD TIME Io Keeping Their Rascality Hid From the Sight of the Public. THE LORINER MATTER Charge that He Wits Elected by the lTse of Bribe Money Overshadow Every Other Phase of Present Congressional St i nation as AfYort in# the Dominant Political Party. P. H. -'McCowan, the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says t.ho political situation was never more interesting in Washington than just now, with the Democrats having t.heir till of enjoyment at the expense of their Republican brethren. The Republicans have been in deep water ever since the present session of Congress opened in December. That big Government deficit, the fierce objection to tlie Aldric.h-Payne tariff law. the troublesome work of the "insurgents"?all these are causes that gave the majority party innoyanc? before others were added. Now there are still more dilemmas tnd either horn looks like a had one. The postal savings bank bill is not worrying the Democrats in the loant while, on the contrary, it is giving the Republican members of Congress -both in the House and Senate? no end of trouble. Rut added to this is the worst of r.ll trouble because it is strictly within party lines-?the fact that unless Senator William S. Uorimer, of Illinois, can purge himself of Hie allegations connecting him with bribery work in his recent election, when he defeated former Senator Hopkins, he must, without doubt, face charges of a grave nature before a Court composed of his present colleagues in the Senate. So far as t.he postal savings bank is concerned there is little use to disguise the fact that neither the bankers nor the peoplo generally throughout the country want it. So far as the former are concerned there .has been- sufficient testimony presented to Congress already to show that the enactment of such a bill cannot do other than work largely to the detriment of these institutions?especially the smaller onea conducting savings deposit departments on a limited scale. The question is being asked in Washington, why is it necessary for the Government to become the guardian of several million- people and take care of their earnings in order to encourage "thrift" as the purpose of the postal savings bank bill undoubtedly is? It is pointed out that . if the people have been able to take car? of their small savings up to this time t.hey will probably be ableto do so hereafter. The Lorimer case presents several . interesting features. Unless he can /-?1. n t- R i ?v\ on 1 f* f mm t Vi r% o r o \i n r* H c i r iron . v 1 < ci i iuiiioi-1 i ii v / in n*b vuivi lodged against him he will rioubtlesa he forced to resign from his seat in* tho Senate. T.here are both Republicans and Democrats who say that for the good of the Senate generally Senator Lorimer must give a clean account of his doings in the Illinois legislature in connection with his election. Failing in this .he will be allowed p to r? sign, and declining to take advantage of this opportunity, will be impeached. The fact that Senator Lorimer re mained in his rooms at a hotel for 1 many days before going to the Senate, gives clear and positive indica1 tion that he believes there is trou1 hie in store for him. His case is ' much of a mystery here, and while he is not considered of any special " weight h.v his colleagues, there will [ undoubtedly he a clearing up of the 5 situation during the next few days, " unless Senator Lorimer can do so himself. f It is now believed that he will 1 make a speech in the Senate, but that it will not be satisfactory. Then it will be necessary for a special committee of investigation to be appoint* > ed?something like the Rallinger/ Pinchot committee or that investlga* tiny thr> existence of a ship subsidy , lobby in Washington. That Mr. Iior imer is to be investigated and that 1 this investigation may prolong tho 1 present session of Congress many weeks is one of the strong probabilities at this time. e Shot to Kill. . ,, e At Henderson, Ky., W. R. Ebelcn, r a well-known horseman was shot and o j killed and Mattie White, the negro n! servant in the family, was fatally h wounded by Mrs. Ebelen, at the Wbe?. len home Friday. Mrs. Ebelen gave - herself up, telling the polico that it was merelv a '.ase of whether she U or her husband had to die. d ? 51* An Old Hero Dies, K? Capt. J. Pembroke Jones, who wao a one of the officers on the Morrlm mac when s.he fought the Monitor,, died in California Tuesday. Ho wm ie the r; i. : ?;?; ? g graduate of the as Na* ' at the time of hit j doa is. was a native of Virginia.