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f ' |k jhb JH % . DOUBLE MURDER iik '? . ? A lili Eifiietr Kilt* Bit Wife ni Bet %. Farther at iid nti. PROUD H? KILLED WIFE ?? K Only Regret is Ho Had to Shoot His Wife's Father, With Whom |Slie Lived, and His Wile's Sister, Who Was Sleeping With His Wife When Ho Shot Her. "I went to the home to kill my wife and I succeeded. I'm well pleased with niv little deed and am ready 'JJ*. to die for it any time; my ony regret is that I had to shoot my wife's iv farther and that I aceidently shot j*'s her little sister. The old man caught me from the rear and I had to shoot 'A him in the tussle that followed. I did not know the little girl was in 1 the bed with my wife and did not know I had shot her until the oilicers tfild me this morning that I had done so." J* These few words from the mouth of Samuel N. Hyde sum up the ma^ terlal points of a double murder committed by him in the village of Orr .^Cotton mills at Anderson at an early hour Tuesday morning. The dead are: M. V. Beasley, aged 05 years, Y ) jtnd Mrs. Emnva Beasley Hyde, aged K5 years. The wounded is Miss WITt pie Beasley, aged 15, but her wounds are not serious. IJyde is 2G years of age. He surrendered to Sheriff * , King immediately after the shooting, and when at the jail this morning gave out the following interview, which has been substantiated by other witesses of the dreadful tragedy: \ "My wife and I had been separated t li ivm wooka \fv fntlier-in rf. 'j}{ law, Mr. Beasley, told me not to ffr pome around his house, as it would 7 cause trouble. 1 love my wife, and I R7 wanted to see her Since I could not live with her, I was resolute to t kill her, and put an end to the af!fair. T f 111 ly made up my mind in tlie matter Monday afternoon before sunset. In order to carry out my purj - f pose, I went to the house of a friend, v who lives just below the city, and * while he was away from home I went Into his room and Into his trunk where I found his 3 2 calibre pistol. I put the pistol is -my pocket and then returned to the city. At 10 o'clock I boarded the Orr mill car dek terniined to carry out fy intention. I | 1 got off the car and walked past the home of Mr. Beasley. The lights I I were burning and I could hear voices I went down In the mill village to give the people time to go to bed. I j| passed the house two or three times beore I finally decided that they had 1 v retired. ) "It was my wife's habit to keep a dim light burning in her room, ana when I saw that the lamp had been v^_ turned down, I knew that everybody was asleep. I went to the rear of the house, took off my coat, shoes and hat and placed them on the porch. I then got a chair and forced an enA il. t /-I If i i / ? 1 \ tlfl *1 rl All? iruiiuo III ruumii llic l\ i ii;hcu n iuuun i I passed through the kitchen and hall to to iny wife's room. I didn't know which bed she occupied, so turned up the light. As I did so, she raised .'] ^ herself on her elbow and called out to know what I was doing and what I meant by coming there. I didn't anI swer her,, but began firing. I empI' tied my pistol?five shots in all. At the third shot, she fell back in bed. "I then turned and started through the hall. Her father had been attracted by the shots and he grabbed me as I passed out of the door. He grabbed me from the rear, and in the tussle T put one cartridge in my pistol. I aimed the pistol under my left k arm and fired. The ball pierced his heart, and he fell dead to the floor. T then rushed out of the house. It was my intention to come to the jail and surrender, but so many people gathered that I decided to take to the i corn field just in the rear of the * house. "A friend of mine joined me in the , field and he went to telephone the ^ sheriff A little while later I lie sheriff came down the road in his buggy. T reiognized him. I ran out in the -d| road and hailed him, asking to be taken in the buggy. I g-ot in with the sheriff and he brought me to the jail. My wife was <a good woman?the best that ever lived. No one can say a mean word about her. T loved her with all my heart, and when I found out T couldn't have her to live with mo, I decided to kill her and end th^ nffair. I'm glad the deed is over. I II' hadn't taken anything to drink. Samuel Hyde was a character well known on the streets of Anderson. Six years ago he enlisted In the United States army. He was assigned to artillery service and served out his enlistment. In 1908 he and the slain woman were married. To them was ^ born one child, a boy. In 1909 Hyde decided to return to the army After serving a I'ttle less than one year he f tired of the life and bought his disJ charge. 1 'Since returning to Anderson he v., and his wife have lived together exV cept on two or three occasions when \' her father would Interfere and take V her back to his home for protection. Hyde drank heavily at times, and her 4,. father feared bodily Injury. Hyde state that he and his wife ha never M had any serious trouble since they ; W ' ' # f I .V." ' GOOD COTTON CROP ? ' CONDITION OF STAPLE INDICATES A BIG YIELD. Fields Are Clean and Some Sections Expect Much Larger Yields than in Several Yeah Past. Due, in ta great measure, to the rains of last week which relieved the drought before it had done serious damage, except possibly in scattering sections, the 1911 cotton crop in South Carolina, from present stands, promises to be equally as good if not better than last year. No section of the State, from reports, has suffered materially; but to the contrary, in a number of counties larger yields are expected than in a n imber of years past. Taking the State as a whole the condition up to the end of last week indicates that the cotton crop this year will not bo off on account of the drought that for a time everybody feared would materially affect the yield. Conditions may be said at this time to indicate a 100 per cent, crop, although in some scattering sections where cotton was replanted and did not get a good stand the yield will not be more than two-thirds or threefourths; but in other sections from 15 to 25 per cent, more cotton is expected than last year. Heavy fertiizatilion and the unusu-* ally fine preparation of the soil, deeper plowing and the application of new methods is telling this season, but for it is safe to say that the drought would have proved a greater damage but compared with last year at this time the crop is in a better condition. The fields are clean, there is no rass, and indications are that a much larger crop will he picked this year than ast. Last year at this time the fieds were full of grass, making the cost of production greater tlfan this year, and, indeed last year the farmer had a. hard fight to keep the grass from 'Over-rnnirig uie couun. What grass follows the recent rain* will he easily kept in check this year. If the conditions at present can he compared with conditions existing at this time last year, the wo seasons .being absolutely different the one extremely dry and the other extremely wet, farmers of the State are, from reports received, in better shape now tlvan then, and the indications for a full crop are a great deal ter tha last year. FELL 1IACKWARD INTO WELT;. Negro Killed Near Lancaster and White Man. A special dispatch to the State from Lancaster says a tragedy occurred Thursday on the premises of Lewis N. Montgomery in the Creek section, a worthy 'and respected negro, Nathan Mcllwain losing his life in a well. Mcllwain had been down in the well, which was being made deepei by blasting and was coming up on a rope to eat his sreakfast when on reaching the top he apparently fainted and fell backward, landing at the bottom. His head and chest were crushed and death ensued in an hour or so, shortly after he was brought to the surface Ilial Dees had a narrow escape from a similar fate, lie down in the well with Mcllwain and in falling the latter's feet struck the breast, hurting him severely. WANTED TO LYNCH FIEND. Negro Tides to Assault Young Woman in Cincinnatti. A dispatch from Cincinnati says the quick action of the police prevented a lynching in the city's center early Wednesday morning when they captured a negro from an enraged crowd. It is alleged the negro accosted Miss Belle Daughtrey, aged 1 0 dragged her Into an alley and attempted assault. The girl's cries attracted passersby and several hundred people congregated. The negro was captured and almost beaten to death before rescued by the police. The occurrence has caused great bitterness against negroes generally. PRETTY GOOD REASOX. McAuliffe Tells Why Cotton Goods Market is Poor. J. C. McAuliffe, the well known writer and authority on 'agricultural and economic subjects was in Atlanta Tuesday wnd told of recent compiled statistics showing that the scantiness of men and women's cotton wearing apparel is responsible for a decided decrease in the market for cotton goods. The fact that men's underwear is now short-armed and knee-lengthed and that women wear lighter and fewer petticoats land "shlmpler" cut garments, says Mr. McAuliffe, has h>ad a tremendous effect upon the demands for light cotton goods. were married; that they had lived quietly and peaceably. Hyde worked in butcher shops here for several months, but lately had been employed at the Gluck Cotton mills The tragedy has created great excitement in Anderson, especially in the Orr mill village. STANDS FOR FELDER SOV. SMITH WILL NOT llOXOlf THE REQUISITION. ssued by Gov. Rleasc for the Atlanta Lawyer, Which Was Refused by Gov. Hrown. A special dispatch from Atlanta o the Augusta Chronicle says Governor Smith stated emphatically on Thursday that he had no intention vhatever of honoring any requisition >f Governor Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina, for Thomas 13. Felder, of Vtlanta. "The attorney general of South Carolina told me that he would not 10I prosse any indictment returned igainst Mr. Felder," said Governor Jin I th. A dispatch says this dissipates anj speculation regarding the intention >f Governor Smith regarding the atempts of Governor Blease to get mi. Welder into South Carolina. Some had advanced the theory hat tht Georgia executive might lonor the requisition, turned down iy Governor Brown, especially if vlr. Felder should be indicted. But Governor Smith makes it clear that 111 4 n li,F KAM II ici I trin WAS TURNED OUT' C Bee me He Dared te Express Bit Htiest Opioioa Abtol Article i THAT THE TRUSTS USE For Declaring That Ilesoate of Soda t Is Injurious, Wiley's Assistant in ? liureaii of Chemistry Ix>ses Favor v c With Higher Powers and Is Dis- ^ mised "for (iood of the Service." ^ Shall an expert chemist employed ( by the department of agriculture be i subject to dictation as to his scien- g tific opinion when it is asked of him ,* 011 the witness stand, and can he be legally dropped "for the good of the g service" because he does not undei c such conditions render testimony in t opposition to his actual views? asks ] the Washington correspondent of The Xews and Courier who says: t As a result of the attack on Dr. 1 Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau 1 of chemistry, whose technical error in engaging the Services of an exvert chemist caused the Attorney (leneral of the United States to recommend that he "be allowed to resign," it has leaked out that Floyd i V. Robiscn, cue of the principal as j sisiants of Dr. Wiley in the bureau was dismissed from the service on , the 3 0th of last June on account t of his testimony in Indianapolis that ) benzoate of soda is an injurious food preservative, in his opinion. In spite of the decisk n of the Rem- < sen board that benzoate of soda isn't i harmful, the prosecution of concerns < which use it has been continuing i in the Court; and it was in one i of these cases that Dr. Robison was summoned to testify before the Court > in Indianapolis. He gave his lion- I est opinion, which is the same now i as it has always been, and is in ; agreement with thiat held by j)i. I Wiley. Without consultation with < Dr. Wiley or notification to him, : Robinson was dropped from the pay rolls of the 'agricultural department at the end of the Last fiscal year. What was Robison to do? Evi- , dently, the department of agriculture expected him to go on the stand at Indianapolis and give testimony diametrically opposed to his true belief, simply because the Remsen board has j expressed an opinion contrary to that 1 held by Dr. Wiley, who has recently been upheld by the findings of the j Prussian board/of scientists, to which 1 the identical question was submitted. ; Since the verdict of the Prussian board, it is illegal to import into ( Germany food products preserved ' with benzoate. The bullying 'attitude of the tagri- ' cultural department towards its scientific help in the pure food and drug fight is to be made a subject ' of searching investigation by the ' Mouse of Representatives' committee on expenditures in the department of ; agriculture.. While the department, in order to please "big business," is 1 trying to club its subordinates into acquiescence in the use of benzoate, 1 and into approval of it, the committee willl bring to the country's attention the doubtful legality of the sacred Remsen board itself. > It is well known that this board was created without any specific war rant of law, land that when the first provision was made for its support there was not a single member of the agricultural committee of the House who knew, -or who was willing to admit that he knew, that the money was to be used for any such purpose.Representative never, of South Carolina, brought o*it that fact in attempted to defeat the appropriation when it came up on the tloor of the House the second time. He asked any member of the committee who had been aware of the purpose of the provision the first time it was made to rise. Not a man rose. The committee on expenditures in the agricultural department has information that Assistant Attorney General Fowler rendered an opinion that the Remsen beoard has no legal existence, but that Attorney General Wickersham 'turned down his own assistant's opinion in favor of a contrary one from Solicitor McCabe, of the department of agriculture?who, by the way, is one of the members of the personnel board which has just 1 recommended the dismissal of Dr. 1 Wiley. There is no disposition to claim that Dr. Wiley has not gone to ex- 1 tremes at times in his pronounce- s ments. Rut it is held thwi most o\ : the instances in which he has been subject tcf criticism or ridicule have 1 l>een merely in declaring his Individual views. He has denounced chew- : ing gum and tobacco, but he has nev- 1 er undertaken to interfere officially with the sale of cither of these articles. His supporters claim that where ' ho has used the machinery of his bureau against a product, he has rarely failed to show strong scientific authority for his course. i For years, it is said, ia systematic 1 campaign of obstruction and haras- 1 ment has been in progress against < him, including the pestering of the I experts he has employed, by delaying ] their pay and by making it person- < ally unpleasant for them to serve. Dr. Wdley has been known to shed i tears in describing the endless annoy- < ances to which he has been subjected < 10 Will I1UI ClJildHH;! fill J lki|llioiwun. As a matt or of fact, Govtrnor ^mith and Governor Blease have already clashed on the matter or reijllsitlons. Governor Smith made requisition on Governor Blease for a mrtv wanted in Georgia. The South Carolina executive did not even exend the courtesy of a reply. Thursday Governor Smith received implication for requisition from Governor Hlease. Governor Smith directed Secretary Hitch to write Gov?rnor B.lease for information regarding his intention as to the Georgia requisition. The statement made bv Governor Smith that Attorney General Lyon fold him he would throw out any indictment that may be returned against Felder in this State shows that Felder could not be harmed ev311 if he did oome to South Carolina and be arrested. SAVED BY HIS FBI ENDS." Who Contributed Four Hundred I'Jecea of Their Skin. With more than four hundred pieces of skin on his body that originally belonged to his friends former Firennan Ceo. Nelson left the, hospital to enjoy himself at his old home 11 Aiieg'an, Mich. A year ago when Nelson was taken from the Grand Trunk wreck at Durand the pliysimians said he could not live. But despite untold agonies he survived the first month and the doctors put it ui> to his friends that he might live if skin was grafted. George .Miner, Ole Olson, Frank Floyd, all trainmen, and Fred Ross, a nurse, same foward and allowed 101, 100, 135, and 75 graftings of skin respectively. Now tafter a year in the hospital Nelson is able to leave and rest indefinitely on the money given him by the. Grand Trunk ?as a settlement. BOOKS AFTER CONVICTS. To the Neglect of Matters of More Importance. Governor Blease will not have his wishes in regard to the aholishmeni af tlie hoisery aiill at the penitentiary carried out. The State Hoard of Health at its meeting Thursday in Columbia took the position that the board can act only as an advisory committee to the directors of the penitentiary and that it. has no right to (abolish the mill. The secretary of the board expressed the opinion that the mill question had been given too much importance when other recommendations were of more importance. The hoard of health was the last resort of the governor. o (JOT LOST OX TI1K SKA. Cor Four Days Tlicy Were at the Mercy of the Waves. Huffeted about on the ocean by tht high rolling waves of the choppy sea. between San Pedro and Catilina, Cal. in a small gasoline lauch for four ilahs and suffering untold agonies from thirst and hunger, because there was neither food nor water iboard. were the awful experiences sufered by O. L. Grimsley, a millionlire fining man of Los Angeles, and liis wife, until they were picked up by Capt. Kittleson, of the steam lumber schooner Chehalls, en route to San Diego, and carried in an almost unconscious codition to San Pedro. After assistance and careful attention they were able to return to their home in T.os Angeles. Shoots Wife for tturglar. Thinking his wife a burglar, Geo. Clolden, of Wlcksboro, Pa., shot and killed her early Wednesday. The lialf-crazed husband is under the care 3f <a physician. Golden was arroused from a happy sleep when his wife pulled down a window . He immediately opened fire. in the progress of his warfare against the business of selling bad food and drink. HOLD DP TRAIN The BeM (Ubbtrs Secire Aleut Fife HaaJrel Dellars ia Cash MADE ESCAPE IN AUTO - The Bandits, Three in Number, All Wore Masks.?They Shot the Engineer Because He Failed to Stop the Train When Ordered to l)o So. The eastbound North Coast limited oil the Northern Pacific, was held up by three masked robbers near Buffalo, N. 1)., about 1 1 o'clock Wednesday night. The robbers secured about $.">00 in cash by going through the passengers and shot Engineer S. P. Olson of Fargo twice in order to make him stop the train, and made a successful escape in an automobile which they had awaiting them near the scene of the robbery. The holdup was the most daring ever perpetrated in that part of the country. The men were not amateurs, as everything was cleverly planned and admirably executed. When the train stopped at the high' bridge at Valley City, the three men boarded It. and went int.o the day oach. ITcavily armed and shotting recklessly in order to intimidate the passengers, they first lined up the train crew at one end of tlie car and then proceeded to search the passengers in the day coach. In all they secured about $500 in this car. The sleeping car was entered and in order to awaken the occupants of the berths a shot was fired down the iaisle, narrowly missing the head of one of the passengers and embedding itself in the woodwork. After searching the occupants of the berths the robbers climbed out. of the diner over the baggage and the express car to tho engine, reaching that part of the rain When near Buffalo. Thy ordered Engineer Ol^ i n linif O A 11 1 /I SfcMl IU ?LW|? LIIV; U 11111 lilt t t.uiiiti got off, and when ho refused to comply two shots were fired directly at him, one miraculously glancing off his watch ?and the other striking him on a rib, injuring him slightly. After being wounded and seeing that the men wore desperate, Engineer Olson stopped the train and the three masked men jumped from the train and ran into tne darkness. After leaving the train the robbers went to tan automobile which they had waiting nearby and flashed off into the darkness. The train was run into Fargo, where the sheriff, every available deputy and three deputy United States mtarshals hurried back on a special train to pursue the robbers. Dr. J. W. Guest, of Louisville, who occupied a berth in the sleeper robbed, was relieved of $100 in bank checks. Dr. Guest attended Olsen the wounded engineer, and says bis wound is not serious, being hardly more than a flesh wound In the ioarer left breast. N. V. McMillian, also of Louisville, occupied a berth next to Dr. Guest's and was robbed of $100 in bank checks and $0 in cash. "When the robber came to my berth," said Dr. Guest, "I handed him my pocket hook containing $10o in bank checks and my railroad ticket. Tie took the checks out <ano handed hack the pocket book with the railroad ticket. Then he asked if I did not have any cash and when I told him 1 had five dollars under my pillow he said: 'His? it lip.' Just at this moment he was (attracted to the berth opposite me, occupied by a Mr. Stark of Cincinnati, representative of a harvester concern. Ho relieved Stark of $150 in bank checks, but forgot to bother me again for the five dollars. A remarkable thing about the affair was that the robbers passed up berth No. 13 entirely. Conductor Tlelgard, of the sleeping car fired from the first sleeper at the desperado standing guard at the door and it is believed* that he hit him in the shoulder. The robbers then abandoned their work and made for the head of the train. ^ Just a llnd Xegro. For no other reason, apparently, than to show that he was a "bad man," Lucas Freeman, a tough negro who has been in trouble on more than one previous occasion, shot Hill Kinsler, also a negro, in the. breast in front of Kinsler's sister s nonco m Ramsay's row bark of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway's yards at Spartanburg. Will lioavc Ills Cell. Jesse IT. Poferoy, known for almost four decades as the "boy murderer" and held by an earlier generation to be the most desperate criminal (abnormality of the age, is soon to leave bis cell for greater In the state prison at Charlestown. Mass., after having spent thirty-seven years in solitary confinement. Bull Kills Two Men. Damon Guptill, a farmer, and his hired man, Horace Luce, are dead near Dover, N. H... as the result of being gored by a mad bull. nf> r v/f W? ' T ' ' .vlfW if THEY OUTWIT LAWS OFFICERS KEPT BUSY WATCHING FOR FRAUDS. How Food Stuffs of all Kinds Are Adulterated by Dishonest Mannfacturers. The efforts of the government and the various States to provide pure food for the people of the country has brought about a higher quality of foodstuffs, but it has not deterred the inventive genius of country from trying to work out schemes for substitutes and nvialterations. Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the Kansas Hoard of Health and chief food and drug inspector of the state, is receiving no less than a dozen letters a day telling of schemes whereby 0110 pound of butter may be made into two and scores of other circulars from alleged chemists and get-rich-quick men in Eastern cities who would make grocers and butchers their tools. Probably tho worst adulteration that has come to the attention of the Kansas department and is to be supposed to the Pure Food departments in other states, is a butter emulsion which will cause the butter to absorb ts exact weight in water and still prevent the butter eaters knowing it. Take a pound of butter and a pound of water and a spoonful of this emulsion. work the three together for about ten minutes, and there is two pounds of butter and water. Tho average houswife cculd not tell tho difference between this watered butter and the real article. A man in Tennessee has developed a scheme by which he can make a pure apple-cider vinegar at an actural cost of four cents a gallon, and using ne apple for each gallon. The fraud could not he detected except by an ac tural chemical tost. The same chap also lias a scheme for making .apple butter with one apple to the gallon of butter and at a cost of one-fourth tho real article. A man in Rochester, -N. Y., developed a plan of treating sawdust with molasses to use in adulterating spices One part of the real spice and three parts of sawdust made the product which could not be detected .by the eye or tongue. Frauds in flavoring extracts and maple syrup have been common. A Vermon man has offered a recipe to Kansas grocers so that they can make the maple syrup the purchase into an fraudulent syrup to -one-half gallon of the real syrup. There are numerous other schemes for increasing the weight of parched coffee, preserving eegs, useless baking powders, making mincemeat and tomato catsup nt reduced cost by usng little meat or tomatoes. The grocer, to get the recipes, must pay for them. The price is usually $10 and a pledge of secrecy. NEC*HO FOUND ALIVE. ? lie Was Shot by a Mob in Georgia and Left For Dead. Morris Daniels, a negro charged with having assaulted an aged wo man in Randolph county, Georgia last week, was brought to Moultrie Saturday morning nearer dead than charge by a mob having been taken fn charge by a mib of less than a dozen men Friday night near Hartsvllle. ? -t. .1 -i i ~ r a. :? i u a I no negro was snui uiui ie.it m me road for dead. lie was not discovered until the sheriff and coroner were notified by unknown parties to go .nit and hold an inquest. It is stated that the matter will be presented to the grand jury as the identity of the negro had not been established. MADE IIIS liAST HKAP. ? A Heal Tragedy Caught, on Film of Moving Pictures. A real tragedy was recorded on the film of a moving picture machine at New York late Wednesday. As Albert Hreyton, actor and expert swimmer and diver, leaped from a boat in a Staten Island pond, the machine was set in motion, its lens focused on the bubbling surface of the pond where he had disappeared, to picture his aquatic feats as ho on me to surface. The moments passed and the widening circles from the impact of his dive touched the shores. ?? - * x 1 1 I. h A I no (liver s teat nan uu^ii ihiihui un the film. He did not appear and Is supposed to have been hold fast by the soft mud tat the bottom. The body was .grappled for and recovered. ? Will l?e CJiven Free. South Caroliiva will be the second State in the Union to furnish freo to its citizens through the physicians ianti-typhoid bacteria for immunization against typhoid. Florida was the first. The State Hoard of Health decided 'at. Columbia to manufacture the bacteria in its own laboratory for free distribution. Slays Young Ilride. At Jackson, Miss., Emmett Yeagley, aged 22, late Thursday shot his 15-year-old wife to whom he bad been married only a few months, and probably fatally wounded Mrs. C. Pierce, stepmother of his wife. Domestic trouble is given as the cause of the tragedy. *