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A QUEER STORY . . A Woaai V?jry Sick Chlftr?f>ra<d t* ** Dealt b) H r 6?tt frieads. I ^ BEGGED TO BE KILLED Two Members of a Religious Sect ^ Gave Deadly Drug to an III Sister of the Sect, From the Effects of UQamo Dav t* linn nuc i/ic\i me kwmv '?/ They Think They I>id Hight. Sister Sadie L. Marchant, a member of a Shaker colony located near k Klssimee, Fla., died, or "passed out of the body," as the members of that altruistic society calls it, on August 22 last. Sister Elizabeth Sears and Brother Egbert B. Gillette, Shakers, too characterized like all their fellows by the attempt of perfect purity in thought, word and act, by gentleness, honesty and obedience to law, are accused of Sister Sadie's murder. For seeing her death was inevitable from consumption, pitying her 0 frightful sufferings, Sister Elizabeth and Brother Gillette administered chloroform to Sister Sadie; made her physical tortures to end in euthanasia, in a peaceful, painless death. ^ And it was at Sister Sadie's prayer that her loving, sympathetic friends administered the anesthetic under under which she passed from unconsciousness into the hereafter. "Before God I think I did right" calmly said Brother Gillette to a correspondent. "My conscience is perfectly at ease. If the act was unwise only my great feeling for her prompted me to commit it. Oh! how she suffered!" After a formal hearing Sister Elizabeth and Brother Gillette were held en the charge of murder. Yet Judge G ,P. Parker took an unprecedented step and admitted them to bail; Sister Elizabeth In $2,000, Brother Gillottee in $5,000. Other members of the colony furnished the bond. They g may be tried but never convicted is the general opinion of the people of ^ Kissimee and surrounding country. There is no doubt that Sister Elizabeth and Birother Gillette consulted, prayed together before they yielded to Sister Sadie's prayers to end her misery. Probably they consulted with others of the colony, but Brother Gil1 pft? implicated no one?if iniDlicat ed is the word under all the circum^ stances?in the statement he made. "Sister Sadie L. Marchant came to our colony six years and three months ago," said Brother Gillette while he waited in jail for bail to be given for him. "She was doomed to death from consumption. One of her lungs had been destroyed. She has been suffering terribly for several weeks and we all knew the time was 0 short before she would be called to her final reward. The climax came on August 20. She was seized with chills hemorrhage and other eymptons which every one knows mean that the end on any one with consumption is near. "Sister Sadie has always told us to let her die in peace and without pain ^ and asked Sister Elizabeth that day to let her get out of the body. Sister Sadie refused to eat anything more after that. On Sunday night the 20th, she was in agony and toward morni? g begged us to kill her. She said she was at peace with God and with ^ all on earth, and was ready to go. *'I went to St. Cloud at daylight Monday morning to get some opiates to ease her, and gt#ve her all I brought. They seemed to relieve her. I went to St. Cloud for more, and when I gave them to her she could not keep them on her stomach. She suffered so until Tuesday noon that I went to St. Cloud to get two ounces of chloroform which I gave lo her on a cloth, and she went to sleep. | "I went to St. Cloud again about 3 o'clock and got six or eight ounces more of chloroform in a bottle and v-hen I returned home I found she had come out from under the influence of the first I had given her and J 1 gave her anothor dose. She passed out about ten minutes before 6 o'clock. "Every time I gave her anything I naked her, 'Sadie, do you want this?' .And sho would say 'Yes.' She was suffering so she did not want to live, Before giving her the last sleeping portion I made it a special point to tell her that if she wanted to wait longer and suffer, we would do everything we posibly could to help her. She wanted us to do as we did, and Implored us to give her the chloroform. "It was not the first time she had grown discouraged and asked her to let her get out of the body. I had often encouraged and asked her to 1 remain with us as long as she could. I fear I was selfish, for our number ^ time one has ever been called on to answer a criminal charge. They are supposed to tell the truth always and under any circumstances, no matter what the result may be; so no one doubts that Brother Oillett is telling the truth now. The Shakers take no part in politics and treat all people With respect. unless excused. In the years the Shakers have lived in the community this Is the first and all attend the religious services * ' r."" *'T "' \ MAY FASTEN CRIME MPKTLE HAWKINS* DEATH BEING INVESTIGATED. Coucliiimii'N Story involves Five or Six People, But They All Deny Their Guilt. The death of Myrtle Hawkins at Hendersonville, N. C.. is being thoroughly investigated. On Thursday the feature of the inqueBt was the production of a letter found in Myrtle's room by her sister. Mrs. J. 13. Thomas. It was written to her mother by Myrtle, and said: "Dear IMother: I promised Dady to write and tell you of my misfortune. but I have not the face to tell you the name of the man who is responsible for it. He is not entirely to blame, however, for he has done all he caii to help me. I am going away so that I will not b? any more trouble to you. Tell them that I have gone to Atlas, good-bye." The "Atlas" referred to Is the name of a girl friend who lives at Concord, N. C. It was stated tonight that unless the case takes a more decided turn there is little probability of any arrests being made. There was moisture in the eyes of many when the wretched girl's brave little, note, showing so clearly her despair hut withal her unselfishness, was read and introduced in evidence. The State's star witness was Robert Waddell, coachman for Daniel McCall, who lived in the latter's house, which is near the house occupied jointly by Mr. and Mrs. A. M. McCall and Mr. and Mrs. George Bradley, and not far from Osceola lake. Ills testimony tended to incriminate George Bradley, a young married man, and several others. Bradley was asked by the coroner if he was responsible for the girl's condition and if he did not conspire ??vt/4V* 1\ I ? fr* n r* /I \\ 1 a nQt?fuA!* In o w i in 1110 w iiu aiiu mo |/ui vnci 111 u plumbing establishment, A. M. iMcCall and the latter's wife, Mrs. Heatrice McCall, Myrtle's most intimate friend, and Mrs. McCall's father, Oaniel McCall, and a strange woman from Asheville, to perform the operation, and if Myrtle did not die under the chloroform,1 and if her body was not concealed for a time in one barn and then removed to another and kept there until midnight, and if three men did not place it on a plank and then carry it to the lake and throw it In. All five of those named steadfastly maintained their complete ignorance of the alleged circumstances adduced in support of the theory, and so un falteringly returned the withering fire of questions and cross-questions as to leave the mystery as far from solution as ever, in the opinion of raapy of those who attended the inquest. 'Many believe that the mystery will soon be solved now. * Is growing so few that our ministry is losing heart and want to sell our place here and move north. "I call my maker to witness that I thought I was doing right." Brother Gillette repeated solemnly, "My conscience is at peace. The manner of Sister Sadie's death did not impress the Shakers as so remarkable that they talked of it in the world outside their colony. So days passed before it was known here even that a physician had not attended her. 'But Sheriff Brevatt here, the seat of Osceola County, heard rumors that convinced him he should investigate the cause of death, so he and Judge Parker moved to the colony. Without the slightest hesitation Sister Elizabeth and Brother Gillette told them just what is told here. Even then the sheriff did not take the "sister" and "brother" in custody as he would any other person who confessed to have taken a human life. The Sheriff and Judge Parker returned here, pondered the case and decided it was the sheriff's duty to arrest the two Shakers. So the latter returned to the colony and brought Sister Elizabeth and Brother Gillette here and placed them in the county jail. The Shakers at the colony have been growing fewer and fewer; they are most industrious, "Hands to work and hearts to God," is their motto. Yet they have not prospered. At the colony the women and men live apart. They do not marry. The members of a "family" all arise at the same time, eat together. All must labor under the direction of the elders Wanted the Hoodie. Run ice Murphy, of Valentine, Neb., the girl accused of having incited a mob to hang her fiance in order that she might inherit his life insurance has been held by the District Court. The presiding judge declared that Miss Murphy is just as guilty as the men who took her sweetheart to a tree and hanged him. \ Half a Million Iioss. Damage of more than $500,000 was done to New England crops by a heavy frost during the early hours Thursday. With the weather forecaster predicting continued cold weather farmers in that section are discouraged. ) Destructive Cloudburst. A hundred thousand dollars damage was done and a number of lives are reported lost In a cloudburst over Btna, Sharpsburg, and Millvale, Pa. STONE A WOMAN 4ad Drift Her Fria Tewa Because Sk* Wet Accifd ( Witchcraft. SAID SHE WAS A WITCH Cruelties of the Salem Witchcraft Days Revived in This Enlightened Age in Allentown, Pa.?Unfortunate New York Invalid Compelled to Submit to Many Indignities. The cruel old days of witchcraft that once disgraced Salem, Mass., seems to have been revived in Allentown, Pa., where Mrs. Meta Immerman, a poor seamstress from New York was stoned, put in jail and driven out of town accused of being a witch. The following is the remarkable story as told by a correspondent of the New York World. In the week she was there Mrs. Immerman was insulted and mocked, her baggage was thrown out her lodgings and she was stoned, arrested and thrown in jail. Mrs. Immerman came to Allentown to take the Kneipp barefoot treatment in the hope of restoring her eyes, almost destroyed by overwork. She took the treatment under John KI0S8, who lives in a hut near town. She gave her address as No. 34 9 Central Park, New York. The Y. W. C. A. sent her to the home of George Kipp, a butcher at No. 207 South Thirteenth street. In the house were also John Sobers and his young wife, soon to become a mother. Mrs. I miner man was tall and angular hair just a shade of red, and iher faded gray eyes peered through very thick glasses. On the fourth day John Sobers came home suffering from indigestion. He consulted a "pow-wow" doctor, one of the many in Allentown who told him that he was the victim of an evil spirit. Then the Kipps and the Soberses 4/\ t*Am Am hnt* li 4 n era rPh A\7 m. U^j^au IV A VUlV&il A HVJ V membered Mrs. Immerman's strange diet of raw eggs and nuts and her nightly excursions to the city parks to take the barefoot treatment in- the downy grass. That night, when the Kipps went upstairs to bed, they passed Mrs. Immerman's room. The door was open and she was in bed. Kipp says her eyes burned like a cat's. News like this travels. The next slay the neighbors were saying that Mrs. Immerman was a witch and could make fire flash from her fingers. They had seen the electric flashlight she carried at night to help her near-sighted eyes, but didn't know what it was. That day little Winnie Klpp didn't feel well. When Mrs. Immerman came home she found a note on her bureau ordering her to leave the house. She could not afford to do so until the week she had paid for was up. Next day she was hooted on the streets. At dusk she returned to find her trunk on the porch. She pounded on the door because she wanted the trunk key that was in her room. The' Kipps called the police. The crowd yelled "Witch!" as she was taken away, and the boys began to throw stones at her. She was in 1a.il 48 hours. In this city of 50,000 there are twelve Dutch "pow-wow" feed on the superstitions of their followers. Mrs. Sobers baby cried the first week of its existence?another proof it was bewitched. Soberses now wear charms made of sawdust and broken needles. Cabalistic crosses are now chalked above each door in the Kipp Home. On the front door are seven crosses with mysterious quirks about their intersecting points. PKOIMilS akmost DltOWX. Five Million Callous of Molasses Hun in the Streets. The sweetest thing that ever happened in New Orleans, La., occurred this week when tanks containing 5,000,000 gallons of molasses burst in the warehouse of the Planters' Storage Company. Part of the commercial district was flooded with a stream of molasses so deep that many persona had narrow escapes rrom drowning in the sticky stuff. The people in the street adjoining the burst tanks had to wade through molasses up to their waists, or even to their chins in some instances. Sevpcrsons tried to swim in the molasses but it was like the antics of a fly on gummy fly paper, and they had to be rescued. To repair the breaks in the tanks it was necessarry to row boats into the warehouse on the surface of the sticky flood. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Beauties of Divorce, Edward Foster Oatman, of Dunbar Wisconsin, has made application for a license to wed Miss Hazel 'Brasee, of Omro. Although the groom is 25 and the bride 22, their marriage will be i their third matrimonial venture. Both have been married twice and divorced. HAVE A CLOSE CALL SOUTHERN ENGINE CRASHES INTO STREET CAR. Seven People Were Injured and Many Had Narow Kara pew From a Horrible Death. The State says ten persons narrowly escaped death Friday morning: at the deadly Taylor street grade crossing. For the third time in three years these accidents have occurred. Seven were injured when a Southern railway pasenger engine was backing into the Union station crashed through the guard gate and crumpled an outbound Waverly car. The street car had been released by the watdhman at the crossing. The injured are: Mrs. W. L. MefTord, 2409 Laurel street. Severely bruised on leg and thought to be Internally Injured. W. D. Munn, Edgewoed, cut with glass about the face and body and bruised. Isabel Bradley, a negro woman residing on East Senate street, bruised. May Brantley, a negro woman residing om the Garner's Ferry road, bruised. I. A. Attaway, motorman of the car, cut by glass and bruised. Charles Jaggers, bruised about the body. All of the injured were carried to their respective homes. It was stated that none of the injuries will prove fatal. The car was in charge of W. L. Webb, conductor. He was not injured. The accident occurred Friday afternoon at 6:10 o'clock. There were only ten persons aboard the car at the time of the acident, according to Conductor Web. The street car, number 75, a payas-you-enter model, is operated between Shandon and Waverly and is a heavy double-truck car. The large passenger engine struck the car in Ihe center. The car was almost folded up by the impact of the heavy engine. It was thrown from the track for ten feet, snapping two electric poles. The heavy steel girders were twisted and the sides broken in. All windows were shattered and practically all passengers were cut by the flying glass. According to Conductor Webb, the car stopped within several feet of the crossing after the gates had been nulled up and the guards to the railroad track let down. Mrs. H. J. Hardy left the car at this point. The ^ar moved on to cross the tracks. Mrs. Hardy turned and saw the engine approaching. She jumped down gn embankment and.narrowly escaped being crushed to death under the car. She was injured by her fall, but her Injuries are not considered serious. ? ? AT I jA NT A GI11L RHSCUED. Enticed From Home By Promises of Work and Big Fay. n i i ..i~i?ai c v. milling u. viuiuiiuu ui luc rcucial statute, which seeks to prohibit the trafllcing in girls, L. Athanasaw was placed under $1,?00 bond at Atlanta on a warrant sworn out by the Woman's Home and Hospital. Athanasaw is proprietor of the Imperial Theatre in Ybor City, Fla. It is a vaudeville house with wine rooms attached. The specific charge made against him is that through an advertisement in an Atlanta paper he interested young girls of that city and surrounding country to come here and go on the stage at a fancy salary. The name of Miss Agnes Couch appears in the warrant. She has been living in Atlanta, but her home is at Senoia, Ga. She was rescued by the superintendent of the Woman's Home and Hospital. Five other Atlanta girls answered the advertisenents, but none of them went to work after visiting the place. Aliss Couch said she was employed by an agent in Atlanta, who paid her fare. She told the authorities she was forced to smoke cigarettes, drink and importune men to drink, and to submit to other indignities. * GHOST CAME WITH A CRASH. ? ?* Fell Through Skylight in Nightshirt and Terrified. Three young women operators in the Pittston, Pa., telephone exchange were badly frightened Wednesday morning when a man, clad only in his nightshirt, jumped through the glass skylight of the operating room at throe o'clock and stood bleeding and torn before them. They shrieked for help and dashed panic-stricken into the street, shouting that they had seen a ghost. The police found the man was James Roach, while delirious from fever, had gotten out of his bedroom, climbed over the roof of his houso and passed over two other roofs had fallen into the exchange. He was severely injured. Killed by Baseball. Struck in the head by a baseball while umpiring a game Thursday in Boston, Meyer Sohlesburg, died at a hospital at that place. AUTO RACE TOLL Car Crasb lata Spectators and Nine ?( lb : Were Fatally Hart MANY OTHERS INJURED At Syracuse, New York, Fair Grounds lire on An Auto Bursts and tlie Car Leaves Stretch, Crashing into Grand Stand With the Awful Results Above Stated. At Syracuse New York, nine persons were killed and fourteen hurt, several of them seriously as the result of an accident in the fifty mile automobile race at the State Fair track Saturday afternoon. A Knox racing car driven by Lee Oldfleld crashed through the fence on the turn after leaving the stretch in front of the grandstand and ploughed for some distance into the crowd, causing the casualties. Oldfleld was not seriously hurt. The blowing of a lire on uiarieia s mac nine was responsible for the accident. The dead are, Claude Hamil, New York. Fred J. Arnold, Syracuse. Charles Hallentine, Syracuse, N. Y. James Coin, Alexander Bay,N.Y. Fayette Funk, Farleyville, N. Y. .Leo Hal pin. Syracuse, N. Y. Unknown man, GO years old. Unknown man, 25 years old. Unknown boy, 10 years old. Every ambulance in Syracuse was rushed to the scene and vehicles at the park were also pressed into service to aid in the relief work. The woman's building was turned into an emergency hospital. The accident happened during the forty-seventh mile of the race. Oldfield was a lap behind Ralph DePalma and run ning with him. Oldlield had a bad tire on his car for over 27 miles, but it did not blow out until the race was within three miles of the finish. At the time it exploded DePalma and Oldfield were neck to neck.They had just taken the turn at terrific speed that had the spectators almost in a frenay. Then came a crash that was heard all over the field, followed by the screams of women and children in the stand, the paddock and inside of the track. Efforts were amde by prominent Syracusans to stop the meet at once. Starter Fred J. Wagner, of New York however refused to stop the race. He started another race, the last one of the day, wihin five minutes after the track had been cleared. The list of. dead may increase as it is belived that several of the injured are so badly hurt that they they cannot live. Oldfield is among the .injured. The accident came as the fatal termination of the biggest day of the State Fair has ever had in point of attonHfln an urnll an In ithu matfor of attractions. The honored guest of the Pair was President Taft. It was but a short time after he had left the grounds that the tragedy occurred. Just before he left President Taft took a short ride in an automobile on the track, which was wet to settle the dust for the President and his party. This wetting was such as to cause drivers, who were in the fifty mile event to protest. When the race was called Ralph DePalma and Rob Burman, who had driven in preceeding races refused to go on because of the condition of the track, saying the water had made it too dangerous to take chances. There was a delay during which the track dried somewhat, and DePalma and Burman were both entrants along with Oldfleld and six others. The accident happened in the 43d mile, DePalma was leading by a lap with Oldfleld trailing him as they entered the first quarter of that mile. The big cars, travelling it is esti mated, at 75 miles an hour, were running side by side as they swung around the turn, after passing -the grand stand. As they took the turn there was a report. The car drvien by Oldfield leaped in the air. Then it swerved to the outer side and crashed through the fence. The crippled machine, beyond the control of the driver, ploughing through hundreds of persons lining along the fence. For more than twenty miles, spectators declared Oldfield had been driving his car wifW one of the shoes flapping, in the hope of beating out DoPalma. However, his manager, instead of stopping him, it is said, urged him to increase speed. In spite of the fact that it quickly ItAPnnip known Ihsit innnv tmd boon killed and injured, the o'llcials in charge refused to call off the race, and the last few miles were run while hundreds throned the track. Oldfield, the driver, who is in a hospital is being guarded by an ofllcer and as soon as he recovers will be arrested. Lovc<l Her llooze. Sued for divorce, William Schwab, of Fremont, O., has filed a cross petition declaring his wife drank six j quarts of whiskey in four days, then threw a glass at him when he remonstrated with her. i . FARMERS MEETING WILL HE ASKED TO RATIFY ACTIOX OF CONGRESS. They Recently Met at Montgomery, Alu., to Get at the Truth About The Cot on Crop. Col. E. J. Watson, commissioner or agriculture, and E. W. Dabbs, president of the South Carolina Farmers' Union., returned last night from the Montgomery Cotton Convention held recently. Both are very much pleased at the results. The businesslike manner in which the Congress got down to business and the unanimity of all its proceedings mark a new era dn the cotton situation. It is no longer the disorganized farmers but it is the organized farmers and the organized bankers, and the oranized Chaml>er of Commerce and boards of trade; in fact the allied commercial interests of ("he South de ici uiiiiuu t u ai kTuuvu 9 ft i Ctti pie shall be a blesing to the South and the nation, by business like methods of handling it. In acord with the other commissioners of agriculture Col. Watson will probably call a State meeting at Columbia during the Red Shirt Reunion to ratify the work done and to enlarge upon it. Leading up to this meeting, President Dabbs hopes to put several workers in the field just as soon as he can arrange a series of meetings. Part of the expense of this work is provided by a fund given the National Union by sympathizers at Montgomery, and all friends in this State are given the opportunity to contribute. All sums large or small will be acknowledged for and received by Secretary Reid, Columbia or President Dabbs, Mayesville. Presidents of County Unions and business men are requested by the ofllcials to secure the largest possible attendance on the meetings. Volunteers from occupation who can present the needs of the hour will be gladly used as far as possLble within the funds of expenses, and should comunicate with State President Dabbs that he may make assignments to the work. He is counting on the Senators and Congressmen and other oflicials, bankers, mercants and profesisonal men and farmers, too, for time and money to carry on this important work. "He that giveth quickyly giveth twice," says Mr. Dabbs. This is the need of the hour and it depends on how the people respond as to how soon we will be reaping from the seeds sown at the Montgomery Congress. South Carolina was signally honored in having Us able com mlssioner permanent president and in having this permanent organization grow out of the work of the Sumter County Farmers' Union. National President Barrett wishes to have the aid of Col. Watson and Senator Smith from this State in a quick trip across the cotton belt to arouse the people In the large centres just as the State authoriies hope to do in the counites. HAI) SKELETON IN HOX. ? Negro Garbage Hauler Wanted the Dig Case llurned. A large box was carried to the Sacremento, Cal., crematory by a negro ghrbage hauler with the request that it bo burned. The crematory authorities became suspicious and upon opening the box found the skeleton of a woman. The box had been intrusted to the garbage hauler by the local manager of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. According to otlicials of that company the box had been consigned ro a Mrs. I T U'IIoah s\f fhut pHv liv A 1\ il < * # * I UOVlly V/ &. V HIV V V* VJ f J A At Brown, of Waco, Texas. Mrs. Wilson has been dead for sometime. Local ofllcials are awaiting news of the shipping of the box trom Waco to determine whether the body had been lawfully exhumed. A dispatch from Waco. Texas, says the body of a 'Mrs. Wilson, who died here, was sent seven years aso to another Mrs. Wilson at Sacramento, Cal., and remained in the freight depot of the Southern Pacific, Mrs. Wilson, of Sacramento, having refused to receive it or pay charges. ? ? Many llorses Died. That many horses and mules have been killed by forage poisoning in the Hilton Head section of Beaufort county is the substance of the report that has been filed at the State department of Agriculture by Dr. E. Burnett, special veteranarian sent by the nepartment to make an investigation of the situation. * ? ? ? DicMl I'rom l-Tlgnt. Augusta Lawskowska, aged 15, died of fright at South Bend. Ind., while on her way home with a companion. The girls saw two young men and evidently thinking she was to? he attacked, Augusta fainted. She died without recovering consciousness. ? Terrorised Prisoners. A bolt of lightning struck the Somerset county, Pa., jail this week, stunning 3 2 prisoners. Terror reigned among the prisoners when they regained their senses. Some of them beat their heads aginst the doors un* til they were nearly unconscious. v * -y- -