University of South Carolina Libraries
WANT TO HANG He, Wke law lit Wife aai Her Fa . tier, Ceiriclcd af larder VERDICT PLEASES HIM I He Would Not Employ a Lawyer to Defend Him.?Says the Verdict Is a Just One and He Will Be the * ?? ~ i M V.,AM l>u|.l HAppiCSl Iflttn limi una utv* * wu The Death Penalty. Samuel N. Hyde, confessed murderer of his young wife and her father, was convicted by a jury late Tuesday at Anderson and sentenced to b? hanged. The death sentence was pronounced by Judge Prince Wednesday morning. The reading of the verdict had no visible effect on the prisoner, who said later that the finding was a just one, that he was quilty of murder and expected to be convicted. Under the laws of South Carolina, pleas of guilty in murder cases are forbidden. The crime for which Hyde was convicted was committed on the night of July 18th last at Anderson. While Mrs. Hyde and her sister, Willie Beasley, aged 15, lay asleep in one bed, and her parents, W. V. Beasley and wife, were asleep in another bed in the same room, Hyde entered and fired three shots into his wife's body, killing her instantly, and fired i ?" { ^ hot 1l O h n t o f O lr { 11 {T I \\ ICtJ Ct 1/ 11C1 OIOIC1 , mil II U11UIU kuuiug effect, but not seriously wounding her. Reloading his revolver, he shot and killed Beasley, who was attempting to disarm him. Mrs. Beasley was the principel witness for the prosecution at the trial. She described in detail the events 011 the night of the tragedy. Sheriff King told of Hyde surrendering himself and saying he planned the murder of his wife and was well pleased with the deed. The State rested its case at one o'clock, and the defence introduced several witnesses, who testified in support of the claim of the prisoner's couinsel that he was a victim of hereditary insanity. Following the argument by the attorneys and the Judge's charge, the jury retired and fifty-five minutes later returned a verdict of guilty. Mrs. Emma Beasley, mother of Mrs. Hyde, and wife of W. W. Beasley, testified that she and her husband were in one bed in the room and that Mrs. Hyde and her 15-yearold sister, Willie Beasley, were in another bed in the same room at the time of the shooting; that the shots awoke her and that she slipped out of bed and grabbed Hyde as he was going out of the door. She was assisted by Mr. Beasley, who caught Hyde around the back. Hyde relnn/Ind lito nlofrt] eh ?? SiliH nnfl hflfl AVUUVyVi uig ^iuvvi) w??v v?>? v. w?? up his left arm and fired on Mr. Beasley, killing him instantly. Mrs. Beasley stated that the married life nf Hyde and his wife was very unpleasant; that they frequently quarrelled and that they had been parted twice. She said Hyde deserted Mrs. Hyde and for that reason her father had taken her back home. The prisoner as he sat by his old deaf father accepted the verdict without any tremor and without any change of expression. Before being * led from the Court room to his cell in the county jail, he stated that the verdict is a just one, that he is guilty of murder and tha the expected a contradiction. "I didn't take the stand on my behalf," said Hyde, "because I didn't want to be classed along with these witnesses for the State, who swore lies on me. They seated that 1 had deserted my wife and that they hadn't taken her away from me. That is not so. There is rmo thine eertnin thev won't, be able to seperate me from my wife any i;iore, and when the sheriff hangs me I will be the happiness man that has ever been hung. The Court appointed Mr. Rice to plead my case, lie did mighty well. He made a good fight but a useless one. I know I was guilty of murder and I know that I deserved 10 he hung." ? ? KILLED IIY TKAIX. Careless Mother Was Too Late to Save Her Child. Glancing up from her work as she heard the whistle of an approaching train, Mrs. Ellen Hicks, of Sable, Col., Tuesday, was horrified to see her fourteen-months-old baby sitting In the middle of the railway tracks directly in front of the on-rushing flyer. In a mad dash she succeeded in cathching hold of the child's dress, but the locomotive tore the baby from her grasp. Trainmen found the mother unconscious beside the mangled body of her baby. ? ? Made a Queer Will. Under the provisions of the will of ?V Anthony Cupp, a wealthy farmer, who died at Lima, Ohio, recently, * ^IfTfTMBdchildren, and there are several of are to receive the munificent leg&b&ot $1 each. To secure the $1 legacy they muet each read the Bible daily attend church service# regularly. \| | POSSES HUNT FIENDS JLYNCHINGS WILL FOLLOW THEIR CAPTURE SURE. Negro Assaults Woman at Warrenton, N. C.f Kills Her Father and Shoots Sheriff and Two Others. George Marshall, a negro said to have gone to Warrenton, N. C., from the North, Monday afternoon criminally assaulted the wife of a farmer at Vicksboro, 14 miles from Warrenton, killed her father who attempted to rescue his daughter, and later shot the sheriff and two members of his posse after the negro had escaped from the scene of the assault upon the woman. A lynching is probable. The negro barricaded himself in a house. When the sheriff came to arrest him the negro shot him and two other members of the posse. This morning, after the house had been watched all night, the negro's father bv a ruse entered the house with other negroes and overpowered him, when the posse rushed in, bound him and brought him here to jail. The whole of two counties is aroused over the atrocious deed. Court convenes at Warrenton this week and the authorities are trying to induce the angry citizens to let the law take its course, promising that the negro will be tried at once. Marshall's victim was 22 years old. She was on her way to the spring when accosted by the negro who covered her with the gun until he had accomplished his purpose. Another Case in Florida. Cicero Carpenter, a carpenter, and a woman companion, whom he was accompanying home was criminally assaulted My an unknown negro at Ortego, a suburb of Jacksonville, Fla., early Monday morning. The white couple had taken the last car home and were accosted by the negro about half a mile from the car line. Without preliminaries the negro fired point blank at Thompson, killing him instantly, one bullet going through the brain and the sec ond near the heart. The woman stood terror-stricken and was next attacked by the negro, who Choked her to unconscious before accomplishing his fiendish deed. The locality where the deed was committed is sparsely settled, and no one heard the shots or screams. The woman finally regained consciousness, and sought out some neighbors, when the alarm was turned in. Immediately a posse was formed, and the woods in the vicinity have been scoured without result. It is feared that lynching will follow an arrest, unless the authorities cau Spirit the negro to jail without giving the alarm. PEOPLE ALMOST DROWN. ? Five Million Callous of Molasses Run 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 persons had narrow escapes from 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 tn tholr chinn in some instances. Sev persons tried to swim in the molasses but it was like the antics of a fly on gummy fly paper, and they had to bo 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. ARMY OFFICER DISAPPEARED. * Ideut. Dykes, a South Carolinian, Leaves Port Russell. Another mystery has developed in the United States military service with the disappearance from his post at Port D. A. Russell, Wyoming, of Lieut. Gibbes Lykes, an oflicer of Troof F, 9th Cavalry, stationed at that place. Notices have been spread broadcast through army channels notifying all posts of the young officer's disappearance, and it is hoped that information of his whereabouts will soon bo received. He departed from the post some time ago without leaving word of his intended destination. Lieut. Lykos, who is only 2 4 years of age, is a South Carolinian, and graduated from the Military Academy in 1908. ? ? Hir<ls Going South. For the past few nights thousands of birds have been heard chirping as they passed over the city going south. It seems rather early for the birds to be migrating, but they are doing so by the thousands. Some say it indicates an early and severe winter. This Is bourne out by Horace Johnson, the aged weather forecaster of Milledham, Conn., who predicted the blidzard of eighteen-eightyeight, and promises a long, severe winter this year. He also forecast drought. # WHl SOON BE HERE BOLL WEEVIL COMING INTO SOUTH CAROLINA. The Principal Protection Against the Pest is the Birds, and for that Reason They Should be Protected. The approach of the cotton boll weevil is fraught with danger to the principal industry of South Carolina the planting of cotton. Incidentally it must affect us all, since general prosperity is dependent on the success of agriculture. I have recently visited the region in Alabama and Mississippi which is infested by boll weevil. Moreover I have kept in touch with all field work being done by the field force under Mr. W. D. Hunter, who is in charge for the United States government, with headquarters at Dallas, Tnv o a A VAUO. The pest is worst than reported; the damage done grows greater as the I boll weevil comes eastward, and the rate of travel has been enormously increased, owing to more favorable conditions in states east of the 'Mississippi. Texas has escaped on account of a greater acreage and more on account of climate conditions which subject the insect to harrassment from year's end to year's end. The hot dry summers, the sharp, hard hanges in winter, the absence of winter cover, and the shifting of the cotton belt westward to where it is even ryer and hotter, are the main factors which saved Texas. Louisiana, however, suffers a loss of three-fourths of her usual crop; nor are conditions in the infested portions of Alabama and Mississippi any better. All authorities concur in the positive statement based on facts of exnpripupp ami nhsprvation. that birds are the chief and in the end the onlycheck to the cotton boll weevil. The is disputed nowhere, except by ignorant persons, who should not be heeded when the state faces a crisis in its history. It is certainly sufficient that every authority in this country stands by that relief in the efficacy of birds in checking the boll weevil. I saw evidence of it while in the boll weevil territory, and it should be remarked that farmers in the same territory have not the slightest doubt as to the value of birds to them. Moved by the great danger, the state of Georgia has within the past fortnight passed a stringent and sweeping law for the protection of its irds, and the legislature of that state has created a department with the means of raising ample revenue, whose business shall be to protect birds and game. This was done by passing the resi'J 4 1 I r\ r\ c% s\ TtrV? ink boo V\nnr? I Ut'lll UL.1UC1 a m.unou, n intu lido UV/V11 urged on the general assembly of South Carolina for five years past, | but without securing action cn same. No politics whatever is in the measure. It is aimed for the public safety?a measure to provide against intolerable conditions and to provide for the general defense against an insect invasion. It is necessary that I call your attention to the fact that for years I have striven to get action to forestall the work of the pine bark beetle, which is now destroying thousands of dollars' worth of pine timber and has become a grave menace, inasmuch the national government has established a station at Spartanburg to fight it. All the destruction of pine timber might have been prevented, and would have been, if the general assembly had taken action, giving the department means to handle the outbreak. The general assembly of South Carolina is morally responsible for every bit of the loss. 1 am writing this with the hope that you will arouse your readers to action. The experience of the pine bark beetle will soon be repeated /ith the cotton boll weevil, unless the people of South Carolina force action i _ C ll 1 (JUL til Lilt? UBDCIII UlJ. The only way to save the birds is to rigorously enforce the laws for their protection. The only practical way to enforce these laws is by passing a law laying a license on hunters. No oilier plan has succeeded anywhere; this plan has suceeded everywhere; and now, with the action of Georgia, there are but three states in the union without law licensing hunters. There are sixty-five species of birds that eat the boll weevil. Most of them are not game birds, but are the small birds which are peculiarly in need of protection. The boll weevil will enter South Carolina within three years time This gives a bare breathing spell; but if protection is given to the birds at once?ironclad protection?in every community in south Carolina, there will be a gratifying increase within three years. It must bo remembered that birds not only at the time of its introduction, but for every year the insect remains within the borders of the state In the last place; be kind enough to reflect on the fact that nobody knows anything about even ordinary our lives to it; and it is fair to coninsects,except those of us who devote elude that the average farmer will know less about imported insect like the boll weevil, which he could not tell by sight from scores of others. Every day lost gives opportunity to VOTE IT DOWN la a Geicral Ekdwa CnWi R< i<ct? Rtriynciy Dccbiuly SLAPS US IN THE FACE ? Political Landside in the Dominion Gives the Conservatives, Opponents of Trade Pact with the United States, More than Fifty Majority in Next Parliament. Canada slapped the United States, squarely in the face on Thursday and plainly said she wanted no closer relations with us, business or political. In the elections over there on Thursday reciprocity suffered an overwhelming defeat, along with the Liberal party which favored that trade pact with the United States. A dispatch from Montreal says by a veritable political landslide, the Liberal -majority of 43 was swept away and the Conservative party secured one of the heaviest majorities ?upward of 50?that any Canadian Parliament has ever had. Seven Cabinet ministers, who have served with premier maimer, were among tne uefeated candidates. The Liberals lost ground in practically every province of the Dominion. Where they won, their majorities were small. Where the Conservatives won, their majorities were tremendous. Ontario, the leading province of Canada, decla red almost unanimously against the Administration and reciprocity. Robert L. Borden, leader of the Conservative party, will shortly become prime minister of Canada. He will be supported in Parliament by a working majority of far more than ample ror nis purpose. The government defeat means that the Filding-Knox reciprocity treaty, ratified by the American Congress in extra session, will not be introduced when the 12th Parliament assembles next month and that a revised basis of trade with the United States, looking to closer commercial relations will not be possible in the immediate future. The Conservatives are committed to a policy of trade expansion Within the Empire and a closed door against the United States. Although re-elected in two constituencies in Quebec, the defeat of the Liberal party also means the retirement from public life of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, for nearly two decades, has directed the destines of the Dominion. Several times during the hitter camimiem. which ureceeded the election, the venerable premier said that defeat of his party at the polls meant the end of his career. A Liberal membership of 53 from Quebec was cut down to the supremacy of the party, but it was in Ontario that the Conservatives won their great victories. Spurred on by appeals to patriotism and the cry that reciprocity was the entering wedge for annexation, the Conservatives swept nearly everything before them. That province, which in the last Parliament was represented by 35 Liberals and 51 Conservatives, will send a delegation to the next composed of 13 Liberals and 75 Conservatives. A notable feature of the defeat was the opposition's capture of two hitherto Liberal seats in Saskatchewan. The results at ten o'clock Thursday night, with a few of the distant constituencies estimated, were: Province. Lib. Con. j Ontario 13 70 Quebec 36 ?7 Nova Scotia 10 8 iNew Brunswick .... 8 5 Prince Edward Island. 2 2 Manitobia 1 9 Saskatchewan 7 3 Alberta 4 1 British Columbia.. ..0 6 Totals 81 131 Opposition majority, 50. Killed by Whiskey. Dr. C. C. Payne, of Eudora. Kans., shot and seriously wounded his wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. E. Smith, Wednesday, and then killed himself. Mrs. Payne and her husband had soperated, and he had been drinking heavily when he rushed into the Smith home and fired upon the two women. misfortune. The situation would ueasily justify calling a special session of the general assembly for the purpose of providing against so terrible a calamity as the boll weevil in vasion. The quarantine is merely a temporary makeshift and is Justifed only by the awful necessity of the case. When the boll weevil gets ready to come into the state he will fly right in, and all the quarantines of the world will not affect him one lota. Dealing with ignorant politicians has been to me a distasteful job; but I have stuck to it, for the issue means everything to South Carolina. But now It comes squarely to the people. They are on the brink of a precipice?the very rim of a volcano. There is but one thing they can do, and the Lord have mercy on their souls if they fail to see it and see it quickly. James Henry Rice, Jr. Chief Game W/arden, S. C. BANK OF Conwa < Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS , LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, S. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every aco will justify, and we i SOBbet B. scarborough, d President. We continue to pay 5 pei | FIRST NATK ^ OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK W SURPLUS PROFITS fa TOTAL ASSESTS ? DIRECT J. A. McDermott, John C M B. G. Codlins, H. L. B jL M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to the Bank of jLi Horry County, and a pioneer ?P ly allied with the recent dev 4b Republic. Backed by the C ^ United States Bonds, we are p * tomers any reasonable acoomjo ^ H. A. SPIVEY, X rf> Cashier. JX>CTOR SOLD COCAINE Weil-Known Laurens Physician Convicted and Fined for It. A dispatch to The State from Laurens says Dr. C. L. Poole, a weil known physician of that city was Tuesday afternoon found guilty in the mayor's court on a charge of selling cocaine. Mayor Babb imposed a sentence of $100 fine or of 30 days in prison. Dr. Poole gave notice that he would pay. The mayor announced that the defendant would be tried tomorrow on a like charge. The witnesses are negioes who are alleged to have bought the drug from the accused. The conviction of Dr. Poole caused a mild sensation. It comes as a climax to a long series of efforts on the part of the authorities to place | responsibility for the sale of a large amount of the drug to negroes in the city. ! A package of the dust wnicn ur. Poole is alleged to have sold to a negro who was arrested as he was leaving the premises of the defendant a few nights ago, was analyazed by a Columbia chemist, who testified at the trial that the sample submitted was cocaine hydrochlorate. ACCUSE EACH OTHER. Two Men in Jail Charged With Murdering Ones Wife. Each accusing the other, two men are prisoners in the same tier of cells in the little Lee county jail, charged with the murder of Mrs. Etta Richardson Childers at Smithville, Ga., on August 5, last. One is the victim's husband of six months, the othxi 4. n ri er her former sweemean. i\. ^. Kennedy, Childers and Kennedy were brought face to face with each other Wednesday as the former was being led to his cell following his arrival from Americus where he was arrested Tuesday. The erstwhile rivals glared at each other for a moment and Childers then passed on to bis cell to await formal arrignment. AVIATOlt ROSEN11AUM KILLED + Chicago Airman Falls Fifty Feet, at DcWitt, Iowa. At DeWitt, la., John W. Rosenbaum, of Chicago, was killed late Tuesday, when his aeroplane fell from a height of fifty feet. He had been in the air only twenty minutes when he lost control of the machine. [ Rosenbaum was making a trial flight when he met death. He was using a Curtiss biplane, which had been at the DeWitt Fair last week. At that time Ludwig, an aviator, failed to make a flight. Rosenbaum this afternoon declared that he would prove that the machine would fly. He had just started a descent when he lost control. The aviator was to have given exhibition flights at Clinton, la., later in the week. ? Tlio Deadly Gin. Earnest Eldredge died Wednesday night of injuries received last week at St. Charles near Sumter. Mr. Eldredge had been, sent by the Sumter Machinery company to erect a gin there, and in starting the operations he reached under a gin saw to adjust something with the result*that his hand was caught and his arm badly lacerated. ' HORRY, i jr. S, C. | ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county* J .. ..960.000 ........... 12.600 i HOLDERS .... 60.000 ^ ORS .. . . ?... .112.600 I noRS ; D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, . Will A. Freeman. ommodation which their accounts ' solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. frekmab Vice President. * Cashier r cent, on yearly deposits. ^ ?? )NAL BANK| y, 8. c. x $26,000.00 ^ i 2,600.00 126,000.00 ML m rORS: jj? ? finlvov rt HP MoMntll /. wFlf W? ^ luck, W. R. Lewis, D. ilk ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. jjr Conway, the oldest Bank in In Eastern Carolina. Close- VL elopment of the Independent jrovernmeut and secured by repared to extend to our cu?- * X nodations. w B. O. COLLINS, A mm* President. . * PROFESSIONAL CARDS. _ ( H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At Ul> CONWAY, S. G. ^ y WL B. BCARBROUQH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. - ^ H. H. BURROUGHS rnjralcun and Hnrgeoa. CONWAY, S. O. B. WOFPOKD WAIT. ^ Attorney at La/. J Bank of Horry Building* ' J ] CONWAY, H. O. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIH6 MACHMC > xx x B V Km BH^HP W W \\ ^ nn^nv i |hmn wantcl t her a V1 brating Shuttle. Rotam fibutUe or a Single Thread [Chain&UcMT* i * Sewing Machine write to ^\ Ml KW HOME OEWIHO MACHINE OOMPAHf, Opnnnp. ftnveewfar machines are made to sell mawM?a>? tpelltr.but the New Home U made to wee* > Oar ruaranty never runt out, - I irii If Mtbortied dealer* MMf j C fOftMLSMT/ Jl BURROUGHS ? OOL.LIN8 OfH Conway, 8. O. ,,J> "" I??l ?a? Toadstools Prove Fatal. At Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday Mrs. Elizabeth Chormann died Thursday from eating toadstools, mistaking: tnem ror mushrooms. Her husband,. Charles Chormann, died a week ago I from the same cause. A son, Henry,. ~ Is convalescent in a hospital, whileeight others have recovered after desperate illness. Drugged and Robbed. People should be careful about drinking with strangers. A young: man in* Atlanta a few days ago waa given drugged whiskey and robbed by chance acquantlances. Later the young man died from the effects of the drug. f _