The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1911, Image 6
WANT TO HANG
He, Wke law lit Wife aai Her
Fa . tier, Ceiriclcd af larder
VERDICT PLEASES HIM
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He Would Not Employ a Lawyer to
Defend Him.?Says the Verdict Is
a Just One and He Will Be the
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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CONWAY, 8. C.
Attorney at Law.
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H. H. BURROUGHS
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CONWAY, S. O.
B. WOFPOKD WAIT. ^
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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 _