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9 i SHOT HIM DOWN ? Seat Six Bullet* lilt A Mai?'? Heart in L the trondril S reefs of Uuita. AND CRUSHIS IN SKULL With Butt of Revolver. After leaping ^ on Prostrate Hody of His Vietiin us It Luy Where It Had Fallen. After Iking Shot Down in Cold Blood. Dispatch from Union to the Spar tanourg rieraiu says nenry nosoea was shot and instantly killed by John Henry May at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. The shooting occurred on Main street in front of the Biurris Furniture company. Boshea was a. weaver In tho Union cotton mills and about 21 years old. May was about the same age. It seems that a younger brother of May named Clyde had some difliculty with Boshea and was pursuing the latter with a knife. Boshea was retreating and just as they got in the middle of the street both of the May brothers attacked Boshea. While they had him down John Henry May shot him six- times. , After emptying tho pistol, which had six chambers, May .beat Boshea on the head with the weapon and left it lying by the dead man. The younger brother has surrendered but tho other is at large. John Henry May shot another man in the leg here yesterday at the county fair ground. The shooting occurred late in the evening at a time when Main street was (crowded with tho usual Saturday night crowd. Added to these were the throngs coming in froai the county fair, which had just closed its first display. The first, trouble between Boshea and Clyde May did not attract very much attention except from those near the two men. But when the six tthots rang out through the crowded thoroughfare, intense excitement pre p vailed at once. The people were (lazed for a mo| mcnt, and no one seemed inclined to jgo to Hoshea's aid. Hut when it was seen that May was crushing in the skull of the man who lay prostrate before him, several sprang forward to interfere. In an instant, everyone was crowding towards the scene of the trouble Wildest rumors were floated as to ^ who had been shot. The police had difficulty in getting to the injured man. In the confusion, John Henry May escaped in the crowd. No trace of him could be found, except the empty pistol which lay smeared with blood beside Hoshea's lifeless body. Within a short time, Clyde May surrendered himself to the authorities. Ho would make no statement JF and it could not be learned whether bo or Hoshea was the aggressor in the trouble. John Henry May, the man who did the shooting and the brutal crushing of a dead man's skull, is still at large. So far as could he learned, the 1 authorities have no knowledge of 1 his whereabouts. It is said that he < * left Union immediately after the trouble. Since the killing of Boshea, it has 1 developed that John Henry May was involved in a difficulty Friday at the 1 fair gronds with a man whose nameu j could not he learned. It is said that t May drew a gun on the man and shot 1 1dm several times, one of the bullets taking effect in the leg. ? HEARST COMES RACK. , i # Declares that He was Brought by the Action of the Party. ( William It. Hearst's announce- f ment that he is back in the regular ? Democratic fold caused much specu- c k lation in political circles in New York regarding the Independence j league's fate. This organization was \ founded ,by Hearst. ^ Hearst declared himself last night | at the opening rally of the local fu- ( k sion campaign in the first public c address he has made since returning i from abroad. a "T am sneak in er." he said, "as a n good citizen I hope, and also as a j?ood Democrat. Murphy and his kind drove mo out of the Democratic parly five years ago, but the commendable course of national Democracy brought mo back into the fold." He declared ho would continue bis fight against Tammany Hall's ''undemocratic principles." Hearst's t audience was composed mostly of Re- t publicans and Independence League v members and his declaration caused S a surprise. t: ? ? 1 Here's Some Fish Fiction. 1 I Seven hundred gallons of confls- s cated wine, thrown Into a canal at a * Frontignah, France, by the customs e officers have had, it is said, the ef- e feet of intoxicating the fish, which v swim on the top of the water and can be picked out by hand. Man Crushed In a Mill. ( Jasper, Ga.,?J. D. Cowart, United I States deptuy marchal, was killed a Saturday when he was caught in a 1< wheel of his corn mill. His body was o horribly mangled. t NEW BUNCO GAME QUEER DIVORCE CASE IN THE ?TATE OF GEORGIA. % How a Widow From the Wt'ht Worked a Man Out of Several Hundred Dollars. A ... 1 - I AiUnn. A uiDimiuu li i/iu AIHUIID, Ga., to theAtlanta Constitution says a peculiar divorce case came up in Clarke superior court i>n which the husband sued the wife for a divorce and sued her in the name she bore when she married him. G. A. Phillips, living near Athens, sued Mrs. Etta Speennan on the grohnds of desertio'n. He explained that he sued her in her former name, and not as Mrs. Phillips, because she had never been really his wife, though the marriage ceremony had been regularly said after the license had .been regularly issued. The divorce was granted?the ilrst verdict. This puts an end to a romance of unusual interest. Early hast year Mr. Phillips answered an alluring adverit 4 t % ? I ? ! ~ 1 1 4^.. .. 1 UM'Illl'Ml. Ill it III il I 1 li II1111 1 ill JUIiJJlill, became acquainted with Mrs. Speerman, a widow she claimed then in (lie middle west, lie sent her money to come to him and they were married in Athens. The day after the marriage and after the newly-wed wife had been presented with a check for $U00 or $4 00 she received a telegram from a sister i.n the west to the effect that she was needed at home, as their mother was ill. She left immediately, and mailed her husband of a few hours a postcard or two?? that was the last he has heard from her, it is said. About the same time a middleaged man from the same section of the county came to Georgia in answer to an advertisement and married a young Gwinnett county girl, secured what property she had, and disappeared in a few days after the marriage ceremony. The general impression was at the time that there was a strong probability of connection between the two cases. KICKS, $5.00 EACH. Laborer Asks $20,000 for Injuries Inflicted by a Mule. Dynamite, a mule, is the central figure in a complaint filed in the Circuit court in Spokane, Wash., on behalf of Frank Castor, a laborer. The Columbia Contract company, averred to be owner of the mule, is defendent. The mule by several kicks with a freshly-shod foot is alleged to have ruined the plaintiff's earning ability, and Castor sued for $20,000. Dynamite had a trick of kicking to injure persons within striking distance. He broke away from the corral and invaded a tent house, his weight being such as to break through the door. Once outside, the mule glanced sideways at Castor, and recognized in him one of the men who had held him bound with chains during the process of shoeing a few days before. Then the mule kicked out, the complaint alleges, with the followimg results: Kick No. 1.?Castor's right arm was smashed. Kick No. 2.?The plaintiff's right hand was lacerated and permanently crippled. 1 Kick No. 3.?Four of Castor's ribs ' were broken. 1 SHOT FOUR YKAIt OLD HOY. ' Itihe Discharged and Hall Crashes , Through Drain. 1 i Lucian A. James, Jr., the four-year ] >ld son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jamse, ( >f liem.bert Sumter county was shot f md instantly killed by his playmate, 5 Shelby Wilson, Friday afternoon. ? The two boys were playing in the f rard at Mr. Jame's house wlieu the I Winchester rifle which was in the A lands of Shelby Wilson, who is about 1 0 years old, was accidentally disiharged the ball striking little Lu- > dan James in the head and killing c iiin instantly. The accident has cast 1 l cloud of gloom over the> whole t ommunity. t t SHE FA I LED TO ESCAPE. \ > localise (lie Hole in Hie Wall Wasn't * I Tdirge Enough. s The two thin girls crawled through ^ ho hole in the wall and escaped, but r he fat girl got stuck and was caught 1 rhen Mary McCall, Nettie Walls and a !arah Crow tried to iret away on Sat- r irday from the jail at Dalton, Ga. f "he throe negro girls dug the hole y n the prison wall. The two slim ones j lipped through the aperture all right fi nd Sarah Crow, too, would have t scaped, except that the others laugh- i d so loud at her predicament they t /oke up the guard. a ? Preacher Was Murdered. v Rev. A. J. Rurns, president of the 1 )neida Rapist College, at Oneida, s Cy., was shot from ambush and died 1 , few minutes later. Perey Rurns, a V inaman, was arrested. Rloodhounds, t m the scent at the crime's scene, led Jt o Rurn's home. , VERY BAD CASE ? Musachisetts Preacher Arretted far Peueairg Yeoeg Kos?c S idea!. BODY FOUND IN BARN If In Marriage to Another Hady Had Heen Announced, anil It is Sujh posed He Wanteil to (jet Hid of JliM Former hweetueart, V\ Iiom lie Had Wronged. Rev. Clarence V. T. Richcson, pastor of a Baytist <church in Cambridge Mass., was arrested early Friday, as a result of the police investigation of the death by poisoning of Miss Avis Linnell, a student at the New England Conversatory of Music. The arrest was made at the home of Moses 0. Edmands, father of Richeson's finance, i n Brook line. Miss Linnell, who was nineteen veil vh nld 11vr?d nt Hvannla Vkir? but while at the Conversatory of Music, lived at the Young Woman's Christian Association home in Boston, and was found dead in the bath room of the home about a we?k ago. The dead body of Miss Linnell was found in the bath room by some of the ladies at the home. At first it was belived sh had committed euicide, fbut later developments showed that she had unknowingly taken cyanide of potassium, given or sent to her by some other person, which was used in 1he belief that it would remedy physical conditions which were causing anxiety, a part mortem examination showing that Miss Linnell was about to become a mother, had previously been a friend of rM. Richardson and it was understood at Ilyannis that an engagement existed. Later, however, the clergyman became engaged to Miss Edmands, whose father is a trustee of the Newton Theological institution, where Mr. Richeson studied for the ministry, and that is why he wanted to get Miss Linnell out of the way. A day or two before Miss Linnell's death, cards were issued for the wedding of Mr. Rioheson and Miss Violet Edmands, which was set lor Tuesday, October 31. Mr. Richeson went to the Edmands home last Sunday night, almost immediately after he had been informed of the sudden death of Miss Linnell, who, it is said, had been for some time his finance. For nearly seven hours Thursday night eight police officers had been waiting outside of the Edmands home In Brookline for an opportunity to make the arrest. No attention was paid during the night to police attempts to gain admission to the house. The officers had no farrant for the pastor's arrest and for a time occupants of the house paid no attention to repeated rings on the door bell, but finally some one disconnected the wires. Later the telephone .also was disconnected. Realizing that t here apparently was no prospect of seeing the minister before daybreak, Deputy Superintendent William 13. Watts of the Boston police department and Chief Inspector Joseph Dugan of the buheau of criminal investigation placed their men about the house in such a manner as to cut off every avenue of escape. After that the police wait ed until shortly before 8 o'clock, when Mr. Riclieson was taken into custody. From Sunday night week until Thursday afternon the minister denied himself to all callers and to every plea for a statement as to his relations with Miss Linneil. The >olice of Boston Thursday night discovered clues which they had long sought and which led them to take summary action. Police Chief Dugan and Deputy Superintendent Wrl.s it one o'clock presented themselves )eforo the Edmands home, which vas completely surrounded by poice. , After arriving at headquarters vith Iticheson, Deputy Superintenlent Watts said he received word ( rhursday evening from Newton Cen- 1 er that William Hahn, a druggist of 1 hat town, had sold cyanide of po- < assium to Richeson whom he knew 1 veil on the night of October 10. Mr. I rVatts himself at once interviewed ' he druggist, who, according to the l >olico official told the following s tory of the alleged sale: t "The Rev. Mr. Richeson whom 1 j [now well, came to my store on the light of October 10 and told me he lad a troublesome dog which he deired to get rid of in the easiest way i lossible. I suggested that he chloro1- ( orni the dog, but Mr. Richeson said \ le did not like the smell of the drug, j then suggested cyanide of potas- r ium and put enough in an open vial ( o kill three dogs. I warned the min- \ ster to be careful how he handled * he potassium and to destroy the vial | ifter he had killed the dog. "Mr. Richeson had sent me an in- i itation to his wedding with Miss i Sdmands and before he left the ( tore he told me to forget to come, l Mie minister also requested me to ^ [ecp the sale of the cyanide of po- ] assium a secret. I told no one nn- j 11 the Linnell case developed." 1 Richeson is thirty-five years old and i WHITE MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING TWO NEGRO WOMEN OVER IN GEORGIA. He Shot and Killed Them in Their Home and Stole Their Money and Escaped. A dispatch from Brunswick, Ga., says A. J. O'Berry, who was placed on trial at St. Marys for the murder of Mary Randolph, a negress, and her 13-year-old daughter in Camden coumy near ivingsiand on tlie niglit of August 15, was sentenced to hang Ion November 27. The case was the tirst called Friday afternoon and O'Berry admitted his guilt and was sentenced by Judge Conyers, of the superior court. The crime fer which O'Berry will pay the death penalty was one of the most brutal in the history of Camden, and the citizens of that immediate section wero stirred up to such an extent that it was feared for some time that a lynching would be had. O'Berry was captured just after the dead negroes were found and rushed to the county jail at St. Marys, where he was confined for several days, having been brought here for safe-keeping on September r * v\ line mere ne cuci not seem to I realize his position and was in the best of spirits until Sheriff Higginbotham, of Ca.mden, arrived last Sunday to take him to Camden for trial. It was them that he seemed to lose his courage and was anything but willing to go back to Camden. O'Berry admitted his guilt just before being removed from Brunswick. On arrival here he was visited by a newspaper man, to whom he told the story of the killing and the facts leading up to the killing, lie claimed that he had been drinking on the day of the killing, having received some liquor at an early hour in the day, and being pretty full when he first saw the negroes that he murdered. He claimed that he was in Proctor's store about noon when the woman and her daughter went in and drew an amount of money. Hater he went over to Frank Bunk ley's house and borrowed or bargained for a gun and then weint to another store and bought shells. After night ho went to the negroes and shot both of them, securing the money that he had gone for. WIFE'S CI J IhS H ON HIM. + Husband, Who Deserted Her, Stricken by Paralysis. The wish of a dying woman that her husband might be paralyzed if he attendod her funeral, came true. William Huesman, of Cincinnati, O., is the victim. Although nearly 7 0, and the father of several grown children, he had lived apart from his wife, Minnie Huesman, his junior by only a few years. As the years of their separation extended, Mrs. Huesman became each day more and more embittered against her husband. Time md again she declared that she hoped that when she died, he might become paralyzed on the way to the cemetery, if he tried to go to the fu neral. Immediately after her death the husband was notified, and forgetting Hie past, tried to atone by seeing that his wife received proper burial. He provided a cofiitn for the body and next day he was on his way to the cemetery, when he suddenly collapsed on the street. "Paralysis," said the hospital physician. Huesman is not expected to recover. "Paralysis," said the hospital physican. Huesman is not expected to recover. DEATH PREDICTION TRUE. > Killed in Loss tlian a Minute After His Prophecy. "I went through the carnage at CJettsburg and the siege of Vicksburg unscathed, miraculously escaping the bullets, but I feel that the missile of \ ild age, which none of us can dodge, , ivill get me soon," remarked James i FT. Elliott seventy years of age, of i Vuma, Col., a civil war veteran, as i le shook hands with a friend at a < dreet corner Friday night. Less , han a minute later Elliott was struck uid killed by an electric car. I ? ? ? j A Youthful Murderer. ] David Fowler, aged 12, of Chero- : <ee Springs, Spartanburg County Sat- I irday shot and killed his brother, < Dewey Fowler, aged 10. The shoot- i ng orcurred at the home of the boys, i rhe two hovs were nlavinc together 1 ind, it seems, that Dave became en- ; 'aged at his younger brother over i ?ome childish matter. Securing his l 'ather's gun, he fired the fatal shot. s a native of Rose Hill, Va. He Evas graduated from William Jewell I college, Liberty, Mo., in 1906. Hater i tie took the ministerial course and i ivas graduated from Newton Theo- i logical institution. He was ordained ' to the ministry In St. Louis. His pastorate at Hyannis was his first reg- < tilar charge. , < MURDER CHARGE Richard Aberthaiy Charged With Mordering a Printer io 1879 ? MANY YEARS SEARCB Tiie Crime Wun Committed at Spar (unburn Many Years Ago?HrotherT* l'assiou for Vengeunce Survived jttoo Parage of Time??The Accused h laKlged in Juil. Richard Abernatliy, a chair manufacturer, was arrasted today at his homo, near lilackBburg, and later i lodged In the Spartaeburg county jail charged with having inhrdered William A. Abbott, a printer, on a Sunday night in September, 187 9. In Abernathy's arrest George A. Abbott, a painter of No. l(>b Wofford street, this city, believes that liis l>2 years' quest for the slayer of his brother is ended. The warrant, which was sworn out before Magistrate Robert J. Gantt, charges that Richard Abernatliy "did kill and murder \Y. A. Abbott by shooting the said W. A. Abbott with a gun and by puting his body upon the track of the Atlanta Charlotte Air Line railway; that the same became mangled, bruised and torn, so as to conceal the wounds." George Abbott said that the coroner's jury found that his brother's death was a case of murder. The body was .picked up within a minute after the train passed over it, and was jcold and stark, showing that he had been dead before the train came. On the other hand, however, Magistrate L. P. Ligon of Cherokee county is authority for the statement that Abbott's family sued the railway (company for killing him and obtained damages. Magistrate Ligon indorsed the warrant for A,bernathy's arrest. As against this again is the statement made by George Abbott that the year following his brother's death a man named Sherbert was accused of the crime. The case was not pressed 011 account of lack of evidence. Abernathy left this section after Abbott's death, lie is said to have turned up in Cherokee county recently, amd has made a living by making and selling wicker chairs. George Abbott was reluctant to talk about the case and refused to tell what evidence he had against Abernathy other than that the evidence was the words of Abernathy's own mouth. It is reported that in an unguarded moment Abernathy admitted having killed William Abbott. One story is that he was showing a pistol to some boys and asking them what they thought of it, that the conversation turned to shooting and killing and that Aber ln + V??.r r, r, 5 ,1 V, ~ ~ .1 1. t ' ~ .1 - ~ * ii.ii ii.> ouiu iiv: ivi IUU ;i mail ui Spartanburg years ago. Some one, it is said, wrote George Abbott a letter, telling him of A.berna.thy's alleged admission. George Abbott then employed Coke Duncan, formerly chief of police at Gaffney, to do the necessary detective work. What Duutan learned has not been ascertained, but it was deemed sullicient to swear out a warrant. Duncan himself arrested Abernathy. The prisoner is 60 years old. He was dazed and would not talk about the case when arrested. The supposed motive for the crime with which Abernathy is charged were attentions which William Abbott is said to have paid to Mrs. Abernathy, who was separated from her husband. She is said to be still living. George Abbott, suspcyted any of a dozen mem of being implicated in his brother's murder or of knowing something about it . There were ( two who were said to he in love ( with Mrs. Abernathy and jealous of , William Abbott because of the lat- , tor's alleged friendliness with the ( woman. William Abbott was not quite 20 years old at the time of his death. George Abbott is a year older than , William. William Abbott's body was found one Sunday night on the Southern railroad track at a point apposite, where Heaumont mils now stand. Several people were killed on f the railroad there within a short ' lime. There are many people here ( who remember William Abbott's ( leath. ( To avenge the alleged murder of ' 'lis brother became a consuming pasdon with Cleorge Abbott. lie has 1 kept under survelian,ce all these ' rears those whom he suspected of * knowing something about the crime ?ven when they have gone to remote parts of the country. Magistrate Gantt probably will hold a preliminary Investigation of the charges i against Abernathy. In the meantime ' CJeorge Abbott and Duncan will try i to strengthen their case. < ^ ^ ^ c Reported Rattle. 1 iSspecial dispatches from Constantinople say that the Turkish ministry of the interior has received news that the Turks and Arabs have de- 1 Coated 8,000 Italians near Barka. ( The Italians lost 800 and the Turks < 115 men. Tho Italians left large | Tuantitlos of arms and ammunition ( on the field. l . V ORDtRERS GO FREE ONE IX EIGHTY-SIX OAPITAJLLY PUNISHED IN UNITED STATES. (JwiTictions Arc Becoming Scarcer Kiwh Year?Judge DeCoure/ f Draws Comparion With Europe. Quoting President Taft aa saying that "tiie administration of criminal law in this country is a disgrace to civilization," Judge C. A. DeCourcy, of Lrawrence, Mass., justice of the Superior court of Massachusetts before the American Prison association in Omaha, Neb., j>ointed out that the United States was conspicuous for the great number of unpished murTim J ' I- ' 1 *? ?? ?-? ?v ucitnij*; ui insanity, me limitation of the power of judges and the character of testimony allowed to be introduced in behalf of the defendant, were some of the evils which he said, ought to be rectilieu. "The number of homicides in this oountry for 1910 was 8,9 75, an increase of nearly 900 over the number in 1 909, yet but. one in eightysix was capitally punished in 1910, as against one in seventy-four during the year preceding," said Judge DeCourey. t is said that in 1 896 for each million of the population there were 118 homicides in the I'nited States; in Italy less than fifteen; in Canada less than thirteen; in Great Ilritain less than nine; in Germany less than nvt.. "In the last year in London, with a population of 7,000,000, there were but nineteen cases of murder. Of the nineteen murderers five committed *uu:iue. ;\n me oiners, except lour, were arrested and either convicted and executed or committed to the insane asylum. "In New York City one hundred and nineteen cases of homicide were investigated by the Grand jury during the last year, but only forty-five convictions resulted. Chicago reports two hundred and two homicides ^ were committed in that pity during the last year. Only one of the offenders was hanged, fifteen were sent to the penitentiary and the others were set free. In I.ouisville, with a population of 224,000, 'during the last year there were forty-seven cases of homicide, and not a single murderer was hanged. The report of the attorney general of Texas states that there were 104 8 indictments for murder in the state during the years 1909 and 1910, and undoubtedly a large number of homicides in addition, for which no indictments were found. "In Alabama a conviction for stealing hides was recently set aside because the indictment failed to state whether they were mule, cow, goat or sheep hides. And indictments were dismissed because father was spelled farther (in South Carolina), and because the letter T was omitted in spelling malice (in Alabama)." Judge DeCourcy then suggestod some criminal law reforms, which included simplified forms of indictments, changes in the selections of juries and in the rules governing pleadings. ? ? AUTO HAN INTO A HACK. ? Kills White Driver and Badly Hurts a Young Woman. An automobile and a hack collided in Hock Hill Saturday night, and K. C. Hendricks, driver of the hack, was killed, and Miss Lemmond, a trained nurse had her collarbone broken, and Chief of Police Partlow had his wrist badly sprained. The accident occurred 011 the Saluda road within the incorporate limits, Mr. Roddey Reid, with Chief Partlow and Misses Lemmond and Owens, were in Mr. Reid's car returning to the city from a ride out the Saluda road. Hendricks, who was a hackman, was taking her to her home an old colored woman with a big basketful of dishes, and had reached a point on the Saluda road, just outside of the settled portion of the city, when the trash came. NEARLY A Mi WILL ATTEND, rite Governor to Meet to Talk Over Cotton Prices. A dispatch from New Orleans jays hotel reservations already made ndicate a large attendance at the jonferences of the governors of South 31*11 States to discuss ways and means 3f boosting the price of cotton to bo held here October 30. Besides tho governors a number of large cotton planters ofllcials of the Farmers' unions and others interested in the itaple have secured accommodations. ? # ? ' Met Deatli in Queer Way. Jeanerette, T*a.?Nat Thomas, a 13-year-old negro, was killed when i flying chip of wood cut his throat. The boy was watching a circular saw dp a piece of timber. The saw flipped iff a chip and sent it whizzing with mftlcient force to sever the boy's wind pipe and juglar vein. Will Fight Tobacco Trust. Attorney General Samuel W. Wiliams, of Vihginia and Attorney Gen>ral Lyon, of South Carolina hogan a inference at New York Friday to nvostigate tho American Tobacco Company's proposed plan to disorganize.