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\ FIVE MEN ABE HUNG FOUR PAY PENALTY FOR SOME DI- ' ABOLICAL CRIME * ANOTHER FOB A MURDER Four of tlie Men Hanged Robbed a Young Truck Farmer Near Chi- 1 cago and Murdered Him as He Hogged for Mercy and the Fiftli ^ Murdered a Man. i Four murderers were hanged In , the county jail at Chicago on Friday . while tlieir counsel were vainly trying to secure a stay order, on tlie ground that the condemned men I???r* Th/\ nmn tifnt?A T?rn n 1/ WOI U lUDnilUi J I1U llicu nviu jl t unit P Shiblawski, Ewald Shiblawski, his brother; Phillip Sommerling ancr Thomas Schultz, slayers of Fred W. Ouilsow, Jr., a truck farmer, who was held up, robbed and murdered whilo ho was returning to his home in tho outskirts of the city last October. The Shiblawski brothers were the ilrst to mount the scaffold and the drop had scarcely fallen when a bailiff from Judge McKinley of the superior court rushed into tho jail office r and summoned Jailer Davies to court. Tho command was not obeyed and instead Chief Deputy SherifT Peters telephoned to the judge that two of tho men had been hanged and that f the executions would proceed unless a formal stay was prsented. No writ was issued and Sommerling and Schultz followed their companions in crime on the gallows. Representatives of tho State's attorney's office resisted attempt to delay tho executions and told Judge McKinley tba,t tho petition alleging insanity, which under the law is a bar to execution, was presented for the purpose of delay. This was hotly denkul by counsel for the condemned men and a wordy .altercation occupied tho minutes in v liich tho four wcro being prepared l'( r the gallows. Judge McKinley declined to permit tho petition to he l*iled until it had been read. The prosecutors insisted that tho petij lion, which was signed by Rev. Mr. " lteponski, was not in accord with tho I facts. Counsel for Thomas Jennings, a negro who was also to ho hanged Friday, while tho executions of the Cuilsow murderers were taking place wero arguing before Judge Landis that tho rights of their client had been invaded by tho introduction of linger print evidence in seeking to ^ convict him of tho murder of Clarence Hiller, a railroad official, whoso home the negro sought to rob. Argument on tho writ of habeas corpus was made before Judge Lantiis. Jennings' counsel declared that tho finger print evidence was inadmissable, because Jennings had been compelled to glvo tho print while ho ^ was in jail. The petition before Judge McKinley was signed by Rev. Francis Pap.onski of Saint Stanislaus' Roman Catholic church. The priest has vispod tho Guilsow murderers in their cells and declared that they were of unsound mind and subject to hallucinations. None of the four white men who * v?re hanged for the murder of Fred Cuilsow were over twenty-four years of age, and two others who were Involved In this crime escaped tho deserved fate of their fellows on account of their youth. Both were sent ro tho penitentiary for life. They wore Frank Kita and Leo Suchomski, each 1 6 years old. Cnnortw vuVir\ Ttfwl mflrrlorl n littlo more than a year, pleaded with his assailants to take his money, but to spare his life for the sake of his wife and month-old baby. Instead, his slayers attacked him with clubs, knives and revolvers. After they had killed him they mutilated his body. They were arrested while trying to *?< '1 OIulsow's horses, n The crime for which these four men paid tho extreme penalty was committed on the 20th of last October. All six wero found guilty on tho 12th of last December, but as above stated two were sent to the penitentiary for life on account of their youth. Every effort was made to keep them from being hung by their lawyers, but they could not p. i them. Thomas Jennings, tho negro who was hanged for murdering a railroad official, whoso house ho hart gone to rob, was thirty-two years of age. TTIs lawyers fought hard for him too, but they could not save him from tho consequences of his crime. Tie was the last of the five murderers to he hung. lie was executed a littlo after twelve o'clock. > ? ? Notice Must Be Given. Senator Young's bill "to require nil employeds of labor, who have the rlrrht t A rnn 111 rn n nntl/iA rt t nnrnnan 1 ih ii t l-w ? V>vju?? v t% v A. j/ vii i^vov to quit their employ from the operatives employed by them, to give notice of shutting down, passed to third reading In the house. The bill Imposes a fine of not more than $5,000 upon employers who fall to give such notice. r ' . -' JUMPS FROM A BRIDGE , HORSE IiEAl'S ON TRAIN AS W1IILK PASSING lTNDER. Itolled to Kdjje, Fell to tlie Ground, ? Scrambled to It# Feet and Ran Away. The unusual sight was witnessed , it Chattanooga, Tenn., some days igo, by the passengers and crew on \ train on the Cincinnati Southern Hallway, of a horse leaping from a bridge, alighting on top of a passenger coach while the train was running thirty-live miles an hour, falling to the ground, immediately scrambling to its feet and running nwiiy. The horse had been frightened by a Southern railway train and had taken to the concrete bridge which spans the tracks of the Cincinnati Southern. As the animal caine to the center of tho bridge, the Cincinnati train passed under tho structure at a rapid rate of speed. The frightened animal sprang far clear of the bridge, alighting squarely on his feet oil the roof of a coach. He staggered, about like a brakeman who had lost his balance, fell heavily to tho roof, rolled to the edge, and fell into space. As he went ho kicked the ventilators out of tho car, and in passing a window, on his way down, his feet crashed through the glass taking tho window out, sash and all. The train was stopped and backed to the spot where tho horse had fallen. Tho animal was lying as if dead when tho train crew reached him. Flagman J. It. Ford was first to reach tho prostrate animal, and was startled to see tho beast leap to Its feet and start to run. Apparently from the manner in which the horse made its get-away, it was none tho worse for its peculiar experience. The owner of the horse has not been located. ? TWO MORE DA KING THEFTS. + Daylight Robberies Seem to He Fashionable in New York. Recent highway robberies In crowded New York streets, of which Thursday's "Wild West" hold-up of a taxlcab and tho robbery of two bank messengers of $2f>,0 0 0 In cash, was tho most sensational In years, wero followed Friday and Friday night by othor hold-ups almost a? spectacular. In tbo last of these, reported Thursday night, George ITorth, a dealer in diamonds, was robbed by two men, who jumped from a taxlcab at Tiktry-fifth street and Fifth avenue. Horth was beaten over tho head by ono of the men, while the other snatched tho wallet from his Inside coat pocket. Tho men then jumped back into the taxlcab, which disappeared In the maze of Fifth avenue traffic. ITorth, his head showing severe contusions, reported his loss to the police. The earlier robbery occurred in the Bronx in broad daylight, when William Dougherty, messenger for a business firm, was attacked by a youth of 18, it is claimed, and robbed of $340, his firm's payroll, which ho was bringing from a bank. Tho robbery took place in a vacant lot and Dougherty's assailant escaped. Scores of business men and bankers niado application at police headquarters Friday for permits to carry revolvers. GIVEN UFAVY DAMAGES. Against tho Southern Boll Telephone Company. Tho State says tho jury In the case of Mrs. Minnie C. Dundy against the Southern Hell Telephone Company Friday rendered a verdict of $20,000 for the plaintiff. The caRO has consumed tho entire week of common pleas court for Richland county. It is rather peculiar that the verdict In tho same case when tried in 1910 was the same as rendered Friday. The defense appealed from tho previous verdict on '^ints of law and a new trial was r"anted. The suit was for $50,000 growing ' of tho death of Chas. Lundy in 1909 in the northern part of Columbia. Cha's. Lundy was the husband of Mrs. Minnie C. Lundy. Saved the Yeggmon. A punctured automobile tiro was worth $1,700 to yeggmen who robbed tho Argylo State bank near Denton, Tex., Thursday night. Tho tire delayed the arrival In Argyle of a sheriff's posse from Denton for about fifteen minutes, during whTck the robbers got away with their loot. Thoro is no trace of them as yet. ? ? Sawn Log Releases Rabbit. A partly hollow log, coated with ice and snow, was hauled by Charles Geschwindt, of Mohrsburg, Pa., five miles to his sawmill. As it was sawn in twain, out hopped an imprisoned rabbit, which escaped. ?i Dogs Kill Herd of Goats. A herd of valuable Angora goats, brought to this country some time - ... 1 Ta_ r? fr o n 1 .1 .a T1T|? ?6<J uy ur. vv. o. ueuuce, ui vviuchendon, Mass., was almost annihilated in an attack by dogs at night. Only one escaped alive. t AGREES TO RECESS ? SOUSE VOTES TO RECEDE INSTEAD OF ADJOURNING ID MEET AGAIN IN MAY . rho Concurrent Resolution to the Al>ov? Effect Met With Determined Opposition, Its Opponents Crying Politics, But It Passes by a Ma jorlty of Thirteen. The house voted Friday to take a recess from noon Saturday until May 28. The concurrent resolution to this effect passed the house hy a vore of 5 8 to 4 5. The resolution will bo considered by the senate today. It was introduced by the judiciary committee of the house. Members of the house advocated taking a recess on the grounds that the code should be corrected before it was adopted, and that the committee appointed to investigate the former State dispensary commission and others should be allowed an opportunity to report. The recess resolution was objected to because it would be inconvenient for the members of the house who were farmers to return in May. Opponents of the resolution raised the cry of "politics" against the measure, but they failed to defeat it, aitnongh a filibuster was instituted to prevent its passage. During the course of the debate on the recess resolution Mr. Osborne had something to say about Mr. Sawyer, who persisted in making remarks in an audible voice, while the Spartanburg member was speaking. Mr. Osborne said that Mr. Sawyer ' " ? 1 - - ** ~ 1 I-.? 4 1-. reminaea mm 01 a jumping-ja^*., "one of these things that bobi up when you pull n string and squeak when you pinch it." Mr. Stevenson stated that the judiciary committee was fully prepftred to assume the responsibility for recommending that a recess be taken until May. Ho called Mr. Moore's attention to the fact that the date of the proposed recon venement was nearly two weeks after the meeting of the Democratic convention. Mr. Stevenson said that tbo general assembly had appointed a committee to investigate the former State dispensary commission and others, directing this committeo to make a report, which would bo impossible unless tho general assembly recon-' vened. Tho governor, said Mr. Stevenson, after making certain charges, had held up tho bill appointing the investigating committeo last year, ana returned it this session, thus preventing tho investigation which ho had asked. The General Assembly had overridden tho executive veto and apponted a committee, which had not vet had time to make tho investigation. Tho committee should b* allowed to report, and this was one reason for taking a recess. Mr. Stevenson said that there was a chance to get the code checked up and printed at a lower cost, if tho general assembly would wait before adopting It. Mr. Stevenson declared that the governor had practically given notice that he intended to abrogate the contract to furnish J. M. Graham convict labor, unless the general assembly abolished the hosiery mill, which tho house had refused to do, and that steps would be taken to try to reach nn enuifablo agreement. Tills was another thing to consider at the recess session. The concurrent resolution was amended by Mr. Doar to provide that solicitors, clerks and attaches of tho general assembly should receive no compensation during the recess session. After accepting tho amendment of Mr. Doar, which provided that tho members of tho general assembly, the solicitors, clerks and other attaches should receive no compensation for services during the extra session, tho house sent tho concurrent resolution to tho senato by a voto of 5 8 to 4 5. How They Voted. Tho following members voted in favor of taking a recess: M. L. Smith, Arnold, Baskins, Bethea, Bowers, Bowman, Boyd, Brice, B. H. Brown, Browning, Butler, Cary, Chandler, Charles, W. I*. Daniel, Davis, Dick, Dobson, Drummond, Earlo, E. C. Sdwards, Isaac Edwards, Erckmann, Evans, Fultz, Graham, Hopkins, Porlbeek, Jackson, James, Ketchin, Klbler, Kirkland, Lee, 'McCravey, McDow McKeown, McQueen, Mansfield, Manuel, Meare3, Motto, Mower, Nicholson, Nunnery, Osborne, Pegues, Peoples, Beaves, Pearson, Singleton, Stevenson, Tison, Vander ITorst, Willis, Wingard, Wyche, You mans?5 8. The following members voted aerainst takine a recess: Ashley, Bailey, Beam guard, Bclser Bodie, T. P. Brown, Bryan, Connor, Courtney, J. M. Daniel, Doar, Gibort, Hamilton, Harris, Harrison, Mill, Hines, Hutto, Irby, Jones, KIrvin, League, Leland, Lengnick, Magtlt, Miller, Mims, Moore, W. P. Odom, Paulling, Polk, Riley, Bawycr, Saye, WWV';^ '7'yVW^' ' r r-'-.. w I ! < f . f f ' . SAYS HE IS BEST MAN | SENATOR HOKE SMITH DE- . CLARES FOR WILSON. A Master of Tariff Problem, He is Thoroughly Fitted to Carry the | Daaner of Democracy. Although he served with Judson y Harmon In President Cleveland's cabinet, Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia is of the opinion that Gov. Woodrow Wilson is by far the strongest candidate the Democratic party can nominate for president. In expressing himself in behalf of the nomination of the New Jersey executive. Senator Smith said recently: j "I'm for Gov. Wilson for no per- , sonal reason, but because I believe bis nomination and election will best servo tlio peoplo of the entire couu- ! try. ( "While ho was born in Virginia and spent a considerable portion of his boyhood and young manhood in Georgia, ho ts now a great national character. I can not believe that his birthplace will lessen his strength in any State. "To again lall to the presidency a man from the State of Washington and Jefferson will appeal to national patriotism Especially is this true when that man has unsurpassed capacity to help solve the present problems which concern the happiness and prosperity of all our people. "Gov. Wilson stands for sane progress, for a square deal, for justice to all, and at the same time for a gopernment of law under the constitution. "With the information gathered by a life of study fitting him peculiarly for public service he was called to the governorship of New Jersey. There ho demonstrated unsurpassed capacity to handle tlio practical affairs of government. He proved that a ripe scholar could possess rare executive ability. "Under his administration New Jersey has obtained pure election laws, intelligent regulations and supervisions of public service companies, legislation to promote the health and the educational progress of the people and many other measures of sim1 1 n f 11 %?/\ i'/~vf ti /\ ImrnoiAn h o n iiivi iiiu.uu;, ut ii yj in * univ;u iiao uuuu made of legitimate property rights. "The splendid reforms which ho led to Ruccessful completion aro !n lino with the work which will confront him as president. As the nomineo of the party ho can bo relied upon both by speech and pen to teach Democratic truths with a clearness which will carry conviction to his hearers and readers. He is a master of tho tariff problem. ITis speeches upon this subject aro models. He has captured an immense following throughout tho entire country." ?. . WANTS TO GIVE IT BACK. Says SI?e Will Restore Half Million of Stolen Money. A woman registered a ta Chicago hotel as Mrs. Theresa K. Batton of New York said Friday night that she is possessed of $500,000, which had been stolen and that sho is on her way from Reno, Nev., to New York to pay the money back to those from whom it had been taken. Mrs. Batten said she once had been the wife of David Rothschild, president and confessed wrecker of two New York banking institutions, who died in Sing Sing in 1 007. Sho said it was her purpose to restore the half million dollars to the depositors or these institutions, the Federal Bank of New York and the Globe Security Company The liabilities were upwa.rd of $2,000,000, she Raid, and that her understanding was that the receivers had already paid sixty cents on the dollar. Mrs. Batten said that she learned last November that she had been left the money. She is under the care of a physician and nurse. . TODD'S CLAIM NOT JAOGATi. ? Investigating Committee Says So in Its Deport. The house received Friday night tho report of tho special committee appointed to investigate tho Todd claim for $1.1,550 for preparing plans proposing to enlarge tho State house. Tho report of Ihe committee declares that A. W. Todd acted knowingly without authority of law In drawing up the plans for which ho demands payment and that his claim is not based on legal grounds. The report was orddVed printed in tho journal together with the stenographic copy of the voluminous testimony upon which it. is based. ? ? ? Negro Man Kills Himself. A negro man who has been in a drunken stupor for some days committed suicide near tho town of Hodges Friday night. Scott, C. T. Shuler, C. D. Smith, K. P. Smith, Stanley, Tobias, Todd, Turnbull, Vincent, Watson, Wells? 45. About nn hour aftor tho houso convened, Mr. Vander ITorst moved to take up tho joint resolution of tho judiciary committee providing for taking a recess from February 17 to May 23. KILLED GOV. GOEBEL" 1YING DECLARATION OF A MAN ! SLAIN IN ARKANSAS VO DETAILS ARE GIVEN rictim of Saloon Tragedy, Former llreathitt County Feudist, According to His Statement, With Irfist lircntli Declares He Took Life of Kentucky Governor, In <Joiu moon. That ho murdered Governor William Goebcl, of Kentucky, In cold blood, tit. Frankfort, in January, 1000, vras the dying declaration of James Gilbert, self-confessed gunman and ex-feudist of Breathitt County, Kentucky, who was fatally wounded in a pistol fight with a bartender at Helena, Ark., Thursday morning. No proof other than the man's last words were offered, nor did he relate any details of tho killing. The victim of periodical irregular habits of life, Gilbert came hero about throe years ago, and soon became known as a dangerous man, although under ordinary circumstances he was peaceable. One affray in which ho figured resulted in his opponent's death some timo ago, but Gilbert alleged self-dofence, and he was set at liberty. While under detention In connection with this affair, Gilbert's demeanor attracted tho marked attention of tho sheriff and his deputies, with tho result that he later accepted an appointment aa deputy sheriff. For months he was the terror of certain desperadoes, making periodical excursions into the community and performing deeds more famed for their daring than for their valor. Jt was early this week that Gilbert's return to irregular habits is said first, to have been noticed. On Wednesday night he engaged In a revolver battle with a stranger, but neither was injured, and a truce was established because of each man's having exhausted his ammunition. The affair was hushed up, in the hopo mat Uliocrt WOUUl return tu ma i 0^ular employment on the sheriff's deputy forco. The end came in a down-town saloon, when, for what was undoubtedly a fancied insult, ho whipped out his pistol, with the announcement that the bartender was doomed. The bartender was the quicker of the two and shot first. Gilbert sank to the floor, mortally wounded. Realizing that the end had como, Gilbert smiled faintly and after making an attempt to joke about dying in his boots, declared that ho fired the shot that caused tlio death of Governor Goebel. Whether he would have given details of his alleged killing of Goebel can never bo known, for Gilbert died within a few minutes after making the statement, which he repeated over and over again with the assertion that ho "could never get over it." ? CAMPAIGN MANAGER NAMED. o J, William Thurmond to Have Charge of Headquarters. J. William Thurmond of Edgefield has been selected by Ira B. Jones as manager of his campaign in the race for the governorship. Mr. Thurmond is well acquainted throughout South Carolina and has many friends. IIo is a well known attorney. Ho served in the house of representatives with Mr. Jones. He afterwards served for several terms as solicitor of the Fifth circuit. Mr. Jones has opened campaign headquarters in the Berkeley building on Washington street, and has gone to work in earnest for the ofilce of governor. He resigned as chief Justice of the supreme court 011 Tonnoi'v Q Tliiriniv 1 h r* nnvf several liuuuui; " ""O months Mr. Jones will visit several portions of the State. ? WOULD IJKEAK UP TRUSTS. ? Governor Wilson's Way of Penciling "the Interests.'* The best way tho "special interests" can defeat a candidato nowadays, said Woodrow Wilson, in an address at Concord, N. II., Thursday night, is to conio out in support of him. Tho New Jersey governor made this statement in support of his expressed belief that tho power of government was being taken from "machine politics and special interests" by tho people. Tie said tho real corporation offenders were hard to reach because they concealed themselves behind "dummies." Imprison a few of these 'dummies,' " declared the speaker, "and trafllc In dummies will cense." ? ? Train Hold Thirty Hours. Tlio train carrying Tyrone Powers and his theatrical company and 4(1 other passengers, which was stalled in tho snow on the New York Central raid road ten miles east of Oswego, was released at noon Monday after having been held 3 6 hours. Two big rotary snow plows had to tunnel through huge drifts to effect the res " ' t ? V* ' THREE BRAVE BANDITS STEAL A SMALL FORTUNE AND ESCAPE IN AUTO. Bobbers in New York Effect During Clean-up, Getting $25,000 in ? Broad Daylight. Twenty-five thousand dollars In currency was stolen from a taxlcab in the heart of the New York down town business aisiricu laursuay morning by three progressive highwaymen, who sprang into the vehicle and overpowered W. P. Smith and Frank Wardell, messengers of the East River National bank, 680 Broadway. Both messengers were badly injured and the robbers escaped with the money?$15,000 in $5 bills and $10,000 in $100 bills. The currency was being transported from tlia Produce Exchange Bank, in tho lower part of tho city. The taxicab had proceeded up Broadway without mishap when, for some unexplained reason, the chauffeur turned west on Rector street into Church street, skirting the sldo and rear of Trinity churchyard. About midway of tho old cemetery three men sprang from tho church. One jumped on tho chauffeur's seat, tho two others got into the vehicle. Tho man on tho scat pressed a revolver, in his overcoat pocket, against the side of tho chauffeur, Gina Martino, and commanded him to drive swiftly on without making an outcry. Inside tho vehicle tho two robbers wore belaboring the bank messengers over tho head. Smith, one of tho messengers, is G1 years old, and ho was bleeding and almost unconscious when tho taxicab reacher Park place, a few blocks north. Wardell was badly beaten about tho head, but not seriously hurt. At Park place, tho highwaymen jumped from tho taxicab, hearing a tin dox, wnicn tney nail wresieu uum the messengers and which contained the currency. In a flash they had sprung into a big black automobile, which seemed to bo awaiting their coming, and were quickly lost in the maze of tralllc. liAUOK ENDORSE WILSON. Now Jersey State Federation Approved His Course. Officers and members of the executive board of tho New Jersey Stato Federation of Labor, called upon Governor Wootlrow Wilson Wednesday at Trenton and discussed pending legislation in which labor organizations wero interested. Later tho federation representatives adopted a resolution endorsing tho governor's attitude with respect to organized workers. Tho preamble sets out tho "Information has reached the workers of New Jersey that efforts aro being made to place his excellency, Gov. Wilson, In a falso position as to his attitude toward organized labor." Sixteen laws passed in 1911 and signed by Gov. Wilson, aro then cited as being of vital interest to wage-earners. .? ? LEFT HIM I5Y A FRIEND. ? ? Anderson Druggist Inherits Ono Thousand Dollars. Blair Clayton, an Anderson druggist, Monday received notice from Coldwater, Micli., of a bequest of one thousand dollars, left him by an old travelling salesman, James Walker, who died in Michigan a day or so ago. Mr. Walker, in years past, came to Anderson frequently, selling crockery ware, and on these trips ho took a fancy to Mr. Clayton, which is responsible for the bequest. The notice of tho bequest stated that Mr. Crayton received tho same amount of money as did the several brothers of tho deceased man. ? URGES NOMINATION OF CLARK. + Missouri Congressman Issues Statement to This End. Tho Missouri congressional delegation issued a statement today setting forth Speaker Clark's public record and urging him as a candidate for tho democratic presidential nomination. The statement declares Missouri's united democracy is behind , the speaker. The statement recited , how, as a leader of a hopeless minority, Clark brought about democratic unity, how "his commanding genius" gained support of the repub( lica.ii insurgents and how to his fight, which with other democrats he carried before country wo must In , part ascribe tho democratic victory I , in 1910." | Fifteen Forced to ltcsign. I Fifteen midshipmen of tho fourth I i class of tho Naval Academy failed In I I tho semi-annual examinations and I I were forced to resign. Tho navy do- J partment formally accepted the res- I ignatlons and the delinquents left I ' the institution. Sidney W. Klrkl&nd I ? and Donald ft. Fitch, of Louisiana, I I and Clarence E. Deachampa, ef South I > Carolina, are Included in thoee wh# I realgmed. I