The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 21, 1912, Image 4
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THREE ARE LYNCHED
| SCORE OF MEN WREAK VENGEANCE
ON PRISONERS.
FOR USING THE TORCH
On Way From Olar, Scone of Attempted
Incendiarism, Trio of
Confessed Negro Firebugs Meet
Dcntli at Hands of Mob, Made !"]>
of Hantberg County Men.
Throe negroes in charge of two
constables on their way from Olar to
Eamberg to be lodged in the county
jail were taken from the oflicers by
a mob at Odom's bridge, seven miles
from Olar, and shot to pieces Wednesday
afternoon. The mob of 75
ft 100 men surprised the two constables
and quickly securing the
three negroes finished their work i 11
short order. The negroes are: Alfred
Dublin, 25 years of age; Richard
Dublin, MO years of age, and
Peter Rivers, -10 years of age.
All three of the negroes had confessed
to attempting to burn the
house of J. E. Cook, mayor of Olar,
early Tuesday morning. On February
21 a destructive fire occurred
in the business part of the town, resulting
in much loss.
A fortunate circumstance prevented
Mr. Cook's house from sacrifice
to the flames. Py the merest chance
he came from his house to the porch
Tuesday morning about 5: MO o'clock,
lie was surprised at a glow coming
apparently from beneath the floor
and on investigation found a pile of
"fat" splinters burning and an empty
bottle that had contained the oil
used to start the fire. With several
buckets of * water he was table to extinguish
the blaze before serious
damage had occurred.
A rigid investigation followed the
attempt to burn the mayor's house.
3n view of the fact that indications
at the February fire pointed to incendiary
origin, the search was even
more determined than might otherwise
have been the ca?c. Rloodliounds
were used in the pursuit, but
to little avail. One negro was ar
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the other two Wednesday. Without
being allowed to see or com munirate
with one another they were
closely questioned and finally confessed,
the three telling tlie same
story.
All three arc known locally as
"bad" negroes. All had had trouble
with Mr. Cook. Peter Rivers had
been convicted of illegally selling
whiskey and Mr. Cook, as mayor,
bad fined him $100. The two Dublin
negroes had been discharged
from the employ of Mr. Cook.
The negroes were held In the
guard house at Olar until the confessions
were obtained and then it
was decided to send them to the
county jail at Bamberg. Two constables
started that afternoon about
3 o'clock on the J 2-mile journey
with their prisoners. Olar was in a
state of comparative quiet prior to
the departure of the officers with
their prisoners and no violence was
anticipated although the necessity
for a speedy trial had been appreciated
by a number of citi/.ons and
such a request had been communicated
to the solicitor.
Just what happened when seven
miles of tho trip had been safely
traveled is more or less conjecture.
It is only positively known that at
Odom's bridge a determined crowd,
nuniborng from 75 to 100 men, dispatched
the three "fire-bugs," using
bullets as the means of execution.
Sheriff Hunter of Barnher county
paid over (lie long distance telephone
from his home at Bamberg that he
was advised of the arrest of tho
three negroes and was about to start
for Olnr when he was advised that
the negroes were already on the way
to 'Bamberg. He then abandoned
the journey and shortly afterwards
was notified of the lynching by Magistrate
O. .1. C. Lane. A deputy sheriff
had gone to Olar but did not travel
the road used by the Olar officers
and arrived there after the lynching
at Odom's bridge. Sheriff Hunter
and the solicitor will go to Olar for
an Investigation.
UK.YSOX KOU HACK SUICIDK.
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Selfishness Prevents the Hearing of
the Little Ones.
"If one thinks race perpetuation
brings too many hardships and is too
much of a sacrifice, go to mother and
ask if she thinks you a burden."
That is the suggestion that C. R,
Hisliop, general secretary of the Y
M. C. A., made in a speech before the
Association at Kansas City Mondav
night. "I will answer all the arguments
in favor of race suicide," Mr
Bishop said. "The whole truth and
eolc reason is selfishness." And Mr
Phillips lilts the nail on the head too
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According to tho Peking correspondent
of The Daily Mail, London
reports have reached the Chinese
i capital that the eastern part of the
city of Canton has been burned an<!
sacked br disbanded soldiers
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BALKED AT DARINK HERO
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MESSENGER OX SOUTHERN l'ACiEIO
KI LliS BANDITS.
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Drained His Captor and Shot the
Other?All the Property Stolen by
the llold-Up Outlaws Recovered.
An express messenger, David A.
Trousdale, balked the robbery of a
Southern Pacific train near Sanderson,
Texas, early Wednesday, when
he trapped two highwaymen who had
held up the train and killed them.
The robbers boarded the train, No.
1), west-bound, a few miles east of
Sanderson. The mail and express
cars and the locomotive were detached
from the passenger coaches.
Then the engineer, under cover of
the robbers' guns, was compelled to
run the two or three coaches ahead
of the remainder of the train. One
of the robbers took the express messenger,
Trousdale, back to the train
and kept him under guard while the
other robber covered the crew in
the cars ahead and started to rifle
the safe and express boxes.
Trousdale is said to have employed
the old ruse of signalling to an imaginary
uerson back of . his captor.
When the robber turned Trousdale
grasped a mallet and before tlie high- i
waymnn could shoot, ho dashed out
his brains.
Then arming himself with the dead
man's gun, Trousdale waited for the
return of the other bandit. After he
had rifled the express boxes the second
highwayman came back to the
| conches. Stepping from cover,
Trousdale killed him. All of the
stolen property was recovered and
the train proceeded.
Trousdale is a young man, recently
promoted to the express run. lie
lives in San Antonio. The bodies of
the robbers were taken to Sanderson.
They are unidentified.
At Dryden shortly after midnight
where the robbers got aboard the i
engine covering Engineer Grosh and
the fireman with pistols, they told
the engineer to keep moving and
stop train over the first iron bridge
west of Eldridge, about 10 miles i
frcm Dryden. When the train
stopped Conductor Erkel sent the
porter, a negro, forward to see what
was the matter and when the porter
failed to return lie himself went forward
only to be confronted with
Winchesters.
The engineer was brought back to
the side of the mail car, and Messenger
Trousdale and Mail Clerk
Hanks were made to get out upon
the ground. After debating a few
minutes the robbers made the whole
crew assist in cutting train in two
and moving the engine, mail and ex"
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press cars xorwara a snort uisiunuu.
The express messenger and mail
clerk were by this time rifling their
respective cars at the point of guns
and under threats of instant death.
Conductor Erckel, hearing a train
in the distant rear, went hack and
had the train, a freight, stopped.
From this lie put up the telephone
always carried on trains and summoned
ofllcers from Sanderson.
By this time the robbers had driven
the train half a mile, westward
and stopped around a curve. It was
here that Trousdale rose to the occasion.
To the robbers he feigned
to take the affair with apparent good
nature and especially he seemed the
most docile sort of catspaw for the
robher who stood over him compelling
him to rifle packages and boxes.
Then just for a fleeting instant the
bandit took his eyes off Trousdale
and the next moment he was in eternity.
Trousdale had seized a big
mallet and brained him, striking a
crushing blow upon the side of the
head.
As the man lay inert, Trousdale
took up the six-shooter which had
clattered loudly to the floor and
crouched near the wall of the car,
waiting for tho attack he knew
would eonio. lie waited a long time,
it seemed, for the man up in the engine
had confldece in the other outlaw's
ability. Growing uneasy, tho
engine guard jumped quickly from
the cab, released the engineer and
ran back to tho express car.
Trousdale barely heard his footstops
before the robber had rushed
half way into tho car. One shot was
Trniisdale then ouletly in
formed those of the crew waiting
outside in the darkness that the holdup
"was over."
Trousdale Is a Tennesscan, having
gone to San Antonio seven years ago
when he entered the Well-Fargo employ.
At Sanderson where the county
authorities took charge of the bandits'
bodies, they were still unidentified
up to a late hour Wednesday.
So far as known there is no reason
to connect the attempted hold-up
' with any recent border disturbances.
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Property fluctuates considerably in
. value within the space oftentimes of
I a few weeks. When the assessor
. comes around values depreciate to a
. marvelous extent and they soar just
as marvelously when a prospective
buyer comes along.
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Aviator Killed.
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? Horr Witte, an aviator, was killed
) when his Wright bi-plano collapsed.
L: He was dashed to earth in the vijcinlty
of Tctlow, Germany.
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WANT A NEW PARTY
TEDDY TRYING TO BREAK DP THE
REPUBLICAN GANG
THIS SEEMS HIS liAME
Should Tuft and Roosevelt Rotli lie
llptttcn (lie Republicans Would (?'<>
to Pieces and Then Roosevelt
Would Start Xow Party of His
Own and Try to lie Elected.
"Yes, lie's in bad. lie played the
wrong card. Nothing doin' this year
Tor Teddy."
The speaker was ail intelligent
looking man of perhaps 00, 011 an
elevator in the Munsey building at
Washington, where the Roosevelt
committee has its Washington headquarters.
"No, I guess he won't do much,"
said the man addressed, of about the
same age and bearing. "I don't
think he can get tlie nomination."
"Oh,. I hope he does. 1 hope he
does," said the other. "I'd be de
lighted to see hi 111 get it, for it would
help us more than anything else tho
Republican party could do."
At this point- a newspaper correspondent
remarked: "I perceive that'
you are a Democrat."
"You bet your life," said the first
speaker. "And I'd just love to see
'em nominate Teddy. lie would just
have the earth wiped up with himself.
It would be a lino thing for the
Democrats."
Others in tho car smiled assent to
I the remarks of the Democrat who
was anxious to see Teddy nominated.
"Rut there's one thing about it.
After it's all over, Teddy can sit back
and laugh in his sleeve over one
thing. That is this: lie broke up
I the Republican party. Yes, sir; that's
j what ho is doing, and he will finish
the job.
"But that isn't all. lie will be
beaten, and Taft will be -beaten, and
Hie Republican party will bo practically
annihilated. But about eight
cr twelve years from now, Roosevelt
v ill bob up at the head of a new
party, it will nominate him for the
presidency, and he will be elected.
We are young enough to see it, unless
we drop off before our time.
Now you just mark my words."
And then the door of the building
was reached, and the party of elevator
companions went their several
ways into the streets.
There are people in Washington
who believe that this will bo the final
game of Theodore Roosevelt. They
cannot see how he can possibly defeat
Taft for the Republican nomination,
hut, if this should occur, it
is hard to see how, with the Taft following
and the LaFollette following,
and other factious of the Republican
party alienated, he can bo elected.
His nomination, they declare, will be
a calamity for the Republican party,
and lie will go down with it.
With this view in mind, it is recalled
that very recently Mr. Roosevelt
declared that he would not be a
candidate in 19 12, and that 'Mr. LaFollette
declares that Mr. Roosevelt
assured him that lie would not be a
candidate. It is generally believed
that LaFoIlette is telling the truth
when lie says that Roosevelt assured
him that he (LaFollette) was the
proper man to lead the progressives,
and that 110 one else could make so
good a showing; and added that his
influence and good wishes were with
the Wisconsin senator.
The opinion among (hose who hold
these views is that Mr. Roosevelt
meant what ho said to LaFollette,
but that he discovered that LaFollette
was gaining ground so rapidly
that there was danger of his nomination.
This the colonel had never anticipated,
and he was not willing that
anyone else should he the progressive
nominee. Ills plan was to wait
until the end of Taft's second administration,
and then, taking the progressive
party which LaFollette had
formed and led, to secure its nomination
for the presidency, and thus
go dcwn in history as the successful
leader of a groat third party, built
upon the ruins of the Republican
party. In this way ho would take
rank in-history as of a mould with
Lincoln, the first great Republican
leader.
Rut LaFollette was about to overthrow
the Taft administration ir
10*12, and it became necessary foi
the great third party leader to take
care that his plan was not taken ovei
by LaFollette. This had to be prevented
by getting the nomination
himself, or at least preventing La
Follette from mixing things by got
ting it too soon. So ho jumped in
and is in the fight to a finish, eithoi
to get tlie nomination now, or to sc<
that-no other progressive gets it ovei
1 him.
This is merely one of the nurner
ous phases of opinion concorninj
Roosevelt, "the wizard."
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Push! Push! It is Just the wort
for the grand, clear morning of life
It is just the word for strong armi
and young hearts; it is just the wore
for a world that is full of work a
this is. If anybody is in trouble, an<
you see H, don't stand back, push!
THAT FELDER BOOK
UICV. JOHN L. HARLEY SAYS HE
1IAS HEAD T11E STOHY.
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Ho Says the Hook Contains Some Hot
St nil' and Will He ltoad With Croat
Interest.
The Florence Times says there has
been considerable talk In the State
about the book that Mr. Tom Felder
of Atlanta is said to have written
and a great many people have come
to the conclusion that he was a bluff
and they wore indisposed to pay any
attention to the stories of the man
from Atlanta. The Times reporter
has several times been told of
the book that Mr. Felder lias but
always under the seal of secrecy but
recently it has come to the paper in
a way that the reporter feels itt liberty
to use} that Rev. J. L. Harley,
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one oi nit; mo.si rename men 1x1 uie
state, lias seen the book and read
enough of it to make him sick.
He has recently been in this section
of the State and lie had told a
number of people of his reading of |
tho book in the office of Mr. Felder,
and that lie really does not believe
that Cole L. Blease will be a candidate
for the governorship when this
book comes out. It has been prepared
for use as an official document,
and can be used in no other way
without giving the best opportunity
in the world for prosecution lor criminal
lible.
It is understood that the commission
could not use the evidence that
they had against the governor, both
as a senator from Newberry county
and in other ways, but that in an
investigating commission the story
as Mr. Felder has it can be used,
an ft i.Mr. Ilarley says that it is the
red hottest thing that ever was put
into a book.
It is also understood from several
sounccs, but none of them what
might be called official, but the story
Is told 111 places that ought to he informed
that Detective W. J. Burns,
the greatest detective on earh lias
been trailing tlie governor, and that
his report may possibly constitute a
part of the evidence that is to do
submitted to the committe of inquiry
in this investigation.
It is thought that this book and the
stories therein contained, will be a
part of the testimony given by Mr.
Thomas Folder at the investigation
to-day. The story of the presence
and work of Detective Hums in this
State as the shadow of Cole L#. Blease
has been told to the Times twice under
the seal of "swear you wont tell,"
and once without that restriction,
which removes all of the restrictions.
If the attorney general or Mr. W.
P. Stevenson, or any of the others
who have been active in this matter
in Columbia know anything about
this matter they are as close as
clams and it. is impossible to get any
thing at all from them. If Mr. Fel- 1
der has been working on these lines
he has been doing it at his own instance
and not at the instances of
the winding up commission, as seems
very plain fiom these attempts to
get " a line on the Burns story."
It is then unquestioned that Mr.
Felder lias a book and that it is a i
red hot book, and that it does tell
things on the governor, but that doe3
not make the things that are told as
sound as evidence in the court room.
It is expected that Mr. Felder will be
in Columbia to-day and that bis evidence
will be most highly sensational.
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