The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 28, 1912, Image 5
IT DEALS OUT DEATH
ENGINE BOILER BURSTS WITH A
TERRIFIC FORCE
SNUFFS OUT MANY LIVES
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Many Bodies Were Mangled Beyond
All Chance of Identification?
Most of the Dead Were Strike\
breakers?No Indication That Dynamite
Was Used Has Appeared.
With a force which crushed at
least twenty-live human beings to
death as easily as if they had been
ants and which leveled walls and
wrecked buildings for a radius of
^ three blocks, a Southern Pacific lo_
comotive boiler exploded in the South
Pacific yards at San Antonio, Texas,
011 Monday.
Eighteen bodies had been recovered
from the wreckage within two
hours after the explosion and more
were being removed constantly while
nearby stores and buildings were filled
with the injured. Probably the
first one of the dead to be identified
was Walter Jourdan, an engineer
* who was in the cab when the locomotive
exploded.
The army hospital corps there was
rushed to the yards and police, ambulances
and Y. M. C. A. workers
* were organized into rescue bands to
dig out the dead and to try to save
the fast ebbing lives of the wounded.
So mangled were some victims that
seemed no hope of gathering the
fragments of their bodies together.
Strikebreakers have been employed
at the Southern Pacific shops at
San Antonio since the shopmen's
strike began several months ago. After
the explosion rumors in the
downtown section of San Antonio
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but investigation at the yards showed
no indication that such rumors had
started, or were believed there.
The victims were said to be largely
men who had been employed as
strikebreakers. San Antonio has
been practically free from violence
^ throughout the strike. The men at
J work in the shops were in the majorJ
ity of cases from out of the city, being
brought there by Southern Pa.
ciHe when the strike started.
The locomotive was standing in
the yards near the shops and the explosion
came without warning. Parts
of the round house collapsed and
several small buildings in the shops'
enclosure were wrecked, including
^ part of the machine shops. Engines
in the round house were smashed
as if hit with huge mallets. The
round house caught fire for a time.
The locomotive boiler was blown
three blocks. The roundhouse and
the men working in them were hurt
by falling walls. The half ton jacket
of the exploded locomotive boiler
^ dropped between two houses on Duval
street, while the tender was catapulted
several hundred feet and
twisted into a big shapeless chunk
of steel.
Windows were blown for many
.blocks and the entire city felt the
jar. Wild confusion followed the
explosion, despite an almost paralyzing
horror caused by the condition
4) of many of the dead. Fragments
of bodies were picked up for blocks
around the shop yards. Bodies and
parts of bodies were dragged out of
the wreckage in the immediate vicinity
of the explosion.
I Engineer Walter Jourdan was oiling
about the locomotive. His body
was blown to fragments. It is said
there was not even a hiss from the
pop valve to denote the boiler was
overcharged.
The exploded engine was Number
70 4. The locomotive was very nearly
in the middle of the square of
shops. It crushed one of the black,
smith shops, knocked off a corner of
the round house and lifted the roof
of that structure. The boiler shop
^ was unroofed.
Portions of the locomotive machinery
were hurled to an incredible
height into the air and rained in bits
of steel over the adjacent buildings.
Some of those fragments were big,
r tearing jagged holes in the roofs.
The bed plate and drivers seemed
to escape the Impact for they stood
meekly near their original position
but the tender was wrenched loose
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from its coupling ana snoi uuwu mt
track for 150 foot, where it rlccochottod
against another engine and
was wrecked.
Inside the machine and blacksmith
shops workmen never knew whal
happened. More than fourteen ir
that building were dismembered
portions of trunks, torsos or limbs
being found battered in crevices ir
the roof sides or in tangles in ma
chinery. A great portion of the wal
fell inward, burying a dozen. A
\ noon workmen were digging at tin
ruins.
Robert IT. Lipscomb, foreman o
the shops and a brother of City A1
derman J. A. Lipscomb, was picket
from his feet, hurled thirty feet ant
rose, semi-conscious, grasping in hi
hand the hat of a dead man.
Discussing our official's manner o
discharging his duties is not abuse
as some people seem to think.
BLEASE IS FOR HARMON
WANT TO CONTROL STATE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
So As to Elect Delegates to the National
Convention Who Will Vote
for the Ohio Governor.
That the Democratic State Convention
on May 15 is going to be the
first test of strength between the
Blease and Jones forces in the latter
class being included all the AntiBleasites?is
evident and that Governor
Blease fully realizes this is also
certain.
The Democratic clubs aro the first
to meet, and they elect delegates to
the county conventions, which in
turn choose the delegates to the State
Mnnimiiti/in Uaall'/inor t hn im twirl
V Uil ? Cll tivy II , v^v >* r w. v
ance of beginning at the bottom, and
lining up his forces in the first skirmish,
tlio Governor is urging his
friends to attend the club meetings
and see that they aro represented in
tho county conventions. He stated
this in his recent speech at Union.
The idea of Blease, of course, is
to elect delegates to tho State Convention
which will insure the Bleaseites
dominating it and electing such
a delegation as the Governor approves,
which would be a Harmon
delegation, to tho National Democratic
Convention at Baltimore.
But Governor Please, shrewd politician
and veteran campaign malinger
that he is, is going to have tho
fight of his life when he undertakes
to stem the onrushing Wilson tide in
South Carolina.
It is safe to say that the New Jersey
Governor is the choice of the
overwhelming majority of the voters
of this State for tho Presidency and
that a delegation instructed for him
will be sent to tho Baltimore Convention.
Governor Wilson's candidacy Is increasing
in strength and favor with
South Carolinians and the attempt to
stem the Wilson tido will be about
equal to an effort to dam a raging
torrent.
OBJECT JJSSSON FOB FAKMERS.
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Colonel Banks Ship a Carload of Fine
Steers.
The Calhoun Advance says:
"Some time ago we noted the fact
that Col. J. A. Banks had received
seven car loads of cattle from North
Carolina to feed. Bast week he
shipped them to market after feeding
them several months. It was an
unusual sight to see so many nico
fat steers driven through town and it
created considerable comment.
"In round numbers the cattle sold
after fattened for $3,000, more than
what was paid for them, but it cost
$3,000 to fatten them, making the
fertilizer from the feeding cost about
$2,000. If as experts say you get
back in manure about 80 per cent, of
what you feed, then there is a profit
of $2,00 0 in feeding such a number
of cattle.
The Advance truly says "more of
our citizens might investigate this
method of handling cattle, and we
are sure the Colonel would take
pleasure, as he always does, in giving
them the benefit of his experience
with them, and if found profitable
many acres of land now idle
could be used and built up by this
method." Mr. R. F. Dukes, near
Orangeburg, has also fed and shipped
steers to market at a good profit.
TRAIN CRASHES INTO SCURFY.
Five Men Killed While Going Home
From Theater.
Five men in. a surrey were killed
outright by a passenger train on the
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville
railroad at a crossing near Ellettstrnirt
t?wi nnriv Tnp?dfiv. Thcv had
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spent Monday evening at a theater
at Bloomington and were driving to
Spencer, where they were employed
as glass blowers. The engine struck
the surrey squarely and splintered it.
' Four of tho men were thrown clear
1 of the track, but the body of Martin
Worden was caught by the pilot of
1 the locomotive and carried a mile and
a half to that city. Trainmen went
back to tho crossing and found the
' torn bodies of Worden's companions.
The two horses hitched to tho surrey
! were not hurt.
MANY STARVE TO DKATIf.
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, Population of Small Fishing Village
Are Victims.
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It is learned at St. Petersburg, |
? Russia, that the entire population of
i a small fishing village in Nova Zem
bla, is dead of starvation. The cem]
etery is full showing that tho few
t dead persons who were found unln?
terred had buried those who died
first. The vessel which was to take
f food supplies to the village was held
- fast by the ice for months and when
1 ir got through the people for whom
1 the food was destined were dead,
s The minister of tho interior notified
tho cabinet that he would ask for a
further sum for tho roliof of starvf
ing peasants In various parts of the
!, empire. This will bring the total sum
expended thus far up to $03,000,000.
TORE OFFTHE MASK
THE WICKEDNESS OF FOUR MONKS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
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PLUNDERED THE CHURCH
Murder, Sacrilege, Robbery and Cutting
I'p High Jinks With Had Women
Are Among the Crimes Charged
to the Account of the Four
Hypocritical Monks.
Murder, sacrilege, robbery and disgraceful
living are some of the
charges which four monks have been
called upon to answer at Petsikov,
Poland, where an extraordinary trial
is in progress. The prisoners are:
Fathers Damazy, Macocn, isasu uiesinski,
and I sudor Starezewski, and
with them in the dock appeared a
former telephone girl named Helena
Alacoch, whose husband is alleged to
have been murdered by Father Damazy.
He was head of the famous convent
at Czenstochowa, between Warsaw
and Vienna, where a much-venerated
image of the virgin attracted a quarter
of a million pilgrims annually.
This image of the virgin was studded
with priceless jewels, and it is said
that the monks substituted imitations
for the real gems. To prevent
discovery of this crime, Father Damazy
confessed to having murdered Vaclac
Macoch, his cousin, who might
have betrayed the plot.
The first trace of th? crime was the
discovery near the convent of a lady's
small bag, which had evidently been
lost, containing some of the stolen
jewels. Subsequently, a sofa with a
man's corpse inside it, was taken
from the local river. For months
the Russian police were baffled. The
mutilated body had been sewed up
in matting with several numbers on
it. These an experienced railway official
recognized as the numbers used
on the Warsaw-Vienna railway.
The waybill was turned up and
showed that a package with those
numbers had been sent to the convent,
but still it did not occur to anybody
to suppose the monks were connected
with the mysterious discovery.
The mystery might have re'""ino'l
nm> fnrovor }?llt fnr il stni'V
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tohl by a drunken cabman, who had
helped carry the sofa from the convent.
But the driver got drunk from
the money procured from the monks
and told some companions of his adventure,
which was duly communicated
to the police.
Father Damazy was arrested and
he confessed that his conscience was
burdened with the robbery as well
as the murder, lie stated that for
more than ten years the most riotous
life had been led by the monks, who,
while the faithful were praying in
the church, used to squaunder the
church's treasure in their orgies and
excesses. Drunkenness, card-playing
and the visits of women were the
order Of the day.
Damazy confessed that it was he
who had removed all the jewels from
the virgin's crown. They were sold
through his cousin, Vaclac Macoch,
and also the latter's wife. Eight
years ago Father Damazy saw her as
a pilgrim in the church and took her
to his cell. He afterwards married
her to his cousin. His relations with
her, however, did not cease, but he
furushed a flat for her at Warsaw
with magnificence and her banking
account showed a balance of $17,.r>00.
After the discovery in 1909 that
the church had been robbed, Vaclac
Macoch went to the cloister and made
representations to Father Damazy,
who, according to the latter's statement,
made him drink wine until he
fell asleep. Then the father fetched
an ax and struck his cousin's head
with it several times. When the un
fortunate man partly rugHiut-u tuusciousness
the monk, in cold blood,
gave him absolution, and then with
his hands strangled him.
When the pope heard of the robbery
he gave $5,000 for the readornment
of the virgin's crown; but on
earning of the murder he pronounced
the great excommunication on Damazy
Macoch and had him unfrocked.
On the other monks of Czenstochowa
he has imposed several months' fasting
and praying and forbidden them
to take any part in tho service of the
church. He also immediately sent a
delegate to close the church.
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Earned Their Pardon.
Because Charlie Ferris and Peter
(Haze, two white convicts at the Augusta
stockade, risked their lives saving
Mr. Andrew J. Barnes and his son
from drowning in tho recent flood,
Mayor Barrett, has granted tho men
full pardons. Both were serving
short terms for minor infractions of
tho law.
Papa and Fourteen Sons.
Tn columns or two, fourteen youuis
ranging in ago from six to sixteen
years, filed into the lobby of a Den\er
hotel Saturday. A stout man who
brought up the rear went to the
desk. "All mine," ho said to the
clerk, "and are thirteen more back
in CJoodland, Kan." Ho wrote-"Nathan
Alexander" on tho register.
A HUGE COTTON CROP |
THE TOTAL EXCEEDS SIXTEEN
MILLION HALES.
Nearly One and a Half Million Bales
More Than Experts Estimated it j
Would He in December.
The census bureau's preliminary (
report on cotton ginning, giving the
government's first figures, other than
estimates, on the size of the 1911
cotton crop of the United States was
Issued at ten o'clock Wednesday
morning, and shows the total crop to
have reached the unprecedented size
of 16,050,819 running bales, counting
round us half bales and including y
linters, which is equivalent to 16,- t
205,097 500-pound bales.
The crop reporting board of the
department of agriculture, in its es- 1
timato of the 19 11 cotton crop, is- 1
sued December 11 last, reckoned the i
total production at 14,885,000 bales I
of 500 pounds, gross weight. The I
country's 1910 production was 12,- i
005,088 bales of 500 pounds. In ;
previous record years the total crop
was 13,587,306 bales in 1908, 13,595,498
n 1906 and 13,679,954 bales
in 1 904. i
Included in the figures for 1911
fire 239,1 46 bales, which ginners and
delinters estimated would be turned
out after the time of the March canvass.
Round bales included in the ]
1911 figures are 100,3 9 bales, compared
with 1 1 2,887 bfiles for 1910 i
and 150,090 bales ror iyuu.
The average gros3 weight of the
bale for the crop, counting round as .
half bales and including linters, was
504.8 pounds for 1911, compared
with 501.7 pounds for 1910 and 496.6
ounds for 1 909. The number of ginneries
operated for the 1911 crop
was 26,340 compared with 26,234 for i
1910 and 26,669 for 1909. ,
By states tho cotton crop grown
in 1911, with that grown in 1910
and the big crop years of 1 908 and <
1906, expressed in equivalent 500pound
bales, follows.
Alabama.
1 91 1 1,753,4 84 1
91 0 1,223,285
1 908 1,374,34 0 ;
1 906 791,311
Arkansas.
1911.. . 1 791,311
191 0 848,874
1 908 1,013,402
1 906 923,635
Florida.
1 91 1 8 4,9 7 7
1 910 60,049
1908 63,221
1906 57,133 (
Georgia.
1 91 1 2,838,571
1 91 0 1,820,610
1908 1,980,077
1906 1,626,330
Louisiana.
1 91 1 3 99,525
1 91 0 255,733
1 908 4 8 6,350
1 906 .1,012,573
Mississippi.
1911 1,248,521
1910 1,306,668
1 908 1,306,668
1906 1,569,530
Missouri.
101 0 62,1 59
1008 64,682
1006 56,4 72
North Carolina.
101 1 1,101,104
1 01 0 72 6,850
1008 663,1 67
1 006 594,3S7
Oklahoma.
1 01 1 1,06 0.13 8
1010 058,955
1008 706,815
1 006 018,375
South Carolina.
1 01 1 1,677,204
1010 1,1 0 1,0 20
1 008 1,1 05,235
1 006 805,130
Tennessee.
1 011 478,2S5
1 01 0 3 4 0,4 76
1908 359,859
1 906 317,641
Texas
1 01 1 4,427,285
1 01 0 3,1 72,488
1 008 3,01 3,084
1 006 4,281,824
Virginia.
101 0 14,815
1 008 12,326
1006 13,862
All Other States.
1011 15 4.137
loio 8, n 11
1 908 5,489
1 900 4,028
The statistics of Wednesday's report.
for the year 1911 are subject
to slight corrections in the full report
to l)e published about May 1.
The 1911 report for Virginia and
Missouri are Included in the report
of "All Other States."
Tjurgest Cargo Out of Mobile.
The Rritish steamship Mercian
cleared from Mobile Wednesday for
Liverpool with 14,000 square bales
of cotton, the largest cargo ever taken
out of that port. Its value was
$7 G7,000.
Hang Him From Tank.
! TTenry Lee, a negro, was banged to
a water tank near Mer Rouge early
Tuesday. Saturday night Loo in'1
suited a man and fired into a party
returning from an entertainment. '
MMimi nirjataffg T ?-f rWfiatfifgfflTn ""nl ' HBMBS
FIGHT IN A COURT
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TWO LAWERS CAME TO BLOWS IN
TRIAL OF A CASE
\ FREE FIGHT FOLLOWS
Hstrict Attorney Adams, Counsel for
the Defense Lionel Adams, Sturjies
Adams, llrother of District Attorney
Adams, and I>r. Gustavo Mann.
ICxpert Witness, Take a llaml.
A dispatch from New Orleans says
Wednesday, the eighth day of the
rial of Annlo Crawford ended in a
dot in the packed court room, when
donel Adams, who is one of the Atorneys
defending her on a charge of
nurdering her sister Elise, struck
District Attorney St. Clair Adams in
lie face, after the renewal of a
ourt-rooni quarrel between the two
ittorneys earlier in the afternoon.
Dr. Gustave Mann, a defense expert
moved toward the district attorney,
and was set upon and punched
severely by St urges Q. Adams,
brother of the district attorney, who
was a spectator in the court room.
All four of the participants were
placed under arrest charged with
lighting and disturbing the peace.
During the light the scores of spectators
in the court room stood upon
benches, one woman is said to have
fainted; the Crawford woman .was
shoved and tossed about in the melee,
and several men who stood upon
benches were struck and slightly hurt
by the blades of an electric fan with
which their heads came in contact.
The tight occurred at the close of
the day's session, which had dragged
on with the monotonous cross-examination
of Dr. Charles \V. Duval, pathologist
and medical expert of the
state, by Joseph Generally, attorney
lor me ueieusu.
The quarrel which led up to the
fight caino when Lionel Adams, who.
although bearing the samo family
name, is not related to the district
attorney, also began to question Mr
Duval.
"Your honor," said District Attorney
Adams, addressing the court, "I
desire to ask that you enforce the
rule that only one attorney at a. time
may examine a witness."
"I do not care to be lectured to by
you. sir," said Lionel Adams, turning
to the district attorney. "If you don't
like what I've said we can settle it
outside."
District Attorney . Adams jumped
up from his seat. "We'll settle it outside
any time you want to and you
know it,"he exclaimed heatedly.
The court called the two attorneys
to order and then the cross-examination
of Dr. Duval begun again.
When court ordered adjournment
District Attorney Adams, smiling,
wnlrwor to Lionel Adams.
"Well, do you want to settle it outside?"
he asked.
"If you are looking for trouble,"
said Lionel Adams, with a sneer, "I'll
have to send my friends to you, J
guess."
"Do you mean to say you wish to
tight a duel with me?" asked the district
attorney; "me, the chief peace
oUlcer o fthis parish, and sworn to
enforce its laws? Resides, the code
duello allows a gentleman to refuse
an encounter with 0110 of your charactor."
Ldonel Adams then struck the district
attorney, who struck back. According
to statements obtained from
several witnesses at this juncture Dr.
Mann, one of the experts for the defense,
made an attempt to strike the
district attorney. Sturges Adams,
who was in the court room, hurled
several persons who were in his way
aside and punched I)r. Mann several
times.
Pandemonium reigned until the
contestants wore separated. A police
detail then entered with drawn clubs
and cleared the court room.
The four participants were then
placed under arrest and were released
on their own bonds, pending trial.
The prisoner, somewhat pale from
the excitement, was led from the
court room.
During the fight a portion of the
slides on which Dr. Duval placed
portions of Kliso Crawford's liver
were smashed. The district attorney,
in a statement ho made after the
fight, charged that the fight was
started for the deliberate purpose of
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Having i no ewucucu uvbu-ujuu uun>ie
the melee.
The jury witnessed the encounter,
but it Is generally believed this will
have no effect on the case. It is not
improbable that Judge Frank D.
Chretien, of the court, may later
summon the participants to answer
contempt proceedings.
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Crushed by Lumber.
It. II. Anderson, an employee of the
Conway Lumber Company, was crushoil
to death on Saturday beneath a
truck of lumber. lie was sixty-four
years old and is survived by a wife
and three sons.
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Teddy does not think near so well
, of the cow punchers now as he did
I before that primary election frost out
in North Dakota nipped his presi'dential
aspirations.
PLOT TO BLOW UP KNOX
CHARGED lO FRIENDS OF ZR.
LAYA IN NICARAUGA.
Thirteen Uombs and a Rattcrv to Detonate
Them Found Under Track
of the llailioad.
As the result of thc? anegcJ discovery,
by the Government of Nicaraugua,
of a plot to assassinate Secretary
of State Knox on the occasion
of his recent visit to the Capitol
of that country, it is not improbable
that a number of prominent "Liberals"
will be put to death, according
to advices received at New Or
leans Wednesday from uiueneias.
Thirteen dynamite bombs placed
beneath tlio road bed, over which
Secretary Knox's special train travelled
from Corinto to ManaguB and
connected with an electric battery,
were discovered by Government
agents and will be used as evidence
against the conspirators. Two-scoro
Zelayistas, or "Liberals," are conlined
in the penitentiary at Managua
and are held incomnmncado pending
the termination of the present investigation
by the Government.
On the day of Mr. Knox's arrival
at Managua, a bomb was exploded
under the Chilamate Bridge, between
Leonard Lacelba, destroying a small
portion of the track, but doing very
little damage to the bridge. Near
this point four sectons of the telegraph
and telephone wires were cut.
The thirteen dynamite bombs,
with the battery connections were
discovered between Posoltega and
Chichimlpa, carefully planted beneath
the railroad tracks. The discovery
of these bombs, it is said, was
not made until after the Knox special
train had passed on its way to the
Capital and the failure of the conspirators
to get in their deadly work
is believed to be due either to a lack
of proper battery connection, or the
approach of guards, wno nau ueen
detailed to patrol the tracks.
The bitterness displayed against
Mr. Knox by the Liberals had its inception
in the 1009 Nicaraguan revolution,
when Mr. Knox handed the
Nicaraguan minister his passports after
Grace and Cannon, Americans
connected with the revolutionary
army, had been shot by order of
President Zelaya.
The Liberals openly blamed Mr.
Knox for tho downfall of Zelaya, asserting
that tho revolutionists were
openly aided by the United States
Government. The socallod "dollar
diplomacy" of the State department
has come in for extremely caustic
criticism at the hands of prominent
Liberals.
It is believed that Mr. Knox was
advised of the discovery of the activities
of tho conspirators during his
M.inairno for nf thrt fill or
> lait IU ? w. , ?,,v ~
gestion of President Diaz, it is said,
ho cancelled liis plans to stop at
Grenada en routo back to Corinto
from the Capital. Certain Liberals
who reside at Leon, where a strong
anti-American spirit has long existed,
kavo been charged by the Government
with being the principals in tho
conspiracy and it is deemed unwise to
have Mr. Knox visit that place.
WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE.
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She Had Hecn Arrested in New York
Fof Smuggling.
Mrs. Illanche Carson, who was arrested
in New York for smuggling
several thousand dollars worth of
jewelry on her arrival from India,
committed suicide early Wednesday
by hanging herself out of tho window
of her hotel.
The body of Mrs. Carson was seen
by a pedestrian swinging from a
[window on the eight iloor of the hotel
Hroztell. The clerk was notiiled
and tho door of Mrs. Carson's room
was forced. A rope, securely tied to
a radiator, passed out of the window,
at tho end of which dangled tho body
of the woman.
Tho body was still warm and sho
had not been dead more than an
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nour wueu uisuuvt'icu. mi o. vuimfU
reached New York Monday on tho
steamship George Washington. Sho
was arrested on tho charge of gross
undervaluation and smuggling after
having confessed that sho had smuggled
jewelry which the authorities
valued at $20,000.
KKIIVH1) HIM J 1ST K1GIIT.
Insulted, Fisherman's Wife Grains
llrutc With Axe.
A special from Newborn, N. C.,
gives particulars of the killing of Oscar
Crowley, a negro, by Mrs. Chas.
Williamson, tho wife of a fisherman, ^
whoso home tho black man Invaded
during the husband's absence. Crowley
walked into tho home and demanded
something to eat, which was
given him. He then signified his intention
of staying all night In the
houso and drawing a revolver insisted
that tho woman remain. Mrs.
Williamson was ordered to place bofore
him a basin of water in which
he began to bathe his feet. The woman
secreted an axe under her apron
and when tho negro loaned over to
dry his feet sho brained him with tho
weapon. Death was instantaneous.
V coroner's Jury exonerated Mrs.
Williamson.
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