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GUILTY OF MURDER NEGROES CONVICTED OF A CRUEL, BRUTAL CRIME. CHOKED A BOY TO DEATH The Cold Blooded Murder of a Little White Boy at Florence a Few Months Ago Ik Avenged by the Conviction of Two Negro Boys of the Fearful Crime. Harry Mcintosh and John Williams, two young negro hack drivers, were convicted of the brutal and cruel murder of a little white boy by the name of Andrew Jackson in that city, and sentenced to be executed in August. The murder, which was one ^vf n>,. nino) npiinl onrl Kriitnl th:it nv >/ I lUU IllV/Pt V> A UVI u>k< V? KS M. V* V ?? v ^ . er took place in Florence, occurred only a few months ago. Tho victim was a little white boy about ten years old, and the murderers are two negro men about twenty years of age. It will be remembered that little Andrew Jackson mysteriously disappeared, and after a search of several days, his body was found in a box car, where it had been placed by tho murderers with the hope that it would be carried away beforo it was discovered. After the finding of tho body, several negro backmen were arrested and put in Jail. Among the number were the two men who have been convicted of the awful crime. After they had murdered the little fellow they concealed his body in tho homo of one of the brutes until they could dispose of his body, which they did by putting it In an empty box car, where it was later found. The murderers were ably defended by several good lawyers, but the jury was out only a short time, when it found the two negroes guilty of murder without recommendation. The Times says they are both typical Africans, with small bead-like and shifty eyes, looking startled and apI prohensive as they came In handcuffI ed together, but both sleek and well I kept and evidently with small sense I of moral responsibility for the crime I ofuwhich they were accused. I T he trial excited a great deal of inI tercst, and the courthouse was crowdI ed while it was going on. It did not I tako the jury long to reach a verdict, I and Judge Shipp, before whom the caso was tried, sentenced the niurH derers to bo electrocuted the first part of August, and it is to be hoped that there will be no interference with the sentence as the two murderH ers richly deserve death. A number of witnesses were examB ined, but perhaps the evidence most damaging to the defendants was the following statement of Freddie Mcln^B tosh while in jail. Tie is a brother of ^B Harry "Mcintosh, one of the negroes who committed the brutal crime. Freddie Mcintosh had been arrested B as a suspect along with several othB ers, and was in jail when he made the ^B following statement: ^B I was standing on Evans street, B near Mr. Jordan's, where John and Harry passed by in the hack, driving S I gray mare, and saw little Andrew kson-jump up behind the hack. I Harry take him by the arm and him in the hack. Harry told n to drive fast, and they went on k to the stable. I went on back le and was standing at the wood and I saw Harry hold Andrew John hit him two hard licks with ec<^ of iron, once on the back and [? on the side of the head, and Anv hollered, "Oh, Lord, I am dead can't see my mamma any more; mid have been home if those boys not held me on that hack and ight me here.' This was under hack shed. William Foxworth there, too, and saw everything, knows more than I do about it, he was back there with them, 'hen John hit he fell to the ind and Harry jumped on him choked him; they then put him le long stable. This was between n and eight o'clock. He stayed e until the boys came back from depot that night, then John and py brought him in the house and him in the closet, near the teleio, and covered him up. They | him in the closet until the next t about ten o'clock. John and look lii 111 out of the oIos( f ana ^Hfhim in the hack; llicy was drivHI'Hi.i;' John" and carried him oiY. v' ^Hlnext morning 1 heard them talk ^Hlher at the depot, and they said ^Hlhad Andrew in a safe place; and ^Hlhe would soon rot in that car ^Hlen they took him out of the ^ 1 he was wrapped up in two or Mlof my mother's old skirts ? one ^Hlnnd one yellow. They 3aid l as going off from lu re. I told ^Hlif they did I would tell Mr. I they said I had better not tell I^Hlrch nothing. On tho night of (ling my mother was cooking I when the boys carried him in lisc and my sister, Lucile, was I bed, and my father was in Igton, N. C., on his run. He j I come back until the next II do not think my father and ^BI knowed anything about it, Ilia)n did not help John an 1 ^B tut lie was there and saw it NEGRO DELEGATE FLOPS RETURNS MONEY AND GOES OVER TO ROOSEVELT. After Reaching Chicago He Evidently Got a Better Bid and He Accepted It at Once. A letter written by Charles Banks, one of the negro Taft delegates at large from Mississippi to Director McKinley, of the Taft headquarters at Chicago, announced that ho would support Roosevelt and was returning "the money placed in my hands, at your suggestion, to defray travelling expenses of some of the delegrates from 'Mississippi," was given out Friday night by Senator Dixon, manager of the Roosevelt campaign, and created a sensation in political circles. The letter was unaccompanied by explanation from the Roosevelt managers, further than that "Senator Dixon received at Roosevelt headquarters Friday afternoon the following copy of a letter sent Friday to the Hon. William B. McKinley." Banks and his associates on the Taft delegation were seated by the national committee over the protest of the Roosevelt contestants from that State. The letter alleged o hare been wr'Men to Mr. McKinley by Banks said in part: "In keeping with my suggestion of yesterday, I am returning to yc/ herewith the money placed in my hands, at your suggestion, to defray travelling expenses of some of the delegates from Mississippi. "Jt is apparent that some one connected with your campaign has been continually trying to discredit me before the country and with my people for some time. "When I was in Washington a few weeks ago looking after tho new Federal Court bill from Mississippi and called at your headquarters, your assistant, without any suggestion from me whatever, brought up the matter of expenses for delegates from my State. I told him then and there, in your presence, that so far as I am concerned, I would not accept any expense money for me whatever. "You then proposed that I take enough for tho rest of the delegates. I suggested to you that they were all men who could got to Chicago, and you could look after the matter; here both of you, however, proposed that tho matter be closed then, to which I J f f ilgltJUU. Hanks says in the letter that when ho reached Chicago last Wednesday he learned that some one had informed the Mississippi delegates "that you had given me a lot of money for them, as well as for myself." He adds that "I am returning you herewith the money and you can do as you see fit." "A HUMILIATING SPECTACLE." McKinley and llarnes Comment on Roosevelt's Invasion. In a statement inspired by Col. Roosevelt's start for Chicago, Director McKinley declared that his coming is "an undeniable admission of defeat which the coming of Mr. Roosevelt will only make more certain." William J. Barnes, of New York, also issued a statement concerning Mr. Roosevelt's coming. "Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be," ho declared, "its chief interest, lies in its disclosure of that mania for power, over which Roosevelt, has no control." Mr. Barnes says that Col. Roosevelt, willgo into the Convention hall itself, "and there attempt to control that Convention, demand to be heard in his own behalf, and if he is not permitted to do so, he will, nevertheless, continue his demonstrations under the influence of the delusion of the people, whose voice he fancies he hears, are calling him to overturn all order. It is a sad and humiliating spectacle to the American people." ? ? | PLUNGED INTO RIVER. I The Police Drag River For Rodics of Joy Riders. As a result of a disaster which ov ertooK six joy riaers earjy i nursaay, "when their automobile plunged into twenty feet of water at the Charles River dam, in East Cambridge, the Metropolitan Park police are dragging the river, in the belief that occupants of the car might have been [drowned. The police thought that at least four of the young men in the automobile may have been carried with it into the river when the (machine tore across the curbing a distance of 250 feet, on the new parkway, broke down two sections of iron railing, and then shot into the water. , ? ? Tillman Will l>e at Meeting. Senator Tillman will be accompanied to the Baltimore convention by bis son, Henry C. Tillman, and will return to Washington each night. all. His Freddie (x) Mcintosh. Mark Signed in the presence of Dr. E. .\I. Mathews, H. M. Hill, Thus. S. Burcli, at jail in Florence, May 23, 1912, I GAVE IT THE BEST ? ? BLEASE AND THE NEGRO COLLEGE AT ORANGEBURG. BUILT HEATING PLANT When He Was on the Hoard of Trustees, and Believed in Educating the Negro to Keep Jlini From Being a Parusite on the Body Politic. Governor lllease has been criticizing the legislature since its last session because of an appropriation for repairing an old heating plant in the negro college at Orangeburg and for putting in a new plant in the new building that was erected. This has been his main criticism against the general assembly outside of his general charge that they overruled his vetoes. In view of this ,a report made by him and his co-trustees to tho general assembly while he was trustee of the negro college, throws much light upon the situation and is as follows, being found in the reports and resolutions of the general assembly for the year 1 903 at page 897: To the Hon. J. J. 'McMahan, State Superintendent of Education of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. The board of trustees of the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical college of South Carolina, respectfully submit the following report through you to the general assembly of South Carolina. We herewith submit the report of the president of the college, embodying reports of the academic, normal and industrial departments, showing that good, solid work is being done, harmonious efforts being expended by all concerned. The industrial department is scoring a signal success, the fine exhibit of the industries securing a gold medal at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition. No better work of the kind is being done anywhere. There were 804 industrial units pursued last year out of an enrollment of 624 students, thus showing that each student at least took one or more trades or industries. The students that leave this school will be self-sustaining and not narasites on the body politic. The farm continues to make a good showing. Farmers' institutes were held in fifteen (15) counties this year, to the edification of the white and black. Experiments still continue on the farm with various kinds of cotton and corn, and especial attention was given this year to prolific green stock feeding plants, with success. The health of the student body continues to compare most favorably with any similar institution. Five thousand, nine hundred and forty dollars and forty-seven cents have l>een expended on the new brick Industrial building. It will require about $5,000 additional to finish and place the machinery in said building. A steam heating plant has been installed in Morrill hall at a cost of $3,,'100, which adds much to the safety of the building and the health and comfort of the students. The president's report shows the receipts and disbursements for the year, an itemized account of which has been filed with the State superintendent of education. It is always subject to Inspection. The president's report likewise shows the itemized needs of the in st I (lit ion necessary to continue the construction in hand and to run the institution on, viz: Absolute Needs. Current expenses (approx by last year's figure?) . $ 4,468.34 Incidental expenses (approx. by last year's figures) $ 1,254.31 Furnishings for industries (last year's figures) .. 1,097.62 Insurance 1,500.00 Physician and clerical service 800.00 Fireproof vault 800.00 $10,820.27 Salaries, teaching force.. 12,500.00 $23,320.00 Reduced by income, etc.. . 18,315.15 Absolute needs $ 5,005.12 To complete and equip new Industrial building $ 5,000.00 State appropriation needed. .$10,000 Thus it will be seen, as has been , claimed, that the institution can be run in a state appropriation of $5,000 annually when the buildings in process of construction are completed, but we need $,*5,000 to complete the building in process of erection, and we earnestly request, your honorable bodies to appropriate $10,000 this year in order that this work can he completed and the institution he i placed on the bases that, the trustees and president have been striving for since its establishment. A 3torin this summer damaged the ; roof of tho new industrial building j several hundred dollars on account of its unfinished state. Respectfully submit ted, GRACE VS BLEASE FORMER MAKES SERIOUS CHARGES ABOUT LATTER ACCUSES HIM OF GRAFT The Mayor of Charleston Goes For His Old Friend, the Governor, Whom lie Charges With Receiving Graft From lilind Tigers, ?iul Says He Can Prove It. The Columbia Record says sensational developments and sensational testimony are expected when the legislative committee, investigating the affairs of the late State dispensary, the governor, the attorney-general and other persons connected, therewith, convenes in this city early next week, and Mayor John P. Uraco of Charleston is to be the principle witness. He has said ho will appear before the committee and tell what he knows of the charges made by him recently that the governor's oflice had been receiving "graft" from blind tigers in Charleston. The committee will probably sit Tuesday. Tom Felder, the Atlanta attorney of great fame in South Carolina, will also likely be a witness before the committee at an early date and if he does not care to come to Columbia it is probable that the committee will sit In some Georgia city and there hear testimony from him. In answering the question whether cr not he would appear before the committee if summoned, Mayor Grace Thursday in Charleston made the following statement: "I have made the statement re garding the graft conditions in Charleston, and I have no desire to avoid responsibility for anything I have said. I am ready to sustain the statement. "If I am subpoenaed, I will tell the grounds 011 which the statement was based, and I am sure that thoso who hear me will agree with me in the conclusions which I have reached. I can prove that graft exists in Charleston and 1 will say, as I have stated on several previous occasions, that I can trace the graft to the governor's ollice at Columbia." The facts behind this statement by Mayor Grace are these: Not many weeks ago Common Sense, a paper published in Charleston and known as the organ of Mayor Grace and his political faction, published an editorial in which it was stated that "graft" had been coming from the blind tigers in Charleston. In the next issue of the paper it was stated that the "graft" was coming to the office of the governor. It was also stated that B. 11. Stothart, chief of the Charleston constabulary, was the person who brought the "graft" money to Columbia Tim pnnimlttnn ill n lis to sum nion Stothart as well as Mayor Grace to tell of these charges. The Investigating committee now plans to summon Mayor Grace, Attorney T. H. Folder, Chief Constable Stothart, "Hub" Evans, of Newberry, and State Senator W. J. Johnson, of Fairfield county. These last two have testified before the committee already, but it is desirous to hear them again. The investigating committee was created to ascertain the truth and source of certain charges made by Governor Blease in his annual message to the general assembly last year against the members of the "Ansel" board of investigators, discharged by Governor Blease, and against the attorney general and other persons. To allow tne committee to get at the bottom of these charges the legislature passed the bill providing for the investigation of the dispensary Oinciais, i nc5 governor, me uuorney general and other persons. Thus it is seen the committee has the right to go into a thorough investigation. To this end every person who knows of any illegal dealings in connection with affairs of the old State dispensary are to be summoned by , the committee. The committee first , sat several months ago and as to any date for its final adjournment noth- , ing can yet he known. ] I 1 low She Found Mini. < A Nebraska in packing eggs 1 t>rote her name on one of them. Away 2 off in California it fell into the hands ' of a young man, who immediately started a correspondence. Last week 2 ho packed his trunk and came to Nebraska to claim his bride. This is believed to bo the first in the history of Nebraska that an egg ever < hatched out a weddding. Hut don't be 1 surprised at anything in Nebraska. i 1 Nineteen Were Injured. < Nineteen were injured, three seri- ' ously, wl.on Central of Georgia passenger train from Hlrmingham, duo in Macon, Ga., Friday crashed into ) thirteen coal cars at Everctts, thirtyseven miles from that city, shorily jafter midnight Friday morning. Governor and Chairman. HOLD STRIKERS AT BAY THREE KILLED IN RIOTING8 AT REFINING WORKS. Attempt to Storm Plant of New Jersey Company Results in Repulse of Rioters and Death of One. At Perth Amboy, N. J., two thin lines of deputy sheriffs, heavily armed, held at bay Friday night two thousand strikers who tried to storm the 35,000,000 plants of the American Smelting and Refining Company and the Barber Asphalt Work adjoining, while searchlights atop high towers played upon the rioters. Two hundred shots or more were fired by the deputies at the mob which gathered behind a ten-toot embankment of the New York and Long Branch Railroad. When tile firing ended one j man, a strike sympathizer, lay dead and several of the men were injured. The net results of the day's rioting [stands Friday night at three dead [and seven injured. Of the dead one was a striker, one was a man at work and the third was the night watchman at the Perth Amboy Tobacco plant, who was found dead in a clump of bushes near the plant. The injured are all strikers, except Sheriff IJollschweiller, who was stoned as he was patrolling tho district in his automobile. Six men are under arrest charged with carrying concealed weapons and inciting to riot. Three hundred and fifty men in fighting trim, with automatic revolvers, repeating rifles and many rounds of soft-nosed bullet ammunition in their cartridge belts, were sworn in Friday afternoon and Friday night as deputy sheriffs to quell the mob of strikers, whose activity Friday took the form of an attack on the big plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company. Under direction of Sheriff llollschweiller the defensive force took command of tlie roadway leading past the plants. Their orders were to keep the strikers moving and to shoot if necessary. Within the high paling surrounding the works sixty guards with 3 0. 10 repeating rifles were stationed at vantage points to prevent a repetition of the rioting of Friday when one man was killed, three wounded in an attempt to burn the fence and storm the plant. Atop a high steel tank just inside tlio paling there were stationed Friday afternoon a Cattling gun, which commands the roadway and its men have orders to use it if the rioters gain success to the works. Counsel for the Harbor Asphalt Company served written notice upon the sheriff and mayor that it would hold tile city and county liable for any damage to its plants or employees inflicted by rioters. There are now approximately F>,000 men 21 ii(1 women on strike at six plants at that place. The strike, which started with the walk out of 1,500 men at the refinery, because they were not granted an increase of 25 cents a day. Five hundred strikers held a mass meeting Friday and appointed a committee of two to wait upon .Jesse Seaman, general manager of the American Smelting and Refining Company plant for a reply to their demands. Mr. Seaman informed the committee that the demand would not be considered until the rioting ceased. One of the leaders when informed of Mr. Seaman's reply said: "They have got to grant our demands; if they don't we will blow the whole works up." KIMDKMIO OF HYDKOIMIOMA. + Mad Dogs Ruin Mueli Rive Stock in Arkansas. Posses of armed farmers are scouring the country adjacent to LaVest, Ark., forty-six miles west of Mem phis, searching for dogs, pigs, horses, mules, and cattle bitten by mad dogs within the past two weeks. Lawrence Whitehead, ten years old, was brought to Memphis Thursday for Pasteur treatment. He was bitten by t? mule and a dog. Mrs. Hendricks ( was attacked by a salt' that had been bitten. Four flng? rs were amputated from her left hand. Samuel Heath tried to protect young Whitehead and i was himself bitten by the mule. The I mule attacked every living thing in < reach on the Whitehead place, then , leaped a fence, attacked cattle and ' ralves and escaped, creating panic i for miles around. The mule was las- l soed and shot after upward of tlfty < bead of livestock had been bitten, i Phe posses are shooting on sight any inimal showing signs of <rabies. < Stricken Down in Cliurcli. At Bcnnettsville Jackson Deas died heart failure while attending services at the Baptist Church Friday i night, lie was stricken during the prayer, and was taken into the Sun-1 Jay school room for attention, but] tiled in a few moments. LMr. Deas was thirty-seven years old and is sur-l vived by a widow and two children. ? ? Kills Wife and Self. \V. B. Morcer, aged fifty, a white fair me r living near llohoken, Ua.,' shot and killed hlu wife, seriously' wounded his 0011 and then committed auAUiUi BLEASE VS GRACE THE GOVERNOR REPLIES TO THE CHARGES OF GRAFT i DENOUNCES THE MAYOR Governor of South Carolina what Tlicensed Over Charge Made by Mayor of Charleston tlmt Blind Tiger Graft is Finding Its Way to State Capital. "Any man who would make such a statement is a liar and a coward," is the comment Governor Bleaso gave out at Jiis otlice Friday on the charge of Mayor Grace that he had traced graft from the Charleston blind-tiger situation practically up to the Governorn himself. The Mayor's charge moved tli? Governor to wrath and he denounced it in emphatic language. The story carried exclusively by The News and Courier to the effect that Mayor Grace was going to be summoned to appear before the dispensary investigating committee to testify to his charge of the Governorhaving gotten graft from Charleston: was the topic of interest throughout the State, and the story that the Mayor was willing to come and substantiate his graft charge against the Gov ernor excited renewed interest. "The Governor's official family is giving him trouble," was the way one comment ran on the latest development, for it was recalled that Mayor Grace is a colonel on the Governor's staff, and if he has resigned no one has heard anything of it. Time and again there have been reports and denials of a break between Governor Blease and Mayor Grace, and the story to this effect during the last session of the Legislature is well remembered. It is also interesting to recall just about the time of the reported break that Governor Blease, while on a visit to Charleston gave out an interview on the matter, In which he said "John is all right," and otherwise said pleasant things about the Mayor and denied there had been any break between them. Now, however, the Governor applies the short and ugly word to the charge of Mayor GraceThe dispensary investigating committee is expected to meet Tuesday, at which time the matter of making out formal subpoenas for Mayor Grace and Chief Stothart, of Blease's Charleston constabulary, will probably bo considered, as Mr. Stothart is said to be the person that. Mayor Grace has charged with being the on? who carried the graft from Charleston to the Governor. Another matter which will be considered is the question of hearing the testimony of Thomas B. Feldcr, the Atlanta attorney, whose letters on the Governor of South Carolina and his grave charges against him caused sensations in the State. It is thought that Felder is willing and even anxious to testify and the committee will certainly exhaust every effort to get his testimony. Mr. Folder's recent answer to the Governor's threat to have him arrested as he passed through the State with the Georgia delegation en route to Baltimore, was that "he would attend to the case of Blease in the not distant future." When asked if he had any statement to make in regard to tho Governor's statement, Mayor John P.. Grace replied that he had nothing to. say at this time. ITo said, howevorv that at the proper time he would say whatever he might have to say as to this matter. Mayor Grace confirmed the statement that he is colenel on the Governor's staff. He stated, however, that he had never put the uniform on. "My connection with the Governor's staff has been a very passivo one," ho added. .... A KKMAKKAIUiK UKCOVKRY. Girl Whose Neck Was Broken is Now Said to b? Cured. Picked up for dead but saved from the dead wagon before it started for the morgue, when a faint sign of life was detected, eighteen-year-old Esther Harris, whose escape from the Triange fire last, year was made at. the cost of a broken neck and back, has been cured. Unable to move evim a linger for eleven months after the tragedy, in which 147 men ami women wer? killed, she can now stand and walk unassisted, a feat rare in surgery, whose teachings aro that in almost every case of total paralysis resulting from v. fracture of the nook the victim never regains command of motion. She now woars a st el and leather harness to support her head, but in a few months hopes to discard this. In other respects she is perfectly well. ? ? ? Two Burned to Death. The residence of the Rev. Faust Strother, a negro preacher, near tho Lexington fair grounds, together with its contents was totally destrogf v ed by flro. One of his children ^ perished