The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 20, 1912, Image 5
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
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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."
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| 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.
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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,
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GAVE IT THE BEST
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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. ]
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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BLEASE VS GRACE
THE GOVERNOR REPLIES TO THE
CHARGES OF GRAFT
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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.
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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.
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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