The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 25, 1912, Image 4
ASKS TO BE HEARD
NICHOLS WILL 09 BEFORE PROBERS
THIS WEEK
SIMS REFUSES TO TALK
?.
* i 'liuiruian Carlisle Discounts Governor's
Throats, au<l Says Committee
Will Continue Work.?Committee
ltcfrnkiod, lfo Says, From Looking
into Hleasc's Private Idfo.
"At my request Senator Howard 13.
Carlisle has consented t.o call a mooting
of the dispensary committee, to
be held in Columbia probably some
time this week and at that time I will
go on the stand and tell of the dictagraph
conversations wriicli are alleged
to have taken place between myeelf
and Mr. Porter, the Burns detective,"
said Samuel Nichols, the
Spartanburg attorney, so prominently
mentioned in the testi 1110113' before
the committee in Augusta.
"Until that, time I have 110 statement
whatever to give out, continued
Mr. Nichols. "What I say I want to
ea3r on the witness stand and after being
sworn, so that it will become a
part of the record. Tf I talk now, it
would merely be a statement and I
must refuse to say anything whatever."
This statement was made at
Spartanburg 011 monday by Nichols.
J did state, however, that he was
acting in good faith with the "Chicago
attorney" and was only expecting
a fee for the services rendered. Mr.
Nichols was in the Governor's Mansion
in Columbia on Sunday morning
when the papers came and the flaring
headlines were the first intimations
bo hnd tliat. lie. lmd been trailed bv a
Tiurns man. "it was all news to me,"
he said, "and I was as much surprised
as anybody when I read the testimony."
He did not say what comment.
Governor HI ease and others
present made about the matter.
C. P. Sims, the other Spartanburg
attorney, who drew up the petitions
for the pardon of Gus Deford and circulated
them in Spartanburg and obtained
a number of signatures, said
tic had nothing to say of the matter.
He expressed the opinion that at the
time he did not believe Porter was an
attorney but rather sized him up as
iteJug another ,yeggman, a pal of the
prisoner, and'lie said he knew that
y' tbrt-ge fellows often paid big fees to
secure a pardon for one of their number.
Mr. Nichols is anxious that the
committee meet to-day, but Chairman
Carlisle said he did not know the
date of the next meeting of the committee.
It will be held in Columbia
probably this week. 'Mr Carlisle did
not know whether or not any more
testimony from the Burns man would
be introduced before the committee.
"No we are not very nervous ovi
iv I 111 rmlc (\ f I n r.nvrti'nni? " 11.
tinned Scua,tor Carlisle, "and we will
contiue to probe into the affairs of
the recent State dispensary regardless
of the Governor." Mr. Carlisle stated {
bat be heard criticism of the committee
for spending 1he States money in
order to employ the detectives. He
stated that these expenses were not
being paid by the State, and also said
that ho knew Mr. Folder was paying
the Burns men.
! The committed lias been abused by
IP.lease," continued the chairman of
committer, "butwe refuse to take
ad vantage,bf the situation and rctalto
by'allowing testimony which
* tended <to throw light on the private
life of the Governor. Col. Felder
ww.iited to introduce this testimony,
but the committee refused to hear it,
as it had no bearing on the dispensary
situation."
Mr. Carlisle refused to divulge the
nature of the testimony, but it was
stated from another source that it
was concerning the conduct of Governor
Blease while at the Southern
* Commercial Congress in Atlanta in
1 1. The Act for which Felder says
V he will have Bloaso indicted is alleged
(to have taken place In Atlanta at
this time.
On h\* trin to Washington and
{Haitinioro Mr. Nichols was accompanied
by The News and Courier correspondent
and others. The party
met Mr. Porter in the Altamont Hotel
in Baltimore. He came there after
the conversation with Mr. Nichols
in the Now Willard in Washington.
Mr. Nichols had already boon to Baltimore
and then wont back to Washington
tx> bold the conversation with
Porter, which is alleged to have boon
V recorded by the dictagraph.
* iMr. Porter, or rather Mr. Por-teer,
with the accent on the "cor", was a
handsome man and appeared immensely
wealthy. He wore an English
walking suit and carried a cane.
He was at the Altamont only a short
timo. Mr. Por-teer visited this city
on two occasions. He met a number
of the Spartanburg men and, as one
of them said, "He had manners like
whiskey drummer."
.?
Will Itemcinber Him.
The fact that Congressman Lever
\has beo& unable to attend any of the .
campaign meetings because of bis
v duties at Wi^shlngton will not lessen
Ills vote in the primary. The people
know where heijs and what he is do*
dug and will remember him when the
primary is hoMk*
WHAT NICHOLS SAYS
?
ISSUES STATEMENT CONCERNING
PARDON DEAL.
Admits Sending Telegram to the Supposed
Chicago Lawyer to Come to
Spartanburg.
The Spartanburg correspondent of
The News and Courier says Samuel
J Nichols Tuesday night broke the
silence which he has maintained in
regard to the charge that he, as
agent of Governor Blease, planned to
secure a pardon for James Johnson,
the safe-blower, in exchange for a
$15,000 bribe, of which the Governor,
it is alleged, was to receive $5,000.
In his statement Nichols says:
"I had not expected to make any
statement in reyard to the matter of
Johnson's pardon, preferring, as I
stated, to go before the committee
and testify as to the exact facts in
the case. I realize that the people
are anxiously awaiting my statement.
But i notice in a local paper this arternoon
that Mr. Reid says he has a
telegram which shows that Governor
Blease accepted the $15,000 bribe,
which, they say, was offered. 'J'hey
say further that the telegram tells
Reid, alias Porter, to hurry on South
and wind up the deal and pay his
money and get his pardon.
"1 wish to say that this is one of
the dirtiest lies that has been published
in connection with this outrageous
reflection on the Governor and
myself, and 1 cannot allow it to go
unnoticed, even until the committee
meets again.
"Mr. Reid has been summoned by
Carlisle at my request to appear before
the committee when I appear,
and it is up to him to produce such a
telegram from me or admit that he
has lied in this as well as in other
parts of the transaction.
"I went to the lower part of the
State with the intention of asking
Governor Blease if he intended to
consider any pardons before The election
and upon finding ou* now busy
he was I did not mention the pardon
matter to him at all, as he has stated.
"I have in my possession the only
telegram which Porter received from
me after I left Spartanburg, which
telegram will be introduced by me at
the hearing before the committee and
which telegram, sent as above stated,
after I lwul decided not to mention
the matter to the Governor,
reads as follows:
" 'Things do not look good. Come
to Spartanburg at once.'
"As I have stated, this Is all I care
to give out before I appear before the
committee and at that time I c?n fully
justify my whole connection wkh
this matter."
Mr. Nichols sent the telegram referred
10 rom Rlackv 1'e S. C. and
ft was addressed to He^ry C.
in Chicago.
FLEEING FROM THE ISLAND.
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High Tide and Storm at Tybee Frightens
Residents.
After a night spent on Tybee during
which one of the highest tides of
the year was recorded, hundreds of
summer residents of the island rushed
to Savannah Monday morning for
fear of a destructive storm. The
morning trains from the island were
tilled with those who have cottages <
cn the island or who have been stop- <
ping at the hotel.
The wind blew at a lively rate Sunday
night ox Tybee and the rainfall
was very heavy, the rain coming
down in sheets. The sea forced its
way far inland and Monday morning
the waters of the Atlantic were pouring
over the sea walls at Fort Screven
as if it was not there.
The experiences of the night have
frightened a great many who were on
the island and when at 10 o'clock the
weajther station there hoisted the (
northeast storm warning, the uneasiness
of hundreds grew into terror
and there was a great scrambling to i
got ready to leave.
TKAXSFOKT WAS ICK-1IOUXD.
Had Hogiinent of United States
Troops on Hoard.
After having narrowly escaped be- 1
irg sent to the bottom by the ice Iloos
encountered in the Herring Sea,
the United States army transport
Sheridan arrived at Tacoma, Wash., .
with the 16th Tinted States Infantry
regiment. For seventeen days, off St.
Lawrence Island to the west of Norton
sound, pn route to Nome. t.ll6
Sheridan lay, ice-bound, making only
ninety miles in this time. For forty-eight,
hours her captain, Michael
llealy and Pilot Kaersky, watched
on the bridge of the ship and at
times the captain stood at the bow
d:recting the slow advance. The enlisted
men suffered from cold and
two died of pneumonia en route. The
Sheridan is en route to San Francisco.
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Nichols (hive IIim Letter.
Capt. Sandly, of the Penitentiary
Ciuard, says Detective Peld, posing as
Lawyer Porter, had brought h'm a
letter of introduction from Sam .1
Nichols of Spartanburg, and had received
permission to see Deford on
the strength of this letter. Portor
visited the penitentiary twice.
REED BAGGED THEM
ROUNDED UP A LOT OF ATLANTIC
CITY GRAFTERS
THE DICTAGRAPH USED
ITio lioodlers Were Trapped Very
Much in the Same Way That I teed,
rosing as Henry N. Porter, a Chicago
lawyer, Claims to llave Trapped
Nichols.
K. S. Heed, the detective who
while posing as Henry N. Porter, a
Chicago lawyer, claims to have entrapped
Sam J. Nichols, a Spartanburg
lawyer, into negotiations to
have a notorious yeggman pardoned
by Gov. Please, is original in his
methods, very successful in his work,
quiet with a manner which convinces
one of liis sincerity, and a personality
which is magnetic and engaging.
Mr. Herd, who is the right bower
of William .1. Hums, is spending a
few days in Atlanta, the guest of Attorney
Thomas 15. Felder, in whose
employ he was when he secured the
evidence against Nichols. It was
Detective lteed who exponeci the Atlantic
City grafters, eighty of whom
have been convicted hv the grand jury,
and it was he who traced Harvey
Logan, the famous Montana train
rohber, to South America. A history
of him and his work would read like
a real dime novel.
it was Da ck in i??:? wnen .\i r.
Rood, tlion a boy of 16 years, pulled
his first big detective stunt. Jle had
been assisting his father, who was
also a detective, in running down
some of the criminals who infected
the Black Hills country in South Dakota
following the Sioux Indian uprising.
Since then he has handled
many big cases, and has never failed
to succeed in running down and
bringing to justice the criminals he
went after.
The most recent and perhaps the
most important piece of work ever
done by Detective Reed was the
rounding up of the Atlantic City
grafters, which he completed a few
weeks ago. After opening offices on
\\ all Street, in New York, securing
elaborate apartments at the Waldorf
hotel in that city, Reed, posing as J.
K. Harris, a millionaire contractor,
went to Atlantic City, ostensibly for
recreation. He took a suite of rooms
it. the Marlborough-Blenheim, which
he connected up with dictagraphs.
Ascertaining that the city was
spending $40,000 a year for repairs
to the famous board walk, of which
$30,000 was divided in graft to city
oflicials and bosses, Reed gave out an
Interview suggesting that the old
old board walk should be replaced
with a concrete walk, that in the end
it would be cheaper and more satisfactory.
He studiously avoided the
city officials, and his interest appeared
to be that of a disinterested but
experienced contractor.
The concrete walk suggestion attracted
attention immediately, and
the trade bodies and civic associations
invited him to address them upon
the project. After he had creatpd
an almost universal demand for the
new walk, one of the leaders in the
council called on him at his hotel
and adroitly negotiated a <ieai wHereby
thirteen members of the council,
the city attorney and other oflicials
were to be paid certain sums Tor putting
through the concrete walk ordinance.
Seventy-five thousand dollars
was to be divided among them.
One by one the other councilmen
were drawn into the negotiations arid
conversations were had with the various
officials at the 'MarlboroughRlenheim,
the Waldorf, in New York,
and the Continental hotel, in Newark.
lOach of these conversations
was recorded by the dictagraph,
which Reed had previously arranged,
the same as he had done at the Finch
Hotel at Spartanburg and the New
Williard Hotel in Washington, at
both of which places he entrapped
Nichols,
The ordinance, which was passed
by the grafters provided that Reed
was to receive 7 per cent, of the $ 1,500,000
to be expended on the concrete
walk for engineering services,
7 per cent, for his own personal supervision,
and $80,000 for his plans,
etc. This last mentioned sum was
under the agreement to be divided
among tlie grafters.
So skittish were the grafters that
they would not accept the money at
any of the hotels, but insisted that it
bo paid over in a back room or Malta's
combination saloon and hotel, a
dive run by an alderman by the name
of Malia, who was one or the gang.
It was necessary for Reed to install
his dictagraph in this dive. * He
must do this without creating suspicion,
so lie hit upon the idea of
sending a crew of linemen from Now
York to Atlantic City who were os
tensibly in the employ of a local power
company. These linemen, one of
whom was an expert dictagraph man.
secured quarters in Malia's hotel and
was seen about the streets and working
at the top of poles for days.
The dictagraph man spent the entire
night preceding the day when
the money was to be paid over in
drilling a concrete floor over the
gang's assembly room, and before he
completed the job so that the dictagraph
could be installed in the coiling
of the assembly room some one
heard the drilling and he was compelled
to stop.
Not to be outdone, Heed had the
wires thrown out of a window, and
a few minutes before the gang assem*
bled be skillfully pinned the dictagraph
behind a curtain. The operator
working upstairs recorded all
that transpired. Such a complete record
was obtained that when confronted
with the evidence the gangsters
owned up and refunded practically
all of the bribe money. 1
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Don't Remember Ever Holding Such
a Conversation.
To the Editor of The News and
Courier: Would thank you were you
to publish the following: In your
issue of the 13th instant, appears
that I had a conversation with one
Bailey, alias Wilson, concerning the
liquor situation in Charleston, who
claims that I said: "We elected Cole
lMease governor and we now have
full protection, etc." I wish to state
that I do not remember ever holding
such a conversation, in fact, those
words were never spoken by me to
a nyone.
Again it is claimed that I informed
this party that 1 had personally paid
a visit to his Excellency, Cole I,.
Klea.se, at Columbia, and complained
to him concerning the alleged grafting
in Charleston, and having been
waved aside by him, with a statement
that he was running that end of
the matter. I wish to most emphatically
deny this and brand it as an
absolute falsehood.
Henry O. Hasselmeyer.
SIX DIE IX A COAL MINE.
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Explosion Kills Two White Men and
Four Negroes.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed in an explosion in the
mines of the Clayton Coat company,
til'teen miles from Richmond Va.,
Wednesday afternoon. The white
men were William Donnelly and Ceo.
Rolisho. and the negroes were Titos.
Williams, 'Mat ihew Kutts, Henry Rillups
and Norman Cade. Three negroes
wore injured. The men were
at work when the explosion occurred,
and it is supposed that the premature
setting off of a "shot" or a charge of
bins'ing powder was the cause. None
ui ifie men working near enough to
the explosion to know its cause, os
capoci.
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French Aviator Killed.
At Paris the French aviator Oliveres
fell five hundred feet and was
killed Monday during the aviation
fetes in aid of the military aviation
fund.
In speaking to an Atlanta reporter
Rood exhibited the dictagraph that
recorded his conversation with Nichols.
"That's the same little machine
that trapped the McNamaras in the
dynamite plot,*' ho said. "It's the
same one I used to convict, the grafting
council men at Atlantic City and
the legislators at Columbus. It's
been a pretty loyal machine to the
Turns detective agency, and it. may
do some more work to undo Please.
I'm not. through with the case yet.
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days waiting upon the call of the
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