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BAMBERG TRAGEDY WITNESSES RELATE DETAILS OF THE SAD AFFAIR HOW RILEY WAS KILLED According to the Testimony Ho Was Shot to Death by (?. Moyo Pickinson on His Promises Almut One >t O'clock Friday Morning in the Town of Hamberg. As stated in our last issue the most terrible and mysterious tragedy ever enacted in llamberg occurred there about half-past eleven o'clock Thursday night when W. Pa,ul ltiley was shot to death by G. Moyo Dickison, on the premises of the latter. The two men were representatives of the motsorpminent and influential families of the town and both stood high in social as well as business circles, Mr. Riley being cashier of the People's Rank, and Mr. Dickerson manager of the local cotton oil mill. They had not been on friendly terms for several years and it is hard to imagine what induced Mr. Riley to visit the premises of Mr. Dickin^ son at such an hour of the night. Ho was not a drinking man and had been seen on Main street only about one hour before the tragedy occurred and at that time ho was in his usual jovial and happy mood. Some think ho must have suddenly become mentally unbalanced and while in that condition wandered into the premises where ho was killed. The whole community is deeply grieved over the unfortunate affair, ? lor there were few men in Ramberg more universally loved and respected than W. Paul Riley and his slayer. M r? T?llnv ;i iwl fhpir OIllv Son Were In *" 4 " lv,ivJ V Hendorsonvllle, N. C., at tho time of the tragedy and expected to return home to join him next week. Mr. Dickinson surrendered to tho sheriff Immediately after tho shooting and is now in custody. Ho is much grio/od over the occurronco and is in a hi lily nervous state. Tl.o details of tho affair are best told by 111e witnesses who testified at the coroner's inquest, their statejno 'fs as recorded are given below. Ma. ield and Free have been retained i > defend Mr. Dickerdson, and will make application for bail before ltic?' at Aiken. Solicitor Gunter appeared at the inquest to represent, the state. Tho following affidavit made by Mr. Dickinson will he used in tho effort to obtain bail and contains his version of the affair: Dickinson's Statement. "Personaly appeared before me G. M. Dickinson, deefndant In tho above entited action, (of the State vs. G. M. Dickinson,) who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: "That on the night of September 1 2, 1 91 2 ho carried his little son to a vaudeville show in the town <of Bamberg, S. C., and returned therefrom at about 10 o'clock at night, going to his home situated in the county and State aforesaid, on the intersection of i wo streets within the corporate limits of the own of Bamberg. "That upon returning home, he, together with the other members pf his family, retired. A guest, Miss Olar Leighton, occupied a front bed room. "That shortly after retiring, deponent does not know how long, as he was drowsing and perhaps sleeping, ihrpfv hth rlaucrhter. Rebecca, a cirl of about 12 years of age, who, together with his little son and wife, wore occupying the room with deponent, said to deponent that 'a tramp is at the window.' Deponent thinking that his daughter possibly had been dreaming, told her there was no one there, but upon being assured by his frightened child that there was someone near the window, looked out and saw the shadow and the outlines of a person creeping along the ground on his hands ad knees. "That thereupon deponent in his night clothes unarmed, went through his back door and out inte his back yard and saw the figure of this man still hurriedly going in a stooped and ! crawling position toward the gate loading into deponent's barn yard. I "That deponent twice called to thin] man to atop and hold up his hands deponent running after him, hut that this man instead of heeding this summons rushed into the back yard; at the gate deponent stopped. At this moment deponent's wifo called to him to get his gun. "That deponent thereupon hurriedly secured his gun from his house and loading the same, again returned to his hack yard, and ran to his barnyard gate and stood there in his nighr clothes some moments trying to s' o the man, but in the meantime wait!jig for his wife to bring a light so that a search could be made of deponents premises, and if possible to arre- t the supposed felon. "That after waiting some time depor'ut's wife not having appeared with the light ,ho called to her to bring him the lantern, which she did a,ft? r some minutes. ""'hat upon the appearance of his wife with the lighted lantern, he, together with his wife, approached his ham and examined part of the stahles, finding no one. "That deponent proceeding his wife then went to another stall, leaving her with the light some distance, and calling 'upon her to bring the light, and as deponent entered the dooriway of the stall the man hiding therein struck a terrific blow at deponent, and deponent evading the same was rushed upon by the man, who seized deponent's breach-loading shotgun with which deponent was armed, and attempted to wrest it fro-m deponent's grasp, but falling in this, either sprang off from depon. ent or in the struggle was shoved off from deponent. That deponent call-| ed, "throw iup your hands/ and the command not being obeyed, deponent laboring under great excitement and conscious of great personal dangre from the supposed culprit, fired his gun. Deponent is not conscious of having pulled but one trigger of his gun, but is informed that two wounds wore found ui>on deceased. Deponent further states that the struggle over the gun was brief, and that the assault upon him was sudden and tierce. "That immediately upon the body having fallen deponent's wife was called upon by deponent to hasten with the light, so that it might be ascertained who deponent had shot. "That deponent and the deceased and ent and his wife that this man was Mr. W. Paul Riley, of the town of Bamberg. "Deponent did not know who the man was he shot until after lie had done so, and had made an examination with the lighted lantern. Could not tell who it was in the dark. "Deponoent was on his own premises, and the deceased was at the time deponent fired and deceased fell In the said barnyard of deponent. "That deponent ad the decased had had a difllculty some five years ago, and from that time neither had spoken to the other; that the deponent cannot account for the conduct of the deceased, nor can he explain the actions of the deceased in being upon the premises of this deponent i the night time the deponent regrets the unfortunate tragedy and the circumstances which led deponent to firing upon the deceased and thereby taking the life of the deceased. That the above deponent saith (being a brief statement) and no more, being advised that the same is sufficient for this motion and bail." The testimony of the witnesses who were examined at the inquest was as follows: Testimony at Inquest. Miss Olar Deighton being duly sworn says: "I was at the home of G. Move Dickinson last night. I did not see or hear anyone at the window. I heard souneone outside, and say halt, hold up your hands. When he said that I heard the running. "It was Mr. Dickinson that I heard say halt. Mrs. Dickinson and her two children were in the house. Mrs. Dickerson and her two children had retired. I was the last to go to my room. I thought I heard someone run, Mrs. Dickinson told Mr. Dickinson to get his gun, he had been in the yard and came back, 1 guess, he got his gun, and I heard him go hack out, later on r heard some shots. Mrs. Dickinson was in the yard with Mr. Dickinson, she had the light. In about three or four minutes I heard the shot; after the shot Mr Dickinson said, 'Oh, I have killed Paul Hi_ ley.' I did not go out, I didn't hear thorn say anyone was there, i don t know what kind of Run it was. I havo soon Mr. Hiley on the streets here. I hadn't heard Mr. Dickinson speak of Mr .Riley at any time. "I am 17 years of age. I am second cousin to Mrs. Dickerdson. Eolia Leighton." Rebecca Dickinson being sworn says: "G. M. Dickinson is my father. He was at. home last iglit. We had retired when the trouble commenced. I told him there was a tramp at the yard, lie was sprawling on his all rours. i neara mm say hold up your hands. Father had no gun then. Mother told father to get his gun. The lot was about as far from this house as across this hall. Father got his gun and told mother to get the light. They went towards the lot. In a few minutes I heard the gun shoot. I then heard mother cry and father said "I have killed Paul Riley. The body was in the lot." 4' C ross-exa 111 i n at i on: "There was no light in our room when I saw the man at the window, when I told father he came and saw the man. When father and mother went out we went in the front room. I heard the shooting and heard father say, 1 have killed Paul Riley. All of our family occupies the same room and there was no street on the side of the house I saw tljo shadow. All of us was undressed." . .3 1 -1 . ite-uireci.. "Father was outside, when he told the man to hold tup his hands. The street is on the south and east side of the house, and the lot is on the west. Father went to the winnow the man was running off. Father ran out in the yard and said hold up your hands. Father was in his night clothes. "Rebecca Dickerdson." Mrs. Dickinson's Statement. Mrs. G. Moye Dickinson, being duly sworn says: "I am willing to testify in this ease. 1 heard my husband say it is a man, and went-out in the back yard. 1 heard him say, hold up your hands, and heard them run. Moye said bring me a light. I told him to got his gun. Ho came in and got his gun. I took the light in the yard. When T went back wo went to the stables and searched all around. I saw a man run out of llio stables. T could not see what took place. lie was between 1110 and the man. 1 had a lantern, but il gave a poor light. I heard one shot fired. We were near the sta-| bios. Tho innn did not fall, and ran several stops, Moye fired again, tlio' ifdiois worn almost together. Provious lo the shooting Move called, hold up your bands. The man made no reply. lie had before that called hold up your hands. Move said hold the [light and he saw it. was Paul lliley. i When the man was running 1 told Moye to shoot. Don't know how he was dressed. I didn't know who if was until after the shooting. Mr. Dickinson did not. know. Wo had [ been asleep; had on our night clothes. There was no street, on that side of tho bouse. I was about ten feet from the man when ho ran ont of tho stable. Tho light was very poor. We could not tell it was a white man. Ho had never been in my house. .\Ir. Riley and my husband were not on good terms; did not speak. Had not spoken for five years. I saw Mr. Riley after he fell. He fell on his face. Did not see anything in his hands. Did not see him attempt to do any TOOK THEIR LIVES COUNT NOGI AND WIFE FOLLOW RULER IN DEATH. THEY COMMIT SUICIDE Lumens .Military licudcr of Japan and Ills Wife Took Tlielr Own Lives as the Itody of the hiLc Kmporor of Japan Starts for its Last , Hosting Place. At Tokio, Japan, Gen. Count Maresurike Nogi, supremo military counselor of the Japanese empire, and his /"< V'.,r?{ nnm^ulHofl W 11 U f UH* V>U U 11 tl'SO tv/iiiuiivvvu suicide Friday night in accordance with an ancient custom as a final tribute to their departed emperor and friend, Mutsuhito. The death by their own hands of the famous general and his wife was as dramatic as it was sad. The general cut his throat with a short sword and the countess committed hari-kari. Following the samurai custom, the couple had carefully prepared their plans for killing themselves and timed them so that they would be coincident with the departure forever from Tokio of the dead emperor. Gen. Xogi and the countess had attended the funeral services of Mutsuhito at the palace there Friday and it was expected that they would proceel to Aoyama Friday night with the cortege. Instead however, at the conclusion of the ceremony at the palace, they withdrew to their modest home in Akasaka, a suburb of Tokio, and there began <their final preparations for death. First the general wrote a letter to his new emperor, Yoshihito, which j later was found beside Ms body. Then lie draped in mourning a. portrait, of lire Hate envperoi, wJiich hung on the wall, and afterwards lie and his wife dressed themselves in full Japanese costume and drank a farewell cup ui sake from oups which had been presented to the general by 'M utsuhito. Darkness had fallen and (Jen. Nogi and the countess sat and awaited the signal they had agreed upon to an. nounee their leave taking. This was ihe booming of a signal gun on the palace grounds at Tokio which was' to let the people know that the body i of the emperor was starting on the funeral car for its last resting place. As the boom of the gun resounded through the clear still night, Gen. Nogi arose and grasping in his hand a short sword plunged it into his throat while the countess stabbed herself through the body. A student who resided in the Nogi hame heard the fall of the bodies and rushed into the room. Dying upon the floor were the hero of Port Arthur and his wifo Hoth still were breathing, but their spasmodic gasps showed plainly that death was near. The student hurried for aid but when lie returned with it both the general and tho countess were dead. The tragedy created a profound sensation and expressions of sorrow were heard on every hand Friday night. Especially grief stricken was Prince Arthur of Connaught, (ho special envoy to the funeral of Mutsuliito of Great Britain. Prince Arthur was to have gone with Gen. Nogi Saturday to the former capital of the Shogunate or Kamakura. Those who knew Gen. Nogi will declare that his calmness in killing himself Friday night was the kind 'of stoicism lie always had displayed, no matter what crisis faced him. They instanced the famous charge of Jap anese tup zv.i ivieire mil uunug uie Russo-Japanese war, when, as commander of the Japanese third army, Nogi saw the Russians mow down his forces in hundreds, among them two of his own sons, and yet quietly and fearlessly continued the battle, taking the hill and eventually being handed the surrender of Lieut. Gen. Stoessel at Port Arthur. Gen. Count Nogi was a national hero in Japan, it was he who captured Port Arthur from the Russians in 1 004 and assured the success of his country in the battle of Hukden. The coiiint was born at Ilagi in t.he province of Choshu in 1 849. During the Saigo rebellion Xogi fought bravely at the battles of Yamagacuhi and Twarazaka and was wounded. After the rebellion was suppressed be was made a lieutenant colonel. He commanded the llrst brigade of infantry in the Chino-Japanese war and captured Port Arthur in one I day. On the outbreak of the Russoj Japanese war in 1 004 Gen. Nogi was | appointed commander of the third army. His force took 208 Metre hill !.after terrible slaughter and also dej at roved the Russian squadron in i port. Gen. Nogi personally received Gen. Stoessel's proposal to surrender ' Port Arthur. thing to Move. TTe never spoke. There was nothing in the stable. Mr. Riley was caslilor of the People's Rank. They had not had any recent I trouble. This was about. 1 o'clock. I Only saw one wound in the back of j the head. Move was iusf a few feet -about fon foot?when ho fired the first time, and ho fired the second j shot almost, immedatoly. Mrs. O. M. Dicknson." Dr. Stwekoy's Testimony. TT. J. Stuckey, being duly sworn, says: "10. "Dickinson, V. "Rounds Ethridge and mysef were among the first to ; arrive after tho shooting. We werej told by a negro that Mr. Dickinson i jhad killed Paul "Riley in his lot. We 'went into the lot with a lantern and 'the first thing wo saw Mr. Ui1 ley's hat. Wo went on and found | Mr. Riley lying on his faco In 'Mr. I Dickinson's lot. I examined tho; body and found a wound about three! 1 inches in diameter in tho hack of his I head; some brajn and blood was near him. I said to tho policeman, Mr. OLD HERO TURNEN OUT \ HTKIIAX MASS 10 Y KXPELIJfl) 1HOM SO LI >110 KS HO.MIO + Ouo More CSiapk'r to a Controversy Which lias II<hmi Itnging in Columbia for Weeks. That veteran Samuel Massey has been dismissed from the Confederate Home was admitted Friday morning says the Columbia corespondent of the News and Courier by ?M*ijor 11. W. Fticharuon, the chairman and treasurer of the board of commission its. Charges of maltreating one oi ms comrades, Thomas Whittle, hitting him over the head with a chair, resulted in the trial of Veteran Massey by the outcome is the final dismissal of Mr. Massey. Mr. Massey and the Confederate I-Ipme have been in public prints for some weeks, every few days something turned up which involved various charges to bo threshed out in the press. The matter first started with the accusation that Major Richardson was atempting to influence the old soldiers to vote for Blease, followed closely by the board suspending Massey for thirty days on the charge of being disorderly and drunk on the premises. A temporary restraining order preventing this from being carried into effect was granted by Judge Cary on application of Attorney John J. McMaliam for Massey. Thereafter Massey again took up his abode at the 11 omie. Then cme the charge that Masey it one of the comrades, Thomas Whit tie over the head with a chair and the case was considered by the board on September 0 and 7, the board consistng of Major II. W. Richardson, chairman and treasurer; Dr 1?\ I*. W. 'Butler Secretary; Capt D. A. Diekert, of Newberry and J. T. Crews, of Laurens. At that time Maj. Rioharson declined to give out anything for publication. However, ho admitted this morning that 'Massey had been permanently dismissed from the Home. It will ho recalled that Mr McMahan obtained restraining order from Judge Cage preventing the Comptroller Con. honoring the warrants of $100 and .$">0 drawn on the funds of the Confederate Home in favor of Major Richardson and Dr. Butler as "white help," the allegation being that the law only allowed the members actua expenses while attending sessions of the board, and that they were draw ing these salaries in violation of the law. The rule to show cause is returnable on the 20th and will hi4 arg ued before Jmdge Gage at that time. Veteran Massey is from Lancaster County and was an ardent supporter of Judge Jones. Major Richardson nd the members of the board of commissioners of the Home are strong supporters of Gov. Hlease. * KILLED AT FLAT HOCK ?. A Lady Hurled to Her Death by Kunaivay Horses. \1 >*? C* 1<"? Armoti'ntiir nf burg, Miss., who has been visiting l^r sister, Mrs. II. L. Vincent, of New Orleans, Ha., at her summer home at Flat Rock, three miles from Ifender sonville, was instantly killed late Friday when thrown from a, carriage her head being crushed against a cross.tie in the fall. Mrs. Armstrong was occupying the carriage, to which were hitched two horses, which were frightened by a train at the passenger depot in Henderson vilie N. C. Her grown son, Reuben Armstrong, caught the bridle on one of tho horses, which dragged him for several yards until coming to a sharp turn on a side street, where the carriage was overturned and Mrs. Armstrong was thrown head foremost, her head striking against the pile 'of crossties death resulted instantly. The one year old child of Attorney J. E. Shipman had a miraclous escape when the go cart, in which she was being pushed, was completely demolished and she was thrown to the ground having come in contact with the horses in their mad rush, was I uninjured beyond a few slight bruises. ^ Minister lloatcn to Death. After preaching a sermon on dishonesty tho Rev. R. II. Green, a circuit. pastor of tho Methodist church South, was assaulted and so badly injured that he died a few hours later . The Rev. Mr. Green had delivered the sermon in a school house and was returning to his boarding house when several uniden 11iioci men auacKiea nun in Aionnoe county Va. * ; \ lhiglor Illcw Himself to Death Musician John K. Knight of (he 712*1 Company C. A. C.. stationed at Fort Screnen, died Friday, the immediate cause being pneumonia. It is stated, however, this was caused by Knight using to much exertion into Ids sonmding the bugle calls. lie was 2 1 years of age and enlisted from (Iroenville, (la. * Killed by Fating Matches At Similiter Francis Phillips, aged two and a half years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (loorge It. Phillips, died Wednesday afternoon from poisoning1 caused hv eating matches. ? ! Dickinson, that, we search to son if ho had any weapon on him .T afterwards found a wound in the left ! shoulder joint. This and the other J wound being made hv a pun shot? two gun shots. The wounds found! were sufficient to cause death instan- j tanoonisly; death was the result of the wound in the head. IT. J. Stuckoy, M. IV Arrangements for the funeral and burial of Mr. Riley have been delayed, pending the arrival of his brother, Wilson, from New York, but the funeral and burial will probably tako place Sunday morning. * UGLY THREATS MADE . SAYS BLEASE WILL BE SEATED AT ALL HAZARDS. SOME INCENDIARY TALK +. .. State Democratic Kxeculive Commit, tee Given to Understand .That Hlea.se Must He Declared the Nominee, Itegardless of Any Fraud, or He Will Do I'ut in by Force. In a speech introducing Governor Blease to a meeting of "Elks and "Red Men" last Wednesday night in Charleston, J. V. Wallace is quoted as having said: "That during the last, three months the Governor had gone ed and had won. Regardless, he said, of what John Gary Evans or W. r\ Stevenson might do, Colo L. Blease was going to be Governor for the next two years. Mr. Wallace said that nearly two years ago, after having been injured by his shotgun, he put the gun away and had not taken it out of its place since; but that lie knew where to find it at any time ;ur*d that if the time came when an attempt would bo made to cheat Governor Blease out of the election, he would be the captain of a company to go to Columbia and defend the Governor and to keep him in the office that was his." Wallace is an ollicer of the "Blease club" of Charleston and was a member of the late Blease "Winding Up Dispensary Commission." The New nerry iieraiu ami iM'ws, cuiifii n\ a former a])poin(ee of Governor Hlea.se, editorially said last week: "The trouble with some people is they never know when they are whipped. Hotter take the medicine gracefully and with a smile. The people of South Carolina will not stand for an independent ticket and many of the old fellows as well as the boys are ready to unsheath their swords and take down their old muskets." The Anderson Intelligencer, also edited by a paid appointee of Governor Hlease said, in the course of a lengthy editorial article, a few days ago: "As we stated above we are for peace. Hut we have no idea that the people of Anderson county and the people of the State at large :iro i?ninir to Ktand for nnv such business as is new cropping out in this election. They are going to seat Cole Hlease or there is going to be a civil war in South Carolina. And if a war is necessary the Intelligencer is in favor of it rather than see the will of the people defeated by a few sore-headed politicians." The State commenting on the above says: "Thus we have from three different parts of the State, from men who have drawn salaries by appointment of the Governor and are conspicuous as to his supporters and personal friends, threats to the ef_ feet that unless the State Democratic Executive Committee declare >Mr. Itlease the nominee of the recent primary there will be an appeal Ho arms in South Carolina! It is significant that (lie Newberry Herald and News is at pains to quote in full the Wallace threat from Charleston and The Intelligencer's article from Anderson. 'Mly the IIJ ease leader in Charleston and by two HI ease newspapers in Newberry and Anderson, the people of the State are squarely put on notice that what the Executive Coramitteo shall do really has nothing to do with the case, thatcMr. Hlease will be seated as Governor with the aid of shotguns if necessary. That tlie primary merely nominates candidates and that an election is to be held is quietly ignored. "By these high Blease authorities the cotuntry and Congress is told that in South Carolina nominees of the primary, the fairness of the nominations having been prejudged in favor of candidates successful on the face of the returns, will be given the office, wilh the aid of armed insurrection or civil war, regardless of the voting in the general election in November. If that principle is to be accepted in the State, Republicans will find it useful in considering contests for seats in Congress from Soutli Carolina. "The State has at no time said that the primary election was fraudulent, but it. has quoted witnesses of cases j of fraud. It has said that if the ration of one white voter to five of population be assumed as the basis upon which to estimate the total vote of South Carolina, a total vote of more than 1 40,000 is amazing and about equal to the aggregate number of white males of voting age, including sick, insane and other incompetents. It has said that an increase of 114,000 in the vote, in two years, over the highest vote (less than 10 7000) hitherto cast in a State primary is also amazing. "Fra>udulent primaries have not been unknown in South Carolina. A few years ago an election for supervisor iu Greenville county was set aside on the ground of fraud and the candidate defeated on the face of the In ? K . 1 I i i u i 11 n in i in- ii im uiiM ru'ru'ii in ;i second and special primary. There was no talk of shotguns or civil war. A notice of contest tiled by an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, subsequently withdrawn caused no talk of shotguns two years ago. A contest land the overthrow of the primary re_ turns in a general election in Lexington county did not raise the threat of war. "Has the Democratic party of South Carolina no right to examine, through its legally constituted agency, tho Kxecutlve Committee, its own nominating power? Is it to be brow-beaten, overawed and intimidated by \ % SIX DROWN IN SQUALL^ FIVE OTHERS MISSING AFTER STORM HITS BOAT. ' Victims Were Apprentices in United States Naval Training School.? Their Bodies Recovered. Six naval apprentices were drowned and live are missing as tlie result ot the capsizing of a cutter from the United States naval training station at North Chicago. 111., late Sunday afternoon. The l>odies of six of the victims were recovered and identified, and it is believed that the live boys unaccounted for were drowned. The boys were between 1G and 20 years old and were from the Middle and Western States. The party, in which were 24 apprentices, left the training station, shortly after 2 o'clock in charge of Gunners' Mate Meagus ,and after cruising about for two hours headed for North Chicago. One of the boys N v taken from the water was resuscitated after several hours. This reduced the list of known drowned to live. Gunners' Mato >M. N. Xegis, who was in charge of the cutter in which the boys were drowned. after aiding in the rescue disappeared. lie is said to have told friends that he held himself responsible in a measure for the wreck and that he feared it might affect his mind. When last seen Xegis was liys. terical. A few minutes later, while the cutter was north of Lake Forest, a squall struck the boat, the sails were lowered and an anchor was thrown out. The boat dragged the anchor and gradually was being driven on to the beach. When within 200 feet of the shore the cutter overturned and its occupants were thrown into the water. Capt. \V. F. Kullam, commandant of the naval training station, saw the danger of the apprentices from his headquarters and sent a motor boat to the rescue, but this craft also was captized before it had gone far, and the men in charge of it were obliged to swim back to the shore. Later a force of rescuers were sent along the shore to where the cutter had been wrecked. Many of the boys swam to land and others floated ashore on oars and pieces of wreckage. A number were rescued from the surf by oflieers of the training station and cared for at houses near the scene of the wreck. It was reported that several of the i?ti ii'oi?/\ 11 n Kin t / \ e\t'tni 11 s 1 Vix"* ? n v i i II II.U'H i \ / o i in (iini u\ came seasick soon after the squall struck the cutter. The boat in which th? apprentices went for the praetico sail had a cpaacity of 00 and was not overcrowded, according to ofllcers of teko naval training station. HAVE TO SEND WILSON FUNDS ; Hanks Losing liocal Credit by Forwarding Them Direct. The Columbia correspondent of tho News and Courier says Capt William K. Gonzales, chairman of the finance committee for South Carolina for the Democratic national committee, said today that there was an overlaping of committees at the national headquarters and conflict in request and that as a consequence some banks in South Carolina had forwarded their collections direct to 'treasurer Rolla Such a course, Mr. Gonzales said, made no difference to the State Committee, as all funds from the treasury were put to its credit, by sending direct to t>oth the counties and the banks were deprived of local credit for their efforts in behalf of Democracy, and he asks that all contributions be sent through the chairman of the tinanro committee or the news papers of South Carolina. * ? ? i .. YOUNG GllUi WAS TAUUED + Women Dressed as Men, Charged With The Outrage. A voug girl from Clarksfield Ohio, it became known Friday, was the victim of eight married women dressed as men, who Sunday night induced the girl to take a walk and then tarred and feathered her. The girl deeded their warning and disappeared. She was charged with flirting. The girl alleged to have been flirting with several men of tho town, was induced to go walking shortly after dusk by three members of tho tarring party. A short way up tho road five other women in male attire, joined tho convoy. The party then proceeded to a lonely spot along the pike and stripping tho girl, administered t.ho tar. She was warned to leave town or "whose would follow". * public threats of violence and bloodshod by the newspaper supporters of one of the candidates? [ i no man* dimhs's 110 marges 01 fraud; Tho State awaits with patience and con lidence tho conscientious anil thorough report of the executive cominitteo hut Tho State does chargo | that threats of violence and armed insistence made h\ the t.ovornor's I support< rs ;tre vacillated to degrade the Dmocratic party, to destroy faith in its organization, to incite tho p. oplo to treat it with contempt and n sort to other methods of choosing their oflico holders. " \ssault cannot bo mads on a. part of the Democratic organization. Assault on the honesty of the, committee lis assault on the whole party machinery, including the pvinvarjl. The threats of armed rosistenoe by recognized spokesmen of tho Bleaso fraction will be construed as corroborative evidence on tho grounds of suspicion of the primary that are manifestly entertained by many voters. There appears to bo a concerted ef. fort to frighten a lage section of the Democratic party in the State."