The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 31, 1912, Image 3
COURT IN A PANIC
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TWO LAWYERS FIGHT IN PRESENCE
Of THE JUDGE
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COURT ROOM IN A PANIC
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Spectators .loin in KiTorts to Stop 1
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the Fight, and a Kenewal of the
IMTculty Was ITevented by Judge
l'urdy's Threat to Send the Ofi
fonder to Jail. 1
Heel blood flowed at the trial of T.
U. Vaughn, in the (Jeneral Sessions I
Court ui Creenviile, Friday, when
.Attorney John J. McSwain, assisting
in the prosecution, and Attorney 13.
F. 'Martin, of counsel for the defence,
engaged in a furious listicuff resulting
ti oin a dispute as to the admission
ol ceitain evi .ence. For several
minutes the crowded Court room was
tin own into a siate of hysteria, as
half dozen olllcers attempted to separate
the combatants, and it was by
the narrowest margin that a riot was
averted.
The disturbance was quelled for a
few minutes and then threatened to
break out afresh when a half dozen
i .....I I ii t lin t ))(>.
il I I UI in.') n I UOICU III 11 v; unuu uv
came engaged in a heated wrangle.
Judge J'urdy, who had retained his
composure throughout the excitement,
realized that the situation had
grown extremely critical and at once
brought into play the power of his
station, by threatening to put the
next man who opened his mouth in
jail. Order was finally restored, but
it was some minutes before the deck
cleared for action again.
The first, and the prosecuting, witness
in one of the cases against
Vaughn was on the stand at the
time tin; altercation took place.
Counsel for the defence was (juesHoimnr
ihe girl as to whether or not
Mr. McSwain was her attorney in a
da mac suit for $ 10,000, which she
liad filed against Vaughn just after
his escape iio.n jail. This question
was the beginning of the trouble.
After a dramatic wrangle, a low mtit
to red growi was nearu. i norc was
a sound of some one rushing across
the floor, disturbing chairs and
tables. In the twinkling of an eye,
Mr. McSwain was upon Attorney Martin
and, to all appearances, had dealt,
him a blow which knocked him to
the floor. The next instant Mr.-uMcSwain
was upon the attorney and
things were in such a state of pandemonium
that it is difiicult to state
just what transpired.
The Court room was thrown into
? state of panic. Sheriff Poole, who
was standing near by, rushed upon
the combatants, but was powerless to
get them apart. A half dozen or more
ofllcers and spectators took hold of
Mr. McSwain, who is of splendid
physique, but they were tossed rignt
and left. Finally more officers and
spectators surrounded Mr, McSwain
and bore him to the floor. For several
seconds the scene resembled a
football scrimmage, first Attorney
McSwain being on top and then the
half dozen or more who wore trying
to quiet him. In the meantime
Mr. .Martin was taken out of the
room and into a hallway in the rear
of tlie Judge's bench. Mr. Martin
was bleeding profusely from several
scratches on the right temple and
jaw. Mr. McSwain, to all appearances,
was unscratched.
The Court room was crowded to
overflowing. The excitement spread
to the audience and many of them
fled tho building, while others rushed
to the front and took so no sort of
part in the fray. With difficulty the
mob was beaten b'ack behind the bar
railing. When order was restored
Judge Pardy made a brief statement,
in which he deplored the incident,
but stated that, it was an occurrence
which neither be nor the sheriff was
able to foresee. lie stated that at
the proper time and in the proper
manner he would dispose of the matter.
Mr. Martin and 'Mr. McSwain then
asked to be allowed to make statements
to the Court. Permission was
granted and Mr. Martin explained his
tide of the dispute. At this point
other attorneys became encaged in
iho discs den an 1 when it appeared
that hosti'ltles vcre about to he renewed
.Indgo Purdy arose and in a
very < lpl m.O statement brought, order
out of chaos.
"1 have managed to keep cool during
this trouble, as becomes my position,"
said Judge Purdy, "hut 1 am
getting pretty hot myself now. 1
don't want to' hear another word
about this matter and If it goes on I
will put the offender in Jail and keep
him there."
Within a few' minutes after quiet
was restored Court recessed for
lunch. The afternoon session was
held behind elosed doors, only the
members of the Thar, witnesses and
the press being admitted.
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WAG 10 A VIGOROUS WAR.
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V . Democrats Working to Capture UnitStates
Senate.
A dispatch from New York sava the
Democrats will make a vigorous campaign
to obtain a majority in the United
States Senate where they now
lack six votes of having command.
Departure of Chairman McCombs of
he Democratic Executive Committee,
for Chicago, where Monday ho conferred
with party leaders is be.! ,vfd
to n ark the beginning of the mo I
strennos part of this fight. There
are Senatorial vacancies in Colorado.
Illinois and Idaho, the last named
TfiUsed by the recent death of Senator
Heyburn. Senator James A. Reed of
Missouri, chairman of the Democratic
campaign committee sent Governor
Shafroth of Colorado, and former
Governor Thomas of the same state.
Into Idaho to get Into the senatorial
light. Democrats now have fortythree
seats in the senate.
STRONG POINT TAKEN
BULGARIANS FORCE TURKS TO
KEEP ON RUNNING.
The Turks Do Not Conceal Their Disappointment
and Surprise at Success
of HulKarianN.
A brief Soila dispatch Sunday announces
what may bo the mo&t important
move of the victorious Unitarian
army so far in the Turkishikilkan
war?the capture of Esk'iaba.
The report describes tills to.vu-'is
an important position on the main
line between Adrianople and Constantinople.
If the Bulgarins have
captured the railroad at this point,
they have cut the communications
between Constatinople Saloniki.
The Bulgarian plan of campaign,
according to the well informed correspondent
of the Vienna Reichipost
at the headquarters of the second
Bulgarian army, will be the complete
destruction of all the Turkish forces
along the Maritza River and those
retreating across the Erkenq Itiver.
lie decsribes Gen Dimitrieff's army
an advancing on a broad front, the
l ight flank along a line from Yenidie
to Eski-Baba, the Western column
to Havla, with the central column
already in the vicinity of Kavakli.
The eastern wing in forced marcher
is affecting a great turning movement
by way of Bunarhissar, Visa
and Serai, towards the road from Lulehburgas
to Chorlu. The correspondent
says there are still large forces
of Turks north of the railway line
with others at Chorlu and Istriandia.
Detached Bulgarian forces have been
dispatched in the direction of these
places and Mfdia on the coast.
The intention is to cut the Turkish
army off from the capital and force it
owards the seashore and then compel
It. to capitulate. lie describes the attack
on Adrianople as making excellent
progress and predicts its successful
conclusion within a week. A Bulgarian
column from the Arda Valley
has occupied Salpistalar and ICmirli.
Another report announces the occupation
of I'ashmakK-.
There is no indication yet whe-e
the Turks will make a stir.e, 'i h?v
are everywhere falling hack tiefore
the victorious allies. They evacuated
he town of Isfip in Macedonia, J
without resistance, although it occupies
a strong natural position.
In the Bulgarian diplomatic quarters
in London it was stated that
Bulgaria, far from assuring that Iho
war is approaching a conclusion, has
summoned another so.ono reserves
o the colors. Turkish diplomats do
not conceal their disappointment and
surprise at the results of the campaign.
ACCrSKS "WIIITK SLAYKRH".
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The Murder of tlio Italian Girl an
Act of Vengeance.
Definite evidence has been secured
by the police, Detective Capt. George
Arnold said Friday, that the murder
of Jennie Cavaglier, a young Italian
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woman, near sinumni, ^uim., auur
she had been taken there by five
men of her nationality in an automobile
from Bridgeport, Conn., was an
act of vengeance executed upon her
for having betrayed secrets of "white
slave" traffickers.
Capt. Arnold says that the evidence
shows that the manner of the
woman's death was decided at a conference
between the five men implicated
hold in the Italian quarters of
ho city Sunday night. At this conference
it was determined whether
he woman should be slashed with
he "squealer's" mark or should be
put to death. The latter was de-j
terminod upon.
According to Capt. Arnold, the five
men came to Bridgeport under directions
from certain men in the "white
slave" traffic for the express purpose
of making away with the woman because
slio had betrayed the organization
code which provides disfigurement
or death for any person who
becomes untrue or any woman who
leaves the man under whose protection
or with whom she had been
living.
l*n vest igation of the cose, Cant. Arnold
declares, has so far failed to reveal
the true identity of the woman,
although she has been given several
mimes since the crime was com miltch
There is every indication, however,
he says, that she was closely
connected with "white slave" traflie
Xew York, New Haven, Conn., and
''bicago. Some of the evidence eo!'eeled
tends to show a#direct connection
between the shooting and the
"vice crusade" in Chicago, and that
the woman's death was decreed by
the "national odganiza?tion" of
"white slave" traders. *
MANY OFFERS MARRIAGE
Received by Chicago Xurscs who Attended
Roosevelt,
Margaret Fitzgerald and Miss
Blanche Welter, the nurs'i who niter
d.vl ^o! Roosevelt, while he was
a patient In a hospital in Chicago,
have received a large number of letters
from men making proposals of
marriage.
"You are the girl for me," wrote
one suitor to Miss Fitzgerald. "I am
well off and can make a happy home
for you. I fell in love with your
picture. Marry me and save my
iieart/'
"Your care and devotion to a
hero," wrote another to Miss Welter,
" have completely broken my heart.
A beautiful capablo young woman
like you would make a happy wife.
T know I can make you happy."
Ptill another wrote Miss Welter
that he had not been able to eat or
sleep since he had seen her picture.*
Man TTrninoil With an Ave.
.Tim TTllt. a nearro of Rarnwelf was
found on the railroad track Tuesday
morn'ng early. He had been brainen
with an axe and had had one ear
cut off.
TELLS OF HIS CRIME'
TRIAL OF VAUGHN COMES TO A
DRAMATIC CLOSE
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HE MAKES A CONFESSION
Tlie Accused, in u Vain Effort to Escape
Death Penalty, Admits His
Guilt in a Statement to the Jury,
Which Hot urns a Verdict of Guilty
in Four Minutes.
T. U. Vaughn, 011 trial for alleged
immorality during his term as superintendent
of the Odd Fellows' Home
at Greenville, was put on the stand
by his lawyers Saturday and made a
clean confession of his awful crime.
The trial was brought to a sensational
close when Vaughn broke
down and confessed all. Me named
two other victims in addition to those
Included in the indictment. The jury
was out but four minutes and made
no recommendation for mercy, the
/erdict carrying the death penalty.
Tears streamed down the face of
Judge Purdy, named by Governor
I Mease as special Judge for this trial.
Many jurors, Court olllcials and spetators
alike made no pretence of hiding
their tears as Vaughn, pale and
broken, acknowledged his crime.
Some jurors wept aloud.
In the afternoon Judge Purdy, bennntnnniocr
VniirrVtn nv^rrillptl f!
iiii i; 111 w . v. . ^
motion for a new trial, which was
argued by one of Vaughn's lawyers,
after his client made his confession.
.Judge Purdy, in sentencing Vaughn
to death in the electric chair, set
December 2 0 as the date for his execution.
When Court opened there was no
Intimation that the accused would
make a confession. His attorney had
fought stubbornly s.ince the beginning
of the case to break down the
strong evidence developed by the
piosecution's littlft girT witnesses.
Immediately after Court opened
Saturday attorneys of both sides consulted,
resulting in an agreement to
let Vaughn confess in an effort to
save his own life, and that the ease
would go to the jury without argument.
"I have acted devilishly, T have
noted shamelessly," began Vaughn.
"The devil tempted me and I have
fallen." He pleaded eloquently but
vainly with the jury to save his life,
not so much for his sake as for his
wife and little doughter.
Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her
daughter were in Court Saturday,
though they had been with the accused
since the trial opened, lie was
formerly nssisstant superintendent
of ihe First Baotist Church Sunday
school, one of the largest and most
fashionable in Greenville. He was a
ministerial student and frequently
occupied pulpits of churches in and
around Greenville. lie owns considerable
property.
Vaughn's Confession.
Facing the jury, Vaughn made his
confession. In all, his statement
makes three thousand words. Briefly
summarized it is as follows:
"Gentlemen, it is useless to say
that in this instance I am greatly
humiliated, and for months and
months 1 have had agonizing hours
over the whole matter. I wish to
say this in the outset, that 1 have
never wished to conceal one whit of
the truth when the time came to
make a clear statement. I have
been so cautious in those particulars
that some have inferred that I had
denied my guilt. 1 know that some
have had that impression, but I
knew that I was guilty and would
tell it at the proper time. For thai
reason I have made impressions that
were unfavorable to me.
"I. want to say here and now that
[ am going to assume full responsibility.
1 want to lake it off of that
girl. 1 want to say that I have loved
the girls always, hut that love has
L< en misdirected and missused. 1
don't think I be girl will deny to-day
(lie reality of mv love in many respects,
yet my conduct towards her
would make her take the position towards
mo which she now takes, and
just takes.
"As superintendent of the Orphanage,
I had entire control of her. 1
realize that now. 1 did it uud?r circumstances
about which I would no!
care to.go into details here. At the
very point I thought myself the
strongest, I found myself tno weakest.
I found that the Devil had attacked
me with a more subtle and
powerful tempatlon in the very place
I thought I could not be tempted. I
cannot now go into the details of the
circumstances surrounding me when
I fell, and I now assume full responsibility
and ask God to save that girl.
"Now, as to the treaty cut of the
children out there; of cout-se, 1 whipped
them, but I never did wish to be
cruel. I did not abuse them, and had
no desire to do so. Hut as hellish as
this weight of sin has been, and despite
the suffering of my body and
soul, it has brought, an .entirely new
vinwnotnt of 1ifr? 1 nm riot snrnkln?
ing it to make my position clear, and
of this for sympathy, I am simply statI
want to say this, that if it took all
of this to save, to bring mo to whore
I stand, and in spite of nil this prosecution,
of all this shame and suffering,
if it has taken all cf this to redeem
my soul and save me from Hell,
I am thangful for it to-day.
"I now have a better conception of
fled and of man. With that feet in
view, realizing the cheapness of life,
f can he of hotter service to Hod and
to man. I feel that if you will give
me another opportunity, after pleading
guilty to this charge, and let me
have another chance, T can be of
to't sorviee to Hod than ever before.
T feel that T can live a IKe rf sublime
service and consecration to r?od. As
dark as it may seem, as disgusting as
it may seem to you, as hellish as It
appears. f feel \.hat In the depths of
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WHERE IT CAME FROM
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SOURCES OP THE DEMOCRATIC
CAMPAIGN FUND.
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Yearly Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars
Given by Fifty-Three Thousand
Odd People. '
Contributions to the Presidential
campaign fund of the Democratic r
party this year totalled $07 8,IMG, J
according to the sworn statement of
Treasurer ltolla C. Wells, of St.
Louis, Hied with tlie clerk of the
Mouse of Representatives Friday. Expenditures
aggregated $502,01 8.21,
including $120,000 sent to Chicago
Mom the headquarters at New York,
and there are outstanding obligations
of $55,140. (
The Republican statement of contributions
was iiled Saturday, the
last day under the law. The Progressive
party filed its statement
Thursday, showing contributions oi
$304,24 4, expenditures of $2 02,34 1
and outstanding obligations amounting
to $41,3 41.
All told 53,3 03 contributions were
received by Mr. Wells, and of these
62,2 4 0 were for amounts of $100 or
less. Governor Wilson, the nominee,
gave $500.
Herman Kidder, of New York, as
treasurer of the national committee,
turned over $28,825 as the surplus of
the Baltimore Convention. Judge J.
W. Gerard, of New York, was the
largest individual contributor, with
$13,000. Charles It. Crane, of Chicago,
and Jacob IT. Schiff, of New
York, each contributed $10,000 in
two payments of $5,000 each. Samuel
Untermyer, of New York, gave
$10,000, as ditl Frederic C. Penfield,
?f Germantown, Pa., and Henry
Goldman and Ilenry Morganthau, of
New York.
Among those who contributed $5,(>00
were Cleveland m. Dodge of New
York: ltolla C. Wells of St. Louis.
treasurer of the committee: Thomas
P. Loekwood, of Buffalo; Hugh Wallace,
of Tacoma, Wash.; Charles H.
Smith, of 'Menassa, Wis.; C. A.
Spreckles, of New York; J. C. C.
Mayo, of Paintsville, Ky.; Senator
Watson, of Wc?st Virginia; Iioger
Sullivan of Chicago; Nathan Straus,
of New York, and former Senator
Clark of Montana.
Other contributions were from
David M. llyman of New York, $2,f>00
; Mrs. N. McCormick Blaine, $ 1 ,(>00;
Senator O'Gorinan of New York,
$1,000; William Church Osborne, of
New York, $3,000; Herman A. Mctz,
ol' New York, $1,000; Mayor Carter
Harrison, of Chicago, $200, and Dr.
J B. Murphy, of Chicago, who recently
attended Theodore Roosevelt
in. that city, $100.
The amount shows the chief items
of expenditures were for printing,
postage, newspaper advertising, salaries
and travelling expenses of
speakers and the Presidential nominee.
WANTS DEMOCHATS TO WIN.
Father of Teddy's Running Mat? is a
Good Democrat.
At Sacramento Gov. Marshall of
Indiana, Democratic vice-presidential
nominee, criticised Gov. Johnson of
California, his opponent on the Progressive
ticket, in addressing an open
air meeting there late Monday. Ilis
reference to Gov. Johnson was made
af'er the Democratic nominee had
been welcomed to Sacramento and
had been wished success by Grover
Johnson, Gov. Johnson's father.
He said Gov. Johnson had told Indiana
how to run its government. He
would not undertake this in California,
but would call his hearers' attention
to the fact that in Indiana
Republican voters were free to vete
for Mr. Taft on a Republican ticket
under a Republican emblem. Such
was not the case in California, he
said.
"I should liko to see California cast
its electoral vote for Woodrow Wilson,"
said Gov. Marshall, "but I want
to s^o it done through the free will
of the voters. I would not like to
see Woodrow Wilson win this state if j
voters were driven to him by a law
which renders them powerless to vote
for their own choice."
my heart. I can go forward in net (or
service, and I make this plea to yon.
"What is life? It is a very snia'l
thing. It is a very short time hero
and my suffering it woul ! soon be
over and I would ho dead. Then it is
i matter of eternity. Hut my preset
plea is that I have sinned, that 1
have suffered the tortures of the
damned, that if I am given another
opportunity, that the hold 1 now have
on God, with the strength of the new
faith I have in Him from out of this
awful sin. 1 believe that I can go out
into the dives of sin in this State and
he of service to my State and my God
in reclaiming the evil-doers, in saving
the State great expense and in redeeming
them of their crimes and
sins.
"I believe truly that T can he of
great. service to my God and my fellow
man. I love my life, it s true,
but T simply feel that in view of this
now conception, life is a very small
matter. Life Is not eternal: it is a
mere temporary existence. That
which comes from God. to God must
fdliirn Cr? for* n a 5a r> rt r ?"> r> ft
if Is very small; It is the greater
something which comes after."
Tn closing his confession Vaughn
! mado a plea that ho be allowed to
live in order to prove to his wife
that ho could reform and bo a good
man. *
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Hungry Hull Cores Owner.
A prize Jersey bull, angry at not
being given his morning feed, attacked
i's owner. O. TT. Solman, a young
"armor of Pouglnssvllle, da., at the
^tote Fair grounds at Macon Friday
corning, and seriously injured him
^tandors-hy lassoed the hull end provented
It from trampling the prosrate
man to death.
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I HORRIBLE STORY'
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rOLD BY AN ORPHAN GIRL IN THE
VAUGHAN TRIAL.
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LVIDENCE IS SHOCKING
I'he Testimony on the Whole is l'n- %{
printable, ami Only a Characteriza- '
tion of the Horrible Iiecital of the j
Crimes as Told by the Girl is Given 1
Below.
A pretty 17-year-old orphan girl
of Graniteville, A'ken county, prosecutrix
in an Indictment handed
down by the grand jury last Monday
against Thurston U. Vaughn, former
superintendent of the South Carolina
Odd Fellows' orphanage, assistant
superintendent of the largest
Sunday school in the city and jteacher
of a college tor girls' Bible class,
took the witness stand in the court
of general sessions at Greenville Friday
and for eight hours told a story
that Friday night is upon many
tongues in Greenville and fills twice
us many ears. With one day of testifying
shifted behind the scenes of
time not half of tlio witnesses summoned
in the case have yet been put
on the stand. What testimony they
will offer no one knows and the
people stand aghast and wonder what
the morrow will bring.
As a whole, the testimony offered
is unprintable. A general characterization
of it is, however, permissible.
The witness stated, beginning in
June, 1908, illicit relations with the
defendant extended over a period of
four years and ended only this spring
when she was removed from
Vaughn's private home in the city
and sent to her sister's home at
Graniteville. In December, 190S,
she testified, she submitted to an alleged
criminal operation to relieve
her of her embarrassing condition.
Revolting stories of barbarous i
treatment which she alleges Vaughn
showed her wore woven into her testimony.
This treatment, she alleged,
consisted of heatings administer-;
ed with sticks, hoards, switches, his]
hand and "most anything else." The i
last beating which she said Vaughn {
gave her was last spring after j
Vaughn had resigned at the orphan
age and had brought her to live with |
him at his home in the city. On this
occasion, sin; alleges, the defendant
beat her until she fainted. A physician
was sent t'otr, she alleges, and
Vaughn told hirtK ,hat. the girl had
received a severe*-. 11 from which
she fainted. Jr,
Though the erosw-examination was
grilling, the girl's story was unshaken
in the main when Blie was taken
down from the stand.
Two well known physicians of the
city were examined. One gave ex- '
pert testimony along the line of what !
would bring about relief for one who
was in the condition which the girl
alleges she found herself. The other
physician had treated tho girl after
the alleged operation had been
performed, but neither took any part .
in nor had any knowledge of such an
operation having been performed. lie
testified as to the condition in which
he found the child.
A tiiiy cnna, sistor 01 tne prosecu- i
trix, was (ho fourth witness called. |
The littlo giil sat 011 the edge of the j
witness chair, her feet scarcely reaching
the floor, and told what she
knew. The witness appeared too
young to realize what was going on. |
She was asked a few simple questions
which she answered in a child's
way. She stated that she had slept
with her sister at the orphan home,
that sometimes at night her sister
was taken out of the room and carried
somewhere, that she sometimes
returned the same night and some- |
times remained out all night. Eyes
glistened with moisture as they bo- I
hold the pitiful spectacle in the dim '
light of the few flickering gas .lets i
that disturbed the gathering darkness
in flreenville's crumbling tern- !
plo of just ice. *
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rOWKKS MAY INTMHYKm
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All I'ur< po Surprised at Successes of
1'nlkan Allies. I
A dispatch from London says the
early capture of Kirk-Killisseh was
a groat surprise, even to Rulgarian
staff otlicers and (heir allies, and the'
swift progress of the war was unext\r>Mrwl
ii\* ill.* t'lirnnmns irenerallv.
It lias been only nine days since Turkey
declared war and yet events bavo
inarched to the point where the pos- !
sihility of intervention by the Powers
already is talked of.
Much interest centres in the na-|
ture of the alliance of the TTalknn ,
States. Tt. is said on good authority
that one of the provisions of that al-!
Ilance is that no one shall conclude
peace without the others ugrering to
do so.
Next in importance to the operation
in Thrace is the struggle he-j
twoen the Servians and the Turks In
the Kumavo region. Constantinople
at last admits the success of the Servian
army. The Servians captured!
two towns, Vuohitrin and CJilan, on
?he road between Mitrovita and
Vranya.
The Montenegrins are pressing
their attack on Scutari. Tt is reported
that the Turkish garrison at Ssutnri
has retired to the heights of Sa
drtna, south of the town. This notion
fs intornretod as a preparation
to evaouato Scutari. i
Tho Outlook savs tho flnlkan diolomats
In Ton^on doclaro their oh-J
met Is the Balkans for tho Balkan
people and In ease of victory tho demands
which will ho included In a
note to Turkey, will he their mini-'
mum rooutromeuts. They will not
sit In the ante-room while the Pow-'
o^s allot the anolls nor will they ne-;
cent any temporary patching of near'
Kastern problems. ,
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HAV1RD GETS FREEDOM
IUCH MAN WHO TRIED TO RD)I
OVER YOUNG LADY.
interesting Comment Made to ttt
Jury that Convicted Him by Judft
Sease.
Pope B. Havird. a rich farmer Of
Saluda County, was paroled by Governor
Please on Saturday. HavirA
was convicted in March, 1911, ui
tiie charge of trying to ride down
and abusing a young woman school
teacher on the public highway la
that county because sho whipped one
of his children, who was a pupil
in her school. 11^ was sentenced to
five years on the public works 61
Saluda county on the specific charge
of assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature.
"Parole this said Pope D. Havird
upon the condition of good behavior
and upon the further condition tliA
if he violate any of the criminal laws
of this State and be convicted thereof
thereafter that he shall be retrrneB
to the State penitentiary to serve thfi
remainder of the sentence in the case
for which the parole was granted."
This statement was made by the govTliis
statement was made by the governor
in the official parole sent to the
office of the secretary of State.
According to a dispatch received
from Saluda and published Friday,
March 0, 1911, Havird was found
guilty of assault and battery of a
high and aggragavated nature and
sentenced to five years on the county
chaingang wihout the alternative of
a fine. When the verdict, was brought
in, according to the account of the
trial received from Saluda, .Judge
Sease, In passing sentence, said:
"The testimony in this case shows
that you allowed your passions to lie
aroused, that you took vour shotgifa
and your wife in your buggy and endeavored
to ride down this young
ladv because she had corrected one of
your children in school. Other luaVters
which have come out in this
court room show that you have been
accustomed to try to take the law ii?to
your own hands to wreak vensn*ance
upon those whom you hav?
thought had wronged you. In passing
sentence 1 shall have to pass on?
whose punishment shall be commonsura
tor with the charge. 1 can not
make the sentence a light one. It
must he severe. Ton have had as
fair and Impartial a trial as could be
given any man. It is a notable f ''*t
out the 2 0-odd .lurors sworn in this
case only one said that he had formed
an opinion of your guilt."
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FI ND WAS GIVFX HACK,
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McCormick's Oontttfto to Canape
ign Declined.
\V. J. Bryan, campaigning In behalf
of Governor Wilson's eaiulid*C),
shot across Southeastern Michigan
Friday, making over a dozen
speeches in as many cities and returning
to Detroit Friday night to
address a Democratic mass meeting.
Mr. Bryan devoted considerable ot
his timo to a discussion of campaign
contributions.
In several cities he made tlie announcement
that the treasurer ol
the Democratic national committee
had informed him that the contribution
of $12,600 which Cyrus HL
McCormick, of Chicago, had made to
Governor Wilson's campaign, had
been returned.
Mo referred to Mr. McCormick kb
being connected with the International
Ilarveeter Company, and said
that despite Mr. McCormick was a
college man and lifelong friend or
Coventor Wilson t lie contribution
had been refused on the ground thai
the acceptance of it might cause
political opponents to charge that
the Wilson campaign had become
indebted to persons to concerns Involved
In government litigation.
WOMAN GETS LIKE SENTEXCJL
Fanatic Confesses Comniitting Mn**
teen Minders.
At T nfayette, l.a., Clementine llernabet,
tlio negro "axe woman" and
follower of (ho Church of Steriflc?,
whoso confessed nuinliTs number
nine e n, \v; r Friday I'opt ' n My of
and was sent* m ml to llfo
imyv'!oonment in the Stat p eiicatia
rv.
The negroes of the community,
who ha ( feared her, bo ii b e of
the crimes she had committed and
for the "evil eye" they hdievcl she
possessed, had threatened to iy^ch
her should she bo acquitted. The
woman's trial began Friday on one
charge, that of having killed the wife
of Norbert "Randall. All of her vt?lims
were negroes.
A year ago the negro woman*?
father, Raymond Rernnhot, and her
hi other, Zepherln Tlernabot. were
convicted for murders that the ":n
woman" later confessed to having
e/\rvi?oitfn^ \17hnf rlicsnAolt inn r\oui
VI/ 111 < (1 I I l* \l I TT IIU? V IVII livn
will bo made of their cases has not
been determined.
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ItcsriKMl FYom Ruining Ship.
The steamship Asiatic Prince reported
at New York the rescue of
thirteen men from the burning
steamer Fa pun dee Vatella, off the
Pra'/illian coast, October 7. The ship
bad caught Are from chemicals In
her hold. There were forty ban <U,
all told, aboard, 18 of whom wwre
drowned and nine of whom ware
picked up by another vessel.
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Car Strike !n Columbia OiT.
The strike of the motormen and
orn<mcTorB 01 me (joiumms street
Railway was ended Friday afternoon,
when representatives of tho striking
carmen and th? officials of the o?re*t
railway signed an agreement satisfactory
to both sides and the strike
was declared off. Tlio Rtrcet enti
Ms resumed their regular schedules.
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