The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 21, 1913, Image 4
MOB HANGS NElO
TAKES HIM FROM LAURENS JAIL
TO HIS DEATH
ATTACKED
YOUNG LADY
ly nchers Honiniii IM'af to Pica of Officers
of the Law and Hatter Down
Three Iron Doors, Securing Prisoner?Body,
Diddled With Bullets,
llangs From Trestle,
llichard Puckett, a negro about
twentv-fivfl Vnnru 1/Y uncnoni,.,!
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having attacked with criminal intent
a young white woman while she was
driving to Laurens Monday morning,
was taken from the jail at Laurens
about 10:30 o'clock Monday night
and lynched by a determined mob of
at least 2,00 0 men.
The crowd carried out its purpose
despite the pleadings of Sheriff John
D. Owings and Solictor R. A. Cooper
that the law be allowed to take its
course, the solicitor proming a speedy
trial for the negro at an extra term
of court. For two hours before the
lynching these oilicials talked to tlie
crowd in an effort to prevent the consummation
of the latter's plans, but
only deaf ears were turned to their
entreaties.
Puckett was taken to a point near
the union depot, about three hundred
yards from the jail, swung from
a cross beam of the railroad trestle
and his body riddled with bullets.
After taking the life of the prisoner
the mob, apparently satisfied, quietly
dispersed, and half an hour afterwards
the only thing to indicate that
a tragedy had been enacted was the
lifeless body of the negro swinging
from the trestle. At one o'clock
Tuesday morning it had not been removed.
Soon after Puckett's arrest on suspicion
there were signs of impending
trouble, for which the sheriff prepared
by swearing in a number of deputies,
about ten in all, to guard the
jail from the expected attack. The
mob rapidly increased in numbers,
and when it was decided to take the
negro the oflicers were powerless to
prevent.
The mob first broke through nn
Iron gate, thereby gaining entrance
to the jail yard and sweeping the officers
aside. They then ascended a
flight of stairs leading from the yard
to the second floor of the jail, where
the nogro was locked in a cell.
BTeaking through two steel doors
and securing their prey was the
work of but a short time for the
hundreds of lynchers, and soon began
the march to the scene of the
lynching.
Although it is said that Puckett
confessed his guilt in the afternoon
to Sheriff Owings, he denied all
knowledge of the crime just before
being sent into eternity. Puckett
had been in trouble before, having
served a term on the chain gang.
The victim of the crime for which
the life of the negro was taken is a
young widow of prominent family
connections in this county. She is
about thirty years of ago and has a
son a,bout Ave. She was on her way
to Laurens to see a sister, who is ill
at the hospital, when attacked. She
is reported to be in a highly nervous
state, due to fright, although her
condition is not serious.
WALKED IN HIS SLEEP
Fell From a Third Story Window of
His Charleston Home.
Neale Rowe, walking in his sleep
early Wednesday morning fell from
the third story window of his home
in Charleston and sustained injuries
which are not expected to prove fatal,
notwithstanding the distance that
he fell. Mr. Rowe has the habit of
walking in his sleep, and at the hospital
he recalled the motive of his
dream which induced him to leave
his bed and accidentally take the
tumble. He dreamed that his wife
requested him to get her some water
and with a pitcher of water in his
hand lie took hia tnmhlo in a
was partly broken by coming in contact
with a banister rail, which Rowe
probably seized in the course of his
fall.
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Killed by Negro.
Roy Jossey, a Lee County farmer,
twenty-seven years old, was shot and
hilled Monday night by Dock Matthews,
a negro who escaped. Jossey
was one of a party of young men
who went to Matthews' homo to inquire
as to a Winchester rifle in his
possession. Jossey entered tho house
and Matthews shot and killod him.
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To Develop Inland Waterway.
A report was made to Congress
Wednesday by. tho Secretary of War
transmitting the recommendation of
the board of engineers that an expenditure
of $430,000 be made to provide
an improved inland waterway
between Columbia, Camden and
Charleston, S. C.
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Very often the reputation of some
of the friends of a candidate drives
away good people from him.
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LOOKS LIKE MURDER
IIODY or 1X)IjLKTON MAX FOl M)
WITH 1IOLK IX HEAD.
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Discovered in Swamp by Searchers ,
After Failure to Return Home?
Man in .Jail on Sustpicion.
What may prove to bo a sensational
and horriblo murder was
brought to light late Sunday afternoon,
when the body of Aquila
Blocker, a young man of twenty-one
years, was found in a small swamp,
about six miles from Walterboro,
with a gunshot wound in his head.
I. M. Eemacks, another young man
of the same community, has been
committed to jail charged with the
supposed crime.
Mocker loft home on Saturday, it
is said, with a considerable sum of
money to purchase cattle. Me did
not return that night, but his people
were not alarmed until his mule
and dog returned on Sunday morning.
A search was immediately instituted.
A lady in the community, it is
said, remembered seeing Lemacks
and Mocker enter a small swamp
nearby and later heard a gun lire,
which, at the time, she paid no attention
to.
The searchers, hearing this alleged
statement, entered the swamp and
found the body of Blocker, with a
holo through his head. It was also
brought out at the Inquest that Tiemacks
was seen to enter tho swamp
again on Sunday morning.
Lemacks, on Sunday, had joined
tho search, had visited at the home
of Mocker's parents, and was present
and testified at tho coroner's inquest
held late Sunday night. The
verdict of the jury at the inquest was
that Blocker had come to his death
by gunshot wounds at the hand of I.
M. Lemacks, whereupon Lemacks, at
an early hour Monday morning, was
lodged in jail at Walterboro.
Both young men are well known
throughout the country, and both
have large numbers of friends.
FA KM EH HOLTS BANDIT.
Drives Automobile Over Man Who
Tric<l to Hold Him Uu.
The State Chester correspondent
says W. H. Ferguson, a well known
planter of that county, while motoring
homo in his touring car near
Great Falls Wednesday, was approached
by two highwaymen. He
slowed his car down a little, but the
men ordered him to stop. At llrst he
refused. To stop a fusillade of whiskey
and ginger ale bottles that were
flying at him from the two men, he
was forced to stop. As lie did so one
of the highwaymen walked in front
of the car and pointed a revolver in
his face and told him that if he dared
to run his car another foot ho would
kill him.
Apparently the highwayman believed
that he had Mr. Ferguson now
under control. After a slight lull in
the man's speech, with lightning-like
quickness Mr. Ferguson threw on all
the speed his high powered car could
command and in a second tlio highwayman
had been hurled to the
ground and run over by the car. His
confederate escaped to the woods
nearby.
Realizing that the highwayman
was hurt, Mr. Ferguson ran his car
back to him, where ho was found to
be in a serious condition. A physician
was summoned and it was found
that three of his ribs were broken
and that ho had received severe
bruises. He is still seriously ill. Ills
name has not yet been ascertained.
If he recovers ho will bo carried to
jail.
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LIM) LANDS SAFELY.
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No Opposition is Met by Wilson's
Special Messenger.
Not the slightest opposition was
planned by tho port authorities at
Vera Cruz to tho landing of John
Lind, who was expected to arrive on
hoard the battleship New Hampshire
about noon Tuesday.
Awaiting Mr. Lind's arrival were
the American Consul, Wm. W. Canada,
and Dr. William Bayard Hale,
personal representative of President
Wilson. Mr. Lind proceeded casually
to Mexico City, and there his reception
was uneventful.
The attitude of the authorities is
taken generally as a reflection of
what may be expected at tho Mexican
capital. They regard Mr. Lind simply
as a private traveler. The public
discusses his coming languidly with
no indication of resentment.
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Seven Are Drowned.
Seven of twenty-three persons in a
launch party were drowned in St.
Louis bay near Duluth, Minn., Wednesday,
when a canopy top, used for
Reats on the launch Dauplaise, gave
way and fourteen persons were
thrown into the water.
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Ammunition Near Fire.
Within a few feet of two large
boxes, In which more than 9,000
rounds or ammunition were stored,
a slow fire burned a large hole In the
roof of the auditorium armory at Atlanta,
Wednesday.
A WUNULKFUL PROCESS
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MAN SAYS HE CAN ARTIFICIALLY
MATURE COTTON.
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Subjects Green Bolls to Chemical
Treatment and in Few Hours Cotton
is Fully Developed.
Every now and then the world Is
surprised by the perfection of some
great invention, but wo feel sure thai
none has been more wonderful than
one claimed by Prof. John 11. Hall,
of Philadelphia, in a talk at Barnwell.
He came to Barnwell, referred
to Col. Ilarry 1). Calhoun, by Commissioner
E. J. Watson, in order to
try bolls for experimental purposes
jit his station in Pennsylvania. We
copy tho following from The Hamwell
People of Thursday in regard to
his visit to that city:
That with a new process that he
has only recently perfected he can
do In two hours what it takes Nature
weeks to accomplish and do it better
at that, was the assertion made by
John B. Hall, of Philadelphia, to a
number of planters and representative
business men in the directors'
room of the Home Hank of Harnwell
Friday evening. For an hour or
inoro Mr. Hall told of tho results that
have been accomplished and it was
like listening to a fairy tale, wherein
tho good fairy waves her magic wand
and unheard of things happen. Hut
that ho was in earnest no one doubted.
He was not trying to sell anything:
ho had no apparent reason to
wish to humbug any one; he was not
asking for something for nothing?
on the contrary, ho paid and was
willing to pay well for what he wanted:
i. c., green bolls of cotton. He
bought several hundred pounds of
short and long staple cotton bolls at
from five to seven and a half cents a
pound, depending on the variety of
the cotton, and in addition made arrangements
for the purchase of several
thousand pounds more to he
shipped to Philadelphia, where the
experiments are being carried on at
a government station.
Mr. Hall exhibited a number of
open bolls of cotton which he said
were matured by his process. One
of them was partly rotted, while another
had been punctured by the boll
weevil in several places. Yet they
had opened and by dyeing the staple
a part of it can ho used. The boll
weevil has cost tho farmers of the
southwest millions of dollars by destroying
tho bolls before they have
reached maturity. Mr. Hall claims
that with his process the boll weevil
will bo starved out.
At present the experiments are being
carried on secretly as letters
patent have not yet been secured, but
tho method of procedure is as follows:
Instead of waiting until the
bolls have fully opened and the cotton
is damaged by the weather, the
green bolls are picked "like roses".
It doesn't matter if they are one,
two, three, four or five weeks from
maturity. They are then poured into
an immense hopper and pass into the
machine where tho maturing process
is done. Then tho seed cotton is
separated from tho .boll and is carried
to the gin.
Hut what is just as wonderful is
that Mr. Hall states that the by-pro|
ducts that can be made from bolls
| and stalks are as valuable as the cotton
itself. Ho stated that an excellent
grado of rubber, paper pulp and
gunpowder are among tho by-prod
ucts.
Now, if he can "make good" on his
claims he is perhaps tho most wonderful
man of tho age. Think a minute
what it would mean. A saving
of waste by eliminating immature or
frost-bitten bolls and of the cotton
that is blown off by tho wind after
maturity. The saving of labor, for
by picking the whole bill from the
plant one workman could do the
work of several. It now i:osts something
like $100,000,000 a year to
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m? uouon crop or the South
and by cutting this in half there
would ho a saving of $50,000,000
yearly.
It is claimed that the plants could
ho placed closer together and more
grown to the aero than is now the
case, and that tho farmers would he
more careful in their seed selection.
Now as to the texture of the staple
that is artificially matured: Mr. Hall
claims that it is far superior to the
same grade of cotton naturally matured
"because cotton as matured
now on the field while waiting to be
picked, is subjected to the dews or
chill of the night followed by the
heat of the sun next day or possibly
some days of rain or climatic conditions
of some kind, together with the
dirt or dust blown on the cotton. The
gloss on tho artificially matured cotton
would he of a brilliancy and
whiteness, free from all weather
stains, far superior to that possible
on any cotton naturally matured and
i exposed to deteriorating weather con
ditions. Tho fibre also would certntr?lv
hn munU ofPAT>nmi> ~~ ~
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I reason." It is pointed out that by
picking the bolls three weeks or a
month before maturity the strength
of the plant would would be increased
and the remaining bolls would
grow larger from the increased substance
they would obtain from the
plant, and in addition the bolls would
be saved from the weather and Insect
pests. The use of this process would
also result in the saving of the top
WIFE SLAYS HUSBAND 1
MOT! I Kit OF NINE KILLS HIM IN
SELF-DEFENCE. I
Herself Dangerously Wounded She
says He Heat Her and Stabbed Her
in Chest.
Using the pistol with which her
husband, Henry Clay Grubb, killed
her brother, Obadiah Davis, eight
years ago, Mrs. Grubb shot and killed
Grubb early Saturday at the home
of the couple, six miles from Salisbury,
N. C. He was worth $500,000
and had had many strange adventures.
The woman has not been arrested.
She was dangerously wounded in
what she says was an encounter forced
on her by her husband. Accord- (
ing to her story lie returned home,
drunk, soon after midnight, beat her,
clipped off a pieco of her ear and
stabbed her in the chest.
To save her own life, she alleges, |
she drew the pistol that had ended
her brother's life and with it ended
that of her brother's slayer. Her
story is, the police state, partly corroborated
by the stories of her children,
of whom there are nine.
Grubb was forty years old and until
North Carolina went dry, was a
distiller there. Then he moved his
business to Florida and Virginia. lie
was the leader in many fights in
Boon? Township, the last "feudal"
township in interior North Carolina,
lie was acquitted of blame in the
killing of his wife's brother. It was
a duel. On the way home, just after
Davis died, Grubb was shot by two
negroes and was almost killed.
Then his home was burned. lie
; once fought a street duel at Salisbury
with Jim Green. lie also had
attacked Assistant Superintendent of
Public Instruction when the latter
was making a public address. Grubb
was the wealthiest man in Davidson
County.
Face to Face.
Sad mortal, couldst thou but know
What truly it means to die,
The wings of thy soul would glow,
i And the hopes of thy heart beat
high;
Thou would turn from the Pyrrlionist
schools,
i And laugh their jargon to scorn,
As the babble of midnight fools
j Ere the morning of Truth be born:
. I3ut I, earth's madness above,
. In a kingdom of stormless breath?
i I gaze on the glory of love
1 In tho unveiled face of Death.
I tell thee his face is fair
As the moon-bow's amber rings,
And tho gleam in his unbound hair
Like the flush of a thousand
springs:
His face is the fathomless beam
Of the star-shine's sacred light,
When the summers of Southland
dream
In the lap of holy night;
, For I, earth's blindness above,
, In a kingdom of halycon breath?
i I gaze on the marvel of love
In the unveiled face of Death.
In his eyes a heaven there dwells,
But they hold few mysteries now,
' And his pity for earth's farewells
Half furrows that shining brow;
Souls taken from Time's (jold tide
He folds to his fostering breast.
And the tears of their grief are dried ,
Ere they enter tho courts of rest;
And still, earth's madness above,
In a kingdom of stormless breath,
I gaze on alight that is love
In the unveiled face of Death.
Through tho splendor of stars impearled
In the glow of their far-off grace,
lie is soaring world by world <
With souls in his strong embrace;
Lone ethers unstirred by a wind 1
i At tho passage of Death grow i
sweet, t
With the fragrance that floats behind
The flash of his winged re'reat; <
! And I, earth's madness above, ]
'Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath, i
Have gazed on a luster of love <
In the unveiled face of Death. i
Hut beyond the stars and the sun,
I can follow him still on his way, .
Till the pearl-white gates are won
In the calm of the central day. ,
Far voices of fond acclaim
Thrill down from the place of souls
As Death, with a touch like flame,
Uncloses the goal of goals; (
| And from heaven of heavens above, '
God speaketh with bateless breath: <
My angel of perfect love
Is the angel men call Death.
?Paul Hamilton Hayne.
> First New Hale.
The first bale of the 1013 crop was
1 sold at Barnwell Tuesday by R. IT.
Lutz to J. A. Porter for 15 cents a
! pound. It was immediately shipped
I by express to F. W. Wagener & Co.,
of Charleston. Mr. Uutz, a progressive
planter, who lives a few miles
i from Barnwell, has carried off first
- bale honors a number of times.
crop, which is so often killed by
frost.
The time consumed In maturing by
the Hill process la said to be very
short, ranging from two to three
hours. It is estimated that one man
can mature from six to ten bales a
day, according to the size of the machine.
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WILL NOT OLT ANY
NATIONAL BANKS LtNDING MONEY
FOR SPECULATION
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WILL GET NO CROP MONEY
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Policy Announced Shows That Government
Money Will Go Only to
Those Institutions That Intend to
Use it as Contemplated by Treasury
Department.
Hanks that borrow or loan money
for speculative purposes will be denied
any portion of the $50,000,000
ui uuvernmeni iuikis about to bo doposited
in national banks to assist in
moving crops. The entire amount
will go to institutions that earnestly
strive to meet the currency demands
of the agricultural sections.
This policy of the treasury department
was announced Tuesday, when
Acting Comptroller of tho Currency
Kane, in connection with a call for
tho condition of national banks at
the close of business August 9, asked
every national hank in the country
to report detailed information or
all money loaned or borrowed.
Upon the basis of this data, expected
to be available in time for the distribution
of the $50,000,000, the
treasury department will aim to differentiate
between banks that borrow
or loan in connection with speculative
operations or are chronic borrowers,
and those that endeavor to
relieve financial strain wherever it
exists.
Information of this character, it
was announced, now will be regularly
obtained by the comptroller of the
currency as a feature of his calls for
tho condition of national banks in
order that tho treasury department
may know what sections of the country
are in need of additional circulation
at various periods of the year.
This innovation is a forerunner of
other material changes in the character
of information banks will be
required in the future to furnish the
Government. The forms which have
been in use for years are being studied
with a view to further steps to
obtain detailed information.
Acting Comptroller Kane issued
this statement:
"All banks have been requested to
send in, on special forms furnished
ror that purpose, detailed statements
of all money loaned to other banks
as well as all money borrowed from
other banks in the form of rediscounts,
bills payable or in any other
manner.
"The new form will enable the
comptroller to more easily determine
what sections of the country are in
need of additional circulation at stated
periods of the years, what banks
accommodate their correspondents in
such sections and, in addition, should
also enablo tho comptroller to more
easily ascertain what banks borrow
in order to meet legitimate discounts
and varying conditions, and what
banks should be listed as chronic
borrowers?that is, those which borrow
to reloan in normal times.
"This amplification of reports of
the condition is in line with the policy
to obtain from those reports as
much information as possible to
serve practical as well as statistical
purposes. With this end in view the
forms used by tho department are
being analyzed and considered."
One primary purpose in seeking
detailed information is to discover
which banks are borrowing for speculative
purposes and which are borrowing
to meet the legitimate financial
needs of the country. The treasury
department, it was said, wants
to single out the institutions that are
not using their resources to help the
crop-moving period, so that it would
be in a position to decline them special
deposits of the Government to
relieve stringency and place the
money with banks that are sending
currency to districts where it is
needed.
The Information collected probably
will be available to Congress for use
in connection with the question of
amendment the pending currency
bill.
Many private documents belonging
both to the Governor and to Mrs.
Sulzer, have disappeared.
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SECURITY OF DEPOSE
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ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH.
iM. L. ZUCK,
GEORGE J. HOLIDAY.
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Robert B. Scarborough, D.
President.
THE HORRY HERALD
CONWAY, S. C.
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ZACHRY CASE CONFUSED.
Requisition Refused?Georgia Supreme
Court Itevorsos Decision.
Tho Supreme Court of Georgia
Tuesday reversed the decision of
Judge Hammond, of Augusta, awarding
the two Zachry children to the
, father, J. J. Zachry thereby further
complicating the sensational case in.
which requisition papers by Governor
Dlease for Zachry were refused by
Governor Slaton Tuesday.
Acocrding to the ruling of the Supremo
Court, the decision awarding
the children to the father is reversed
and remanded to Judge Hammond's
Court for further hearing. The rilling
further specifies his discretion in
awarding tho custody of the children,
which is contrary to the opinion rendered
by Judge Hammond, who held
previously that ho was forced to
award the children to Zachry becauso
of a previous judgment.
Drowns While liathing.
While in bathing Saturday afternoon
in the Haile Gold Mine nond
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three miles distant from Kershaw,
Robert Love was drowned. Young
Love swam to the head of the pond
and was returning when lie went under
from exhaustion. None of his
companions would go to his rescue.
Burned to Death.
Geneva and Evelyn Braddy, 2 0 and
12 years old, respectively, were burned
to death late Sunday night near
Bartow Fla., when thier home was
destroyed by fire. A younger child
was also badly injured but will recover.
? HORRY,
y. S, C.
.PLUS OF ANY BANK IN IIORRY
tINED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF
NTY.
$50,000
12,500
(HOLDERS. . .. 50,000
rORS 112,500
;tors
W. A. JOHNSON,
"WILL A PUPTAW
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D. V. RICHARDSON.
OMMODATION WHICH THEIR AC- 4
SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.
T. Richardson, Will A.
Vice-President n Cashier.