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FIND FRANK GIULTV NO RECOMMENDATION TO MERCY ? BY ATLANTA JURY THRONG LIKES VERDICT Populace Shows Its Approval by a Noisy Demonstration When .Jury's Finding Is Announced?Solicitor Liftod on Men's Shoulders and Triumphantly Carried Off. Leo M. Frank, convicted late Monday of the murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan, flowed no vlHible signs of emotion early Monday night when informed that he had been found guilty. The factory superintendent's wife, with him when the message was delivered, collapsed. More than an hour before Frank was notified the jury's verdict of murder in the first degree was received with a noisy demonstration by a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 persons that jammed the street. All spectators were excused from the Court room before the verdict was announced. Fly agreement of counsel the prisoner was permitted to remain in his cell at tlio county iail Only lawyers, Court ofllcials and newspaper men heard the verdict rendered. After listening to the presentation of the evidence and argument of counsel for more than four weeks the jury retired at 12:47 o'clock Monday afternoon when Judge Roan concluded his charge. Shortly after 4 o'clock it was announced that a verdict had been reached, but it was nearly f> o'clock before the jury returned to the Court room. At 4:50 o'clock Foreman Wlnburne read the verdict It contained no recommendation to mercy. As the news was flashed to the crowd outside there was loud cheering. Mounted policemen rode through the crowd to disperse it, but the demonstration continued unabated. Solicitor Hugh Horsey, who conducted the prosecution, was the first person to leave the Court room. As he stepped into the street he was lifted to the shoulders of several men and carried for more than a hundred feet through the shouting throng. Mary Phagan's body bearing marks of violence was found in the basement of the National Pencil Factory early Sunday morning, April 27. The girl previously had been employed at lllO fflntnrv nml l\n<l trnno tlini'n .. i noon, April 2C>, for her wages. Near her body was found two notes, on which were accusations against a "long black negroe." Newt bee, negro night watchman of the factory, who found the body, Immediately was arrested on suspicion. Superintendent Frank and several others connected with the factory were detained several days later. Among these was James Conlev, negro sweeper. Frank's trial began July 2S. The State built a basis of circumstantial evidence and then called James Conley to the stand to give the only direct testimony against the defendant, Conley swore that he had stood guard outside the factory office while Frank wns closeted with the pretty 14-yearold girl, and that later be helped Frank carry the body to the basement. The negro also told a story of other alleged incidents at tho factory ofTice, charging the defendant with degeneracy. The defence's attorney's attacked Conley's veracity by attempting to prove an alibi for their client and by producing three previous nflirlnvits in u'iilfii Uia nnnrn told widely varying stories of the crime. Late In the trial tho defendant took the stand, making a statement of general denial. He said he paid Mary Phagan her wages on tho daj she disappeared, and that she left hit ofTleo immediately Judge Roan's charge to the jury delivered immediately after he hac overruled a motion of tho defeno< for a mistrial, was terso and direct With reference to "reasonable doubt' ho said: "You are not compell ed to find from the evidence his guilt beyond any doubt, but beyond f reasonable doubt, such a doubt a: grows out of the evidence, or for tin want of evidence; such a doubt as i reasonable and impartial man wouh entertain about matters of the high est importance to himself, and afte all reasonable efforts to ascertain tie truth This does not mean a fanci ful doubt, one conjured up by tho ju ry." During the trial much stress wa placed by both sides on the ouestioi of Frank's character. Judge Itoa: charged the jury that while evidenc of the defendant's good reputatio previous to the death of Mary lMiap on was to bo considered possibly a creating a doubt of his guilt, such cm idence would not suffice to clear hir if, in the opinion of the jury, othe testimony was sufficient to show thfi he had committed the crime chargo against him. On Tuesday Judge Roan sentence Frank to death, the date of the ex< cutlon .being fixed as October 10. A torneys for the defence made motio for a new trial and the date sot fc .... .1, . AGAINST PROTECTION < ? SMITH MARKS STRONG SPEECH ON TilK TARIFF I Inconsequent Nature of Republican Argumont for Protection Kxplod- ( <hJ by Carolina Senator. A special dispatch to tlie State from its Washington correspondent, v says that. Senator E. I). Smith of South Carolina Monday made what was pronounced by many senators to bo one of the strongest tarifT speeches that lias been delivered during this session of Congress. The cotton schedule was under consideration and Senator Smith made a plea for tho American laborer against the im- ] migrant laborer. , He took up the claim of the manu- i facturers of New England that they i need protection for the benefit of the i American laborer, and showed by the reports of the Immigration commission that f!8 for cent, of the emplo>ees in New England cotton mills are foreign born, while 29 per cent, are native born of foreign parents and only 9.4 per cent, are native born of native parents. His argument was that the manufacturers, after getting high tariff duties under the guise of benefiting American labor, had imported cheap immigrant labor and had supplanted American labor. Ho also undertook to show that there had been a great decrease in the cost of production, by reason of improved machinery, but the wages of the operatives had not increased in proportion. Ho denounced the plea for protection for the benefit of American labor as a delusion and a snare, not warranted by any facts, and went on to show that, of course, the wages paid the native cotton mill labor ia the South was largely kovored by tho wages paid the cheap immigrant labor in tho mills of Now England. Senator Smith's speech attracted much attention as he used a line of argument that had not been heard before during this session. His argument was made more forcible by reason of the fact that tho report of tho immigration commission, from which he quoted, was made by two Republican Senators from New England, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator Dillingham of Vermont He was interrupted bv Senators Smoot of Utah, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Lippitt of Rhode Island, and others, but they were not able to shake tho force of his arguments. He was warmly congratulated by Senators on both shies of tho chamber on having advanced some new and telling arguments on the tariff question as it applies to American labor. FAITHFUL. It is something sweet when tho world goes ill, To know you are faithful and love me still; To see, when tho sunshine has left the skies, I lie lovelight shining in your dear , eyes; Beautiful eyes more dear to me Than all the wealth of the world could ho! It la something, dearest, to feel you near When life with its sorrows seems hard to bear; To feel, when I falter, the clasp divine Of your tender and trusting hand in mine; Beautiful hand, more dear to me Than the tenderest things on earth could be! Sometimes, dearest, tho world goes i wrong, . For God gives grief with its gift of song, And poverty, too! But your love is moro I To me than riches and golden store; ' Beautiful love, until death shall i part, It is mine, as you .are?my own sweetheart! I ; A groat deal has i)een said t . tho Spartanburg sheriff who ?un,v ' fully resisted a mob and saved a pris oner. No doubt tho sUoriff is entitled 3 to all tho good .things that lias been \ said of him, hut that mob is due some 3 credit for dispersing without insistB ing. Had it been like some molts * that have gathered in this Stato, 1 Spartanburg would bo making nr rangements to got a now sheriff, r ? o Kills Daughter'.* Seducer. IT1 ,i....... ,i T r* 1.1? ... 1.? J'JllYWlIW (I, I Ml |)l I', l#| V IIIUU^U, >Vllll - killed the man just freed by a jury of the charge of seducing Duprey's s daughter, has hern freed by the jury n under a great mental strain". n .. e the hearing in October 4. This renn ders It certain that Frank will not he C- hanged on the tenth, for if an ads verse ruling Is given to tho motion r- for a new trial an appeal will ho takn en to the Supreme Court, which will >r necessitate a long delay. Judge Koan ordered tho release ol d the negro watchman, Newt Lee. Con ley, the negro whoso testimony wa? d so damaging to Frank's caso, is ex i- pected to he tried and sentenced tc t- about three years for his part of th< n crime. His confession will of course >r help him. SICK MAN LYNCHED? CHARLOTTE MOB TAKES NEGBO . FROM HOSPITAL SHOOT HIM TO DEATH ' >nmll Mob of About Thirty-llvo Men | Stornu'd (iood Samaritan Hospital an<! Drag Victim to the Str<M?ts, Wliere His Hodj is Kiddlinl With HuUcts. TIto first lynching in tho history of Mecklenburg county occurred at 2: 15 a'clock Tuesday morning, when a * mob of about thirty-five men stormBd tho Good Samaritan hospital at Charlotte, N. C , and took therefrom the negro, Joe McNoely, who last week shot Policeman D. L. Wilson, according to a special to The Green vllle Daily Piedmont. Tho crowd threw the negro in the stret in front of tho door and riddled him with bullets, and thereupon dispersed upon the instant. The coup against law and order , was planned and carried through with a minimum of outward disturb ance. it was whispered about the streets in the hours just before midnight that something unusual had been planned but nobody know exactly what it was to In? and most of those who heard the rumors believed that nothing would materialize, that too largo a percentage would recede from their intentions when the critical moment came. The probable success?if such a word Is permissible- -of this under- ' taking was due to the secrecy in the belief of the community's absolute safety from such an uprising, the authorities had permitted the negro to remain in the hospital, instead of removing him to the county jail, or from the county. There had been considerable talk, it is said, but it was not of the housetop variety and ' seemingly nobody took it. with sufficient seriousness to take steps which are ordinarily taken, such as calling out the militia or placing squadrons of police. The negro, who had been chained to prevent the possibility of his escape, was in an upstairs room guarded by two policemen, Ofllcers Karletoii and Everett Earnhardt. About nno n'elnnlr if woe nntorl Hmf w v.. wV ?? ???j iiwia \i i iitti. i \j \i \r r> of 111011 wore standing about on back streets, but the first real intimation given the police was the detonation of fifteen or twenty pistols, as they hurled their leaden missiles into the prostrate form of .Foe McNeely. Only a few seconds, if at all, before the arrival of the mob, it seems, did the authorities at the hospital suspect anything uptownrd. When the crowd arrived, having pursued their way thru the darkened streets of the negro settlement, they found the hospital door shut and locked. One man advanced to the door, hanged on it and called for l'oliceman TOarnhardt. "You'll not get in this house tonight," replied one of the colored women nurses sharply. For answer the man hurled his weight against the door which yielded and the crowd thronged in and up the stairs. Those on the outside say they heard them demand, "Which is the right one?" "Show us the right one." The woman shrieked in terror Never in the history of Charlotte had just suqh a scene been enacted. The two policemen on guard leveled their revolvers at the crowd and ordered them to stand hack, hut the vengeance seekers leaped upon them and tore the nistols from their frrnnn "Then," said a spectator on the outside, narrating his experience afterward, "we heard the clinking of the chains as they brought him down the stairs," The rest must have happened In a very few seconds. A score of pistol flashed in the faint gas light and from the helpless form on the ground came not even a moan. The swiftness with which the mob dispersed, according to those who saw the occurrence, indicate their confidence that their aim had been deadly and that the object of their foray had been accomplished. Hut when the police station was notified, the patrol sent down and the negro's body examined it was found that life was not extinct. Tie was taken to police headquarters. The greatest excitement naturally prevailed In the hospital while the unexpected visitors were achieving thoir gruesome mission. When the mob demanded to know which was the right one,i Joe McNooly, whom they sought, pointed to another negro lying on a bed on the other aide of the room. "That's the man," lie ' cried, "lie's the one you want." "For the Lord's sake, 110," shouted the other. "I'm not the one." The ' intruders forced one of the officers, 1 it is said to say which one was McNooly, in order that a totally Inno' cent man might not he the victim. Tn the pistol duel last Friday in r which Policeman Wilson was virtual ly shot from ambush as he rode on * his motorcycle to arrest McNeely, the - negro received two bullet wounds, > neither of which proved to he serious i but they had necessitated hospital i treatment. McNeely, evidently under the influence of cocaine, was running A :lassified column and farmers exchange ' POULTRY A*I> K(2GH. | t^or Kal??Polaud China pigs of fine breeding. Write for prices. 8. J Summers, Cameron, 8. C. Por Sal??Registered O. I. C. IMgs, 2 to 3 months old at reasonable prices. 'B. P. Jones, Reynolds, (la. Barred Hocks, White Leghorn*? Kggs, 3 6 for $1; chicks, dozen, 1.20; weaners, 35c; half grown, 50c. Marlon Moseley, Jeffers, Va. MIHCKLLANKOUS. I buy all kinds of empty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moors, ) George St., Charleston, S. C. harms for Sale?Largo or small In lower and upper country. Ten to forty dollars per acre. Some bargains. Address Pox 4 43, Greonwood, 8. C. Pile* ran he relieved at ones?SesJ 15c for liberal sample, 4'Llno Plls Remedy," and l>e convinced. Ijfirge size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knight and Co., Manufacturing Pharma ciMB. Lancaster, Fenn. Mnrry If you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs Wrubel, Box 2 6, Oakland, Cal. For Sal?*? 1 10x12 Idddell-Tumpkins just overhauled; 1 Boss cotton press ami 1 70-saw gin, both in good condition. Also a full line of gin and saw mill repair parts. Orangeburg Machine Shop. Dogs?Wanted to buy trained bird dogs for cash. Write E. C. Stark, Commerce, (la. Wanted?By every family. Return if not delighted. Yours for five onecent stamps. S. I). Jones & Co., Melrose, El a. Yes, Hheu Springs hats music nnd dancing. The place you can play golf, tennis, croquet, go fishing, swimming, boating, riding and driving, automobiling. Fine lawn and board walks, nnd the home of the Old Reliable Rhea Springs Water, the best that flows; been tried for a century. No hotter place to recuperate. Fine accommodations. Ratee reasonable. Write for particulars Rhea Springs Co., Rhea Springs, Tenn. 'II110 WOMAN WHO I NDFRSTANHS Somewhere she waits to make you win Your soul in hor firm white hands? Somewhere the gosd have made for you The woman who understands. As the tide went out she found him Lashed to a spar of despair? The wreck of his ship around him, The wreck of his dreams in the air? Found him, and loved him, and gathered I The soul of him to her heart; The soul that had sailed an uncharted sea? The soul that had thought to win and bo free? The soul of which she was part; And there in the dust she cried to the man: "Win your battle?you can?you can." Helping and loving and guiding? Urging when that was best? IT/\1/Hncr hov 11 * r% r? o 1 r? h I /I ! r# t i\/nuii^ 11 V I H (X 1 n 111 11 111 1 11^ Deep In her quiet breast? This is the woman who kept him True to his standard lost, When tossed in the storm and stress and strife, He thought himself through with the battle of life And roadr to pay tho cost, Watching and guarding and whispering still: "Win?you can?and I know you will." This Is the story of ages? Tills Is the woman's way? Wiser than seers or sagos, Lifting us day by day? Facing all things with courago Nothing can daunt or dim: Treading life's i**th wherever It leads? Lined with flowers or choked with weeds, Hut ever with him?with him. Guardian, comrade, nnd Golden Spur, Tho men who win are helped by her. Somewhere she waits, strong in belief, Your soul in her firm white hands; Thank well tho gods when she comes to you? Tho woman who understands. ?J. Appleton. amuck on extreme South Tyron street firing his pistol at whomever approached. Charlotte officials are using ever> effort to uncloak the identity of tlu mob. At a special session the board of aldermen offered a reward of $1,i 000 each for tho apprehension of mer , who comprised tho mob. A coroner's i jury rendered a verdict that tho ne ! gro "came to his death by pistol sho 'wounds in the hands of a mob un ; known to the jury." ACCUSED BY CHILD ? DYING MAN ATTEMPTS TO BLAME HIS DEAD WIFE BUT BABY TELLS TRUTH After Shooting His Wife Man Fntally Wounds Himself?Tells Those Who Hush in That She Shot Herself and Then Him, Hut His Little Child Tells a Different Story, Neighbors who heard half a dozen pistol shots fired late Tuesday night in the cottage of Thomas Furlong, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, of Berwyn, Pa., ran to the place and breaking open the door, found Furlong's young wife, Mary, dead on the dining room floor and the man lying beside her, dying. She had been shot in the abdomen, the right side and the right eye. He had a wound in his right side and another through his brain Their son, John, four years old, was sitting beside the bodies, weeping. A girl of twent V months was crawlinp' nhnnt the floor, entirely undisturbed. Policemen and doctors were summoned. The engineer was conscious, but unable to move. "How did this happen?" demanded the police. "Who did this shooting?" "My wife shot j me," Furlong was able to whisper. . "Then she shot herself. I could not stop her. I fell when I was hit." That explanation sounded rather strange, in view of the three wounds in the woman's body, any of which would have been fatal. Then, too, the revolver was lying niucfc nearer to the man than to the woman. He-1 sides the neighbors and policemen all knew that there had been several recent quarrels between the Furlongs. On account of one of these, Mrs. Furlong had caused her husband's arrest and ho was to have appeared next week at the county seat,, West Chester, Pa., to stand trial for assault and Pa , to stand trial for assault and battery. After his first statement, Furlong lapsed into unconsciousness. The doctors said ho would die within a few hours and would not bo able to speak again. So the police decided to interrogate little John, the four-year-old boy, who might be able to tell them sumci in ng. "What happened, John?" they asked. "Papa came home and he was cross," the little fellow said "He and Mamma were talking loud. Papa got his pistol and pointed it at mami ma and she fell. Then papa pointed it at himself and ho fell too." That settled it. The child was apparently telling the truth. There was corroborative evidence. In Furlong's pocket was found a new box of cartridges, with six missing. He was rushed over to the West Chester hospital, with a police guard. Put there is scarcely any likelihood that his son will ever have to accuse him on the witness stand for his recovery is now deemed impossible. KXIHHISK CrilRKXCY HILL. House Democrats in Caucus (Jive Measure Final Approval. The administration currency bill, after nearly three weeks of discussion, was finally approved by the House Democratic caucus Thnrsdnv night, by a vote of 1 f>3 to 0. The nino dissenters were Representatives Henry, Eagle and Callaway of Texas, Hardwick of Georgia, Lobeck of Nebraska, Buchanan and Fowler of Illinois, Neely of Kansas and Sisson of M ississippi. After agreeing to the bill, the caucus adopted a resolution by an almost unanimous vote, declaring the bill to be a party measure and that "members of this caucus are pledged for the bill to its final passage without amendment: Provided, however, the banking and currency committee may offer amendments in the House." ^ Killed to (Jet Money to Marry. In order to get money with which ho could get married, G II. Davis, ol Plaquinno, La., chloroformed the manager of a hotel and robbed him Ho said that he was the victim of th< high cost of living. BANK OJ Conwj HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SUI 1 COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COM I ALL OTHER HANKS IN THE COl CAPITAL STOCK. . .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP 8TO< SECURITY OP DEPOS DIRE I ROBERT R. SCARBOROUGH. M. L. ZUCK, , GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. * WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AC * COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND W t Robert B. Scarborough, President. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C. THl I*S1>AY, SKI'T. *, IDlil. PKOriUlONAL CAIHUi m. A. WOOO'AAitb Attorney and Counoofo- a4 ? CONWAY, S. a. A. tfOAlfciiKUl UJ8 OUN WAV, i>. C AMtrMj M Lew. a. . BURUOCGH8 Ni/8I?(m Md Murgeor. CONWAY, M. C. /I'. E. McCORD Dental Surceon CONWAY, S. C. IIKNK UAVKJtKL I>*rHl Surveying and Drutaftfte Spivey Building Conway, 9. O. Wt WORLDS BREATESYStWING MACRllft |^I^HT RUNN'^^ tfyoa want either a Vibrating Shuttle, ttntAgyr tUmUlcnr a Bingle Thread [C7tcitn&i/cA| Bowing Marl lino write to 9m KIW HOME SEWINI MAOHINE COMPAW Oranyo, Mass. *j#at?y?ewtTur machines arc mads to sett retrmrtewgf aaaiity, but the Ke? Home it made to weaft ' Our guaranty never runs out !> 0Ni by authorized dealer* MUSkj *oa sal? m LIITO. To the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker it's a jest; To the miser life is money, To the loafer life is rest. To the lawyer life's a trial. To the poet life's a souk; To the doctor life's a patient That needs treatment right along. To the soldier life's a battle, To the teacher life's a school; Life's a pood thing to the grafter, It's a failure to the fool. To tho man upon the engine, Life's a long and heavy grade; It's a gamble to the gambler, To the merchant life is trade. Life's a picture to the artist To the rascal life's a fraud. Life, perhaps, is hut a burden To tho man beneath the hod. Life is lovely to the lover, To the player life's a play: Life may be a load of trouble To the man upon the dray. Life is but one long vacation To the man who loves his work? Life's an everlasting effort To shun duty to the shirk. * . To the earnest Christian worker Life's a story ever new; Life is what we try to make it? Brother, what is life to you? ?John Upton. i f Recognizes Glynn, s Lieut. Gov. Martin TI. Glynn was . formally recognized as acting Gov5 ernor by the New York assembly early Thursday morning K HORRY, ?y. S, C. I PLUS OP ANY BANK TM llttnrcv 31NRD CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OP J NT Y. $50,000 12,500 , w.J ZTKHOLDERS. . .. 50,000 ITORS 112,500 OORS W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. COM MOD ATI ON WHICH THEIR ACE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. D. P. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier.