The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 16, 1913, Image 3
MURDERED MANY
PHENOMENAL SLAYER ARRESTED
BY CHICAGO POLICE
SLAIN FOR THEIR MONEY
Knticed Men and Women to Lonely
Spots, From Which They Never Ketin
ned Alive?Says lie Killed Two
Persons a Week in Order to Get
Hnough Money for llis llcvelries.
Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat,
dancing teacher, who was shot to
death at Wheaton, 111., a week ago,
was the victim of a modern bluebeard,
who, according to his own confession,
had killed thirteen others in
in as many years. Henry Spencer, arrested
in a room near the South Side
levee district of Chicago Sunday
night, confessed that ho not only killed
Mrs. Uexroat, but that ho had
slain fourteen persons, lie was posii
.1 nn % At * - -
tivi*.iy luenunea as me mysterious Mr.
Spencer with whom Mrs. ltexroat
left Chicago on the night she was
killed. Mrs. Itexroat's bloodstained
rattan suitcase was found in his
room, as also was the revolver with
which he said ho killed her.
Spencer's confession was so startling
that it probably would have received
no credence had not the bloody
suitcase and the revolver at least confir
mod part of his statement. All his
murders except two, ho declared, had
been for the purpose of robbery. The
two policemen, Pennell and Revine,
who were shot to death twelve years
ago, he said, he and a companion killed
to escape being arrested.
"I intended to kill Mrs. A. J. Soofield,
proprietor of the rooming house
where I have been living," he said.
"If I had not been arrested just at
this time I would have lcflled her.
Ho told the police ho had killed
fourteen persons in all, ten since his
release from tho Illinois State peni
tentiary in September, 1012, and four
previously. Following is tbe list of
killings Spencer related to Chief of
Detectives Halpliin:
One man and a woman about fourteen
years ago.
Policemen Pennell and Devine,
twelve years ago.
First wife near West Point, N. Y.
Two girls at Pawpaw Lake, Michigan,
last August.
One girl at Lake Delevan, Wiss.,
last summer.
One woman at Belle Island, Mich.,
last summer.
One man shot in Chicago this fall.
One old man shot in a South Side
park two months ago.
One woman shot and burned on the
northwest side of Chicago late last
summer.
One woman killed near the Cook
County hospital a few days ago.
Spencer calmly told his gruesome
story to Capt. Halpin of the Chicago
police force and a room full of detectives
and newspaper men. He said
he never drank or smoked, but that
he chewed tobacco and smoked
opium. He had not, however, the appearance
of a drug fiend, having a
healthy complexion and clear eyes.
"I've been a thief all my life," he
declared. "I killed all of these women
to get their money. I found it was
the easiest way to live. It cost we
$100 to $o00 a week to enjoy myself
the way I wanted to in these cabarets
and dives and the easiest and quickest
way to get the mon^y was to get
some girl off by herself and kill her.
"Mrs. Rexroat was easy. She
thought she was working mo the
same way she worked the farmer. I
let her think so. At fiist I war go'ng
to take her to Michigan and kill her
mere, mil nnany i neciuea 11 wouiu
be less trouble to take her a little
way out on the ear lino and get it
over in a businesslike way. She
thought we were going to bo married.
"When we got out. at the station it
was nearly eight o'clock. We turned
around and walked down the track
until we got where it was dark. T
took her by the right arm. pulled out
my gun and shot her through the
head. Then I laid her on the railroad
track so she would be 'torn up'. I
took what few dollars she had and
her diamond ring. I opened her suitcase
and dumped her stuff out of it
and brought it back to Chicago with
me. I took the.next train back about
ten minutes after I bad shot her. I
didn't want the ring. I never go to
pawnshops; that's the way people get
caught. I gave the ring to a girl.
a common girl I met on the
street. She went to New York Tuesday
or Wednesday."
Spencer said he had married four
wnmon Vtllfirl Mm first nnp npnr Wost
Point, N, Y. He did not know exactly
bow many years ago. One wife
Is living In Detroit, bo said, and another
in Chicago. TIo gave details of
Ms alleged murders at the Wisconsin
and Michigan resorts, where ho
(said he had spent most of the summer
as a hotel thief, committing an occasional
murder.
"I killed the two girls at Pawpaw
Lake for their monoy and rings," he
said. "Ono of them one time let me
see that sho had some monoy with
her and so I shot her and sank her
body in the lako. Tho other girl 1
killed tho same way, but she did not
have much money. The girl at Delavan
Lake I shot with the same gui
?i urn |4iihJjh_
WANTED HIM KILLED
WIFE GIVE SIGNAL FOR HER
HUSBAND'S DEATH. ? !
She Drew Aside Her Window Blind to
Indicate That Her Husband Wius i
About to Leave.
The drawing aside of a curtain and
the appearance of the face of his af-1
flnity at a window in her home was
the death signal for the killing of
Frank E. Nelson, in San Francisco,
according to the confession of James
F. Cook, now under arrest and charged
with the crime. The startling
charge that the wife of his victim
give the signal for the murder of her
husband was made in a preliminary
hearing in which she was tried for
complicity in the crime.
Cook declares lie was under a
strange spell against which ho was
powerless when ho shot and killed
Nelson. He declares Mrs. Nelson
urged him daily to murder Nelson
and that he killed him because he
loved the woman.
In his testimony against Mrs. Nelson,
Cook declared she gave him $20
with which to purchase a revolver
and do the shooting. On the night
before the murder he declares he sat
for hours and pondered over the
crime. lie determined not to kill,
and then some strange fascination
seemed to draw him near the Nelson
home. He was eager to see if Mrs.
Nelson would give the signal.
"It. was 4:40," says Nelson, "about,
the time Nelson usually left home I
when I appeared on the street. I |
walked down to the house to see if
Mrs. Nelson would give the signal.
Soon the curtain was put back and
the face of Mrs. Nelson appeared
through the window.
I "There was something fascinating
about that window. I watched for a
few minutes and then saw Nelson
walk from the front door."
After the death signal was given
Cook declares he felt Mrs. Nelson loved
him more than any one else in
the world and determined to kill as
she desired. He followed Nelson for
j several squares and then shot him in
the back. Ho placed the revolver by
his side and ran away.
Cook states he met Mrs. Nelson
daily before tbe tragedy, but sbe confided
her domestic troubles with him
and often expressed the wish that her
husband was dead.
with which I killed Mrs. Itexroat.
"When I got back to Chicago I met
a man one night who looked as if he
had money. I shot him in an alley
on the South Ride levee, lie did not
have much money, but enough for me
to go to a hotel for a few days and
there I met another man, an old fellow,
who said he was a broker. We
got friendly and ho let on to have a
fine business and a lot of money. Ho
looked like money. I was dissappointed
in that fellow.
"I got him to take a walk with mo
late one afternoon in Jackson Park'
and I shot him there and went
through him. He told mo he had a
lot more than I found. 1 rolled him
into a swampy place, where they were
dumping. The papers had a lot about
it, and called it a case of suicide."
"Another caso the police called a
suicide was that of a woman I killed
on the northwest side. I killed her
with a hammer, tore up her clothes
and set fire to them. The last woman
I killed was a few days ago, two
blocks west of the county hospital 1
put her to death with a hammer. Rhe
had two rings and $200. This murder
was done with the hammer the police
found wrapped in a towel by the railroad
tracks. They thought the ham
mcr nau somotmng to do with the
Rexroat murder."
Spencer said ho killed three wom^n
including Mrs. Rexroat, with the revolver
the police found in his lodgings.
He said he bought it a month
ago,, after his other weapon refused
to work. He claimed to have held
up many of the restaurants which recently
have been robbed by highwaymen
In Chicago.
"Why I spent $7 00 in two nights
last week in 'Charley West's,' " he
said. "It costs a lot of money to
hold up your end in these cabarets. I
average two jobs a week all the time
I'm out of jail.'"
Spencer said none of the jewelry
ho had taken from his victims ever
would he receoverod. "f r>pvr>r en Into
a pawnshop," he said. "When I sell
of it it is to some private person,
maybe on the street."
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Auto Turns Turtle.
Miss Gright Kelly, twenty-two
years old, a prominent society girl
of Covington, Ky? was killed and
two other young women and three
men were slightly injured early
Thursday when the big touring automobile
in which they were riding
got beyond control of the driver and
turned turtle on the Indian Hill road
near Madisonville, Ky.
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Dogs Trails Right Person.
Police officials at Jerseyville, 111.,
' Friday used bloodhounds to trace the
t person who clippod the long auburn
? hair of Miss Myrtle Hamilton, fourteen
years old. The bloodhounds
followed the trail to Miss Hamilton
and she confessed she had clipped
her own hair to attract attention.
Previously her hair had been snipped
i by two men.
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DOES NOT TESTIFY
SULZER ENDS DEFENCE WITHOUT
TAKING STAND
WOULDN'T DRAG WIFE IN
?
Kul/.er's Attorneys Say That tlio Reason
for His Smhlcn Determination
Not to Testify in His Own Hehalf
Was a Desire to Shield His Wife
From All Publicity.
Without calling either C.ov. Sulzer
or his wife to the witness stand, his
counsel Wednesday rested their case
in the trial of his impeachment. According
to D. Cady Derrick, chief of
his attorneys, Gov. Sulzer decided not
to defend himself in person, because
ho did not want to be placed in the
position of shielding himself behind
his wife?for it was for Mrs. Sulzer,
according to testimony, that the governor
had recourse to Wall street
dealing.
The rest of this week will bo devoted
to summing up the case by opposing
counsel. Monday next being
a holiday, adjournment probably will
be taken until Tuesday when it is expected
the verdict on the governor's
innocence or guilt will he reached.
Ju.Tdgo Derrick Wednesday night
pointed out that the testimony Tuesday
of Allan A. Itvan best disclosed
the reason why the governor had not
taken the stand. This was the convensation
which Ryan said he had
with the impeached executive early
in September in relation to obtaining
nnlittnnl infliinnno ?ri t lm
"I suggested to Mr. Sulzer," Ryan's
testimony ran, "now that certain
charges had been made against him
that I did not see that lie could afford
to put himself in a position in
which he could not answer the
charges. lie said that tho reason
was that he did not want to drag his
wife into the situation and put her
on the stand."
The sudden announcement that the
case for tho defense was closed,
which came late in the Wednesday
afternoon session, created a sensation
in the court room. Soon after tho
trial began Gov. Sulzer told newspaper
men that he would positively appear
in his own defense. lib said
that at that time he would tell an
"astounding story that would force
Charles P. Murphy, leader of Tammany
Hall, to tako tho stand in his
defense also. Until a few days ago,
it was learned from authoritative
sources, the governor was still insistent
that he bo allowed to tell his
story, but ho finally yielded It was
said, to the advice of his attorneys.
In preparing for this story, as well
as that expected from Mrs. Sulzer,
counsel for tho impeachment managers
had several whom they had
expected to put on in rebuttal. Two
of these witnesses were called before
court adjourned but Judge Cullon excluded
their testimony. They were
George W. Egbert, a bank examiner
in charge of the hooks of the now defunct
Carnegie Trust company, and
James C. Miller, an official of the
Fifth avenue Rank of New York.
Judge Cullon held that the introduction
of their testimony "would inject
new evidence and reopen the case." *
SLAYS FARM HAND.
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Laurens County Farmer Shoots in
Self-I)ofence.
Thomas II. Noal, a farmer residing
about four miles below Cross Hill in
Laurens County, shot and instantly
killed Isaac Smith, a negro farm
hand, Friday night shortly after midnight.
Saturday morning Neal surrendered
to the sheriff. After the inquest
was held Saturday afternoon,
John M. Cannon, attornev for the do
fondant, appeared before Associate
Justice Watts at chambers at Laurens
and secured bail in the sum of
$1,000. Uond was immediately secured
and Neal returned home.
It is alleged that the negro withI
out Neal's knowledge or permission,
took one of the defendant's mules
from the stable Friday night and
drove it until about midnight. When
he returned with the team the negro
was intercepted at the barn by Neal.
Being caught, the negro became defiant
and drew bis pistol on the white
man, whereupon Neal fired upon
Smith, shooting him dead.
Lever Invited to Kansas.
Congressman Lever is in receipt of
a telegram from President Waters, of
tho Agricultural College of Kansas,
Inviting him to deliver an address at
the celebration of the semi-centennial
of its establishment, on tho subject,
"What the Lever Bill Will Accomplish
if Enacted Into Law." Mr.
Lever delivered an address at this institution
last year and would like
greatly to accept tho invitation of
President Waters, but has had to decline.
Street Pleads Guilty.
W. B. Street plead guilty to grand
larceny at the Charleston Court of
General Sessions Tuesday. Bruce
Coleman, the young express messenger
Implicated by Street in the crime
was acquitted of all blame.
MANY SPANIARDS SLAIN
HUMOR SPREADS OP AWPl'L |
BUTCIIKRY AT TORRKON.
Rebels Have Reen Credited With a
Roast to Slaughter Spaniards?
City's Capture Seems Confirmed. |
With tlio capture of Torreon by
the rebels, rumors became current at
Mexico City Wednesday of a massacre
of Spaniards, which if confirmed,
would approach the horror of the
massacre of Chinese in the same city
during the Madero revolution in
19 10. It is estimated that there are
between 60 and 100 Spaniards in the
city of Torreon. Refugees who have
communicated with the rebels in that
district declare that it has been a
common boast that they would i
slaughter the Spaniards if they succeed
in capturing the town. J
The Spanish minister to Mexico,
Senor Cologan y Cologan, Wednesday
night was without information further
than the reports, but was greatly
concerned. He held a long conference
with the American charge, Nelson
O'Shaughnessy, and tho latter
made an appointment with the Mexican
foreign minister. The American
charge is convinced of the truth
of the capture of tho city and has
so notified Washington. Few Americans
aro loft in Torreon. Resides
Spaniards there are a number of
French and Germans residing there.
i no diplomats here are making (efforts
to learn their fate.
Every effort has boon made by the
Mexican authorities to keep the news
of the affair from the public. The
newspapers even failed to print a
reference to the persistent rumors.
In hanking circles the capture of Torreon
was credited and caused a jump
of twenty points in the Exchange.
Torreon has been under siege for
many weeks, hut it was recently reported
that the rebels had been driven
hack. It has always been declared
by the authorities to he impregnable,
becauso of the heavy artillery with
which it is protected. Another unconfirmed
report is that Gen. Trucy
Aubert, who with a thousand men
left Saltillo three weeks ago to march
to the relief of Torreon, has gone
over to the rebels.
THE COTTON BOLL WOIOI.
Should Not tie Contused With the
Hull Weevil.
The Department of Agriculture
has recently rece'v.-d numerous in(luirles
about injury by the cotton
boll worm, especially in the eastern
part of the belt.. In man/ cases thin
insect has been confused with the
boll weevil, and severai erroneous
reports about the occurrence of that
pest in new regions have thus become
prevalent. The department issued
the following statement in
Washington yesterday.
The boll worm is the larva of a
moth, and is only very distantly related
to the weevil which belongs to
the large group of beetles. The worm
when first hatched is very tiny, but
grows rapidly, becoming finally a little
grub is white and found only
within the cotton square or boll. It
never exceeds one-half inch in length.
In the case of the present outbreak
the injury began so late in the season
that little can be done to protect
the present crop. Nevertheless, a
farmer can insure the crop of the
coming season against injury by the
pest with comparatively little trouble
and expense. The action that
should bo taken wherever injury has
occurred this year is (o pick the cotten
as quickly as possible and immediately
thereafter to plow and harrow
the fields. This work will result
in the destruction of the immature
stages of the worm which have passed
just beneath the surface of the
soil. In addition to the effect in destroying
the insect the plowing and
harrowing of the fields will have very
great value in the way of preparing
for the crop of the following season.
Methods of control of the boll
worm are applicable in different seasons
of the year are described in
Farmers' TUilletin 200.
Shot at His Door.
Kising from the breakfast table to
answer the doorbell, Frank Ivy, a real
estate dealer of Los Angeles, Cal.,
was Riiot ny his lirst wife in the presence
of his second wife and their two
babies. The woman then dropped the
weapon and fled. Ivy picked it up
and fired as the woman ran down
the street, the bullet striking her in
the leg. The shooting was the result
of a quarrel over the divorced pair's
fifteen-year-old daughter.
Use (/itizon as Shield.
Six bandits held the whole town of
Fulton, Ark., at bay while they robbed
the Hank of Fulton of $70 in pennies.
They used a citizen they had
captured as a shield to prevent his
townsmen from shooting them down.
The bandltR appear to havo been the
same gang that robbed the First
State bank at Dardanelle, Ark.
Deaths in Texas Flood.s
Eighteen lives wero lost In the
Texas floods of the past two weeks.
This death list was completed Tuesday
with restoration of nearly normal
conditions and reopening of communication
with remote points.
sin, tariff bii
WENT INTO OPERATION ON LAST
FRIDAY NIGHT
IS NOW LAW OF THE LANO
lYcsificut Wilson Impresses Upon His
Colleagues That tho legislative
Journey is Only Half Accomplished
and I rges I'pon Them (he Necessity
of Currency Heforin.
Surrounded by tho leaders of a
united Democracy President Wilson
sinned the Underwood-Simmons tatift
bill at 9:09 o'clock Friday night
at the White House. Simultaneously
telegrams were sent b\ tho treasury
department to customs collectors
throughout the country putting into
actual operaton the first Democrat lie
tariff revision since 1894.
A hapny group of legislators, members
of the Cabinet and friends oncircled
tho President as he smiling!)
sat down nnd with tWi, gold pens
slowly affixed his sifinature. lie
presented to Representative Underwood
tho pen that had written the
word "Woodrow", and tho one which
had completed tlie name to Senator
Simmons.
Amid impressive silence the Presilimit
l?/lO/\ II ?i <1 ,1 ??1 ! I * '??' '* 1
mvim i urn (iini unnriuu in llillural
tones an extemporaneous speech
that brought prolonged applano.
The President declared that the journey
of legislative accomplishment had
been only partly completed; that a
great service had been done for the
rank and file of the country, hut that
the second step in the emancipation
of business was currency reform. He
earnestly called upon his colleagues
to go "the rest of the journey" with
fresh impulse.
"Gentlemen, 1 feel a very peculiar
pleasure," said the President, "in
what T have just done by way of taking
part in the completion of a great
piece of business. It is a pleasure
which is very hard to express in
words because the feeling that I have
is that wo have done the dank and
file of the people of this country a
great, service. It is hard to speak of
these things without seeming to go
off into campaign eloquence, but that
is not my feeling. It is one of profound
gratitude, that working with
the splendid men who have carried
tills tiling through with studious attention
and doing justice all round.
I should have had part in serving the
people of tills country, as we have
been striving to serve them ever since
I can remember.
"I have had the accomplishment of
something like this at heart ever
since I was a boy, and know men
standing around me who can say the
same thing?who have been waiting
to see the tilings done which it was
necessary to do in order that there
t i r 11 4 l.~ ! > ?!.? tT..ll?.l M i _ i. _ _
mi i ii i im* j unm c in tilt; i ill m;ii
and so it. is a solemn moment that
brings such a business to a conclusion.
"I hope T will not be thought to bo
demanding too much of myself or of
my colleagues when I say that this,
great as it is, is the accomplishment
of only half the journey. Wo have
set the business of this country free
from those conditions which have
made monopoly not only possible but
there is no use taking away the conditions
of monopoly if we do not also
take away the power to create monopoly;
and it is financial rather than
a merely circumstantial and economic
power.
"The power to control and guide
and direct the credits of the country
is the power to say who shall and
who shall not build up the industries
of the country, in which direction
they shall he built, and in which direction
they shall not be built. We
aro now about to take the second
step, which will be the final step in
setting the business of this country
free. That is what we shall do in the
currency bill, which the House has
A1..An/l?. ~ ~ I ...l. ! . t. t t 11 -
uii< <miy <11111 which 1 llilVU tiltutmost
confidence tho Senate vlll
pass much sooner than some pe^'mlstic
individuals believe. Because
tho question, now that this piece of
work is done, will arise all over the
country 'for what do we wait?' Why
should wo wait to crown ourselves
with consummate honor? Are we sc
self-denying that we do not wish tc
complete our success?
Covets lienor for All.
"I was quoting to some of my colleagues
In the Senate, those line?
from Shakespeare, which have al
ways appealed to me: 'If It bo a sir
to covet honor, then am I the inosl
offending soul alive,' and r am happj
to say that I do not covet it for my
self alone. I covet it with equal ar
dor for tho men who are associated
with me and the honor Is going tc
como from them. I am their asso
elate. I can only complete the worl
which they do. I can only counso
when they ask my advice. I can com*
in only when the last stages of th<
business are reached. And T eovo
the honor for them quite as much ai
I covet It for myself.
"So I feel to-night like a man wh<
is lodging happily In tho inn whlcl
lies half way aloDg the Journey tha
in the morning wo shall go the res
of the way and sleep at the Journey'
' 1
??end
llko men with a quiet conscience,
knowing that wo have served
our fellow inen and have thereby
tried to serve God."
It was an unusual spectacle which
attended the completion of a legislative
reform that had been seven
months in Congress and embraced a
tnriff revision of a most far-reaching
character. I
Happy and Jubilant, the Invited
guests mine to the executive offices.
1 hey chatted and jested with the
('resident in an ante-room while
waiting for the full group to appear. j
When the members of the Senate '
finance committee and House ways 1
and means committee finally arrived,
Vice-Pr 'sident Marshall was ushered
into the President's office, followed
bv Speaker Clark. Representative lTud"rwood
and members of the Cabinet
and Congressional committees and
their friends. N'o photographers
were admitted, as the President
thought the occasion too solemn to bo
disturbed by flashlight apparatus.
The guests crowded about the President's
desk, over which an electric
lamp threw a bright glow.
Why Nino O'clock Was Chosen.
"1 choose 9 o'clock," explained tho
President slowly, "on the advice of
tno ai torney-uenerai, m order that
the bill might bo signed after business
transactions everywhere, including
San Francisco.
"I will not say anything about tho
bill," ho added with a smile, "until I
have signed it. I don't want it to
get away from mo."
Promptly at 9:09 o'clock the President
began writing and at 9:10 ho
had written the words: "Approved
9:10 p. m., P.rd October, 19111, Woodrow
Wilson," on the one hundred and
eleventh page of parchment containing
tho engrossed bill.
As tho President rose and handed
the pens to the men who had steered
the measure successfully through
both houses of Congress, there was
an enthusiastic outburst of handclapping.
The President bad not intended
to make a long speech and had not
even prepared a statement on the
spur of the moment but was moved to
express bis gratification.
Tho small audience crowded about
him offering congratulations. Leading
figures of the Democratic party?
Speaker Clark, Secretary Hryan, and
Representative Underwood, stood together,
sponsors with tho President
for the first, business piece of legislation
that had been accomplished In
the Democratic platform of reform.
They gavo the President their personal
congratulations and reiterated
promises of support.
w mu: iiM! i-ri'HKinnt was surrounded
bv members of bis official family,
there was none happier than Joseph
It. Wilson, younger brother of the
Chief Executive, who Friday night
went to Washington from Baltimore
to witness the signing. Mrs. Wilson
and daughters still are at Cornish,
X. II.
Besides the officials a large number
of newspaper men crowded into the
President's office. There was an informal
reception for a few minutes
and then the Underwood-Simmons
tariff law was carried away to the department.
of State and deposited in
the archives along with other historic
pieces of legislation.
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WHAT BECAME OF Til EM.
Jewels Kup|M>se<l to llave Been Taken
By Sherman at Columbia.
The following piece is clipped from
The Pathfinder, a weekly published
in Washington, I). C. It tells of the
efforts of Lord and Lady Banff, presumable
English by their title, to bo
reimbursed for some of their jewelry
which was supposed to have been
taken from Columbia by Sherman
when ho burned tho city. In tho
War Department there are no records
of Sherman as to any jewelry taken.
as iins magazine in published in
Washington, tho news it gives must
be correct. The article follows:
"In Civil war times tho people of
Columbia, S. C., fearing the approach
of the Federals, took their jewelry
and silver and concealed them under
the Moor of tho Ursurline convent
there. When General Sherman with
his army came through he set tire to
the convent, and the nuns, fearing
that the valuables would be destroyed,
revealed the hiding place. Gen.
Sherman, according to the story, set
, cured the jewelry and plate and sent
them to tho treasury department at
, Washington for safe keeping. Now
, I.ord and Lady Banff, owners of some
( of the property, are trying to recover
it hut the government departments
are unable to find any records of tho
deposit by General Sherman."
Dying in Poverty, Worth a Million.
1
Edward McDonald, a plainly dressed
middle aged man, was found 111 In
a cheap lodging house In San Francisco,
with $1,270,000 in negotiable
bonds and securities sewed in an inside
pocket. The papers are said to
j be securities of 47 bona Ode companies
and all drawing interest. The
man is in a coma and no explanation
regarding his wealth can bo had.
1 ? ?
2 Shoots Mother.
3 Mrs. Silas Gibson is under arrest
1 in Lexington, Ky., charged with the
B killing of Mrs. James Smith in a
dance hall at High Bridge. Mrs. Gib3
son crept up behind hor victim and
"i shot her twice in the back while she
t was holding ap Infant child. Jealt
ousy is given as the cause of the kllls
ing.