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CRIME MOST AW FLO BLACK FIFNDS MURDER AND ASSAULT A LADY ABE RUN DOWN BY DOGS Three Young Negro Brutes Visit the Homo of a Young Georgia Farmer During His Absence ami Assaulted and Murdered His Wifo in Presence of Children. A dispatch to tho Augusta Chronicle from Wren, Ga., says tho most horrible, brutal murder in tho annals of Jefferson County, Ga., was the killing Sunday afternoon somo timo between 4 o'clock and dark of Mrs. Jefforson Irby bp three necroes. Wil liam and Georgo Hart and Robert Paachall. Mrs. Irby was only 20 years old, and had been married about six yoara. Sho was soon to becomo a mother for the third time when the fiendish brutes assaulted and murdered her. The story of the murder was told by her little five-year-old daughter to Mr. Irby when ho returned to his home about dark from a visit to the home of his brother. Sunday morning Mr. Irby left to go to the home of his brother to take Sunday dinner and spend the afternoon. Mrs. irby, who has not been leaving the house lately, was at home alone, save for the two little children, one live years old and the other about three. I'pon his return about dark Mr. Irby noticed that the fire had burned out. only a few live coals remaining in the fireplace. Calling into the dark bedroom for ins who no pot no response, and on investigation lie found the two little to's covered up in one bod with their clothing on. Lifting the little girl to the floor he asked, "Where's mamma?" "The TIart negroes have been here and killed her?papa, she's out in the yard dead," was the little five-year-old girl's reply. Mr. Irby found a trace of blood on the back step, traced it to the wood pile and there found bis wife's mutilated body. Her throat had been cut in two places and the top of her head almost entirely battered off with an axe. From the description given by the little child it must have been about 1 o'clock in the afternoon when William and George Hart and Robert Paschall came to the house. George Hart, according to tho little child, then grabbed Mrs. Irby and dragged her into the yard. During her struggles on the door step the negro slashed Mrs. Irby's throat twice. Her hair had become loosened and, holding her bv one arm and her hair, the negroes dragged her to the wood pile, at the rear of the house and beat her brains out with an axe. The little girl told her father the negroes went across a field and out through the woods. Mr. Irbv gave the alarm to neighbors, and about 11 o'clock Sunday night Sheriff Smith with bloodhounds arrived on the, scene and the dogs Immediately took up the trail, leading directly to where the three negroes were located. When they were captured Sheriff Smith succeeded in overcoming a determination to lynch them immediately by the argument that identification must bo positive, and if be took tho negroes to Louisville lie would assure tho people an immediate trial. The three black fiends were then taken to Augusta to escape a large angry crowd that was rapidly gathering. After reaching Augusta C.corge ITart, one of the fiends, made a confession. which revealed one of the most horrible and dastardly of crimes, so shockingly heinous in contemplation and execution that the details could not be published In the newspapers. According to the confession of CSeorge flart, be and his brother, William, and Robert Pascball after becoming partially intoxicated from drinking the skimming from a sugar cane boiling, went by tho Trby farm home. They knew that Mr. Irby was not at homo, and knew that Mrs. frby and two little children were the only ones at home. According to the confession as made by George Hart, Robert Paschall went Into the house, while he and bis brother, William, stayed on the front piazza and watched. George TTart says they next saw Robert Paschall and Mrs. Trby eome out of the doer, Pnsehall having hold of the lady and trying to overpower her, while she was fighting him as hard as she could. Finally Pasehall reached in his pocket and secured his knife, with which he cut Mrs. Irby's throat, while her two little girls, who were awfully frightened and crying, were looking on. Pnschall then dragged the body of Mrs. Irbv to the woodpile and knocked her in the hend with the axe he found there. George TTart then goes on tc say that he and his brother William Ki?o knocked Mrs. Trby in the head with the axe. Then, he says, all three of the black fiends assaulted Mrs. Trby, who was then barely alive The three black fiends then left the body at the woodnlle. The two little girls had run off and hid. or they would have been murdered by the h'ack fiends to hide their crime. They were found later In bed by tholr fathet as described above. William Hart and Robert 1'aschall deny that they had any connection with tho crime, but it is stated that Mrs. Irby's llttlo five-year-old girl recognized the Hart fiends at the timo her mother was killed. Then too, the dogs traced the Hart fiends readily to a house where they were found in bod and just as readily traced Paschall. The three fiends are young negroes, all apparently under 12 0 years of age. George says that he Is only I 6 and that his brother Is one year his senor. All three are dark brown In complexion. Not one of them appears to be very much worried over his situation and as soon as carried in to tho Richmond county jail each went to sleep and was hard to awaken for breakfast. i The Augusta Herald says the story of tho crime for which the threo no-1 groes are held and tho thrilling race which tho otlicers had across three counties to get them out of tho reach of mobs of outraged citizens is one of tho most horrible and thrilling stories ever heard in Augusta. Tho awful erimo was committed on a quiet Sunday afternoon while tho husband was away and Mrs. Irhy was at her home with her two llttlo children. Tho neighborhood had always been a llllint ntul np/lnrl? " ...... ... . i t ami iiiu miner left his children and the husband his wifo without any thought of impending danger. But the fiends were lurking near. It was about 4 o'clock when the black fiends made their dastardly and inexpressibly brutal attack on a dofenceless woman who was in a delicate condition and in no manner prepared for a shock of any kind. In the horrible confession of (leorge Hart ho mentions nothing about Mr. Trby owing them f>0c. Indeed, they went to the house for an entirely different, purpose. They murdered Mrs. Trby and assaulted her and left and when the shades of evening had fallen and the husband and father eame home he found that instead of the usual cheerful fire there were only a few live coals left and the house was dark. The necks of such fiends should be cracked as soon as possible. All Three Confess. The Augusta Chronicle of Wednesday said martial law was declared off in Waynesboro Tuesday morning about 4 o'clock; the militia, by its prompt action, kept the forming mob away from the Burke county jail even after the three negro prisoners had been spirited away; one of the most intensely exciting nights in the history of Burke county had passed, and entire quietude followed. Tuesday the town was normal. William and C.eorgo Hart and Robert Baseball, the three murderers of young Mrs. Jefferson Trby, near Wrens, are in the Richmond county jail; have confessed the crime, and are beyond the possible reach of an intensely impassioned public covering more than the territory of two count ies. Tn most unthinkable details the negroes have told a storv of bestial ity and blood-thirst; twice denying their confessions and later going into the minute particulars of the tragedy in the presence of witnesses. Essentially, the details of the story as told Tuesday morning conform to the confessions of the negroes, except that the later word picture add horror to it all. Mrs. Irhy's brains were battered out by the three negroes, each taking his turn with the axe, after which she was abused and finally her throat was slashed with a butcher knife by one of the Hart negroes. ? ? Little Hoy Blue. The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket molds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, And tho soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. "Now, don't you go till I come," he said, . "And don't you make any noise!" So toddling off to iiis trundle-bed, ITe dreamt of the pretty toys; And, as lie was dreaming, and angel song Awakened our Tattle Boy Blue? O, the years are man/, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true! Still faithfull to Little Boy Blue they stand, Tj^ <> / !? i *> A /\ n r* m /\ r\ l 11 r\1 n AA I'iUi n in tin? nciiiBtj uiu inai.c, Awaiting the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face; And they wonder, as waiting the long years through In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue Sinco he kissed them and put them there. ?Eugene Fields. Army Altitude Hecord. A new army altitude record was made at San Diego, Cal. Thursday by Lieut. H. B. Post, who ascended to a height of 10,000 feet, a gain of more than 2,000 feet over Ihf previous record. ( rain Sent to Europe. Moro than three million bushels of grain are being held at Portland. Me. for shipment. The greater portion will be sent to Europe. GIRL KILLED BY A BOMB EXPLOSIVE SENT TO EMPLOYER CAUSES HER DEATH. New York Detectives Trying to Discover Who Sent Dynamite That lUow Her to Pieces. Ida Anusewitz, 18 years old, employed as confidential bookkeeper of tho O. K. Bottling company of New York, was killed Friday by a bomb sent to her employers. Thomas MeCabe, managing salesman, was cut in tho head by flying metal, and Michael Ryan, an employee standing outside tho ofllce, was injured by shattered glass. Tho desk on which tho bomb was placed as Miss Anusewitz opened it was demolished and tho oillco was wrecked. Tho bomb was delivered by express. Apparently it contained dynamite, as the force of the explosion was downward. Who sent tho bomb and why were questions that sent half a hundred or more detectives at work on every possible clue. On tho wrapper they found a written address?113 State street, New Yorkj city. Tue building at this address is a largo ollice building, accupied chiefly by exporting firms wlio employ a number of foreigners. The bureau of combustibles, working on the mystery with the few hits of metal found in the floor and walls, announced that the mlssilo was of similar construction to tho bomb sent to Judge Rosalsky about two years ago. The package containing the bomb was addressed to the bottling company in stencil. It was received by McOn.be, who placed it on the girl's desk. Tho force of the explosion wrecked the room, shattering plate glass windows and tearing a jagged hole in tho floor. Inasmuch as the force seemed to he downward the police believed dynamite had been used. Employees of the company connected the explosion with the alleged discharge recently of thirty workmen by William II. Callahan, the proprietor. Callahan, however, denied having discharged tho workmen and told the polioo that they were working with him still. "To the hest of my knowledge, I have no enemies," Callahan said. The affair is a mystery to me." Within an hour several squads of detectives were working on the case. The remnants of the package were sent to the bureau of combustibles for investigation. Upon the corner of the package was stencilled the re rurn auuress, osiensimy, or tlio seiulor. It was 23 State street, New York. WEDDING 1UHKAU. Sensational Story Tells How Foolish Men Were Fleeched. Martin W. Farris of Princeton, Ind., who with liis wife and daughters, Louise and Ora, were Indicted tliero on a charge of misusing the mails in operating a matrimonial bureau, Wednesday told Judge A. IL Anderson in federal court that Louise alone was responsible for what Charles W. Miller, district attorney, characterized as one of the biggest matrimonial swindles operated in this cou ntry. Mr. Miller, in outlining the government's case, declared that the plan of the swindle was for Louise to write letters to men who wished to marry her. Mrs. Farris mailed the letters, ho said. Ora warned away prospective bridgegrooms and if they Knno n 1 a ! o o f # 1 * y-w f/, 4 L * 1, ^ i /v>\_sc1111 v? iiioioiunt iin; lciiuur i ii ruai- i oiiod them. Five men who had proposed to Louise arrived in Princeton it the same time, Mr. Miller said, and | ;it. times she was engaged to 5 0 .men. One of the victims who sent Louise $100 was a prominent pugilist, the district attorney asserted. According to Mr. Miller there always was a scramble at the Farris home in Princeton when packages or letters arrived and the first member of the family to open a package or letter kept its contents. Mr. Miller told of many prospective bridegrooms who had sent diamond bracelets, diamond rings, money and railroad tickets. Louise, who confessed her part in the scheme. Mr. Miller said, told him that she wrote to the disgruntled lovers threatening to have tliern arrested for trying "to lure a young, innocent girl away from home" I f rotlipn nf mnnou ? innrrvl-.. ... w , .. . x/vv?. .? W i I.IWIIOJ w 1 JC wuil JT was asked. HAS NAKItOW ESCAPE. ? Greenville Oflicer Faints While Hiding Police Motorcycle. Policeman Meyfield of the Greenville police department's motorcycle squad suffered a fainting spell while riding on Buncombe street in that city Wednesday morning, and recognizing that he was on the verge of a, lapse of consciousness he shut off his! power, the machine ran wild for a| few moments and then dashed into the curb, doing little damage save to the machine. The patrolman was bruised about the face and hands but suffered no other Injuries. Falls From Hoof. .Toe Washington, a colored tinner of Charleston. Thursday morning fell ofT the roof of a house where he was working. His skull was fractured and he was paralyzed below the hlp9. TALKS ON mm SEKATOR F. D. SMITH STRESSES NLEtS t)F FARMERS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED In Speaking Before tin* I nited States Senate the Junior Senator Approves Democratic Measure as First One That lias (liven Ileal Instate Proper Place. Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina, discussing tho question of the farmers' needs and iinanclal necessities, said Monday in tho course of the debate 011 tho administration currency hill: "Tho president recognizes the need of legislation to enable the farmer to finance his business. Ho says: 'We must add the means by which the farmers may make his credit constantly and easily available and command when he will tho capital by which to support and expand his business.' No stronger terms than these can bo used; in this expression ho covers completely tho exact objection which all financial legislation, up to tho present and including this bill, has striven to do for what is known technically as 'commercial' business. "Tho conditions under which the farmer produces his commercial commodities, by tho laws of nature, nit-* (iiiuircni irom inoso or any other commercial productivity. Hy the very nature of tilings lie is forced to a longer period of credit without anp intervening marketable return. As tho president says, he is dependent upon tho seasons which can not be forced during tho period necessary for (lie growth, maturity and harvesting of iiis crops. A constant outlay is absolutely necessary. This time for the production of staple farm products, averages from six to eight months. "lie, therefore, is forced, by the unchangeable nature of his business, to obtain his loans for this length of time, A 90-day loan either would have to be renewed under tho present system or the farmer bo forced to obtain it elsewhere than under the | present proposed banking act. Under the conditions set forth, it means all accumulations of indebtedness, representing the cost of the production of iiis entire crop and the cost of harvesting. This indebtedness, extending over a period of six or eight months, naturally becomes due and payable when his crop is ready for the market. Under present conditions he lias to pay the highest rate of interest when lie secures a loan for making his crop, and these loans be coming duo when his crop is gathered and ready for the market, ho is forced to sell practically his entire production within a period of SO to 90 days in order to meet his obligations. "Hence, he is handicapped both in the production and sale of his crop His paper not being recognized as ordinary prime commercial paper is discounted at the highest possible legal rate, if he is able to obtain a loan at all, and then his crop when ready for market necessarily must be sold, regardless of the law of supply and demand, in order to meet these obligations. In other words, the farmers of this country, in order to meet the obligations incurred in producing their crop, have to put upon tho market a 12-months' supply of farm products within 30 to 90 days. It is inevitable under such conditions that the purchasers or the buyers of these products, having to carry them for the next 12 months for distribu nun, uiaiuum inn price and an expenses incident to the risk incurred in carrying them, and then charge what profit they think suflicient to remunerate them. Therefore, as I have just said, the farmer is handicapped, both in the production and sale of his crops. It is to remedy this condition that the government should address itself. An Important Part, "The farm is an intimate and vital part, in fact, the essential part, of every nation's life and prosperity. This is a trite saying, but none the less true because so often repeated. And whatever tends to improve the conditions surrounding the farm, facilitate production, aid In supporting and expanding the business and as si si h in wise nnd profitable marketIne, tends to the upbuilding and enrichment of the nation. In view of tho relation that the farm bears to every department of our life every effort should ho used to promote every facility for obtaining loans for the farmer sufficient for the production of his crop and the marketing of it to tho best advantage. "As said before, the farm differs from every other business. A day's production from a mine is ready for the market to meet tho expense incurred in that day's production; the output of a lumber mill is ready at tho end of the day for shipment and liquidation of the debt incurred in productlng that day's output. "The same is true of the factory and mercantile business; In fact, every other form of commercial activity. And all of these have to wait upon the farm for their sustenanco and comfort, and the farmer has to wait upon all of these to he served first In financial and commercial life. He has a right to demand recognition, prominent recognition, in the financial legislation of America. We do not belong to thoso nations of Kurope which by hereditary influence or present condition have unchangeable class conditions. Hut we are Americans, under that form of government where every condition surrounding each and every vocation and avocation is of equal concern to the legislator and should be given Its proper recognition In the laws pertaining to the general welfare. Need l.onger Loans. "If the farmers of this countr\ could secure six to nine months' loans, at reasonable rates of interest, to produce their crops, the cost of production would bo reduced materially; and when their crops are ready for the market, ho ahlo to borrow upon those products for a sufficient length of tinio to permit the marketing of them to tho best advantage, the greatest problem confronting the development and success of tho agricultural interests of this country would be solved. "In this bill some measure of re Iter may be looked for. It is provided that certain prime commercial paper is to be made the basis of currency Issue, thus providing an additional, if temporary, increase in the circulating medium to meet the requirements of trade. This, of course, will tend to give opportunity for loans elsewhere than In our banking and" currency system of sulllcicat length of time to meet the requirements of the farmers. Hence, the farmer will be indirectly the beneficiary perhaps of a system in which he should have been the beneficiary directly. "I am going to vote for the bill, believing that it is a first step in the right direction, with a hope and faith that from time to time there will lie such amendments and modifications as the needs of the agricultural interests may demand. I fully appreciate that at this time there might arise some embarrassment perhaps with those time notes extended for a longer period than specified in this I bill. I "Necessarily there must he change and readjustment and these should be as easy and successful as possible Reserves are to be established, deposits and credits built up, gold and other securities accumulated and the system gotten into working shape, and then perhaps, and I hope in the near future, the farmers of this country may find an adequate way of meeting all of their needs under the proposed system when established, amended and developed. A Heal Departure. "This bill also for the first time in our banking history recognizes real estate as a bonding collateral. This also Is of great benefit to the agricultural interests of tho country. It makes possible tho financial resources organized under this bill for the benefit of those who wish to realize upon their vested capital. Hoforo this, those who wished to use their landed property as collateral for its development were dependent upon such loans as they could negotiate outside tho law governing national banks and the resources controlled by tho national laws This Is one of the most important features of this bill and is a recognition of tho value of the property upon which tho entire nation depends and upon which the farmer necessarily is dependent. "Tho great ery has been 'hack to the farm'. The agricultural department is spending millions of dollars for the development of agricultural interests. All of this may avail something, but until agriculture is relieved from the financial handicap under which it is now laboring, until it is placed upon a financial footing with cue other commercial and industrial activities of the country, the condition now obtaining will become no better and the high cost of living become more acute as the years go by "It is idle to talk about getting young men of education and ability to engage in a pursuit in which credit and the means of obtaining it are doubtful and uncertain, and tho products of which are forced upon the market, regardless of price, in order to meet tho obligations incurred in their production, President Wilson says: 'And yet the farmer does not stand upon the same footing with the forester, and the miner In the market of credit ? t},c security he gives is of a character not known in tho broker's office or as familiar as it might be on tho counter of the bankers.' "In the same connection ho said: 'Our thoughts may ordinarily be concentrated upon tho cities and the hives of industry, upon the cries of i.no crowned market place and the clangor of the factories, but It is from the quiet interspaces of the open valleys and the free hillsides that we draw the sources of life and prosperity.' It Is for this reason that the ancient cry of unrest all over the country conies up against the inequalities in wealth, and it is the most potent reason for the political unrest that characterizes conditions to-day. While Money Shrinks. "In the last 10 years the percentage of increase in agricultural products has been 97.1, while the increase in money circulation has been hut 72.0 per cent.; a difference between the relative increase of the 1 two of about 20 per'cent, more in agricultural products than In clrcu lattng medium. When the fact Is taken Into consideration that a very small per cent, of the entire capital of the country Is used under our present system for the purpose of producing and marketing our agricultural products, it will be seen how inadequate are the means for financing this great industry and establishing confidence in its certain remuneration. "The greatest per cent, of the actual capital of this country Is concentrated in tho great, centres of trade and used for purposes of speculation and gambling in stocks, bonds, and even in agricultural products themselves -a uso of capital which adds not one dollar to the material dovolopment and welfare of the coun try. It is for the following reason, among others, that I shall support tho hill. It socks to establish regional banks, to decentralize this dangerous concentration of capital in tho few great centres of speculation and gambling, and to place tho money of the country where those who are engaged la legitimate industry may securo adequate accommodations at all times. "I favor the establishment of eight regional banks, even though the accommodations that they may be ablo o extend to tho industries in tho regions In which they may he placed, may not at first he as great as may now he received from some of the present reserve centres. Hut they will become the neuclei of the wealth of the different sections in which th$y are located, and, I believe, rapidly increase that wealth. With wiso ad ministration, I predict the rapid development of the latent resources of these sections, resulting from tho establishment of these regional banks. Kquali/.es Conditions. "Not only does this provision of eight reserve centres tend to decentralize capital and equalize conditions of opportunity in the country, but it will aid powerfully In the development of the latent resources of each region. It necessarily tends to mak.0 the capital of each of these sections non-migratory. It retains the wealth of each section for tho benefit of tho section in which the wealth is produced; it makes tho money or each section availahlo for the development or the resources of that section; it so utilizes it that it may not ho transferred to the great centres of speculation and gambling. I, for myself, would be willing to pay a higher ratp of interest and suffer a temporary lack of capital, In order to see those eight, reserve hanks established; believing, as I do, that they will ultimately result in the development of the undeveloped resources of the nat ion. "I'nder our present system, all seotlons of the country have been bui tributary feeders to the few financial centres, making possible the building up of the colossal fortunes of tho few; rendering easy means for tlto shameful speculations which have disgraced our market places, and making possible tho floating of colossal schemes that liavo destroyed competition essential to tho healthy growtli of our industries. They have drained from every quarter of thD country the capital so sorely needed for tho development of its vast rosou roes. "This hill provides further than In times of emergency the assets ol tliB country, the real wealth of the countrp, may he used as a basis of circulation, making the possibility of the recurrence of disastrous panics, remote, if not wholly Impossible. Should it establish confidence in tho ability of co-operation between tho banks and the government in making safe the commerce of the nation, it will furnish a solution of tho most vexing problems that now confront the American people." holii wkhviij campaicjn. fieorgiu Citizens Launch Campaign Against I loll Weevil. At a mass meeting of citizens of Macon and Bibb county, C.a., Thursday afternoon an organization was perfected to prepare for and fight off the invasion of the boll weevil. Tho organization in under the wing of tho Georgia Chamber of Commerce and will have headquarters in Macon, (la. According to President C. J. Madden of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, an educational campaign 19 being planned throughout the cottongrowing section of south and middle Georgia. Farmers will be taught tho necessity of diversification of crops. The campaign is to bo carried into every school house, church and homo in Georgia. A good sized sum of money for the campaign was raised at the meeting Negro Kills Another Negro. Hathaway Cox, a young negro, Bhot and killed another negro, in lower Rrownsville, Marlboro county, Thursday night. It is said that tho two negroes got in a dispute over a card ^atne and some liquor. Jackson was 't tho home of Cox when the shooting occurred. ? ? Sent to Charleston. Returning to Ouantanamo, Cuba, from its Mediterranean cruise, with small pox aboard the battleship Ohio has been ordered to go into quaranino at Charleston. I'nflntshecl Pier Rums. Clyde Line pier No. 2, which was undergoing construction at Charleston was Monday destroyed by Are, entailing a $20,000 loss.