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HIDDEN FUR YEARS BtATH OF NEW YORK LAWYER ILTLAL HIS LIFt'S SECRET ? LIVED A ROUBLE LIFE No Ono, Not Itch IIin Wife, Knew That Mis AfRuity lAred in the Secluded Hoem in the Roar of Mia Place of Hum**'**, u Willing Prisoner of Hit. The Esther Gobneck of Ral/,ec's fiction, trannplan I oil from the romantic Parisian setting of the early Nine teentli century, camo to life ia Montieello, N. Ythla weok when Maltin H. Couch whs found dead in the law offices he had long occupied iu the Masonic building, In tFiat city. Member* of hie family, entering for the tirct 1 til #? I l\a I n ti tv which lie hud slways guarded go care fully from Intrusion, found hidden there a frightened, tearful woman ? a stranger to them all. Yet this woman?Adelaide M. Rrnnce?had lived in that inner room for three years, and not a soul hut her and Couoh knew of it. If the woman went out at all it was late in the night, when all the village war asleep, and if any "nighthawk" ever chanced upon a strange woman slipping out of the Maeonlc building the story never readied the village gossips. For three years she had endured her voluntary Imprisonment for the sake of being the secret companion of this man, and so successfully wns her presence there concealed by the man himself that the members of his own family never even guessed it. Dread of discovery grow with the passing of every month, and in the last year she had ventured out of the office only onco until one day this week when she ran from the building to the office of the nearest doctor as hor lover lay dying of heart disease on a cot. in the office. Couch was .1^-4 1. it. - -1 4. * - * ' ucnu wnrn 1110 uoctor nrnvea ana when the latter looked around for the woman she had disappeared. The wife and daughter of the dead man were summoned to his office. Mrs. Couch, after giving directions for the disposition of pie corpse, attempted to enter the mysterious Inner room of the office, but found the door locked. She asked one of the men to climb over the partition, but as he tried it he was halted bT a woman's voice that came from the dark ness beyond. "I'll come out if you don't harm me." There came the sound of the key In the lock and the woman stepped out into the office, stood for an instant. at the foot of the cot where the body lay, glanced at the dead mar., then looked up and saw his wife and daughter. She made as if to speak, but suddenly sank to the floor in a swoon. Those present looked long and hard at the woman's faeo as they lifted her and one or two recognized her as one whom they had in years nfl at cccn frortnonf 1v w \-v, 11 11 \y\|uv;iitijr in mv;iui\yCiu; and bo frequently viBiting Couch's office that there had been some gossip for a time?gossip that stopped, of course, when the woman had apparently disappeared from the town. Miss Brance was revived, and the uniquo story was told. She gave her name as Adelaide Brance, and her home aR Goshen, N. Y. She said that she had known Mr. Couch for 15 years. Ono day she had gone to Monticello canvassing for subscriptions to a hook. She had gone to tho office of Mr. Couch and had tried to sell him the hook. That was their meeting and tho relation which they formed began then. For years it was a matter of an occasional visit. Business would seem to bring her to Monticello and sho would manage to spend some time with the lawyer. The visits became more and more frequent, and more and more they tended to stretch from a night at a time to a week at a time. It was three years ago that tho two decided there was no reason why the secrecy they had been able to maintain for a week could not be maintained for a year or for a lifetime. The woman told Couch she would como to Monticello, take up her quarters in the inner office, and never step out in the daylight again. An oil stove, a table, some chaire and iron bed were put into the inner room. Miss Ttranco came there under oover of darkness. Couch announced at his homo that he had become so crippled with rheumatism?trouble returning to a foot from an injury he received while running as a boy? that It would be out of the question for him to mount every day the long hill leading to his home. Hereafter he said, he would live at the office, sleep at the office, oat at the office. Once a wook, with the coming ol Sunday noon, he had walked laboriously up the hill to the Conch home and dined in state with Mrs. Couch So that made it possible for him tc live at his office, and to tako thing? from the grocer's and butcher's tc ^ his office without arousing the gossips of tho town to any suspicion ol the truth. With all the precautions it is retarded as little short of marrelouf KILLING ON STREET FX>PK Kit OIK FIKEI) INTO MAN' AT j CiARUSTON. KridmM Sown to Show Tl?at Man Actod ub F?r of E?M-ions Bodily Isadora M. of Memphis, Monday shot and killed Edward J. Mw'dbii at Charleston, better known iu the sporting circles ?f that place a* "Mickey". After ex*01 ination by the eorouar'e jury Acouta whs absolved, on the grounds of justifiable hou.ioido. While the verdlet practically means acquittal, friends of Aeonte put up $1,000 bond for his appearance before the grand jury next February. The evidWire ohowetl that Policeman Bowicl> who was standing at Market and Meeting street Monday morning wben ho heard four pistol shots. Ho started down Meeting street to investigate and met Acosta near the Circular church. He said that lie rskod him if lie had heard the shots. Acosta replied, staied the policeman, that he did the shooting, and supposed that he had killed a man on Chalmers street. Oflloer Bowlck then Informed Acosta that he was under arrest and took him to the scene of the killing;. At they noared Chalmers street Officer Bowiek said that Policeman Slattery came from aiouiiu me corner, nonnng a pistol in hie band. He called to hit brother officer not to fell uneasy, as he had the man who did the shooting:. The next witness war Officer Slnttery, who stated that he ran to the scene on Chalmers street from his post on Broad street, and found Meehau lying dead on the north aidewalk, a abort distance from Meeting. The body was lying face down, and partly under it wns a pistol. lie picked up the weapon and found that its contents were intact. He rushed around the corner and met Officer Bowick and Acosta coming down the st reet. At the police station the prisoner's name was taken and he was charged with shooting and killing Meehan, whose name was given then as Mahon, because Acosta did not know the man well, and the police had not time to find any one to Identify the body. Ho was lodged in a lobby cell and was held there until the Inquest. Acosta was asked at the Inquest if he wished to make a statement, but was told that it was not compulsory. In a calm manner he related the details that led up to the shooting. He said that Meehan had followed him to within a few steps of his boarding place, on Chalmers street. At this point Acosta said that Meehan asked him for $3 0 and threatened to kill him if he did not givo him the money. Acosla. said that he refused to give the money, and when Meehan whipped his weapon out of his pocket he hurriedly (hew his pistol out of his right overcoat pocket, and fired four allots. IIo said that ho believed that his life was In danger and that If he had not acted as ho did ho would have either been killed or seriously wounded. lie said that ho hated to kill the man, hut that he was forced to do so. When questioned by a Juror he said that ho met Median about the first, of the month. IIo related that about two or three weeks ago Meehan followed him and on Meeting street, near Chalmers street, demanded at the point of pistol that he give him $100. ITo did not give him the money then, he said, but the next day gave him $00. IIo was approached again, he told the jury, and this time gave him $20. According to his view , of the affair Median was blackmailing him. ITo did not propose to give him any more money, he said, and bought the weapon with which he killed the man. lie also stated that Mechan war, a drug fiend of some kind and that he did not caro to tako ( any chances with him. : A dispatch from Memphis says that. Isadoro M. Aon?fn r?P tVinf w j'MlVV , >V 11U , shot and killed E. J. Meehan at Charleston, Is well known there, where he has extensive property in! forests. Tie resides with two daughters and Is known as a quiet, peace, able citizen. Sentenced to Walk 70 Miles, Edward Leo and John Nolan, 17I year-old hoys of New York city, who . ran away from home, were arrested at Middletown, N. Y., on a charge of illegal train riding. They were ra( leased on their promise to walk the . 7G miles back to their home. I Two Horses Are Killed. > Two young men, sons of Mr. J. S. ? Smith, living in the Carolina section, s ten miles above Dillon, were riding in a tournament on Friday, when i their homes collided, killing hoth ; animals and seriously injuring both , riders. that this secret could have heen pro' served with almost every moment of fering the risk of discovery. For the > Masonic building in Court square is . in the heart of the village, and ton ) other lawyers havo their offices In the i building. Only constant vigilance, > the determination of the woman hor self never to pass a window where she f could be seen from the street, and never to go to the street except when - all the village was asleep made posi slble the keeping of this secret. A I KIM MYSTtliY ? NEW YORK I^OIiK K FAOKH PCZZIJNU MURI)KK CAKE. ? TRUNK CONTAINS CORPSE ? Two Meu Kent Pnsli Cart in \A hich They Cari*y the Trunk, l>uui| ing I It on the Kidewu.lL., \\ h lu They Walk Off, Ostensibly to Return tor it in a Few Minute*. A murder mystery, which promibOR to rival (he famous barrel murder of a dor.en years ago, was brought to the attention of the New York police Monday when a boy notified them that for half an hour ho had watched a trunk wlfieh two meu had unloaded from a push cart and left in the gutter street, on the East Side. When the trunk was opened at a polite atatton the still warm body of a man shout 4 0 years old, shabbily dressed and emaciated, was found in it. The body was later identified by Joseph Molloy, a former room mate as that of .John Kremen, a Russian Pole, formerly employed in a coal mine at Charleston, W. Va. According to the coroner, death had been caused by strangulation. In forcing tbo body into the trunk, the man's neck had been broken. Btout ropes held the head and neck to the knees and feet. A large bandanna iiniiukoren 101 nan noon used an a gag and a woman's petticoat had been wrapped about the head. About 1 0 o'clock Monday morning, Joseph Cooper, an employee of a "push cart tables" on Sheriff streer, nearby, rented a cart to two men answering the description given by the boy who called the police to Pitt Btreet. One of the men had asked the boy to take care of the' trunk after it was dumped into the gutter. Cooper said one of the men was tall and well dressed. The other man, a little shorter and dressed in a dark sweater and cap, wheeled the cart, and is believed to have been merely the employee of the well dressed man. When the cart reached Pitt street the tall man gave his companion a coin and then helped him unload the trunk. After this the man in the sweater returned the push cart to Its owner, while the other asked the street urchin to watch the trunk. Py drawing in the net. of investigation begun Monday when the body was found in a trunk on the East Ride the police aro confident the Identity of the murderers will be positively established. This Is the third trunk murder mystery In four years. The two previous mysteries have remained unsolved. The police also hoped Tuesday to gather In a number of men answering the description of the two who dumped the trunk containing: the body from a push cart onto the sidewalk at the Pitt street tenement entrance. One of tho men, evidently the employer of bis companion, was tall and well dressed. lie directed the unloading of the trunk and employed a boy of the neighborhood to guard it, promising to return In a few minute.s The man who pushed the cart wore a dark sweater and cap and is described as shorter than the other man. Both disappeared after disposing of tho trunk, tho well dressed man hurriedly, while tho other trundled tho push cart down Pitt street and later returned It to a cart yard in the vicinity from which it was rented. To identify the body the police placed it on view in a police station and more than 4,000 residents of the East Side?men and women?passed by it before Mike Molloy, proprietor of a Polish boarding house, declared that it was that of John Kremen, a former coal miner of Charleston, W. Ya., but more recently employed in Now York city by housewreckers and as a stableman. Aiinougn i\ioiioy was positive In his identification several headquarters detectives were inclined to believe that he might have been mistaken and that the trunk victim probably followed a higher vocation than that of a laborer. Molloy'a statement was borno out in part by the calloused hands of tho dead man and by his stature and muscular de velopment that such work would mukfi nnaoililn The trunk, which was used to dispose of tho body, was 22 inches wide, 22 1-4 Inches high and 34 inches long. It was manufactu-er, accordlong. It was manufactured, accordined It by tho Petersburg Trunk and Pag company of Petersburg, Va. Put for the tin corners, which were Rlightly dented the trunk was comparatively new. Tho tray was missing and detectives hunted for It Tuesday. One of tho unsolved "trunk mysteries" was the murder of Moses Sachs, a Jewelry peddler who was killed June 18, 1910. Just a year beforo tho murder of Sachs, Elsie Siegel's body was found in a trunk in a room occupied by hor Chinese Sunday school pupil, Leong Loo, a Chinese who disappeared, and was accused by the police as her slayer. Another unsolved trunk mystery was the murder of Meyer Welshard, whose body was found In a trunk on LIKES CURRENCY BILL J I'MOK KKNATOK IH PLKASKI? WITH ITS SI II KM K. The Sou til, Especially, Will Kriictit From I'hsnh^o of the Mcwiuro Protecting the Farmers. Senator K. D. Smith in stopping in Florence for a few days before going to Washington. He in especially proud of the work that he has accomplished, but it is not the pride that vaiinteth itself, but that which rejoices in what has been accomplished for his fellow men in the cause in which he was enlisted. Senator Smith says thut the people of this country hardly realize just what that currency bill means to the South particularly, lie says that the South will begin to realize the benefit from it at once, because the changed conditions in regard lo money will make it seek investment, and that in the future the currency of the country will be based strictly on the real wraith of the land, and It is backed by the land itself. There can not hereafter be any Inflation of (he values of ihe country, nor any contraction thereof, for tho money which is the measure of the value is based on and runs with tho wealth of the country itself, he says. In the new currency bill the very essentials of true hanking are carried out. Money is based 011 tho wealth of tho people, not on tho debta of the government, nor the amount of gold that some individual may happen to have, nor any set of individuals, and money becomes really and truly a medium of exchange rather than a commodity controlled by a set of men for thoir own benefit. For the farmer the benefits may be summed tip by saying that of the flint time in the history of this country the farmer and his business are recognized in the banking law. The farmer /and his friends were criticized for trying to get advantage under the new law ahead of every one else, hut thoRe who urged such argument were ignorant of their real facts. Senator Smith said that lie was lined up in the flglit for proper aid for the development of roads through government aid and the viewpoint that ho and his friends had that with the increase of the business of the parcel post the government must need heavier vehicles and the roads would bo more of an item than now. As the government paid for the upkeep of the railroads in part., by the hire of their cars, so tho government could and should contribute a aliaro for tho maintennnr>#> nf llio vn?.lc nen'1 ^ w ft L..VJ I wnun uouvi 1U1 lliu Met till" purpose, the people doing: their share, and tho money of the future and resolved to keep on In post ofTico department coming hack to them in support of tho roads. Senator Smith said that in passing: he would like to say that the country now recognizes in the Democratic party that the bitter school of the past. 50 years has mado a lot of postgraduates in question of legislation just, fair and equitable, and that to tho astonishment of the Republicans the Democratic party has been of ono mind, one purpose, united, solid. FREES FOUR MORE. Governor Ulonso Parolei a Few More Negro Convicts. Governor Bleaso freed four more convicts Wednesday afternoon, all uuii^i jmrui^n. j ncy were: KOCKy Colly, colored, convicted of assault with intent to ravish at Barnwell in March, 1010, and sentenced to eight years on the chain gang. William Oliver, colored, convicted at Anderson in February,. 1 000, of murder with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to lifo imprisonment in tho State penitentiary. Sumpter Brooks, colored, convicted nt. Aiken in February, 1010, of murder with recommendation to mercy and sentenced to lifo imprisonment in the penitentiary. Henry Folder, colored, convicted at Bamberg in November, 1 000, of murder with recommendation to mercy and sentenced to lifo imprisonment iri tho penitentiary. This makes the total number freed by Governor Rlcaso 014. * Tided to Hell too Cheap. When Jim Jackson offered to sell a Greenwood horse dealer a tine mule for $100 Saturday he was at once taken into cuRtody. Sunday tho owner, a farmer, turned up and claimed the mule which had been stolen from his plantation. Tragedy at Still. Jordan Will was shot, perhaps fatally, and his wife killed outright Thursday afternoon at a turpentine still near Marlow, Ga. Deputy sheriffs are in search for the supposod murderer. Artist Kills Herself. Mollie Chatfield, an artist, was found doad in her studio at New York Monday afternoon with a steel paper cutter driven through her heart. Apparently it was suicide. Pier 11, East river on January 16, 1901, after the trunk had remained there for a day. 0 FLWUi LYNCHINGS UM.Y F08TYFUUR AKF KLCI1RDHI FUK Yi AR1913 ONE VICTIM WAS WHITE Philadelphia I'hikm- Print* AltsU-wt Showing That Lynching* Decreased During the Year?Two Credited to I tli? North?Defense of Spartanburg Jail in Noted. "Only 4 4 lynching* known to be such beyond doubt have occurred in i the United StalvH til l your," accord-i ins; to i. dispnu h frotu Chicago to tho Philadelphia North American, "and (hi* is the lowest number for ninny years, more than 50 being re corded last year and ns many as 25) in some previous years. Tho decrease in lynching in Southern states is attributed largely to efforts made by governors, sheriffs and prominent citizens to prevent mob violence. "A notable example was set on August IS by the sheriff at Spartan burp, S. (J. In spite of the fact that dynamite was used, lie prevented a mob from lynching a negro who was accused of assaulting a while woman. Later the negro was tried hefore a white jury and found not guilty. "The record shows decided improvement in other respects than in numbers. So far as the newspaper accounts show none of the victims was burned at the stake. Nor were any of the Ivnchinps accompanied by the so-called race riots, which always added to the number of victims and intensified antagonism of the white and black races. "Harrison, Miss., furnished tho nearest, approach to a 'reign of murder', when two drug-crazed mulatto boys, on September 2 8, ran amuck and started a riot, in tho course of which three white men, four negro men and one negro woman met death. As the two hoys met death while resisting capture tho case can not strictly lie classed as lynching. "In the 44 lynehings tho victims of all hut one wore negroes, and all but two occurred in Southern states. "North Dakota and Montana were the two Northern states in which lynehings occurred. At Ray, N. D., Cleve Culbortson, a white man, accused of the murder of thrco persons, was taken from jail and hanged. At Mondak, Mont., in April, J. r* n . 111 - - v,. v oinns, u negro, wno Rhot anrl killed tho sheriff and deputy aheriff of tlie county, waa hanged by a mob. "The States in which lynchings occurred and the numlier in each were aa follows: Alabama 2, Arkansas 1, Florida 4, Georgia 8, Kentucky 1, Louisiana 4. Mississippi .8, Montana 1, North Carolina 1, North Dakota 1, South Carolina 1, Tennessee 2, Texas C. There was at least one lynching for every month in tho year, August, the hottest month, loading, with eight. "Double lynchings occurred at Dlancliard, La., Cornelia, Ga., and Pauls Valley, Okla. At Houston, Miss., two negroos were lynched a day apart, being accused of complicity In tho aamo crime. At Drew, Miss., a negro was lynched by members of his own raco after ho had shot and killed two negro women and two negro men. "Aa in previous years, murders of white persons and crimes or alleged crimes against white women caused most of the summary executions. The murders were in tho big majority, and cases in which attacks on women were charged showed a decrease. "Nineteen of tho victims of tho 4 4 lynchings were accused of the murder of white men. Four were charged with murdering white girls or vTuiucu. Aimmpiea criminal assault is on record as responsible for nine of tho lynchings. Two negroes were lynched for frightening white women, one for Insulting a white woman, and another for being found concealed under tho bed in a woman's room. Two negroes were lynched for shooting or assaulting white men, one for robbery and shooting, one for assisting a negro murderer to escape, and another for horse stealing. Tn one caso the crime charged was not stated." ? ? Clave Drug by Mistake. A drug administered by their mother as medicine was tho cause ol tho deaths Saturday of Harry and I.aura Tlfer, respectively 30 and 38 years old, of Altoona, Pa., and of twe younger children and tho mother her self two weeks ago. Rebels Repulsed. After four days of fighting the Mexican federal garrison at tho seaport of Tampieo reinforced by the arriva of gunboats with troops, amunitior and dynamite Sunday drove the at tacking Constitutionalists out oi of their guns. Clogged by Dead Rody. V* hen his car refused to respond tc full current at an early hour Thursday morning Motorman H. A. Strong of Tampa, Fla., was horrified, on ex amlnation, to find the mangled re mains of a human being clogging th< running gear. 1 HOW COUNTIES GINNED ' { Ki;< <>iu> or Iff LRU IN STATK HT (X) IN T1F11I TO l>K<\ li*. . fltHto'n Tirtal 1.277.M1?Oriungolnirg I<?R(U With 74.4UK n&lRn anil HjuiriMilmrc Hwond With Oft,01-1. Ths table l-vlow gives the cotton K*1 ti?i*?<! pHor to December 18, crops of I 9 13 and 1912, in do nth Carolina. The preliminary total* for the State wa* in ml o public by the bureau of the census at Washington. The correotcmI total and the amounts for the different counties for the crops of 1913 mid 1912 are furnlahcd for publication in the local paper*. The quantities are given In running hales, counting round as half bales. LI titers are not included: 19 I 8 1912 Abbeville .... 30.833 27,20ft Aiken 4 4,622 34,27 1 Anderson . . . 66,4r>2 4 9,7 81 Hamburg . . . 26,866 18,905 Harnwell . . . 53,560 40,326 Beaufort . . , 6.94 9 4,9 1 6 Berkeley . . . 12,8 In 10,352 Calhoun . . . 24,340 19,096 Charleston . . 13,637 9,270 | Cherokee . . . 1 6,637 1 3,321 | Chester .... 29,864 29,986 Chesterfield . . 27,026 29,354 Clarendon. . . SS.37 1 32,854 Colleton . . . 1 8,1 08 1 3,805 Darlington . . 3 4,32 6 3 8,5 3 6 Dillon .... 32,891 36,709 Dorcheater . . 15,922 1 2,371 Kdgeflold . . . 80,8 19 26,051 Fairfield . . . 23,690 24,909 Florence . . . 4 1.0 8 4 36,3 18 Georgetown . . 8,4 6 2 2,9 9 7 Greenville. . . 33,7 1 7 29,81 1 Greenwood . . 28,8 5 5 2 3,133 Hampton . . . IS,097 13,408 Horry .... 9,012 8.878 Jasper . . . . 6,9 9 9 4,5 8 8 Kershaw . . . 2 1,858 24,837 Lancaster ... 21.9 1 5 24,302 Laurena . . . 40,213 33,957 Lee 3 4.968 31,966 Lexington . . . 24,322 20,774 Marion .... 1 6,855 1 7,624 Marlboro . . . 47,940 62,518 Newberry , . . 35,7 9 8 3 1,7 56 Oconee .... 1 8,292 1 2,694 Orangeburg . . 74,493 55,404 Pickens .... 1 6,4 1 8 1 1,206 Richland . . . 2 1,553 1 9,881 Saluda . . . . 23,691 2 2,4 91 Spartanburg. . 65,044 53,1 57 Sumter .... 38,423 33,020 Union .... 19,117 16,797 Williamsburg . 24,1 4 8 22,1 85 York 3 7,1 6 6 3 8,601 Total 1,277,64 1 1,128,850 COTTON BIOKI) STATISTICS. +. Figures Given Out by Census Bureau for This Season. Statistics of tho cotton seed products industry for tho present cotton season, announced by the census bureau Thursday, show 289,1 18 running bales of linters had been obtained and 2, 2 0 1,270 tons of cotton seed had been crushed from tho crop of 1913 prior to December 1. The number of cotton seed oil mills and other delinting establishments activo during tlxo period prior to December was 850. Tho number of activo establishments, tons of cotton seed crushed and running bales of linters obtained prior to Deccm.be? 1, by states, follow : EstablishStat.es ments Seed Linters Alabama ... 81 192,199 23,fir,3 Arkansas ... 43 1 1 7,932 15.299 Florida .... 4 13,80fi 1,397 Ooorgia . . . .1 52 375,881 46,896 Louisiana ... 32 7 1,581 9,348 Mississippi. . . C9 195,700 23,076 Missouri . . . 4 1 3,7 4 9 1,6 4 9 N. C 62 1 09,862 11,762 Oklahoma . . . 58 1 36,649 20,966 S. C 98 172,8G5 1 9,108 Tennessee . . . 23 99,218 12,513 Texas' . . . .220 677,593 101,436 All other states 5 20,94 1 2.005 ? FIIllX llACKIOK K.XI'LODFS. I * " Allendale Tiiul Narrowly Missed Death in Firing Cracker. i Tdttle Warren Reeves, the 11-year' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert i Reeves, of Allendale, was seriously ? injured by tlio explosion of a "cannon" firecracker Wednesday at his home. An iron pipo stuck into the ground was being used for holding tho crackers. A very largo one waa ? dropped into tho pipo, and dischargI (ntr ?-?? i ??t> uuiui u uio ill I it? ItJllOW COllld i rnovo out of range, struck him In tho ) lowor part of tho stomach, Inflicting . a terrlblo wound, Just as the discharge from a gun might hare done. Tho doctors say tho wound is not necessarily fatal, but very serious . requiring a number of stitches. t I Auto Huns Down Couple. i While crossing Rroadway at Sixty. fifth street in New York early Frif day, Richard Lee, a Rrooklyn merchant, and his wlfo were run down by an automobile. Roth were rendered unconscious and Mrs. Leo died while being taken tr? ? hospital. Tried to Lynch Ilim. An effort was made by a mob of . armed citizens at Chestertown, Md., 3 Saturday night to enter the jail and lynch Norman Mabel. *