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NO PRIMARY REFORM' HOUSE KILLS MEASURE INTENDED TO PROTECT ELECTIONS ENDORSE PRESENT PLAN Practically Only Argument of Opponent** of Reform is That Primary of 1912 Wars Above Suspicion and What Was Good Enough Then is (jh>od Enough Now. For the lack of ono vote, almost all hope of tho passage of legislation by the general assembly to safeguard tho primary election system vanished into thin air Tuesday night, when the House by a vote of 54 to 54 refused! to tuiks to third run dint* rvru I ? I ? V..V 1'ft Illicit J election reform bill now pending in the Senate. The Senate bill was substituted for the House bill by a vote of 5 4 to 53 on the motion of Mr. Stevenson of Chesterfield, who led the fight to enact legislation which would guarantee to South Carolina honest primary elections. The bill which the House killed did not throw any restrictions around enrolling for primary elections other than those now required under the ules of the Democratic party. It would not have disfranchised a single white man had it been enacted into law. The members who urged its passage claimed, though, that it would eliminate "repeating" and other forms of illegal and fraudulent voting, said to have been practiced in the primary election of 1012, and whose occurrence in some counties at least was admitted on the floor of the House Tuesday night. The opponents of the bill, hard put to find arguments against its passage, contented themselves in the main with claiming that the present system was above suspicion and that the primary election of 1012 was fair and square. Although tho Miley and Nicholson primary election reform bills are now penning on tne calendar or the House on pecond reading, there is little likelihood that at this stage of tho session, should either of them he passed, the Senate will ratify tho action of tho IIouso. Mr. Stevenson explained to tho TIouso that practically the only chance of enacting legislation at this session to safeguard tho primary was for the IIouso to substitute for the bill by its judiciary committee th emoasuro now pending in the Senate, which would bo almost the same in effect. On the motion of Mr. Stevenson tho IIouso agreed to amend tho bill by substituting the Senato bill for the judiciary committee's bill by a vote of 5 4 to 53, and then promptly refused to pass the bill as amended by a vote of 54 to 54. None of the members of tho House changed their votes. Tho tie was brought about by tho failure of Mr. Rittenberg of Charleston to vote on the question of substituting tho Senato bill for the House bill and then voting against tho passage of the amended House bill, Mr. Rittenberg introduced a bill in the House this session propos ing to reform tho primary election system In Charleston by much more drastic provisions than those proposed In tho bill which he voted against Tuesday night. Mr. Miley of Ramberg, who has a primary election reform bill on the calendar of the House now, also voted to kill the primary reform bill Tuesday night. In view of tho fact that there is little possibility of the passage of legislation to reform the primary election system, tho Democratic convention next May will take on new Importance. Tho convention will have it in its power to amend or not to amend tho rules of tho party so as to safeguard the primary election system. The administration forces at tho May convention will doubtless use tho argument that tho rules adopted by the last convention, which was anti-administration by an overwhelming majority, ought to be good enough to govern tho primary in August, 1914. Tho members of the House who voted in favor of passing tho primary reform bill to third reading wero the following: Ayes?Atkinson, Rarnwell, Reiser, Rolt, Royd, Rowers, Rrico, Rurgess, Charles, Courtney, Dantzler, DeLaughter, Dick, Epps, Evans, Fripp, Friday, Greer, Harper, Haynsworth, molt, h men in son, nuisoo, juiiiiston, Klbler, Kirk, Llles, Lumpkin, McCravey, McDonald, McMaster, McMillan, McQueen, Malpass, Means, Mitchell, Mower, Nicholson, Pate, Pegues, Pyatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley, L. M. Rogers, Sanders, W. M. Scott, Sherwood, Shirley, Stanley, StevcnBon, Vander Horst, Youmans, Zelgler ?54. The members of the House who voted against the passago of the pri* mary reform hill to third reading were tho following: Nays?Speaker Smith, Addy, J. \V. Ashley, M. J. Ashley, Raskin, Rlackwell, Rusbee, Clement, Clowney, Creech, Daniel, Fortner, Gray, Halle, Hall, Hardin, H. F. Harrelson, M. C. Harrelson, Harvey, Holley, Hunter, Irby, James, Jones, Kellehan, Kelly, Klrby, Long, Melfl, Mlloy, Miller, Mlxeon, Moore, Moseley, Murray, Nel?on, Rlttenberg, Robertson, W. S. SOLDIERS CATCH BANDIT | CAPTURE MEXICAN WHO KlLIiEI) FIFTY-ONE. 1 He Set Fire to Freight Train and i Sent it Into Tunnel, Where Passenger Train Crashed Into It. Maximo Castillo, tho Mexican ban- j 'lit, charged with tho responsibility for tho Cumbro tunnel disaster in which ton Americans and forty-one others lost their lives, was captured Tuesday thirty-eight miles south of Hachita, N. M., by American troops. The information was conveyed to lluph L. Scott, commandant at Fort Bliss, in the official telegrom from Capt. White, Ninth United States cavalry. With the bandit were six of \ his followers, who, according to ('apt. ' White's brief dispatch, surrendered 1 with a fight. ( Castillo, to avoid a rango of moun- ' tains on tho Mexican side, made a do- 1 tour which brought him into American territory. Capt. White was ou 1 tho watch, having received informa- 1 tion from Walter McCormick, Ameri- 1 can manager of Las Palomas ranch, on the Mexican side, that the muchwanted man was in tho vicinity. Whether the prisoner shall be surrendered to the rebels is a legal question which remains to bo settled. If this is done there is no doubt that he will bo executed for the Cumbro disaster. He is not charged with crime on tho American side. Castillo set firo to a freight train in tho Cumbre I tunnel two weeks ago. The cars were burning when a passenger train crashed into it, and every lifo aboard was lost. The tunnel still is burning. Consideration has been given by officials at Washington to the question of which should be done with the bandit leader, Castillo. As the tunnel disaster occurred in Mexico, no crime can he charged against the bandits in tho United States, and Tuesday night it was regarded as certain that they would bo returned to Mexico. llow to accomplish this has not been decided. United States immigration authorities might deport the prisoners as umlesirablo aliens and this probably would result in their immediate capture by Gen. Villa, who has announced his intention of exeA i 1 i l. i-ii-i - - * * uuuug mem puonciy ui Juarez. A special treaty between the United States and Mexico permits the adjoining states of the two countries to deliver fugitives to one another without reference to the Federal governments. Under this, Castillo and his followers, if turned over to the governor of New Mexico, might ho delivered to Manuel Chao, constitutionalist governor of Chihuahua, the Mexican state in which the crime was coir mitted. FRANK WILL It 10 HAXCIEI). ?, Georgia Court Upholds Conviction of Factory Superintendent. The conviction of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, tho 14year-old factory girl, Tuesday was affirmed by tho Georgia supreme court. The court held, four to two, that the conviction last August of tho young foctory superintendent had been in every way regular and according to the criminal statutes of Georgia, Chief Justice Fish and Associate Justice Heck dissented. It si expected that a date soon will bo set for the execution of the prisoner, postponed indefinitely on the filing of a motion for a new trial. It was on the denial of this motion that an appeal was taken. More than a hundred counts were contained in the appeal. Stress wob laid on allegations of prejudice on the part of two jurors and chorges that popular racial feeling against the young factory superintendent, who is a Jew, had made itself felt in the court room and influenced the verdict. Significance was also attached to the statement of the trial judge, who, in denying a motion for a new trial, said that although ho had heard all the evidence, he was not convinced either of tho guilt or innocence of the defendant. ? Tried to Suve Wife. David C. White, aged 75, of Charleston, W. Va., lost his life Wednesday in rushing back into his burning home to rescue his wife, aged 75. Six Escape Through a Hole. Digging a hole through a threefoot brick wall six prisoners of the Hancock county, Miss., jail, made their escape monday night. Bandit ICxecuted. Maximo Castllo and six of his followers were captured and executed Monday near Chocolate Pass, Chihuahua. Wednesday. Rogers Jr., Sapp, W. W. Scott, Senseney, Smiley, Strickland, Sturkle, Summers. Thompson. Todd, Warner. Welch. White, Whitehead, "V^llburn, C. C. Wyche?54. Pairs?Bethea, aye, with Browning, nay. Not Voting?Cross, Casque, Goodwin, Kennedy, Lee, Lybrand, Martin, Massey, Odom, Robinson, Hlndal, Walker, Warren, C. T. Wyche?14. HOUSE PASSES Bill * 1 rilEY MAKE PRACTICAI jLiY NO CHANGE IN HI EE REPORTER. TRIBUTE TO COMMITTEE +. House <1 rants Ways and Means Com- ( mitten's Appropriation Hill With 1 t Almost No Chango?Would Grant i Every Estimate Included Except J Pay for State House Plans. t t Beginning at Us afternoon session t Monday, when twenty separate secdons of tho appropriation bill were \ taken up and passed, the llouso con- t tinned its session until well after i eleven o'clock, allowing a short re- < cess before eight o'clock. The contl- i iloneo which the members placed in < tho ability of tho ways and means f committee Is attested by the fact. ( Only one item was rejected and only ( one other modified. The bill to allow i Messrs. Todd and Benson $5,000 for i their plans for State house improvements was killed. The other change 1 was an increase of $5 0 for a hardworked Journal clerk. < Cattle tick eradication got its $30,000 without even a division vote, so did the Industrial Home at Florence 1 get its new building, and there was < not a suggested attack on an item in the medical college appropriation. Tho House, at tho instanco of Mr. James, voted $ 1G,000 as a supplementary contingent fund for support of the rural schools of the State. Tho fund is to ho expended under direction of tho State board of health. The first fight came on the allowance of $25,000 for the establishment of a tuberculosis hospital. Tho hospital won without a roll call. Tho House also allowed a $10,000 encampment fund for its militia, the University, Winthrop, tho Citadel, the colored college and all got. exactly what tho ways and means committee recommended. There was not a flutter on the items for interest on public debt, elections, legislative expenses or engrossing department. There was not even a suggestion of amending or trimming the item for tho medical college of South Carolina. Tho allowance was $3 4,S00. i 110 liems nummoti along nnui liio appropriation of $30,000 for the eradication of tho cattle tick was reached. A sharp light developed on this item, some members contending that tho farmers could remedy the situation themselves. The item was retained without a division vote. One thousand dollars was voted to tho colored State fair. The appropriation of $16,S30 for the governor's ollico passed without suggestion of change. Tho amount of $7,570 for the secretary of State's olllce passed, though an attempt was made to amend tho section by increasing tho salary of chief clerk from $1,500 to $ 1,750, and that of assistant clerk from $1,5 00 to $1,650. The comptroller general's and insurance commissioner's olllce received, respectively, $10,200 and $10,255, and there was no effort to change either of these amounts. The amount of $10,550 for tho State treasurer's olllce was tho recommendation of tho committee, and I that amount tho House agreed to pro1 vide although* an amendment was in troduced reducing the salary of chief clerk from $1,700 to $1,600. The amendment was killed. No kick was made on the appropriation of $10,340 for the State superintendent of educaton's office. When the appropriation of the adjutant general's office was reached it was moved to strike out the item of $10,000 "for purpose of a national encampment if the county in which same takes place raises a like amount, provided so much bo necessary." The motion was lost and the item remained in the bill. An amendment was also introduced to reduce from $20,000 to $15,000 the item for maintaining the militia and this amendment was laid on the table. When the section for the department of agriculture, commerce and industry was reached it was moved to strike out the item of $2,500 for tho preparation and printing of the State hand-book, but the motion was lost. It was also moved to reduce from $4,000 to $1,000 the item for maintenance, and it, too, was lost. There were no further attempted changes. Appopriation of $8,095 for the at torney general's ofTlco was passed without objection. The railroad commissioner's office, $1 4,125.78; State Hospital commission, $8,689.24; State librarian's office, $2,026; public buildings, $32,640.88; Catawba Indians, $9,750; all of these amounts were passed without question by the House. Several members wanted the extraordinary repair account for the Citadel reduced to $1,000. This was lost and the House voted $37,600 for the Citadel. No effort was made to reduce the appropriation of $80,046.98 for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind college. The colored college at Orangeburg gets $5,000 for building a hospital. Various efforts were made to reduce the allowance for the 8tate colored college, but it kept the $20, JURY EXONERATES GORE 1 WOMAN FAILS TO SHOW THAT HK ACTED IMPROPERLY. A Disappointed OniotvHw^kcrH Attempt to Prove That Senator Was I in- | moral?Is Found Wholly (luiltless. United States Senator Thomas P. ^ "lore was Wednesday exonerated of diarges of improper conduct in disrlct court at Oklahoma City, Okla., n a suit for $50,000 damages instiuted by Mrs. Minnie E. llond of Oklahoma City. The verdict was reurned at 5:40 p. m., 10 minutes af,er the caso was given to the jury. )nly one ballot was taken. "We find," the jury stated In the f rordict, "the evidence submitted by t he plaintiff entirely insullleient upon g .vhich to haso a suit; that said evi- f lenco wholly exonerates tho defend- i mt, and had the defendant, at the e joncluslon of tho plaintiff's evidence, f mnounced that he desired to intro1 ii/in ?? avIJahaa ?...l iuvu i&vj u? iuviiv^o (Hill 1 cr>t*'U 111M ( hit verdict would have been the same j: n that event as now returned by us, t] in favor of tho defendant." r Trial of tho suit began last Wed- t nesday. In her declaration Mrs. i Pond alleged tha4. the Senator attack- <] ed her while sho was in conference i with him at a hotel in Washington j last March, in connection with the t possible appointment of her husband, t Julian Pond, as internal revenue col- \ lector at Oklahoma City, in tho scuf- c fie Mrs. Pond asserted her face was ^ scratched and her hand lacerated by fragments of her broken eyeglasses, j In his answer Senator Gore made ( general denial of tho charges, and as j a counter chargo alleged that tho suit t was instigated by a corterio of his *. political opponents who had failed in ] their efforts to secure federal patron- ( age. Tho jury, composed of nine far- t mers, a grocer, a banker and a broker, was secured on the first day of the | trial. ( Mrs. Pond was called as tho first ? witness after opening statements were made Thursday. Repeating her . allegations, sho denied any knowl- ( edge of tho plot alleged by the Sena- , tor, who Is a candidate for re-election ai 1110 oKianoma primaries next An-J gust. Efforts to have read dispositions dealing with alleged incidents in connection with the past of both parties to tho suit was prevented by a ruling of Judge Clark, who held such evidence not vital to the suit. T. E. Robertsan, Kirby Fltzpatrlck and Dr. J. II. Earp, Oklahomans, in Washington at the time of tho hotel epicode as applicants for federal positions, appeared as the principal witnesses for Mrs. Rond. All were unsuccessful in their candidacies. Robertson and Fitzpa trick claimed to have been eye-witnesses to the alleged assault while Earp assorted that lie had been importuned by Senator Core to have Mrs. Rond leavo Washington and "hush the matter up". Test 1 Tying in his own defense, Senator Core characterized tho allegations as "infamous lies" and asserted that tho whole affair was the result of the plotting of his political enemies intended to embarrass him in his campaign for renomination. He declared that Mrs. Rond seized him and at an opportune moment Robertson and Fitzpatrick appeared in tho room. Other witnesses for the defense quoted witnesses for tho plaintiff as admitting that a "frame-up" against Senator Core had been arranged and quoted several as having made threats to "got" the senator. 000 recommended. An unsuccessful effort was made to cut on tno $z,ouo provided for the Confederate Home college at Charleston. The only cut proposed for the hospital for the InRano appropriation was $300 for the amusement of the Insano, which was lost. Objection was raised to the item of $3 5,000 for building and equipment for the Industrial school at Florence. It was moved to cut it to $25,000, but the House by a viva voce vote gave the $35,000 for the new building. The Stato electrician was allowed $300 for electrocutions at the penitentiary; Thero \sas no change as to the penitentiary. A member wanted $800 allowed the board of pardons Instead of $4 00. This was lost. Under tho head of pensions another member opposed paying salaries at tho Confederate Infirmary. Tho House refused to allow Major Richardson $200 and Dr. Rutler $100 for services in 1913. The court held this pay due, but tho Holse refused to allow tho amount. An amendment was adopted that any inmate could go homo and get $100. Dost Tiifo in Big Fire. W. P. Howe, aged 70, a shipping clerk flf Mirmonnnlla Winn "">< ..?...uvMpv/iiot miuiii) n ao burned to death Saturday In a flro which destroyed the six-story building In which ho worked. He reached safety, but wont back to savo a girl employee. - Takes Favorable Action. Favorable action on the nomination of Francis H. Weston for federal attorney and James L. Sims for United State marshal, In this State, was taken Monday by the Senate Judiciary committee. Old newspapers for sale at this ofllco. 'ASS REFORM BILL t FT Kit KILLINt* KKNATK HILL IIOrKK PASHKH ITS OWN. ? li\\ HELP THE PRIMARY ? ictlnn lU'vlvos Hope for Kofonnn? Provides Supervisor of Kegistrntion lit Kaeh County to Ho Chosen by County Convention.? Kolls to He Kept in Duplicate. T.ending wluit appeared to bo the orlornest of hopes, tho members of ho House who arc In favor of safeuarding primary elections against raud succeeded Wednesday mornng in pushing the Miley primary loction reform bill to third reading iy a voto of 57 to 52. The Miley bill provides practically ho same means of regulating the irimary elections as the Senate bill lid, which tho House killed Tuesday light, by a voto of 54 to 54. Both neasures say that voters in tho prlnary elections must be registered in luplicate books. Advocates of prinary reform havo stressed tho lmlortanco of this provision all through ho hard fight tliey havo made to get ho House to take somo action which vould eliminato "repeating" and >ther forms of illegal and fraudulent roting in tho primary elections. The Mlley bill, like the Senate bill, irovidcs that tho county executive ommittcos shall review the books of irimary registration before the elecion and strike off all names which diould not appear thereon. The Miley bill, though, makes the reform >f the primary more of a party mater than the dead Senato bill did. The chief difference between the [)ill which tho House passed Wednoslay morning and tho one it killed Tuesday night is that tho Hill which went through provides for one supervisor of primary registration in each county to bo elected by tho county conventions, whereas the bill which was killed said that tho registration for primary elections should bo loft in tho hands of tho secretaries of the various clubs. Tho fact that tho House passed the Miley bill to third reading though it killed tho Senato bill Tuoesday night is explained by the presence of members who were in favor of primary reform who were absent Tuesday night and by tho fact that Mr. Miley himself voted against the passage of tho Senate bill. Mr. Htttenberg of Charleston, another advocate of primary reform who did not find the Senato primary reform bill to bis taste, voted for tho Miley bill, after tho House agreed to tho amendment providing that tho special primary election laws for Charleston county, which aro much more stringent than anything proposed for the rest of tho State by the most ardent advocate of reform, should not be repealed by the passage of tho bill. In view of the action taken by the House Wednesday morning, there is now the ghost of a chance that the present general assembly may after all enact some legislation to safeguard the primary system. This chance hinges solely on the immediate agreement of the advovates of primriry reform in the Senate to substitute the Miley bill for the measure now pending in the Senate. If this is done without delay, it it possible that a primary election reform act may go to the governor before the session ends and allow him to put into execution his threat to veto any such measure. The members of the House who voted in favor of passing the Miley primary reform bill to third reading were the following: Ayes?Atkinson, Barnwell, Belser, Bethea, Holt, Bowers, Boyd, Brice, Burgess, Charles, Dantzler, DeLoughter, Dick, Evans, Friday, Goodwin, Greer, Haynsworth, Hlott, Hunter Hutchinson, Hutson, Johnston, Kiblor, Kirk, Lee, Idles, Lumpkin, McCravey, McDonald, McQueen, Maipass, Massey, Means, Miley, Mitchell Mower, Nicholson, Odom, Pate Pegues, Pyatt, Heady, Riddle, Riley Rittenberg, Robinson, L. M. Rogers Sanders, W. M. Scott, Stevenson Shirley, Sturkie, Tlndal, Stanley Vander Horst, Zeigler?57. The members of the houso whe voted against the passage of the Miley bill to third reading were the following: M fl V Q Qnor* lr r* i* C? rv-? I * V? a .1.1.. t ...... w .yjyv.um-i Diiiitu, nuujip j. W, Ashley, M. J. Ashley, Baskln, Blackwell, Browning, Busbee, Clement, Creech, Daniel, Kpps, Fortner, Casque, Ilaile, Hardin, H. F. Harrelson, M. C. Harrelson, Harper, Harvey, Hollty/lrby, James, Jones, Kellehan, Kelly, Kennedy, Klrby, Lyhrand, Melfl, Miller, Mlxson, Moore, Mosoley, Murray, Nelson, Robertson, W. S. Rogers Jr.. Sapp, W. W. Scott. Resolute Woman Shoots Negro. Mrs. B. F. McNeal did not lose her nervo when a negro entered her homo in Ittabenn, Miss. Instead sho got her revolver and shot him down. Saved Fortune on $112 a Week. Patrick CoughHn, who died recently at Foreatvllle, Conn., left an estate worth about $37,000. WILL BUILD RAILROAD | HOI SK IN* FAYOK OF A GOVKKN. MKXT LINE FOIL ALASKA. ^ 10 I'rwident to Have Entire f'narge of Construction Work?Total Cost L*? ? Not to Extend Over $A.">,t)00,(Xto. The administration Alaska railroad bill, authorizing the president to com* struct a $36,000,000 railroad from Alaska's coast to its great coal fields, was passed by the House late Wednesday by a vote of 230 to 87. A si in liar measure already has passed the Senate and the bill will be taken up at once in conference between the two houses, with a view to sending it quickly to the president, who has signified liis intention of signing it. At the eleventh hour, after a sharp parnmeniary SKirmisn, mo nouso eliminated from the bill, as reported by Iho territories committee, a provision authorizing a bond Ibsuo of $35,000,000 to finance the railroad and to bo paid off by the proceeds of government land sales in Alaska. Tho Senate bill provides for a $ 10,000,ooo bond issue. Representative Fitzgerald of New York led a light which resulted in striking out tho entire bond provision from the bill. Under tho amended measure tho project would be financed out of current funds in the treasury, the president being limited to $35,000,000 and $1,000,000 being appropriated | for immediate expense. Congress would appropriate each year tho amount estimated as necessary for the construction of the road. Tho bill provides for the construction of a road "not to exceed 1,000 miles, to be so located as to connect one or more of the open Pacific ocean harbors on tho southern coast of Alaska with the navigable waters in tho interior of Alaska and with a coal field or fields yielding coal sufficient In quality and quantity for naval use so as to best aid in tho development of the agricultural and miner or other resources of Alaska." The project is of more interest than even the expenditures of the $35,000,000 proposed would ordinarily create. Coming so soon after tho completion of the Panama canal it is attracting attention as another great engineering project under tho direction of the American government. In a sense, too, it compares with tho * government's undertaking in the 'OOo to push the Pacific railways across tho unbroken prairies and mountains of tho West and thus link together tho West and tho East. , Moreaver, tho new project in to bo tho first test in this country of gov eminent ownership of a public utility; it is expected to open to tho commerce of the world groat and rich resources that until now ha to boon for tho most part lying idle; it will afford employment to a large army of men both in its construction and in , its maintenance; it will develop Alaska agriculturally as well as in other ways by attracting homesteaders; and it will cheapen greatly various commodities of commcrco, notably coal. At least these are all things which tho friends of measure claim. Tho bill places groat power in tho hands of tho president and was opposed by somo on this ground, not , that '\ey expressed any fear In rogard to President Wilson's Judgment , and integrity but that they thought it was too much power to put In tho hands of any 0110 man and directs ( him to locate and acquiro by purehaso or construction, or by both means, a lino or lines of railroads from tidewater into tho interior of Alaska and to navigation on tho Yukon, Tanana, or Kuskokwim rivors. , In choosing tho route ho is to use r his judgment as to what will best pro. moto tho settlement of Alaska, develop Its resources, and provide adequate transportation for coal for tho army and navy, for troops and muni' tions of war and for the mails. Tho limitations as to price In case of purchase, there being a few miles of railroad already constructed, Is that It must not exceed tho physical value of the railroad property. The total of all railroads bought or constructed Is not to exceed 1,000 mllos and tho appropriation for tho purchase Is $35,000,000, so that ho Is limited to. an expense of $35,000 a mile. ? ? KILLING IN AUTO. > +. - Man and Girl round Dead Together ! by Searchers. The bodies of John McFadden and* Miss Anna Lutz, each 20 years old, wero iound 111 an automobile near Ligonler, Pa., early Friday. County authorities believo McFadden 'killed the girl and then shot himself. Last Thursday midnight McFadden telephoned to the garago where he wan employed and when tho proprietor answered McFadden said "good bye'* and hung up tho receiver. Two automobiles started out to find McFadden. They came upon his car in tho center of tho road. Tho 1 engino was still running. In McFadden's pocket was a note saying that Bertha Milligan at Lambert, Pa., could tell tho cause of tho tragedy. To Coroner McMurray tho girl said McFadden had written her a letter telling her he was going to kill "tho other girl" and himself.