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BANUIIS IllAP LOOT < DAJIING OUTLAWS HOLD l'l? AND HOH TUAINS OF ALABAMA DO THEIR WORK BOLDLY J^tcctivcH Are Scouring Blue Kidgr Mountains in an Kflfort to Locate Men Who Take Long Chances to Get Booty From Tossing Bnilrond Trains. Somewhere in the Blue Kidgc mountains of Alabama there has seen horn and bred and trained a band of desperate men who have taV.en risks, in the face of all modern protective devices, that would have amazed and abashed the stage robbers of the early Western days. Witblu the past threo years these criminals have held up and robbed nearly 50 trains in the South and have gotten away with nearly $r>oo,000. To-day the desperadoes are hidden in an almost inaccessible portion of Blue Ridge mountains, sought by posses of detectives from all over the country. There is little hance of identifying them if they are found; less chance of their being taken alive. Police oflleers are becoming desperate. In the past three years they have caused the conviction of only two train robbers. Now they are living in constant fear lest another hold-up may be announced at any moment in the mountainous mining coutry of Alabama, where the outlaws apparently have found a secure hiding place. The career of the band of outlaws had its latest development in the reeent hold-up of the Queen and Crescent express, New York to New Orleans, 1 2 miles north of Birmingham. The booty obtained after an express messenger had been stabbed was first reported to be $10,000. Now it is admitted that the robbers got $20,000, missing only one package of $1 0,000. In this hold-up, as in all others "pulled off" by the gang, the engine was stopped by the waving of red lanterns. The desperadoes stabbed an express messenger who sought to beat them back. Five minutes after tho robbers, nine in number, had entered tho car, they had mounted their hardy mountain horses and were off, leaving no trace or clew. Within an hour detectives were on the trail. On tlie night of August 5, 1913, two masked men boarded tho Louisville and Nashville train three miles south of Birmingham. They tied tho mail clerks and rode 33 miles, taking their time in rifling tho IT. S. mails. It is claimed they got only a fow hundred dollars. Near Bibbville, a little country station, the Alabama Great Southern train was held up one month later. The bandits rifled the express car of $1 00,000. They sent the engine running wild down the track for 50 miles, terrifying the villages along tho lino. The runaway engine finally stopped after running out of steam. On the evening of November 7, lft 13, robbers pulled the hell cord on a Louisville and Nashville train near Blount Springs, Ala. They secured only a few hundred dollars after a desperate fight. In their excitement they overlooked $10,000 in a small package. Snnthorn train Nr> A 1 wns hold an at. Mud Creek, Ala,., on January 23, 1914, by three bandits. They sent the engine running wild down tho track after robbing the mall car of 5 100,000. I.ess than a week later the same gang, it is believed, robbed a mail pouch at Bottles, Ala., but got only $3 0. Only some incident In a mountain settlement, it is believed, will ever reveal the identity of the corporate thieves now working in the South. Recently the two men implicated in the robbing of tho Illinois Central express, near Starksville, Miss, on July 3, 1912, taking nearly $50,000, convicted as the result of just such a happening. They are Jerry Inula and Barney Lewis. It became known that Jerry Innls was married in the North Birmingham hills and that his wife had worn tho most wonderful dress ever soon in Alabama. The dress was made of calico, but it was covered with ten dollar bills. With this the first clew to the identity of the robbers, detectives traced the Mississippi hold-up to Innis and Lewis. Both are now in penitentiary. Ami Now She's Nellie l>' Jinks. Because all her friends called her "Nellie He Darned", Miss Nellie Blanche Darn of Campaign, 111., was - married to Clydo M. Jinks. Two English Aviators Killed. Two English army aviators lost their lives Wednesday at Salisbury, England, when tho rudder of their aeroplane broke. Robbers Get Rich Ix?ot. Wrecking a safe in a Toledo, Ohio, clothing store Monday night robbers succeeded in escaping with $20,000 worth of bonds. ARMY FARCE ENDED I ? CALIFORNIA GRAIMM.KS WITH ARMY OF LOAFING lU'MS. Men Marching Towards Washington Threaten to (Jet Food and Fare by | Force. "General" Kelley's army, composed ^ of men who claimed to be out of work, but many of whom refused it when offered to them, started to them, started to march from San Francisco to Washington in order to demand work from tho president. As they went through several of the counties of California, numbering nearly l.r>00 strong, they were fed f and provided for until they could be shunted offcd on tho next county in 1 the line of march. The army was made up largely of ' bums, agitators and others of danger ' to small towns unprotected by large jj pouco lorccs. i p until ruesdav the J spirits of the advancing army was in fine shape, but on that day they marched into Sacramento, Cal. Here they wero ordered to disband, but instead of obeying they threatened to obtain food for themselves by force. The police came out in strong force and a battle ensued in which clubs and sticks were freely used. As this did not see into be very effective in dispersing the "army" the fire hose was brought out and water was played on the men. This routed them completely, forcing them to retreat across th? Sacramento river into Yolo county. Beaten and badly disorganized with its leaders in jail, the "unemployed army" driven Tuesday from Sacramenta, then encamped across the river in Yolo county. They had only scanty food and shelter. Deputies guarding the bridges will not permit any to return to Sacramento and Yolo county offivers, heavily armed, on the other side, are keeping the men within the new camp. With no spokesmen and no leaders, the "army" has put aside temporarily its projected trip to Washington and turned its attention to the graver subject of subsistence. The city and county governments have sent enough money to provide two meals. Thesp meals gave out soon and Wednesday night the army retired supperless. Sacramento county; not only officially shut off the food supply which had been contributed by thp count 1, but issued an order forbidding any person conveying supplies across the bridire bevond which the workers are camped. The result of shutting off food he- 1 cam a apparent immediately. Men began leavng the camp singly and in groups. By Wednesday night the army, which had numbered 1,500 Tuesday, further had been reduced to about 0 00 men. Leaders were find- 1 ing it difficult to hold those in hand. The rural districts of Yolo county aro now overrun by hundreds of hungry men, who appear at orchard homes and enforce with threats their demands for food. Perhaps half the male population of the county were guarding homes and property. While the shutting off of food is, in a measure, solving the problem, the situation with regard to the several hundred irreconcllables bent on marching to the national capital, regardless of all obstacles, is desperately involved. Sacramento will not permit them to pass through. A half dozen surrounding counties have served official notice that they will meet with armed force any attempt to send them across their lines. The army occupies a peculiar position, according to Yolo county officials. With flood water shutting off a march to the southwest or north they have but one direction to take fl T1 fl f tlfl f lu ftooturoi-il nnn/.Do < l'? Viiuv &\t \ ?%OV ?? <41 V4 CH-I WOO llir bridges into Sacramento. The arjny late Wednesday voted to march peacefully through the city on its way eastward if the police would permit. The Sacramento authorities rejected the proposal. Sheriffs and district attorneys of four California counties reached an agreement Thursday regarding the problem of the unemployed, and their edict was delivered as a joint ultimatum. The six or seven hundred men remaining of the army which left San Francisco last week under Charles Kelley on a proposed transcontinental march to Washington, D. C., must disperse immediately. If they are willing to scatter peaceably in hands of not more than fifty the citizens' committee of Sacramento will pay their fares to any point within a radius of fifty miles. They will not he permitted to march in a body anywhere, and if they are not willing to disband the authorities will be forced to "take other measures". Second Negro (JulIty. Junk Caldwell, tho second of the two negroes on trial for the assassination of George Young at Stomp Springs, was found guilty at Laurens Wednesday and sentenced to life imprison mont. Millionaire Gets Five Days. Kxpeeting to be let off with a fine a wealthy citizen of Portland, Ore., plead guilty to speeding his auto in the streets at fifty miles an hour. He was sentenced to five days on the rock pile. ACE DEATH ON ICE XmCtil) TO AllANPOX SHII*, CHEW MAKES PtillllXH'S THI1*. ? CE PACK ANCHORS SHIP ? urvIvors of I'. S. Tug Potomac, Wlilch Wont to Kesouo Prozen-in Sailors Return to Now York? Abandoned Vessel Twelve Miles Oil' Newfoundland < 'oast. Hringing a tale of hardship, suferlng and narrow escape from death roin eoal or starvation, twenty-eight if I'ncle Sam's sailors from the naval ug Potomac reported hack to the Irooklyn Navy Yard Saturday, after m absence of more than two months. I'lic men returned by train, their vessel having been abandoned Febuary 1 t, twelve miles from the Hay >f Isles off the coast of Newfoundami. The Potomac was cruising in Catadian waters late in January, when void was brought them that two American fishing craft were icebound n the Hay of Isles and their crews in Ianger of being frozen. In spite of he bitter weather and the danger of mtting themselves in the same plight, the tug started to the rescue. The frozen-in fishermen were reacliod, after a voyablo through icelogged seas, on February f>. The Gloucester men were gatifled by the efforts of their rescuers, but they ivero snugly ensconced in their fishng schooners, prepared to pass the rest of the winter there, if necessary, ind they not only refused to leave the shelter of the bay, but advised he tug to lie up until better weather. Tho bluejackets couldn't see their luty that way, and decided to try to run back to their assigned waters before the constantly falling tempera-1 turo made navigation impossible. The tug, crowding on all steam, got Just twelve miles out into open water. Then the prow stuck fast, the huge ice cakes jammed on every side and she was immovable and helpless. For nine days the man watched the weather and th<> ice and hoped For a break-up, but n#>ne came. By that time their coal was exhausted, ind though food still remained, they faced the danger of freezing to death. \ consultation of all hands resulted in an attempt to quit the vessel. Taking as much provisions as they could carry, two blankets each and navigation instruments, so they would not lose themselves in the wilderness of ice, tho men started to walk. Twelve miles the little party fought their way through the unaccustomed cold, stumbling and scrambling over tho rough, broken ice field. They camped on tho ico ono night, though unable to sleep much through the necessity for moving about to keep from freezing. The first lap of tho journey brought them to Lobster Head lighthouse, at the entranco to Hon no Bay. The keeper fed and warmed them. Hut thirty-three men were too big a strain on the larder of the little lightViminn l?.l l - ?. UWUPU <\ 11 11 lll(? jrni IJf UlTIUUU IU JHlttll on, after threo days' rest. Five of their ninnher had frostbitten feet and were unable to travel. They wore left behind. The nearest point was Curling, a tiny fishing village on the Hay of Fundy, near the Canadian border. Thither the party struggled, singing, tolling each other stories and racing on the way to keep up their spirits and their blood circulation. After the second day they became drowsy, but a watch was kept and no man was allowed to sleep more than a few minutes at a time. Lato on the third day they staggered into Curling they shoes gone, uniforms tattered and themselves nearly "all in". There they rested again, Boatswain Wilkinson reporting to the navy department the plight of the vessel and of the crew. American Consul Gould took care of the men and saw that they were fitted out as well as might be. They started again, this time for Port aux Basques. Rested, clad in warmer garments and provided with food, that leg of the Journey had less hardship. The mere fact of having got Into touch with their government heartened the inen and they marched cheerily. They reached New York early Saturday morning and hurried to the navy yard, where a group of officers and old comrades awaited them. There was a scene of glad reunion as tho worn, rather unshipshape group saluted and then turned to thoir mates. It took hours for them to tell their Rtorles and to go over and over tho narts that were most thrlllini? Negro is Killed. When James Boone, a white farmer of Edgefield accused Charlie Jackson, a negro, of breaking into his premises tho negro attempted to shoot Boone with his pistol, but was shot by Boone first. Boy Falls to l>odgo Autos. F.thcn Adams, a seven-year-old Atlanta boy, was seriously hurt Tuesday when hit by a speeding auto. The little fellow succeeded n dodging two cars before beng struck. ELEPHANT AT PATRICK I * * FXC1TFD l?KOriiK FORM POSSF SI AM) KILL IlKJ UFA ST. +. Animal is Slain After Mncli Shooting ?Axes Help firing llrutHi Death |j (Quickly. South Carolina's well established | record for Mr game shooting was broken Wednesday night when the biggest animal to bo dispatched in this State in its history fell before the onslaught of a largo party of well armed men. An exceedingly robust female elephant was the victim of the attack by citizens of the Patrick community near Ilartsville armed with ^ guns and other weapons. v ' The mammal was killed about 9 j o'clock after more than 100 shots had been lired into her body. The most ^ violent excitement followed the an- ,t nouncement that a nmmhnr r>r ft... jungle's royalty was at large in the ^ neighborhood. Wild rumors spread (. tolling of damage done by the big ^ boast and as they traveled they grew like Topsv and tho snowball. Investigation indicates that no damage resulted for any but the unfortunate ^ animal. The big female elephant killed on Rig Juniper creek escaped from a ., wagon circus wlich was booked for Patrick Tuesday. A crowd bad asp sembled for tho performance and wonder was expressed at the non-appearance of the crieus, when news ., was received that the elephant bad o brokn bounds and was at large. The animal created great excitement. ? Many of the amazed citizens had never before seen an elephant. The posse that took up the boast's j trail grew until it was said that fully ^ r?00 men were joning in the chase, j. One man says that ho tired 00 shots from a magazine pistol into the ani- ? mal. Men who were in at the death ' say that not less than 6,000 shots were tired during the hunt. The elephant became unruly and broke 11 away from its keeper as the circus was proceeding from McBeo to Patrick. " It was ascertained later that the elephant killed was the property of a small show owned by a man named ' (lillespio, which the night previous y had given an exhibition at Mcllee, ^ some eighteen miles above Patrick. The elephant had gotten away after ' the performance. Mis old keeper went to Ilartsville, and from him it was learned that the elephant had Q been recently sold to CSillcspio by I I " \ ii fi, i niwiui.'ia iiuus, anil mm 11 . had COSt $0,000. Ho had just turned tho animal over to its now keeper and trainer and had gone away when he hoard of its death. Ho says that it had been ids charge for six years and was perfectly gentle, and that it would have followed a dog or horse about and would have harmed no one. Indeed, it only showed fight after it had been shot In the eye, and after it was brought down from exhaustion and approached by its pursuers. Gillespie has not put in an appearance, though lie may have gone out to the scene of the killing. His only hope of recouping for the loss of $0,000 is insurance, which it is presumed he carried. KILLING NKAK (OWAHIH + Trouble Over Line Ditch I Jesuits in Fatal Shooting. Saturday night about 10 o'clock about two miles above Cowards in Florence county, Herbert Evans, Sam J | Evans and Jesse Evans, all brothers, c and John 11. Miles, Troy Miles and \ BishofT Huggins wore filling up a line s ditch between the Evanses and John 1 B. I Ticks. John B. Hicks, upon ho- 1 ing informed that these men were at t work filling up the ditch, it is said, ( immediately got his shot gun from 1 his residence and went to the spot c where the men were working and, it is alleged, without a word, shot into the crowd and wounded Sam Evans and Troy Miles. j From the Information gathered it seems that either one of the Evans brothers, Miles or Huggins at once opened Are on John H. Hicks and fatally wounded him, Hicks exclaim-1 ing, "Don't shoot any more; you have killed me; take me home," death re-' suiting immediately. The trouble, it is said, aroso about the line ditch between Hicks and the Evans boys, which has been standing for years, nnd it appears that both sides were well armed and ready to kill. Itescued l>y llooks. First officer Ilart of the Clyde Liner Cherokee narrowly missed death Thursday at (Georgetown. He fell In the water wmio launching a t>oat. and hart to he pulled out with boat hooks. Congratulate Dr. Saunders. At a special mooting of the Palmet- ; to Hook Club of Chester a motion was ( passed congratulating I)r. Saunders1, upon her complete exoneration In tho recent asylum Investigation. Killed While Hunting. Ilamp Guinn of Gibson was killed last Saturday afternoon by the accidental discharge of a gun In the hand of a young lad who waa out hunting with him. | URED GIRL AWAY KYKNTKKN KKSCCKR FIEOM SKA IN 1IL1N RINO SNOW STORM. +. IRL WANTS IT PRINTED ittlo Fiftwii'Year-Old (iirl From Jacksonville In Apparently Obsessed With the Hope ?>f "Swinjt It in the Papers"?Dikvsii'I ltenli/.e the Knormity of Her Crime. After a search which began last Uurday afternoon, when lOstelle rCluney, the thirteen-year-old aughter of Mr. and Mrs. If. (1. Mcluney, proprietors of the Richmond ouso, mysteriously disappeared om her home in Jacksonville, Fla., 10 was located at Charleston Sunay afternoon by Chief of Police antwell and Otllcer Rrinker. A onng man, whoso name is said to be eorgo Hudson, of Charleston was lso detained. The McCluney girl and Hudson will > used as witnesses aesinst Hrv. lond 11. Smoak of Savannah who Is ccusod of will to slavery. Paying ho girl's transportation for Jackonvillo to Savannah for Immoral urposcs Is tho charge against nioak. When interviewed by a reporter lie girl said that she was 15 years Id, but sho does not look that old. nd her Aiuthc-i claims she Is not. ho proved a clever talker and spoke ery freely of her plight. That she oes not realize tho seriousness of or predicament was evident from or query as to the amount of pubcity that is'being given to her. "Will iny arrest hero ho in the avannah and Jacksonville papers nd In the Atlanta papers, too?" she sked the reporter. "Will you please end mo a copy of your paper tolorrow?" When asked why she had left home he replied: "They accused me of tinning around In the streets In aeksonville, something I never did. nd my mother ill-treated me." Vhon asked if Raymond Smoak, tliel lavannah man, charged with luring icr away, had given her any money, he said: "Yes, lie gavo inn souk4 miiii'.v, jiiki i ;?iho pawned my watch." In answer to other questions by ho reporter her replies were: "Mr. Imoak catno here with mo Sunday light from Savannah. lie was to lavo married me, and when ho left 10 said that ho would he hack in wo weeks. I didn't know that he vas married until last night, when read it in a paper." Smoak is 20 years old and was arostod In Savannah early Wednesday norning by Detective I.ong of the Javannah police force, who was ap>ointed special white slavo officer for he case. He is a married man, havng been wedded about five months igo to a young woman somewhat his unlor. He is described as an atractivo young man, easy of speech md manner. Sunday night tho girl sat in her nother's lap in the police barracks md hugged, kissed and patted her md asked her not to take her back o their homo in Jacksonville. Her not her said little and seemed to be erribly distressed. As evidence in the hearing which vill bo given the accused man will )o a page from the register of the 5t. John Hotel, which bears tho signature he used, it is said, when he dgned tho names as of a married :ouple. A batch of letters, that the vhlte slavo official says will play a itrong part In tho case, were found n tho possession of Hudson, nccordng to Mr. Long, and are also being aken back as evidence. The Mc31uney girl at the time she left hor iome was a pupil In the sixth grade >f the LaVilla public school. WANTS IT PAID FOIL !x>ver Wants Government to Pay for Destruction of V'rsuline Convent. Ttepresentatlve Lever Introduced a >111 in the House Wednesday dlrectng the secretary of tho trasury to >ay $1150,000 to the Ursulino Conrent, at Columbia, for tho destruclon of the convent by Federal troops VTany corroborative documents were inder General Sherman in 18G5. lied with the bill. Mr. Lever is lushing tho claim not only because t bolieves it just, but becauso he wishes to establish in tho national records the truth of history as to who f 111 urn vuiumunii i ueru 8 ft WHIGspread impression In tho north that Confederate troops did it. Must Itaise Own Potatoes. The department of agriculture gave warning Wednesday that tire United Slates hereafter must product enough potatoes to supply home consumption on account of most surce^ f foreign Imports being closed by r plant disease quarantine. Pandits Cot $11,000. Two bandits, armed with revolvers Friday afternoon secured the payrol of & St. I^ouls Shoo Factory by hold lng up the treasurer. It amounted tc $14,006. STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. 1 TEXAN KANCIIKIl, YKHGAIIA, BNTICK1> T<) HIS DKATIf. Foflcrnl Soldiers I'retended to Wiafc a r 1 Settlement for Eleven Iloraea Which Tliey llad Seized. Vorgara, the Texan rancher whoae body was recovered Sunday from lta grave, left hla ranch near F'alafox, Texas, Friday, February 13, and crossed the river Into Mexico on a message from three federal soldier* v ; that ('apt. Apolonlo Rodriguez, of the Hidalgo garrison, wished to sottin for eleven horses taken from Vergara's island pasture in the Rio (lrai.de. Mrs. Vorgara pleaded with * iter husband not to risk seizure by Mi,? Mexicans, but. disregarding her warnings, lie crossed the river in company with his young nephew. Mrs. Vorgara has since told how she saw her husband assaulted by tho waiting soldiers, and after being knocked unconscious, carried off. Vergara's nephew, at the time of the attack on his uncle, escaped in safety and hid in the brush until he could recross the river. On the following day Mrs. Vorgara went In search of her husband, and found him in the Hidalgo jail. So far ns known, there were no charge against him. Ho had been cruelly beaten, according to the woman. She dressed the wounds on his head, she said, and remained with him until forced to leave. That was the last she ever saw of him alive, for early next morning ho was taken from the ; jail, supposedly to bo transferred to Piedras Negrna, and disappeared. When a search was begun for the missing American it was learned that a man had been shot and his body i hanged to a tree outside of Hidalgo on Sunday, February 1 r>, and the body left hanging for several aaye. Soon after Putted States Consul Garrett, at Neuvo Laredo, started his Inquiries, this body was removed and a frexli grave was noticed in the old Hidalgo cemetery. Mexicans who had known the ranchman said the body seen hanging was that of Vergar* and that they believed he was buried 111 the new grave. It was finally determined to tho satisfaction of tho American investigators that lie had been executed. Persistent denial was made by the \f??virni? fnrlot'nla linii/ni/nr <? ti /I ni-lni" l? l>M IIW M ^ T V/l ( UIIVI |Z I yj to this Gen. Alvarez, commanding at Plodras Negras, had promised American Consul Miocker, at Piedras Negras, that Vergara would he reloaded and Ids captors hold to account. Capt. Rodriguez, the man hold responsible for Vergara's kidnapping, hut the federal captain denied all knowledge of the ranchman's death, and said that ho had been sent to Pledras Negras, but had escaped ea route, and that tho federals wore certain he had Joined tho constitutionalists. Consul Garrett, however, after Interviewing numerous Mexicans and others, reported to ofllclals that Vergara had been executed. Ho added that ho was convinced from the federals' attitude while ho was in Hidalgo that It. would have been dangerous for him to demand surrender of tho body. Tho island pasture of Vergara, whoro it had first boon roportod ha was assaulted, complicated the affair by the question whether it was Mexican or American territory, until it was found that Vergara had been taken on the Mexican mainland. ACCUSKH Hl'SllANl). Woman Claims lie ltiiincd I lor lieuafy Reruns? of .Jealousy. With her beauty ruined, and her 11 fo further blighted by possible totaJ blindness, Mrs. Rosa Knight of Macon, from her bed at th? Grady hospital in Atlanta, Wednesday morning declared that she was In the pitiful state she was in through a liorriblo revertoYorntnfl .in U...V4 VM ur.i u jr Iinr husband, DeWltt Knight. She dselars that because of jealousy ho deliberately threw acid in her face. "He had planned again and again to rule my good looks, and now he has done it forever," she sobbed. The husband who is under arrest persists in his story that Mrs. Knight Injured herself by trying *o commit suicide. Mrs. Knght's face and head are swathed n bandages. The surgeons are not yet able to say whether she will lose her sight, but she it disfigured for life br the terHHl* scars left by the acid. Hums I'rovo Fatal. His clothos catching fire Sunday night as ho was preparing to retire J. W. Nabera, ten years old, of Abbfv ville, died the next day as a result ot his injuries. ? 4 ? Send Two More llrgimpnts. The war department Wednesday ordered two additional regiments to the Texan border, making the soldiers thero now 1 8,000. Kmpty Gun Kills Another. I Johnny Adams of Ooldsboro, N. C.# was accidentally killed Wednesday > while playing with an "unloaded" .XI caliber revolver.