The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 19, 1914, Image 3
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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
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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*.
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CE PACK ANCHORS SHIP
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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
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FXC1TFD l?KOriiK FORM POSSF
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AM) KILL IlKJ UFA ST.
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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
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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
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\ 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.