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WAVE ? CITY j TH?S, DODD BEATEN INTO INSENSIBILITY BY UNKNOWN CULPRIT FOUND LYING ON FLOOR OF HIS' STORE ON HAMPTON ST. LATE SATURDAY IN DYING STATE AT THE HOSPITAL Indication? Are That the Merchant | Had Been Attacked Hour und Half Before Crime Was Discovered j Apparently dead and, with hts skull fearfully beaten in by a brick in tho I hands of some unknown person prob? ably bent upon robber:,'. Mr. Thomas M. Dodd, who has for several years conducted a little grocery st pre at j 120 East Hampton street, vas <?."cov crcd lyin?: in the. fluor -H' his shop j late yesterday afternoon, probably BU hour and a half nfte^ the dastardly act wart cdintnlited. by tyres negro girt* wno Tmd gon.; th ire lo make some purchases. In Dying Cend'tion. The alarm was spread bv the ne j-ro f-iris and within a few seconds neighbors had arrive?', on the .Veno. The Injured man was rushed to the Ai?der?:rn County Ho.iV.ini, vhete ecv oral physicians operated upon him in tho hope of saving his life. At a late hour \a?t night one bf thc attend ing surgeonp- gave out a statement to the effect that Mr. Dodd was in a dying condition, and that the end was a matter of but a few hours. Baffling Mystery. Both city and . county authorities were ri?tin>l of the crime and Im mediately they went to work upon the case. They had a few clues upon which to work, but what will be netted from them remains to be seen. Up until a late hour last night no arresta bad been made, -Sheriff Ashley. Depu ty Sheriff Sanders, Deputy Williams and r?verai officers of tho c'.ty polico department are leaving no stone un turuedCin their efforts %6 apprehend, aSeuft^. *. S|^*V%Su3? ?eaten With Rrlek. Sha**? A??e$h?Sf?d last night that Mr. Dodd had boen assaulted an hour or an hour, and. a/ halt jbe'foreTho waa discovered lying insensible iii the floor. Upon arriving nt the ?cene of the crime Snerit? Ashley found tho brick which tbC'culpTtt had used'tn beating thc proprietor of the stoir over the head Th .- brick lay upon, a sugar barrel, in a corner of tho stare, and underneath lt w\s butcher, knife i i rr- -' 'Tv-5. ..'.?<:'' hairs had stuck to tile brick when Mr.' Dodd was beaten over the head with tt Motive- Probably Bobbery. Offhand belief is that the mptive of the person assaulting Mr. Dodd was robbery, but that he. was . frightened away before he had, had time to rifle the mar's pockets or the cash c'.awer in the store. Mr. Dodd had $28 in his pants pockets and 'the cash drawer had not been tampered with. There was no evidence of'anything having , been disturbed in the store. Sheriff Ashley . Received, a telepkope call at tpe courthouse at 6:15 o'clock notlfy iag him of the discovery of Mr. Dodd'p plight, ii IO Like Hutto Case. There ia a striking 'similarity <b*r tween this case and the death of Mr. David Hutto,- another merchant? who : was killed by some unknown''person ia his' little store out on Greenville street several years ago. Ti will he remembered thnt-tbls old soldier waa set uppO'One night in Iiis abop and beaten tb death.- ' The sen?atfonal triai >^ We have five car loads < rooms attd en royte. v.* t Qui" farmers intend rai Now is tlie time to b ooooooooooooooo o o O EARLY MORNING Ht'LL ETI N o o - o <> At the hear The Intelligencer <? o nent tu press thin morning there o o had been no change In the court L o o Hun of Mr. Rodd, according to In- ? o formation given ont at the hosjl- o o tal. Attending physician* hold ont o o no hope for lils recovery. ?. o No urn-sis in either the case of o o Or. Parks or that of Mr. Rodd ?. o had been made by city or county o o authorities. Thc officers have o u rather weak eines upon which to ? o work, bnt are making the most of o ? what they have In hand. u * a oeooooooonooooo TWO STORES BOBBED BY UNKNOWN PARUES - ONE OWNED BY MR. MOORE AT ORR MILL-OTHER BY MRS. W. M. RILEY ON FRIDAY NIGHT Hour nt Which Stores Were Bur . glarized is Not Definitely Known , At unkndwn hours Friday night two stores-that of Mrs. W. M. F.'Iley, ou tho extension of Went Market street, and that ot a Mr. Moore, near Orr Cotton Mills-wero burglarized by a party or parties ai yet unknown to tho officers of the law. , The cash drawer In thc Riley store was smashed and about 100 pennies stolen, while from tho Moore estabisbmcnt a con siderable quantity of g?nerai merchan dise was taken. An entrance to the store of Mrs. Riley was effected by means of the door, while a window ot the other place was broken through by the thief. The robberies were not discovered until Saturday morning, when the pro prietors ot the respective stores went to their establishments to begin the day's work. Sheriff Ashley was notified of the robberies early Saturday morn lng,, and at once put officers to work upon the easer. Up until last night the officers h?d !not arrested any one in connection with'the crimes. ; An examination ot the Riley store revealed that tho burglar had torn the oash draw loos? frora its position underneath the counter, splitting it into pieces in doing so. ' About loa pennies-this being uil the., rooney lu. th"?~cTrawer~was rnistin?. .'.Froih;-the* Moore' store ""about K pounds of coffee, one bushel meal, ap ples, oranges, pies, cakes, cigarettes, pickles, plug tobacco and a consld erable quanUty of other stuff was tak en. While the hour the robberies were committed are not known, lt ls a fact that the store at Orr Mills was broken into after midnight Friday night and that the Riley store was broken into after ll o'clock of the ssme night. which followed when parties suspect ed of feeing implicated in the crime Were brought up in the courts ia too well remembered to need . anything but passing mention in this connec tion. On Heels of Another. That tho.assault upon Mr. Dodd oc cured so soon after Dr. E/H. Parks waa attacked In his placo of business on the dquure hy a negro mah ts considered quite ?trange. Whether the &ame person committed both, offenses 1? a pnitsllng question In the minds of thc officers, and is one which they hope to unravel. ---: Two German scientists have devel oped;^ procera for forcing lead, tin. copper, iron.' cbalt or ?liver Into glass by electricity toCotoVlt. for Every 3ose FENCE in our ware ising more hogs and cat uy vour Fence. RDWABE ille,S.C. Belton, S. ( m IN UNTRY : . <? ? OF ASSAULT BY NEGRO IN HIS JEWELRY SHOP CULPRIT WAS IN ACT OF MAKING PURCHASES AND STRUCK JEWELER DESCRIPTION OF NEGRO IS MEAGRE Man Ran Out Front Door and Bounded Toward Moat Crowd ed Street at That Hour of the Day -- .. Dr. E. H. Parks. Jeweler ami op tician, who conducts an establishment at (he ?;ou th WOK t corner of the square, on Wost Benson street, was assaulted In his store yesterday afternoon about 3:45 o'clock by an unknown negro who was In the act of purchasing sev eral articles from tba. Jeweler. ? After felling Dr. .Parks with a .roda water bottle, the negro .grabbed him by tho mouth and evidently attempted to gag bim. The Jeweler managed to call for help, however, and his cries evidently frightened the negro, for he bounded out the front door, ran up tho sidewalk and turned down South Main street at the corner of Evans Pharmacy No. 3 and was lost in the erowd. Have Weak ( l?es. Dr. Parks' cries for help attracted several passersby and perrons occup !ng adjoining places of business. Sev eral of these ran to his assistance and, reached the door of the Jeweler's shop in time.to ree the negro disappearing up the sidewalk..; None of these were able to get a glimpse of the negro'3 features, and the description they give of the ne gro's clothing ls rather Indefinite. Dr. Parks was able to describe the negro only fairly well. With the rather weak olues that they have tho police dre exerting every effort to round up the party who assaulted the Jeweler. Was Buying doods. Dr. Parks stated to the police that the negro came -.into his shop and bought a clock and a fountain pun and; then asked to nee a shaving cup. 'It waa while the Jeweler was In the act of turning to a show case to take down a shaving ceo he stated that' the nep-o F.trnck him In the head with this1 bottle. After he* had been felled; the Jeweler rtated, the negro grabbed bm by the mouth and-endeavored to ".ufTle hts cries for help. The: negro left his clock in the ntore but took the fountain pen with him when be fled. The bottle with wh!r.h th.- negro- hit Dr. Park? was shattered, bits of - the glass being showered all over the floor. An In spection of the store after the ex citement had subsided revealed evi dences of a struggle having takun place, as chairs .and a ?tool about the place had been overturned. ' A Painful Wound. Dr. Parks was struck Juet above and to the front of hts left temple. The shattering glass made a deep cut in his scalp and pieces of lt scratched hlr check and the flesh about the eye; When persons first reached the store aiier bearing the man's cries for help Dr. Parks had reached the sidewalk,' r.nd wsB crying aloud. ''Catch him, catch him." Thc injured man was taken to the office of a physician near by and his wounds dressed. After that Dr. Parkt started for the city hall io give tho police a? account of the assault and aa good a description of the negro who assaulted him as he could. A Bold Deed. That a man should be attacked in his place of business right on tho square, and at an hour and on a day when the streets are crowded more than nny other day of the week, Ts u bold deed, to say the least. A ?joro unusual feature of the cass is that the negro, in making his dash for liberty, should have gone In the di rection nf Knuth VTiUn fl tro at t**+?*rf of running down West Benson street, where he was .likely to moet few p??* pie. As roon as he had turned the corner at Evans.Pharmacy No. 3, how* ftve?". be was lost to view in the crowd that-filled the street at that hour, STEAMER WITnOJTT WARXIXG (CONTfKCTO *RONj 1'AOE ovk> (lons tr? Qerronov \* th? tT-** ?re as Btatnel' by the British offlrlala Despite the attacks oa these steam ere. ute arrivals at and sattln*, from Britl? ports? maintain their dallv average. In the meantime the battles on the continent'continue with ever inc-rea** lng intensity. Th? offensive wh'ch the Allies undertook early la the week luis brought about activity alt ?long the lines, and attack and count er attacks have become mere num erous.. Roth the British and Preach seemingly . made considerable pro gress at tbo outset of the offensive operations and this made H necessary Tor the Germans to deliver attacks to retain the ground they had lost. In parrying th*?? oat it! same desperate spirit ir previous let similar circuta "CINDE At Asheville, broken ail rec htbition at 10 ternoons. "This product America."-!V A special oxhi tend the pray? "EXP ah This is a rom; ed the ?lm ve, Dustin Farn ra Man." veek's oper?tfoiis1J?? February 27. a kreuch "eyewitnessf . claims for the! Preach.. many minor successes and ( ha repulse of German :,attacks. " ! Thc Germans, too. make similar ?lalras; so thai the public ls left to i udgo as to the ?ulcome of the -veek's lcre-up. From tho eastern, front; there is no iowa except tonight's unofficial ?Ils- j )atch from Petrograd, ?which rays the I^riasns have smtered defeat at >?scwcts" an? UuiV o?*n compelled io ail bock towards the frontier. Should his provo to ' be -correct, the Gor nan plans would bc eutlrely upset. 13 defeat at this point would endanger .he whole of their line northward ilong the Bast Prussian frontier. In thc remainder of Poland and In ! he Carpathians, where severe Qght ng continues, there bay b-?> no :hange tn the relativo positions of the ippcsing - armies, while in Bukowina i battle ls being fought along the Pruth River. Retirement to this posi ton should be an advantage to the lu asians, as it corvsidei?bly short eus heir line and enabler reinforcements O' reach them more easily. Tho Serbians and Austrians are igaln facing each other across the ?amibo and ha.^ In turn been bom larding Bemlin and Belgrede, and the M>sltions near those cities. This may noan tiic beginning of a new cam >aign, or perhaps it ls an attempt by he Serbians to help-relieve the pros utrc on the Russians. Cettlnjo again has been visited by iu Austrian aeroplane which dropped icmba, and according to Montenegrin .eports, killed two womi'n. ?E\CE DEPENDS UPOX W;>KK IX THE FIELDS (By Amiitwt Pr?,.) VEH?CE, vis Lcndcdi, Feb. '2C 8:20 p. m.).-Thc recent appeal ls-! ned to. farmers by the minister of I agriculture not to leave a single plot 11 it ground anywhere uncultivated, was oik wed today by a peremptory de? ree "by the Austrian .government or lertng land owners to sow hamed-1 otaly evirv e. va liable part of their round with rpf lng wheat.' Where LOcesEory, local authorities gre em* .o*ered by tba deere? to provide lab ir'tp>' this work and U> recover from he' sale of crops the expenditures i ncurred. Failure td comply with the diet ls punbfuabhf.by heavy fines or' . The m'niflter > of agstculturo > -was iu:ued a'> saying in his appeal Thura ay; "P?aec depends more than ever ipon UV; work in the fields this pring. The power of the army'and he security of the state ar? eoadi Icnal ur*T tho productiveness ot gi 'culturo. The question for food supplies In lusfrifi-ffungnry in ??my becoming sore acute, according to r?cent news lispatchca and tho government has onflscated all stocks of grain. Hear our Orchestra and the beat picture?. Atv I ANOTHER Ol Paramount AT IAMOUN1 MONDAY and RELLA"-Mary Pickft Columbia, Charleston, Augusta an ords for attendance. It ia an artist :30 A. M. Monday. Special ch il dr VVEDN1 THE SIGN OF THE Cl ion will undoubtedly be conceded loving Picture World. tbition will be given after prayer r sr mee ung service. THUR S? LOITS OF ELAINE"-?, o "THE BRUTS"-anotl FR?D "CAMEO KIRBY" mee of the South before the war rsion. n claim* "Cameo Kirby" superior ( SATUR "ARIZONA" eatcst play"-lt*? a big 6 reel west? and term it GREAT. BIG" HAM* (RE 8?IT8 || Two 1'ersnnnl Suits for SKJrt.OOtl I'nrii ' Brought Against Hockefeller in. ?Utute for Moe'.Val Research. NEW YORKY Fob. 20.-Two person al damage shits for $100.000 each were brought here today against thc Rocke- ! feller .-Institute for Medical Research | aiid members of the hospital statt by; joseph and Ttcmc-ilos Garrir.. The !?.- ?J ier auesea ihni while she waa em ployed as charwoman in the institute "the defendant physicians and experi menters corruptly took advantage of j lier position and induced ber to f.'.ib ailt to and be inoculated with a ser um of toxin which caused her to be | Incurably and permanently intictcd with a malignant disease." Both plaintiffs allege that later the defendants prevailed upon them tr leave thc United States. Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was manager of the Rockefeller Instituto for Medical Research at the time of the occurrence complainer* of in the lutts. said tonight: - "The plaintiffs in this suit were cm- ?I ployed at the Institute nt tho tittie re- '] ferred to, the husband ns a porter and Lite wife os charwoman.. They both. complained of symptom.! of a disenso j ind the ordinary methods of (Mag-j aosis were applied to see If they badi LhS'disease, ?As the institute did not] kV that lime undertake to treat pa tients they were referred for treat neut to a competent physician tn pit-1 rate practice to whom the. drug was j iupplied. "At no time waa any material In- j iectod by the Institute. The drug aU 'iiiniHt??rcd by the outside physician J<O? a familiar riimpnilnri nf a. nurp'lv chemical nature. "Irater when the husband desired tb return to his native country soirV friends at the institute contribute. ' their own money to enable bim to make the trip." Famous Paintings Held. NEW YORK, Feb. pf?.-J, I?. Mor gan har; sold the famous Mme. Du Barry Fragonard collection of paint ing?, now In the.Metropolitan Museum of Art, to Duveon Bros.. who recently bought thc collection of Ch mese, por celains, airo In tho Morgan collection in the museum, uno said lu be worth": S4.000.oco, it was announced tonight, (j The Fragonard pictures are swid . to be. worth upward* nf 11.000,000. ' These pictures were obtained by,the" late J.'P. Morgan about 1902 and were! exhibited by him In London. To make men'c collars wear longer . ind Inventor bas patented one with j tn ettra buttonhole so that it can [I bo fitted to a shirt without strain, ? m. m m rn^m -I M i-f-*', ^-?rV attar**-rf-v. a rr; r-ar.T sf-.-fte t?rs? ^?BSSa Features ^s^^?S if S HE THEATRE TUESDAY >rd, "The world's sweetheart" d wherever ?hewn "CINDERELLA" has ic treat for persons of all ages. 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