The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, December 21, 1878, Image 1
TRIWEEKLY EDITION.} WINNSBORO. S. 0., SAT TR DA f. DJCEMB ER 21, 1878 {VOL. 2. NO. 1i3
BULLDOZING IN NEW YORK.
H0Wr1 JolNNY DAVMXPor NTI2z
JS JWD DAEOaArxo VoTwas.
A Terrible Record of Outrages--Grosq
Violations of Law--An Offset to Tie
sure Ballots.
Okaotiou of Fernando Wood, of
Now kork,. a committee of the
House has been appointed to inves
tigate the conduct of John I. Daven
port, chief supervisor of elections
for New York, who is charged with
wholesale intimidation and gross
violations of law, in imprisoning
naturalized citizens for attempting
to vote at the last election. Daven,
port's plea is that in J868 a num
ber of frauduleit naturalization
papers were issued. During regis
tration he objected to many ap
plicants on the ground that they
were not entitled to vote. The
State courts decided that he had
no tuthority for his conduct, and
still more recently the Federal
judge discharged one of DAvenport's
prisoners for the same reason. It
is charged by the Democrats that
Davenport's conduct was a conspira
cy to frighten off all voters (most of
whom are Democrats) who were
naturalized in 1868, as he arrested
indiscriminately, without investigsit
ing whether the p %poes were rogular
or not. The petition on which
Wood's resolution was baso:1, signad
by sixty personi illg illy arrost,
sets forth the facts, froan iwhich wo
make extracts, to 3hOW that iltiMi
dation was not all on on side.
The law makes it a felony for any
person to use any certificate of
naturalization, knowing the same
to be forgel or count,wrfeit or ante
dated, or krowing tie stino to have
been procured by fraud or otherwise
uulawfully obtained, or without
lawful excuse know'ngly to be pos
sessed of any. huch ber. (Revised
Statutes, Reo 5,425.) Even if th e
paper is irregu14,,knowldqdp oftft
fact by the voter is -necessary to
constitute crime. There are 141
000 naturalized citizens in New
York, and 90,000 natives. Of the
former, at least ten thousand regis,
tered in 1876 who were naturalized
in 1868. This year only. 5,000
registered and 2,000 voted, the
remainder being "b.ldoed.'
THE PRINTED cOMPLAINTS.
On the 8d and 4th, days of No
vember, 1878, the day precading
the election, Commissioner John I.
Davenport caused the said Stephen
Mosher to swear before him to
about 4,000 printed complaints
against the persons registered as
voters in the different' election
districts in this city as having natu
ralization papers issued in the ve.tr
1868, charging them with having
"unlawfully used a certificate of
naturalization, knowing that it had
been unlawfully issued or- m ide, but
containing no further partiepzlars,
said mosher having and being known
by Davenport to have no iknowledge
whatever of theparties.or the facts
except such as he might have ob..
tai4ed from copies of the registry
lists." On each of these so-called
"complaints," many of which he ad
mnitted upon his recent exainiination
in court that le did t906 rea, Com
missioner Davenport issuec} a war
rant for the arrest of the accused
and placed the same in the hands of
the marshals he had detailed
to the various pollinig places in the
city, so that they werE. there at th~e
opening of the' poild, the' prodeed
ings being kept strictly seot'eia
DEMocIIATs DRAGoED 130o1 THE POLLS
As sooin as each voter who had
registered upon papers issued in
the year 1868 ptesen ted himself, he
was arrested and dragged from. the
polls, unless known to be in favor
of the conflbinatin ticket, 'wheni he
was not molested. Early in the day
the men were arrested, ang, ken
away to. intimidater others. 'When
this result had been accomplishel
those coming later were told that if
they did not vote they would not be
interfered with. If they did vote
they were arrested on the spot. In
many cases those arrested were taken
in the fir's place to the Itepublican
headquarters of the district and
from there to Davenport's rooms.
The others were taken there di
rectly.
Tas sLTay P3W. .
On the upper door of the post
offlee a large "slave pen"--had (66
provided, into wliceh theseo men
gi4l#ess of.y w idiep wde4fgf
like wild be-Rts,. until it w.s p -.
with a struggling m iss of suif *-t
humanity, and they weio kopt i i
this condition for hours withet
food or water. In addition to those I
thus confined the court rooms of I
-the circuit court were crowded With .4
other prisoners waiting the slow bl
process of having their cases di-- I
poied of by three Coimini ssiiio ors-'
Davenport, Denel and bields.
There.-wore several otier Ommis
sioners in the building, or whore
their services could have boon ob
tained, but these cases woro only
brought before these three, one
being the instigator of the whole:
proceeding and the other two olerks
employed by him in his office as
olerk of the United 8tates Circuit
Court, and therefore subservient to
his will. In addition, it was physi.,
cally impossible for 'these three
men to hear the vast number of
oases brought before thetu dJuring
eection day.
WAVINPORT'S FROOEMM
The process pursued in the ma
jority of the cases wia uniform and
evidently agreed upon beforehand.
The men were called up one by one
and asked a number of questions,
particularly if they had voted. If
they had and if their naturalization
was regular according to their state.
ments they were informed that if
they waived an examinatian they
would be released upon their own
recognizances to await the action of
the grand jury, and were according
ly discharged. If it appearod not to
be regular they were held to bail.
If they had nut voted they were
I told that t'iy would be req-1ired to
give bail varjing fro.n v 1,900 to
5,000, U1les they wouil pledge
theiselves no. to vot-, bjing al:io
told that th3y woul be ar.osted a
Gecond tim- if they broka their
promines, it havitig been previo.-.ly
announed by Comnmissioner D -ven,
port tuat he woild exurcise, what ho
tormed hi legal rivght, of taking
twouLy-four h1OUrS to e!m11o -irto
the. fi31liciency of any bail which
might be oiferod, antd would commit
the party arrested in the mo!tnime.
This was equivalent to informing
t46ae wa they would bi looked ap
for at least a day if they refused to
give the required pledge, and,
with- anore or less demur, it was
given by all. Nor was the threat
of punishment for its violation' an
idle one.
Patrick Wheolan, who voted after
arrest was re-arrested, and although
he offered bail jaitified to largely in
excess of the requirement, w.ku kupt
in jail two days.
All through the day the etamina,
tion dragged along as slowly as
possible, ten men being brutght in
under arrest vhere one man was re
leased, until after the closing of the
Ipolls, when the reinuidur were re
leased in a mass.
CONSEQUENT HAUDSHIPS.
With scarcely an exception the
persons arrested had gone to the
pol1s with the idea of only being
there for a few moments, and their
arrest caused.great hardships. Some
had sick and-.even dying relatives
who needed them, or were sick
themselves ; others would lose their
situations by their absenca sevar.d
were cabmnen wvho had left their teiams
standing in the streiti and dli. not
know what had become of , theum
many wvere lightly clothed and suf
fered from the exposuire.' In short,
ever possible injury that. could- be
imagined, from the- sudden- arrest
of this great number of unsuspeet..I
ing citizens in a great city, wa&s. suf
fered by theset men.
AGAINST .DEMOcRATs ONI4r.
It is unnecessary to say th;t,4hs
intlimidation du directed agaunst
Depocrats. .A few Repuiblicans.
were arrested, but it was by mis
tgke, and they were generally re
leased by the marshals. For enam
pIe, Thoma K(eyworthy and John
Sparrow were both naturalized in
the Superior Couirt on the samQ.
day and in' the sameo manner, and t
both registered. The fomiier who
is well known as a Democrat, wuis
arrested and kept a prisoner for
several hours. TL.he latter, who is
equally well kgnown as a Republican,
was not interfered with. A number
were told that that would n<ot bea'
arrested if they would vote for sormel
Republican candidates. Although
4,000 arrests were made, oly. -680
were tried, and only 80 were sent
to jail.
Thie petition justly' says, that the
issuing of 4,000 warrants secretly
at daylight on eleefionimorning for
the arreo *f efthat. numbsrw of the
republic s citizens was a ~ndicill
outr ae which has ,bad no arale)
in soons'tisy. If it. ha tae on
inMnmItai wou1& M4a ,
mitelii' tho ovrtirow of the
arty resonsible for it. In Paria it
YoulI have produced a revblutloh.
When the matter is fully Investi
rated it will be -be diseovered that
he outrages at the North more than
-ountorbalane any irregalarity that
n:y have existod'hi the In'lh In
igned South.
LNGISLATIV ro BMDZV Q&.'
\VEDEsDAY, December 1it878.
SENATE.
A large number of bills were re-,d
6 third time, among them the fol
owing: To appoint 'a railroad com
nitmioner ; to utilize convi t labor,
tnd to continue the 11"' law.
3ary's National Bank ra lations
vere referred to the coalitee on
Federal relations.
At 1 p. m. the House ent4re4l the
3unato chamber, and the fdllowing
its were ratified by the pleMiding
:MC>ets, to wit : To amend an act
bo provide for the govern nent of
'he South Carolina Penitentiary; to
ithoirize and direct the intendant
md wardens of the town of York
ville to levy a special tax for certain
purpoies ; to authorize the- county
omminissionere of Riebiand th open
t certAin road; to levy a'd .colleet
it special tax to pay the p st in
lebtedness of the county o Ches
Werfield; to alter and am nd the
law in rlation to appeals fibm the
Circuit Courts to the 4yprerne
Court ; to anthorize the -county
2omnmissioners of Fairfield county to
Lovy and coilcet a special tax ; to
xempt telegraph operators from
>i,dinary militia and jury duty ; to
[)rovide a mode for revoking letters
Lestimentary, &c.: to amend and
mipply an omission in an act to
Provide for the custody of.-offleiAl
bonds ; to repeal dA aet;to' prohib!t
tho sale of spiritku)us lquors within
>ne mile of.any sohool houset'church
>r college in- thjs State ; tW1an1bor
ze h i school conisisioner . of
Pickens county to draw his w trrnt
for the payment of certain glaimns.;
bo incorporate tho Latheran 'Evan
gelische St. Jolannea Kir-che, of
Charloston, S. 0.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The State tax was raised from 2j
to 2t mills in consequence of re
ductions in assessinents. A hot
lisoesion arose over the appro
pri-Ltion of nioney for interest on
the public debt. The bill of the
provius night was amended so as
to leave $137,000 to meet the un.
L-ecognizod interest if declareJ
valid. The bill to exempt the coun
by U.x from bearing its sh.Lre of bills
:>f the Bank of the State paid in was
killel. Alo, a bill ta faul the
Jills
A resolution waspassed authoriz
ing the attorney-general to look
if ter the State's interest in the S. 0.
railroad.
A large number of bills passed a
third reading, among theni a' bill to
3,nend the school law. The' bill
providing for registratior of votera
was colatinkued 5'to, inext y/sr.
numnber of local bills were killed.
Adjourned.
THUnSDAY, December 19, 1878.
SENATs.
A lar/nibe i fb" w(re
bassed-'ont dfth of'enrl
interest.
The House sent to the Senate
several bills--among them the gen-.
3ral appropriation bill. This bill
wais at once refered to the comn
nittee on fince, and was discussed
n the Senate in theevemnn session.
No fil action was reached. -
-HousE OF REREsENryIvd.
A large numnber of,,bills w,erg
:tssed and sent to the Senate, and
a Iar:ge n pnyber of others were read
decon d time. The proceedings
were of no speciLI interest.
.A '2Wls nBUhE-At the close of
he troublesa of 1871--'72, ini Paris,
avhen the eaLonsa wer' shafly: 'opeit
ing their dd3om, an 'elegant soiree
wvas going on in the apartment of a
th0 guests was a younag French
liehtenant, the bearer of an ancient
name and a decoration gallantly
WvoI.: A qorman tuneidian set
lown.to the piang 'satt 'bgan -te
lay th d trhiflihlal niai'L nV tIle
lIhmperor of Genmnany! Th' dbm ..
pany excbastge& glaftee N #Ii lieu..
tenant rose.gra#elf, Went to -the
iniantleplece, took . hQ, tongs,
shastchedI tip th~e' fe df mtthi,, ad
threw it ipto tJlAre. Tinring
towardis the amkIl miusiciati Eae
It is.of still-mn~ $unax ma to --b
A REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.
---
A YOUNG WOA4I ACCUS ED OF MUn
bJR'N MAR YnAND.
Her Bosom Friend bh Vitim- trnng
Story of Love and Morbid Jealausy
Verdiot of the Coroner's Jury.
;ALTIMORE, Doe. 12, 1878. -- The
official investigation .ii,to the fatal
shooting of Miss Ella Horn by Mis
Lilly Duer at Poconoko City, Md.,
has just been concludel, and some
startling disclosures rivo boon
made, going to prove that the
shooting ws. intentional an( not
accidental, as at first reportod and
generally believed. The families of
both young ladies are among the
highest in point of social standing
in that section of the State. The
girls were only about eighteen
years of age and beautiful and
attractive. They had only recently
graduated with honors, and wore
acknowledged belles in society.
They had also been on very intimate
terms, although the affection of
Miss Duer for Miss Hearn seems to.
have been of an extraordinary or
morbid nature, and if the state
ments made of her tragic act are
correct she became blindly jealous
at the love of Miss Duer for an
other lady friend, and in , moment
of passionate excitement fatally
siot her.
THE FATHER'S STATEMENT.
Mr. Hearn, the father of the
murdered, girl, makes the following
statement:
- In the winter of 1875 my daugh
ter ElI and Miss Duer first became
,icquainted. I did not object to the
gi-1 associating t,gethor at first,
-lowving, as I did, that Miss Duer
i well educated and intelligent. I
.thonlght that auch an association
woult benefit both of them. 13e,
sides, I admire and respect Miss
Puci's father very imich. Finally,
however, she began to frequent tie
house alost too often, which
seemed to bother our child. Froim
the faill of 1876 Ella made a strong
effort to break off the associattion1
altogetier. This was, however, in
vain. Every tffort met with the
same result. T110ee wore o1t tux
days in the whole year during some
time of which Miss - Duer was not
present in my house, unless, in
deed, she happened to be out of
town visiting sajme one in the coun
try. She daily tried to get Ella to
waik with her in the woods or re
main alone in the parlor with hor.
Ella would, in the kindliest manner,
often tell her to go home and not
cali again. But this was all to no
purpose. - Still sl-e cane, still
begged her to take a walk or re
main with her in the parldr or some
other room alone.
November 4 she (Ella) received
4om Miss Duer a note asking her
to go to Miss Duer's house that
night, and stating that it was about
somne important business. She, in
company with her younger sister,
Louise, called that~ evening -at Miss
Duer's home. WVhen they arrived
Miss Duer tried to -' pursuade EIla
to go into'the' Woods the next day
for the purpose, as neuial, df ,tkdig
a walk. Eda* deelined to go, Miss
Duer then declared before Almighty
God that if she did not go this time
she would never ask~ her to do
anything else as long as she lived.
November 5, that fatal day, Miss
Duet came; to out house and in
sisted that Ella shpuld go into the
woods with her. Ella st.ill declined..
She then asked Ella to say that she
loved her, Miss Duer, more than
any one else. Ella reoise<J to say
o.She then, in a state of great
excitement, walked fromi the front
door to the gate several times, and
finally wvent into the passage and
shut the door. Walking hurriedly
toward Ella she .quickly threw her
arms around her. and tried to kiss
her." Ella pushed her away, and
Iwhile so doing M is s Duer slipped
and fell. It was but a few seconds
after this whemn the shooting occur -
red. Miss Duer drewv her pistol,
tcooked it and deliberately fired.
A FEMALd! RIVAL.
The young lady of whom Miss
Duer is aid to have bedome jealons,
and who, it is alleged, supplanted
her in Miss H{earn's 'affotions,. 'is
Miss Ella ERoste," t06 Po8oonoke,, ;A
lady of 'intelligence and'- highly
esteetated?
on Friday last was quie; and peace.
ful.
THE VERDIoT.
The jury rendered a verdict that
Miss loarn came to her death from
n>wvous depression, caused by a
b dlsh'it from a )istol. in the hand
of Miss Lilly Duer, on the 5th day
of November, 1878.
A r0porter interviewed Miss
Dier. 4After stating that the shoot
ing was purely accidental, Mids
Duor said
1 calle,l to see Ella for the pur
poso of tiking a walk. She did not
wiih to go. I beggod her. She
refused. [ tried to kiss her. I
had the pistol in my hand, after
giving up the attempt to kiss her,
and was looking at the cartridges,
counting them, when the pistol
acideitaliy vwent off.
Miss Duer said that her favorite
anthor wis Byron, "whose nature,"
she remarked, "is similar to my
own..
For the past six iponths Miss
Duer has been studying medicine.
On Monday she gave bail, amount
ing to $2,500, before Judge Nook,
for her appeairance at the May term
of Court. The little town is great
ly agitated over this distressing
tragedy, public opinion being
divi,led as t ) whether the shooting
was accidental or not.
MRS. SERTO .rO.ES' DrArovDs.
[ W-hington Letter to Phiaddphia Times.]
hei.ttor Jones, of Nevada, havin g
replenished his depletod exchequer
by a fortunate rise in Sierra Nevada
stoekL, comes back with his beauti
ful young wife and maiden* sister
to occupy hiR half of the Butler
block on Capitol hill. He left here
five months ago for his home at
Gild Hill, "dead broke," in. vulgar
parlance, or "busted," as the miners
term it. Fo:eseeing the rise in
mining stocks, he iiverted all ,he
c uld raise or borrow in Sierra
Nevada and reaped 'a rich roturn.
Still lie had not enouzh to fill the
neasuro of his opportunity. His
wife had a splendid diamond neck
lace, for whichi he bad paid in
oPulent ayai the sum of $35,000,
and which ihe, being- a retiring
little body, not giNen to dispLiy.
had never worn but once.
"My do:r," said he to her, one
day, "if you will let mo invest your -
diiamoijda in Sierra Nevada you
shall have the proceeds for pin
money."
"As you please," said the - dutiftil
little woni.n. "You know I never
we:ar them."
Seni.tor Jones is not the m-in to.
go hawking his wifi's jew'ls about
the streets, so he offered them 'to
the flrstJew he mot and received
$12,003 for them, which he i60s6d
on margin in her name, and to-day
she is worth $110.000 in registered
bonds. He paid his debts, canceled
the mortg.tge on his $100.000;worth
of furniture, which Ben Butler held
as collateral for three Veira' rent,
and in less than halfa year reft,uis
with soveral m'illions to "#1are.
And that is the way they do things
"out West." *L'he Jones family will
give several grand entert a3iments
during the Winter, a la San Fran.
c1sco. -. ' :
,JUDoMENT. REvEnRsD.-'Some time
ago Harvey Terry. a metnber of' the'
bar of Colutnbia, 89. 0., published an
article in the Obseruer which was
conceived to he a reflection upon.the
judipiary of Soi@ Carolina., A~ rule
wais adcordingly ,served) upon)gmny
Judge Aldrich, of th~e Circuig Coudt
of that State, sitting a~ that ti,rpp at
at Columbiai, to s,howv 'cuse 'why he'
should not-be guilty of conteinpt in
making the publication iMferiei 'to.
Terry appeared through 'co 'nel,
wasl reprimanded, sentenced to .pay
a fine, but not unfrooke'l. He bat
ried the case on appe a~ to the. St..
preme Court of the State, and it
has recently been argued before that
tribunal, a Georgia attorney appedr.
ing for T.Lerry. As *-,result of that a;
hearin~g the judgmnt ,of the court
'below.has been rempaed, and Terry.
emerges from thetrtiy yictory Tis
information reach~s .us tyi
pr1ivato source. T ho, Soub a
na papers have m~de~ nq. qet9t. D
far as we hav dbsr.vd qthe
result of the cs. '
scruer.
A 'Gr.D Goap-B8Is.---We are
heartily glad that the' Legislatur'e
has adj ourned. A sordr bbd~ 'of
men than the prosht Lower Hoqe~
never Asembled ineyil(M
4 tnmob ite howilngaonygg
dith ra; spiiing .of a Mi$ 4