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Steifh Dear Sir?The StiefT Pianos which you recently sold to us are holding up the reputation of this make in our schools, which is saying a great deal, for they are the favorites of several makes in constant use J here. They are all you repre seated tlicni to be, what more can bo said? Very truly yours, W. B. STRONG. Registration Notice. i rpiIK PUBLIC will take notice that JL the Registration Hooka will be open at the COURT IIOUSK for the registration of parties entitled to regiater under the constitution. on the let Monday fc Tuesday in each month, until 30 days preceding the general election. J. M. GAbKKY, Chair. Rd. Keg. Lancaster Co. March 7, Iwio. iNCAS KILLED IN HI8 OWN RED. The II6me of Mr. II. A. Drown in This City Invaded in the Dead Hours ot the Night and Mr. Brown is Shot to Death in the Presence of His Startled Wile in Bed With Two Children? Killing Laid at Ihe Door ot Mr. Paul Bratton With His Brother, John S. Bratton, as Accessory. Hock IIIU H<>ral<l. This coramuity was thrown into a Btate of intense excitement Ust Saturday morning when the fact Knn n ?v* a h ?%? ?? ?? 4 i? A. - ? 4 ' 11 ' t/cvn iiju nuuwtl iiih t iii 111? bllii watches of the night before the home of Mr Harry A Brown, the well known painter had been invaded and that ho had been shot to death while lying on a bed in the same room in which his wife with her infant, 18 days old, and her four year old (laugh ter were sleeping on another bod, The tragedy created a profound sensation and the community was very much wrought up at the manner of the killing. Those of our citizens who visited the bereaved home that night eay that the scene was one that will never be forgottn. Mr. Brown was shot twice, one of the balls striking him in the right arm and passing through entered the body, penetrating the right kidney, cutting the intestines in five places. The other ball.imbedded itself in the left arm above the elbow, breaking the bone. Mr. Brown lingored untill about 5 o'clock in the morning, when he died. After the body had been viewed by the coroner's jury it was conveyed through the country by Mr. aud Mrs. P.A.Neal narenta nf Mr UrAnm'n ? ^ K ? w. 1/iwn II a W 1UUVYI to Steel Creek cemetery in Mecklenburg county, N. 0., where the iiiteroieiil took place Sunday morning. The deceasod was a native of Annix, England, whore he was raised and the home of his kindred. Ho came to this country about 15 years ago, but never renounced his English citizenship, lie murried a Miss Neal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Neal, of Mecklenburg county. N. C., a grand daughter of Gen. William Noel of that couuty. The father of the deceasod was an artist of great reputation and as a decorator ho was without a rival in | England. Two brothers are also | painters of distinction. Harry I Brown himself was an artist who held a fortune and a name in his brush, but hin habits kept him out of the place he was entitled to occupy. lie was an educated man and had been well trained In the Rocia1 amenities. With his wife he leaves four young children. TESTIMONY BEFORE THE .It'RY. Mr. P. A Nonl, father of Mrs. II. A. Brown, who lives at the Brown home, being ? worn, said that at about 15 minutes to 2 o'clock this?Saturday?morning 1 heard our dog bark. Thought the noise was at the back door, but going there saw no one. Went to the front door and opened it slightly ; saw a white man standing there and a negro man at left on the piazza leaning against the house. I asked the white man who he was and what he wanted. He gave no name, hut asked me if this was where Brown, the painter, lived. I replied yes, but was not certain that ho was at home. Would go and see. I did go and returning reported that he was at home. Asked stranger wiuii, hp wanted, rsaut he was from the Victoria Mills and wanted a sign painted. I asked if tlio need was so urgent. Said he wanted sign painted today or tomorrow as they were going to start up the mill. Went and aroused Brown and told him what was wanted. Keturncd to the door and entered into conversation with the man about the job. I went back into the room and told Brown what, was said. While witness was talking to Brown the man had; followed to his surprise and i ,TEH ~ BEMI-\V MCASTER, 3. C., SATTJ when ho got into the room thrust his arm around witness and fired at Brown in bed. Brown was at this time lying partly reclining on his loft arm. Brown turned over, and seeing Brown trying to get up, the man lired onee again. At this time L had the firing arm in both my hands and tried to ward oil' the shot, but was unable to do so t'rom weakness. I turned him loose. As Mr. Brown fell upon the (loor the man walked out of the house deliberately. 1 followed him to the door, and the negro who 1 first saw on the piazza was standing in the yard to the right of the walk, and as the white man walked out he threw bis arm on the negro's shoulder and said, "Don't you tell." I saw the face of the man in the house only by the Hiwll flf tliu IT~ 1 1 ~ " [/JOIUI. J Ml llilll il red, or what I would call an auburn, moustache. Ho had on dark coat, light-colored pants and a light straw hat, but no vest. Would say he weighed about 155 or 100 pounds. Was much stronger than myself. lie never said a word in the house. Feel certain it was a negro on the piazza. The bed on which Brown lay was to the left of the door, not over 5 feet. The man was not more than two feet from Brown when he tired. Brown did not say, when 1 asked him the question, that he knew who the man was that shot him. lie saw no conveyance, and did not know by what means the man reached the house. Mrs.Brown with her three-weeks'-old infant and four-year-old daughter was sleeping in a separate bed in the house. In answer to question by .Juryman Morrison witness said he was impressed that the man had mous ache, but was hardly as long as his mouth, or it may be that his lip was like the balance of his face, that appeared not to have been shaven recently. Emory Holler: Was coming up from a parly about 1 o'clock that morning, having put ins horse in Mr. J. A. Black's stable. On reaching the Main, street saw a carriage drawn by two gray horses. It was near Dr. Hunter's residence standing still. Presently the horses were whipped up and when the carriage reached me, the driver checked his horses and stopped suddenly. I noticed two white men and a colored driver in the carriage. One was a slim man. with rather small lace, with a light mouRtache. He asked me where Mr. Brown lived. On learning he meant painter Brown, 1 directed him to the best of my knowledge. Before I could ask him if the case was serious that he wanted to see Hrown at so late an hour, the man commanded the driver to whip his horses up. On turning around, the last thing I heard was the man commanding the driver to hurry. The exact time was about 10 minutes to 1. I did not know the men. Would he no trouble to recognize the man that addjessed me. Had only a glimpse of the other man, hut could prob ably recognize him. .Could not recognize tho driver. The men were very nervous ; their faces were blanched. On going to bed a half hour later I heard a car riage approaching at a rapid rate. Looking out ol the window, saw a carriage with gray horses, the same horses, I should say, being driven at a rapid rate. I recognized the same voices, hollering at the horses. They were going in the direction of Yorkville. To 1 1 - 1 1 1 > - </'nrr?I of Chronic Diarrhoea AfIcr AO Years of Slit frrliiK. "I Buffered for tfO years with- diarrhoea and thought I was pant being cured," says John 8. Calloway, ol French Camp, Miss. "I had Hpwnt so inuoh time and money and spfferad bo much that 1 had given up all hopes of recovery. I wa? ho feeble from the effects of the diarrhoea that I could do no kind >f labor could net even travel, but hy accident I was permitted to And a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhota Kemedy, and after taking several bottled I ain entirely cured of that trouble. 1 am so phased with the result.that J am anxious that it he in reach,of-*l\ w h suffer as I have." For sale bj J." F Maokey A Co. , y v ?V? if.-.'' ENTI rRBKLY. rRDAY, SEPTEMBER the best of my knowledge th other man in the carriage migh have been clean shaven. Do no know that he did not have mous tuche. He 6eomed to be a ligh not heavy man. J. H. B. Jenkins, a policemai on duty at night, testified a: follows: "About 1 o'clock wai in front of Carolina hotel. Mr Paul Bratton, of Yorkville,camt down the stairway and out o the hotel. He knows Brattoi well and recognized him dis tinctly. Bratton was much un der the influence of liquor. II< -.1 1 nyuivt? to witness am went up street. A few minute: later Will Caldwell, a negr< from Yorkville, came aroum the corner of the Ratteree build ing. He knows Caldwell ; askec what ho was doing here at tha time of night. Caldwell sait he drove a team for Glenn J Allison and had brought Mr Paul Bratton down. Mr. Brat ton was looking for Mr. Brown the painter. Mr. Bratton ha< said lie must find him tonight Bratton had on a dark blue sacl coat, light pants, thinks striped a light straw hat, no vest. ! few minutes later the negro an< Bratt m were both out of sight The carriage drove east on Main Half an hour later the carriag? came west on the same street going rapidly ; slowed up abou the postoflice and crossed tin Southern Railway slowly. Hi believed the driver to be Cald well. After crossing railroat carriage drove away very rap idly. Witness saw Brown afte he was shot and asked him threi times if Mr Paul Bratton hac shot him. Each time he mum bled"oohoo," faintly, an answe that impressed him mean "yes." The following statement o the attending physicians wai submitted : "Rock Hill, S.C., Septembe 15, 1900. We, the undersignei physicians of Rock Hill, S. C. having made an autopsy on tin body of II. A. llrown, deceased find that death was caused by i gunshot wound, ball enterinj he side and b?dv nunrt ^ ts ^ ?j ? i?- uring the intestines in five o more places. T. A. Crawford, M. D. W. (J. Stevens, M. D." Dr.T. A. Crawford : Saw Rrowi a few minute* after he was shot I recognized at once that th? wound wan mortal. Told thi family and advised that a state mout be had from Brown as t< who did the shooting and tin causes. His wife dreaded pub licity. She whispered in her hua band's ear and he would not a first talk, but he advisod that al the matters would come out, ant then Hrown did talk. lie ex plained that he had a difficult,; in Yorkvilie. lie didn't knot who did the shooting, but it wa one of three parties or four. H explained that he had had a diffi cultv with John S. Bratton tha week. He was dazed when sho and couldn't positively say wh< fired on him, but said it wa either Amry Crockett, Gale o Bratton himself. He made n statement, as to what caused th diffic !ty. He expressed regre that lie had not taken his wife1 advice in connection with th matter. I)r. W. G. Stevena only hear part of Brown's statement, bu heard him say that he had bee shot by either Amry Crocket i Gale or Bratton himself. Who i later Brown was asked if Pai Bratton did the shooting, 1 un derntood his answer to be (aha . in the affirmative. Brown wa ! rational at the time. When a'ked what Crockett he meani ' he answered a brother of th girl, and that he was from Rich ' burg. His apparent affirmativ answer that Paul Bratton ha< shot him was after some discus eion in his presence in the roor Concerning Paul Brat.ton's beiti| 1 jn town, and after the name o Tsui Bratton had been used sev er?l times in the room. Rrowi w rational during the time o the discussion in which Pun Brntton'R nam? waa used. I put rose he heard what waa pai<i Some one asked Brown the caua #f the black eye he had and h paid it waa not done that night < Henry Ford and Oe<orgo Rot J*:x | '* * iRPRl; i S3. 1900. _ e inscu, colored, both stay at the t Kerr livery stable. They det scribed the carriage, horses and men. Robinson was asked by (he t man witn the straw hat on where painter Drown lived. The wit 1 ness followed the carriage to ? Kimball's stable. While the men s were talking there witness saw a . pistol in the pocket ol the man 3 wearing a straw hat. He saw the f man with the straw hat on take a l double barreled shotgun out of - the surry. They woke up Wal - ter Mills, alias Walter Coleman, 3 who stays at the stable, pointed i the gun at him, and they made * Walker put on his shoes and got 3 in the buggy and thev drove off 1 with him, going eastward on Main - street. 1 Walker Miller: About 12:30, t he thought, two white men-and a 1 colored driver came to the Kim i ball stable and woke him up . After asking about feed, Ac., the - man with a straw hat on, who , had a gun, said, come out ; I want i to see you a minute. I started . and he threw his gun in my lace ? and I knocked it down. He said, , come on; I want to ask you some^ thing, but he went back into the i room and did not get in the buggy . and go off with the men. Geo. Itobinson, being recalled, 3 says he was not right at the , stable; that he heard the man t command Mills to get in the bug B gy and thought he did so. B Pride Ratterree : Haul Rratton >v?e in iujt . rooni at mo #C arolina 1 Hotel last night. I was asleep - when he came''in niy room. I r judge that it wAs 1 oVlttCk. He 3 asked me where Rrown lived... 1 1 told him that he Jiv?d..-about a - mile and ,a half in t.ho blackjacks r and that it would take a week to t find himl Ife said there nad been some fuss in the family of a del f icato nature and he did- hot rfcem B to want to talk about it. lie did not seem to be excited. I told r him Rrown lived so far from town 1 because 1 thought he might want > to get up a fuss and I thought to B throw him off the track. ? At this juncture the inquest 51 was adjourned until 10 o'clock ? Sunday morning, as the coroner had other witnesses lie could r not produce then Sunday morning when the coroner and the juf v reassembled Will Caldwell, the colored dri3 ver of the carriage referred to " in the testimony the day before was produced and sworn. He testified that he droy..o ucarriage 5 for Glenn A Allison from Yorker villo to Rock-Hill Friday night, . and that Paul Bratconand his brother, John S.Bratton, were t in tlie carriage.'" He said : We 1 canto to Rock Hill just as the 1 town clock was striking 12."* 1 " left tlie ltack at the stable. Mr. ' Paul went to the hotel. I went | r *? T:... if * i 8 hi unit masse j s iu gei some rea p hut ho was asleep. As I came . hack from Massay's I met Mr. t Jenkins, the policeman. I talkt od to hini a little hit and. wont o on to the stable. Wo "all-got ? into the hack','and drove around r the right of the graded sch'fthl. 0 Then we came hack and drove ?J around the other"- street, and stopped at an old black woman's ? house. Don't know who lived e there. Then we stopped at a d white man's house. Don't kriou it who he was'. Then we drove n down,.further and stopped in t, the road. Then they went up n to a house. I sat in the hack.' After they had gone up there '* abdtit live minutes I heard two ' shots. Then they came hack 1 and pot in the hack and we left. ^ The pistol shots seemed.to be in ? a house. 1 was about 100 yards i. from the house. T saw a colored e man going to tlio house before d the shootlne? a- big black man, i about sitf-feef high. After-tire n shooting he went oil". No other K negro went in the carriage from Kimball's stable, f heard aftorn f Cuts ami Bruises (Illicitly llftlrtl. ] Chamberlain's I'hin lUlm applind to A out, bruise, burn, snald or like iu-: | Jury will instantly allay the pain and I. will heal the part in lees time than e any other treatment. Unless the injury is ittj severe 'ft. \^iII not leave a near. Pain Ralni also cures rheumatiani, aprains, swellings and lameness. ? For sa'e by J, F. Mackey A Co. ^ ,W ^ If you have 1^ any tiling to well Q a advertise it iu kw^T Mtmw^ tlie Enterprise Rates reason a: hie. ~ No. 50 wards that they were looking forj Brown. After he caine out [of 'the house T heard Mr. John Bratton say that he shot Brown. I did not know what tho\ woro taking me tlipre for. I did not go to the house. No one put an arm on me, saying, "Don't toll this." Mr. John Bratton had on a sorter light wool hat, but am not positive whether wool or straw. Mr. Paul Bratton had on a ligkt straw hat Mr John nmiion, no tnouglit, had on a black coat and pants. Would not say for certain whether lie had on a vest. Mr Paul Bratton was clean shaven. Mr.John Bratton had a moustache; was of a sandy color. I did not toll Mr. Jenkins that Mr Paul BratIon was down here to see Mr. Brown. We got back to Yorkville at about .r> o'clock. MRS. BROWN TELLS OF MR. BROWN AND MRS. BRATTON'S FIRST MKKTINO. To a representative of the Charlotte Observer last Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Brown gave out tho following story : She knew Mrs. John Bratton as a bright, sweet school girl at All Healing Springs in 1884, alter which time she heard no more of her until several years ago, when Winthrop college was being built." Her husband, Mr. Brown, was there at. work. One day when Mrs. Bratton and others called to see tho building Brown acted as escort, and was kind to one and all of the party. Mrs. Bratton, learning that he had married an old schoolmate of hers, treated him with great consideration, and on her return home wrote his wife saying that she had met her husband a'ml liked him. Nothing more was thought of her until 18' * months later, when Brown went to Vorkville to do some painting. He boarded with Mrs. Bratton'* father. Then she and Brown were thrown together frequently. Mrs. Brown was invited over and took dinner with the 01 uiiuntt aiiu her husband, and was graciously rec ived. Before the job on which Brown worked was finished the man with wh >m he boarded died. Mrs. John Bratf f \ to 4-K ? f Ua ~ I* - - v?* Hint lie fcU IU r'OI home. Her husband consontibg, Brcwn took a room there and anon afterward had a fight with a lawyer of tlio Yorkville bar, from the effects of which ho was laid up several days, during which time Mrs. Brown had but little news from him. Growing uneasy, she went over to Yorkville, and on her first appearance in the house saw that she was not wanted, Brown recovered rapidly Rnd wont home. From that time on he and Mrs. Bratton kept up a correspondence l.apt Thursday morning he wrote to her, say nig that he would see her that night or die in the attotnpt. Bratton intercepted the letter and prepared to kill Brown.Lie loaded his pistol and shotgun. That night he did not go into his* w ife's roorri. but left her alone, lie hung his coat near his bed and placed a pistol in one of the pockets. Sometime during the early part of the night he heard someone talking to his wife. He got up and reached for his pistol, but found it gone. When he sought to find his gun, that, too, bad disappeared. By this time he was so desperate that he .rushed out of th? house to find a weapon. In passing by the window of his wife's room, he came face to face with Brown, who, hearing him raovo in the adjoihing room, had raised the window sash and jumped out. A light for life followed. Brown received the first blow, which landed in the face, making a considerable scar, and then, catching Bratton in the throat, proceeded | to choke him. Bratton called for help, and several neighbors rushed to his rescue. Brown was pulled.ofF and Bratton sought his gun-?a second time, shearing aa be webt that. ho would'kill Brown. VWe""?\in was not found. Brown returned to Rock Hill. /' Friday morning he received an anonymous letler, written by Mrs. Bratton, telling him to fly for hia life or he would bo killed. One following the lirat begged Bn wn to go to her rescue, aa she was going to be killed. She was- re dv to elope with him and begged Continued on Fourth Rage.