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EXCITEMENT RUNNING HIGH IN GREENVILLE (Continued from Page One.) the police station and requested that they send over to the First Baptist church and tell Magistrate Stradley to come down to the jnll and take bond for him. Attorney Oscar K. Mauldln was In the same room at the time and stated to Mr. QHreath that he had already sent for Magistrate Stradley to come down to the Jail and take the bonds. "I assure you that wc have no desire to prevent you getting out on bond." said Mr. Mauldln, "and i have already Rent for ("apt. Stradley to come down" Mr. Mauldln la the prosecutor in the cases brought against Mr. Qilreath and the other two men. About this time numerous promi nent citizens of Greenville, who wore at their respective churches or at their homes and who had heard of the arrests, began pouring into the jail. Among them were such men as Henry P, McQoe, Avory Pntton, Frank F. Martin, .lohn M. ?leer, Alester ('.. Fur man, H. .1. Haynsworth and C. O, Allen. Greenville, Oct. 26.- T. r. Vaughan, on trial for allowed immorality during his term as superintendent of the Odd Felloks' Home here, was put on the stand by his lawyers today and made. a clean confession of his awful crime. The trial was brought to a sensa tional close when Vaughn broke down and confessed all. lie named two oth er vicltlniB in addition to those Includ ed In the indictment. The jury >vas OUl but four minutes and made no rec omniondation lor mercy, he verdlc car rying be death penalty. Tears streamed down the face of Judge Purdy, named by Governor Blenso as special judge for this trial. Many jurors, court officials and spec tators alike made no pretence of hid ing their tears as Vaughn, pale and i broken, acknowledged bis crime. Some jurors wept aloud. Sentence Pronounced. In the afternoon Judge Purdy. be Xprc sentencing Vaughn, overruled a motion for a new trial, which was ar gued by one of Vaughn's lawyers, af ter his client luftde his confession, Judge Purdy, In sentencing Vaughn to death In the electric chair, sot De cember 2u as the date for his execu tion. Wht-h court opened there was no in timation that the accused would make a confession. Ills attorney had fought stubbornly since the beginning of the case to break down the strong evi dence developed by the prosecution's little girl witnesses. Immediately after court opened to day attorneys of both sides consulted, resulting in an agreement to let Vaughn confess In an efTort to save his own life, and that the case would go to the Jury without argument. "I have acted devilishly. I have act ed shamelessly,'* began Vaughn. "The devil tempted me and I have fallen." He pleaded eloquently but vainly with the Jury to stive his life. Vaughn beg ged the jury to ipare Iiis life, not so much for his sake as for his wife and little daughter. Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her daugh ter were In court today, though they hud been with the accused since the trial opened. He was formerly assist ant superintendent of the First Bap tist church Sunday school, one of the largest and most fashionable In this city. He was a ministerial student and frequently occupied pulpits of churches In and around Greenville. He owns considerable property. Vaughn's Confession. Facing the Jury, Vaughn made his confession. In all his statement makes three thousand words. Briefly sum marized it Is as follows: "Gentlemen, it is useless to say ?hat in this Instance I am greatly humili ated, and for months and months I have had agonizing hours over the whole matter. I wish to say this In the outset, that I have never wished to conceal one whit of the truth when the time came to make a clear state ment. I havxe been so cautious In these particulars that some have In ferred that i had denied my guilt. I know that some have had that Impres sion, but I knew that I was guilty and would toll It at the proper time. For that reason I have made Impres sions that were unfavorable to me. "I want to say here and now that I am going to assume full responsibil ity. 1 want to take It off of that girl. I want to say, that I have loved the girl always, but that love has been misdirected and misused. I don't think the filrl will deny today the reality of my love in many respects, yet my conduct towards her would make her fake the position towards me which she now takes, and Justly takes. "As superintendent of the orphan Age. I had entire control of her. 1 realize that now. I did not at the time realize Just what I was doing. 1 do now. I did It under circumstances bout which I would not care to go 'nto details here. At the very Joint I thought myself the strongest, I found myvo'f the weakest, I found that the devil had attacked nie with a more subtle and powerful temptation in the very place I thought I could not be tempted. I can not now go into the details of the circumstances surround ing me when I fell, and I now assume fulll responsibility and usk God to save that girl. "Now, as to the treatment of the children out there; of course, I whip ped them, but I never did wish to be cruel. 1 did nut abuse them, and had no desire to do so. Hut as hellish as this weight of sin has been, and de spite the suffering of my body and soul, It has brought an entirely new viewpoint of life. I am not speaking of this for sympathy; l am simply stating it to make my position clear, and 1 want to say this, that If it took all of this to save, to bring me to where 1 stand, and In spite of all this prosecution, of till this shame and suf ferlng, If It has tak-n all this to re deem my soul and save me from hell, I am thankful for it today. "I now have a better conception of God and of num. With that fact in view, realizing the cheapness of life, I can bo of better sei t ice to Cod and to man. I feel that if you will give me another opportunity, arter pleading guilty to this charge, and let me have another chance, I can be of more ser vice to God than ever before. 1 feel that I can live a life of sublime ser vice and consecration to God. As dark as It may seem, as disgust iug as it may Boem to you. as hellish as it appears, I feel that In the depths of my heart 1 can go forward in better service, and I make this plea to you. "What is life? It Is a very small thing. It is it very short lime here and I do not regard it as much. So far as my Buffering it would soon be over and I would be dead. Then it i.1-. a mat ter of eternity. Hut my present plea Is that I have Binned, that I have suf fered the tortures of the damned, thnt If I am given another opportunity, that the hold 1 now have on God, with the strength of the new faith 1 have in Kim from out of this awful sin, I be1 love that I can go out Into the dives of sin in this State and be of service to my state and my God In reclaiming tho evil-doers, In saving the State great expense and In redeeming them of their cri'ilfcS and sins. . I "1 believe truly that 1 can be of great service to my God and my fel low man. I love my life, it is true, but 1 simply feel that In view of this new conception, life Is a very small matter. Life Is not eternal; It is a mere tem porary existence. That which comes from God, to God must return. So far as death Is concerned it is very small; It Is the greater something which comes after." In closing his confession Vaughn made a plea that he be allowed to live in order to prove to his wife that he could reform and be a good man. WEEK'S REVIEW OF BUSINESS Dunn's Review Gives Optlcistlc View of Situation, though Gives Little Little Promise of Rise in Cotton. New York, Oot .28.?-While the Hul gaHon-Turklsh war causes much un easiness abroad its chief effect in this country has been, first, to produce large foreign selling of American se curities, and second, to cause large foreign buying of American wheat, War Is never, in the long run, ben eficial to world commerce, but the present European crisis, nt least in Its Immediate effects, has not served In any way to check the natahle ex pansion In trade here. R/ery report from every section of the country la favorable, and the general business situation Is not only very active, but Is entirely henlthy. Taking it alto gether there has never been a more remarkable uplift In American busi ness than that now in progress nt a time of foreign disturance ad of an important domestic political campaign and It Is notable also that the trade and industrial expansion, while tet>. Ing the capacity of plants and bank* and railroads and the labor supply causes a comparatively small amount of friction. From every large distributing cen ter comes favorable reports of the dry goods markets. The movement ol merchandise Is very heavy and pric es are firmly maintained. In cotton goods the numerous orders from Job bers and the manufacturing trade prevent the accumulation that Is com monly looked for at this period. The demand for fine and fancy cottons ha? improved and a good business haf been done in dress ginghams foi spring Staple prints and bleached cot ton are quiet. Orders for all classes of goods arc accumulating and the leading mills have all the work they can handle foi fall and spring. The Cotton Market. Alternate advances and decllnet featured trading in cotton this week with generally small net price change es either way. Tho market was dom inated mainly by weather conditions in the belt and the map was cloBel)i scanned for the first signs of ffost There was none reported over Sunday, but some frost appeared In the South west later on, though It was confined within a restricted area and evident ly did little harm. At any rate, this development failed to stimulate any enthusiasm on the buying side and many people are skeptical as to the likelihood of a permanent advance at this Juncture. In fact, speculative sentiment remains generally bearish In response to the favorable crop out look and large receipts, although It Is noticeable that greater caution is now exerclaed in undertaking short sales. This Is considered natural because the time is approaching when frost will become an obstacle to the progress of the plnnt and may thus have a ten dency to check any further material decline in value. The Balkan disturb ance constitutes a bearish argument of some Import, but those who profess to be!;<.-?'? in higher prices insist that the exct. .lent business outlook will tell In the long run and that every bale of cotton raised will be needed. It Is contended that spinners are be ginning to show more interest, yet it Is significant, on the other hand, that the world's consumption of American i cotton thus far this season is con-! Slderably smaller than last year's and 1 _ that exports have fallen off about 350, 000 bales. On Friday the report of the Census Bureau showed 6,838.841 bales of cotton ginned prior to Octo ber 18 against the recording-breaking total of 7,758,621 bales a year ago. The ginning figures were small than ex pected and prices subsequently ad vanced about $1 a bale. Jailed for Grand Larceny. Joe Berry, a Clinton negro, was lodged in Jail several days ago by Deputy Reld. charged with stealing wearing apparel to the amount of $50 from the Copeland Stone Company, of Clinton. Joe was apprehended in Greenwood. Special Train to . pnrtnnburg. The C. & W. C. Ry. will run spe cial trains from Laurens to Spartan* burg today and tomorrow, on account of the Spartanburg County Fair. Trains will leave here at 8:30 a. m.. arriving in Spartanburg at 10.00 a. in. Coat lies will be provided for white and colored people. Returning, train will leave Spartanburg at 6. p. m. Round trip tickets at low rates arc now on sale at depots along the line. (Advertisement.t ff wMi^m& uffSwmm wlfil^uMV Htm iff If you grow peas a Star Pea Huller will please and pay you. If you use Fertilizer see our Force-feed Wizard Distributor, the hopper holds 100 pounds. 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