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ONE SWiNDLER CAUGHT. w \^ hi \i? or ohkkn wood lo\\ i ollimtujc Disastrous Business Ven? ture In South Carolina Town, by which Certain Churclic? in 11? i? Slut* are Sai<| to Hate I,ost Monev. Young Mum |s Arrested in Okla? homa. Greenwood. March 3.?Quite a num? ber of people In different sections of the State will be Interested in the news of the arrest In Oklahoma of W. J. N organizer and for some tlane president and manager of the Metropolitan Loan and Trust Corn pan/, of Greenwood. An Indictment against Nlcholl* was handed out by Dis? trict Attorney Ernest Cochran some time ago. and a true bill was found by a Federal grand Jury, so the arrest of Nlcholls Is the next step In the pro? ceedings which, as stated above will be followed with much lnterst not only in Greenwood, but especially by the Baptist congregation of Hartevllle, tht Pendelton Street Baptist Church, of Greenville, and others. The two chun hea lost a pretty good round sum each, though the Hartsvtlle con? gregation by timely action, which, however, precipitated the fall of the concern, managed to get some of Its money back Nlcholls came here In the spring of 1907, or perhaps earlier In the begin? ning of the year. He organized the Metropolitan Loan and Trust Com? pany, proposing to lend money at a low rate of Interest, five and six per cent. One part of the scheme was that the proposed borrower should pay monthly Instalments befor secur? ing the money, and later a certain per cent of thin had been paid In, then the borrower could secure the amount wanted as a loan. To one who want? ed money right now, this was not at? tractive and In many cases It was pro? posed to the concern and accepted that this monoy should be paid in a lump sum, and the loan secured at once. The Hartsvllle Baptist Church at that time was engaged >n building a new church, and the Pendelton Street Baptist Church was building an ex? tension. Both sought the benefits of the low rates of Interest and paid down the required "bonus." or what? ever It should be called. The Harts? vllle people. It Is said, did not get their money whtn they had a right to ex p*et it. as It is alleged, and as they Ii \ sent N.ch'dls's concern a check f? about $1,200, a member of their n Idlng committee. Mr. J. J. Lnwton. c *.e here post hass. *-i Investigate. Ha - iia th^ lay be >re left town,, leaving his office and effects in the hands of a clerk and stenographer. Upon the advice of his attorneys. Messrs. Orler A Park. Mr. I^awton had attachment Issued of the funds of the SjSasSen In the leoal hanll and got a good part of It back. Nlcholls had gone from here to At? lanta and had apparently lived high as a pretty good-sized draft came lit from the Piedmont Hotel Just after the money had bCCa clinched for tin benefit of the Hartslvlle Church. Post office Inspector Pullspher camo here to Investigate with the purpose of getting after Nlcholls on the charge of using the malls with fraudulent In? tent. This ?ras tlta summer of 1907 the flight of Nlcholls having taken place early In Jun??. Tor some reason the matter was placed |g the hands of Inspector Off ggf J, who is the slueth par excellence of the depart? ment's Inspectors In this section. He came here and made a thorough study of the case and has been look? ing for h'.m ever since with the re? sult, as stated In the beginning that he was arrested hist week In Okla? homa. It Is supposed that Nlcholls will t>e brought to either Greenville or Columbia for trial. iAst year some time, a letter wai receive ] here by the attorneys for the Hartsvtlle people. Grler & Park, from .Nlcholls. wanting to settle the claims and saying that unless they would settle. h*? would leave at once for Paris and lose his identity In the gay French capital. The letter had n) legible postmaik. No attention was paid to the matter, save that Is was turn- d over to Inspector Gregory. Nlehoiij, is a young matt about 35. He Is a native of Greenville. North Caro? lina, ami i graduate of the University of North Carolina Of the class of 1897. He e/ai ;, hook agent a long while and finally located here with the disastrous ( ? uise.piere e.j al,?ady outlined. , tftolay'i Kidney Remedy is a safe and certain remedy for all kidney and id older Meensen, whether acute or chronie. It Is a splendid tonic for middle aged and elderly peopie ami a sure cure for all annoyances and lrre/ul irlth s of the kidneys and bl el? der. ? ibert's I >ru?: St"| e Thoughts ar? mightier than the Stfeaf h. tt h ind.--Sophoe'? s. ?Are frequently hoarse? 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Baroness Uchida, wife of the new Japanese ambassador to the United states, Is a graduate of Bryn Mawr. .Mnce her marriage twelve years ago she has resided in Peking and Vien? na, but she has kept in touch with the condition of the women of her native country. By the will of Miss Carolina L. O Ransom, a sister of Capt. Albert G. Kansum, of the Army of the Cumber? land, dated November 1, 1900, and filed In Washington for probate, a painting of MaJ. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, on the battlefield of Chicgamauga, Is given to the United States. An American woman has been se? lected to perfect the plans for the in? stallation of a modern heating sys? tem In the palace of the Sultan of Turkey. Miss Anna Barber, formerly of Colorado Springs, Col., who for the last several years has been con? nected with a London firm engaged in the manufacture of heating appar? atus. Is the woman. A Tax Of $20.000,000 To Save The Postman's King. The letter carrier's merry ring as he pushes your doorbell costs Uncle Sam $400,000 a year, so his officials say. The Government experts figure out that It takes thirty seconds long? er to ring your doorbell and wait for some one to come to the door than It would take for him to thrust your let? ters and papers In a box fixed out? side. This loss of half a minute twice a day alarms the authorities, and they have inserted a provision in the Post office Appropriation bill that every? body must fjrnlsh mail boxes and carriers t^ms* ring more doorbells. ?e every household 1911, to put up a cheapest boxes cost >etter-looklng ones, which you would have to secure In order to prevent a defacement of the front of your home, cost several times that amount, this regulation would compel the citizens of the United States to spend at least $20,000,000 In putting up mail boxes to save the let? ter carriers one minute a day at Saeh house. 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TEXAS MOB LYNCHES NEGRO. Alleged Kaptot is Hurled Prom Court Room Window. I ?alias, Texas, March 3.?From the very grasp of the law, Allen Brooks, an aged negro, charged with crimin? ally assaulting a two-yoar-old white child, was torn by fifteen determined numbers of an angry mob Of live thousand men today and hanged for his crime. Brooks was seized in the Court room, where he was to receive the law's justice, tossed through a window to the main body of the mob. which waited like a pack of ravenous wolves for their prey, in the street be? low, l?g broken body was dragged through the streets and he was hang? ed to the Elks' arch high above the heads of the avenging citizens. The mob was led by an old negro. With it all hardly a loud word was spoken, not a shot was fired, and above the dull murmuring of the mob could be heard the aged negro's trem? bling shrieks for mercy. After Brooks was hanged, for nearly three hour? Dallas was In the hands of the mob. The jail was stormed and death threatened to three other negroes held on charges of murder. They had been spirited away, however, and af? ter searching for them in vain the mob dif persed. The crime for which Brooks paid the penalty today was one of the most brutal in the history of this, j Dallas County. Immediately after his arrest last week the negro was taken out of the city for safe keeping. He was returned early this morning and taken to the Court House at day? light to await the calling of his case in the Civil Court. A great crowd gathered early, and when attorneys for the defendant, who had been ap? pointed by the Court, began argu? ments in behalf of a postponement of the trial until to-morrow, rumors started through the crowd that a change of venue had been granted. This statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations ever seen In Dallas County, and the Court House was charged by the mob. Scores of officers, hastily summoned, were over? powered, the locked doors of th? Court room were wrecked and the negro, crouching in a corner praying, was sezied by the leaders of the mob. This was in the second story of the building. Outside the body of the angry crowd was waiting. A rope was ready with a hangman's knot tied in it and when it was announced from the window that the negro had been taken, the rope was thrown into the room. The noose was placed about the prisoner's neck and he was pull? ed and thrown to the ground fighting like a tiger for his life. He struck on the pavement on his forehead and, it is believed, fractured his skull in the fall of about thirty feet. Instantly dozens of men jumped on him with their feet and his face was kicked in? to a pulp and he was bruised all over, probably dying within a few minutes. A score of men seized the rope, and at the head of the mob, dragged th< negro's body twelve blocks up main street to the Elks' arch, where it was suspended to a supporting telephone pole. 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