The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 10, 1911, Image 1
Hi*, m MTKM WATCHMAN, Kaiablts
Con^olicUted Auk. 2, li
PARDON REFUSED BIGHAM.
hi i \st: m \;i - t.r.oiu.i it?w v
IKMTKK (ll.MKMY,
Petition Presented by Mother (>r Man
( ou\lct< ?I "i >laying In- Wir? and
Mow a Pngutlve ? lltgluiin-Avant
Trial at <iei>rgetowii Itcvalleil?
Nc-ult of I i iv.. d> ut Muriell's In
l.i. uhm lllgbams Young Wife
M. i I?. all? . i. Ur n V
Oolumtdi. June 7. ?A mother's
pltu'il plea waa turned down late t >
day by Govervor HI ease, when he re?
fused Ut pardon O. C. Itlgham, tin
young Oeorgetown doctor, who, wlih
W. D. Avant, hl? cloae friend, was
Convicted at the fall term of court in
I
1909, >f the killing of young Mrs.
Blgham. and ?ach sentenced to a
term of thr? e years and a half In the
State Penitentiary, both Itigham and
Avant escaping fr >m the community
and being still at large.
This Is the second petition present?
ed to the Governor, this. however,
being th? first formal petition When
It was sought same time ago to have 1
Avant pardoned. Governor Blease said
that before he would consider the pi?
pers even, the man would have to hi
In the hands of the law. He takes
the sann? position with regard to Blg
The following Is the petition of Dv
Blgham's mother:
"The humble petition of M. afedOTe ,
Itigham respectfully shows that she is
the mother of Dr. G. C. High am, who |
was convicted in Georgetown County. t
charo d w ith the killing of his Wife,
?>n or about September 3, 1909, and
sentenced to 3 1-2 yesr3 in the Pen?
itentiary: that his wife was Ruth
CrtM>. '?f I^aurens County: that she
I knew the relationship between her
son and his wife and knows that her
son would not have wilfu'ly and
knowingly killed his wife or been a
party thereto: that she Is the widow
of the Hon. L. E. Bigha/n. whi was
n member of the Stare Legislature
wtth your Rseellency during the
eighth decade of the nineteenth cen?
tury: that her husband was instru?
mental In the passage of a certain
fish law that very materially affected
the fisheries In and around George?
town, and the people of Georgetown
County have ever ? since been very
bitter against her husband nnd fam?
ily, and this was the prime cause of
the c mvlctlon of her son. Dr. G. C.
Plgham: that she humbly petitions
your Excellency to grant to her son,
Dr. ?}. <\ lti<nam, a full and fr. , pnj -
don, snd your petitioner will ever
pray. Mrs. M. M. Dlghnm.
"February ti, 1911."
Prom the daughter:
I Mar?o- Idgham. am the daugh?
ter of the petitioner. I have lived
snd taught sch90] nenr Georgetown
and know th.if th. pottttog is
true snd Join In It."
A csrd is attached with the petition,
this card being not admitted as evi?
dence st the trial. The News and
Courier correspondent at the time, at?
tending the trial, printed a portion of
this card. Tin- eard addressed to Dr.
G. <\ ItU'ham ft on his wife while sh >
wss visiting her relatives In Uum i
County Just prior to tho killing rends
as f.dlows:
"I>n?k for me tomorrow. Friday.
Will be tnero sure. Am Just wild to
ose you. "Ruth."
Senator Tillman wrote the follow?
ing letter u.'.dei date of March :'.'?. i
1911. from Trenton: i
??Mrs. L S. Hlgham. f.07 sHNM >nm
Street. Greenville. S. (V?My Dear
Madam: i hnvs yomr letter of
M it h 'i'l. Th. r< i-s ,i rustak.aj im?
pression ge'rg the r.?v?nd?. that I have i
become influential wi n lee Gavernof
in the matter of pardons. I presume
tihs is due to the ?i? sire f-f th.- nev
papers to coupU Govern ?r Ideas.? and
myself tog. th. r. I ha\? naked lot
only on* pnrb n and that w is fof a
white hoy at Clemeon, whose step?
father, aeeora'ng to the boy'l Stiry,
was whipping h's moth* r and he sind
him
"1 nssjteushci your hnnhnnd rerj
pleasantly In the day- thai are past
and woubl be glad |C help you. I
will tak.' pi asur.- in signing a petil i
f.,r your gOs\ if roe w ill 9* ml 1? to mo.
I think Avant the guiltv man tod
aught to be putdmed. Wry siia > r- ly
yours.
**B, i: ; <iiiii.ni
The obi mother ot Dr. Bigham
csnm in person lo I he Oe emor*i of
flee bringing hot son- petition for
pardon with her. Mm en( with othii
awaiting their turn in the OUt( t
T mm of th?- e\? < uM ? o I . and Ii n -
ail.\. firing of the b.ng wait, left the
papers st the ollb ??? and \ ent home
It was she who also sat through the
three dsy's trial In Georgetown, and
when the verdict wan announced ap
hc?l April. ih50. 'Be .liiHt tin
$81.
< minwiw TO WED WHITE g1kl.
I>r l.e Clue. Former 1'. of C. stu?
dent. io Take Ramm City Bride?
win Practice MotUotne in China,
Kanaai City. Mo., lune <.?Dr. Lo
i
i
Chee, who was graduated a few
days ago from the University lied
teal Collage hero, will marry Miss
1 laboth Wood, is years old, daugh?
ter of a contractor, a sister of the
girl has announced.
After th? ir marriage. which is tc
iik. place in the fall. Dr. Chee and!
l>i btide will go to China, where
the physician willl practice his pro
tl ssi jn.
It. Che.-, who is 2i years old, was
'ormerly a student at the University
of Chicago.
KB4KVKD of sentience.
(iov. Please IleiiiitM Fine of $m>o Im
ngnad on I rank o'Donnell.
Columbia, S. (I Juno 7.?Governor
r.l.i- Wednesday relieved Frank
O'Donnell, ol Inihter, from a sen
lenee of $100 or thirty days on the
pnbtte works for violation <?f the dis
panaary law. Mr. O'Donnell was tried
on Match 2, 19?*, before C. M. Hurst.
rder, and a jury. The effect of
the pardon is to remit th hue or im?
prisonment.
S.\eril of the jurors wrote that
Mr. <> l>onnell has never before been
tried for selling whlake) and nev< r
since, and in the trial of the eaae the
teetftaaony was to the effect that Bate
man, the detective Went to O'Donnell
and asked him if he had any Whiskey
aid Mr. O'Donnell replied thai he
did not have any whiskey himself, I
hut thought he could get some and
then neat Batoman to the house of (
i certain party, and then Bateman ro
turnlng and saying he had failed to
gat it. he gave $1.50 to Mr. O'Donnell,
and Mr. O'Donnell went and came
back and brought a quart of whiskey
frith him and he and Bateman drank
I part of It.
C. M. Hurst, the former city record?
er fll Siimter. joins in the request for
a pardon.
An affidavit from O'Donnell himself
concludes with this statement:
"This defendant had acted merely
? is ? 11 o ? ??ntrn.'data.n and friendly
? to tile said Uateman, who he had
known for years, and did not have
thl sllghte-t intention or IdOt of sell?
ing him whiskey and did not sell him
any, but aaafwly g"t it for htm from
d S. L. Young, giving the Htm?
11*11 that Bataman gave t,, him.
That the said S. L. Yourg was work?
ing In the store of O'Donnell & Co.
Sad went out and got the whiskey and
brought it to this defendant, who
waited in the store of O'Donnell &
Co. for him to do so and delivered
une to him in the said store, and he
? i r ied it from there to his room
a. ross the street." ?
Among thoat who Signed the par?
don petition are: J. K. Bradford,
chief of police] It. Dosler Lee, present
City Beoorderi R, D, Lee, attorney at
law; L. I, Parrott, clerk of court; W.
H. Kpperson. sheriff; If. C, Wallace,
treasurer; It. K. Wilder. auditor;
Thomas Wilson. Judge of Probate
Richardeon, County supervisor Pitts
and others.
The petition was presented hy State
Senator John H. Clifton.
WILL RETI RN RECORDS.
t,n\. dk si-n*. niii Rcejnlrlng Delivery
of Documents to Booth Carolina.
Albany, June ~.?Oov, Dia has
signed the bill requiting ihe state
hoard of regenti io deliver to the State
of South Carolins the records of the
commission* rs of the navy hoard of
that State and certain other records
now In poaiSlSlon of th' N.-w Y irk
state library authorities. Home of the
records which South Carol ?> , desired
returned were destroyed In the eapt*
lol fire.
."itto.Pound Fair Weil In SI, loin-.
Ml L-oiis Post-Dlspntch,
Here is a heavyweight romance, A
man who weighs MO pounls recently
married a woman .f \i>>i pounds In
st. Louis, Mo. The bridegroom Ii
William Montandon and hli wife waa
Millie,nt Montgomery. The two were
acquainted for more than two y< irs,
M ?ntandon jot the glrl'i consent to
wed and the engagement lusted only
two weeks,
p. a red t ? I ?? the m? I affecb d of all
in the court ro'm.
Governor Please did not consider
the petition long, He had announced
his determination not to lake up thli
sjsjsjf unless the fugitive! were In the
bands of the law.
id Fear not?Let ult the ends Thou Aln
SUMTEIt, 3 0, SATUi
LEXINGTON'S DOUBLE TRAGEDY
i. P, BOUKXIGHT, WHITE, KILL?
ED, ALLEGED SLAYER MIS
ING.
< loud of Mystery Apparently En
velo|)os AJfalr ? Story Circulated of
"White Cape*1 Visiting Homo of
Negro Suspected of Sotting Fire to
Farmen' Barn and stables.
Lexington, June 7.?The body of
j J. Pink Bouknlght, the prominent
farmer of the Shady Grove section of
the Dutch Fork, who, it h? thought,
was shot and killed at an curly huor
yesterday morning, while heading a
posse of "whiie caps," by Will Col
lins. a negrO| was laid to rest at
Shady Grove church this afternoon at
P. o'clock, in the presence of a large
congregation of friends and rela?
tives.
Will Collins, who did the shooting,
has either been killed and his oody
thrown Into Broad River, or he has
Succeeded in making good his escape,
according to the most reliable int.?r
mntlon obtainable from that section
today.
The first news of the death of
i; mknight reached Lexington yester?
day morning, w hen Coroner Belton D.
<Mark received a telephone message
stating, in effect, that J. P. Bouknlght
was dead and requesting the ofllcers
to come over and hold an inquest. No
particular! as to how he came to his
death were given, and attaching but
little importance to the message on
account of the meagreness of the in?
formation given, the coroner ordered
Magistrate Wallace E, L?rick, of
Irmo, who U\ s not far from the
sc. ne, to hold the Inquest.
Repented efforts to gel foil Infor?
mation as to the cause af the death* by
telephone yet proved futile, it being
understood, it is said, that no infor?
mation be given to the press. Nothing
of the real seriousness of the situation
was learned tintil the return of Depu?
ty Sheriff Miller, who was early on
the grounds yesterday.
Affer' making the most rigid inves?
tigation Mr. Miller was not aide to
give any of the real particulars of
the tragedy further than that it was
reported that Bouknlght had been
?hot In the stomach with a shotgun
while making an effort to enter the
home of Will Collins' through a win?
dow. It so. ms. however, from what
can be gathered from those who will
have anything to say, (and they ai
in the small minority,) that Will Col?
lins had been accused "f burning the
barn and stables of Joel Fulmer, a
prominent young farmer of the Im?
mediate section, and that suspicion as
to his guilt was strong.
I ?n Monday night, it i said, a party,
variously estimated to number ail
the way from twenty-live to fifty arm?
ed men, went h> the home of Collins
and demanded that he come out, and
aft.r being repeatedly requested to
show himself, anl refusing to do so,
it was decided to break in the house,
and J. p, Bouknlght headed the way.
when he b id gotten in?., the window,
according to the story, be was flr< d
upon by Collins, the entire load tak?
ing effect in the stomach.
The negro rushed for the window
and fell over the body of the man he
bad shot ami as he ran off in the
darkness, with nothing but Iiis night
clones to protect his body, he was
fired upon by the crowd, The dep?
uty sheriff traced the negro, or a
fleeing man. at least for a distance of
about three hundred yards to the edge
?f the woods, where all traces were
lost. ?
'?pinion is divided as to tin- where?
abouts of the negro, bui the majority
believe that be was killed and bis
hoc" 'brown Into the river to hide the
crime, Others declare that the groans
of the dying man so frightened the
parts- thai their attention was di?
vert.d from th,. negro and thai be
made hb escape. One of Collin'a
children received a wound in the
Lack.
The w if., of < !ol1ins< II is said,
makes th.- statement thai she told
I her husband to shoot, believing that
she, together with her two children,
would ail )..? killed, She gathered her
j tw . children in her arms and man?
aged to mnke her oscnpe In the dark'
I_
m \lts i mi: \\?>i:i> "mg<;r.H."
dude,. K|NH>r Threatens To Have \ti?
led \ttorn< > Hisluircrd,
: M icon, < In., .1 une ... .1 udg< Rm >ry
j Bpt er, the I ntt il SI ih < n. nit
Court, threatened Th in ? I;. F? ld< r,
A l tome) -General cle I of Georgia,
I with disbarment unli he qull d<
scribing Ihc negro plulntlfl In i peon?
age ease as a "nigg- i."
is t at ?k? thy Country's, Thy God's au
tu AY. JUNE 10. 1911.
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO,
skty-threk: are killed \\d
sevI: n i y.fiv I: injured.
Over Hall' the Deed Killed in liar.
racks,?The Property Damage is
V?o.ooo?Xo Americans Injured by
Shocks.
Mexico City, June 7.?Sixty-three
killed, 7 5 wounded, property loss,
$:.o,ooo.
i These are the net results of an
earthquake which visited the capital
I this morning and injected a note of
tragedy into what was expected to
be a day of pure rejoicing. When
the work of searching the ruins ll
completed it Is possible that the list
of '.he dead will he somewhat higher
and there are doubtless many
wounded, who, with traditional fear
of the authorities and government
hospitals are anxious to evade dis?
covery. The property loss is but an
et tlmate and is based upon estimates
made to owners and contractors. Lit?
tle of the loss Is covered by in?
surance.
It was 6:23 o'clock when the first
shack was felt. According to the
meteorological observatory the great?
est intensity was reached at the end of
the minute, but the instruments con?
tinued to record the shocks for four?
teen minutes more. It was of a va
cillotory, twisting character, but al?
most free from terpidatory motion.
More than half of the dead ac?
counted for were soldiers. They were
caught beneath the falling walls of
the artillery barracks in San Cosme,
a locality near the Mexican Central
station. Another plan where the
earthquake took it? toll of death In
considerable numbers was at the city
power plant sf the street car com?
pany. Here six were killed and six
wounded. Two others were found in
the debiifl consisting partly of steel
rails, which had been stacked In the
Iron and wood departments and
Which collapsed. The victims were
Inhal ltants of little shacks built along
tfc>? sitic: .?f ihe structure. ?
With these two exceptions the
death list was made up of single cases
or In some instances of two or three
caught beneat.ii a falling wall in the
poorer buildings of the district most
seriously .affected. Although the
shock was plainly felt in all parts of
the city few realized the magnitude
Of the catastrophe until late In the
forenoon, diu- to the fact that the
casualties were contlned to a com?
paratively small area.
BOARD ADHERES TO POSITION.
Dlspcnsar) Commission Again Writes
to Attorney General.
Columbia, June 7.?The new dis?
pensary commission stood by Its guns
today, wln n it forwarded this after?
noon to the Attorney General a letter
In which it adheres to iiv termer action
in connection With the employment
of counsel and other things referred
to in its recent letter to the Attor?
ney General.
Today's letter follows
<Columbia, s. c.. June 7. 1911.
I ' lion. J. eraser i.\ >n. Attorney
[General. Columbia, s. <\?Dear sir:
We are In receipt of your 1? tter of the
fourth instant, and upon consider?
ation of same we are more firmly con?
vinced of the propriety >f our action,
which is fully set forth In our last
communication to you, and w i are
satisfied that the interest of the State
will be best subserved by our former
action. We shall, therefore, adhere
to what we have already communlcat
ed'to you as to the course shall
I pursue, v. ry truly yours,
t i Signed > "J- v. Wa llace.
"Acting Chairman State Dispensary
i < Commission."
j Prank Kelly, Secretary."
I The Bank of Blshopvllle, having
[been made a State depository, will
i receive $6,000 of the $25,000 fund
I over which the state Treasurer would
, not countersign checks to uo In banks
I other than State depositories. The
Nowherry Bank named by the uom
I mission will ^<'t Its $5,000 being al
I ready ;i state depository, and the Pai
| motto National Bank .a local Institu?
tion will retain $15,000.
i The lends are moved from the Nat
I lonal lan and Exchange w here, ac?
cording to the commission's state
' wriv hi di posl without Inter* st. The
mom s i i now to draw i per < ent. I >r.
, w. J. Man a\ Is a director In th. bank
Mr. w. R. Metlee, Division Passen
: .1 Vir. nt of the Southern Railway
was in ?he eltv Wednesday.
i Truth's."
THE TRUI
BRYAN TO LECTt RE IN MANNING
Pcplo of Planning ami Abbeville to
Hear the Great Commoner This
Mouth.
Manning. .Tune 5.?William Jen?
nings Bryan has been engaged to de?
liver a lecture in Manning on June
20. it is understood that tb lecture
will be delivered in the auditorium
of the graded schol building at 11
o'clock a. m., which hour will suit
the convenience of many people in
I the country much better than a night
j appointment.
BEST ROADS ON EART*
Surprising to Leorn That
in Northern Afrb
Are
"In January of this year I saw in
Algeria and Tunisia what I believe to
be the best constructed public high?
ways in the world," and I take off my
hat to the clever Frenchmen who, in
tln ir possessions in north Africa hove
shown mankind how to build model
ro*?.Js," said J. Augustus Nookes, of
London, an English scientist and trav?
eler, at the Stafford.
' There is one particular stretch of
road, that between liougle anl Jijeli,
200 miles in length, that is positively
the best example of road-making on
earth. Winding along a forbidding
coast for almost its whole route, it
was cut out of the solid rocks over?
hanging the sea at a great height and
forming the m.")st wonderful comics
in existence.
"Here France has built, not for to?
day's needs, but for trfe future and
these north African roads are fully
the equal of those world-renowned
highways the ancient Romans made.
They are opening the country to com?
merce and civilization and preparing
it for the immense population it will
some day surely have. Alderay a
splendid system exists, a network not
only of main roads, but of minor
? ?nes, even the mountain pathways
showing the same care and skill of
canstruction. Mind you, they have
been built not only near the cities,
but far out Into the desert for the
benefit of the great caravans as they
journey between the towns and the
heart of Darkest Africa.
"Of the most permanent and en?
during character are these French
highways; all the bridges and tunnels
are of stone; the outer walls, along
a cliff >r over the sea are a yard hiirh
and eighteen inches thick. They are
not interrupted by the deepest gorge
or the loftiest mountains. The engi?
neers who did the work were masters
of their profession, who gloried in ac
<? iRiplishtng a job that will bo praised
for centuries to come.
The entire system is kept in fault?
less order. The whole territory is di?
vided into Sections, each with an
overseer in command of a squad of
laborers, the government giving the
overseer a fine residence and ade?
quate salary.? Baltimore American.
SMALL POX AT DALZELL.
one New Case Has Developed and Old
Cases are Doing Well.
One new ease of small pox has de-1
veloped at Dalxell and the, old eases
are doing well Is the report that
comes from that place today.
Several days ago two of fhe eases
at Dalsell wer.- dismissed aid the
quarantine was removed from the
house in which they bad be< D seg?
regated. The other occupantj of the
houses had been vaccinated and had
been In the lions,- for twenty-four
?lays without the disee.se developing
|and it was thought that it would not
develop.
However, four days after the case
In "ii" of the houses had been dis?
missed and tlm quarantine removed,
a negro woman living in the house
broke ?ut with the disease. The ne?
gro woman has a baby lour days old
which will probably take the disease
I from its mother.
The other cases that developed at
Dalsell several weeks ago an- all
getting along nicely, and its is prob?
able thai the guard will In a few days
j ho removed from s >me of the houses
I in which they are confined, and th?
1 patients dismiss.'.'.
SAVES $0,000 PROM TIPS
-
I Young Woman Makes small Fort urn
in l ew Years at Hotel.
? \. ? Vork, June
j 22 yearn old, has
m< if parlor at th<
j n sen Ice of 3 I -2
j ed for Europe to n
I her mother :it \
linguist, speak Inn
j and (lerman,
Hotel St.
Ilsh \
IE SOUTHRON. Established June. |>U
Vol. XXXII. No. 32.
ROOSEVELT 10 SUPPORT TAFT.
FOR G. O. I?. PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINATION IN 1012.
News < ones from Aut horitat i \ c
Source and i< Received with De?
light by the Prcoident?Mated that
Roosevelt Positively vril not Ooa
Bider Tr Nomination for Him?
self? and Present Execu
tlx . at Gibbons Cclebrntiosi
?nore.
J? AShington, June 6.?President
xft in his candidacy for the Presiden?
tial nomination in 1312. will receive
the unqualified endoresment of form?
er Presidi at Roosevelt, which will be
uttered just as certainly as it was
in the last campaign. This is the best
political news Mr. Taft has received
in many months, and it comes to h'm
In a manner that leaves no doubt as
to its authenticity.
The information that Mr. Roosevelt
under no circumstances, will allow his
name to he presented to a national
convention was received several days
ago, hut it did not become known un?
til tonight. That Col. Roaavalt feels
that the Taft administration should
be continued was brought out as a
result of the meeting between the two
at the Cardinal Gibbons jubilee at
Baltimore.
Whether the former President will
enter the campaign, as an active
worker, will be watched with inter
est.
It Is not expected to prove pleas
ir.g to Republicans, who have made
n 3 secret of their desire to bring Col.
Roosevelt forward as a formidable
rival for the 1912 nomination. Many
of these Republicans, no doubt, will
refuse to abandn hope until Col.
Roosevelt himself, in a quoted state
mint, announces his position and thus
breaks the silence concerning the ad
minisration, which he has maintain?
ed since landing in New York on his
return from Africa.
The information that Mr. Rose
velt would be found allied with \>m
President rather than against him
i was brought directly to Mr. Taft from
Mr. Roosevelt by a mutual friend
high in official life, who was connect?
ed with both the Rosevelt and Taft
administrations in a capacity that en?
abled him to gain and retain the con?
fidence, in fact, the warm personal
I friendship of both men.
MISSING FRENCH AVIATOR.
Lieut. Hague. Daring Rirdman. Re?
lieved to Have Shared Pate of Cc
< il Grace.
Nice. June 5.?It appears that more
ami more probable tonight that Lieut.
Hague, the French aviator, has met
the fate of Cecil Grace, the English?
man who was lost in the North sea
while attempting a flight from Calais
to Dover last December. Lieut. Bague.
wh i holds the over-sea flight record,
left Nice in his aeroplane this morn?
ing for a trip to Corsica. The dis?
tance between the two points is a lit?
tle more than 100 miles and when
nothing was heard from the daring
aviator, two torpedo boat destroyers
were sent to seek him. The destroyer
Arbalen returned here this evening
from Corsica and reported that it
could not find any trace of the avia?
tor, other naval vessels arc continu?
ing the search but it is feared that it
will prove fruitless.
The aviator took carrier pigeons
with him and it is supposed that the
aeroplane capsized so suddenly that
he was unable to turn them l^ose.
Tin? Arbalen lefl again for Corsics ;>t
a late hour to make a further hunt for
the missing aviator, by means of
search lights.
On March 50th last. Lieut. BagUS
made a sensath nal and daring tlight
over the Mediterranean from Antibes
to the little island of Georgia, .ft' the
Italian ?oast, lie covered a distance
of more than 200 kilometres (134.1
miles), establishing a new record for
ov r-sea (lights.
TO RECOGNIZE INFAXT Kl PI R
I 14 .
riiitod State- m : v;\;v:mn;i IO
i;,?o_iiit c Portugal a- Soon as
? OUStitUl Ion I? Xdopjcd.
Washington, June 7. The \meri
,.in legation at Lisbon has been in?
structed to accord the official recog
I public of Portugal on the adoption of
i will be accepted as Ihe ? ait e '?: the
people an .am. nslon f a I I? h if
made conditional bj the Washington
government to formal recognition.