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KILIWG ON I.J. KIRVEN PLAGE FRANK I'YK, PAKT INDI VX, SHOT TO DK Vril HY I NKNOWN ALLKQKD PREACHER Killing Took I'Ukt WtNlncsda) After? noon In Presence of Number of Relative* of l>ea<| Mini?Pye Said to Have li^-ii I mlcdrahle Citizen-? l>epr?\lt> el Mental and Moral Condition* shown. What 1? probably the moat unusual and mysterious killing; which has tak *n place In this county for many a day, was that occi rrlng oa Mr, T. J. Klrvln s place, about six miles north? east of town when a man whose name la unknown, but who said to be % kind of travelling preacher, shot and Instantly killed Frank Pye. u. Croa tan. supposed to te part Indian and part negro. ? The killing occurred about 4 o'clock Wednesday afterncon, the fatal shot being fired with a single barrelled shot gun, alleged to have been the property of a whlto man. J. W. Brad? ley, who lives on the Joe David Chandler place, about a mile and a half from the scene of the killing and whoa* Quarrel with Pye about Bradley ? wife Is said to have been the cause of the killing. Pye, the dead man Is said t I have been a bad cltisen, and the majority of the negroes and others in the com? munity, outside of the family and those of the same race as himself, are said to be relieved at his death. The facts concerning the quarrel be? tween Pye and Bradley show a condi? tion of depravity which seems incred? ible among alleged white people in ?uniter county at this day and time. The belief In "conjures" by the Brad ley'p and the threats by Pye to "work r.i.-tM ' oa them seems to have been ml the bottom of the troble, causing the Bradley woman to leave her hus? band and live with Pye, or be at his disposal to do wltn as he saw fit. The news of the killing was first received here sometime after four fort and Deputy John Epporson left for the scene a few minutes later. They found the slayer of Pye gone on their arrival and were unable to And Brartiey anywhere In the vicinity, although they made a thorough search of the house and the surround? ing country. However, they arrested his vif* on suspicion and brought her In, aklng her to jail, until they could get further light on the killing. Upon their return they summoned the coroner and the party thus in? creased, again left for the scene of the killing, to hold the inquest and at the same time to make further ef? fort* to trace the unknown slayer. AU night was spent ty them on the ground and in scouring the surround? ing country, but to no avail. Their search was fruitless at all points. The only fact they could ascertain was that the man who did the killing had probably gone into th? swamp, which nearly surrounds the place. Blood? hounds were put on the trail, but it had been gone over so often that the dogs were unable to follow it. The coroner, upon hin arrival, had his Jury summoned, and held his in Juest, It being lute (at night before it was through. Dr. Epps testified to the fact that death was caused by a gunshot wound in the left breast, the shot penetrating the lung and heart. James D. Cabbagestalk and Henry Johnson, who were working in a field together near the scene of the tragedy stated that after the shooting they had seen the man jvho did he shooting coming back t? Bradley, who was In the edge of the branch, Brud lev asked Did you kill him." and the man replied "I do not know, as he started In the house, I shot him and he? fell." They then started off m the road towards Mayesvllle. These were the only two n-grocs who ti .stub (I a' Do inquest, t he others he ing l;??ni..n?s and relatives of the dead man. Churl* \ Floyd said that he saw Pye and the man crossing the told to? ward the Ii'iiihc. Pyt started In the house and th*- man stepped him. The man then drew his gun on Charley Floyd and I've* wife. Pye again started into the house und the man again Hepped him. Pye turned and as he Ad ho tbe man fired the fatal shot and Pye fell on the door step II. pjaled |ha| there was no quarrel and mat Do iwe ware talktni nhoot do- pradleyi ll? said that the man h?d Bradley'i ?un. Essie Flo\d told prarfeally the name story ?J did her alleged hus? band. She Maid that the man came fjBfetSj the held and asked for Mrs. Bradley, saying he had ? panel for her. Pye and he i retted the Retd pnd were talking a boat Hn Bradley go? ing ba?ll to her hneband, wlon the] bed th.. h.-'is... Her ttoi j ol the ?hooting was Identical With lhat of her hjpshiind. >be stated in addition that P] I and M I Mi adle had a l 00? traet between them. IhMilah P\e. the Wife of the d-.e! man. said lo r host.and ami Do de id genii were talking It eneh other in the field and came * NSH the flc* 1 |0 th? house together. The man Stop? pid h-. h ?band when be started le go In the house, drawing tho gun "o all of them. Charlie Flyod and 'Buddy" tried to get the gun away from him, but could not. Pye then ugnin started Into the house and the man called to him to stop and throw tip his bunds. Pye turned and as he did so thy man shot. There was no quarrel, but they were talking about the Bradleys. She stated that the man was a white preacher and that he had a paper for Mrs. Bradley. She said that Hradley knew the man, as he had sta>ed at his house one night. T^oney Pye stated that the man dared Pa to go in the house and drew the gun on all of them. His story of the shooting was the same as that of, the others. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Frank Pye came to his death by gunshot wounds in the hands of a man whose name was unknown to the Jury and that J. W. Hradley was an accessory before and after the fact and that Mrs. Hradley was an accessory before the fact. On this finding the sheriff and his officers kept on the lookout for Hrad? ley, but did not fln<J him until he came in and ga\e himself up this morn? ing. SherliT Bradford's theory con? cerning th? killing is that Bradley got the unknown man, alleged to be a preacher, to do the killing for him, in case Pye would not consent to Bradley's *ife coming; back to live with him, Bradley. Hradley waited in the woods until the killing was over and then assisted the man to escape. Sheriff Bradford's search of last night was unavailing, although he has notified surrounding points of Hie j killing and to keep a lookout for the man, who is said to bo a medium sized man of foreign appearance, about thirty years of age and when last seen, wearing brown overalls. This morning Bradley and his wife were seen by a reporter for the Item and questioned concerning the af? fair. Their story of the killing Is very different from that of those who testified at the Inquest Bradley declared that Wednesday he came to Magistrate Wells to get a warrant from him, requiring Pye to allow his wife to come back to him, Bradley. Magistrate Wells gave *iim a paper which he told him to read to his wife In the presence of a witness, the paper, according to Brad ley's testimony, belog for the purpose of having the woman come up to Judge Wells to state in his presence that she wanted to leave Pye and go back to her husband. Armed with this paper, Bradley started home, when he met up with the man who is alleged to have done the killing. This man, Bradley claims, he had seen before, last spring, when he passed by his place. He spoke to him near the cotton platform, where the man wat resting on the railroad track talking about religion to a negro woman. Bradley claims that the preacher had the gun at this time and that his own gun has been away from his home for over three weeks. He told this man, who said he was a preach? er, his troubles, and the man offered to help him, saying that he was a preacher and this was his business to help other people when they were in trouble. They then went on home along the railroad track, going on foot. Hi was afraid to go to Pyi's house, at that morning, he had been there and Charlie Floyd had drawn a knife on him and all of them had threatened his life, if he came back there. He therefore, remained out In the road, while the preacher went to Pyc's bouse with tlw paper from Judge Wells to read to his, Bradley's, wife. At the same time he was to per? suade Pye to allow his wife to come back to him, Hradley, if he could do so. After a short time the man re? turned and told him that his wif< would come back to hint. She couldn't come then, bu: that she would conn the next day. Hradley asked the stranger how he had accomplished thi> and was told that the man shot Pye. "I asked him if hi had killed him," said Bradley, "and he said that he j didn't know, but that he "hot at his heart and that he fall when the shot took effect." "We then started up the road towards .Mayesvllle. I went with the man for about a hundred yards, when 1 left him. The last 1 saw of him he was going toward the swamp. He was on foot and was walking fast." Bradley stated thai he did not j know the mart's name. The man had a very peculiar foreign name and sab he cantt from a far country across ;h< sens, where they raised lots of poul try. The man [ dd him his name, but he had not remembered It, He din md know why Pys was shot, except that the man to|j him that Pye want? ed to go in the house to get his gun and when he |old him to stop, Pye. told ('barley Floyd t<> get his gun I"' him. Bradley stated that pys had made Bradley's wife live with him by means of "working the toots" and thai in- had threatened lo kill her or "work tin- roofs on her" if she left him. "Ol i nurse she could net leave under these condition*." said Hradley. He WSJ rery much worried about his wlfe'i household effects whi? h she had car ried out in the woods and left there, being refused permission by the sher? iff to move them to her home, when he arrested her. He had not done anything to run away from home for uml he had not run away he said. He said that after he left the stranger, he had gone back home and had remained there until nearly night, when he left for town. lie had given out on the way here and had spent the night at a colored woman's house, between Sumter and New Sum ter. Thursday morning he had come on into town and given himself up to the sheriff. It might be added here that Bradley was not at home any? time Wednesday afternoon or night, when the sheriff was there, as a thorough search was made for him. Bradley's wife stated that Pye came home drunk from Tlmmonsville Wed? nesday afternoon. She said that he had t wo gallon jugs whiskey and had given a drink of whiskey to her out of one of them. She had begged him j to let her go back to her husband and j he had at llrst told her she could go, but later retracted and told her it she went he would kill her or "work , the roots" or her. She seemed death- i ly afraid of the "roots being worked on her" and stated when asked con? cerning her fear of them that she nor her husband would ever be any good to themselves or anybody else if the "roots" were worked on them. She had remained with him for six weeks, having originally had a war-1 rant taken out before Judge Wells for; her husband, with whom it seems ?hi was not on friendly terms, . but with whom she has since evl- j dently made up. It was entirely due tO the threats of conjure that she had not left Pye before she said. She stated that Pye had threatened to j kill the man with the gun, if he did not get away from there and had sent, for his gun, in order to kill him, j when the man shot. The Bradley's claim that Pye and | the others are not white people, al tnough they claim to be white people, and try to pass as such, one of them . having married a white woman some- { time ago. They claim that neither the Pyes nor the Floyds were ever mar? ried, but merely live together as man and wife. The case is a very peculiar one, the strangest part of all being prob- < ably the fact that none of the par? ties concerned know the name of the man who they say did th ? killing, al? though they all say tha-. they have \ seen him and they know him by sight.! Possibly it is because of his unusual j name. Bradley has been in town a num-1 ber of times recently to get officers to make his wife come biek to him, but Magistrate Wells' paper Wednes? day seems to have been ih first suc? cessful effort be has met with. Pye seems to have been a bad citizen and generally feared by those living in the same vicinity. Magistrate Wells was nick Th?rs day and could not be seen concern- j Ing the paper he gave to Bradley' Wednesday, so it is not known what, kind of a paper he gave Bradley to . make his wife come back .o him. Of Bradley and his wife's fear of Pye i there can be no doubt, but other mat ten pertaining to the case, except as' stated, can be merely conjucture. News of Clarendon. We understand that the merchants of PlneWOOd are agitating the planting Of tobacco and if they can get enough j farmers Interested they will build a warehouse to sell the product. We would say to these merchants they, should go slow on the warehouse j proi oaltlon, because it Is better to! have one first class market at the { county seat than a number of indlf-' ferent markets scattered over the county. Died at his home in Manning last Thursday night, Mr. Henry C. Wind-j bam, aged about 4T> years. The do -j ceased left a wife and two children. The funeral took place in the Manning cemetery Friday afternoon. Kev. J. ! A. Ansley pastor of the Manning Bap? tist church conducted the service. The deceased was a native of Darlington county, The Sammy Swamp section is some- - What disturbed over the rumor that | the two escaped convicts from the Ohalngang have been recently seen in that community, armed with pistols, ami on last Friday night an attempt was made to break into the commis? sary on Mr. J. McD. MeFuddcn's place, but it failed. All of the mis-j chief done In the county now will be' laid on the two negroes that escaped! fmm the gang until the real perpe- j trators are (aught, or the convlctl are safely back on the M.?ng. Mr. J. P; Cutter of Davis Station went into Santec last Saturday and he brought out an feighl snag buck. Mr. cutter was apoplnted name war? den lor this county by State Warden I:i< hardsell. To be married next Sunday after? noon nt the Methodist parsonage in Mannine;, Mr. j, l. Napier, of Jordan, and Miss Sarah Wells of Manning, The license was issued yesterday by Pro? bate Judge Windham. Manning Times. BECOMES DRE AGGRESSIVE. WILSON AND BRYAN CONSIDER R ID MEXICAN POLICY. Foreign Governments May V Bring Pressure to Bear in an Effort to Compose Situation?Three Methods Suggested: Military and Naval Display, a Series of Strong De? mands, ami Third, Termination of1 Relations With Iluerta. Washington, Oct. 15.?Administra? tion officials up to the hour of closing the government departments today; were without advices as to the result of the reported conference In Mexico City of the entire diplomatic corps. This developmnt in the situation, following closely upon President Wil? son's sharp note declaring that the I i United States was shocked at the i I I "lawlessness" of Gen. Huerta in as-! i turning a dictatorship over Mexico, i J was taken here to mean that foreign 1 governments might bring pressure to I bear in an effort to compose the situ | ation. j Gen. Huerta's decree, taking unto himself legislative as well as exeeu i th e powers, has swept aside all hope here that the Huerta regime would I re-establish Constitutional Govern- j merit or be able to cope with the in- j creasingly vigorous fighting of the constitutionalists. Both President Wilson and Secre- i tary Bryan are turning over in their ; minds the possibility of a more ag-, gressive course of action by the Unit- \ ed Si.ates. Three methods of dealing with the situation are being suggest? ed as open to the Washington govern? ment; First, there is the ever recurrent1 suggestion in official circles of a mili? tary and naval demonstration which would serve as a precautionary move j in case a forcible policy later is re? quired. For the present, the presi? dent und his advisers are concentrat- j ing on a conservative solution by the1 use oi! peaceful measures. Second, many officials think a se? ries o:' strong demands made upon the authorities at Mexico City, to force the immediate elimination of Gen. \ Huerta., would complete the record of the United States in attempting to assist as "the nearest neighbor" in I solving the difficulties of the South-1 em Republic. Some officials here suggested that, should such demands be ignored the i American government would be justi? fied in throwing its support to the constitutionalists in the Noith. Third, the United States formally could announce absolute termination j of its relations with the Huerta orfij ciais, leaving it to the influence both of the constitutionalist movement and various liberal elements in Mexico City to secure the elemination of Hu- L reta and the establishment of a pro- Lj visional government, with which the | constitutionalists would negotiate for peace and arrange a free election in compliance with Mexican law. Secretary Bryan tonight left here1 for Waterloo, Iowa, and before his departure told callers he did not ex? pect the American government to take J any further steps for a few days at I least. ? The dispatch of an additional Ger? man warship to Mexican waters did not provoke comment, as the Wash? ington administration looks upon such action, as well as on the conference of the diplomats today in Mexico City, as the beginning of a series of mani? festations by the governments of the \ world generally that may have a so? bering effect on Huerta. The arrest of Gen. Maas, Mexican Federal commander, on a civil war? rant while traveling through the j United States to get from Piedras Xe gras, Mexico, to NUSVO Laredo, Mex- j ico, excited attention chietly because ths war department's permission was OVOrriden, As the general was re ?! leased on bail, however, it is not be? lieved the Iluerta government will make any representations in the mat NO HOPE TO SAVE MINERS. , Efforts Being Made to Subdue Fire? Believed That Entombed Men are Dead. Cardiff. Wales. Oct. 1 '>.?All hope of rescuing more of the miners en? tombed In the Universal colliery, where an explosion occurred yester? day, virtually has been abandoned. The report that a party of 29 men had been found alive In one of the galleries has proved erroneous, but a large number of dead bodies were , found today. No official reports have been iw sued, and this has caused much com? ment. Fire this afternoon broke out anew and still is raging. There are no further signs of life In the pit. Up to a late hour tonight t!? bodies l ad in en recovered, while J16S miners -dill were entombed. The shift which went into the mine yeM i terday numbered !*:'. 1. The e igineers have decided to de I VOtS their efforts to subduing the lire, .c^ thev believe it useless to cotintu I i rescue work, ALDRIGH ATTACKS MONEY BILL FORMER SENATOR DOES NOT APPROVE GLASS-OWEN BILL ?ADMINISTRATION MEAS? URE. Declares the BUI Unsound, Embodying Theories of W. J. Bryan, Repeated? ly Condemned at Polls ? Promises to Pay Popuiistic Doctrine, He Says. New York, Oct 15.?Former Sen? ator Xelson W. Aldrlch of Rhode Island tonight attacked the Wilson administration currency bill now be? fore congress, which he declared em? bodied the theories of William J. Bryan, lie denounced the bill as un? sound. Socialistic and revolttionary. Characterising it as "an endeavor to secure by partisan legislation the \ triumph of the doctrines and princi? ples which had received the repeated condemnation of the American people at the polls." lie quoted fi on Wood row Wilson's writing to indicate that the president, In bis earlier di.ys, had entertained beliefs contrary to pro- ; visions of the bill. "It the house bill should be enacted into a law," Mr. Aldrlch asserted, "Mr. Bryan will have achieved the purpose for which he has been contending for a decade." . Mr. Aldrlch'l speech was delivered at the ? ' >l ing session of the National Conference on Currency Reform. He made no reference to the socalled Ald? rlch plan for currency reform. He op? posed many features of the Glass Owen currency bill, but direc ted his strongest criticism at the provision dealing with the issue of government notes and providing for a central gov? ernment board with supervision over the system as a whole. Mr. Aldrich said "extreme pressure" was being brought to bear on congress to enact the administration bill, and the reason given was that the adop? tion of the bill was necessary to ful? fill promises made by the Democratic party. He traced the history of Dem? ocratic party's attitude on the sub? ject In earlier years and quoted Pres? ident Cleveland as saying that "the people of ihe Cnited States are en? titled to a sound and stable currency." "The theory that the United States should issue currency in the form of its promises to pay," declared Mr. Aldrich, "is a PopuliStic doctrine. It had no standing as a Democratic party principle until the advent of Mr. Bryan into the party platform In spite of the protests and against the votes of the men who bad beer most prominent In the party councils, men Who advocated loyalty to the policies and principles to which the party had adhered throughout its existence. ? Tie r., has been no suggestion that an attempt was to be made to revive the green beck or to adopt in legisla? tion rejected theories of the Populist party. The Democratic candidate for the presidency was silent upon the subject during the last, campaign and he has not, so far as I am aware, up to this time publicly expressed his ap? proval of Mr. Bryan's ideas with ref? erence to note issue. T> < irgS major? ity of the American people who favor sound money believed that the ques? tion of further greenback Issues was settled permanently by the elections of 18t? and the following years." AX INTERESTING WEDGEFIELD LETTER. Cottc Crop Short and Being Gath f d and Sold Hapidly Store Rob? bed?Hunters to Have Deer Hunt ?Oyster Supper for School. Wedgefield, Oct. 16.?The cotton crop will be short in these parts. It is being picked out and sold about as fast as it opens. Mr. Ii. S. Wllllden, wbo plants the lots adjoining his residence and makes over a bale to the acre, brought up Street the best fruited cotton this writer ever saw. On a limb 7 inches long were 9 full grown bolls. The Wedgefield Social Club will meet in th< school auditorium to? night. Cnder the auspices of the school Improvements association, an oyster supper will be served at the school house tomorrow night. Mr. ai d Mrs. G. T. Whilden, of Milledgeville, Ga., after a pleasant Visit to bis brother, Mr. Ii. & Whil? den, has returned to Georgia. A few of the lovers of sport are planning a de?r drive in the Wateree swamp tomorrow. Seme one broke into the s*ore of Mr. B. L. Hurress Wednesday night and appropriated to themselves a few useful articles. STOLEN?At Manning last Saturday, medium sized dark bay mare mule, small rubbed place on right hip. Give any information to D. Levi, St. Paul, S. C. LADIES?It will pay you to buy my trimmed hats from Northern mar? kets. Heady to wear hats, cheap. Yours to please, Mrs. W. G. Browne, 7 E. Liberty Street, up? stairs. The Big Show in Sumter. Thursday, October 23, 1913 Howe's Great London Show Full of Honors and Woiideriul Triumphs of its Long, C<Xi> quering Tours of the Continent, and presented on a Scale. * of Colossal Magnilude and Lavish Expenditure. x never known before in this country. THE TRAVELINQ ^yMI 'Wpi?ltoaw BRIMMINQ OVBlt AMUSEMENT gjg^M^^^? iffifcfc WITH SENSATION OP THE BAY. AND OP JOY. 20 CLOWNS 50 LFAPERS 100 ACROBATS KENTUCKY NORSES. 2fO HORSE* 400 PEOPLJB. The Dublin Grays* The Black hiueara. -The Marvelous Eddys MONARCHS SUPREME IN TKH AMUSEMENT REALM. TheRoyalYedb?,Japanese Troupe And 200 Other Great Acts. j DOUBLE MENAGERIE Containing Wild Animals from Every Country. THREE BANDS OF MUSIC. ..ROYAL ROMAN WPODROMfe* Many times the Biggest and Moat Bewildering Production^ ever in America Most Stupendously Stirring Spf tadCA that Human Eyes Ever Witnessed. ^arTBIlKOON AT ? 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