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. * 7'^D'" ^ cs*y "fesy I rrTT1!? T T TVl IA AT irilf^O ?nF"l,Tr"!~ facMWwagJt; I H? " I \ I 11 \ I I II R,S u.??-J.~.,? f&outh) ouo oil, mill, out* knitting mill, . 11 I TO 81 W V ^ I W I J L V Police (\usu8?95 2.9W) c""rc"""' X XJfcpLJ U 1 1 J. Vf 1 i -i 1- i-"X XJ ky? fofacmA::-*&? | i! l.~N0- '>!. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1897. ,$1.00 A YEAR f iitiAusdalia. 1\. ! 1 . card shtfrp, forger, sneak-tniei, :?ii ruunt ~cr$4k and convicted swindler is Wil )jii& Carroll Woodward. gentleman ^ . ItRTWc reads like a romance, * " * JVsgflMie shadows of coming war wen ~ 'Ikying across north and smith alilo V^? tf)icn W illiam Carroll Woodward wa thirty-seven years ago in Me in '/ Ir'8' Thesouth was the Woodwards y Tboy were southerners. child's babyhood was passe $?*Cwlrtriiig the stirring scenes of the re ^^Sjfl^cllio:). lie grew to V?oy hood wib X 'Tguipctuous, uniestrained. lie inhei ^HMK^tcd liis tastes. The crash came whe his father, county trustee and a nut jyjjfcftjT df blameless life and reputation hit! Sa^Mpctfto, fled the country. Hfel? ^ Eiuher./lement read the indie: Qpto^juSijiit found against him. HflHRnV Woodwaid, Sr., had gone to Mexic JgjtftVpid Iiau taken reiuge with an Jivtia Poor Mrs. Woodward! J "Wgjirnearly killed Iter. Herself one of V ^flK^family of the south, known for tl |i^jJ8F>spotlcs3 lives of its members, she wi aafrajf bowed with her grief. The one hoj Jfef; ,wus in her son whom she was brin< hig it]) to wipe out the blot his futh< jRjHt Jbad put on the family escutcheon. "1 w4JI make my WiUia^rfriTgi'Jlt mew. spotk^j^shb said, i0l* * - ba|'i0 a i^K V; ' W wW'ic JnffuonCc did it. Then h died. The 'widow's heart went ou to her foil. 'J'he boy was slowly growing up 1 le wasj'.haiidsoiue us a picture, clean iimbctPahd.slender, with a high lore head, piercing eyes and a mouth lik a baby's. Oilier motbers sighed at*' wislied their hoys like young Wc 1ward. lie neither smoked nor ch'iik. Cards were his ablnrence. J'e was witli a big business house, rnryv :,dvaneing. lie give his e*',1,,l?3 his mother. Think of his down!'1* W;,v jinested, lie had be' caught led-handed in a schcio ?'''l new nickels. I'Yom that day t this he has never been known to '' an honest days work. A\, I he-^'hs in it. Young Woodward wa^/nhdcufled and put on a train l<> iy taken to St. Loui-\ 111.' managed ' h'co himself iroTu his shackles au?XHC i'<>- '1 hen he drilled to New .'((.',1K? ]!? t <t ' laughed Woodward, as he'"* in the Tombs yesterday and l'ccc' et 1 his exploit-. ' 1 was a re,rtu\ like 111c rot of you, uik! ,u sonic of I lie most ) >1i 11 i:i it t work m town. Ihit 1 couMnt stick to it. Instead, 1 nut crooks. ami soon 1 was making move money than any lepoiter makes." Me was tight. In due time tiie ?cw \ ork police he;,all to realize that theie was a new swindler in town?-ome >< -ly so sharp and so brilliant that tiny were foil Iy dazed hy his hehlrie.-s. ( o iginality wa. hi-trong point. lie swindled people in new ways, lie was William Carroil Woodward, gentleman and .-windier. In those days everybody hadn't liCard of *'gr<on good-- or of I'urinelei Joins, the prince of htinco men. II,' met Woodward. They joined issues. I?y this time the seion of the proud .southern family had hetn ar rested and was known to the police, hut never had they succeeded in convicting him. And just then Mrs. Woodward, tin mother died of a broken heart. "Tell liini, she gasped on le i 1 .11 1 - A ? 1 1 " 1 'l < - 1 mi <1, noi 10 ijc uki' ins larncr. Woodward was hrokui-heai to?l wl.rn lie heard i f his mother's death, ('rime had lie;t killed love. And l< his two pit tt v sis tor. > in tin- soiitl and to his brother, to wlioin lie wa.< deeply attached, he sent messages o sympathy and love, lint he kept 01 t I ' UFg 0!; A . V!M)1 r.R. VfttUam C. \ycotiard Tellr. How He . C I -;^?wllldlctl i:i aH the World. Or^lU'iii the Tombs, cursing mei^UoKo i* 1 the jury that sent him tlPKutjifa William Onvroll Wooilwm <1. DowtTln Memphis, Tenn., where the imiric nf Wcoawnr?l usc<l to bo nil ltfdfcir.ed one, l ,.>i o.Iy v.ouM believe .D ^0r,V ^ ^ ^'S ^ n"'*V U1*C / 0(? Wiurso it isn't uinkr this name "vi tosA- ikfi scion of one of the nrouilcst -- ? ? ihc south : known to ttic ; y- <>t lour ctniunnts. ktihp /Tfifewley'' the American police cull flJto ; "Tls>noraMe Lionel Musgvave" Ins t.iic !v.:v ; "Lin. ~ SUpk.*' is bis title in Asia; 'At"noil /. wartl the American"' L his .snbihii.e e the story && advertisement told of t the formic awaiting her, sent ou iVom ?I00 ^ $-00 for expenses." "Vhy, yes," sneered Ilawlcy. "I. . t0).'her she hadn't married a gentltf,.an, hut a crook. She got a divorce." t. Mew York knew "!>ig Ilawley" no more. "All London heard of me next,".;' laughed Woodward, leaning back on the cot in his cell. ''1 was the llonorublc Lionel Musgrovo. Frank Tarbo was my chum. 1 made a sensational appearance in the West Ktid. I t >ok a hou-e there in 1804 in the Ken.-inglon quarter. 1 had horses and carriages and liveried servants. Frank Tarbo was my secretary, liven body came to our parties, the young dukes and lords with more money than brains. "It was better than bunco and richer than green goads. Why, many a vt.ung 1< How dropped his 10,000 pounds playing a quiet game at the mansion in Kensington. We had to get out though when the Hritish 'hobbn found a young man on our door >tcp unconscious. We bad thrown S:i111 out on his head after doimr him out of *dUO,O0o at cards." Thcyoi ng man pressed the charge. They were arrested, though they offered him ?v.,000 to keep quiet. Then victim alter victim became known. The "Honorable Lionel" i had llceec 1 half of London. Samuel l.< \\iv the famous London moneylender, was one of the victims. The | reeious pair got hail ; they promptly jumped it. A man who j followed them to (iravest nd to eolleet | .1 hill for a guitar that the "llonorj aide Li< nel had bought was soundly thru died I'r his audacity. "India and the east was our next working ground," continued Woodward. "We lived like princes and made oilier people pay. We had a yacht. We went to Colombo, HeyIon. There we got oil' with a box of rubies worth S100,000. The fellow's name was A brains. It was regular greengoods style, hut they did't know it in t'eylon, so we had no trouble and slipped away as clean as a whistle on the yacht. "We made a trip around the world. I We found a victim every minute. Sometimes it was cards, sometimes > bunco, sometimes just plain taking i it. I did all hands in Australia. I i had wonderful luck in flic Hawaiian I i Islands. I got all the money lying i I around loose in Van Liemen's Laud selling packages of green tissuo paper for bills, lie was arrested the day his mother was buried. lie got free, as usual. "You can't do nic," he laughed, turning to the discomfited police, "Listen, and I'll tell you why. 'I make a 'plant' in a bank before I do a job. Then when you clever geni tlciucn catch me, I've got money in i the bank to pay tny expenses. "7 make plants other ways," laughi cd Woodward to the reporter. ''It's easy. Why, a few years ago a young Britisher came to town and stopped : at the Kossmoro hotel, where I was. I lie was a good fellow and so wc fce' canto friends. ISoon he told me all , ? about hituself. There was trouble in - the family and a lawsuit, t "We'll, you know the rest, 1 tipt \ the family. They wouldn't send mui 1 money. The gang 'plucked* him of i.i i".i i . i . i i i r _ >V , lIK* miir lit" liau im. nu wit a cniisuu' . with despair. I le didn't have money enough to pay his hotel bill or hisi c passage home* lie came to me. * i> "Why, old uian/ said I, 'howuiucb* s do you want? I'll lend it to you !'i "lie was the happiest man in thf world when 1 handed him overtliM money, lie swore eternal friendship;! 1 '"Well that money was out at inter! - est, enormous interest, and I was go! !, ing abroad. I needed sotuebody'ovon there to use. It was the easiest thing n in the world to 'do' him nicely, anW n then lend hind back his own money! i- Well, I used him." J Woodward stayed in New Yorjjl t- just long enough alter that to llecqfl the late \V. \Y* Corcoran, of Waldfl o iugton, out of a large sum of moajH n by a "salted" silver mine, to clieafS k Statcu Island man out of ?000 a curds, to dupe a lloman CathoM ic bishop to the tunc of ?2,000, and a \z bonow ?500 in a house of ill-reputi >o by passing himself as one of the young! r. Tiffany*. a* He also induced a woman of wealth! and position to marry him. feho was) *e ,thc mother of three beautiful dauAt-: in-* ioti)11? day she caught him yrit3 _?T nniT'^nn'^iv"\i1klW.\vi.S'/ su n in Imlioi/u,>. V and New Zoaland. ' They even said 1 robbed a baul at Melbourne. Ha! IIu! Why brought 500 people to swear I was high minded honorable gentleman, was honorably discharged. All tb world's a bunco game, and wcV either commons or opcrutors. 11a Ha!" It was a grand trip and a sucees; ful one. Woodward, for all the worl looking like a globe-trotter, steppe ofl* the steamer in San Francisc sometimo more than a jcar ago. 11 came right to New ^ ork Morula jio was convicted, for bis attempt t blackmail Samuel W. Bridgknm, son in-law of Wi -C. Schcrmorhorrt, tli millionaire.1/" The World has give the details.^ "Mir Kl?flT AJdn'f work before tli jury," he said. "When I frankl tQlu thorn the.story of my life?tli: 14y business was swindling. Why di l'do it? Why'shouldn't 1 ? I playc my- cards to''win-a stake and los f|>*But wait till'Monday. Til pre N$Bt in courfthe man who wrote thi Bckmail letter. IIo sat in Court li ^aing to^ the evidence. This nu Kp letter. ?Wdl nyy imlge dare sen ?nce rue ina thousand years 'r Ru^^^ wouldn't ?K> any cUmr to sl^jidklpa^3| The man came on and positively iden tificd me as the thief. Oh, yes, cct tainly I was the crook ! There wa no possible mistake about it, ha ha !" Ilcrc the remarkable prisouc threw back bis head and burst into dc risivc laughter. "lly George!'' he cried, "do yo know it was proved beyond a doubt that the day the diamonds were stole in Philadelphia, I was in jail i another city. And yet I was pos tively identified. Positively ident fied," lie repeated in sneering, min icking tones. "Is it true that you won so lnue money abroad at gambling ?" "Perfectly true," he said, nor chalently. "I never deny that 1 ai a gambler. My business in life is t skin suckers. I like nothing bettc than to deal four aces to a dude." And what do you deal to yourself? A straight flush every time," r< plied Woodward with the utmost sail froid. "Where arc your headquarters i New York ?" "I have no headquarters in Ne1 York. I have been doing the train lately," carelessly. "Doing the trains ?" "Yes, gambling on the trains." "What have you done with all th money you have won ?" "Given away the most of it," .-ai the strange man. "I never said 'n? to any one. 1 never refused to hoi any one who was in trouble. Whs 1 did not give away, I used in goin pleasuring. I did not care for name for money's sake, not I. And th: ii ... . t is aiiowicr point i want to emplasiz right here. I can make a half mi lion in six months at cards. W h should 1 attempt to blackmail a ma when I can win money at cards? "Ok, no, L am not a blackmailci That's not in my line. 1 can g< money easier than that. 1 >ut let m tell you that although I have bee arrested so many times, I have new yet been convicted until this wee! and I shall nit go to the state prisms all the country judges with No. hats and No. 12 sic e.s and the honl of ragged, impecunious, ('hcap-.loh handwriting expertsnotwithstandin. "Why didn't they have hankin experts on the trial instead of th; mothy, wonn-cating, tremhling ol crew they brought iu to court ? 15> pelts ? l>ah ?" and Uig I law ley Miaj ped his fingers with infinite disdaii "They arc like the apothecary i 4 'Romeo ami Juliet.' You remember k they sold gold to ltotnco when it was I poison ! a "That's the way with these ex1 ports. They are willing to swear to e anything il" paid for it. And the judge e prejudiced the jury against me by ! tolling them these tin horn, ten-headed experts were the best in New 5- York." d "Rut," he concluded, his eyes d sparkling fiercely and bringing down o his fist with a bang on the iron rail- I c ing, "1 shall not go to prison. There y will be a surprise lor that learned o in^tifr> next Monday morning, and ~ a? " . ~ i- don't you forget il " e Nevertheless, William Carroll n Woodward, alias, llig lluwlcv, will be sentenced to Sine Sing prison en ie Monday.?New York World. J "CAUSE. OF THE 'REBELLION.'" An Answer to Hr. Alay field's Unfortu| nnte but Now Famous Question. Will you permit me through your s- paper to give a more extended answer to the question, ''What were the s" real caiftcs of the Rebellion in 18G1 ^ That no tea .'her longer identified ,y *Vrith the schools of South Carolina ? , ?uts already done so, I attribute to I hat so few of them are old tof remember tl c stormy ml exciting questions that 1 the war. The word refused in this connection occur in the vocabulary ol j do freiuomber. ' the great underlying is, wlio is responsible for the g tya?,tbadc that war posthou' Puritan ^ycaraaf^i^be hui.bii^ at 1' 1 \ i- that they might worship God aceord - itig to the dictates of their own cons sciences, and yet established and ! maintained a vigorous persecution against all who did not subscribe to r every tenet of their dogmatic faith. !- The same Puritan, who prescribed the width of a man's lis**, band, the u length of his coatuil, aim fined him for kis-ing his wife on the Lord's day. n The l'uritan, who burned witches n for crawling through hey holes, piiiclii ing ids son Praise God, and sticking i- pins in his daughter Deliverance, i- The same Puritan, who when Virginia and other Southern States h would have stopped the African slave trade in 1700, lobbied and pleaded, i- and finally secured an extension of n the nefarious trailic till 1808. o The same sanctimonious Puritan, r who, when he had made every dollar that he possibly could out of the trailic. began to wipe his weeping > eyes, and sing through his nose the g old familiar refrain about an alliance with sin and a covenant with hell, n The puritan, who in 1820 solemnly ratified the Missouri compromise, iv and on every possible occasion aftori> ward as solemnly repudiated bis oath. The Puritan, who trampled under his hallowod foot t4tc Constitution he assi-ted in framing, who spat upon c the nutouotny of the States, ami offset the judgments ami decrees of the (1 Supreme Court by per-onal liberty >' bills, passed by tlie Legislatures of p their own rebellion;; States, it The same Puritan, who reviled us g in the press, insulted and abused us y on the hustings ami hurled their anait thrums upon us front partisan political ;e pulpits. 1 The I'm dan, who appre.piiated v some of the money be made by bringn ing the negroes to this country to the purchase of nvnis for radians ami :. murden rs to inaugurate tlie uniuiagin:t able horrors of a servile insurrection, e The Puritan, who has added John n llrown to his calendar of saints, and r hallows as a shrine the grave of an :. executed felon. i. And dually, Mr. Kditor, the same 1 Puritan, who loves to denounce us le as ''rebels," because in the interest ii of self preser\ation, in vindication of r. our l i;.his un-It r tin* Constitution, g ami in ohcdirnee to the political faitli it cherished aiming us IVoin the Ibiiinlud ti>>u of the (iovorimiciit, wo drew the i- sword us the last resort of un outr> raged and long suffering people.? 1. XV. XV. Wojdson, in the Abbeville n Medium. HOW TO FIND OUT. ! ? Fill a l*>ttle or common glass with urine ami let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the Kidneys. When urine etains linen it is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or pain in the back, is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order. WHAT TO 1)(>. 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Well when 1 go to town I will buy me one ' ' from him anil lay it aside until 1 need it. 1 he above conversation $ was overheard the other day, j ! and like conversations can be ' j heard every day all over the 1, '..yiH county between the thousands j of people that trade at /j - M.' L U R E ' S, \ jl - 0 DR. H. K. SMITH. fg c# DENTIST? -*T0 f ;ir