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VAUGHN CONFESES: SENTENCED 0 DIE. TRIAL AT GREENVLE COMES * TO DRAMATICLOSE. Accused, in Effort Escape Death Penalty, Admits lilt, and Pleads In Vain for His ie?Taken to the Penitentiary Were He Will Be Electrocuted oOecember 20th. Greenville, O. 26.?T. U. Vauphn, on trial for qtged immorality during his term/superintendent of the Odd Fellow^Iome here, was put on the stand I his lawyers today and made a clei confession of his awful crime. The tri was brought to a sensational clfe when Vaughn broke down ar confessed all. He named two otV victims in addition to those >luded in the indictment. The jury is out but four minutes and madejo recommendation for mercy, the vdict carrying the deatn penalty. -T.rs streamed down the face of JWe Purdy, named by Governor iCse as special Judge for this trial, tyhy jurors, Court officials and spec fcors alike made no pretence of hidg their tears as Vaughn, pale and roken, acknowlec\ged his crime. Some (urors wept aloud. Sentenced Pronounced. In the afternoon Judge Purdy, before sentencing Vaughn, overruled a motion for a new trial, which was argued by one of Vaughn's lawyers, after his client made his confession. Judge Purdy, in sentencing Vaughn to death in the electric chair, set December 20 as the date for his execution . When court opened there was no intimation that the accused would make a confession. His attorney had fought stubbornly since the beginning of the case to break down the strong evidence developed by the prosecution's little girl witnesses. Immediately after court opened today attorneys of bothe sides consulted, resulting in an agreement to let Vaughn confess in an effort to save his own life and that the case would go to the jury without argument. "I have acted devilishly, I have acted shamelessly," began Vaughn. "The I devil tempted me and I have fallen." He pleaded eloquently but vainly with the jury to save his life. Vaughn begged the jury to spare his life, not so much for his sake as for his wife and little daughter. Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her (daughter were in court today, though they had been with the accused since the trial opened. He was formerly / assistant superintendent of the First Baptist church Sunday School, one of the largest and most fashionable in this city. He was a ministerial stu dent 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 summarized it' is as follows: "Gentlemen, it is useless to say that in this instance I am greatly humiliated, 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 statement. I have been so cautious in these particulars that some have inferred that I had denied my guilt. I know that some have had that impression, but I knew that I was guilty ( and would tell it at the proper time. | ror mat 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 responsi- , bility. I want to take it off of that girl. I want to say that I have loved 1 the girl always, but that love has been misdirected and missused. I don't think the girl will deny today the reality of my love in many respects, yet my conduct towards her would make her take the position towards | me which she now takes and justly ( takes. ( "As superintendent of the Orphan- . acp. T hnH nntirn nAnf??Al T ? V..V?V VVIIbl w? Ui I1CI . 1 | J realise that now. I did not at the time realize just what I was doing. I do now. I did it under circumstances about which I would not care to go into details here. At the very point I thought myself the strongest, I found myself the weakest. I found that the Devil had attacked me with a more subtle and powerful temptation in the very place I thought I could not be tempted. I cannot now go into the details of the circumstances surrounding me when I fell, Ull/I I MAW ^*..1 1 ? ?u'Jltuiiic urn iesponsionny and ask God to save that girl. "Now, as to the treatment of the children out there; of course, I whipped them, but I never did wish to * be cruel. I did not abuse them, and * had np desire to do so. But as hellish a as this weight of sin has been, and f despite the suffering of my body and a soul, it has brought an entirely new ? viewpoint of life. I am not speaking i of this for sympathy; I am simply ' a stating it to make my position clear, ( Absolut Cooking under mo veniences is made s family is becoming ii " These biscuits ai excellent,** says the fa says the daughter, daughter beam with ] Roval Baking P< baking a success, a pi the best cooking tod done with its aid. and I want to say this, that if it took all of this to save, to bring me to where I stand, and in spite of all this prosecution, all this shame and suffering, if it has taken all of this to redeem my soul and save me from hell, I am thankful for it today. "I now have a better conception ol God and of man. With that fact in view, realizing the cheapness of life I can be of better service to God and to man. I feel that if you will give me another opportunity, after pleading guilty to this charge, and let me have another chance, I can be of more service to God than ever before. I feel that I can live a life of sublime service and consecration to God. As dark as it may seem, as disgusting as it may seem to you, as hellish as it appears, I feel that in the depths of my heart I can go forward in bet tti ?eivice miu 1 maKe mis piea to you. "What is life? It is a very small thing. It is a very short time here and I do not regard it as much. So far as my suffering it would soon be over and I would be dead. Then it is a matter 0f eternity. But my present plea is that I have sinned, that I have suffered the tortures of the damned, that if I am given another opportunity, that the hold I now have on God, with the strength of the new fa:th I have in Him from out of this awful sin, I believe 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 the evil-dooers, in saving the State great expense and in redeeming them of their crimes and sins. << t u ~i: x t i uu;ieve truiy tnat l can be of great service to my God and my fellow man. I love my life, it is true, but I simply feel that in view of this new conception, life is a very small matter. Life is not eternity; it is a mere temporary 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 he allowed to live in order to prove to his wife that he could reform and be a good man. Vaughn Taken to Columbia. Greenville, October 26.?Immediately on leaving the court house tonight officers in custody of T. U. Vaughn ?l-i * ? - uuurueu an automoone going to Spartanburg, where they caught a train for Columbia, where the condemned man will be put in the penitentiary for safekeeping. This was done as a precautionary measure it was said at the sheriff's office tonight. Arrives at Penitentiary. Columbia Oct. 26.?Sheriff Poole reached Columbia after midnight with T. U. Vaughn and landed him safely behind the walls of the State penitentiary. The trip from Greenville to Columbia was made without incident ind Vaugnn is now safe within the oenitentiary. Please Orders Removal. Columbia, Oct. 26.?Gov. Rlease tonight instructed the sheriff of Creenville county to bring T. U. /aughn to the penitentiary as soon is sentence is pronounced on him. His elegram to Sheriff poole reads as 'ollows: "Bring Vaughn to penitentiary on irst train after sentence has been >assed on him. Allow no delay. See Vets, 1912, age 702.' leim me wnoie atory." To say that Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is best for children and crown person's and contains no opiates ells only part of the tale. The whole tory is tnat it is the best medicine or coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis ind other affections of the throat, hest and lungs. Stops la grippe, oughs and has a healing and soothng effect. Remember the name, Foey's Honey and Tar Compound, and iccept no substitutes. The Rice Drug Company. 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Goodwin, passed from this world through the dark valley and into the shadows of the great beyond, from whose borne no traveler returns. To say that me saa naings 01 nis death as they went forth on the wings of the morning: brought sorrow to the hearts of his many friends and loved ones, but feebly express the real sadness of their mission. The writer having been intimately associated with the deceased for the past few years, and fully realizing his beautiful traits of character, it is with a heart of sorrow that we pen these feeble lines sacred to his memory. . Jesse Goodwin was possessed of those traits of character which win the friendship and confidence of those with whom he came in contact, and we were proud of him as our friend. He possessed the wisdom of a man and the heart of a child, and his daily walk in life and his dealings with his fellowman evidenced the fact that he held communion with his Creator. He was kind, gentle, honorable and a sincere friend, one upon whom you could well rely. His place is vacant at our board, but the memory of his presence will forever be cherished by those of us who enjoyed his friendship and daily association. Although his untimely death was a sad blow to his saintly mother, it should be a sweet consolation to her to know that she possessed this boy as her son, and to her we extend our deepest sympathy, but we realize that God, the giver of all good gifts, will administer to the wounded hearts of those who mourn his death. He was our friend?we loved him in life, we mourn him in death. A Friend. To the Voters of Union County. It is a necessity that ev?_. registered voter shall come to the pods and cast his ballot on Tuesday, November the 5th. Several important questions are to be voted on. There are several amendments to the constitution affecting property holders. TL- U 1 : - AAA AAA * jliic uuhu issue 01 ;pi,uuu,uuu ior me improvement to the State Hospital for the Insane. ? The question of Dispensary or No Dispensary should have a full expression of all the registered voters. You should take enough interest to come out and roll up a big vote for the nominees of the party in both . State and National tickets. This is the election that counts in National politics and on it depends the amount of f your representation in Congress. { Let every voter come out. Remember November the 5th is the day. See advertisements in the papers. Jas. G. Long, Jr., B. G. Wilburn, J. G. Going, State and County Commissioners. John Whitlock, M. B. Lee, W. J. Haile, Federal Commissioners. There are 840 sailint? shiDs and fiftv steamships over fifty years old in the British merchant service. Escapes An Awful Fate. A thousand tongues could not express the gratitude of Mrs. J. E. Cox, of Joliet, 111., for her wonderful deliverance from an awful fate. 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C., cn salesday, Monday, November 4, 1912, the following real estate, to wit: A one-third undivided interest in the four following described lots of land situate in Union township, Union county, S. C., and known as lots Nos. 9, 21, 23 and 24 in Block G, on plat of subdivision of lands of John A. Fant Real Estate Company made by E. C. Brown in September, 1904, and recorded in office of Clerk of Court for said Union County in Book T, No. 37, page GOO. These lots were conveyed to John O. Tate, W. E. Mabry and 1). B. Hughes by the John A. Fant Real . Estate Company by deed dated the 5th day of January, 1907, and said lots are situated on Monro Avenue, at Monarch Cdtton Mills, (about one and a half miles from Union, S. C.) each said lot fronting fifty feet on said avenue and running back one hundred r and fifty feet. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to c pay for papers.. If purchaser fails j to comply with terms of sale said said ^ lands will he re-sold at some subsequent salesday on the same terms at s tne risk of such defaulting purchaser. ^ Said interest in said four lots to he i sold as a whole and not separately. -] Thos. M. Caldwell, . C. C. C. Pis. Cherokee Co. October 14, 1912. 42-3t. I? 4* 4* 4*4* 4* 4* 4? 4* 4* 414? 4*4* . i Citizens Nati + UNION, SOUTH *? Interest Payable < * * /O Savings and Tim *r 4* Interest Paid Four Times + + 4* The continued growth ol J only to the complete safety J ors, but also to its policy of all Time and Savings A ^ months. 4* Money deposited in this 4* against loss; earns a good 1 J available at any time. ^ Your checking accounts a Courteous treatment exte 4* + STATE, COUNTY AND < 4? 4" 4? 4* 4* 4* 4* *4* 4* *4* 4* *4* 4* * X t Columbus an | W A G < 4* 4 k | Do ycu need See the Colu | Webber Wag< ^ you buy. * | Peoples Su -A- "si/* *)/ *,!/ ?J- *j/> ?J? ?sV" ?.tr "si" * Jjj M# M? *fo WV# tin fe|* w^s# tfj# eft# yjs* *|# km KW % | ANNOUNC I have the agency for Ed the largest manufacturers GOOD MADE TO OR] Prices ranging from $14 Fall and Winter just arrivec you in New Woolens and F; prices, isn't worth considerir W. H. PI At Union Shoe ( 4? 4* 4 4* 4 4* 4* 4? 4* 4* 4 4 ^ | ESTATE OF S. M 4 + I am closing out 4 fixtures of the E % Rice, E. U. If y? ?|f * ested in a Piano I + Organ, Sewing + Furniture of any * - * fore the stock is I w. j. sa: Vi *1* HP ""i* *8* *4" *$* Hi* Hf* Or Bean, Either. C. (From the Boston Transcrint.t F* A near-sighted old lady at a dinner date arty one evening had for companion Uni( n the left a very bald-headed old :entlennan, says an exchange. While j,y ! alking to the gentleman at her right Sch< he dropped her napkin unconsciously. Schc 'he bald-headed gentleman, in stooprig to pick it up, touched her arm. 'he old lady turned around, shook er head, and very politely said: reall "No melon, thank you." , cess, I? 4? 4? 4*4? 4? 4? 4? onal Bank! * CAROLINA. 44? Quarterly on le Deposits. * /O ^ a Year on Deposits. & ? 4? : this bank is due not J It affords its deposit- ^ computing interest on ju. ? ccounts every three *}? bank is safeguarded J *ate of interest, and is T * re also invited. 4*, nded to all. jh 2ITY DEPOSITORY. J ijf? ?|jw + + Wp A. f? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? 4^ X id Webber | ONSi 44 4a Wagon? | imbus and * >ns before J * 4* 4ippiy Co. f 4* *$* 4* 4* Hf* 4* v* 4* :ement m t V. Price & Co.Jthe ? 3 in the world of DER CLOTHES .00 up. Samples for J.& 1. What I can't show I " ashions at reasonable IRRIN N Company. V b ?? 4* 4* 4* 4* !? 4? 4? H|b? Hj? 3X! I. RICE, E. U. i ' *3* the stock and >. # state of S. M. % 4 ou are inter- > iMayer, Piano, * Machine or 4. kind, call be- + J. picked oven * * b KMT! | A ?^W ?jj? ANDIDATES CARDS. >r Trustee Union School District. hereby announce mysef a eandifor office of School Trustee for >n Graded Schools, District No. It. L. McNally. dends of Geo. C. ferrin, Jr., fiereannounce him a candidate for >ol Trustee of Union Special >ol District No. 11, Union county. io mistakes of early life are y the foundation stones of suc,?Florida Times-Union.