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The Washington times., 1905-03-26
"As Handsome as a Prince" "

After directing the author to send the
money to Woodward at the State prison,
the writer says:
Something tells me as 1 am writing
that through you am going to be able
to help that man, handsome as q prince,
with an eagle eye looking through this
sense world into eternity with an un-
finchfng gaze that would stare even the
genius of destruction out Of countenance
caught In the stormy tide OF occiden-
tai blgotry. Ignorance. and revenge"
woodward is a man of extremely at
tractive personality. even the prison Of
hcers say. He is a tractable, quiet pris-
oner. and during the three years ne has
been there has not been disciplined. He
mas been permitted to write for various
publications. Strangely. the postofflce
inspector who arrested him, William B.
snow, has cold the articles for him, hav-
ing respect for the literary ability of the
prisoner.
Liberal. free-handed when he had 1t,
woodward always needed money, and
the prison officers say now he is work
ing every chance to get 1t by preparing
articles for magazines. His present
chler purpose. he says, Is the compila-
ton OF an account Of his experiences as
n swindler of worldwide reputation
When his time expires. in about year,
he hopes to publish his autobiogra ply.
woodward, who State prison officers
say is one OF the brightest and most
magnetic characters they have ever
dealt with, Is serving a fve-year SEN
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His biggest winning Woodward has
described as follows:
There was a poor devil from Tas-
mania. a Mr.. Wilson, one OF the richest
men in the world. He came to London
to spend his money and get into so
ciety. He wanted 70 play poker, and /
let him.
L took $3.50, 900 from him in one night,
and he gave me a check for the amount.
Five minutes after he gave it 1 offered
to sell It for $40, but nobody would buy
II. Next day l went to the bank with
the check
when the cashier showed me out the
$780, 900 through the window l thought 1
would drop dead
During the summer of 1897 he spent
most OF his. time travelling on the trains
between New York and Boston, as he
put II, doing the dudes out of their
money and teaching them cards" Oc-
caSlonally he patroniZed the trains to
the New England summer resorts.
But In the fall OF 1897 he came TO grief.
for he was convicted of an attempt 20
hlackmail prominent man by threat
ening TO sue him for alternating the af-
fectionS OF s woman who was then pos
Ing as Woodward's wife. He was SEN
fenced to five years.
A few months after his release he
tried several schemes, but he had not
enough money TO start them. Finally
he tnyeisled an innocent young man
iTto the green goods fraud, and the pair
Went TO Boston. only TO be detected be-
fore they began TO reap the profits
He says he has reformed now, and
when be Is released from Charlestown
will be able to earn his living with his
pen.
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Recovery of Voice Gradual.

The recovery OF Miss Penny's voice
was gradual. and for a few days some
OF her words and sentences had a
broken, disconnected effect, but this
only served to amuse and interest Miss
Penny. She became so enthusiastic in
her new pastime of learning to talk that
whenever she went out to walk she
practiced speaking her thoughts aloud.
Many persons whom she met stopped
and gazed doubtfully after her
Miss Penny Is naturally OF a bright
and merry disposition, and many of
her efforts at speech amused her SO
much that she broke into laughter.
Formerly when she laughed 1t was only
q sort OF wheezy chackle. but she found
that since she had begun 30 speak aloud
she had also developed a laughing voice.
DR.. ELLIS told l,ep that laughing aloud
wag the very oest exercise in the world
for limbering up the long disused oy-
gans OF speech, and from that time
one Of her regular exercises has been
laughing as loud and as long as she
could.
DR.. Ellis regards the recovery eS Miss
Penny's voice ns one OF the most re-
markable cases which has come within
his medical experience. The remarkable
feature OF the case from a medical
point OF view Is that ths young woma n
could have possessed a perfect set of
vocal cords for twenty years and never
learned TO use them
The Washington times., 1905-03-26

ters can get through to Germany. but
there is never a chance that money Or
ders will be issued for the lottery pur-
poses AS matter o. fact, the let
ters do get through, because, as an Of
ficiaf for the Postoffioe Department re-
Gently remarked. why should these
agents continue to send their adver-
tisements over TO this country II they
get no answers to them?
As to how the money which is sent
TO the agents for the payments OF the
lottery tickets gets through. there are
the ways of doing this enumerated by
The warning just quoted.
Then. too. these people who deIiber-
ately give the Saxons the chance to take
their money, can express their COM
munications. thus giving the Govern
Tent no chance TO interfere with them
by the mail machinery In the letters
that get through the visilant blockade
set up against them BIZ the fraud order
paper money may be inclosed.
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SaHony's King Defies
Uncle Sans Order
Against Him.
Cannot Be Prevented
From Using United
States Mails.
Takes Thousands of Dol
lars From Americans
Every Month.

A GENTS of King Frederic of
"a saxony are .cooIIy putting their
hands into the pockets of cfti-
zens of the United States and
taking from them sums of money, and
Uncle Sam. with all his machinery for
resisting foreign invasion and keeping
down fraud, caB not put a stop to the
practice.
This Is peculiar situation. In the
centuries long gone by, when the Vik-
ings swept the coasts of Europe by
force of powerful navy, piracy was
considered the usual thing. but now 1t is
held dead practice. Nevertheless, the
agents of King Frederic, descendants
of the people from when the Vikings
came, are surely practising piracy on
the citizens Of the United States in this
advanced twentieth century
Their Weapon OF depreciation is not a
gun nor sword now, but the much de-
spised lottery system. King F'rederic's
lottery goes by various names, such as
the Royal Saxony State Lottery, the
New Great Royal Saxony State Money
Lottery and the Great German Money
Lottery
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Will Government Conquer?

VIII the department be able to put
a stop to this form of def-auding the
citizens of the United States? This u
a question which may be answered IN
time. VIII the specal agent who is new
said TO be Investigating the matter
thoroughly In New York and other cities
Of the East. be able to urravel the
mystery?
Indeed. Is there a special agent In
New York for this purpose The PROB
abilities are that he Is, but. naturally,
the department will not say So de-
tective does not stani on housetop ana
shout to those he wants to eaten tnae
he is a detective.
II he succeeds IN catching In the net
of Justice the spiders who have woven
and now take care of this parlor for
the innocents. he will have made
great name for .imself and advanced
to the class Of Sherlock Holmes Ap-
parently, ne is confronted by all the
ingenuity and cleverness of the king
dem OF SaXony.
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Jim cockrill Shot.

His brother, Jim Cockrill went back
to get his personal effects, intending to
leave Jackson the same night; he was
shot down from the windows Of the
county court house, and was carried
by friends to a hospital in Lexington
Fayette county, where he died. About
the taking off of this too yenturesome
town marshal q Rreathftt man named
Nose Feltner has made the deposition
here following:
"Jim Hargis said that Jim Cockrill
if he was killed before Marcum was
killed that Marcum would take a scare
and would be hard to catch, but Jim
Cockrill would not scare at ANYTHING.
so the plan was to kill Marcum first
Alex Hargis remarked that Cockriil
ought to be killed first and that Jim
Marcum would leave the country, and
that it would be better for all parties
IL Marcum would leave and they would
not have to kill him. Jim Hargis re-
Piled:
Damn this; want to see him laid
in his grave
After the conversation In the store
Alex Hargis when no one was pres
ent except Alex and myself Alex
suggested that John Smith. John Abner
and myself go down to the Arlington
Hotel, where James Cockrill stayed,
and get into a card game with Cockrill.
He would furnish the money for us to
play on.
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
The Courts Decision.

The court has come to the conclusion
upon the evidence before It, that the ar
rests Of the plaintiffs in Breathitt coun-
ty were procured upon their own insti-
cation. or that Of some of them acting
for all. with the design noe to have a
trial of the charge there or elsewhere.
but as a cloak TO prevent the trial else
where"
So, after all these years. the blood
stained Harsis gang at last find them
selves in the shadow Of the gallows
The leading Democratic journal Of their
State expresses a belief that Fridays
decision IS 1.-The beginning of the end of
the rule OF assassination and anarchy
in Breathitt." Across the line the lead
ing Democratic journal Of Tennessee ex-
presses q hope that Fayette, having got
them, will hang them If the history
ends IN that way. ii will certainly tend
to discourage the murder industry in
the hill counties.
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A Negro Dive Keeper Testifes.

A colored dive keeper named Freeman
had made affidavit December 3. 1900
that he saw the Hargises and Ed Caiia-
nan at the courthouse windows when
Jim Cockrill was shot; and on the
strength OF this affidavit a justice of
the peace, James Edwards, had held
them in bail (given by one another) for
the Breathitt grand jury The Hargis
attorneys promptly went to the Ken
lucky court Of appeals for a writ OF
prohibition. and the Fayette county cir
cult judge found himself temporarily
forbidden to do anything further in the
premises.
But the court of appeals, all the
judges concurring, discharged the tempo
rary writ anG denied the motion for a
permanent writ. THE Fayette circuit
court has now exclusive jurisdiction to
try the case it said. The opinion was
by Judge O'Rear In part it said:
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a municipal judge and Tom Cockrill's s
brother, Jim, was the town marshal.
Tom was indicted for the killing of Ben
Hargis, and not a change Of venue.
A Jackson physician, DR.. Cox, put up
the money for Toms defense; the doctor
was decoyed from his mouse soon after
by pretended summons to the bedside
of a patient, and was shot dead. At
torney J. B. Marcum defended Tom on
the trial: he was shot dead, too. Tom
was acquitted. He prudently nut a wide
stretch of country between himself and
Jackson at once, and never went back
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GToWn-Up Woman Learns How TO Talk

The young woman then told him of the
vain efforts her family had made to have
her voice restored and the hopelessness
Of the case in the opinion OF the spe-
cialists. Dr. Ellis still believed his
diagnosis correct and told Miss Penny
that he believed that If she would try
to talk and keep on trying she would
soon recover the use of her voice.
The physician then Instructed Miss
Penny in the methods to pursue, and
before she left his Office she had sue
ceeded in producing sounds which con-
Vinced him that there was nothing
wrong with the vocal chords Under
the physicians instruction Mrs. Banta,
Miss Penny's mother, massaged her
throat and chest freely every day and
the young woman made constant efforts
to speak aloud.
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whisper, Miss Mabel Kenny,
formerly Of South Brooklyn but now
living at 10 West 103d street, Manhat-
tan, has completely recovered the use Of
her vocal cords and now speaks with
perfect distinctness and freedom.
Miss Penny herself, as well as her
family and friends, regard the recovery
of her voice as an absolute miracle
During the years Of her enforced silence
she had consulted many eminent spe-
cialists, none Of whom offered her any
hope of ever speaking aloud again. She
was told by several Of them that the
vocal cords had become atrophied and
that she could never speak aloud Sim
ply because the necessary mechanicism
for producing sound was lacking. Miss
Penny had become almost reconciled to
pass her life in silence.
Recently Miss Penny had occasion to
consult a physician in regard to tenn
porarY Illness and visited the Office of
DR.. Richard Ellis. DR.. Ellis noticed at
once that the young woman spoke only
IN whispers and supposed that she had
come to sec him for bad cold which
had affected her voice. After question
ing the young woman he learned that
she had suffered from aphonia since she
was six years old.
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Special Agent Out?

The runor is now current that the
Postoff1ca Department has a special
egent in New York today for the sole
purpose Of ascertaining how these
money sharks CT Saxony come over
here, take the peoples money by a
scheme that the United States Govern
ment has declared to be Illegal and
then escape with their ill-gotten gains
without the Government having been
able to detect Or hinder the scheme
When the agents are cunning enough
to get the better of the fraud order sys-
tenn. they put the Government people
TO guessing
But these agents Of the royal gam
bling scheme do more than fool the
United States Government They put
their offers of making people rich
tquickly in such attractive form that the
citizens OF this country connive with
them and thus help toward the plan of
defrauding themaelves and belittling the
Government. For instance on their ad-
vertisements they say:
Mote Well!
I'VE wish to bring to the notice of our
esteemed clients. especially OF those who
take part in lotteries of other foreign
states, that all German State Lotteries
are guaranteed by their respective state
governments, which is not the case with
Il great many otter foreign ones, such as
the Hungarian.
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The Feud Begins.

The story of the Hargis-Cockrtli feud,
in which the latest act has been the
arrest of the Hargis brothers, is as fol-
lows:
Some years ago, in Jackson. Breathitt
county, Kentucky. Jerry Cardwell and
Jonn G. Hargis had fight; John was
killed. One of Cardwelrs nephews, Tom
Cockriil, met young Ben Hargis In a
jackson saloon, and they had fight;
Ben was Killed. His brother, Jim Har-
gis. was county Judge at the time, as
since; Jinn's right hand man, Ed CaIla-
han. was sheriff; CardwelIs brother was
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ners. whether they reside in Germany OF
any other country
There is much more Of this kind Of
thing in the advertisements, which are
printed on red. blue. white. and yellow
paper, with a bewilde-ing array Of diff
ferent sized type and headings. The
place where the lots are drawn Is de-
scribed as a large hall, and the whole
thing is governed by the officials OF
Saxony and their assistants In addi-
ton TO this, a long list of prizes is given,
showing the prizes which are said to
have been won by Americans. The
price Of whole ticket is quoted at s75.
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Due to Scarlet Fever.

Dr. Ellis inquired casually into the
history of the case and learned that the
loss OF voice resulted from an attack Of
scarlet fever when Miss Penny was a
child. Becoming interested the physi-
clan asked permission to make an ex-
animation, which the young woman
readily granted. DR.. Ellis examined
carefully and found the vocal cords
fully developed and apparently in a nor
NAL or nearly normal condition,
There is no reason in the world that
you shouldn't talk just as much and
just as loud as any other young wom-
an" the physician told Miss Penny.
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Cut a Very Wide Swath.

Woodward cut very wide swatf In
London some years ago, where, as Hon.
Lionel Mussraye, he had u large estab-
lishment at Kensington, which was sup
ported by the noble guests who lost
their money at the card tables. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that his thoughts
should have turned to the place where
he never had met failure.
prominent English author-a Young
woman-a few weeks ago received, a
touching letter, written evidently by
Woodward. but signed by an illiterate
man, who had completed his term.
Speaking of Woodward the writer said
He WAS born in India, being the son of
an English army officer and a high-caste
Hindoo mother. When I went to prison
L lost the small cosmic speck known
as our world and found an iIlimitabIe
universe
Il have emerged from the prison an
intellectually free man, the shaekIss of
superstition having been stricken from
my mind through Mr.. Woodwards kind
teachings"
This is Big Hawley's" description of
himself in the State prison as ;. minis
tering angel:
He is a stranger In this country and
penniless, having exhausted his funds
In the legal fight which went against
him. | heard him say to his snail
spiritual flock of prisoners to whom he
is surreptitiously pastor, that within ten
years your mind would be able to reach
into the subjective or soul world, to top
the absolute and drink from the foun-
tain Of pure truth.
IL am very anxious to help him, but
cannot. He is a vegetarian and fruita-
rian, and the ration &c sodden beans and
rancid pork is anathema TO him. The
great men of all ages and times have
been tortured and crucified, but their
works remain.
DO something substantial for that
man, send him some money SO that he
can buy fruit and other necessary food
and some heavy underwear. socks, and
handkerchiefs. He has been in prison
three years. and the clothing he took
with him IS worn out
This mans body should be saved in
order that his mind may find a dwelling
place and an instrument through which
to express his tremendous message to
the world which he is now preparing.
He is poet. a musician. an astronomer.
chemist, and linguist. speaking Hindu
stance, Tamil. Singhalese. German,
French and English"
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Others Kept Out.

There have been lottery schemes from
Hungary, Mexico. Canada. and other
parts Of Germany introduced in this
country but without exception. the
Government mas found that the fraud
orders stopped their profits until the
agents Of King Frederic found out how
u fool the Government.
The agents of Frederic, Langenhahn
& Co. have not even seen necessity for
changing their names. They go on un-
bothered by the fraud order which was
hurled at them two years ago.
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Barred From Mails.

The reason that the money orders
are not payable over there is because
the Postofice Department has issued It's
fraud order against the concern and all
its agents, and this fraud order closes
the mails against all communications to
the agents and forblds postmasters to
give money orders to people for that
concern.
There is always the chance that let
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
New Era Seems Dawn
ing in State Noted for
Bloodfeuds.
For Years the Hargis-
Cockrlll Vendetta Has
Ragged.
Justice, Long Stupefied,
At Last Appears to
Awaken.
rs THE blood feud, for years the dark

rs THE blood feud, for years the dark
est stain on the people who live in
the beautiful Kentucky mountains.
being wiped out by the strong arm
OF the law? Is an era dawning when
the mountaineero need no longer fear
that he will be shot down from behind
or in ambush merely because he has
CHANGED to offend q neighbor or because
some member of his family NAV have
quarreled with a member of another
family?
The arrest and trial of the Hargis
brothers, James, Alex, and Elbert. and
Edward Callahan, all of Breathitt coun
fy, Ky, fer the murder of James Cock
I'll, would lead to the supposition that
at last the reign of terror was on the
wane. For years the Hargis- -Cockrill
feud has been carried on with the ut
most ferocity. Many lives have been
sacrificed on both sides. The friends
and supporters of both families have
been drawn into the fight Instead of
resortng to law to settle their difficult
ties they have taken up rife and re-
volyer.
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State Security.

I'm these, there being given no secu-
rity by the state, those participating can
only depend on The honesty OF the
agents, as they cannot be sued at law.
In the lottery of the kingdom of Sax
ony the government guarantees the
prompt payment OF prizes TO the win
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Confinement Does Not
Balk WoodWard's
Ingenuity.
HE POSES AS A BRAHMIN
Receives Funds From Duped
Followers to Buy
Delicacies.

TX 7 1LLIAM c.. WOODWARD,
wv alias Big Haw,ey,'' who
y made 100000 by his wits,
and whose operations have
covered the world, Is now posing as the
leader of advanced religious thought
at the Massachusetts State prison.
woodward, who Is being represented
III thoSe OF his followers who are at
hperty as the progeny of Hindoo
orahmin, is using his theories of the
nereaIter for revenue only For nearly
three years this versatile charactef has
oeen unaVoidably detained at the State
prison
mat man of his ready wit cannot,
pe restrained by the walls of the prison
IS apparent in the appeals that have
peeh made for him even in England
recently, and the circulation of letters
testlIy1ng to the exemplary influence he
mas -oeen welding upon some of his fell
10" prisoners through his teachings OF
lhe aims OF the higher life. While Wood
ward mas not impressed the prison Of
l'ciSfis that he is a man with a legiti-
mate mission, his followers outside who
nave been making appeals have dec
GRATED him with a rhetorical halo.
according to them he is the State
prison apostle Of the doctrine of rein
caFhauon, but the modern apostle needs
money TO obtain delicacies and faYors in
PRISON. Hence the solicitation Of funds
woodward. who has successfully de-
ned the authorities of the Old World.
ana who, although arrested thirty-seyen
times, was only convicted twice, Is now
working at commonplace tasks In the
shipping room of the shoe department
at the State prison. He has little op-
portunity to hold conversation with the
ether prisoners
But he has taken advantage of this
brief opportunity to cultivate men whose
sentences were much shorter than his .
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Need Not Take Shot to Himself.

after we had played cards for while
he suggested that l rise from the table
and remark that / had won or lost
enough, as the case might be. and that
I was going to quit the game. I was to
The Washington times., 1905-03-26
Here ALI the Time.

Every month their communications
flood New York and other cities. Every
week the PostofTice Department receives
from some honest citizens the adver-
tisements which were intended to put
American money in the steel-bound cof-
fers of the Saxony treasury, and every
day, the officials think, some credulous
person gives up his SIS for chance TO
get rich quick" and send 1t over to
the foreign pirate. 1t makes no differ
ence whether that S75 be hard earnings
or whether it be the small sum given
up by the wealthy man in an idle mo-
msnt, every deed of this kind is against
the law. and nearly all of the money
goes TO the European country.
Ir speaking of the Saxony lottery to
a Times reporter yesterday, an official
Of the Fostoftice Department said:
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step back behind Cockrill and shoot his
brains out After that we were to fire
his pistol four or five times and have a
general shooting in the room and shoot
Abner or Smith through the clothing
and claim self-defense. Alex said
need not take the shot on myself If l
did not want to, as either one of the
boys would claim the shot, either Smith
or Abner; that he wanted me 10 fire the
shot from the fact that / was crack
shot and would not be apt to miss. He
said that he would make it appear that
the man who fired the shot was justi-
fed. by all testifying that the shot
was fired just in time to save another's
life