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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
LITTLE GIRLS BODY
BURIED At HOME
Irwin Lewis, of Landenberg, Pa
Accused of Murder.
CORPSE DUG UP ON HIS FARM
Child Lay on Her Face in a Shallow
Grave, With Cloth Over Her
Head and Gagged, Under Earth
Packed Down.

West Chester, Pa.-FtVe-year-olQ
Mary Robbins Newlin, of Landenberg,
who it was thought had been kid
mapped, was buried alive, according
to the appearance Of the body, which
was dug up on the farm Of her step.
father.
Irwin Lewis, the young stepfather,
is held until the finding 81 the Cor
oner's jury. : He asserted his inno-
cence, and when in collapse and ray
ing repeated his protestations that he
was not guilty, w
1t is the conclusion Of the autopsy
physicians that the fair-haired child,
one of the prettiest the country round,
was not dead when buried. From all
appearances she was seized from be-
hind and gagged with a burlap bag.
This tough cloth was then pulled over
her head and down on her neck,
where it was tied with a tough
hempen string.
While the girls streams were
stihed she was thrown face down into
a ready made grave. AS she lay on
her face the grave was filled and the
earth packed down.
The girl disappeared several days
| ago, but the family. said nothing.
| This delayed the search. 1t excited
the suspicious of District Attornt@
w. w. McElree, Of Chester County,
and members Of the family were
questioned separately. Lewis an
nounced with conviction, seemingly,
that his stepdaughter had been Kid
naped. The District Attorney began
to feel doubtful of the man.
Some weeks ago William Shelfe::',
a farm hand on the Lewis place, a
| he noticed that Lewis had dug TWO
holes in the ground that were shaped
like graves. Shelley asked Lewis
| what the holes were for, and ne an
swered that he intended to fill them
with refuse. While narrowing IN
| the field back of Tie barn his work
| brought Shelley close TO theihole that
| Lewis had left open. He noticed that
the: hole. had been filled up. He
asked a friend, John ". O'Brien, Jr.,
to help him"do a little digging.
Inc men Threw away LILO S@i'n
| with spades, and they had zone down
only nine inches when they uncovered
a mart of the little white piQue dress
and the end of a child's patent leath-
er belt. No longer doubling they
| had discovered the body, Shelley and
| O'Brien again covered the grave.
! Then, they started on horses &c" tso
District Attorney; only to meet him
on the road bound for the Lewis
farm.
There were 400 men around the
crave. and a silence fell, broken only
by the sound of the diggars. The
District Attorney waited until a
chubby fist stuck out of the ground
and then he again charged Lewis
with murder. Again Lewis denied,
this time more vehemently than be-
fore. Men pressing close and looking
into the grave began to sob and emo
ton spread through the crowd until
the only man apparently unaffected
was Lewis. 1-e stood beside the
grave, his face set like marble, his
mouth irawn -iraight and tight, his
ayes cold and hard and his. fists
clinch- bef~ ) him., ...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24

| The tree lurched so then from the
bears furious climbing that the
| third arrow flew wide of the mark.
| and splintered itself on the stony
| ground.
Lanook dropped his bow, gave a
flying leap, and ran, still without
hope. for his life.
He surprised himself with his RUIZ
ming, and the bear surprised him with
his awkwardness in getting olsen
tangled from the tree. Lanook was
a long way down the slope and buoy
ant with hope before the chase be-
gan. Filled with new strength, he
sped onward like a bird.
The ravine he had chosen for a
runway was smooth-bottomed and
clear of brush; the descent was
gentle-just right for a long, sweep
ing stride. And yet the grizzly
gained, at first by leaps and bounds,
as a rolling rock bears down on one
embedded; then he came on with
lessened speed, but still gaining.
When he was close behind, Lanook's
second wind came, and he began to
pull away from the bear rapidly. He
knew then that the poison from his
arrow-tips was working in the blood
Of his enemy, and hope grew strong
within him.
Had his runway remained clear,
Lanook could have escaped easily,
but fortune favored the bear. For
the ravine suddenly became blocked
with brush. and the Indian narrowly
escaped being caught in a corner.
AS it was, the bear was crowding
him close before he could get out of
the gully.
Here the brush was thinner, but
he had to take a winding course to
avoid bushes and thickets, while his
pursuer crashed straight through or
over everything. The bear was at his
heels in no time, and Lanook, to pro-
tect his head and chest from the
beasts claws, threw himself on his
back and kicked out with both feet.
The grizzly seemed stupid and
sluggish, but nevertheless made a
savage dive at the Indian, and buried
his teeth in his leg just above the
knee. Lanook began throwing dirt
into the enemy's face, whereupon the
grizzly released his leg and caught
him by the forearm. Still undaunted,
the Indian sent a handful of dust and
fine gravel fairly into the brute's
eyes.
Half-blinded, the bear backed
away, paving his eyes furiously.
Lanook filled his fist with dirt, and
lay motionless, waiting. But the
bear never returned to him. He
continued backing about and rubbing
his eyes. and finally retreated into
the thick brush, scratched a'shallow'
hole there, and lay down. There he
was found the next day by Lanook's
tribesmen, stone-dead.
Lanook managed to drag himself
back to the trail, where he was short
ly discovered by another party Of
fishermen. and carried home. Nishka
was found and cared for also. He
had feigned death throughout the
bears attack, and although crippled,
lived to tell his Ichildren's children Of
Lanook, his friend and rescuer, and
Of his battle with the giant grizzly
bear.-From Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
T SLABS PUPIL.
Travers j. Edmunds, of Cheshire
School, Wounds G. o. Freeman.

Waterbury, CoRn.-Frantic with
fear that he was about to be hazed
by his pupils, Travers ]. Edmunds, a
young instruc' r in English at the
famous old Cheshire School, In
Cheshire, stabbed Calvert o. Free
man, of Medford, Mass, a member
of the graduating class. The youth
was sent to the school hospital with
his parents at his side. Tie instruc-
tor was place in the the CUSTODY OF
Constable Daily at the Town Hall.
At the annual pajama dance of h
seniors around the campus bonfire,
several of-the; youths playfully sprang
at Edmunds, who fought vigorously.
Then there was a scream and lung
Freeman came Keeling out OF IT,
melee with two wounds in his back
He was hurried to the fnfrmary'
where It was found he had been
stabbed with an ordinary POCKET
knife.
Instructor Edmunds is a resident
of Lebanon, Ohio. He was gradual
ed from Yale in 1905.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
4 KILLED; 40 INJURED.
N. Y. Central Passenger and Freight
Trains Collide at High Speed.

Rochester, N. Yin a head-on coli
fision between a passenger train and
a freight train on the Auburn Dl-
vision of the New York Central Rail-
road, a mile east Of P~ittsford, four
persons were. killed and forty injured.
Several Of the injured will also die.
The trains were: both running at a
high rate Of speed. The passenger
train was No. 23D and left Rochester
at 1880 o'clock at night. The impact
when the two engines came together
crushed the passenger coaches into
splinters, and men and women were
hurled through the air.
AS soon as news Of the accident
reached this city a special train was
made up, carrying Trainmaster s. F.
Emery and his assistant. Michael
Welsh. On the train were several
physicians. All of the physicians OF
Pittsford were pressed into service.
Among the injured is. Engineer
James Lyon, and also his son, who
was in the cab with him. Both we're
fatally hurt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
HE'S THE WHOLE CREW.
Skipper Hall the Cook and the Mate
and the Bo's'n Bold Of the Angler.

and the Bo'S'n Bold OF the Angler.
Captain Parker J. Hall, of Nam
tucket, skipper of the two masted
schooner Angler, is his own mate,
steward and crew. His stated rea-
sons for it are not that he is moody
or fond of his own company, or that
it is more economical, but simply
that, because of an impeachment in his
speech, he feels that he can think
out and execute his own orders more
rapidly than any crew could under
stand him if he tried to talk.
Captain Hull is a native OF Dux-
bury, Mass, but his home is his
schooner, and on board her his young
wife goes about her housekeeping
duties just the same as she would
were it an ivy grown cottage.
The Angler herself is no chicken,
says the Boston Herald. She was
built in 1854 and her owner found
her an abandoned hulk, half buried
in the sand. He bought her for next
to nothing, fitted her with second
hand spars and began to make a liv-
ing and a name for himself in the
coastWise trade.
His brother mariners find fault
with him for recklessness, on the
ground that his holding irons are not
big enough. Skipper Hall is forced
to put up with anchors much lighter
than those of the average craft of the
Anglers build carries, because it
would be impossible for any one man
to raise the heavy kind unaided.
He recently made a record run
across the Sound under full sail and
came up into anchorage in fine shape,
before the admiring gaze of half the
town. To enter the harbor Skipper
Hall had to make a run through the
heavy ice between the jetties at the
bar. The drift of open water was
very narrow, and the revenue cutter
Gresham ran down to see if she could
be of any possible assistance.
The crew of the Gresham are talk
ing yet Of the surprise their captain
| got when he saw n man bringing a
two Ilasted schooner through the
narrow drift.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Euu Wheat Crop Expected.

With an aggregate wheat prospect
of nearly 635, 900 bushels, as
based on the Governments June re-
mort, there will be no reason to expect
many hungry mouths this year. TO;
be sure, the promise is 10O,00O,0OOl
bushels below last seasons record,
but it is over 100000 above the;
outturn of 1900 and the condition Is
less than four per cent. under the ten
,-oor aynra 90
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
WITCH HANGING.
Home of One of the Victims May
Change Owners.

There is not in all New England
a house having sadder associations
than those that cluster around the
old Rebecca Nourse house, in Dan
vers, Mass, twenty miles from Bos-
ton. One cannot read any extended
account of the terrible witchcraft
days in Massachusetts without find
ing some account Of Rebecca Nourse,
who was taken from this house to die
because she was supposed to be a
witch.
The Nourse house is one of the old
est houses in New England. The
exact date of it's erection is not
known, but it is believed that it was
built as early as the year 1885. The
builder was a man named Bishop,
and he sold it to Francis Nourse. Re-
becca Nourse was the wife of Francis
Nourse. She was arrested in this
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Colby Football Player Drowned.

While boating with a fellow stu
dent and two young women on the
Messalonskee River at Watervllle.
Me-, Oscar B. Peterson, fullback OF
the Colby College football eleven last
fall, was drowned. Peterson n an
other of the party in attempting to
change seats upset the boat. Peter
son was to be graduated next week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Hybrid Golf and Fish Story.

Some time ago a northern golfer
drove a ball q fine, low, skimming
was nearly I'VE a salmon leaped at
the ball and caught it in its mouth.
Such was the pace of the ball that it
carried the salmon on to the rivers
bank, where it was Immediately Sc
cured with the ball tightly wedged
in it's teeth.-Golf illustrated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
BANKERS SENTENCED TO JAIL.
Convicted of Attempt to Defraud
Government as to Lands.

Omaha, Neb.-Because they On,
spired to defraud the Government
out of a half million acres of open
range lands, Thomas M. Huntington
and A. B. Todd, prominent cattlemen
and bankers of this State, were sen,
fenced to pay a fine Of $1,000 and
serve three months in Jail. Fred
Hoyt, indicted and tried at the same
time, was fined $1,000. All three
took appeals at once. Todd Is sixty
Ave years old and in bad health. HIS
attorneys say Imprisonment prac-
tically means death to him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Feminine Notes.

Paris society has been shocked by
a society hostess giving a cockfight
in her conservatory.
Dowager Queen Margaret Of Italy
has offered a cup as a prize for sue
cessful balloon passage of the Alps.
The Women's League and the
United Women Of America were at
war over the platforms of their du-
plicate clubs.
Lawyer Ezra A. Tuttle offered to
give the women teachers, Of New
York $1,000 to form q union to light
for equal pay.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Government Has Secret Report.

A copy of a secret report of the
proceedings of the Advisory Com
mittee of the Immigrant Bureau OF
tho Western Passenger Association
fell into Government hands. 1t sup
piled information on which the
freight and passenger traffic pools OF
the great trunk line railroads and the
Steamship Trust can now be at
tackled.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Hard Times Prediction Disputed

Frank A. Vanderlip, addressing the
Virginia State bankers at the James.
town Exposition. predicted an era o I
hard times, but most business men
interviewed for the New York World
in the various centres Of the United
States saw nothing ahead but con-
tinued prosperity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24

The English wife of a Chinese
magician" summoned him for deser-
ton. He explained that she had
grown so stout that it was now impos-
sible for him to perform his trick OF
turning her into a duck.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
New Government For Des Moines.

BY an overwhelming majority the
citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, have
adopted a new plan of government.
II provides for five elective commits
sioners, one to act as mayor and the
others as heads of departments. All
other officers are made appointVe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
low Bids For Warships.

The bids for the two American
Dreadnoughts, at Washington, D. C.,
we're surprisingly low, the Newport
News and Fore River ~shipbuilding
companies being the probable win
perS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24

Kansas Tornado Kills Two Children.
A tornado at Seminole, Kan, de-
molished the house Of a. Q. Lett, a
farmer, and fatally injured two or
his young children.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
ROCKED BOAT, FOUR DROWNED.
One of a Pleasure Party Cost the
Lives of All at Muskegon-

Muskegon,; Mich.-Gus Hammer,
Ola Pearson, Lydia Olin and Anna
Johnson, all residents OF this CITY,
were drowned in Muskegon Lake.
The four hired a roWboat tor a
trim ON the lake, and it was eapsized.
A marty in a launch passed just be-
fore the accident and declared that
one of the girls was up
rocking the boat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
New Records in Pig Iron.

The production of pig iron contin'
ues making nav ecord without oe'
pressing prices. and the cotton mill.
have contracts assuring activity far
into the future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
PROGRESS i'm Haywood Case.

Judge Wood, at Boise, Idaho, re-
fused the motion Of the defense to
instruct the jury to acquit Haywood.
The State rested it's case.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
General Dufield Dead.

General w. w. Dufie.d, said to be-
Columbia's oldest graduate. died int
Washington, D, C..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-24
Coin Holder.

AS desirable as it may be, it is
nevertheless impossible to stack a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-27
Private Consultation.

Tie members OF the Eecktie Society
held a private consultation and then
lilo Grande said 10 the prisoner: The
fact thet you hev cured Dummy and
lac kin now cuss as fiuently as IN the
Gays Of yOre, is, in our opinion, pow
erful Endorsement. We officially with
draws the charge of feioniOus shootin'
remarks touchin' on Osteopathy air toe
perfound fer US. they air SO fluent
tibet we hand You an invite to perRm-
buIate up &c the bar in a solid pha-
lanx and partaKe of the juice which
enables the consumer to git his optics
on a movin' pictur Of an elepnant and
a mosquito waltizin together across
the prairie to the strains OF sweet mel
oGy''
with that all hands drank to the
health Of Doc Horne. My private opln-
ion OF the affair was that TIE shoot
ing vas accidental bat the keen
vvitted advocate of osteopathy turned
a trick 10 boost his own game. AS to
Doc being a sert Of a nature faker it
might be good idea for Nh. ROoSc-
welt and Nr. Long to remove their
coats. sound the tocsin Of war. and
debate the question with few II the
inimiUable gestures Endorsed by the
Marquis OF QuStnsbervy. Thae Doc
profitvd BY MS act is evidenced IL the
fact that he was BOXED upos IS the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-27
Posed as Preraricatnr.

Besides posing as a fact juggler and
sli-arOund champion prevaricator, Red
Riley boasted loudly OF being some
thing of a WhirlWind and human cy-
clone in the art OF self-defense. and
Bill Askins accepted his challenge TO
meet him in a sluggfng festival. Ac-
cOTding to agreement, the contestants
were not to grab each other by the legs,
although they were permitted to in
dulge In such scientific artistry as bit
ing and gouging. Bill Asklns did not
live up TO the pedal-seizing clause,
and, grabbing Red by the legs, threw
him TO the ground so forcibly that he
was completely oblivious to current
events for several minutes. Rio
Grande Charley. who acted as referee,
ignored the foul, and gave the fight to
Bill. Rio Grande's star as a TOmanceT
had been 'limmed by Reds picturesque
yarns, and he was against his rival
on general principles. The defeated
sIugger- complained bitterly of how he
had been tricked in an imprOmptu ora
ton scintillating with choice expIe-
lives AS a piece Of vituperative
rhetoric 1t burnt holes in anything Of
the kind ever heard west Of the Mis-
souri, river. But Mr.. Riley was IN the
minority, and his efforts came to
nuaght. Bill Askins Dragged so much
about mis- success that Red was
broken-hearted. and one day ne shook
the dust OF the town from his feet.
Before going, however, he vowed that
If he ever got an opportunity Me would
swarm all over Bill. and make him
look as peaked as the last rose Of
summer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-27

ing me IN the Black Bear and brag-
ging about his achievement. One night
he was preparing to launch into some
additional features which he had for
gotten when. to my relief. the arrival
of a stranger checked him ard at
tracted the attention Of ever body
present
The visitor wore the extravagant
clothes affected by the advance agent
OF a medicine show while his long
black hair. mustache. and goatee
gave him the general appearance OF q
loaded dice manipulation. Evening,
gents he said. with the polished air
of a bunco steerer. 'hev you-an any
objections % partaldn' OF a little liba-
ton with a thirsty pilgrim who hez
the price?"
Not while We air conscious" Ee-
piled William Askins, acting as
spokesman for the outfit. Drinks air
never barred 'cept IN the case OF a
boss thief, and jedgin' frum yer STYLE
and lead Of conversation you don't be-
long to that nefarious perfessiOn.'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-27
Cruel to Prisoners From Washington

good financial management 10 derive
as much revenue as possible out OF
their services.
According TO the reports OF the
authorities "a TO the present eXtrava-
CANT methods, Il would be u matter Of
economy for the Government 10 insist
upon tAer- being a modern peniten-
tiary and jail located some distance
east or southeast from the present 10
cation " the iail. where more land
could l,e secured cbeaply. and sell the
present property Tor Industrial OF resi-
SentiaJ PURPOSES. The poor people who
bought their h.uiee IN the section
where the jail was subsequently To-
c3t"J nave been obliged 70 keep them,
.s.i.o one would live near jail II they
could do otherwise. and these people
are obliged 20 endure all the unpleas-
antness Of proximity to a thing so OBJ
jectionablc as Jail and its accessories.
The probabilities are that if judIeious-l
~ managed the present property could
be sold for a sum that would so far
toward liquilating the expense incurred
in buying the land and building a
twentieth century peRitenuary and jail
that would be Of some credit TO the
District OF Columbia, the seat Of ths
Government
Much has been done to make Wash
ington one OF the most beautiful cities
ia the world. and 1t is a sad CONNER
tary tisat the all-impor5ant work of
Furnishing and caring for her morally
diseased citizens has been wholly neg
lectec. and the conditions surround
ing them are exactly what they were
quarter or more Of a century ago.
Render unto Caesar that which is
Caesars is a biblical edict; and is as
obligatory now as when 1t was pro-
mulgatsd centuries past.
Major Sylvester, one OF the ablest
chiefs of police in the United States,
says truly: Crime was, is, and al
ways viii be. and it viii follow in
crease in population and advance with
prosperity in these progressive. II not
extravagant. times. as did excuses
and designations in the period OF an
cient Rome, unless the preventive. de-
tectlve, and penaliziug measures ara
modernized to meet conditions
Washington has recently received =
severe eXcOriatiOn from ex-RTavor
Mac Ficlkar, Of Des MOines, Io,ya- on
account or the condition OF the streets
and sidewalks. IL is difficult TO
ina CINE what he might have safd ba6
ne visited the District jail He would
have assuredly added the isU IN bis
list of things TO be condemned in this
city of the greatest possibilities and
worst results OF any CITY he had ever
visited"
II all enterprising and law-abiding
citlzens VIII exert themselves in bring
ing these all impOrtaut matters bofoTa
Congress, it goes without saving that
Congress WOuiT be willing to apprO-
PIRATE the money TO enable the District
or Columbia 10 keep abreast with
modern humane methods in the hand
ling OF undesirable citizens who violate
the law and must be controlled and
supported at public expense What is
done must be done quickly, or the
results of present methods viii pro
duce such crop of criminals that IL
viii be impossible to restrain OF bet
ter them