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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
SHOOTS TWO MEN,
One Is Dead and the Other May
Not Recover.
"A Tragedy i'm Pittsburg-Twin Broth
ers Fired Upon Because They De-
manded Order i'm Their Hotel.


manded Order i'm Their Hotel.
At Pittshurg, Pa. Ludwig C. Scze-
giel, said to be an unattached Polish
priest of Chicago, walked in a hotel
early Thursday morning and without
warning, it is said, whipped out a
.3S calibre revolver and opened fire
upon the two proprietors, twin broth
ers named Steven and Andrew Star
znyski. Steven died within an hour
and Andrew may not recover The
cause OF the shooting is unknown.
When SczegieI came to Pittsburg
about ten days ago he went to the
hotel kept by the brothers, accompa-
MED by woman whom he introduced
as his housekeeper. They secured an
apartment of two rooms. The woman,
Francisco Sprock, is held as suspi-
cious person. She denies all knowl-
edge of the shooting.
Sczegiel. 1t is said had been drink
ing. Mrs. Starzynski, wife of Andrew.
said that about 10 minutes before
the shooting her husband had repri-
manded the pair for making a dis
turbance. He then rejoined his
brother in The dining room, where a
few minutes later, she says, the priest
appeared.
Sczegiel applied Wednesday to the
rector of st. Adelbert's Polish Catho-
lie church for employment as assist
ant, but the request was refused.
Francisco Sprock, the priests fea-
male companion, stated that she had
only come to Pittsburg on Tuesday
and was on her way to visit brother
in Cambria county. The police are of
the opinion that she had no hand in
the shooting.
The priest was committed to Jail
on a charge of murder. while the wo-
man was held as a witness.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
SERIOUS WRECK.
Four Persons Were Killed and Three
Seriously Hurt.

-Four persons are dead and three
very seriously injured as the re-
suit of a head-on collision between
4 southbound local freight and an eX-
ira train on the Western and Allan
;ic railroad, one mile north of Dalton,
Ga, at o'clock Thursday afternoon.
rhe dead:
Engineer j. l.. Heggie. of South
bound train, Tunnel Hill, Ga.
Fireman John Roach, Dalton, Ga
G.. +. Colbert, brakeman.
Tom Bartenfield, brakeman, Dal-
,on, Ga.
The injured:
j. b. Killibrew. engineer north
bound train, seriously.
Dilbeck, brakeman, Dalton
Cooper, brakeman.
Fireman Suddeth of the eXtri
rain who escaped by jumping saic
hat the collision was caused i,y tn,
allure of his train crew to read thoil
)rderS.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
THE DEADLY AUTO.
Two Men Killed and Two Injured In
Accident.

A race between two big autom1-
biles between Milwaukee and Okou-
chez, a distance of about % miles,
with a supper and $25 as the stakes,
Thursday ended in frightful acci-
dent to one of the cars, RESULT lg
in the death OF two of its occupants
and the painful though not fatal in
jury of two others. The machine
collided with a bridge over Elm
creek, 10 miles west OF milwaukee.
The wrecked car is owned by Alder
man John Koener, Whine Frank Nal
dern owns the other machine, which
reached its destination in safety.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Killed His Wife and Himself a,
Roanoke, Va.

7. j. Wingfield, aged 90, Thursday
shot and killed his wife, aged 25, and
committed suicide by her dead body
In the Wingfield home in Roanoke,
Va. Wingfield left note in which
he said he would kill his wife and
himself. giving as his reasons for the
act that another man had invaded
his home.
The couple quarreled on back
porch and after going into the dining
room Wingfeld fired two shots
through his wife's brain. He picked
up the dead body and carried 1t to a
bedroom where he placed ii on a bed
Standing over the bed of the woman,
Wingfield cut nis throat, the knife
with which he severed his jugular
vein dropping on the cheek of the
wife. Wingfield fell to the floor and
died instantly.
The Wingfelds came a week ago
from Hagerstown, Md. Wingfield
had been running on the Baltimore G.
Ohio railroad, with which company
he was employed as brakeman.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
ANOTHER GONE WRONG.
CoIored Postmaster Arrested for
Making False Returns.

The postmaster at Port Royal, S.
ID. Jones, a negro, is charged by the
postal inspection officials with embex-
element and making false returns to
the auditor at Washington. Jones is
from Beech Island, near Augusta, and
was working in the shops at the
naval station when his appointment
was made about three years ago. He
is a civil service man. Saturday
night Jones sent a friend for large
quantity of laudanum, but the drug
gist insisted on a written order and
this the friend refused to give. Since
this time Jones has been carefully
watched
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
TROOPS COMMIT CRIME.
The Turks Invade Persia and Burn
Several Villages.

The latest advices from the from
tier say that the Turkish troops.
which recently crossed the northwest
frontier of Persia are marching on
Urmuiah, burning and devastating
villages along the route. The Chris
tiaD village of Mevan is reported to
have been shelled and ninety persons,
including many women and children,
are said TO have been killed. Ten
girls were carried off. Panic prevails
at Urumiah.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
BECOMES HIS HEIR.
Chinaman Adopts White Boy as
His Own.

Through a document filed in the
Office of the recorder of deeds of
Schuylkill county, Pa. Charlie Sing.
"A Chinese laundryman. becomes the
foster father of Charles Hunt. a white
boy of Philadelphia parentage. The
boys mother. grandmother. and
great-grandmother all of PhiIadel-
phia, are parties to the agreement.
They agree that the boys name shall
become Roy 500 Sing. that Charlie
Sing shall be his father and in return
the boys becomes the legal heir OF the
laundryman.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
MURDER AND SUICIDE
A Woman Is Killed by a Man Who
Killed Himself.

Mrs. laura Ray. proprietress of the
Success Inn" a popular boarding
house in Asheville. was shot five
times and almost instantly killed
shortly before noon Thursday, by
Robert Murdoch, keeper of a stall In
the market house. who after emptine
his weapon into the woman's body
deliberately reloaded and fred three
shots into his own heart.
The tragedy occurred at the board
ing house on busy street and esus-
Nd intense excitement. Murdocx was
ensuefed with Mrs. Ray, who was
Respectable woman. and repeliea his
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
WAVE OF CRIME.
The Record In New York Is Just
Awful.

There have been 216 attacks on
women and girls in Greater New
York since May 4th, and only eight
convictions. The record OF this three
months Is without parallel in the his
tory of the city. Each day adds it's
quota, and witnesses growing anger
s)n the part OF the public. The fig-
ures. given are for cases reported TO
the police. Undoubtedly there are
attacked kept the facts secret in or
der to avoid publicity.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
SHOULD SWING.
An Appeal That Should BE Promptly
Turned Down.

Mrs. Forrest Gooding, of Washing
ton, the young woman upon whom an
attack was made near Alexandria.
Va, several days prior to her mar
riage. by Joseph Thomas, alias
Wright, colored, now under sentence
of death for the crime has personal
ly appealed to Governor Swanson
for the commutation of the sentence
of the prisoner to life Imprisonment.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
KILLED HIS WIFE.
The Awful Crime of An Aged North
CaroIinian.

Near Kent, N. c.. Pasom Goodwin,
aged 73 years, fonowing a quarrel
with his wife, shot ksr dead We'd
nesday. He escaped and the sheriff
is pursuing him with blcoa-ounds.
Goodwin Is armed with rife.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
CANOES GOT TANGLED.
Two Young Men Drowned In Race
In Ohio.

At Defiance, Ohio, We canoe rae
ing on the Maumee river Thursday,
the boats of Karl Krotz and Victor
Mansfield became entangled and both
men were thrown into the water and
drowned. The bodies were recover
ed
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
TIED THE JAILER.
Daring Act OF Youthful White Pris-
oners I'm Mayfieid, Ky.

Noah Coffee and John Frazier. two
young white boys in jan at Mayfield,
KY, charged with store breaking, fas-
tened the Keeper in jail and escaped
over the walls. 1t was an hour be-
fore the paiier wss released.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-08-15
MOB RAIDS
A So-CaIIed Witchcraft Sect.
Rurling Bomb In Meeting.
OLD PURITANIC WAY.

Inc Church Members Rise to Save
Pemberwick Hamlet, Conn. From,
Hypnotist-Thc Mother of a
Youth Who Fell Under Evange-
lists Spell Leads Attack ON tbo
House Where Meetings We're Held
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

and it is aggravating in it's illustration of their faith in the printed word, ag- gravating because that faith cannot stand too much deception, and is a most important and indeed funda- mental element of an honest newspa- pers opportunity. In my own city, very many copies, I am told thousands, of New York evening newspapers, marked in big type 10 o'clock edition are sold by the newsboys every night. These are for sale at 9:15 on the arrival of the train that left New York at 6 o'clock. l suppose those printed at the same time and going on the same train that ride an hour longer on their way to Springfield are dated Il o'clock edi- ton to maintain a corresponding fresh- ness on arrival in that city. Every person who knows enough to spell out the words of the big red headlines knows that these are palpable frauds, that there isn't a line in them that was set after o'clock. On reading them he finds that there is no news in them that was not in his own home newspa- pers published at 4 o'clock and not a tenth as much news.
 Tt Is reasonable to believe, and there are tangible evidences of it, that the public as a whole is learning, per haps by experience, perhaps by gradual increase of intelligence to draw it's own line of distinction between the news p9per made simply to sell to the acci- dental buyer on the street corner and that which is made to sell tS a regular clientele, because it is worth buying between the sensational press and the trustworthy press, between an acci- dental constituency and a substantial circulation.
 The vital question in editing a news paper is what to print. The public taste covers so wide a variety that no one standard is possible. Newspapers are often criticised for the publication of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

interposed by Mir. Delmas for the de- fense to a question asked Dr. Wagner by MT. Jerome. The district attorney wanted the witness to repeat certain conversations he had with Thaw in the Tombs. MT. Delmas protested that he had not been allowed to go into these converse tions on direct examination. He was proceeding at soc length to state the position of the defense when Mr. Jerome interrupted with the re- mark that the argument did not call for stump speech" MT. Delmas protested against this offensive lan- guage by the learned district attor- ney" Justice Fitzgerald interposed In the discussion and MT. Delmas was soon lost to view because of the turn affairs took.
 During the course of his argument District Attorney Jerome placed him self on record by saying that the legal assumption before the court to-day is that Harry K. Thaw is insane. He declared the alenists for the defense have shown Thaw to have been in- sane as late as September p last, and in the absence of proof to the contrary the assumption is that he remains in sane.
 Justice Fitzgerald declared that the present jury only has to do with the question of Thaw's sanity or insanity or the night that he shot and killed Stanford White.
 pr. wagner was allowed to give his conversations with Thaw during the period that he believed the defendant to be of unsound mind. He said Thaw remembered having approached and having shot White He protested, how eyer, that he had not intended at any time to kill the man but wanted to have him legally punished.
 Much of the day was given. over to technical questions concerning the mental and physical examinations to which Thaw was subjected in the Tombs by Drs. Wagner and Evans. The testimony was of the dryest sort and both judge and jury maintained atti- tudes of weariness during It's progress. Thaw displayed absolutely no concern one way or another. He did, however listen intently to the war of words between Justice Fitzgerald and District Attorney Jerome.
 l During some of the long explanations offered by the alienist MT. Jerome 1 walked restlessly to and fro and once sat down near the newspaper men and entered into conversation with them.
 The scope of the cross examination seemed limitless, extending even to hall lucinations of the taste and Illusions and hallucinations of smell. Dr. Wag- ner declared that when there were such Authorizations in a subject they were indicative of serious brain disorder Thaw, it developed, however, had no such hallucinations or illusions,
 In answering to some of the ques- tions propounded by the district att torney Dr. Wagner said he was com pelled to use long names,
 Go ahead" said the prosecutor.
 The expert proceeded. The official stenographer squirmed and most of the jurors laughed heartily.
 "I can't help it, explained pr. Wag- Ter, as if in apology for the longest named he uttered.
 T know you cant" said Mir. Jerome; 'you go right ahead where you feel l like ;t, {"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER WEDNESDAY MARCH

stories of crime, but they are a part or the news of the day and must be printed. The first piece of news that came out of the garden of Eden was of @ crime, and the second was of murder. Crime is therefore an old story, but it is always a new story, too. But beyond this the newspaper does a very large duty to public morality in exercising this right of publication and in stand ing guard ready to expose wrongdoing. There is no doubt that this has inn portant effect in deterring people who but for fear of that exposure might venture upon crime"
 Speaking of the work on newspa- per. he said:
 There is a general notion among the young men in the business that when they have an article printed on the ed itorial page they have had their hands on the lever that moves the world. It is true that editorial writing is the best paid work in the editorial department. | It calls for more knowledge, more read | ing, judgment and wider experience than the rest But I am frank to say 1 that if I wanted to arouse a commit nifty I would rather write 9 story in the reporters department than attempt to thunder on the editorial page It isn't merely that ten people read the report er's story to one who reads the editorial it is rather that the editorial has more or less the quality of an opinion, while the well-told story of the report CT is the picture, the thing itself, seri- ous with the gravity of its own sermon l or light, and smiling with the evident but unobtrusive humor of its amusing situations. There is no better writing than clever reporting, no other so ef- feetive
 We hear great deal about news paper English. Some people, have l inferred, use the term derisiyely, but let them take note of ordinary conver- sation and let them study batch of business letters, and then see if the English of the newspaper isn't, after all, the best to be found outside of books, and better than that which is in some books Of course it has its vag- aries. We are told of accidents in which this man receives a fractured jaw, and that one 'sustains' broken leg, without being told to whom those useful accessories belonged in the orig inal scheme of creation. The reporter returning from a fire writes that ten souls perished in the fames'-the very | thing that our Puritan ancestors re- joiced to believe could not happen to even the worst of souls. The other day read that a distrusted bank was really as solvent as Gibraltar, which both the British empire and the man agement of the bank would be justi- fled in resenting. But such details are the exceptions, and they come out of conversation"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
Billiard Tournament.

New York, March 1.-Two games were played to-day in the national amateur billiard championship tourna- ment, which began yesterday at the Laederkranz club. Both were interest irg, the first, between Conllin and Gardner, because of it's -closeness, 300 to 299, and the second between Mial and Poggenburg for the surprise it furnished in the defeat of the former national amateur champion. The score for the second game was 300 to 200.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

District of New Haven, ss. Probatl
 Court, March 9th, 1907.
 ESTATE OF SILASF E. BURROWS, late
 of New Haven, in said District de-
 ceased
 An instrument in writing, purporting to be codicil to the last will and tes- lament of said deceased, having been presented in Court and The illinois Trust Co and H. Stuart Hotchkiss of New Haven, having made written ap- plication praying that the same may be probated, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED That said application be heard and determined at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District. on the 18th day of March, 1907, at two-thirty o'clock in the after noon, and that public notice of the pen dency of said application, and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given to all parties interested in said estate, by publishing this order three times in a newspaper having a circu- lation in said District.
 By the Court,
 me St JOHN L. GIBSON. Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
DEATHS.

MERWIN--In this city, March 5. 1907, samuel E. Merwin, in the 76th year of his age.
 Funeral services will be held at St.. Paups Church, on Thursday after noon, at half-past 3 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend. Kindly omit flowers. mo 2t JoNAs-In this city. March 1907, simon F, Jonas.
 Funeral services will be held at the residence of his son, William M. Jonas, No. 26 Woolsey street, on Wednesday evening, March 6, at o'clock. Burial private. me 1t* PLATT-In this city, March 4, 1907, William Platt. in the S1st year of his age.
 Funeral services will be held at his late residence, No. 53 Summer street. on Thursday afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. Friends are invited to at tend, m5 2t REYNOLDS-In West Haven, March 4, 1907, James H. Reynolds, in the GSth year of his age
 Funeral services will be held at his late residence, No. 324 Main street, West Haven, on Wednesday afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. Friends are invited to attend. ms 2t
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
ACT DE NEW HAVEN PAVING
 COMMISSION.

Hartford, March 5.-senator Blakes- lee of New Haven introduced the sub stitute bill this morning amending the act establishing a paving commission in New Haven, approved April 1T, 1901. The amendment provides that the com mission shall determine upon what streets or portions of streets permanent pavements shall be laid and at what time such pavements shall be laid. Public hearings will be required before the decisions are reached by the com mission. Benefits and damage shall he laid under the control of the court of common council and assessed by the bureau of compensation of the city for or against all owners of property abut- ting upon or adjoining the streets on which the pavements are constructed, which assessments for such benefits shall not exceed per lineal foot of frontage 75 cents for each pavement, if of granite blocks, 50 cents for asphalt, 50 cents for Hassam pavement and 25 cents for crushed stone The restoring of pavement shall be done by the department of public works and the expense shall be paid to the collec- tor of taxes by the person or corpora ton by whom such pavebent was taken uI1,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

then went to a store on Chapel street
 where they opened the till and drew out large sum of money. From there they continued to the Boardman build ing, where they entered the office of Frederick E. Hartshon, after inquir- ing at the office of John Wolf, furrier, and Albert Macoverty, jeweler, for in- formation and direction, In MT. Harts- horns roo mthey asked to write their
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
COLORED BOY CHARGED.

Wallace Smith Accused by Student of
 Theft.
 Wallace Smith, of 97 Webster street, a colored boy employed by the Univer- sity Suit Pressing company, was ar rested yesterday by Campus Policeman J. H. Donnelly on charge of theft The charge is brought by H. D. Noble, an academic junior, who rooms at 2S7 Durfee hall.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

names and one of them in some slight of hand fashion got away with the stenographer's pocketbook containing a diamond ring woth about $50., hand bag and other minor articles. The men left in hurry and the police were mo- tifed, and they were followed. No trace has yet been found regarding the thieves.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06
GIRL BABY'S
 AWFUL ECZEMA
Sight of Eye Destroyedby Disease Tried Five Doctors but Grew Worse -In Agony Eight Months Parents Discouraged, Until They Tried Cuticura Remedies
IN ONE WEEK ALL
 SORES DISAPPEARED

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-06

THE FOX-HON1AN CONTROVERSY
 Senators Charles B. waller and Arch ibald McNeil have agreed, at the re- quest of George L. Fox of New Haven, not to initiate steps in regard to the case of Senator Franklin l. Homan until after the report of the judiciary committee has been reached. Should the report on MT. Foxs petition be favorable and the legislature passes the bill asked for by MT. Fox, the case will be taken out of the hands of the senate and will be adjusted in the New Haven courts. If an adverse report is madc by the judiciary committee Senato Romans rights will be 8 subject to ! taken up at the discretion of the cor mittee on contested elections.