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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
EQUANlMlTY JARRED
CAUSES CHINAAIAN
TO HAVE BRAIN STORM.
Former Room Mate of Alleged Slay-
er of Elsie Sigel Confronted by

A dispatch from New York says
the complacency of Chung Sin, once
the room mate of Leon Ling, who Is
wanted for the murder of Elsie Sigel.
| on June 8, went all to pieces Wednes-
Day afternoon, when Arthur Logan,
an expressman. walked into the cell
where Chung Sin is held as more than
material witness, and brusquely
shouted "Hullo."
Logan is the man who carried the
trunk containing the body of the
girl downstairs from Icons room
on the day of the murder. He had
told the police that Chung Sin ia
one OF the men he saw on the ton
ioor of the house. Chung Sin. on
the contrary, has sworn by all his
ancestors that he never saw the trunk
packed or moved.
You are the man." Logan said in
chung Sins presence, who told me
TO take the trunk downstairs care-
tully. There was another slim fel-
20" with you in the room-the same
that came over to the office half an
hour before TO give me the order to
call for the trunk"
All mistake" protested Chung
Sin, never see you before"
The Chinaman's voice broke. and
he shook as in fear as Logan was
led out, still positive in his identif-
cation.
Chung was not kept waiting long
before he had another visitor-this
time Martin Luria. the chauffeur
who drove a Chinaman and q trunk
from the Harlem laundry to a chop
suey restaurant in Newark on the
morning of June 10 The police had
theory that Chung Sin might have
Deen the fare and not Leon Ling.
But Luria could not identify Chung
Sin, and still believes that il was
Leon he had in his taXicab. A LETTER
from Chung Sin. written since his
arrest. TO the Society of the -Four
brothers. was intercepted and trans
lated TO the district attorneys Of
hce. 1t protests that the murder
was done by one man. and that.
therefore, only the murderer should
be held; denounces the authorities
and implorcs aid of all members in
freeing him.
The police believe more and more
that little reliance can be placed
in any of the various rewards and
offers of cooperation promised by
the clans OF Chinatown, and accord
ingly District Attoreny Jerome wrote
John Edincott Gardner. professor OF
oriental language and literature In
the University of the Pacific at San
Jose, Cal, requesting his co-opera-
ton in the case as a Trustworthy
interpreter.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
ROBBERS CORNERED.
Men Who Held Up Canadian Pacific
Train Traced to Mining Tunnel.

Detective Draper, OF Spokane,
Wash. with pack OF bloodhounds,
has traced the Canadian Pacific train
bandits that held up an express train
last week at Kamloops. into an old
mining tunnel at Red Guleh, six
miles east of Ashcroft. British Co
lumbia. Detective Draper has sent
for help, as the two men trapped are
heavily armed and show fight. One
OF the robbers was killed by Con-
stable Rucker. He wore clothes
bought in Spokane. a valise full of
dynamite was found In a boat de-
serted by tho robbers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
LYNCHED IN GUATEMALA.
State Department Demands Thor
ough Investigation.

Demand upon Guatemala for a
thorough investigation into the kill
ing Of William Wright, an American
negro citizen, who was dubbed al
most TO death and then lynched in
Guatemala last December. has been
made by American Minister William
Heimake. at Guatemala City. under
instructions from the State depart
ment. Reports to the department
intimate that the trial of the mans
murderers was farce. and that there
was corruption among the local of
ficials having 10 do with the punish
ment OF the offenders. Guatamala s
reply to the representative of this
government has not been received
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT
Makes Il Preacher Chief OF Police
For One Night.

Mason City. Iowa. is to be policed
for one night by the pastor Of the
Methodist church, DR.. VIII w. Carl
ton. For this one night he will be
the chief. The force will obey his
instructions to the letter.
Mayor Kirschman has promised
that he would prosecute all cases
brought before him by the preacher
policeman.
When Mayor Kirsohman was elect
ed to the position. he. 1T is said. 4.
rendered the position OF chief of po-
lico to Or. Carlton. Or. Carlton re-
fused.
Many persons arc not now pleased
with the general tore of the city
at night time, so the preacher was
asked to see what he could unearth.
There will be no public announce
ment made of the night when the
minister is to police the city.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
SPREADS TYPHOID
SUCH IS THE CHARGE MADE
AGAINST MARY MALLON
Who Is Confined to a Cottage and
Not Allowed to Associate With
Amy One.

In Mary Mallon the New York
health authorities have an unusual
prisoner on their hands. Typhoid
Mary" as she Is known. because Of
her alleged habit of communicating
the fever to others. although i'm
mune herself. Is q prisoner in a small
cottage which she occupies all by
herself on North Brother Island.
where contagious diseases are treat
ed. She is now seeking her freedom
through the courts.
About two years ago, when Miss
Mallon was cook in the family of
j. Clayton Drayton, the butler and
two maids suffered from typhoid fe-
YER and in investigating the case the
health inspectors reported that Miss
Mallon. although, herself immune,
had spread the disease to the other
servants. Following her case farth-
er back they declared that typhoid
fever had appeared at nearly every
place in which she had lived.
On this evidence the woman was
seized and sent to North Brother Is
land, where she has since remained
in the strictest isolation, although
not at all i'll. Her meals have been
passed through a window of her cot
tage to her and she is permitted to
associate with no one.
Miss Mallon, through her attorney,
declares that she does not communi-
cate typhoid fever and that her case
is somewhat similar 10 that of John
\. Early. whom the Washington au-
thorities have isolated under suspic-
ion of being a leper
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
FOUGHT ABOUT 4 WOMAN.
Who Gets Killed in the Row Between
the Two Men.

J. w. Mayes. n locomotive en-
gineer. and Robert Culbertson, both
Of Norton, Va. fought duel in the
streets of Middlesboro late Tuesday
night. Anna Hayes. over whose af-
fections the men were jealous. was
shot twice during the night and is
dying. Mayes was shot twice and
cannot live. Culbertson escaped with
1 serious wound in the arm. Mayes.
mortally wounded. fed after the
shooting. and when the police and a
posse overlook him. is said to have
attempted suicide by jabbing his
throat with a pocket knife.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Killed by Lightning,

Maffett Parker and Neil Latman.
two boys OF North Birmingham. Ala.
were killed by lightning this after
noon. The bodies wore found under
large tree and tho body of their
favorite dog was lying between them.
The boys were IL and Il years old
respectively.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
BURGLAR KILLS POLICEMAN.
Caught In Act of Forcing Entrance
To- Store-Shots Exchanged.

At Chicago Policeman Henry
Schnadle was killed Thursday by
burglar he was attempting to ar
rest.
The burglar, who is thought to
be a negro. was forcing an entrance
to a store at wabash avenue and
Thirty-fourths street when surpriS-
cd by the policeman.
In an exchange of shots the po-
liceman was wounded. dying a few
minutes later. His assailant is also
thought to be wounded.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Three Fatally Injured.

An eight-year-old newsboy. an
eleven-year-old Office hoy and a for
ty-eight-year-old CRIPPLED man. were
probably ali fatally injured a few
nights ago by being run down by au-
tomobilos at Pitsburg. Pa. Only in
one instance that of the newsboy.
did the driver of the machine stop 20
md out how badly his victim had
been hurt.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08

total output of shingles last year.
Among the other shIngle producing
States. Michigan. Louisiana. Maine.
and California were the most impor-
tant. The shingles cut in Michigan
and Maine are chiefly of white cedar.
those in Louisiana of cypress. and
those in California OF redwood.
Laths are generally by-product of
lumber manufacture. and are made
TO some extent from almost every
wood that is cut into lumber. Among
tho kinds of lath which are most
proinent are white pine. Douglas hr.
spruce. yellow pine. cypress and hem
lock.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Sudden Death.

Aiken was again startled and sur
prised Tuesday morning by the sud
den death OF Mrs. Julia B. Kennedy,
who dropped dead while combing
her hair before u looking glass at
hcr resideDco there. This is tho
third sudden death of prominent
women In Aiken in few weeks
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Good Place for Them.

At Chicago Wednesday 5S1
weapons which the police have con-
fiscated in the last six months were
cast into the lake. Tho city tug
took the police department custo-
dian beyond the three-mile limit and
he dropped overheard the revolvers.
dirks. slung-shots. knives and other
deadly weapons in thirty feet of wa
for
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Killed by Bomb.

Marie Bakhtadze. who has becn
prominent as an agent OF the, po-
litical police OF Tifiis. Siberia. was
killed by a bomb that had been sent
10 her nv an unknown person In a
basket OF cherries.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
vICTORS ALIBI
WILL NOT BEAR
INVESTIGATION
Was Not Seen at Condo Nor
on Train From That Place
to Worthwhile.

Aberdeen, s. D., July 12-TheTe is
nothing left to the alibi set up by Emil
Victor to show that he was in Condo
when the Christie family was muir
dered at Rudolph last Saturday morn-
ing.
States Attorney Van Slyke fails to
find anyone at Condo who knows Vic
tor or recalls the visit OF any such
appearing man there at the time he
claims to have been there, and likewise
the trainmen fail to recall anyone
answering his description riding on the
train from Condo to Worthwhile on the
day in question.
On the other hand, the route OF the
murderer has been traced all the way
from the farm where the murder was
committed to Worthwhile, where Victor
was arrested, mi several parties
identified Victor as a party whom they
met at points between Rudolph and
Worthwhile.
The accused man has not yet secured
counsel, and claims TO be unable to
bear the expense of securing any N
TO defend his case, and the court has
yet taken action in the matter.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
MURDER SUSPECT
WINCES UNDER A
CHARGE or CRIME
Victor Is Young Man With q
Hard Face-Claims Can
Prove an Alibi.

Aberdeen, S. ID, July 9-The funerals
OF the members OF the Christie family,
murdered at Rudolph last Saturday,
win be held tomorrow (Thursday). To-
day the bodies lay In state at the es-'
Enlistment of a local undertaken and
were viewed by hundreds OF people.
The bodies will eventually be shipped
to the former home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Christie, In New Brunswick.
Emil Victor, accused of the murder.
who was arraigned yesterday. his pre-
liminary trial being set for next Mon
day, June IL, il q smooth faced, blue
eyed young man of %. His face bears
a tough look, but is by no means
that of a hardened criminal. Beyond.
swallowing convuIsively a time or two.
when the word murder" was men.
toned in reading the complaint against
him, the prisoner manifested no emo.
tion.
Victor has asked the court to supply
him with an attorney and claims that
he will be able to prove he was mi
Condo when the crime was committed
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
FATHER N MOTHER,
BROTHER AND SISTER,
GIVE LIVES FOR GIRL

wellington, Colo, July 9.-The family OF
George H.. Fuller was almost wiped out
by quintuple drowning while fishing IND
picnicking at q big reservoir near here.
Gladys, a girl OF IL, leaned too far to take
a fish from her hook and fell into the
water, which was 10 feer deep at thai
place. Her brother John, aged IA, pluckily
dove to save his sister.
He missed her, and getting tangled up
in weeds, was unable to swim out. His
sister Ellen, aged IA, plunged into the
water, hoping to rescue the others, but:
quickly went down. The mother jumped
into the water in a frenzied effort to save
her children, but her clothes weighted her
and as she went under she called her
husband, who was a hundred yards away.
He hurried to the scene and diving,
caught hold OF HIS wife, but she clasped
him, p~inioning one arm so that, although
he was strong and a good swimmer. he
could not get free. and the couple went
down together.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
HAIL DAMAGE I'M
LINCOLN COUNTY

Hudson, 8. D.. July IA hail storm
OF unusual severity visited this sec
ton last evening about s o'clock and
wrought heavy damage over the linn
tied territory covered.
The storm came from the southwest,
covering an area nearly a mile wide,
destroying all kinds of growing grain
and inflicting sever injury on fruit
and gardens, Three losses have been
reported so far from the country, while
in town windows were broken, trees
denuded of their foliage and fruit and
much other subordinate damage
wrought. The full extent of the storm
is not YET known, but the damage will
foot up several thousand dollars.
Corn in the territory covered by the
storm was badly riddled, but It is
thought that 1T may partially recover
from the effects of the hail.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
TAFT GIVES OUT
PLANS FOR TRIP

Philadelphia, July 12-President Taft,
ON his way back to Washington, spent
an hour reading the newspaper ac-
counts OF the final tariff fight in the
Senate. The president expressed him
self as deeply gratifed that the bill had
gotten through the Senate.
President Taft announced today
some of the tentative plans for his trip
west in the fall. He also wrote to
President Diaz, OF Mexico, that he
would be glad to meet him at Ell Paso,
probably on October Is. The president
expects to start west on his SID BIRTH
day, September Is. He will head from
Beverley for Seattle, stopping at Dem
yer, Salt Lake and Spokane on the way.
From Seattle the president will go to
Portland, thence to San Francisco to
Los Angeles, where he will visit his
sister; to San Diego, to New Mexico
ard Arizona, to Texas. where he Will
spend several days on G. p. Taft's
ianch near Corpus Christi; to Hous-
ton; to New Orleans, stopping for a
time la The Teche country Of Louis
lana; TO Jackson, Miss; to BirIning-
ham. Montgomery, to Macon, Ga; to
Augusta, 70 Savannah. to Wilmington,
N. q, to Richmond, Va, and then to
Washington.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
FROM IMMIGRANT TO
ACCEPTED sUIToR OF
NoBLEMAN'S DAUGHTER

Columbia, s. c.. July 9-From immi-
grant to accepted sutton Of the daugh-
ter of q nobleman would seem a far
cry, but 1t is the story Of a young
Belgian, who came to this country but
q brief three a ago.
State Commissioner Of Immigration
Watson has received from John Fer
man Famaey an announcement OF his
"official engagement" to the daughter
of Baron de Colgyan Delwaynen, Of
Holland, and the wedding is soon to
take place.
The groom-elect came over In the
Wittekind in a party which Commits
sioner Watson landed at Charleston.
Famaey had shown remarkable apti-
tude in learning English, for all practi-
cal purposes during the voyage from
Europe. Soon he was able to discharge
the duties to the commissioner q posi-
ton he soon re~ljnquished to take a bet
ter one in New York. He is now secre-
tary to the manufacturer of a type
writer and earning a large salary.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
cHILDREN's SUICIDES IN
FRANCE CAUSE ALARM

Paris, July 13.--Not for many years have
The people of France, and particularly the
citizens OF Paris, been so aroused over
problems relating to the French children
as they are today over the alarming ex-
tent to which young children between the
ages Of IA and 16 years have been COM
hitting suicide.
Within the last month nine children, APP
parently without cause lave deliberately
put an end to their lives. While the po-
lice n the other public authorities were
attempting to unearth a reason for the
childreD's mania for self-destruction,
Maurice Barres, playwright author and
deputy, representing the department OF
the Seine, in which Paris is located, made
an impassioned speech before the cham
Der, in which he attributed the whole sui
cidal tendency to the teachers In the pub
lie schools.
The impression made by Barres' speech
has caused an investigation to begin.
Those who incline to Barres' belief in
the matter and his explanation Is now
the generally accredited one, feel that the
investigation into the curriculum OF the
public schools should be thorough and
Impartial and prosecuted until IT will be
possible for those in authority to sug-
gest proper n remedial changes In
methods.
Though the investigation up to date has
been very limited. it has already been
ghown that in the Clermont school, a
boys institution in Paris, there existed a
suicide club, as complete in its ramifca-
tons as the mythical organizations of
similar nature related in stories OF the
most morose authors. A few days after
the organization of the club, the first
Drawing was made, and the boy who
got the death-inviting slip blew out his
brains. g
Scarcely had the revolver dropped from
his fingers to the floor. when the victims
companion picked 1t up and declared ii
could be used again. Parents of the boys
attending clermont school are terror
stricken.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
MAN MAY READ OF
HIS OWN DEMISE

klsen, s.. D., July 12.-Nels p. Swan
son, of Garfield township, this county,
who was yesterday reported dead, is
alive to read the account of his mys-
terious demise and the suspicious that
hover about his taking away.
Mrs. Charles Swanson. a daughter
Inlaw, is dead. however, at the home
OF the aged man. and whether her
death was caused by poison self-ad-
ministered or coming from outside
sources, the officers now investigating
will seek to determine. The
and her husband had made their Gome
with the old man since their marriage
five years ago, and are known to have
had much trouble with him, owing to
acquired Il large fortune and being ac-
counted one of the richest men in the
state, Swanson las lived like n in
penury t
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
STATE CHEMIST rs
EXPERT ANALYST
OF PURE WHISKY

Brookings, s. ID, July l3.-Professor
James III. Shepard, head OF the chem
lstry department. OF the state college,
left Friday night for Washington, d.
c., where he acted as one OF the prin-
cipal witnesses in the inquiry before
President Taft upon the question Of
pure whisky.
Professor Shepard appeared in be-
half OF all the states, he having been
selected for the important work by the
National Pure Food association, which
Is an organization OF the pure food
commissioners and chemists OF every
state in the union, and shows the con-
idence reposed in him by the other
experts OF the country.
Professor Shepard is. perhaps the
best qualified man in this or any other
country on the subject OF whisky. He
has made II a life study and his defini-
ton of what constitutes a pure whisky
has been adopted as the standard the
world over.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
HURON SCORES POINT
IN TELEPHONE CASE

Huron, S. D., July 10.-A feeling of
satisfaction is manifest here over the
result OF the case OF the city of Huron
against the Dakota Central Telephone
company, heard before Judge Garland
in federal court at Sioux Falls a
few days since. In a letter to City
Attorney Mouser, Judge Garland says:
"As the case of the city OF Huron VS..
the Dakota Central Telephone COM
pany has proceeded to Judgment, the
same cannot be dismissed or its con-
~tinuance enjoined.
This being all that was asked for
by the order to show Issued in
the case of the Dakota Central Tele-
phone company VS.. the city OF Huron,
1T results that the order must be dis
charged"
With this decision the authority has
been placed with the federal court and
the injunction of Judge Taylor will re-
main n force. The only relief that
the Dakota Central Telephone COM
.pany might now hope to get would
be to appeal to the supreme court.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
TIGHTENING
ABOUT ACCUSED MAN
Tried to Sell Al Caiber Gun
at Conde-Appeals to Pa
rents for Help.

Aberdeen, g. D., July 13.-Emil vic.
Tor, accused OF the murder OF the Chris
tie family, has sent an appeal to his
aged parents at East Aurora, N. Y, for
assistance in defending himself against
the charges OF murder. He has asked
States Attorney Van Slyke &c appeal
to his parents and to his brother and
sister In the east for aid.
j. q. Rounds, a hardware dealer at
Condo, s. d., states that Victor, a short
time before the murder, tried to sell
him a second hand 41-caliber revolver,
but he refused because OF it's odd SIZE.
The Christies were shot with 41-caliber
bullets.
Prisoner Tells Of Parents.
To q Catholic priest who visited him
In his cell in the county jail, Emil Vic
tor conflded that his parents reside at
East Aurora, N. r., and that he is OF
Irish and German parentage, but is not
"a Catholic. Victor previously had
claimed Lhat his father was a large
dry goods merchant in Buffalo.
Through the efforts OF Sheriff John
Anderson and States Attorney L. T.
Van Slyke, witnesses have. been dis
covercc who will testify that Victor
was seen in Rudolph the night before
the murder. It also develops that the
prisoner RAJ fond OF practicing with
q pisrol, ard was an expert shot with
that weapon.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
CHRISTIE MURDERER
HAD AN ACCOMPLICE
Prisoner Not Prepared to Make
Defense and Trial Is
Postponed.

Aberdeen, s. d, July .14.-Hundreds
Of farmers from the vicinity Of Rudolph
hurried into Aberdeen at an early hour
this morning to attend the preliminary
hearing Of Emil Victor, charged with
the murder OF the Christie family.
When court convened at 10 o'clock,
Attorney Van Slyke stated that Victor
had not yet heard from relatives and
TO postpone the trial indefinitely. The
court granted the motion. Victor was
not brought into court at all. Public
feeling against the prisoner In the VI
entity OF Rudolph Is extremely bitter,
though the belief Is growing that Vic
tor Is not alone In the deed, but had an
accomplice.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-15
BOY is DROWNED
WHILE IN BATHING

Dallas S. D., July 12.-While bathing
in O dam on Thunder creek, in the
north central portion of Trip county,
Ora Lenker, a young man, was drown
ed and two boys named Medema, sons
of K. Medema, a homesteader in Trip
county, narrowly escaped meeting q
similar fate, being rescued only after
a heroic effort on the part OF q man
named Morehouse, who was a member
of the party. A number OF men and
playing ball On a homestead neal the
creek, and after the days sport they
went to the lam for the purpose of en-,
joying a swim. The Medema boys and
young Lenker were in the water only
a short time when they were taken
with cramps. Lenker speedily lost
control OF his muscles and sank to his
death. He was Is years of g and
was very popular among the young
men of about his w age.