Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-29
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not guilty. Inc anilouncehiehl VI tiS
verdict was greeted with cheers, the
court room being transformed into q
scene of wild confusion. Women
friends and relatives Of the prisoner
crowded around him and wept from
sheer 10y. When Judge Council had
succeeded in restoring order, he thank
ed the jurors for their work and ad-
journed court.
Atlanta, Ga, June &c: Joseph M
Brown, was at noon today inausurateo
governor Of Georgia to succeed Hoke
Smith, whom he defeated for re-eiec-
ton In the primaries in 1908. Chiei
Justice Fish Of the supreme court ad-
ministered the oath Of Inauguration
The Inauguration was attended by the
simplest ceremonies, only the retiring
governor, the state officers and the
members of the general assembly tax
ing part. Mr.. Brown came from his
home at Marietta this morning on the
regular traction car. The addresses
were brief, and everything was mark
ed by the simplest formality, In ac-
cord with the governors wish.
London, June 2s: The war now
raging in England over the proposal
to increase the whisky duty is a very
mild reproduction Of the storm that
arose in the country early in the
eighteenth century when the govern
ment imposed a duty Of $5 gallon
besides heavily taxing the retail deal
ers. Legislators Of those days were
eager to check the consumption OF
whisky in the interests Of temper
ance. Alas, for their fond hopes. The
trade became absolutely Improbable
except to the unscrupulous and the
criminal classes, who began smuggling
on the largest scale, to such an eX-
tent, indeed, and with such violence
that the revenue officers found 1t I'M
possible to prevent 1t, and the act
having thus become a dead letter 1t
was repealed in 1852 and a lower
duty substituted. Ireland as usual,
had to wait for repeal, with the re-
suit that although in one year 10000
900 gallons were sold only 3,OOO,Ooo
paid duty, indicating that 7,0OO,00V
gallons were smuggled. Illicit distil-
lation became so extensive that the
lives Of excisemen were no longer
worth living and as the people were
on the side Of the smugglers the coun-
try was in chronic rebellion.
New York, June 81: On the ninth
day after the discovery Of Elsie Sigefs
body and presumably the eighteenth
day after the crime was committed
the New York police are obliged 10
admit tonight that If anything they
are a little further from any clue to
the whereabouts Of Leon Ling the
man who is thought to have killed her'
than on the afternoon when her oody
was found wedged in a trunk In the
rooms of q Chinaman in Eighth ave-
nue.. They still believe, however, that
he Is sure to be run down. The most
significant fact Of the case Is that there
is absolutely nothing to indicate when
or how Leon Ling left the city. II, 1t
is argued, he still remains here, hid
den in the rooms Of some friend, IT
can be answered that every house In
Chinatown has been searched room by
room and every wall and floor sound
ed. No isolated laundry or restaurant
has been overlooked. The information
coming from Newark yesterday that
Leon Ling left the trunk in q restau-
rant there has been substantially con-
firmed, with slight alterations In de-
tails and hours. But police investiga-
ton shows that the trunk was taken
to Newark between midnight June 3
and 1 a. m, Of June 10, and remained
there until the afternoon Of the 10th.
This places the time Of the murder a
day ahead Of the time previously fixed
by the police, and on the same day
that the girl disappeared from home.
James F. Halstead, the Newark cabby
who drove Leon and the trunk back
after its twelve hour rest in Newark,
has positively identified the trunk in
which the body was found as the one
he carried and has further picked out
the Eighth avenue restaurant, New
York, as the place where he took 1t.
The New York cabby who took Leon
and the trunk to Newark has not been
found.
Durham, N. c., June 27: Because
he was put off a Seaboard Air Line
train on which he was stealing a ride,
Solomon Shepard, a negro, according
to his own confession made here to-
day, shot and killed Engineer Holt.
The crime was committed last Decem-
ber, but the negro was arrested only
a few days ago in Columbus, Ohio,
where his connection with the. case
was first learned through his protes-
tations Of innocence of it. The police
had taken him in custody on another
charge. In his confession today, Shep-
ard said he was returning to Durham
from Etiand, nineteen miles away, af-
ter visit to his sweetheart, when the
killing occurred. He said he remained
in Durham until six weeks ago. Shep-
ard spent all Of yesterday reading his
Bible and getting religion" and when
DR.. N. NJ. Johnson entered the Jail to
him to the door of his cell and laid
bare the facts in the mysterious mur-
der. Shepard says that on the night
of the tragedy he was kicked off a
train by a brakeman and was in
search of the brakeman to kill him
when he found him, with several 9TH
er men, on the cab talking with Engi-
neer Holt. Crawling nearer the engine
he raised his gun and fired, the shot
striking the engineer. He then walk
ed up the track, and seeing a light in
the Greenberg house, fired at it Just
to scare somebody" 1t was this latter
incident that had much to do with the
arrest of Reuben Barbee, who had had
trouble with the Greenbergs and who
Is now in Jail charged with the murder
of Holt. Shepard says that he was
here at the time of Barbee's arrest and
remained until about six weeks ago
He denies that he had white accom-
plice in his crime. On the strength Of
the negro's confession Barbees attor-
neys will tomorrow ask for their cli-
ent's release.
New York. June 2S: Inspector
McCafferty, chief Of the New York
detective bureau, gave out tonight
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