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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
PAID THE PENALTY
TWO MURDERERs ELECTROCUT-
ED AT RICHMOND, VA.
Five Murderers Were to be Electro.
cuted at the Same Time But til
Machinery was Inadequate.

Machinery was Inadequate.
John and William Brown, father
and son, went to their death in the
electric chair at Richmond, Va, on
Friday for taking, part with other
negroes in one of the most Infamous
crimes known in the history of the
State.
They were the first of five men
to go to the death chair for the rob-
berry and murder of Mrs. Henry E.
Skipwith and Walter G. Johnson, of
Powhatan county, on the night of
February -, last. After committing
the robbery they burned the house
in order to hide the crime.
The men implicated in the affair
all lived in the neighborhood and
some of them had not been beyond
the borders of the county half a
dozen times in their lives. Some Of
them were educated at the schools
in the county, and all Of them were
men of more than avearge intelli-
gence for negroes of the country
sections. They were all farmers'and
had borne good regulations.
John and William Brown were
the men who entered into the plot
and who stood guard and threatened
to kill any one who gave any help
or went to the assistance Of the man
and woman. Mrs. Skipewith was an
aged woman and Johnson and his
wife lived in the house with her,
looking after her farm. Robbery was
the object of the crime, and some of
the plunder was found in the houses
occupied by the negroes after the
home place had been burned.
All the five men, including John
and William Brown, were sentenced
to die Friday, but the governor re-
spited Isham and Joe Taylor, to May
Z, to prevent breaking the electrical
machinery. The men have made par
tial confessions, it is understood, but
these have not been given out. I"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
EIGHT DEAD, FOURTEEN HURT
Black Hand Agents Fired Large
Tenement House.

Eight persons, five of them chilli
rcn, we're burned to death and fonr-
teen others injured, some fatally,
in an incendiary fire in five-story
tenement house at 81 Spring street,
New York, occupied by 90 italian
families. a few days ago. The blaze
followed a demand by members of
the so-called Black Hand society for
payment of $1,000 blackmail. !"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
CITY CLERK KILLS NEGROES.
Were Trying to Break Up Meeting
of City Council.

Two negroes were killed and one
injured by City Clerk ]. NJ. Jones
of East Lake, Ala, in front of the
city hall, while the council was IN
session. The negroes were trying
to break up the meeting as result
of some of their friends having
been arrested and convicted OF run
ming a blind tiger. Jones tried to
ouiet the crowd, when two of them
fired upon him. Hhe returned the
fire, killing two and inJuring a
third.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
why he WAS SHOT
HAMPTON NEGRO TELLS VERY
SENSATIONAL STORY.
He Tells Why He Shot Clerk of
Court Causey Short Time Ago
at Hampton.

The Columbia Record says if "Peg
Leg" Hughes, the negro brought here
a short time ago for safe keeping in
the penitentiary, to prevent his be-
ing lynched for the killing of Clerk
of Court w. B. Causey, of Hampton,
can prove the explanation he has just
given Superintendent Griffith at the
penitentiary as to why he shot Mr..
Causey, there will not only be no
lynching, but he will be acquitted,
and a mild sensation will be uncov-
cred in that section of the State.
Hughes says that Mr.. Causey and
his friend Jackson were out Clark
ing" the night Of the killing and
came to his house demanding wo-
men. He says he told them there
were none in his house and they
asked him about mulatto, his step
daughter. He says he tod them that
she had gone away, whereupon they
denounced him as a liar and broke
into his house and searched it thor
oughly, jumping on him outside
afterward and beating him. He says
he was Catching thunder" when he
pulled his revolver and began to
shoot, wounding both men. Hughes
says he did not want to kill Mr..
Causy, but that he did seek the
life of his friend.
The Hampton sheriff, who was
here recently, told Capt. Griffith that
he knew nothing of the causes lead
ing up to the shooting. The news
paper accounts that have been sent
out from Hampton give the appear
ance of being carefully guarded.
Hughes had just finished serving
term in the penitentiary for killing
negro. Capt. Griffith says Hughes
can hoe more cotton in a day than
any two-legged negro he ever
had.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Federation of Women's Clubs Ends
Their Session.

After some committee work and
passing resolution Of thanks to
the ladis of Sumter for their hospi-
talities during the meeting, the Sc
lection of Charleston as the next
meeting place and the election of Of
ficers, the South Carolina Federation
of Women's Clubs adjourned. The
officers elected are: President, Mrs.
w. 3. Burney, Columbia: first vice
president, Miss Jean Waterhouse,
Beaufort; second vice president, Mrs.
J. S. Booth. Chester; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. f. F. Bell, Blacks
burg; recording secretary, Mrs. H..
P. Lynch, Cheraw; treasurer, Mrs.
Mitchell Levi. Sumter; auditor, Miss
Georgia Dargan. Stateburg.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
Head Crushed by Weight.

y 'f'rmiua,am. N'.. Charles c.
Graves. a painter working on the
twelfth story of the Brown Marx
building Sunday. painting the interior
of the elevator shaft, was struck
one of the elevator weights and
his head was crushed entirely off.
An employe, not knowing Graves was
above, started the car.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
DIsFRANCHISEMENT
Act Favored by the Florida Senate
by Vote of 20 to 10.

BY vote of 20 to 10 the Florida
senate, in session in Tallahassee
Friday adopted the Beard joint reso-
luton, which submits, to the voters
of Florida a constitutional amend
ment, providing that the voters OF
the State shall be white male per-
sons This resolution, which Is
similar to one which passed the
senate two years ago, but was Kill
ed in the house Of representatives.
now goes to the house for consider
alton.
Senator Beard, of Pensacola, au-
thor of the resolution, read letter
from Senator Money, of MISSISSIPPI,
commencing the attempt to regulate
the negro vote.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
SIN PERSONS KILLED.
And Fifty Are Injured During Storm
at Chicago.

Six persons were killed and fifty
injured in Chicago and its environs
during the storm Friday night, ac-
cording to reports received by the
police and coroner. The list Of in
iurcd includes only those who's"
rames we're officially reported. Prob
ably as many more received private
attcnt:on. information of their con-
dition therefore not becoming pub
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
WOMAN CRUCIFIED.
Many Corpses Seen Floating Down
the River.

Mersina, in Asiatic Turkey, is un-
der marital law and the Turkish au-
thorities are maintaing order. The
sanitary conditions in the city, how
ever, are very bad. There is lack
of fresh water and dead animals and
garbage that fill the streets pollute
the atmosphere. The river tnat
empties into the sea here still car
ries down the bodies Of dead Chris
tians from the scenes Of the mas
sacres. Among the CHASTITY burdens
of the stream was the mutilated BODY
of A woman nailed to cross.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
HURLED TO DEATH.
Woman ald Child Thrown Under
Wheels of Trolley.

\ 1isnatch from birmingham, .Na..
says Mrs. w. +; !cndford of Powder
W We INSTANTLY til'"f and h"r child
fn'0,1v inirr"d h" Rassemer electric
car 3; IN early hour Saturday morn
ing in ElvtOn. The Lcodfcrd family
was in wagon. when the mules sud
denly took fright wheeled and threw
four of the occupants ont. Mrs. Leod-
ford and her child falling directly
on the track in front Of the car.
Mrs. Leodford was badly mangled
and the child's skull was fractured.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
THREE LYNCHED.
Mob Takes Men From Jail and
Kills Them.

At Marshall, Texas, mob enter
ed the county jail early Friday,
secured three negroes, Creole Nose,
Pie Hill and Mat Chase, and lynched
all of them. The negroes were charg-
ed with shooting and killing Deputy
Sheriff Mark Huffman and wound
ing Constable Alex. Cargill a few
days ago while the officers were
raiding a crap game.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
Por,ur.lcse Deputies Fight Duel.

POr!U|llcSe UcpV!ItS FIGIIt VHcI'
Following a violent alteration in
the Chamber of Deputies, in Lisbon,
a few days ago, Mello Barretto and
Rodriguez Nogueira fought a duel
with swords.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
KIDNAPPER IS CAUGHT.
Chinese Captured After Dccoy Pack
are is Placed.

An attempt to abduct and hold for
ransom the fourtcen-year-old grand
son of Mrs. John +. Porter, mother
of Warren r. Porter, Lieutenant
Governor Of California, which was
frustrated by placing decoy pack
age at the SPOT where the money was
ordered hidden and the capture or
a we'll educated Chinese boy who
formed the plan of abduction. were
revealed at Watsonville, Cal, Fri
day.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

and uneducated, and that the motive
was money. How near he was correct
shall presently be seen.
The murder occurred on Saturday
night. Between that time and Sun
day morning the 80 detectives and
1000 policemen-and Donaghy-had
been Industrious AS the church bells
were calling the people to worship the
officers began to bring in colored
men from all parts of the city. They
came from north and south, from east
and west. They came singly, they
came in pairs, they came in squads,
and when the chief finally counted his
prisoners he found that he had 135
colored men-all suspected of the MUIR
der of Prof. White. What if they were
all minnows, and the big fish had
slipped through the net?
Ralph Hartman, the youth, was on
hand to assist in the Identification
He was in separate room and did
not see the prisoners as they were
brought in the city hall. The au
thorities were keyed up to a high
pitch. Everything depended on the
experiment they were about to make
II it failed they would be all at sea
and the ends Of justice defeated.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

the foundation on which they would
build their case.
He fastened back to the city hall.
The doors of the little private office
were closed, and for long while DON
aghy. McKenty and Quirk had their
heads together. AS result of their
deliberations a most singular order was
telegraphed to every police station in
the city of Philadelphia.
1t was to arrest every colored man
found in or near any railroad station,
ferry house or freight yard within the
city limits. 1t was the biggest drag
net ever spread by the department.
Donaghy, in the meantime, continued
his Investigations near the scene of
| the murder.
Several conclusions were forced
upon him. One was that the murder
was committed for money and that the
murderers were startled and ran away
before they secured all of their booty
The footprints in the soft clay
large, clumsy, heavy-loOking footprints
indicated that more than one man
had fed across the road leading tC
the railroad tracks The dreadful man
ner in which they had muSilated the
body proved that they were brutes
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
TIT TZ4V. a4NY ~ TIT >6Q5TE4ZH MZH-4GA0

confused? Would the crowd puzzle
him?
Ralph said Donaghy, point out
the man who spoke to you on Thirty,
second street last night"
The boy looked over the row OF
negroes fearlessly. His glance lighted
on one and then another Everybody
in the room felt the strain. He was
silent-silent for what seemed to be
many minutes, but what, in reality,
was only seconds. Presently he went
over and touched a burly negro on
the shoulder.
That's the man.
The fellow indicated gave shudder
and rolled his eyes. All of the others
in the line heaved sigh of relief. The
marked man began to protest.
"'Deed, amt done nuthin'."
"Who said you did anything asked
the detective sharply.
The man proved to be Henry Ivory
He had been arrested at daylight or
the railroad near Germantown juno
ton. He was subjected to severe
cross-examination, and finally admit
ted being near the Powelton Avenue
station the night before and even &C
knowledged speaking to Hartman, bu
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

Resides this DOnaghy was convinced
that they were men totally devoid OF
education. He deducted this from the
fact that they had evidently not even
bestowed so much as passing glance
on the books in Prof. Whites green
bag 1t is a known fact that man OF
education or refinement is irresistibly
attracted by book. If a volume is
living on table even in the house OF
a stranger, he can no more resist pick
ing it up and going through the pages
than a moth can avoid the flame. The
murderers evidently had not the slight
est curiosity toward the little work in
the green bag.
The detectives summary, therefore,
was that the crime had been commit
ted by two or three men; that they
were negroes; that they were brutal
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Capt. Donaghy Given Credit for Business
Like Solution Of Tangle Which Con-
viicted and Hanged Three Men-Legal
Formahties Overcome.

When the last OF the prisoners had
been brought in the work OF ellmina-
ton began. DOnaghy and Mckenty
were intrusted with this delicate task
Some of the suspects were obviously
out of the question. For instance,
mulattoes were set aside. SO were sew
eral one-eyed persons. So was a lame
man. And the work kept on until the
list of possibilities was reduced to 10.
These 16 were lined up with their
hats on and young Hartman was
brought into the room. 1t was a mot
lev gathering. Probably IS uglier
men had never been assembled before
They looked brutal and all of them
seemed capable of murder. Could the
boy tell one from the other? Could
he identify the man who had spoken
to him the night before? Would he be
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

who had so foully murdered an molten
sive gentleman. While they talked a
newcomer joined the group. 1t was
Robert J. McKenty, another member
of the detective staff, afterwards
marked out to be a member OF the
mayors cabinet
Donaghy, as a result of the confer
ence, Immediately started for the
scene of the murder. 1t has since
been said that the White tragedy was
his case He protests against this
distinction. 1T was case of team
work." he says. Thirty detectives
and over 1000 policemen were en-
gagged on the White case, and they
made good At any rate, DonaShy
made good because less than an hour
had ELAPSED before he was in CONVEX
sation with a youth named Ralph
Hartman, who testified that he had
seen two cOlored men near the scene
of the murder shortly after ten o'clock,
and had talked to one of them. Best
of all, young Hartman, who had intel
| ligence beyond his years, was able to
give vivid description of the two
men. Hartman was employed as a
messenger in the Powelton Avenue
station of the Pennsylvania railroad
and knew every foot of the ground in
that neighborhood. Donaghy felt in
stinctivey that the knowledge pos
sessed by this boy would prove to be
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
North Cardinals Precious Gems.

The state of North Carolina Is .
of the most notable in the union
the production of gems, parti'u.
diamonds, emeralds, rubies, aqua
rines, beryls, hiddenite, rhodoiite' :.
TWISTS and remarkable rock cfysu
These gems have been found ms,
in the course of mining operauy.
although a few systematic sea's.
for them have been made anu
companies are now engaged exclus''
" in such work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Woman School Superintendent.

Mrs Alice B. Clark oil ua's :.
county, California, has just re0s :,
the Endorsement of the norman =,
tute for the office of state supefin'.,
ent of public instruction. she -
serving her second term as sup :,
tendent of schools for Garfleid Wv.
Her Endorsement by the Norman
tute was non-partisan.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
ANTI-JAPANESE
BILL FAVORED
FOR ADOPTION
FEDERAL REQUEST MAY BE
DEFIED BY ASSEMBLY
DREWS LAND MEASURE HAS
PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS
Transue and Leeds Attempt to Check
Legislation, but in Vain-Race
Tr1ck Document Near
Third Reading
Especial to The Herald !

~ ACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.-While the
letter of President Roosevelt to
~ the governor regarding the Japa-
nese question made a deep impression
upon the legislature, the two leading
anti-Japanese members of the assembly
assumed today a defiant attitude and
declared that they would push their
measures to a vote SO soon as poSsl-
ble
Assembly man A. M. Drew of Fresno
(the famous raiSin producing section,
where there are many Japanese), who
had already amended his anti-alien bill
as requested by the national adm1nlS-
tration, so that the clause discr1m1nat-
ing against the japanese was elim1-
mated, took exception to the letter en-
closed by the president written by Sec
retary of State Root, in which 1t was
stated that the federal government was
opposed to all legislation directed
against aliens, japanese or others.
Mr.. Drew declared it was the in
terest of California to protect her soil
from an invasion of aliens, from the
far shores of the Pacific" who would
always remain citizens of that country
and whom Americans did not well
come.
He said it would be incongruous for
such aliens to own land in this coun-
try when they had no intention of
becoming citizens and he believed that
his bill remedied a condition that had
long been menacing the state.
Favors Its Adoption
The judiciary committee, to which
Drew's new bill was referred on Fri
day, rendered today report favoring
the passage of the measure without
change and it was made a special order
of business for Wednesday, to take
precedence over the Johnson bills deny
ing Japanese the right to be members
of corporations, and segregating them
not only in the schools, as attempted
by the San Francisco board of educa-
ton two years ago, but also in residen-
tial districts at the option of boards OF
supervisors.
An attempt was made to secure the
further delay of such legislation by
J. P. Transue and Walter Leeds of Los
Angeles, but this plan fell through by
a two-thirds vote, although number
of those who voted today to bring the
matter to a vote on Wednesday will
vote on final passage with the organ
ization, which is opposed to all of the
measures affecting japanese.
The anti-race track bills were passed
to third reading in the senate and will
come up for final passage on Wednes-
day.
Senator Walker had the assembly
measure, already passed, as well as
that unfavorably reported by the sem
ate committee on public morals, placed
on file.
For State Highway
The measure favored by the governor
creating a magnificent state highway,
running the entire length of the state,
north to south, was introduced in both
houses.
IT nrovides for the issuance of $4,000.
900 in bonds of $1,000 each, to construct
a forty-foot road of macadam, with
steel bridges and concrete culverts,
that would cover the whole state. The
new plan is worked out in detail by
the governor himself and differs in
may respects from that suggested by
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
ACCUSE SECRETARY
ARTHUR GROSSER OF
DISPENSING LIQUOR
Official of Good Government Club
That Denounced Recall Is
Arraigned in Police
Court

Arthur Grosser, secretary of the
Sixth Ward Good Government club, and
who as secretary of that organization
was prompt to report that his society
had decided against the recall of Mayor
Harper, yesterday appeared in police
court to answer the charge of selling
liquor without a license.
Mr. GroSSer did not follow the exam
pie of Eddie Morris, who after the raid
On the notorious Apex club, shouted:
call up A. c. but confined himself
to pleading not guilty when arraigned
before Justice Chambers.
With Grosser, and charged jointly
with him, was his brother William. Tc
the charge thot they had violated the
laws by dispensing liquor without :
retail liquor dealers license both mer
pleaded not guilty and will be tried by
jury February 10.
Pending their trial the Grossers were
released under bonds of 800 each.
The police accuse Grosser and his
brother Of an offense which, in the case
of one not secretary Of a good govern
ment club, and presumably a friend ol
Mayor Harper'S, is termed running !
blind pig" in the nursery at 1402-140(
Central avenue. The police say the
place was doing a thriving business in
the sale of intoXicants when it was
raided last Friday night A cartload ol
liquor, which was seized at the time
win be used as evidence when the Sec
retary and his brother appear for trial
Appearing with the brothers GroSsel
was Charles Sadler, who, it was stated
is vice president of the Good Govern
ment club of the Sixth ward.
Arthur Grosser, acting in his capacity
as secretary of the Good Government
club, reported to a morning newspaper
that on last Wednesday night tht
aforesaid Good Government club hello
a meeting and indorsed Mayor Harper's
administration, at the same time de.
nouncing the movement to recall him
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
ANGELEN0 DISAPPEARS;
WILL GET $3,000,O00
If He CAN BE FOUND
Especial to The Herald. l

WORCESTER, Mass, Feb. 1.-C. w.
Averill of Los Angeles is sought by
friends in Fredericton, N. B., who say
he started either for Boston, Worcester
or Springfield and has not arrived at
any of these cities.
L. Hamilton Reid, president of the
New York County Agricultural society
at Fredericton, has petitioned Police
Chief David A. Matthews to hunt for
Averill, who is said to have $4,000, 600
due him from an estate.
Chief Matthews said he has never
heard of Averill, and didn't quite
realize there was as much money as
that until he read Reid's letter.
None of the Averills in Los Angeles
was able last night to identify the wan
derer to whom such a fortune is said
to be coming.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
FOREIGN

Mrs. Stirling tearfully denies husbands
charges of infdelity and defends her honor
in court at London.
Turko- Bulgaria indemnity feud settled by
Intervention Of Russia, the Ottoman empire
agreeing to pay injured nation 81, 600, 600 a
year for one hundred years.
Yellow fever plague in the Barbados de-
clared to be serious.
President Obaldia of Panama denies
charges made by Congressman Rainey.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
EASTERN

United States senate adopts seventy-ive
bills in day
Woman accused Of stealing $4,000 worth
of jewelry on trial in Chicago.
Angeleno mysteriously disappears in the
east and report comes that 100000 estate
is awaiting him if he is found.
School to be established in Chicago for
teamsters to study etiquette.
w. c. Brown, once section hand at 81 a
day, becomes president of New York Cen
tral railroad lines.
Mine Workers have stormy session at In
dianapolis ending in victory for President
Lewis who will be reelected
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST
Number I

For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Cloudy, unsettled weather Tuesday;
Iiuht northeast winds, changing to
south. Maximum temperature yester-
day, 70 degrees; minimum, AZ degrees.