The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-28


killing.
plantation. Ladies Island, Christmas
night, set herself on fire and was
burned to a crisp
Sawed Off Mans Head.
Bluefields, W. Va, Dec. 27.-Saw-
ing away continuously for ten min
utes, Hamilton Cook almost com
pletely severed the head of FRANK
Denett from his body yesterday at the
home of the latter at Lex, so miles
from here. Cook, boarder at Den
nett's home, found his victim in q
drunken stupor in bed
Man of Many Names Killed.
Poplarville, Miss, Dec. 27.-News
reac' ed here today of the killing of
David Gross, alias George Mack,
Alias George McWise, aged "a, near
McNeill Miss, Saturday. Boyd Hen,
ley, son of a prominent farmer of Nc.
Neill, was taken into custody charged
with the crime.
Sheriff's Slayer Lynched.
Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 27.-Twen,
ty-fve masked men lynched Oscar
Chitwood, after overpowering a depu-
ty sheriff just outside the Jail here
before daybreak this morning, ri,l-
ding the prisoners body with bul.
lets.
Texas Has Few Killings.
n III y4ic t111a C
day in Texas was attended by four
killings, seven shooting affrays and
several suicides.
Wanted Murder Postponed; Killed.
Petersburg, Va, Dec. 27.-Declar-
ing he would kill l.. Y. Fox, a Oar
vile, Dinwiddie county, merchant.
because he would not lend him a
horse and buggy Willis Rhoades, a
negro, Sunday afternoon killed Sher-
man Steward, colored, aged 80, when
Steward demonstrated, asking
Rhoades to postpone the murder IN
til after Christmas, that being no
day for such an act. Rhoades as-
capped,
Three Murders in Pennsylvania.
Greensboro, Pa, Dec. 27.--The
Strike-ridden coal fields of West
moreland county are in the throes
of rioting, the result of lage quanti-
ties of liquor that have been ship
ped into the various mining camps.
The third murder in "a hours was
reported to the coroner today in the
death of Tony Carcino, a striker,
who was formerly employed at Os-
borne. The authorities fear a gen
eral outbreak.
Tranper Is Slain.
New Orleans. Dec 27.-The body
of Robert Muntz, known as Bob the
Trapper," was found on the shore Of
Lake Ponchartrain in ST. Charles
parish, yesterday
Shoots Sweetheart. Kills Himself
Lancaster O., Dec. 27.--Jealousy
of The girl whom he had not seen for
two years, today caused Oscar EN-
Ter, a Cleveland chain worker, 20
shoot and fatally wound Miss Emma
Deed, aged 27, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Deed. When he WAS
by the police Emler calm
ly pulled the revolver with which he
had shot his sweetheart and shot
himself in the head, dying instantly.
South Carolina's Quota.
Columbia, S. c., Dec. 27.-The
Christmas season in South Carolina
has proved a bloody time and many
10th accidental and inten-
tional, are reported from different
sections of the state. SO far y
deaths have been reported in the
last three days.
Killed Through keyhole.
Beaufort, S. c., Dec 27.-Dan Mid
dleton, negro prominent here in
colored fraternal socity circles, was
shot in the right breast through a
large keyhole in the house of GeOr-
gian Thompson, as he sat in a chair
in front of the fireplace Saturday
night.
In Old Kentucky.
Louisville. Ky, Dec. 27.-Eight
homicides in Kentucky in Christmas
fights are reported from various Sec
tions of the state, with several more
seriously wounded.