The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-22
TRAGEDY AT SAVANNAH.
Wriqhtsville Excursionist Slain When
He Resisted Arrest.

Wrightsville Excursionist Slain When
He Resisted Arrest.
D. T. Pounds, of Wrightsville, "a
Sunday excursionist, wso went to Sa'
vannah to spend the day at Tybee
with several friends from the interior
was shot and instantly killed at the
Central Railway passenger station,
few moments before the time for the
train to depart, by Patrolman Charles
H. Fennell, of the Central police
force.
Pounds was resisting arrest, and
accord ng to several witnesses, bid
drawn a pistol on the officer. The
shooting took place about a hundred
yards west of the passenger station
proper and near the engine of the
train which was to have carried
Pounds and mis- friends to their
homes.
Pounds was killed by a bullet
which entered above the left eye and
passed through the brain and emerged
from the back Of the head. Pounds
died without speaking.
CRIMES A special to The De
AND troit Journal from
CASUALTIES Midland, with steam
er c. c. Martin, of Midland, with q
crew of ten, was probably lost in the
storm on Georgian bay The barge
Albatross, in tow of the Martin, sank
during the storm, but her crew reach.
ed the lighthouse at the mouth OF
the French river in yawl boat
Nothing has been heard from tbs
Martin.
r. P. Buchan, secretary-treasurer
of the Star Brand shoe store of Al
bany, Ga, shot himself at Dublin
Wednesday and died an hour later.
He and his brother-in-law, Homer
Baggett, drove out from Dublin and
spent some time practicing with a
revolver. Buchan then walked off
a few feet, and, after saying to Bag
gett. Tell my wife my insurance pa,
pers are in the safe" fired the re
volver into his side. Following death,
an investigation proved Buchan to be
short $3,5O0 He leaves a wife and
three children.
Ella Smith, IA, and her young farm
er sweetheart, Edward Ballou of
Monticello, KY, were held to the
grand jury under $500 bond, charged
with sending Matchmaking letters tc
Ernest Porter and Travis Gibson
wealthy oil operators. Letters de.
manding that 81 900 be deposited in E
certain place or that they would be
killed, were received by Porter and
Gibson, the epistles being sent in
many odd ways, some of them at
tached to stones being thrown
through the windows of the mems
homes.
Miraculous escapes from death
were noted at Elgin, Ill.,, when two
sections of the grandstand at the au.
tomobile race course collapsed, car.
rying down with them between one
thousand twelve hundred spectators
at speed equal to that Of an express
elevator in a high Office building. Sew
eTal men and women sustained slight
fractures of limbs, but score or more
persons escaped with small bruises
while a vast majority were not in
jured at ALL
The Mississippi river packet, Harry
Lee, is reported to have sunk near
Brandywine Landing, rs miles north
OF Memphis. All of the passengers
and the crew of the boat, with the
exception of negro fireman, is said
to have reached the bank in safety.
Two miners ara reported to have
been killed and six others fatally
wounded in mine explosion in Mar.
tin county, Ky.
Surrounded by members of his fam.
lily Judge R. A. S. Freeman. one Of
Georgia's foremost lawyers, died at
his home at West Point, Ga, after a
brief illness. For several DAYS his
condition had been considered criti.
cal and the death was not unexpect-
ed. For several years Judge Freeman
was a trustee of the Georgia home for
veterans and held the no.
sition of judge of the Troup county
court for long while.
GENERAL The best summer season
NEWS for whaling In a decade
NOTES. is indicated in dispatches
received by the New Bedford, Mass
board of trade from Fayal Azores Is
lands. Nine vessels Of a fleet that has
reached Fayal, report 81, O4O barrels
OF sperm oil. Besides that the BRIG
Viola secured 10 pounds of amber
girls, valued at $4,000.
The annual report of the treasurer
Of the American board of commission.
ers of foreign missions for the year
closing August 81, shows total expen.
ditures of S1,O3O,6O4, and total re.
ceipts of $1,OS2.O25. The report is to
be presented at the annual meeting OF
the board in Milwaukee, October 1919
Friday was President Taftis fiItv.
fourth birthday. Congratulatory mes.
sages poured into the executive Offices
all over the world One came from
King George V. of England.