Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-22

Acting under the direction OF the
postmaster general, Federal officers in
seventy-two leading cities Of the coun-
try on Wednesday began practically
simultaneous raids for the arrest Of
173 persons charged with using the
mails to promote criminal medica!
practices or the sale Of drugs and in
struments used for illegal purposes.
The arrests included three in Mobile,
two each in New Orleans, Birmingham
and Memphis, one each in Atlanta,
Jacksonville, Charleston and Columbia.
The concerted action covered the Unit
ed States. Many of those arrested
were prominent socially and CONNER
cially in their communities. Some are
leading physicians; others are rich an
influential business men. All the ar
rest warrants alleged a violation Of the
penal code, section No. 211, barring
from the mails vile and obscene mat
ter, sealed or unsealed, advertisements,
letters, circulars proposing or suggest
ing criminal practices. The develop
ment of the plans which eliminated
Wednesday Is the most extensive raid
in the history Of any department OF
the government. Strict enforcement of
municipal and state law in the east Is
said by the postal authorities to ac-
count for the comparatively few ar
rests in large cities in that section. 1t
is stated that the hotbed Of this class
Of crimnality Is in the Pacific coast
states, where approximately twenty
per cent Of those who were arrested
Wednesday live.
The western end of the island Of
Jamaica has been devastated by hur-
ricane lasting for five days. A great
tidal wave has swept over both the
north and south coasts, practically
wiping out Savanna la Mar and Lucea,
both towns of considerable Importance.
According to a report brought in by
steamer, forty-two persons were killed
at Montego bay. All the roads have
been wrecked along the southwestern
coast and incalculable damage done.
Communication between Kingston and
the centre Of destruction Is not likely
to be resumed for a week. One hun
dred houses were blown down. Tele-
graphic communication is still sus-
pended. The governor Of Jamaica has
left on a special train, accompanied by
a detachment of artillerymen who have
taken with them 800 tents and food
stuffs, as in certain sections the people
are homeless and destitute. The gale
began November IA and continued for
several days. Vessels reported the wind
blew more than 100 miles an hour. Lu-
cea is a town Of 1000 inhabitants on
an inlet on the northwest coast Of ia
maica, while Savanna Ia Mar is sea-
port with about the same population
on the southwest coast almost directly
across the island. The observer Of the
meteorological station in the western
part Of the island sent the following
report today: 1.-The full force Of the
hurricane struck here Monday. The
observatory was partly wrecked" Late
reports say that the entire wharf from
tage at Montego bay has been wrecked.
New York, November 10: All four
Of the gunmen have been found guilty
Of murder in the first degree, for the
killing of the gambler, Herman Rosen-
thai. The verdict was brought in at
2.45 o'clock, less than an hours de!ib-
Grafton by the jury. This means that
"Gyp the Blood" Lefty Louie"
Whitley Lewis" and ''Dago Frank" will
all be sentenced to the electric chair.
The gunner heard the verdict with
faces unmoved. On the way back to
their cells the convicted men, except
Whitley" Lewis, walked erect, the
others went with bowed head. For
more than three hours today Supreme
Court Justice Goff charged the jury in
the case of the four gunmen. If the
states informers committed the crime,
as the defense contends, Justice Gof
said, was II reasonable to assume that
the informers would invite the gunmen
as witnesses. If Jack Rose had lied, he
inquired, in swearing that the gunmen
did the shooting. why then did he not
go further and swear that he had ac-
tually seen the shooting at the hands
Of the defendants? These are circum
stances for you to consider cautioned
the court. AS in the charge to the
Becker jury, Justice Goff ruled that
Rose, Vallcn and Webber were accom-
plices. Schepps' status, he left for the
Jurors to decide. There Is nothing in
the law" he added, ito prevent your
giving full credence to the testimony of
Rose" Justice Goff finished his charge
at 1.35 p. m. and the jury retired.
What shall say applies to all the
defendants, and only in one case shall
/ separate one from the Others" said
Justice Golf, in the course of his charge.
Herman Rosenthal was shot to death
under circumstances Of exceptional
recklessness, Rose, Webber, Va!lon and
Schepps, say to these four defendants,
You did the murder these four defen-
dants say, We admit the murder, but
you committed it. 1t is a remarkable
situation, these two groups of men
each accusing the other. Rose has TAX
en- the witness stand and acknowledged
participation in the crime. 1t was a
remarkable narrative that he told. Can
you say that that man constructed and
conceived this plot without there being
foundation of truth in it? From the de-
PENDANTS mouths themselves, we learn
that Rose feared them. The defense
accuses Rose of constructing the story
to save his own life. 1t is for you to
say in hearing Rose incriminate him.
self in telling this narrative whether
there was no truth to support his story
or whether it was pure imagination.
-Ashemead Bartlett, the war corre-
spondent Of the London Daily Tele-
graph, in a dispatch dated November
Is and sent from the front by way of
ConstanZa, claims that the battle be-
fore Tchatalja Sunday and Monday re-
suited in a great Bulgarian success.
Early Monday morning no sound of
firing came from the front. Instead
there was an omnious silence lasting
several hours. A gendarme brought
orders for Bartlett to leave immediate
ly for Constantinople, saying that at
any hour the Turkish army might be
in full flight, as they had suffered dis
aster in the night Instead of obeying,
the correspondent squared the four
tlefield. From an officer he learned the
following details: At / o'clock in the
morning the Bulgarians concentrated
their infantry against the advanced
lines and delivered night attack with
a decisive effect, the whole works fall
3 into their hands as the result of forty
five minutes fighting at the point of
the bayonet. This was the disaster to
which the gendarme referred. Having
captured the outer works the Bulgari-
ans devoted the entire day to a tre-
mendous bombardment of the remain
ing works. The early morning mist
made the fire on the camps ineffective
but later when the day cleared, shoot
ing became painfully apparent among
the troops of the first army. A steady
dribble of men began to leave the lines
making for shelter and soon whole ba-
tallions began to clear off in masses
and the whole army corps showed
signs OF breaking up and retiring in
confusion. Throughout the morning
the Turkish artillery hardly replied to
the enemy's fire, being either chary of
disclosing their positions or short of
ammunition. AS to the positions of the
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