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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26

rate of potash on A st 15, SIP from Breitung. and later '. rom Fay.
 The men are charg with conspiring to violate a section e United States criminal code which says:
 Whoever upon the high seas or in any other waters within the admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction of the United States by surprize or by open force maliciously attacks or sets upon any vessel belong ing to another with an intent unlawfully to plunder the same or to despoil any owner thereof of any moneys, goods or merchandise laden on board thereof shall be fined.'
 Scholz's Confession
 Sholz late tonight gave out a statement explaining his actions since coming to this country, and his relations with Fay. To Fay he gave all the credit for the idea of the exploding devices to be at tached to ships. but said that only an empty mine was actually used. Schol7 said he came here four years ago from Cologne, where he studied architecture and civil engineering. While working on a farm at Waterford last April he re- ceived he said, the request from Fay to come to this city
 ? Fay wanted me to work for him and said he would give me $25 week. Scholz said in the statement. Fay told me of his secret to mines We made tests of explosives and experiments with the exploding devices. We never attached a loaded mine to any ship. We did attach an empty mine to an English vessel load ing at this port It took us 10 minutes to do it. All the explosives we had would not explode in their present condition. The three bags of T. N. T. (trinitrate tuluop had to be melted and dried and further prepared before it would go off
 Tt was all F'ay's ideas. He was al- lowed to come by the German government. l believe he got 5000 from that government. It cost between S65 and $70 to make one of these mines. We worked three months to perfect the exploding mechan- ism. We were almost ready when caught. We used the garage to do our mechanical work. Then we went to the bQathouse. I am sorry we didn't get a chance to put these mines to work"
 Entries in two memorandum books found in the room occupied by Fay and Scholz in Weehawken referred to the Ger man steamship Magdeburg and were re-
 Continued on Page Three)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
BIG CEREAL CROPS IN
 AUSTRO-HUNGARY

Washington. October 25.--Hungary s cereal crops this year are larger than last season. Statistics of the Interna- t.onal Institute of Agriculture at Rome, received by cable today by the United States department of agriculture, show T-ungarys wheat production at 16l.00o, : oo0 bushels, an increase of 4S.s per cent over last year; rye, at 45.0OOO0O bushels. an increase of 7.2 per cent; barley. 56,000,- 900 bushels, a decrease of 149 per cent; oats. S1. 100000 bushels, a decrease of "A per cent; and corn. ls6. 000,0oO bushels, an increase of 7S per cent
 Argentina's cereal acreage, reported by the institute. is: Wheat, IS, 600 acres, an increase of 5.5 per cent over last year; oats. 2,6z, 900 acres. a decrease of s.23 per cent, and flax seed. 4,O6o.0O0 acres. . decrease of 4.S per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Porter Charlton Practically
 Released by Italian Jury
Wealthy American Will Serve Only 29 Days for Crime Though Given Prison Sentence of Six Years and Eight Months Prisoner is Allowed Full Benefit of War Amnesty
 and for Long Period Held Under Restraint

his usual restrained and almost passive attitude.
 Charlton said that after his release he would return to the United States and join his farpily. Before departing. how ever. he saiN he would visit and person. ally thank Friends in Como who had by their kindnesses frightened the hours of his captivity, and especially Ambassa- dor Page. who. as representative of the American government, has seen that his legal rights were observed.
 History of Case
 Porter Charlton killed his wife in their villa on Lake Como June g. 1910. He was 20 years old and she was many years his senior. At the time of their marriage, a short time prior to the tragedy, she was Mrs Neville H. Castle, a daughter of Henry HI Scott of San Francisco. charlton's father is Paul Charlton, for
 (Contisned on Pags Ten.1
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To Have Night Course in
 Military Instruction

| Boston, October 25.-Details of a night dourse of military instruction for bank efs and professional men were announced al meeting of the Boston chapter of tile American Institute of Banking today. The school will meet one night a week from the middle of November to the middle of lone. The course will cover the manual of arms, with squad. com pany and battalion maneuvers.
 Officers in the regular army will de- liver lectures and in the spring there will be an outdoor encampment at Bingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1-German discloses plot to disable Amer
 lean vessels.
 French join Serbs and infict severe
 defeat on Bulgarians. Administration to push national de-
 fense.
 Porter Charlton practically set free. 2-Holland letter. 3-Firemen will name trustees this week. 4-Editorial comment. 5-Commission deposits money for tax
 amendment election. Jackson highway pathf1nders given
 hearty welcome hs-e. Business better than in many years. State convention of w. c. T. U meets
 here today.
 Dr. Edmonds' statement 6-Women's page. 7-Sports. 9-Markets. letters shown in New Haven
 trial.
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 Devised Scheme on Battlefield Fay confessed that while on the battle field he talked with his superior officers about a device to blow up ships. that later his ideas of coming to America and |oarrying his scheme through was well received by the German secret service, that he came well enough supplied with money to act on his own responsibility and that he talked with Captain Won |Papen, military attache, and Captain Boy Ed, naval attache of the German em- bassy. about the plan, but they had re- fused to have anything to do with 1t. The confession of Fay, who said he had been decorated with the iron cross for lighting in the Champagne district in France, covers his arrival in the United States, April 23, last, his making of clock work bombs since then and his activities |1n experimenting with explosives along the Hudson river Quantities of acid in the |room occupied by Fay and Walter l.. |Sohulz in Weehawken, N. J., and boxes containing chlorate of potash. used in making so-called sugar bombs, in a boat house on the Hudson, had been found aft Ter the arrest of these men Sunday Schulz, Ia brother-in-law of Fay, is a mechanic. Tracing Men Involved
 Two other men were arrested and an- |other, making the fifth, was named in the |complaint, but he had not been appre- |hended. The new arrests are:
 Paul Daeche. Jersey City. N J., who said he was a graduate of Colonge uni versity. and came to the United States in 1912.
 i Dr. Herbert Kienzle 2S years old, man. lager of a clock company. charged in the |complaint with having aided in procuring explosive materials used by Fay. Max Breitung, about whose identity no details were disclosed, was named as one |of the conspirators. It was stated that Breitung had not been apprehended. Other information which he said it would be against public policy to reveal at this time Chief Flynn declared. would be disclosed later. In his complaint to Com missioner Houghton. Chief Flynn stated that Paul Siebs. formerly of the German army, had become government witness. It was set forth that Siebs had received money from Fay and Breitung for chlo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26

Como, Italy, October :5.-(via Paris.) Porter Charlton, the American. who has been on trinI here charged with numbering his wife fin 1910, was today condo mred to six years and eight months Imprisonment.
 The jury found Charlton only parti- ally responsible and that there were cxtenuating circumstances.
 Owing to amnesty Charlton will serve only 20 days in prison. Charlton. under the verdict, benefits by time he has been under restraint and in addition a year is taken off the sem 'tence under amnesty for all offenses com .mitted before Italy entered the war ! Even though he was greatly pleased over the verdict of the court and viewed with pleasure his approaching hbera- tton from custody, Charlton maintained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
To Curtail Privileges
 of Aliens on Exchange

New York, October 25.-Members of the New York Cotton Exchange, at a meet tng called today to consider proposed amendments to the bylaws curtailing the privileges of aliens elected to member ship after November 1, 1915. decided to vote on the proposal on October 27
 The purpose of the proposed change. officials said, was to make the exchange distinctly American institution Thc change would prevent activities in the cotton market during present interna- tional complications. said to be contem- plated by foreign agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26

New York; October 26-oIs of plot to hamper @ allies placing cockork propeIers ne confession of one five charged
 
 ronng Vnfany who admitted that with the
 th war supplies for the allies William Flynn Tonight filed before United States which charged promoting conspiracy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Justin Thatcher Dead

Nashville. October 25.--Funeral services were held yesterday over the remains of Justin Thatcher, a Nashville man, who for some years past had been prominent singer in New York city. where he died suddenly He was rated as one of the best tenors In the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
GERMAN DISCLOSES @ A PLOT TO DISABLE
 AMERICAN VESSELS

Robert Fay, Lieutenant of German Army, Con- neeted With the Secret Service, Yields to Cross Examination and Makes Confession Involving Several Confederates- ClOckw k Bombs on Rudders of Ships Loaded With Mun- tiOns- Washington May Become Aroused
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18
COTTON TO BE CONTRABAND.
ordcrs-in-Council Not Effective
Much Cotton Reaches Germany.

Washington, Aug. 16.-The allies
intention to declare cotton cOn-ra-
band has been communicated unofi-
clally, but authoritatively, to the
State Department. The departments
adViceS are that the decision has been
reached and the delay in making an
announcement IS due to the necessity
OF arranging uniform treatment Of
the subject by all the allies
The step has been agreed on BY
Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy
and Belgium, but Japan's attitude
has not been defined. She may de-
eide no action is called for from her
at this time, because OF the elimina-
tion OF the only German colony in
the far East from the military prob
lem and the absence of any reason
for blockade.
Claim Cotton Reaches Enemies.
Ever since the application of the
British orders-in-council to cotton
among other American products, the
entente allies have felt that some
more effective and less burdensome
method must be found for dealing
with cotton and preventing it's entry
into Germany and Austria. The al
lies contend that American cotton
shippers, in many cases alleged to be
backed by German capital, have beer
shipping cotton to Germany through
neutral ports.
Under the orders In council such a
cargo, If captured, was merely taken
into British port and paid for by
the British government The allies
contend that under these conditions
much cotton got through Sweden,
Denmark and Holland into Germany.
From the allies point of view the or,
ders in council were ineffective be-
cause they Obliged the British govern
ment TO buy cotton and at the same
time offered an incentive to blockade
runners
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18

Body Discovered Dangling from Ropes End Near
Marietta, Ga, Tuesday Morning Orderly.

Mary Phagan, the body Of Leo M.
Frank, lynched by mob perfect in
its precision and organization, was
cut down at Marietta Yesterday
morning while threats of cremation
were being made by members OF the
big crowd present.
Hurried to the village square--two
miles distant-in an undertaker's
wagon, attached to horses that were
driven so furiously that the foam
tlecked from their lips, the body was
then transferred to an automobile,
resting lengthwise across the tom
neau, and rushed to Atlanta, followed
by trail of autOmObilists.
Attempts were made by telephone
to intercept the machine, but to no
avail, an undertaker'S ambulance
meeting the cOrpse-bearing machine
at the outskirts OF the city and con-
veying the body in safety to an un-
dertaking establishment in Atlanta.
1t was there embalmed, after being
witnessed by thousands of people, and
at midnight was carried to the depot
and put on train to Brooklyn, where
funeral and burial will be held.
No violence other than strangula-
ton was committed upon the body
by the lynchers. Despite reports that
1T had been riddlcd by bullets, not q
mark except upon the throat was Wis.,
ible when it was cut down. After It
fell to the ground, the foot OF a fren-
zled onlooker was ground into tho
race, badly distorting the features,
and adding to the discoloration
caused by blood congeiation.
No Arrests Made.
No arrests have been made. Gov
ernor Harris has instructed officials
or Cobb county to exert every effort
to aDprehend the lynchers, but no
State nor county rewards have been
offered. 1t was stated at the Cover
nor's Office yesterday afternoon late
that no application for reward had
been made as yet.
The death OF Frank was the OUT
come of weeks or deliberate .study
and planning. IT was executed with
business-like skill and precision. The
victim, fully conscious and aware OF
his impending fate, was transported
more than 100 miles.
crank was taken from the State
prison farm at Mlledgeville shortly
after 10 o'clock Monday night, after
the prison authorities had been over
powered, was thrown into an auto
mobile and FASTENED over the coun-
try roads in manner so orderly
mat, even in Marietta, no one knew
OF the enactment until a voice, COM
ing over the telephone to Deputy
Sheriff l.. Hicks at the break of dawn,
said: LEO Franks hanging to a
lmb down here in the Frey gin
nelShDorhOOd. RCtribution!"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18
CHURCH INSTITUTE TO BE HELD
40 Old Pickens August 23, 24, 25.
A New Departure.

Below is the program for the
"Church Institute" that will be held
at Old Pickens church on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 23,
"a and %.
Rev. |. f. Wallace will preach on
Sunday night, August 22d.
Monday, August 23.
10 Il. m.-Demonstration in milk
separating and testing Prof. ]. M.
Burgess, Clemson College
II a. m.--Sermon by Rev. w. II.
Mills, Clemson College.
p. m.-Address on practical
Dairying.' Prof. ]. M. Burgess.
p. m.-Sermon by Rev. w. II.
Mills.
Tuesday, August 24.
1C a. m.-"Keeping Poultry for
Pay" Prof Frank C. Hare, Clemson
College.
II a. m.-Sermon by Rev. w. II.
Mills.
2 p. m.-"Thc Care and Manage
ment Of Poultry.' Prof. f. C. Hare.
p. m.--An illustrated address,
"Our Nations Foundations" r. e.
Grabel, Of the Southern Railways
Agricultural Department.
Wednesday, August 25th.
10 a. m.-"The Production and
Care of Fruits" Prof. G.. F.. Neven,
Clemson College.
II a. m.-Sermon by Rev. w. II.
Mills.
2 p. m.-"The Production and
Care Cf Vegetables" Prof. Neven.
Prof. Neven will also give dem
onstration on this day in the canning
Of fruit and vegetables in tin.
Every one in reach is cordially in
vited to attend these meetings. Din
ner will be served on the round for
the three days.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18
SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1918.
NEGRO MURDERER IN JAIL.
Robert Crooks Stabbed Negro WO-
man, killing Her Almost Instantly. d.

Robert Crooks was brought to
Walhalla Sunday evening by Sheriff
John w. Davis and lodged in Jail to
await trial for the killing of a negro
woman near the Courntenay juno
ton, just below Seneca The MUIR
der seems to be the result of jealousy
on the part of Crooks, who accom-
panied the woman from Seneca to the
junction, parted from her there, then
ran and overlook her, plunging his
knife deep into her breast and caus-
ing almost instant death. Farm and
Factory Of yesterday gives the fol-
lowing details Of the tragedy:
"Malissa Brown, a negro woman
about 20 years Of age, was stabbed
with long knife and instantly killed
Saturday afternoon by Robert Crooks,
alias Secession" Crooks, alias Bud"
Crooks.
Both parties were in Seneca Sat
urday afternoon and left town to-
Gether on Southern train No. 40.
They left the train at Courtenay, the
woman going toward her home near
Corinth church. Crooks, according
to those who noticed him, seemed to
be confused and mad. After the wo-
man had travelled down the road
some distance Crooks left in pursuit,
going at a rapid gait. He made
threats, it is said, that he was going
to kill the woman before dark, and
several people were looking at him
down the track when he overlook
her. After a few words he was seen
to draw his knife and plunge it in
her breast. 1t is said that he was
jealous Of her attentions to another
negro.
After stabbing the woman, Crooks
ran to John T. Dyar's house, secured
mule and made off down the road.
MI. Dyar learned of the killing and
went in pursuit in his automobile.
He soon overlook the negro and
brought him to Seneca, where he was
placed in Jail, awaiting the arrival Of
the sheriff.
Coroner Whit Knox was summon
ed to the scene Of the tragedy and
held an inquest, the verdict being in
accordance with the above facts"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18

Mrs. G. p. Corn, Of Johnston, is
visiting her parents, Capt. and Mrs.
w. A. Strother. Her many friends
are pleased to meet her again and
are extending her a hear.y welcome.
The annual lawn fee given by
the ladies Of the Lutheran church on
the parsonage lawn last evening was
quite a success, Notwithstanding rain
fell shortly after the opening Of the
booths. About $50 was realized.
-''Issaquena Springs" is the new
creation Of our twonSman, G.. A. Nor
man, who is developing a resident
villa at The foot Of Stumphouse
mountain. Pretty building sites will
be offered for sale as well as for a
hotel. The sites are gradually being
improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Adams and
little daughter, of Rock Hill, arrived
in Walhalla yesterday evening. Mr..
Adams will be here for few days
only, his wife and daughter remain
ing for a longer stay. They have
hosts of friends who welcome them
most cordially.
j. B. Reid, of Easley. has been
visiting relatives in Walhalla this
week. Mr.. Reid is on his way to
Westminster to attend the reunion of
Orr's Regiment, to which command
he belonged during the war The
reunion will be held Thursday and
Friday Of this week.
There are quite number Of Wis
itors in Walhalla this week who came
up from Charleston and the lower sec
ton Of the State whose names we
have been unable to secure. There
were about one hundred persons who
came up on the annual excursion.
They are being most cordially well
coined to the town and vicinity. We
are informed that more than fifty
Of the excursions worshiped at st.
Johns Lutheran church last Sunday.
We are requested to announce
that there will be special meeting
at Cross Roads Baptist church on the
fifth Sunday in this month. Rev. J.
l.. Harley, superintendent Of the
Anti-SaloOn League, will be present
and will address the meeting at II
o'clock. Prof. John G. Clinkscalus is
expected also, and is placed for one
Of his admirable talks at 1.30 p. m.
The program will be arranged and
published in full next week if re-
ceived by us in time.
One Of the most attractive, sales
that has ever been put on in this sec
ton is that of G.. w. & j. e. Bauk-
night, who announce this week their
midsummer clearance sale, which
will begin tomorrow Thursday and
Will run till and include Saturday
OF next week, August 2S. The Bauk-
nights always have something at
tractive and worth while when they
announce special sale, and this
year they nave made their offerings
far more attractive than in previous
years. Call and get your share. The
announcement will be found on the
Sth page.
Miss Elizabeth o. Alexander died
at the home OF her sister, Mrs. S. NJ.
Hunsinger, at Coneross, Monday af-
ternoon last about O'Clock, after an
illness OF one week, Miss Alexander
was the oldest member of her family
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18

have won a new and important sue
cess at Kovno, Berlin reports to-day,
capturing the forts that lie between
the Niemen river and Cesia, two and
one-half miles to the south of Kovno
proper.
Much war material, including 240
cannon and $500 prisoners, were ta-
ken in the Kovno operations. Addi-
tional inroads were made on the de-
fense OF Novogeorgievsk, where three
forts have been captured. At this
fortress 2,400 prisoners, 10 cannon
and other war material were taken.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-18

Minedgeville, Ga, Aug. ia
mob, variously estimated at between
% and rs in number, oVerpowered
the warden, superintendent and
guards at the Georgia State prison
farm near here at II o'clock tonight
and quickly got Leo Nj. Frank and
rushed him away in an automobile.
First reports that it might be
friends of Frank were dispelled when
a prisoner said he had heard mem
ber of the mob say that Frank body
would be placed tomorrow on the
grave OF Mary Phagan at Marietta,
for whose murder he was serving a
life term.
The mob was orderly, but worked
with quick precision. Eight automo-
biles took the men to within a short
distance of the prison. First all wires
from the prison and all except one
from Milledgeville were cut.
Five men went to the house of ].
T. Smith, warden, covered him with
pistols and stood guard over him.
Other men went to the house Of J.
Nj. Burke, superintendent of the
prison, and held him under cover Of
their guns.
Practically every other member Of
the mob rushed to the stockade gate
nearest the dormitory where Frank
was being housed. Only yesterday
the physicians discharged him from
the hospital, where he had been since
being murderOusly assaulted in the
dOrmitory.
Only Two Guards.
AS on the night Frank was attack
ed, only two guards were on duty
The mob quickly overpowered Chief
Night Guard Hester and the other
man on duty, proceeded to the dor
mitory and within a few minutes
seized Frank and rushed him back to
the automobiles.
Those who had been holding Smith
and Burke left as soon as Frank was
brought out and joined their fellows.
The automobiles were then started in
the direction of Eatonton. Nothing
more bad been heard OF Them horrs-
after they left.
Only one member of that part OF
the mob that went 10 the dormitory
talked. He gave the commands to
the guards, which were backed up by
the arms of the other members of the
mob.
A prisoner who was sleeping in the
dormitory is responsible for the state
ment that this spokesman said the
mob intended to take Frank to Mari
eta, and that tomorrow morning his
body would be found on the grave of
Mary Phagan.
Where Body Was Found.
(Atlanta Constitution, 1Sth.)
Dangling in a grove within stones
throw of the hillside birthplace of