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THB) TIM1-S. I--OUN!)l-;i) 1W0.
THE IHSPATCH. FOTINDRD 1RR0
LATENEWSt
WANTPAQES
WHOLE NUMBER. 16,361.
RICHMOND, VA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1003.
PRICE Fl E CENTS.
SUMMARY OF DAY'S NEWS
THE WEATHER.
WABIIINGTON, D. C, Oct. 3.-Forccast
tor Sunday and Monday:
Vlrslnki?Fnlr and warmer jSunday;'
Monday falr; varlahlo wlnds, becomlng
flesh south.
North Carolina?Falr Sunday and Mon
dny; llght varlablo wlnds.
Low-hnnglng clouds ond occaslonal
raln mndo yosterday a tlreary day. Tho
blKhest JlBuro rcglBtored by tho ther
momotcr was 71. Falr weather In ex
pi-ctcd to-day, and It wlll llkely bo somc
wh-t warmer.
STATE OF THE THERMOMETEI-.
8 A. M.<"
12 M.]i
:i P. M.
C P. M.
87
0 F. M.
66
13 mldnlght"'-'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'..C5_
Avoraco.?... 671-6
Hlghest temperaturo yesterday .71
Lowost temperaturo yesterday .01
Mean temporature yesterday .6}
Normal tempernture for October . ol
Dcparture from normal temperaturo ... 00
l'reclplliiliun durlnrt past 24 hours .... ui
MIN-ATUReTvLMANAC.
) October 4, 1903.
sun rls.8.6:0_ I high tide
Fun sets.5*0 1 Morning.-:?'
Moon sots.-:0_ | Evening..........-3.18
Octobor ?. VJ.I.
Bm.rises.G:09 | high tide
Bun sets.BM8 I Morn ng.3.W
Muon sets.0:05 J Evening.?????
RICHMOND.
Clues dlscovcrod In thc murder caso at
J A. Scott; unknown man waa nearu
tn threaten tho confectloner; Inquest ro
be held at 11 o'clock thls mornln?> *??
Henrico County Democratlc Cororalttce
?!efie? tne Statn commlttee and awards
xv 3. Todd tho certincnto us nomlnee
fnr treasuror; both Brauer and lodd
to run In tho general election; vlows of
BenatorlBarksdalo?Howltzers,to be ln
Brected Wednesday nlght Sy Colonel Jo
I_ano Stern-Aged woman msUntly
killed by a traln on thet^JameBRiver
Division of thc Cbesapeakovand Ohlo
Hoad-Great boom in hulldlng-?A n
eltctrlcnl lnbo-atryy lo be nstanllshO
hfrc-Govcr / to speak tn Orayson
The Do- Ba. -m case-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis improving rapldly-Sale of t lio
flrm franchise undor.thc new- Constll ut Un
to-morrow nlght-Labor '?lioague llkely
to tako part ln mun clpal, flght?Hon.
W D. Cardwell explalns hls posltlon on
Boclal clubs?Tho N?rfal>;coimty-rtght
-Famous Jumper entered for Bichmond
Hon-> Show?Sacred concorts at Re?er
volr Park to-day-Graphic descrlption of
_? coon-hunt?The Stuart rnonUMi
models-Flrm of John L. Willlams and
Sons hopeful of the future?-Afleifed,
rrurderer taken to Roohwter?WllUh re
v.-ins WIMbester at EastrEnd-Gun-Cluhs
inst shoot of the season. MA.V?ilK,.v
TICn-Move to proylde separate cats
for colored people-Ordinance Commit
tre mec-ts to-morrow evening at R oi clo.k
?-Bids for telephone f.xnchlse to bc
looked Into this weok
i VIRGINIA.
Large preparations at Newport News to
entertSn tho Grand Camp Confederate
Veterans-Tho Norfolk nayy-yard au
thorlUM deny that they favor unlon
Kmeb^Colbnel John S. ^unlngham
Kne-iks to tobacco planters at Daruiue,
branch o?rgani__tlonI oT Farmers' Protec
tlve Association formed?-\\a*hinfc ton
Tilarlne Band to furnish muslc at DanMlle
_h__tty ball?--Varslty oaslly defeats
w\Jhlngton and Leq l?^n|??K
Battleshlp Mlssourl makes sp.'-ndld snow
h,g in builders' trlal, 100 mfles at sc-?
New Democrntlc chalrman of Newport
News lssi.es speolal call to Democratlc
vnurs? Joiiri Lh eleored on second trlal
at Warrenton for what he was convlcted
._?,_? Plnn to organlze the young
?" ?_V heT-7riou" Vfrg-nla cltles Into an
___Su_^?-_BrtS2 J-mostown Exposltlon
ftU Th/monitor Amphtrlte to bo a tender
17.h. -r^e?.v.ng-shlpr Franklln ?*J ggg
tlce shlp for^""?r??^'^U^0nn.,.leUy
at Boydton sfter^two ?e.*VYnnocence to
_3_a_3___SSf? ."'S..*?;,
entlro pay for t.ho voyage.
NORTH CAROLINA.
.A^aoe^af^ip^
g_? "A" _icvcl & Itfuck hV.r-?8hat'?pn
near~Dunn N. C. and nearly killed?
5ph^'a__t_ rests Its caso ln lhe Haywood
trial: wlll a_kverdict of murder in the
flrst degree.
GENERAL
Aftor an openlng decline stocks rally. I ut
,eii off again on appearance of the bank
"atement1, _?d close w:lh some; issue., at
inn level of tho day-State practicaiij
close-1 Its caso ln thc Tillman trial, but
pnstpones rostlng Its case, so that one or
two additlonal wltnesses may be intro
dnr-ed on Tuesday; one wltness for tho de
fen'4 i" heard-?-Unexplalned exploslon
bt a-i-Sllery re-ults In tho death of seven
ln he lniury of several others and
..eat damageto the buildlng?Many
Persons ldllcd and Injured by a cyclone
n Mnnesota-New Yorkor rorced into
olgiuny onds his llfe by blowlng out hls
E'| ns_joseph Chamberlaln Issnes a
manlfesto. In whlch he scores thoso who
hold to the free trado system, and ex?
plalns more fully >is posltlon on the
chango of flscal system-venth of loi
nnel Georce XV. Scott, a wealthy cltlzen
of Atlanta?Groom over a hundred mar
-lesa brldo of ninety-nine years-?Mlss
Ruth Bryan, a daughter of tho former
candidato for the Presldency. Is marrled
_t her father's home vory uno.tentatloiisly
?Thougnt ln Baltlmoro that the control
of the Seaboard systom wlll pnss to the
?Frlsco and Rock Island Interests?
Flolds of Clover v.'ir.r, tho S con echaso t
Morrls Park beforo a crowd estimated at
fully thlrty thousand persons-Major
Delmar agaln fails to lower record of
mile ln two mlnutes on last day of tho
Grand Circuit of 1903-World s automo
blle records smashed, one going lifteon
mlles ln less than ilfteen mlnutes,
A THREAT TO
MURDER SCOTT
A Man is Being Sought
by the Police.
A CONVERSATION
WAS OVERHEARD
Some One Was Menacing the
Man Afterwards Kllled.
CORONER TO HOLD
AN INQUEST TO-DAY
Descrlption of the Wound Received by
the Dead Confectionor?Two Clues
Being Worked by tho Police.
Eithar of Wnich May Lead
to an Arrest at Any
Moment.
"I will kill you; if not to
night, some other i time."?
Threat mado to Mi*. Scott by
a man about 7 o'clock Friday
night, aud heard by a street-car
man.
Captaln Shinberger and hls men of the
First Dlstrlct, ond the entlre detectlve
force, are concentratlng thelr energlcs
upon the solutlon of every clue and
tbeory that may lead to the apprehen
slon of the murderer of Mr. J. A. Scott.
Even the sh'ghtest clues have been
run down, and while there is a strong
susplcion ln the minds of tho offlcers,
the meshes of the net have not yet been
woven thlck enough to warrant an ar?
rest. An arrest may, however, take
place at any moment.
The pollce have put several persons
through Ihe most sevcre examinatlon
for whlch the department ls noted, but
stlll there aro some threads lacklng.
A motlvo for the shootlng of Mr. Scott
has not b. ;-n shown. He was, so far as
can be learned, without an enemy. Al?
ways llvlng an open, generous-spitlted
life, ho was not known to have an enemy,
and thls well known fact has glven
those ln search of a motlve for the crlme
some troutlo.
There are certaln compllcatlons that
mlght arlse concerntng hls estate. The
estate belonged to his wlfe, who dled
about two years ago, leavlng ft to hlm
and his onjoyment durlng his lifetime.
After that it went to her clilldren. In
view of tho understandlng that Mr. Scoll
was to be married ln a short whlle, and
that he had already begun preparations
for that event, and that tho chlldren
were not.entlrely ln accord wlth the ar
i_ngement3, lt was thought that a row
had taken place between Mr. Scott and
one or the other of hls sons, but thls l'dea
was disslpated upon closer inqulry, af
was also that of a dlvlslon of the estate
by the death of the father.
NO OBJECTION TO MARRIAGE.
Both sons expressed themselves as hav?
ing mado no objectlons to the proposed
marriage, and that they did not take lt
seriously Into conslderatlon. They have
also declared themselves as golng into
the work of huntlng thelr father's mur?
derer to the end.
The elder son somo tlme ago dlspose.c'.
of that Interest ln his father's estate
to a well known lawyer, and, therefore.
had no further claim in that dlrectlon.
That the shootlng came from tho In
slde of the storo there ls little doubt.
Eut that little doubt may bo applled tc
the supposi'tion that Mr. Scott was stand?
ing behlnd the counter wlth hls back
that way. In thnt ovent a shot fired
through the door would have struck hlm
on tho rlght slde of the hend and the
?murderer could havo scurrled away. ln?
deed, one of the daughters sald she hean:
tho sound of footsteps runnlng down tn.
eastern slde of the storo lmmedlatoly
nftor the shootlng,
The locntton of tho house makes lt an
easy polnt of attnek. In tho renr is the
dark, di'smal "Hollow," where the foul
est deed could be commltted, wlth sllgln
chance of dotectlon. Tho back yard runs
to thls hollow. porches, easy of access
from the basement to tho store floor,
make lt convenlont for an assassln to
ereep Into tho roar room of the store, or
evon Into tho dlnlng room, from the door
of whlch the shot could havo been flred.
Thls llno was followed up by the polico,
(Contlnued on Flfth Pago.)
DEATH IN
DISTILLERY
Unexplained Exploslon Works
Great Destruetlon.
SEVEN MEN ARE KILLED
Not a Man in Building Escaped Death,
and Some On the Outsido Were In?
jured? Building Damaged to
Extent of $100,000.
(By Associated Press.)
PEORIA, ILL., Oct. 3.?Wlth a terrlflo
crash, Cornlng's dlstillory, at tho foot of
Western Avenue, rockod and swayed thls
mornlng. and one largo sectlon of the
flve-story building rose into the alr.
Out of the flylng debrls shot a huge
copper cycllnder, twenty feet In length
and elght feet ln dlametor. The exploslon
of thls tromendoua tube of copper caused
tho death of seven men and serlous In?
jury of flre more. Every man who was
Jn the building at tho time of the explo?
slon was Insiantly kllled, the Injured be?
lng men who were on the outslde. The fol?
lowlng ls a llst of tho kllled and In?
jured:
Tho dead:
JAMES M'MANUS, cookcr man.
CHARLES C. POWELLS, assistant en?
gineer In cooker room.
JAMES O'KEEFE, laborer.
ED. SCHAEFER, water boy.
GORGE C. GEORGE, meal man.
GUY BRENNAN, yeast maker.
JOHN WILSON, U. S. storokeeper.
The injured:
James Welch, U. S. gauger, face and
body badly scalded.
Danlel Sachen, laborer, rlght leg broken
at knee. >
Charles Lane, laborer, badly cut and
scalded.
The great cycllnder of copper crashed
through tho east wall of the cooker room,
and on through the mlll as lf the brlcks
and mortar had been tlssue paper; shot
ln a noblique and downward course
through the alr; cut down a large tree ln
its fllght, scattered a plle of lumber as
lf beams and timber had been so many
straws, and landed 250 feet away from
tho start of Its fllght. Three of the four
walls of the building were blown ou'
Great gaps were rent in them from U)p
to bottom, pulllng the roof down wlth
them. and underneath that mass of brlck,
mortar, beams and twlsted machlnery
lies the mangled corpse of John Wllson.
whlch may not bo taken out for a day or
two.
Nobody haa a clear Idea of how thr
exploslon occurred. All that can be sald
is that an exploslon occurred, or that the
cooker gave way.
The damage to the bulldlngs and m?
chlnery was estlmated by Manager Casey
at about $100,000. It wlll be three months
before the plant wlll be ln operotlon
agaln. The dlstlllery ls an Independent
concern, owned by the Cornlngs, and has
been in operatlon less tha ntwo years.
AN ACTRESS IS
BEING INVESTIGATED
(Speclal to The Times-Dlspatch.)
NORFOLK. VA., Oct. 3.?Eulah Lee
Denson, an actress who comes of a good
Norfolk family, Is being inveUigaf.d here
prcsuroably by the detectiv.s cmplojvd
by a New York broker whon she 'a
suing for breach of promise.
A man alleged to have been employed
to shadow her was recently k'lled.
To-dav _ stranger vlslted tha clty and
eount- ks* offlces ln search of infor?
mation cernlng her. He decituod to
glve his -me, but the date of Miss Den
? on's blrth was what he sought. It was
February. 1881.
-?-? (
AN OLD LADY FALLS
HEAD FIRST IN SPRING
fSoeclal to Tho Times-Dlspatch.).
GREEN BAY. VA.. Oct. 3.-Mrs.
Amanda Handlng, a hlghly rospected old
lady resldlng on her farm near tho vil?
lage, fell over somo rocks Into the sprlngs,
head foremost yesterday. broaking her
hlp as she fell. Tho only thing that savod
her llfo wns hor long bonnet, whlch kept
the water from renchlng her mouth.
She was soon rescued and taken to her
homo, whero she ls belng tonderly cared
for. She is now thought to be boyo.nl
tho reach of human ald and her dvath ls
expected hourly. .''?_,"'.
Sho sustalned Internal Injurles.
WAS CUT
TO PlECES
Mrs, Mary Ann Walters Kllled
Yesterday by a Traln.
SHE WAS EXTREMELY DEAF
Was Walking on the C. &. O. Track
Carrying an Umbrelia Which Pre
vented Her from Seeing Com?
lng Train?Has No Relatives.
An aged and lnflrm whlte woman?Mrs.
Mary Ann Walters by name?slowly mak?
lng her way homeward yesterday after?
noon after a day of tollsome work. was
slruck by a Chcsapeako and Ohio train
near Hollywood and InBtantly kllled. The
body was llterally ground to pleces and
waa barely re<_?gnlzablo when dlscovered.
From what can be gathered, the accl?
dent was due to a complicatlon of clrcum
stances that could not be controllcd. In
addltlon to her other Inflrmltles, Mrs.
Walters was deaf. She had just left the
Albemarlo Paper Mllls, where sho was
employed. and had set out homeward. It
was then about 2 o'clock ln the afternoon.
Her way home took her across the Ches
j apeake and Ohlo track at tho foot of
j Cherry Street, near ?Ho'uywood, ond lt
I was here that sho was killed.
In making her way aeross the track
Mrs Walters had to go around a stand
WOUND THAT KILLED J. A- SCOTT.
Dr. W. H. Taylor,'Clty Cioroner, made
hls post-mortem examinatlon. yesterday
and remove the "ball from J. A, Scott's
head. He found It agalnst the skull at
the back of the head. The'Coroner found
that It had entered three Inches behlnd
the rlght ear and one inch above It and
went forward In a llne wmon would have
glven Its exit below the left nostrll, but
was deflected at "a" by striklng tho
bone, was sent backwards and lodged in
the brain near the back of the skull.
Evldently Mr. Scott was stooplng down
when shot and was flred on at close
range, the edges of tne hole In the hat
belng apparently scorched by the flamo.
Dr. Taylor has the builet. It Is terrlbly
battered'. It ls Imposslble to tell Its call
bre by comparlng It wlth others. Its
welght Is 130 gralns, and by comparlng
thls figure wlth the welght of other pls?
tol balls, the original size will be readlly
determlned.
ing box car that hid from her vlew a
traln rather slowly movlng in the dlrec?
tlon of Richmond. The same obstruction
prevented tho engineer from notlclng her
approach. Furthermore, Mrs. Walters had
an umbrelia over her head, and thls fact,
together with her doafness, helped rendor
lt almost Imposslble fpr her to be made
awaro of her danger. She trudged slowly
across tho track, and was squaroly ln
the mlddle of It when she wns struck.
Tho traln, ns lt happened, was not mov?
lng very rapldly, and It pulled up prompt?
ly. not ln'time, however, to save tho life
of tho old woman. Mrs. Walters was
dragged about thlrty feet, and was ln.
stantly kllled. Her skull wns crushed and
her body was otherwlse badly mangled.
Coroner Taylor, of Richmond, and Cor?
oner James, of Henrlco, were both called
ln. The matter was left ln the hands of
the former, after lt was doclded lhat tho
accldent occurred within the corpnrato
limlts. Dr. Taylor's Investigation result?
ed ln thn development of the facts abovo
stated. The body, after It wns identliled,
wns turned over to A. 'XV. Bennett and
Company, undertnkers, who will prepare
lt for burlal.
Mrs. Walters was a wldow. She leaves
no chlldren nor other relatlves of any
sort. For some tlme pnst sho hnd been
employed at the Albemarle Paper Works.
Sho llved on Ashland Stroet, nenr Ran
dolph, where sho was comfortahly llxed
in hor old age. Sho leaves a small sum
of money, which ls, up to thls tlme, wlth
cut a claimant.
KENNEDY
LIBRARIAN
The Board Has Selected a
Washlngton Man.
CHOSEN ON FIRST BALLOT
He Will Assume His Duties About Nov.
lst.-John Jackson, of this City, to
Be Placed in Charge for
a Month.
After several frultlesa meetlngs and
ns many postponements of actlon, tho
newly-created Stato I.Ibrary Board of
Directors last nlght announced that Mr.
John Pendleton Kennedy, a natlvo of
Wlnchester, but for flvo years past a
resldent of Washlngton and employe of
the Congresslonal Llbrary, had been
elected State Librarlan of Vlrglnla. Mr.
Kennedy will assume hls dutles about
November lst. It is not a temporary ap?
polntment, but a permanent one, thp ap
pointce holdlng offlco tndeflnltcly or
until removed by the board. Meanwhlle
Mr. John Jackson. a well-known lawyer
of thls clty, has been aeslgnated to dls
charge the dutles of librarlan untll Mr
Kennedy tnkes charge, or for one month.
NOT UNEXPECTED. i
The actlon of tho commlttee was not
altogcther a surprlse, having been fore
casted aftor tho actlon taken at the
recent meeting, when a commlttee ot
three was named to lntcrvlew certaln
candldates as to the>r absoluto quallfi
catlon for the positlon, and report to the
board. That commlttee conslsted of
Messrs. S. S. P. Patteson and J. A. C.
Chandler, of this clty, and A. C. Gordon,
of Staunton, reported last nlght It ls
understood that Messrs. Chandler and
Patteson reported ln favor of Mr. Ken
nedy as a sultable and avallablo man.
Mr. Gordon. it is snld, was ln favor of
a resldent of Vlrglnla. Thls information
or speculatlon cannot bc confirmed by
inqulry of members of the board, but Is
heard on the outslde. Tho othor two
members of tho boara aro Messrs. J. W.
Flshburne, of Charlottesvllle, and Thco.
S. Garnett, of Norfolk. Mr. Flshburno
ls tmderstood to havo been In favor of
a Vlrglnlan, occupylng the same positlon
as Mr. Gordon, whlle Mr. Garnett's po?
sitlon 13 not known. It ls surmlsed,
however, Mr. Garnett finally voted for
the majority report of the commlttee.
Of this. however, the board members
absolutely decllne to talk. It was after
11 o'clock last nlght when the result was
announced. A choice was made on tho
flrst ballot.
WILL IT BE RATIFIED.
Whether or not .the actlon of the
board wlll be ratlfled by tho General As?
sembly ls problematlcal..
The only opportunlty the Goneral As?
sembly would have to slgnlfy Its ap
proval or disapproval would be ln votlng
or wlthholdlng the approprlatlon neces?
sary to pay the salary.of the librarlan.
This Is not regarded ns probable.
Messrs. Gordon and Flshburne were
favorablo- to the. selectlon of Mr.
Frank P. Brent, secretary of the
State Board of Education, who had
many flne endorsements for the positlon
of librarlan. They dissonted from the ac?
tlon of the others. Another candidate
for the positlon who hnd flne endorse?
ments and many friends, and who, llke
Mr. Brent, had quallfied hlmself for the
(Contlnued on Second Page.)
WEALTHY CIT1ZEN OF
ATLANTA IS DEAD
(By Associated Press.)
GA., Oct. 3.?Colonol Geo.
'\\ . wvoit, one of Atlanta's wealthlest
iiien, aml of the best-known men in the
South, dled hero to-dny, aged 74 years.
He wns born in Alexandrla, Penn., and
v.ent to Florlda In 1851. He took part in
the Clvll War, boing a colonol of cavalry
in thc Confederato servlce, and at the
close of the war wns in command of
lh. mllltnrv forces of Florlda. He was
an unsuecessful candidate for govornor
of Florlda agalnst Harrlson Reed ln w>7.
Later ho came to Atlanta, where ho ITTocI
tlll hls death. He founded tho Agnes
Pcott Institute at Docatur, Ga., a school
fci glrls, and wns Its princlpal benefac
tor.
HAS BEEN PRISONER
FOR MANY YEARS
(Bv Assnel.tcd Press.)
HARTF*ORD,CONN., Oct. 3.?John Hart,
seventy-fivo years old, ono of the oldest
'convicts known to tho crlmlnal rocord
of tho Stato, 'was dlseharged from tho
State prlson nt Wethersfleld to-day. He
ls now on lils way to ICey West. Fln.,
whero he hns property and friends. He
has been a charge of tho Commonwenlth
tho greater part of hls tlme sinco 1S65,
hnving boen convlcted of burglary flve
tlmes.
ONE WITNESS
FORTILLflAN
THE STATE
HASRESTED
Wlll Ask for Verdlct of Murder
in First Degree.
ROUND DOZEN SPEECHES
There Will Be Seven for the Defendant
and Five for the Prosecutlon?Man
Who Saw Skinner Shoot
Testifies.
(Speclal to The Tlmes-Dlspatcb.)
RALEIGH. N. C. Oct. 3?Tho sonsa
tion of the day in the Haywood trial was
the testlmony and cross-examination of
Jones Fuller, of Durham, who was here
as a membor of tho Goneral Assembly at
the tlmo ofthe kllllng of Skinner by
Haywood. Ho was tho last wltness by
the prosecutlon before they rested tholr
ense nnd was only lntroduced by them
then becauso Judge Pedbles gave notlce
iieltlier slde would bo allowed to present
now evldenco after restlng tholr case.
Jones Fuller testlfled he and a young
lady were in a second-story window, of
tho Yarbrough Hotel, opposlte tho scene
of tho shootlng. The lady dlrected hls
attention to the dlffloulty so ho saw both
shots. Haywood was standing on the
parapot of tho postofflce steps. Slilnnor
was two or three feet ln tho street whon
the flrst shot was flred, movlng at an or?
dlnary galt, and turned north about the
tlme of the second shot, when ho was
near tho streot-car rall. Aftor theo shots
Skinner mado a movement of hls hands
to hls side, circled and fell gradually.
Haywood stood stlll untll Skinner sank
to hls knoes, and thon moved away.
SAW BLOW STRUCK.
Cross-examlned, Fuller sald, under p-ro
test of; counsel for prosecutlon that Miss
Mattye Pace was tho young lady, and she
told him she 2rst noticsd Haywood and
Skinner talklng, Haywood ovldently try?
lng to Impross somot-hlng on Skinner by
gestlculatlng.
Thon Skinner struck Haywood and lt
was at thls tlm&-"sTO* called out to at
trnct Fuller's attention to It, saylng, "It ls
a flght."
Fuller admltted his statement had been
made to the presecntlon counsel under
strlct conditlon that Mlss' Paco's namo
iiot be mentloned or she be made n wit?
ness. Mlss Pace Is now ln New York and
can't be brought ? Into the State by pro
cess of the court to testlfy. Counsel for
dofense * charges State's counsel wlth
schemlng to suppress Mlss Pace's part of
the Fuller testlmony.
The next most Important wltness was
Dr. A. W, Knox, who performed the au
topsy on Skinner. He sald the bullet en?
tered hls left slde between tho slxth and
seventh rlbs, pnssed through the lower
tube of aorta, lodgcd ln tho seventh rlb
of rlght-side. Aorta was puncturod be
lcw the heart.
W. P. Rose and John Hnrrlirton (col?
ored) wero other wltnesses, both unlm
portant, lntroduced bv prosecutlon.
FTRGT DEGREE.
When restlng tholr case was announced,
Sol'citor Dnnlel stated thev would con
tend for a verdiot of murder In tho flrst
degree.
Onlv threei wltnesses woro put on by
the dofense bofore court ndjournod. Thoso
were chnrncter wltnesses, who could not
be hero Monday, belnt. R. N. Slmms and
Ned Barnes, who wlll testlfy ns to Skln
ner's attack on Haywood.
Announoomont was mado thnt nll next
week wlll be required to concludo the
trial, and that thero wlll be seven snoeeb
es by counsel for defonso and flvo for the
prosecutlon.
.Tudpte Peobles recelved nn nnnnymous
letter to-day concerninc tho Havwood
trlnl. It wns sent from the postofilco and
hnnded to hlm on the bench. He would
not dlvnltro Uie contents but expros?ed
grent Ind'enntlon. The Issuo of ? bench
wnrrant for Postmnster Bntley. who cimo
and explalned hls conneetlon wlth It 'n
such n way ns to ollclt nn apology from
the judg-e,
Thorn Is no clue to the source of the
letter, whlch the 1udgo wlll not glvo out
untll nfter tho trial.
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Br-ke i?'or|H'q Ricord.
(Bv Associated Pross.)
NEW VORK Oct, 3.?Rnrney Oldfleld
broke all world recnrd-J from the seventh
to the end of tho fifteenth mllo ln tho
free fnr -?11 nolomobllq race on tlie E~
plre Clty trnok lo-dny. Hls tlme for
tho fifteeti mll>'? wns fourteen mlnutes,
thlrty-flve scconds.
Defense Begins Presen
tation of its Case.
PROSECUTION HAS
NOT YET RESTED
But Wlll Introduce Only Few
More Wltnesses.
NO SESSION WILL
BE HELD ON MONDAY
Trial Wlll Be Resumed on Tuesday,
and Will Llkely Consume All the
Balance of the Week?Wltness
for Defense Said Gonzales
Belittled Tillman'a
Courage.
(By Associated Press.)
LEXINGTON. S. C, Oct. 3.?The trla.
of formor Lleutenant-Governor Jainea H.
Illlman haa been ln progress Just one
week, and the State has not -ortoally
rested Its case. Soh'cltor Thurmond an?
nounced, however, when the laal wlt?
ness for the prosecutlon exa-nlned to-day
had left the stand, that the State praotl
cally was ready to close, but:deslred to
pass the closing untll next week, as thero
ls further testlmony the State may de?
slro to submlt.
Ono of tho wltnesses for the defense
was heard to-day, the State havlng dis
pcsed of all lta wltnesses present, somo
timo prlor to the hour appolnted for
adjournment. No afternoon sesslon waa
held to-day, and the trlal wlll not be
resumed untll Tuesday morning, becauso
of other matters demandlng- tho- atten?
tion of the court Monday. Only four
wltnesses for tho State wore oxamined
to-day.
C. M. Lide, of Columbia. testlfled that
ho was passlng along Maln Street going
:oward the State House on hls 'way to
dlnner on January. 15th, and as' he
reached a polnt Just south of the ofllce ot
The Stato (newsnuper) he saw Mr. Gon?
zales ahead oflu'm; walklng on a llttle
further he saw Mr. Tillman wlth two
other men comlng from tho Stato House.
Contlnulng, the wltness stated:
"I dld not give any partlcular notice to
elther one of thom, but went along, and
whon I got about tho front of the blll
board next to the transfer offlce, I Just
saw Mr. Tillman thrown up hls arm and
shoot, Just that way (Indlcating). T did
lot see whether he drew hls pi'stol or not;
Just saw the shot. and Instantly this
nan, a sort of light-haircd man, whom
I was afterwards told was Senator Tal
blrdi, Jumped between Mr. Gonzales and
Mr. Tillman and threw his hands up
thls way against Mr. TiUman's face, ond
'*ald 'Thls thlng must stop,' and Tillman
had' hls plstol over the shoulder of thla
gentloman, movlng ft back and forth thto
way several tlmes, as lf ho was trying. to
got a chance to shoot agaln."
Tho wltness then testlfled as to the
rr.ovements of Mr. Gonzales and Mr.
Tillman.
HEARD THE SHOT.
Mrs. Emma Melton, who was a clerk
in the engrosslng department of the State
Leglslature at the last sesslon, said on
tho stand to-day that she loft the State
Houso at flfteen mlnutes before 2 o'clock
on the afternoon of January -5th. As
sho was crosslhg Gervais Street she saw
Lloutenant-Governor Tillman and two
othor mon walklng in front of her. Com?
lng in thls direction was Mr. Gonzales,
who crossed diagonally across towarda
lhe lnslde, to pass botween the openlng
botween tho three men abreast and the
front of tlie transfer station. She started
toward the same openlng, lntendlng, aa
sho snld, to pass the three men, and waa
looklng nt Gonzales, lntendlng to speak
to him. Sho suld had Gonzales taken on?
moro step ho would have passed the threa
men. Whon she henrd tho report Bha
thought lt an exploslon under tho slde
wnlk, but whon it occurred to her that lt
was a shot, she ran away, not knowlng
who had llrod. Sho said the defendant
was on tho outslde, Senator Talblrd ln
tho mlddle, und Senator Brown on the ln-.
sido.
A. G. Lamotte said after the shot wa_
llreil he saw Gonzales and Tillman, wlth
a plstol ln his hand.
A. P. Schicdernann said he heard TIH-.
man say: "I recelved your message."
WITNESS POR DEFENSE.
The defendnnt's wltness heard to-day
was Mary J. Roper, who was formerly
from Edgofleld, but Is now llvlng ln New
York. During tlio year 1902 she had
EVENTS OF THE WEEK FROM THE HUMORIST'S VSEW POINT.