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"HUB" EVANS F NOT GUILT Jury Sets Him Free J Deliberation?"J And Gost ^foi r 00 "Va+ eriiiltv U. ILL U LCI y JI a * Mi/. Vb ^Uil VJ W. B. Kelly, foreman," was the ver diet returned by the jury in the Hut Evans case within ten minutes afte: it had retired to its room following the judge's charge. The quicknes; of the verdict followed over fou' hours of testimony on the part o: the State and speeches on the par of the State and the defense in th< case of Hub Evans, charged with ac * cepting rebates and with conspiracy to accept rebates while a member o the board of "directors of the lat< State dispensary. The verdict was received with only a few spectators in the room. Evan! and his counsel were present and als( Solicitor Cobb. The jpdge had charg ed the jury and they had retired t< their room a little after 2 o'clock and the judge had gone when won came in in about 12 minutes that th< > jury was ready to report. The judg< was sent for and then the jury an ?. nounced its verdict of "not guilty.' ' .sf Trial Opened Wednesday. H. H. Evans, or as he is tette: known "Hub" Evans, was placed 01 trial this morning charged with ac . cepting rebates and with having con spired to receive rebates while i member of the board of control o the late dispensary. That on Decern ber 10, 1900, he accepted in Colum bia a bribe of $50 from M. A. Good man, a liquor drummer, at the tim( representing Strauss-Pritz & Co., o: \ Cincinnati. The main evidence against Evam consisted of three checks drawn ii his favor by M. A. Goodman on th< * National Bank of Savannah and en dorsed by H. H. Evans, and three let ters written to Goodman by Evans The checks were dated from Savan nah, Ga., and bore the dates as fol lows with amounts: September G 1902, for $300; April 1, 1902, foi * $200; December 10, 1900, for $250 They were drawn on the Nationa 171 v ktt \t DctllK UJL Oityauuau, wcic oigucu u; in A. Goodman and were endorsed or the back by H. H. Evans. The letters were from Evans tc Goodman and told of receiving cer tain checks and also spoke of certaii orders for whiskey. Crowd Heard Testimony. There was a large attendance ii the courtroom this morning when th? Evans case was called for trial. I was expected that the case would bi called yesterday, but it was postpon ed from time to time during the day The testimony was not bulky and wa? * adduced in short order and the argu ments commenced shortly after noon H. H. Evans, of Newberry, was amom the visitors. He sat in the court * room and listened closely to all o * \ the testimony and the arguments pre sented. He was represented by Eu gene S. Blease, of Newberry, and R H. Welch, of Columbia. The prosecution was represented b: Attorney General Lyon, W. F. Ste i venson and Wade Hampton Cobb, so P licitor of this circuit. All the attorneys made forceful ar guments, the representatives of th< State charging conspiracy by a Stat< official upon the letters alleged t< have been written. Goodman was no present to-day. In one of the letters alleged to hav< .i been written by Evans there was i nosorint in which it was stated tha "some coffee and Goshen butter" wai needed. This caused much merri ment and was interpreted by th< State to mean money. The Letters. The two letters which played sucl r an important part in the case are ai follows: " Newberry, S. C., Mar. 9, 1902. Dear Goodman: I know you fee disappointed at the month's purchase but it could not be helped. If yo: will look at Friday's State paper yo; will see and also that Crum and th< legislative committee was there an< we were asked only to buy on* _ month's supply of the goods we ha< already purchased from house an< that was out. If you will note Join Early only got 50 barrels X rye anc ^ no other goods; that is why I mad< motion to buy only for one month, intended to give you and John ail m: order. As it is none of my friend: got hardly anything this month bu next month things will be better. Th< committee and Crum just asked fo goods; we are out of it; was hard oi p. me; it shows that somebody is push ing somebody's stun, i am aimos disgusted with it. There will be n< more new goods for quite awhile Your 66 is going pretty well whei sub-dispensaries can get it. I am go ing to put it in in bulk. I could no work the corn in without samples. * think this was put up job. Will tel you all when I see you in April buy OUND Y AT COLUMBIA. Vfter Only Few Minutes Out of Coffee len Butter." ,' ing. Regards to all. -1 Your friend, > H. H. EVANS, r Newberry, 's. C. I Dear Goodman: Your two checks s | and letters received, one for $250 and r one for $50 and $50 in Columbia f makes $350. Here is the list you got t 5 barrels X rye, 400 barrels X corn, 5 35 barrels X gin and 10 barrels apple - brandy. Will put in some case goods 7 next month and keep building up. f Many thanks for kindness. 3 Your friend, HUB. 1 o r< 17 i Qn9 i\evv utri i j, o. v^., a * j. i, jlwu. r M. A. Goodman, Savannah, Ga. 3 Dear Goodman: How are things > getting along in Georgia? Have you -! got home yet? I could have gotten > 25 cases 66 in this buying but I was , afraid it might cut me down in June 1 buying when think can get 2 or 3 ? hundred and some XX. Crum asked 3 j for Silver Brook this time and left off - the X's. You of course saw what ' we bought. Nothing comparatively. Regards to all. Come over in June. r I may go to Pawley's Island to fish j in about ten days. Can you join . i us there? Let me know. Most kind . | regards to your family. J Your friend, HUB. t P. S.?Am out of coffee and Goshen _ butter. Given Seven Years. 3 Anderson, May 30.?John C. Ellif! son, the wealthy Brushy Creek farmer, who killed R. A. Hunt, a farmer 3 of the same community, March 13, i last, this afternoon was convicted of 3 manslaughter, and was sentenced by - Judge Prince to serve seven years on - +V.A nnnnlTT 0V1 oir> trnrtsr c\r in thp State ' penitentiary. Pending an appeal to - the supreme court Ellison was admit ted to bail in the sum of $7,000, ? which was furnished within 30 minr utes after the sentence was passed. The Ellison case was the hardest 1 fought in years in Anderson county, an array of able counsel being en1 gaged on each side. Henry Feaster, the 17-year-old ne5 gro, who, while driving an automo bile several weeks ago, ran over and i killed little Lillie May Wright, daughter of W. P. Wright, on one of the principal streets of this city, was x acquitted of the charge of murder. 5 The solicitor argued for a verdict of I manslaughter, but the jury returned *1 a verdict freeing the negro within . ten. minutes. CLAUDE ALLEX GUILTY. " Verdict of Murder in Second Degree I for Killing Judge. Wytheville, Va., June 1.?After ^ j deliberating two hours and a half, j the jury in the trial of Claude Allen I this afternoon found' him guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Judge Thornton L. Massie. They recommended that his punish7 ment be fixed at fifteen years in the State penitentiary at Richmond. , Sentence was suspended in order that the prisoner may testify in the trial of others charged with shoot~ ing up the Carroll county court on * March 14 last, when five persons t were killed by the Allen clan. Other Cases Against Claude. J Four other /indictments against " Claude Allen are pending, on any I nno of -crhirh hp. mav be found eruilty | of first degree murder. The prose_ | cution taking advantage of this fact, 4 sprung a surprise on the defence when it announced that it would next go into the trial of Claude Allen for the murder of Sheriff Lewis Webb. 1 The defence raised objection to this 5 and the objection will be argued and passed upon when court reconvenes, ! July 1. I! Judge Staples gave instructions for j the summoning of a venire from j Washington county to report on July i 9 1 J * ? Agree on Second Ballot. j The case just ended was given to fVio inwir of 9 - OA fViio offornrtnn an(f | L11C JU1 ? 0.0 . O V lUio uicviuvvu. 3 i j | the first ballot taken stood 9 for j I second degree murder, two for first: 21 degree and one for manslaughter, j | The second ballot was unanimous. Just before adjournment Judge j j Staples ordered that the prisoners be j taken to the Roanoke jail, pending : the reconvening of the Wythe county 11 court, and five of them left to-night ! under a guard of detectives. 3 ~ j Byrd Marion was again released | to-day under $1,000 bond. ~l Jim Brown killed Bub Elrod in t j Brushy Creek township, Anderson 3 j county, on Sunday?both negroes. I The difficulty was about a woman. Hats and caps the largest selection t in Augusta; straw hats $1.00 up; , $8.00 Panamas at $4.75; Stetson ; and other fine makes $2.25 up. Caps 1 and hats, a full line, 25c up. Write - j F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. j? BEGS FOR SURGEON'S KIFE. Convicted Man Anxious to be Curt of Gambling Mania. Cleveland, Ohio, May 31.?Willia L. Bernard, 30, of Columbus, who t day pleaded guilty to having pawnt $540 worth of samples of a loc knitting company to pay New Yoi gambling debts, asked the court ' permit an operation on his brain cure his craving for gambling. Be nard desired the operation rathi than a prison sentence. Bernard said his gambling fevi robbed him of all reason; that he b lieved an operation would cure hit but if not, he nevertheless would 1 happy to have given surgical sciem opportunity to determine whether gambling mania might be cured wil a knife. The prosecuting attorney agre< to have an examination made 1 alienists, and, pending their repoi sentence was postponed. Woman Dipped in Barrel of Tar. Baltimore, May 29.?Details we: learned to-day of the beating and ta ring of Mrs. Mary Holzman in Oces City, Md., last Tuesday night by gang of vigilantes. These men brol into her home, kicked and beat hi and dipped her in a vat of tar in tl presence of her 11-year-old son, wl made desperate efforts to protect h mother. When the vigilantes h? gone, the woman left the town ai sought shelter in the home of To Jones, a negro, three miles out in tl country. It is charged that the town officia were in collusion with the vigilant and allowed the lights of the town be extinguished while the tarring wi in progress. Sheriff Hanson, by instruction < State Attorney Johnson, visited Mr Holzman at the Jones home. She cl clared she had been the victim of d famatory gossip, which led to the a sault. Mrs. Holzman says the m? who attacked her were fisherme She was known in the community i "Red Light," and resentment w; aroused against her because of tl charge made that she harbored cc ored men. She declares that there absolutely no truth in the report ai maintains that the offensive epith applied to her is entirely unjustifie She assured Sheriff Hanson that si is not afraid of an investigation. "It was 10 o'clock Tuesday night said Mrs. Holzman to-day, "when was awakened by the smashing glass in the room where I slept, was frightened, of course. Hard had I time to put a few clothes ( when the door was burst in. Tl men numbered about ten. Three recognized (and she gave tl names). The others I-did not kno1 When I screamed, they struck n and sometimes kicked me. ' Eve tooth I have is loose, and the cone tion of my face you can see for you self. My back and limbs are bla< and blue from the blows and kicl they gave me. "Some of the men grabbed n around the neck, and others by tl arms. They also caught my fee Holding me in this way, they start< from the house. ^ My son scream* when I was first struck. They box* his ears and threatened him. Oi man waved a big pocket knife, tl kind sailors carry. He threaten* to run it through me if I did n keep quiet. Another had an oa He said he would knock out n brains. They rushed with me fro the house to a barrel of tar, in whi< I was thrown. They forced n J x:i i i _ t j_. _ _ uuwu, until my wnuie Doay was co ered. Some of it still clings to me She turned her head. Traces the tar were plainly visible on tl back of her neck. "The lights wer out," continu< Mrs. Holzman. "I knew that tl town officials were aiding the me because the lights continued out f< half an hour. When the men finis ed their work the whole town w; lighted as usual. After I had been the tar barrel for perhaps ten mi utes, they dragged me out, threw n on a drying board close by and waL ed slowly away. "I was too frightened to do an thing, but the cries of my son a tracted the attention of Elmer Jone son of Captain Jones of the Isle i Wight life saving station. He to me to come to his father's hous Water was heated by a colored gii A gallon of coal oil must have be* used in getting the tar off, and sti some of it sticks." ' Mrs. Hoizman's face was discolo ed from the blows and is still bad disfigured. Warrants have been issued for tl arrest of the three men she reco; nized. Constable Campbell took tl warrants to Ocean City. Word he gone to the railroad station, whei probably 100 men had gathered. is believed there would have been z outbreak if an effort had been mac to serve the warrants. Suits from $10.00 up, all woo pants $2.00 up; rubber coats, f< rain or dust, $5.00 and up. Wri F. G. MERTINS, the clothier, Ai gusta, Ga. i NOT GUILTY OF KILLING BABIES. ?d Brooklyn Woman is Acquitted of Charge of Poisoning Infants. ra New York, May 30.?Winifred o- Ankers, the young woman accused of id poisoning nine babies in the Brookal lyn hospital and infants home, has *k been acquitted. The crowd which to filled the court room cheered the verto diet. r- The indictment against Miss Anker ers, who was a kitchen helper at the nursery, with causing the death of er only one of the children. As other e- indictments are still pending, she will n, be held in $2,000 bail. An important 3e point in her favor during the trial ee was made through testimony that a her "confession" of the alleged ofth fenses had been obtained by threats of taking away her baby, which was id an inmate of the nursery, but which Dy she had been permitted to care for t, after her arrest. It is believed by many that the verdict of acquittal on the first indictment practically will end the case re against Miss Ankers. r" Threo Die on One Scaffold, m a Jacksonville, May 31.?Eugene ce Baxter, alias Eugene Nelson, Tom sr White and Steve Johnson, all colored, le were hanged at St. Augustine this 10 morning from the same scaffold. Baxis ter and White were convicted of the id murder of Simon Silverstein, a Jackid sonville grocer, on March 2, while m Johnson confessed to the murder of ie another negro in St. John's county. Baxter and White denied any knowlls edge of the crime for which they es died, professing their innocence even to on the scaffold. as Both were convicted on circumstantial evidence and were given a of trial in St. John's county on a change s. of venue from Duval county after e- threats of mob violence here. Silvere stein's murder was a sensation here s- for many days, his wife and two chil?n dren who have now recovered, laying a. for almost two weeks almost at the as point of death at a local hospital as as the result of blows inflicted by the ie murderer who killed the husband >1- and father. ^ Shot Wife in Quarrel. et Gaffney, June 2.?Sheriff Thomas this morning received a message from 10 a person, who refused to divulge his name, saying, that a tragedy had oc? curred in the Macedonia section of 1 the county and asking that the offleers come at once. Deputy Sheriff * Watkins was dispatched to the scene, and he found that a negro named )n Frank Shippey had on Friday shot 3e his wife, fatally wounding her. There 1 is no explanation of why the officers 3e were not communicated with at an w- earlier date. 3e A Cowpens doctor had been called ry to see the woman either Friday or Saturday, but after making an exr~ amination, he left, stating that her spinal column was shot through, and ^s that she could not recover. Officer Watkins arrested Shippey and lodged 3e him in the county jail here. The 3e negro says that he was having a quarJt. rei with his wife and that she at-d tempted to shoot, him. He wrested the weapon from her and fired one 2d shot, which took effect in her back, ie he claims. le 3(j And the Dog Came Back. ot " A bird dog belonging to a man in Mulvane disappeared last week and 3y the owner suspected it had been stolen. So he put this "ad" in the paper and insisted that it be printed exactly as he wrote it: V~ LOST OR RUN AWAY?One livver culered burd dog called Jim. Will show signs of hyderfobby in 20 about three days. The dog came home the following day. le ^ n, FALLS FROM SECOND STORY. or h- Child's Head Strikes Pavement, but. as Only Slightly Hurt. in ? n- Memphis, May 31.?Surgeons at ie the City Hospital here are nonplussed k- at the case of Katherine Gilmore, 2, who yesterday fell from a secondy story window, alighting on her head .t- on the pavement and was rushed to !S, the hospital in the belief that her of skull was farctured. Id The child suffered only unimporte. ant scalp wounds and frets at the -1. restraint imposed by nurses to-day. ^ Dr. Wiley Offered $7,500 Job. LAI Boston, May 30.?Dr. Harvey W. r" Wiley, the foremost authority on matters of health sanitation and pure food in the world and editor of Good ie Housekeeping Magazine, may be g" named chairman of the Boston board ie of health. IC* Mayor Fitzgerald returned to Bosre ton to-day from Washington. While there he called upon Dr. Wiley. He in tendered him the office and offered ie a salary of $7,500 a year. Mayor Fitzgerald said: j. "Dr. Wiley is to cons''er the mator ter and let me know later." te u- Highest prices paid for beef cattle. H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C. AMERICAN GIRL A SUICIDE. Paris Music Pupil Sends Bullet Through Her Heart. Paris, June 2.?Miss Margaret Cravens, of Madison, Ind., committed suicide this morning in her apartments at 29 Rue du Colise. She shot herself through the heart with a revolver, death being instantaneous. Miss Cravens received a letter from America Friday, which seemed to affect her greatly. She was a member of a well known Indiana family and was believed to have considerable private means. She came 0 to Paris five or six years ago to study a music. j THREE BURIED IN ONE GRAVE. * Boys Die from Rattlesnake Bites, | Baby Drowns. x Do1a!(,>i "Vf o it Q1 Ttlti 'nrtva a P'od ^ eight and six, died as the result of rattlesnake bites, and a baby was drowned when the mother, Mrs. George Adams, went to the rescue of the brothers, according to news re- ? ceived here to-day from Greenville. J The tragedy occurred just across the line in Craven county on Wednesday. The boys were attacked by the < snake when they attempted to take a hen off the nest. The mother was ^ washing clothes, with the baby near- ^ by, when attracted by their cries. After aiding her sons she returned to 1 find the baby had climbed into the " tub and drowned. The three children were buried in the same grave. Need No Jim Crow Air Ships. Sandy Hoyle, negro janitor of. the Greenfield Advocate, listened to a discussion by the foreman and the intelligent compositor qd the commercial possibilities of the?aeroplane. Sandy seemed deeply interested, but at the 2 close of the conversation he shook his head solemnly and said. "White folks may do great things with them flying machines, but one thing I knows fo' suttin?they wont never need no Jim Crow cars on 'em." hTmTgraham Attornev-at-Law s Will practice in the United States and State Courts in any County in the State. BAMBERG, S. C. I IF YOU WANT A POLICY 1 I OnYoinJie 1 IN ONE OF THE MOST I LIBERAL AND LARGI EST DIVIDEND DE1 GLARING INSURANCE I COMPANIES IN AMER| ICA, WRITE OR CALL I Isaac M. Loryea I 1 Bamberg, S. C. Jj ' 1 Office Over 'I ] S Bamberg Herald. 1 NOTICE TO I | THE PUBLIC 1 L?lj I |U,? | hen in need of Farming Implements such as Corn Drills, Stalk Cutters, Disc Har* < rows, Grain Bind* i ers, Mowers and \ Bakes, Gasoline J Engines, J. 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Docors seemed to be unable to give me " .ill elief, though I tried several of them, ?^ + r\r\l* *vmnv Vl'n^a nf J ,11U luuo. xiia.il j axuuo vi. nvw.viv.v- , . .., ^ aedicines and tablets. About a Qonth or six weeks ago I tried lunt's Lightning Oil, which gave mo .lmost instant relief, and I am glad o say that I have been entirely free rom those dreadful headaches since, i^rom my own experience I can say hat Hunt's Lightning Oil is without ,n equal as a reliever of pain, and I inly wish that I had used it several ears ago.?Mrs. W. T. Dixon, SherSold by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ' i In'ftnfi rTi >