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THE VALDOSTA TIMES,
VALDOSTA, GA., TUESDAY,
MAY 80', Mil.
Judge Thomas Gave Lectures
:s, to
(From. Saturday!* PaUy);;
The prisoners who have beea ci
victed during the preagflt week 1
various offenses were hauleaf^tlp^
the Superior court this morning and
sentenced by Judge Thomas, the
total fines amounting to $2400 and
the alternative sentences making
a good many years service in the
chain gang. One prisoner was sen
tenced for life and one for twenty
years, while another got eight years
and all of them were gtvpp twelve
moiitte^pSare in the default of
the fines' 1 imposed.
Judge Thomas was especially seevre
upon parties for carrying pistols. He
had a negro boy before him on that
Charge and he said the only reason
he did not impose a straight chain
gang sentence was that he wanted
this boy to go out among the friends
and caution them to never come up
in court on that charge, aa "pistol
toting" shooting and killing folks
must be stopped. Judge Thomas was
Tather severe in all of his fines and
each prisoner was given agood lec
ture upon the seriousness of the
charge aaginet him.
Of fifty six Indictments by the
■Grand Jury -fifty five cases Were
ready for trial this week and all of
the felony cases and many of the
misdemeanors cases were disposed
of, leaving a number of misdemean
or cases for Judge Cranford to tackle
The following are the sentences
Imposed by Judge Thomas this morn
ing: . -—*
" yetohf ^Nicholson $200. or twelve
months for cattle stealing.
A. C. Brownie.. $400. or twelve
months for shooting another.
Lonzo Clanton , $400. or twelve
months for stabbing.
Marous Clanton, $160 and twelve
months, the twelve months sentence
suspended .^^(B^^good behavior after
fine Is pahj for, oofiAealed weapons,
V. A. McCarvey, $300. or twelve
months for cotton stealing.
Joke Baker life sentence for mur
der.
Will Reid, twenty years for rape.
Will Smith, eight years, formule
stealing.
Hadley Howell. $150. or twelve
months for stabbing.
Sanders Outlaw. $200. or twelve
months for larceny.
Zeke Howell, 12 months and $100.
the 12 months sentence suspended
on good behavior after the payment
of $100 for concealed weapons.
Jack Garfield, $150. or twelve
month for larceny.
Clarence Barnes, $250. or twelve
months for selling liquor.
Valdosta Grocery Cq., $100.
The fine of $100 upon the Valdosta
Grocery Company was because of Us
failure to register with the ordinary
and pay the corporation tax requir
ed.
The following is a list of the other
cases that were disposed of during
the week and the result:
Horace Corbett, verdict not guilty.
Enoch Newborn, two cases, verdict
Not guilty.
Will Johnson—Verdict, not guilty.
Tom Southal and Shirley Southall,
SIX WEEKS AND NO ALARM
BODY FOUND
IN SINK HOLE
Mystery Surrounding Mrs.
Sapp’s Absence from Home
is Gradually Revealed.
Surrounded by evidences of a ter
rible struggle for life, that was ended
The Longest Period Without » Fire
the Department Has Ever Had.
We are not boasting about It, and
i'-even rapping on wood as we men-
iut Valdosta Is now going
through tw longest period In its his
tory. or since the Are department was
started without a fire.
At four o’clock this evening It will
be six week* and two days since an
alarm was turned In, the last alarm
being sent In on the 13th day of
April.
This Is a record that the depart
ment would like to see kept up all
summer, and it might he kepi up r
If everybody would 1* careful about ,»* bullets, the body of Mrs, Dav : d
fire, for all fires, or nearly all, are Sapp was found Friday morning In a
caused by carelessness in one form or lonely pool in a sink hole half a mile
another. Ifrom her home on the outskirts o r
The last fire the department had
.. . ... Quitman.
of any consequence was that which A . . ..
destroyed the Fender mill and thej Evidences there are plenty to tell
Valdosta Foundry. It did enough : how she met death, but there a wall
damage to last for a long time, so , 0 f mystery shuts out the police inves-
the present dearth in fire alarms is f t , gatlon ncyond | t u g the Identity
merelv nature's way of compensating ,
, • , of the murder and his motive. The
for past losses.
police have the terrible evidence of
Will Not Accept Position. crime hut, eliminating the woman’s
Dr. L. A. Felder returned from ^ husband from suspicion, they have
Atlanta this week, where he has apparently not a shred of anything
been with Mr. S. M. Young. Ho tangible upon which to hang a clue,
states that he allowed his name to Exonerate David Rapp,
be presented to the President for ap- j Facing the officers and telling a
polntment to the medical corps of ( straightforward -ftory, corrohora.ed
tho army with the understanding that ( in detail by others, David Sapp, the
he was to be placed on the reserve i husband, according to the police has
list. He will not enter active service been relieved from any suspicion that
unless there is a war, but will re- may have attached to him at the frst
main in Quitman and give his atten- Mrs. Sapp’s life was taken by some
lion to the practice of his profession. °»e who first fired bullets Into her
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—Quitman Free Press.
fnce and hack and then crushed her
face in with a piece of timber. The
David Hutchinson Dead. was » os9ed lnto ‘be waters of the
David Hutchinson, son of Mr. and P«» « the ed * e ° f " hlch °' cu " ed
Mrs. W. M. Hutchinson, who Uve ber struggle for life. Her combs and
. ,, . . fragments of her clothing scattered
a few miles east of Quitman, died,* ...
Wednesday evening at his father's
home of typhoid fever. The lnter-
about tell how she fought
> Where Mystery L'es.
. . . _ Several question*. If answered,
ment occurred yesterday at Pauline | mI ^ t ]ay ^ the gtory that now , g
church. The deceased had been H», WddeB ln mygt ery.
Florida for some time and came , ^ by vaa Mrs. Sapp at this lone!
home recently, quite unwell and 1*-1 pool ln a g wamp at dusk, for she ‘
ter fever developed which caused, Rt . y bome late Monday afteriy
death In a..few ^ays.,—Quitman, Free wl *j; whom wag gbe talking in he!
NOTICE JUNE THE FIRST NOTICE
On June the 1st Thursday, we will put on our regular June Sale, just as we did
in 1910. What will the cut be on? We don’t say. But one thing sure, if you
visit our store during the month of June you will be more than agreeably sur
prised. Watch next issue for what we have to say about this sale.
J. L. MATHIS COMPANY
MYSTERY OVER
AT JJITMAN
People Jhere are Fearful
; That a Woman of That
Place has Been Murdered.
Psesa..
home Just before she must have »'
out for the murder-scene.
Not her
hull
or-'
appears t<Qbe a genuine mur-
itery baa developed at Quit-
the continued disappearance
home of Mrs. David Sapp, a
woman. 1
Sapps live near the cemetery
east side, and Just on the city
afternoon
’as he^H talking to som"
ir house, about an hour before
iband, the police an- ] sunset. Wten Mr. Sapp returned
, from his work that night she was
Was the person to'
Tragic Dive at Blue Springs', V,
It was reported on .the streets j flweri
this morning that the Unton picnic j Then, who’
of the Quitman Sunday schools which (wh0 m she was talking In her home Inqulr)ea amonB the neIghbt>ra
was held at Blue Springs yesterday the same person that met her at ‘be j hrought out that phe had bern , (ck .
was broken up by a tragic happen- i ono i y poo l and there took her life?; |nR „ errIeB ncar tbe boaB0 tbat
lng. Nathaniel Heeth, while diving | That ehe did not fear an attack, tl . rnoon> a „ d the „ al| of bl)rrl „,
Into the water struck his head!when she left her home Is clearly |on , he taMo , n tbo bouse> but otbor .
against a piece of ttmDer down un- ( shown by the terrible struggle "he |W , BC they knew notblng of bor
der the water, causing injury to his made at the pool. Upon the ptround Tlles(lay mor nlng the husband re-
spinal cord which caused paralysis, are mute evidences that she was a‘- jported ber d i sappearanco t0 tbe po
ll was stated here that his neck tacked, fought desperately and broke t , |ce and & BCarch waB (begun _
was broken.
from her assailant, Turning to flee
I Just back of tho cemetery is
cotton mills at Quitman.
Quitman and his’condition was very fore her she was stopped by WO | Creek . near tbe cc metcry fence a
precarious at last accounts. Mr. | bullets fired Into hr back. Then a |tra „ of bIood waB discovered and
Heeth Is a young man 19 years of heavy piece o m wa * | where It began a piece of plank four
age. and a brother of Julian Heeth, above her’head and' bjought down ^ long was found, also with blood
the secretary of the Atlantic Gulf cl S h ‘ time, with the swing of the, ThIa tr>| , wpnt ha , f way
murderer’s arm. Eight gashes and ( back cemotory ,
the bloody timber discarded after It was the pdg0 of tho
had don© Ita work, tell that story.
Finding of tho Body. BW "" lp ’ , ..
, * „ , I Thursday morning the searchers
This occurred Monday afternoon , .. „ . . ,,
, .. . . . 1 found a place on tno creok hank
mat as the " f I trampled as If by some one throwing
fading day were broadening I. o the in . Ncarty mitlo tracks
one great shadow of night Hk»k.| « whlcb went tbe
tlm dead, or on the very brink o.
death from her wounds, the slayer be Valdosta turnpike and
picked up the bleeding’body and hurl- ‘bon doubled hack toward Quitman
. . . .. On this clue tho creek was dragged
G a \° no oAd thf. snot fitnin to,,ny th o| iKh the water la high and
Seirchers passed the spot again [ raln „ tbIg
and again after David Sapp gave the . ’
alarm that his wife was missing j we ® K ‘” * , . ..
None of the woman s clothes were
Old New Furniture.
Worn out chairs and furniture are
made like new, at a cost of about 20
cents with one coat of L. & M.
Varnifh Stain.
Manogany, Oak, Walnut, etc. col
ors.
Directions on each can.
Get It from A. E. Dimmock.
verdict, not guilty.
Marcus Clanton, nolle prossed.
Warrcnt Clements, nolle prossed o. iue w U ,u„„ .........
Warrent Clements, verdict not M""^? nlglht. »»rly t Is ' d mlBsinK from the tiouRO nnd there
guilty. however the body was found nnd * vl __ _ k „„. , K „.
L. B. Beauchamp, verdict not gull- 1 searchers wondered how It was pors-
ble for them to pass it so many times
CARRIED BACK
TO ^FLORIDA
Sheriff Allen Came up Today
' and got th& Murderer of
Maya and Godoing.
(From Friday* Dally.)
Sheriff Allen of Washington
county Florida, reached this city, this
morning with requisition, papers*au
thorising him to get Jeo Wllmont,
1 anted for the
i and D. J,
Fla.
it la a very
this nog^
in Jail there
him to get
gro who la jui
r of B. D. Mfe;
g, near ChlpleV,
Andrew Jackson, verdict not guil
ty.
John Adanist, verdict not guilty.
J. Z. Fitzgerald, mistrial.
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Whippoorwill, Brown 2
Crop, Acre.
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We handle Sorghum Seed.
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DRUGS AND SEEDS
undiscovered.
lfimhand Sees Bend Body.
The discovery of Mrs. Sapp’s body
was made by two operatives of the At
lantic and Gulf Mills, Waters nnd
Brown, who were going fishing. The
sink-hole is near the OkaplTco creek
and their attention was first attract
ed by the odor. They looked about
and then peered Into the sink-hole,
which is twenty feet wide, and saw
the body of the slain woman almost
on the surface of the thick dark wa
ter of the pool. One foot protruded
from the water.
The two men hurried to Quitman
and reported their find to Chief
Wade. The body was removed ar.d
ln the Abaence of the coroner, Jbstiee
of the Peace Morris began the hold
ing of the iinquest.
The husband, David Sapp, was
standing by the pool when the body
was drawn up- Tie is an employe of
the Interstate Lumber Mill.
Reports had reached the police of
domestic trouble In the Rapp home
on account of the wife’s alleged con
duct, hut the police believe he was
sincere In his search for his wife, as
ho aided the posse who were looking
for her.
Many persons In Quitman enter
tained the idea that the woman had
left her home and that there had
been no tragedy. Tb finding of the
mutilated body this morning, howi
set all minds toward* thi prokl
solving the .mystery of
was nothing to show that her disap
pearance was premeditated.
A Lifetime Trouble.
Ingram, Tex.—"Ever since I be
came a woman,” writes Mrs. E. M.
Evans, of this place, "I suffered from
womanly trouble. Last fall, it got
so bad, I had to stay in bed for near
ly a week every month. Since tak
ing Cardul, I feci better than I have
for years.” You can rely on Cardul.
Prepared especially for women, K
relieves womanly pain, by acting
on the cause, and builds up woman
ly strength where tt Is most needed.
Purely vegetable. Mild, but certain
In action. Try it. At your drug
gist’s.
Helped to Make Dime Novel Famous
Baltimore, Md., May 2G.-—Mrs.
Mary Andrews D^ison, one of the
last survivoru of the little, group of
authors whose sentimental stories
established tho success of tho dime
novel many years ago, celebrated
her eighty^flfth birthday today at her
home at Normandie Heights a suburb
of Baltimore.
Mrt.. Denison !s the euchor of more
than sixty novels, many of which at
tained wide popularity. When she
began to write, the sentimental novel
wa<* all the rage, and from tho first
her work was successful.
Among her contemporaries were
Mrs. Southworth, Mary J. Holmes
and Amy Randolph. These and sev
eral others now forgotten formed a
galaxy of writers who made fame
and fortune for.the dime novel pub-
llsbfig as well as for themselves.
the negro
murder
Gooding,
ihertH_Allen *ays_t1
II county, fcuf
makes eight murdei
to be tried at the next/term of court
He also says that/ from wbat he
understands the killing of the two
men was almost unprovoked and
that there la a serious case against
the negro.
It Is learned from another source
that the reward for the negroe If
about $500 of which $200 of the
amount was offered by the widow
of the dead man. The company for
which he worked also offered a re^
ward and the state offered a reward
of $150.
Tt Is said that May had $5000, ac
cident. Insurance on his life, hut the
company will not. pay the claim until
the negro has been tried and It has
been proven whether ©r not the kill
ing was due to recklessness on the
part of Mays or was a case of pure
murder. If the evidence shows that
Mays was murdered the Company
will ho liable for the lnmirance, hut
If ft Is found that he was killed by
the negro In self defense It will
claim that It Is not liable.
Tt Is said that tho negro shot Mays
three times after Mays had fallen to
the ground. The negro does not
claim that Mays tried to whip him
hut he says that he though Mays
wn« going to try It. and that is the
reason that, he killed him.
Advertise In the Dally Times.
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will make sound Pinders in
lands where they fail to
mature.
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