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1 HE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER NOVEMBER 3, 1910
HELD IN JAIL
ONTHE CHARGE
OF MURDER
Slayer of Eugene Gunn in
Nick Lamar and Walter Glover Are
- Both Hell As Result of the Hom
icide Saturday Night, the
of Eugene Guiid.
LAs t~e result of the homicide here
Saturday night wherein Eugene Gunn
was shot through the heart by Nick
Lamar, as charged, both Lamar and
Walter Glover are^conflned in the
county Jail. Lamar was arrested
shortly after the killing, while Walter
Glover was taken into cuatoliy Sun
day.
Both 1 will be held /pending the ac
tion of the grand Jury, which assem
bles on the 28th lnrt., unless ex
tenuating circumstances should de
velop at preliminary trial held earlier.
Both are b»!d nnon warrants charg
ing murder directly.
The killing of Eugene Gunn at 9:30
o'clock Saturday night at the Jackson
’ hotel, as told in the Tlmee-Reconier
Sunday morning, has created a sen
satian such - as Amerlcus has not
known m many years.
It ihas been the theme of convprsa-
, tlon upon the streets and in homes
since the crime was committed, and
every detail is eagerly seized upon.
Many Witnesses to Killing,
As there were quite a number
witnesses to the tragedy an inquest
-was not held, and the body of the
-slain man was removed from the seen
of homicide late Saturday night to
the parlors of the Allison Undertak
ing Co. and prepared for burial, be
log carried to his home later.
Many conflicting stories of the hom
ioldc have been circulated; but the po-
idee have accumulated /positive evi
dence, they state, which -will be pro
duced In time.
As told Sunday morning, the three
men had been in a room of the hotel
' for some time when a fight /was .pre
cipitated. Gunn and Glover continu
.tag the struggle to tire hallway where
It is state], the latter called upon La
mar to shoot Gunn, . who had him
-down. I |
dt was then that Lamar, it is said
used his ever-read,}- plated with terrl
hie effect, shooting Gunn directly
through the heart.
Sot Involved in Fight.
jjjyjfAccopding to the statement of Mr
z. T. Anglin, -proprietor of the ho-
.tel, immediately after the killing oe-
Nick Lamar ran towards the
pistol In hand.- Gupn had just
sen, (probably at the call of Glover
Lamar, and was standing up when
he was shot.
$30,000 IS PRICE
PAID IN OIG
LAND TRADE
Amerlcus Man Sells Terrell
Plantation.
Messrs. Lowrey Sell [One of Their
Farms In Terrell County to ;J. M,
Woodley of South Carolina for
.(The officers say that the mark, or
•light cut, on Lamar’s neck can
hr
it waa of trlv-
explained In due time,
lal nature.
- This bloody tragedy, while deplored
by ad, is not surprising, as the de
fendant, Nick Lamar, has been In sev
eral affrays of almost similar nature
.'within the last year or two, and It
Jrasl long been feared that a tragedy
Ju.it such as has occurred, -would he
the inevitable end.
'Fonlf three weeks ago he terribly
beat up Ac/;.- Robinson with a pistol
whUe the case against him for shoot
ing Police Officer Cloud, two years
ago was never even tried in court.
DISCREDIT ARMS MADE
IN THIS COUNTRY
England in Plot to Frighten
Buyers Away.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 2.—Higher
-a world-wide publicity campaign is
•being conducted'from England to dls
^credit the armament and materials of
war manufactured in toe Nnited
States.'
Tile blowing up of guns In the navy
. has particularly been the subject cf
exploitation, and the grossest mlarep-
.' resentation has been engaged In to
make It appear that the American-
made powder was to blaqic for the ac
cidents.
Exageratlon of mishaps is employed
• to a nmerkab'.e degree to make it ap
pear that the equipment and materials
in Uncle Barn's army and navy are in-
ferlor. To the fact that several gov-
ernments are at the present time In
HHS the market for the purchase of guns.
wtr Powder, and ships is ascribed the mo
tive for the hostile crusade.
The United States has been ‘ taking
Contracts away from England, and
aroused bitterness and animus that is'
now being directed at thing* Amer!-
. can.
Thirty thousand dollars w,ia the good
round figure paid in Amerlcus yester
day for a Terrell county plantation of
1,200 acres, or Just $25 per acre not
The purchaser waa Mr. J. M. Woodley,
of South Carolina, who bought one
of the fat ms of Messrs. M. M. and L.
A Lowrey in TerreU county.
The axle is one of the largest single
land deals effected here quite recently,
though there have been quite a num
her of smaller ones in the $5,000 and
$10,000 claas.
Tit-.- term thus purchased by Mr.
-Woodley is situated In the southern
portion of Terrell county, which aid
Jiias Sumter, and while it ia very
good land it does not equal other
farm lands in that county.
Came First to Sumter,
Mr. Woodley, upon leaving South
Carolina to prospect for a new home,
came first to Amerlcus, as do all Souta
Carolinians, to purchase a farm in
Sumter—as so many of those who
came ahead of him bad done. He was
anxious to locate In Sumter, of which
hi had beard so much.
Many farms here were carefully in
spected by this newcomer , -but when
prices were asked the answer etirtled
him. Values were put far above the
figures he expected.
In fact, he saw no inducement to
purchase here at the prices demanded,
so he reluctantly went into the ad
joining county of TerreU, where he
deemed values more commensurate
with the lands offered. Thus he be
comes a good neighbor, if not a resi
dent of Sumter county.
Mr. Woodley will remove shortly to
his new home in Terrell.
likeetds Half Million Mark.
While high priced lands here.cause
a few prospective buyers to eeek in
vestments in other counties, many ota-
DR. GREGORY
DIED SUDDENLY
LAST NIGHT.
CROP IS BEST
EVER GROWN
IN SUMTER
Prominent Physician of Amer- Never Such a Corn Crop
ices Stricken,
Harvested Here.
End Comes All Too Suddenly and a w. B. Hoys Gathers Eighteen Hun-
Shock to the Entire Glfy-The De
ceased Was Very Highly Esteemed
Here By AH.
/Dr. Francis Bartow Gregory passed
dred Bushels From 55 Acres—
Other Farmers Report Great
Yields as Well.
“I have been farming all of my life
away at 5:45 o’clock yesterday after- and have grown many crops of corn,
noon at his residence on Rees Park, but for a real bumper the crop now
The end came quite suddenly and being harvested surpasses any other,"
wholly unexpectedly, as only a half said Mr. William B. Heys yesterday
hour before he was down in the city, while purchasing new padlocks to put
professionally engaged; and seeming- upon bits overflowing barns,
ly in his usual health. | “I had only fifty-five acres in corn
Tbe announcement of his death this year,” continued Mr, Hoys, "but
came as a profound shock to the com- i have already gathered and weighed
munity, as might be expected. {into my /barns just eighteen hundred
It w/as shortly after 5 o’clock that bushefls.
Dr. Gregory left his office and drove
home. Feeling a little unwell be -went
to his room and retired for a short
rest before tea.
Mrs. Gregory was away at the mo
ment and it was she who /made the
dreadful discovery upon entering the
room a half hoar thereafter. Calmly
and peacefully the end had come, and
he lay as though quietly sleeping.
Physicians were hastily summoned,
but he was beyond mortal aid. Death,
they said, Had resulted from some
heart affection.
The death of Dr. Gregory is a dis
tinct loss to the community and to
the profession which he so well
adorned. During a residbnee of four
years in Amerlcus be had 'acquired a
fine practice, and as physician and cit
izen none stood higher here, or was
more universally esteemed.
Dr. Gregory was 48 years of age
and a native of Stewart county, being
a member of the distinguished family
long resident of that county.
After his graduation at Mercer Uni
versity and mfedlcal course at Tulanc,
New Orleans, he engaged In practice
at Lumpkin and then In Macon, for -a
time before comibg to Amerlcus. Here
he has -ranked high as a physician,
a Mason and genial, charming gentle
man.
To the stricken wife, daughter and
Every spare crib and bam is filled
with com,” he continued laughingly,
"and even the chicken coop is filled
with It."
And what Is true in Mr. Heys’ case
is true in others. The farmers here
have made a phenomenal corn crop
his yeo/r, the beat one ever, perhaps,
and there will be an abundance for
their needs next year. Many Sumter
farmers still ha/ve last year's com on
hand.
This great grain crop will, tin
manner offset the very poor cotton
crop here this year.
Sumter's progressive fanners are
glvlnc more attention to corn produc
tion now than formerly, and the
friendly contest engaged In recently
was an incentive to many (of them to
plant more com and cultivate It more
thoroughly. Plenty of corn means
plenty of meat on the farm.
Mr. Heys stated yesterday that newer
in all his years of farming in Sum
ter, has be ever had to buy a bushel
of com, which fact reflects his pros
perity. There are many such good
formers in Sumter.
Donwntn
ers bought here ere values reached^ son, the tenderest sympathy of ■ the
the present level. The result has been! entire city is extended In this bour
'of deepest grief and sorrow.
The interment will take place in
the immigration here of many thrifty
fanners from other states, principally
from South Carolina.
These new comers have invested
heavily here, it being conservatively
estimated that more than six hundred
thousand dollars of Carolina coin bus
been Invested In larfds near Americas
during the current year.
ANOTHER SUMTER FARM
HAS CHANGED HANDS
Rylander & Andrews Buy the
^Matthews Place.
Another Important real estate trans
action was pulled off yesterday when
fine piece of farm property be
tween Amerlcus and LaCrosse changed
hands.
In this Instance the property trans
ferred had not changed hands in prob
ably a quarter of a century before.
Through the firm of Arthur & West
brook. the. well known real estate
agents, Mrs. Lucy V. Matthews sold
her valuable place oil the Uumphead
road, four miles from the city, tu
Messrs. Arthur Rylander and D. R,
Andrews. The consideration was not
made public, but it wqs based on the
existing advanced values of all good
farming lands In Uis vicinity.
In the farm in question are 403
: '7 D '"‘ “res. It adjoins the farming proper-
government officials are convinced that
ty of Mr. Jerry Duckworth, one of the
leading farmers of that section of the
county. It has proved a profitable
farm' in the past and under the man
agement of Messrs. Rylander and An
drews Its reputation as a money maker
Is more than apt to he Increased.
Lumpkin Friday
o'clock.
morning at 9:30
MANY WANT TO MARRY
DR. CRIPPEN’S TYPIST
Acquitted of Murder She is
Swamped With Offers.
changes of farm ownership may
reported in a few days.
Ixmdon, Nov. 2.—Since her acquittal
on the charge of being an accessory
after the fact to the murder of'Belle
Elmore, wife of Dr. Hawley H. Crip-
pen, Miss Ethel Leneve has been
the country under the protection ut
Arthur Newton, Crl/ppen’s counsel. Mr.
Newton has been swamped /With offers
for Miss Leneve's services from music
hulls, beauty doctors and others.
He has received for .her sixteen of
fers of marriage. These offers, all of
which are signed and unquestionably
genuine, illustrate the odd effect of
notoriety oncomparatlvely degenerate
minds. Miss Leneve also has been of
fered one thousand, dollars for the
first statement of her lire with Dr.
Crippen. This offer feame from a Lon
don paper, but she is i.ulding out for
more money.
She said that she never has /been
photographed, and that none of tile al
leged pictures of her that have been
published were genuine. Sl.ta cer
tainly looks very little like any of th*
published pictures. She is slender,
with a small nose, little eyebrows,, re
ceding chin, rather dark eyes and has
a shy, retiring, almost cringing man
ner.
Mr. Newton, after a conference with
LYENS TRIAL IS FIXED
FOR DATE IN JANUARY
Slayers of Fleming Smith
Will Re Tried Then.
Cordele, Ga., November 2.—The at
torneys Interested in the case of W.
B. Lyons and his son, Archie, who are
being held in the Crisp county jail,
having been, transferred here from
Glynn, hare reached an agreement and
the case will be tried the second Mon
day In January at an adjourned term
of the Crisp Superior court.
The case of W. B. and Archie Lyens
has attracted considerable attention
throughout the state, the two defend
perlor court In 1907.
A new trial was ‘granted by the Su
preme court on the ground of relation,
ship of one^of the Juror* to the pros
ecutor. The second trial resulted in
mlptrlal, and the defendants asked
for a change,of venue and/ the case
was finally transferred to Crisp Su
perlor court for a third hearing.
The case will be tried /before Judge
U. V. Whipple.
DR. BAH.YSEN MIL LREMAIN
PERMANENTLY IN AMERICC8
Ills Headquarters As State Veterina
rian Here.
Several other transactions are In| Dr. Crippen, announced that the case
process of development and other} would be appealed. Dr. Crippen ap-
Not Horry For Blunder.
be peared very cheerful during the con
ference, and expressed his satisfaction
over the acquittal of Miss Leneve.
“If my frien-Ja hadn't blundered
‘‘•(iking I was a doomed victim
consumption, 1 might not >k> alive
now," writes D. T. Sanders, of Har-
Sau-x an Iowa Man’s Life.
The very grave seemed to yawn be
fore Robert Madsen, of West Burling
ton, Iowa, when, after seven weeks In
as erroneously stated yesterday. The
information was deemed entirely au
thentic, but the correction is cheer
ful.y made, as Dr. Bahnsen's friends
will be pleased at the fact that he
will continue to reside in Amerlcus,
though) having an office in the state
capitol building. He says emphatically
that should it come to a choice be
tween leaving Amerlcus or surren
dering the office of state veterinarian
be would unhesitatingly remain here.
Dr. Bahnsen will continue bis profes
sional work here, and will not bd
succeeded by any one. He does not
even know tbs veterinarian whose
name was mentioned in tblB connec
tion yesterday.
rodsburg. K-y.. “but for years they saw the hospital, four of the best pbysle-
every attempt to cure a lung-raking lam, gave him up. Then was shown the
’oug.i fail. At last I tried Dr. King's marvelous curative power of Electric
New Discovery. The effect was won- Biters. For, after eight months of
derful. It soon stopped the eough and;frightful suffering from liver, trouble
l am now in better health than I have I.and yellow jaundice, getting no -help
bad for years. This wonderful llfe-sar-l from other remedies or doctors, five
er U an unrivaled remedy far coughs, I-Unities of ttjis matchless medicine corn
cobs, lagrlppe, asthma, croup, hem-' p'.etely cured him. Its positively guar-
orrbages, /whooping cough or weak'an teed for Stomach, Liver or Kidney
lungs. 50c, $1:00. Trial bottle free. I troubles'amd never disappoints. Only
Guaranteed by Eldrldge Drug Co. 50c at Eidridge Drug Co.
Having perfected arrangements with
the Buckeye Cotton. Oft Co., I am now
In a position to. pay tt<e highest mar
ket price for all sound, dry cotton
seed. Scaled and seed faouae on
grounds of Crystal Ice Co., near Con
tra! depot WALTER MAYNARD.
'Amerlcus warehouses have nearly
reached the twenty thousand bale
mark in reedpts, but the procession
will not go far beyond that point.
Your winter, buying y
The cold w* at her is „
upon us. It istiniv tocha
to your winter wt*arin»
parel. I
The weather r cently
been ideal but this c hs
makes it imperative |
you prepare for what we
to have and prepare
and get the full. benef
your winter wearing a
rel by commencing
now. Many have done
Follow the example.
WOOLTEX SUITS—Greatest SuitL
est variety, greatest guarantee ofahyl
Suits in America
$25.00 to $50.00.
WOOL TEX COATS-For Ladii
Misses, beautiful styles
/ $17.50 to $35.00.
Largest variety of other makes Su
in Americus
$10.00 lo $40.00.
Most immense line Misses (Junia
sizes 8 to 14 years, we have ever i
and the prices range from
$7.50 upwards.
Beautiful Goats for Children wj
ages and prices.
, . , . , The handsomest line of Skirt*
ever had for your inspection; thekj
and best fitting
$5.00 to $15.00.
Ladies’, Children’s and Mens/
everyone in the house absolutely!]
beautiful variety of styles, most
prices. Buy them now.
Ladies’ Tailor-Made Waists, thej
we have ever shown, and the best']
$1.00 and $1.50 to bn found. J
Fine Blanket weather this. Seel
.n"L%T!i F uor«mov; 8 to te AtIa e ma; have to offer you in the widest
really desirable blankets you nave
in Americus.
Flannelette Gowns for Women*
Great variety and excellent vaim*l
This is winter Underwear
and we want you to see our sp _
in Vests and Pants for 50c and up
A WORD ABOUT WOOLEN D
We are anxious to reduce
Dress Goods stock, and in otty[
plish this end we shall offer
aordinary attractions in tne
to all needing anything in
for your dress goods for yor
dren.
Chas. L.