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LANDS MAN FOR
KILLING IN 1881
GEORGIA SHERIFF GETS MAN
WHO COMMITTED MURDER FIVE
YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Her*
And There From All Section*
Of The State
Quitman. —After having been a fu
gitive from justice for 43 years, Fos
ter Green, a negro, now nearly 73
years old, was brought back to the
• cfenc of his crime by Sheriff Colin E.
Clanton, who has spent four years in
trailing his man.
Green is wanted for murder in
Brooks county and has been positive
ly identified. The trail led through
Georgia and Florida, and the arrest
was made at Tampa. Green will be
tried at the May term of the Brooks
county superior court under an indict
ment returned forty-three years ago
by the grand jury.
Two eye-witnesses to the crime, two
members of the coroner’s jury and
three members of the grand jury which
indicted Green appear to be the only
survivors to the drama except the prin
cipal himself, who is now bent with
igo and rheumatism.
Four years ago, when Sheriff
Clanton came into office, through cu
riosity he began looking through old
records at the courtt house. One paper
attracted his attention in particular,
an indictment for murder turned in by
the May term grand jury in 1881,
against Green Foster, for the murder
at it. W. (“lied") Wilkins, on Janu
ary 5 of the same year.
rhn records showed there had been
no arrest in the case and that the in
dictment was still in suspense.
Sheriff Canton began investigating
and found a few of the older citizens
af the county who recalled the trag
edy.
In the year 1880, R. W. Wilkins
came to this county from Columbia,
H. C„ and secured a job as box inspec
tor for a turpentine still. He was
twenty-three years old at that time,
it was his duty to stay in the woods
with the box chopers and to see that
their duties were performed.
On January 4, Green Foster, who
was one of the box chopeprs, went to
Valdosta and got drunk, returning to
ais job in the woods on the following
morning
Wilkins came upon him during the
morning round of inspection ut the old
Jim Patrick place near Blue Springs
and found that Foster was slighting
his work. He called his attention to
this fact and Foster, who wa3 half
drunk, cursed Wilkins and started to
ward him with a raised chopping ax
with a blade eleven Inches long.
Wilkins threw up a guard with a
sharpened ax handle, which he used
to test boxes. Foster threw down his
ax and Wilkins turned to leave. As
he did, Foster quickly picked up his
ax and struck Wilkins in the hack a
terrific blow, the keen edge cutting
through the backbone and pa?sing
through the body. Wilkins probably
never knew what struck him. He fell,
dying almost instantly from hemor
rhage.
Fortune and Elai Sampson. two oth
pr negro turpentine choppers, were
eye-wittnesses. They say that Foster
deliberately ate his breakfast and
watched with interest the dying con
tortions of his victim, after which he
walked away and completely disap
peared, although a manhunt for days
wits carried on in the county.
The coroner’s jury returned a ver
dict of murder and the grand jury in
dicted Fo-ter. Tobe McNeill was sher
iff at that time and L. L. Folsom and
W. J. Parker were members pf the
coroner’s jury.
Sheriff Clanton, although the crime
was committed five years before he
was born, has finally trailed his man
to Tampa, secured requisition papers
and went to Tampa, in his car. with
Fortune Sampson, one of the eye-wit
nesses. Sampson’s identification was
complete and Foster is now in the
Brooks county jail, brdken with age
and disease, his mind wandering in
Its dotage, awaiting trial for a crime
committed hero when the Indians still
roamed through the swamps.
Award Contracts For New Bridges
Valdosta.—Contracts for the con
struction of the concrete bridges on
the national highway project north of
the city were let to former County En
gineer F. M. Hill. Work on the bridges
will begin as soon as the material is
placed, and will be rushed to comple
tion. Work of laying the paving ha?
already begun. This strip of paving
extends from the Witlilacoochee river
to the Cook county line, a distance of
about seven miles. Five or six bridges
of various lengths will be required.
Disease Appears In Melon Fields
Valdosta. —Reports from the lower
part of Lowndes county are to the ef
fect that the dreaded anthracnose dis
ease has made its appearance in the
, melon fields. The vines are all very
| small, but there seems to be no doubt
as to the disease being anthracnose.
This disease practicaly destroyed the
cantaloupe crop in this section last j
year and wrought havoc with the cu
cumber crop. The growers have been
expecting the disease to make its ap
pearance, but did not believe it would
start in until the.crop was further ad
vanced. Spraying and dusting will be
carried on in all fields affected, and
it is hoped to stamp out the disease in
its early stage.
Hemorrhage Of Brain Causes Death
Macon. —Professor Charles R. Fors
ter, for 15 years holder of the chair
of ancient languages at Wesleyan col
lege, and later fotr five years a mem
ber of the faculty of Lanier High
school, this city, died suddenly one af
ternoon recently of hemorrhage of the
brain. Professor Forster was 67
years of age. Besides a wife he is sur
vived by a daughter, Mrs. E. E. Clem
ents, who, with her husband, is a mis
sionary in Havana, Cuba, and by Dr.
George E. Forster, in charge of the
biology department at Olivett college
Michigan.
Mrs. Thompson Suffers Broken Back
Atlanta. —Mrs. Hortense Thompson
of 874 Peachtree street is in a dying
condition at an Americus hospital, and
her two companions, both residents of
this city, were injured as the result
of an auto accident, which occurred at
night recently while the party was
on its way to the south Georgia city
to take part in a revival campaign
now in progress there. The other two
victims were Miss Ethel Tanner of
874 Peachtree street, and Howard Bus
sey of Peachtree road.
One-Teacher School Wins At Meetft
Irwinton. —Sand Hill school, a one
teacher school, made a most remarka
ble showing at the field day exercises
here the other day. Although practi
cally every school in the county is
larger than it, yet the pupils of this
school won four of the gold medals of
fered in the contests, and, in addittion
to that, this school won the school
exhibits prize. Miss Eddie Stanley
has had charge of the school for the
past few years.
Hold Graduating Exercise At Berry
Rome. —The commencement exer
cises at the Berry schools are well
under way, and will conclude with the
graduating exercises. The opening
event of the commencement week was
held at the foundation school when
that department of the school conduct
ed the annual declamation contest.
This event was won by Remar Knight,
of Cook county, Henry Dobson, of
Floyd county, won third place.
Rescued After He Fall* With Root
Atlanta.-*-Saved from death by fel
low firemen who rescued him from a
blazing house at 87 Henry street into
which he was precipitated when the
roof caved in, Lieutenant Scott Smith
of engine company No. 7 is in a se
rious condition at a local hospital with
burns about the face, severe bruises
about the back and shoulders and
possibly internal injuries.
Avera Marshal Held In Killing Man
Louisville—Ed B. Streetman, mar
shal of Avera, Ga., is in jail here on
the charge of the fatal shooting of A.
G. Dean, a chalk mine foreman em
ployed by the Ilarbson-Walker Mining
company, near Avera, one afternoon
recently. Dean was shot three tunes
in the stomach. He was rushed to
Sandersville for medical treatment
but died later.
Georgia Furniture Dealers Meet
Macon. —The executive committee ot
the Georgia Furniture Dealers associa
tion met here recently and arranged
to hold the annual state convention
in this city May 22 and 23. W. J.
Wood. Atlanta, is president, and Chas.
S. Robison. Atlanta, secretary-treasu
rer, were also present.
11l Health Cause Of Man’s Suicide
LaGrange.—W. L. Nicholls. 50, died
instantly when he shot himself in the
temple in the bathroom of his home
near here. Relatives state that ill
health which two weeks ago forced
him to give up his position at Port
Royal, S. C.. led to his act.
Pensions To Be Paid In Lowndes
Valdosta.—Ordinary Holcombe hai
announced that he has received the
pension money for the Lowndes coun
ty pensioners and that all claimants
would be paid promptly. The amount
to be distributed in this county is
$11,130.
Ordinary Of Candler Passes Away
Metter. —Mr. Willy W. ageo
58, one of the most prominent men in
Candler county, died at his home near
Metter recently.
THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAB OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OfImPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parte Of Th
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraph*
Foreign
captain Stezensko, a former officer
in the Russian czarist army, has been
sentenced to death on Soviet charges
of responsibility for the deaths of 5,-
000 workmen and Communists while
acting as head of the secret police of
the Wrangel and Denikine armies.
Two persons were killed and be
tween thirty and forty injured in a
train smash just outside the Euston
(England) station. One of the many
specials from northern England, car
rying football fans to the association
cup final at Wembley stadium be
tween the Astonvilla and Newcastle
teams, was standing in the mouth of
the tunnel when an electric train from
Watford bearing early city workers
crashed into it at the rate of thirty
miles an hour.
Speaking in the heart of the district
where Germany fought the peace-time
battle of passive resistance, hCancel
lor Marks of Germany tvicl the people
of the occupied area that his govern
ment supports the work cf the experts
committee and believes that Germany
must approach the report in a spirit
of goodwill.
Bunder Abbas, Persia, dispatches
say Stuart MacLaren, British aviator,
has arrived there in his plane from
Bagdad.
Reports from Rome, Italy, say that
Mt. Etna is showing marked activity
again. So also do dispatches from
Catania.
Paris Boulevard strollers had a mo
ment or two of excitement the other
afternoon when fire broke out among
the gaudy cloth posters of one of
Paris’ largest and most popular mo
tion picture houses, next door to one
of the best known boulevard cafes.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Express at Hyde, Isle of Wight,
telegraphs that William B. Leeds is
preparing to sail from Bembridge,
Isle of Wight, to New York, in a 60-
foot fishing smack equipped with an
auxiliary engine.
Reports on the American immigra
tion legislation as it affects Japan
were submitted to a meeting of the
privy council by Premier Kiyoura and
Foreign Minister Matsui. It is under
stood that the council generally in
dorsed the government’s conduct.
Several American marines have
been killed in Honduras, according to
advices received at San Salvador. An
attache of the American legation in
Tegucipalpa is said to have proceed
ed to La Libertad, Salvador, a cable
station, in order to communicate with
the government in Washington.
Hilo, T. H.. reports that earthquakes
which started in the Puna district of
the Island of Hawaii, on which Hilo is
located, are still continuing. Land
around the village of Kapoho is sink
ing. Measurements taken at the Ka
poho railway stations showed it had
dropped eight feet since the shaken
began. The inhabitants of the vil
lage fled.
Washington—
Armed with a warrant for the ar
rest of M. S. Daugherty, brother of
the former attorney general, a deputy
sergeant-at-arms of the senate has
gone to Washington Court House,
Ohio, the home of Mr. Daugherty.
Secretary Mellon recently advised
Mr. Mellon that the treasury had com
pleted its inquiry into charges of ir
regularities in the bureau of engrav
ing and printing and had found them
absolutely baseless.
While demand for cigarette tobacco
is increasing in this country and
abroad, the department of agriculture
feels that a hazard exists in any such
violent increase in tobacco production
as that contemplated in Georgia.
Josephus Daniels, as secretary of
the navy, was very “obdurate” when
it came to getting any lease for lands
within the naval oil reserves. Com
mander H. A. Stuarts, N. S. N., said
in a letter read into the record of the
senate oil committee.
Special dispatches from New York
City say that Congressman W. D. Up
shaw of Georgia Las conented to be
come a candidate for the nomination
for vice president on the Democratic
ticket. The announcement comes
from the New York Upshaw club, and
the congressman announces that he is
willing to throw' his hat in the ring.
Election of cabinet officers by the
people was proposed in the house the
other day by Representative Upshaw
jf Georgia.
The federal government collected
$2,146,803, 265 in internal taxes in the
first three-quarters of the present fis
cal years, an increase of $226,709,192
over the nine months ending March
15, last year. Of the total collections
$1,408,039,742 were in income and prof
it taxes, the receipts from this source
running slightly ahead of treasury cal
culations and substantially larger than
for the corresponding period a year
ago.
An Smendment designed to break
up an alleged boycott in packing cen
ters against co-operative market
agencies was voted into the agricul
tural department bill by the house.
House Republican leaders informed
President Colidge that the house was
approaching conclusion of considera
tion of constructive legislation and
that so far as that body was concern
ed would be able to adjourn June 1.
Further testimony favorable to Sen
ator Wheeler w r as heard by the Borah
committee investigating the Montana
senator’s Indictment un a charge of
accepting a retainer to practice before
a government department.
Domestic —
Two officers in the aviation branch
were instantly killed at Great Lakes
naval training station, Waukegan, 111.,
when their plane was dashed to the
ground from a height of 500 feet —
Chief ePtty Officer H. R. Cruikshank
and Chief Aviation Rigger J. H. Green.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana,
told the league of women voters in’
an address at Buffalo, N. Y., that the
proposal for a world court was a3
dead as Caesar and there was no hope
of resurrecting it.
Climbing out of her father’s automo
bile to pick flowers growing by the
wayside near oHt Springs, Ark., Edna
May Ridgeway toddled in the path of
a speeding automobile and was instant
ly killed.
Clad in*robes and hoods, with their
masks rolled back, hundreds of Ku
Klux Klansmen of the western Penn
sylvania region participated in fune
ral services for O. H. Poorbaugh, who
died shortly after he was removed
from the county jail to a hospital in
Johnstown, Pa.
One fireman was killed, several were
seriously injured and seven buildings,
an entire business block, were de
stroyed by fire at Lowell, Mass., which
for a time threatened to sweep
through the heart of the business sec
tion of the city. The loss is estimated
In excess a of one million dollars.
Mrs. Octavia Clyatt Woolridge was
aceidentaly shot and killed instantly
by her husband, Harry Wooldridge, at
Eufaula, Ala., as he was loading his
gun to go after chicken thieves at his
home.
Severe windstorms throughout Tex
as which reached cyclonic proportions
in some sections took a toll of five
lives and injured a score of persons.
When Warden James A. Johnston
of the state prison at San Quentin,
Calif., old Isaac. Wolfgang, murderer,
a half hour before he was to have
been hanged that the state supreme
court had granted him a reprieve, the
condemned man was so overcome that
he had to be taken to the prison hos
pital for treatment.
Three steamships, including the
Grand Republic, sister ship of the
ill-fated General Slocum, were de
stroyed by fire in their winter berth
in the Hudson river at New York City.
The nation’s rent bill continues to
f rise, according to a survey by the
national industrial conference board,
a New York organization of employ
ers. Rents have increased most in
the East, while the South shows more
decreases than increases.
State Representative eoGrge W. Bin
nicker and five other men, Orange
burg county, after preliminary hear
charges of breaking into a house by
ing before Magistrate Blackmon on
night and assault and battery, which
grew out of the alleged wripping of a
negro woman several weeks ago, were
bound over for trial in the court of
general sessions at Orangeburg, S. C.
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, asistant at
torney general, in an address at Roch
ester, N. Y„ before the chamber of
commerce, declared Hugh M. Daugh
erty will be cleared of all suspicion.
The Oklahoma state Republican con
vention at Oklahoma City indorsed the
nomination of President Coolidge and
instructed the 25 delegates from Okla
homa to the national convention to
support him.
Harry M. Daugherty told an audience
of friends and neighbors at Columbus,
Ohio, that he had given up his cabi
net post rather than “contribute to a
treasonable cause.”
Samuel P. Thomason of the Chicago
Tribune was elected president of the
National Association of Newspaper
Publishers at the business session of
the organization in New York City
the other day.
Leakage from containers led to the
seizure of two carloads of grain alco
hol and bottled liquors valued at SIOO,-
000 by prohibition agents at Norwalk,
Conn.
FIGHTING BOLL WEEVIL
Big Factor in Results of
Poisoning Insects Is Use of
Suitable Machinery.
A determining factor ! n the results
of poisoning the boll weevil with cal
cium arsenate Is the use of suitable
dusting machinery, according to ei
ports of the United States Department
of Agriculture, who have conducted
extensive tests of various types under
various conditions at Tallulah, La
Engineers and experts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have worked for
several years with representatives of
manufacturing concerns and the funda
mentals of suitable machines for dust
ing have been worked out. Nearly all
dusting machines on the market are
built according to the recommenda
tions of the government experts.
However, there are several types 0 f
successful machines, each type being
better suited to certain conditions
than others. The machines are classi
fied as follows: hand guns, saddle
guns, one-mule machines, cart ma
chines and power machines.
“The hand gun may be used for
dusting one row at a time,’’ say the
experts, "is hand operated and carried
by man. It usually retails from sls
to $25. One gun will take care of from
five to eight acres per season and, on
account of labor difficulties Involved,
it Is seldom practicable to use hand
guns on more than 25 acres In one or
ganization,
“The saddle gun Is built to be car
ried on mule back while operating and
usually covers two rows at a time.
The price Is about $55 or furnished
with saddle and attachments com
plete, $75.
“The one-mule machine Is the new
type of Intermediate machine which
Is operated by one man and one mule.
It runs between the rows like a walk
ing cultivator and treats two or three
rows at a time. It probably will re
tail around $125 and will take care of
from 50 ft) 75 acres of cotton through
the season.
“The cart machine Is the two
wheeled type operated by one man and
two mules. It usually treats three or
four rows at a time and will take care
of about 100 acres of cotton for the
season. It derives Its power from the
wheels. The retail prices probably
will vary from S2OO to S3OO.
“The power machine Is the four
wheeled, two-mule machine which de
rives its power from a small gasoline
engine mounted on the platform. This
usually dusts from five to seven rows
at a trip and will take care of from
150 to 200 acres of cotton for the sea
son under proper conditions. How
ever, it should be used only in very
large fields where facilities for turn
ing are good and also should be used
only by fairly skilled labor. It prob
ably will retail around SSOO.
“In buying dusting machinery, con
sider carefully the area to be treated
and buy at least enough machinery to
cover this every three days. Buying a
surplus of dusting machinery Is really
the very best of economy because this
Is more, or less of a permanent in
vestment and will save on the ex
pense of operation and on the poison
used.
“Important points to consider In the
selection of the type of machinerj to
be used are the area of fields, pres
ence of stumps or other obstructions.
Driving a wheeled machine through a
field with a large number of stumps is
very difficult, especially so at night,
and it is almost Impossible to keep
from rtmning Into stumps occasional
ly.” Choice of the machines to oe
used must be made with such matters
taken Into consideration.
“The basic principle of the prese
system of cotton dusting requires that
every portion of the cotton p nn
thoroughly covered by the fine PjJJ
cles of poison,” say the experts inw
means that a dust cloud mut ,p
ated which will drift throughout the
cotton. It is desirable to have as muon
of this adhere to the cotton pl nt
possible and thus the presence of and
greatly Increases the efficiency n
application. In addition to t is.
ever, atmospheric conditions ro ”_
Just right or the poison has a tend -
to drift off and not settle throng
plants. This is largely a quest! n
dampness, air movement. e t°- ‘
far the best conditions for dusting f .
experienced at night when t ' p ,
calm and the plants are damf' .
when the dust cloud will dr..t
and settle on every portion of t ■
ton plant. -
“The type of dust cloud for _
ful cotton dusting bears < ’•
machine construction. P artl^' a " y dls .
the arrangement of the nozz ' >
tributors. It has been found that > ■
not necessary to blow the . _ _
rectiy on the plants but that
der which simply drifts on _ ?r^
will be just ns efficient > “; , ( , ra2e
usually placed at approximate . ■
row widths and It does m 9
whether the nozzles are over
or between them.” ... w . t i,
Farmers are advised to con f
their county agent or state •
agriculture as to the best
chine for their Individual U;tS -