Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, January 19, 1901, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 VOL. 8. ALBANY, GA,. SATURDAY, 19, 1901. . NEGRO AT THE STAKE. dnueu men. The roar owned and Alex- au lor wasihored forward into fall rievr of the crowd. A howl went np u the FRANTIC MOB AT LEAVENWORTH BURNS ; prlaoner ratred hie shackled hand* and began to speak. | “You are going to kill me whatever Isay," h« said, I'bat yoa men are wrong.'' I want to tell you right now yon have the wrong man 1 did not do It, and'gome duly you will ran up against the man who did it. I know It ain't any gte to say it' for yon are going to kill me." The meh standing behind Alexander then shoved him from tue wagon and the negro was qoiokly driven down the Tke Victim Declared that He Wat laaetcat ta Ite Last—Mob Rat Ovtr Officers— Eight Theuund People 9fitaMftka ' Burulay. IN A SMALL. TOWN IN OLD KENTUCKY LAST NIOHT. ' . mil , v \s«ilaJi . Inn Tha Whites aid Ike Sketwalla Declare Wars! Corbin—A Shoollsf Allray Vcatcrday Alteraooa Followed by Blowlag ap a Hoase With Dynamite Last Nlgkt. Xjeavonworth, Kan., Jan. 15.—Fred Alexander, the negro who on Saturday -evening attempted to assault Miss Eva Both and who was supposed to have as* aanlted and killed Miss Pearl Forbes in this oity in November last, was taken embankment to the pile of wood with from the sheriff's guard by a mob yes his hands ahaokeled and there bound to - terday afternoon and burned at the, the stake Many of the crowd oarried stake at the soene of his orime, half a I rails and boards. Several seised rail. -doaen blocks from the oenterof the oity. Probably 8,000 people witnessed the burning. The negro was taken from his cell at the state penitentiary at 3 o’olook yes terday afternoon, placed in a haok and brought to town Fifty deputies sur rounded him, and Deputy Sheriffs My- -ere, Stance and Thomas Brown Bat in the hgok on either side of him. Fifty buggies and wagons followed road irons and carried' them to the ravine. A railroad iron was planted upright in the mud This was made fast to cross irons, firmly bound to the upright iron with wire. Around the impro vised stakes woods and boardB were JTIB MAYOR HAS MADE APPOINTMENTS IN COUNCIL FOR INI. Oorbin, Ky„ Jan. 17 —Two persons were killed, one mortally wounded and three or four others wounded, and a building wreaked by dynamite as the re salt of a teign of terror here yeeterday and last night. dames Shotwell was shot and mortally wounded yesterday by Holla White, who was angered because Shotwell told him he oould not keep company with bis daughter any longer. 1 White lm mediately went to the store of his brother, where he surrendered to the deputy sheriff. Shotwell's family swore they would kill White if an attempt was made to remove him to the county piled. To this the mao was dtagged seat at Williamsburg. and ohaiued in a standing position. Chains and .irons were wrapped about him and, with his hands still shaokled, The Shotwells were oonoerned in the recent killing of Polioe Judge Moffatt, Telegrams were sent yesterday to the haok. At Fourth and Olive streets he was made fast to the post. Coal oil Judge Morrow, and a posse was ordered was tben poured over him j to the soene-from the oounty seat. Before the match was applied John [ Meantime White was barricaded with Forbes, father of the- - murdered girl, his friends and the’depoty sheriff in stepped up to Alexander and said: I filestore, and when night fell the Mends "Are you guilty of murdering mylol Shotwell charged- the store and- daughter?" {wrecked It with dynamite, firing upon "I don’t know what you have me here it at the same time. for," said Alexander." Forbes replied"For killing my girl on this very spot." "Mr. Forbes—if that's your name— yon have the wrong man," said the negro "Bhrn him, burn him,” oried the crowd. All the casualties have probably not been learned, but these are known: Miss Susan Oax,an Innocent bystander, killed by a stray bullet. . - • Sultan-Faris, killed by the explosion. ' Hadley Bradley, TrAby Cooper and an unknown traveling saleaman wounded. The posse arrived at midnight. 8hot : HOBBS-BENNETT. the police, in the haok following the.one in whioh the negro was oonooaled jumped one and ohased.several negroes. In the exolteaent the prisoner’s hook was frantioally driven to the oonnty jail, where be was looked in a oell just aa the mob reached the doors. The jail .doors were then looked. The crowd first attempted to gain ad- -mission by peaoeful meant, but Sheriff Everhardy refused to deliver the negro. Then the orowd pushed its way to the aide Moor and, using one man aa a bat tering ram, the door was foroed from its hinges.- Then the orowd surged into - the oorrldor by the narrow doorway. AI "Gentlemen, yon have got lota of I well had-laft town and had fired into- kuge iron bar battered the iron door of time,” said Alexander. "You are burn- j the home of the White family. -the oell room. The door waa finally ing an innooent man. Yon took ad- Rolls White is now in the. custody of bent sufficiently for the men to olimb* vantage of me. You gave me no show. I th® sheriff, who began holding an in- over it. Several gained an entrance Can I see my mother?" i-quest at midnight. Shotwell is unoon- inthls manner. Meanwhile the crowd Alexander again asked to see his | toluus and death is expeotod. had pushed down the tide gate of the mother. She was oalled for, bat she stookade, and a yelling paok 'appeared waa not in the orowd. In the Jail yard. The hinges of the side - Alexander then said s "Will you let door, made of heavy Iron, were out off md shake hands With all my friends?" with sludge hammers and ohlselB and. "You have no friends ip this crowd, the door of the oell, room broken down, yoa d—d beast," said one of the men in A man with sharp eyes sspled a shape- charge of the negro. "If you have any- less mass orowded down in one oorner thing to say, Bay it la a hurry." of the dark bell. Five minutes' workj Goal oil was then applied fortheaoo- and the heavy-lock on the oell had been I on( j time, while Alexander oalled to ao- broken off. A yell of terror Issued from qualntances in the orowd and said the oell. Strong men filled the ooiTidors - good-bye to them. Tie talked rationally with hyeterlcal laughter. Outside the until J( fc n Forbes, the father of the orowd waa yelling itself hoarse. Thon murdered girl flighted the mat.'h. Again into the oell rushed those who were Alexander wae asked to make a oonfes- nearest the door. sion, but he replied that he had nothing The mob issued forth iu a moment, to say. As the flames leaped about him dragging the negro by the ooat collar.; Alexander turned a ghastly hue, and, He had- b sen struck over the head with olasping; bis hands together, began to a hammer, but was still oonsoious. Men away to and fro, while the orowd yelled, fought to get at him, and, infuriated, j In mlnate8 tho aegr0 „„ hang . struck savagely at him. Up the hill j n g jj m p aQ( j life! igg by the ohaius that into the oourt house yard they dragged bound him As soon as the orowd saw * that life was extluct, it began to slowly “Confess before we harm you,” said ^ asperse. Hundreds, however, stayed th0 y- , to the last. “I am innooent; I am dying for what J Men kept piling on wood all the time another man did. I see lots of my until about 7 o’clock, when tho flames friends here-; they know I did not do it. were allowed to die down. From fi to 8 If I had been guilty I would have said o'clock there was a continuous stream of so at the penitentiary and would have people going from and to the scene of stayed there for life. The warden told the burning. mo so. The policemen told me so. j Later there was a wild scramble to Would not I have told them if I was obtain relics. guilty?’ I After Alexander’s arrest he was taken “You lie,” the crowd yelled, and one before Mias Rath, who identified him. huge fellow struck Alexander in the Since then a mob has surrounded the forehead with his fist three times. i penitentiary day and night. Today He spoke with the resignation of a Governor Stanley ordered two coinphies man ivho sees before him only certain of militia to be in readiness 1o start to death. A move was made for a large Leavenworth at a moment’s notice, cottonwood tree in a corner of the court J Governor Stanley ordered Warden house yard. j Tomlinson to refuse to turn Alexander “My God, men,’’ cried the negro in over to the sheriff unless ho agreed in his agony, “I have told you that I am writing to protect him. innocent. I cannrt tell you any mom. 1 ~ ... I did not do it.” ' 0L,r ‘ ^ “He lies ; burn him !” cried the mob. “Take him where he committed the murder,” suggested one. Immediately the crowd, carrying the ne.*ro, who was thrown into a wagon, pushed on towards Fourth street. At a quarter past 5 o’clock Alexander was brought to the exact spot where Pearl Forbes, the murdered girl, was found, | Constipation leads to liver trouble, and and a semi-circle was formed. Alex- torpid liver to Bright’s Disease Prick- , . , , , ly Aaii Bitters is a certain cure uc auy ander was brought in a wagon with a stage of the disorder. Albany Drag Go. By Same Shaft That Killed IBs Father a Short Time Since. Pittstou, Jan. 10.—Alexander Chester m us ground to pieces today by a shaft of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. His father was instantly killed by tho same shaft a short time time since. Marriage of Two Popular Young People lo Albany Thl» Mocfling:. ; From Wednesday’s fierald. Shortly before U o’olock this morning there ooonrred in the parlor of the Bap tist parsonage, on Jefferson street, a quiet marriage, the announcement of whioh will prove a surprise to -the! friends and acquaintances of the con® trading parties. At tho hour stated Mr. Louis O. Ben nett and Miss Gertrude Hobbs presented themselves at the parsonage and r* quested Rev. B. W. Davis to unite them in marriage. They were accom panied by neither relatives nor friends. The service was performed in the pros*, euoe of tho members of Mr. Davis’s family, and within a quarter of an honr after their arrival at the parsonage the young couple departed as man and wife. They drove immediately to notify the members of their respective families, to whom the no vs was a complete surprise. Mr. Bennett is a successful young business man of exi mp^ary character and stex ling qualities He is the young est son of Mr. aud Mrs. W. B. Bennett, of East A lbany. The bride is a daugh ter of Mrs. die Hobbs and a grand daughter of Judge F. R Robert. She is charming in manner and and person, nd has a’host of friends. The Herald joins in congratulations. A New Comer’s Marriage. Mr. X. M. Mullis, who 1ms recently come to Albany from Seville, Ga., aud opened business on Washington street, in Sandy Bottom, has taken unto him self a wife, as will be seen from the fol lowing, from this morning’s Cordele Call: F.L'BANKS-MULLIS. Yesterday, at Sevillo, Rev. L. S. Con nor performed tho ceremony uniting as mnn and wife Mr. N. M. Mullis and .'.hs« Oh.ittia Tlabanks. The groo.a is a young business mnn i of Albany, Ga., and is well and favora bly known to mauv t f our readers, hav ing for seviral years conducted business iu and near Seville. The bride was a charming young lady resident of Plains, but at tho lime of marriage au accom plished school teacher of Seville. The happy conplo passed through oar city yesterday en route to their fntore homo in Albany, carrying with them the well wishes of a host of fi lends, among whom ye editors are a’.ai’y num bered. Aldermen Lip,lit, Weldsa aad Tarver aa Elet- trie Light and Waterwsrkl Committee. First Meetia, Yesterday Alteraooa—AU Old Employee Retained -Other Appoint- .. mente Not Yel Announced. Mayor 8. B. Brown has appointed the Itaudtng oommittecs of the City Conn* oil for the year 1901. At the first meet ing of the new Oonnoll en Monday night, the 7th Instant, the oommittees ware not, us hue long been customary, read in open meeting. The mayor an nounced that for good and sufficient reasons he would defer making the com mittee assignments until a later date The appointments have now been made, but the mayor will not make them publto until they are read in open oounoll next Monday night. To a Her ald man his Honor stated this morning, however, that the electric light and waterworks committee would oonsist of the following memoere of Oounoll: Aldermen Lippltt, Whitehead and Tar ver. Mayor Brown ex-offloio chairman, Thtaisnow the most Important (land ing oonnoil oommittee, aa it will have entire oharge of the waterworka and eleotrlo light ayatema of the city. It held its first meeting yesterday after noon and transacted a good deal of im portant business. AU the present em ployes of the waterworks plant and of the eleotrlo light station werere-eleotod. Hot one change waa made. The ootn, mittee will get the affaire of the two departments now nnder lta oontral in hand as papMly as possible,, and no cite doubts that they wil| be administered in the'ablest possible planner. , THOMASVILLE'S SEHSATIQH- Will Doss, Son ol Sherlll Doss, Arrested ss ti|>yiiiita of Emmett Sims. Spootpl to the Atlanta Nsws. Thonmsville, Ga,, Jap., 16.—Startling developments eame yesterday in the ar rest of Will Doss, a; prominent young attorney >.nd a son of the sheriff of Thomas county, ohaYged with the muW der of Emmett Sims, Whioh orime' was perpetrated some two or' three, months, now 0 J : a. J- aai fun —^ iuh NO from a hot Royal Baking Powder biscuit whets the appetite* The taste of such a biscuit- sweet, creamy, delicate and crispy—is a joy to the most fastidious. Irtu >ifi (•.■jffex .a,, d- .- • t , 1 TOfej R oyal Baking' Powder improves the flavor and adds to the healthful- ness of all risen flour* foods. It renders tip biscuit, bread and cake more digestible and nutritious. > >. Royal Baking Pow der makes hot breads wholesome. Food raised with Royal will not distress persons of delicate or enfeebled O ij.tl baking powders almost Invariably coo* i Alum makes the food unwholesome#. fill htut ggf 1 1: HOYALSAKINCI POWDER C0.100 WIIUAM6T* NEW VWWJ v rn.-J VU'V’ DEATH BREAKS M. , , ii r.U M ONE OF' JENNIE BOSSCHBITBR'S MUR' DBRERS A CHANOBD MAN. When the PrlMsers Bstered the Cosrt Room Today It Whs Evident Is All Spectators That Oat tf Them, at First the Bsldwf, Had Uhl HU Nerve'had Olvcs Up. sinee; and whioh, for Rendiah oonoep- tiop uni horrible exeontion, has never been equalled- in 'Criminal annals 4n Thomas county. It will be remembered that SimB, who w , Ah!'ttfhtpdent at the business oollege in this oity, was on his way to hi* room ■ from' a visit to Doss' cousin, whom,,it -was claimed, Doss was also in love with,. and that Sims was shot from atnbnsh opposite the Mitohell House park, the most prominent oorner ip town, about 10':80 at night. The arrest ot young Doss has occa sioned great surprise from the fiot that his family is not only prominent socially, but are important factors in Booth Geor gia politics. His friends 'olatm that no evidence can be produced against him. Those, however, who have been conducting the investigation think otherwise, and oiaim they are justified in the action they have taken. Anyway, at the time of the murder Doss's name was handled with considerable freedom in oonneotion with the same. An' interesting feature of the case was the aotlon the detectives making up the case resorted to in order to divert sus picion from their real object. Most of them, with their families and servants, put up at swell hotels and affected all the peculiarities of the most confirmed tourists and globe trottsrs, some of them being swagger in the ex treme. By this means thoy procured information that otherwise would hare been impossible for them to obtain. Mr. Demayo, of Pinkerton’s Chicago department, had oharge of the case, aud J.ingc Ucddeuborry, of the prosecution, state.* that it is the m mi nriiiiant piece of work ho has over seen. Tho trial will be early iu April, nnless a commit ment is demuuded. Interesting developments are expeoted and undue interest is likely to be mani- festcjl, inasmuoh as love and jealousy are the principal features of the ease. Quality and not quantity makes De- Witt's Early Risers suoh valuable little liver jails. Albany Drug Co., Sale- Davis Drug Co. Patterson, N J , Jan. 15 —When, the trial of MoAHlster, Death aud Camp bell, for the. murder of Jimmie Boss, oheiter, began today and the prisoners entered tye court room it waa,evident to the spectators, that Daeth find broken longer the brightest and most oneerful,' . Death dcAl- held aloof wheit “••kstHw? t# tfiftterWar Vermealen, who had change of Jennie Boaaoheiter'e body and funeral, testified today that’he had embalmed the body, Thb questions of the defense were very sehrohiug, and-the whole process of em- balming was des'oribed. Dr. Townsend testified tb*t, MoAlts- ter, Kerr, Campbell, the cabman and the girl were in "the cab when it oalled ‘At his house at 3 o’olook on the morning of Ootobef 19. MoAlister called for him to come into the street. He examined the girl, fonnd the body already grow ing cold and had said: "I oan do noth ing; she is dead.” He thought she had been dead about an honr. Dr. Townsend farther testified that the girl's hair was loose, hanging over her shonlders. There was no mark or wound. This reply is considered very important, tending to prove the prose- ontlon’e statement that the girl’s body had been taken out to the ioehonse after death and thrown against a rock to create a false impression in regard to the oause of her death. Prof. Witthans, a chomist expert, testified that he fonnd three drops of chloral hydrate in a bottle which the sconced threw from the carriage. Dr. McBride, county physician, testified that in his opinion Jennie died from chloral hydrate poisoning. KANSAS BANK CASHIER Stole Money end Squared Ibe Account by Commuting Suicide. S';. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 17.—The Stale Bank at Wathena, six miles west of this oity in Kansas, has been wreoked by Cashier Jaoob F. Harpster, who blew out his brains yesterday afternoon. He stole |10,000. Pepsin preparations often fail to re lieve indigestion because they can digest only albaminons foods. There is one preparation that digests all olastes of food, and that is Kodol Dyspepsia Care. It cares the worst cases of indigestion and gives instant relief, for it digests what you eat. Albany Drug Co., Sale- Davis Drug O' COMMISSIONER 0. B. STEVENS SPEAKS " " OUJWINfltroP rf.' ”v ..... - r v 7 --. " Und .Tbcre will Raise Grsst Cfspi s Farmers Are Uetllsf Rtck-Coils I ts Bay Plae Lands. . v • V* Uj .,t From tho Macon Telosrar . 'to '-I.'"" . ASnfflu.Jan, M-AC Steven* has returned 'from'a.'t Southwest Georgia and is enthused over th« Pto.M,.0ff^ thS^Ut^OJI^^SOO- tlon of the state, aud partlaularly Col- quittxountv. He thinks that tbs farmer , who buvs land, tbrre now. and Improves It Is piakiug one of-the best inveatmenu , that he lyin pqsqiblv find at.tkU-day and time \tn4f "I have just been.looking over.the i land where the pltte‘tlmber hae be*n' - oat olf,” 'sa'td CommlBBlonoi* Stevens to ’• ', The Telegraph'q'ifepr^ntajlj^^ni’f^* i deolare that Il ls a pleasure .tp 1 upon Its value .from, the standpoint of a - farmer. It is a rioh, loaihy, gravelly . soil with A 1 good' solid 'olay fonndatiou ' and la adapted to ' almost anything. For long staple or short staple cotton, corn, oats, rye or barley it. is .jnst .flne, while it is the native element of r)oe. Wheat will grow there, bat not M well as In other SMtions, bnt there is hardly any other orop that will not attain the highest stateof perfection In that glo rious country. "A farmer donld get rioh raising nothing bat potatoes, sugar oane and hogs down there. It is great; no trouble ' to make these crop*, and they are as i sure money aa anything that ean be • grown. Another thing that oommends Itself to the poor, but Industrious farmer is the cheapness of the laud. It sells for $3,50 per aore, while here in our section the poorest kind of farm brings $15 per aore, and land that is’ worth bnying at all Is seldom less, than from $30 to $35 per acre. I don't see- why more people don’t take advantage of this opportunity to get rioh, far the time is boaud to oome when these landr will be developed and their values will increase to where their owners will be- oome rioh by the rise.” Commissioner Stevens is certainly very muoh in earnest about the outlook and prospect of Colquitt county. AMERICAN BATTLESHIP Qoes to Venezuela to Protect American la te rests. Washington, D. 0., Jan. 17.—Orders will probably he sent today to the I mander of the battleship now at Pensacola, to prooeed t< zuela for tho purpose of proti American interests there. 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Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, January 19, 1901, Image 1