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WITH COVERING ON
A check-up of Wednesday’s tor
laclo toll over the south, in which
i hundred met death, several hun
ired were injured, and immenst
iroperty damage done brings in th<
isual grist of queer pranks played
>y the wind, mingling laughs with
trim tragedy.
At Anderson, S. C., the wind
ticked up a street car, and laid it
>n its side in a yard 50 feet away,
trobaWly fatally injuring one of its
tccupants.
A five-months-old Infant and the i
nattress on which it lay was i
vhirled through the window of its
tome in, Florence and deposited in I
n open field a hundred yards away. :
he child was not hurt.
A similar incident occurred at
Jpelika, Ala., where a man was ;
ticked up in the bed in which he 1
ay and hurled far into the road, ■
(there he was found, still between
he covers, without a scratch.
These are but a few of the many
muring in.
VESLEYAN STUDENT LEARNS
h HER HOME IS DESTROYED
•lACON, Ga., May I.—Miss Vir
inia Frank, a student of Wesleyan
ollege, was informed last night by
’ire that her home in Anderson,
. C., had been destroyed, and that
Irs. Nast, a graduate of Wesleyan,
as killed.
ABY AND MATTRESS CARRIED
HUNDRED YARDS BY WIND
FLORENCE, S. C., May 1—
natching a five-months-old baby
nd the mattress on which it lay
■om a home near here, the tornado
hich swept this county Wednes
iy whirled the tiny child through
window, supposedly, and deposit
-1 it one hundred yards away in an I
pen field, The infant, still cuddled ■
r its mattress, was unhurt. The ;
□me was demolished.
HOES AND SON BLOWN OFF
ONE MAN’S FEET AT MACON I
MACON, Ga., May 1. —Along with i
rim tragedy, yesterday's tornado
irnished many marvelous and
ughable incidents.
L. B. Adams, railroad machinist,
as found standing where a tent I
id stood. He told how doctors had ■
Id him he would have to go to the i
>untry and live in the open air to j
ive his wife’s life. He erected a |
nt a few days ago, put all his per- ;
mal qffects In the tent, and when '
e arrived there after the storm .
lere wasn’t even a tin pan left. Ht ■
und his wife in the hospital.
Mrs. L. E. Hort, with her three '
Ltle children, saw the black cloud '
ishing toward them, and she sum- :
oned her neighbors, Mrs. L. T. i
dams and Mrs. G. T. Green and ;
le latter's They all
iught refuge in the Holt home, con
dered safe. Three minutes latei
le house was swept away. Mrs.
olt’s baby was found under the
□oring of another wrecked house
i 0 yards away, it being necessary
i chop through the flooring to
cover the body. Mrs. Holt w r as
lied. Their two other children are
the hospital, as are Mrs. Green
id her child and Mrs. Adams.
Sox Blown off Feet
W. J. Shelley was in the kitchen
his home when the storm strife,,
> told reporters.
“The next thing I knew I was
it in a field a hundred yards ahvay,”
i said. “When I came to I found
at my shoes and socks were gone,
ith the exception of a. part of one ,
ick. I had them on when the storm
oke.”
So far as known only one chicken
as picked of its feathers by the
rnado. There w'ere lots of chick
is killed. One cow was killed when
piece of lumber, hurled by the
Ind, was thrust through its body.
Mount Pleasant church, on the
izella road, w r as razed, according
> people who passed there last
ght.
J. R. Lamb, who operated a steam
lovel at the Cherokee brick plant,
Ijoining the A. T. Small brick
ird, said his rftachine was turned
to a whirligig by the twister. He
opped the shovel and escaped.
J. A. Lowe, telegraph operator in
large of the Southern Railway’s
ratton office, was found buried in
recka*ge when the tornado wrecked
i□ building. He "was taken to a
ispital where It was found that he
as stunned and bruised, but not
ricusly Injured.
Ancient Mill Wreckage
wrecked W. T. Carr's
miles from Roberta, in
llwford county, the mill having
ood there for three generations,
was a two-story structure. Four
'.mes near the mill also were
recked.
The storm appears to have de
ended near Rocky Creek, about
re miles from this city, out the
ouston road, where It cut a. swath
a big woods, breaking off huge
ees.
Steel signal posts on the Central
' Georgia Railway, set in concrete
iried four feet in the ground, were
Ted out by the storm and the
eel bent in two. These posts
elgh more than a ton.
Two steel coal cars .and a loaded
eight car were lifted from the rall
iad tracks in the yards in the
luthern part of the city.
DUPLE ABANDON AUTO:
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
SHREVEPORT. La., May I.—-Be
ted reports today from the town
Many, in Sabine parish, victim
a tornado late Tuesday, stated
at In addition to the death of one
an, Mrs. Joseph Abraham prob
ily was fatally injured when her
line was wrecked. Nearly 200 per
ms were made homeless and the
•operty damage was estimated in
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
In the Wake of Tornado at Lawrenceville
One person was killed aiicj several others Injured when a tornado hit Lawrenceville and Gwin
nett county early Wednesday, demolishing houses and burying occupants under debris. Upper pic
ture shows ruins where Mrs. M. A. Powell, sixty-nine years old, was killed: middle, the ruins of the.
Second Baptist church, in Lawrenceville mill village, and, below, where five trees piled on the roof
of W. H. Roberts’ home —one of the many freaks played by the storm.—Staff photo by Winn.
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telegraph lines were put out of com
mission, highways in the vicinity
were made impassable by debris and
trains were held up by wreckage
which littered the tracks.
Joseph McNeely, twenty-one, and
Miss Katie Perry, who were riding
in an automobile when they saw
the tornado approaching, nari*owly
escaped death. They abandoned the
car and attempted to reach the rail
road station. It was impossible to
breast the wind and they turned to
ward a store only to be driven back
again by another blast. In the
meantime the automobile had been
overturned. The couple had turned
again toward the station when the
wind lifted the girl from the ground.
McNeely managed to grasp her.
They finally made their way to the
store but a moment after arriving
a portion of the roof was torn away
and fell upon them. McNeely re
ceived a. few scratches but the girl
was not injured.
CAROIANA TOLL GROWING;
LIST NOW STANDING AT 81
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 1—(By the
Associated Press.) —South Carolina, s
casualty list from yesterday's epi
demic of tornadoes stood at 81 known
dead late today. The death in Co
lumbia hospitals of Mrs. Richard
Sanders, of Lexington county, and
an unidentified negro injured in the
Morrell Hill twister, added two more
names 'to the roll of victims.
With hundreds of persons injured
homeless estimated at more than
1,000, relief agencies today bent to
the task of meeting the situation.
Surveys were launched in all of the
stricken areas to determine the ex
tent of the damage, and the needs of
victims. Municipalities and counties
provided funds to meet the, most
pressing want?, while popular sub
scriptions of cash, food and clothing
were announced in practically every
center of distress.
Late reports indicate that the prop
erty damage will run well over a
million dollars. Anderson, with a re
vised estimate of $750,000 property
loss, was the heaviest sufferer in this
respect. In Sumter and Florence
counties, many substantial homes and
hundreds of smaller tenant houses
were reported demolished, however,
and it was asserted that the financial
loss involved in these areas would
mount high into the thousands oi
dollars.
State troops were on guard today
at Horrell Hill, 12 miles from Colum
bia, where four children were killed
in the collapse of a school house, and
where eighteen other deaths were re
corded in the vicinity. In Anderson,
armed members of the American Le
gion patrolled the devasted areas.
Jumpersj Sweaters
Hand-knitted jumpers and sweat
ers are to lie very popular this sea
son and the new wools take into
consideration all the latest shades.
Impudent Cook Shot
DI’I.UTH, Miss.—Because his cook
was impudent when he criticized her
efforts, Andrew M. Hilton shot her
in the arm. He was heavily fined.
MANY HOMELESS
AFTER TORNADOES;
HOSPITALS FILLED
(Continued from Page 1)
cat off by the storm was expected
momentarily by relief workers.
Damage in Virginia was reported
early today to have been confined
to comparatively slight property
Ramage and minor injuries to four
persons near Maplewood.
AGED WOMAN ONLY VICTIM
OF LAWRENCEVILLE STORM
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., May 1.
Mrs. Margaret Powell, a sixty-nine
year-old woman living about three
miles out of Lawrenceville, was the
only victim of the tornado which
swept part of Gwinnett county early
yesterday morning ajid did damage
in town estimated at SIOO,OOO.
Mrs. Powell was fatally injured
When crushed in the debris of the
home of her son-in-law, David Hall,
in the Yellow River district, and
Mr. Hall was severely injured, suf
fering a crushed side. Mrs. Hall’s
arm was broken and four children
in the house were cut and bruised.
The tornado, which appeared with
cyclonic suddeness and swept over
a path about four miles long and
one-half mile wide, appears to have
begun at the Hall farm and con
tinued into Lawrenceville, where it
swept through the mill village, de
molishing several houses and the
Second Baptist church, a frame
structure.
About fifty people were rendered
homeless as the result of the storm,
but provision was made for them in
other homes and in vacant resi
dences. The work of clearing away
the wreckage was going forward to
day.
PURVIS HOME IN COLQUITT
WRECKED; NONE INJURED
ADEL. Ga., May I.—The large
home of Walter Purvis, two miles
from Ellenton, in Colquitt county,
was destroyed Wednesday when a
tornado struck it.
Mr. Purvis and his family had
gathered in a hallway and the place
which they occupied was not dam
aged, while the remainder of the
eleven-room house was left a mass
of wreckage, being carried more than
fifty yards. Mr. Purvis saw the
storm approaching and gathered his
family in the hallway. Every build
ing on the place was destroyed, to
gether with furniture, provisions,
etc. The loss is eight or ten thou
sand dollars, with no insurance.
At another place, that of Spence
Hires, a house was blown down and
a Mr. Yawn's leg was broken.
NEARLY THIRTY INJURED
IN REYNOLDS, GA., VICINITY
REYNOLDS, Ga., May I.—A farm
dwelling, seven tenant houses and a
large live stock barn were destroyed
by a tornado on J. H. Neisler’s
plantation, four mules being killed.
J. H. Noisier and his overseer. G.
O. Horton, and the latter's wife and
child, were in the dwelling and were
inju red.
Horton suffered a head injury that
is serious. Lester Horton was un
able to reach the house and lay on
the ground, being hit by timbers.
Twenty negroes were hurt on this
farm.
The twister continued to the Duke
place, a mile east of the Neisler plan
tation, injuring four negroes and de
stroying houses. The negroes’ arms
and legs were broken.
One mile further the storm struck
the J. B. Giffith place, destoying all
his tenant houses, passing then into
the river swamps. One negro has a
fractured skull.
ELEVEN KILLED IN ALABAMA:
RELIEF QUICKLY RENDERED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May I.
Alabama was recovering today from
a series of tornadoes which struck
the state in widely separated sections
yesterday, resulting in eleven deaths
and property damage estimated at
more than half a m.llion dollars. A
number of persons were injured, two
seriously.
Many narrow escapes were report
ed as houses blew down. Timber
was laid low in places, telegraph and
telepho j service disrupted and
bridges washed out. Damage of
SIOO,OOO was reported at Greenville.
Ala., where a number of business
houses were destroyed or damaged.
Tha Methodist church at Prattville
was demolished. Aid was quick!'
I rushed to those made homeless by
the storm.
At Union Springs, Ala., the baby
i of Tom Works was killed when the
; home crashed in. The child was
; blown a mile, according to reports.
The mother and thirteen other chil
dren were slighly injured. Lola
Calhoun, Tom Youngblood and Dub
Owens, negroes, were killed in the
same section.
Four negroes at Opelika and two
I at Clio, Ala., were victims of the
; storm when cabins were demolished.
The two-story home of Thomas B.
i Slagle, near Roanoke, Ala., was torn
! asunder and his sister, Miss Delia
| Slagle, Instantly killed. A son suf
fered internal injuries. Mrs. C. E.
Poole, of Greenville, Ala., was
dangerously hurt when her home
crashed.
Many freak occurrences were re
ported during the Alabama storm. A
mule was blown in a well, a farm
er’s stack of stove wood was blown
all over his farm, a turkey’s head
was cut off and one man walked
back home after being hurled a quar
ter of a mile through the air.
MIDDLE GEORGIA IS BUSY
ADMINISTERING RELIEF
1 MACON. Ga., May I.—With three
known dead, ten in Macon hospitals
i critically injured, and nearly a hurt
: dred others less seriously hurt, mid
■ die Georgia, was hard at work this
1 morning administering relief to suf
! fevers in the path cf yesterday’s tor
! nado.
Mrs. L. E. Holt and her six
months-old child, and Charley Mor
i ris, negro, employed on Miss Ida
Holt’s farm on Rocky Creek road,
were those killed.
Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie
B. Holt and her six months old baby,
will be held Friday. The body is
awaiting the arrival of a relative
from New York, who is expected
here tomorrow. The service will be
held at the East Macon Baptist
church. Interment will be In Ever
green cemetery.
More than a score of the Injured
are in a local hospital, 29 others
suffered broken legs and arms qnd
other injuries near Reynolds, and a
large number of persons in the
Skipperton district were found in
i jured late Wednesday.
The heaviest loss was at the A. T.
j Small Brick company, where the
plant was demolished, the damage
I being estimated at $150,000.
i Heavy damage was done to peach
[ orchards in several sections. John
T. Moore's orchard in this county,
where 25,000 trees were loaded with
fruit, was hit by the tornado, One
i fifth of the trees were destroyed
and the fruit stripped from the re
mainder. The rest of the peach belt
. appeared to have suffered little
. damage.
Severe lightning accompanied the
I black cloud, Macon was in darkness
[ for several minutes. A cloudburst
: followed the high wind.
There was no damage inside the
city at Macon.
i 1- irst news of the damage was re
ceived when the injured began to
arrive at the hospital. Thousands of
persons visited the scene of de
struction during the afternoon, aft»>r
tlm clouds lifted and the rain
ceased. .
D image was reported last night at
Ejpehurst, Ga.. where two seed
Tmuse.s were blown down, and wires
are down at Sparks, Ga.. and south
, o. \ a.dosta, Ga., indicating damage
near those places.
VIRGINIAN AND TWO SONS
ARE INJURED IN STORM
RICHMOND. Va., May I.—J. Carl
Courter, Amelia county dairyman
was in a critical condition at a hos
pital here today from injuries suf
sered yesterday when his skull was
crushed in the destruction of a barn
on his farm during a heavy storm
H s two sons, Robert, eleven, and
Jack, six. are at another hospital
suffering fro nv-uts and bruises, but
their condition is not thought to be
serious.
Several other persons were report
ed badlv hurt in the storm that
swept down on Amelia county late
yesterday and destroyed several
houses and barn? and killed many
cattle. Wire communication with
the section was completely disrupted
today, and details were
reaching the outside. Individual 4
estimated th° damage at from S2O
''oo to $19,090.
PRISON POPIIinM
OECREISES DV 483
IN GEORGU IN 1323
i The prison population of Georgia
hopped 459, from 3,654 to 3,165, dur
ing 1923, according to the annual re
■ort of th c state prison commission
made public Thursday. Os the 3,165
■ onvlcts, more than one-third, or 1,179
•..ere involved in murder cases or at
empted murders, and 363 more arc
serving manslaughter sentences.
However, the number of convicts
was lower than at any time since
• 1920, or in 1915, 1916 and 1917.
The number of prisoners on the
first of January, 1923, was 3,654, and
. there were 868 commitments. 214 re
i captures, and 24 paroled prisoners re
turned during the year, making a
total of 4,760 handled, the report
says. Os this number 256 have been
discharged, 460 have escaped, 181
have been paroled, 35 have died, four
were returned for new trials. 71 were
pardoned, one was delivered to a
■ sheriff, and 587 prisoners serving in
[ determinate sentences were released
i on parole.
Prisoners in custody on January
I 1 of this year ranged in age from 11.
io 79 years. There was one eleven
year old boy, two were twelve-years
old, five thirteen-years old, 13 of 14
years, and 13 of 15 years. Only one
was 79 years old, but nine were 70
or over. The largest number, or 198,
were 24 years of age, and practically
I half of the entire list were in their
twenties.
Murder Leads as Cause
Murder led the causes of commit
ments, with 918. Burglary came sec
ond, with 661. There were 363 com
mitments for manslaughter, 245 for
attempts to murder, 16 as accessor
ies to murder, 363 for larceny, 153 for
robbery, 80 for forgery and 18 for
shobting at another. There were
107 criminal assault cases and 52 at
tempted criminal assaults. Whisky
making landed 67 behind the bars
.md bigamy caught 30.
I< arm laborers lead in the previous
jccupation of the convicts, with 1,-
153, and laborers come next, with
932. There are 418 public works la
borers, 69 cooks, 61 chauffeurs, 32
mechanics, 22 porters, 48 railroad
hands, 11 wash wdmen, 10 vagrants,
10 barbers, eight bankers, 16 black
smiths, 18 brickmasons, nine butch
ers, 28 carpenters, one dentist, 22 dis
tillers, 12 electricians, six engineers,
87 farmers, two jewelers, one lawyer,
Hour merchants, 13 painters, two
I printers, five plumbers, four police
men, five preachers, three soldiers,
seven salesmen, 14 clerks, one shoe
maker, tw r o teachers, one stage man
' ager, five tailors, ten taxi drivers
and three waiters.
Majority Married
Os the prisoners, 1,709 are mar
ried and 1,456 single, the report
states. Sixty-eight per cent can
read and write, 14 per cent can read
only, and 18 per cent are illiterate.
One man is serving his thirteenth
term, while 173 are serving third
terms, 486 second terms and 2,447
first terms.
Fulton county leads the list, with
524 of the men and women sent up;
Chatham is second, with 169. De-
Kalb sent 49; Bibb, 94; Muscogee,
66; Richmond, 83, and Lowndes, 46.
Long and Dade counties sent up one
convict each.
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1 THURSDAY'S GAMES
I Southern League
Birmingham, 3; Mobile, 4.
Chattanooga, 2; Memphis, 7.
| Nashville, 7; Little Rock, 3.
American League
Washington, 3: New York, 2.
Bolton, 6; Philadelphia, 1.
Detroit, 7; St. Louis, 8.
Chicago, 13; Cleveland, 7.
National League
Now York, 9; Boston, 1. •
I’hiladelphia, 4; Brooklyn, 10.
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I St. Louis, 6; Pittsburg, 8.
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Game Warden Twitty
Twitted Because His
Birds Are Misbehaving
Peter S. Twitty, state game and
fish commissioner, Thursday re
ceived a request to appear before
the grand jury now in session in
his home conty of Laurens and
show cause why he should not be
indicted for failure to make some
of his birds behave.
“F. M. Daniel, of Dexter, has re
ported that blackbirds ate up ten
acres of his corn before he could
run them out,” reads a letter written
Mr. Twitty by J. N. Donaldson,
clerk of the city court of Dublin. “I
think I can keep the grand jury
from returning a true bill against
you for letting your birds pull up
people’s corn and not allowing them
to shoot in self-defense. However,
you ought to get some good excuse
down here at once, and tell the
arused public what you are going
to do with your birds. Chief Peacock
is watching all of the birds he can
I find for you. Bob Shiver, who is on
< the grand jury, says, if you can’t
I control your birds, the state ought
j to get someone who can.”
“I didn’t know whether it was a
\ joke or not until I saw who signed
, the letter,” the commissioner com
mented.
Chief Justice Davis
Os Canada Is Dead
OTTAWA, Ont., May I.—Sir Louis
Davis, chief justice of the supreme
court of Canada, died at his home
here today. He was seventy-nine
years old.
Sir Louis had served .often as the
link between the Dominion and the
United States. In 1897 and 1898 he
was in Washington in connection
with the revision of the international
regulations respecting the Behring
sea seal fisheries and other disputes
between Canada and the United
States. With the British ambassa
dor in Washington he signed the
protocols of the preliminary nego
tiations for the appointment of a
joint high .commission.
SATURDAY. MAY 3, 1924-
BEPUMPm
policy FIAYFR Iff
SENATOR HITCHCOCK
OMAHA, Neb., May I.—The na
tional governmental policy has been
adverse to western interests and de
structive to western property, de
clared former United States Sen
ator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, before
the Nebraska Democratic conven
tion, of which he is temporary chair
man.
“It is not by accident or by chance
that the prices of western products
have been depressed,” Mr. Hitch
cock said. “It is not by accident or
by chance that the west has been
compelled to pay higher prices for
what it must buy. Western prod
ucts have been depressed and east
ern products raised by government
al action. The result has been a
short-lived and false prosperity in
the east and a protracted and se
rious depression in the west.
“Some powerful influences since
the war closed and especially with
in the past three years have . de
pressed the prices of those things
we must sell and held high the
prices of things we buy.
“What are the influences?
“The Republican policy of defla
tion in! currency and credits set
forth in the Republican platform of
1920 depressed our prices, combined
with the Republican policy of isola
tion from the rest of the world,
which has partly closed our foreign
markets for farm products.
“On the other band, the Republic
an Fordney tariff bill passed two
years ago, has served to maintain
and raise the prices of manufactured
products.”
He charged the Republican party
with “using its machinery to pro
mote the interests of privileged
classes who financed its campaign.”
On the other hand, the Democratic
part.y “champions equal opportunity
for all, special privileges for
he said.
The other two political parties of
the state also held their conventions
today, the progressive organizations
meeting at Omaha and the Republic
ans at Lincoln.
Clemency Plea Denied,
Six Doomed Italians
Await Execution Day
NEW ORLEANS, May I.—Turned
down by the pardon board, the gov
ernor and the court of last resort,
the six Italians condemned to be
hanged at Amite, Tangipahoa par
ish, on May 9, for the murder of
Dallas Calmes, at Independence,
three years ago, while they were at
tempting to rob a bank, today ap
peared resigned to their fate.
Five of the men had clung to a.
slight hope that the pardon board
which met in special session here
late yesterday would recommend
commutation because the sixth mem
ber of their part.y confessed a few
days ago that he fired the fatal
shots. However, the board voted that
all the men should be hanged. Gov
ernor John M. Parker already has
refused twice to interfere with the
sentences.
Soon after the meeting of the par
don board got under way it was an
nounced that Governor Parker had
. received several “blackhand” letters
I threatening his life if he did not save
I the lives of the Italians. This an-
Manatee, Nearly
Extinct Mammal,
Killed for Museum
SARASOTA, May 2.—Acting un
der orders from H. L. Ferguson,
curator of the south Florida fair
museum of Tampa, four fishermen
captured a manatee off Casey's Pass
in the Gulf of Mexico.
This mammal has become kg
nearly extinct in American water*
that not one fishermen in twenty
has ever seen one and Florida has
protected them by a fine of SSOO for
the killing. Ferguson received a
permit from the county commission
ers In 1921 to secure one for a pros
pective museum in Sarasota and
notified fishermen up and down th®
West Coast to inform him at any
time they saw one.
Last week he received a wire from
Casey’s Pass: “Whale of a sea cow ’
here. Want her?” He replied: “Go
get her,” and motored down the bay
thirty miles to the foot of Treasure
island where he found that Thoma*
Reed, George Rawls, P. B. Snelling
and J. F. Youngblood had just come
in with the manatee. They had
chased her down the coast as far ae
Horse Chaise point, where the mam
mal was harpooned and then killed
with a revolver bullet in her brain.
The manatee, a female, weighed
1,445 pounds, and was ten feet in
length. The meat was divided up
among the score or more of natives
who had gathered and the skin
brought up to Ferguson's taxidermy
studio, at Sarasota, for mounting.
The mounted specimen of the
manatee in the Tampa museum was
secured by Ferguson some years
agp from White water bay, near
Cape Sable, where a few of th®
species are still to be found. It was
a male, twelve feet in length, but
did not weigh as much as the female
just taken.
The specimen captured is dark
gray in color with mouth and lips
very much resembling a cow. Th®
body is covered with a sparse growth
of short coarse hair.
Thaw Ships Things ?
From Asylum, Never
Expecting to Return
PHILADELPHIA. Pa., May I.
Harry K. Thaw, who has gons to ,
Pittsburg to 'visit his mother, never !
expects to return to the Pennsyl
vania Hospital for Mental and Nerv
ous Diseases. He left here last
night on permission of the court to
go away and stay away until the
court demands his presence back
here.
Thaw has taken practically all of
his belongings away from “Kirk
bride's.” A week ago when he was
declared sane by a jury here he
shipped all of his books and other
articles to Pittsburg, declaring at
the time that hq would not need
them here any more.
_ I
nouncement followed receipt by the
warden of the Orleans parish prison
here of a letter offering $75,000 if
the Italians were permitted to es
cape. The letter threatened destruc
tion of the train if “our countrymen
are hanged at Amite.” The con
demned men are held in the local
jail for safekeeping.
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