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VOL. XL NO. 37.
FEUD FEJFIED
ASRESULT
OFSNEED
IILLK
Relatives of Banker-Slayer and
Boyce. Victim, Flocking to
Amarillo, Texas.
SHOOTING ADDS TO
LONG TRAGEDY LIST
Man Who Eloped With Texan’s
Wife Is Shot Down in Street
by the Husband.
VMARTLLO. TEXAS, Sept. 16—City
and county officers today have estab
lished a strict surveillance to prevent
any outbreak of the Sneed-Boyce feud
here, since the gathering of the mem
bers of both families following the kill
ing late Saturday of Al Boyce by John
Real Sneed. Fears that the family dif
ficulty may break out into an open
battle between the members of the two
families are entertained by the authori
ties The three brothers of Al Boyce,
Linn. Will and Henry, are here. To
day they wired for other relatives and
staunch friends to hasten so Amarillo.
Joseph Sneed. John's brother, and J.
H, Sneed, an uncle, arrived late yes
terday. J. T. Snyder, father of Mrs.
tz'na Sneed, whose elopement with
Boyce started the trouble that ended in
the killing of two men. is expected to
arrive today from Roswell, N. M. Sny
der, during the trial of his son-in-law
for the killing of elder Boyce, sided
with Sneed, and declared he believed
bls daughter insane.
J. H. Bowman, Sneed’s brother-in
»w, of Plano. Texas, was also expected
oday The members of the two Cand
ies are said to be armed.
John Sneed, in his cell in the Potter
county jail, showed indifference to the
tragedy of Saturday. He held a num
ber of conferences with his attorneys,
ite three hearty meals yesterday and
smoked a number of cigarettes. Armed
deputies sre constantly at his side.
Slew Eloper In
Front of Church.
Sneed, slayer of Captain A. S. Boyce
and principal in the Boyce-Sneed feud,
late Saturday shot and instantly killed
Al Royce, who eloped with Sneed's wife
last January. The killing took place in
front of the Methodist church here.
Sneed, disguised as a hunter, wearing
overalls and a false beard, lay in wait
for Royce behind a corner of the
church. He carried his gun In a long
covered box. He fired one charge at
dose range.
Royce died a few moments later and
officers easily captured Sneed and com
mitted him to jail. Sneed for a week
had rented a small shanty near the
church.
Mrs. Royce, mother of the victim, is
prostrated and may die.
Only a few weeks ago Mrs. Lena
Sneed and her husband had become
reconciled and were supposed to be liv
ing peaceably in Georgetown. Texas. It
"as not known that he was in the city.
So completely was he disguised that
Royce, who had returned a week ago
from the ranch he was running In
'vestem Canada, did not recognize him.
Add to Long
List of Tragedies.
Ihe killing of Boyce is the latest
’rage incident in a long list of trage
dies which began last January when
Mrs. Lena Sneed ran away w ijth Boyce
mm a sanitarium in Fort Worth, where
’•he had been placed by her husband for
nervous troubles.
Boyce carried with him 1100,000. The
• uple went to St. Louis and New York
s ”'l were arrested in Winnipeg. Can
ada.
■Sneed met t h e y OUn g man's father in
f'ort Worth and killed him in a quarrel
f " f r the elopement.
At Sneed's trial here last winter a
■ng jury resulted, and his second trial
“ this crime had been set for No
' ember 11
following closely on the trial came
, ” ,Ip "s of the tragic death of Sneed s
her, who was murdered by an insane
-'ant in the postoffice at Georgetown,
demented farmer, who was pos
-1'•-»d of the idea that Mr. Sneed had
,”n P him an injustice regarding his
ci' and, then committed suicide.
the trial the movements of ths
• ■ in the case have been kept a
re ' to avoid notoriety.
WAN- 60. SEEKS EDUCATION:
R EADS LATIN BIBLE DAILY
' H \ VEN. M<> . Sept L G
**niann, 60 xears old. pioneer mer
this place, has decided tn get an
... v tuo\ing Isatin and even Hay
epter from ■ Latin >
d winter he had a tutor in astron
>n<i other sciences
The Atlanta Georgian
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MOREOEITHS
LllHffllf
ATTORNEY
GIBSON
End of Count Szabo and Man
Countess Kept House for
Now Being Probed.
NEW WITNESS SAW
TRAGEDY ON LAKE
Woman Fell Into Water After
Struggle. Then the Lawyer
Rowed to Shore.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—An impor
tant witness has been discovered by
the officials in charge of the prosecu
tion of Burton W. Gibson, the lawyer
in jail at Goshen, N. Y„ charged with
the murder of Countess Rosa Menschik
Szabo.
An investigation was started today
of two more deaths which have at
tached themselves to an overhauling of
the career of Gibson.
The first is that of Count Szabo, hus
band of the countess, who died in 1904,
and rhe second is that of William
Schumenn, for whom the countess was
housekeeper following the death of her
husband. Both deaths were supposedly
from pneumonia.
The new witness is Tom Garrison,
a guide, who brought the body of
Countess Szabo to the surface of
Greenwood lake and turned It over to
the coroner. Much of what he knows
has been put in affidavit form by De
tective Moore, of Orange county, but
there is still more that he refuses to
divulge, except upon the witness stand
or to District Attorney Rogers.
Sensation Promised
In New Evidence.
So carefully is he guarding this evi
dence that he will not even intimate its
nature, except to say that it will take
Gibson by surprise and is sensational.
Garrison was willing to talk of what
he had seen on a previous trip which
Gibson and the countess paid to Green
wood lake. The guide said that he and
another man were fishing near the
shore of an island when the boat con
taining the accused lawyer and his
companion approached. When about
10(1 feet away Gibson arose in the
boat, not seeing the fishermen. At the
same time the woman stood up. As
he started to step forward. Gibson
lurched and fell over the gunwale,
knocking the woman into the bottom.
Garrison said his companion called
to Gibson and rebuked him for endan
gering the woman's life.
Gibson did not reply, but picking up
the oars rowed silently away.
Garrison did not see the woman again
until he fished her body out of the lake.
Gibson Hero of
Goshen Women
GOSHEN. N. Y.. Sept. 16.—Attorney
Burton W. Gibson, accused of the mur
der of the Countess Rosa Menschik
Szabo, is. becoming the hero of this
town.
Women lead the brigade of hero wor
shippers. Despite the fact that Gibson
is a married mat,, they are showering
the stolid prisoner with flowers, choice
fruits and other dainty gifts. Today
an enormous bunch of flowers was
waiting for Gibson when he finished his
breakfast. They were sent by Mrs.
Adelaide Sourts, proprietress of a ho
tel.
GEN. GORDON’S WIDOW
BENEFICIARY OF WILL:
ESTATE WORTH $750,000
»
SAVANNAH. GA„ Sept. 16. —General
William W. Gordon left an estate val
ued at approximately $750,000. The
will has been admitted to probate in
common form in the court of the ordi
nary of Chatham county. .Mrs. Nellie
K. Gordon, the widow, and Major W.
W Gordon. Jr., and Colonel H. Arthur
Gordon have qualified as executors and
< xecutress, respectively.
General Gordon bequeathed his estate
to Mrs. Gordon during her lifetime. At
her death the five children are to be
come tenants of the estate and share
alike. N<> inventory or appraisement
of the estate was filed with the will.
The estate consists largely of real es
tate Most of this is In and around
Savannah.- The general owned exten
sive farming Interests in Jefferson
county however.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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king if you could get a crown big enough to fit you. Your calm, majestic dignity would just suit the job,
too, and an enjoyable time would be had by all. Von would be King Kazooks and I would be King Doiigh-
Dough! Poor William’s gout seems to be getting worse! Listen to that noise he’s making! Elihu, if you
don’t stop letting my robe drag on the ground I know some one about your size who is going to have some
money deducted from his next pay envelope!”
6 HUH IN WK
ON SOUTHERN 01.
Freight Trains Crash and Six
teen Cars Are Scattered Over
Tracks—One Man Dying.
DOUGLASVILLE. GA., Sept 16.—Six
trainmen, one of whom is expected to
die. were injured when two ft eight
trains met in a head-on collision on
the Southern railroad two miles from
heie shortly after 5 o'clock this morn
ing. Passenger traffic on the toad be
tween Birmingham and Atlanta was
tied up for several hours No, 26 had
to be switched back and transferred by
way of Rome.
J. R, Huskey, a fireman, was the
most seriously hurt. Both his legs were
crushed and he is not expected to live.
An Odd Fellows card In his pocket
showed that he at one time lived in
Boy nton, Ga.
Conductor Fobb, of Atlanta, was also
badly hurt and with Huskey and four
others rushed in a relief train to At
lanta.
The crash scattered sixteen freigtU
cars along the tracks and smashed the
locomotives, officials of the road blame
the night operator at Douglasville, who,
they say. got his orders to second No.
75, the eastbound train in 'the wreck,
confused. The westbound train was
No. 773.
Conductor Sam Cahoon, of the east
bound train, was among those bruised
and two of the trainmen were said to
have been badly scalded by escaping
stea m.
HOUNDS TRAfL~RURAL
MAIL MAN’S SLAYER
WHO GOT $575 ROLL
ADDISON, PA.. Sept. 16 Sheriff
Charles F. Hochard. of Somerset, and
posse, together with police all over this
section, are engaged today in a hunt for
John \V. Mause in connection with the
murder of Harrison Brown, a rural mail
carrier, who was shot down and robbed
of $575 payroll money on Saturday near
Beachley, Pa Bloodhounds yesterdax led
officers to the home of Charles F. Awlex,
in Harnedsville. and to a house formerly
occupied by Mause. a boarder The offi
cers found blood-stained clothes and a ,38-
caliber revolver with one cartridge ex
ploded Mause uas missing
The flogs again took up the trail, which
led a wax tow ard the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad's eastbound freight loop, which
passes through Harnedsville. where it
xx as lost. Mause has not returned and
efforts to locate him were unsuccessful.
The sheriff is certain he Is on the trail
of Brown’s ala yet
The mail carrier was killed with a sin
gle shot from a ,38-caliher revolver It
is known that Mause frequently told Miss
(trace Awley. daughter of his landlord,
that he intended tn become a highway
man, ano knew where he "could get some
easy money.”
ATLANTA. GA* MONDAY. SEPTEMBER IG. 1912.
Boy Thief, 8, Baffles
Police; Outwits Them
In *Third Degree* Test
Youngster Refuses to “Squeal”
On His Associates in Long
Series of Robberies.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.—Eight
year-old John Hail, a recent arrival
from Indianapolis. Ind., went through
an hour’s “third degree" at the police
station here with an unconcern that
made the officers gasp. The child said
he had stolen "more than enough to fill
that big book over there." but stead
fastly refused to give the name of the
"Fagin” who had taught him thievery.
He would not give the names of his as.
sociates.
Johnny Hall was arrested late last
night in company with three other boys
who were in a stolen buggy. They
were trying to sell a 25-pound box of
horseshoe nails they had stolen.
"They is 50 boys in our gang," said
the youthful prisoner. "They steal
lots, but they is a worse gang back in
Indianapolis where I come from.
"I stole ten or eleven bicycles here,"
said the lad; "but 1 broke into two
stores, one on Fremont street and the
other out near West Lake."
The boy said he had nine brothers
and three sisters.
“Only five of us came to Los Ange
les -with my mother." he explained.
“My father couldn't come because he
did not have enough money. We had
saved our money.”
ASSASSIN SHOOTS
WOMAN DEAD AS SHE
SINGS CHILD TO SLEEP
CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Police today are
searching for an Italian assaasin who shot
and killed Mrs. Anna Nuccio while she
was singing lullabies to tw r oof her seven
children last night.
The shot was fired through a window
and the woman pitched forward on the
bed. waking another child who had fallen
asleep. The father and four other chil
dren. out on an excursion, arrived at
their home shortly after a patrol wagon
and a number of police reached the scene .
of the shooting
GIRLS DISFIGURED FOR LIFE
BY PRANK OF A PLAYMATE
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 16.—Two children
will be disfigured for life as the re
sult of the childish prank of six-year
old John Duboski, who threw carbolic
acid on them. The injured playmates
are Tesly Przystop and Tesly Marcym
kiewltz. both 4 years old. Their par
ents believe the boy was told by an
older person to throw the acid.
The Przystop girl was burned about
the head and face, and the other child
has burns on Iter loft shoulder and neck
None of the acid got in the eyes of
either child, although Dr .1 F Nou
roekl pronounced their condition se
rious The Duboski boy has slight
burns on his hands.
POST MASCOT IS
IN GUARDHOUSE
“Fiddler” Has Been Perfectly
Good Dog. But Surgeon Fears
Pet May Have Rabies.
It's lonesome on the reservation at
Fort McPherson these days. The reg
iment is all there, and there's plenty of
baseball, but Fiddler and his friends
are all in close confinement
Fiddler is the regimental mascot and
has been for twelve years. He is a
brown dog with a tail that never stops
wagging, and he Is the best chum of
every man and child on the reserva
tion. He Is really the property of Ser
geant Miller, an old Indian fighter, who
picked Fiddler up In Cuba years ago.
Rut every man at the post is his
friend.
No; it isn't Fiddler's fault that he is
locked up like a refractory private. It’s
because a certain mongrel pup went
mad and chewed the fingers of ten
soldiers a few weeks ago and the sur
geon thinks perhaps the pup bit all the
other dogs before his head was ampu
tated. So Fiddler and all the rest of
the four-legged pets of the post are
held to see what will happen. They
don't like it. as the chorus of doleful
howls informs every one within ear-
I shot of the post.
There are lots of dogs, company
mascots and private pets, at the post,
but Fiddler is the favorite He en
listed in Cuba, has been to the Philip
pines. the Texas border, back to Cuba
and to Washington and home again. In
fact, wherever the Seventeenth goes
there goes Fiddler. He is getting ad
vanced in age. but he isn't too old to
mascot successfully. And when Fid
dler answers the last roll call there'll
be a funeral at the post which even a
colonel might envy.
FOUR KILLED. 40 HURT
WHEN TORNADO HITS
TOWN: LOSS IS $500,000
SYRACUSE. N Y Sept 16. Four
persons are known to have been killed,
two are missing, and at least 4(1 in
jured by a tornado that swept the town
of Salina, adjoining this city, late yes
terday. The property loss, roughly es
timated at this time, is fixed at close
to a half million dollars.
The known dead are:
R. H. Ein. of Collamer; G. W. 1 >opp,
of Fulton: Charles Chapman, of Cic
ero, and William Madison, of Silina
Mr and Mrs. c. H. Mattison, of Syra
cuse, who were cayioolng on Seneca
river yesterday afteinoon. Itav, not yet
been found. It is feared that they were
caught in the storm.
Highwaymen Foiled
In Effort to Search
“Ticklish” Woman
She Just Couldn’t Make Her
Arms Stay Up and
Robbers Fled.
KANSAS CITY. Sept. 16. Being
ticklish saved Mrs Frances Justine last
night from losing her purse to robbers,
and a meeting that might have been
terrifying turning into an amusing af
fair. Site was on her way home when
two armed men commanded her to walk
back with them to the shadow of a
wa rehouse.
"We want money, that is all." they
said. "So throw up your hands.”
She obeyed and informed them that
her purse was tucked in the top of Iler
corset, under her arm. One of the men
tore open Iter waist and thrust in a
hand. It came out in a hurry to clap
over the woman's mouth as she scream
ed: "Don't."
"I didn't mean to cry out that way,"
she laughed, as the hand dropped and
gave her a chance to speak, "hut I am
awfully ticklish and 1 just can't stand
it."
'I he continued efforts of the men to
find the purse, while Mrs. Justine’s
protecting arm wouldn't stay up. threw
her into fits of laughter, which so dis
turbed the robbers that, as she sank
to the pavement, they ran. The police
man who came up as she rose and
brushed her dress found he r very glee
ful over her experience.
MOTHER OF ENGLISH
SAILOR BOY KILLED
AT SAVANNAH SUES
SAVANNAH, GA.. Sept. 16.—Mrs.
Ada Mary Ann Isherwood, of London.
England, mother of Herbert Isherwood,
the sixteen-year-old sailor on the
steamer Westhampton, who was fatally
injured in the Central'of Georgia rail
way freight yards in Savannah on June
24. has filed suit in the city court for
$15,000 damages.
The mother, who professes to have
been In a large measure dependent
upon the lad for support, charges the
agents of the Central with such neglect
as makes them liable for the death of
the sailor boy, who wa- hurt while re
turning to his ship at Mallhaven docks
BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY
SLAYS BOY AT BAXLEY
BAXLEY GA. Sept. 16.—The 12-
year-old son of Mm can Simmons, a
farmer living near Baxley, shot his 9-
year-old brother to death with an old
rusty shotgun, which no one thought
was loaded.
The parents of the hoys were away
front home and In play Ing about the
plat e the i hildHen got the gun It was
disi barged accidentally, the entire load
taking effect in the abdomen of the
vounger boy.
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FDRGERTD
RESCIND
ACTION
Backs Down in Its Attempt tc
Modify Regulations of the
City Council.
OPEN WAR TO COMPEL
ABOLITION OF NUISANCE
Still Considering Move to Wipe
Out Commission—Fight to
Go to Council.
Forced to hack down by widespread
criticism of its attempt to modify
council's smoke legulations. Chairman
R M. Harwell, of the smoke commis
sion. has called a meeting of the rules
committee of the commission to rescind
its action.
The vommittee at the same time wt),
frame a new set of regulations for the
guidance of the commission itself,
which will be submitted to the board
The board's action In modifying the
already light regulations of council
governing the emission of smoke ot
varying density was denounced as a
usurpation of authority by manv coun
ci men and by City Attorney Mayson
(Abolition of the smoke board which
was declared to be standing in Ihe way
of reform, was seriously U cged
War to Enforce
Smoke Ordinance.
''ounellnian Charles W. Smith, fath
ar of the smoke ordinance, said todav
hat While he had not decided whethet
tie would introduce an ordinance tn
• i )<> ish the smoke commission at the
me.tmg of council this afternoon he
[would begin his fight to see that the
. original smoke ordinance is enforced.
| < 'han man Harwell declared that
I'ouncilman Smith was too hasty In
I'l'ticislng the smoke commission. He
. 'Uhl that he was opposed to the action
of the commission in amending the citv
smoke ordinance and that he informed
ho other members that such action was
'. , 8 ,L H " adde < l 'hat the commission
<itd not want to hinder the movement
<» abate the smoke nuisance.
We came into office inexperienced"
te said. "We are dealing with a com
. ' l-'-'-hlem. We must proceed de-
liberately at first."
Councilman Spiith held a conference
«ith < tty Attorney Mayson today to
deternune the exact legal status of the
law.
The commission has changed radi
tally the law of council. City Attor
ney .Mayson has ruled that Its action
was illegal. Council Smith intends to
get council to talje a definite stand on
the matter this afternoon.
PAY FOR SOLDIERS
IS LONG OVERDUE;
ARAIY FLAT BROKE
If regular soldiers had a vote the ner
son or persons responsible for adjourning
congress before the army pa y appropr a
tion was signed and sealed would fee the
wrath of t nele Sam's defenders from
Seattle to Key West. For the soldiers
have not received their pay for some time
broke. " aS <lUe ’ and ‘ he army ls flaL
’ There isn't enough coin in the Sev
enteenth to start a penny erap game. ’
protested one private from the post today
We got a erackerjack basehall team
too. hut what's the use of baseball when
you VC got nothin' to hes We got one
satisfaction. The next game’s with the
team out at the Federal pen and them
guys are worse broke than us."
Business firms catering to the especial
demands of the soldiery are feeling the
lack of government coin. too. But they
are consoling themselves with the hope
that when the pay dbes come it will ar
rive in a bunch. And the night after the
paymaster shows up will be SOME
night.
GOVERNMENT BEGINS
PROBE OF POSTOFFICE
CHIEFS AT SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GA., Sept. 16.—T0
thoroughly sift charges which have
been made against Postmaster Marcus
S. Baker. Jr.. Assistant Postmaster W,
('. Greene and Postoffice Inspector A.
J J. Knight. Inspector L. A. Johnson, of
Washington D. C„ has started an of
ficial Investigation.
The investigation is not open to the
public. Johnson explains that unless
the proof develops acts of a criminal
nature which will call for the inter
vention of a Federal grand jury, ht
will conduct the probe quietly.
Postmaster Baker Is away on his va
cation. He has lieen recalled, however,
by a telegram.
Th' Investigation probably will lest
ten days or two weeks.
