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CGmmiiled Double Milrder
The Led The Jfloli
AND TRIED TO LYNCH
An Innocent Negro. Fiend Con
fessed And Was Hanged.
Americus, Ga., Aug. 22. —
Chief of Police Wheeler, Mar
shal Feagin ami Deputy Sheriff
Bell, who went to the scene of
the double murder and lynch
ing near Friendship, in this
county, yesterday, taking blood
liounds with which to chase the
murderer of Mrs. Mary McGar
rah and son, James Boone, re
turned here at 2 o’clock this
morning, the murderer, Hamp
Hollis, having been caught and
lynched several hours before the
officers reached the scene of the
terrible tragedy.
Friendship is a hamlet four
teen miles west of Americus, and
being without telegraph or tele
phone facilities, communication
can only be had by mail or spe
cial messenger.
It is now certain that the atro
cious murder of Mrs. McGarrah
aid young Boone, her son bv a
former marriage, was a well laid
plot in which others besides
Hamp Hollis and his wife were
concerned. Considerable evi
dence is at hand to show this
be true, and the arrest of other
negroes in chat locality will fol
low.
Hollis’s wife made a statement
of the killing yesterday after
noon, which led to the finding
of the blood stained axe and suit
of clothes worn by Hamp Hollis
when the crime was committed.
Confronted with this damaging
evidence of guilt, Hollis con
fessed the double murder, and
was immediately strung up to a
tree and 500 bullets put into his
carcass.
The statement of the killing
made by Hollis’s wife startled
the posse in searoh of the mur
derer, All during the morning
Hollis had followed the posse,
armed with a shotgun, and was
loud in his denunciation of the
foul muder and eager to wreak
vengeance upon the fiend who
committed it.
Early in the morning the posse
had arrested Eugene Reese, a
negro, against whom suspicion
was directed, and came very
near lynching him as the tnur
derer. Hamp Hollis was wild to
hange Reese, whom he pretend
ed to believe was the murderer,
but the cool headed farmers who
had the negro in charge would
not permit this until more and
stronger evidence of guilt had
been secured.
However, Reese was tightly
bound with ropes and placed
under a strong guard, and Hamp
Hollis was nourishing a gun in
the face of the innocent negro
and demanding his life, when
placed under arrest as the real
murderer upon the strength of
the statement made by his own
wife and subsequeht finding of
the bloody clothes and ax in his
cabin.
After Hollis had been lynched
Reese was set at liberty. Late
last night, however, he was again
arrested, brought to Americus
and placed in jail pending a
thorough investigation of an al
leged plot in which others, in
cluding Hollis’s wile, are
thought to be implicated. Sever-
I , negroes evidently knew of the
I murder, though it is believed
« Hollis alone struck the deadly
blows that ended the Jives of
GIGANTIC TRUST.
Jdsts2oo,ooo,ooo Invested
in Steel anil Iron
TO FORM THE COMBINE.
Even the Rockefeller &. Carne
gia to Enter.
• -
Chicago, 111., Aug. 22 —The
report from New York that the
capitalization ot the proposed
new steel combine is to be $200,-
OpO.OOO was a bigeye-opener Jo
local capitalists. It would seem
to indicate that John W. Gates
and his financial co uljutors are
looking beyond the immediate
consolidation of the I llinois S eel
Minnesota Iron, Jonson and
other minor companies and in
tend that ultimately the com
lane shall include every steel
and iron concern operation in
the United States, an I that
even the Rockefeller Carne
gie Company, long the bitter
and powerful rival of the West
ern companies, may be absorbed
in the gigantic trust of steel
and iron.
Such a company would be
more the equal of the Standard
Oil in power. It would control
the mining supplies of botli the
iron and the fuel used in the
conversion to steel. It would
control the marine and railway
transportations of its products,
through its own railways and
lake barges, and i* could supply
the world with rails, armor plate
and all kinds of structural work,
manufactured at its own plants.
The following companies are
slated as “sure” to enter the
deal:
The Illinois Steel Company,
the Minnesota Iron Company,
the Johnson Company, the El
gin, Joilet & Eastern Railway.
The following other companies
are figured as immediate possi
bilities :
Cambria Iron Company, the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany, the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, the Bathlehem Iron
Company.
As a remote possibility the
Carnegie Company may be
mentioned.
Mrs. McGarrah and young
Boone as they slept.
fho brutal murder was very
adroitly planned, and but for
the accidental finding es the
bloody clothes and ax in Hol
li’s cabin, the real murderer
might have escaped and Eugene
Reese have paid the penalty
with his life.
It was Hollis who tied his
own wife to a tret in the woods
the night of the murder, himself
discovering her there next morn
ing and then professing to be
lieve the negro Reese did it. This
scheme was done to avert any
suspicion from himself, and it
appears that the wife acted well
her part.
Their sole grievance against
Mrs. McGarrath and her son,
and which prompted, the mur
der, was the theft of a piece of
bacon last week, which was laid
to Hollis’ wife' E iraged at be
ing suspected of this act, it is
believed the couple planned and
successfully executed the most
foul murder.
THE HANGING B )DY.
T ie body of Hamp Hollis re
mained suspended from a limb
of a tree for some time, after
which it was cut down. The
carcass was pierced by hundreds
of bullets, and presented a
ghastly spectacle. It was the fi
nale of the most brutal and atro-
HUMAN WRECKS
—
Half Insane, And With Ghast
ly Faces
WERE BORNE IN PITY
From The Mobile To Montauk
Hospitals.
M mtaiik Point, N. Y., Ai g 22.
—The horrors of war were made
plain when 150 sick and dying sol*
diors of the Second MassaehuiettS
Infantry and the Eighth and
Twenty-second Regular Infantry,
Were moved on a!retd ere, and
tnen in ami ulauces from the trans
port Mobile to the detention hospi
tal at Camp WikotT
Word of what might beexpicted
e l came to the shore a little whiie
before the Mobile left her anchor
age, and a crowd gathered about
the picket lines. It was a silent
throng. Every iimbaulat.ee in the
camp, and several covered wagons
of the sig ial corps were called ou*
and drawn up in a semicircle about
the foot of the pier. Col mel For
wood had only 150 beds at his dis
position .
The gang plank was thrown out
and a squad of soldiers, tatered and
begrimed, walked down it. They
came in pairs, supporting between
them wrecks of men too feeble to
stand alone, sunken-eyed, hollow
cheeked and having the pallor of
death on their faces .
Twenty of these men were help
ed s'owly and carefully along.
Then came the stretchers bearing
what a 1 first eight appeared to he
dead L 'd es. Some vo.-e uniforms
which hung from them like bags as
thr-y were lifted trorn the stretch
ers into the ambulances: Others
were naked except for blakets
thrown over them .
As they passed down the hue
and the corner of a blanket
was accidentally blown aside their
ribs stood out like the ribs of a
starved animal. Their knees and
elbows bulge.d, making tbeir limbs
nideous prop >rti ms and their bears
led faces in some cases w ire almost
the look of insanity
It was a sad spectacle so much
so that w imm who h id joined the
throng merely to gratify tbeir
curiosity vept. All hands are glad
to get back. An officer of the
Twenty-second Infantry, who was
on the Mobile, said:
“If this army of invasion had
all remained in Cuba until n<>w tbe
ships would have brought dead by
hundreds instead of tens ”
cious crime ever committed in
Sumpter county, and while the
eause is deeply deplored, it is
generally believed that the ne
gro got his just deser's at the
rope’s end.
The funeral of the poor vic
tims, Mrs. McGrath and young
Boone, took place at Friendship
yesterday morning, thousands
ot people from the city and sur
roundidg country attending.
The family is among the most
highly respected in the county,
and has wide and influential
connections. I f there are others
connected with the foul murder
of these people, the tra.th will
soon be ferreted out.
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