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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond and Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dsspatchpq mm LAST EDITION. ALL THE ilAH&ElA . fl THE EALEIGH EVENING TIMES; VOLUME 30. EALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1907. PElCE 6c RUSSIA'S GRAND GOVERNOR SAYS .t Miss Mary Phillips DEATH LIST HAS THRILLING STORY HO DON BLACK OLD MAN GONE! The Death of Count Tolstoi is Reported APOSTLE OF FREEDOM In His Pursing from Darth tin l!us- .'dan People Lose Their (Jrealcst C'tisimpitut mill l!ic World of Let ters One ol' lis .Most lirilMiint (i namrnts Sketch of Ills Life. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Kt. Petersburg, .Inly 1 A tele phono message from Moscow- .says that. Count Tolsloi died at his coun try seat at .liisnava Poliana, in the govornnirnl of Tul.-i. The n; nrl is not confirmed, i In the (loath of Tolsloi the Russian people loi.e lhe;r greatest champion and the world of letters oik; of its brightest ornaments. lie was Tfl years old. having been horn August IS. S2, at a place near Tala. about lai mile:; south of Moscow. His' mother died when he was three years old anil his father three years later. His rearing was amid aristocratic in II nonces, lie nt!"i(!od th" I 'n Ivor sit of Ka'.an. hut did not graduate.. Hi -eni-'r-Ml the arm-., and in I s ." I . at the mil break of the Criiiie.ia war, ap plied for active s-rviee and served thi nugho'i: th" wr.r. ('.(for enierhif,. t !: ; ;-vnv he had . . writ Sen 'many short ;:t aries end hat? earned a ii'iaf" in Russian Moral hit. After the war he wen' to St. Peters burg, wuere ho was lionized as a war hero, a noble and a writer. He bo rimic disgusted with his surroundings thero and the life of Idle pleasure,! and p"a relied to Jusnava I'ollann,' .where . ualned tlie gronliT part. ; : of hit; t ime diii iiuv the remainder of hi 111 . Hint to I'rce Serfs. Ho was married in 1 St. 2 to the daughter of a Moscow University pro fessor, who had obtained a degree when she was 17 years old, and who was In sympathy with his views and purposes. Throughout their life they en toyed the greatest, happiness In each other's society. Tolstoi was the lirst nohhi in Rus sia to freo his serfs, which he did soon after retiring to the country, lie bogan to follow his own gospel of life, settling down to manual labor and extreme simplicity of conduct. Hi! gave away much property and re fused to acrept nnv remuneration for his extensive and popular writings. In Ills hooks ho sol. forth fearlessly his views of true living. He experi enced direct, persecution and prosecu tion for his writings, but, while the government suppressed a number of his works, mutilating others and ban ishing some of Tolstoi's friends, he was never directly molested. Re cently he went so far as to address a communication to tho czar himself, warning hltn that the terrors of nihil ism and massacre would return if the ' government did not speedily manifest a change, He was opposed to the diima. call ing its member a "set of babblers." He had a profound admiration for . great Americans, his favorites being William , Lloyd Garrison, Henry George and the into lOrnest Crosby. He was a vegetarian and was opposed to drinking to such an extent -that Ills physician found It difficult to per suade him tp take liquor as medicine. TOLSTOI SAID TO BE ALIVE AND WELL tBy Leased Wire to The Tlmcg.) London, July I (I. - The reports from Moscow of the death of Count Tolstoi were at first iicceptert as be ing true, but tho latest information is that tho rum or 8 are without founda tion. The count is alive and well. LOOKS LIKE WEIT OF HABEAS COEPUS Since Ticket Agent Green has ap parently ninde no effort to secure bend, It Is Inferred that his counsel will seek to .have him liberated from the custody of the sheriff through a writ of habeas corpus in tho United States court. Kdltor Hudson Ph-ihch. Mr. H. T. Hudson, of Shelby, editor of the Cleveland Star, stopped over In Raleigh a few hourn today en route to the press convention at Morehead Cltv this week. Mr. HudHdn hcd for several years the position of chief clerk In tho auditor's department, and Ih well known in Raleigh. ' LAW IS VIOLATED Railroads Arc Not Deeding' the Stale's Laws LETTER SENT TO JUDGES1 idvcriio: J J (ileitn Declares That I r. Urea:, 'Vceni; i ; Being Done the Stite S(;.!-.l'. ISc'rty as Uiict l;- I'risliv" to l!rn'!; r Any Aid Possible in Knlorciiiv; llir Law. (iiivciinir Ciena has taken a vital interrst n th 1 inporiant railroad rate iioa: inn, ami has offered his assist ance in enforcirj the lawn passed by the North Cain. ilia Legislature of vm. . . " Hi:- f.c'.ing in t li matter is ex-pi-.sued ill Ihe f 1 1 v- i 1 1 1- letter which he sem yesterday afternoon to every Superior Court judge in the State: "My Dear Judge -Tlie (ieneial As sembly of North Carolina on the sec ond ibiv of March,' 1 !MiT. passed an act prescribing tlie ma xininin charges railroad companies inav make fur transporting passengers in North Car olina, --said act fixing th" maximum rate at 1-1 cents per mile, and go ing Into effect fion and after .Inly It'iiT. i-fore said net 'wont' into effect, Soiilliern Hallway- Company anil .ytoekbo'ilers of t!. Atlantic 'Const e obtain'"! from tlie circuit Court the fniteil Slates an injunction ngainst til:: Cm atini Vunniissinn- ers cinV the attorney general, prohib iting, lie-in fi "in iutt:ig s.'i l .ae! ir t') effect iiaiil mI'ut tlv final h -ni'i;; in Ciat . eniirt. r.efore: . t!ie -'.i i'retiit ,iin!'e . could rcailer siii ii a iI m ree, thus '.interfering wltiv. nr. a'-; pissed bv the I.i'gisl it'll' ' of a :-.ivei elgn State, lv would have tn llnd 'hut said act -WiiM- unt'iiiistiiutlonn! by ii'iis in of Us being confiscatory of the railroad's property; The judge In this case did not declare thu act unconstitutional, but ordered a reference lu-foio je Master to Mild out If the .'rates fixed were confiscatory, the very thing In . my opinion, that should have boon been done before any decree should or could be legally made restraining offi cers of the State from executing its law!', on examining the law as passed by the (ieneral Assembly, I find in Section 1 these words: " 'No railroad company doing busi ness as a common carrier of passen gers in North Carolina. except as herein provided, shall charge, do. maud, or receive for transporting anv passenger, etc.. a rale In cxeis-i of 2 1-4 cents per mile.' "In Section 4 of the same act it Is further provided that 'Any agent, servant or employee of any railroad company violating this act. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, fined or Imprisoned, or both in the discretion of the court.' "The act of the (Ieneral Assembly re(uired no action on the part of the Corporation Commission or attorney general-to give It vitality or to put it into effect. It was self-acting, and on July 1st, I'.HiT, became a law, and no decree (if a circuit judge of th I'nlted States enjoining the Corpor ation Commissioners, and attorney general could or did prevent Its be coming a law. The law is therefore now tn effect, and the agents, ser vants anil employees of the rail loads, who, since the lirst day of July have charged, demanded and received a greater rate than 'i 1-4 cents per mile have violated the plain letter of the law and are liable to Indictment, as well as the higher officials of the roads who advised anl directed their agents so to act. , "The decree of the circuit court '.of the United States did not pretend to enjoin the . enforcement of the crimi nal violation of the rate law, and I do not believe any Judge, after lead ing the case of Fitts vs Me(iee, 17 U. K. Reports, page 172 and cases there cited will ever attempt to make so high-handed an order, but will by trial, appeal, etc., as provided by the Constitutions, both of the. State and United States. "As Executive officer of the State. It Is made my duty to see that the criminal laws of the State are en forced. To do less is to violate my oath. The law Is being violated every day. . I therefore ask you as a judge of the Superior Court of the Stale, to properly Instruct the grand jury, and to direct the solicitor of your district to send bills against the agents and employees of the railroads or Its higher officials thus openly acting In defiance of law. "I do not 'desire unnecessarily' to mulct the railroads In costs and ex penses by sending a great number of indictments against them, but only enough to test . In the Stale courts every phase of that the guilty Ishcd. If the this Iuw a fair the law, to the end parties may be pun lallioads had given i mis iuw a rair test (and many arc) to see if they could live under Its pro visions without their property being confiscated, and had found flint they could not, the people of our State are just, rind as I told some of their lead- i (Contltmed on .Second I'iirc, ) Igllltf tev I'' 4. .iMmL . . .1' .Miss Mary I'liillips, the heautif'.i author and liienil ol t'resiiieut U')o I'liillips lias been working in tile ,) B Li ( MR.HYDEATN1GHT (itv Leased Wire to The Tim . : Coatsville, I'a., July l'i. lr. Benjamin .1. llolliniok, one of t ie best known ' physicians . in Delaware county, has startled his friends !iy an alleged confession to the .eit ei-t that, he is ii thi( I' by night, liol brook is ilio son of a former Phila delphia physician now deceased. Dr. Holbrook is said to have con fessed fully to Detective Daite of Hie Pennsylvania Hailroad. His crimes began several months ago. and so far as known were conlinei: to a territory within a few miles u; his home. The robberies were com muted at -night,' and always the- doc tor drove to the scone in his buggy and the booty was carried off to the swift pace of his spunking team of sorrels. Tints industrious ill. lii-',hl, he was in the day lime a suave, well bred pi actit loner',' specialist in eye, nose, and -throat I real meiil , well mannered and an especial favorite Willi fami lies of g mil standing. -Holbrook was given a private hearing before. Justice' of the Peace Johnson at Downlnglon ami In-bl in v2, 000 hail for court,: . PITEOUS CASE OF A MODERN KING LEAR (liy 1, eased - Wire lo The Times.) Hartford, 'nnu., July HI. I'm-eed for nine years o enact the title role In what was 'practically a real life pre sentation' -of Shakespeare's tragedy of "King Lear." aged Jeremiah Haley will seek relief fn Ihe form of a sui! brought for the recovery of his prop erly in the Siipiomii' Court. ' lu March, Haley, tlc-n a very old man, was stricken wllh illness: lfi bitstllv summoned the fiimitv law DR.JEPL YDAY yer and disposed of bis property. Th" j ago last fall, when the appellate di j.'in.uitfi which lie had ai cuiiiiiluied by vision of the supri iiie court in Kings long and well-sustaiiieil effort was . l.lIMiy refused lo direct the supreme equally, divided between his wife, L,,,,,., ' jH j,.,,s u, n,(s,. t() is(,,, or. Jane, and bis daughter, Annie. Haley's ,.. ,,.,, ,.,., native caution, however, caused him to have Inserted in the will a clause Id the effect that If be I ivcr'al the property was to b" returned to him. The unexpected happened, and he got well, hut Mrs, Haley and Annie i " fus"d to part Willi their gifts. Wlcm Mrs. Haley died In Ilio:' she willed Icr share of tlie property to her daughter. Since that time, it Is said, tlie aged man has been ejected from Ills daugh ter's house, mid has been struck by her on several occasions. I jonu'-V fiaiiei" of . .!acil ISiis, noted level;, i.' shown in tliis rit;:-.e. Aliss coh A. liiN settlement. RAYiSlTOE. ADAMS FELL DEAD 1.IM villi 1 vVire X. I '.. lo Tile Times). .Inly PI. A tele .Ainraiiall yesterr alliiil h'T li in iciil-Thi.- tragedy oc- plume iig froii details .if in i unif y. ila y guv Mi .Madi ra: I' d i Kay yle Adam--. . thi ntoiaiing aii.l his-r'iMtly 'I In I'.:: a, flio lie 'if Andei:; , i ighteeu oi- whi kil James 1 John g occurreil Knit her. in nty miles at the. Ivy, sonev from .Mars the bloody 1 1 seem gruilge lla ai t w ii: ft; iiiui affair lull purliculars of iiiiolaainabli howive Cxist.-d' 1 a niinilM I Ii.-. iuen . Willi lla lisiol and r. t hat an old and and sore I lav at and ii ! ween liny r of years, met lb- old result flint "tired Iwiei took effect Adams fi thai whe: was opi ii dreii- his Adams. Adams I lol 1 1 f.-ll ale sh-tts 1. DOESN'T IT SMELL OF CONSPIRACY? (Cy l-eas'd '.Vive ! The Times. t Augusta. Cel., July: In an effort I" fol'ee pllees. sUA'Wal-il every saw mill ideiillfp il Willi the i leoi lua-l'-loiid,! sa w mill usS'ieialioii. will close down on Au gust 1. This ili'cisiou was reached yes terday ifteriioon by a vole of the ns soolatioti Which is now in convention lit'. Al'liHitie lioncli. Kla,' ' ' The mills ill ri iiiiiin closed for one month -or longer if the aim ot the movement Is not aeeomnllshed. The mill nu n i laliii flint -tie. high price demand cd for. I linber is hot eonmiensurale with the price paid for liimlier. HEARST SUSTAINED BY COURT OF APPEALS illy l.c-sei! Wire to The Times.) New York..." -lulv Ii;, --""Mavor' McClellan received .another knockout blow today i i his . balfle lo prevent, a recount of the bullois cast a year Three of the five justices sitting in the appellate division in kings county upheld the content ion of the aliorueys for William K. Hearst, that the recount enacted by the legisla ture was constitutional and that (no (ballots should lie t-ecounled. The opinion re I using ..net leiiati s request was written by.. lust Ice Oaynor, who was joined lu bv Justices Hooker find II icli. GETS 12 YEARS Sentenced This Monnnij hyj Judge Let f IS FOR MANSEALGHTER ase l!ei'fir 'stecdav i.vennio, .mil ('oneiiKii'! 'Icdav a! 11:0." dev ei:tccn- oai'-Old I toy lo Stare s Prison lor iviliui". oun'.; Mai-:!rill Kowli J;:ilu ml at Loire's Willow Sentence, Spriavs- Ytiis.iK . man. it n; no pleasure lo J. the: to prim. 1:1 lie j la-v. and in doia i islnaciil. as - W-v ! t lie circunistn' the sentence of Ihe so I nialic l he pnn il ill as i f an iii.mU r es," "la.lLe. I.dl'g then sealeaced .Itowt'Cn-.'-.illa'ek.. lo twelve, years in tlie jc-niienU-trv for the killing of Ma'--;ii:ili Kowla::.l at Willow Springs. .SmihUiv, Ap-.il -21, last. " - :: -':.'. kov.don Itlaek. pleaded ;uiltv to niansliiuglitev last evening. . . I lie charge against him " as niiii--dcr in tile first degree, lor cwing to his. est feme -on (.li - he lv (ml : s" ( n teen veal's - a verdict )' manslaugh ter' was agreed u pon. Witnesses last evening and this -morning told of the shooting, which occurred at Wnii.iw Springs. Siiiuiay, April 21.' A.ceordi'ig to all of them; Hlack had struck. -a younger brother" of -llow-la n-1. and hi' and aaot.iier iirnihcr, 'lvsion. wenl. up to the car of h" Kaleigli & Soul hport, where . Black was and Marshall. Willi his right. hii-.id iii , his l rousei's' . pocket and j lett on car, asked -Hlack.'.' why. lie struck a buy so yoiing; lie said i today, good evctiiiig 'alsii and said thnt. liej ' had . learned that another saw in Ml '1HAH.! was to he placed iii the lieiglilxsr-1 , , hood. 1 hen lilac.k. who was tooling wllh pistols, drew one trom Ilia lelt hip pocket, : tired once, : snapped t-.vlce. .Tho first took effect in Row land s face and as he ran off. Tilaek fired with his other pistol, '-.which,'.' he drew out with his tight hand, and shot Rowland m th.- back oi the neck. Ihe wounded m:iii died 'text d;n in Hex Hospital in tin iiiv, The -defense - claimed' 'ha! 'Hlack feared bodily- 'violence rnd s'ihi . lie canse he thougnt Kowland. who was over six feel tall am! weighed 1;n) pounds, would spring up on 'be ( ir and chastise Hlack. Ihe lefondant did not remeinhi'lf hi nr: in: icee. He gave up and a. knowl :g( "1 the snooting. Ihe case was ti.n given ;: the lurv, the pidge passing ot. c.ise-i of manslaughter. lestimoiiv I'.mled at t0:-?O Ihe evidence in the case v.is hu ished at 10: ;;0 this moi'iniL'. and ihe defendant s lawvers. Messrs. Mew art & Muse and Col. T. M. Argo, ad dressed the judge tor about twenty minutes. Just as the clock had struck eleven. Judge Dong sentenced Hlack lo twelve vears in the states prison. He told him II he behaved himself his sentence would be short ened, for it Is the custom to discoiiul sentences where behavior is good. ount; Hlack in ( oort. Kowdon Hlack was perlectly col lected until M :;!(). when Mr. Musi got up to address the judge. At Mr. Muse s words, however, Hlack s cheeks blanched: he drew a hand kerchief from his pocket, and wiped his eves. He is a young fellow, about, live root eight inches high, will weigh 1 Tit) -pounds, is fair and has brown hair. He appeared in court wearing a sott cream colored shirt '-without coal. 1 ho most rc inatkable thing about htm is his low forehead. In the bar with him wore his brother, Jesse Black, his sister. Miss Sallie. and sister-in-law. Mrs. Robert Black. His father. D. M. Black, was In the court house and his -mother arrived at 10:10 Irom Willow Springs. A Child In Window. While Colonel Argo was speaki'ig. Judge Dong observed n small girl standing on the radiator al the I font of the court house. S:ie was leaning out the window, and, tor fear she would fall to the pavement below. Hie judge called attention to her, and had her taken down. Sev eral policemen hastily withdrew lo the child s rescue, and one of ihe number lifted her lo the floor. Judge Doug's Sentence. After testimony as to the good character of Marshall Hiwland and alter voung Blacks attorneys hud presented their case. Judge Dong passed sentence. Ho said It. was ex tremely painful to pass sentence In (Continued on second page.) REACHED ELEVEN Explosion On the GcorpiOn the Stand in the Anson lirows in Horror OJHERS MAY DIE SOON Hoard nt luxes, , gat ion Has lleen ! Ordered lo liiiUire Into the nusc ol tlie Disaster ! ire I lionglil to ! Hiie iiemamed m the dun Alter a I'revious Dischtirne. ( I lv 1. i se.il Wire to, Tin TlnieS). llo: ton. Kdward J and !.;,.- i. at.' the eh from their plosion id tin-".-battle! Tlieir d. .Mass.. July 1'! lame . Walsh. James I'. Thomas ,Messe are report. 'd. dying elsea N'aVal. Hospital today Injuries- received ill the ex 1 1 mi pounds ' of powder mi hip Ceoigi.t. nllis will bring the li-t ot fataliti ! our up ther to eleven. men of the fated 'super- Imposed tin-let's crew are in a critical condition and .can' hardly recover. I.lcuteiiani Caspar (looilnch. son of Hear - Admiral' C.oodi ich. coitim iiKlant of the- Brooklyn navy yard, died just before --"midnight. His father ami j mother and two sisters were -at 111. bedside but he '.I'd- not recogip-.e them, i Sparks fioin the smokestacks-of th-' isbiji or tire .remaining in tli" eigiit linch gun from a previous.' ilisi-ljarg j are assigned ' today as the cause' of the discs!"!-. Among the dead i.-r- 'Midshipman; Faulkner (loldllnvaite, who wa-s as signed In the ."'ship from' the Anuupoli-: Naval Aendeniy only a. short . time -j-p Cl'CO itiiHr. gia sllil'.' agiiin tlie A pr, nlic with 1X1 II! IS TO ll MK'VII 7 (T.y -Liaised Wire to The Tinies). Washington: 1). ('., July -IB. ii board of .Investigation has been . ordered to inipiire into the cause of the accident on '-the '-battleship Georgia at Province town M'Rtcrdav. and until It has com pleted Its work the exact cause will not be shown. As the 'department understands- the matter from the infor mation now at hand., the disaster, re sulted, fioin the Igniting of a -'charge of .powder used in one of tile two S incb guns in the tuiret. The rnanner m Inch the. powder became ignited is not surely known. It might have occurred from a llare-nack or from a smut circuit. I suallv the crew of . 'ich gun consists of eight officers and men. besides the gun umpire and the turret captain, which would make eighteen men on dnlv in the turret. Ihe charges for these guns contain about Pill pounds of smokeless nowiler. Ill two sections. It does not eXP'Ode in the open as does ordinary powder, but when ignited gives on a dense ami poisonous gas. which explodes with -gieni violence. The faei thai Ihe niioils don't ! show that nnv damage was none to the lower turret, where the ;l-inch gunf are locate '. indicates to ordnance ofliccrs here that th" aiilomaiie shut ter .which - separates the upper from the lower tin ret in 111" hoist, where the charges are raised from to maga imr. worl;"d all rmhl. The aiilomaiie shutter Is n coinpa nil ively new device, utter the explo.ion on the Kearsarge several vears ago. when a spark de secuiied Into the uiagu.ino. Investigation of the .-cause ol ex plosion on the.', battleship Georgia was begun at 0 o'clock this morning bv a-hoard ol inqiurv under orders from tlie navv depai'tnieiil. Ihe. hoard consists of the ..captains ol Die battleships comprising Admiral I honias division of the Atlantic fleet, namely, Captain Seaton . Scroo der. ol the Mrgitna: C-apinln IDch ard iilnwrighl . ol lh( Louisiana: ( aptain ( hurles T. Bowman, ol the Rhode Island, and Caplaln William Kimball, of Hie New .lersev. ( an t ii in Henrv Met Tea. of the (lenrgia. who Is also attached to I his division. It Is presumed will not serve. Y.VMA.MOTO SHOWS SYMPATHY BY I'LOWl'.ltS. Boston. .Mass.. Jnlv P.. Deeply af feeleil bv the tliincdv nil III" I llllcd states liallh-rliips (ieorKl.i, admiral amaino'o. of Ihe Japanese ii.c.v. to day sen! to the Chelsea Naval Hos pital a beautiful wren lb of dowers, as a token of the svmpailiv f"lt for the dead and pile, said. a .1.1 iniuivil sailors bv the Mikado the people of the Japanese em Ailinlial Viniamoto desired, he that In memory of Lieutenant Casper liooilrlrli a victory wreath of laurel and orchids be senl; for Mid shipman 1'aKiilkner ( ioldihwailh a vletorv wreath of laurel and a box of American Ileum v roses and for" .ml 'hiinan .ames 1. ( ruse. Amei';ui Beatitv roses and orchids. For the oilier seamen killed and In (Contlniied on Klflli Page.) BY THE SHERIFF Lynching Case ETRST WITNESS TODAY Hi followed IT.' film, I pon (Ii IDs I cstinio'.v Duiifrliter, Mrs. Ho e S(:t ml Yesterday, l'.ci:r; Incomplete When Court. Adjourned I ntll Today- lolm .loin s li!entilie! is One of Lynchers. (Special to The Kvening Times.) .Monroe. N. (.'.. .lulv fi. Ihe Dial ot t went v-three Anson county lynch ers at the special term of court, hero did not. get well under way till this morning: After calling court to order yes- tterdav. Judge Peebles adjourned the session till 2:h'i p. in. It loon till a o'clock to get a jnay. which was quicker than eiiner side anticipated. John Jones, th-- rust defendant placed in tin cock bv the defense, is not tin- siir.ii wiiose case was made the "tivi en.-. :it ihe rust, term of tue sreciai lonit. whose rulings were nvcrruiod in l!i" sunre'iie court. Zeke j-r.ev.-J! i i. hen.. a. " v;:s in I rst jiassed on er.se loo! 'riij'i-e by ution. i.r. : i ne state sijiuo- . the change, but rnparenllv at no :t: for the wft- liit'- las', evenini; o.i" o. t.-." lynch-- is iirore. sadva uii (. n it ' g par:; . ': i'T' iiy at .lories- Hi I in; ! Hliei Iff ilogiin was the first, witnesfi I l-liis i.:v ii i ii ? : : his. cross-exanihination I -by- Ihe ilcV-nse beginning soon after i thi- comp'.'-timl ol liis dlre-'l evidence, i . He. ldetnided Deiendnnt. Jones and siiw a giia in his hands while he stood ii: t'e- jail yard. .""', The sheriff described the taking of the while man Johnson from the jail and the cutting-down ot the body later. Tho sheriff s daughter corrob orated the fathers evidence in ma terial parts.: A great crowd is attending the trial, but best of order prevails. Kvidence given vesterdav by Miss Bngan- and her father folows: Miss Bogan testified that, on the night of Mav 28th, 1906, sho heard some one knocking at the door of the jail and calling for tho sheriff. She ran down-stairs and found her father and brother Henry at the door. Just at that time tho door was unlocked and the crowd tried to force an cn I ranee and fired pistols at. the door, while her father and brother were living lo close it. Her father was pulled outside of the dooi. but she and her brother succeeded in closing it. The crowd dually lorced the door open, broke into (he jail and went to the third floor, where Johnson was confined. 'Ihe enl ranee to the corridor on the third floor was barred bv an Iron door. This was broken down and the crowd went to Johnson s cell. "Who had the kevs?'' I carried the kevs to niv father." -What, did lie do with them?" rather was going to take them when a. man seized them." itness could not desrrlbe the man who got the keys. She said that an aunt and a. cousin were in the jail that nigh! besides .her family. In answer to .tho question,' '''Did you tdetiiilv anv one in tho crowd? ' the wn ness replied. 'I did," but when the solicitor asked who they were, the rielense (ih)erted. arid, after a short .wrangle, tho state withdrew the witness from the Btand for the pres ent. .- "-. ' '. ;' ::"';:; . ! sheriff llogaifu John A. Bogan, sheriff of Anson t county, was the next, wlthoss for the ; si s e. He said that he ranted as his iwn jailer n,nd was in the Jail the I night In question. I What happened there that night?" ' ' I heard a knocking, and my son and myself went, to the door and then my daughter came do-w-nstalrs. I asked who was there, and a man said he had a prisoner to put, in Jail. Un locking the door, I pulled it open a little. As I reached to take the com mitment papers I slill kept hold of tho door, and- In a fe second b the space beroro It. was filled with men. I saw there was something wrong, but I was pulled outside at once, while the door was fastened on the inside. -They tried to get mv keys, and 1 told them thev would never get teem from nic." The witness described how the mob broke down the door of the Jail tCiitillnued on Second Price.)
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