Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 183, 10 May 1909 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXIV. NO. 183. RICmiOND, IK1., MONDAY EVENING, MA Y lOy 1909. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTO. LIMIT IS Ml THE KIDNAPPERS BRIDGE rASTORII PEOPLE Annual American Migration Has Been Started 001711 AHD TUBS ARE DEFRAUDED WILSOO STATES OF WHITLA CHILD WERE BLOCKADED

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Dames Boyie Gets Life Impris

onment and His Wife Given Twentv-five Years and I Heavily Fined. SENTENCES CAUSED ACCUSED TO SWOON Doth Collapsed Completely And Had to Be Carried Out Bovle Fails to Create Any Sensation. Mercer, Pa.. May 10. Judge "Wil liams this morning sentenced James B. Boyle convicted of kidnaping Wil lie Whitla, to life imprisonment, and Mrs. Helen Boyle, convicted of aiding and abetting him, to twenty-five years In the penitentiary, also a fine of five thousand dollars and the costs of prosecution. Mrs. Boyle swooned and iwas unconscious several minutes. feoth prisoners received the limit of the law. , Boyle did not create a scene in the court that he had threatened, and did tiot utter a word, prior to his sentence.' His counsel, however, made a plea for both Boyle and his wife, ask ing for leniency. He stated that until ft recent period the extreme penalty for kidnaping in this state was ten pears, and in view of the fact that the boy bad been treated with every con sideration and that all care had been taken not to Inflict unnecessary men tal anguish upon the parents, he felt, leniency might be asked for. , Both Boyle and his wife collapsed complete ly upon hearing sentences. Bevla ataaaered. When they were started back to the gau trom tne couri room. . isoyie man-1 xroit a ttrallr with ihIhImm rinwn I the steps, but upon reaching the front 'door he became limp and was unable to stand. He was lifted Into an oldoners have been, transported between the court house and, the jail. When lie was placed upon a seat inside the 'vehicle he was left, for a moment. unsupported and fell nearly out of It, before he was caught. He had to be (carried to his cell. . . . ' I varnoa uown gwpi. i Mrs. Boyle was In even worse conUition. She was unable to walk down steps from the court room. NotwithStanding the fact that Boyle was not f.li .t. .u . ii. planned the abduction of Billy Whitla, lie aeciarea mis name ana ait aetaiis i of the case would be made public very coon., Boyle is said to have retained n Pittshnrflr 1n.wvnr of hlarh ntnnillnff

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ihe and his wife reach the western pen ptentiary there. District Attorney LinInger. who visited Boy e and his wife t m Va fall VAolApdav Im n Ak- I ret information regarding the alleged!

third person. Implicated in the Whitla Th woman was arrested at EconMdnaplng, paid them another visit to- omy by a subterfuge. She was rail

Way. W0I10ERFUL PLEfl III millS TRIAL Attorney Mclntyre for the Defense, Makes a Brilliant Argument. CITES "UNWRITTEN LAW" - s HAYS THE MURDER OF WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY rcct act uf god and HAINS WAS MERELY AN AGENT. Flushing, L. I., May 10. Lawyer Mclntyre, chief counsel for Peter C. "Mains, the army officer accused of the snurder of William E. Annis, a magaxine writer, made his closing plea for the defense today. He began his address by saying the death of Annis was brought about by the direct act of the Almighty and that Hains was merely the agent by which the act was accomplished. He followed the "un.writ - ten law" plea by a strong line of ar-

gument to convince ine jury inai Hamilton she attempt" to throw taerHalns had been rendered Insane by the se)f througa tne window of the coach, unholy alliance between his wife and The detective had bee; anticipating

Annis and that there was ample just ification for any man to income in sane under like circumstances. MeIntyre occupied the entire morning i kession. TO CHANGE QUARTERS.

The Richmond City Water : Works arrest had come. ';f She declared i she company is planning to change its of- was tired of fleeing about the country flees to the rooms formerly occupied and would be willing to serve out her fey Downing and SoxCa undertaking as- sentence. The diamonds had been disKsJttlshaaent. . - Poaed of.

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RAILROADED WAS WOMAN ACCUSED OF A RIG THEFT Mrs. Nellie LeRo i Diamond Thief ped While Vis Her Sick Mot SHE CONSENTE v p yy UU I U, n C6mpanY Witff a L DctCCtiVe, Woman Departed and Then Made Futile Attempt to Escape His Custody. ' - VnMtinflr lino Wn heard hv th local authorities in regard to Mrs. Nellie LeRoy. the diamond thief arrested at the home of her mother, a Mrs. Gray, at Economy about three weeks ago. Mrs. LeRoy was taken to Cincinnati where she is charged with grand larceny. since ner arresi u nas oecome known she was one of the most hunted criimnals on the rolls of the Cinconfessed to the theft of diamonds valUed at $3,000. from the woman she formeriy worked for at the Queen 7 ' roaded to Cincinnati after she had at first refused to go. She could have kept oft the law Ions enough to have effected her escape if she had understood Its idioayncracies.. Following the theft of the diamonds, several months ago,, Mrs. Le Roy fled to Virginia. She was trailed there and then sought refugee at Washington, D. . C. She had thrown off her pursuers and seemed safe but learning of the 111Iness of her mother at Economy, she went there to nurse her. It was while on this mission of mercy she was placed under arrest Secured a Clue. A secret service officer, who 1 had been working on the case secured a clue that led him to Economy. ' He shadowed there for a few days . and when ready to make an arrest found himself without power. He secured a

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authority to serve it. He sent for Sheriff Meredith. The latter official served the warrant, t Mrs. , Le Roy I made a scene. . She fell on her knees and implored mercy. . She said she could not leave her sick mother and denied she had any complicity in the crime with which she- was charged. 1 The sheriff was obdurate and produced a pair of handcuffs, declaring his intention to use force if necessary, Thereupon Mrs. Le Roy gave up her resistence and aoeompanied the of flcers to this city. f ; , J Had Hl -Troubles. ot4H i. m tn hv hnfl fvia In ,;.mntinv t rt the wamaa to Cincinnati When near some such ' attempt, having become suspicious by her actions. He was able to prevent the attempted escape only by grabbing Mrs.' Le Roy and exerting all his strength to force her into the seat. Beaten in this attempt the woman rave uo. She became quite meek and said she was glad her

B. B. MYRICK. SR. DIED Oil SUM

End of the Well Known Local Man Was a Aaceful AnH Ho-" nnu WAS A ITIZEN DECEASED CAME TO RICHMOND FROM NANTUCKET ISUAND, MASS. HIS FATHER KILLED IN WHALING VOYAGE. ' Benjamin B. Myrick, Sr.. one of the oldest local residents, and formerly a well known insurance man, died yes terday morning about 6 o'clock at the home of his son. Lay ton Myrick, 40 North El leventh street, from uraemic poisoning, after a short illness. He is survived by six children including four sons,' Lay ton and Benjamin B., Jr., ex-county treasurer, both of th's city; Reuben of Sand Point, Idaho, and Louis H., of Indianapolis. His daughters are, Mrs.. Ellen M. Johnson of New York city, and Mrs. Mary Kingsland of Houston, Texas. The funeral services will be held at the Reid Memorial church tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, with Dr. S. R. Lyons, pastor,' officiating. Burial wiil be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call this evening. Lived Here Many Years. With the exception of six years, when he was a resident of Evansville, Mr. Myrick has lived in this city continuously since 1857. He entered the insurance business both as a local and state agent. Later he became identified with the Diamond Cutlery company, and after leaving this enterprise' he again took up with the insurance business. During- his ; residence in Evansville from 1882 to 18S8, he was manager of the board of insurance underwriters of that city. After "returning to this city he again engaged in the insurance and real estate business until about five years ago when he retired. Father a Whaler. , Mr. Myrick was bom October 17, 1S21, on the island of Nantucket. His father Seth; Myrick was killed in the Pacific ocean before he was born. His father was a whaler and lost his life in this dangerous calling. Mr. Myrick's education was acquired at a school located on . Nantucket island , by a British admiral, Sir Isaac Coffin, for the benefit of all descendants of the Coffins in- this country. After leaving school he worked in a mercantile es tablishment in Auburn, N. Y., and at 21 years or age, r he, with a partner opened a sperm and whale oil retail establishment -5 in' Springfield, Mass. After his marriage in 1844 to Miss Lydla Ray Myrick, a "resident of Nantucket, he engaged in the manufacture of soap, oil and candles in Philadelphia. His wife died In 1808. . Mr. Myrick; served as a vestryman in the Episcopal church in this city for a number of years and in a similar capacity in Philadelphia and Evansville. Later he became identified with the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Myrick never held a public office butt was nevertheless somewhat prominent as a member of the Whig party and afterwards the republican party. STREET CAR HELD UP. Milwaukee, May 10. A street ear was held up by a masked robber early today at the entrance of ..Washington park. He procured $30. A shot was fired at him, but he escaped. He is supposed to be the man who perpetrated two similar robberies recently, in one wounding the conductor, who resisted, -

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BOYLES ATTEMPT CHEAT JUSTICE BUTJHEY FAIL Woman Secured Enough Poison to Kill Two Ordinary People, But the Drug Did Not Have Any Effect.. RAZOR FOUND TODAY ON PERSON OF BOYLE Their Desire to Hate Farewell Meeting Was Probably With The Intention of a Double Suicide. Mercer, Pa., May 10. A carefully planned scheme on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Boyle' to cheat justice, was frustrated at the Mercer county jail early this morning. Mrs. Boyle admits she took enough morphine to kill two persons, but It did not have the desired result. She occupied a cell adjoining that of Mrs. Ella Parry, who this morning pleaded guilty to a charge of killing her husband. Mrs. Parry is a victim of the morphine habit and the drug has been prescribed for her while she has been in jail. Mrs. Boyle learned Mrs. Parry was receiving morphine and she begged some tablets from the woman, Mrs. Boyle said: ' ' She Gave Up Hope. "I was convinced that there was no hope for us today and after walking up and down my cell from ten o'clock until midnight I decided the time had come -for me to shuffle off. I never used morphine in my ; life, but I put ail the tablets in a glass, poured in some water and drank it. There was sufficient poison to ' kill two persons, but, my God, it did not kill me. When I lay down5 on my bed at midnight I prayed that it would be my last sleop and when the sheriff came this morning he would, find me a corpse." Hatpins Were Found. Mrs. Boyle was only partly unconscious during the night and very sick this morning. The morphine, it is claimed, was partly responsible for her collapse in court after the sentence had been imposed. -At noon today Sheriff Chess took three hatpins from Mrs. 'Boyle also all the glasses that were in her cell. At ten o'clock'this morning he made a thorough search of James Boyle and found a razor secreted in the folds of" his-'-necktie. ... It' is believed that if the Boyles' request last night to have an hour's conversation together had been granted that it was their intention, to end their lives by means of the razor. As a result -the Boyles are iniow under a special guard. COUNTY MUST CARE FOR LITTLE BABY Child Left Here by Its vorced Parents. DiApplication: for the admittance of Walter Kemm, an infant, to "White's Institute has been approved in circuit court. ' The child's ' parents : are - divorced. The mother, Grace Kemm, secured the custody of the babe when she divorced her husband. She has since gone to Dayton to work, according to the probation 'officer, and' now the county will have the child, to

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IRON MASTER WIS TARGET OF ABUSE Today rew York Greatly Ex cited Over the Tirade Of Irvine. HE MAKES GRAVE CHARGES ATTACK WAS . MADE. BY THE SAME MAN WHO RECENTLY SOUNDED THE PRAISES OF THE OIL KING, ROCKEFELLER. , ffewYorkMay -The denuncia tion of Andrew Carnegie by Alexander Irvine, socialist lay preacher, at the Church of the Ascension after his re - cent praise of John D. Rockefeller. today is the topic of earnest discussion in academic as well as socialistic cir cles, y In his sermon reviewing Mr. Car negie's book, "Problems of Today,' Mr. Irvine declared Carnegie to be the modern Moloch, a destroyer of thousands of lives. and the cause of I the maintaining of thousands of work men. Pittsburg has denominated as the greatest city of social cripples and social shame in. the world; a great city of blazing ingots, an - adjunct of Wall street, a place, where they can murder by neglect and where home is not home at all. A Grave Charge: Mr. Irvine concluded with: "Mr. Carnegie in his attack on socialism weeps over the American home. Yet Dr. Devine says the destruction of families by loss of life and typhoid fever in Pittsburg is overwhelming, though both causes are preventable, From typhoid and accidents yearly in Pittsburg there are 1.000 deaths, many of them women. That means almost 1.000 homes destroyed yearly in Pitts burg by Mr. Carnegie. -:. - " "The Pittsburg Survey tells us that laborers in Mr. Carnegie's steel works of the same grade as their fellow workers in the Pennsylvania coal mines get 40 per cent less in wages. The reason is obvious. Only Short Hours. ' ; "There are 17.000 men in the Carnegie plants, yet only 120 work eight hours a day. The rest work twelve hours a day and seven davs a week. "In 1907, there were 2,000 hospital injuries; 500 were crippled for Mfe. Fifty ' of these lost a leg each and forty-five an arm. Eighty percent of the injured were earning less than S10 a week. Five hundred ' were killed In the same year. Eighty-eight of the families left fatherless as the result of accidents in the Carnegie plants received not one dollar; - thirty-nine percent got the bare cost of buriaL" LYSAI1DER WHITE TO BATTLEGROUIID Gets Free Transportation to Monument Unveiling. Lysander M. White of this city, who fought in the battle of Ft Mahone, March 23, 18C5. will attend the monument unveiling at Petersburg. . Va May 19. Mr. White served in the two hundred and eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, third division, ninth army corps. The state of Pennsylvania pass ai a law that all soldiers still living who served in Pennsylvania regiments in this battle should be given free transportation to Petersburg. Mr. Whrte has recstvod fete

Disgruntled C, C. & L. Pas-

sengers Due Here at 6 P. M. Sunday, Arrived in the City at 7 This Morning.' BIG COUNTY DREDGE CAUSED THE TROUBLI Removed - Bridge to Make I Passage Possible Four Trains Held Up Until Structure Was Replaced. Through an alleged bit of headless I railroad management about fifty local residents, who had patronised the C. C. & L. railroad, were subjected to no end of inconvenience last night They

were passengers, in fact or prospect- Agriculture Wilson, fceiw In an interive, on the train scheduled to arrive view, today. here from the north at about 6 o'clock "It U the most deliberately nlanned

in the evening. ,' The train pulled into robbery that ever occurred In the hlathe city at about 7 o'clock this morn- tory of the United States. It Is not the case of the aneculator nrevinr nn-

Because of dredging of West River I a small stream west of Economy, it I was necessary to remove the trestle I bridge of the C. C. L. yesterday. The! dredge passed by, but the bridge gang was so long restoring the trestle that when the train from the north app reached the place about 5 o'clock last!

evening. It could not pass. A nortnito boost up prices to make millions-

bound train was stalled by the .same trouble. Passengers on both trains left the coaches and waded about In the mud, but were forced to return by the I rain. ; I Absolutely Blocked. I Other trains arrived and the entire J

railroad system became absolutely I tinned the secretary, "It was no acblocked. Passengers asked that they I cidental case. . The men hack of It are

be transferred. They could ' have I crossed the 'stream easily and those

north bound could have taken a train attempted to corner the wheat maron the west side of the stream and ket. They did not go Into It like LctV thosesotfth bound taken a' train' on er 'and others' to eorner ft bltodtr-hy

the east side. I But there was nothing in this kind of accommodation forthcoming.' It was wait; just wait And those train I couW d? uuunug eiw. rasaeugfis IU une imvji had their spirits aroused by the antic of a negro woman somnambulist. She paraded about in the coach with tight shut eyes, lunging from seat to seat Occasionally she landed plump in the lap of a white man, greatly to his dlsmay and the hilarity of the others In the coach. After several minutes of such a performance, the sleep walker was awakened. Progress Was Slow. The axes and mauls continued to ring on the trestle work, but progress was slow. Passengers played cards, sang or tried to sleep. The work on i the outside by lantern light was very. very slow. When dawn . began to break this morning and passengers on I the southbound local awoke they were I surprised to find the train from Chi cago blocked behind them. The pas3engers who had been depending on an early arrival at Cincinnati to make other railroad connections were not lu a very mild mood. Respects were paid to the C. C. & L. with all the gusto of a stage coach driver. But there were those less fortunately situated than the passengers on board. The north bound , morning train had taken a large number of citizens from here to spend the day with friends and relatives at Webster, Williamsburg and Economy, all points south of the trains were blocked. Before time for the south bound train which they ex pected to take home arrived these persons gathered at the email depots. Told Train Was Late. They were told the train was late, but not told it would be about twelve or fourteen hours late. The operator marked up on the boards "I hour late." As time passed the time of delay i changed. At Williamsburg the cause of the trouble was learned by l tele phone. A few of those better acquaint ed with the conditions hired rigs and drivers to take them to Fountain City, The nine mile drive was made through the storm in time to catch the south bound G. R. & L train and Richmond was reached, at about 11 o'clock. ' BflOTIIEMIOOD HAS A GOOD MEETIUG New Officers Were Elected for Ensuing Year. At the meeting of the brotherhood of the First Baptist church yesterday afternoon, the following officers were elected: Ben Vail, president; Mr. Wann. vice-president; Frank Unthank. secretary and Will Ferguson, treasurer. A paper read bv the new president dealt with the work of the lodge and the church. It raised quite a dis cussion as he declared that the church too often. ' supplanted by . the

Secretary of Agriculture m

Interview Says the Public Is Being Robbed by Wheat King Patten. ; ' PLOT DELIBERATELY MADE AND EXECUTED He States That the Operators . Did Not Go Blindly Into the - Scheme, So Their Offense . Is all the Greater. ; Chicago, May 10. The socallatf. common people, those who earn their , bread by the sweat of their brow, are , being robbed today, by the Chicago wheat king." declared Secretary of on another speculator. It Is a case of speculators ' breyinr upon the noor upon the men who work for a living. whose wives and children depend on their wages for bread. They must have bread. This fact has been foreseen by certain men right here In your city and they have taken opportunity not, mind you. at the expense of other speculators In the same business, but of poor unfortunates who have got to pay the price or starve, bi. M4i.. -This thing has been planned for months. If not more than a year." conshrewd speculators. . I aive them lit for being the shrewdest that boosting the market un without reason. They knew what they were doling. "But these men are the greater ofa,nt the pubUc. They set a, aeilDeraul PIOC IO IOOI UB pUDIIC "Agents were sent out all over the United States to gather statistics oa wheat They were instructed to get bad report They got. It : It was published. Speculators have said right along that the wheat crop of the I country Is poor. - It la a lie, pure and simple. "The reports have been falsified. They have been deliberately falsified. Reports Accurate. The government reports in regard to the wheat are exactly accurate. said Mr. Wilson.' "It Is not possible for Mr. Patton or any one else to get reports with the accuracy that wo get them. "We have been in the field for years and have the best Informed men In the district from which we get the reports to look over the situation. "The statement that we get our re ports from country: postmasters and persons uninformed about crops is , ridiculous. There mar be some postmasters on our lists because there are many postmasters that are fanners. ' But there are few postmasters and no persons that don't know the condition in their own district" MAY BE CIGAII 17110 Union Men Take Action Against One of tha Local Factories. ; rjori-umorj goods cause War may be .made on a loeat.elgar. factory by the.Ctgaf makers sinioa because the owner, it Is alleged, besides retailing and wholesaling union made goods, also . handles a largo amount of non-union cigars. . At tho meeting of the local union Wednesdayevening this question will hi taken up. The case was first taken up at tho last meeting and the dealer notifies that ho would have to discontinue to handle non-union - made cigars.'. He appealed his case to one of tha k! oncers of the national organisation. The union expects to bo sustained far lu action by the oOeer referred to. la case the niatter 1 not lemedled by the dealer, his employes, who are anion men. may be requested . to leave aie employment "'. V .:. -' ..'; ' - ' " - plahs u?msix Belgrade, May le. It Is reported that Burhaa Eddin. the son of Abdul Hamid, the deposed sultan of Turkey, is planning aa Albanian uprising. According to the proposed plan be win. A - - hla VJar and try to elevate him to

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