Hypnotist Everts in Somerville Trance Case Ends in Death
Arthur Everton a traveling hypnotist faced a fatal outcome as Robert Simpson a Newark former streetcar conductor died after a hypnotic trance at the Somerville Theatre. Davenport the mayor's secretary tried to revive Simpson with suggestion in the morgue as doctors declared death from aortic rupture likely linked to aneurysm. Everton remains jailed awaiting grand jury action while autopsy results are reviewed and a defense may challenge the timing of death.
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Somerville
N. J
Arthur Everton
Somerset Hospital
W. H. Davenport
Newark
Robert Simpson
Everton
Somerville Theatre
Davenport
Simpson
W. H. Long
C. H. Halstead
Francis McConaughy
Bob
Duncan Quackenbos
Columbia University
Escape attempt delays hanging in Conway jail
Melvin Watson, condemned for the Green Sea killing, made a bold escape bid at Conway jail as he awaits a noon hanging. He battered jailer Kel Fowler with a bucket lid, knocked him unconscious, and fled toward the vault before staff recaptured him. Fowler, wounded, remains in bed. Watson is back in his cell.
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Conway
Melvin Watson
John Watson
Green Sea
Kel Fowler
Powler
Bruton
Fowler
Watson
United States Court
Melvin
Chetty
Uvek
Johnson
Harmon Grainger
Tragic shooting ends life as Knoxville jail holds widow
Mrs. Ann Coker, jailed in Knoxville, admits shooting her husband James Coker on an uptown street. She says she aimed to kill a second woman, Mrs. Sarah Reagan, believed to be Coker’s former wife, with whom he had clandestine meetings. The couple’s tumultuous history spans two marriages and a decades-long estrangement.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Ann Coker
City
James Cok
Cokers
Coker
Sarah Reagan
Cincinnati
Mra
Mrs. Reagan
South Carolina Presbytery Forms New Greenwood County Division
A new division of the South Carolina Presbytery was formed at a Charleston meeting and met in Greenwood last night to organize. The division will include Greenwood Abbeville Newberry Saluda and part of Lexington counties with Rev. J B Hihouse of Abbeville as moderator and R P Blake as treasurer. Trustees elected include Cobb Greenwood Nickels Hodges Stevenson Abbeville Thomann Abbeville.
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South Carolina
R. P. Blake
Greenwood
Cobb
R Nickels
Hodges
W. A. Stevenson
Abbeville
J.c.thomann
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Opens 86th Convention in Lexington
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina opened its 86th annual convention at St. Stephen's church in Lexington with delegates from nearly every Lutheran church in the state. President C. A. Freed was re elected to a second term after the afternoon session. The gathering featured sermons, a holy communion, and addresses from Dr G C Holland of Charlotte and Newberry College president J Henry Harms on education for ministry.
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Columbia State
Lexington
Evangelical Luthern Synod of
South Carolina
St. Stephen's Church
Theological Seminary
Mount Pleasant
English and Classical Institute
Newberry College
Mfe
Freed
C. A. Freed
D. D
Columbia
P. Koon
Prosperity
T. B.pling
Walhalla
GC. R. Holland
Charlotte
Foreign Mission Board
J. Henry Harms
Convicted men face possible escape after appeal in Higham case
Developments over the last days indicate Dr. G C Bigham and W B Avant may dodge three and a half years in prison for the Murrel's Inlet killing of Mrs Higham. Appeals not filed on time leave them free on bonds. Avant surrendered, Bigham elusive, state sheriffs seek arrest under bonds set at 1500 dollars.
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News and Courier
Georgetown
Lkely
G. C. Bigham
W. B. Avant
Wells
Sherif Scurry
Avant
Harpers
Burch
Florence County
Dr. Higham
Tar
Bisham
Supreme Court II
Belton businessman Robert A. Lewis dies after surgery
Robert A. Lewis, Belton prominent businessman and former Belton and Pelzer/Darlington partner, died Wednesday in a Baltimore hospital following an appendectomy. Born 1858 near Belton he built R A Lewis & Company from a small venture to a lasting local enterprise and was survived by a happy home life with Jessie J. Breazeule.
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Anderson Intelligencer
Robert A. Lewis
Belton
Baltimore
Lewis
Helton
Belton High School
Mr. Lewis
A. J. Stringer & Company
R. A. Lewis & Company
Pelzer
Darlington
Jessie J. Breazeule
Taft's National Trip Cost Cities Over Three Million
President Taft's nationwide tour cost the government only about twenty thousand dollars. Cities along his route spent in entertainment and related expenses totaling more than three million dollars in aggregate.
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Taft
Greenville Boy Killed by Train Near Newberry
Logan Berry was struck by a Coast Line train near Newberry while walking with Joe Lawrence between Prosperity and Newberry. Berry died instantly. Lawrence was knocked off but unharmed. Lawrence says Berry claimed Greenville origins. family search in Greenville failed. The youths werebound for Clinton to seek work at Lydia Cotton Mills.
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Logan Berry
Coast Line
Newberry
Joe Lawrence
Prosperity
Lawrence
Berry
Greenville
Clinton
Lydia
Conscience Money Recovered Keeps Rising to 47000
The dispensary commission reports 9500 more hidden as conscience money from two whiskey firms, one paying 9000 and the other 500. Funds are in bank. firm names withheld. Total now 47000 with more expected, aiming toward a quarter of a million. Also noted is the death of Hamburg Belle, a trotter bought for 50000, at a Georgia stock farm.
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Columbia
Dispensary Commission
Felder
Hamburg Belle
Thomasville
Mel Hanna
Cleveland
Ohio
Bargain Buggy Wagon Sale in Valhalla Ohio
W. M Brown advertises a spring sale of buggies wagons and harness in Valhalla Ohio offering lower prices than rivals. The dealer claims superior High Point Wheels Hickory construction and skilled workmen, with a daily chance to win a $75 buggy for every $10 purchase.
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Spain
Carolina Upland
Koods
Valhalla
M Brown
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