St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 19, 1906

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MSTERIOUSL SHOT AT NIGH Harold Holworth Killed While Driving Away From Sweet- heart’s Home.

EVIDENCES OF ROBBERY

Empty Pocketbook, Broken Watch Chain and Collar Button in Buggy, On the eve of a Western trip, Harold Everett Hallworth of St. louis, after tender good-by to Miss Frances East, his bronze-haired young sweet- heart near Sparta, IIl., was shot to death in the lonely midnight drive back to Sparta. The revolver with which Hallworth was killed, containing four empty cart- ridges, was found in the bottom of the buggy and is believed to be his own, but the nature of the two wounds in his head leads Sparta physicians to believe they were not self-inflicted. J. D. Hall- worth of Rose Hill, Ill., the father, ex- presses the belief that his son was mur- dered. When the inquest was resumed Wednesday at Sparta Miss East, who is 2) years old and pretty, told Coroner McKenzie of her sweetheart's inten- tion to depart for Colorado. She said he thought he could make more money there. He called on her Monday even- ing at the home of James Caldwell, who is an uncle of Hallworth’s and lives midway between Sparta and Coulter- ville, which are about eight miles apart. Harold Holworth of St. Louls, after a tender goodby to Miss Frances East, his brown-haired country sweetheart near Sparta, I!l., met death in the lonely mid- Night drive back to Sparta. The re- volver with which he was killed was found in the bottom of the buggy and is believed to have been his own, but the location of the two wounds in his head leads Sparta physicians to believe they were not self-inflicted. Under a heavy laprobe in the buggy the young man’s pocketbook, totally empty, his broken watch chain, watch and collar and a collar button were found. Sparta authorities are at a loss to say wheth- er this indicates murder for robbery, or that a desperate struggle preceded the death. The inquest into the death of Hol- worth was resumed at 9 a. m’° Wednes- day. At the session Tuesday evening @ score of witnesses were examined, but they were not able to throw satis- factory light on the circumstances sur- rounding the death of the young man. The two drove together to the home of Burt Burns just outside Sparta and four miles from the farm. A sister of Miss East lives at the Burns home. Onlv a short time was spent by the couple at the Burns home. They drove then to the home of R. M. Craig, a farmer near the Caldwell home, whose wife is a cousin of. Caldwell's, and epent an hour there. It was about 11 p. m. when they returned to the Cald- well farm, and until 1 a. m. they sat in the buggy and talked together, Hall- worth telling of his plans for the West- ern trip. A Jette posted at Belleville, appar- ently as «ne young man was making the trip to Sparta, informed his father that he intended to make the trip. Team Brought Him Back. G, A. Lyle, clerk in an all-night res- taurant near the livery stable of Eiker & Bottom, where Hallworth rented his rig, heard the clatter of a team of horses about 2 a. m., and this is sup- ‘pesed to have been Hallworth’s horses, with t heir lifeless burden. A_ sleepy hostier admitted the team, saw a fiz- uré half sitting, half recumbent on ihe seat, and supposed the driver was tin He unhitched the horses and paid more attention to the man in the buggy. Béth Revvolds, another hostler at the stabie. discovered at 5 a. m. Tuesday that the occupant of the buggy was dead. The body was still warm. One bullet had entered the head just above the right ear, ranging slightly upward and lodging against the skull on the left side It was of the same caliber as the revolver found in the buggy, at the foot of the dashboard and outside the laprobe. Another wound was at the top of the forehead and was merely a scratch. Thére was a hole in the black hat the young man wore, and another in the top of the buggy. The Sparta authorities think these holes were made by the game bullet which grazed the top of Hatiworth's head. Under the heavy laprobe were found the gold watch, broken chain, collar button and broken watehehain. They no were at the feet of the dead man. The laprobe was not torn or greatly dis- arranged. re Scattered about the watch and other Ps a Tne was going 4 al Be go * ; whieh had been articles were the tiny bits of a letter, ~¢ tern into fragments. r McKenzie believes this letter + throw some light on the tragedy, | ~~ f he will plece it patiently together. atil this is done he will not permit ® examination of it. phn Wylie, manager of the livery ie, testified at the inquest that ‘iiworth rented the rig § from “4 y afternoon, and had sald to Coulterville,: An hour ae oe hae a cause disturbances ometric in practically all of the district west ported from the Eastern States. Honolulu Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and Christmas the Hawaiian Islands throw a libation to Pelee, who is said Prisoners Had No Connection employed his son.

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Weather Hereabouts Is to Be Slightly Warmer. | A storm cén- tral over the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning is mov- ing northward, and, unless it sidetracked will cause rain or snow in this vicinity Thurs- or possibly Wednesday CYUIVI“CUu iitaa “uwew tion. Officers or € or colored men, who conduct, would have | cisely the same way nothing more impor United States Army, ship, to understand not be turned witl the peace and orde) munity. “There are apa the action taken. to the memoranda from the Military §& the War Departmen aum from the Milita ing a piece by ex-C chief of division in tary's office, togeth from District Attol son of New Orleans torney's letter recit which white United ing arrested for cri every soldier and e ment, or in the fort dier was stationed, v : knew, both before ar Wednes- as| to secure justice. ‘ night; east- soldier was acquitted. by winds: the soldier was convi the conviction resultir tem- that every soldier, fr .» ed- ing officer to the night united in securing £ ee their power about t = . eases. for less off convicted purely be: in arms, in a § the honor of the whole story | Nortnérn Alabama some time Wednes- day afternoon, and if it continues its present unititerruptedly it will here. an extensive area of low bar- pressure in the West and the temperature has raised aw gets day, late night. W ed nesday's forecast: ‘‘In- creasing cloudi- ness and warm- er, With rain or snow Thursday re a possibly nimum rature iesdayv about grees."’ The gulf storm expected reach is to

course Under Northwest, of the Mississippi and in Wisconsin and Michigan, while colder weather is re- The temperture was below’ zero Wednesday morning in the interior of the New England states. At Northfield, Vt.. the temperature was 29 degrees be- low zero. Sleet is reported from Missis- sippi, Louisiana and Texas, and rain from the Rocky Mountain region and the North Pacifie Coast. ee ee ee + HE’S MANAGER OF A VOLCANO mee ll errr Se Tourists to Brew Punch Over Crater. New York World. HONOLULU, Dec. 19.—_-A novel celebration will occur in on Christmas eve. George [Lvcurcus, the manager of the Volcano, will take a large party of tourists to the Kilauea crater and there hold high carnival during the (Christmas holidays. It is proposed to brew hot punch in one of the numer- |}: Ous steam cracks of the crater, where the Pelee, the Hawalian goddess of fire, and the patroness of the volcano, will be drunk. While the punch is brewing a fat ple will be prepared for eating over another steam crack. Turkey, greese and other articles will be prepared in the same manner. AS a finale to the celebration, every- body will stan@ on the brink of the inner pit, where the flames and flow- ing lava are constantly busy and by the Hawaiian legends to dwell] in the fire. As if in anticipation of Pproaching guests, Pelee has ordered the fires in the volcano to burn. Re- ports from the volcano are to the ef- fect that tongues of flames have been shooting from the floor of the inner crater, which is about 800 feet below the floor of the bie crater of Kilauea, to a height of 50 feet. SUSPECTS RELEASED. her ap- With “Black Hand” Letter. Frank Antigo, of 620 Biddle street, and Joe lette, of 810 North High street, two of the four men arrested in the courage of the entombed miner did not give way stench, having become accustomed to it. in Company H a married daughter in Manchester,

WEEPING MINER INTOMB 12 DAYS, ~ SHOUTS “HURRY” But Rescuers May Not Reach Hicks Within Twenty- Four Hours, ee 2 ee HE’S NEAR FIVE DEAD MEN

Their Company, but He Is Freezing, -_—_—-~ BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Dec. 19.—His nerve broken at last by 12 days’ impris- onment in a tunnel formed by a cave-in, with tive dead men companions, Miner Hicks wept last night and begged piteously to be released. The hear but see expected to but the nature of the ground through which they are tunneling made rapid progress danger- ous, and they were forced to work leis- urely, within sound of the miners’ sobs. The force at the Edison works still have seven feet to go before Hicks can be released. The party is now working on loose dirt and decomposed granite. Despite their nearness to Hicks the chances for his delivery seem as far re- moved as they were two days ago. The engineers offer hope of rescue within 12 hours—and perhaps 24. The substance in which the rescuers are now at work is debris from the fallen tunnel and it vields to the touch as easily as sand. Progress is further delayed by the fear that the last minute a false jar will release the rock that threatens Hicks a cheat the rescuers from the victory which they have so long labored. Two immense rocks are directly above Hicks. One boulder must be taken out and the other split. The miners are now digging just above him, but they for rescuers, the reach who can cannot im- prisoned yesterday mar?#i, evening, no at for LOUIS, Says He Is Accustomed to him x . 2 ~ A ae a ) ails.’ oining the names of ten St. Louis men, —_

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a » ~~ ey He Denounces the ‘“‘Sinister Counsel’? Given the Negroes by Whites and Blacks Who Objected to Manner of Their Discharge, and Cites a Missouri Case as Evidence That He Had Authority to Oust Them. WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—Denouncing the alleged raid on Brownsville, Tex., by negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry as an act of horrible atrocity, and, so far as he is aware, unparal- leled for infanmy in the annals of the United States Army, Presi- dent Roosevelt sent a special message to the Senate today in reply to a resolution, defending his action in discharging the men of. the three companies. The President denies that the disch arge of the negroes is a punishment. “The punishment mect for mutineers and murderers, such as those guilty of the Brownsville assault, is death,” he says. for me to have punished the guilty men. “I would that it were possible He says that had white men been guilty of the offense, they probably would have been dismissed more summarily. Among the precedents which the President charge of companies of three Missouri Regiments during the Civil War. Those who are alleged to have abetted the negroes cites for his action is the dia- in their conduct at Brownsville are denounced by the President in characteristically strong lan- guage. More evi] and sinister counsel. he says, never was given to any people © than that given to colored men by those advisers, who, by apology and condonation, encourage conduct such companies in questign. whether black or white, as that of the three DREADFUL DAY OF RECKONING. _ In his conclusion the President -gi¥ves..emphasis*tovprevicls ufteranted” of his on the race question, and he sountds a warning to the negro in these words “If the colored men elect to stand by criminals of their own race be-~ cause of their own race, they assuredly Iny up for themselves the most ‘dreadful day of reckoning.” Appended to the President's messa ge are the reports of the officers who conducted the investigation into the Brownsville affray. The main facts and conclusions of these men are summarized by the President in his message, which follows: “To the Senate: “In response to Senate resolution of Dec, 6 addressed to me, and to the two Senate resolutions addressed to him, the Secretary of War has, by my direction, submitted to mea report which I here- with send to the Senate, together with several documents, including a letter of Gen. Nettleton and memoranda as to precedents for the summary discharge or mustering out of regiments or com- panies, some or all of the members of which had been guilty of misconduct, “I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C, and D‘of the Twenty-fifth Infantry by name, in the exercise of my constitutional pow- er and in pursuance of what, after full consideration, I found to be my constitu- tional duty as commander in chief of the United States Army. Iam glad to avail myself of the opportunity afforded by these resolutions to lay before’ the Congress the following facts as to the murderous conduct of certain mem- bers of the companies in question and as to the conspiracy by which many of the other members of these com- panies saved the criminals from jus- tice, to the disgrace of the United States unftform. “IT call your attention to the accom- panying reports of Maj. Augustus P. Blockson of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard A. Lovering and of Brigadier-General Ernest A. Garlington, the Inspector- General of the* United States Army, of their investigation into the conduct of the troops in quéstion. An effort has been made to discredit the fairness of the investigation into the conduct of these colored troops by pointing out that Gen. Garlington is a Southerner. Precisely the same action would have been taken had the troops been white— indeed, the discharge would probably have been made in more summary fash- ion. Gen. Garlington is a native of South Carolina, Ligutenant-Colonel Lov- ering is a native of New Hampshire, Maj. Blocksom is a native of Ohio. As it happens, the disclosure of the guilt of the troops was made in the report of the officer who comes from Ohio, and the efforts of the officer who comes from South Carolina were confined to the en- deavor to shield the innocent men of the companies in question, if any such there were, by securing information which would enable us adequately to punish the guilty. But I wish it dis- tinctly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either officer is one which I absolutely, refuse to consider. The standard of professional’ honor and of loyalty to the flag and the service is the same for all officers and all enlisted men of United States Army and I re- sent with the keenest indignation any effort to draw any line among them based upon birthplace, creed or. any other consideration of the kind. I should put the same entire faith in these re- ports if it had happened that they were all made by men coming from one State, whether in the South or the North, the East or the West, as I now do, when, as it happens, they were made by offi- cers born in different states. Report Careful, He Says. “Maj. Blocksom’s report is most care- ful, is based upon the testimony of scores of eyewitnesses—testimony which confilcted onl) in nonessentials and which established the essential facts be- youd chance of successful contradiction. Not only has no successful effort been made to traverse his findings in any es- sential particular, but, as a matter of fact, every trustworthy report from out- siders amply corroborates them, by far the best _ of these outside reports being that of Gen. A. B. Nettleton, made in a letter to the Secretary of War, which I herewith append: Gen. Nettleton py an ex-Union soldier, a consistent. frien of the colored man throughout his life, a lifelong Republican, a citizen of I)/l- nols, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under t Marrison, “It appears that in Browneville, the city immediately beside which Fort Brown !s situated, there had been con- siderable feeling between the citizens and the colored troo of the garrison companies. Difficulties had occurred, there being a confilct of evidence aa to whether the citizens or the colored troops were to biame. My impression is that, as a matter of fact, in these diffi- culties there was blame attached to both |

Sides, but this is a wholly unimportant matter for our present purpose, as nothing that occurred offered in any shape or way an excuse or justificn- tion for the atrocious conduct of the troops when, in lInwiess and murder- ous spirit, and under cover of the night, they made their attack upos the citizens. “The attack was made near midnight on Aug. 13. The following facts as to this attack are made clear by Maj. Blocksom's investigation and have «t been, and, in my judgment, cannot be, successfully controverted. From 9% to 15 or 20 of the colored soldiers took part in the attack. They leaped over the walls from the barracks and hurried through the town. They shot at wh>:n- ever they saw moving. and they “hot into houses where they saw lights. in some of these houses ~ were women and children, as the wou'd-be murde ers must have known. In oné house in which there were two women and five children some ten shots went through at a height of about 4% ‘eet above the floor, one putting out the lamp vpon the table. The lieutenant of police of the town heard the firlne and rode to- ward it. He met the raiders, who. ae he stated. were about !5 «olored soldlere. They instantly started firing upon nim. He turned and rode off, and ther con- tinued firing upon him unt'l they hed killed his horse. They shot him in the right arm (it was afterwards a:npu- tated above the elbow’. A number of shots were also fired at two other po- licemen. The raiders fired several times into a hotel, some of the shots being aimed at a guest sitting by a window. They shot into a saloon, killing the bar- tender and wounding another man. At the same time other raiders fired into another house in which women and children were sleeping. two of the shots going through the mosquito bar over the bed in which the mistresa of the house and her two children were lying. Several other houses were struck by bullets. It was at night, and the etreete of the town are poorly lighted, so that none of the Individual raiders were recognized ; but the evidence of many witnesses of all classes was con- cluusive to the effect that the raiders were negro soldiers. The shattered bullets, shells, and clips of the Govern- ment rifles, which were found on the ground, are merely corroborative. So are the bullet holes in the houses: some of which it appears must, from the direction, have been fired from the fort just at the moment when the soldiers left it. Not a bullet hole appears tin any ot the structures of the fort. “Unparalleled for Infamy.” ‘The townspeople were completely surprised by the unprovoked and murderous savagery of the attack. The soldiers were the aggressors from start to finish. They met with neo sub- stantial resiatance, and ene and all who took part tn that raid stand as deliberate murderers, who did mur- der one man. who tried to murder others, and who tried te murder we- men and childres. The act was one of horrible atrocity, and so far as I am aware, weparnalicied for infamy ta the annals of the United States Army. ‘The white eye 5 4 SF ae were completely taken Py ° at first evidently believed that the firing meant that the townspeople were at- tacking the soldiers. It was not until 2 or 3 o'clock In the that of them became aware of truth. have directed a carefu fon in- to the yoo adi if any of them we I have approved the the War Department ° that brought before a courtmartial. - “Ags to tl “Overy FET o and enlisted whatever that many were privy, after if not before to the conduct of those whe rt in thie murderous riot. 2}. Blocksom'’s report for proof of the fect that certainly some and probably all of the noncommissioned officers in charge of quarters who were ree for the gun racka and had keys therete in their personal possession knew w ““TONTINUED ON PAG

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