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WILL GO TO CONFERENCE j PROBERS FIND NO TRIAL IS J NECESSARY. Rev. A. J. Cautlien was not Given i Right to Associate Others With \ t Him as Prosecutors. jc L Greenville. Sept. 17.?Presiding Elder P. F. Kilgo tonight gave out : a the following statement bearing on 1 gpSf ihe investigation into charges against Egaf the Rev. S. A. Nettles, editor of the ? Southern Christian Advocate: js IK "Rev. S. A. Nettles, having re- r K quested an investigation of rumors l W detrimental to him, the committee;v of investigation, composed of Rev.,s L. P. McGee, Rev. \V. E. Wiggins,1 ^ and Rev. W. M. Owings, met at St. j * Paul's Methodist church. Greenville, | k S. C., Wednesday. September 17. at' \ Z o'clock p. m.. Rev. P. F. Kilgo, pre-;t f siding elder, in the chair. Rev. O. ; a -r M. Abnev was appointed secretary : S and Miss Beam stenographer. j "Rev. E. S. Jones appeared as \i] counsel for the accused and requested that each witness be examined i ^ without the presence of, other wit- * r.eeses. Rev. A. J. Cauthen appeared | as a prosecuting witness and claimed j * tne rignt to associate witu aim, as co-prosecuting witnesses, about one- . fourth of the witnesses summoned. The chair ruled they would have to _ > appoint one of their number, as the ? accuser or prosecuting witness. Will Appeal to Conference. "After a brief consultation with 1 one another, Mr. Cauthen said, 'We died. Ku <v? . vr ruling and have ^ it was an acciv .you, and will car- j The coroner came e annual confer- | 8 * berg, this mornin if quest over Mor -rew, some of his * Rain heir with him. Where- j cooler c'hair addressed the remain- a V : 3 ing witnesses, asking them if they had anv accusations to bring against : t : n Rev. S. A. Nettles. There being no / i r 4 response, the chair instructed the 1 committee to prepare their decision ] | and they rendered the following: ' *No accusation and no evidence hav-! a ing been brought before tne com. mittee, we find no trial necessary.' j P. F. KILGO, President. O. M. ABXEY, Secretary, L. P. McGEE, ." W. E. WIGGINS, ^ W. M. OWINGS, * Committee." . * The Rev. E. S. Jones, who repre- j ' sented Rev. S. A. Nettles in the in- j & vestigation held this afternoon, made j ^ the following statement last night: i ^ Mr. Jones' Statement. [ ^ "This investigation was called at j h the request of Mr. Nettles. For some [ h time untrue rumors of an irritating i e and reflecting character had been j n coming to Mr. Nettles' ears, and he j tl decided that the best course to be i b pursued was to ask for an investiga- j tion. In the letter he addressed to: Rev. B. F. Kilgo, presiding elder of this district, Mr. Nettles stated that ^ > Rev. A. J. Cauthen, of Spartanburg, claimed to know of these derogatory matters. "When Mr. Cauthen was request-|L > ed to appear before the investigating! t: committee, he wrote that he would i r be on hand, but that he would not j t] appear as Mr. Nettles' accuser, for j 3 he knew nothing against him, but j a would 'simply furnish accusations j t< that have logically been given me." t< The presiding elder then requested j n Mr. Cauthen to furnish him the | s names of these accusers in order that' n * they might be notified to appear be- j p fore the committee of investigation, j n Mr. Cauthen replied with a list of j fi 55 names. Each of these was in- j g formed bV letter of the date, place j p and purpose of the investigation and h was asked to be present. Many of h t them did not appear. As a matter of fact, many of the persons whose nam- p es appeared on the list furnished by a Mr. Cauthen expressed t surprise f at being summoned, stating that v they knew nothing whatever against c Mr. Nettles, and one of them goe?" i so far as to say that, prior to the re- c ceipt of the summons, he had never t heard of either Mr. Nettles or Mr. v Cauthen. In view of these facts, it ? is difficult to understand by what t 'logical* channel accusations by these 1 parties reached Mr. Cauthen's hands, ii Appeared as Accuser. x "Mr. Cauthen appeared before the 33 investigating committee this afternoon in the character of the ac^ cuser or prosecuting witness. "When e the time came to begin the taking of c testimony, Mr. Jones, as Mr. Nettles* I counsel, requested that each witness C give his testimony without other wit- t r.esses being present. Mr. cautnen t made strenuous objection to this, o stating that there would be quite a d number of others associated with him e as prosecuting witnesses. The chair t raid that, in his opinion, this joining a of others as prosecuting witnesses in } order to have them present through- v cut the proceedings, would amount to t a dodging of the church law on the s point, and. therefore, ruled that only one person could remain present t throughout the proceedings as prose- r cuting witness. t "After a hurried consultation with t his would-be associate accusers or i TWO MEX ARE ARRESTED. Lrthur Waul and Henry Gary Fall \\ Into the Custody of Sheriff. Laurens. Sdpt. IS.?Wanted for he alleged murder of Gordon Xorris cil September 7, at Stottsboro. Jackson ounty, Ala., two young white men. irthur Ward and Henry Gary, were rrpsted and lodged in jail here early u oday by Sheriff John D. Owings. The It-1 rrests were made at Clinton, where | [ is said the men had been under j111 urveillance for several days. Tomor- u ow Deputy Sheriff Reid will take he fugitives to Chattanooga, Tenn., o1 >here he will turn them over to the 11 heriff of Jackson county. Both men (t~ eny their guilt but admit they are rom the section where the alleged illing occurred. rDavid Hamilton, a young man of he upper section of this county, was rrested today by a deputy United ai tares marshal and carried to Edge- ni eld, where he is charged with break- s0 ag into the Trenton postoffiee early a this month. Hamilton denies that 01 e had any connection with the CT rouble at Trenton. l>1 ? ^ ? ni Lttempts to Shake Arc-Light, Killed. b( sc Monroe, N. C., Sept 17.?Think- to ag to do what he had often before h< one himself and seen others do, Mr. of lllison H. Bivens, local manager of er he Southern Cotton Oil Company, er aught hold of the chain of a sput- Ji ering arc-light ir. front of his home cc o-night about 9 o'clock, intending fc o shake the lamp and cause the car- in on to burn more freely, and was intantly killed, it being estimated that tb Lilly 2.300 volts of electricity passed as hrough his body. ai Mr. Bivens, together with his wife ra nd three children, had started to t-.\ nother part of town. Seeing that ?i he light in front of his home was H ot burning properly, he seized the th ing at the end of the chain which re nwers a light of this type. The chani, ec : is supposed, had become heavily 01 harged through a short-circuit prob- th bly caused by the recent heavy sr ains, and the death of Mr. Bivens ju as instantaneous. in It has been of common occurrence m Dr citizens passing an arc-light burn- s( a'g feebly, to shake the lamp; in hich case the carbon usually ignites ar lore fully. Until to-night no harm th ad ever resulted from such help ne iven the town's lighting system. be Mr. Bivens was the oldest son of io Ir. and Mrs. E. J. Bivens of this th sty, was born in Union county and re ad lived the 35 years of his life pc ere. gaining the warm regard and m igh esteem of the citizens by his la xemplary character and good busi- ar ess ability. Besides his wife and of iiree children, he is survived by two th rothers and several sisters. o; fa GOTH AMITE ACTS QUEER. m tii Hi islieville Police Take Man who lc( Wants to Hun Town. ' ci Asheville, X. C., Sept. 20.?W. V. to .yons. of Xew York, to-day was fe iken in charge by the police at the as equest of relatives, who have asked ai liat inquiry be made as to his sanity. v. ] ince coming to Asheville. two weeks ck go. Lyons has attracted no little in- te ?rest. Recently he declared his in- th ention to remove from office the u layor and other city officials, and to in top the publication of the local m iewspapers. Today he distributed n> rinted cards announcing his de- a ermination to dismiss the police th orce and reorganize the municipal al overnment. Lyons appearently is lentifully supplied with money, and ly as purchased vaiuaoie yrupen> iu ere. it rosecuting witnesses, Mr. Cauthen if nnounced that he would proceed no pi urther before the committee, but v rould appeal from the ruling of the ? hair, and take the matter before the ext annual conference. Having so ielivered himself, he and some of * he witnesses abruptly withdrew. The l< witnesses who remained were then 1 sked by the chair if they had anyhing to say against Mr. Nettles, 'here was no response, and the chair nstructed the committee to prepare heir decision. They decided that o trial was necessary. Reason Obvious. "The reason why Mr. Nettles^desird the exclusion of all witnesses exept the one testifying is obvious, t is not positively known why Mr. "authen was so strongly opposed to his usual manner of procedure, but rom what was said on the floor by >ne of Mr. Cauthen's associates who iesired to be present during all the xamination of witnesses, apparently he reason was not because they had inv testimony to offer against Mr. ^ settles, but merely because they 1 ranted to see that it was not made \ o appear that Mr.Cauthen was perecuting Mr. Nettles. I "Mr. Nettles regrets exceedingly iiat, after all preparations had been r.ade to go thoroughly into the mater, Mr. Cauthen refused to produce he accusations which he had promised to produce on this occasion." . m LAWYERS AM) THE LAW. ???. 'oeful Lack of Confidence Continues to Cirow Steadily. One of the most remarkable ad"esses delivered at the meeting of j te American Bar Association, in j ontreal. was that of Mr. Moorfield '( orey. a leader of the Boston Bar, ; ho declared to his brother lawyers iat "our profession is to-day more j; scredited than ever before," and ged them not to delay the reforms;, hich the people are demanding, j "There is no profession," said Mr. lorey, "which has suffered more! ora superstition, none in which tra- i tion has exercised and still exercis- I ; a more baleful influence than our vn. The common law which in theo 'broadens down from precedent < precedent,' has almost invariably ?en influenced too much by the past, id has been very slow to change its : ethods with the changing needs of >ciety." The result has been that instead protecting the community against ime by making it dangerous and iprofitable to the criminal, the ethods of criminal procedure have :en allowed to become so cumber- i ?me that society, "though anxious free itself from a pest," finds itself mdicapped at almost every stage the proceedings and the criminal ijoys an advantage to which he is ititled upon no conceivable grounds, istice is easy to defeat, and the mrts which have been established >r its administration are brought to disrepute. Mr. Storey has no patience with te barriers which have been raised rainst the swift and sure discovery id punishment of crime. He demnces the practice which permits ipeals to be taken again and again id upon all sorts of technicalities: e undertakes to expose the folly of ie rule which protects a person aristed for crime from being question! with a view to finding out whether not he is guilty. He insists that ie custom of allowing counsel to end days in the empaneling or a ry, wasting the time of the court the effort to gain some unfair adintage for their client, should be opped. The views voiced by Mr. Storey e shared by increasing numbers of e people. The enactment by Min>sdta of a statute vesting ten mem^rs of a jury with the authority to nder a verdict is a recognition of 1 e fact that the unanimous verdict sts only upon precedent and unsup>rted by common sense. There are any other theories of the criminal w which are equally indefensible id which help to defeat the efforts ( society to protect itself against ( ose who are not properly mindful ! the rights of others, so many, in ; ct, that even .Mr. Taft, one of the ost conservative of men, declares at "the administration of criminal < w in this country is a disgrace to ( ir civilization." I It is for the lawyers of the country act if they would save their prossion and preserve the courts : :ainst the contempt into which they ( falling. The people do not know hat it is wrong but they lack confi nce in the power of the law to pro ct them against acts of aggression, j ey are convinced that the law as I is generally administered, discrim- i ates against the man without | eans in favor of the man who has I oney. and there is bred in the land j feeling of hostility to law from \ e vicious consequences of which j 1 of us suffer. The Mississippi judges who recent-!1 met and odopted recommendations i r changing the law so as to make | more responsive to justice, had the j ght idea. They would recognize that j courts would be trusted, they must j *ove themselves trustworthy.?; ews and Courier. , C. LEE, President i *irmarc.MaippI ai iiici o-ifiti vi If you are going to Build, invite youi COMPLETE HOUSE ] We manufacture and dea Stairs, interior trim, sti pews, pulpits, etc., rough pine and cypress shingles Distributing Agents fc Cortright Metal Shingles, Estimates Cheerfully a Voodward Lun AUGUSl Corner Roberts OUR M QUALITY? USE OF CALOMEL PRACTICALLY STOPPED. Dangerous Drag (Jiving Way for Safer, More Reliable Remedy. Hundreds of people in this vicinity alone have stopped the use of dangerous calomel when their liver is acting slowly, and take Dodson's Liver Tone i instead. Dodson's Liver Tone is always safe and has none of the bad after-effects which so often follow the use of calomel. It is a, pleasant-tasting vege-1 table liquid that starts the liver gently and surely, and relieves constipation and biliousness and causes no restriction of habit or diet. Many preparations have sprung up that imitate the claims made for Dodson's Liver Tone, but remember Dodson's Liver Tone is the tried and tested remedy that has proven such a good medicine and is so satisfactory to every user?is the reason these imitations are on the market. Dodson's Liver Tone cannot hurt anyone and if it fails to do all that is claimed for it the Peoples drug store who sells it, will give your money back with a smile. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank my many friends for their kindness in my recent sad Via Iacc a f mv fotVlDT UCI CaVCIUCill 111 1UOO U1 U1J XWVA.V* ) as it is impossible for me to see them all personally. WM. H. PATRICK. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1913 until the 15th day of March, 1914, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1914. until the 31st day of January, 1914, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1914, until the 28th day of February, 1914, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1914, until the 15th day of March, 1914, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be addea to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For state purposes 5% mills For county purposes oy2 mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills For public schools 1 mill For roads % mill Total 15% mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 2 mills Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond. No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Mirtwflv. No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills Oiar, No. 8 4 mills 3t.John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 3 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age. are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1913 are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor, are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1914. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October. 1913, until the 1st dav of March, 1914. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. TEACHER'S EXAMINATION. The regular examination for certificates to teach in the public schools of Bamberg county will be held Friday, October 3, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m., at the court house. 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