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v . ; ' \y. / - "* '- S : '*. * * 9 ?ltr lantbrrg Irralb $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920. Established in 1891 UNWRITTEN LAW ACQUITS WARREN JURY TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO SAY NOT GUILTY. Killed Earl O'Quinn. Shtooing Result of Alleged Failure of Dead Man to Keep Promise of Marriage to Sister. After consuming nearly two days of the criminal session of court, the case of the state versus Hancy R. Warren, for the killing of Earl CTQiiinn. came to a close Tuesday night, when a verdict of not guilty was returned, the jury requiring only about five minutes to reach its conclusion. 9 This case excited considerable interest, and the trial was attended by a large crowd. The defendant is an ex-soldier of the world war, having served with distinction on the western front in a machine gun squad while the dead man was a member of a well known family of the county. The defendant pleaded not guilty, . and offered the plea of self-defense and temporary insanity. It was alleged that his mind was so wrought up by disclosures made to him by his sister and the further fact that his nerves were affected in the war, :that he lost control of his mental faculties temporarily. He also entered the plea that it was his belief that O v^uinn was going to kill him. R. M. O'Quinn, father of Earl OQuinn, testified that Hancy Warren came to jjris home on Sunday before * the killing and asked to see Earl, but that Earl was not at home. Warren told him.that he would kill Earl, . saying that the dead boy had promiseyl to marry his sister and failed to do so. The witness described the wounds on his son, stating that shot had penetrated the body from the stomach to the left shoulder. After his son fcas shot and before he died he told his father that he could not live, and that he did not know why Warren had shot him. He did not ' know that Warren had anything against him; that they had had some unpleasant words that morning, but they had made that all right. The witness said his son had frequently visited Miss Ellen Warren, out tnatj he never knew anything about his son intending to marry her. The two families were neighbors and fre quently visited each other,-and were always on the best of terms. The witness said that Warren had served in the world war with another of his sons, both being together throughout. He denied that he had told his son to kill Warren, but admitted he told his son of the visit of Warren. C. L. Jolly testified that Warren told him before the killing "there would be a sitting up the next day," that he would either kill O'Quinn or b? killed. He said the defendant was very angry at the time, and that he, the witness, did not question him about the matter at all. L. P. Jolly, a fellow worker at the Embree mill, said that he had talked with Earl O'Quinn about Warren. Eddie McMillan, another workman at the mill, testified that he saw the two men talking together at the mill about nine o'clock on the day of the *, killing. He did not hear what was being said, but afterward Warren told the witness he would not stay mill V>q/-ionco ho wrmlrl not Oft tiio Hili Aj wwwuuv MV ?T ^ work with a man who had treated him as O'Quinn had. The witness keard two shots downstairs, or noises that could have been shots, which were in quicy succession. He saw O'Quinn two or three minutes afterIwarcK but the wounded man made no statements then. The witness testified that it was generally talked that O'Quinn was to have been married on Sunday. Drs. Robert Black and J. S. Wimberly described the wounds found on - the injured man. Dr. Black conducted the autopsy at the inquest, while Dr. Wimberlv was called to attend O'Quinn when he was shot. He found penetrations over the abdomen and in the left shoulder, the penetrations going from right to left, diagonally. H? carried the wounded man to the hospital in Orangeburg for operation, where some of the bullets were extracted. One was exhibited in court, and the witness was of the opinion thaf it was a "lug" or home-made bullet. One of the wounds resembled that of a pistol shot, but witness was not certain of that. The wounds indicated the man who fired the shrts was some distance away. Dr. Black stated that it was pos LEONARD JORDAN KILLED. Colleton Boy Killed in Far Off California by Bullet of Jealous Man. Leonard M. Jordan, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jordan, of Lodge, was shot to death at Los Angeles, California, Sunday, March 7th, by Charles Orr, who then committed suicide, according to a story appearing under a Washington date line in the News and Courier. Mentioned in connection with the killing is the name of a former Colleton girl, now Mrs. Bessie Kelly, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Risher, of the Providence section. The affair is shrouded in mystery. Young Jordan had many friends and relatives in this county who will regret to learn of his tragic death. His body will be brought to this county for interment, and the story of the tragedy learned. Mr. Jordan has received brief telegrams and cannot give any information as to his son's death. Much sorrow is felt over the unfortunate affair. The following is the news story appearing in the News and Courier: Washington, March 12.?Leonard M. Jordan, of Lodge, Colleton county, S. C., who was chief machinist in the United States navy, was killed last Sunday at Los Angeles, Cal., while on leave from the U. S. S. Prairie. Charles Orr, in a fit of jealousy over Bessie Kelly, an old friend of Jordan's, took the South Carolinian's life and immediately thereafter committed suicide. The body of Jordan will De sent to Lodge by the government.?Walterboro Press and Standard. sible for a man's nerves to be deranged from service in active fighting, and that it might impair a man's mind. Wayne Sandifer testified that he saw the two men together twice the day of the shooting and that they appeared friendly. After the shooting witness went to the engine room and picked up gun wadding and saw where shot had struck the tool house. The conditions he saw indicated that O'Quinn must have been sitting down and' that Warren must have been standing on an elevation. S. A. Gardner, foreman of the Embree mill at the time, testified that O'Quinn was engineer and that Warren was a sort of general utility man, whose duties carried him over the mill. He saw them together several times during the day apparently friendly, and that on one occasion O'Quinn was smiling. During the day Warren told him he was going to quit working at the mill; that he could not work with O'Quinn, who had mistreated his sisteA On Saturday previous Warren had told him his sister was to be married the next day. Tuesday Warren told him O'Quinn did not show up for the wedding; that he had hunted O'Quinn Sunday to kill him; that he did not come to work Monday because he was afraid he could not control himself, but that Tuesday he thought he could meet him. After the shooting O'Quinn had told witness Warren shot him. The wounds indicated that the shots ranged downward. ' D. P. Babson said he was standing across the canal when he heard the two shots fired in the mill, th6 last one sounding less loud than the first. He went to the mill and met Warren on the way, who said he uad shot O'Quinn; telling witness to go and take the gun off O'Quinn. Later he saw O'Quinn, but saw nothing of a weapon on him. This ended the main testimony on behalf of the state. None of the witnesses testified that a pistol was seen or found on the deceased. Wimberl^ Bessinger was the first witness for the defense. He told of a conversation he had with Earl O'Quinn about ten days before the shooting, in which O'Quinn told him it was reported he was going to marry Miss Ellen Warren, but that he was not, and made slurring remarks about her to the witness, who told Warren what he had heard on Monday before the shooting. The defendant, Hancy R. Warren, took the* stand next. He told in a manner that impressed his hearers as being very candid his entire story, and did not make any attempt to conceal the fact that he meant to have satisfaction from O'Quinn, and that if he failed to give him the proper satisfaction, which was to take his sister out of disgrace, that he intended to kill him. The defendant served in the world war, and was engaged in some of the big battles on the western front, but he was not permitted to go into details of his service in the army. He returned home and took (Continued on page 5, column 2.) NEWBERRY FOUND GUILTY BY JURY JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR DECLARED GUILTY. Sentenced to Two Years. Brother and Fifteen Campaign Managers, Including Cody of N. Y. and King of Detroit Guilty. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 20.? Truman H. Newberry, junior United States senator from Michigan, was today convicted by a jury of having conspired criminally in 1918 to violate la we 14Ck WQ<1 CpntPTlCfid \/!c/vblvu lu n g. aav t* vw w v ? by Judge Clarence W. Sessions to two years' imprisonment and fined $10,000, released on bond pending an appeal, and at once issued a statement declaring his intention to retain his seat in the upper house unless that body decides otherwise, or the supreme court upholds his conviction. Sharing the fate of the senator were his brother, John S. Newberry, and 15 campaign managers, including Frederick Cody, of New York, and Paul H. King, of Detroit. Both these men received the limit sentence with their chief. Charles A. Floyd, of Detroit, was also sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, but he was fined only half as much as Newberry. The brother was fined $10,000 and was one of four who was not sentenced to Leavenworth. The lightest sentence went to George S. Ladd, of Sturbeydage, Mass., and h% was fined $1,000. The jury was ready with its verdict at 11:12 a. m. Less than half an hour later they had been discharged hv thft rnnrt after freeing 65 of the 85 defendants. There was a brief respite for luncheon, then the senator and his 16 associates were brought into court again. News of the convictions had been spread around the city and the room was jammed. Ordered to stand before the bar, the m^n ranged themselves in a crescent, the senator on the left and his brother next." The stir of ranging the men before the bar died away to absolute stillness. In quiet tones Judge Sessions asked if any of these men wished to say anything before sentence was pronounced. ^They stood mute. Then the court in even tones read the time honored formula of sentence. / Limit of Law. "Truman H. Newberry, in your case, it is the judgment of the court that you be confined' in the penitentiary at Leavenworth for the full time and period of two years and be fined $10,000," said the judge. No one stirred as the audience caught the words that showed the judge had addressed against the principal defendant the heaviest sentence allowed by law. Each successding sentence to prison or heavy fine was received in stoical silence. Immediately after the sentences had been passed, Frank C. Daily, of Indianapolis, special assistant attorney general and chief prosecutor, wiped the slate clean by moving the dismissal -of ten of the 135 respond^ * ' 1 * - *? ' ' - ^ ? X* J wvl /\n ents 10 tne lnaicimem wuu ua,u ineau "concontendre." He also moved the discharge of Elmer White, of Traverse City, who was given a severance because of illness, and of James Daily, a Muskegon contractor who went to South America on business before government officials could serve him with a warrant. Ninety days were granted the attorneys for the convicted men in which to perfect an appeal. Then court adjourned. "We are all with you, senator," said several of the freed defendants, as they crowded around him. The chief figure in the trial grasped their hands. His wife, brother and son were with him, Mrs. Newberry showing the effects of the verdict only in the determined composure with which she met the tearful condolences of wives of other defendants. What tears there were appeared, in fact, only among the wives of the men who had been freed. Judge Sessions announced he would allow the defense 90 days in which to perfect an appeal and meanwhile would release the convicted men on bonds. ? < > ? I have just received my last lot of seed Spanish Peanuts and King's early Big Boll Cotton Seed. Place your order at once for same, as this is the last shipment of the season. I have also just received one carload of wire fencing. See me for prices. S. W. COPELAND, Ehrhardt, S. C. 4-8 4 COTTON PRODUCTION 11,329,75: 1919 Crop Falls Near One Millio: Bales Short of 1918. Washington, March 20.?Cotto: production amounted to 11,329,75 equivalent 500 pound bales in th 1919 crop, the final ginning report o the census bureau issued today an nounced. The cotton crop of 1918 amounted to 12,040,532 equivalent 500 poun bales and that of 1917 was 11,302, 375. The Department of Agricultur in December estimated the 1919 cro at 11,030,000 equivalent 500 poum bales. Included in the 1919 productio: are 174,629 bales which ginners esti mated would be turned out afte March canvass. Round bales includ ed are 113,857 for 1919, compare with 154,204 for 1918. American Egyptian included was 42,374 bales compared with 36,187 for 1918, an Sea Island 6,907 bales compared wit] 52,208 for 1918. "Snapped" an< "bolly" cotton included amounted t 579,934 bales. The average gros weight of bales was 503.2 pound compared with 505.6 pounds in 191S Ginners operated numbered 18,80 compared with 19,259 for 1918. Ginnings of the 1919 crop b; states, in equivalent 500-pound bales were: South Carolina, 1,422,020. Alabama, 711,646; Arizona, 60, 081; Arkansas, S?2,768; California 52,000; Florida, 15,925; Georgia, 1, 658,253; Louisiana, 296,858; Missis sippi, 952,446; Missouri, 64,005 North Carolina, 828,565; Oklahoma 984,1 11; South Carolina, 1,422,029 Tennessee, 708,746; Texas, 3,064, 997; Virginia, 22,378; all othe states, 4,947. Ginnings of Sea Island by state were: Florida, 2,779; Georgia, 683 South Carolina, 3,445. The cost of picking and ginnin; the 1919 cotton crop was abou $32,73 per bale, according to th Bureau of Crop Estimates. By state the cost was as follows: Virginia, $37.56; North Carolina $28.17; South Carolina, $21.68 Georgia, $25.31; Florida, $22.71 Alabama, 22.96; Mississippi, $30.41 Louisiana, .$28.93; Texas, $42.37 Arkansas. $34.56; Tennessee, $36.82 Missouri, $44.88; Oklahoma, $47.80 Smith Carnlina. Georeia and Flor ida Sea Island, $46.10. Breaking it Gently. At an amateur performance an ar tiste gave imitations of several popu lar actors, one of whom happened t be present. Afterwards the ambitious amateu sought an introduction to the "star, and asked hopefully: "Did you see my imitation of you? "I did," replied the great mar promptly. "Then sir," persisted the aspirin youth, "may I ask you to give m your opinion of me as shown ij that impersonation?" "Well, my boy," the great ma said, "one of us is rotten!"?Londo Tit-Bits. ? t m? ?ii Our First Person Singular. Is not English the only great lac guage in which the pronoun of th first person is capitalized? Hot monumentally imposing is that uppe case "I!" If a writer is egotistic th capitals stretch across his page like colonade. When he writes "we" h descends to the lower case. But thi orthographic solipsism, mark you, i shared by Americans, Canadians, Aus trailians,NewZealanders-all who us the English tongue. It is, therefore not to be set down to insularity, bu to individualism?a stark, ineradi cable, valuable quality of these vari ous folks whose thoughts and feeling have been nourished by the same lan guage. It comes to its philosophic clima: in the Yankee Emerson, who held th infinity and sufficiency of the privat man, and declared, "I wish to sa; what I think and feel today, with th< proviso that perhaps tomorrow I shal contradict it all." No Briton, no even Carlyle, could beat that.?Hen ry Van Dyke in Scribner's Magazine. ^ iti m* Conscious of Error. A little girl was asked, upon he: return home, how she liked the sing ing of the congregation in the church "I liked it very much indeed," sh< said, "although all th? people saic it was bad." "All the people said it was bad What do you mean, my dear?" "Oh, it was so bad that I heard th< people praying, 'Lord have mercy up on us miserable singers'."?Londoi Tit-Bits. " HONEA PATH MEN ? ON SERIOUS CHARGE tl ? JOHN AND KENNETH GOSSETT, LODGED IN PENITENTIARY. Admit Being With Girls. d Charged With Assaulting Two Young e Women of Abbeville?Wallace p and Bourne Released, d Columbia, March 18. ? John n and Kenneth Gossett, young ~ white men arrested yesterday r in Greenville and Honea Path, " respectively, on the charge of crimi^ nally assaulting two young white wo~ men in Abbeville last Sunday were '' brought to Columbia late last night ^ and lodged in the state penitentiary k for safekeeping. The young men ad* mit having been in Abbeville last 0 Sunday and taking the two young s girls out riding. The boys are first s cousins. Kenneth Gossett is the ' younger of the two, being about 21 * years of age, but is married. John Gossett bears a good reputation in ^ his community. The Gossett boys were placed in the same cells occupied the previous two days by James B. Wallace and Lee Bourne, young men from Green-J L' wood, who were arrested in connection with this case last Sunday night, but released yesterday J after the ' young women had declared positively " that Wallace and Bourne were not ' their assailants. ~ Ar?A rtffonlf 1 O IVtJIliltJLU VJUSSCll, n HU3C aooauu r said to have been successful, claims J that he did not get out of the autos mobile. John says he walked back ' up the road a short distance to Longj Cane bridge with . the other girl, j * where the car was first stopped. When j * the latter two came back the girl who. P " j iremafned behind in the car with s Kenneth the other girl says, came running down the road crying, "He has ruined me." Kenneth denied last ' night that he had made further ad' vances than laying his hands on the ' young woman. The two boys, both of whom give ' the appearance of being in their teens, were brought to Columbia by C. J. Bruc'?; deputy marshal of the Western District, and T. L .Cann, deputy sheriff af Abbeville county, who made the arrests. These two officers have been tireless in their persistent and successful work. It was 0 not until late Tuesday night that they got a definite description of the two assailants. By 6 o'clock yesterday r mnrninor Tfonnpth rinssptt had been ?9 illUl UinjD ^ . placed under arrest at his home in ,, Honea Path and John Gossett had been arrested at a hotel in Greenville, where he had registered under the name of John Grown. Both were taken immediately to Anderson. The young women, who were on their way home from Columbia on the morning train, left the train at Hodges and were driven directly to Anderson through the country and there identified the young men. James B. Wallace#and Lee Bourne, young men from Greenville, who had L_ been arrested late Sunday night une der this charge and brought to the N state penitentiary for safekeeping, r were released yesterday about .11 * / e o'clock after the young women had a stated positively that the two men e then in Columbia were not their ass sailants. The release was ordered by s Governor Cooper as soon as he had been authorized to do so by Homer S. e Blackwell, of Laurens, solicitor of , the Eighth circuit, t The arrest of the Gossett boys was . effected under difficulties. John is i_ said to have been spirited away from s Honea Path by a friend. As soon as _ this friend returned to Honea Path, Deputies Bruce and Cann caught the x man who had taken John Gossett * - -3 l?;*w 4- f rvl 1 TXrVlOTO q away ana cumyeueu mm iu ?, e he had taken John Grossett. Mr. Y Cann was taken to Greenville .and die rected to the hotel where the young 1 man had been left and the name givt en under which the young man had _ registered. Mr. Cann then proceeded with his prisoner to Anderson, where Mr. Bruce had taken Kenneth Gossett. The two officers who brought the prisoners to Columbia last night r praised the mayor and and the chief - of police of Honea Path, who cooperated with them in their efforts. 3 The young women were on their 1 way to church Sunday afternoon when they were accosted by the Gossett ! boys and invited to ride. Instead of stopping at the church they drove on 3 into the country. Asked last night if the girls rei quested that they be let out at the church, Kenneth Gossett said they TO EXHIBIT GERMAN SHIPS. Five Vessels Allocated to U. S. May Be Brought To This Country. . Washington, March 19.?Five German surrendered ^warships allocated to the United States under the armistice terms, a battleship, a cruiser and three destroyers, will be brought to this country next month, it was announced today by the navy department. , The cruiser Frankfurt and three destroyers now at Rosyth, Scotland, will be towed over by three mine weepers and a transport. The battleship is the Ost-Friseland, 22,400 tons, built in 1911; and a second line ship _ during me war. The navy plans to exhibit the ships at Atlantic ports, it was said, in addition to a careful study of them by .; naval experts. Later they will be sunk at sea. Under the supreme council agreement they must be destroyed within a year after their arrival here. NEW COUNTY EMBRYONIC. N Petition, Reports Say, is Now Asking For Formation of Another County. 1 * r<?j News has come to Orangeburg that petitions for the formation of a new county in the Western portion of Orangeburg and with a slice of both Barnwell and Aiken counties are now being circulated about the towns to * the westward and that organizations are being formed for like action in the affected portions of the two adjoining counties. It is the purpose of the petitions to secure a sufficient number of signatures for the calling of a special election by the Governor of the State. Springfield business men in the city yesterday afternoon stated that the movement Is making considerable headway and that a large ; portion of the residents of the western ? , portion of this county is in sympathy with the movement. Whether the promoters of the movement will be able to secure the required number of signers remainsi to be seen. It is known that the petition will call for the portions of Barnwell and Aiken to also be incorporated into the new division to be made into a member of the family of state counties. While no petitions are yet known to be in circulation in the two adjoining counties, it is said that the present movement will be early extended to those sections. With the circulation of petitions in the western portion of Orangeburg county it is the avowed purpose of the promoters to make Springfield the seat of the proposed county gov.. * . ernment. Reports have rt also tnat the adherents of the new plan in Barnwell and Aiken counties desire . that Wagener should be the-seat of the would-be county.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Peace Hath Its Victories. SM "Times have changed," said the buck-priva^e-that-was, with a grin. "What's the matter?" "Nothing. Life looks mighty good to me to-day. I've got three second lieutenants taking orders from me now.'*?Detroit Free Press. ? ? ? "We are getting up a club for amateur cornet players. Will you join us?" "Certainly?with the greatest of pleasure! What player do you expect to club first?" did make some statement about being on their way to church, but after something had been said about going to church any time the car was then driven on into the country. The officers were practically exhausted when they placed the men behind the bars here last night. They had not been to bed for 48 hours, continually on the go and under the highest tension. r Thp arrnf in arresting the wrong men at first was wholly incident to the excitement of a brother and mother of one of the girls, who mistook the name Gossett for Wallace. Being informed that the assailant of one of the girls was named Wallace, and a young man from Greensboro being in Abbeville that day by the name of Wallace with another young man set up a string of circumstancial evidence which wholly misled the officers. > ; One of the Gossett boys said last night that the car they were driving Sunday afternoon was one stolen in Columbia last Saturday morning and identified in Honea Path Monday morning by a description carried in The State last Sunday. The car belonged to L. S. Earle, of Blythewood, and has since been returned. A Co.. lumbia boy was implicated in thr stealing of the car. . V