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lamterg | $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1922. Established in 18^1* Kills Four Chil Woutu Staff Correspondent Yorkville En- ' qnirer. Clover, Sept. 6.?Remarking to ! Tom Perry, a neighbor, that "I might ' ., TTT?1 , T7S I as weii seme mis now, w imam rairis, 60, shot and instantly killed * laude Johnson, 20, mortally wound- 1 ed LeLIa taylor, 16 and Newton Tay- < lor, 12, and seriously wounded three ' other children of James M. Taylor { at their home in the Clover mill vil- 1 lage about 2:30 this afternoon. The 1 little girl, Lela, and the little boy, 1 Newton, died in a Gastonia hospital tonight. Standing in the door of * his own home forty feet across the 1 street from the. Taylor home and us- \ t ing a double barrel shot gun and a 1 single barrel gun loaded with buck -shot, Farris began his slaughter of the unarmed. Claude Jbjinson, a ] nephew of James Taylor, fell dead 1 L at the first fire with buck shot I through his cheek, heart ana arm. t Gertie Taylor, 20, was shot in the 1 neck and side; Newton, 12, was shot in the stomach; Dolly Tayloiv 10, was i ehot in the right arm and Lela Tay lor, 16, was shot in the arm and|1 offtrnooh I ] Farris, according. to the witnesd, * Tom Perry, was not content to rest * with the shooting of five, three of 1 them girls. When the shooting first i began, Fred Taylor, 22, ran toward 1 * the Clover mill for help. After shooting five, Farris rested his gun t ^ on a tree in his yard and proceeded ^ to draw a bucket of water from the c well. About that time he saw Fred (* Taylor coming back to the house t * about a hundred feet away. "Don't r ' a you come any further or I'll kill a yon," he is alleged to have told Tay- T lor. The young man paid no heed a * and he" fell with a load of buckshot in his stomach. ?. James Farris, son of Will Farris, t . m happened to be near and he took the I shotgun away from his father and a . kept jtim in charge until Chief of Po- a * lice John Jackson arrived.^ s Spirited Away, c His lips closed tight, Farris was t carried to the county jail in York- i ville, where he was locked up. A s telephone message to Sheriff Quinn e from Clover a little later on advised him to get the prisoner out of York - -* * ? *1 ? T county since ieeims w<*a suuug * * against Farris. In custody of Sheriff c Quinn and Chief of Police Steele Far- a V ris was carried to the state peniten- s tiary tonight. h The tragedy occurred about 2:30 r this afternoon. Ill feeling between 1 the Farris children and the Taylor s children is said to have been at the b ^ bottom of it all. Mrs. Farris has f ? been in bad health for some time, it t is sa'^d, and it is claimed that the s Taylor children worried her. They have been having little spats for b some time, it is said. Just before s the killing one of these spats was in v progress. The Taylor children, it is p claimed, were railing at the Farrises t and there was a return from the e Farris side. Tom Perry, friend of a Farri*. was nearby, and heard it all. s Goes After Gun. Remarking to Perry, "I might as t well settle this now," Farrjs went I after his gun and came out the door v shooting. The Taylors and John- s son were in the porch of the Taylor t home facing the Farris home. How ? long Farris continued' the fusilade cannot be said positively. Buckshot a rattled through the Taylor home, c The screams of children were heard. 1 Their bodies were on the porch floor, b in the house and on the ground, out- v side, it is said. P Then ^here was a lull. Farris, as ii cool as you please, proceeded to a draw a bucket of water from the c: well between his house and Perry's .jfeouse. Then he saw Fred Taylor come back toward the house. Fred 1( heeded not the warning to come no is further. The sixth victim fell. pi Dr. Waldo MeGill chanced to be in ii the neighborhood and he came to re- fi lieve the wounded as soon as he C t could. Buckshot from Farris's gun ei struck his Ford coupe which wa3 b< > parked oip the Clover-Gastonia road A ? more than 200 feet away. The dents d: ? dren; Is Two Others made by the buckshot are on th< side and the door of the car tc show. There was nothing to be done foi the young man, Claude Johnson ahastly buckshot holes were in his Dody, his arm and his cheek. H< evidently died instantly. One littli girl, Lela, 16, ran about the yart trying, it is said. Blood was pouring from a wound in her arm. She wa; unaware that she was shot in the stomach also. She died later. A comparatively short time afte: he shooting the five wounded per sons were taken to Gastonia hospit lis. The condition of two of then s said to be very grave. House Literally Riddled. The Taylor cottage was literally iddled with buckshot. There weri loles through the walls, A grapho >hone was stationed to the right o: he front door just inside the living oom. It had buckshot holes in it. rhere were blood stains on the floo] n this living room and in the kitch m which is in the rear of the living oom. The mother of the five Tay cot nti o haH in tTlO hor \J X V/U11U1 OMV vu w k/v\4 AU VMV oom adjoining the living room. Sh< pent through it all unharmed. She leld her head i^ her.hands and noaned: "Oh, God, why do my ba>ies have to go thrbugh this?" James Taylor, the father, paced he floor, a baby in his arms. Tears eere in his eyes?a look of anguish >n his face. He said between sobs: 'I told my children a long time age 0 have nothing to do with the Faris children. They could njot get Jong. I don't see why he shot them, They were unarmed. We had a rifle md a pistol in the house, but they rere not loaded." The father was at work in the coton mill when the tragedy occurred le came to Clover several months igo from Gastonia. He is said to be 1 quiet and industrious man, and is aid to have a substantial bank acount. There are eight children in he Taylor family. One daughter, s married and lives in Gastonia. One on, nearly grown, was visiting a teighbor when the tragedy occurred. Farris Cool About It. John A. Jackson, Clover chief of 'olice, said that Farris was calm and ool when he arrested him. He was Iready in custody of Jim Farris, a on, and the only statement the two Lad to make was that the elder Faris he given protection of the law. .'wo shotguns were" found?one a ingle barrel and the other a double arrel, both of them of cheap maruacture. It is alleged by the state hat Farris used both guns in his asault upon the Taylors and Johnson. Recording to the officers, Farris ought the shells loaded with buckhot in Gastonia on Monday of last reek. Tom Perry told the corresondent for the Yorkville Enquirer hat Farris had remarked to him sevral days ago that "the Taylors have blue steel ^pistol; but IYeckon buckhot is as good as blue steel." Perry also said that there had been rouble between the Taylors and the ^arrises for several weeks. There rere often bitter word battles, he aid. The Taylor children said hard * "* ?j J ^ _ J rungs ana tne Harrises saia ixa.ru kings. It was learned that some weeks go Farris made complaint to the hief of Police of Clover that the 'avlor children were annoying memers of his family and he sought a rarrant. An investigation by the olice developed that there was nothlg to it save a neighboring jower nd no attention was paid to it offlially. Call Him "Fighting Bill. Farris is said to have been known icallv as "Fighting Bill" Farris. It 5 said that he is a man of high temer and of fearless nature. Accordlg to Chief Jackson, he got into a ght several years ago with Former hief of Police Mendenhall, of Clovr. It is also alleged that he has sen in numbers of other scrapes, ccording to witnesses he is bad to rink but was cool sober at the time [# > > /"N j a rm \r i /^r. uourtesy or me JNews ana lou GOVERI ) Cole L. Blease } Thomas G. McLeod : r In the governor's race, the 5 lead of McLeod being overcome. 3 missing at 5 o'clock Wednesda I six or eight thousand votes at n , shows a vote of 181,481. s i Lee county complete gave 1,259, giving Blease a small ma; r Newberry county practical 1 ^2,508 and McLeod 2,581. Richland county gave B1 7 5,520, with only one box missing 3 * f~ Charleston county with ab< ^ Blease 5,046 and McLeod 4,830. r McLeod carried Spartanbui ' Blease carried Anderson. 9 I T J . T\ I C : nope uejeais o By Overwheh I \ ' SUPERINTENDENT J. H. Hope > J. E. Swearingen ; CONGRESS, SIXT ston : Gasque r Only a few boxes are mis Press says Stoll admits the elec of this afternoon's tragedy. He had F been living in Clover about three ^ years, it is said, although a good part ' of his life has been spent in York ' county. He ha^ been married three ' times and is the father of children , by each marriage, several of whom ' live in Clover and community. He has been spending quite a bit of his 1 time during the past Several years 61 ' in hunting, fishing and trapping, and 1 is said to have caught 110 couters rpj this year. or York, Sept. 9.?There will be a ^ fresh flower-covered grave in old 57 Olney Cemetery, >in Gaston county, several miles north of here, tomorrow, marking the resting place of ^ the foruth victim of "Fighting Bill" > op Faries when he set out to slaughter ^ the family of James Taylor in the HI Clover mill village last Wednesday. VC , Fred Taylor, twenty-two, died in a jjj Gastonia hospital this morning at 5 o'clock, after making a hard fight 1 pv for life. Fred was the last of the six members of the Taylor family -tl alleged to have been shot by Faries J. ! last Wednesday. He is the last to die since it is practically certain now that tne .Misses tjerue Tayior, twenty, and Dolly Taylor., ten, will recover from their wounds. Miss Gertie wanted to know today how her little brother Newton CO was coming along. (She was not (Jj; told that he died on an operating Iff table in Gastonia Wednesday night. Neither does she know that her sis- * ter, Miss Lela, and her brother, Fred, P* are dead. Claude Johnson was dead when she was carried to Gastonia to gel the hospital. Scores of Clover peo- yg pie plan to go to York when sessions court convenes, with a view to try ing to aid in insisting that Bill Faries be brought to trial at the present term. (The name is spelled Faries, and not Farris, by the way.) CO James Taylor and surviving mem- CO bers of his family were in South Gas- -j-0tonia today weeping over the body of -g the young man, Fred. He will be , missed tomorrow in the Sunday . school class he attended at Clover tl( Methodist church. [Tt rier 5:30 a. m. Wednesday. ft)R. ' 83,549 98,431 re is no possibility of the , Only about 70 boxes were v. morning, involving some lost. Tbe above tabulation Blease 1,323 and McLeod joritv. * ' / Lly complete gives Blease t ease 5,363, and McLeod r J OP 1 out zd ooxes missing gave *g and Greenville counties. 'wearingen wing Majority OF EDUCATION. : 100,307 73,349 'H DISTRICT. 12,693 7 13,139 icinor anri the AssnpiafpH 'KJJL a y M I VC V-LAV WAVV tion of Gasque. tamberg County Rallies Fine For McLeod Bamberg county has spokl in no uncertain manner s choice for governor, iomas G. McLeod, of Bish) ville, received 1,188 votes, id Cole L. Blease received 4. It is a notable fact that, though there were seventyx more votes cast in the cond primary than in the st, Blease gained only nine >tes over that he received the first primary. In the race for state supintendent of education, J. . Hope received 1,045, and E. Swcaringen 695; McCormack Nominated. Much interest was manisted in the race for county mmissioner for the lower strict, in which Gr. W. unter and J. B. McCorack ran over in the second imarv. McConnack was nominat.the vote being: Hunter 8, McCormack 976. Eeurns in Early. Every box in Bamberg j imty was reported to the unty chairman,by a quarr to seven o'clock. This probably a record. Not a x is missing in the tabulam given in this issue of le Herald. is 4 pp Smith Favors ( Year to 1 Hill Nominated Magistrate. A. G. W. Hill won out in the magistrate's contest in Fish Pond township. The vote in this contest was: Hill 140, J oily 103. GOVERNOR. V f * m ' & 9 a S Si Ehrhardt 61 164 j Lees .... .... 2 N 211 Go van 19 5?! Denmark 94 213 i Olar , 60 152 Colston 13 49 H f -1 A A iiviiaway y y Bamberg 159 306 Hightower's Mill 13 23 Springtown _18 1^ Hunter's Chapel.. 9 * 49 ' Embree 25 33 Edisto , 49 14 Little Swamp .... 30 36 Kearse 13 53 Total 1. 574 1,188 SUPT. EDUCATION. 'i 3 y ^ - to* .3 ? 'Cg. / ft o O ? B -0D Elirhardt 179 43 Lees 6 17 Govan 55 15 Denmark 165 140 Olar 92 114 Colston 43 , 18 ' Midway ,. 12 6 Bamberg . 268 ...193 Hightower's Mill 36 Springtown 28 3 Hunter's Chapel.. 41 16 Embree 29 29 Edisto 32 31 Little Swamp .... 25 40 Kearse 34 30 Total........ ....1,045 695 I CO. COMMISSIONER Lower District. y o V ?T U g & o . 9 ? w s Ehrhardt 139 88 Lees 11 12 Govan 31 41 Denmark .1 124 183 Olar 31 129 Colston 42 , 20 Midway .... 6 12 Bamberg 197 , 270 Hightower's Mill 11 25 Springtown 11 20 Hunter's Chapel.. 30 29 Embree 25 33 Edisto ? 54 T .ifilo Swfimn 35 30 JLUJ. U IXV T Kearse 36 30 , TotftI ... . ..788 976 The Reason. Husband (after first tiff): - "It's really a joy there are no marriages in heaven!" Wife: "There o-c^c-ouldn't be, 'cos no men are there."?London Mail. ' i . v . - ,> jr. . . f' . . , :'v '-'7 . v I. v;'. : ; - ' ' v ^ fiBs l ' Cotton less Cill theWeeoil Wa chin crfrvn Cant 7 Tfco nrnnn- . 'V j sal for a one-year suspension of cotton planting in the United States as -;-.-= a means of eliminating the boll weevil was suggested in the senate Wednesday by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, who predicted. ' wholesale abandonment of cotton j| farms throughout the south unless ^ :'iM government action was taken to aid in destruction of the parasite. The South Carolina senator announced he had written to the chief entomologist of the department of . J agriculture, asking that a 6tudy be s 'J& made to determine whether a year's lay-off in cotton growing would ' eradicate the weevil. He said the entomologist had expressed in a telephonic conversation today the belief that such action would result in de- /% stroying the pest.' J, .''M Senator Smith announced that as soon as he received the report of $8 the entomologist he proposed to introduce a resolution calling for the 1 co-operation as far as constitutionally possible of the federal government in the stopping of planting for one year "so that there may be a tomorrow for the cotton" industry. >| Reduction in Supply. . "Unless the heroic remedy is ap- , v plied,"'continued-.the speaker, "it will be only a question of a few years before the supply of cotton will' . V;J| be inadequate to meet the domestic % needs, much less the world demand." The present loss to the country from the ravages of the weevil amounts to a hillibn dollars a year, ^ ^3 Senator Smith said. He suggested .] ?? that the federal and state govern- ?j| ments should join in paying the de- - 0 ficit occasioned to the growers in the . one year's lay off, declaring that it x would be cheaper for the country In the end even if it had to appropriate that amount to defray the expenses .. ^ caused by the suspension of cotton gg growing for one year. Senator Smith suggested that once -! the weevil was eliminated the federal government could and should .'..J resort to zoning^ the Rio Grande : J border for a distance of one hundred miles in which no cotton could be p planted, expressing belief that this action would effectually stop the in- * ; sect's migration. Fointing out that production last year was only a little more thap ^ half of normal and estimating that this year's crop would not exceed nine million bales, Senator Smith . ; asked how long the nation could expect to maintain the balance of trade I in its favor if its export of cotton -v fell away. The export demand, he ^ continued, is around 6,000V000 bales . toUTi a HamanH qy/<ooHin rr TV ibU VUV UVUAWObiV UUiMU-UU VAVVVUiUQ that slightly. On the basis of this year's -crop, he added, the country . would be 2,500,Q00 short of the export requirements. OOtJN^ INSURANCE MONET ... v,;|| John J. McMahan, insurance commissioner, last week announced that $65,783.81 was due the county treasurers on account of the additional li? cense fees on premiums collected byx insurance companies for the semi- \ annual period ending June 30, 1922. The figures for counties in this sec- ' vi tion of the state follow: - ' ' Aiken $1,104.04 % Allendale ... 231.40 " Bamberg 660.71 Barnwell 694.22 ; Calhoun ',"436.89 Colleton 570.99 Dorchester 407.63 Hampton 365.68 ,. ; 1 urangeourg i,vo?,-4 9 MAGISTEATE,"pish Pond. _______ * Hill Jolly . J| Hunter's Chapel.. 51 . 6 Embree 13 45 Edisto 41 22 . j T.ifflp Swamn 25 i 20 TotaL' ...140 103 ' 'T~&i