volume xxxvn
NEW PHASEFORHOLDEN
LETTER
Suggestion Made That Holden
Wrote Klux Note to
Himself
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8ay8 Holden is at Constant
Odds' With Neighbors
Down There
Editor Horry Herald:
Considerable space was devoted in
your paper of last week to an account
of the warnings received by one
S. H. Holden, from the K. K. K., or
somebody else, who evidently resented
his conduct in the community, and
is trying to get rid of him. I am not
interested in the fight between Mr.
Holden and somebody else, and have
no objection to him exposing himself,
and therefore would not have noticed
this artic'e except for the fact that
the larger portion of it appears to be
devoted to me and other parties in
tne section in wnicn ne lives; in a review
of such lawsuits and disturbances
as have happened since he came
there; and having given the publicity
that you did to the article last
week, I would thank you to give my
reply the same publicity,
k; I cannot imagine why the warning
Mr. Holden received signed K. K. K.
should have recalled so vividly to his
mind the disturbances his presence in
the community has caused, nor why
he should attempt to get the minds
of the public ofT of him and the K. K.
K. to myself, Watts and others, un*
less it be his method of saying
f goodbye to the community; but in
doing so he should, at least in a measki
ure, adhere to the truth, whereas the
bigger part of his references to mv!
self and Watts and a review of the
court proceedings are absolutely without
foundation, false from the begin[n
ning and horribly untrue, and Holden
knows it.
1 know nothing of the origination
?' nor of the sending- of this warninir nor
{ do I have any fuss with the K. K. K.,
f if they sent it, but I can say that who(
ever did so is pretty familiar with
i the community, for ever since Holden
1 has been in our midst he has caused
I a general upstir, in school, among
\ the citizens and in practically every
'walk of life, and this can be proven
by the whole community.
Holden's own words would indicate
that I did not have tq adopt an as!
sumed name to get even with him if
1 was a mind to, for he says, or some\
body said for him, that I told him
J. that he could put what I had said in
; his pipe and smoke it, and told him
{! face to face that I would get him, and
while he has not told the whole truth
about the matter, to be frank with
' him, if I had been confronted by a
' man whom I was satisfied was responj
sible, we would have had a hand set,
tlement of it at that time, but he pre1)
ferred to use his gun and I was helpr
less to defend myself against odds.
Since that time he has acted in the
I same insane or mad manner, and I
would not he a bit surprised that Holden
wrote the letter to himself in order
to throw suspicion on some of his
neighbors, and it not having done so,
he came out in the paper to air the
matter in the hopes that it would yet
do so. And the amusing part of it is
that somewhere in your paper the
, sheriff is quoted as saying that it was
I necessary to keep this as quiet as possible
and that perhaps there would
} be more news to give out later, where|
as practically two columns of your
j paper were devoted to Holden's ex{
posure of himself, and a review of
) what he calls his enemies.
I would hate to come out publicly
| and admit that I was living in a comI
munity where practically all my
\ neighbors were my enemies, as HoiI
den does. If I have an enemy in the
[; community I do not know it, and do
not know why Mr. golden should feel
I hard towards me, unless all his feelI
ing be based on the fact that early in
L the spring of last year my brother,
I Otis Brown, was invited by Holden to
fl take his deer dog and come by his
I place and go driving, and that on the
I day Otis and one or two others went
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Ioy aiier noiaen icr the hunt, he was
not at home so they went without him
and killed a deer. Holden came about
the time they killed the deer and was
mad because they had gone without
him, and after cursing about it for
some time he said he would make
them all pay for it, and that is the
deer killing that he charges me with
in his lengthy article, whereas a matter
of fact, the records of the magistrate's
office in Conway will show that
my brother plead guilty of killing the
deer. Growing out of this same case,
the crowd that went driving weren-epovt<Kl
for breaking the game law,
and I. being the constable for Magistrate
J. N. McCormick, Magistrate W.
at There is nothing in this world u
that is commonplace or unim- j|
jt portant. Life is made up of it
st short moments of time. You "
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advantage or let them all pass
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PARTIES LAW
OVER CHECK
Drawn For Seventy Eight
i Cents, Now It is
$78.00
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There is a case recently arising in
Dog Bluff township that has interesting
points involved.
C. F. Dimery will stand before the
coming court of General Sessions on
a charge of larceny which he bitterly
denies, and which is a charge brought
by a man living in his own neighborhood
and who has lost the amount he
claims, but C. F. Mimery says that
it was not lost through him.
It seems that there was owing to
Mrs. Tillman Hatcher an old debt of
seventy-eight cents; that H. G. Turner,
the prosecutor in the case, issued
his check on the Bank of Aynor for
this seventy-eight cents, writing the
figures "78" over in the place pro- j
vided for making the amount in fig-j
ures, and that he wrote the same
amount out in letters on the blank
line just below.
The payee, Mrs. Hatcher, collected
the check through C. F. Dimery, endorsing
it, and says that seventyeight
cents is thfe correct amount that
C. F. Dimery collected the check
at the Bank of Aynor and contends
that he received nnlv spvoniu.
| eight cents. On the books of the
bank it appears that the check
amounted to $78.00, and this is the
amo6nt which was withdrawn from
the account of H. G. Turner in making
up the account of Turner.
When H. G. Turner found that his
account at the bank was this much
less than he expected he made an investigation.
He was told at the bank
that the^ records showed that the
check had been charged out as an item
of $78.00, and not as seventy-eight
cents.
Applying to Diroery, the latter said
that he had not been paid one cent
more than the seventy-eight cents;
then Turner took out a warrant
against Dimery in the magistrate
court charging the defendant with
the crime of larceny of the difference
between the seventv-eight cents and
the seventy-eight dollars.
This case was recently up in the
magistrate court, and it was said that
preliminary investigation would be
waived and the case sent up to the
court of General Sessions where it
would be tried.
DR. MORSE TO
MAKE ADDRESS
The Civic League will be hostess at
a reciprocity meeting March the
7th, at the town hall. The meeting
will begin promptly at 3:45 o'clock,
in order that the necessary business
may be transacted and ample time
given the distinguished visitor of the
occasion, Dr. Josiah Morse, of the
University of South Carolina, who
will address the meeting.
Dr. Morse is a speaker of unusual
ability. Those who heard him in his I
commencement address here last June
know the treat that is in store for the
community.
Invitations have been sent to officers
and members of the Loris Civic
League; the Georgetown Civic Improvement
Association; the Marion
Civic League, and the members of the
Conway Chamber of Commerce and
their wives; the faculty of the tenth
Qnrl AlnifAnf U /\^ OI ?MU r*
unu ?IC1CIII/H ^lavigo VJ l (/lie UU1 1 uu^lin
High School, and the Conway Fine
Arts club.
Dr. Morse is coming from the extension
department of the university,
the Civic League paying his expenses,
feeling sure that it could give the
community no greater service than
the opportunity to hear the message
of inspiration that he is to bring.
H. Chestnut, at Conway, sent me the
warrants for the lawbreakers and authorized
me to put them under bond
for appearance at trial, which I did,
all except Holden. I went to see him
twice, but it was impossible to And
him at ajl. I put Mr. Wiggins under
bond, which seemed to make Mr. Holden
mighty mad, but I explained to
him that it was only a matter of duty
with me, and from that day to this
Holden has appeared mad toward me,
notwithstanding I have held no enmity
towards him whatsoever.
If Holden wants to review court
proceedings in which he and my bro11
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vncr nave ween urougnt, ne snoui(l at
least keep the records straight. He
was indicted for one act and my brother
pleaded guilty to another.
I regret to have to take up this
much space in your paper, or give
this much time to noticing the whims
of our new neighbor, whom it appears
somebody has seen fit to advise to
change his way of living, or get out.
I know nothing of what his troubles
have been before he came over, and
I care less. Those who know me
know that I would not be guilty of an
act which he tries to leave the impression
that I or others were guilty of,
but I thought it wise to make this
explanation for the benefit of those
who do not know me and the others
he seeks to slander in his Ku Klux
article. All I ask of the public is to
make inquiry in the community in
which we all live, and pass judgment
accordingly.
GEO. D. BROWN.
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I THE LESSONS OF
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* There are lessons to be lc
! ! court.
\\ The next two issues of Th<
j[ tain the proceedings of the Mi
* of General Sessions, for this c<
* i i_ _ f A ? _ f i
j mciitiuii iimue inaue 01 ine iac
]\ cases tried.
\\ It is interesting to hear
|j is because the court and the t
>? are matters of great human infc
* The reasons for, and the
\\ formed the basis of the hardes
jj wisest men. The purpose of 1
>? ment is to prevent crime. To a
u not entirely.
\\ Everybody knows that it is
\\ Punishment ^follows the transi
j[ night follows day. Even if tl
* ever unknown and is never tri<
" tice in our courts, still there is
\\ to him, by reason of the laws <
J J sation, and his punishment maj
* penalty provided by the law.
* Let us learn lessons, as w
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* makers and sellers of "monkey
m ers and the knock down and di
\\ come and they should afford a
J | hear the trials proceed and rc
* as they appear in the paper.
;; The court always draws a <
\\ as it should be. The criminal i
j j the one who suffers the mosi
< from the paths of honesty anci
* is his poor wfe and little child]
\\ brunt of the result. It is wors
\\ serving his sentence than if the
Human interest stories ol
* kind are always developed at t
* ry County. The Herald will tr>
jjj as possible, not all of them in
* but as many as possible then,
* after.
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HOLDEN AFFAIR |M
ing to give the public the facts about ingthe
matter, it is the pleasure of the was
newspaper to correct the mistake and plac
show up the error to the entire pub- si
lie- not
| The article of Mr. Brown indicates plac
that Holden is responsible for some, hors
perhaps all of the statements made in wen
the news article which he questions, wou
Holden was interviewed by the paper, than
and the sheriff of Horry County was ther
present when this was done. Holden T1
was asked a number of questions cour
about the aflteir, and he was question- an(j
ed closely as to the names of anybody to ti
in his community with whom he may ?
have had any dispute or serious dif- . v
Acuity during the past year or more
that he had lived in that place.
> Some information was obtained after
that from the magistrate in Conway
especially concerning the killing "e,
of the deer out of season and the sherIff
was interviewed at his office upon ne
lis return from the trip to the country 1
to investigate the affair. From these for
facts thus gathered the article was "J0.11
prepared. clan
Since the reading of Mr. Brown's of a
article, the magistrate has again been JY* 1
consulted and this time he was asked the
to produce the record of the case for sent
killing the deer when the game war- neffl
den, Mr. W. S. McCaskill, prosecuted It
for the State; but the magistrate said cont
that the original papers in the case or ii
had been misfiled, or misplaced, or get
perhaps thrown away entirely, so that who
it is now impossible to publish the was
record as it appeared in writing. The Floy
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iiia^isuaie amu uiui ne nua reaa tne
article on the Sam Holden matter and If
that statements made concerning the publ
trial for the killing of the deer, in his fron
opinion, were substantially correct. hea*:
Now, The Herald did not mean to now
charge any particular person with and
having written and mailed the note to
Holden. Holden and the sheriff, to
whom he applied, did not have the the i
right to charge the writing to any per- done
son. All they could do and all that for ;
the correspondent could do was to .ask b0d>
whether Holden had any trouble with read
anybody or not. The Herald publish- that
ed a statement of what was said when fron
inquiry was made about this. intei
All that the paper wishes to do is the
to inform the public what facts can feels
be gathered about any matter of pub- gen
lie interest that may arise, and with whic
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ARCH 1, 1923
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Its developed in criminal !t
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these cases tried. This \\
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causes of crime, have *
it study of some of our %
the law and its punish- |
great extent it does, but *
\ better to obey the laws. J j
gression of the laws as *
le criminal remains for- %
sd before the bar of jus- %
a punishment meted out $
of nature and of compen- ?
/ be even worse than the *
'e see tried the murder- $
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rum," the peace break- *
ag-outers. Their day has *
lesson to others as they *
sad the accounts of these |
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IS BROUGHT UP
Information For News Was Api
Gathered in Usual
Way
In this issue of The Herald is an A
article written by Mr. George D. Snii
Brown, taking issue with statements offic
contained in a news article of week call*
before last concerning the receipt of errc
a note by Sam Holden, a tenant on lish<
if n ~ "
trie xarrn or nenry Uuck in Socastee aid
township. and
The Henald wishes to give the same J- *
publicity to the article of Mr. Brown whi<
that it gave to the statements con- istri
tained in the news article. wee
If any mistake has been made, if w*ie
any error has been committed by the M
representatives of the paper in try- did
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in the dock is not always *
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ren who must bear the *
se with them while he is *
) man had gone to war. |
f the most intersting |
he criminal court of Hor- ?
7 to record these as fully *
the issue of next week, %
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AKES MENTION
OF TWO ERRORS
pearing in Article Recently
Published About
Horse
. B. Snipes and Mrs. Minnie B.
^es, his wife, called at The Herald
e on last Monday afternoon and
sd attention to what they say are
>rs appearing in .an article pubed
in the last issue of The Herconcerning
the charge of assault
battery brought by Snipes against
H. Floyd and A. W. Jenkins, and
:h was set for hearing in the magite
court at Conway one day last
k and postponed until last Monday i
n the investigation was made,
rs. Snipes says that Mr. Snipes j
not have any gun at any time dur- J
the difficulty when the constable
taking the horse away from their
e.
\e also says that Mr. Snipes did
hide the horse away from his
e; and that the only way the
;e left the place was when he
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b uii un uusiness or worK, lie
Id drive the horse. Otherwise
i this, she says, the horse was
e at the place all of the time.
\e investigation in the magistrate
t took place last Monday morning
resulted in binding the case over
he court of General Sessions.
n examination of the testimony
/a that according to the statets
of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Snipes,
Snipes demanded a bond for the
e when the constable went to take
animal, and1 that while the conle
could not produce any bond,
old them that the plaintiff had put
i cash bond with the magistrate
the horse. According to the testiy
of Mr. and Mrs. Snipes, the
n and delivery papers, consisting
summons and an affidavit, were
served until after Floyd had taken
horse out of the stall and he had
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tne norse away m charge of a
0, or two negroes.
also appears that Snipes did not
est the claim and delivery case,
n other words made no effort to
the horse back. The magistrate
issued the papers in the matter
W. R. Gainus, the magistrate in
d's township.
o
you are in the list of persons
ished last week ps being those
i whom The Herald wishes to
don't wait another day but write
and show that you are still alive
kicking.
presentation of that, the paper is
1. The paper has no axe to grind
anybody except to get from anyr
what facts it can to inform its
ers. This was all the interest
The Herald had in this affair
i the beginning. And it is the only
rest that it has now, aside from
general interest that the paper
! in peace and quietitude, and the
>r.al good of the communities in
h it circulates.
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NIGHT VISIT
CHANGES MAN
Causes Him tTo Take His
Wife Back in
Home
Recent events in the life of one
family of this county places a good
thing: to the credit of the Ku Klux
Klan, or would-be Klan, as the case
may be. As recent articles, appearing
in this newspaper will show, there
is no telling whether certain acts pro
ceed from real Ku Kluckers, or come
from others who are not really members
of the order. The facts are published
and the reader may judge for
himself.
The facts disclosed, mostly by the
records in the magistrate court, concern
the family of John Powell. He
married the daughter of William W.
Graham, an industrious, though crippled
farmer, living near Reaves Ferry
to the eastward of Conway.
In January, of 1928, Powell and his
wife did not live together, and had
not been living together for some time
before that She was with he* father
near Conway, while Powell was near
Wannamaker, in Floyds township.
On January.20th, 1928, on the oath
of W. W. Graham, the fathef of the
wife, Mrs. Ottie Powell, the magistrate
at Conway issued a warrant for
the arrest of Powell, in which it is al- j
leged that Powell, an able-bodied man,
did without just cause or excuse abandon
Mrs. Ottie Powell, his lawful
wife, who was dependent upon him
for maintenance and support, and
that he failed and refused to supply
her with the actual necessaries of
life. The warrant named the wife,
and also R. I. Stanley, J. P. .GrahJm,
and J. W. Powell as witnesses.
This warrant was placed 1 in the
hands of J. K. King, of the rural police
force, to be served on Powell.
There was some delay for one reason
or another.
After the taking out of the warrant,
it appears, and before the poHceman
had executed the warrant, Powell
had a visit from the K. K. K. As to
the full particulars of this visit and
as to what they lid to Powe'l it has
to be left mostly to imagination, as
the particulars have not been disclosed
by Powell himself. The results
are about all that is known.
Following the visit from the hooded
men, Powell came to the home of his
father-in-law and got his wife and
took her home with him; so that when
King went to make the arrest he
found Powell in his own home with
his wife. Taking into consideration
the fact that the law, under which
the charge of non-support had been
brought, has as its evident object the
correction of the evil at which it is
aimed, King decided to leave Powell
as he found him and report the facts
to the court from which the warrant
had been issued.
King returned the warrant, with
this report last week and the warrant
was indefinately stayed on the good,
behftvior of th$ defendant.
It is said that the visitors who
changed the attitude of Powell found
him at the place where he evidently
did not belong; that while they used
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no particular violence in regain 10
him, yet they sufficiently warned him
of what the consequences might he in
case he did not change his ways.
AREMARRIED
AGAINST ODDS
Irate Father Chases Over Into
This State in
Vain
There was a case of marrying
against odds in the office of Judfte of
Probate J. S. Vaught, last Thursday
morning, the proceedings beginning at
an early hour and winding up just before
the noon hour.
Clarence Leonard Gore claimed to
the judge ^hat he was nineteen years
of age. The girl that he brought
with him, Miss Laura Uainie Gore, he
said was eighteen years and two
months old. The couple had fled
from North Carolina, where the marriage
was opposed, not at all by the
father of the girl, but bitterly objected
by the father of the bridegroom.
Since they found too many difficulties
in their way in Brunswick County,
where all of the parties lived, the
couple slipped away last Thursday
morning befoj? day and were making
their way to South Carolina when
they were overtaken by the father of
the boy, but who was unable to stop
their flight; and all parties arrived
here some time during the morning
and the application was made for the
ilcense*
The father of the young man consulted
the Judge of Probate and while
he was still opposed to the wedding,
there could nothing be found in the
South Carolina laws to prevent the
issuing of the license. The father had
to admit that the young man was going
into his nineteenth year. The
father said that his objections had
been on the ground of the youthfulness
of the boy and his lack of schooling;
that he wanted him to attend
school and get a start in life so that
he would be able to take care of a
wife.
None of the objections were availing
and the license was granted about
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NO. 45
HUGGINSDEAD
FROM WOUNDS.
Shot in the Leg on Night
of January
31st
CURRIE BROST ARRESTED
Death of Huggins Followed
Amputation of Leg
at Hospital
Maxey Huggins, who was shot by
n 1 ^ -
L/uyie v^urrie, on January 31st, 1923,
died from the effects of the wound
inflicted last Thursday, February 22,
and on the following1 day Doyle Currie
and Lewis Currie, brothers, were
locked up in the Horry jail under a
new warrant charging them with the
murder of Huggins. x
The shooting took place while the
parties were all at a hot supper, or
entertainment of some kind, that was
going on at the home of Bill Bryant,
near Green Sea on the night of the
31st of last January.
No exact statement of the facts
leading up to the difficulty have so far
been obtained from any eyewitness
for publication, but it is generally
told and stated to be true that Huggins
went to the Bryant home, and
had along with him a negro boy, with
whom there had Dreviouslv hi?<?n snmft
dispute between him and the Currie
boys. Words were used when some
question about this came up and the
shooting followed.
According to one of the officers who
executed some of the papers in the
case, the defendants claim that Lewis
Currie and Maxey Huggins were having
hot words and had gone together,
and that Huggins had a knife which
he was about to use on Currie when
Doyle Currie, who was standing a few
feet away shot the deceased as defendants
claim in self defense, or rather
in defense of his brother, Lewis
Currie.
The bullet entered the knee of Huggins,
shattering, it is believed, the
knee cap. Huggins was taken to the
hospital at Mullins for treatment, and
as the wound did not get well, an operation
was* performed on last Thursday
and the leg amputated. From the
effects of this Huggins died, and his
funeral took place in his home community
near Green Sea on last Friday.
Soon after the shooting, a warrant
was sworn out for the arrest of Doyle
Currie and Lewis Currie, on a charge
of assault and battery with intent to
kill. Under this warrant they made
bond which kept them out of jail until
the death of Huggins. When Huggins
died a new warrant was sworn
out charging homicide and under this
the policemen, J. K. King, and John
Rogers, arrested the Curries at their
home last Friday morning and
brought them to the county jail where
they were lodged for safe keeping.
I Their attorneys who had arranged
the bond under the first warrant, at
once took steps to obtain bail for the
two defendants by or under an order
which, it is said, would be obtained as
soon as possible from one of the circuit
judges of the State.
Huggins was twice married. He is
survived by his second wife and a
number of small children. Both of
the defendants who are under charges
are single men.
CLAIMS SHOT
FIVE TIMES
Further details of the shooting of
Maxey Huggins near Green Sea, on
the night of January 3Xst, reached
Conway through men visiting here
from that section. There is a report
to the effect that Huggins was shot
four or five times in the leg instead"
of once, as at first reported; that the
bones of the knee were shattered by
the balls to such an extent that amputation
became necessary some days
i go and the operation resulted in the
man's deatk.
The trouble, according to report,
came about over allowing a negro to
remain in tne presence ot tne party,
this negro having gone to the place
with Huggins and having had some
previous difficulty with Doyle Currie
and Lewis Currie, the men who are
now under charges for shooting Huggins.
It is said that the negro was
made to dance for the entertainment
of the people present and sorgp objection
was made to this at the beginning
of the altercation between Huggins
and the Curries.
eleven o'clock. After obtaining the
license the young couple decided to
use it then and there, and at their request
they were made man and wife
by the Judge of Probate.
The bride came from Asheville, N.
C., and the bridegroom from Charlotte,
N. C.
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