The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 07, 1923, Image 1
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VOLUME XXXvn
CURRIES UP
FOR KILLING
V
Charged With Slaying of Maxie
.Huggins in Last January
JURY PANEL EXHAUSTED
^Testimony Begins on Monday
Afternoon Soon After Noon
Recess
Before noontime last Mondday the
Court of General Sessions took up the
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trim oi bewiH aim i^oyie v>urne iur
the killing of Maxie Huggins on
January 23rd, 1923, near Green Sea,
in this county.
The indictment which charged the
killing as done with a pistol, was
read and the defendants put to their
pleas. Each pleaded not guilty. Then
the jury was drawn, the defense having
20 peremtory ( ?)challenges and
the prosecution only five. J. Ed Harrison
was excused on the ground of
relationship. Nearly all of the prosecutions
challenges were used. It
took some time to empanel the jury.
They were finally selected and sworn
as follows as to eleven of the panel
of twelve:
W. D. Small,
John N. Grainger,
W. D. Cox,
W. A. James,
J. T. Shelly,
J Vincen Ward,
)- A. M. Cox,
Herbert Lambert,
L. H. Gore,
Lee Outlaw,
R. L. Lunday,
When eleven of the twelve had been
di awn and passed by both sides, the
venire had been exhausted, owing to
the fact that some of the original
venire had died since their names had
, been placed in the jury box. This
made it necessary to draw an extra
venire to make a complete petit jury
of thirty-six names. After this had
been done the twelfth man was served
and the case was ready to proceed
with the testimony by the time court
' met in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
^ Dr. N. A. McMillan of the Mullins
Hospital was the first witness. He
said in effect that the deceased died
from blood poisoning, caused by a
shot in the knee. He lived about 22
days and died in the hospital.
Healie Huggins, widow of the dead
man, said her husband came home
that night wounded in the knee. After
about an hour and a half he was
taken to the hospital in Mullins. Be
fore he left she put spirits 01 turpentine
on the place and wrapped it up
in a piece of cloth. She stated that
she had used nothing else. She was
Mr. Huggins' second wife. The place
^ad not been bandaged before.
g&Uibray Watson testified. He said
rffif knew the deceased was at the party
at Bill Bryant's that night. He
saw Doyle and Lewis Currie there
that night also. . Maxie and Ernest
Farewell, a negro, was playing. He
looked out and saw a crowd at Huggins'
buggy. He ran out and saw
flashes of two or three shots. Doyle
Currie said that he was the one that
did the shooting. The witness said he
did not know that Huggins had been
shot just at that time. Huggins was
down the road. He saw someone going
down there, but he did not know
who it was. They had quit when he
got out of the door. He had looked
out of the door and saw two men at
the buggy fighting. There were more
men there he stated. It was at night.
The house was on the right side of
the road. The steps went up into the
room where the party was held. The
door was only 30 or 40 feet from the
yard to the road. Maxie's mule and
buggy was hitched across the road
and was below the gate. The party
at the house was composed of white
boys and girls, among them two
teachers from the Green Sea school.
Huggins and Farewell came up to
the steps and stood there. Huggins
was just outside by the door. The
iAPto was standing near the door.
\s|>:1ess did not notice the negro do
anything, no singing nor dancing. One
lady left after the negro and Huggins
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came tnure aim ueiuie uic ouuuving
took place. The house was north of
Green Sea. Currie did not show him
any cut in his coat.
Wm. P. Bryant testified. It was at
his home where the party was being
held. Huggins and Farewell came in
at the door. Farewell, the negro,
commenced patting. Witness told
someone to tell them to go out. Maxie
and Doyle had a few words in the
kitchen. Witness told the negro to
get out. Maxie came back up there.
He told the boys that they ought to
come on him; then he left and went
back the buggy. A crowd followed
him to the buggy. He saw Huggins
going to the buggy and Doyle
and Lewis went oft too. Farewell
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T world may be the one who says
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Moral: Do not depend too much
X or.* what you hear said, but in- o
vestigate. The eye and the ear <
J both take turns at fooling us.
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FINE BUILDING
UP AT AUCTION
Goes to Joseph W. Holliday for
Over Twenty Thousand
Dollars
The E. A. MoflU Realty Co., was
here last Saturday to sell the Horry
Drug Company building, with the lot
of land on which the building stands,
measuring thirty feet front on Main
street and running back a distance of
120 feet. It is located on the corner
of the alley leading to the wholesale
establishment of the Cooper-Smith
Co., and the main street of Conway.
The sale was made upon commission
as is usual when such sales are
made by the realty auction companies,
and Dr. W. C. Adams, the owner of
the property said that it was for the
purpose of getting the cash out of it
and enable him to begin operations
elsewhere, as he had gone out of ^he
drug business in Conway and wanted
to go into business elsewhere.
It was known that the property was
subject to a mortgage held by the
Bank of Aynor and which is now in
the process of foreclosure through the
courts, some dispute having arisen as
to payments made on the mortgage.
Dr. Adams said that this would be
taken care of and arranged to the
satisfaction of the purchaser by depositing
a sufficient amount in the
bank against the liability on this
mortgage sufficient to take care of the
same no matter what the amount due
on the mortgage should turn out to
be in the trial. Before going ahead
with the sale he said that he had a
bid for the property of more than the
property cost him and he fully believed
it would bring more than the
amount which he had been offered.
The sale posters which were sent
out far and wide stated among other
things that this property was located
in the heart of the business sections
of Conway, one of the best towns in
South Carolina, and advised the investment
of money in this property
which would continue to increase in
value and bring the investor an income.
It had printed in it: "A True
Saying: I Remember when a certain
tract of land could have been bought
for such and such a price, and now
think what it is worth! So why delay
buying?" It stated five reasons why
the property should be bought: "There
is solid value in every piece of Conway
property. People have made
money out of Conway property and
you can do it now. If you don't now,
you will wish you had. You can buy
now and reao a sure Drofit that comes
to all wise investors."
The sale took place at 10:30 o'clock.
The band played as usual at such
auction sales and the crowd grew big
and strong. The sale of this lot had
been the talk of the town for the entire
day preceding the sale. It is a
nice piece 4 of property with a nice
building on it. The bidding was quite
lively.
The bidding started away down low
but went up high directly. The building
has two stories. The entire ground
floor is occupied by the drug store,
while the second story is fitted up in
a number of rooms and offices. Finally
the bidders were reduced to two,
Messrs. G. B. Jenkins and Jos. W.
Holliday. After a little while the
building was knocked ofT to Mr. Holliday
at the sum of $21,500.00.
R. O. Hanson was the auctioneer.
was in the buggy and John demons
went to beating the negro in the foot
of the buggy| Huggins started* towards
the buggy. One of the Currie
boys threw out his foot to stop him
from going. All went on down the
road. Doyle Currie came back from
down there and said that he did the
shooting. The witness stated that it
was a dark night, and the pistol had
been fired three times. Currie laid
the pistol on the mantelpiece. The
negro worked for Maxie Huggins. He
stated that he saw the flash, but did
not hear anything said at the time of
the shooting.
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On cross examination ne saia tnat
he had sent word to the negro to get
out as he was in the wrong place. He
admitted that Maxie got mad because
he said they were trying to mistreat
his negro, and he wanted them to
jump on him and not on the negro.
He saw John demons on top of the
negro in the foot of the buggy; that
Huggins wanted to go to the buggy
and then Lewis Currie got in the way
and would not let Huggins go to the
buggy. The shooting took place
about 25 yards from the gate, and
the mule and buggy was between that
place and the gate. Witness did not
tell Huggins to get out. Currie did
not say what he had shot Huggins
for. The negro was patting in time
with the music. Witness sent word
to the negro to quit. Maxie came
in the kitchen and said it looked like
we wanted to pick on the negro. Lewis
stopped Huggins from going to the
buggy where Clemons was fighting
the negro. Maxie left the buggy and
went down the road and Lewis and
Doyle Currie went that way also. The
witness stated that Huggins and
Farewell acted like they had been
drinking.
W. A. Jackson testified. "I was
near the gate. I was in the house.
Huggins and the negro were near the
door. The negro was told to get out
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CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY
I WHO DARES DI
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; There ere men and won
J[ above and beyond mere defc
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o no matter how much they
o There is nothing that is
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o it that a letter is correctly
J \ Ik memorandum is made of
] omitted on the morrow; a
handled and disposed of sc
o is given on a debt which
3t may not be at the end of th<
he may slight all of the s
< business day and you may
< up he never can succeed.
Jt Genius deals in nothing <
finite art of taking pains.
< count, and who is there i
< that fact?
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LORIS GAINING
ON KERRY CROP
Turns Out Nearly Fifty Thousand
Dollars to Growers
There
PLAN INCREASED ACREAGE
Loris Berry Sold High as
Twelve Dollars Per
Crate
They have shipped from Loris this
season approximately fifty (50) cars
of berries and these brought in about
$45,000.00 f. o. b. R. R. tracks at
Loris, prices ranging from $12.00 to
$1.75 per crate; the highest being paid
the first of the season. The growers
had a fairly good season and they got
some clear money. The acreage will
be increased next year about 150 per
cent. The acreage this season was a
little over 200 acres, quality was fine
and a large crop. Did not pick over
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iu per uciil ui uie crop. At trie Close
of the picking: season they had a
small crate shortage but only a few
suffered any loss on account of the
shortage as the price had reached a
point where it did not pay to market
them. Growers picked from $200.00
to $000.00 worth of berries per acre.
Of course, some berries were transplanted
late and from these the growers
did not realize more than enough
to pay the cost of putting out the
plants and gathering the berries.
According to tbe above report the
acreage in the Loris section next year
will be about three times as great rs
it was this year. As the crop this
year with fair seasons turned out
nearly fifty thousand dollars, it can
be readily seen what a nice sum will
be realized next year if the seasons
are as fortunate and the acreage is
increased as contemplated.
The shortage in crates which is
mentioned will doubtless be guarded
against, and arrangements will be
made to take care of the greatly increased
crop that Loris will expect
to ship off next year.
COURT GRINDS
OUT THE CASES
The Court of General Sessions convened
last Monday morning.
Judge S. W. G. Shipp did not hold
the court. Hon. T. M. Boulware, a disi..
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i/iu^uiMieu uiiurney, oi me oarnwen
bar, was appointed by the Chief Justice
to hold the present term instead
of Judge Shipp, who was not feeling
well at the time.
The court convened at 10 o'clock.
This was different from past terms,
when the court was put off until in
the afternoon. The practice was
formed to hold back the work of the
court and much less accomplished
than when a full week's court was
put in.
The case of the State vs. Gerrald
Graham was not submitted to the
grand jury as he had adrhitted his
wrongdoing and made amends to Nettie
Graham, the woman who had
prosecuted him.
The rush of swearing witnesses for
the grand jury was finally attended
to. Then the cases continued from
the last term were called and taken
up in regular order:
CASES CONTINUED?
The State vs. C. W. Johnson,
The State vs. C. C. Linden,
The State vs. Cordie Barnhill,
The State vs. Murray Goff, et al.
The case against B. L. Harrison
was laid over for the present. The
case of James Graham for rape was
noil prossed.
The grand jury found a true bill
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Currie and Bryant were in the kitchen
awhile. I saw Huggins come up to
near the door and there was a crowd
around the negro. Huggins told the
negro to 'unhitch the mule and let's
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LNY THE FACTS? ::
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important without details,
which the most stupendous J[
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something that must not be
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except details for it is the in- J[
The little things are what
vho can successfully dispute
SIMPSON CREEK
LOSES STILLS
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naiu mdue un numes 01 u. tTodd
and Eby
Floyd
VIOLATED THE GAME LAWS
Path Leads From The Still to
Eby Floyd's Own
Doors
Prohibition officers, led by V. P.
Johnson, of the rural police, made
raids in Simpson Creek township last
week, locating and tearing up stills
and placing several offenders under
warrants, charging the violation of
the law.
One of the raids was at the place
of O, E. Todd. The officers had their
attention called to this location for
some time back.
While lying in wait the officers
heard a gun shot in the direction of
the' bays. In a few minutes two boys
were seen emerging from the woods,
one carrying a crocus sack on his
back, the other a gun.
These boys proved to be Tally
Prince, about eighteen years old, son
of Joe Prince, and Manny Prince, another
young son of Joe Prince.
These boys were held up by the officers
and the sack taken from Tally.
The boys closed up their mouths like
clams and refused to tell anything
about the still or their operations with
the still. The sack contained a keg
and in the keg was about five gallons
of moonshine.
The boy who carried the gun had a
dead partridge in his pocket, ttis gun
had been recently fired. Here was a
plain violation of the game laws and
Manny Prince admitted that he had
killed the bird. The shot which the
officers had heard was the one that resulted
in getting the partridge.
As the boys would not tell the location
of the still, the officers had to
hunt for it. Johnson found the still
and it was still hot from the fire that
had run off a charge. The outfit copsisted
of a gasoline drum, holding fifty-five
and a half gallons, one thirtytwo-gallon
doubler, one sixty gallon
flake stand, four sixty gallon fermenters,
one ten gallon keg. With
the outfit was several gallons of material
known as low wine, and quantities
of mash.
This raid resulted in warrants for
the parties.
Another Still.
The next raid was made at the
home of Eby Floyd in the same township.
This still was4 found near his
place and consisted of a thirty-twogallon
sheet iron drum, one sixty-gal Inn
wnnden flnkn stand. nnn t.Viivtv
two-gallon doubler, one ten-gallon
keg, and one sixty-gallon fermenter.
Behind Ehy Floyd's house the officers
found one fruit jar filled with
whiskey.
This same still a short time ago
was found by the children of William
Smith, who lives, near Floyd. The
children walked up on a still located
in the hushes behind the pasture
fence. They were astonished at finding
it there and hastily informed older
members of the family. There was
some delay, not exceeding an hour,
r\ /] tirl> Att vin td i O.i urAnt 1 vO nlr t aa f h a '
duu vvucn }hu \>cmi uai.iv tv/ inu
place where the children had seen the
still, it had been moved away.
In this case a well defined path led
from the still to the hack door of
Floyd's home. The officers followed
tracks from the still, along this path,
to the door.
go.' As the negro reached for the
lines John Clemons knocked the negro
up against the side of the buggy and
was beating him. Huggins started to
go to the buggy and Doyle Currie
stepped up with a pistol in his hand
and Huggins stopped. Then Huggins
i started off down the road and Doyle
Currie was standing nearby and shot
: Huggins, who hollered, and about that
s time the negro drove up to Huggins
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W. E. SESSIONS
GROWS BERRIES
Ships 640 Crates Total From
His Crop This
Year
W. E. Sessions, of the Home wood
community, is one of the largest
growers of berries in this section. He
has six acres of matured plants and
another six acres of younger plants
which did not produce much this season,
but which will be expected to do
better next season.
He gathered forty crates from the
six acres of young plants this year.
He shipped and got returns for a
total of six hundred and forty crates,
of which all but the forty were picked
from the old patch of six acres.
Last week he lost ninety crates not
counted in the above total for the season
that the market had gone off and
he decided not to ship the berries on
account of losing the freight he would
pay on thenu
He received returns for the six hundred
and forty crates he picked add
I shinnpH. nmmintinir in Iho u-linlo fn
the sum of about $2,500.00, to use tjie
round numbers. He does not believe
it cost him more than one thousand
dollars to produce this year's crop
and market it. There is a clear profit
of at least fifteen hundred dollars
that he had earned out of the crop
this year. Last week he was in Conway
with a load of the finest kind of
berries picked from the crop still producing",
and for which there is now
no market, and he was selling these
to all who wanted them at $1.50 per
crate. The berries he brought to town
were fresh picked from the fields.
They were all large and well formed
fruit, as fine as has ever been offered
to the local trade here.
Fertilizer bills are not worrying
Mr. Sessions this year, for the cost
of the fertilizer is included in the
thousand dollars that he says it cost
to produce the crop. It also includes
the working and picking and the expense
of hauling to the shipping
points, the freight and all that.
There are some farmers who go
ahead and raise various crops without
keeping any account of the expense;
neither do many of them take any account
of their returns from any particular
crop but jumble all of their
crops together in such a way that they
do not know the most ordinary facts
about it, -and cannot tell you anything
about it if you ask them. The better
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iu uo is iiKe ivir. sessions does. lie
foeeps tab on the outgo and also a tab
on the income.
ADAMS ENGAGED
UNDER TAX LAW
Will Cover the Counties of Horry,
Marion, Dillon and
Marlboro
N. C. Adams started out last week
in the filling of an important position
with the tax department of South
Carolina. His duties are concerned
with the administration of that part
of the tax laws recently enacted by
the Legislature, requiring stamps otx
deeds and other documents, cigars,
cigarettes, smoking tobacco, ammunition,
and certain candies.
Mr. Adams was appointed as agent
to go over the counties of Horry, Marion,
Dillon and Marlboro counties.
This preliminary work will include the
duty of instructing the people in the
application of the law and the obtaining
of the stamps and seeing that the
stamps have been affixed to the articles
as required; and he will also
check up the stocks on hand as the
merchants and shopkeepers were all
required on May 1st to take stock of
all of these things that were then on
hand and affix the stamps required
bv the law. He will ascertain if these
things have been attended to and d^ne
in the proper manner. While Mr.
Adams covers the four counties
above stated, other agents will cover
the remainder of the State, and the
counties have been divided up and allotted
to a corps of adjusters who will
attend to these duties. Plub tobacco
and snuff are the only kinds of the
weed that are exempt from this stamp
tax.
The preliminary work to get the
stamp duties into full effect was started
last week, Mr. Adams going from
here to Marion on Wednesday morning
to begin his duties. The work is
being continued through this week.
This work is going on all over the
State. The stamp taxes will turn out
a large sum in revenue and it will be
needed to help take care of the increasing
costs of running the State
government.
N. C. Adams is well fitted for this
work for which he has been selected.
He has filled the office of auditor for
Horry County for a number of years.
He is quite familiar with the tax laws
and is well trained in bookkeeping and
other clerical work.
and he got up in the buggy and they
drove off."
The State rested here. A motion to
let Lewis out was refused by the
court. ~ 4; *
John Clemons was the first witness
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SIX CAUGHT
IN ONE DAY
Prohi Officers Make Capture
of Three Stills and
Cap
MEN TRY TO HIDE IT
Man Caught Trying to Hide
Two Stills in The
Woods
It was a most notable liquor raid
that was made last week by State
Prohibition A pent, together with V.
D. Johnson, of the rural police force,
H. N. Sessions, deputy sheriff under
Jas. A. Lewis, sheriff of Horry County.
It all took place on May 29th. It
resulted in the taking of three stills
and the cap of another. It involved
six men in criminal proceedings, all
of the six either being arrested and
lodged then or subject to being taken
in under warrants that are pending or
which are to l>e sworn out.
The six men involved as defendants
under charges for violating the State
and Federal prohibition laws are:
Walker Allen,
Fred Alford,
Eighteen-year-old son of Allen,
Pearlie Gasque,
Kinley Todd,
William Benson.
The first three above named are involved
in a raid which the officers
made near Aynor, beginning at thehome
of Walker Allen, where the officers
went to ask Allen directions for
going to the home of his son-in-law,
Fred Alford. Allen told the officers
to go by Aynor as in his opinion there
was a better road that way. The officers
pretended to take his advice and
started olT toward Aynor. They
watched Walker and saw him take out
a mule, which he mounted and went
off as fast as he could to warn Alford
of the coming of the "revenoos." They
tracked after him and got to Alford's
about as soon as Allen did. Allen
had been working in his field when
the officers approached and readily
came to the house to see what they
wanted.
It turned out that Alford had two
stills instead of one, though the officers
believe that one still is A1 ford's
and the other belongs to Allen. The
officers got there and found *he whole
family in a great flutter. They were
hiding the tell-tnle indirin of n ronn
try-made whiskey manufactory. They
had taken the two stills complete with
the gasoline drums, worms, caps and
piping and the officers found the two
outfits where the men had attempted
to hide them about forty yards from
the house. Tn the house of Alford
the officers found a quantity of sour
mash, and out in the woods still another
quantity of mash which they
had time to take out of the house and
try to hide from the officers.
At tho home of Walker Allen the
officers found fifteen or twenty gallons
of sour mash. Mrs. Allen said that
her husband used this as a beverage
and did not use it to make liquor, but
the sheriff told her she could tell that
to the court, they were not the judges.
This mash found in the Allen
home was contained in a barrel.
The eighteen-year-old son of Allen,
the name not being learned, was aiding
and assisting Walker Allen and
Fred Alford in their efforts to hide
the stills and the mash that was evidently
intended to use in these stills.
This is the reason that this hoy will
be charged in the warrant, it is said.
The rest of the parties came in
as the result of other raids made that
same day.
Pearlie Gasque is involved because
at his place the officers found a still
cap, and twenty-five or thirty gallons
of sour mash geting ready for running
ofT. They did not locate the rest of
the outfit. They could not make Gasque
tell anything about where he kept
it. He will be charged with the violation
of the liquor laws.
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ine next man on me use is rvmiey
Todd. He pot in bad. At his house
the officers found one gallon, one
quart and two Coca* Coin bottles full
of moonshine. At first they thought
they might not get anv further evidence
against Todd. Then the officers
found that they had overlooked
a dish pan which was discovered about
full of whiskey. After a little time
Todd broke down and confessed that
he had a still. The officers found
'this still about seventy-five yards
from the house belonging to Todd, but
at which no one seemed to he living
at the time. It was used apparently
as a place for keeping and storing the
product of the still. The still consisted
of a gasoline drum, but it carried
a copper worm.
William Benson, the next man on
the list of defendants, pot intQ. it by
trying* to help Todd out of his diffi(CONTINUED
ON PAGE EIGHT)
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o The most dissatisfied man you
see is the one who had doubts o
o and waited, doing nothing, while
< his neighbor went ahead and
coaxed success out of failure; <
< and now he sees what he too J J
\ \ might have done. o
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