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__ !Imwbemr _ _ U_ ESTABLISHED 1S5. 85 NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIA Y, APRIL 8, 1908 WIAEEd MAY ASK FOR AN ORDER. Validity of Crum'F Appointment May Be Tested.-Question Referred to Cor poration Counsel. News aid Courier, 31st. If it can ho shown that President Roo evelt's appointment of Dr. Crum to collector of customs at Charleston was in violation of the provision of thr Constitution which requires that such appointment shall be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Mayor J. Adger Smyth, in behalf of the com munity, will apply to the United States Court for an order "restraining Dr. Crum from entering upon the discharge of the duties of collector until he can establish his right to do so under the Constitution and laws of the country." The Mayor, who believes in Davy Crockett's rule o conduct, "Be sure you are right and then go ahead," has referred the mat ter to Corporation Counsel Moffett, who will investigate the legal statue of the contention. The action of the Mayor will be governed, of course, by the report of the corporation counsel. The following editorial, which ap peared in The News and Courier yes terday opened the door of hope to those who have earnestly striven to prevent the appointment of the colored physician: "Some very good lawyers hold that President Roosevelt's appointment of Crum to be collector of customs at Charleston was in clear and open violation of the provision of the Con stitution which requires that such appointments shall be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and confers upon the Presi dent the power only to "fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate. The vacan cy which Crum has been appointed to fill did not "happen" during the recess of the Senate, or, rather, he was not appointed during the recess, ,yt and when he was appointed he was not confirmed by the Senate. The provision in the Constitution was evidently made to guard against precisely such an abuse of authority as that of which the President is guilty in this case. "The question ought to be tested in the Courts, and we wish that Mayor Smyth, acting in behalf of the community, which can hope for re a lief in no other way, would apply to 7 the United States Court here for an order restraining Dr. Crum from en tering upon the discharge of the duties of collector until he can es tablish his right to do so uder the Constitution and laws of the couni try." PLACBD IN ASYLUMl. Mormon Elder Who Attempted Rape in Williamsburg Brought to Columbia. The State, 81st. In Lake City on Thursday last considlerab,le excitement was caused1 by t wo) Mormon elde.rs. One eniterFP-d thle homne of MIr. A. C. Stewart. a farmer, anud talked insult ingly to a yonng lady of thbe house hold, causinmg her muor her arnd her. self to jump out of the window and run to a neighboer's for h,l p. The Mormon follow.ed, hat a gentlemwan who happened to h.' noser canght him Other men camtie n p 'mid the ehler was secu rely t ied. Wh,'~en carriedIm into ant her house he foaght so, at t hesaimae time insult iOngether young lady, that ho had to) be knocked -into a deep pool of mud and water. , Whoen dragged out he renewed his combat ano was con qjueredl with great. ditliculiyv. The other man was chased with dogs as he wvas thonght to have l,een implicated in the trouble, b)ut he was not caught. Elder No 1 was brought to thle asylum last night, He is evidently out of his mind. The curiosity of many persons wvas arousedl at the depot by the sight. of the man wvith his head swathed in handIages. Hei is still suffering from the wounds produced by his tight whlen lie was nnptnend. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. Perry C. Yoe, who was shot and killed in Allata, Ala., last Friday, night, was buried at Greenwood Monday. He bad been away for twenty years. Was shot by a police man with whom he was fighting. The necessary stock has been sub scribed for the erection of an oil mill near Duo West, and it is ex pected that it will be in operation soon. The Postal Telegraph Company has entered Gaffney, giving that city the best telegraphic advantages, Two negroes in a crap game at Laurens Saturday night became en gaged in a dispute over 45 cents, when one shot the other in the back, seriously wounding him. A negro lawyer named Twine has been ordered by Judge Watts, in Charl.ston, to show cause why he should not be debarred from- prac tice. It is said he tried to get negroes charged with stealing terra pins to swear before the grand jury that the overseer of the terapin farm had stolen the tarrapins. Polo is all the rage at Camden just at present and some interesting matches are being pulled off. Mr. Henry Pannill, of Wil-r.ington N. C., and who has been in New berry for some time, says that in the very near future he with other gen tlemen will start one of the largest paint plants in the country at Co lumbia and that between $200,000 and $300,000 will be expended in construction. Rev. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon at the approaching commence ment of Elizabeth College, Char lotte. The winter season at Aiken is about over and the Northern tourists are leaving for their homes. Whit ney has already expressed his fine stables. Wm. C. King, of Florence, who killed two men in a dispute over a dog, and was convicted of murder of one, has abandoned his appeal and will serve a life sentence in the Penitentiary. The plant of a new ice factory in Columbia, with a capital of $30,000, is well under constrnction, and will be in operation by summer. It is located in old Sidney Pa,rk, near the 8. A. L. dlepot. Titree membenhrs of the Columbia Bar had an engagement ini the U. S. Court at Charleston last week wvhich they wvere unablo to fill because of the traini being dlelayed to carry H. .B. Spencer to Sunmmerv,ille. Speni cer is the son of Presidlent Spencer anid2himself a promUinenti rail road mat). Complaints are bit ter over the affair. Mr. J. WV. TLhurstIon and Mrs. Elizabeth Tilimt, both inmates of the county poor honso .md1( both above the age of 70, were marriedt in An dersont on Sunday.. Saturday miorniing there wvas an attem pt at bighway robbery upon the person of B. W'. Wo'd ward , a citizen of Croeers, in the city of Gireenville. Woodwuard uasked threce negroes for directions to a house he was seeking. The negroes piloted himt part of the way andl then aittemnipted1 to rob him One hats been arrested. Henury Dorr and Will Child, both white citizens of Roc k Hill, engaged in a di flculty Monday afternoon. Dlorr tired at Child six t imes, missing him, when Child picked up a rook and withI it badly bruised Dorr. Rock vs. Pistol, wvithi Rock wintner. TPhe negro Urumi assOMumeid the do ties of collector of t he port of Char. leston on Tluesdlay. 1t. is said he was hastened by steps for an injunctioni restraining htim fromn taking the oflice. Collumbia hans extended an invita tiont to Confederate Veterans to hold their annual reunion tis year in that oity. A rnern shot ndu killedl his brother near Bowman in Orangeburg county, Tuesday morning. An iquest. over the body of the negro killed by a white man, Frank S. Payne, near Johnston on Sunday, reveals that Payne .had insulted a daughter of the negro he killed and became engaged in a fuss with the entire negro family, when he shot the negro. He has not yet been caught. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Outside the State. (Gen. Booth, commander in.chief of the Salvation Army, was accorded a grand reception in London Monday night.. Albert Hall, seating nearly ten thousand, was crowded to its capacity. Wm. J. Peppler, finding his wife entertaining another man, W. E. Dodson, in New York, on Monday night threw DodBon out of the win dow. Dodson shot and killed Pep. pler. Dodson is'said to be from North Carolina. On account of acts of violence re sulting from the strike of motormen in Waterbury, Conn., eighteen men have been arrested charged with assault with intent to kill. The arrests were made in one day. A literary society in Paris this week elected a man at whom a wo man had just been 'shooting because of alleged infidelity. The shooting occured just before the election and in the same hall. Vanderbilt's observatory on his Biltmore estate near Ashville was de molished by the storm the first part of the week. The Southern Pacific Railroad has discovered that passenger tickets over its lines have been forged in New Orleans, and it is thought has unearthed a huge swindle. The German Government has ex pressed itself satisfied with Admiral Dewey's explanation of his caustic remark in regard to Germany's navy. It will be remembered when brought to task by the President he said he did not know he was talking for publication. A young girl of Pottsville, Pa., Mabel Brown, was bitten by a cop perhead snake ten years ago, and has just gone into convulsions. The doctors say the poison lay dlormant in her system all these years. It is reportedl that the Cotton Duck Co., of Manchester, N. H., is considering the advisability of miov ing its mills South. The company has a plant of l,000 horse po0w or. The verdict in the Burd ick inquest, at Buffalo, handed down Tuesday, while stating that the identity of the murderer of Edward L. Bnirdick has not been proven, practically charges Arthur R. Pennoll, the dead lawyer, with the crime. President Roosevelt left \Vednes dany for huis western hunting trip. His train consisted of six magnificent cars, furnished especially for the trip. The trip will last until June. One womanr was burned to death anid another almost to (loath in a boarding hiouse fire in. Newv York on) TPuesday. Twenty men at the Carnegie Steel Plant, at Branidon, Pa., were knocked into a huge cauldron of melted lead on Tuesday3. Six were qumekly cooked to death, ten were sent to hospital terribly burned, while four escap)ed serious injutry. The overtuirig of a heavy piece of art illery ini the (drill at Fort Meyer, Vt.., on Tluwsday caused thle death of a corpI oral and1( t he injury of three In an eleven ron d b)out at San F'ranicisco On T1'uesday niigh t young (Corbett badly whipped TIeddy Mc Gioverni. The odds1 weore placed 10( to 8 on Alovnerren CRIMINAL'S LOVE LETTER. How Sheriff Buford Succeeded In Making a Capture at (oldville Monday. Good Work. It frequently happens that love letters brew trouble for those who write them, and it has been said on occasions more than once that in matters where love is concerned it is cheaper to ride half way across a continent to say what you have to say than it is to write it and pay a two cents stamp for the carriage. How. ever that may be, love letters have ever been written, and will continue to be written so long as the world lasts. It is not the intention of this article, however, to discuss the ad visability of writing love letters. It in desired simply to show what trou ble was caused by one love letter. Be it said in favor of love letters, however, that this one love letter may not have caused any trouble had it not come into the hands of so notable and successful a criminal tracer and catcher as is Nowberry's Sheriff, Mr. M. M. Buford. On the 13th of March Sheriff Bu. ford received the following letter from the Sheriff of Union County: M. M. Buford, Esq., Sheriff, New berry, S: C.: Dear Sir:-Enelosed herewith please find an arrest warrant for a negro by name of Willie Brown. This negro lives with Mr. J. S. Blalock, at Goldvillo, in Laurons County, but will be in Nowherry to morrow, the 14th. lie will be there to meet a negro woman from this county to move her to Bllalock's. I have seen a letter that he wrote to the woman stating that he wonld be there with Blalock's wagon to move her. If you will look up Blalock's wagon I don't think you will have any'trouble in getting this negro, for I am quito positive he will be there. You will s.e from the war rant that he is wanted for assault, with intent to rape, aind I an trying very hard to get him. I will pay all your cost to get, him, no inatter what it is. 13elow I givo you a de.cript ion as best I can: Willie Brown, very black, round bumpy face, short. heavy set, little moustache, parts his hair in the niiddle, moves about slow, heavy eye brows, rod oyos and looks downward, when last seen had on black pants with stripe, black hat. Get him tomorrow if possible, if not you can return the warrant to ne. Hoping you are getting along imcely, I am, Yours very truly, J. W. Sanders. Shoriff Union County. Sheriff Be ford next day, ont thle 14th, answered as fol lows: Dear Sheriff:--Younrs oniclosing warrant for one Willie Browni duly received this a. m. I was on look. out for Mr. Blalock's wagon, but it was not here today. It is a rare thing for Mr. Blalock's wagon to come to towvn fronm t he fact I hat he ( Blalock) lives on the rail road( and there is no necessity for his wagon to come to Newvberry. Why did you not sendl me the wvomamn's name and letter, the one that Brownu wvas to meet here on the 1 4th Y 1t perhaps would give me a clute to wvork out that might. have led to Brown's cap ture. However, I 'will do my bost to get himfl. WVith be ist wishes and kind regards, I sun, Yours very truly, MX. AI. Buford, Sheriff). TIhen camne thle fol'Ilowing fromt t he Sheriff of UJnionm addtresised to the Sheriff of Newborry, anid mnob.ing the ill aut arred love letter: The name oif the womuant thiat. was to meet. the negro 'Willie Brown ini Newberry on the I t.ih is Minniiie Ly les. I wou (ldhave given you her name, but you see it is this way: Il1 wrote for her to mueei hinm ini Newv berry oni the 1-1Ih but by chianien I got hold of the let ter hoeforo she did, so you see she knew nothlin g about mneetinig him inr. Newherry. The woman Jives at. or near lIlerber' , ini Unioni Counity. lIotr mjothier got thle letter anmd gave it to a conistabhle. who sont it to me. The1, negro Willie Brown was or'.stedi ini F'i.hdami townushmip, near ( irbisle. ini this coumn ty. I ie hats ony be'en : hBIalock's sinice the dato of thte warr ant. The mother of thme wo'mn is ig to help eatch Brownt so t hat h.'r udaugh ter will at ay at htomoi. Th'le love. letter wiiieb was *'nclosedi las follobs:a Laurens County, (oldville, S. C., March 8, 1903. My dear loving woman, Minnie Lyles, i received your letter and was glad to hear from you but i would be still gladder if i could only get to see you, you said in your letter that you ant got no money to move ) our things it dont take no money to move them if you due like i tell you to due you wont due like i tell you to due for hell, i told you to bring them to Knewberry in a wagon and i will meet you there with a wagon and bring up to (ioldville, if i dont some one else wili, if you goin to be mine agin say so and if y-u aint rite and let me know at once, i show is been a good boy ever since i been over since i been gone, hope that you is been a good girl if you is rite and let me no, ite and let me no what about that trouble i was in, i want you to due like i tell you to due rite and let me no what day must i meat you and your things in Knewberry, i never got your letter till Sunday, you inus rite your name in side so i will no who it is from put my name in side so i no who it is for, don't back it to my name back it to J. S. Blalock, Laurens Co. Goldvill, S. C. I show want you to come you :4ow must come i am i am needing you very very bad and i will give you anything you want, i am getting good wagos i am getting 85 dollars for 10 months please Minnie dotit tel no buddy where i am, you mine paying tent ion to sum other dam nigger, i believe that you is glad that i am gone, moeet me in Knowberry Satday 14 your truly Willie Brown My der swectheart Minnie Lyles Willie Brown. Sherifl Buford went up to Gold ville on the non train Monday and caugh the negro at Goldville, where he was working for Al r. Blalock, bringing him to Newberry ..n the three o'clock train Monday. The correspondence above is given to show how the capture of criminals is eometimies brought about and the means always at the use of ready sheriffs. Brown wa4 taken to Union \W ednesday. WILL RETURN TO SOUTHi CAROLINA Ex-United States Senator McLaurin is Likely to Settle in Greenville to Practice Law. Special to The State. Washington, March 31.--- Joln L. MlcLaurin, ex-sonator from South Carolina, has decided to roturi to the State and resume the practice of law McLaurin has beon in New York for some time past in the hope of ostablishing himself there, but his schemes have failed and he will go south again. It is iot knovn whet her M~Ir. AleLaurmn ill reside in iBennret ts vil le, his former home, or niot, btut his friemnds here are inclined to think t hat he may estab,lish h imsel f ini the uppijer part of tIhe State, p robably in, GAreeniville. T1he idlea that lhe mayi3 agalin enItor 1politics is inot considered improbabl)thle. A Darkey's ExperIence at thle North. Here is a story froi m(henlasvi Ile, Ga., where a brot her of HaI~rk liannaa lives andl gives htis 'x periee with aii Gecorgia d1arkey' "'Somei years ago, NI r. HI n u t ook back with him to his sunu,ieor hortne in Cleveland anl old negro of t Ito ciom miunity nameld 10boeer, commnonuly knowvn as 'Unctle E'b.' Th'le obl man11 was given a room ablove thIe kit chen in the millionnair's hmouse ami hived on the fat of the land1(. B3ut lhe didn't seemt to i.e happy, and( final ly he wvent to Mr. Halnnal and< saidi "'Marse MIaI, I wants5 ter go back home.' "' 'WIhtt's then matter, 10T> y' Don't we t reait y'.u right ?' " es, oh yes! But I wainter go bac(k ! 'Thalt. wasi al1l thiat collt bIe got ont of him, so his hoit p)ut him on a traiin botud South. "When Mlr. Ha.nnaul amo ne mxt to Thomiasvili e looked uip his former protege and1( this is what he boalrd:I "'Y assir1, boss, yaissi r, y o' t rent uud melt imighity line and toit. m0 hoime in Puihnoan (cyar. I dlidn1't know whalr I wvas a gwvine, lbut the white folks along with Imen called min mister and1( I fel tmighnty b)ig. Tlhein, himtoby,on daty ai coinductor I aiin't ntever seeni beforeoi nm erlong anid sez, sez lhe W hat y ou de' ini here yon kiinky beaded coon ; git back(l in t he jim1 crow cyir. ' IDein, b)ross (otd, I k nowed l's hack in ('b1 Inwgy I'" A HIGH ESTIMATE OF TILLMAN. His Speech at the University of Wisconsln Heard by 1800 People at Fifty Cents a Head. Charlotte Observer. University of Wiconsin, Madison, Wi.-Senator Tillman spoke hero on the negro problem. The weather was bad, being cold and rainy. I walked in the auditorumi a little late, oxpoeting to find not more than 100 people prent. Much to my sur prise I saw an audience of 1,80() people, each member of which had paid fifty cents for admission. There is something remarkable about. this fact. Wai's this large an (lieueo due to the deep interest felt in the negro problem? If so, is it not remarkable Ihat. Wiconsin pwo ple should wish to hear a man on that subjoect who is known to repro seIt Views t he tuost opposite from1 thone now held, or formerly hold, by the majority of the people? Did those people come out, to hear him simply because he is sennatioial; ai man with a pitchfork, a sort. of a wild man fron. Borneo? After hear ing the speb I inworod thi is qu tion m1 the negativo. 1 saw Senator Tilhnlan in a now light. A few years ago I heard him in a South Carolina camlpaign. ''he subjoets discussed were local and personal, and I came away unfav:(rably ilnpressed. H is sHpe(ech here showed me that he h e develope.l a good deal since that tine. )lis styl(, was bot.ter, his lan guago hotteir and his grasp of idieas and heis store of information respoet ing history and literature were more those of t he scho)lar and statesmlnan. There is no discounting the fact. that. Sinator t''illnan is a nan of ox traor"dinary power. 'l'he demagogue who riles into oflice uIpon the popt. lar current may attract attention for awhile, but he soon callapses, as he has nothing solid to reyt tpon. Son. ator Tillman has been to the front too long to be (classed as It Jema gogno. 1111 is ain honest, 1rin, an earniest linan, a courageous ID1111 ail finndaene(1tally ct.unittl by the high est feelings anl sentinonts. WhNi Ie told this andi(nee that ill I the political honors that could be heaped upon him were , s nothing cotuparod to his love for his hone and family he was loudly appltded. 'T'he p)00 plu believed w\hilt lhe satid. In this paIrti(etltar he is it genuine repreSon tativ(' of the best that thore is in the Southern men. liowever people may haeve dii ffeird friom his reatsoinog andio felt t hem selves o pposinrg birsi i deas, they couhl inot but realize thatt. there was ini the rest less figure paceing upj and down, the plttformi a type of mantt tee ratre niot to be aduiired. lie suggests someiit hiing of the rugged char1tetorist ics of Aridrew Jacksoi, anrd in one sense hie represoents the beet I hiat t here is, or oer lhas boon , ini Soulthernx sttesmnainhi p. II.e has pro(ifound con 4)vict ions, ano overwhelmn ing 1tassion for t lie cause which lie 05spon ses, at fratnkniess anid art aggres si viens, It oher witI the atbi lily to hit t he mark thairt he aims at which arie inditispIenisatH requnisi ten of ( loc tie oratory'. At tachmionet for some g rean e (iu e aund d1eojp sinoer ity ol purpniose co 'unt for more thanr erudli tion, t he tor ie, or gratce of style. I' Uisi of all, thle orator or writ.ei musn t ve' sorme irresist iblre devotilot to at prinipl Ie b efore he enin 11ope tc win tand retiin the eatr of the public lo the (casi o?f TFillmantr his passion ia for Dem inoc racy, ini th e sense of minn iinig thle rights and mantrhood entl or .'coonmical or sociail dloml ina to. All of his foelings side witl he. comimoonality andio oppose an;i power which may Itake anO unifair ad vataige of [lhe people. Of course i canniiot atppeatl to the people of thb oppsite sont im:ents, although siol p(Opl open 'lttiIheir eatrs to him atm dreadt' himi. It. is hiis intns (110pers5on aliity itnd burning love for D)omocratc which explinl the secret of his pow' or in Houth Catrolinia and ox plai why I ,800t people in this city pt $lt0)( to heatr him i speatk. .ieromi D)owd. FIRAUD ON CONSTITUTION Roosevelt's Act In Appointing Crum Viola tion of Constitution of United States. The provisions of the Constitution bearing directly on the action of President lRoosevelt in making Dr Crumt Collector of the port of Char. lstonl are as follows: I "Rforee ( he Presidset) (nters on e (oexoCention of his otlice he shall take the follotwiig uati: "I do solemn. ly swear that I will faithfully execute tho fliceo of Pr,'ridetnt. of the United Stitt', and will to the best of my ability pre8erve, protect and defend the Coistitution of the United St at es." 2. "Ho .shall Iiave power, by and with the advice and consent of the Sonate, to inn ie I reat ies; and he shall nomlinate, and, by atnd with the ad. vice anid consent, of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other publIc uiuisters and cOnsUls, Judges of the Supreme Courit, and all other oflicers of the United States w1hose appoint. mlonits are not herein otherwise pro vidted for." 3. '"The Presidout shall have power to fill up all vRaancies that may hap pon during I ho recess of the Senate, by granting coiuniUsions which shall expiro at the enc of thm next sos sion. -I. "lIe haII take care t.hat the laws hre faithinlly exetcd." Mi lRoosevth, as is klown, has t'oirilied with t he first of these pro visiiois. lie qhostionl is whether he hali tl:oyel ine sc'cond and third; whet her h1e hias "t aken care" that the "laws" which they prescribe for the government of his conduct, be "faitlhfully t-x'cnuted'"-or has taken care, rat her, to misconstrue their plliin term s; to t'vado their one right a1pp lvit-tion; to excut.e therm unfaith full) ; to disregard his oath; and so to perpot rate a f rand on the Constitu tion. The thir(I provision presents no dilliilty or problem Its obvious Iean1iig is that, when the Senate has alj ,1rr-e1d td is inl recess, so that its ad'ice aitd couseit. caniot, be ob tained, if an ollice hpilpe1s to become va(Oanit the I'reiienit iay fill it until the Senate ifas e 'nvened againii and has hard iilnt' tr consider and act up. on it. i'he n',um11iiiissior so granted by iho l'retidenlt is expressly made of ternorary efl'et by the provision whirl anthorioozs him to grant it. Its Ienrie is it)t I.-ft to his discretion, or tirrt of I1ire Satret,, or that of any othrer prsn or b r .ly, Out is strictly limiited tand orhdi. Thle P r'rsidenti anid the Seniatoi are thourght ful ly uallosved all tire time of tihe "next' se'ssin of the Senarte after te vtarrev EliaH Iiappenied anid has heni so tilbdu empor'arily, to advise aind conuirs til ogetl hr regard inrg the fitnir'es of i he comm,iisi 1oned mnan . If thre Serrato conrset.s to his "'nomnina ti(n hoi 10fore thre i'nd( of its session he is "arppo)inr'e." I f it do rnot, hris temoria iry e.rr nmrissinr expji res wvithi the. '.d". lie has nio further staing1r as anr rrliceur, under the Conrsti tut ion r, ad r .1 lr rsidentr an not1la h frillyv give him rrurch stand inrg. Thlerr' is ire provision cof airy law that aultlro%0 ois(r wvurrraits li airy degree tire prseshb,t i -e nirmiissiion him anIow'~ , o) r o co i ornie' him ini htli(e for air hrour. I f hi hol oni t) ihis oflice anrd rits irn ii, he deds so solely on the Presiet rt's pe'I'rsoal authority, nrot oni hrii oLiehl marl lawful auitho rity. A\ll t his is rthie orbviou' imean ing of thet pronrsionr. It is the only mearrnig whrieb ennii ho attached to it "takl(ing enr''"' Co cnsrtirue it honestly arid aIlric tly accorinrg to the intorest of its frarrrrrs, antd tire "'faithful ex ecut ion"' of tire law it expresses wrust he in tire line of suich conrstruictiorn. T1hoere is iro Jawfrul alternrativyecourse. Presidlert II osevelt has inot so con strretd it ; hie hias tariken care to~ Ifind and carry into '.'lo uret ntier non st rtionr. HIe has tadoptred an alter native cor"'. lie has riot faith firIllyr ex.'cutied iihe Iaw, but has un. 'faithrfully igrnored it. "I hire are ir itcodon ts foir his aic 1tion,'" it mayc* b, said. P'ossibly t here y r . ieo did nort "sole(mnily sw'ear,'' hiowever, to follov wrtong pIrecodonits (concl udei uth'Iert'i i't mrpae.)