The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, June 06, 1957, Image 1
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2 Fast-talking Con B
Woman Out of Life':
' | SPARTANBURG ? eoupl^of
smooth-talking 'mep..Aall;ed 1
lit ^?man 'right ~tmP^of. her life :
savings of $500 here last week.
The flinV flam artists apparent- 1
]y v.easled their way int<? her 1
confidence l>y whispering, a-secret
formula for curing her arthritis.
Here's the woman's story, as ~
? "" ""told to city detectives LeGrand
' . 0 . . .Iiwuse and M. F.McMillan:
The woman was standing in
front of Lewis' o 10 Cent,
Store when a man approached .her'
ana started a conversation.'
Warming to the stranger", the!
-oman confided that she had
arthritis.
He recommended iodine ami ash I
as a sure cure. Sho annarentlv I
was flattered at his concern.
AWut that time another Xejrro j
man walked up and joined in the j
conversation. From there""on, the
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story's as old as the hills..
I Mail No. 2 said he had some
money "'down the street" ami
_ would s.hniv :1 M il lv nil t nnn'i in'il
if the woman would put up some'
cash as "security."
She told liinv .-.he had $"00. but !
it was in the bank and she would j
'have to <ro draw it out. That was
fine, he said, so she and Man No. !
1 went to the bank. The teller obliirhifly
cashed her $500.' c.heil; at!
her request. After all, it was her j
rnoney.
Mystery Still
Surrounds Death i
Of Woman, 42
CON VVA Y---Aiuho. li es ave niyi- i
tified as to the cause of death of i
a 42-year-old North Carolina Negro
woman whose wire-truistd I
body was recovered from the i
AVt I'iuiiaw ltivcv roai here last;
week.. /
The victum has been identified ,
is .Mrs. Henrietta Simon 1 Lu-i.bs ,
r>*' Ohadhourn, N" ?. , a widow of J
, sfc-veraT^VVars. .
Horry County Corojier J I.ittlejohn
Blanton said that- investiga- j
ting officers have turned up 110
f'ues so far. He said the victumk
had been termed "very religious" <
by her relatives and apparently '
.. without crreTTifes. <
Mrs. Lucas had gone to her H
inother's home in Chadbouin the <
night of June 2 and lrad not hecn'i
seen since leaving there at 9 p.m. <
the same day. i
The vietum wasbound a round j i
the waist, ankles, knees and neck |s
with wire. A piece of iron was
tied to the wire as a weight. Bla.v'i
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COLUMBIA, SOI
Hen Slick
s Savings
?Thyy met >1 an Nov 2 aft WoolworthKs
5 & ](>, whereupon she
surrendered net only her $500, hut
the "$i:> in cash she had in her
pocktthook.
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Man No. 2 took the $510, ami
told them to wait until he walked
down to the Andrews Building
loiret his cash. He turned shortly,
an I told the woman to go to 1 OX
Andrews Building and her money
would lie waiting for her.
,\t this point both men.^left together,"'
The woman dutifully
went to the Andrews Building, but
of course there was no such room
as J OK.
Realizing she had been flimflammed,
and with tears in her
eyes, she beat a hasty path back
to Woolworth's. But of course the
two men were irone, and there
was no one there who even faintly
resembled them.
Reporting' to city detectives,
>he explained that she and Man
-Ntr?1?were To have received $'.fi
each from Man No. 2's cash.It
wouldn't have been so had,
she figured, hut one of them described
himself as "the Rev
Jones' from Union.
She cave detectives accural*
descriptions. She never had see*!
them before, she added, but yon
could'bet your life she'd know
tlicm if she -ever! saw them again
lor...said the-,<>'iv luul been in tiv
vatei ; l.out a. week.
v The coroner said ho would set
ail ituiu".st date at some later timi ,
White Timmonsville
Farmer Free# In
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Negro Slaying
FLORENCE-Walter I.. Tolson.
50-year-old" white man of Rl. 2,
Timnionsville, lias been acquitted
of the June 2 slaying of Murray
Spann. .11 -year-old Larmar Xejrro.
Tolson pleaded self-defense in
the Floienee General Sessions
Court, jcl iuU-1-y--bv-xhe? shonttntr.
, Florence County Coroner Hilly
Faddy said tVie shooting took
place at - a.m. June 2 at a service
station in Oartersville.
Spann was shot once with a .12
calibre revolver, and died while
Tolson win diiwrfg~Tnrn to a Florence
Hospital, Eaddy said. The
Coroner, was called in when Tol
son took the body to the Tinimonsville
police station. Witnesses
said the shooting took place durng
a quarrel over p. $1 grocery
">111 Spann owed To'son, Eaddy
lai.
ToJson runs a store and farms
n Darlington County.
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TH CAROLINA, SATl'RIhV
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Kule Death Is
Negro's Fault
PICK KXS ? A i'iflrrn-i ''-n m>
coroner's jury ruled here last v.vcl
that Koh.ht Rullock, 7S'. came tt
his deut.'i as a result of !iis j\vi
nejrlijferree.
The Negro man. who said h<
was riding a bicycle from Florid:
to Maryland, was injured. June P
when he ram met! into a trailo
truck near Liberty. He died late;
".in Cannon Memorial Hospital hen
of pneumonia.
T.he truck driver, Herbert S
Fo* of West Ashville. X. C
testified at the inquest, that !v
drove the truck fompietely off th
hiyfrway to avoid missing the agei
Negro. Both the old man and hi
j bicycle were thrown under th
truck, he said.
T.he bicycle which Rullock rod
was demolished.
A manrQ'c Pfocfinr
i 11I1V1 1VU Oil V-Ollg
Civil Rights, Dr.i
, DKTRul T--A'"fi'i>i mmi1 the 42 n
SpinKarn^jyiv.li-V.-on behalf of "th
50JJ(J0 Negro citizens of Muni
. jioiiHry!** Alabama,'' the Rev. If
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.i*.ii viii i.umt'f iv ii,;, 11*<iiit*i m ?.i
bus protest mo* . nu nt in that
?, w;ii iicil .r. in;' . van ' ?.? "iv*
i, until soy relation anii discvimin
i tion have oejn !:y.mlated In..
every area of aur nation's ''fe,
. * The covert.-:| una1;-' was joe -V"
ed to tlie youthful clergyman h
the Might Mewrvnd i'irhaid !
Kni: ie}>, a'i.ut ;.vtani Kpistopal Pi
hop of Michigan', at i'fc dH'h i t
ual convention of the Nut ion;
Association for the Advaiiccmei
of Colored People which ended it
six-day session here Sunday..
Dr. King was cited for his "or
ative contrihutions to the Figl:
for freedom and his outstandin
leadership role in the sueccessfi
: Montgomery l>us protest niovt
merit."
Also addressing the more tha'
P..two persons who packet I th
Foxl Auditorium to witness th
ceremony on Friday night. wa
f'ffiTjfPcsshiaii Charles ( . Dines o
Detroit. An equal nttmher of pet'
sons were turned away h'ecaus
of the limited capacity of th
auditorium.
"There, is an liiescaoaote urgen
cy a ho ill the pi ohtern which con
fronts us," Dr. King declared
"We must recognize that both on
sol'-respect and the prestige o
our nation are at stake. If w.
^slow up at this time we would no
j be he*.raying the host inlertosC-a
jour race but also the best infer
icst of our nation. It is one of th<
ironies"of present history that thi
iNegro, in his struggle; for free
[ dam, is no longer. "t,ruggling to
a
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Say Dubard'Born E
^ Implicated In Anotl
Fort Jackson GI
Critically Shot
' ; A Fort Jac!;.-<>n sergeant was re- :
1 ! ported cm the criliicai !i-1 at .the'-.
N post hospital '..ftrr ~hv v"^! Thft''
twice in the lower aluot.xn early
r j Sunday mm nintr .wc.iie sitting in .
L'jf. ta.xi off the l.VtO :.'.pck.of Pine
Street. " t
' .! Ac enrdiny' tu the reports, Stir. t
>| Coleman Harp'of Hen.'., artel's attci
l" I IIctyci.jLiai ters Company. 2nd Bn.. t
" ! in ii iv. ? . '? ... .
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1 known woman wnen Sara Kk:fo,i .1, j
j 27, came up and pushed a .22 eali- j
"jlier revolved inside and fired three
times. Two of the bullets, .hit ti.e
e seiojrant in the lower left al-do- (
I men, officers said. ;
e at Stake In
Cings Warns j
d.kiinaelf alotv**j. ne- i?"re2t7y"TiTjy- ]
e ylinir for hini.-eif alone; he is ;
'really .struiririint? *.o e Aa.ei i- ,.i
i'.- ca."
1 Anderson Man
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Dies of Wounds
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dr., 27-yea r-jdd_-.^Xn?u-t m?m- mr.Ti."
died at Anderson hospital from
pistol wounds received in a shoot
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.. ing- near here earlier Thursdav 1
a f .
j, jiijr'ht.
Coronhr Floyd Owens said FosS^
Moss, alxait 50, admitted firinjr the
,r fatal shot and is out on $2,o0O|'
K_W '
'I Another man. Jack ( rooks, is'
!"*j beinj; held ai Ahe jail in eon-!,
noetjon t>ith the ease.
The shooting, oocured about 0::it>'
e p. nt. at the Jwiiu1 of Moss in the'i
e Rod Hill section near here. Moss,!,
a 1 ? s'"r e<l 4a~-PetwttwfiT~AT"t f
} Vam adore ami Norman Maness,^
said.he shot Mack as he "was eom-'i
c inj* on me with a knife." __ ' .
e Deputy Varnadoie sail Moss re-|
ported tJiat Mack,-Crooks and- a|v
. ; third nmn, wei;e j
arguing in th<JP yard, and when I
i Moss tried to quiet them, .Mack j
approached him with a knife. v
ft The deputy said Moss fired onejh
0 I shot "to secure". Mack, and when
t I that did..not stop him, he firisdil
Cragaiu with a ..'ffi ?mith and \VfR? i
- | son pistol, hitting Mack in the|a
e head. ' I*
e? j CorontV Owens said moss' wife, }h
- OHic Mae, and Florence Moss wit-) '
r r.v<$od the ? hooting. , 1
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RICE: FIFTEEN lEXl'S I
tad;' Was i
iier Murder ' . j
Columbia law ft.rv<- *]
icials are planning a sj-ttdy 1-' '
Mr Harrison JHibnxJ. :> '?. ?." ? i
dead Street, who has rev ", v ' -I
-<i With murder in the fata". ?
v.y o" a youthful noiiev. ;
tore late Saturday?niyh:.
Embard, deseri .eu ry .
f his family as hav: .
!1 had.'' allegedly J. "
*v*4vtrf in Patrolman t'.W. i'..
'.'id Jr.. JT, and Cairo) C. I ,
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;at?.'!man Watf- ' S.
.hree times in the head : - V
,i\vn g'-in, which Pubum a, " -
y snatched during a scv;f:'\ . >* *
esistintr arrest.
Carroll Duhaid was
ack twice iand it was ie:><
ulumiiia hospital thi.t rv V:t?
severed and one 1. c , .
i: ed.
11 \ents leading* uo tvi ?
ej began at the Read ,?t; .< ! . '
:iife>6S when Dunat ?l we t > - -.i
d created a distui-liam.. '
jortc-dly knocked the y!a>> : . t
i piece of furniture and :lv.?w -
jot of hot water at his -r.ftV.
I:>ul?ard left the house aV-incident
and his mother '
i-d the house ami wtuv.. :: i.'.
home of her son, Carrot.
or Street.
Miss Pearl Duhard. v>.r :b -.i
with her mother or. F,v. S;
stopped by her brother : <s
house on Taylor Street &' tmon.ed
police after learr.:r.*. >
dfytui bance. About the s<v>v.e i
Harrison I)uhardr*called *. ' vf.il
he was home.
Patrolman Watford. Mb- '"mbard"
and Carroll \v.the (
Street address and found
lying on the hed with his i t1 ;i
an. . - - '
Miss Dubard said the pat, oinan
and her two brothers leCfj
tl'.e house aud she heard shots.
he said she called pe'li.t. foe ^
norc help. . ?
When Harrison left the fiO.r.0
te had n6 gun but when trio
xdb enieil came and \ver<s fry?
ighls outside, Harriso* zetut'f.edvith
a gun in his hand, sht racb
le then lett the house ami M-jupreared.
A short time later l>ui??.r<? (?*. >y
calking dawn- the- steeet?tmrPlvmii
>laced under arrest l>y Patn-ir.'na
I. H. Teake. !
Police said Tuesday that pjla ' I
iras one of several->men que*
r\ the unsolved murder of Wvo4
Voody Feaster on April 27 ne;.c
iead _and_H?ight- Streets*. PerM-: >
nd others were gambling vwidev
. street light ami shortly after'
'easter left the game he wan hit
y a shotgun blast. He was dead
m arrival at the Columbia H?*'-..