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Supreme Court Orders N Trial for Kenneth Gossel Kenneth Gossett, . convicted criminally assaulting a young i woman in Abbeville county in A 1920, is given a new trial by state supreme court, the decisioi versing the lower court being ha down here yesterday. The cour mands the case back to the gel sessions court of Abbeville for 4 <jjtedings conformable to law." ^.Associate Justice Cothran v the opinion and the entire court ?curred, the new trial being gra on the grounds that Grossett not given a fair trial by the sp< court. Justice Cothran severely icises the statute under which sp< courts are called and cites a nun of incidents to show that an acei has no showing under the pre policy of special courts. The colart also severely critic the spirit of mobs ?nd says where trials are held under co tions similar to those obtaining at Gosett case it is a "judicial lyi ing." The Abbeville court was ca to try the Grossetts alone. The opinion affects a number other special courts held recei and virtually says these courts co not give a defendant a fair ti Several trials by special courts, il recalled, have resulted in electro tions and "Pink" Griffin is now 'the penitentiary' k under death s tence by a verdict of a'jury cal together especially to try him f the circumstances are a good d similar to the Gossett case. No , peal bas been taken in the Grif case and "Feetie" Fogl? has airea been electrocuted by a special coi verdiet. Speaks of Mob Violence. Speaking of mob violence and 1 effect of the public mind in tri; like Gossett's and the section une which the court was called, Justi ?othran says : "We are convine that the procedure provided for this section is a bold concession the spirit of mob law; and preser the spectacle of the law, strong ai mighty, bowing to the despotism the mob, which has been declared be greater than the tyranny of despot. It provides a miserable coi promise with lynch law, enabling tl law to bargain with the mob to sti its hand and allow the court, und the form of law, to accomplish wb is equally as reprehensible, a jud cial lynching. "It is .notorious that such bargaii have been made; the angry mob h; been appeased by the promise of quick special court to try the offei er under circumstances that rend* his conviction inevitable. "There.can be no compromise wii the spirit of lynching for any erinn those who compose such a mob ai themselves without the pale of la and commit a. crime not only agaim the victim of their vengeance, bi against the majesty of the law. The are not Entitled to recognition a legitimate parties to a compact. The trample under their dusty feet th pandects of our civilization and spi upon the sacred rights of the ind -vidual; The law ought to be, and ii strong enough to treat them as crim inals." The Gossett case has attracte considerable attention for moire tha; a year. Two brothers, Kennetli an Jolin Gossett, were charged wit! criminal assault upon two younj white women of Abbeville. Feelinj against the men was said to hav been bitter at the time and a specia court was requested by Solicito Blackwell.-This court was orderer and held early in April of 1920. Kenneth Gossett was convictei with a recommendation to mercy an< sentenced by Judge Sease to serv< 40 years in the penitentiary. He i now in the prison awaiting the ac tion of the supreme court on his plei for a new trial. A large number of exception were made by the attorneys for Gos sett, but the supreme court only con sidered the matter of whether or no the accused had been given a fai: trial and concluded that he had not Criticises the Statute. The legality of the court wai among the exceptions taken and th< high tribunal criticises the 'statut< providing for such a court, holdinj that the section of the code undei which such courts are called is no' fair to the defendant, At presen the solicitor merely asks for the cour and it is granted, it is pointed out Prior to the act of 1900 only th< chief justice or the presiding asso elate justice and a circuit judge hold ing court in the particular countj could call special courts. The law now throws to the wine the sensible and just guarantee of fered by the formr method of proce dur?", it is pointed out, It makes nc provisiow for a showing, a hearing or a determination of the fact that public interest, which includes a fair .trial to the defendant, demands a special court, the opinion adds. The solicitor has absolute power under the present act, the court says. "The defendant is entitled to be tried in an orderly manner, however guilty he may be, in a calm judicial atmosphere," the opinion says. The nature of the crime, time of trial, circumstances of the trial and the public mind are all of gravest con cern to the accused, it is pointed out and will have a bearing on the ver dict. "What was the reason for a court asks. There was apparently no crowded docket, as the Gossett case was the only one tried and this could have waited until the next term. "Circumstances of this trial demon strate beyond a doubt that Gossett, under the operations of the section we are considering now, was not con victed by due process of law -and was denied equal protection of the law." No Change of Venue. T~ .A motion for a change of venue was denied and the court points' out that 100 affidavits were offered to show that a fair trial could not be had; the sheriff had suggested mili tia; the foreman of the grand, jury made an affidavit saying that the two Gossetts could not be brought safely to Abbeville on account of the sentiment against them. A request for a continuance was also denied. "The failure to employ local defense is a striking index to public senti ment at the trial," Justice Cothran says. The fact that ten days' notice is required by the law for the drawing of a jury and only five were given at Abbeville was not allowed to stop the trial, it is pointed out. If the statuary notice had seen given, the* trial could not have been held at the time, the court says, "but a slight statuary regulation must not stand in the way." The condition of Abbe ville at the time is clearly shown, Mr. Cothran says, when after a ver dict of not guilty had been directed as to John Gossett the defendant, [had to be slipped out of town for fear of violence. j In conclusion, the court cays that no reflection whatsoever is meant to be cast upon Solicitor Blackwell. The State. * ON FIRE FROM THE CIGARET. Carson C. Hathaway. One evening early in January, 1921, a cloud of dense smoke began pouring from the basement of the Department of Commerce building in Washington, D. C. Two. hours later when the fire was extinguished two facts were disclosed. One was that invaluable census records dating back over half a century had been ruined beyond hope of restoration. The other was that the fire had been caused by a cigaret. ' Three other disastrous blazes in the government departments in re cent months have been traced to the same cause. A measure on the sub ject has been introduced in Congress and has aroused much favorable com ment. A great amount of government time is wasted by smoking during office hours. If one fourth of the employes took only ten minutes off during a day to smoke in the halls or lobbies it would take a man four hundred and seventy-six working days to make up the time lost. If these employes smoke only two cig arets a day the cigarets used, if placed end to end, would reach over fourteen times as high as the Wash ington'Monument, the highest struc ture of its kind in the world. The bill providing for the, pro hibition of smoking in government buildings reads as follows: "The heads of executive depart ment's and independent establish ments of the government are hereby directed to issue and enforce such regulations as will prevent smoking in those portions owned or leased by the government, and used by any executive department, *or indepen dent establishment, in which such smoking endangers government prop erty or constitutes a hindrance to' the efficient conduct of government business.-- Palmetto White Ribbon. ' -' Hemstreet & Alexander 647 Broad Street Augusta, Ga. Dealers in Guns, Revolvers and Fishing Tackle. Repairing of Fire Arms, Bicycles, Safes, etc. Key Fitting a Specialty. Telephone 679 * i Tue nest cellars don't ?eera to reilsn advertising. The reel and the real are often mis taken for each other. By the way, whatever has happened to the blue law crusade? The wages of sin are about the only ones that are not being reduced. The market basket inflation Is keep ing pace with the rise of the dollar. It's almost seven years since the war began, and lt is still going strong. Hungary decided that, whatever ls ailing it, an emperor is not the cure. Greece is having a hard time hook ing up Turkey with a thanksgiving day. It takes longer to descend from the peak of high prices than It did to ascend lt Importation of cheap foreign fab rics makes the survival of the flt very doubtful. \ -- The most popular new model auto mobile would be one that leaves off the mortgage. The navy balloons seem to be al together too free, so far as joy rides concerned. Uncle Sam paid off $71,580,320 in March and all he owes now is a mere $23,980,104,397. The poor, somehow, always seem to come out of the smalf end of the horn of plenty. The synthetic cow that ls proposed may be closely related, to the pump: of former days. And then again, the trick ls to get one blade of grass to grow where none grew, before. What has become of that D'Annunzio person whose name used to be on the front page so often? Cheer up ! Even for those who can not get a poet's license there is pos sible a fishing license. One reason the country ls short of homes ls that too much money bas been put into the cellars. Nowadays when you hear of a punc ture you don't know whether lt's a tire or a wage adjustment The man who made $15 to $20 a day by begging, while lt lasted, had a better job than working. Milady's latest ls artificial eye-' lashes. She seems to have used up the visible supply of pencils. Nowadays there are many things that are "a darned sight better busi ness than loafin' round a throne." Some men get fringes on the bot toms of their trousers putting fur on the bottoms of their wives' skirts. Hie prince of Wales may be Im pulsive, but he does not exhibit it in picking out the next queen of England. ? The ultimate consumer remains cola, dead cold, to all those precipi tous drops of prices in the wholesale field. Fortunate is the amateur who knows which growing things to cut off wita the hoe and which to. leave growing. Einstein says he sees an end to time and space. This robs the world of all chance of ever understanding his theory. Portugal ls broke and wants Uncle well, there's a sort of understanding around that he is pretty well off and a blt easy. If France rules the air, will lt kind ly speak to the neighbor on. the wind ward who mixes rubber with his spring bonfire. French farmers also are fighting daylight saving. They have an addi tional grievance that It makes them work on German time. The farmers- are saying that if things don't improve about the only thing that will be run into the ground this season will be their prices. One of the things Lenin Is trying to live down, ls that statement issued a few months ago that soviet Kassia Intended to do without money. Aberdeen professor predicts that a race of biped lizards will rule the world a million years hence. Not if they are of the curbstone variety. Experts in finance and commerce are tO agreed that the business depres i?n has touched bottom and that the iawn of a revival Is here. That's the draff. A reduction in the price of window glass of 21 per cent ls about the most Interesting, item of baseball news that a . schoolboy has come across this spring. The population of the United States ls 16 per cent denser than It was ten year? ago. Judging from some things the people fall for, we had feared It was worse than that. DAIRY POINTS BUTTER SH?PPED IN SUMMER Parcel Post Will P*ove Entirely Satis factory if Proper Conditions Are Maintained. (Prepared by the United States Depart ? ment of Agriculture.) Parcel post shipments of butter are likely to be subjected to conditions, especially during the summer, which may cause deterioration and Injure the quality of the butter. It Is highly de sirable, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture, that every possible precaution be tak en before shipment Particularly ls this tme of farm-made butter, because .conditions affecting Its quality and 'condition usually cannot be controlled as easily as In creameries. Farm made butter, however, should be mar keted just as satisfactorily as oream ery-made butter when It ls properly made and prepared for shipment It is necessary to maintain proper conditions? 'n the care of the milk and Several- Thicknesses - of Old Newspa pers Should Be Wrapped Around the Butter .Before Inclosing lt in the Shipping Package. cream and the making of butter If a marketable product is to be produced. Too much Importance, it is said, can not be given to maintaining cleanly conditions In the stable and In other places where the milk, cream, or but ter are produced or kept for they ab sorb odors and spoil very quickly. It is Important too, that these products be kept ia. a cool place. High temper atures should always be avoided, as they produce a soft, oily condition of the butter which is undesirable. In manufacturing butter on the farm orin a factory the buttermilk must be removed and . washed out and the proper amount of salt must be incor porated evenly. Frequently parcel post shipments of farm butter are un satisfactory to customers because proper methods were not used In mak ing lt. und tlf Quality and condition of TOe1' butter thereby irijlured before if was, shipped. For the, satisfaction of customers it is important that a uni form quality of butter be produced. Methods used In preparing butter for parcel post shipping depend large upon the local conditions and style package used. To Insure delivery the best possible state, butter, after being packed,, printed and placed In cartons, should be chilled or hardened thoroughly before lt 1B shipped. One of the most satisfactory ways preparing.butter for shipment is in regular one-pound prints, the stand ard print measuring 2% by 2% by 4%. inches. Every pound print should be neatly wrapped In regular butter parchment or paper. A second thick ness of such paper has been found to add materially to the carrying possi bility of the butter. Waxed paper may used for the second wrapping. As further protection to the print it should be placed In heavy manila paraffin cartons, which may be ob tained from folding paper-box com panies, either plain or printed as s stock carton or with a special private brand. Corrugated fiber-board shipping con tainers of various sizes may be ob tained for shipping one-pound prints butter. These boxes or containers practlcaHy Insulate the butter and fur nish mnch protection against hent Further protection may he obtained by wrapping the container in stout wrap ping paper. Tbe whole should be tied securely with a strong cord. In tying the twine it should be drawn tightly around the package so as to Insure proper carriage. Some persons ship butter by parcel post in Improvised or home-made con tainers. Clean, discarded, corrugated ] paperboard cartons are obtained from the grocer or otheij merchant at small, tost or frequently without any cost at . It Is possible to cut a piece of paper board In such shape and size that when lt Is folded It will form a satisfactory carton." LIKE FEEDING COWS IN DARK Wisconsin Farmer Praises Cow-Test ing Association as Guide-Board to Better Dairying. "When I bought my farm two years ago there was a herd of scrub cows on lt" writes a,Wisconsin fanner to a field agent of the dalry division, United States Department of Agricul ture. *T joined the cow-testing associ ation, and soon found that my scrub cows were a failure, so I disposed of them and bought some purebred and grade Holstein cows. The cow-tast ing association Is a gulde-toard on, the way to better dairying and a big saving In feeds, as one can feed to so much better advantage where the production Is known. Trying to feed without records of your cows Is like feeding in the dark." OPPOSITE I GRAND OPERA HOUSE ! + We take this means of informing our Edgefield * friends that we have moved our restaurant from 851 * Broad Street to 315 Jackson Street, opposite the Grand + Opera House. Here we are combined with the Chile's J restaurant. v J We are modernly equipped and up-to-date in every * feature of our restaurant. We employ the most skilled | cooks and competent, polite waiters. We purchase f the best articles ot food obtainable and guarantee to f please our patrons. : * Our restaurant has become far-famed for its 40-cent ? lunches. Our a la carte service is also the oest possible r and is now 30 per cent cheaper than formerly on ac- i count of the decline in prices all along the line. Do ?? not fail to give us a call when in Augusta. + I The V. & L Restaurant ? I 315 Jackson Street Augusta, Georgia % M It I t r I1 ?'M' M I1 MI 11V I'M HI? S-MM'I 11 111 I lill M'IM'H-?-H' We Can Give Yeti Prompt Service on Mill s Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and.Dressed Lumber on hand for immediate Delivery. I Woodward Lumber Go. QUALITY-SERVICE Corner Roberts and Du gas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Barrett & Company (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS i Augusta ----- Georgia egg r' I >'I M I M I hi I li* M I M Z ?( I >:? I 11 IM I it I iii I M Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tiling. Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors, Sash, etc. FROM Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA,GEORGIA