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Scraps and Jacte.
? Mrs. Sid Hatfield has told how her
husband was killed at Welch, West
Virginia, recently. She says that C. E.
Lively, the Baldwin-Felts detective,
who is charged with the killing: did not
do it. Sid, she says, accompanied by
herself, Ed Chambers and his wife,
were going up the steps of the Welch
courthouse to answer charges that had
been made against Sid in connection
with a previous shooting affair in the
Mohawk valley. Sid, she faid, had not
ht.d anything to do with the shooting1.
Ed Chambers was going along as a
witness for Sid. Neither of the men
were armed. C. E. Lively claimed
that-Sid made a motion to draw a pistol
%ttd "Lively shot him. That is not
true. Lively did not even shoot. A
crowd of men on the courthouse steps
shot;Sid and there were thirteen bullets
in his body. He never knew what
happened. Mrs. Hatfield says she will
not go to Welch to testify in the matter
'unless under the protection of
United States troops, because otherMso
she would be killed before she
could say a word. She is not afraid in
Matewan, first because she has a good
revolver and knows how to use it, and
second because she has friends there.
? The city of San Antonio, Texas,
was overwhelmed last Friday night by
the flood waters of San Antonio river,
Aloyan creek and tributary streams,
and up to Saturday evening more than
forty dead had been recovered. It was
estimated that the dead wouia nunioui i
250 or more. There had been heavy |
rains, including a cloudburst, in the
hills above the city since Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, and although* the
waters were rising higher and higher,
there was no reason to anticipate the
terrible flood that came down upon the
doomed city. The avalanche of waters
swept away great houses as if they had
been paper boxes, and although splendid
heroism was shown by the people
in trying to save lives, many were lost
without aid. Late reports indicate that
bodies are still being recovered from
masses of debris that had collected
against trees and other obstructions,
and that many other bodies went on
down with the flood never to be heard
of again. The property loss runs up
Into millions of dollars. The people of
San Antonio and of other Texas towns
are doing what they can in the way of
relief work. The rainfall is reported to
have aggregated 23.61 inches during 24
hours.
? Negotiations were completed in
Paris Saturday/ according to an Associated
Press correspondent, whereby
the vast estates of Archduke Frederick
of Austria and his son. Archduke
Albrccht, estimated to be worth more
than $200,000,000, wore taken over by
an American syndicate which includes
Charles H. Sabln, J. Leonard Replogle,
Frank Munsey, Thomas J. Fielder und
other prominent American business I
men. The transaction concerns the
vast land and industrial holdings of
the Hapsburgs, distributed throughout
Austi-ia, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland,
Rumania and Italy. They include the
great steel works and mines in
Teschen, which are partly in i;zecnoSlovakia,
and partly In Poland. The
estate comprises numerous other industries,
including' the dairies which
formerly furnished1 most of the Vienna
supply of mdlk and butter, sugar plantations,
factories, apartment houses, palaces
and other private property in
Vienna, castles in various parts of the
continent. al?out 1,000,000 acres of ngriculturnl
and forest lands scattered
over several countries, and the remurtthlc
Albertlna ipysoun^ in Vienna
whioj is said to cQntaiq peurjv.1,000,000
works of SYt.
? Harry W. Church, a 20-year old
youth is held 'by the Chicago police,
charged with the mnrdpr of B. J.
Daugherty and Carl Ausmus in order
to get possession of a $5,500 automobile.
Church went to the automobile
concern last Friday and bargained
for the sale of the fine car. By agreement
Daugherty and Ausmus went
home with Church in the car to get a
check from Church's father, Daugherty
went in the house with Church, leaving
Ausmus in the car outside. Church
pulled a pistol on Daugherty, put
handcuffs on him. took him to the
cellar and killed him with a baseball
bat. After a while Ausmus came in
and was treated the same way. The
body of Daugherty was thrown into
the Des Planes river and "the l>ody of
Ausmus was buried in the cellar.
Church left in the car and went to
Adams. Wisconsin. Later on. the
body of Daugherty was found in the
river, and investigation disclosed the
buried body of Ausmus. Both bodies
had been stabbed and otherwise mutilated.
Church was brought back from
Wisconsin and made a confession substantially
as above. The police however
think that he did not commit the
crime alone; but that he had assistance.
? Washington, September 11: In a
recapitulation of population characteristics,
the census bureau has printed
figures, which in respect to illiteracy.
give South Carolina fine ad van
nvnr its sister state. North Caro
linn. Illiterates in the two states are of
practically identical number, approximately
a quarter of a million. Hut in
North Carolina there are 100,000 white
illiterates. In South Carolina white
illiterates number 32,813. In South
Carolina there are 220,667 people 10
years of age and over who can not
write. The percentage in respect to
population is 18.1. Ten years ago it
was 25.7. Of the illiterates. 181.422 are
negroes, 29.3 per cent, of the population;
103 are of mixed parentage. 6,329
of foreign born parentage. Native
born white illiterates number only 32,813.
Urban illiterates number 24.157
cr 10.3 i?cr eent; rural. 196,510 or 20
per cent. Illiteracy in the several
counties ranges from 11 per cent, in
Greenville, to 38 in Berkeley. In Itichland
county, there are 2.662 illiterates.
12.5 per cent, of the population as
against 19.3 per cent, in 1910. Of the
illiterates, the majority, 1,490 are
white, the percentage being 9. Negio
illiterates number 1,160 or 25 per cent.
Twelve illiterates in Richland county
are of foreign white parentage.
--Chester, Pa., September 10: liar
vey \\". Church, the 20 year old youth
arrested in Adams, Wis., last night in
connection with the miurder of Bernard
J. Daugherty and Carl Ausmus,
was brought back to Chicago tonight
in the automobile declared by the p >- |
lice to l?e the motive for the crime, j
Following the finding of the terribly
mutilated body of Daugherty vest or- j
day in the Des Planes river, the police,1
today dug up the body of Ausmus, j
which had been hidden in the rear of J
the apartment in which Church lived.
Ausmus' body had been buried face
downward beneath an old automobile
owned, by Church. The hands and
feet were bound together with rope
and a. bundle of steel and cloth had
been thrust into the mouth until it
penetrated the chest cavity. The head
was beaten into an almost unreconiz- !
able pulp. Death had been caused by
strangulation and congestion of the j
lungs. The theory was advanced that |
the two victims had Ikhmi lured to the 1
basement under the pretense of hav- j
in^r u drink and had been given (in?grxl
liquor before they were :;lain. After
examining Ausmus* body tonight
Coroner Hoffman expressed the
ion that he had been buried :iIi\ < .
"When the murderers' threw the body |
into tlie makeshift grave face down- j
ward they doubled his head under his.)
chest and stamped on hi3 neck breaking
it," he declared. "But thero was
still life in tho body. Respiration had
probably ceased but the heart continued
function for five or ten minutes.
In that time the body was covered
over "with the refuse." In the opinion
of the police the slayer or slayers
had intended burying tho bodies
of both victims under the floor of the
garage but were alarmed at some
sound or found that they did not have
time to complete another grave before
daybreak and so threw the body of
Daugherty Into the nearby river."
?hr ^Drhrilic ttquim.
Entered at the Postofflce at York, as
Mail Matter of ths Second Class.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921.
The advance in the price of cotton
has already been reflected in a stiff advance
in yarns and cotton goods. New
York wholesalers are hesitating .about
naming new prices. Linens are more
active than they have been, and silks
are firmer. Cotton goods on the shelves
of Southern merchants are, of course,
moving up.
tho trnnieal storm which was locat
ed in the Caribbean sea last Thursday
was centering over northwestern Haiti
on Sunday and was expected, to reach
the Bohamas today, privided it did not
take a different direction in the~meantirne.
The weather service of course,
is not yet able to tell where the storm
will probably strike the coast of the
United States.
\
What may be developed by investigation
remains to be seen; but we are
not inclined, to accept the statement
that Prohibition Officer Fitzpatrick
really committed suicide after that raid
on the King Alexander the other day.
If he was really alone in a wash room
on the Brooklyn pier when he was
shot, of course that would look like
suicide; but the statement that two
bullets were fired through his heart
seems to overdo the matter. One bullet
would have been all that a suicide
would likely have fired. There must
have been somebody else in that washroom
or at some point close enough to
get in two shots at Fitzpatrick.
That the advance In the price of cotton
is a guarantee of better times in
this section is obvious to everybody.
This advance is due in part to supply
and demand; but more largely to a
reversal of the process by which various
government agencies brought
about'the stringency following deflation.
Money is now gradually but surely
coming easier. It will be a mistake,
however, to except full realization of
the promised change under sixty or
ninety days, for until cotton begins to
move there will be no appreciable increase
in the amount of money in circulation.
And of course it will take an
increase in the amount of money in
circulation to bring about anything
like general prosperity.
In every community there is a curious
type of individuals of whom it is
more or less commonly said that they
"can steal while you are looking at
them," and get away with it. The idea
is that such people may regularly and
consistently over step the bounds that
restrain most other people and do
things which, if done by other people
would land the other people in jail.
While in a way, there might be a certain
kind of humor in such a situation,
there is also an clement of tragedy,
because the influence of such people
cannot be anything else than bad.
From what the constables say there is
such a case down in Fairfield county?
the case of that magistrate who has
had a still in operation on his place
for several years and who is permitted
to go on with his contempt of the law.
The curb market of New York is not
going to allow itself to be put out of
business as easily and tamely as some
people have been hoping. The curb
market is an institution of world-wide
fame and generations old. It is on
Broad street, in the Wall street district,
within sight or easy communlca
tion with the stock, cotton ana proauce
exchanges. Men sit in the windows of
the exchanges and signal fluctuations
and other information to the men in
the street. The curb crowd trades in
ail the listed stocks and commodities ot
the regular exchanges, and also its
hours of business overlap the day of
the regular exchanges at both ends.
The curb transactions often aggregate
millions of ripjlars in a day. Recently
there was completed a splendid building
known as the Curb Exchange, with
the idea of taking the curb market indoors.
Some of the traders went into I
the new building; but others did not.
The curb crowd in the street continues I
as large as it has ever been, and. just j
as noisy and just as wild. Now the
regular exchanges are seeking to wij>ej
out the curb exchange by means ofI
court orders, and through owners of j
the abutting property have brought)
suit for an injunction against the use j
of the streets of the vicinity. Rut the
curb will not down. The old hands at'
the game insist on continuing the same
methods they have always used, and |
the curb promises to remain the pdeu- '
liar Institution it lias always been.
Reports from Washington are to the'
effort that what is known as the "agri-j
cultural bloc" in congress is sharpen-!
ing its knives for the old line crowd,
headed by Secretary Mellon. It is fin
open secret that the old line crowd is
j planning especial favors to Wall Street
aa to taxes and the tariff. For one
thing it is commonly understood, that
the proposition to eliminate excess
profit taxes above 25 per cent, on an
income of something like $60,000 a year
or over is an especial concession to
Wall Street. The excess profit taxes j
bear with particular weight on the big
rich of Wall Street, and of course any
concession made to the big rich must
be made good by the country generally,
with agriculture bearing the brunt
of it. It Mas always oeen mm ?a,,
but within the past fifteen or twentyyears
agricultural interests of the west
aVi of the south have been developing
leaders who not only undersand thfe
situation; but who know how to give
trouble. These agricultural leaders
are now finding intelligent and forceful
expression through what is known
as, the "agricultural bloc," and old
liners are finding it more difficult to
manipulate things just as they would
like to have them manipulated. The
promise now is that when the old liners
attempt to deliver the goods as
promised to the Wall Street element
on the reconvening of congress the
fun will begin.
Mockery of the Law.
If the procedure in the case of these
people who were arrested, in Yorkvllle
last Saturday on complaint from Fairfield,
charging them with obtaining
money under false pretenses, etc., is in
accordance with the spirit as well as
the letter of the law, we are Inclined to
the opinion that the law is sadly in
need of revision, both in letter. and
spirit.
It is a violation of the law to sell
whisky and although it is not a technical
violation of the law to buy whisky,
it is violation of the law to possess
it after it is bought and that amounts
to the same thing.
In this Winnsboro case there is some
mAm annht is to the intent of the
seller of the whisky, whether he really
Intended to deliver and was prevented
from making Rood by circumstances
beyond his control, or whether It was
his deliberate intention to take the
money of the would-be buyer ajid skip
out as he did do, without any effort to
make Rood. Rut of course, so far as
observance of law is concerned, there
is no difficulty either way, for in one
case he would be guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses, whilo in
the other case he would he guilty of
selling whisky in violation of the law.
There is no possible doubt as to the '
intent of the would-be buyer of the ,
whisky. He gave up his forty dollars
in the expectation of receiving therefor
four gallons of whisky. Ordinarily ]
it is difficult to prove an unconsuramated
intent; but in this case the Intent
is too obvious to admit of argument.
The fellow wanted to possess
the liquor and to that end gave up his
forty dollars. Since mere possession of
the liquor is violation of the law, it is
not a matter of concern as to whether
4he was trying to buy the liquor for his
own personal use or for bootlegging
purposes.
?_ tu. Vn-l,?;Un Pnnnli'ar ?ppk It.
A3 lilC luinnuv ,
both of those men are outside the law,
the man who bought the liquor as well
as the man who sold it, and what rig-lit
the man who got skinned while trying
to violate the law, has to apply ,to the
law that he had outraged, to help make
him whole again, is difficult to see. He
had no such right, and it ought not to
have been accorded him.
The supreme court of this state has
several times la^d down the principle
that no man must use the criminal
processes for the purpose of collecting
alleged debts, yet this fellow, as guilty
as the man he is after, is allowed to do
this very thing.
The lawful and Just way of handling
this case would have been to send the
alleged seller of the liquor to the
chaingang, and leave the "VVinnsboro
buyer of the liquor to bear the loss of
his forty dollars, as was just and proper
under the circumstances.
? Dublin, September 10: A tunnel
requiring many weeks to construct
was employed Thursday night in effecting
the ecape of some fifty interned
Sinn Feiners from the Curragh interment
camp in county Kildaro where
about 1,500 prisoners were under
guard. The camp is surrounded by
several rows of barbed wire entanglements
and is heavily guarded by soldiers.
The prisoners built the tunnel
under the barbed wire, using some of
the flooring under their huts for props.
'rv'"- riifVimilt nart was to elude
t.he guard. This was done by creating
a diversion Thursday evening Tumorous
prisoners gave so: _ i and recitations
which received great applause,
both from other interned men
and, it is said, from the guard. While
this was proceeding between 40 and
f?0 men passed through the tunnel and
havfe not been seen since.
? An auction of the unemployed has
been conducted on Boston common
during the past few days by L'rhsiin
l.edoux, ,a philanthropist, who seeks
to attract the attention of the wellto-do
classes to the need of thosl
who are out of work. According to
Ledoux. there are thousands of able
bodied men in Boston who are hungry j
>1111 who are able and willing to work
without being able to get employment.
Following the custom prevalent
in the south in the auction sale of
slaves in other days, he has been
putting the men on the block stripped
to the waist and offering them to
the highest bidder, the men having
previously promised to give the best
service in their power during their
term of employment. There was no
bidding the first day; but as I^edoux
was able to convince the people that
the proceedings were in good faith individuals
came forward, and gave
guarantees of employment, food,
clothes, etc.
? Anderson. September 10: A mule
belonging to J. Willis Newton met a I
peculiar <leath on a farm near i*?n- i
diet on. When Mr. Newton foi nd the j
[ mule it was bleeding profusly front |
j one of its feet. Examination showed [
[ that the hoof had I teen pulled entirely
off. The animal bled to death before
a veterinarian could pet there.
.Mr. Newton went down in the pasture
j to find how the accident occurred, and
in the forks of a small olack gum tree j
he found the hoof. The mule had evi- i
dent I y kicked and pot its hoot fastened
in the fork and then could not get
It out.
LOCAL. AFFAIRS,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Bank of Clover?Protect your earnings.
J. M. Stroup?Men's and boys' clothing.
York Supply Company?Pall seed. ,
Loan and Savings Bank?Statement of
condition.
First National Bank of Sharon?State
ment of condition.
Peoples Bank and Trust Company?
Statement of Condition.
Planters Bank of Sharon?Statement
of Condition.
Bank of Hickory Grove?Statement of
Condition.
I/oan and "Savings Bank?Claims no
Pre-Eminence.
Filbert Ginnery?Now irt operation and
ginning for cash.
Miss Eunice C, White. Chairman?Pic.
nic at Mountain View.
Dorsett't; Shoe and Harness Hospital?
Don't throw 'em away.
York Furniture Company?Cole Hot
Blast stoves.
Ferguson & Youngblood?Cotton seed
wnntcd.
J. Ernest Thomas?Notice of application
for letters of administration on
tiio estate of F. A. Thomas, deceased.
J. A. Marion, Referee in Bankruptcy?
Notice in the matter of the Farmers
Hardware and Supply Company.
Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?
Programme for today, tomorrow and
Thursday.
Garrison-Farts Seed Company, Rock
Hill?Offering Crimson Clover, Burr
Clover, Vetch, etc.
McConnell Dry Goods Company?Believes
that the dollar will buy as
much now as will a dollar and a half
later.
Peoples Bank and Trust Company?If
you have Interest due on government
bond, clip the coupons and deposit
the proceeds.
It is a good time to look after sowing
wheat and oats for next year.
There is a class of thieves now, said
Sheriff Quinn the other day, who only
wants the license tag off your automobile.
Generally they would take
your car if they could got away with
it; but seeing no chance for that they
will get your license tag 11 iney can.
These tags are wanted for unlawful
purposes.
THE MARRIAGE RECORD
Since the last publication of the
record in The Yorkvlllo Enquirer, the
following marriage licensee have been
issued by the judge of probate to the
following:
Sept. 6?Jake Sligh, 22 apd Janie
Clinton, 19, colored, Rock Hill.
Sept. 7?Fred Ashley, 28, Yorkvllle. 1
and Annie Ben held, 18, Delphos, York
county.
Sept. 8.?Mack Rurgess, 20, and
Mollie Williams, 19, Gastonia, N. C,
Sept. 9?Cyril L. Ford, 22 and Pearl
E. Green, 19. Rock Hill.
1 Sept. 10?W. K. Benfield, 20. Gastonia
and Alice Mayes, 20, Clover.
Sept. 10?I^irie Birden, 29, and Carrie
Smith, 25. colored, Clover.
Sept. 12?Lewis 0'lx?ai*y 21, and <
Bertha. Mason, .21, colored, Rock Hill.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Since the last publication of the re- i
cord in The Yorkvllle Enquirer the
following real estate transfers have
been Indexed ip the ofllce of the York .
county auditor: ,
Catawba?Miss Luia Caton to T. L '
McManus, 1 lot*. 81,000.
Misses Mamip and Orlo Steele to 1
Andrew D. Tillman, 1 lot, $105. /
Ebenezer?H. M. and W. M. Dunlap '
to Nancy Beckham Davis, 1-4 acre,
$125. !
J. J, Haglns to Belton Castle, 1 lot,'
$200. 1
Fort Mill?Leroy Springs, Exor. Est
Samuel E. Whtye to J. J. Cannup, 4 '
lots, $420.
King's Mountain?G. W. Knox to
W. I* Brown, 11-3 acres, $500.
York?J. C. Wilborn, A. Y. Cartwright
J. A. Tate to J. B. Deal,
1 41-100 acres, $500. <
TRYING RELIGION ON 'EM. I
C. N. Alexander, mayor pro tern of I
the town or Clover, eviaenny nas mi .
idea that the Sunday school and the <
church are a better Keely cure for
booze comedians than the Volstead
act, the jail. chaingang or anywhere
e se. And Alexander is going to give j
his theory a try out Magistrate A. J.
Quinn and Constable George Sparrow
of King's Mountain township, tell this
story:
Several days ago, a young white
youth of Clover was brought before
Acting Mayor Alexander on a charge |
of being diunk and disorderly and resisting
an officer. It seems that the
youngster, despite his youth, was quite
nil old offender and had been giving
Chief of Police John Jaekson and Policeman
Morrow quite a lot of trouble. |
The boy was brought befor/e the
Clover acting mayor and his guilt was
clearly established. The sentence was
as follows:
"Young man you are sentenced to ,
serve ninety days on the chaingang or
to pay a fine of ?300. However, this
fine is suspended provided you agree
to report to the chief of police every
afternoon at 6 o'clock and to go to
church and Sunday school every Sun- '
day Until further notice."
The youth, according to the Clover j
officers who told the. story, accepted |
the terms and Ciief Jackson is giving
him the once over each afternoon at
six hells.
u/hitf man'S AGENT?
For the first time in years at least ;
if not in the history of York county,
according to officers, a negro bootlegger
stood up in the court of general
sessions yesterday and declared that
he was the agent of a white man in i
the liquor business and named the 1
white man.
The incident created quite a stir in '
the court room. The negro, Ed. Shipp
plea/led guilty to storing and selling 1
liquor." He was sentenced by Judge
Rice to four months on the ehaingang
on the storing charge and eight
months on the selling charge.
Before passing sentence Judge Rice
wanted to know something al>out the
case.
"I was selling for a white man.
.jodge," said Shipp.
"What was the white man's name?"
inquired the judge and the reply came,
"Mr. A. A. Iyockridge."
Mr. i/ockridgc is a well known merchant
and fanner of King's Mountain
township living near the Cleveland
county, N". C.. line.
According to Sheriff Fred E Quinn
the negro Shipp formerly lived on |
Lockridge's farm and when he was
arrested in June last charged with
storing and selling Mr. Lock ridge went
on his bond in the sum of $700.
Then Shipp ran away anil was finally
located by Ix>ckridge at Winston-Sfalem,
X. C. The latter went after
him, captured him and turned, him
over to the sheriff who has since kept
him'in jail.
Many in the court room yesterday
-'t *
i
I
thought Shipip'a accusation was made
through s^)ite.
NEW STYLE HAIR CUTS
Barbers who were included in the
large crowd attendant upon the opening
session of the court of general
sessions yesterday were attracted by a
new and rather unique stylo of hair
cut which four white men of Rock
Hill who have been in jail for several
weeks on a charge of car breaking
were wearing. A well known York
county barber who was in the court
room dubbed the new hair cqt
the "county hotel skin." The four
young white men were evidently aw^rc
that -.they were creating a good deal
of attention and it seemed, to please
them mightily.
The hair of each had been cropped
closely with shears and had then
been shaved unusually high all around
leaving plainly, exposed to view all
scars and markrt and furnishing sever- ]
al different types of heads for the
studyVtf phrenology.
8ome called attention to the fact
that the hair cuts resembled the "Sing
Sing Slicker" hair cut while others
thought they were patterned more after
the "Leavenworth Live Exterminator"
model.
Inquiry of the sheriff developed that
the four had cut their hair on Sunday
in order to make a good appearance
on Monday at court. Because of confinement
their hair had grown rather
long and being without funds to eifiploy
a barber themselves they alternated
in acting as their own barbers.
They cut as closely as possible with
shears and then used the razor to the
skin.
The sheriff often allows prisoners in
jail use of a razor for a short time and
also shears, provided he is sure of the
fact that the prisoner desiring the instruments
is not of qn unusually dangerous
character.
MOTHER'S PLEA EFFECTIVE
Was it a mother's plea that he was
young and had "up to this always been
a good boy," that saved R. A. Conrad,
17, of Rock Hill, from conviction as a
thief by a York county JUry? And
Yorkilie Knquirer went to press.
MASTER THIEF TO BAR
In the conviction yesterday on several
charges of car breaking and
larceny of Gilmore Deas. 19, of Rock
Hill, policemen of that city said that
they had. at last rounded up a master
thief for whom they had been stalking
for many months. It took a special
agent of the Southern Railroad, Catawba
township officers and Rock Hill!
policemen all to get Deas, young,
smooth, shrewd director of a band of
thieves And thugs who have been j
robbing not only railroad cars; but
storegs, residences, etc. There are |
several of the members of the gang)
still at large according to Chief of
Police J. M. Young blood, who gave the
reporter the story; but officers and
would l-iazei joraan udhui me same
age and a record Just as good, as Conrad's,
have been saved fr?m a conviction
by a jury in a similar case if his
mother had been in the courthouse to
plead for him as Conrad's mother had
done?
i That was the opinion expressed by
some court attaches and others in the
courthouse late yesterday afternoon
when a jury of which A. T. Hart was
foreman found young Jordan feuilty of
larceny and his confederate Gilmorei
Deas guilty of carbreaking and larceny.
In a similar case a Jury of which R.
T. Beamguard was foreman, found
Gilmore Deas guilty of carbreaking
and larceny and R. A. Conrad not
guilty of either charge. Both young
Jordan and young Conrad had already
pleaded guilty at a hearing before
Magistrate Wingate and both pleas
were introduced in evidence.
Deas with Jordan had stolen automobile
tires. Jordan had helped to
carry them only. Deas and Conrad
were together when they passed a box
car on a side track in Rock Hill. Conrad
called attention to the fact that it
was open. Deas wanted tot enter it.
Conrad wouldn't. Deas did and removed
a case of 10,000 cigarettes.
Conrad asked him what he was going
to do with them. The reply was "sell
them." Conrad then suggested a merchant
to whom the swag could be sold
and it was sold, Conrad getting the
money and turning it over to Deas who
kept it all.
The Jury said not guilty as to Conrad.
"Funny," was the comment of Solicitor
Henry after the verdict. "I can't
understand it although I have known
similar incidents to occur before."
The solicitor called attention to the
fact that young Conrad is a native of
York county while young Jordan is of
Chesterfield.
GENERAL SESSIONS.
With Judge Hayne F. Rice of Aiken,
presiding, the September term of the
court of general sessions opened yesterday
morning arid little time was lost
in disposing of the charges against the
fourteen prisoners in the county jail
awaiting trial. All of the court officials
were in their accustomed places;
there were ji numl>er of bills of indictment
ready for the grand jury and no
time was lost. Solicitor Henry said
yesterday afternoon that very probably
the work of the term will be concluded
this afternoon, although it is
possible that it will go over into tomorrow.
No civil cases will be tried
it the present term.
The following petit jurors were excused
by Judge Rice for various
causes: J. K. Roach, W. O. Stroup, S.
H. Sutton. J. M. Huchison, J. Y.
Scruggs. E. M. Williams.
Ed Shipp, negro, pleaded guilty to
storing and selling liquor and was
given a total of twelve months on the
chuipgang.
E. Roberta, a young white man,
irniitv Mnnilnv morninir to
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breach of trust.
This morning- Roberts was sentenced
to eight months on the- chaingeng and
was told by Judge Rice that after he
had served five months he would
recommend a pardon from the governor,
provided he behaved well. .Roberts,
a white youth of 20 pleaded gtiilty to
stealing batteries from the Anderson
Motor Car Company, of Rock Hill. His
excuse was that he wanted money to
buy good clothes like the other young
fellows had.
Gilmore Deas who was convicted on
two indictments charging carbrcaking
and larceny drew a sentence of two
years and six months on the chaingang.
Deas, a white youth of 18,
smiled when sentence was passed.
Hazel Jordan, white, 19, convicted of
larceny was sentenced to nine months
on the chaingang.
Hall Knlsley, 21, of Rock Hill, who
pleaded guilty to carbrcaking and larceny
was sentenced to two years on the
chaingang, while J. Gregory, 19,
who pleaded guilty to a similar charge
drew two years in the penitentiary. I
Fred Allen, 16, for the same offense, J
got eighteen months in the reformatory |
at Florence.
Noisy Burris. colored was convicted
of assault and battery with intent to j
kill his brother, this morning, but sentence
had^ not bqen passed when The
detectives are convinced that young
Deas is the master mind.
The son of an employe of the Anderson
Motor Car Company, the father an
honorable man who bears a good reputation.
young Deas was at one time an
employe of that concern; but it was
necessary to remove him according to
Chief Youngblood, in order that the
company might still have material left
to do business.
Information regarding the young
"master criminal" gathered by the officers
shows that stealing is simply a
mania with him and has been all of
his life while work is a stranger to
him. "If it is worth anything and isn't
too big or too heavy for him to carry
he'll take it away," said the officers
who have had out the line on him.
Deas, a youth of slender build, sat in
the court room practically all day yesterday
and went through three trials.
He was evidently the least perturbed
man in the building. Occasionally he
stroked his long, chestnut hair with a
slender delicate hand and arm. Occasionally
the narrow, beady eyes would
take in the whole court.room. But he
pave no sign or iear or aiarm.
Deas, according to the officers, has
gotten most of the money from the numerous
thefts but what he has done
with it no one knows, He hasn't said
anything about money. He doetn't
drink liquor, it is said, so it is pretty
conclusive that it hasn't gone that way.
If it has beer spent on some woman,
detectives have been unable to locate
the woman.
The belief is that when the alleged
"master thief" comes out of confinement
he will dig up from somewhere a
roll that will keep him on easy street
for some time to come.
The gang boss showed true blue yesterday
when- he undertook to take all
blame off of Hazel Jordan and R. A.
Conrad, two of his alleged confederates
and declared to the jury that he was
wholly responsible for the thefts and
that they had nothing to do with it.
This, despite the fact that both of them
had pleaded guilty at a preliminary
hearing before Magistrate J. F. Wingate
of Catawba. /The Jury in the
Jordan case wouldil't stand for his
story; but the Conrad Jury did and
turned young Conrad loose.
ABOUT PEOPLE
D. L. Moss was here yesterday from
Rock Hill.
Former Supervisor Thos. W. Boyd,
of TAsslio.\was nmnn2 the visitors in
Yorkville yesrterda
W. J. Roddey, Sr., has been elected
president of the National Unicn Bank
to succeed Ira B. Dunlap, deceased.
Mr. Jno. Jenkins, of New York, is
visiting: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Jenkins, in Yorkville.
T. W.' Quinn of Cliarlotte spent Sunday
with the family of his father Mr.
John Warren Quinn in Yorkville.
Misses Elise and Isabel Currell of
Columbia, and Miss Bess McLcmore,
of Atlanta, are the quests of Mrs. F.
M. Simrill In Yorkville.
Miss Mary Esther McConnell of
Yorkville, is attending school this session
at Flora McDonald College, Red
Spring#, N. C. f
Misses Allein Shannon and Eunice
Cain and Mr. Paul Whisonant of Sharon,
have entered the high school department
of the Yorkville Graded
school.
Misses Mary Hayes, of Kershaw and
Virginia Miller, of Rock Hill, have returned
to their respective homes affer
a visit to Mrs. W. L. Williams in
Yorkville.
Mr. John J. Hood, of Hickory Grove,
who has been undergoing severe surgical
treatment in n Charlotte hospital
for some time past, has so far recovered
as to be able to return home.
Messrs. T. K. Thomasson and Landon
Louthian returned to Yorkville
Sunday after spending several days
with tho family of Mr. A. H. Louthian
in Asheville, N. C.
Miss Annie Reece Quinn, daughter
of Mr: R. L. Quinn of Clover No. 2, is
undergoing treatment following an operation
for appendicitis at the Fennell
infirmary at Rock Hill. She is reported
as getting along nicely.
Gastonia Gazette. Monday: Friends
in Gastonia received the cheering news
Saturday that Rev. W. W. ("Father")
Ratchford, the venerable pastor of
Tirzah Presbyterian church, near'
Waxhaw, has so far recovered from a
recent very serious illness as to be
nble to be up. For many days his con
dition was very critical and grave
fears were entertained that he would
not recover. Father Ralchford, a native
of Gaston, is over ninety years of
age and is still engaged in active pastoral
work.
"1 drove over to Greer, Sunday,"
said Mr. \V. B. Keller, of York No. 1,
yesterday, "and Mr. J. B. Mendenhall
took me for a ride over the country,
i was impressed with the good roads
of that section and the larra number
of two story painted houses I saw.
Struck with the scarcity of tenant
houses around the farms I asked Mr.
Mendenhall for an explanation, which
he gave me without hesitation or
doubt. 'Our people over here do their
own work,' he said, 'we have not got
one negro where you have ten. and
most of the farms on which' you see
these handspme houses include about
j one hundred acres or less.' The crops
I over that way look good."
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Mr. .John F. Love has moved his
family to rooms in the J. W. Dobson
residence.
? Cotton ginning has not yet attained
an average of more than a few
bales a day.
? Cotton Belt defeated a team repre- 1
senting the American Legion of Yorkville,
on the Yorkville school lot last
Friday afternoon by a score of 9 to 5.
? The Yorkville Baseball association
still lacks more than $100 of having
I enough to break even on the season
just come to a close. ,
? 1n..i U.,i
I ? .Business WcW i<tu ly f^uuu inow t?uiurday:
but the amount of money in
circulation, in proportion to the siac of
the crowd, was far below the average
of the corresponding date last year.
? There is quite a scarcity of fruit in
the local market, especially good apples.
Bananas are to be had and so
also are oranges; but the oranges
seem to be rather below the average
of quality.
? Dr. T. O. Grigg, seigeon dentist of
Fort Mill, who came to Yorkvilie several
weeks ago for the purpose of locating
here for the practice of his
profession, has decided to return to
Fort Mill. Dr. Grigg says he has been
doing very well in Yorkvilie and likes
the place very much; but his family
is reluctant to move away from Fort
Mill, and there is nothing else for him
to do but go back.
I ?About twenty or more members are
j expected to take the initiation oath
into the local lodge of the Loyal Order
of Moose at a meeting in the W. O. W.
I hall at S o'clock this evening, according
to J. Ernest Stroup, dictator. A
number of business matters are to
1?** ? i?... a,.nni</4iniy t,.
uomi" Hl'iore IIU" mccuuh, avvuiui.^ .
the dictator, and it is expected that
there will be a large attendance of
members.
? At a church conference held on j
Sunday moraine, the following were
elected as delegates to represent the
First Baptist church of Yorkville at
1
the fifty-third annual session of the
York Baptist association) which is to
convene with the. First Baptist church
of Rock HUH, tomorrow morning and
continue in session until Thursday afternoon:
C. W. McOee, J. R. Duncan. A.
M. Grist, J. C. Burge, Mrs. J. C. McKenzie,
Mrs. C. W. McGee.
? Town policemen had a real busy
day last Friday with violators of the
speed and traffic ordinances. John
Hines. farmer, living several miles
southwest of YorkviHe, forfeited $100
on a charge of driving a car in a reckless
manner while under the Influence
of intoxicants. According1 to Chief
Steele, Hines "cussed him out" thoroughly
before he submitted to arrest.
Neville Currence forfeited $3.00for f'ding
a bicycle on the sidewalk. Josh
McClellan donated $10 for reckleseiy
driving a team and Robert Smith also
left ~J10 w,ith the police department for
a similar offense. The several cases
came before Acting Mayor W. M. Mc- i
Connell last Saturday.
LQCAL LACONICS
Killed Mad Dog.
Mr. John Jones, of the East View
section, this morning gave The Yorkvllle
Enquirer a report of the killing of
a maddogat the home of James Clark '
last Sunday morning, by his son, Robert
Jones.. The mad dog, a small yellow
bitch, wearing a collar .attacked
and bit three dogs belonging to Mr.
Clark and a setter belonging to
Robert Jones. The head of the .rabid
dog was sent to Columbia and examination
showed hydrophobia. Jam6?
Clark promptly killed his three dogs
and Jones put nis dog under Treatment.
Charged With Swindling. i
On the authority of a. telephpne message
from the sheriff of Winns^wro,
Sheriff Quinn arrested two men named
Frank and Oney Walker, who with a
woman, were traveling In a FordaytomQbile.
According to the sheriff of
Fairfield the men had sold to a Winnirboro
man four gallons of whisky for
140, and although the money had been
paid in advance the liquor had not
been delivered. The men were wanted
for "obtaining money under false pretenses,"
or something like that. The
sheriff had no trouble in identifying
the men who were traveling in a Ford
with an Alabama license tag. They at
first denied all knowledge of the offense
charged; but after they had .been lock-,
ed up Frank-, let slip an observation to
the effect that he "couldn't see what
they wanted Oney for, as he knew nothabout
it." While the men were in Jail
the woman negotiated with Magistrate
Black, and after communications with
Wipnsboro, there was no trouble aboyt
arranging the whole matter by paying
back the 240 to the man who had been
swindled, and paying also the costs, including
the arrest warrant, JaJLl fees. *
etc. This having been attended to the
trio was allowed to/go on its way in'Its
Ford with the Alabama license and
motor number 1,020,174. At the exr
press office in Yorkvllle, the sheriff
seized three trunks that had been shipped
between various points, and were
now routed for Sharon. The trunks
contained bedclothes find various articles
of wearing apparel.
? Lexington, September 12: 8. J.
Kirby, the first of the trio of alleged
slayers of William .Brazell, Columbia
taxi driver, to go on trial today, charged
with murder, taking the stand in
his own defense late this afternoon,,.
amended his previous -confessions to
abandon his hitherto stoutly maintained
role of a forced and unwilling accessory
to the crime, by admitting that
he had assisted Jesse Gappins in holding
young Brazell while C. O. Fox
calmly proceeded to stab the taxi
driver to death. Kirby also admitted
that he, with Gappins and. Fox, planned
the details of the automobile robbery,
which culminated in .the killing;
several days before the murder night,
intending, however, he said, only to
beat the driver into insensibility, tie
him. securely, leave him beside the road
and then mako good their escape in
the stolen car. The blackjack, broken
over young Brazell's head by Fox, was
bought by Kirby the,Thursday before. t
the Monday morning wheji the crime
was committed, he testified. Kirby exclaimed
dramatically to the jury at one
point in his story, '^Gentleman, I've got
to die for this and I'm telling the truth,.
There's only one wish I want to make
before I go and that is that God will
take care of my wife and baby." Kirby
admitted on the stand that he had not
been able to work for over a year an#
had therefore been able to contribute
but little to the support of his wife and
11* year old daughter. His only defense
as outlined In his previous stories, tola
in Augusta, at Leesvlile and in Columbia,
was that he was forced Into hiring
the automobile, was ignorant of the
real purposes of Fox and Gappinn and
that he was forced to continue with
the men in their trip to Georgia after
the crime had been committed?and
through all the days intervening between
his arrest and the trial Kirby
has maintained that he took no active
part in the killing, watching the beating
and stabbing from the back seat of
the automobile. Kirby was still on the
stand when court was adjourned at
about 5.30 o'clock, Solicitor T. C. Calllson
to begin his cross examination of
the prisoner tomorrow morning at 9.30
o'clock, when the trial will be resumed.
With the conclusion of Kirby's testir-irt-iv
Hpfpnse will nrobably rest,
the cas$ going to the jury following
short addresses by Solicitor CaUisoa
and A. D. Martin, court appointed
counsel for Kirby, and the Judge's
charge. Jesse Gappins and C. O. Fox.
also accused with Kirby of the murder
of young Brazell, will be tried simultaneously,
their case coming up immediately
after a verdict has been returnd
in the Kirby case.
? There was a desperate battle In
New Ycrk harbor last Friday between
Prohibition enforcement officers and
whisky and drug smugglers on the
Greek ship King Alexander. The qfficers,
under the lead of Frank J. FiUpatrick,
head narcotic investigator,
had secured information that there
was a large quantity of contraband on
beard the King Alexander, and through
stool pigeons they had arranged for
the purcliaso of $20,000 worth of it,
paying $1,300 down. They had also
paid $300 to a watchman. The agreement.
was that the officers should
come alongjnde the ship and receive
the whisky and narcotics bargained
for through a port hole. Fitzpatrick
and his men approached the ship in
launches. The suspicions of the men
on board having been arroused in
sorrj manner, they met the officers
with pktol lire, whereupon the officers
made a rush for it, and a battle
ensued, tjie deputies holding their
ground until re ih for cements arrived.
These reinforcements consisted of thirty
deputies and twenty policemen. They
arrested fifteen men who were supposed
to be leaders, and rounded up
the entire crew of the vessel, about
325 men for examination. After the
conclusion of the fight on the ship,
two shots rang out from a wash room
on the Brooklyn pier and investigation
disclosed the dead body of Fitzpatrick
with two bullets in his heart.
There seemed to be no explanation
other than suicide; but because of the
mysterious circumstances this theory
has not yet bet?n generally accepted.
Tie vol tie of the contraband whiskey
and narcotics on the King Alexander
is estimated at $100,000.
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