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Write for Sample Cards, Prices and /z^zzzur.?-:?J \ Detailed Information. HIRSHBERG, HOLLANDER & GO'S. Ask Us: We will Tell You How and What. STAG SEMI = PASTE PAINT THE KIND THAT MAKES Xwo Gralloris or One! N Solid Carload Paint J. W o and Now Ready for Distribution. SMOAK, HARDWARE, - Ormigehiirg. S. C- - , Economy in First Cost Because it works out cheaper. Economy in Last Cost Because it wears longest. Spring Styles. Ladies Oxford And Sandais, How Sweet! Just too lovely! Aren't They Beautiful! These are some of the comments made by the ladies who have seen our New Spring Oxfords and Sandals. We wish every lady in town would come in. GEORGE ZEIGLEH A RECENT PAEDON. How Tardy Justice At Last Came to a Negro Convict. A WHITE MAN'S CONFESSION. I A ltemarkable Case Revealing Very Peculiar Conditions With the Scene Laid on the Public Square at Barnwell. The State says further facts were obtained Tuesday from Mr. G. Dun can Bellinger, who had just returned from attending court at his old home in Barnwell, in reference to the death bed confessiun of Town Marshal Dun can Owens. This confession resulted a few days ago in the unconditional pardon of Anderson Nix, who had served nearly seven years of a life term in the penitentiary for a killing which the town marshal had done. | , The story reveals a strange and almost incomprehensible condition of con science on the part i f the white man, and an almost equa.iy curious sense of j justice on the part of live or six lead- j . ing white men of Barnwell. j It was over three years between the confession and the granting of the j pardon. There was only one witness j to the confession, and he a negro, !sworn to secrecy. That tardy justice I ever came to the negro Nix was solely J due to the fact that the gist of the : secret leaked out and some of the j I white men who had seen Owenstire! ; the fatal shot corroborated the truth | j of it. j Owens' confession portrays a curious, ; condition of conscience of his part, | i which was sensitive enough "never to ( i have know a moment's peace on ac-: : count of the killing," hut which was I : too proud and selfish to yield a bit of, i inexpensive justice to a fellow man | i wuu was suffering punishment for a i crime he himself had committed, j Bather than rellect upon the fact that after he had been laid in his grave his neighbors would know that it was he that, had fired the fatal shot and that he had allowed the innocent negro to go to the penitentiary for his crime, this town marshall, dying of consumption, sought to solve his out raged conscience by making a confes sion but at the same time by swear ing his confessor to secrecy attempted to bottle up the kust avenue through which justice might eome to the negro. I The white witnesses to the killing, i who remained silent at the trial which resulted in Nix's conviction, which near costing him his neck instead of Iiis liberty for life, did not volunteer what they knew until years after the town marshall's death. Even after ?ie secret oi* the confession leaked oil ami several white.men of influence and reputation had corroborated it. One white witness refused to give an affidavit unless lie was paid $5U for it. Mr. Bellinger, who declines to give j the name of this man, on learning I tins lact told ttie friends of the negro I who were seeking the pardon that an affidavit from this man would have no weight whether paid for or voluntary, and there is no affidavit from him among the papers submitted with the petition for pardon. "Nix is not altogether a martyr," said Mr. Bellinger, who was the solici tor that conducted the prosecution. "There is no shadow of a doubt even now but that he was engaged in riot ous conduct, and conviction of this would have resulted in his getting about six or seven years, lie admitt ed tiring his weapon in the riot which occurred on the public square when it was full of negroes who had come to town on an excursion. With a smok ing revolver he ran into the arms of i the negro Felix Thurrnan?to whom I Owens afterward confessed and who ; was at the time acting as assistant town marshall with Owens. The , friends of the negro have for several years been trying to obtain a pardon, but it has not bi en my custom to en ' dorse pardon petitions; still when the 'news of this confession came tome j recently I unhesitatingly consented j to do all in my power to secure the pardon, provided these alleged white witnesses would corrohorate Thur man's statement so as to remove all possibility of the governor's being imposed upon. Thurrnan had been an employe of the town council down there for a number of years, and I ' knew him to be a reliable man, and I ' therefore thought the account he gave of the confession was very likely, j "Green could hardly complain of the fate that overtook him. At the time he was fleeing through that gate he was turning back as he ran and tiring into the crowd on the square. How he failed to miss all those negroes is a mystery that will never be explained." Those from whom affidavits were submitted with the petition for par don are: Mayor C. F. Calhoun, E. IW. Bellinger, E. F. Woodward and and the negro Felix Thurrnan. In his affidavit Mayor C. F. Calhoun says: "Deponent was standing at what is known as 'Ityon's corner,' on 1 Main street, talking to Duncan Owens. When the tiring began in the public square in full view of depon I ent and Owens, the latter started Into I the public square by the gate leading j from the square to the Bank of Barn iwell, with aeponent following him. j.lust before Owens readied the gate j .Jennings Green ran out of it from the I square, and as he passed Owens ; deponent saw Owens shoot him. and at the tiring of the pistol deponent 'saw Green draw himself up as though I he had been hit. and after running a few steps further, fell dying almost j instantly." Felix Th?r man's affidavit says: "I J knew Duncan Owens intimately, hav ing frequently been on the police 'force of Barnwell with him: that 'about three years ago said Owens I died of consumption. The evening ; before he died Owens had a talk with line about the killing of Jennings J Green. He said Nix was suffering I for the killing of Green, but was linnOCuUt; that he (Owens) (IUI the j killing, and was sulTering ;is much as ? Nix could; that Ids life was a pro J longed agony because of his having shot Green." The affidavits of Messrs. Bellinger I and Woodward are similar to that of Mr. Culhoun. They were both near Owens at the time and saw him lire the shot. - _ 'Z '?. ? ? i_' Following is Mr. G. D. Bellinger's endorsement of the petition for par don: j "This is a peculiar case of the pun ishment of a man for a crime he did not commit because the real murderer was a white man who kept secret his Offense until on his deathbed, when other white raejn of position and un doubted veracity came forward and corroborated the statement of the guilty man, now dead. "At the time of the conviction I had no doubt of the guilt of the de fendant, Anderson X'x, a negro, who was certainly engaged at the time of the killing in reckless firing on the streets. Now, however, knowing well the character of the men making affidavits for the pardon and hearing talk by othes who saw the town mar shal], lire the fatal shot, I am con vinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Nix was not responsible for the death of the slain, and inasmuch as he and Owens, the self-confessed mur derer, were not acting in concert, Nix is guilty neither in law nor mor als. I therefore earnestly urge the immediate pardon of defendant." Let Them Come. Mr. II. B. Cultra, of Illinois, is visiting his son in Ilorry county. This young man has established fruit nurseries in that county and has been most successful. According to a dis patch in the News and Courier: "Mr. B. B. Cultura .>ays that conditions arc ripe in Illinois f< r emigration. The older men wish their sons to get land and go out on their own account. Land sells there for $12S and $200 an acre, at.d cannot be bought at that price. 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