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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BEHIND PRISON BARS The Strange and Picturesque Career of Robert T. Jones, of Edge field. (By Leon M. Green, Columbia cor respondent of the News and Courier). Twenty-five years in prison! These words mean absolutely nothing to those whose lives run in the ordinary channels of this world-to those who do not know what real suffering is, however many the small trials be. To live apart from the rest of the world save for the few hundred unfortunates in like situation-to be encompassed for the most part by four walls of exceedingly narrow range-to have almost no place in the world at all that is the lot of one who has spent a quarter of a century behind the pria on bars. Treated kindly? Yes, but with the kindness that means only pity. It is not the kindness that is linked with love, such as there was in the old home. In good health? Yes, but not with the many comforts of the home that was left when the long journey was taken. So it is with one who has commit ted a crime that is condemned by the laws of man and God-the taking of a human life, and has been dealt with acdording to those laws. Robert T. Jones. Only a few days ago there left Co lumbia .a man who would have told you such a story of prison life had you talked with him. Robert T. Jones, he was when he left the penitentiary 20 years later. Bob Jones has spent altogether twenty-five years in prison -more than five'years in the county jail and more than 19 years in the State penitentiary. The picturesque career of Robert T. Jones has been told many times in the press of this State. His has been a life full of incidents that make the pen move with ease. But there are many things yet to be told about old Bob, many things that will be of gen eral interest. When he left Colum bia Tuesday afternoon, Bob Jones started out on a new trail, after spending those twenty-five years in prison. Bob is going to settle in the little town of Harlem, in Georgia, Richmond county, after a visit to the West. This place is far enough away from the old haunts to make Bob for zu thei day, matv y .are ag, when L'1 a sudden fit of passion he killed three men single-handed. and close enough to the sunny hills of old Edgefield to recall the best diays of his younger life. Whei Bob left home, he parted with his wife, who died soon after-. ward, but some of his boys and girls are yet living, and all are prospering, taking after their father, who in his day was as prosperous a farmer as one found in the Edgefield .region. A Student of Life Writes of Bob. When the story was printed in the News and Courier a few days ago that Bob Jones had been released from prison through the commutation of his sentence by Governor Ansel, a friend of the News and Courier left a - note at the Columbia bureau in which he stated that he was very much in terested in the career of the noted prisoner and would like the world to know the strange history of the man. The man who is responsible for the facts given below has known Bob Jones for many years, he knows bet ter than any one else the good that is in him, the traits that go to make up the indescribable qualities even in a man wbose best years have been spent in a prison. It will be surprising to many people to read the story of Bob Jones's life as given in the few handwritten sheets left at the News and Courier bureau a few days ago. Named for Robert Toombs. "Robert Toombs Jones was born on the 18th of September, 1855, in Colum bia county, Georgia. He was named for Bob Toombs. one of the greatest intellects the South ever produced, and Georgia produced none greater. He moved to South Carolina in 1879, having married Miss Corley from this State. He settled in Edgefield county, which was the old home of his wife,. seven miles from the town of Edge field. He bought a small place and started to farming and engaging in the merchandise PusinesS. Settles in Sou.1 earol%a. "Bob Jones had been livng in South Carolina three years, and was a good deal ahead of the world and well on the way to become an influential and. well-to-do citizen. He was a great 'deal above the average in intelligence; and energy of purpose.. "His nearest neighbors were his wife's grandparenl's and her uncles and their relations. As all were so close together they decided to buy 210' 2-2 acre's of land owned by the State, which proved to be a fatal move to Robert Jones. The Cause of the Trouble. 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Aboe goods shipped only in neat, strong kegs. This saves extra expense of bottles, filling, labeling,and packing. We know one trial order will make us permanent busmness friends. i Send for complete price list of our 100 proof gqoods yars with. no trouble whatsoever. natu.rally very acute (at times becomn Te Presslys worked hard and indus- ir'g almost frenzical,) saw the old man trously, but managed their finances Prf.ssly coming toward him. Very bdly in some way and were hard up mr,ch excited already, and driven tc. lthe time. desperation because of the fact thiat ~BbJones, on the other hand, was 'he had killed the two younger Press inustrious, thriftly and was accumu- I- .y Bob Jones was ready for the oid ling a good deal by his business fmn, too. thods of dealing with his own af- '-M +his day Bob claims that the old frs. Jones claims that he boughtrLahaapitlzdfreatimad th land jointly with the Presslys, but L.~ ertre h ie ~wr ws not known in the trade except '"sySr,fligdaath e. bmutual agreement between them. TvBbsy ematoWt l~c A Triple Killing,.h l a ntelg htufru "When the State authorities, who ntl h ultwn o ih il -ned the land, found that only partareyothlganPesybedo yment had been made and the mort ge or notes had reached maturity; an hd o e orclsebrlw,th n haniso EaedWitress. i, n the ressys nd Jnes llecami t he "Ufrtunedth foroes, adwagro ritatd. 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Th Rea ofa rmed fo kiney onykid~ne v ere o f an ore frinl tht des as ee th women hav Dan s i neyilhgl rcm Mrs. tanna fairosar,M Cofe ache lisenIpoed ox careul and E. aIud oans Kt afict Pui tylel &Sns and Ihdtcog up-oisice uin they proedfth" e ea' emst atendithe I he-oravemtbenbthrd b LODGE DiRECTORY. Woodmen of the World. Maple Camp, No. 437, W. 0. W., meets every first and third Wednes day eveLing at 7.45 o'clock. Vilt ing brethren are cordially welcome. D. D. Darby, T. Burton, Clerk. C. C. Newberry Camp, No. 542, W. 0. W., meets very second and fourth Wed nesday night in Klettner's Hall, at 8 o'clock. B. B. Leitzsey, C. C. J. J. Hitt, Clerk. Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. . Amity Lodge, No. 87, .A. F. M., meets every first Monday night at'& o'clock in Masonic Hall. Visiting brethren cordially invited. Harry W. Dominick, J. W. Earhardt, W. M. Secretary. Signet Chapter, No. 18, E. A. J. Signet Chapter, No. 18, R. A. K., meets every second Monday night at 8 o'clock in Masonic Hall. Fred. 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