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JAIL INSECURE AND HIGHLY UNSANITARY NBWBERRY DELEGATION IS ASK ED TO ACT. Necessity Strongly Urged by Sh eriff. Supervisor and Acting County Physician. That the jail is insecure and unsani 'ary is evident to the most casual ob server. Some time ago there were two escapes, the prisoners, however, being recaptured by Sheriff Buford. Recently there have been several at tempts to escape. In a letter to the delegation in connection with the mat ter Sheriff Buford says: "I have to be en the alert all the time in order to keep the prisoners and unless there is something done, there is going to be a wholesale jail delivery one of these da.ys, as it is impossibile for me to watch them all the time." County Supervisor Feagle and Acting County lMysician Ellesor, in this same con aection, as appears in their letter to the delegation published herewith, strongly stress the urgent necessity for improvement both in respect to se ourity and sanitation. The grand jury has frequently call ed attention to the matter at recent terms of court, but the supervisor has been powerless to act, on account of ihe fact that he has had no money for th e purpose. The following letters from Sheriff Bford and from County Supervisor Feagle and Acting County Physician W1esor have been forwarded to the 4elegation in the general assembly: Sheriff B'uford's Letter. Newberry, S. C., Jan. 24, 1911. Dear Sir: I wish to call your at teation to the condition of the jail in this county. The jail in its present candition is not at all secure, as I have xot a single cell in the jail in which I can place a prisoner and be certain that he will remain. The cells on the second floor are wooden cells and a risonerr can escape from same by cut tiag a hole through them with a pock *t knife. There is also a wooden cell en the third floor and one iron with tcour compartments. This iron cell, however, has corroded, especially the loor thereof, until it is not at all safe. I bave to be on the alert all the time in order to keep the prisoners and unless there is something done, there is going to be a wholesale jail delivery some of these days, as it is im.possible for me to watch them all thle time. I have brought this matter to the attention of the ~supervisor and he says they have no money with which to make these repairs. I would also call your attention to tie sanitation and ventilation of the jail. It is in such shape that it is im possible to keep it sanitary or well ca have ithhos.Ihalla Mas Jx 2 McRA, of 126M gr to boe and wasy cmpete ye stifnraes f the Joue. i nts, av~v Horse essMGA, Spr26 an aSdiatiasndeum orane 'cheaper~a cotan puro ScAtic A nldrugss Pricm Sloan's Treatise on t he Horse s4 DR. EARL S. SLOAN, E ~E ventilated or keep it in anything like a confortable condition during bad weather. It is very important that repairs be made on the jail as soon as possible, and I would be glad if you could devise some plan to furnish the money with which to make such re pairs as are necessary. I would be glad at any time to show you the con dition when you are at home, or when it is convenient. Yours truly, M. M. Buford, Sheriff. In Re Newberry County Jail. To the Members of the General As-; sembly from Newberry County. Dear Sirs: We feel that it is our duty to report the condition of the Newberry County jail to you, and ask that you give whatever relief that lies within your power to give. 1. That iron or steel cells on the third floor of jail is especially unhy gienic, and unsanitary, and insecure. The water closet is situated in the main aisle of cells and is in a very dilapidated condition, allowing a con stant exposure of prisoners to sewer gas and the dangers attached thereto. The steel floor around the closet has been corroded and has recently been torn up by prisoners in effort to es cape. The heating of this steel cagel is done by a large coal stove, which renders all the steel work too hot, and there is absolutely no way of regulat ing the proper amount of heat in the cells. The cells are either super heated or under-heated at all times during cold weather. The steel floor ing in other places in this cell is thin from wear and corrosion, and is more or less insecure. The remaining cells on this floor-the third floor--are composed of wood and iron bars, and has been in constant use since the jail was built, and is insecure, as past experience has proven, and it is ut terly impossible to keep these cells clean and sanitary. The heating of thes)e cells is done also by a coal stove, with pipe running over the steel cells, which alio adds to the heat of same, and the heating apparatus in these wood and steel cells is inadequate. They are also situated and construct ed so that only a minimum amount of sunlight reaches them. The cells on the second floor are of the same character as the wooden and iron bar celils on the third floor, and are unsafe for the same reasons, only the heating is done with a stove, the pipe of which has to be carried out of a window. Thereby exposing the prop erty to fire and the prisoners to smoke. Again, there- is no provision for the treatment of sick prisoners, all pris oners have to be treated on the floor of the cells. .There is no provision for female pr.- -mers; in fact, the whole of the pris.oners' quarters in building is un safe, both for the safekeeping of the prisoners and the health of same, and we would suggest and urge that new "Two bottles CuredMy Reumatism" " I have been a suf ~ ferer from rheumatism 4 . for about two years, and S have used many lini mnts and patent medi cines which gave me no relief. A lady friend of j mine told me she had . used your Liniment and found relief at once. l think it is the best Linimernt a person ken a bottle in my house as long as I ~rsons, Ya. devile St., New Orleans, La., writes: I had a pain in my arm for five years, .I recommend y our Lm nment very ntly relieves Sore Throat, , Neuralgia, ~ <o. Better ~ rous plasters. 50c. and $1.00 t Fee. Addresa~~ OTON. MASS. e and modern appliances be installed throughout. Yours respectfully, L. I. Feagle, County Supervisor. (Signed) P. G. Ellesor, Acting County Physician. NewbeTry, S. C., .jan. 24, 1911. SENATOR CAN "GO TO .HELL." James Tillman Thinks His Uncle Shows Rank Ingratitude-Sis ter Talks. Spartanburg Journal. When Col. James H. Tillman, who is ill in Asheville, saw the statement to the effect that he was dying in a lonely cottage, poverty stricken and iriendless he replied through the press that -this was. a mistake. And when Senator Benjamin R. Tillman was ask ed about this statement he replied, as stated in the Journal Saturday after noon: "He is .reaping what he has sown. Nemesis is dogging his foot steps and will dog them to the grave." On learning that the senator had made this remark aaout him, James Tillman called his sister, Mrs. Geo. A. Bunch, of this city over long distance 'phone and said to her: "Senator Till man can go to hell. He bias not yet reaped what he has sown and when he does, it will be much bittefr than that which James H. Tillman is reap ing. He thinks that he is fooling his Jesus, but he is not." MTs. Bunch in an interview with a reporter for the Journal said. "It is a poor kind of gratitude that Senator Tillman is showing, but we are not asking for anything. He seems to have forgotten that James Tillman is his own nephew and that Col. George Tillman, father of James Tillman, and my father, and .an older brother of Senator Tillman, was more like a fath er to him than like a brother. Why he assisted him in an educational manner and helped him finar.cially and politi cally. He borrowed money from him when he made the race for the gov ernorship of South Carolina." "If this branch of the Tillman fam ily was as anxious for .publicity and wanted to get in the '.imelight as much as Senator Tillman does, some start ling revelations might be made pub lic. Things of which the puiblic has never dreamed of. "Jaarnes Tillman does not need any money from Senator Tillmian nor has he asked anything of the senstcir. Further more he will not ask any thing of Senator Tillman. It was on account of Ben Tillman that Jamnes first got into his trouble and he was being used as a tool by Ben when his downfall in the political world star ted. James was following the advice of Senator Tillman and was not heed ing the advice of his own father. Yes, it is hard to believe that this is the kind of gratitude .hat is bein.g shown for it and it seems hard to believe that Ben Tillman would say: 'He is reap ing wha,t he has sown.' "I have just returned from Asthe ville," continued James Tillman's sis ter, "where I have spenrt some time with m brother. His health is fine. I have never seen more marked im provement in any man. Why, when he was carried there it was on a stretcher and the man was scarcely able to lift his 'head. It wa's neces sary to ge.t him out of the train on the stretcher and his condition was -grave. Now he is able to sit up on the porch and eat many things. He was wel.l enough to 'phone 'to me Saturday night. And it will be seen that his health must be pretty good, as a sick man could not write a reply to a pub lished statement as James did. "He 'has everything he~ wants, in cluding the services of Dr. Carl Rey nolds, one of 'the best physicians in Asheville and a trained nurse. It is true that we changed nurseis, but it was because the previous one was too meddlesome and it is said that she wrote to Senator Tillman for money. If she did so it was without t;he knowl aig. of .iames or myself. She per haps was trying to obtain other money from the senator to use for herself. Sica s:e left wehv learned that a hose .:al in Tia!:im.ere for meddling in som*e cof l hr: ptit n" prvt bu which is very comfo'rtablie. Hie has more~- fruits :U i:e !!eacies than his; phsleinn w~h~ll ane~w him to eat. The statement thy he is friendless and dying in pov:erty is the most ab surd thing that I ever heard in all my life." Mrs. Bunch continued: "The first statement that we saw appeared in an afternoon paper in Asheville. I was on the pcint of leaving and had al readly boarded a traini when JIames sntL a miessage to the station asking me to come back for anothcr day. The shock at seeing lies in print made hin: worse for the time and the excitemneni thait it brought on did him no good. stay.ed1 several days long'er with hin u.-m nill wm! Wil o )k to hin vice to him or can help him in any manner." The whole matter came up as a re sult of a, special to the New York Herald boaring an Edgefield date line, to the effect that James H. Tillman was dying in poverty. The New York American of Sunday printed the following bearing an Ashe ville date lin-e: Former lieutenant governor of South Carolina denies as absolutely false statements which have appeared in New York papers saying that he was dying in poverty and forsaken by his friends. -Because Mrs. Mary D. Scofield. his nurse, formerly of Bellevue Hospital, New York, was compelled to write to Senator Tillman, his uncle, for aid for Tillman, he has dismissed the nurse and substituted a negro woman from his old bome in Edgefield, S. C. He says he can boss the negro, but could not the nurse. In declining to further aid his nephew, Senator Tillman says that he has already done much in paying $1,000 to bave him cleared of the Gonzales murder. "He is reaping what he has sown, and whether he realizes it or not, nemesis is dogging his footsteps and will to the grave," says the senator. Preceding the statement of Mrs. Bunch, James H. Tillman's sister, the following appeared under an Ashe ville date line on January 21: Relative to an Edgefield, S. C., spe cial to the New York Herald concern ing Col. James H. Till-man, former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, and reproduced in a local paper, Till man t,Oday gave out a rather interest ing statement. The special said that Tillman was here dying in poverty and in the course of his statement Tillman says: "Larkspur Cottage, Jan. 20, 1911. In the Gazette-News of yesterday af terncon appeared a dispatch which compels my attention, though long ago I made it a ruile to ignore covert newspaper attacks. It would seem that decency would force an honorable man to refrain from such assaults at least until I have recovered my health and then as in the past no quarter wiU be asked and none given. "Althc ... the disrpatch carried an Edgefierfdate line it was never sent from that little city for no one la there low and mean enough to have done it. Letter From GoT. Blease. "It was conceived in Columbia and bears the familiar markings of the human vui1tur6 that has long befouled that place. I know it pains my friends to have it go out to the world that they shun me after having showr so much loyalty and devotion, but tc characterize -the author a liar would Ibe but to pay hi'm a compliment, Among the hundreds of letters receiv ed from them since my stay in Ashe 'ville, none is more gratifying than one from Governor Blease, which I 'trust he will pardon me for quoting, in which he says: 'Don't lose your nerve. Be what you have always been, a Ibrave man. Take c'ourage and win your fight. Get well and come back~ home and be here with me in my fight Ito redeem South~ Carolina. .... and let's put'her back on her high plane of citizenship.' He and mysell for years have been special targets of the newspaper brigands in South Carolina. His recent victory, how ever; in my state shows what little in fuence that press enjoys at the pres ent time. "I occupy a desirable cottage in Al bemarle park and have an old family negro for a servant. The statement that I am penniless and about to starve is too ridiculous and absurd to deserva notice. "The Asheville climate has been of great benefit to me and under the skillful treatmentof physiciatn. Friends who are ignorant of the situation are assured that I am steadily improving. The report that T am in a dying con dition 'is greatly exaggerated,' as Mark Twain would say, and what would say is rather too warm for print "JIames H. Tillman." 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