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ARCHIE WILLIS AVD THE DEDMOND CO. IN COURT Sensational Charges Against Member of Legislature From Laurens County. Green-ville, Dec. 5.-Sensational charges against J. Archie Willis, as a stockholder and officer in the Dedmond Remedy company, a firm recently com missioned by the S-ate ta manufacture and sell a cure for pellagra, and which Teoently opened offices in this city, have been brought by John W. Bridges and E. D. Dedmond, stockholders in the company in which the defendant, J. A. Willis, is charged with breaching his trust by not giving account of moneys received as secretary and treasurer of the company. It is also alleged that he has de ried receiving certain moneys, which the plaintiffs claim they believe he has received and with not administer ing the business of the firm in ways agreed upon by the stockholders when the company was formed. A receiver is asked for the company and the re quest made that the court dissolve the firm. This complaint has been served up on the defendants and recorded in the sheriff's office, as has order which was issued by Judge Shuman at this term of court ordering the defendant to ap pear in court on Saturday, Decemb:er 9, at 10 -o'clock and show cause why the injunction asked for in the com plaint should not be granted. The defendants in the case are J. A Willis, G. K. Willis, W. K. Stringer, Leon L. Rice and D. A. Geer, while the charges of mismanageemnt and! the like in handling the affairs of the Dedmond company are made against the defendant J. A. Willis. The order issued and signed at the term of the court of common pleas now in session in this city by presid ing judge, B. M. Shuman, orders first that the defendant, J. A. Willis, show cause Saturday, December 9, at 10 o'clock in the court house in this city, before Judge Shuman Why an injunc tion asked for in the accompanying complaint should not be granted and second that J. A. Willis show cause 'why a receiver to the Dedmond Rem edy company should not be .appointed, and third, that J. A. Willis, and all others on whom the order may be served, be "restrained and enjoined until the hearing above required from sentering into the office of the business krnown as the Dedmond Remedy com pany," and from "handling, removing or interfering with any of the books,' records or other property or assets of the said firm," etc., that a copy of the complaint be served upon the de fendant, J. A. Willis, with all conven iernt speed. Accompanying the order issued by Judge Shuman is the complaint filed with the county authorities by the at :'torney for the plaintiffs, J. J. Mc Swain, in which thie sensational el arges are made against Mr. WillisJ I5RNE T * JHINI cKSONVELLE F as activle in the management of the Dedmond Remedy company. Willis is a member of the legisla ture from Laurens county. PETITION DENIED. Garlington and Young Must Serve Sen tences Imposed-Send Down Remittitur. Denying the petition for a rehearing and revoking the order staying the remittitur, the supreme court Friday wrote the last chopter in the Semi nole Securities case, and unless an ap peal is taken to the United States su preme court John Y. Garlington and James Stobo Young, former officers of thle company, should enter the State penitentiary to begin the service of terms of three years and one year re spectively. The two defendants, both residents of Laurens, were convicted more than a year ago in the Richland county court on the charge of breach of trust, involving approximately S55,000. John Y. Garlington, who spent Fri day at his home in Laurens, had no statement to make. It is said that Mr. Young is in Chicago, in charge of tWe business of the two, and that he will return to the State. The order of the supreme court was addressed to J. Frost Walker, clerk of court of Richland county. The two de fendants are each under bond of $5, 000. It is said that a petition for par don was filed with the governor from Laurens county. Following conviction in the Rich land county court Garlington and Young appealed to the supreme court. Several weeks ago the supreme court gave a decision affirming the Rich land court. A petition was then filed asking that the remittitur be stayed and that a rehearing of the case be granted. The remittitur was stayed and after reviewing the petition the supreme court yesterday signed the following order: "After due consideration we discov er no ground for a rehearing. It is therefore ordered that stay of remit titur heretofore granted be revoked and the petition herein b;e dismissed. "Ira B. Jones, "Chief Justice; "Eugene B. Gary, "C. A. Woods, "D. E. Hydrick, "Associate Justices." DESTROYS SLEEP. Yany Newberry y'eole Testify to This. You can't sleep at night With aches and pains of a bad back When you have to get up from urinary troubles. 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