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TOLOIE L, NOIBER 23. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1912. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. THE HEAVY RAINS DO VERY M'ICH DAMAGE SOITHLKX RAILWAY A.NM'LS ALL j TKALXS TO NEWBERIiY. i Injury to Bridges Not as Heavy as | First TlioiierM?Steel Bridares Over Saluda Had Narrow Escape. The heavy rains on last Friday in this county and in the upper section of the State particularly, brought high waters in all of the streams on Sat- , urday and Saturday night. It was al- J most equal to the heavy freshet ot August, 190S. The last train on the Southern railway from Columbia came in Saturday morning and reached Newberry about two hours late. The water had at that time covered the track from just oH/%vo Qiivortstrppt to Dvson, and the a*/VV A A . vs/ v. vv? . train could not get any further than Silverstreet. An effort was made to return to Columbia, but Broad river had risen to such an extent that the train could not get any further than Pomaria, and it returned to Newberry * and went to Columbia on the C., N. & L. tracks. Ail schedules on the South-ern between Greenwood and Columbia have been annulled since Saturday morning. The trains on the C. N. & L. are being operated on schedule fhnnorh thAv are running con siderably late. The editor of The Herald and News came from Columbia on the train Saturday morning and on either side of the track from Alston to the Broad river wagon bridge there was one sea of water, though at that time it was about a foot below the rails. The trestle about a mile above Peak, the water was up to me cross ties. At Broad river bridge it was running just over the top of the rock piers. Information Monday afternoon from Chappelis stated that the bridge across Saluda river had not been seriously I damaged and the trains could only operate between L>yson ana uia iuwu. The bridge across Ninety Six creek above Dyson having been washed away. The damage to the county bridges is not as great as it was in August of 1908. The wagon bridge at Chappells was standing and was being used on Monday, though some damage had been done to the approach on the Saluda side. The steel bridge at Kinards was not injured and the same is true of the other steel bridges crossing Saluda. Supervisor Feagle on , Sunday bad the floor removed from the steel bridge at Kinards and it was saved and will be replaced Tuesday. The bridge1 between Union and Newberry counties at Whitmire over the Enoree river on the Newberry side has been washed away. The approach to the bridge over Duncan's creek at - Whitmire on the Whitinire side had four spans taken away. Little damage was done to the Keitt bridge over Enoree, but it could be crossed on Monday. The bridge over Little River at Mr. David Werts' place just beyond n - - + n m nil 1 Dead .b'aii is gone, some uluci swan bridges in the county have been dam. aged, but the damage is not near as great as was at first thought. Four persons had narrow escapes from death at Chappells this after j Irom death at Chappells Saturday afternoon. Mr. George Xeese and Mr. ^ Hall, with two negroes, had come over from the Saluda side in a boat and ?vere returning with a boat load of -orovisions, when their boat capsized. They-managed to catch hold of trees in the raging waters, and they remained clinging to trees for about an hour before their peril was discovered. Messrs. A. M. Chapman and Leo Hamilton went out in a boat and rescued them, Mr. Xeese was almost exhaust ed, and would have been carried away in a few minutes more. ? In tlie Broad River Section. In the Broad river section of the county, Broad and Enoree rivers have been raging but the damage has not been nearlj so great as in the memorable flood of 190S. The abutments of Keitt's bridge over the Enoree havebeen seriously damaged, and the bridge will be impassable until repairs are made At *he ferry over Droad river between the Xewlerry (CONTINUED O.N PAGE 4;. JUDCE SEASE MAKES k STRONG CHARGE SESSIONS ('OrKT <OXVEXED OX 310XI)AY >rOKXIX(i. Docket Xot Very Heavy? Jmlgp Sease " - * * ? - ..i VAnnn Mrt'SSI'S JIIipui UtlU'i' "1 1,UIU,|- , tion and Roads. The spring term of the general sessions court, for Newberry county convened on Monday morning with Judge Thos. S. Sease pr siding. Solicitor Cooper, Stenographer Aull and the other officers of the court were in their places. The docket is not very heavy for this term. All the members of the grand jury with the exception of L. 0. Stoudemayer, who has moved from the county, answered to their names. R. C. Counts, who was present, but who has moved out of the county, was -excused. E. A. Griffin and J Y. Jones were placed on the grand jury to fill the two vacancies. Mr. E. A. Griffin was elected foreman. Several bills of indictment were handed out by the Solicitor, and this being the first term for the- year, Judge Sease charged the grand jury along the line of their general duties 1 Avr.An_ for the year, his cnaige WctS CAttj; | tionally strong and forceful, dealing with matters of importance to the whole people. He said he knew nothing better to talk about for a short while than the purpose for which the court was organized. It was organized for the purpose of suppressing crime. The criminal was the greatest enemy to organized society, he said, and the rnnrt was organized for the purpose of suppressing him. The grand jury should be a terror to the evil-doer, as well as a refuge to those unjustly prosecuted or persecuted. This court was here to protect organized society against the marauder and wrong? doer, to see that every citizen had the right to live peacefully, and undisturbed by a violation of property or personal rights. A man had not only the right to be safe from the molestations of the marauder "and criminal hut t.<-> feel safe, and that was i what the courts were for, he said. Sometimes, he said, petit jurors did not perform their duty to the full, and criminals proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt were turned loose upon society. Wh^re was the fault? It might lie in the witnesses. It might lie in the fact that jurors were not trained in sifting evidence. It did not lie in any wilfulness or dishonesty on the part of jurors in this State. Sometimes jurors were carried away by sympathy. H<? was proud to say that "" 1;-\ve>rp not in SOUlil Laruuua ^~ influenced by dishonesty or wilfulness. He spoke of the duty of investigating the county offices, directing special attention to the offices of supervisor and superintendent of education, because it was through these two offices that practically all the money a ~ ? ~ r- t-ir\ mnro im Was Speill. 1 Iici c ?aa nu rnviv, portant office than that of superintendent of education, because he was at the hrad of the schools. The office was Hose to the administration of justice, because as the people were educated, so would justice be meted out. Intelligent jurors wrote intelligent verdicts. Suppose we had had compulsory edu| cation a hundred years ago, the difference between what would have been the result and present conditions is incalculable. .".:o le.Jo'.uiure should now pass a compulsory education law the benefits wouia go 011 increasing long after this generation had passed away. There was no true progress unless it took into consideration the welfare of future generations.. The Newberry court house was an example. It was a monument to the right kind of progress. And yet, as he remembered at the time it was built, the people were opposed to a bond issue for building it, and had overwhelmingly voted down sucn a| bond issue. Rut th-p then Xewberry delegation in ihe general assembly too1* t^e bit in their teeth and provider1 for the bond issue, and now he dared say not a man could be found in (CONTINUED OX PAGE 4). GOVERNOR BLEASE ON |l SEVERAL LIVE ISSUES INTERVIEWED WHILE IN NEW- 1 15EKKY ON 310SI)AY. Tlii. (Voicrliton Eiimlovment?Com- 1 inents on Dispensary Investigators. ! Governor Cole. L. Blease came to NVvvberry on Sunday to spend a few ( hours at his home here. This being ( court week, he stayed over in New- ( berry Monday morning to .shake hands i with his friends who were here from ] various parts, of the county. ? Governor Bl-ease was asked this ^ morning for a statement as to several c matters of general interest, with which he and his administration are now be- 2 ing connected in the newspaper and * in the dispensary investigation now ( in progress. His attention was first A directed by The Herald and News to ^ the comments and inquiries of several newspapers as to the $900 paid Rev. C. wr proicrhtnn nf Greenwood. out of I * ? V/A ? - , the- public funds. s "Well," said Governor Blease, "in- ? stead of Mr. Creighton getting nine 1 hundred dollars, I presume that by now he has been paid twelve hundred t rviintq Alr.n?r dnrine the first of my ? UV/ii o W administration I secured the services i of Mr. Creighton for the purpose of s giving me general information in re- ( gard to how the officers in different c counties of the State were enforcing the law, and as to violations of the dispensary law and other laws \ throughout the State. Mr. Creighton ] has made his regular reports to my ( office from different parts of the State, ] and in those reports I have received j very valuable information, and from < "* - -?* -J -?^ ^TirVi them i nave gairit?u tmunuciui/u ?mvu ^ I have transmitted by letter or other- < wise to the sheriffs of the di-effrent ( counties, to my detectives, which I ] have had working in the various coun- < ties, and to other officials whose duty { it was to enforce the law, and in this ( way I have been -enabled to have a , better enforcement of the law than 1^ < "* 1 VioH Mr i would nave uluci n iot uuu. i.**. j Creighton's services have been very valuable in the assistance he has rendered my administration by securing , this information, and thus enabling { me to keep in touch with the situa- < tion throughout the State. His re- j ports are on file in the office, and are , public property, and can be investigat- j sd at any time by any one who wishes ( to see them. His vouchers were made } out regularly and sent to the comp- ] troller general's office. The amounts | were deducted from the law and order < fund, and not from the contingent j ( fund, as was falsely stated by the ] newspaper reports. They are on file in the comptroller general's office-. The comptroller general then furnish- . ed him a check, which he endorsed, j and these checks are filed in the treas- j urer's office. They are all public:, property. Nothing has been secret or I, under cover, and the public is entire- , lv wplfiome to the whole transaction.^ Mr. Creighton is still in my service in this particular line of work, and will ,, so remain, at the salary of $100 per ] month, if he desires to hold the posi- ( tion, until his services become unnec- ( essary, or he tenders his resignation, regardless of what any newspapers or others may think or say or do. Of 5 course, his usefulness, to some ex- , tent, will be impaired by its now be- ( coming public property that, he is doing the line of work, because, until it : J ^ Vvli/% r>AnlH CQtVlPT* WUS SO IlJitUti puuut, jut v/uuiu Duiuv> , j much information which, of course, ( now, the world knowing his business, will be a little more cautious in al- , lowing him to catch on to. l "On Saturday I gave a like commis- j sion to Col. Leon M. Green, who will i perform a lik? service throughout the 1 different parts of the State. I presume t the newspapers would like to have 1 this in order thar thev mav know that I Col. Leon Green is not starving, not- I withstanding the fact the News and 11 Courier beheaded him. It. is true, I 1 am cursed for standing by my friends, but I am continuing to do so, and am doing business at the same old stand ?Room No. 1, State House building, f Columbia, S. C., where 1 will be for | c the balance of this and the next two's ' ' ~ "* ; I (COXTIXUED OX PAGE 4). | COURT OFFICIALS PIE BY ASSASSINS' BULLETS PERRIIiLE TRAGEDY ENACTED.IN VIRGINIA COURT HOUSE. " "* "I !A L'resiamg ,iu<ig:e, siicnn ;i:iu ounce Attorney Shot Down Without Warning. Hillsvillo, Va., March 14.?A troop )f mountain outlaws rode down out )f the Blue Ridge today to the Carroll lounty court house here and assassilated the judge upon the bench, the prosecutor before the bar and the sheriff at the- door, while sentence waS loin? nronounced unon Floyd Allen, me of their number. "Wlhen the crack of the rifles died iway only one member of the human abric of the court?Dexter Guard, th-e jlerk?was alive, and he had been vcunded. Jurymen and onlookers vere struck in the fusillade and sev-j iral wounded seriously. Governor Mann has offered a $3,000 eward for the capture of the assassins and holds State troops under irms for orders at Lynchburg and Roanoke. Tho chnntinfr fprrnrizeri Hillsville to he point of paralysis. There was not i man to give an order or organize a )ursuit. Citizens fled to places of safety and mothers gathered up their children while the assassins rode out )f town. Assassin's Aim True. Judge Thornton L. Massie had risen '?? u;_ ?e> +V10 Knllo+o ctrnplr I LM II L11J5 UilCl JL 1 CL& UXJL^ U UliV/ Ml/ft w-w?? lim and fell dead across his desk. Commonwealth's Attorney William Foster, with half a dozen bullets in lis body, crumpled down to the floor. Sheriff Lewis Webb was shot and killed as he reached for his revolved and ?Dran2 forward. Bullets grazed Clerk joad and in the confusion he was reported killed. Jurors, who had been slightly wounded were reported dead, md by that indefinable method of communication which prevails in the woodland country reports oi a wholesale slaughter was spread to the coun .rysiue. Prisoner Awaitiner Sentence. Floyd Allen was before the bar this horning:, convicted oif taking a prisoner from a deputy sheriff. Allen had -truck the sheriff -over the head with ho b:;tt of a rifle and the prisoner escaped. Sheriff Webb had gone up n,+/-k mmiT!tn.in.a and taken Allen. It-spite dire warnings of what such a renture might mean. Attorney Foster lad prosecuted fearlessly and a mounaineer jury gathered from the inland ection, for no man in Carroll county ?ared to sit on the trial of an Allen, lad convicted him. Court Room Crowded. This morning the sentence of Allen utracted an unusually large gathering to the quaint old red brick court louse, which stands on a green square' uroii in thp r>pntre of fhp village. Those ivho could not get into the small room peered through the windows, opened :o the first days of spring. Just as Allen was about to be called ip for sentence his two brothers, Sidley and .Tack, at the head of a troop )f twenty mountaineers, rode up to the ionrt house. Outlaws Enter Court House. The brothers and their companions, ;ome carrying rifl>?s and other armed .vith revolvers, crowded into the small jonrt room and stood behind the rail md about the door. Floyd Allen, aged iO, tall and gaunt, much the familiar [ :ype of the mountaineer, was in the I lock. Judge MassLe mounted the bench md Prosecutor Foster moved sentence ipon Allen, who stood up. There was i shuffling of feet and a general moveomnnor the mountaineers in th^e CHiiViiQ >ack of the room, but no sign to fore- I ell the terrible tragedy then in the ninds of every one of them. The usual legal formalities over, fudge Massie began pronouncing senence. The last words that fell from lis lips precipitated the tragedy. Judge's Last Words. ' One year at hard labor ' Before the last word was cold, the usillade began. Allen muttering an >ath that lie would never so to prison, iprang out of the prisoner's dock as (CONTINUED ON PAGE C). GOVERNOR WITHHOLDS THE "T. B." LETTERS BLEASE REFUSES REQUEST OF DISPENSARY PROBERS. "Will \ot Give Letters to Committee Except on Order of Circuit Judge," His Reply. Columbia, March 15.?"I will not give the letters to the committee ex- j | cept on an order from a circuit judge," was the reply Governor Blease made i | to Messrs. J. J. Evans and Clifton ! when thev went, as a sub-committee > .. ,. i j from the dispensary investigating j committee, to the governor's office and I asked him for the "T. B." letters, which H. H. Evans testified T. B. Felder wrote him, and which he turned over to the governor. The next move is up to the investigating committee if) th-ay want the letters, and they will probably apply for the order. Alleged Subject of Letters. I These letters deal with the alleged \ attempt that Felder made to get "Hub" I Evans to go into a "frame up" to sell liquor to the old State dispensary, and the letters have been mentioned frequently in the testimony this week, by H. H. Evans, L. W. Boykin and i John Bell Towill, who were members of the dispensary board of control, the * i%- 1 ^ x + isvyi i next to the last Deiore mat urauiuuvu was abolished. The refusal of the^ governor to let the committee have the letters was the only feature of the session today. ?' 3Ieet Arain Next Thursday. The committee got down to work at 12 o'clock after the arrival of Senator Clifton and took up the session in ex- | amining L. W. Boykin and "Hub" Ev""c At 9. Sn n. m.. the committee ad aiw. ~ ^ - , journed to meet next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Subpoenas for a score of witnesses for next week have been sent out by Secretary J. J. Evans. ? Boykin on Stand. L. W. Boykin, of Camden, a former -1 /KoTwoimecjrv hnard of iueaiLuex ui uiu>h-iioiv. j ? __ ^ control, was the first witness this morning. He explained how the li-? quor for the dispensary was purchased. Referring to the ordering of li- j quor not specially authorized, witness J said he heard some such complaint' j just before they were out of office, in None onri the Hoard adoDted a resolu .lew, anu i/u\j tion then that only orders "0. K.d" by Mr. Tatuni were to be sent. Said he heard Mr. Tatum say that the clerk, G. H. Charles, ordered the liquor which wasn't authorized. Said only the complaint he had of this was dur-! ing the last three months they were in office. t-? : J 4.V,rv,T V^n.' littlfk i tSOV K.1I1 ScWU Uicj' uiutn-u ' j , liquor the first eight months they were on the board for the reason that they inherited some $400,000 worth of j dead stock, some of which had been on | j hand ever since Tillman's time. Questioned by Senator Carlisle, Mr. ?-> V>? AiMn't romdmhpr hnw ! tsoyKin saiu ixc uiuu u IVU1V1..W. ?.. much stock of liquor was on hand when their successors took charge, i Witness said there was no doubt but that Charles ordered the large amounts of liquor. Met Felder in Hotel. Witness said he met T. B. Felder once in the Jerome Hotel on the occasion referred to yesterday, when it was alleged that Felder made a propj osition looking to a "frame-up" and I Tiro*. Qui*} h.o hflrl TP- I | W 111U11 ? CLO ICJWtVU. UV*1U ceived letters from Felder asking for a conference, that he didn't know who Felder was. Said that H. H. Evans and John Bell Towill were with him j at the time he met Felder in the Jerome hotel. He substantiated the tesj timony of H. H. Evans on this matter. Thought this was in the spring of 1905. thiQ mnfrtpr a.f OctlU LIIO'L 111 Uisvuooiiitj ... terwards lie said, referring to Felder. "that fellow has a good deal of gall trying to make a deal with the hoard." j Mr. BOVKin said ne Knew ui nu wuuey being given any State officer. Didn't know of any member of board having received any gifts of live stock and didn't discuss the matter with any of them. He said he was called befor ? thp Blease commission but was excused fr >m testifying as he was under j CONTINUED ON PAGE 3).( H. H. EVANS EXAMINED ON DISPENSARY MATTERS FARXO[ TESTIFIES BEFORE IXVESTIGATIXG COMMITTEE. Other Testimony From Yarions Witnesses. Including Wilie, Rawlinson and ToirilL Columbia, March 14.?James S. Farnum, Joe E. Wylie, Jodie M. Rawlinson, John Bell To will, the last three former members of the dispensary board of control, testified before the dispensary investigating committee this morning. The feature of the morning testimony was the admission by John Bell Towill, that while he was a member of the dispensary board he knew very little of what was going on, except that a large amount of liquor not ordered was shipped to the dispensary and accepted. Who were responsiDie for the large orders he didn't know and his attitude was expressed in the statement "1 knew very little about the matter and wish to God I hadn't taken as much interest in it as I did." He was put through a rigid examination. His attorney asked that he be excused from testifying, on the ground that it might prejudice the case against him now pending in the courts, but, after an executive session, the committee refused to accede .to the remiQot onH Tnwill tnr>V the <s.t?nd and auu A V ' **4 vw w was examined. Tell of Alcohol DeaL Drs. McGregor and McMillan, druggists of Columbia, were the first witnesses on the stand tliis morning when the dispensary investigating committee resumed its sessions at 10 o'clock. They testified as to the price of alcohol in 1907, when Dr. Murray sold a quantity of alcohol which was on hand when the Ansel commission took charge of the old State dispensary. They corroborated Dr. Murray's statement as to the price of alcohol at the the time the purchase was made. Witnesses who h^l been subpoenaed and who were present to testify were: Jodie M. Rawlinson and Joe B. Wflie, members of the dispensary board when the dispensary was abolished; "Hub" Evans, a former chairman of the dispensary board; James S. Farnum, of ^,1 1?l ? - t nr d Atrti on/1 T/Vh.n U Delrit^CS IUJLL , JL*. VV A.111 aiiu Bell Towill. James S. Farnnm on Stand. James S. Famum, the next witness on the stand, (testified that he had lived in Charleston about 14 years; had been dispenser and was connected with a beer business; told .of being acquitted in Richland court, of then pleading guilty of "having paid rebates to Joe B. Wylie ana paying a nne ui $5,000; said no agreement had been made with the attorney general prior to his pleading guilty as to what his fine would be as far as he knew;1 denied paying any more than the $5,000 fine, and said any statement that he paid more than this sum was untrue; said he paid no sum for immunity as had been insinuated; said the $5,000 fine was all he paid. "Did the Blease commission make any effort to investigate any phase of the dispensary matters and did they ? ^ r^r^A OY-itr lT>fArm.O_ maKe any enuru> iu &-cx auj iuiw tion from you?" asked Senator Carlisle. Farnum said Mr. Wallace bad asked him if he knew anything about the dispensary matters and he said, "No, and what I knew I have forgotten." He said Mr. Wallace's conversation with him was personal; said he never recollected having been summoned by the Blease commission and that he never appeared before that board; said he had been subpoenaed a ? ? 1~ ~ . lrn ATTf good many uines ueiure ima, n.ucn nothing about th-?i compromises in any other criminal cases, and knew nothing about the Ansel board, Blease board or attorney general receiving any other moneys than they were legally entitled to. Thought Ansel Hoard "All Right.* Farnum said he had never appeared before the Ansel commission and that he wasn't in a position to give or?ir ir>ff/\r?ma + i/"k? nrnvp nr diSDTOVe * ?.??? ..iLuiniauvu v. the governor's charge; thought the Ansel commission was "all risrht," but \ had never had any dealings with them and knew nothing against any (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ? ? ? - . ?. ?