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MOTHER KEEPS TOTS TILL COURT DECIDES > TmrwrvTC UV i PH TV FOR AJtlltt.Ufi.Hi3 iiiidiu' ? ^ ? TILLMAN CHILDREN. , Case Before Supreme Court of State.? Court To Announce Decision Later. Coldumbia. December 2.?The return of B. R. Tillman, Jr., to the allegations of his former wife, that he had been seen in a drunken condition J?- ?- _ -..ioit during the past monin, aunug a to Augusta, was made this morning before the supreme court. He offered in rebuttal to this testimony affidavits from numbers of persons who were with him, both on the train and in Augusta on the day in question, in which they all testified to his being sober and not having taken a drop of - " 3 liquor. Senator and Mrs. unman aim his sister, Mrs. Lona Moore, who was at that time visiting her parents, all made affidavits that he was sober at the time and that he was a reformed man and had not been addicted to drink for four years. The Chief Justice, at the conclusion of the case, announced that the children would be left in the custody of the mother pending tne nnng 01 tut? decision by the cou*t. Children in Conrt. Mrs. Dugas and the two little children, around whom the fight is centred, with her attorneys, DePass & DePass, of Columbia, and S. McG. Simkins, of Edgefield, and B. R. Tillman. Jr. with his counsel, Tillman & Mays, and F. Barron Grier, of Greenwood, were all in court when the case was called. Many ladies of Edgefield and Columbia accompanied Mrs. Dugas to the court room and remained throughout the proceedings. Many spectators were present during the hearing of the case and the interest of the people in the matter continues unabated. The answer of B. R. Tillman, Jr., to the affidavits introduced by his former wife, Mrs. Lucy Dugas, at the hearing last Tuesday, alleging that he had been under the influence of whiskey at as late a date as the 9th and 10th of last November, was read by his brother, Henry C. Tillman, Esq. Presents Brother's Case. With forcible manners and emphatic way Henry Tillman reviewed the case from the standpoint of tne young iatner in asking the court to take the children from their mother and give them to him. Referring to the fact that the only three parties concerned in the j action were the father, the mother and | the little children, the speaker said; [ "The little children were too young j to know of the sorrow to which they were born." He contended that there had been a material change in the position of each of the parties since th? last action in court. He contended that the father now came into court with clean ' hands and in every way worthy to have the custody of his children and claimed his rights, which are parag Sprains, Bruises! H are relieved at once by an applica- 1 I tion of Sloan's Liniment. Don't I B rub, just lay on lightly. " Sloan's Liniment has don? more a good than anything I have ever tried I lor stiff joints. I got iny hand hurt so I badly that I had to stop -work right in I the busiest time of the year. 1 thought I at first that I would nave to have my H hand taken off, but I got a bottle of & Sloan's Liniment and cured my hand." I Wllto^ "Wheelejb, Morris, Ala. Good for Broken Sinews G. G. Joxes, Baldwin, L. I., writes : I ?"I used Sloan's Liniment for broken 1 sinews above the knee cap caused by a I fall and to my great satislaction was 1 able to resume work in less than three I weeks after the accident." (SLOANS I! LINIMENT Fine for Sprain | Mr. Hen'RT A. Yoehl, 84 Somerset I St., Plainiiekl, X. J., "writes : ? " A I friend sprained his ankle so badly I that it went black. He laughed when I I told him that 1 would have him out in a week. I applied Sloan's Liniment h and in four days he was working and I said Sloan's was a right good Lini- I ment." 50s., and $1.00 on horses, cattle, \ sheep and ) ""ytnf poultry sent free. 4? / tjfj mount to those of the mother. He said |, he would let the affidavits he had filed with reference to the charge of drun' enness on the part of young Tillman speak for themselves, and said that whatever he had to say of the mother + V* rrV* f of >10f>&ccitv 3 Tl fl ? tL?> llll (.'Ugii 1V11,C UVV,^WU.?J, ? that The mother was not competent to rear the children. Says Mother Expected Suit. Referring to her conduct after the children were awarded her, Mr. Tillman alleged that Mrs. Dugas wrote to young "Ben" that it was his duty to support the children and then declined to have any further correspondence with him except through her attorneys. That she didn't even let the children j write to their father, except until she j nrDTiordtinnc fnr hpr divorce. I I UC^ail pi t JL/Ul U^v/uv XV* _ - , ( and then she permitted Douschka to address a few letters to her father because she probably was aware of the fact that he would more than likely begin suit for them. He said that fort mer Superintendent of Education HolI land once went to see Mrs. Dugas as ! the representative of Mr. Tillman, and ! that she told him that she intended to ! +h& state and never return as i 1VW * V i^vvvvv long as a Tillman was left in it. He referred to her refusal to let the children visit Senator Tillman when he lay on his sick bed and called Mrs. J Dugas a person of relentless and re- j vengeful spirit. i Grows Yehement, "I would rather see my child dead j than subjected to surroundings of; * * -? Try 14" Vl Viaort I nate or in uany uuuui^i, ?iui I of stone and soul of steel, brought up under a spirit of despotism, hatred and revenge", exclaimed the speaker. As the point of prime importance in the case, the speaker stressed the matter of Mrs. Dugas having gone into Ohio and obtained a divorce and then went into the position of South Carolina with reference to divorce, pointing out that it was against the public morals of the State for divorce to be recognized. "We expect this Court not to pander to divorce", he said, and also that the State should not allow the children to remain in a home where divorce is practiced and recognized. He closed with a plea that the children he given to their father. Argument for 3Iother. Mr. DePass, of counsel for Mrs. Dugas, stressed the main consideration as the welfare of the children and said that there had been no material change in any of the parties since I +V? r\ lilt; 1<X?>L CltJLiUJLl, tilde wxc xataci iD rights to the daughters were not paramount to the mother, but that what right he had he lost when he deeded them to . Senator and Mrs. Tillman. Referring to Mrs. Dugas' going back to her husband and living with him after their first separation in "Washington, and of young "Ben" bringing the children to this State and deed ing them to his father and mother, the speaker said: "It was a most diabolical scheme to deprive the mother of her children." He pointed out that the drastic allegations made by young Tillman about the unfitness of his wife to rear the children at the former trial was followed by his writing 1 - AJ- J 1- * - "t- 1 * J XI X a letter to ner, in which ne saiu uim this unfitness existed only in his conception and the speaker pointed out that this happened after young Tillman says he had quit drinking. Says Disrespected Court. He dubbed the attempted reconveying of the children by Senator Tillman back to his son as disrespect of the court's opinion and that it was a probable foundation of what he said was some scheme to thwart the court's opinion. "It has never been declared by this court that a divorce granted in another State would not be recognized when granted by a court of Competent " Raid t"hp? ctippVptv re plying that Mrs Dugas had been driven against her will to get a divorce simply to protect herself from the intentions of the husband to force a reconciliation on his wife. He denied that divorce was taught in the home of Mrs. Dugas and asked that the court allow her to keep the children, as she was better fitted to rear them than their father. Defends tlie Mother. In flashing eloquence, S. McG. Simkins. of Mrs. Dugas's counsel, said that he regretted the aspersions wrhich counsel on the other side had attempted to heap on the head of Mrs. Dugas, Tt'll Vl /N "Vv V? /-> J Oft f r I AW/N f kjl wiiuhjl nci iiuouauu oaiu, lucic xo no purer woman in all Carolina," and she a woman crowned with all the virtues that go to make up noble womanhood. He said no practical reason had been shown why the children should be taken from the care of their mother, than whom a more solicutious and loving mother never existed, as attested by scores of the good women of Edgefield, and given to their father, i He plead with the .-ourt to allow the mother to keep her little children, and , dwelt on th'" n.o^her love, "which is a . law implani-.'d in every -human breast i V and the master passion that emanates ^ ? from every human heart." Declares Father Worthy. F. Barron Grier, Esq, closed for the j petitioner, contending that the deeding j of children to Senator Tillman did i ? ? < * e* ? jl I not estop tne iatner irom coming into | court and claiming his rights, -which j were paramount to the mother. Hej said that they were not asking that the | children be deprived of their mother; that all they asked was that they be awarded to their father and that his I home had ever been open and was open now for Mrs. Dugas. "Hell hath no fury like love to hatred turned," exclaimed Vr, Grier, charging that Mrs. Dugas was rearing the children in an atmosphere, in which their father and his name were despised and that this | was wrong. He charged that she ! wouldn't let the father see the children and went on to picture, the home I with the father as the head. He said j that all they had to show was the j father's worthiness and denied that it j was up to them to show the fitness of the father over the "'prostrate moral corpse of the wife." Asks Division of Custody. The father, he stated, has a right to see tnai mey are rearea in mis aunos- j phere. | Mr. Grier aske-d the court if they j couldn't give B. R. Tillman, Jr, the I custody of the children all the time, to give it to him part of the time and to permit him to see them at any time under the proper circumstances; that the custody of the children be divided between the wife and the husband, one to have them part of the year and the other the rest of the year. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Jno. C. Goggans, C. C. C. P., Acting Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Lama A. Eddy hath made suit to me, to grant her letters of ! administration of the estate of and i effects of Mary E. Counts, THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Mary E. Counts, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on December 16, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand, this 26th day of November, Anno Domini 1912. Jno. C. Goggans, C. C. C. P., m Acting J. r. jn. U. ~ m NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, as administrators, of the estate of Mrs. Alice Kinard Aull, will make final settlement of said estate in the Probate Court for Newberry county at 11 o'clock a. m., on Friday, January 3, 1913, and immediately thereafter wil lapply for letters dismissory as administrators of sQ.id estate. E. H. Aull, J. K. Aull, 12-3-4t. Administrators. |f NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons holding claims against +Ho octatp of tt. s. Graham, deceasod. """" - , - ( are notified and requested to present | the same, duly attested, to the under- j signed executors of the last will and j testament of said deceased on or hefore December 25, 1912. B. C. Matthews, Olen Graham, ll-26-4t.ltaw. Executors. ? NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, j Notice is hereby given that I will j make final settlement of the estate of Dr. Geo. 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