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/ . r ? ? r " " _ ! TOLOCE un, XUMBEE 61. NEWBEBBY, 8. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1915. TWICE A WEEK, $LSt A YEAS. Negro Shot By Dischargi PREFERRED DEATH ! TO BEING ARRESTtD *> ?' /'An ? rvu 4 vn DnrrvT iiSAAJtll J5I tUl M-TI' A^i? ACiiXi^ x? j LY DISCHARGED FROM ASYLOf ! Officers Dorroh, Kinard and ttiappell Granted Bali by Judge Watts In Soiuinal Sum. Deputy Sheriff William M. Dorroh and Messrs. J. Jti. unappen anu j. a. Kinard, assisting him in malting an arrest, had the unpleasant duty on yesterday of being forced to kill Abram Hardy, a negro man about 40 years old. Hardy seems to have been a negro of rather bad reputation and it is said :-as been several times lately crazed . from the use of cocaine. For a while he was in the Hospital for the Insane, but the authorities there thought him sound and released him several months < ago. Magistrate Kinara seveiai aays ago issued a warrant for the arrest of Hardy, charging him with disorderly conduct and cursing on the public highway. Yesterday morning early the magistrate and his constable, Mr. H. B. J Richardson, went to arrest Hardy. The j nporm defied ti e officers. Hoping to j avoid having any trouble, the magis\ trate telephoned the sheriff's office for assistance. 'Sheriff Blease could not go in person, being busy on other im-j portant matters. He instructed Depf uty Sheriff Dorroh to go to the assistance of the other officers and deputized Mr. J. H. Cl:appell, who has had much experience as a peace officer, to go with Mr. Dorroh. (These two gentlemen were joined by Mr. Kinard and they went to Hardy's home to put him under arrest. When the officers arrived at -Hardy's . "house they found him coming from some woods. He was armed witTa two | large memory slocks, uue an uiu , handle. It is thought that Hardy was trying to get back to his house, where he had a shotgun. The officers inter- , L. cepted I'im, and ordered him to put down his sticks. The negro immedi- ( ately gave fight, striking at Mr. Dor^r" roh, whom he just grazed, and giving ( Mr. Kinard a terrible blow. Deputy Dorroh shot the negro in the leg, hop-1, ing to stop him, but tf:e shot had no j A -?J nnntiniia/1 fiorht. ! eueui, ituu uc ucgiu wunuu^u ing. It itook six shots from the wea- . pons of the officers to stop him, and then he was dead. ] B The sheriff and coroner were imme- : diately notified of the~ killing and botli j K these officers went to the scene of the 1 difficulty. The inquest over Hardy's ' H body was held "by the coroner and a i jury. The jury found that the negro jjfcT came to his death at the Icands of Of- : Hr ficers Dorroh, Chappell and Kinard, ] while these gentlemen were discharg- ; W ing their duty as officers of the Jaw. j ^ ft.4- iinri?QC+ 10 ? me XeSULLUWl v wacu <a.t mc iu4u?>^ 10 | , published in full. H:e women who i ] testified were the wife and daughter of ] . the slain negro. It seems from what they swore to, as well as from the tes- 1 ^ trmony of Mr. Sease and the officers, ; that Hardy had made up l'-is mind to ? die rather than be arrested. Sheriff Blease, under the law, ar- ] rested Messrs. Dorroh, Chappell and i Kinard and carried them to jail They will have to appear before the grand jury at <ti':e next term of courfc uneirp attorneys, Messrs. Blease & Blease, ap- : plied for bond yesterday evening be- . fore Mr. Associate Justice Watts at ; i Laurens, and bond was granted in i L nominal sums. < - * The Testimony. < ??? t-? t c Qc. w oilt\r>i_ i iwr. D. 1. OCdSC iwuucu. KJU, 'T , ing from the house. Saw Abram Har- , dy running on parties and saw the ; scuffling. I heard hi'm say tf:is morn- j. ing that he was no-t going to be ar- ; 1 rested. My father told him tfc'at they < might kill him; he had better go or < 1? ?-i.~ J tl? nnlt Mrp , DC arres'ieu. iic oaiu uc ui-u uv? ^j B. I. Sease. :Carrie Hady, being sworn, says: I saw shooting when started, but turned ] and came back to house. Abram said < k he would not be with us long ^ften he < A went to house this morning. Three j H gentlemen came to the house this i i ||p, marring and asked where was Ah ram. j ( T told them he had wa'ked off a piece: j Officers ng Their Duty ad not been gone long. I saw him turning towards these gentlemen. This is his stick and axe handle. Daisy j Hardv was with me at the time, and ; I Bessie Hardy, Essie Hardy and Ida | u opdr nr? tViP tvapfc cirtp of the house ' and did not see any of the difficulty. Carrie Hardy. Daisy Hardiy, being sworn, says: I am Abram Hardys' daughter and stepdaughter of Carry Hardy Moll er says, J "Yonder comes somebody of Dr. as ; sure as you are born." They call fa-1 ther "Dr." I saw father running to- ! wards the three gentlemen that had come to arrest him. I turned away ; when they were about three feet away ! and I did not see an/ more. "Wf en he I left this morning he had the walking ; stick with him. He said wnen ne leu this morning that he would not be with i us long; tfat he was readv when his time came. Daisy Hardy, j J. H. Chappell, being sworn, says: The sheriff deputized me to assist Deputy Sheriff Dorroh 'to make this arrest. When we got here we found the me.n coming out ot patch of pines j near jy?stick in evidence. He had j them two sticks in l:is hand. "He got about one-half way across the cotton patch and he begun to run toward us.; Mr. Dorroh told him that he had a , warrant for him and to put the sticks down. He still advanced on us. We drew our guns and Mr. Dorrch told him to stop. He said, "Put i>t to me, i I am coming;" He made a terrible | strike at IMr. Dorrch and I put it to! him and Mr. Dorroh did too. He then ,! b'roke stick over Mr. Kinard's head. Mr. Dorroh and I put it to him again. ! 1 When Mr. Kinard got up he fired. The negro fell. I considered all of us to be in danger. He is the only person I j ever saw tf~at a bullet won't stop. J. H. Chappell. | Wm. M. Dorroh made oath, says: I am deputy sheriff of Newberry county.' Sheriff received phone message tnis morning from Magistrate J. Alonzo ! Kinard to come down, he wanted us j to help him arrest Abram Hardy. He sent me, Mr. Chappell and Mr. Workman. We came down to Abram Hardy's house and asked fcis wife where I Abram was. She said he had gone down "through the pines. I came out the back door and saw Abram coming out of the pines nearby. His wife saia, please don't kill him. I told her that we were not going -to l:urt 'him, and j about that ti^ne Abram begun to move j toward the house and said what in the j hell are you all doing up there? Then j Mr. Ghappell, Mr. Kinard and myself j started out to meet him. &e said, | "Wihat in tfte hell do you want?" I said, 'I have come down to arrest you, throw down your sticks." He said, "I -A J ?? J I am not going no De arresiea, anu made toward me with a stick. I shot him in the leg to stop him and then [ shot him in ti:e breast. iMr Chappell , also shot at the same time. He turned 1 and hit Mr. Kinard in the head and : knocked him down. We continued to i keep shooting. Mr. Kinard also shot at him after he got up from tf:e lick, i rhe stick he had"Vas. a hicitbry"stick; and an old axe handle, each stick being [ about three feet long. One of these j was broken over the head of Mr. Ki- j nard. Hardy came toward us in a fighting manner. Wm. Dorroli. C. G. Blease, sheriff, being sworn, says: This morning about 10 o'clock J tv? c,r? cr^ Mo cric?d r*Q f a T reueivcu puuuc mcooa^c iuagun utt v Al. Kinard stating tEaYhe wanted me to send at least two men in this comrrmrntv at r>nne Xo one was in the office who is connected with the office except Mr. Wm. Dorroh and myself. Dn account of the fact that I had five | or six long distance phone messages in trying to locate a man who had | stabbed a woman in this county, I; told Mr. Dorroh to get ifme one to 50 with him. I started out to hunt some one to drive my car for Mr. Dorroh and I met Mr. J. H. Chappell, whom I requested and deputized to go 1 with Mr. Dorrcl . I then went and got . Mr. J. R. Workman to drive the car j iown here. I also deputized him as special deputy sheriff. I am sheriff of Newberry county and iVm. H. Dorroh is the duly appointed j leputy sheriff of Newberry county. j Cannon^?. Blease. J. Alonzo Kinard, being sworn, says: | I am magistrate for Newberry county, J Xo. 10 township There was a warrant ! issued for Abram Hardy before me and I and H. B. Richardson, my constable, went to arrest bim this morning and he resisted arrest. He cdrsed and said he would not be arrested and that he would die before he would be arrested. So me and my constable go on up to Mr. Jno. Wheeler's and phoned to the sheriff to send me some men down here, that we had tried to arrest j ti e said negro and wanteT^Help. So j oVioriff c^nt i\Tt Dormh to come on ! down to his house to arrest negro, but | he was not in.his home, we looked out j across field and saw him coming out | patch of pines; we started in the direction he was coming and met him. He l:ad a hickory stick in his right hand and a axe handle in his left hand. ] We told him (I and Mr. Dorroh) to j put down his sticks. He said he wq^ld { not put down a damn thing. We told him he had better, and said, "He would glie and go to Cr.ell before he would be arrested." At that time, he d^ew a stick and hit me and then Mr. tforroh and Mr. Chappell begun firing on him and when I got up I begun shooting at him -myself. (Stick offered in evidence.) I will swear that these are K-e sticks he had. He continued fighting until he fell. I was struck^in the head with the stick and knocked down and was partly unconscious. (Hat in evidence.) He broke the brinTot my hat by the lick he hit me with the stick. I would judge Abram Hardy to be about 40 years old and wei^f s about 220 pounds and about six" feet h^gh. J. Alonzo Kinard. I hereby certify that I have examined the dead body of Abram Hardy and find he came to his death by being shot by pistol wounds, one in front of thigh, front of si oulder, front of breast, neck and head. T T RoHon Kq 11 crh \T F) . A. ' > In Newberry, S. C., Aug. 30, 1915. I hereby certify '1-hat I have exam jnted Mr. J. A. Kinard and gnd that he has scalp wound just above left eye. It appears to have been made by a stick, whicft wound I treated. J. I. Bedenbaugih, M. D. In Newberry, S. C., Aug. "30, 1915.. a f H nf r ijuui ill uiscuaigc ui i/uuj> i That the said Abram Hardy came j to his death in Newberry county, on Aug. 30, 1915, from gunshot wounds at the hands of Win. Dorroh, J. H. Obappell and J. A. Kinard, while acting in the discharge of their duties as \ peace officers. *] T.mc TVvminiek. * B. B. Hair, H. B. Richardson, J. D. Lorick, J. F. Wheeler, 1 B. I. Sease. Delivered One Lecture 5,000 Times. In tie "Interesting People" department of the September American Magazine appears an article about Russell H. Conwell, the famous Philadelphia preacher and educator who has delivered one lecture,."Acres of Diamonds," over five thousand times. He has ap- 1 oil nvor +V10 WrtHd Th P nrO jjcai CU C4.1I LUV/ " v/? -v?. x ceeds from his lectures !':e devotes to)1 sending poor boys through college. ( Following is an extract from the ar- 1 tide about him: "Doctor Conwell has delivered this ^ lecture over five thousand times. All the way from the Dardanelles to the Yantze, from Cairo to Saginaw, he foas been flinging out its optimistic philos- ( ophy as prodigally as tne narvesi muuu pours down -her silver flood. One year ~ he delivered it two hundred times; an- ' other, he filled half a hundred dates so j near to Philadelphia that he returned c home each night. ^ 'The remuneration for his famous j lecture has varied greatly. A Virginia c fonnm fionoo/1 him with , j. V^U IlIULLi t tcc UiitC X^VVUI^VU'JVU umi ^ a smoked ham. (This occurred before the pork trust had put 'iams on a dia- t mond basis.) At another time a preacher gave him a promissory note g for $4.50?Conwell still has it. ^ "He devotes all of his lecture pro- e ceeds to assisting poor students E through college. Usually one delivery c of the lecture will pay a student's ex- f ti L penses ror a year. t "He has known many literary and d historic men. Jofcn Brown, when about 1: 50 years of age, used to visit his boy- s hood home, milk the cows and play in ti the hay the future lecturer/" , n / igajNtP/V-MlBE JashevJL^E > ' Q51I/1 .. Sl?^. ' \ ? wV^on > ^ ?& \*sH v rnl ^ r fc/ g ! -Tj { 0\ % \6pArz, V^^reerivrJIe i S-Si )Ji ta, / "7j__ \ t3uX >MS PIEDMONT HIGHWAY Columbia 0 miles Newberry 43 9 " Laurens 76 4 " Greenville* 111 7 " Hendersonville 155 2 " Asheville 176 9. " v y S Everybody Ent ~v / For Appalai rflE BOOSTERTRIP WAS SUCCESSFUL SNTHUSIASTIC CROWDS GREET THE PARTY ALONG THE WAY. ft'ork Will Commence on September 15 in >ewberry County to Build Road. By W. E. Pelham, Sr. What is a booster? If to be a Dooster is signified by a deep and abidng interest in the general welfare of four community, a willing mind and :eart to aid in the development of TM-nmnfoc tVl o nilhlio iveryuuug mat ^^?? , lplift, a hearty and encouraging co-1 )peration with others who are more' 'ar-sig'nted and enthusiastic, then I im a rooster. In fact, I do not ques;ion but that I have been a booster jver s'nce I was born. And tfris leads re to say, Mr. Editor, that as a guest >f Col. E. J. Watson, State commissioner of agriculture, I was one of that >tirrii)g boly of our fellow townsmen 2 locf vno met 1.01. watsuu emu paiuj mui, Friday morning, and under his pilotige raaue the booster trip to Sparfan)ing, via Gibsons,. Whitmire, Union, Buffalo. West Springs and Glenn Springs, the famous watering place of he Piedmont. Impelled by a sense of concern for he advaniage of our and neighboring iounltes, we were bent upon the preentation of the Appalachian mountain lighway, destined to make for the'benfit of every section visited, for by this aeans not noly'will the low-county !ri.>?/-. nnoViIoH tra VPfSd a SPP. lli6C;x uv w v?? ? - v j on of our commonwealth in his mounainward journey, rich in historic traitions, entrancing in beauteous woodand ana shaded valleys, riplpling treams and rivulets, farm scenes that ell of joyous plenty, as the husband-! lan goes forlli to cultivate and gather . # \ * \ \v ___ * ? " t il 'MERFWo y il i1 *> / t NO/STH gQL tjtTY" "'7^* 5 \ ' % \ y >^%oo^y H/* \ #* Tj a>// % X. v S J sP'^i I \ ^ ^ \ <> ^ ?s tK7v? \ ,\? s\ XjWooJ r irff ' 'n S' / S XEnor^e r^lL V \, r4-i> \v a ^ S\ iWhicmtrc> 'JR J* / / i I \ I \ 5husiastic zhian Highway * as the Lord of the Universe may regulate and yield, out of the abundance of His good will and pleasure. We were a jolly and hopeful party, indeed, as we sauntered forth under Col. Watson's excellent leadership, made fl-e more so, indeed, as we encountered nothing to deter us in our onward speed over the roads made good and prepared by the enterprising spirit that inspired such worthy and ?foi-mart. urVin (inmnnse th P yiU5i cooi?c iaiui&io i>uu sections between Newberry and Whitmire, notably Dr. W. . Brown, the Ruffs, the Browns, the Subers and others. It is greatly to't):eir credit and keen business acumen that the highway along their plantations was made , ready and in order, indicating a desire | to welcome the new mountain highway l cordially, and not only so, but they were at Gibsons in propria persona, and with voice to encourage. [ (The Whitmire interest was once more manifested as a large assemblage of public spirited men and approving ladies gave us a Icearty wel 1 I come in the square, wnere remarks were made by several prominent men of the respective communities. With no let-up in our enthusiasm, we followed our leader and feared no dangers. Soon across the roaring Tiger, and with no tiger, either awake or blind, to enchant us or to m |ie us afraid, we left "Vtfhitmire to the rear, and cast our longing glances to the front in quest of more areas to cover, wt-ile "distance lent enchantment to the view and robed the mountain in its azure hue." As of old, a courier was sent forth to proclaim our coming, and so with peals of joyous laughter, and Tipperary songs that reverberated from hill-top to hill-top, our lusty lungs and sonorous voices sounded the keynote of that popular song, awakening new interest in the minds of ti':e expectant denizens of thriving Union. A whole-souled and hearty welcome was given to us on the street facing * APPALACHIAN" .HIGHWAY^ Columbia Om?te$| Newberry 43 9 'Y -Whitmire 3.5 ") JJnion . 81.** <Jlenn Springs' . 98.1-j **, Spartanburg .1 .110.3; Hendersonvllle .159,3: .**, Asheville .181.0, V RAILROAD ROUTEV Columbia Omilea . Newberry :43.9 Jaurens 76.4 ft Woodruff 95.9 ii a (\ ?f-, jpai lAiuuuig iij 7 | Hendersonville. .164.0 "i Asheville 4 .185 7< " < : JNMS7 % I ? A.?* r YORK r (CHESTER 4 " -;4' " ? ? *1 ?f ^ -r;-i # M <9 m f 1 V^V T ? o VVN. f yZ\\r^ , ! / the chamber of commerce, addresses of welcome and responses by Mr. B. C. Matthews, president of National bank of Newberry, Mayor Z. F. Wright of Newberry, Dr. Harms, president of Newberry college, and others. Refreshments were served to as many as were fatigued and cared for them, and everybody made to feel at l-omo and i_? i t-i flri/lnnAn fViot fh A Ll'dL]jy. it wao in wuMb waaw dewberry contingent made a good impression upon the citizens of "Union, betokening the right feeling that should animate sister counties. But it were not well to linger here too long, Lest we forget, and as there were other fields to conquer and to interest, on and on our automobiles and our Fords carried us, checking up. at West Springs, wi.ere several inspiring speeches were made by Commissioner Watson, Dr. Sarins, Mayor Wright, Sheriff Blease and several others. Eloquence was not wasted here upon the desert air, as list/iing multitudes were eagerly enjoying the sprightly humor, the witty suggestions, the avalanche of good sense and advanced ought. Let me say, en passant that Commissioner Watson's speech at this juncture was the best in my opinion that he had made, replete with wisdom and sound counsel v as he depicted the immense need of good roads to tf'e people of the country districts, because of the greater facilities for the transportation of the farm products, for the arousing of a livelier appreciation in schools and making easier the approaches to tne country churches. Thus our young men and maidens of the country would feel less tfce impulse to go to the cities, which, alas, too often alfure and do not satisfy. CoT Watson" sounded like a prophet of old in his warning, as he branched out upon his subject in its larger aspect and constructive view point. It was an admirable address and will bear fruit. Glenn Springs reached, our cavalcade of 20 cars, supported by a band of music from Union, the mayors of Newberry, Whitmire and Union, our delighted eyes feasted upon festoons of bunting, entwined about with brilCOXTIXUED OX PAGE o.) ,