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OFFICERS DISCUSS PLANS
FOR CHECKING LAWLESSNESS
State's Recent Homicide Recorc
Shocking?Illicit Stills. Multiplying?Patent
IV* Jicines Give
Trouble?Negro Soldiers
Problem.
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Columbia, July 17.?Tightening uj
of the machinery of the law, closei
cooperation between the people anc
their peace officers and a more
stringent prosecution of and curb pul
on venders of certain extracts containing
large percentages of alcohol
were advocated and a solemn warn'ing
was issued against vagrancy among
the members of the negro race
and the carrying of obscene pictures,
principally" by return negro soldiers,
by speakers at the convention of
sheriffs, solicitors, magistrates and
foremen of grand juries here yester
day. The convention, which was
called some weeks ago by Governor
Cooper in order to'discuss the lawlessness
throughout the State and to
enact plans for a more thorough law
enforcement, was representative and
was attended by peace officers from
every section and county of South
Carolina.
Governor Cooper, who opened the
convention with a speech telling of
its purpose, said that there was about
one homicide in South Carolina for
every day of 1919, and that something
had to be done to ameliorate
such conditions. The various speakers
voiced an earnest desire to assist
the Governor in maintaining law m
the State and there was a concensus
of opinion that should the people give
proper cooperation crime could be
stamped out.
Lots of Moonshining
The question of prohibition occupied
a deal of the time of the convention
and there was plenty of evidence
on hand that the State was being
overrun with illicit distillers, but
that the sentiment for a rigid- enforcement
of the prohibition law was
growing hourly. The thing that gave
the peace officers the most concern,
they claimed, was the'sale of Jamaifa
ginger and other extracts with a high
percentage of alcohol, and a resolution
was adopted calling on the fed
eral authorities to investigate the
manufacture and sale of these socalled
medicines.
Another question which gave the
peace officers a deal of concern was
the'disinclination of the members of
the negro race to work. Solicitor E.
C. Mann, of the First Judicial Circuit,
said that the government* in
drafting the negro into the military
service had succeeded in making a
vagrant out of him after his discharge.
Solicitor Homer S. Blackwell
of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, said
\ , that a paper published at Baltimore
had been circulated lately in .Laurens
county and that one issue of this paper,
which he read, had advised the
negro that, as they could not get
justice, to get a dubble-barreled shotgun,
200 rounds of' ammunition and
' proceed to "get" the members of the
white- race, as the negroes are in the
majority in the South.
Governor Cooper called attention
to the frequency with which negroes,
principally returned soldiers are being
arrested with obscene pictures on
their persons. Various speakers issued
a warning that unless the carry
ing of such pictures is stopped serious
trouble will be experienced.
The convention was presided over
by J. K. Henry, of Chester, solicitor
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OI me CrtXin duaicmi circuit, as uiaii'
man, and J. Wilson Gibbs, of Columbia,
clerk of the House of Represen
tatives, was elected as secretary.
. . Charleston's Fine Record, i
Following the opening speech of
Governor Cooper Capt. J. Elmore
Martin, sheriff of Charleston county,
said that without the sentiment of
the people behind him, thhe sheriff
could do nothing. '
Frank J. Simmons, foreman of the
grand jury of Charleston, said that
Charleston was never cleaner before
in its history, that the grand jury
was doing its duty without discrimi
nation and that an indictment meanx
something. He said that the laboring
people?and he is one of their leaders?were
desirous of a proper enforecement
of the law, for it meant
proper protection to them and theii
families.
Too Many Technicalities
Solicitor L. M. Gasque, of the
Eighth Judisial Circuit, said that the
proper enforcement of the law means
the success of Governor Cooper's administration
and the success of al]
government, and he thought that tKe
present convention was momentous,
in that it would make more cohesive
the law's machinery in South Carolina.
"I was shocked," he said,
"when the Governor stated that thert
was about one homicide in South
Carolina for every day in this year
There is a cause, and I believe I know
what it is. I mean no criticism wher
I make this statement: I believe
gentleman, that the fault lies in the
technicalities of the law as practicec
by my profession."
The speaker then told of various
t
rexperiences he had in his circuit
t with venders of various compounds
|
which produce drunkenness but which
I are sold as medicines.
In this connection, he introduced
fVio -frkllnwincr resolution, which was
' unanimously adopted by a rising
vote:
"Whereas the State of South Carolina
is being flooded with so-called
' patent medicines, known as 'Jamaica
^ginger," 'beef, wine and iron,' bitters
5 and various and sundry other concoc'jtions
which contain a large percent ;
age of alcohol and are sold as a bevl
.erage ;and.
' I "Whereas, the manufacturers of all
' {these so-called medicines is beyond
! the law of the state, being situated in
I
'^Richmond, Va. fcnd, other places;
; and.
! "Whereas, the sale of such in our
state is not only prohibited by law,
,' but is a menace to good health, mor,
als and society;
i "Therefore, be it resolved by the
solicitors, sheriffs and other peace officers
of the state of South Carolina
in convention assembly by the call of
the Governor, the federal authorities
be requested to investigate the manu- |
facture and sale in our state of the j
!aforesaid concoctions by whatever!
I
name known and see if the same in
i- nnj.kA,'f !
jtnis state can ue prumuncu auu, uc ib|
: resolved further, that a copy of these;
resolutions be furnished District At-!
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tomeys Francis H. Watson, of Colum-j
1 bia, and J. W. Thurmond, of Edge- j
j field, to each of our members in con- j
igress, and that a copy be given to the
fcress of the State."
Influence of Movies.
G. Croft Williams, secretary of the
State Board of Charities and Corrections,
gave the convention some^ interesting
statistics to show that crime
was on the increase. One regretable j
thing, he said, was the increase in
juvenile crime. "I am satisfied," he
'stated, "that the increase of juvenile
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ture, with its 'blood and thunder' ele- j
I men*, its killing and other technical j
j incidents which excite the imagina- j
tion of the growing boy and also 1j
am confident that the increase in the
number of homicides is but a by-pro-1
duct of war, for history shows that j
following every war there is an increase
in killing."
Mr. Williams said that the boys in j
the Florence school had been examin-1
,ed and 15 per cent, had been found,
I to be mentally deficient and that of j
the women imprisoned by the United j
States government for crimes against j
, morality, whe~ examined 30 per cent, j
| of them were found to be below the j
; normal standard m mentality.
Solicitor Blackwell of Laurens said
jthat the law passed at the last session
of the General Assembly prohibiting
the sale of extracts, bitters and
other high percentage alcoholic compounds
for beverage purposes was an
| absolute nullity, but that vendors in
.these so-called medicines could be
'prosecuted under the prohibition law.
That Abbeville Lynching.
He told of the recent lynching of
a negro in Abbeville county. He
was shot to death and thrown into.
the Savannah river. After a few!
days his body came to the surface, j
lit was then cut up and the pieces
thrown back into the river. Although
the sheriff and the coroner's jury:
have been investigating the killing]
(and have inserted advertisements in j
.the newspapers, they have not suc-^
jceeded in getting a shred of evidence, j
' I When he goes before the Abbeville,
' grand jury, he said, at the next term |
of court, he cannot get a bill for he j
,has nothing to go on. At this point.
Solicitor Blackwell told of a Balti-j
more paper being circulated in his!
county. He said he inquired at the j
or?/1 oyo Tiro a S5 snharrih
CA11U ISAXWAV f* MM W ,
:|ers in Laurens, and probably it en-|
; joys a large circulation among the
negroes of the State.
Sheriff Cannon Blease of Newber-!
ry said that )ie had no trouble in pre- j
: venting the sale of extracts in his
- county, because he had prosecuted
; several merchants and they had been j
j fined and had ceased carrying the
compounds. When he finds that a
-'merchant has a larger stock than he
thinks is necessary for medcial pur jposes,
he seizes it and takes the mat
i tpr intn the euorts. i
>) "If I find a negro in my county
' I taking one of those papers referred
| to by Mr. Blackwell," said Sheriff
Blease, "I am going to stop him. Of
!j course, if they ^end it free, I can't
J j help it. That's no kind of paper for
J a negro to read anyway. If every
sheriff will do likewise, I don't think
I we wilt have any trouble from negro
- papers." . . >
, Don't Want to Work.
"South Carolina is faced with a
proposition it has never had before,"
, | said Solicitor Mann, "it must handle
J an army of discharged negro soli
diers, who think that because they
have seen military service they must
r.be given a-voice in the government."
t j He then called attention to the ab,
solute disinclination of the returned
I
i negro soldier to work, a spirit, he
[.said, which has nermeated tbe other
members of the race, and this idle>
iiess will inevitably lead to crime. He
f ~ *
regretted to say that the United ,
I
States government had made vag-!
rants out of the negro men when uni-;
'forms were put on them. He called 1
attention to the statement of the |
governor that many arrests are be-1
j ing made of negroes carrying ob- >
leninn rvinfnr/ie rtn +Vioir norCATIC
"I hope that whenever a negro is i
(found with obscene pictures on him
he will be arrested," said Mr. Mann,!
"and when a white man is found with j
them he will be tarred and feathered^
and run out of the community on a,'
rail." I;
Juvenile Courts Endorsed.
A resolution was adopted memo-j
rializing the legislature to establish ;j
juvenile courts in each county when
'needed.
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| Sheriff John C. McCain of Kich- j
land county, said that the negro sol- i,
|dier has returned from overseas with ^
| exalted ideas of social equality and ' <
ithev seeih determined to force the':
I * j J
: issue by trying to ride with white j
people on the street cars, demanding ,
to be served at white soda fountains, 11
etc. He saw in this attitude great:
i danger. ^
County Investigators Needed. ]
Solicitor George Bell Timmerman j
of the Eleventh judicial circuit, sug- j
gested that investigations by proper j
men in each county would save the <
State money and would insure more 'i
convictions, because solicitors would L
be in possession of more facts when! ]
the cases came to trial. Many cases' ]
go to trial, he stated, without the! j
State having all its witnesses, which ' T
condition would be obviated by hav-j]
ing investigators in each county to 'j
work up the major cases.
A motion was adopted for the j
chairman to appoint a committee to l.
draft the convention's requests,
wViirh will he Dresented to the eren-!*
eral assembly by Governor Cooper, h
Governor Cooper thanked the j(
peace officers for coming to Colum-P
bia to the conference, which, he be- *
lieves, will be of benefit to the offi- j *
cers and the people. He said he felt j ^
greatly encouraged. J
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As to the Negro Situation.
?
Solicitor Henry, chairman, in closing
the convention, referred to the
various remarks made about the negro,
and said that the situation can
be handled, but what he thought was ^
needed was a greater determination I
on the part of the white people to en-1
force the law among themselves, j
Right there, he stated, is ^he danger, j
He said that he is not as much afraid
of the negro as of the white, people, |
who have been growing careless and
are allowing their standards to become
lowered.
' Mr. Henry suggested that when
the sheriffs return to their counties
they call a meeting of their deputicjs,
the magistrates, constables, etc., and
take the matter of law enforcement
in hand and arouse public opinion, i
along which line each sheriff should 1
be a leader in his own county.
After the f convention adjourned !
the sheriffs held a meeting.
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BATEMAN DIES OF HIS WOUNDS
State Constable Shot by Distiller
Passes Away at Hospital.
News and Courier.
Columbia, July 18.?J. Fletcher
Bateman of Camden, State / constable,
who was shot yesterday in raiding
an illicit distillery in Kershaw
county, died on the operating table
at a local hospital here this afternoon
from the effects of his wound.
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Jtie was snot inrougn txie intestines.
His body will be taken to Camden in
the morning, and the funeral services
will be held there when his son arrives
from Texas. Mr. Batesman was
brought to Columbia today from
Camden.
I The dead officer had a high repu'tation
for probity and regard for
jduty, and he was a man fearless in
the performance of his duties, so
'much so that his superiors often had
jto caution him to be careful of his
personal safety. He was a constable
'under the former Governor D. C.
Heyward and was chief constable un'
der former Governor Martin F. AnI
sel with headquarters at Charleston.
I i -i -i. ii- _ .-xL
| "l am deeply grievea at me aeawi j
of my friend, Mr. J. F. Bateman," I
, said Governor Cooper tonight when j
| he was told that the officer was dead, j
j "He was not only a good officer,'
fearless and efficient in the discharge |
J of his duty, but was a good citizen
i devoted to the welfare of his State.
jHe possessed the traits which go to
' make an ideal. He was brave and !
j,
I was a gentleman, and'in a very in-:
jtelligent manner went about the dis-1
charge of his duty. He has served .
during several administrations as a,
I State officer, and never have I heard
anything derogatory to his character
or to his work.
| "The State can ill afford to lose ,
such a man. He met his death in the
i
line of duty, met it while he was;
.doing all in his power to afford to so- j
: ciety the protection of the law,!
without which our social fabric would
;
become chaotic, and our heaviness!
1 . 4 ..
and, ?ecunty be iost. \
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TWO NEGROES DEAD S
FOLLOWING THREAT <
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Carroll Mobley and Henry M. Ray in
Serious Condition With Ralph ;
Thompson Less Seriously Hurt.
The StateDenmark,
July 17.?Two negroes
were killed and three white men
J A J 4-?IT/\ /\ "T AWt y-3 n ^ AIAY1A11 r?l I
wuuuueu, iwu ui tucju uaugciuusi;, i
in a shooting scrape here late this j
afternoon between a white man and I
i
one or two negroes. The dead are
Agent Brown and George Stevens,
negroes.
Carroll Mobley, white, about 20 j
years old, has two bullets in his I
breast and a third in one of his arms j
and is not expected to live through !
the night. I
Henry Murray Ray, 22 years old, j
son of Sheriff S. G. Ray, was shot j
through the neck and is paralyzed
from the waist down. His condition j
is also critical. ,
J. Ralph Thompson, white, 25
years of age and unmarried, had an
arm shattered by a bullet. His condition
is not ^erious. All three of
che young men will be taken to a ;
lospital in Columbia on the early
morning train. Thompson is an em- j
ployee of the telegraph company. | m
The trouble arose out of a case ii. i
i
;ourt between the two negroes. In
;he trial Stevens was charged with
stealing some watermelons from
Brown and Carroll Mobley was a wit- eu
less for Stevens. When court ad- j 25
joun.^d this afternoon, with the trial an
anfin:?h^d, Brown and his brother-in- jsp<
aw, Ozeii Ariderson, left the court
oom first and one of the negroes
vas heard to remark, "We'll get him ?
fet." In the court room were 35 or
10 white people. These came out
ifter the negroes, and Mobley crossid
the street toward the negroes, O
vhen Brown opened fire. Mobley
lashed back toward the street, with
Brown continuing firing. Mobley, stu
;ook refuge behind a tree and drew j
lis pistol and shot Brown dead. Injpe<
he meantime Brown had shot Ray! ?!
Thompson and Stevens. Anderson is he;
nissing tonight, but is being search- jua
id for, as eye witnesses claim that .
Anderson had part in the shooting, coi
Both of the negroes were middle
tged, each being about 35 to 40 Itiv
rears old. Stevens was employed by
he American Telephone company. th?
as
First Thot?They have taken .the bej
rranks off the front end of most I <
nakes of cars now. Second Thot? jtio
\.nd put them in the seats of many, j R
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