The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 02, 1920, Image 3
I SAYS LIFE AND HOME !
WERE IN JEOPARDY
Corbett's Statement?Thought He
Had Killed Four Instead of (
Three?Thinks Parties Were
Intoxicated,
k i
State.
j^Earlos Corbett, who shot three men
- and seriously vvounaea a
near Salley, Aiken county,
^MKirday night, claims he shot in self
HRense and to protect his home which
was jeopardized by a tire started by'
the parties shot.
The following special from Columbia
to The Charlotte, (X. C.) Observer
was printed yesterday morning.
giving Corbett's side of the trouble:
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Columbia, S. C., March 28.?Carlos
^^.A. Corbett, who last night killed!
^fc^>ryan Salley and seriously wounded
HHugh Fanning, Julian Cooper and:
Hftnes Salley at the Corbett home, in!
HKangeburg county, two miles from.;
E^^Alley, came to Columbia early this.
|^^^B>rning in an automobile and sue-,
^^^Kidered himself to the state peniten-;
aauiunuvo.
Corbett said that he acted in de- j
9 nse of life and to protect his homeH
Bainst the alleged marauding party. j
H ? According to Corbett's story, he;
H^PTnd his wife were awakened last
|MLnight about 11 o'clock, by flames
^^shooting up in the front cf his home, 1
r which, along wth his farm buildings j
[ was threatened.
He said that he had cane stacked 1
in front of his house to the height
of three feet paralleling the public i
iiighway, and this was arire with tne;
flames shooting toward the house.;
When he had the lire under control,}
said, the automobile bearing a!
BK'.rty which had passed his house
^^Vame back up the road. Hi averred!
rfhat one of the party said: "Ho has i
put out the fire, let's start it again."!
Corbett said he was standing in;
dense smoke emanating from the1
smoldering coals and they did not see '
him.
Threatened H is Life.
%"When this threat was made,",
said Corbett, "I warned the party that
I would protect my wife and my1
home at all hazards and after I had;
spoken, one of the men, a hoarse i
voiced man, Jonas Salley, I :hink ex-i
ix.iaimed: "Damn you, we will k'Jlj
you!" With this, two of the men got.
out of the front of th i car and ad- j
vanced towards me with their hands i
in their hfp pockets and two other i
men left the rear of the car with their j
nds in their side pockets like they i
Bere going to draw their knives, j
Phese last two advance 1 as if thf-y |
rvere trying to cut me off from the ;
^K*ear.- I then began shooting."
ft Corbett said that when he first dis-;
covered the fire he smelled an odor j
^ of either gasoline or kerosene, and >.
he is of the opinion that some mem-J
ber of the party sprinkled the cane j
sind then ignited it.
He was of the opinion that the i
! members of the party who live at j
Salley were drinking. He claims that j
he was cold sober and has not taken a
drink of intoxicating liquor during
the past eight years. He could attribute.
no cause for the men attempting
to burn his house as he alleged., j
? Formerly Was Police Chief.
- J-"- -Tni-ivtaxlv r*hipf of:
^Orut!H wan iviiuwtj v... ?
t>alice of Salley and is now farming.
He is about six feet tall, of sparse,
powerful frame clea.. cut face ?nd
piercing, fearless eyes. When seen
at the state prison he was calm and
collected and no element of nervousness
was apparent. He said that he
came to Columbia to give himself up!
to avoid possible further trouble.
He said that he has large familyconnections
in the Salley section as!
I^have the dead men. Had he re-'
WhainoH. these two elements might!
~^aave come together, engendering
possible riot and further bloodshed.
He said that he shot with a 38
calibre Colts special revolver and he!
sdid, "I thought I got one at every |
crack." He was under the impres-j
sion that he had killed four men.
One May Recover.
Jonas Salley, who is desperately
wounded, but has a fighting chance,
according to his physician tonight,
was brought to Columbia early this
morning in a car and placed in a
local hospital. J
He was shot three times. One of
the bullets went through the fore
part of the head, penetrating both
eye balls and blinding mm. i wo
entered the left arm between the
elbow and shoulder. One of these J
lodged in the chest, this last bullet [
being the only one in his body. He
rwill be operated on tomorrow and
his eye balls will be taken out, according
to his physicians.
Corbett has retained ex-Governor j
Cole Biease, to whose house he went!
before he surrendered to the state j
penitentiary authorities, as his attorney.
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URGES FARMERS TO
STUDY COTTON COST!
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JTrOGUCllOZl V^OSl 111 l^iu t\an^cu ,
From 8 Cents to $1.07 Per Pound.
s Washington, March 28.?The De-1
yM'partment of Agriculture annouced to-!
H day that investigation by the officer |
of farm manrgement'of the depart-;
t mem shows that a price based on a
"bulk line" cost of 28 cents per i
HE pound lint, 85 per cent of the cotton
gro.vn in 1918 on 842 farms from
r which cost figures were obtained
I would have produced a profit. Sixty- I
L six per cent of the farms concerned j
would have made money, the depart- 1
joient said. At a price based on the j
-average cost of production, which the '
W department figured at 23 cents per j
F pound, only 351 of the 842 farmers, |
' or 41.7 per cent, would have made a j
profit, it was stated. The "bulk j
line," it was explained, marks the i
point on a scale of costs about which
the price of X commodity must hang
~ - - * < 1
1f an adequate numoer oi producers
are to be kept in the business. In
the case of +he 1918 crop the price
actually obtained coincided wjth the
bulk line, the farmers receiving about
29 cents for the product.
The net cost of production, it was
found, ranged from 8 cents to $1.07
per pound, only three farms, totalling
thirty-live ac % producing at the
minimum cost, twenty-two showing
less than fourteen cents,, while more
than fifty ranged from -~0 cents to
t
?
"The more generally farmers study
their costs and adjust their production
on the basis of costs and prices
the more readily will economic torces
operate to maintain production on a
profitable basis/' the department
states. ''The government used the
'bulk line' duiing the war for pricelixing
in industries other than agriculture.
setting a price so that from
SO to i>0 tK-r cent of a commodity
could be produced at a profit. A certain
percentage of producers may be
expected to lose on a given staple in
any given year, but economists agree
if prices sink so low as to nuiKe tnis
percentage very large, say as low as
the line of the average cost of production,
so many will lose that production
that the staple will tend to
fall otF until prices rise to a point
where they will again cover the cost
of the bulk of the product."
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settlement of
the estate of M. M. Long, deceased,
in the Probate Court for Newberry
County, S. C., on Thursday, the 15th
day of April, 1920, at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon and will immediately
thereafter ask for my discharge as
administrator of said estate.
H. T. LONG.
Administrator.
Newberry, S. C., March 13, 1920.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION IN EXCELSIOR-S
WILTON SCHOOL DIS
TRICT NO. 19 AND 35.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Newberry.
Whereas, one-third of the resident |
free-holders and a like proportion of
the resident electors of the age of 21
years in the Excelsior-Swilton School
District, No. 19 and 35, the
County of Newberry, State of
South Carolina, have filed a petition
with the County Board of Education
of Newberry County, South Carolina,
petitioning and requesting that an
election be held in the said School
District on the question of levying an
additional tax of four (4) mills on
the taxable property within the said
School District.
Now, therefore, we the undersigned,
composing the County Board of
fnr Wwhprrv Countv.
State of South Carolina, do hereby
order the Board of Trustees of the
Excelsior-Swilton School District,
No. 19 and 35, to hold an election on
the said question of levying an additional
special tax of four (4) mills
to be collected on the property located
within the said School District,
which said election shall be held at
the Sam Bug Hill in front home of
O. L. Livingstone, in the said school
district, No. 19 and 35, on Friday, the
9th day of April, 1920, at which said
election the polls shall be opened at
7 a. m.. and close at 4 p. m.
The members of the Board of
Trustees t>f the said School District
shall act as Managers of the said
election. Only such electors as reside
in the said School District and
return real or personal property for
taxation, and who exhibit their tax
I or registration certificates as reI
quired in general elections, shall be
allowed to vote. Electors favoring
| the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot
containing the word 4<Yes" writjten
or printed thereon, and each
! elector opposed to such levy shall
cast a ballot containing the word
i"\o" written or printed thereon,
j Given under our hands and seals
'this the 25th day of March, 1920.
C. M. Wilson, (L. S.)
0. B. Cannon,
J. B. Harman,
County Board of Education, New?
berry County, South Carolina.
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