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KENNETH GOSSETT
GIVEN FORTY YEARS
Motion for New Trial Refused and
Counsel Will Appeal Case to
Supreme Court.
News and Courier.
Abbeville, April 10.?Kenneth
Gossett, seventeen-year-old youth,
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a life sentence in the State penitentiary
for criminal assault on a sixteen-year-old
girl, a native of Abbeville.
After being out for four hours and
fifty-five minutes the jury which has
k been hearing the case of the Honea
--.i . *th youth returned at f> o'clock a
aaJV ;ct of rape with recommendation
mercy of the court, and Judge
S. Sease immediately pro
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hard jabor * 'u> jury and the prorr,
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nour n in^r" l- e by the youth.
? oun oment of f>. the prosecu.
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"last Monday in thv face of pu!.0;c
. digiiaiion against the crime appeai't
for a new trial o:t< the grounds tha!*
the court was illegally constitute,1 and |\
that the venire was not drawn ac-i'-thi
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to both the comsritirtions of South t T
Carolina and of the United States. J brill
* The motion was overruled. They will ffon
.appeal to the State Supreme Court, jsolio
Hopes It Will Be Lesson. j for '
In passing sentence, Judge Sease j Gen
said that he presumed that the reason j and"
why the jury recommended mercy lion
was because of the extreme youth of the
Kenneth Gossett. He hoped that the ! man
lesson which has been taught in the j Elev
court this week will have a deterrent i the j
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effect on others v^ho commit like
crimes. He said that, in passing the
sentence, he did, which was in effect
a life imprisonment, he hoped that
the prisoner would contemplate on
the wronjr he had done.
There was no demonstration when
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the verdict was annouiu-eu. mere
was some surprise that the youth
shouJd be found guilty. It was
"thought by many that there might be
an acquittal, and it appeared when
the jury stayed out as long as it did
that there might be a mistrial.
When it became known that the
! jury had agreed the courthouse be;
gan slowly to fill up and there was a
hush of solemnity as the jury filed in
and announced its verdict.
OOn the same verdict which con;
demned Kenneth (lossett was written
' the verdict, at. the direction of the
j court, which cleared ,ionn uosseu.
i his twenty-two-ycar-old cousin, who
was his companion on the automobile
! trip of March 14.
The jury could have found Kenneth
(Jossett jruilty of criminal assault
or attempted Criminal'assault
: which would have meant rhe death
j penalty. or attempted criminal assault
vith recommendation to mercy.
. which ?ould have carried' a sentence
tfrom live t<> forty years, the same as
in the first count, or of assault of a
highly aggravated nature, which
--ould have carried a verdict of from
ee momns to u-u ycaia.
Arguments Are Brilliant.
arguments this morning- were
effort? by all counsel,
he . Hckwell, of Laurens,
innt . ':<rhth circuit, opened
ier SI _BK - was followed by
itor of ti;e h. of Anderson,
the staf e,-t:nd ht Proctor A.
. M. L.# Bonham, "^Rel f?r
his son,,State Senator-, '^er'
ham of Greenville of couu
defend?. George Bell Tim,
? VI I- un, solicitor of thk
enth jfudicial circuit, closed for *
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the verdict was returned at 6 o'clock.
The jury was tied up so long because
it was divided as to whether it
should find a verdct of guilty or one
j of guilty with recommendation to the
j mercy of the court, it is rumored,
i Mrs. Gossett, mother of the defend
i ant, held up throughout the trial.
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but when sentence had been passed
upon him, she threw her arms about
; her boy, kissed him and prayed over
him. His father threw his arms
! around him and cried.
^ The defendant's father and mother
( when homeward bound in an automoj
bile, passed him as he was being car!
ried to jail.
i The defendant left for Columbia
| on the 7:10 o'clock train in the cusj
tody of United States Deputy Mar!
shal Charles J. Bruce. Deputy Sheriff
i T. L. Conn and Special Deputy Burt
, 1- erguson. Aooui a uozen people
i wore at the station, among them two
i brothers of the prosecutrix.
; PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE
Kenneth Gossett Declares He Is Not
Guilty.
Columbia, April 10.?Still protest
ing his innocence and claiming that
1 he had been unjustly convicted, Ken
i neth Gossett, convicted of criminal
I assault with recommendation to the
j mercy of the court this afternoon at
! Abbeville and sentenced to forty
i years' imprisonment, was brought to
! Columbia tonight at 11:30 o'clock,
j The prisoner was immediately taken
to the State penitentiary.
j On the train coming down, the con|
victed youth made the following
j brief statement:
! "I am innocent. I hope my God
[ will strike me dead in my seat if I
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to say what she did."
, The Gossett youth maintained the
! same impassive demeanor on the train
j hat characterized his behavior durI
inff the trial, occupied his time in
ooking out of the window and chatcins?
with the guards. At only one
rime did he show emotion, and that
was when he stated that he never had
an idea that he would be convicted.
Then his eyes filled with tears.
Kenneth Gossett, in addition to
having driven a public service car in
Anderson and Greenville, stated tonight
that he was employed by a
j Columbia transfer company and drove
' ^ corvipp rar in this city for
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I five months, during the latter part of
1 11)18 and the first months in 1919. !
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HOUSE DEMOCRATIC
LEADER IS ' STRICKEN j
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i Congressman Kitchin Stricken With j
; Paralysis Soon After Speech on
Peace Resolution. ;
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j Washington. April 9. ? Representa- j
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lina, Democratic leader In the last j
i Congress. was stricken with a sJijrht!
' attack of paralysis on the left side j
, today shortly after he had delivered ;
; a speech in the house opposing the
Republican peace resolution. Physisicians
said tonight that he was resting
easily, but that the seriousness of
I his condition could not be determin:
ed for ten days.
j The paralysis resulted from a clot
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on the right Dram, an ec ting uis .en,
j side, with a slight facial paralysis.
| It was produced by a high blood presj
sure and the unusual exertion inci<k*rt
to delivering his speech, his phy;
sician declared.
j Mr. Kitchin became ill several
J minutes after his speech. Going to
| the Democratic cloak room, he told
Representative OMfield of Arkansas.
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wanted to go to his office for a brief
rest, planning to return to the house
chamber to vote on the resolution.
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Representative Lazare, ftf Louis- j
iana, a physician, examined Mr. i
kitchin and declared he had a slight j
paralytic stroke. Dr. Lewis J. Battle, J
the family physician, was summoned i
and ordered Mr. Kitchin removed to ;
his home. - j
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The illness of the North Carolina
member was mentioned in the closing j
hours of the peace debate. Representative
Mondell of Wyoming, the
Kitchin was unable to carry the
opposition fight to a final vote. Representative
Longworth, Republican, of j
Ohio, one of Mr. Kitchin's friends in j
the house, took the latter's pair and ;
on the final vote answered ''present." j
Dr. Battle said tonight ihat Mr. I
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Kitchin's condition was net serious j
and that he had slept during the j
early evening. Mrs. Kitchin. who has \
been at her home in No^h Carol'na.:
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started for Washington tonight. j
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Kite-hin has suffered, the first oceurvj
rh -x i:;.-1" December, wlu-n h?s speech j
was i'/Iected for a sho-'L time
SAYS REPUBLICANS
PURCHASED MAJORITY
VOTE TO KiLL TREATY j
Palmer Says "When I Saw Him j
Attacked and Vilified I Determined ;
to Carry the Flag of Woodrow j
Wilson to the People. {
Macon, Ga.. April 8.?"Threequarters
of a million dollars killed the
J... ? -P nnnnd O nflip of
treaty ui j?cov*. ? >? ? ?c ?
nations covenant," charged Attorney J
General Mitchell Palmer here tonight
in an address in behalf of his own
candidacy for the presidential nomination.
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:n Michigan," he said, "Senator
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Lodge organized the foreign relations
committee and refused to report
the treaty. If the Democrats
had carried Michigan?if the Republican
party had spent, say only a*
couple of hundred thousand dollars
?the Democrats would have organ
ized the Senate and the foreign relations
committee would have report^
ed the treaty and it would have been
passed. It took months of struggle
to get these .Democrats to desert the
party."
He declared that the purpose of
Senator Smith and Senator Reed and
others was to repudiate President
Wilson, embarrass the administration
and to change the Democratic
policies.
"They say I cannot carry Pennsylvania,"
said the Attorney Genei^.'
"If the party will nominate so^L
man who can carry Pennsylvania Pll^^
be for him. But he must be a better TB
Democrat than has yet announceJ^flBB
Mr. Palmer referred to the cati^^B
( isms of his Quakerism.
"Far be it from me to deny the
faith of my fathers," he said. "But I
was for this world war. Every boy in
mv fnmilv and everv hov in mv wife's
family, all Quakers, wore in the war i
from the first to the last." 1
"If you want references to my I
fighting; ability I refer you to several 8
battle-scarred Republicans. ra
"When I saw him attacked . and 8
villified, and no one willing to defend .
him, I determined to carry the flag fl
of Woodrow Wilson to the people." fl
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT M
I will make a final settlement of ?
the estate of M. M. Long, deceased, 9
in the Probate Court for Newberry jfl
County, S. C., on Thursday, the 15th ?
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the forenoon and will immediately
thereafter ask for my discharge as
administrator of said estate^ ^ ' jflflj
Administrator. flB
Newberry, S. C., March 13, I92(X^H
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