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COLLISION CAUSES SHOOTING AFFRAY; PROMINENT CITIZEN OF KINGS-TREE SLAIN Tom Poston Brought to Peniten-! tiary Following Killing of \[ J. P. Miller The State. Kingsfcree, May 8.?Kingstree was thrown into a state of excitement' early this morning upon receiving in-!1 formation that J. P. Miller, a w*ell- j1 konwn electrician, who has made his home in Kingstree for several years 1 with his wife and little adopted 1 daughter, had "been found dead by the roadside one mile south of Cades : with a bullet hole through his head. .Mr. Miller had been superintendent of J the electric plant at Lake City for some time and it was his custom to come to Kingstree every Saturday night to be with his wife over Sunday and was on his way here when '> his car was run into one mile south < of Cades by another car going in op- < posite direction and occupied by Tom 1 Poston and a young woman. Both i cars were damaged in the collision J and were on the road at the scene of * the killing this morning. w-ii?>_ J: j , HIT. Miner s ouuy was uaiuvcicu i' about midnight by Rural Policeman i Brockington, who brought the news J to Kingstree about o o'clock this < morning informing SheriiF Gamble, c who at once notified the dead man's t wife and repaired to the scene. } The car was soon identified and * it was stated that Poston was driving 1 it last night. Sheriff Gamble found Poston at his home a short distance from where 'the tragedy took place, t and Prw+rm at nnre admitted that he E had shot Mifler. When asked whyjl he shot him, he said that he ran into t him and he then "got hard" and he t "just shot the hell out of him." I - j It was evident from the position of n the car in the road this morning * that Mr. Miller had given the right of ^ way by driving his ear very near the * edge of the ditch leaving 20 feet on " his left. The girl is said to be the b only eyewitnesses to the tragedy. Post&fs revolver, of 45 caliber, jp was empty this morning. Hje admits shooting' three times. Only one ball j a - entered Miller's body and that in thejS top of the hea?, apparently fired while j e Miller #as in a stooping posture at ;t! the front of his car. The ball coursed ^ downward and came out just over the s left ear, without entering the brain, g The body was brought to Kingstree and p&pared for burial and was tak- r on to Hartsville this evening where S interment will be mad? tomorrow }j mornixf?. The body was accompanied n by a delegation of Masons from Lake j ^ A City, -where Mr. Miller was a member 't A coroner's inquest was held on the u spot th-is morning and a verdict ren-'I dered the effect that the deceased-t came to his death at thte hands of . Tom who was brought to Columbia later, where he will be jJlaced in the state penitentiary for,s safety. p Mr. Miller is well known in theH South. He was from Savannah, and for a number 01 years -was a proies- j sional baseball player in the Southern c leaguev He is survived by his wife and little adopted daughter and one brother who lives in Savannah. He c ' "was 40 years old. M'GUIRT TO SPEAK 1 AT ROAD MEETING -F ; 1 The State, 10th. W. A. McGuirt, of Wilmington, N. jc C., president of the North Carolina p Good Roads association, has accented! an invitation to deliver an address i at the ^statewide roads meeting to be 1 held in Columbia at Craven hall next,1 Wednesday, May 18; at noon under;1 the auspices of 16 statewide organ iza-.1 tions. North Carolina is preparing to! spend $50,000,000 on its highways 1 and it was through the North Caro-|5 lina Good Roads association that the ^ -1 sentiment of the state was worKea up.1 to the importance of expending more.'* money on the highways. The promoters of next Wednesday's,' meeting say that the interest which; is being taken over the state indicates that Craven hall will be taxed to hold the crowd that will be here. Delegates are being appointed by all the , statewide organizations, Kiwanis and! Rotary clubs and the mayors of all! cities <ir.d towns. Former Governor U. U. neywara, temporary chairman yesterday received a letter from Walter L. Johnson, secretary of the Florence chamber of j commerce saying, '"Florence will j have as strong a delegation as it is j possible to secure at the roads meet- j ing on the 18th. Our hearts are with I any good movement for adequate j highways throughout the state." The Rock Hill chamber of commerce has named a strong delegation -t "D Will or>r? writes t.Viaf. xo represent auviv nm - it will be glad to cooperate with the organizations calling the meeting. "I hope the meeting will accom plish some good results," writes May- j or Eugene S. B lease of Newberry in ' sending a list of delegates he has appointed to represent Newberry. The Charleston Automobile club, the Charleston Automotive Trade association and the Charleston chamber of commerce are all planning to send ^ .1^1 i! i. _ x PL large delegations iu represent v^narleston. A. B. Jordan, president of the South Carolina Press association, J.! ! D. Hammett, president of the Cotton i Manufacturers association of South j Carolina, Niels Christensen, president of the South Carolina Development board and W. H. Coggswell, president of the Travelers Protective association, have appointed large delegations to represent their respective organisations. MAY ALLISON STARS IN BIG NEW METRO PICTURE "The Marriage of Wm. Ashe,'' starring May Allison, will be the feature attraction at the opera house on Friday. This new Metro production is announced by competent authorities to be one of the outstanding dramatic pictures of the year, and one of the best in wfcich the star, Miss Allison, has yet been seen. The seenic investiture of the production is on a scale sufficiently lavsh to classify it with the superspecial pictures of tjie season, which jxcellently complements the strong, iramatic story, in which is portrayed ;he struggles of a brilliantly clever roung woman against the machina ions 01 unscrupulous political true- < * & n rues. Miss Allison will be seen in the role, if Lady Kitty Bristol, who flees from he convent in which she has been ilaced by her parents and travels to London, where at length she makes he acquaintance of William Ashe, he Secretary of Home Affairs in the Sritish Cabinet, and subsequently carries him. Following her marriage o Ashe and their honeymoon abroad, ,ady Kitty meets Cliffe, a radical, r>ir\ nnicnnc hor mirir? with r>f?litipjil I r ilV |/V4WVltO it V A 41*1.* v? > ?^W?.?.WV?. itrigue against the party of her husand. Influenced by Cliffe, Lady Kitty ublishes a book dealing with affairs f state, ^nd fe then discovered in the partment of Cliffe_ by her husband, he strives fo square herself, howver, but is prevented by Ashe. She hen returns to the convent from rhich she fled, only to be found there ome time later by Ashe, who for-f ives and loves her. Supporting Miss Allison in the j ole of Lady Kitty are Wyndham Itanding, Zeffie Tillbury, Frank Eliott, Robert Boulder, Lydia Yeanans Titus, and Clarissa Selwynr.e. iuth Ann Baldwin adapted the picure and Edward Sloman eliFected it, inder the personal supervision of Jayard Veiller, Director of Producions. Kiwanis Club The Kwanians held an enthusiastic ession at their bi-monthly meeting ^iiiirarfav evening. Much business of i mportance was transacted, and J. B. j lunter, president of the club, j>:ave j m* interesting: report of the district j onvention held recently at Green-1 rillt, S. C. The club voted to tender services of :lub to W. H. Hunt, president Newjerry College club for commencenent exercises in any capacity Mr. j iunt may direct. A motion was carried that the club! end its assistance to the reorpanzai 1 Q ..ie ! ;ion ana support ui mc k, /m.o i ?lub in Newberry, and a committee j vas appointed for that purpose. The club voted to enforce the at-] endance rule, beginning: at the next neeting, whereby a member is automatically suspended from the club srhen absent from four consecutive! neetings without a valid excuse. The club decided to have the Newjerry College Varsity baseball team is its guests at the next meeting, May L 9th. W. S. Matthews was elected dele-1 *ate to the national convention j .vhich meets in uieveiana, umo, o uuu 20-24. 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