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1 ~* . > * VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 75. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921. * TV/ICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR CONVICTED MEN f 1 _____ FOX, KIRBY AND GAPPINS TO DIF. IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Xirby Tried Alone, Found Guilty in Thirty-five Minutes, Fox and Gappins Convicted in Forfy Minuter State Staff Correspondent. 'Lexington, Sept. 13.?C. 0. Fox, S. J. Kirby and Jesse Gappins, convicted murderers of William Brazell, 19 year old Columbia taxi driver, at 5:25 o'clock this afternoon were sentenced by Judge Thomas Sease to die in the electric chair on Friday, October 21, the electrocution to take 1 place between the hours of 10 o'clock in the morning and 2 o'clock in the TV?f> inrv in the Kirbv (^Wt'UVWt. J j tease, the trial of which was begun at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, reached a verdict of guilty at 10:50 oclock this morning after deliberating \ , .. '35 minutes, while Fox and Gappms, / who were tried* jointly, were convicted at 5:14 o'clock, the jury having been closeted exactly 40 minutes. The entire trial of the three men begun with the swearing of witnesses for the grand'jury at 10:05- o'clock Monday morning, occupied only about ten hours of actual time of the court during the two days. The grand jury returned a true bill against the three men at 11:45 Monday morning and a few minutes later the prisoners, defended by counsel appointed t>y tne court, were, arraigned. At 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon -the trial of Kdrby was begun, the case going to the jury at 10:24 this morning. Thirty-five minutes later the verdict of gvitty had been returned ajid! the trial of Fox and Gappins was begun, j At 3 2:45 o'clock the state rested its case against the two men and at 5:14 o'clock the second jury had agreed that Fox and Gappins were guilty. The three men were arraigned to receive their sentences and at 5:25 o'clock each of the three men had heard his doom solemnly pronounced, and ?eaeh knew that there was then only a few hours over 37 days of life Remaining for him. It was early in the morning of Monday, August 8, exactly 37 <iays ago, .that young Brazell was killed 'by the three men near Leesville aft^r having 'been lured into Lexington county on . a supposedly ibona fide trip to "get some girls." Returned to Columbia The three convicted and sentenced men were led from the court-house immediately after the trial, being returned via automobile to the state ; penitentiary where in the death cell they will be held until the -date of their electrocution. The prisoners have been held in the state penitentiary ever since first being: brought to Co-lum'bia, being carried to Lexington each morning- for trial. The transfer to and from the penitentiary was under special guard. These special guards, headed iby State Detectie T. AK Berley, were all heavily armed. The four trips in automobiles and the trial passed, however, without a ripple of moib violence. ~ orvnoal e-iven bv iNO iru'wcc xix ^ counsel for any of the three prisoners. Mrs. S. J. Kirby, wife of Kirby, this afternoon ^fter the trial, however, conferred with A. D. Martin, appointed' ;by the court as attorney for her husband, announcing that she believed that Kirby was mentally unbalanced, due to an injury to his skull and to protracted illness. Kirby, she told the attorney, now wears a silver plate in his skuM. Mrs. Kirby also announced that she would appeal to z"1 d \ r?ftAnoi. fnr a commutation VXU V . xv. n.. wvyvi. *v* ? ? of her husband's sentence on these grounds, should1 Mr. Martin take no further action in the case. The three men heard the verdicts of the two juries read with practically no show of emotion, Gappins and Kunby exhibiting a few signs of nervousness when Judge Sease pronounced sentense upon them. Fox, i 1 nnf .*} n f*ve~ nowevtri, iii/cianj uiu t lash, standing facing the judge apIparently as unconcerned as if he was hearing of some event not even remotely concerned with his case. Of the three Gappins was the most nervous, constantly wiping his face for perspiration that was not always there. He was the last to be sentenced and seemed unable to face the judge, nervously moving his head (Continuted on page six.) SOLDIER DELEGATES HAD DELIGHTFUL TIME IN NEWBERRY I Incidents and Observations Gathered cn Road and in Newberry?Cotton Crop Badly Off Yorkv^is Enquirer. - Traveling U5 Newberry by the Irene bridgesaenoss Broad river in Cherokee county; from thence t8 Union, then to. Whitmire and on to the journey's end from Yorkville is a distance ~ ~ V* C.fl wft.i 1 ae* o/krtAv/l Inry f r\ ]^n. Oi it LIU Ut i) V imico civ. tuiving w ? lation of E. Banford Garrison of the Philadelphia section who flivvered himself and Henry Brown of Filibert, Baxter B. Robinson of York No. 1 and jP. A. Smith and Jas. D. Grist of York| ville there Tuesday as the representatives of Meech Stewart Post No. 6G, i | American Legion to the annual state convention. It was an awfully hot I . and dry day and people busy in the | | cotton fields and at the gins along the ; ;way just looked so tired that they might drop any moment. The crop prospect through western iYork, Cherokee, Union and Newberry I isn't anything like as good as it was this time a year ago according to lots of people living along the way who 'were asked about it. In fact, cotton has deteriorated greatly in all that ; territory in the past two weeks. Acre! age was reduced considerably to-start ! with; fertilizer has been cut almost : fifty^per cent throughout thfit section i and the good Lord has done the rest. 1 In Newberry the crop is further ad vanced than in the other sections tra! versed. In same sections of that ' county those lads in the party who ' j-are farmers gave it as their opinion j that at least one-third of the crop has Ibeen gathered. Quite a number of | ginneries were <ioing business, long ! lines of cotton wagons awaiting their; turn. * 1 ry fVio vir*initv of N-& Afoer vjrcibiiig in wix. v ry the party came upon the lith United States 'infantry from Camp Jackson camped for a day there in order to take in a part of the American Legion convention. There were J 1,000 or more officers and soldiers in! | the camp and 200 imules. That camp looked for all the work! like Camp Sevier in the early days before things were well straightened out during the late war. Arriving in 'Newiberry the streets were alive with American Legion men, soldiers and local towns- ] men come to give them the glad i ' < _ I I hand. On the streets, arcuna rne nu-1 te>Is, at Newberry college, in the drug stores there were reunions of former; buddies who hadn't seen one another j since the close and the war and others j who hadn't seen friends since they; were in school together. Newberry is a city' of about 7,000' people. It has three banks, three cotton mills, many fine stores, two fine i hotels, a handsome court house; fine ... i school .buildings?in fact, it is rig-nt j much 'of a town. It is the home of j Newberry college, the Lutheran col-1 Wq nf South Carolina and it was at! j the college that many of the delegates j were quartered while others were entertained in private homes and hotels. Three Newberry men to whom perhaps most credit is due for the delightful entertainment of the American Legion convention were Dr. John I B. Setzler, commander of Newberry Post No. 24; Duane Livingston, publicity chairman of Newberry post and Hal Kohn, the first commander of the post. Kchn, who is a young chap, runs a stationery and novelty store in Newberry and is one of the live most hustling youngsters in the state, j His store was headquarters for the i-i- ? i -~ -** ! thpv wanted CvliU niitiivn.1 any information or any thing else why j that was where they got it. Newberry has a comparatively new | court house. It is a cou house al- ! most as fine as the York u ? nty court house. The old court house is a mighty nice ibuilding. The old court j house was given to the Newberry post of the Legion as its headquarters and it was here that the sign "General Head Quarters" hung out during the convention although the meetings were held in the new court house. It just seemed like everybody tried : to outdo everybody else in courtesy I and hospitality to the delegates. Among the proniinent citizens of Newberry who were everywhere all the time trying- to make it pleasant > for the visiting lads were: Dr. S. J. Derrick, president of Newberry college; Dr. George B. Cromer; John M. 1 Kinard, Coi. E. H. Auil, editor of the Newberry Herald an ! News; Messrs. W. H. W_.il.ice and T. M. Seaweil of the Newberry Observer; Mayor Eu- ( gene S. Blease, Owen Holmes, prom inent cotton .buyer; Congressman \ Fred H. Dominick and a host of oth-'r ers. " 1 f, v Governor Robert A. Cooper appear- s ed to thoroughly enjoy the day he j spent with the lads in Newberry last }Wednesday. In conversation with a a reporter from The Yorkvii'le Enquirer j the governor stated that his health fc had been very bad this year and he ( hadn't been, feeling at all well; but j that he was much better now. He r made a fine address to the Legion- (] naires following the .barbecue at Wil-\. low-brook park Wednesday in which f he pleaded for their aid and influence a in maintaining law and order in the ( state and the convention pledged him;t by a rising vote. t I1 Senator Neils Christensen of Beau- U fort, one of the best known pulblic J men in South Carolina was one of the s most interested delegates in attend- t, ance upon the convention. It was the ^ first time ^hat the senator had been s present; 'but he stated that he would 0 never miss another. "The American J Legion," he said, "is one new organ- j ization in this state that is going to j ^ grow and flourish and I am proud to | r be a L^gonnaire." The senator said that he expected to come to York g county on a visit pretty soon. j y -? It The Fifth Congressional district! fare-d quite well in the distribution of L * I I' officers. In addition to the election j of Bamford Garrison of Mee.L'h Stew-' ^ art post of Yorkville as a delegate to | Kansas City to the national conven- 1 c t'jon October 2S, Lyles Glenn of Ches-,1 ter was elected on executive commit- j tee from the state at large and Dr. I * John Hamilton of WOnnsboro suic-! ceeds H. L. Elliott of Winnsboro as f # j [ a member of the state executive committee. * r "V Bon E. Adams of Charleston was1; disposed to take his defeat as state,1 commander with the best of grace.1 j He lost .by eight votes. Adams who : 2 was a non commissioned man in the ; army is a native of Georgia and has c been in South Carolina' only five1^ years. He is on the editorial staff of; * the Charleston News and Courier and * is president of the Southeastern PoulT 1 try Growers' association. "My deri feat shall not interfere in the least 0 with my efforts in helping in every jt way I can to ibuild up the South Carolina Legjon," he said. s c I a r rvctor in fs.1ipa 1 v of Char- ! 2 n v :a uui. ^ lchte who will 'be remembered by |' many York county people as being in ? Yorkville with his plane on July 4,;last, drove into Newberry Wednesday J evening. He made many flights Thurs-; * day, his passengers including one of j1 the Yorkville delegates. ; ( THE LATEST IN CONNECTION 4 WITH MURDEROUS ATTACK |' 'f Mr. and Mrs. Johns were improving1 f at last accounts. Joe Smith, another M t negro arrested in Greenwood, was1 jailed at Newberry Wednesday night, j * as a suspect, making three negroes in ; 1 jail on the same alleged charge. Is A white man and a negro were , caught by Messrs. Julien White, M. j1 L. Bullock and Marion Fridy Wednes-'^ ?4. T)..nnnv PllliYl i dav morning cit j m i\c.v mv, nvu^ .. - ?? 11 Branch, and carried to McCormick! and turned over to Sheriff White,}' who tock them to the Greenwood jail. J The white 'man was an exservice man j ^ from No-ble, 111., who was dishonor-^ ably discharged from the navy forj* ,-misconduct, while the negro gave his'* heme as in Augusta. The two are ; probably wanted by the authorities, for other crimes. The three Newber-: r ' 1 -1. x. ry young men left here :\ionaay nignu j and returned Wednesday night, hav- 1 ing had but two hours sleep. They;1 had been sent by Sheriff Blease to,1 guard a motor truck at the Savannah i river. ^ |! If work was only called play, every- : | body would want to work. ; ^ ~ ? j] About the only question in modern divorce cases is who shall have cus-.; tody of the poodle dog. j ( \GED COUPLE BEATEN - BY UNKNOWN NEGROES;. . 1 rhrc^*Negroes in Newberry Jail?One 1 Confesses and Implicates Others jl Mr. ana Mrs. Johns Improving _____ J 1 Jrec::wood Index-Journal, 13th. ! I'sir.;? raili^fjlf^)ikes lied toother i vith strings j^-clu'os, two unknown j ;egioes about dusk last. ni^.'U oeai ( ilniost ro dojvfh K. Johns and his J v:fe, an aged couple, proprietors of a I tore near Vaughriville between Chap- i >elis and Cross Hill and are sa\l to j lave ro.bbe.1 them of between $'i,000 ; tnd $4,'0-00': H. Johns is about 70 ( ears old. After the assault and rob- \ ery, the negroes escaped, coming to! Jreenwood, it is claimed. I? A small black negro was captured j icar New Market shortly before m:d- i lay by Lamar Dominiek of Vaughn- i * I ille to whom it is alleged that he con- j i essed, declaring that his confederate, j . tall yellow negro, had ccnie to < Greenwood. The name of the cap- j ured negro could not be learned. At ] wo o'clock this afternoon, Mr. Dom-s nick was on his way to Nowfoerry i yith his prisoner. jt The negro when captured had one { leeve bloody and torn. He appear- ? d extremely nervous and claimed he \ lad hurt his arm, causing1 the blood j tains. Officers could find no injuries ' r n his arm. u Sheriff Cannon Blease of New.berry I ,nd his deputies about two o'clock i his afternoon returned from McCoriiick, where officers and a large posse iave been looking for the negroes ince early this morning. The report i tad reached Sheriff Blease that Kjth's i o have caught a C. & Wi C. freight t After clubbing the aged couple almost to death the negroes fled, and ' .re supposed to have gone to Cross Till and to have come to Greenwood ji ?n the southbound Seaboard train,; J eaching here at 3:30. Citizens fromj? he Chapipells section, with Officers.J ?I. A. Corley, J. M. Townsend and D. 'j f. Mann, met the train 'but failed to(i trrest them as they got off the train : -1 >ecause the citizens who were there j < o identify them declared they were i lot the negroes wanted. Two negroes j vho were suspected by the officers, ! n spite of statements of the Chap- : >ells men that they were not dressed j < ike the negroes who committed the, i Lssault and robbery, were^accosted by ji >fficers. When 'officers approac.ne-a he negroes they fled, and are thought o haev caught a C. &. W. C. freight .< rain. Sheriff E. M. White was noti- i ied early this morning that they had )een seen getting off a freight train it McCormick and he went at once to he scene. < According to a long distance mes- ' age from Chappells this morning arly yesterday the two negroes who ire alleged to have com;mitted the j issault, applied for a job on a road^ rang near there, claiming that theyj. lad come from Abbeville. They fail-p ?d to secure work and are tnougnt ( ,o have remained in hiding in the, voods until dusk, when the assault :pon the aged couple and the rob'bery ? )f the store was comimitted. They,' lsked a negro on the road where H.1) fohns lived, it is stated. The two negroes are said to have J rone into the store and asked H. Johns j t'or seme canned goods. When he j ;urned to get it, one of them struck ( lim a blow over the head with the j -ailroad spike club. Hearing the ;ound of the old man's body falling, lis wife rushed in from an adjoining < *oom and was also struck in the head ,vith the spikes. Both the old couple ; .vere then beaten almost into in'sen:)ilitv and the store robbed, reports Jay. j Officers throughout this section Koon ifipf] to keen a lookout ia * v w vi* . - 4 ?or the negroes. They are making an ' ?ffort to locate the tall, yellow ne-!: t >ro implicated in the alleged confes- ' ?ion of the negro arrested near New Vlarket. The State. v McCormick, Sept. 13.?Sheriff Can-1 ion Blease of Newberry county and i posse of citizens of New.berrv, Greenwood and McCormick counties ire scouring McCormick county in search of Will Harris, a negro, wantid for -the brutal assault and robbery )f Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johns about .hree miles from Oh an pel Is in Xcw>erry county, at 7 :'>0 o'clock last light. Harris is described as being if) or 30 years of ago, live feet nine :>r ten inches tall, weighing about i A 1G0 or 170 pounds, dark ginger cake'] I'olur, with two protruding upper gold j ;eeth, and when he was last seen was j rearing a white shirt with small j black stripes and unionails and cap.;] Fie bears an old scar on the side of his j bcdy. having been shot through the j ;,ody." He is supposed to be making ? ? way to Geo. jia, although all of the , p*? ?? ?! M *farmfnnntv to t ^eor^'a arc being guarded. Sheriff j rJleare states that his accom/plice,: T fohn Golden, also a ncgio, has been j ipprehended and is now in Newberry ( ail, having confessed to being present ( md implicated Will Harris. \ * ! 1 Another Accidental Killing j On Mrs. Claudia Suber's place a ( .mall eolored boy shot and killed a ^ roung colored girl, the jury finding it , iccident.al. Coroner Lindsay held the } nquest, a<t -which the full particulars vere given, as follows: 1 ( Lillie Mae Coleman, being sworn, ] jays: I live in New'jerry county, S. C. 5 ' was standing in tiia room where the ] ihooting occurred. Son Ediie May'bin , J I >rought this pistol here. He went to j .own and left pistol here. It was on j he machine. Jefferson Coleman went ] md picked the pistol up. The pistol ^ vent off and shot Ollie Coleman. She } s a first cousin to Jefferson Cole-) nan. Shooting: happened on Sunday ^ norning, the 11th, 1921. I do not \ jelieve he intended to kill her. This ^ s all I know aibout it. ' I: Lillie Mae Cole man. jj Frances Coleman, sworn, says: I was in the porch when the shoot- ] ng occurred. Heard Ollie Coleman ] >ay that she knew the boy did not in- , ;end to shoot her. ! j Francs Coleman. ^ Salle Coleman, sworn, says: ^ Tnie Vv/iir ic mu r>wn rhild. T-Thas : X Alio VV/J- *?4 J V j lever had any trouble with Oilie Cole- ; nan. the <lead woman. His name is j Jefferson Coleman. Jefferson is eight'] ^ears old. Oilie Coleman is fourteen ] fears old. She came to spend the j light with my children. Boyce May-' i bin, or Son Eddie, left this pistol here ^ an Saturday evening. He was on the ( ,vay to town. Boyce Maybin lives on Mr. Chris Folk's place. I was the first i ?rown person to her after she was , shot. She said, "Aunt Sallie, Jeff 1 3oleman shot me. Whip him." Then 1 ?he stated not to whin him as UI know le did not intend to do it." < Sallie Coleman. ! ] Dr. W. A. Dunn, being duly sworn, ? said that Oilie Coleman died from a ] juns'nc.t (pistol) wound in the neck. , W. A. Dunn, M. D. Lucy Coleman, sworn, says: I I am satisfied that my daughter was shot by Jefferson Coleman, Jr., acci- j ientally, September 11, 1921. Lacy Coleman. |. j ' Son Eddie Coleman, sworn, says: 1 ( I know this pistol. Don't know whose it is. I gave it to Zcb Coleman. I carried it from the soldier ca>mp to < the house, i do not know how many balls it had in it. I didn't tell anybody ii was loaded. That is the way I come to town. That road is not out, of my way to town. I never had it at i that house before. J positively didn't pay to any one that this pistol was loaded. I carried this gun on public , highway. ( Soil Eddy Mayibin (His Mark). Witness: H. D. Havird. | Zeb Coleman, being sworn, says: I know this pistol. Son Eddy Maybin had it when I first saw it. He had | it in his pocket under his overalls. I ; A ! ( asked him was there anything in it. i. lie said there was one ball in it. He gave it to me and said put it up fori, him tiil he come back for it. He ga\e ' it to me on Saturday, the 10th of September, 11)21. He didn't tell me he,, found it. He didn't say why he want-1ed to leave it there. The magazine ( didn't have any balls in it. I had ! seen Son Eddie Maybin with this pis-| tol 'before Saturday, September 10th,1; 1921; it was in the public road. u Zii'b uoie.man ^nis .huia;. j The verdict of the coroner's jury ( was: "We find that Ollie Coleman : ca-me to her death frc.m a pistol shot j wound inflicted by the hand of Jeff- j orson Coleman, Jr., by accident." |, Thomas Cromer, |Foreman. I. Whit Braddock, 1' Fred Wicker, Pope Connelly, II. W. Swindler, Bob Hutchinson. j - j Bootleggers deny the statement'that prohibition is a failure. ,< I *OTARIAN HINNANT } TO SPEAK TOO THE BOYS , When Rotarians Henry Wells and 3al Kohn attended the Rotary con?erence in Norfolk they had the )leasure of hearing Odis Hinnant ;peak on "A Rotarian's Opportunity I "Vi the Boys He Meets." This ^ /oun.G: man presented the opportunity 'or boys work in such a convincing wanner that both Mr. Wejls and Hal <ohn decided to ask the Rotary club )f Newberry to invite Mr. Hinnant;^ Sown here so that our community;1 lave the privilege of hearing him. After some correspondence Mr. ; * rlinnant consented to visit Newberry >n September 21, next Wednesday.'* rhe Rotary club in order co give the ? >ntirp convnunitv a chance to hear ' lim has asked the churches to unite 1 n a general service on Wednesday < ivening, which will :be held in the ( Baptist' church, at 8 o'clock. There * :hould not he a vacant seat at this ] service for the message which Mr., -linnant will bring to Newberry is 1 >ne which no person interested in 1 >ovs should miss. * ^ Hal Kchn, secretary of the local Notary club, has furnished the fol- { o<wing information about Mr. Hin- J Tant: !1 He is a graduate of Richmond uni- * rorsity and has a degree from Columbia university. For the past seven rears he has been citywide boys' ^ vork secretary of the Wilmington Y. 1 ML C. A. In addition to this work 1 le has organized the Boy Scout movement in Wilmington and has ] .--i. 1 3t?eil SCOUl CUIUUIIAMUUCI iUi oc v v w years. He was instrumental in organizing the first juvenile court in the state-of North Carolina. For the past two years has been a lecturer n the Southern summer school at Blue Ridge on the "Psychology of 1 Boys' Work." lie has conducted the 1 largest summer camp for iboys in 1 North Carolina. 11 Prior to coming to Wilmington he ; ? I rlinKlfnn Jri 1 ft'as ptay grumiu uiii.vui in A.ivn Tiond, Va., and organized in that * city the first trcop of Boy Scouts iiv 1 the South. Since coming to Wil-,( mington Mr. Hinnant has so promct-!( ed the boys work that now three h trained :men are giving their entire |< time to this work. j ( Hal says that Mr. Hinnnnt is one ^ ^^ Acf /?nn irln/>i'n.nr en 1 >ilrPTQ Vl P J U1 1/ilC LUii V HIK, 1115 cyvuuv?w -* w has ever heard and he is very enthu- 1 siastic over the coming visit and r ( hopes, that the Baptist church will 'be crowded next Wednesday evening. 1 nOLORED WOMAN : DIED SUDDENLY 'l u Coroner F. M. Lindsay held an-,J 3ther inquer.t in the county, this last J one being over the body of Gloria'Harris on Wednesday night, the wo-j1 man having come to a sudden death, j >tr:i while picking cotton on the'; Dr. rat ton place in No. 6 township, j" I'allowing: are the particulars, as brought out at the inquest: Geo. A. Johnston, sworn, says: This evening about four o'clock myself, Charles Ja.kson and Gloria Har ,, . 11 ns were out in tne neia picnmg cutton. I was across the ditch from > Charles Jackson and Gloria Harris. ' Charles Jackson called me and said i Gloria was &lck. When I get to hsr , she was lying on her back. We moved her to a shady ibusn near her. I left ^ Charles Jackson with her and. went to , call the wagon to send her home. I told Herman Brehmer about it, and he said he didn't think it would be i] worth while to get wagon. That's all ^ 1 know about it. This was on Septem- . ber 14th, li)21, aboat tour o ciock. ( This place is the Ur. Patton place; 'be- ^ longs to the Brehmer brothers. ( George A. Johnson. Charles Jackson, sworn, says: Gloria Jackson and I had been pick- 'y ing cotton together, and she seemed ; to be all right. She emptied her cot- j ton sack. ... I went on picking L-otton. I heard her sav, "Lord, have " C mercy." When I looked around I ncard her struggling a M she was ly- c ing on her back. I pic .t>i her up, and j she was dead. She -breathed her last in the open cotton field. Mr. Johnston ' ir.d I moved her where she is now. :\ Phis woman died today, Sept. 14,'c 1921. c Dr. W. D. Senn's certificate: I have examined the body of Gloria Harris, and found no wound on any >art of the body; no signs oi violence ?and am of the opinion that she :ame to her death probably of heart f WOULD PROSECUTE MEMBERS OF MOB GREENWOOD JUR { CHARGED 3Y JUDGE FEATHERS TONE lity Officials Said to Know Members of Mob, and Others^i^H^fk " '* Greenwood, Sept. 12.?Declaring hat the time is not far distant whin 10 man's life or pr(TpeT<55ta#^? safe inless somethng is done to stem the ide of lawlessness and mob rule, fudge C. C. Featherstone delivered a >owerful charge to the grand jury tnd a scathing rebuke to mob leaders it the convening of county court this norning. The special charge to the jrand jury grew out of failure of the rity or county authorities to appre? lend members of a mob of albcut 15(j? nen who tcok two negro women from yjjL ;he city jail in defiance of the law .jjf. ind whipped them. The negro women were charged iwMh slapping the orifl hoo.Hnor t.Wft whiff WOBien . V. VO UilU VI. V .. with umbrellas on the streets ?:bout .wo iweeks ago, and the mcb took them from the jail shortly after their arrest, carried them to a acant farm louse, about three miles from town, iv hipped thorn severely and then brought them back to jail. Judge ^eatherstone urged that .members of :he mob be brought to trial as speedly as possible. "Granting for .the sake rif argument that the negroes deserved the punishment ^.he men who took the wonen from the jail had no right to punish the women, and in so doing ^so :'ney trea.ted the k<w with defiance and iiontc.r.p'V Judge Peatherstone deilj.red, 'and they should be made to pay the penalty for so doing." He jrged (he grand jury to use all their sower to ;bring the men who composed :he mob to trial. "So far as I aim aware, no effort las been made .to bring these men. ;,o trial," Judge Feather&tone continled. "No private citizen has sworn - i < _ >ut a warrant, poss.'ibly througn iear )f the wrong doers, but you and I, gentlemen of the jury, are sworn ofMals" of the law and as such we must do our duty as men. It is- your Dounden duty to investigate the facts 11 " Tj. nrVi f f A lip _?VJ1 eaSV n tms ciibt. i.'t uuguc ^ ?.. v .natter to get the facts. The city officials know the men or some of the nen who took part in the mo-b. There ire others who know the facts. I will ee to it that in your investigation y-ou have the full support of the law, md if necessary I shall provide you v'.th the necessary writs to bring before your body any witness to testify. "If there is any one on "the grand jury who is afraid or who 'believes that in certain cases men have -the right to take the law into their own hands and thus openly to ctefy the law, let me know and I shall excuse him. To follow ?he law is our only hope of safety. One offense of the character I have ibeen talking about may seem a small thing but the spirit -of defiance to law, if left alone, Screws str onger and stronger, day 'by day, and seme day we will awake to the fact that : ) man's rljh:s are s?.fe. i ?. _ L i>.;nlot?AIK r?f It is ftistory u;u ?u^ii law always .cro farther than they intended. A mob begets a mob. "It is t'.r.e for eve: y one who \> /es lis home and country to stand up oddly for the enforcement of law. \ passive sentime.:t in favor of law jnfotcemer.t is not enough. Men nust be active in 1. v enforcement, egardless of the consequences. It s time for eve:y -citizen to do his iuty. I have tried to do mine and nay the Almighty help 113 to acquit >urseles like men." As long as there's hope there's >rew. About the only rings some married nen give their wives ; .e under the :ye. lisease. W. D. Senn, M. D. Sept. 14, 1921. The verdict of the coroner's jury vn* tihnt. ''Gloria Harris came to her leath from natural cause, from heart lisease." John Livingston, foreman. S. W. Melton, Pope Sanford, H. E. Brehmer, Hugh Chappell, H. L. Stone.