Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PA] CoiL Reduced R on all Railroad; Fare and a Ha the Round T1 Ask Your Agee The State's WI[LI[ DURANT KILLED BY SJMER OffIC[RS Life of Negro Desperado is Taken This Morning When He Rushes out of House With Pistol in Hand. Acting on information receivel at about 8:30 o'clock this morning, of Police .1. M. Barwick, Trial .Justice Deputy, R. S. Griffin and Police Of ficers A. D. Owens, J. P. Shockley, W. 11. Strange and J. D. Chandler went, armed with rifles, to the farm of Mr. F. L. Brunson situated some three miles from Sumter, and just off of the Bishopville road. A negro house on this place was searched and then the officers traveled a distance of about a mile and a half, going through swamps for the most part and at times wading through water waist deep. The second negro house, situated on the place of Mr. H. C. l-Iaynsworth, was approached, at the rear, from the swamp and the house surrounded by the officers. Chief Barwick then sent a negro man into Speakin1 Ye Have You Too Much 13 Of course not. Put your surf and it will earr Then in the d, will reap the : early thrift. C This is a bank tha the people it does b Are you one of the Home Bank CHARLTON Dul T. M. WELLS. C MA imbia, Ag MONDAY, J Arrival of Fireworks and mafesta at 8:30 ates Show, introduci Queens and ban< TUESD Industrial exhi f band concert in S * Evening at 8:3( county Queens. WEDNESI if for Afternoon - I rip! county Queens, races. Evenmng concert, Nora Ba introduction of t concert. At 9: stunts at Ridge county Queens Focus Club. Greatest Gal the house with the message to Willie DuRant, telling him that the house was surrounded and that if he came out with his hands up and would sur render that he would not be harmed but would be protected. Ollie White, the negro who was sent into the house, stated at the inquest that when he delivered this message Willie Du Rant did not say a word, but got up from the table where he was sit ting and went into the next room. From this room DuRant rushed out of the house with his pistol, which he always carried, in his right hand. When DuRant rushed out of the house with pistol in hand and showing fight, he was fired upon from all sides by the oflicers and instantly killed, some eight bullets taking effect in the negro's body. And so came to his death, Willie DuRant, alias Pidney DuRant, an escaped convict from Florence county where he had begun the serving of a five year sentence for the wrecking of a Seaboard train. He was a thief and housebreaker and was connected with the wrecking of the A. C. L. train near Augusta, at which time Engineer Temple of Flor mce, was killed. The criminal acti g to U! loney ? You need more. >lus in this bank i more. ecline of life you rewards of early ome in today. t believes in usiness with. t tANT, President ashier. iril wru 17 -to LPRIL 17th. TI County Queens. Aftern )pening of Pal- ball seasc p. m. Fashion ba ion of County Bayes, b I concert. Palmafe, kY, 18th bits, auto show, the afternoon. Annou: )-Style Show, Queen, Parade, )AY, 19th. parade. ntroduction of ing page, tyle show, auto ta, style at 8:30-Band yes, style show, SA queens. Band 30-Dinner and *Baby vood Club for Evening given by the show, fir Palmafee a Week -- Doi vities of DuRant touch Sumter very closely by his shooting, on March 18th, of our own Police Officers J. M. Lawrence and J. H. DuRant. The es cape of both of these officers from death at th'at time being nothing short of miraculous. The search of the city police department since that (late has been tireless and they were rewarded Thursday morning by the finding of their man. The verdict of the coroner's jury after the holding of the inquest by Coroner Seals at the Hurst under taking establishment Thursday morn ing, was. "That Willie DuRant came to his death in Sumter county on April 6, 1922, from gun shot wounds at the hands of county and city of cers in the discharge of their duties as such and so the said aforesaid, up on their oaths aforesaid, do say, that the aforesaid killing was justifiable." Corroborative testimony was given before the inquest by Chief Barwick, Dfficer Owens and the testimony tak m of Ollie White, colored, who stated .hat he saw Willie DuRant rush out >f the house with the pistol in his land. The statement of the physician xamining the body was "That Willie DuRant came to his death from gun ;hot wounds upon different parts of he body." The pistol which the negro carried vas a 38 caliber Colts revolver of atest make and was found to be 'ully loaded. An additional supply >f ammunition was carried by Du lant in a leather bag. Also found on he negro wvere two dliamond rings, ai 'ailroad swvitch key, his charm to ceep him from death, which was a mall pouch filled with herbs, and a mnre of keys on which were several keleton keys cap~able of opening or linary (door locks. Chief Barwick pays a tribute to he men accompanying him on his mission of TLhursday morning, stat ng that they stood their ground, ever faltering, and that they fully vell realized at all times the type of man with which they wvere to deal. Ic stated that the men left Sumter 'hursday morning armed with a deC ermination to do their duty at what ver cost.-L~ast Thursday's Sumter tem. CABLEGRAM F~ROM RUSSIA lexand ropol Vickrey, New York, Ninety-one. April 6. 1922. With the breakup of winter in the lountain villages of central Armen , Near East Relief investigations evealed terrible starvation among efugees an (dorphans. K. A. D~owner f Kingston, N. Y. returnedl from a CITATION NOTICE 'he State of South Carolina, County of Clarendlon, ty .J. M. Windham, Probate Judge: Whereas, Ihattie Levy made suit to le .to grant her Letters of Adminis ration of the Estate and( effects of ,dmondl Levy. These are, therefore, to cite and (dmomish all andl singular the Kindred ndl Creditors of the said Edlmondl .(vy dleceasedl, that they be and ap ear before me, in the Court of Pro ate, to be held at Manning on the 7th dlay of Aprlil next, after publica ion hereof, at 11 o'clock In the fore oon, to show cause, if any they have, /hy the said Administration should oct be grantedl. G;iven under my hand this 23rd (lay f A pril Anno Domini, 1922. J. M. Windham, ..Tnde of Proate. TA o22 [URSDAY, 20th. oon-Opening of base n. At 8:30 p. m.-Nora and concert, closing of eta Queen contest. FRIDAY, 21st. cement of Palmafesta Palmafesta Queen's industrial and floral At 8:30 p. m.-Crown int Queen of Palmafes 3how, band concert. TURDAY, 22nd. nd educational parade. -Band concert, style eworks and closing of ta. five (lay horse back visit to twenty villages having a population of 25, 000 people. He says that foodstuffs throughout the area are exhausted. Bread is made from all sorts of substitutes, including flax, chaff, and sawdust having no appreciable food value. The people are extracting un digested materials from old refuse and giving it to the children. Health conditions are critical. Gastric and intestinal troubles prevailing due to malnutrition. A large percent of the people are suffering from skin disease. One-fourth of the adults are incap acitated and bedridden. Only one in fifty of the population is normal. In the villages visited there are 1500 orphans who should be removed immediately if they are to live. Even in small villages the weekly death list includes ten children. In many villages all children have lost their hair during the winter. Several cases were so desperate that the people resorted to eating of human flesh wvhich practice was sharply punished by the authorities, Officials said that they are doing all they can to prevent it but the people lose their senses from hunger. At Mahmaudchuk, visited family of lifteen persons a month ago. Now only three of the family remain. The rlead include all the male members of the family. All village inhabitants expressed roncern about securing seed and grain for npring planting. Hope is 3xpressedl that the Armenian govern ment would obta in seed particularly )arley. The headman of the largest village said: "If wve can secure seed we shall be on our feet by mid-summer. [f we don't get se~ed we are doomed q death." Jaquith. Mr. .J. G. Dinkins, Chair. Manning, S. C. CYPRESS ~ SASH DOORS BLENDS MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK TRANSPORTATIONq QF TOMATO PLANTS Clemison College,; Apil 11.-As the seka6n is at hatd for the shipment of tomato plants, Attention is called again to the fact that tomato plants to be transported into or within South Carolina must bear permit tags of the South Carolina State Crop Pest Com mission showing that the plants and the premises where grown are free from dangerous diseases and insects, says Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomolo gist for the Commission. Rg'uletbin Gierning Movemolit 't Tomato Plants "The transportation into and with in the state of South Carolina of to mato plants for planting purposes is prohibited unless such shipmbnts are accompanied by a permit of the -South Goodhy Are you "up to the neck" in blood in purlties? I 8 s, Rs one of the greatest bUlg9.pmrLe's known. Try it. 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