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i 1 ’xt* r • '■ iWmiMW n't**di‘ " ■ ^ ■—r- r— THE FLORENCE DAILY, TltyffaP .fTCESDAJ Al^T-ERNOOX, ^LARUI 29, 1921. OPERA HOUSE “FLORENCE’S POPULAR THEATRE” WHERE THE CROWDS GO. MUSIC BY 7 PIECE ORCHES TRA TO FLORENCE THEATRE GOERS You 1 can seia “EAST LYNNE” here on Friday^ of this week only and remember if you miss seeuife it you may never have the^ploasure of seeing it again,, and' tou will want to thank itte* for,,.booking this pictur?. Never Le(prc have we presented a pic ture that will surpass this world clcMkic reborn in Hugo Ballhr’s masterful modernization story. Millions upon millions have read the book and seen the play—here is your chance to see th^ picture. This picture is be ing shown everywhere at an in crease admission, but I have made special arrangements with Hodkinson Corporation to show it at my regular admission. Greater than the home greater than the play. “EAST LYNNE” tire biggest motion picture class io ever released. Of course you arie going to see it. TOMORROW , Franklyn Farnum In “THE STRUGGLE” O’DOWD THEATRE AGAIN TODAY ip “The Right to Love” One of the best specia’e we have ever shown. We heard nothing but praise from those that saw it yesterday. Miss Muray and David Powsll, act ing is great, the story is good and the settings beauttiful. The music score Inrsr. ©’Dowd' has ■arranged for it is a treat io lovers of good music, -z. SCHEDULE OF SHOWS 3, 4:40, 6:20, 8 and 9:40. TOMORROW Dorothy Dalton In “A ROMANTIC ADVENTURESS.” The gay New Orleans Carnival with Its throngs. Exciting scenes at a big college football bame. The Devil’s playground —the famous gambling halls of Monte Carlo, are a few of the high spots in this story of love and adventure. ALSO “THUNDERBOLT JACK” 90% HARD BRICK In car load lots at $15 per M. f.o.b. Florence. Delivered in the City at $19 per M. Cement $1.25 per bag; $5 per barrel. .Florence Ginning & Milling Co. Phone 425 J. W. 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I time so some of th-j people who tes tified here against me may have a chance to come forward and tall the truth and not come too Late like Ju-j muc h for woodcutters, that Edmund das Iscariot making his offering of i j, a( j resented this, that Smiley had the thirty pieces of silver. pajj that it was his money and that i •“I',do want to say something more, I before he would have It wasted he I hops you will take no exception to it. As far as you are concerned I have hjad a fair trial. But if people had had time to think things over, consider and take •! up with their, God, they would have testified dif- ting up a!nd threatening io kill ail of them. “I am not atraid of him but i Margie is. If he will behave himsalt 1 am gaing to give him a piece of land though he is net entitled to it j lor he has had his share.” Another incident proving a distinct j motive for the crime wnich the so licitor emphasized was the testimony i EF p 0RT , s - - r.~OUCE of a negro that smiley had remon-1 freight TAX ON INTRASTATE strated with Edmund for paying so, 3RICK SHIPMENTS APPEAR IN COLUMBIA ON RATE C1STI0N The tzaffic department of the Cham ber of Commerce is going before the would.go in the woods and settle i South Carolina railroad commission wHh the hands himsetl; that KdmyntT.t v in. ?r cw in the inlQi-nst ut the brisk tha wqou„ ... ... with their, 0 f lt( and that if Snifey came there..! ^ commission has issued an order said ever | her /.wopfrl (ta|>/ there, ‘ p ni\” s ferehtly.” '. Mr. Gapque, “he went there and na When asked to explain the finding ( <;am e bpek.” • ; ■, IHJ rCTlucei , to a ourilv ,,a th interstate of his pistol in his brother’s hand, j Mr. Qasquet also dwelt on the tes- riit , s on 1^.,^ ? V tfmony of the negro witness Andrew 1 Singletary who went to the woods in company Witih Smiley Bisham after be ing asked to do so by Smiley’s moth er, who said she feared the conse- Bighain said “I left that pistol In my bureau drawer and ft has been testified that the door was found broken open, that is the only way Smiley could have got It. “If I am guilty I hope I may be petrified in front of this court house, just as I was that day or as I am now. “I am as innocent as a> new born baby.” Bigham’s show of weakness at the end may have been in some measure due to the fact that he was not sus tained by the presence of his wife and children whose devotion has been so marked a feature* of the trial. When it was announced that the jury was about to return to the court room Mrs. Bigham and the children teft and heard the news of the ver dict and sentence while in the offi.ee of the clerk of the court downstairs., Mrs. Bigham fainted when she heard the verdict and Mrs. Worrell, the wife of a Florence policeman who has been her constant companion during the trial went to the court room for a doctor. Dr. E. M. Hicks attended Mrs. Bigham and when she was made comfortable was taken back to Mrs. Worrell’s boarding house where slit- has been a guest. A record attendance marked the final day of the trial, the percentage of women growing greater than ever and their manifest irvterfht vi'.ihlv increasing. It was an orderly crowd however, and only once during the day did Hhe judge have occasion to rebuke any outbreak on the part of spectators. Attorney A. L. King began his ar gument for the defense shortly after the court openeef. Mr. King read im pressively from the Gospel accord ing to St. Matthew 26 and drew the analogy between thts case and the false witlnesses against the Savior, and then from St. Mhtthew 27, the de mand of the. mob for the release of Barubbas and the crucifixion of Christ. Th? attorney handled this delicate proposition very effectively and with out bringing upon himself any show of feeling upon the part of list-'-'^rs It was a daring thing to do and he did it well. As Mr. King warmed up to his at tack on the prosecution for introduc ing the Afrowsmith testimony and began to vent his oprnion on the Ar- rowsmith fee of five thousand dollars for straightening out the affairs of the Bigham estate, Mr. Casque rose and asked that such attacks be stop ped. Judge Memminger promptly assert ed the court’s prerogative and gave Mr. King notice that any further at tacks of such nature would result In his being denied the privilege of fur ther argument and another bttorney be appointed to present the case to the jury. Mr. King at this period-and more extensively at the close of his argu ment apologized to the court, the bar, the jury and the spectators for what he had done, took all the blame upon himself, and shld he hoped the jury would not allow his outburst to In fluence their attitude toward his client. , Aside from this incident Mr. King’s speech was impressive and was pro nounced by those who hdard it to be a masterly piece of advocacy. At times it was not cohesive and. this fault was tl\,e principal one which a literary critic might have urged against it. Mr. King relied principally upon the defense’s theory of the Insanity of Smiley Bigham, his committing of tho murders and his subsequent sui cide. He did, however, bring into his speech the testimony bearing upon the alleged insanity «i Bigham’s fath er and laid stress upon the prej&dice shown by neighbors against the de fendant. He made a request to the jury, these covering those matters with which charges of murder cases usually deal. The presentation of the case by So licitor Gasque is said by lawyers and laymen to have been an exemplory work of its kind. He conducted his facts in a logical sequence from that eighth of January when It is set forth that Edmund D. Bigham whipped his sister because she had accused him of stealing certain papers connected with the Bigham estate until the day when Mrs. Bigham tried to smuggle a bottle of chloroform into her hus band’s cell, Mr. Gasque did not leave and unconnected link in the story. The story ran that Edmund D. Big- ham. the son of a rich father, who had sold his interest in the estate to h>s brother and sister and gone away for many years, had heard of differ ences regarding the recent disposf tion of his father’s estate and hasten, ed home to inject himself as a factor into these family disputes in the hope of recovering an interest in property* to which he was in no way entitled. From the time of his appearance in the Bigham household there had been a succession of bickerings and disputes, culminating in the incident j which drove Mrs. Marjorie Bigham ' Black to Florence, where In Attor ney Arrowsmith’s office she had made i a will giving everything she bad to her brother, Smiley Bigham, to whom she confided the care of her old mother and her itwo little adopted children. In this will she had set forth h-^r fear of sortie person whom she did not name in the will who had obtain ed possession of three deeds cover ing property to her estate which she! had signed in blank. Following this came the declaration of Smiley Bigham on 'l-uesduy follow ing the visit tp Florence when be sfiid to Mrs. Kirion, as Mrs. KIrton said on th« stand, that Edmund was cut- for the rdilr&afs to show cause why intrastate rates on brick should not ue reduced Vo i rates on brick. iuc. t. b. Gaines, as manager of the Florence Chambin bt Commerce trat- j lie bureau, will handle the arguments’ before the commission. i\oi unlikely me brick people, and • their allied inteiests, ct aoutli Caro lina, will engage the Florence traffic I quence of Smiley’s meeting with Ed mund in the woods. He set forth that other testimony to the effect that j „ . „ , ,, , in the woods Edmund Bigham carried txl,em tl to re,),t8ent them generally j the same revolver that was found in ‘ cl,u ' n,,6 ' , ' on ln lh,s ,n “ u , ! bis brother’s hand when his body was f. conterence has bean arranged for found. He told how Singletary had the prick people wi tb the local agonis left tbe woods after seeing Edmund call to Smiley and the departure of the two men In the direction of the spot where Smiley’s body was found the next day. From there on in his summing up Mr. Gasque drew a picture to show tbat after killing his brother In the woods Edmund Bigham had gone home, that on noticing Smiley’s fail ure to return Mrs. Bigham and Mrs. Black had accused Edmund of doing away with him, that after getting his dinner and preparing to go to Pam- plico he had put his family in the automobile in the garage, set tba mo tor going, and while tills noise drowned the reports of his pistol be wiped out of existence all those who stood to accuse him of the crime of his brother’s murder. By this means Mr. Gasque exhono- vated Mrs. Edmund Bigham of guilty knowledge of what her husband had done and explained the extraordinary devotion of his family to the defend ant’s interests from the time of ms arrest until today. The most impressive point of Mr. Casque’s summing up was reached when he stood facing the defendant and said: f’Lisben, Edmund Bigham, iioten. There is a voice calling you. Look Edmund, there is* iro,n standing there in front of you. its your brother Smi ley, and he is calling to you to tell you that while kj forgives, he stands as your accuser for the crime of ins murder. - ’ During this dramatic episode Big ham sat with his eyes fastened upon the solicitor and not one twiitch of a muscle nor one nervous movement except thatapping of his feet display ed the fact he even heard what the prosecutor was saying. Judge Memminger’s charge to the jury while couched in legal verbiage was as plain and understandable as a child’s primifn It left no donut as to the proper interpretation of those two fundamentals of criminal law, malice aforethought and reasonable doubt. The charge was 'very brief. The jury listened to it most attentive ly and its conclusion broke a nervous tension tlaat had held every person in the court room from the very open ing of Mr. King’s argument. Following the charge Judge Mem- minger announced a recess until three o’clock. i The jurors remained In their seats for a time and until the court house was empty. They then went to din ner and their consideration of the in Columbia immediately preceding me nearing by the railroad commis sion. brick and traffic people aver that Augusta, and some other points out- siuv, or bourn Carolina, can snip Dries ; into tuis territory at, a lover ram than South Carolina points contiguou.; to mis section can snip brick into me same territory. This is tne point at, issue in the hearing. The bryce Supply company has just; hud a pretty good sample of the sei-l vice the traffic bureau of the Cham ber cf Commerce gives Ls clients. 'l nis company had a shipment come in ! hero a lew days ago. It requested i ihe bureau for verification of rates be-j fore paying the freight. The check revealed an overcharge of $711 on the j one car. No one would assume that! the carrier intended to overcharge, | but in the application of the tariffs | a error was made. In this instance, j Bryce did not have to pay this amount | and be out of his money and then pay! a commission to someone to recover! his money fr him. It was traffic ser vice by the Chamber of Commerce They have just recovered one voucher of ¥llti for him, too. Other clients of the bureau are find ing the service a paying investment. An of the difference between the service of the traffic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and the com mission traffic men, has been devel oped in the case of another very prom-1 inent shipper. He had some hills on! which* some commission men had 1 made some collections. He turned them over to the Chamber ol Com- ...erce traffic bureau. The bureau has filed claims for $400 more on these same bills ,and has collected more 1 than $200 of this amount additional 1 on them. This service of the Chamber of Com merce is winning great commendation from the shippers of Florence. ABANDON ORANGEBURG ROAD. Washington, March 29.—Application of the Orangeburg railway to abandon its line in Orangeburg county, South Carclina, will be heard before the railroad commission of South Caro lina at Columbia, April 13, the Inter state# Commerce commission an nounced today. FOLEY IS GIVEN DECISION. Memphis, Tenn., March 29.—Harry Foley, of San Francisco, was given case was given within the space of 1 re ^ree’s decision in an eight- about an hour, thus ended the most round bout with Martin Burk, of New ' OrlennR. hprp tonlclit. Thtt mon important criminal trial in the history of Florence county and) probably the roost important in the state. LYNCH WINS BY A SHADE. Orleans, here tonight. The men are heavyweights. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 29.—Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion boxer | of the world, won by a shade from Young Pinchot, of Charleroi, Pa., in ten rounds here tonight, according to a majority of the sport writers at the ring side. The only knockdown came In the seventh when the champion sent Pinchot to the canvas for a count of nine. The English police force Is practi cally the only one In the world that Is not armed. BUILDING SALES CD. P. O. Box 912 54 BROAD STREET CHARLESTON, S. C. \ Phone 2399 ALL TYPES OF RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL — BUILDINGS— “QUICKBILT HOMES” LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES LUCAS & BRUNSON Florence, S. C. ‘T*' J i LET DO YOUR SPRING CLEANING Florence Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaning PHONE 77 FOR PROMPT SERVICE r HE HAD THERIGHT “HUNCH” Just the other day an old white gentleman came in and deposited in our Savings Department, $700.00 in mouldy, musty currency. He stated that he had been saving and burying it for some time. But he could stand the strain and worry of the likelihood of some one stealing it, no longer. When the transaction of making the deposit was completed, he heaved a sigh of relief, and went out smiling with our 5% GOLD CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT in his pocket. We’ll venture he has been sleeping well every night since he put his money in the bank. This old fellow finally got the right “hunch” and set a good example. WHY RISK YOUR MONEY, WHEN YOU CAN PLACE IT ON INTEREST IN THIS STRONG BANK. FIRST BANK NATIONAL of Florence “ALMOST EVERYTHING IN BANKING’ And some fell upon good ground The Sower, in the parable, cast his seed to the winds of heaven. That which landed among the stones, the thorns and in the barren places, perished. Only the seeds which reached the good ground had a chance to grow. ,, The modem national advertiser does not strew his seed of salesmanship to the winds. He plants Jt carefully in the “gqod ground”—in the places where because of favorable conditions it has a chance to bear a harvest of consumer results. He uses newspaper advertising because through the news papers he covers completely themarkets which he knows, upon careful investigation, to be the right places for his product to flourish. ‘ lS*i Uii Ulto I * . ■