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s ‘. \. PAGE TWELVE THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1928 DR. HAYS’ HOSPITAL, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA t I Jj Dr. Hays’ Hospital for the past six years has rendered a great service to Clinton and community in caring for the sick. It is a brick building, with steam heat, and modernly equipped. X-ray facilities are available, as well as other types of electrical and ultra violet ray apparatus for treatment. The hospital is arranged convenient ly to care for both white and colored patients on separate floors, and the patronage of the hospital has steadily 'increased since its founding. Dr. S. C. Hays is the surgeon in : charge, and has made a wonderful 'record in the pratice of surgery,since j coming to Clinton. He is a graduate ! 'of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; has had four and a half years experience in post- graduate hospital work at Bellevue, St. Barthalomews, and other hospitals." j Mrs, Helen Hays is the superintend dent of the hospital and the training school for nurses, a' training school having been inaugurated something over two years ago. A new class is beglm each year of three girls, and this feature is a very attractive one for those girls who wish to take up nursing as a profession.. The course is three years as established by state law, and an opportunity is given each girl for six months affiliation with a northern hospital during her three years period. NEGRO KILLS AIKEN_SHERIFF Officer Slain When He and Deputies Attempt tp Search Alleged Bootleggers’ Home. Monetta, April 25.—In the perform ance of duty—the leading of a search for liquor on the farm of Sam Low- man, negro, living just across the Columbia-Augusta highway about one mile south of Monetta—Henry H. Howard, for 13 years sheriff of Aiken ' county, this morning was killed—shot, in the back and left side by some one of the Lowman family. Annie Lowman, wife of the negro farmer, attacking officers with an axe, was shot through the head by Deputy Sheriff A. D. Shepherd, one of the raiding party of four, and was also killed. " . Bertha Cheatham, daughter of An nie Lowman—though pregnant—se- , cpred the dead Sheriffs pistol and joined in the battle, only to be shot . through the abdomen by Deputy Sheriff Nollie Robinson. She is now at a hospital at Leesville, “seriously alid probably fatally” injured. Clarence Lowman, a nephew of Sam Lowman, and “Son” or “Demon” Low- man, a son of the negro farmer, were '* also shot. Both—under arrest, Clar-j ence charged by officers with the actual slaying of the sheriff—are at the state penitentiary. | Warrants, however, have not been issued, the inquest having been post poned until Monday morning. Sam Lowman, head of the family, who was not at home at the time of the raid, was also arrested—chiefly with the idea of protecting him against possible mob violence—and is being held in the Aiken county jail. Armed with a search warrant, the four officers—Sheriff Howard, Depu ty Sheriff Robinsbn, Deputy Sheriff, Shepherd and Special Deputy Sheriff R. L. McElhanney—drove up to the; Lowman home at 9:30 o’clock. The j sheriff and Mr. Robinson walked into the back yard, from which they had seen three negroes move tqward the house; Mr. Shepherd walked around the other side of the house and Mr. j McElhanney through the house, to find the sheriff and Mr. Robinson in a tussle with the women on the porch, which extends the length of the two back rooms. One of the negroes— “Son” Lowman, officers said—f-secured a pistol and started toward the offi cers. Mr. McElhanney grappled with him, bait the negro escaped into the yard, just as Mr.'Robinson had come to the special deputy’s assistance. From the yard the negro opened fire and the two officers returned the shots, only to hear from flic back yard the detonation of a shot gun. “Oh, Lord,” they heard from the sheriff, who had fallen mortally wounded at the corner of the house, “They’ve killed me. Try to get me to the doctor.” None of the officers witnessed the Tiring of the shot, though Mr. Shep pard saw, he said, Clarence Lowman leave the house with the shotgun and in the meanwhile the battle went on, and no one 1 —the negro woman, who secured the fallen officer’s pistol, ex cepted—reached the sheriff before death. His cry, “They’ve killed me,” were his last words. Bertha Cheatham, armed with Sher iff Howard’s pistol and Annie Low- man, her mother, attacked Deputy Sheriff Robinson. Bertha was wound ed and Annie, securing an axe follow ed Mr. McElhanney into the rdad. The officer, pursuing “Son” Lowman, mo tioned her back and she turned again on Mr. Robiqson, who had emptied his pistol in the more or less continuous firing. Mr. Sheppard, comiifg to his fellow’s assistance, in turn attracted her attention. One shot, through the temple and she fell on the axe, which, gtpined with her blood, was carried to Alton with the pistol and shotgun. “Son” Lowman, wounded in the left ,shoulder and am, was captured after pursuit, and Clarenm Lowman, also wounded, was taken in the woods nearby. - . . Both placed under arrest, were with their father, taken to Aiken and there temporarily lodged in the county jail. Aiken folk had bben stunned by the news, which had spread—frequently exaggerated—throughout the county. Automobiles literally- filled the road to Monetta; full 1,000 men gathered at the Lowman farm and after a time dispersed, only to make way for othefs from Aiken, Graniteville, Lexington, Columbia, etc. There was talk of lynching and about the court house and jail there was mustered in the early afternoon some hundred or more citizens—men who had known and ad mired the slain officer. It was con sidered advisable that the two ne groes—Clarence and “Son”—be moved to Columbia to avert probable mob violence. Two high powered cars were secured and still the crowd mill ed about the jail. Deputy Sheriff Robinson secured the group’s attention: “I have lost the best friend I had,” he said, “but we are sworn to per form our duty. “If Sheriff Howard were here he would say, ‘Let the law take its course.’ “We must protect these men; we are sworn to do so.” The crowd dwindled and T. B. Ber- ley* state constable, having arrived, the two negroes were led through the front of the jail to his waiting car and with Detective M. C. Allen of Co lumbia, Mr. Berley and Mr. Robinson, they were driven to the penitentiary, there to be lodged in the prison hos pital. Other officers, Mr. Sheppard among them .followed in a second car, to return tonight with Mr. Robinson, to prevent, if possible, any injury of Sam .Lowman, the father, who inno cent of participation in the attack, was left at the Aiken jail. The coroner’s jury, impanneled by Coroner J. Tom Tarver, who now be comes sheriff pending election of Mr. Howard’s successor, viewed the body of the fallen officer. In the absence of Mr. Robinson and Mr. Sh*i»pard, however, the inquest was not held, be ing instead set for Monday morning at 10 o’clock at the county court house. Members of the coroner’s jury are: Foreman, L. M. C. Oliveros, W. A. Banks, J. D. Woodward, H J. Wan- neke, W. P. Davis and Fred iflatt?. The body of Sheriff Howard, who was in his 55th year, lay in state to night in the court house, while hun dreds of citizens who had known him since he became sheriff 13 years ago, filed past the bier. The negros' weapon?—a 45 calibre Colt pistol, dated 1878; a single bar rel shotgun, breech 1 *ading, and an axe— are being preserved a" the court house; the gun this devise, “This is the gun with which Sheriff Howard was killed.” SPRING TERM i s CIVIL COURT j Jurors Drawn For Common Pleas Court Opening Second Mon- . day in May. ! With Judge C. C. Featherstone of ! Greenwood, presiding, the Court of j Common Pleas for the trial of civil , cases will convene in Laurens on the 'second Monday in May. The follow- , ing names have been drawn by the I jury commissioners to serve as jurors .from the respective townships: j Laurens: Thomas D. Downey, F. L. Marchant, James H. Moore. - Dials: R. W. Curry, W. V. Willis, B. H. Gray, M. L. Knight, D. E. Todd. Youngs: B. B. Bailey, J. C.-Cheek, W. W. 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