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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1928
DR. HAYS’ HOSPITAL, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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. Wallace, Jr., J. T. Edwards, J.
W. Johnson, E. L. Taylor, J. H. Smith.
Scuffletown: M. W. Sanders, R. L.
Holland.,
Jacks: R. R. Nabers, A. L. J. Na
bobs.
Hunter: W. P. Baldwin, J. F. Beden-
baugh, John T. Little, J. D. Jeans,
John Spratt.
Cross Hill: R. L. Scurry, C. K.
Hanna, L. E. Martin, W. E. Jones.
Waterloo ; P. O, Smith, L. S. Boland,
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