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PAGE TWO THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. 05.INTON, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927 50c JONTEEL COLD CREAM An excellent cleansing cream. < Soft—Smooth. 2 for 51c Also 50c JONTEEL VANISHING CREAM 2 for 51c ' YOU SAVE 49c This week only. SMITHS PHARMACY 5* # CONVENIENT DESSERT We have several kinds of Ice Cream on hand all the time. Phone us the MINUTE you want it. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT.UNION STATION Phones 377 & 400 ‘ Phones 377 & 400 WILLIS CASE TO OPEN TODAY FLOWERS For Funerals, Sick Friends or W e d • dings. We represent Glenn- Ayers Floral Co., of Spartanburg, S. C. * Call 74 CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Stationery Dept. Preparntions Completed By Defepse % and Prosecution for Battle. Wi dow and Townsend To Answer. Greenville, Aug. 23.—State and de fense were pushing preparations to day for the opening Thursday morti- ing of the murder case against Mrs. Ethel Willis and Henry S. Townsend on the charge of shooting to death he^ husband, Sheriff Sam D. Willis. Subpoenas were being served on two dozen of the defense witnesses, while prosecution witnesses were be ing notified to be on hand at the time set by Judge Milledge L. Bonham for calling the case. Solicitor J. G. Leatherwood, while declining to say exactly how many witnesses he contemplated putting on the stand, discounted current rumor that the state 'would have approxi mately^ 100 jvojrsons summoned to tes tify. “We are doing everything we can to he ready by Thursday morning,” was the word from the defense camp, which had sought to Wave opening of the trial delayed until Monday of next week. Two newly discovered witnesses, who, the defense believes, may be able to give important testimony in be half of the thirty-one-year-old widow and her co-defendant will be inter viewed by attorneys Friday. Former Judge Mendel L. Smith, of the prosecution, was expected to ar rive in Greenville tonight. The opinion was expressed by attor neys today that drawing of a jury may | delay the beginning of the actual trial | until late Friday or possibly Saturday, j A venire of thirty-six jurors was drawn for the week, but of this num ber only fwenty-seven were available ' for service. It will be necessary to fill out this papel, and then exhaust it, be- ' fore the special venire can be subpo enaed. Under South Carolina law, the joint defendants will have twenty 1 challenges, while the state will have five. The number that can be chal lenged for cause is unlimited. A chronological summary of the Willis case follows: June 11 (Saturday)—Sheriff Sam, D. Willis, thirty-six—j’ear-old World i war veteran, shot and killed about midnight at door of his garage at home, 210 East Stone avenue. Inves tigation showed he had been shot four times. Bloodhounds followed a trail leading from the Willis home to a spot several blocks distant, where they, seemed to lose the scent. Witnesses Voiin tr Wom&It were quoted as saying they saw a man ^ ® ^ after the .shooting run along the path indicated by the dogs. Mrs. Ethel Wil lis, widow of the sheriff and mother Passes Away < Mrs. Beatrice Wright, daughter of of four young daughters, said she was v Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Hill, died at her in her room at the time-she heard the!home on Jackson’street, on last Tues* shots, and lookinlr out her window, j day, She was a bride of only two saw a dark figure dash out of the' months, and her death brought deep- yard. iest sorrow to her relatives and many June 12.—Rewards totaling $2,500 friends. She was an upright, Chris- offered for arrest of the slayer or^ian young woman and was held in slayers, $1,000 by the state, $1,000 by highest esteem by all who knew her. the county, and $500 by the city. The- j Mrs. Wright is survived by her hus- pry advanced that bootleggers were and, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. responsible for killing Sheriff Willis, Hill* and three small sisters, Cather- who had been active against liquor ine, Euler and Ada. traffic. Funeral services were conducted June 13,*—Bootleg theory apparent- from the Princeton Baptist church, ly abandoned by officers. Large Rev. A. J. Bowling officiating. In- crowds attend Willis funeral. terment was made in the Princeton June 14.—Deputy Sheriff Henry S. cemetery. Townsend, war. comrade and bosom | friend of slain offieer wrested about TobaCCO PrkeS 11:30 p. m. at the Willis home,.and rushed to state penitentiary at Co lombia. Officers said he protested his , w Rise Sumter ^ innocence. I Sumter, Aug. 23. — Sumter today June 23.—Mrs. Willis was arrested had.one of the best tobacco sales yet at her home about 5:30 p. m. on a }j e Ul at local warehouses, when an av- wrarant charging her, along with j er Sg e 0 f approximately twenty-five Townsend, with complicity in the mur- J C ents per pound was realized by the der of her husband. The warrant was raisers of tobacco from this and other sworn out by W. W, Rogers, state de-1counties who sold here. The amount tective assigned to the case by Gover nor Richards. June 24.—Mrs. Willis placed in county jail. She was allowed to spend first night in custody at home under guard. July 1—Mrs. Willis and Townsend granted bond in the sum of $3,000 each by Associate Justice T. P. Coth ran. of the state, suppreme court, fol lowing testimony and arguments in habeas corpus proceedings. was not as large as on the opening day, but St was close to 100,000 pounds. Excursion $14.00—WASHINGTON, D. €.—$14.00 $10.50 — RICHMOND, VA. — $10.50 $11.00—PORTSMOUTH, VA.—$11.00 $11.50 — VA. BEACH. VA. — $11.50 from Clinton, S. C. and return, on sale Sept. 2nd, limited 7th, via SEA BOARD. See Ticket Agent It / If It’s New, H’s Here- If It’s Here, It’s New ? -V 7 . - i ” NEW FALL SUITS NOW READY FOR YOUR INSPECTION. 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