The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, August 25, 1927, Image 2
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. 05.INTON, S. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927
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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
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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.
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