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^ t Jt i.'i r"'V THURSDAY. FEBRtJARY 25, 19S2 I Jake Ra^r’it Ttetimony Brills - State’s Case * To Dramatic ClosS £ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, s: C Testiimony for the state ended in, a I at the bam and went to the cane dramatic climax Friday with thejP^^^-” ' statement by Jake Rasor, who was se-1 around the porch, do^m *rcfuaely , , , . the s;de steps and across to my broth- rioualy-»oundesl when his father, «il. I ^ouse, ca-niii^ for help a second u^ht it ^«ras a fire alarm.-He, dress ed as quiclcly as possible and heard IbS wife say: “Something is wrong with Jake.’V_-^ The witness said he met Jake at the doorsteps, w^o had his pistol gripped ) in his hand and who was bleeding WTilkers. He knew-she was a faithful servant and his father liked her as^ cook and he advis^ her to go to her mother’s, but this was some time tJe- fore the killing. “Were you the man who shot JakeT~i Ras<^?“ asked Mr. Long. “I was not,” Lathi^i replied with emphasis. , ^ The witness h^ pulled Up his right trouser leg and showed the jury his I Henry said he inherited ^12,500 in cotton' mill stock from his 'mot^wr’sI leg from the knee 'down, at the re estate. it being left in trust with Jake' quest of Mr. Long. / II “What’s Uie matter, have you been!** trustee. He said he doesn’t own any EUigene Crisp Testified ( shot?” he asked,*and Jake replied that j his-own name and has! Eugene Crisp, the third of the de-[ somebody had tried to beat him to': fendants, said he was a native ofi was weak and : death. He toW of assisting JakeJh the imentioning anything about j Cross Hill but had lived in Atlanta' night, September 26th, and for who^^”^^' ^ bleeding, feefing it on my j hall and he and Mrs. Rasor ^ting a i ^is mother’s will ,to Coot Richards,, for 22 years, having worked for his • chair and "’ibillows *for him^ Jake had stated that .Henry told-Jiim brother, W. G. Crisp, in a restaurant. li^m C. Rasor, was beaten ‘to deatk,j time. I realized when the in his home at Cross Hill on Saturday, standing over me that I wa: man was u t> « T ,.1- n breast and down “liriy backhand I was murder Henry R.spr, Lathan j,’ and Eugene Crisp were on trial the brother met- me at his doorsteps. He past w’eek in sessions court at Lau-i was wearing| dark trousers and a light rens, that Lathan t-risp answered the rib coillar.” handed his pistol to him. Jake and hiS father w’ere “hard^ He came to Coss Hill in July for six weeks, returned to Atlanti and came description of his assailant. j Testifying in a soft voici, at times My wife called a neighbor and re- koil^” and he would “knock them Quested her ‘fb 'phone for a doctor,” ^ff” or have it done. - I hack os Labor^day and finally on the Henry' continue^, “and I rema ned “Nothing that Coert said is true ex- “Boy, what’s the matter with you?” >ith Jake until the ambulance <’ a me, p^P; he lived on your place, is Henry asked. I - 'from Greenwt^ except severa' t" ncs i-?” asked Mr. Blackwell.- “Scimbb'ody tried to beat me to. when I went out on the porch because t “Nothing.” Bo low that he was asked to speak I death,” I told him. He asked me for I blood makes me sick.” s “And nothing that Ernest Hitt said louder,'and smilirig occasionally, theiiT\y gun and I handed it to him. it He said he asked someone to call true, eifcept that he rode around young man declaim that Lathan j walked in the hallway after seeing j the ambulance and he requested Chief with Eugene, is it?” , Crisp,,sitting almost directly in frontj Mrs. Raspr on the top doorstep. After of Police Denny to see if anything! “Nothing.” FORD e . , ,, - The best news I have seen in the 15th cf September. He said hi- was a papers in a long time is the annoonce- World war veteran and had been shell-! ment that Henry Ford is about to shoeked and gassed and suffered very ,tadt production on a new line of cars. much from nervousness, which caused him tq stay in his car most of ihe t.me, heipg too nervous to remain at jhis spring until they see the new home br down town at-Cros.s Hitl. Er nest Hitt, he stated, rode with him a I of hini and who was watching him in-1 we got id they set me down on a chair' was wrong with his father. He went' redirect examination, Henry said' great dt‘al. He said he and Ernest tently without a show of nervousness,i-and gave me a pillow. I a^enl for an-, to his father’s house after Jake had never went in,his father’s_ housei went to Waterloo twice on,..the after- answered the description of his assail- other one for my right arm and re--been taken to the hospital and soon'^t night after his father’s death and j noon of September 2Gth to get a check ant. The large court room crowd had hung on every word he uttered in his recital of his trip from his store that tragic night and perhaj^ -was unpre pared for the„tum in his testimony, when Charles A. Young of Green-[ ho-pital.” j to call an undettaker. He did nbi-'g.o wood, assisting the solicitor and con-j ,l:iko conl|hued that Henry came tojjuck to bed any more that night, ducting the. direct examination, turned: see him while he was in the hospital; Henry' declared that, he his suddenly, pointed at Lathan Crisp and {and they talked about their father,; father every day “in and out of him when he whs sick, asked: “Did the^man who attacked! but he himselL didn’t knob' his father J home.” He walktxl through my yard! I^atban Cris^p On Stand you that night answer the minute de-■ was dead iint'U Tuesday, and .«aid Hon-j on the way to and from town, and Lathan Crisp, the next w ines*, said scription of Lathan?” i "v tohl him that he didn’t see his'often stopped to talk. j b.hd a-^a^ije and two children and i nest also went home. Ho declar'd-he “He did,” was the quiet reply. i fa her’s body because he “couldn’t He admitted that he had a dlffcul-ilived at ( nlas Hill since He I knew nothing about the K'lsor kU'’r.g The attorney had just asked^the j ^tnnd Wood.” j ty with-bis father in ll>2r), but said he home oDi Scptomberi 2()th, had - until S o’clock next morning when tis witn'ss dramatically if Ernest Hittj Mr. Young asked .lake if ho went-w's drunk at the time and a'‘terw aids'there and recalled the-visit of j mo.her tcld him. He went to Firnost or Coot Richarclii or Lee Payne or! to see Lathan Cri.sp who also was a! apologized and since then he and hi.s, relatives who wont with Hitt’s to borrow a fnijulain p.‘n au.d about y o’clock he and Eritest went to i wroted to see whiit he had to^say.’’. tJake had testified that Henry at-|^- declar»‘d he did not see C-oot Rich- W. C. Ra^or’.s and .stayed about itO And„^yr question mas; “Do youjtemjsted to kpll W. C. Rasor). “Duringi that day or that night. About 7| minuix's. know wheCn.or v.'i. J t,' kill the la.st 12 montlj*,” Henry continued, vonr father before this time,” and ui,'*' were like brothers and he was in answer was that Henry did try to’my house two or three times ecery kill him in the fall of 1926 and that day.” • the pistol was taken away from Hen-, On cross-examination by Mr. remained at hi.s hou.*e until ry. He added that he thought Henry | well, the witness said he never <lid go| o’clock and he and Mrs. Crisp apologized to b’s father later. i to his father’s home after the killing i about 11:30 on a .slej^)ing' Lots of people have been'waiting to make up their minds what ear to buy mg at canncHl fruit, as charged by theiwent on to town and drove aro inj the Negro took, but said he went to seeifquaie ore ti:ne, and wont b:i.k to his father often and spent several [Cross Hill, arriving at five mi.rjca:o5 after 11 o’clock. He parked his car in J. I). Hitt*.* garage, went home, turned on the light and scon went to bed. Er-i Ford. I think there is going to be a big ru-slrfor new cars of all makes as ■oon as the new Ford models are *hown. Most of the cars now in u?e aie pictty well shot, and now That the bu.siness and in- thi* ought to be er in tije automo-v »rd a.’d for every- s a good,,low-pric- And the number cf men who will go' back to work in the Lord factories wdl make a !>ig dent in the unemploy ment situation. ei.. Henry Rasor or Eugene Criap had at-■).iSitlent and he replied: “I did because father had been on the best of term-, tacked hi:n and he had said “they d;d no.” It was "the second time he had told who he believed shot him on the right temple with a single barreled shotgun and then struck him numerou.s times over the head with the stock of the gun, Jake declared, and. in rc.*pon've to a question by O. L. lamg, of de fense counsel^ said the fir-i. .imo was best night,' and the witness aiMud- ‘ I had very little doubt about ;t but I wan*ed to be sure.” .“And during all this porio<l of sus pense,” aske<l the attorney, “while you were assisting the oficei-s in their efforts to solve the crime, you did not tell, why not^” ■' Jake smiled and an.sworeJ: “It was not time to talk.” T^lng the stand at 12:l.b, .L-Le was asked what hapfyened to him and what he saw between tbe time Ke left his store and went to his broth.*r’s house the night pf Keptember $*).h movement until he turned the corner;Coat’s hou.se often, but did not .send and he told the following details: of the barn 6Q or 75 feet from the for him when he was drunk, as charg- “I left the store around 12 o’cIock j>orch.” ' ed by the solicitor, and drove home. I don’t recall whether 1 Mr. Young then asked him f the Mr. Blackwell, picking up the sin- my bright or dim lights were burning,! man wee any of the n^n und» r in- hie barreled shotgun, lying near the ’dm that afternoon to his dairy farm. H? declar»‘d he did not see C-oat Rich- •«ds that day or that night. About 7,| o'clock he went to W. M. Lcaman’s dore for .some .<«ugar and His lit.le! i>oy. Bob, ^vas with him. (Mr. Leaman verified this, .statement.) Ho said the WALLACE The death of E<igar Wallace, most prolific wriicr of detective fictioiijj is a jiersoiui! lo.‘,.* ta hur.drvd.s of thpu- sancis of Ameii ans who have been in the hivbit of reading eveiy m w W.il- lace -boo!; as soon a.s~it came out. No |\Vallate freijunP.ly worked in 20 years. He denied tl\at he and Er iiest Hitt had ever followed Rural Po licemen 1‘inson “to check up on him” “Was your'’father qfraid of Hen- that night, and the .solicitor insisted [ pnreh. Lahfr he was aroused by sio.ne- ry?” wa's asked by .Attorney Young,'that the only “orders” Henry had i.s-i"^o calling hii't -and his wife awaken- hut was withdrawn and the court did! ^ued were for an underaker to be eall-rC'vd him. (^alhoun P’.n‘'on and Henry not pbrmit Jake to say whether he . vd so that the body couhl In? movini jJr., had driven ^n his yard murder was I eing investi had ever seen Henry drunk. j as quickly as possible. j tall him that Jake had-beephtdiot »ridj ch.nrged by Ernest Hitt. He Readying to another question, Jake “J is.sued orders for a coroner’s jury I Rasor nnir<lered. He Jres.^'d as j only-time he had Jiis .said: “The legs of the man standing' too,” Henry said. j hurriedly as possible, but vouldn’t'ffo h^es off the night of the ‘Jtlth was over me were short and slightly bow-i The solicitor then asked if he at-j-^t his own car because the batteries*vvont tolmd and said he had- -ed. I saw the back of his head. He cai tended a mass meeting in. a Cross Hill; were dead. Mj^. and Mrs. Cojiw.vy Dial w^>i'S a pair of overalls in 20 years riinl him.*e!f well and I studied him. ,”hurch after the murder and Henry j were driving (-ut, but did-not hear him ‘ v ,, , .\u i .f* He had nice shoulders and his ear.* said he did not, but admitted he knew' and he went out to the .street aid »os.'-e*Xi<J.p sau e t stO(Ml out slightly,^ his hair was ch)SO|about it. He said he had the manage-! on the running board of Car te his head and his neck was not sO|nuntof the farm on which Ci>o't Riih-! •‘P'U Nance’s car. He sai<l a coroner’s large, small towards the shoulders. I lards lived, but the place belonged to Ji |n’t se^his face. I noticed hi-s^every his wife and children. He went to j writer evt r li ved \\ha prodmed such ii.^a n • i> ij Mn immen.se volume of eatertaining lldd Never B en in Rasor Homo * • e ^ r i lA. i. o. 1 ... I 1, I I I ' tiir.es of Ml a un.foimly hfgh quality. Eugere declared he h id never bean . m j uj) -the walkway at the V\. C. Ra or h( me and had never been in the h’»:i-;o iu-his life ami added he hadn’t been to the (iarlington place, where th.' s’.mt- gun is alli ged tv) have been bought, dictihent mentioning the t?wo Ne- witness stand, asked the witness* if he groes and three white men and omit-! had ever seen it before*,- and he said he and parked near the back steps, walk--ting Lathm Crisp, and then: How had not. Asked about the knifejfound ed around severaL bales of cotton and long hav#- you known laithan Crisp .’’I by the body, Henry said it looked like but if the dim ones were op only one was shlntng. f drove in the baclr yaFd Atlanta in Ji/i>L,'7' p^ Ronu* ’iquor trbuble, having btam tti'CustHl n three, or four l)<ioks at once,' dictating each CO a (»!fLrent s.encgrapher, and more than urco wic.e an entire f'uM-sized ncvel in U's* than a week. He w.i,s nev er at a lo.i.s for a p'ot, and his charre-^ trs caiiieii the stamp of reality. Edgar Wallace was a giant of a man, of apparently limitless physical •r eigy, but even the strongest is not ,»i.a)! again.st pneumonia. There are vv.iny other good writers of first-rate lit te. live stories, but none who has Wallace’s energy and capacity for .'.ipid Work. BUTLER counted them. Then I went up the steps to the house, pulled off my hat. opened the screen door and- reached^back of hi.* head, his neck uiul ears ardson in his father’s home. He said the Rasor home as charged by state’s. up for the key and that was the last I remember until I came to lying on the floor. There was a rumbling in my head and a place on the back of my head felt like a gunshot wound. My first impression wa.® that I had bet*n shot from the yard. I got out my pi.s- tol and expected someone to approachi While waitiiig for someone Most con sciousness again, T suppose from a “Practically all'my life.” ‘Was Ihr.t man’s .shou'ders. the the one that he had called to the at- j tention of State Constable J. W. Rich- jury was drawn after be reached the , . , , , W. Ru 'or home and he thought he!be came to Cross Hu..'in one was the third man chosen. The ^ I’lerce-Arrow. his br'^th- viewed the bodv and he described the had told surroundings. He .stated that he re- Atlanta to whom he wa.s turneil home about 3:30 or i a. m.. and hi? ,aport model Ford for went buck to the Rasor home that''^“^‘^ ^ attorney’s fee.s that he morning. He recalled seeing dogs linger.” _ there and they went near him. Jle .«aid i ^^bl F'rne.-t Hitt lied if he saiil h'S hou.*e is a half mile from W. (’. jhc was at the"'Rus<*r home between Ra.sor’.s and he heard none of the | and 11 o’chn-k th. t night because hots. ! Ernest was with him. Mr. Iiong asked him if he vCent in of having a pint'in the ro.-KiinraiR, and I>r. Xicholas_ .Murray Butler has ju.*t celebrated his thirtieth anniver- like lai’han Crisp’s?” “J-'O Erne.st put b^rielf in it volun tarily,” commented S^JiciUir .Bia:‘h- • I.,athan Crisp went with him at times 1 wi'qe.-s<‘s, and he rejilied: well. “They were.’ - to Coot Richards’ and other Negroes’! “It’s not true I wasn’t there.” | “That Rasor killing was a myth, “Was lii? gait and the sh.ipe of his homes,'but denied that ^Eugene Crisp; He declared he di<l not see Eugene,j it, Eugene?” leg.* like Lathan Crisp’s?” j had ever accompanied them. jErpest Hitt, or Coot Richards thaii don’t know anyth ng about it.” “Tbev wfve,’’ ' ; “What assistance did you give the! night. •’’I Ernest Hitt was there you wevo “Wa? the nian’.s'hair lying • lose to j officers ?” asked the solicitor., j Lathan said he made visits to Hen-! loo. weren’t you?” .i,; . • i • i f.'s heal like Laflian Crisp’s?” ' “The sheriff was thei-only one who ‘ farms frequently for vegetables j “No, sir, he wasn't there, between i‘b'^>’^bcee.ssive graduating classes of “It V as except that it was a little asked me alxiut the case and 1 told u.sually Henry went wi.h him. He ^iJb ^^nd 11 o’clock.” ' j o.um n i will live for generotions. long^ than I.athan’s is now.” ^ I him I knew nothing,” was the deply.^ denied that he ever talked fo laie' J’llut what Ernest says about other! to ti*y Jake also recalled discussing a Fun-} “Did you offer any a.ssistanci* and I Pa.'ne or Crwit Richards about a gun.llbings is true, you admit,” the solici- guide the thinking of such ^ host ary as president of Columbia univer- -:ty in New York city. Under Dr. But- ier’s guidance Columbia ha.s become ^'o largest university ii the world, \iHi something like thirty thousand tuclcffl-'’ iiud a staff of three thous- n<l ‘''•'d instructors. There^t« « gu<^d many people who th nk that R’lt RuHer talks too much, but they are nia’im^J; fulks who .b-n t = ke what he-says. i-s no more ‘ituunch defemiei of the f^Jiiulamental principles of democracy than I do no'v kn<rw of anyone who hao*,,^ sounder or nv;>re complete foundation f education to begin with, or who has made as good use of it, as Nicho las Murray Butler. His influence over blow on the head. After some time 11 die of clothes found on the Chappell.S Hd you go over the cuontry in an rf-'Thc la*t time he was down there, he 1 for I'a'in* back. ^ He said you i ame to came to and saw part of a man stand- road with Henry and asked him if ne foit to find the slayer of your fath- ing over me./I could see him from his! knew anything about a ligh! in tluirjer?” knee to his shoe tops. I felt for rhy j father’s, house. “They didn’t seem to want my as- piiAol and presumed I had dropped it on the floor when I first Ipst con- “Henry replied he thought a Negro Henry replied. _They shu'> had put out the report about the light. Henry said he saw a light in l^is J' sciousness, “While I was trying to find the gun j father’s house the night his I saw the movements of the arm "f. was. killed and paid no attention thiAinan with an instrument like a it/*' > . hrdSm handle or a gun barrel. 1 pre-| to his tesitiinony at tlie hab- punie he was hi;ting me, but 1 w'as ned me.’ .And you never turned yciiir hand,” Carndl Nance’s car. raid, was the la.st of July or first of! bis house to write a letter and you .August, and he dei'lared emphatically'-^ay he went to Waterloo with y^)U and j R* that he was not at or near \V. C. Ra-l<Rove around town-with you and went sol’s home the night of the 2(»*h firiorl^o Creenwoud with you, but you doj to his riding there after midnight on.iiot admit the other occasions wfunj f yoiVng people, but on the whole I think i)r. I’.uticr has made a good'^ob he said you were pre.sent.’ SILVER -Now that the major financial prob lems of the nati:ni are rapidly being ' Ris '■^’I'sion of the conversation with I “Did vou ever discuss this case w ith | i leared up, attention in Washington j^Qied an ounce of energy to find the per-1 Mr, Nance at the ginnery was that he Henry Raso.r or Lathan ('risp?” i petiators of this teirible crime, did ^aid: “It’s bad about Mr. Ra.sor, the! ed the solicitor. ask- i.s focusing again on the monetary po- numb After ‘two or three seconds I found th? gun and saw the man two or three paces from the bottom door-1 mulatto.” )ck aim. He was I . ^ eas corpus hearing, Jake recalletLhc stated that the man who attacked him was “either a white man or a light you?” "I did what I could.” Henry said the keys to hie |■ht’^v*r’aitoo. : sition of silver, of wh!ch I have .*pok- way he had to go, but he had al*)0ut' “1 never sai<l a word to them about) -n l>cf( re in thi.s column, livtxl his life, and it’s bad about Jake,! >L” was the an.*>wer. Senator F'ittman of Nevada, has in- Btep. I raised up and to not running fast, more of a trot, and, .r. * n i d- u j 1 L Ti 11 Mvith State Constable J. W. Richard- 1 shot. He was near the cotton and i| . noticed he didn’t fall. Before I shot 1 +vr.M;na- urith little'asslstcd officers, but told I noticed he was tro.ting with little effort, 'but he peartened up after I fired. I took as good aim as I possibly could -but the. shadows mad^it raider dark, I shot a second time and .saw He said he discussed the matter son on the Tuesday following the niur house were kept at his home after ‘he kil’ring. ' . The soliritor w.anted to know if he did not take the uncle of ErntM Hitt -I- The solicitor then compared Erncst^rioducTd a bill for,the purchase,by the t only for the first time last night becau.se it wasn t time to talk un-‘ j.,ong and heard him say he was going til then. l Laurens “and he askinJ me to take tfgnv aiSMucc used here and the- state Defendants In Rasor Murder Trial Take Stand To Deny Their Guilt The witne-'3 stated that he wrentrir ' and Eugene to Damon and F’ythia.s and government of five million oup&es of^ Atlanta following an attack from i asked Eugene if he didn’t remember j siher-a month, t) be pa'd f:)T iVi sil- wkat dac’tors had diagnosed as appen-1 asking the officers while he w .is be- ver certificate*. T hat prcbably _ will dicitis an J from which he had suffer-jing taken to jail why Ernc.-t hadn’t not hi ii'>ne in ju. t that way, but I to" Laurens after Erne.st’s arre.st to ed mui'h, having lost 20 pounds, arrtl b<*en arrested. kru w *(» m.i!iy pe -ple in influential fi- errploy an attorney. | related how he was arrested by At-j *1 don’t remember it,” he said. j 'ar.cuil and ]> litical c rcles who be--- The reply was that Mr. Hitt heard lanla officers and taken by State Con-j Mr. Blackwell walked up to the wit- iie.e that someth.ng iv.u>t be done to him talking over the phofie to O. L. stable K'chardson to Columbia. ne.s.s .stand, picked up the k'life, held ' re.slore silver lo its money position, He .®aid Coot Richards was brought R in front of the witne.ss, ami askedriiind who arc working so hard and in- before him in (mlumbia and he told I “Have you ever seen thk* before ?” felliftentiy toward that end, that 1 he- Coot he liH about the sale of a gun.j Eugene "said he had not. lieve we shall see something eff^tive He went hack tiTt’ne gbvermmehrh<)s- j .Next* the solicitor leaned (in the-4toiie-ahaul it beiQre_yery dong^. -ppRftMm^Atlaftta-a^terJie-gfa-veJioiid. Jjit^nd an<ljaid in a rather low voici': x , He"denied that he took the pistol! Recalling being in the (Ireenwoiid nnuchTjTofid’dl(rydIFgt7t~oTr^»Trr- -- ^ ' ^ away from Jake, as intimated by theihospi'a! at the time Jake was a pa-1 H'^Pt that n.ghL,_Gene?” “hHB—an4 he went- with me to^ M r. Long’s office, as I thought, to see lihouT Ernest.”^ Henry Ra-sor, Lathan and Eugene Ci'Lp, charged wth the murder of W. C. Rasor at his Cross Hill hoaie on the night cf September 26th. took the stand Satuirday morning in thi-s sen- de- i solicitor. I “You talked to your father that af- i t? rnoon about 6:30, did you?” asked Mr. Blackwell, rmnutesj i» He was at peace with the world? tient, he said Jake came into his room a number of times and talked with him but usually went out v/hen others came in. Lathar was cross examineil by R. E. Babb. The attorney wanted to knowi “I wasn’t there to get ■ bUxid them.” “Who handlwl that (piiit?” "I have never s<en it Ik?fore.” nations, Ihe three defendarrts testified as follows: Henry Rasor On Stand Henry Rasor was the first of the three to take the stand Saturday, and ' wlwn he was called there was a no ticeable shuffling about in the room, the crowd changing positions to ^e and hear to the best advantage. He said he was'a brother of Jake and Earle Rasor, a ^on of the late M. C. Rasor and had a witte and three children. Recounting his activities on Saturdays September 26th, he stated that he wiisf in town »in the morning buying cotton seed, returned to dinner at the usual hour, an^ thought seed acain until 4 o’clock when he went home for the night. Upon his amval he cranked his- gasoline engine and .pumped-some water and sat on the '6:30 and they talked a few and exchanged nev/spapers. He thenj peace with the world?” Kaon, me attorney wanted to knowi i. n/f ^ went to supper and after that me^, j^ jp asked him about the kill- 1 OUltrV iVlOCtlUff he and Mrs. Rasor sat on the porch » j ^^pjy with Henry, Jr., while his daughter, - “wasn’t the last time you saw him,” j'onver.sation he had with Jake was: Mjss Margaret, was playing the ipi-, solicitor, “lietv/een 8 “I am .sorry to .see you in this shape,” conversation he never vis- sational case and made specMC wir iu '■ ■ ” *” " nials of the charges against them by ano in the living room, Milliam, thej^^j g.^Q threw that quilt land tha. was before his the state. On direct and crass exami- Voungest son, had gone to a picnic.: y^jg yj^^d?” I with Mr. Nance. He said Ihey left the F^rch at 8 ©clock and- ^yj^ attorney picked up the'ited W. C, Rasor in his home but saw , went into the living r^m, wUrned on I j.yjg blood stains still risible,! him often at Henry’s and the attorney the radio but played it only a short j yy.^ floor at the witness stand, • wanted to know if he observed him time because static was bad, and then; y,^j^ jy Henry’s face, and isk- read awhile. His daughter had gone over to the S. A. Leaman s to spend f “Doesn’t it make you sick now Henry, to see your father’s blood?” the night with a friend. At 9:30 o’clock, he said, he and Mrs. Rasor retired. They turned out the Hriqg room b^bt, walked across the hall aad t.nrough the bedroom and soon turne;j out the light there.’ They left the light in the hall burning b^ause WiL- liam had not returned. Later William arrived and walked through fheir bed room and spoke to him on his way to- t|ie bathroom. Soiiie time later, continued the wit ness, he was awakened moiaes sounding as if someone was hollering or talking loud, and he thought it was down the street towards town. Mrs. “It makes my hecu't »ic|||^ was the reply. Henry said the first time he heard that he was suspectied was on Wednes day after the killing, when Bud BdydJ" sitting in the special chair sent over for; him to bccupy while visiting and listening at the radio. Asked about his finances, the wit- neis said he operated on borrowed money and admitted he was behind on houiie rent, but ajcpected to pay it.^1 Hie couldn’t recall whether Calhr.ijin Pipson or Henry Rasor, Jr.„ told him Unikr the common law which pre- iRroughout most of the United ,.,State.s, a person’s name is anything he : r rhe chooses to make it after arriv ing at ’^he age of independence. If I wanted to t-all niy.sclf .Solomon Grun- dj and *o announced, that would be , my name. It would not be necr?*arv Tor me t,j ask the permission of any emit or le-.is!ature, though I might et into trouble if I changed my name On Thursday, March 3, there will to evade the law*, civil or criminal, be held in the court house at l.aurriiyJ •lames Branch Cabell, famous ! .Vmerict Next Thursday ESTATE NOTICE ► I::U front porch until supper, his ‘ron, Een * ^ ./ 4. v j ry Jr.; being with him after 6:30. His Rasor went on the front porch, and father’passed through hia yard about of Laurens, told him. He said the qf-j that W. C. Rasor had been killed, say fleers did not ceme to him-for’i'nfor- ing that the boys drove up in the iration, although he was willing to do yard and one was talking to his yard •'ything at any time. j d<^, while the other was telling about Askoxl about the statement by Ros- jthe, tragedy. He said he had offered alie Watts, Negro cook at the W. C. 1 his services to the office.rs, but he and j the estate of N. R. Young, deceased, he signs all official documents. Dur- Hasor home, that he had advised her* Henry didn’t discuss the case at all,-are hereby notified to file the same,) Rig the war Kjing George of England to go to her mother's for >awhile be-j “having had nothing to do with it and at 2 p. m.. a poultry mt cting f )r th|* • •American-author, has ju®t made the purpo.-*e of discu.ssing brooding bab|' I>whli'' announcement that his name is chicks and poultry production in geri-'no'v *imp!y Branch Cabell. Col. Frank eral. P. H. Goixiing, state poultry Knox,'publisher of the Chi. ago Da ly specialist, will lead the dis •U3.*ion3,'‘ Ntiw.s, just appointed head of the president’s anti-hoarding commission, was christened AVilliam Franklin Knox, but he' prefers to be known as Frank Knox, and that is therefore his legal name. my .pnrtvia-Son states o tho+j.' have changed their names. Grover Cleveland was STtepheir^ G.^ CJeyeland as a young man, and Woodrow WTlson was The mas W. Wilson. Herbert Claike Hoover has changed his name CARD OF THANKS 5,. I wiifh, to thank the voters of Hun- ttjr towy* lip for the vote given me in e fii.st primary for Magistrate, and public y' express to those who gave me theii' -support. JAMF.S H, SEAT. All persons .having claims against to plain Herbert Hcover, with which cause some of the men' in Cross Hill knowing nothing about it, had threatened to beat up Negro wo-j Mr. Babb closed the cross-exaniina- men, Henry aahf he told Rosalie that|tion with the statement: heard two pistol shots >nd said )!he-l a movement Was on to “thrash” street • re.markable.” duly verified, with the undersigned, * changed the Surname of the" royal and those indebted to said estate wUl'ifamily from Wettin to Windfor,^ and please make payment likewise. \ I his cousins, the BattenbiMnit JESSIE DILLARD YOUNG,' \ he Mourtbattdna. T’our'na C-17-ltc E.vecutrix. .vcr'you call i’tUrEelf. I\ ^ ■ . .--th