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i % X Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, August 2, 1945 AFFIDAVITS PLACE CRAIHE HEAR SPOT WHERE BRIGMAN MET DEATH OH JUHE10 >- —" "V At the recent habeas corpus hear ing before Judge Steve Griffith in Newberry, bail was sought and se cured for Woodrow Wilson Craine of this city, by Blackwell, Sullivan and Wilson and O. L. Long, his at torneys of Laurens. Craine is charg ed with murder in the death June 10 of Percy Lee Brig man, Clinton taxi driver. The state was represented by So licitor B. V. Chlapmah'of Newberry, who presented a half dpzeh or more affidavits in opposition to the defense motion. ' ' . I One of the affidavits wa& by Craine j next told of getting uneasy about hef| husband and calling on Craine to help her find him, which he did, as he outlined in his affidavit. In his affidavit, Tom Hubbert said he heard two shots “that sounded For the Week ... South Clinton News MRS. NELLIE McCLENDON, Correspondent and Representative Rothie Robinson is visiting his father, Wade Robinson, in Great' Falls. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hollis of Char- Crame is charg- i ike a pistol” in the-direction of the| lotte N c Mr< and Mrs S immons| connection with “Fuller woods along about 4.30 the q{ Rock Hm visited Mrs. Neal Bal-| Pr>rrv T.pp Rne- afternoon of the “second Sunday in . - c at d June.” Lodsia Pinson told of seeing ' . ^ 1 smoke “like a big fire” in £he dirflp- .. M u S ' ? ° f T Detro1 ’ tion “where the car and man were ^ ^ ,r ^ ce ' Lewis o btirned 'up.” These affidavits were Griffin G^, visited tlie.r sister* Mrs. silrbmittfd presumably to fix the time ast ' veek - r -i- 0 f the crime. . ■' I Clara Kellett and children of G. E. Turniblin testified as follows: 1 f' ount f! n In "- vis J,^ d ^ sister-in- •himself in which he. swore that he j “On* Sunday, June 10th, 1945, I' law. Mrs. Cora Elders, during the knew nothing about the alleged ! carried some children to Watts Store we f K _ , _ crime and that four people would at Mountville to get some cold drinks. 11)1^^ ^.,Law.pn^has returned to Sa^ testify to his being at home “prac i As I came^back, I guess around 5:30 j v nnah, Ga., -’after visiting friends* p m., as I left ’the road at Dunlap and relatives here last week. * I ' W T r I ' r-i -J » ill 4 V> < d Cross Roads, I saw a car parked on S. J. Todd is ill at his home on tically the entire afternoon” of the killing. Those he listed were Mrs. Lessie Harrison, described by officers as a neighbor; Luther. Hunnicutt and .lake Roger*, who live m the >“»*«i “ Crvi'^'b^k 'to uETSf^Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Prather, in Salem with him, and Mr>. Lucy Craine. his Woodrow Craine back in the suriace ^ ^ ,„ ool , xv,*,,, x.tr I brother's wife. Highway 92 (Calhoun highway) i Pi |J e * treet - headed toward Clinton. I also saw‘a 1c and Mrs. Tracy Dees and who I recognized asj chlldren Vlslted the latter s parents, jroad towards. Mrs. Dunlap's house. week. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tribble in Liberty, i gret to learn he is ill at his home near Clinton. Mrs. Melvin Satterfield is ill at her home .on Church street. Friends ,k, of Homer Douglas of Gray Court, brother of Mrs. 1 ! Hugh Ballard, will regret to learn he is a patient at the Vetean’s hospital in Columbia. i Friends of Mrs. Lewis Boyter will regret to learn her mother tell and broke her hip a tew days ago and is now a patient at the Laurens county hospital. John Thomas uaiiman, ST'Zc, now stationed in Shoemaker, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wood and children of Norfolk, Va., visited "their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. WVWood, last week.' ’■ Reba Hill of Greenwood, is vis iting Miss Mamie Willard. Mr.* and Mrs. Claud Willard, and A. Land visited J. E. Land, who is a patient at the,, ^tmeral hos pital in Spartanburg, recently. Miss Essie McCannau of Atlanta, Ga:, Miss Mildred Smith of Green ville and Mr. and Mrs. Roselle Dill of Piedmont, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Davis. Mrs. ,George Pressley and little Grady Worthy spent the week-end is in Goldville with Mrs. C. W. Chand ler. Miss GaynellejHairston of Colum bia, spent the week-end with h«r parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dorroh Hairs ton. ‘ Mrs. J. L. Rhodes, Mrs. Mae Will ard and Miss Frances Fuller of Un ion, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Emery. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. King and family spent the week-end with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H._Jaekson. Mr. and Mr;s. Seymour Cole and family of Cross Hill, visited Mrs. M. J. Cole and daughter Sunday. Mrs. Herbert Brown and $on of Whitmire, spent a tew d^ays last Week with Rev. and Mrs. F/E. Brown. Charlie Blackwell, S. 2c, of ^eary, Va., is spending a leave with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Blackwell. ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blackwell of Whitmire, visited Mrs. F. J. Black- well last Wednesday. Hubert Brown of Whitmire, spent Saturday with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. F. E. Brown. Parian Brenda, Tuesday at Hays hospital. » Birthdays Jimmie Douglas Abercrombie is celebrating his third birthday today. Fate Fuller celebrated his birthday 1 Monday. Marion Motte observed her 17th birthday Wednesday. Billy Mosier will celebrate his 4th birthday Friday. 7* Brenda Cobb will celebrate "'a birthday Friday. • s Joimette Cobb observed her birth day Sunday. ( dharles Johnson c^leljrated his 12th birthday Wednesday. ^ j * Mrs. Annie Lawson celebrated a 'birthday Apgust 1st. V* Birthday Party Given .«• .* 4 • Mrs. Boyd Smith honored her daughter, Ruth, with a party on ,her 11th birthday Friday. . Many gjuests gathered for the cele bration and enjoyed games an'd re- i freshments. Each one remembered | her with a gift. She nil Wicr eltered no expla- ! He a< first appeared to start to flag j' Shumate is visiting her ri-tutr, - , » h* ,miv nr,** mm Fvis me. throwing his hand up. but when | , * wrs - ' *• u ' , .,, s n nation .is to v.h4. onlv one man has, . t rprosnize mo ho nut mother, Mrs. Dora Phillips, in New-' been arrested thn> far although! de appeared to recognize me he put , ^ | two ^ Is hand down and walked off to- Birth Announcement . !. C A RTER 'S' Rubl f r Ra ^ r * ; Cement (non-; Wrinkling), sticks Mr. and - Mrs. Leslie Austin a%,^p er ^ anen t]y ^ handy bottle in nouncp the birth of a daughter, ( ev.ery home. Chronicle Pub. Co. been Craine .< affidavits refer to iwo * - Mrs. M. C. Smith of Laurens, spent! strange men" and affidavits of other ^ards the highway. A. he walked ! week-end with Mr and Mrs cttrm *, m t-.-n m.m ,• hoina I saw. a big red spot on his back and ^ 1 , *" V i. ' w itne mention twc men bei ^, shoulder that lo((ked nke b , ood or Horace Smith and Mr. and Mrs. I seen with Brigman on the Calhoun i red mud. It was about the size of my James Smith. Edward Williams, S. 1c. has re-1 davits as does another ear seen park- attracted to her front porch by her H ed on the side of ’the highway near daughters in time to see “Blondy”; the death scene Several affidavits placed Craine Flo >’ d - Mrs - Rice ' s daughter by a near.the scene of the crime about Previous marriage corroborated her, highway the afternoon Ive was.evi dently being driven to his death. A ,ia “ 4 turned to San Francisco. Calif., after) "red truck" also figures in the affi- Mrs. Delia Rice said that she was spendin g a leave with his father,! W. Williams. _ . . , . _ ’Miss Ruby Byars visited friends' Brigman passing in .his car. Mary in Lockhart over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Gallnjan vis- n* scene ot tne ci im^aoQUt, ited Sam Qallman in Charlotte, N. the time it is Supposed to have taken ^oXher and_stated additionally that c over ^ week-end. place, although in hi .swore that he did no •during the afternoon affidavit he tbere were two other men tti the Mr. and .Mrs^^Maek fidavit.' \va .< ;t''tiinony t were set ii on Crfune s 1 Be^idt s : :ht* Craine a affidat .1' \ ’.a re IronV-G 50. Mrs. D i'i;a Rice. 46, ot leave Clinton car with Brigman but that she d “ ' Newberry. A-isitedMr. an. Also in the af- recognize either of them “as I Ca Abercrombie Sunday, y that rod stains w; >s waiving at Blondy as he passed. Mrs _ Helcn Gregory and' Eargle of md Mrs. clothing. . affidavit, other E. Tumblin. 19. Lor.'.a Pm.-on. 3 colored, lit), and Green Cook and Lida Gregory and children GreAr-Cook said that late in the of Ware Shoals,, spent Sunday with! afternoon of June 10 he noticed a Mr . anc f Mrs. Hugh Ballard. ’ white man walking from the direc- Mr« and Mrs. J. S. Navy, Mrs.) Mary Floyd, turn of tl^e Fuller woods. The man. M ar y Kelly and son. and Mrs. Helen) Tiun Hubbert, he said, asked him if he had noticed Goings attended ai singing conven- red truck pass there. "The man f; on Parker high school in Green- Dell Cook. cM.a ed. ail re.-'.ding in the talking was a young white men, VIi ie Sunday. vfeinity where the crime wasi com- kinda short, had a leather pouch on Mr. and Mrs. Bovd Wilkes of And- mitted. Mrs. Nell Brigman, wife ot his belt and looked like blood on his erson, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. i the slain man. Claude R. McCollough. back, he said. Lida Bell Cook told Grover Jackson. 41. resident o; Lydia Mills, and C. J. practically the same thing as her Mr. and Mrs. Grover Jackson, King. 43. resident of Goldville. ) husband, mentioning the pouch and Mr. ami Mrs. Boyd Wilkes, Mrs. Mil- . Mrs Brigman. in her testimony "what appeared to be blood on his f on King and son spent Sunday at said that Craine came to their house back.' Chimney Rock, N\ C. with two men about 1:30 the after-; Claude R. McCollough said he was* Rev. J. H. Walker visited in And- noon her husband was missed, talked to her husband a few minutes and left. The next time she saw Craine, on his way to a fish supper with erson last week. some friends on June 10th and be-' Mrs. J. H. Walker ’"visited her tween 7:30 and 8 o’clock, beyond mother, Mrs. W. S. Thomson, in i-he said, was about 6:30 that eve-) Little River, near the road crossing' Honea Path last week, nmg when he came there for a few; at the top of the hill, he met Wood- j Jerry Blakely of ,Greenville, is minutes and left. In his affidavits | row Craine “and recognized him.” visiting his cousin, Robert Satter- Craine doesn't mention this trip. She)His impression, he said, was that he field, this week. !came out of a dirt road from hisj Mrs. Rufus Mills and children left. I visited Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Brown C. J. King told of coming to Clin-j in Laurens Sunday. Sue Brown re- ton the afternoon of the 10th ex-[turned with them for a visit, pecting Brigman to drive him to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reeder and Greenwood. He waited at a filling children and Mrs. Ellie Reeder vis-l| BIRDSEY Flour and Feed 3 < > < * mm mama A * , If. > r E! < > BIRDSEY'S BEST i; FLOUR 0 < > 4, 10 I.bs. .62:! 0 25 Lbs 1.45 < > 50 Lbs. 2.84 ii < > Per Bbl. .. 11.10 i! 4 k FOUR BROTHERS v. FLOUR :: 10 Lbs ' .57:! i > 25 Lbs. 1.34!! 50 Lbs. 2.63!! 100 Lbs 5.151 Per Bbl. .. 10.05; STARTING MASH 4-18!| GROWING MASH 3.83! LAYING MASH 3.75; < SCRATCH FEED 3.57; DAIRY FEED 3.37! < HOG FEED 3.65: COFFEE, 97c J Rirdsev's Best, Lb. < < BIRDSEY ! FLOUR & FEED i MILLS Musgrove St., Clinton, S. C. J V. Parks Adair . MfT. j ■•y - < station for Brigman but he never ited in W’hitmire came. While he was there, he said,' Sunday. gene Craine (brother of Wood- Louise Brown of and Newberry near Clinton,! row) drove up with another young was the week-end guest of Mrs. man and they had some conversa-' Dewel Satterfield. — tion, which King described, about a Miss Evelyn Delozier of Cramer- punctured tire. Woodrow Craine ton, N. C., was the week-end guest i drove up in a truck with Red Hall,) of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Cole and he said, and then got into the car family. with Eugene. As he did this, he said' Mr. and Mrs. Walt Kirby, Mrs. he saw a big spot of blood on Wood- Ida Kirby and Mrs. W. W. Timmons row's left shoulder. of Greenwood, visited in Fork Shoals The next term of criminal court Sunday, in this county, at which the murder . Mrs. Clee Satterfield and children warrant is scheduled to go before the visited Mr. Satterfield Sunday, who 2 grand jury, is due to open the fourth is a patient at the General hospital A Monday in September. in Greenville. * Friends of M B. 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