Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Since it was announced in. the newspapers that I have been so highly honored in being selected as the secretary of that organization 1 have alvcady boon the fortunate recipient of much per sona) benefit and pleasure in that so many of Sumter county citizens have kindly said to me that they regret that 1 am to leave Sumter, but they are congratulating me on being sa fortunate as to be selected by Camden and Kershaw County in such an im portant position, since in their opin ion, if I am leaving Sumter and Sum l.er County, I am indeed fortunate in being permitted to locate in Camden and Kershaw County. That is their opinion, and 4 unanimously ? agree with them. My selection of Camden and Ker >ha\v County for this position has brought out to me the ploasant infor mation that I have more friends in Sumter County than I have any right !u expect and more, than I deserve-? and incidentally I might say that I found out that I have some mighty Kood friends and numerous well wish-' crs in Camden. Some men are born lucky and 1 t li i nk 1 am one of them in my friend ships and in being permitted to locate' in Camden which I hope and intend to try to make my permanent home if 1 any permitted to do so. ? Having no special reason for and not being forced to leave Sumter County, enjoying the blessed dual privilege of being able to come l>ack to Sumter County at any time I like, or remaining in Camden if I make yood as a commercial secretary and as ;i new citizen, I ought to be very hap py indeed, and a happy disposition en genders that optimistic frame of mind which assists many men and many women in visualizing opportunities and doing worth while thing.1?. That is in conjunction with other icitizens of the city or county ? or under their direction. These Sumtfer and Sumter ?"ount y citizens aforesaid having been telling me about what a splendid op portunity Camden and - Kershaw County present to me in my new field <?f endeavor ? and .saying so much about both the county and the county seat of Kershaw and the splendid cit izenship ? -public spirit ? pulling to gether of citizens ? climate ? educa tional institutions, churches, agricul- i tural advantages, public utilities, mu nicipal and county governments ? -and about your stores, factories, and every thing in general, it makes me kind of nervous that 1 might have been some what over-rated by some of my friends in Camden which caused me to secure u bigger job than 1 can hold ? in Camden and Kershaw County anyhow. So 1 preparing a soft : spot to fall on if I can't deliver the; goods. So 1 am asking the indulgence of the editor and readers of this paper to deliver a comprehensive salutatory; in order to possibly avoid having to j write a premature valedictory *or | obituary us your commercial sec re- j Wiry. I admit that I am a "volumi nous and Jnud" talker but a mighty : poor singer and 1 have never yet had to sing a swan song in business ac- ! tivities ? and do not wish to start out j as a professional song artist in Cam- j den, S. C. Not of the ^wan song va riety of artist anyhow. ?1 would like first of all to empha size and accent uote the fact ? with special accent on the emphasis, that in coming to Camden and Kershaw County as your commercial secre tary, I do not wish to do so with the expectation of proving myself to be ? "trained commercial secretary or; efficiency expert" able to tell every- j body about everything that your city and county ought to have or ought not to have or do. "t know before I' get there tljat 1 have a lot to learn that your citizens ran teach me, and i am therefore going to your city and your county not as a teacher, but as a stu dent, and after I have leatned, if I ever do, all about your city and county (Continued on Last I 'age; a ?. " J / . NJBW8 OF KIRK WOOD SOCIETY Happening* ?f Interrsl Ann) on Otfr Northern VinitorH. Although the tourist season is on the wane, there is stfll an uir o S bus tle around the hotels. At the Kirk wood the Masons are holding the cen ter of the stage. The Grand Council of all the Council* of South Carolina i fx:v in their annual meeting, and' about tw*v hundred delegates are atr tending the business sessions at the Club House, Many ladies ?r? in the party, and for theiu as well as the delegates a banquet at the Kirkwood was given Tuesday evening. The cottage colony remains practi cally undisturbed. 'Jtoat of the resi dents will remain in their cottages through this month. Mrs. Carl Foster intends staying here until June first, and several others will linger almost as long. ? ? >. Mr. and Mrs. .1. Leonard Graham are on a trip this week to Charles ! tun to visit Magnolia Gardens An. the, | Ashley, which are now in their great est beauty. Mi\ and Mrs. Harry Balfe, ot' the Kirkwood. will return on Wednesday to New York, and Mr. and Mrs, Robert McClellan and family, who have had one of the Kirkwood cottages since the hotel opened, will ! leave on Sunday. Hobkirk Inn will remain o^t'ft until May first, and will care for many Court Inn guests who ?will be com pelled to leave there on account of the closing of that hotel on the 12th. The Kirkwood will remain open un t il next week. Mr. and Mrs. MacGrego r Jenkins. Mid family. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Gail l.t were among returning tourist'1* this week. Mr. and, Mrs. W. C. Bushby of New York are stopping for a visii at hob kirk Inn on their way from Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner White ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. John I>. Chapman have returned from a week's visit in Pinehurst and are at the Kirkwood. Many improvements are to be made in Camden for the pleasure of the winter colony before the opening of another season. Among these 1 the development* of a Country Club, with four polo .fields, tennis courts, golf links, and an uptodate and commod ious Club House seems assured. It is planned to obtain for this purpose, ii tract of five hundred acres lymg -near the t?ld Springdfile home of the late Colonel Edward B. Cantey. The ground is ideally located, about three miles northwest of Camden, and will prove a great addition to the winter sports of the place. ' The new eighteen hole course being designed by Walter J. Travis for the Camden Country Club will also be J ready for next season's filay, and will be one of the finest in the South. Camden is growing and develop ing yearly, and is becoming better known as each season brings here a larger number of tourists. Arriving at the Court Inn this week were: Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Wilcox of New Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Curtis of Bridgeport and Dr. and Mrs. D. O. MacLachlan of Detroit. grand commandery In Session Here Three Days This Week ? Officers Elected. The* grand council of Royal and Select Masters York Rite Masonry of South Carolina, ttye grand chapter of Royal Arch Mason* of South Carolina and the grand commandery of South Carolina held their annual session Tuesday and Wednesday at the Kirk wood Hotel, one of the tourist hotels ^>f ramden. There were prominent Masons from all parts of the State and from the States of North Carolina and Missouri. The local Masons did all that was necessary to make* their stay with them pleasant. ? The grand council of Royal and Select Masters was opened Tuesday morning at 1* o'clock by Grand Master W. \V. Wannamaker, of Orangeburg. After the business session the officers for the ensuing year were elected. Grand Master S. T. l.anham, Spartan burg; Deputy Grand Master C. K. Chritzburg, Rock Hill; principle con- < ductor of the work, .J. 1). Lee, Sumter; grand marshall. M. L. Smith. Lau- 1 reus; captain of the guard, K. J. j Brown, Latta; conductor of council,] K. S. Baker, Con\Vay; grand ste- j ward, U. C. White, Rck k Hill; grand! sentinel, J;t#ie3 Burns, Aiken. _ The gland chapter of Royal Archj Masons was opened at 12 o'clock by Most Kxcellent Grand High Priest O. j Frank Hart, of Columbia. After a very busy session the officers for the ] ensuing year were elected as follows:' Graud high priest, W. W. WannanTh- ! ker, Orangeburg; deputy grand high | priest, C. K. Chritzburg, Rock Hill; j grand king, J. I). Lee, Sumter; grand; scribe, R. T. Goodale, Camden; grand , captain of th?> ho*t, W. W. Kdgerton, ] Aiken. The visitors and the local Masons with their lady friends eiijoycd a ban quet at the hotel at which time they had with them Dr. W. F. Kuhn.of Mis souri; J. A. Anderson, of North Car-' olina. and W. B. Smith, of North Carolina. Judge M. I.. Smith made a very impressive address. f)r. Kuhn'^j address was enjoyed by all. The grand commandery was opened by Grand Commander J. I.. Michie, of Darlington, after which they marched to the Grace Church, where a lieauti ful- service was conducted by the Rev. T. Tracv Waish, of York. The follow- i ing officers were elected:* Grand] commander, W? I*aurer?s Walker, dar Springs; deputy grand coroman- ; der, A. It. I/Owmati, Orangeburg; i *?- V * " ' . Arrest of Severed Men Sheds Light on Murder ? Several Arrested Around Be th une for Di&tillui# and Are Placed in County Jail. Camden, S. April II.? -D. Cobavn Tuytor, nged about IY1 yearn, a whUfe man, waa .brought to ilamden todt^y from Iiothune, and placed in the coun ty jail, a sell'-confesnod murderer, in one of the most horrible crime* eve* committed in thin county. Uunyun MacDonald, aged -Id, and Willie linker, aged 34), both white, are in jail also, being held as accessories ! to the murder. ^VilHnm Cason, aged ubout 50 I years, has been reported ru Using from jnls home near Bethune since the Fri day before Christmas, and it has been currently rumored that Tuylor killed him. A secret service man wus em ployed on the ease last week and he m getting -evidence enough to'Vause the arrest of Taylor. Accord ing to the confession of Taylor, Ca son's wife and child had spent the night at his home, and said that Ca non came there early nlext morning and got the child and carried it to the woods with the avowed purpose of killing it, and that he shot the man in order to save the child. After shoot ing Cason to death he got a negro, VV ill Reeves to come to the 'scene to help bury Cason, but Reeves declined to have anything to do with it. Later he secured the help of Bun y.'in MacDonald and they together 'carried the body to the swamp and put ie> in a bog, where it remained for about six weeks, when it was rumored that officers would search the woods 'for the body. Taylor and MacDonald then carried the body to another part of the swamp where log heaps were built and the body cremated. In order to lxid? their latest move of the body the woods were set on lire and acres of woods were burned. Cason and Taylor married sisters, and both men's wives, as well as Mac Donald, Baker and Cason and the two negroes Will Reeves and Henry Hunter all testify t(^the ?ame, tally ing in every detail To the voluntary confession made by Taylor, except as to the intended murder of the child. Cason is said to have been a black smith .coming to this county from Alabama, lie is said to ha v*^ been an inoffensive character while Taylor is an all-round bad man, having been engaged for a long while in illicit manufacturing of whiskey. When the officers made the arrest I they also found a whiskey still of 00 - gallon capacity, with 100 gallons of mash on the place of Taylor. Another still of 25 gallons capacity with 60 gallons of mash W*as fpund on tin place of Bunyan MacDonald. W. W. Rogers, a secret service man. along with the officers of Bethune, worked up the evidence which led t?> the arrest of all the parties. Policeman G. N. Jones, C. R. Cope land, constable, J. K. Copeland, mag istrate, and D. T. Yarbrough and Max cy King, all of Bethune, brought the prisoners to Camden Wednesday. Both Taylor and MacDonald were tenants on the farm of H. C. Half, about three miles this side of Bethune near Lynches river. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. We have a lurge number of sub- I sobers on our list who have failed to [ renew their subscriptions, and have i allowed a good many to run several; months over-time. We have discon- I tinued mailing satements, and are; taking !his method of notifying thenij to conie in and pay. If you fail to ; receive your copy of The Chronicle j next week you will know that your subscription has expired, and do not blame the postman, hut send in a re mittance for a renewal. Gasoline Money For The (bounties. The state treasurer Saturday dis tributed $111,615.95 to the several counties of the state as their share of' the gasoline tax collected during the ' months of January, February and' March. An equal amount went into'1 i . ? tni> state treasury, the tax being di- ! vided on a fifty-fifty basis. "This dis; j tribution did not include any of tlr? ! new three cents a gallon tax, but was j wholly from the two-cent tax which : has been levied. -Charleston county led in the dis-; tribution, receiving as her part the | sum of $10,371.84. McCormick was { the lowest county, the sum there being! only $726.?'J6. Lancaster county's portion of the! money was $1,354.73. Kershaw county' igot $1,987.08; Chester, $2,112.95; York; j $'{,{$#2.99; and Chesterfield got $l,-j 439.85. To Meet Sunday Night. ' The young communicants gxiild will j | meet at Grace Episcopal church on < j Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. grand generalissimo, Robert M. I'ratt.i Bennettsville ; grand senior warden, I J. W. Ivey, Florence; grand junior I warden, R. T. Goodale, Camden; grand treasu ^r, W. F. Goings, Columbia; ! grand i ccorder, Joseph Lindsay, Ches ter; grand prelate, the Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, York; grand standard l>earer. B. H. France, S parte nbnrg; grand sword beare*-, W. Robin Zero p. Cam- ? den; grand captain of the guard. A. K They vill hold their next mce'ntft at Aiken, the second we k in April. i ! mi l ic Sunday Meeting Closed, Last Sunday EvaogelUUc Meeting Was Rc markftbU One ? Large Free Will Offering Raised. ? Columbia, April 8. -The Hilly Sun day campaign opened with a hang and wilh >veob, The mere reciting o t statistics can never give o cQVVCCi i deu of what htus been accomplished 111 these six vveks of heurttatirring, heart - wanning, soul ? awakening. Not once has the spirit failed to work upon the assembly*" And this in old Columbia, whore other evangelists of more thaiV local repute have been Un able to make any impression und have left io disgust. What a day it has been. There has hfen no other Sunday to compare with it since that lovely April day when Wade Hampton was laid away in 1002 ; and th"e people of a groat State fore gathered to show their love for the givat- hero. The same air of spiritual, exaltation Which characterized the I , r ?? ? a i i services at that time were observable ! today. The conquest of the heart of t h i ? j patrician South by Hilly Sunday is aj i remarkable psychological study. Hut he came under many disadvantageous! I circumstances and goes away in tri I umph. The number of persons wlr) t have attended the meetings in S?X j. weeks has run to more than half a ! 'million. The number of "trail hit - j ; tors" has btsjn 17,192 and the free will offering tonight was $25,002.18. The campaign which started with a bann ended in deep solemnity to-i night when 2,400 persons hit the trail or came up when Mr. Sunday said, "give me your hand and give ; your heart to God." | But as soon as the consecration ser vices were over, there was a great i burst of hallelujah. When Chairman' | Melton of the Committee bade good bye to Mr. Sunday and his party, on behalf of the people of South Carolina and Julien C. Rogers announced that the people had made a free will offer ing to Mr. Sunday of the amount, named. The choir t-lwn sang several spirited choruses and the great con gregation made insistent, demand for Mr. Sunday to lead one more time. He directed a beautiful song, his favorite, "I shall see the King." After preach ing four sermons, beginning the da'v with tt- very sore throat, shaking hands with <4,5UO trail hitters at these four services and going through with all the pervous energy of -a Creatore, and he made that choir sing. I hat ? the way he is about every-, I thing, 100 per cent or nothing: . 'This 1 had indeed been a great?day in Com lumbia. The ushers were on-duty a til the Tabernacle from 8 o'clock this morning until 10:.'?0 tonight. Sand wiches and coffee were served for them under the choir loft. It has been a day when none seemed to -get tired as there was one period of entotional activity following another through a j succession of wonderful? ex periunoes ! and re'velations of the power of God. ] This has been manifested in numer ous ways throughout the campaign, ! this morning Mr. Sunday began the j day very hoarse with the heaviest- j program of the entire campaign ( ahead of him. A heavy shower came up in the midst of his morning sermon. He made an earnest prayer l'or the skies to clear, and at the sue-] reeding services his voice ( I eared np, | and. the skies did too. It svuuld be impossible to summa rize four wonderful sermons, apd they were four of his best. He has been circling upwards to a climax since the; opening gun was fired in his cam paign to bring Columbia further away from hell. Has hr- succeeded? The answer is in ever> mouth. He has J made it Easier to do right and harder j to do wrong 1n this old hurjr. and that j is what he came here for. Thi< will' be a bettei state, for the influence ha? J been widespread. It will be a better t tgnvn, for the mayor and numerous city officials, the police and the fire men have been trafl hitters. When he came t<> town the police said that' he was just a grafter, but today any '} policeman who hears a person bo- 1 moaning Billy Sunday will, run hin> ' in ami lock him up for vagrancy, for all persons in Columbia except the hoboes are Rilly Sunday boosters. j Throughout the <iay, in convenient | times, there have been testimonies j and expressions (?f appreciation froraj different persons while Mr. Sunday was resting. Dr. I^apsley, pastor of thfc. Kiixl Preab>terian Church, tie- ] dared that God has raised up Mr. Sunday to bo a {nophfrt , *?nd be *how- < ed' that (he evangelist in many ways b**rs a similai.ty In methods and In I lifWHUNK NHWtf N4ITKN. Happcnta** *>f Interest Aft T?W By tfur Cfti'reHirtmitf.nt. I'lethuno, 8. C\, A i>vil 11. -John B^^old, who was wanted in con i 6< on with thO killing of Prohibi tion Agent .1. Lcroy Youmnnn, was captured curly Sunday rooming near Bothune. Hi' was lying in a oasturo on a place owned by Mr. Columbus Hall, p hiyl a severe rut in his left arm at the elbow which was rausod 'from running into a barb wire fence, lie had lain in thtt pasture since Fri day night and was in a very weak condition lrom tho loss of blood. Bar field was brought here where medical aid and food wore given hint to await the arrival of Sheriff E. W. Register, of Darlington. The sheriff accompani ed by two other xifl'icers carried him to Darlington, where, he is now in prison. It. is claimed that he admit- i ted that he fired one shot .following a shot fired by somu one else and ran. This brings the arrests thus far to a total of eight. The' names of the white are R. It. and Jim Hall, of Me-: Bee, Major Kelly, of Hartsyille. The negroes are Sili*s and Noise Hawkins and Henry Love. Mr. John M. Watkins, who -resided about six miles from lu re died very suddenly last -Wednesday afternoon, April Hrd, of angina pectoris. He had gone out in the field to superintend some ploughing and had ploughed one round when he became very sick. He died immediately after being car lied to his home, The funeral ser vices were held at Sandy Grove Meth odist church the following day.- ? . Mrs. Z. Brannon and daughter, Lil- I lian, were visitors in Columbia Sun- | day. Ml}-s. Joe Hough and child of kan- J c aster* spent Friday with Mrs. W. H. I IfeTuon. Messrs.o I'ercy Mays and CharJosJ M'cKinnon visited in Columbia thel past week end. Mrs. Klla Twitty of Cleveland, Ohio,! and Karl Roseborough of I-ugofT were i visitors in lii-thune. last Wednesday j afternoon. Mrs. C. S. Whtkiiis, of Williams- j burg, Va., is spending several days ; with her parent's ,Mr. and Mrs. j Smith. f ' Mrs. M. O. Ward and daughter, I Katherine, spent Friday, Saturaay I and Sunday in Columbia with rein ? I tivc.s and attending the Hilly Sunday J services. Mrs. T. O. Lee, of Charleston, spent several days the past week with her, brother, Dr. P>. Z. Truesdell. Miss Helen Garland has returned j from a six weeks visit to her sister in i Sumter. | xVlr. and Mrs. L. S. King, of Harts- 1 ville, visited relatives in town the] pasl week-end. Misses .lulia McChosney, Stella; Beth une and Inez Blakeley spent the ' week end in Columbia shopping and i attending services at the tabernacle. Misses Kathleen Clyburn and Ma-! mie Lou McDonald spent the week i end at their homes in Kershaw accom panied by Miss Myitis Dukes. ' James Norwood of McBee was the ! week end guest of N^il TrucsdeJl. l)r. R. Z. Truesdeii and Mr. B. W.J .Best attended the Masonic banquet | at the Kirk wood in Camden Last Tuck- I day evening. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. McDowell and family of Tampa, Florida, are un an extended visit, to the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McDowell. .Josdi Smith of the graduating class! was the gonial host to the eleventh grade Inst Friday evening. Progres sive games were played during the evening and at the conclusion a sweet course was served. A United States officer ^rrived . Tuesday morning and has been show ' ing the* blind tigers no quarters throughout thi* "' immunity. Five j arrests have been made ? McDonald, ! Coble Taylor, and wife and wife's si?- ; ter, colored, Will Reeves and Henry] Hunter. These arrests brought to light a murder which Coble Taylor j committed hist. Christmas, tip until | ihis time witnesses, (his wife and tho ! murdered man's wife) were afraid to testify against him as he had threat ened their lives. Preliminary hear- j ings will be given them Wednesday I morning at nine o'clock. matter to the work of Klijah, thej courageous Isaiah,, the poet, and , Paul, the martyr. At the meeting foi men only, scheduled to begin at 1 o'clock, thf preliminary sei*vicv started much ahead <<f time. This was the second service of the day and when the tab ernacle was full there wore as many person? on the outside as there were ir'. As soon r?s one crowd was preached to, the doors ?<n the left we.ro opened and that crowd tiled out whih* j a new crowd poured in from the oppo site side. At this men's meeting I'oni P>. Ciiaham. auctioneer, stirred the gath-| ering to great enthusiasm with his1 testimonial. He .stated that he had the belt for beinj; the best baseball rooter in the south, and never had he met man 01 woman who could ? be si, him in an argument until Mr. Sun day came to town, and he laid down his ?rms. "I have been to hell twico on whi*kay, an many of you know. But on my mother's birthday I said f wotfltf JMVtr again cauwTfcer to shed a tear, ejccept for joy. Tfie<*o are (Continued on Last Pa gi f Murderer of Youmantt Captured Last Sunday John Bariield Had Been Trail ed Day and Night by Men and Dogs ? Now in Jail. The long -ch'aso for the capture of .John lUnfield, thr moonshiner. who it i* said rthot, and kilted ' officer You * j: mans, near Hartsviile last week, came to a close Sunday morning whin Bar. field surrendered to Hon Hall, * far hut Ucai Hothune. The man was so Weakened and fatigued from the lohg 'chase i hat he could go no further. It was learned in Camden Fridas tjmt Nuffield had .spent the night at tho home of Jim Sheorn, near Shop ard, Thursday night.* Policeman A. ("). Whitaker, ('(Mutable .Stokes an.l State Constable Kichelbergor wont to Shoprn's house Friday afternoon to enquire if Barfield had been there, but y Sheorn denied any knowledge of him. While the officers were talking t ? ? Sheorn, Barfield made his escape out of the back cloor and a neighbor see* iug him make his get away across a field told the officers. Bloodhounds from Newberry reached Camden at JO:l.r? Friday night and in less than an hour had trailed BurfieJd to a point where he was picked up in a car and tarried some five miles distant an i here the trail was lost again. Tlu* dogs and some of tin* officers returned to Camden, but later the officers learned that they had been misinfor med by the man who hauled him in a car. The right trail was found again , am! the dogs led them to the homo of Ben -Hull and refused to go further His capture followed Sunday morning, and he was taken to the Florence jail for sale la-oping. In the chase were: Sheriff G rover C. Welsh, Deputy Henry MeLeod, Chief of Police A. c; . W hi taker, Constable Wade Stokes and officers Cooley, Hil ton and Cole, of Camden, Sheriff lieg ' ister of Darlington, Federal Agent.-? Kk helbei ger, William? and Soabt'ook. Jinv Sheorn and his son, Dave She orn, and Tom Garrison, and Hazell ' Barrett have been arrested and plnce<l ! in jail here charged with aiding Bar [ field in escape. It is alleged that Tom ! Garrison and Barrett were the ones I who furnished the ear in which Bar field got away from the scene. The elder Shooi*n is charged with housing I the fugitive and giving false infor mation to the officers. The younger I Sheorn is held for investigation. I It will be remembered that, ootl^the I Sheorns and Barrett were connected ! with the still when the late Constable : J. F. Bateman of Camden was killed1 I in a raid on a still, in Tlu- neighbor hood of Shepard.'a few years ago. I Fant Bafrett, father of the boy under arrest was also slain at t|fc time by ; Chief of Police A. G. Whitaker The News and Courier of Monday [contained the following:* i John Barfield, the North Carolina I moonshiner who is alleged to have murdered J. Leroy Youmans, a federal j prohibition officer, at ah illicit .still seven miles from Hartsville last Mon ay night, was captured yesterday mat Bothune, Kershaw County, and | taken to the Florence county jail for | safe-keeping. The arrest of Barfield \ represents the successful climax of j a man hunt reaching over the period of a week and in which many citizens in Darlington and Kershaw counties l e\ inced a deep interest in law enforce ment by giving their assistance, i Ben Hall, Silos Hawkins, Roaehel j B. Hall, Major Kelly and Jim Rozier i Hall, cbai'ged with being at the still i last Monday night near Hartsville | when Federal Agent Youmans was i assassinated, are also under arrest, as ? well as five other persons who are | charged with having aided and abet ? ted Barfield in making his escape | from the scene of the tragedy. The arrest of Barfield was effected by Chief of Police Jones, of Bethune. who found the wanted /nan asleep in i ;i pasture near that place after infor ! mat ion had been brought to him. Bar ! field when taken into custody wai [ found to be suff*Vmg from a deep cut about h?.< left elbow joint, which he rflaims to have received from a barb ed wire fence. He had apparently I been dressing the wound with soft ' mud in order to stop the flow vf blood, i The prisoner is said to have shoul 1 dered all of the responsibility for the illicit still, claiming that it. was hi.^ property. Offircr* who took part in the chase are said to he wondering if the cut represents ?n attempt at pui cide on Bar field > part or an opera tion he performed on his arm in re moving bullet which h? may have reecivod in the encounter which he is alleged have launched. (Continued on Last