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The Camden Chronicle VOLUME XXXVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUl.Y 25, 1924. NUMBER 17. SB MAN'S BODY FOl'Nl) - '? * Jumbled Heap of Hones Hidden in Kir |ish Near Cheraw. /& A. Huchanan in Columbia State ? ( hi iaw, July 17. ? In a jumbled heap of bones, crowned with a bullet punctured skull; a pile of tattered clothing, a pair , of: golf shoes, one stocking? -ended this morning; the ttearch for Maj. Samuel H. McLeary, lost July :4 en route from Raleigh, M. to Columbia. 1 lit- awKome heap, to which officers r~ Je7e led by Mortimer N. King of Canton, N. C., confessed slayer of the officer who had befriended him and his confederate, was found less than 150 feet off the Raleigh-Columbia highway in a bit of woods 11 8-10 mile's south of Cheraw. The body . could not be seen from tTio road. At Cheraw waited Miss Bonnie Mc Leary, sister of the slain officer; she did not visit the scene. It was over. -K4ng^-waw~ carried ? to? Columbia to night. and there is being held while officers are engaged in the search for a man, named by King in a confes sion at Canton yesterday as his con federate. The two of them ? King and his < ..nledi rate, whose name is being withheld pending his arrest ? were picked up. oil the road by Major Mc henry and, according to King's con fession made public by North Caro ? Una officer, after accepting the officer's hospitality killed him, stole his automobile and other* belongings arid having dragged the body into the underbrush beside the road drove ofF '?J North. Carolina. Here King was aj listed and faced with one of Major # McLeary's shirts found in his pos >e-sion confessed to the slaying. This confession, told in p$rt to a coroner's .11 y this afternoon, led to the holding i.f ;he two men for the officer's death . rid will next bring their trial ? -h'.uld the alleged confederate be iipprehended? on a- charge of murder :'n the. .court of general sessions for Chesterfield county. King's confession, which brought '.he clearing of the mystery which ;-.<i only been deepened by the dis ?.?/vory July 13 of the officer's auto "v.hilo ditched near Ashevillc was .Tiaile in the presence of Maj. S. Mc Williams, United States army, duty as inspector of National v.;;.!'d, Asheville; Charles II. Powers, /.id States department of justice; A. Sumner, chief of police of ? v ' ton. N. C., and Hubert Holloway, editor of the Asheville Citizen. ? 'V yesterday composed the search / : art y and with King located the where the body had been left 'lays ago. Th< prisoner had some difficulty in a'ing the scene of the slaying and ? -??fa! limes led the North Carolina ?' who had brought him this morn ? m Canton, N. C, to locate the . "ii fruitless tramps beside the ?i'i The spot, he had told the -tiu-rs, and so believed, was be ? ??r. Camden and Shepa, but dili >ear< h here was of no avail, viv t)u> group of officers, news rr vmc-n and the prisoner worked way toward Cheraw. I' is hero," King told the others ? ? point *ome little distance from at which the body was found. J in. I can't boar it.*' The was beginning to tell. Other ? riiU-rs of the party searched the ? uhi( h outwardly resembles that ? < h actually hid the terrible lyap. 'h.nK was found. And so the hunt on. The little wooded space ?* 10 miles from Cheraw, was "< ned a! 11:30 o'clock. King and ?' ' !* Sumner together led The way ' the underbrush. 'Wr've found it," the chief cried to ? others. King turned his eyes to d the gruesome pile at his feet, fainted in the officer's arms. If th< chief hadn't caught me, I'l ??\e fallen," he explained laU'r. "I 'i'-rstand what it mean?.- I want to I ought to dii*." i w o bullet holes were found in the 'filer's skull, one through each tem Kmg, Major Williams said and ??*Mified at the inquest held during ' -r afternoon, admitted to the officers, he. egged on by his accomplice, .'?ad fired two shots into the officer's "??mi. At the point of a pistoi Major M' l/eary had been forced to stop his ' ar and get out of it. "The itlajor laughed as though he thought it was a joke, King told us," members of the searching party explained. -"The *hooting occurred on the highway, King firing the first shot he declared, when Major McLeary struck at him and reached his ring hand toward (Continued on Last Page) BE'iHl NE NEWS NOTES. Happenings of Interest As Told By Our Correspondent. Ueihuru', 8. C, July 23.-^- Mrs. Am ber Outlaw wife of Dun Outlaw, who resides about one mile below here, died Friday morning after several months Ulnes*. She. was ,about thirty live years of ago and is survived by her husband and two sisters. The funeral services were held Saturday morning at the Brannon cemetery by her pastor, Uev. M. (J. Gunter of tin Baptist church. l)r. R. K. Sevarance of Columbia ia spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Sever ance.. Miss Nancy Best is the guest of relatives in Hartsville this week. Misses VVillene Kstridge and Kath ryn Truesdell are visiting Mrs, L. K. Yarbrough in Sumter. Miss Kathleen McCaskill is attend ing a house party in Lykesland as the guest of Miss Mattie Sligh Brooks. Miss Kathleen Hyatt returned last week after spending several weeks with Miss Josey Black mond in Dar lington. Messrs. K. Iv McCaskill, T H Be thune and W. R, Hozter spent Sun day at Winthrop College. Mrs. Bettie Clyburn and childs^n left Monday night for their home m" Clearmont, Fla., after spending two months here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. I., Mays of Car tersville were the guests of Mrs. J. P. Bethune Suttday. Miss Inez McManUs of Che raw spent the week-end with Mrs. Willie Newman. Mr. E. 1'. Truesdell and nephew, Robert Bruce, of Camden, spent Sun day with Dr. "E. Z. Truesdell. June Truesdell is spending several days in Camden with relatives. A large number attended the School Improvement Association meeting Friday afternoon. After the business was dispensed Rev. Stephen Collier of Sumter made a splendid address. Master Neil. Truesdell left Wednes day morning with his uncle, Dr. B. L. Norwood and son, James, for Ashe ville, N. C. . ? Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mays have moved into their new residence on Main street. ? Dr.- and Mrs. Braswel] have moved into the McCaskill cottage on north Main street. Miss Mamie Lou McDonald of Ker shaw spent the week-end with Mrs. A. B. McLaurin. Miss Josey Blackwell of Darling ton is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. O. Johnson. Mr. Boyd McKinnon met with a painful accident N Tuesday afternoon when he was kicked by a mule, cut ting a gash on his cheek about five inches long. Several stitches had to be taken. To Meet With Mt. Pisgah. The Sunday School workers of all ?denominations in Kershaw County will meet at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church on Jiriy 25th, in the annual convention of the Kershaw County Sunday School Association, according to (ho county president, Mr. A. J. Beat tie. The session will begin promptly at 10 a.m. and close at :-ir? p.m. A large attendance is anticipated and the local workers cx tend a cordial invitation to all. In addition to the Sunday school leaders of our own county who will be on the program, State Superinten dent Leon C. Palmer of Spajtanburg and possibly other officials of the South Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation will take part. Among the subjects to be discusse.l on the program are. "Winning South Carolina to Christ," "Winning to Christ Through the Sunday School," "Religion in the Home and Family Wo. ship," "Practical Plans for Be ginners, Primaries and .Juniors," "Mow to Interest Boys and (Jirls in Sunday School." "How to be a Suc cessful Sunday School Superinten dent." "Building up the Bible Class and Weck-dav Religious Instruc t ions." A banner will be awarded t<> ? ho Sunday school having the largest number present, over sixteen years of age, in proportion to the distance raveled. Now Acts Have Vrriwd. The Acts for 1924 have arrived and Magistrate's throughout the County may get same by calling at the Clerk's office and signing for same. ?J. II. Clyhurn, Clerk. Nmv Rector For Crace Church. (I race Episcopal Church of this city I has tendered a oRii to Rev. I. do Lancey Brayshaw, now stationed at Orangeburg. S. P., to servo as rector of the church and Mr. and Mrs. Bray shaw and two children will arrive in Camden in time for Mr. Brayshaw to conduct services the second Sunday in September. The new rector is a native of 'Virginia and has served church** In Maryland and West Vir ginia, N WHITE MAN NOT (il H.T\ Jury Kails tu Hold J. C. Jordan, In dicted on Serious Charge. The second wft k of court of g<- ? era I sessions came to a close Satur day with the acquittal of J. (\ Jor dan, a white man, from Kershaw who was indicted on the serious charge of attempted assault upon the person of an eleven year old white girl of that town. The main evidence against thu defendant was furnished by. Chief of Police /Mothoi'&hed, of Kershaw. The evidence on both sides was con flicting so the jui'V gave the benefit of the doubt to the accused man, and brought to an end one of the most unfortunate cases ever heard in this court house. The ease has caused a great deal of comment throughout the county. The defendant was represented by Attorney W. If. Whitehead, of Lake City, and G. G. Alexander, of the local bar. M. B. Mumi, a white merchant, who operates a store in the lower part of the city, made a plea of. gu\lty of storing liquor and was sentenced to serve three months. ^ Lemuel Lewis, who shot and killed another negro named Hen Kvans, on the Sowell place near Kershaw about one month ago entered a plea of guilty to manslaughter and was sen tenced to. serve two years. James Shirley, a white man, who had twice before been tried jointly with Lou Kelley, a white woma^ on a charge of storing whiskey, and i)i which the juries had twice failed to agree, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to serve 12 months with J 1 months, of the sentence sus pended. The court was engaged Wednesday and the greater part of Thursday in the trial of Manning Hudson and Richard Goodwin, charged with the killing of Willis Knox in. the West Wateree section two years ago. "This case grew out of the killing of Willis Knox, a West Wateree negro, July 12, 11)22, at which time an investigation was made and an inquest was held. Sheriff Welsh and Solicitor Spigner were present and conducted* the investigation, but no one was held for the murder at the time. A month or so ago the governor, at the request of some citizens of the community, ' sent Detective .W. W. Rogers to the scene of the killing and j his investigation culminated in the) trial and acquittal of Hudson and J Goodwin. i The dead man was proven to have been a bad character and a fomentor of trouble, generally in his section: and the real murderers may never be; known. The case was hard fought. Former j Judge M. L. Smith assisted Solicitor' Spigner iii the prosecution, while At-) torneys M. M. Johnson and I. C. j Hough represented. Hudson and Good- j win. '1 homas B. Davis Dead. Mr. Thomas Benjamin Davis, aged J 7<j years, a farmer residing near J Camden. died at #h Columbia hospital! Saturday morning, and his remains] were brought to Camden Sunday where they were taken to Mizpah Baptist church, in Lee county for in- j ttrmcnt. For a >hoi t while Mr. Davis r?* sided ??n Lah'ayette %A venue in this, city wher" he made many friends. J He was a member of the Baptist' churrh and of late yt'ars- had been { raiding on route lice leading from Camden. He was a Mason. Besides j his widow he is survived by two sons ? T. B. Davis, Jr, and J. .1. Davis, and | two daughters, Mrs. .J. J?. W'atkir.sj and Mrs. A. A. Holland. I Boy Scout Notes. Troop 1 of the Camden Boy Scouts helrl its weekly meeting Friday, July 1^, at the Woman's Kxchange build ing. Scoutmaster .John deLoaeh called the meeting to order. The roll was called and 22 scouts answered to their names. Mr. L. K. Martain gave the scouts a shorty talk on "What it means to be a scout." After Ui*; weekly dues had been collected scoutmaster suggested that we go on a hike Saturday, July 26th. This | .suggestion seemed to please every one. Mr. deLoaeh also said Mr. Pitts of the Hermttage Cotton Mills had kindly consented to give the troop free privileges on the old pond so that place was decided for our first hike. The meeting was not dismissed until aft?r Mr. Martain had drilled the troop and different games in the out&onr wrre enjoyed. -v Billy Urdsay, Script. PEACH SHOW AT HAM LET Will lie Held on . Wednesday and Thursday, July 3(1 and 31. The Fourth Annual Carolina* Sand hill Peach Show will be held at 11am 1ft on Wednesday and Thursday, July SO and 31, and promises many snr for those who art' not familiar with the peaeh industry, Plans for the show are materializing rapidly. The mammoth, horse ,aho?; frame which is to be covered over with thousands and thousands of peaches, has been built and is now being dee orated. Decorators are also at work on the whole exhibition building, and on the streets for blocks around. All of the public buildings of the city as well as many private business houses and homes will be gaily decorated in festive colors for the occasion. Besides the exhibition of peaches in the show building there will be shown orchard and farm machinery and supplies, sprayers, etc., as well as oiher products. The state home demonstration forces will be there to show how to prepare and preserve peaches and peach by-products, and ; the housewife may ?et many helpful suggestions from this booth. Governor Cameron Morrison will officially open the show on Wednes day morning, July !?0, at ten o'clock. Governor McLeod has been invited to ! ;<peak on Thursday, and there will be a few others to make short talks*' although the speaking program is light. Entertainment will be the strong feature. The Fifth Field Ar tillery Band from Fori Bragg will furnish the music for the occasion. Tho band will be accompanied to Hamlet by General A. J. Bowlev and his staff. Motor trips - are being planned out through the peach or- j chards, so the visitors may have an opportunity to see the pickers and packers at work, and get an idea of how the crop is handled. The peach show management ex pects that last year's attendance, of ten thousand will be more than doubled this year, as the railroad ! has offered the extremely low rate of one cent per mile, and all the roads leading to Hamlet are in fine shape' for motor travel. New Pastor at Baptist Church. Rev. J. P. Graham, the newly called pastor to the Camden Baptist church, has arrived and entered upon his new duties Mr. Graham has a fam ily of- six children and comes to Cam den from Piedmont, S. C. Mrs. Graham and children will arrive later. Mr. Graham is a graduate of John B. Stetson University at DeLand, Fla., and of the Theological Semi nary at Ivouisville, Ky. He held the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Daytona, Fla., for five years. He was pastor at Walterboro, S. C., for four years, and then to Brooksville, Fla., for seven years. He has the unique distinction of having been called back to Walterboro, S. C., where he again served the church there for live years. From there he went to Piedmont in Greenville county. Mr, Graham is a pleasing j gentleman and says he has already fallen in love with Camden and we believe Camden people are going to like him. As an evidence (if the high esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. Graham were held in Piedmont, the following spec ial from Piedmont to 'the Greenville News under date of July 2 will he , read with interest here: "A farewell party was given on the lawn of the Baptist parsonage Mon-J day evening when about three hun dred members of the Baptist church. Supt. S. T. Buchanan nf the Piedmont mills and neighbors met to express their appreciation and friendship for Rev. .John P. Graham. Mr. Graham has accepted the call to the pastorate; of the first church at Camden The gathering was a complete surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Graham. Several ap propriate songs were sung and string music was given by W. P. Nesbit, Jr., j and .J I) Garrett. The Pfbdmont bandl also rendered several selections.: In behalf of the Women's Senior Bible class J. K. Wakefield presented Mrs. Graham with a gift as a token of their esteem and affection. She has j hr>?-n the faithful teacher of this clap*; ! fuj the past eighteen months. Kx pressing regret at Mr. Graham's leaving all wished him success and Godspeed in his new field." Catholic Church Services. Service* at the Catholic church on Sunday, July 27th, will be as follows: i Mass and sermon at 7:80 a. m., ser | men on "Good Works." All are cor STKWAKT WMKD POS I M ASTER Gets Appointment To CamdoU Post I'ntil Senate Can Confirm. A press dispatch from Washington j dated July 11', states that Postmaster. (Jeheral ? New has nhnied William T. Stewart, of Camdi'ii S. ,('., as acting) postmaster, to st'rve until the senate Which meets in December can con- : .firm the nomination The appoint- j ment is to take effect at once. I ?Mr. Stewart succeeds. Mr. "William 1), Trantham who has held the post mastership under a Democratic- ad ministration for the past four years. Mr. Stewart is a Republican. The new. postmaster was born in Philadelphia, I'm. the son of James and Sarah Stewart, whose lather was a native of the South, being an uncle pi Mr. John S. Lindsay, of the Loan and Savings bank of this city, lie is no stranger to our people, having kept his permanent residence- in Cam den since 'March, HHP, as sales; manager for North and South Caro lina for the Hercules corporation.! makers of trucks and other vehicles.! He retains a summer home at Colum-: ' 4. , bia, Pennsylvania. 1 ? . I M^. Stewart is a graduate of the| University of Pennsylvania, 1892, in the medical and dental department, and practiced his profession at one time. He is a veteran of the Spanish - i American tvar serving as adjutant of the 15th Pennsylvania Volunteer In fantry. He owned and operated a large ranch in Navarro county, Texas, for 15 years. This ranch has recently; become one of the famous oil fields. J He is the eldest of 12 children, ten of whom are still living. A brother, James B. Stewart, is now United States consul at Tampico, Mexico, and was consul at Chauhauhau, Mex ico. during the Villa rebellion. Knowing that there would very' likely be a change in the postmaster- j ship here on account of the Republi can party being in power, Mr. Stewart at the request of many Cam den citizens stood the examination and made application and while the many friends of Mr. Trantham regret that circumstances were such that hu ' had to lose out, the appointment oi"j Mr. Stewart will give general satis- i faction to the patrons of this office, j ENROLLMENT SHOWS INCREASE j Camden CJub Falls Off While Rural, Precincts Cain Quite a Number. Despite the fact that every effort was made both by personal dills, - telephone calls and unlimited news-' paper publicity by both state and county newspapers, the enrollment for the Camden club showed a decided falling off from the enrollment two; years ago. The rural precincts heart! from so far show considerable! gains at nearly all clubs. The table given ; below shows by the first figures tin; . enrollment this year the second column shows the enrollment two. years ago and the third column shows the vote cast at each precinct two years ago: Be Ik Hill 101 Ml Bethuno 10.*{ MU\ 2 Ho Buffalo 208 1 K2 l(il Camden !*.'{ I Ms. Doby's M it! s;i 7-"> 0"> Enterprise .*<2 11 ?> 1 Harmony 50 27 Lugoff . . 1 17 '.w Oakland . 11 3b '11' Roland :i .12 :;i Salt Pond 1 lil To 05 Sandy (Jrove 05 l'? Shamroi k Ho 17 1-1 Shaylor's Hill ? '< 1 Swift Creek !l 1 Twentv Creek . . 00 57 57 Wateree Mill 211 255 UK' In Operate Cash and Carrj. Mr. J. L. Moseley ha> leased a I portion of the building now owned | and operated by Mr. \V. R. Watkins-, | known a* the I'arlor Meat Market, land wiil operate a cash and carry i grocery. 1 he building has been un dergoing considerable changes f<?r tile past few weeks being put in shape for the new enterprise. Mr. Watkin? will continue his meat market ? re-; taming the renter front part <>f the building ? and grocery patrons wiilt er.t^r to the' left serving themselves; as everything wiil be marked in plain I figures ir.d A Crisliiri *111 (lievk up ? 'on their pu rohanes a> they come oul. | It will "be A strictly rash grocery and) will be operated .under the name of "Standard Cash and Carry" and will be in charge of Mr. Fred K. Moseley. The Standard Grocery Company will be under the managemofit of Mr. R. C. King, who has been connected with the Standard ?infce its organ!** 1i*n *> ? . (.'INKS MISSION AltY MONKY MIsk Brown Will Send FouHcen ??t" Them to Foreign Fields. ? - ~L. ' * ?? ?-? v Anderson, July 20. As Miss \tfrlna Davis Brown was in routo to hoi alma mater, Vassar college, fefye -topped a few fjgyn in Richmond. Ya., visiliiVg U>0 bottrtl of foreign mis ? tons of the Southern Baptist con vention. Miss l?rown told the mem bers that she wished to send 11 mis sionaries to foreign fields. This was good news to the board for it. had ten missionaries waiting to be sent out and no money to send them. Lach missionary sent. -will take ap proximately $1,000, Miss Brown offer ing to pay all transportation for these' '.. missionaries. Bast week when the Woman's Missionary union of the Sa luda association met With the First BapHst church of this city it was Statevl that Miss Brown was going to make i possible for Miss Olive Law ton, w h?? was one of the speakers at. this meeting, to retain to China as a missionary. Miss Lawton was born in China and has been in A'merican only, six years.. This offer to send Mis Laswton was thought very gen I e.roiis. Now she is to be one of It I lo be sent by Miss Brown. At tin- death of Col. Joseph New ion Brown his great wealth was left I t'o missions at the death of his daugh | ter, Yarina Davis Brown. As she wanted to see the fruits of this labor. Miss Brown decided t ? ? give this amount now, when it is so much needed by the foreign mission board. Thojie who- havH already Ueen as signed throtigii the/ gift of Miss Brown are: Pr. Mansfield Bailey, Nashville/ who will be a surgeon in the Baptist hospital of Wachow, ( hina; the Rev. ,). S. Richardson of Arkansas and Miss Delia Black af Oklahoma will be married before going to Africa; Mrs.' \Y. \Y. Fnete ( of Missouri will go to south Barzil; the Rev. P. 1\. White and Mrs. White of North Carolina, interior China; the Rev. I. N. Patterson and Mrs. Patterson are assigned to Africa. Mr. Battel son is from Alabama and Mrs. Patterson, who was Miss Sarah Lee i Bobo, is a South Carolinian. The Rev. F. T. N. Woodward and Miss Mabel Williams will be married and go to China Mr. Woodward is a native of North Carolina, while Miss Williams is from Alabama. Miss Brown visited some of tho battlefields around Richmond while there. Her father, Col. Joseph New ton Brown, was a noted leader in the Confederate army, commanding unit at Fredericksburg, after (Jeneral Mc (Jowan was wounded. Miss Brown wrote of seeing the stump ol tho tree that was cut .down, by bullets during this seige. For a few week Miss Brown will visit in New York state and then lx? on the J< ;>oy coast for t he remainder of the summer. Baseball Today. The Met milage Mills baseball team will play the team from Circa t Falls, S. C.. ;.t the ( amdi n ball park this ti'!c! ???>?>?? at four o Vlo< k. An ad ini i t > i < foe <?f 2.*> and 't.r> cents will !):? charged. The Hermitage team ha* been playing good ball all the season and the game this afternoon will ft- 1 doubt be interesting. Money From Hunting Licenses. State game warden A. A. Richard has r-sued ;i .statement showing that, hi- department has ruined over to the .schools of the ?. i a * ? a grand to'al of I .tin from hunting licences and fur tag earnings for the .-ease. n < >f T h ; ~ amount Ker shaw louuty ,m ho<?!> wiil receiv :? 1 from hunting lict nses and $'JI.*!~ fr-ifii the sale of fur 'agf-. Meeting at Itefujje Church. The I'usi ijcss Men's Kvanjjelical ( iub ha.- accepted ;m invitation from f up' Baptist church to hold a service then* Sunday, July 27th, ai ! ;j() <>"< io< k p. m. This church is l??u t 11 miles from Camden on the I.ockhart road. Speakers for this oc casion have been secured, and ail mcmbfr";' a? well as the public are cordially invited to attend. 11 1 1\ ?? r?mmill<v McelinV The Kershaw County Democratic Kxecutivc Committee is called to meet at the Court House on next Monday, July 28th, 1924, for the pur pose of purffin# the club rolls, to make such changes and additions as may be indicated, subject to the law and the rules of the party, and to transact auch other business as may properly come before the meeting. ...? M. M. JOHNSON, Chron. M.U SMira, ?,