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C. 17 41; Nfrht ISO 1 THE BIGHAM MYSTERY Head of House Lived in Deadly Fear of the Courts. ! Solicitor Lonnie M. Casque in his address to the jury began by unfold ing, as he expressed, "The Bighan) Mystery." This suggested the writ-j ing of a brief skotch of this 'grim, tragedy, labeling the theme, "The Last of the Bighams." The Bigham family lived in the Crum or I'amplico section of Florence county on the old Florence-George town road. There was State Senator M. M. Bigham, lord of a thousand goodly acres, his wife of jUst propor tions, two daughters and three robust sons. The elder Bigham was a hard, stern man, lived in deadly fear of the courts. He would gather his children j about him and in the long winter eve- j nings hold mock trials, drilling them in thwart of defense testimony. Ho predicted for them all their day in court. He little reckoned that he! would bo the first of the Bighams to fall. He died. mysteriously while appar ently in perfect health, poisoned?it has been whispered by his very own. One of his sons, Kdmund Bigham, who fills a major part in this narra tive, came into his sharo of the Big ham estate shortly after the sudden death of his father, married and moved into Georgia. One of the girls, Leather, married and moved to Florence. She was the wife of the Florence county jailor and was stricken by the dreaded influenza while living at the jail. Thus passed the second of the family. The other daughter, Marjorie, has taught school in Greenville, where she met and married R. A. Black. They became estranged and ' she moved back on the old Bigham place to live with her brother, Smiley, and her mother, Mrs. M, M. Bigham.' It was about this time- that she adopted two small children, John and Leo McCracken, These five appar ently lived at peace?but not for long. Smiley Bigham was the first to get into court. He was charged with the murder o? a negro boy whose only crime had been hitting a mule of Smi ley's in the head with a lump of dirt. Dr. Cleveland Bigham, now men tioned for the first time, had left the Bigham place and married a fine lady from Chester. He had taken up the practice of medicine at Murrels Inlet in George town county. He and his wife had lived in perfect accord, but it seemed that his wife knew too much about Smiley's connection with the murder of the negro boy, having been on a visit to the old Bigham home the night of the murder. The doctor remonstrated with her not to testify against his brother. The good woman replied that the state had subpoenaed her and that* she would have to tell the trut,h. A few nights after the doctor and his wife hat! so quarreled, she was mistaken for a ghost on the sands of Murrels Inlet and shot to death. Smiley Higham was cleared of the! charge of murder and all appeared I bright on the Bigham plantation? when like a thunderbolt from a clear sky came the news that Dr. Cleveland I Bigham was under arrest, charged with the slaying of his own wife. A long legal battle ensued.- The saving rays of the Bigham fortune j were turned to light up the dark way. df this son and brother,* the doctor was found guilty of manslaughter, an appeal was made, bond was grant- j ed, Smiley and his mother signing the bond. Just before the day set for the sec ond trial of Cleveland, he disappeared and became a fugitive from justice, little knowing that in a few years he would fee termed "The last of the Bighams." After Dr, Cleveland Bigham failed to show up for his trial after the murder of his wife and the full reali zation began to dawn upon Mrs. Big ham and Smiley Bigham that as his bondsmen they would have to sacri i flee their vaat estates and pay up, there was a wild scrambling of deeds ! in the Bigham family. The court, knowing the x financial soundness of the Bighams, did not immediately press the bond for collec tion and Cleveland kept getting far ther and farther away. Smiley Bigham lost no time in hatching up a diabolical scheme to de feat the collection of the bond. His first step was to tear the rec ords of his ownership and that of his mother in the estate from the county clerk's office. : They then deeded the property to the two girls, Mrs. Leath er Cain and. Mrs. Marjoria Black. They deeded five-sixths to Mrs. Cain and one-sixth to Mrs. Black. Then came the next tragedy in the Bigham family. Mrs, Leather Cain fell a victim to the dread influenza that swept the world in 1920. She died in the Florence county jail, her husband, Bogan Cain, being the jailor then. .Smiley and his mother were then thrown in a quandary again. This left Bogan Cain, as his wife's executor, in sole possession of almost all the Big ham property, but no for long. After many visits to certain law offices in Florence, a new plaft of evading the law was mapped out. The property was deeded to Mrs. Marjorie Black, but the old Bigham distrust of one another still manifest ed itself. Mrs. Black was made to sign three blank deeds so that in the event of Cleveland giving himself u& or in t)fe event of her death the right ful owners could regain possession of the largo property interests. It was in the fall of 11)20 that Kd muiul moved his wife and two daugh ters, Louise and Evelyn, back from South lieorgia, and took up abode at the old Bigham place. ) It waa soon apparent that * there I were too many Bigham* in one house. It grew from bad to worse until on Saturday morning, January 8, Edmund was seen to strike his sister with a piece of scantling and with the threat of death ringing in her ears his sister rushed to Florence to make out, and sign the now famous Bltj^ck will. Marjorie Black (led from the Big ham home, still stinging from the blows administered by her brother Edmund. With the threat, "I am going to kill the last one of you," ringing in her ears, she half walked and half ran the entire distance of a mile to the Kirton home, a kindly neighbor that knew of the unpleas antness at the Bigham home and felt a dtfep sympathy for Marjorie and her mother. Mrs. kirton listened to the story of the beating and the threats and ad vised Mrs. Black to get in touch with her brother Smiley, at once, offering to lend her the Kirton automobile to make the trip to Pamplico. ? Marjorie Black reached Smiley about noon that day and returned with him to the Kirton home, whero they found their old mother awaiting, then;. They held a hurried cohsulta tion and decided that as the property was in Mrs. Black's namo and Ed mund would kill her first, that Mm ju-~ rle should make a last will and testa ment leaving all of the property to Smiley. . They borrowed the Kirton car to go to Florence, where they sought out the family attorney; Philip H. Arrowsmith. - It was late when they arrived, the stenographer had gone home. Mr. Arrowsmith wrote out the will in long hand as Mrs. Black dictated the terms of it to hihi And he called in G. T. Bryce and Marshall Bridges of Flor ence to witness it. They heard Mrs. Bigham tell of the trouble at the Bigham home earlier that Saturday, January 8. Mrs. Black was visibly excited and suffering from the trying ordeal. As she told the attorney goodbye, she foreboded that probably it would be for all time. She seemed to feel the menace of the approaching tragedy. Mrs. Black and Smiley returned to the Kirton home about 11:30 that night. Smiley left "his sister there and went on to the Bigham home alone. On the following-Tuesday he stopped at Mrs. Kirton's and asked her for % little satchel that his sister, Marjorie, had left there .Saturday night. The satchel contained the Black will. More Mystery. What did Smiley want with tho will? Was the fact that M^s. Black's death would restore all tho property to him affecting his niiiul f It wAs on Tuesday afternoon of the same day that Smiley had searched the handbag at the Kirton home and gotten possession of the will of Mrs. Marjoric Black that we came upon tho next episode in the High am mys tery. Walter Bur,eh, one of tho tenants of the Bigham plantation, was in the yard near tho old home cutting wood when his attention was attracted by loud talking in the kitchen mar by. He could hear the voice of Kdmund Higham in loud threats against some one inside. Soon after, Mrs. M. M. Higham and Marjoric, her daughter, came out of the kitchen and beckoned Walter to come near the steps. They spoke to the negro about Edmund threatening their Mives and begged him to go to PampMco at once for Officer Rose. Kdmund, who had been standing be hind the screen door in the kitchen, listening, walked quickly out on the porch and addressed the negro in this wise: "Nigger, you*l'e living now, aren't you?" Burch replied, "Yes." "Then if you want to keep on liv ing, you better mind your own busi ness." The negro thought so too, for he forgot all about the engagement with the woodpile and jumping on his mule's back rode, straight back home. Kdmund then left the porch and wont upstairs to his room where ho and his wife and two daughters were living as best they might, cooking, eating and sleeping all in one room. This condition was brought about by the continual discontent and bicker ings among the many Bighams. The situation in the Bigham home was now reaching the breaking point. Kdmund was demanding another share of the property. Smiley wiis plainly worried about something. The dread fear of death hung like a pall over Mrs. Black. f The fateful Saturday broke?cold and gray, ideal hog killing weather. Edmund, the crack shot of the family, the owner of four long barreled pis tols, always did the killing. That was his fir^t job in the early morning. He knew just, where to shoot the ani mal, just behind the left ear. After killing the hog Edmund left the woods to measure the wood cut that week on the Bigham place, Smi ley "following later with Andrew Sin gletary tagging along behind him, sent by Mrs. Bigham to watch o^er Smiley fearing in her mother's heart for his life. 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Once when Smiley started to leave and return to the Bigham home he told him, "wait a minute, Smiley, let the others go on, walk with me by just one more pile and 1 will then go on- to the house with you." Smiley was never seen alive again. In our fourth episode we left Ed mund and Smiley Bigham in the woods together preparing to check up one more stack of wood before re turning to the Bigham home for din ner. The Bigham mystery concerns all that happened in the next hour and a half, They were left alone in the woods from 1:30 to 8 p.m. The old mail carrier had arrived on his daily visit to the Bigham estate and Edmund was explaining to him how It all occurred. ;The following version of the affair was presented to the Horry county jury by Philip Arrowsmith, attorney in the prosecution of Edmund Big ham for the wholesale murder, some what in this wise: "After killing his brother Smiley in the woodB about a half mile from home, Edmund rushed back to the Bigham home. He sneaked upstairs surprising his sister, Marjorie, half clothed in the act of manicuring her nails. "Shooting her in the temple he fled downstairs running into the older Mc Cracken child on the back porch. He shot him in the same vital spot, in the head, thfc little fellow rolling un der the long bench dying instantly. VThe old mother attracted by the sounds of the shots came toward the house. She had been to the mill to have some meal ground and had hitched the mule to a post near tho lot." Edmund is charged with having fired at his mother while yet on tho porch, the bullet taking effect in the neck. The three-year-old McCracken boy had been to mill with his "Granny," and evidently seeing her shot down had started to run. Edmund followed, watching for a chance to shoot to a vital spot. The little fellow tripped and fell over an $d. potato bank. With the murderer right over him he raises his hand to ward off the crashing bullet. The crack of "the 38 pistol brushing the flesh from the tiny hand, entering the forepart of the brain. Edmund is then supposed to have jumped in his Buick six and with all [\possible haste gone toward the negro [ Foxworth, to establish Alibi No. 1. After shouting some directions about hauling wood he rushed back by the Bigham place to Pamplico to estab lish Alibi No. 2. Here is where the plans began to muddle. The mother was only wound ed, not dead, she came staggering to ward the road as the car approached. Edmund saw her, not waiting to stop, he jumped from the running machine, leaving his wife and two daughters in the car, his wife stopping the car far ther down the road. ^ . He was charged with dragging hi.* old mother behind a well in tho yard and firing a bullet in the brain just behind the left ear. He knew this would finish the fiendish day's work. Then followed the ? burial of five members of the Bigham household, leaving Edmund and his family the sole occupants of the old home. Suspicion and arrest! Attempt of wife to smuggle chloroform in to him! Attempt to record the deed taken from Smiley! The triai! The conviction! Sentence of death! Five appeals to supreme court. New trial. Another conviction and a sentence to die on October 31. Pine Grove School Honor Boll. First Grade?Yates Jackson, Leslie Jackson, Cloyd Barfield, Ruth Rabon. Second Grade?Jack Rabon, George Henry Rabon. Third Grade?Etta Dowery. Fourth Grade?Milton Dowery, Lillie Mae Branham. Fifth Grade?Lula Mae Jackson. Sixth Grade?Willine Ford. Eighth Grade?Mattie Kelly. Ninth Grade?Etta Rabon. Tenth Grade?Eula Branham. Peter Smith and Amelius Jarris, Sr., have been sentenced to serro three and a half years each in prison by a Toronto court and pay a collec tive fine of $600,000, for conspiracy to defraud the province of ..-Ontario out of a large sum of money in a 35 bond transaction. A Philadelphia police court judge last Thursday sentenced a 7-year-oM boy to "|2.00 worth of lickings," rather than fine him $1.00 cash for jumping on and off IroDey car*.