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Charged With Killing Woman.
A deputy sheriff from Marlboro
county, in company with a McColl police
officer came to Bishopville Tuesday
to return to the Marlboro jail
^ John Scott and Florence Adams, negroes,
charged with having murdered
Polly Scott, wife of John Scott.
The. Scott negroes were native Lee
county people, but moved to McColl
four or five years .ago. Polly Seott
died in MoColl last week and the cir cumatances
surrounding her death attracted
suspicion. An inquest was
held hut officers were unable to And
foul play, therefore the suspects were
released. They came to Bishopville
Saturday and Sunday the funeral was
held.
The twelve year old son of John
Scott, accompanied the party and
from information obtainable it seems
that after the funeral the boy informed
his uncle, a 'brother of the dead
woman that his father assisted by the
other woman, had killed his mother
Vy smothering her. That the woman
had sat upon her feet while the father
wrapped her head in a quilt. The
Jx>y when brought to Sheriff Scarborough
told a very straight story.
He said that he was in bed in the
same room with his mother whbn his
father and the other woman came into
the room. That he pretended- to be
asleep and did not know that in the
struggle that his mother had been
killed until the following morning.
He did not tell his story before because
of the fear* of his father. Lee
county officers locked the woman and
John Scott up and notified Sheriff
Weatherly of Bennettsville, who sent
officers for. them this week. It is said
that when arrested Scott had an insurance
policy on the life of his wife
in his pocket; The Marlboro officers
are confident that Avith the testimony
of the boy they have a good case
against*^ the negroes.?--Bishopville
Messenger.
Compromise Ormond-Cole Suit.
Raleigh, June 17.?Final judgment
on the $150,000 damage suit
brought by Rev. A.L* Ormond against
W. B. Cole, mill owner, of Rockingham,
for what is charged the wrongful
death of his son, Bill Ormond, was
handed out in the Wake county superior
court Tuesday An agreement
embodied into a formal judgment and
signed when the case was called for
trial tomorrow was drawn in which
Cole agreed to pay the father of
young Ormond the sum of $15,000
costs in the case and have all the
original pleadings withdrawn from
thfc record and destroyed, marking the
final chapter of litigation which began
when Cole shot young Ormond.
The Rev Ormond entered n suit for
damages after Cole had been acquit
tod in the Richmond superior court
last August.
Marion Blease, aged 26 years, son
of the late Harry H, Blease, of Newberry,
died at his home in Clarenda,
"Virginia, Sunday morning. He is survived
by his mother and his widow.
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LIQUOR AND CAR TAKEN.
Woman and Man Placed Under Ar?
reat at Lancaster.
Friendly advice to rum-runner*?
"If you expect to got to North Carolina,
don't come through Lancaster
county."
On Wednesday evening abqyt 7
o'clock the local- officers were advised
by long distance telephone from -Jefferson
that u rum-runner driving a
Chrysler -roadster, waa coming
through this county, headed for Charlotte.
The officers were uncertain as
to just what road or street the rum
runner would use in reaching in the
Charlotte highway. Deputy Sheriff
Hucy Montgomery ,1'olicemun Clyde
Vickery, joe Byrd, in Jbe police Studebaker
proceeded up the . Charlotte
road , to the Taylor place. They did
not have long to wait. Presently a car
appeared in sight that proved to be
the Chrysler that they were looking
for and the road waa promptly blocked.
The rum-runner approached at a
rapid clip and undertook to run
around the ?>Uidebaker, but Montgomery,
by a quick maneuver, caused
the Chysler to bump the Studebaker
and come to a stop. The officers took
charge of the car and the occupants
and upon a seach of the baggage
compartment of the car found ten
five-gallon cans, containing fifty gallons
of whiskey. .The rum-runners,
who gave their napies as Bob Mosier
and Elizabeth Blake of Charlotte,
were taken into custody and brought
before Magistrate fe. S. Steele and in
default of bond were lodged in the
county jail. It is said that this car
has made several tips through Lancaster
recently, it being a comparatively
new ca/r, having fueled onjy
about 7,000 miles and is said to bt;
valued at $1,500, it being a late model
and well-equipped throughout. Sheriff
Hunter Is highly pleased with this
lutest proof of the efficiency of the
city and county officers -in dealing
with violators of the prohibition law
and while he did not actually offer
rum-runners the advice quoted in the
first paragaph of this story, it might
pay them to heed it.-?Lancaster News
A Darkey's Christmas Trust Fund
An humble old negro man living in
Fayetteville, N. C., who died recently,
left all of his earthly goods, valued
,at $5,000, to a nVulti-millionaire, and
thereby created a trust fund, the int'ome
from whjch will be distributed
annually, just before Christmas day,
to the darkies of that section. This
old-timey darky, by industry, frugality
and hard work managed to
own his home, which property increased
in value as the years went by.
At the time of his death he had no
immediate relatives, so he willed his
property to W. W. Fuller, whose
parents owned his wife in the slavery
days before the war 'Betweeh the
States and with whom he had played
many a day as a child. He stated in
bis will, according to the special-dispatch
from Fayetteville to the
Greensboro Daily News, that "Mr.
Willie" would know better what to
do with the estate than he would,
and this confidence was justified by
the beneficiary, who set up as a trust
fund $5,000 in Bethlehem Steel, preferred,
bearing a return of 7 per cent
annually, with a board of trustees,
all Fayetteville men, who will administer
the fund. In this way the name
of this antebellum darky will be perpetuated
as the "James iMcAllister
'Christmas Fund," and hundreds ofi
negroes will yearly receive material
help, comfort and sustenance at the
time of the year when it comes in
most handily?-at Christmas. The
reason for his action James McAllister
clearly sets forth in his will, as
follows: ?
441 do this for the reason that I
have no children, my wife is dead,
tind Mr. Willie Fuller has always
helped me when I needed it, and hasj
been my dearest and best friend; my
wife, now deceased, belonged to his
father and mother, and it was my
pleasure to be with the family during
and after the war, and the intimacy
that, sprang up then between me and
Mr. Willie, then a small boy, has been
continued through life."?Spartanburg
Journal.
Fred Garrison, negro, 53, entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of assault
of a high and aggravated nature, at
Spartanburg on Wednesday and was
sentenced to not less that) three years:
on the gang. He was accused of entering
the room of a young white
woman at Drayton witb intent to ravish.
Robert W. Beaty, prominent planter
of Goshen Hill township of Union
county, was killed Monday afternoon
when the automobile he was driving
left the road and turned over on the
Appalachian highway four miles
south of Union.
The Grand Chapter of the South
Carolina Order of the F.astern Star
opened its nineteenth annual convention
inJ Greenville on Wednesday with
about MOO delegates in attendance
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W. B. Ellis, Winston-Salem, N. C.,
business man and capitalist, has been <
sentenced to serve four months on <
the county roads by the municipal 1
court after conviction of criminal ,(
libel He has appealed his case. <
Five persons were burned to death,
>ne a bride of nine days and thirty
escaped uninjured, when a tourist
Pullman car was destroyed by fire at
Crystal Siding, Nev., early Wedhesiay
morning.
Have Them Rebuilt at the
Red Boot Shop
Abram M. Jones, Prop.
Next to Express Office
CAMDEN, S. C.
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