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Notice For Finhl Discharge.
Public notice is Jjereby given that at
the expiration of one month from date
to wit, at 10 A. M., on the 26th of
October, 1926,1 will make my final return
to the Probate Court for Ker?haw
County and apply for discharge
us Executor of the estate of Mrs.
Harriet H. Lipscomb, deceased.
HENRY G. CARRISON, JR.,
Executor of the Estate of Mrs. Harriet
H. Lijpscomb.
Camden, S. C., Sept 24, 1926.
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SUMMONS.
State of South Carolina, v
County of Kershaw,
In the Court of Commo^ Pleas. >
Burns & Barrett, a partnership, plaintiff,
vs.
Frank W. Hopkins and Eleanor M.;
Hopkins, defendants. ^
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To the defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and. re^
ciuired to answer the complaint hetfein,
a copy of which is herewith served
upon you, and to serve#a copy of your
answer to said complaint, upon the
subscriber, W. L. DePass, at Jiis office,
corner of Main and DeKalb streets,
Camden, S. C., within twenty days
after the day of such service, and If
you fail to answer the complaint
within the time afotesaid plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief dema
nded in the complaint.
W. L.^ePA_SSJ.mi ...
Attdsmey fbr PlaEtiff.
Camden, S. C., October 1,
To the defendants, Frank W. Hopkins
and Eleanor Hopkins: You will
please take notice that the summons
and complaint jn the above ,entitled
action were filed in the office of the
Clerk of Court for Kershaw County,
South Carolina, September 23^ 1&26.
W. L. DePASS, JR.,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Camden, S. C., Sept. 29, 1926.
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HISTORY OP THE BIGHAMS
J. A. Zoigkr in The Florence
Morning Newa-Revlew
Solicitor L. M. Gaaque, in hie address
before the Horry courtty jury
at tho last trial of Edmund Bigham
held in Conway at the 1924 fall
term of court, began by unfolding as
he expressed it, "The Bigham Mystery."
This suggested the writing of
a story of the life of this remarkable
Florence county family that is becoming
extinct through its own misdoings.
I have labeled this theme "The last
of the Bighams," and as the time
draws near for the third and perhaps
rtie last trial which may furnish the
material for the final chapters, I am
giving the readers of this newspaper
a brief sketch of what has been written
before.
The Bigham family lived in the
Orum or Pamplico section of Florence
county on the old FlorenceGeorgetown
road. There was state
Senator M. M. Bigham, lord of a
thousand goodly acres, his wife of
just proportions, two daughters and
.three robust boys. ? . ?..
The elder Bigham, a hard stern
man, lived in deadly fear of tlthe
courts. He would gather his children
about him' in the long winter evenings
and hold mock trials, drilling them in
the art of defense testimony.
He predicted for them, their day
in court. He was the first to fall.
He died mysteriously while apparently
in the best of health.
Edmund Bigham, one of the sons
who is referred to in the narrative
as the "last of the Bighams," came
into his share of the estate, married
and moved into G&rgia.
? One of the girls, Letha, married
Bogan Cain, a Florence county jailor,
and fell a victim to the dread influenza
that swept the world in 1P20.
Thus passed the second'of the family.
The older daughter, Margie, marBlack.
ofL Greenville, they
became estranged and she moved beck
on the old Bigham 'place toHive with
her brother, Smiley, and Wnt mother,
Mrs. iJora Bigham. It was about this
time that she adopted two small children,
Leo and John MoCracken, whose
mother was a tenant on the Bigham
placer and who had died from influenza.
Smiley Bigham wasHhe first of the
children to get into court. He was
charged with the murder of a negro
boy1 whose only crime_ had been hitting
one of the. farm mules in the
head with a clump of dirt.
Dr. Cleveland Bigham, now mentioned
for the first time, had left the
Bigham place and married Ruth
Crisp, of a prominent family in Chester,
S. C. He had taken dp the practice
of medicine at Murrell's Indet in
Georgetown county. He lived with
one Avant who he terrorized with his
ghost stories. His wife had been a
visitor to tho^old bigham place the
night of the murder, and was to be
a state's witness - against Smiley.
The doctor begged her not to help
the state hang a Bigham. The good
woman replied "that she would have
to tell the truth." A few nights later
Avant, encouraged -by Cleveland Bigham,
fired, as he thought, at a ghost
on the Sands of' Murrell's Inlet, and
Ruth Crisp Bigham was murdjered.
Smiley was cleared of his charge
-of-murddr and~?il' appeared, bright Oil
the Bigham horizon, when the news
c4me that Cleveland had been arrested,
changed- with the murder of 73tfa
Wfe
The saving rays of the Bigham fortune
were turned then to light up the
dark way of this' son and brother.
The doctor was found guilty of manslaughter,
an appeal was made, bond
was granted, Smilpy and his mother
signing- the $l,5Q0.<.jjop<jL ' .
The supreme court refused the appear
and Cleveland was ordered to report
to the state penitentiary to serve
.? t^vo-year sentence. He jumped his
bond and to thie day is a fugitive
from justice.
After vCleveland disappeared there
was a wild scrambling of deeds in the
Bigham household to keep from paying
the bond. The court evidently
^p3ed~0TTthe~financial sotmdness of
the Bighams and did not immediately
press the collection of the bond.
Smiley Bigham lost no time Jti seeing
that they wouldn't collect It. He
first tore out the record of the ownership
of the Bigham property by his
mother and himself "from the book^tn
the county clerk's office. They then
deeded the property to the two girls,
Letha and Margie. They deeded fivesixths
to Mrs. Cain and one-sixth
to Mrs. Black.
" It was shortly after this that Mrs.
Cain was stricken as before related
and died* leaving the Bighams in *
quandary. Bogan Cain Immediately
claimed five^ixths of the big estate
for himself i& young son. Mr. Cain
was finally bought off, and the land
all deeded to Mrs. Margie Black.
. Smiley and his mother made Mrs.
Black sign thntiMaftlt dsbde so in
rty. It vu for the possession of
these throe deed*, that the great
crises in this narrative came about.
It was iu the fall of 1920 that Edmund
Big-ham moved his wife and two
daughters, Louise, seven, and Evelyn,
thirteen, buck from South Georgia
and took up abode at the old Bigham
home. It was soon veiry noticeable
there were too many Bighams in one
house. Their relations became so
strained that Edmund and his family
dined and slept to themselves in one
of the upstairs rooms.
With the foregoing setting in your
mind 1 will let excerpts taken from
the summarization^* the *final tragedy
by P. H. Arrowdmith* in his address
-before the Horry' county jury
at the last trjal,- bring the story up
to dale. V*'
Th3 chain of circumstantial evidence
with, which the state will attempt
to fasten Edmund Bigham with
the homicide involving five members
of his family began January 8, 1921,
one week before the tragedy. Edmund
Bigham had obtained possession
of the three blank deeds. Mrs. Margie
Black found them in a washstarvd
drawer in tha room, Edmund's wife
saw her recover, them and sent one
of her daughters to the woods, to tell
her father. Edmund camelmmediately
to the house.. There \vere heated
tfbrds on thebiwk porch,, several witnesses
saw Edmund strike his sister
.with a long stick of wood. Mrs.
Black rushed to Florence to P, H,
Arrowumith's office and made out
the "Black Will" which was read in
court and expressed the fear that Edmund
was going to kill her and she
wanted the estate to go to Smiley. |l_
Walter Burch, a negro tenant op
the Bigham place, testified that on
the following Tuesday ;he was cutting
| wood near the Bigham kitchen whan
his attention waa attracted by voices
raised in anger. Mrs. Dora Bigham
and her daughter^ Margie, came out
of the kitchen followed-^ Edmund.
| They told the negro that Edmund had
threatened their lives and to go to'
Pamlico for Officer Rose.
Edmund then spoke up to the
negro: "If you want to keep on'living1
here you better mind your own busi-1
ness." Burch said he thought so too,"
and jumped on his muTe and went
home.
Other witnesses told of the fateful
Saturday^January 15, -1921. The
Bigham household awoke early that
day,-it was bitter cold, ideal hog killing
weather. Andrew Singletary yras
there helping them. Edmund left the
yjrrd to go to the woods to pay off
the wood-cutters. Smiley followed
soon afterwards. Singletary wag
asked by Mrs. Dora Bigham to follow
Smiley and to "Watch him as she
was afraid for his life, as Edmund,
she asserted, had -been threatening to:
kill. them. Singletary said about one
o'clock hesaw Edmund come out of
the woods alone. That he had left
the two -brothers together about noon
and that they seemed to be getting
Loh.so nicely together he forgot MraJ
Bigham's orders.
The Bigham mystery concerns all
that happened in the next two hours.
The old mall carrier arrived, at the
Bigham place about 2:30 p.m. and I
rtet Edmund who said, "Smiley has
killed them all," I saw him disappear
1 itttb those woods," said Edmund. -*f'
I found mother with blood streaming
down her face coming out to .the road,
when I returned f romFoxworth^ ?W
exclaimed to me a minute before she
died in my arms. 'Smiley did it, he
hjis killed us all.'"
The witness then told of the search
% the bodies, pf the finding of Leo
McCracken, five, on the back potcW
the discovery of John McCracken,
eight, behind a potato. bank with a
large bullet hole in his head but still
breathing, pf the finding of the body
of Mrs. Margie Black in her room,
half clothed, with a manicure file' ifa
-fyrhmnd. She lay with rbullet hbte
in her temple sprawled over an open
trunk. Her vest was ripped open. A
necklace she always wore waa missing
as were the three blank deeds her attorney
had advised her never agaig,
to leavfe her person.
11$?well with a bullet hole, in her
throat and another in the base of the
ckulL The little boy Hied that night
without regaining consciousness.
They found the body of Smiley the
next day after witnesses declared Edmund
told them in which direction to
look, Edmund's pearl handled pistol
was found between his thumb and
forefinger. His wallet containing the
the "Black Will" and other papers
Was missing, the rubber band that ho
always- used a rounds it was found
wrinkled as if it hacP' been slipped
hurriedly on his wrist. There were
two puddles of blood, as if the bodyhad
been moved. >
Mr. Arrowsmith reminded the jury
that If would h&ve been extremely
difficult for Smiley if he had committed
euicide; as the defense claimed,
to have walked to theatre* and lefl
J The skull of the mother was -?x
hlbited in court. Dr. J. D. Sirtyser,
a surgeon of Florence, testified the
bullet that had been fired into the
back of her head had passed through
the left lobe of the braih and travthe
same reaction as if you cut a person's
head off and that Edmund had
ersed the medulla which would cause
lied in his statement that his mother
had walked and talked.
While on the stand Kdmund made
a dramatic plea to the jury. Raising
his mother's skull over his head he
raised his eyes to gaxe full upon it
and said, "My poor old mother, you
know I could not have done this to
you," then raising his eye* toward
heaven he passionately exclaimed, "I
hope God will strike me stone dead
if I "did tty>t."
The Traffic To!l~
Thirty-eight persons were killed
and 241 injured in eleven Southern
states in the last week in automobile
rail and ot|?er traffic accidents, a
survey concluded Sunday by the Asso-,
elated Press showed. ?
The death total is .10 below the
figures for the corresponding period
a week ago, while last week's injured
total was s#elle3 by 19 in the last
seven-day period.
Of these 4 were killed in grade
crossing accidents and 2 deaths were
recorded in North Carolina following
bicycle accidents,
Reporting a total' of 10 deaths,
NorCh Carolina led in casualties for
the week. Florida was second with
six deaths and South Carolina, Kentucky
and Georgia 4&ph reported five.
No deaths, were caused by traffic accidents
during the week in either Alabama
or Virginia.
Florida led in -the number of injured,
with 46; while Georgia reported
43, and Louisiana 40.
Paul Tarascon, French flying ace,,
is preparing to make an attempt to
fly from Paris td New York without
stopping. He figures, the flight can
be accomplished in 31 hours. The try
will be made to capture the $26,000
prize offered to the flyer first making
a success of the venture.
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One of Lee County's Largest Farmers
and Highly Respected Citizen
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H. W. Rembert, one of Lee county's
largest farmers and most highly respected
citizens, died Sunday night,
in a Florence hospital, where he had
been taken just a few days before for
treatment. Mr. Rembert had been in
failing health for several months and
while it was generally known that he
was quite ill, death was net expected.
The news was received Monday morning
in Bishopville, and cast a gloom
over the entire community.
Mr.. Rembert was in the 66th year
of his age, having been born November
23, I860. He was a eon of the
late T. H. Rembert and Martha Coirimander
Rembert, and was born and
re?redin_Lee county. About 40 year*
ago he. was married to Miss Viola
Stuckey, daughter of the latq Dr.
Henry Stuckey, who with three sons,
H. W. V. Rembert, R. Ci Rembert
of Remberts that are one of the oldest
families in South Carolina, the
and T. Hf Rembert, Survive him.
Mr. Rembert came from the family
French Huguenots, dating back to our
earliest history. They were among
the largest land owners in.this section.
The'^ell known Barrett and DuRant
openings in Lee' county were once
owned bygone blanch of bU family.
Lands near the Herriott and Rembert J
church sections a 1 so belonged to o?other
branch jof his family.?Bishopvllle
Messenger.
Dividing The Spoils
New York, Oct. 11.? Athletes*
wboso vim and vitality , gave the cow
bells of St. Louis a chance to ring
again when many Missourians feared
they were to. 'be forever mute, were
bound for St. Louis today'figuring
j how much one can buy with $5,684*B1.
This sum represents the'money to be
paid each member of the St. Louie
Cardinals for winning the world
series.
The New York Yankees are.eatendating
the purchasing power of $8,^
417.75, and reflecting that the differetjgg.
in the size of the checks wee
determined by one $50,000 run,,. Th?
Cardinals won the seventh and deciding
game of the world series'8 to SL
A $50,000 strike out was engineered
by old master Alexander, two ploys
aiid a hit by Thevenow also meant, *
money and Yankee miscues were
costly. i . ?
The Pariser Zeitung, German newspaper,
has been revived in Paris after
having bfcen suspended since 1914 "iat
the beginning of the World war?12
years ago. * ^
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IT is a fact of history that the famous nations
of the past have made their greatest contributions
to civilization only after the attainment
of prosperity or. ecodomic health.
For what are the benefits of national prosperity
but the betterment of public health, the im- ?
provement of all forms of education, and the
growth of thbse cultural influences which
make life richer for all?
The prosperityof the South is today an accomplished
fact, and, in the light of history, its
promise for the future of the South is great?
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southern railroads. The Southern Railway
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earning power as an opportunity to assist in
the preservation of the general welfare of the
South in the years that lie ahead.
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