The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 19, 1929, Image 6
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LOOKING BACKWARD
Taken From the File* of The Chronicle Fifteen and Thirty Year* Ago
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Italy 14. 1899.
J hi v id Wolfe. Camden merchant,
leaves for the northern markets to
purchase good a,
Mrs. If. JK. DuUoae dies suddenly
of malarial fever.
Henry Smith, 70-year-old citizen of
West Wateree dead, and burial at
Ebenezer church.
Six bicyclists from Camden made
trip to Yorkville and from there went
on to Gaffuey and Spartanburg. In
the party were W. E. Johnson, Jr.,
R. J? I>ef*oachef J. Des Davis, H. T.
DePaaa, C# C. Moore and W. L. DePass.
Dr. I. II. Alexander left for Richmond
and points north on a vacation. (
J>r. Kusaell Zemp of Knoxvillc,'
Teqn., on u visit to Camden.
J, K. Pearce resigns his position as
superintendent of Camden Cotton |
Mills and mvoea with family to
Augusta. . 1 .
Richland county board of commisaionera
refuse to pay cost of case in
trial of Crawford who was granted a
change of venue to Kershaw county.
Alex McLaurin of Hethune who ha->
been attending Clomson college, is at
home on vacation.
The talking movies are still in their
infancy. Perhaps that bpwhy they
lisp.?Kalamazoo Gazett^^
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
July 17, 1914
First ycur's report of Camden Hospital
shows receipts of $4,204.73 and
expenditures of $3,883.02, leaving a
cash balance of $687.00.
Blanche Salley of Camden and
Julius Coachman Green of Uoykin adjudged
by Woman's Home Companion
as two of the seventeen best babies
in the United States.
Bennie Smith spending some time
in Columbus, O., with his uncle, Sidney
Smith, catcher for tbe Columbus
baseball team.
Heavy Seaboard freight train ;
pulled by two engines crashes into
Southern freight train at Spaulding
junction. Conductor C, A. Fouts of
Southern slightly bruised. Engineer.)
escape by jumping. Tracks and trains
badly damuged.
Joseph Young, aged 34 years, of
the DeK.aU> section, died at hospital.
William A. Clyburn, aged 76 years,
died at his home at Bethune.
May Blackweli, ten year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Black we 1.1;
dead of pneumonia.
Fra Alexander, 18-months-old
daughter of Mrs. Rivers Alexander,
dead, >
County board of commissioners met
and recommended that W. T. Blackmon,
E. H. Clements, and Jake Lee
be appointed as rural policemen.
Tests Reveal Truth About Turkeys
Clcmson College, July 15.?'Recent
experiment# have proven that turkey?
can be raised successfully when
brooded in partial confinement, if
they are on clean ground away from
the chickenp. and are fed like baby
(( licks, Bays P. H. Oooding, extension
poultryman, Clemson College.
"The popular notion that turkeys
must have half the farm to range
on and be fed bread crumbs from
the table, or some specially prepared
feed, is" groundless. Chickens are
carriers of the germs that cause the
disease known as blackhead, hut it
seldom develops. Turkeys, however,
are more susceptible to the disease
and when they are allowed to run
with the chickens the disease usually
develops when the poults arc from ?1
to 12 weeks old.
"A good practice is to keep the
poults confined on ground that chickens
have not ranged on for at least
two years. Feed some good chick
starter and keep before poults at all
times for about four weeks. Then
hopper feed cracked yellow corn in
addition to the mash until the poults
are large enough to eat whole yel
low corn.
"A ration composed of 80 pounds
yellow corn, 20 pounds wheat bran,
20 pounds wheat middlings, 20
pounds meat scraps, 5 pounds dried
buttermilk and one pound of salt has
given good results. Water should be
available at all times. If enough
skim milk is produced on the farm
to keep before the poults each day,
the dried milk may be omitted and
the meat scraps reduced to 10
pounds."
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Freed Man Sues Attorney.
Rockford, 111., July 11.?A strange ;
sequel from the famous case of Hen- J
ry D. Olson, found to be innocent of
killing a tilling station agent after
being convicted of the crime and sentenced
to prison here today.
A fifty thousand dollar damage suit
against the lawyer who defended
Olson, Harry B. North, was filed by
Olson who charges that North knew
the real slayers and permitted Olson
to make the long fight for his life and
receive the prison sentence.
After his conviction, Olson jumped
his bond and did not know the real
slayers, two Rockford youths who are
now in prison, had been found, until
he read the Associated Press account,
in a New Orleans newspaper telling
him he might go home.
Olson charges tkat North, a promi1
nent attorney here ' and formerly
|state's attorney, defended the Rockford
youths, George Bliss and Morris
Maham, when they were arrested
shortly after the murder of Floyd
Stotler, the attendant, North, declared
Olson in his bill, knew the young
I men were the real killers when Olson
was convicted.
Mrs. Bessie R. McCalla, prominent
woman of Starr, S. C.t who died some
days ago, has left her estate valued
at $75,000 to her nephew, Feaster I.
Jones. Her home place of 40 acres
was left to Mr. Jones' three small
children and when they attain their
majority it will bo divided equally
among them.
T. B. BRUCE
Veterinarian
Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114
CAMDEN, 3. C. I
m DeKALB COUNCIL No 88
Junior Order U. A. M. j
TbLpic Regular counoil first and
third Mondays of each
month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren
are welcomed. D. J. CREED,
L. H. JONR)S, Councillor.
Recording Secty.
KERSHAW LODGE No. 29
A. F. M.
Regular communic*tion of
this lodge is held on the
* ' first Tuesday in each month
at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed.
T. V. WALSH,
J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master.
Secretary. 1-14-27-tf
Your Money in Bank Benefits
You and the Community
Your money in the bank is in circulation while you
are not using it. Thus you get not only many direct
! benefits, but your money helps to upbuild your community
and you profit as a resident.
Loan and Savings Bank
t CAPITAL $100,000.00
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Rate King Sentenced
To Die September 20
Hole tun Hcene Enacted in ChmUr Am
Dread Words Are gpoken.
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The last chapter in the Rafe King
ca?e ho far an Cheater county it concerned,
unlean the Supreme Court
grants a new trial, was written yesterday
morning when Judge J. K.
Henry sentenced the defendant to dip
in the electric chair Friday, September
20th, after having over-ruled the
motion of the defendant's attorneys
for a new trial. These reasons, which
were read as follows by Mr. McDow,
were as folowa:
1. That the verdict of the jury is
contrary to the evidence.
2. That there was insufficient evidence
to warrant the verdict of the
Jury.
3. That His Honor should have
directed a verdict of "not guilty."
4. In reading the request to charge
submitted by defendant's counsel to
the jury in such an inaudible tone of
voice that the defendant could not
hear same, defendant's counsel could
not hear same, and the jury could not
hear same clearly.
5. (n icalling the request to chargo
as submitted by this defendant's counsel
to the jury in such an inaudible
tone of voice and in delivering his
charge to the jury along other lines
in such strenuous tones as to impress
the jury. With the idea that there
was little or no merit in the request
to charge submitted by the defendant's
counsel.
6. Failure of the presiding judge
to instruct the jury that the failure
of the defendant to take the witness
stand in his own behalf could not be
construed against him.
7. Iii permitting a hostile audience
to crowd in and around and show
their hostility to this defendant by
reason of their position before nnd
demeanor Tn front of the jury as
shown by the defendant's affidavit.
8. In permitting counsel for the
State to comment in their arguments
to the jury upon the fact that the defendant,
Rafe F. King, failed to testify
ip the case, the portions of the arguments
pf various counsel referred
to are shown in King's affidavit.
Judge Henry said he believes the
defendant had a fair and impartial
trial. He said he saw no evidence of
any attempt to influence the jury,
and regarded the behavior, of the
audience as beyond criticism. The
State offered no argument against
the motion.
King was outwardly cool nnd composed
as he stood to receive sentence,
though the twitching of the muscles
of his face gave evidence of his agitation.
He entered the court room with
a smile on his face. On his way back
to the jail he made the statement to
deputies, "I am ready to die, and I
will die innocent."
King set forth in his affidavit that,
during the presentation of part of the
State's evidence that Sheriff Howze
stood between him and the witness,
and at other times Solicitor Hines, as
well as others obstructed his view,
and interfered with his hearing.
He also asserted that the judge'?
charge was delivered in such a low,
inaudible voice that he could not hea>and
expressed the belief that the jury
did not hear that part of the charge,
which the defense had requested.
The affidavit, further set forth,
"that His Honor refused to consider
this defendant's request to charge except
as to one request and did not
read this defendant's request to
charge until urged to do so by defendant's
counsel, although same had
been properly submitted in writing
and then read the same as herein
aforesaid in such a low voice that
this defendant was able to hear but a
few words of the said request.
He also declared in his affidavit
that crowds, apparently hostile to
him, wer?- permitted to push into the
bar and before the jury, and that thi
fact was plainly visible to the jury.
Judge Henry, in making reply,
said that ho had attempted to mak
himself understood and that when it
was sugg- ted by defense counsel
that the jury might not be hearing,
he went and stood within six feet of
the jury, and re-read that portion
which the 1 iwyers said the jury mighc
not have h. ard.
After K.ug had been returned to
the dock : > hear the indictmer.'
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against hiiw, read ugalu by Dr. J. E.
Corn well, Clerk el Court, and the report
of the jury again announced, he
was asked if he had anything to say.
"Nothing more" wa? the only comment
of King, who wa? prompted by
his attorney, Mr. McDow.
"Stand up, King," instructed Judge
Henry when he was released from the
dock and started back to his seat.
"The State of South Carolina has
no more more use for your life, except
to let it serve as a deterrent to other
young men to lead them from an awful
life and a horrible end," Judge
Henry told the defendant. King stood
and gazed straight ahead.
In passing sentence, Judge Henry
declared, "let the defendant, Uafe
V. King, be confined to a place, as
provided by law, and later as ordered
be taken to the State penitentiary at
Columbia, S. C., and there confined
and on a date to be determined by this
court, to be taken to the place of execution
and there suffer the penalty of
death by electrocution. May Cod have
mercy on your soul."
Then Judge Henry asserted that the
State of South-Carolina had no urie:
for the life of Rafe King except to
serve n? an example and a deterrent
to others.
"You have lived a putrefied life,
and this is the cause of all of your
trouble. The timv given you before
execution is allowed in order that you
have opportunity to contemplate and
reflect upon your wrong doing and
seek repentance before God," continued
the Judge.
"These few remarks are being
mad. in the presence of these young
men in the hope that they may see
your example and may be saved from
your fate. I am making them in order
that good may come out bf evil,"
Judge Henry asserted.
Quoting from the Bible, Judge Henry
declared, you have verified the
Biblical warning, "He that soweth to
- ti.e fh'i.hr-shall of the flesh-reap -eorruption,
and he that soweth to the
wind, shall reap the whirlwind."
As he spoke of the defendant's opportunity
to make?peace with God
before his execution, Judge Henry declared
that his only hope lay in salvation
of Jesus Christ. "But for the
grace of God I might be in your
place," said the judge.
As Judge Henry told the defendant
to put his trust in Jesus Christ, tears
welled into his eyes and streamed
down his face. He wiped them away
with his handkerchief.
"There's hope for you in the salvation
of Jesus Christ. May you find it"
concluded the jurist.
King calmly sat down without a
word. In a few minutes Rev. E. B.
Hunter, A. R. P. minister of Sharon,
who was the first to question King's
explanation of his wife's death, sat
down by the condemned man and talked
earnestly with him. King said a
few words at the beginning, but during
the remainder of the conversation
he did not utter a word, as the minister
evidently spoke words of comfort
to him and made a plea for trust in
God.?Chester Reporter.
Killing in Lee County.
Another kiling was recorded for
Lee county eaily?Wednesday?morn ing.
Burrel Chambers, a young negro
man or boy was killed at Durant's
store, about 0 or 7 miles from Bishopville.
The facts in the case are
hard to get and rumors are rife. But
as near as we can get at the matter
it is about as follows: The negro
Chambers was sleeping in a back
room of the store which is owned by
George Durant. He, it seems had
gone off and left the negro boy in
charge of the room. Early in the
morning some one entered the room
and shot Chambers. On making an investigation
it was found that & negro
boy about 13 years of age and whose
name is Redfair, did the killing, ho
having confessed to the deed. The
shooting was done with a shotgun.
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The gun barrel was placed at the neck
or chin of the murdered boy and the"
load almost tore off the head. The
boy seejps to have had money as it
was found <?hat afyput $60 was taken
by the murderer. The dead boy is a
son of Gabriel Chambers. The boy
d^ing th^ kiling is said to be a brother
of Jonas Redfair who killed, some
months ago, Vander Washington.
Caesar Wright and Annie Belle
Wright were also lodged in the county
jail as accessories to the crime. Redfair
claimed that they got the money.
H. L. Hopkins, rural policeman, made
the arrests.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
faas that Burrel Chambers came to
his death at the hands of Otis Redfair
with Caesar Wright and Annde I^elW
Wright implicated in the crime.?
Bishopville Messenger.
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his chair around and pressed a buttonon
his desk. The office boy entered.
"Here," said the editor, "are a number
of directions from outsiders telling
how to run our paper. See that
every one is carried out."
And the office boy, gathering them
all in a large waste-basket, did so.
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It may not be as exciting as a crosscountry
flight in an airplane?but
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means something to every car and
truck owner!
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