Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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This amount is much larger than for the same period last year. The charter fees for the o. .ce this year are several thousand dollars in ad vance of the fees for the same period in 1910. Greenville county leads the State, with $16,21 1,000, and Charleston comes second, with 2,122,900, and Richland county third with $1,012,- 800. Charleston comity really lei the State as $15,000,000, the capital stock of the Parker mill merger be ing Included In the return from Greenville. The following shows the amounts that have been invested in the va rious counties of the State: Abbeville $ 25,000 A*ken . . 18,000 Anderson 274,000 Bamberg 3,000 Barnwell 1 4 6,000 Beaufort 35,000 Calhoun 115,500 Charleston 2,122.900 Cherokee 132,000 Chester . . . 110,ouO | Chesterfield .. 1 85.000 I Clarendon . . . .—i»fl,Sft0t Colleton 75,000 I Darlington 784.500 Dillon 767,500 Dorchester Edgefield Fairfield Florence , Centre, Kansas, Plead Guilty to Centre, tnsas. Plead ullty to Tar- '• f ~ - ‘ -r - . ' - Tarring Girl Teacher. Pleas of guilty were suddenly an nounced In the circuit court at Lin coln Centre,-Kansas, on Thursday, by three of the prominent citizens Ac cused In connection with the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the Shady Bend school teacher. These announc ed pleas of guilty: Everett G. Clark, president of a Shady end milling company: Watson Scranton, Shady Bend farmer; Jay FiUwater, Shady Bend farmer. A flood of affidavits was let loose In court at the beginning of the hear ing of an application by Everett G. Clark, the wealthy miller of Shady Bend, for a change of venue in the case, in which he with eight other men are charged with “assault and battery’’ in connection with the tar ring of Miss Mary Chamberlain last August. Miss Chamberlain was In court, accompanied by her mother and brother. Since Mias Chamberlain was de coyed to a lonely spot on a country road, seized by a band of a dozen or more men, her clothing torn off and her body coated with tar, she has re mained In close retirement in her home in the little Shady Bend com munity, where she taught school and where it Is said her popularly with the men caused jealous wives and sweethearts to inflict on her the tor ture which created a storm of indig nation throughout the State. Another confession of gutit *n the tar party case came on Thursday when Edward Ricord, a barber, ad mitted he decoyed Miss Mary Cham berlain, a school teacher, to a point near Shady Bend, where she was “tarred’’ on Aug. 7. He went before Judge Cover and entered a plea of guilty. Sentence was suspended un- Died at the Union Station at Colum bia aa the Train that struck Him 50.500 75,400 8.700 331,600 Georgetown S?? ?^|'he ’;tar party Groenville .. -- . . 16»211.5dQy Greenwood 75.000 Hampton 45.000 Horry 26.000 Kershaw 1 40.000 Lancaster 123,000 Laurens .. 234,000 Lee 22.500 Lexington 1 1.000 Marion 91,500 Marlboro 76.500 Newberry 455,000 Oconee 5,000 Orangeburg 102,000 PlCkefls Richland . 1,012,800 Saluda 75,000 Spartanburg .. 581,700 Sumter .. 624,000 Union . . 1 06.000 Williamsburg 28,000 York . . 102,500 SEEKING HEART BALM. til after the trial of the other accused | men I R‘cord has t>een in Jail for the last I three months, awaiting action on an appeal of a Justice court sentence of | one year for complicity in the attack on Miss Chamberlain. He was the | first man arrested in connection with case. It is alleged he received $5 for his part in the affair.' According to Miss Chamberlain she accompanied Ricord on the night of the attack under the fmpremion Palled l4. > The State says unknown and ap parently far from aome, a young white man, about 21 year* of age, was sruck by a south-bound passen ger train of the Southern railway, coming from Charlotte, near Chappels, Richland county, Thurs day morning and was fatally Injured. He was brought to Columbia, but death came as the train rolled into the union station. Acting In the absence of R. D. Walker, coroner, Jas. H. Fowles, magistrate investigated the case anu deemed and inquest unnecessary. It is alleged that the unfortunate man was sitting on the crossties, seem ing asleep when passenger train No. 3 5 rounded a curve and struck him. He never regained consciousness. His skull was fradtured and left leg brok en. The dead man left little clue as to his identity. He was dressed In a pair- of blue overalls with a black coat, and carried as his only baggage a small bundle of underwear. On the Inside of his coat collar was the name “H. M. Lewis, Staunton, Va.” The name was sewed on a little tag, and was evidently the firm from whom the coat was bought. The un derwear was wrapped in paper mark ed in two places, “C. A. Carter, Smith’s /Turnout, S. C.” Smith’s Turnout is on the Southern railway, between Chester and Rock Hill. Judge Fowles Is doing everything Smith’s Turnout Thursday In hope of getting some information as to who the man was, but secured no news. On the man’s coat were a few : cotton Itntera, and the presumption is that he may have been a cotton mill operative, going to some manu- frrturing town in search of work He was seen at Ridgeway on Wednesday, and asked an old negro the distance to Columbia. Juge Fowles is doing everything In his power to identify him. He was five feet, nine inches in height, had blue eyes and rather light hair, was clean shaven, and looks as if he part ed his hair in the middle. A promi nent side tooth is badly decayed, and he had at some tirfie' fit'efi operated on for appenlcltis. The body is be ing held at the undertaking parlors of J \V McCortutrk on Hampton He Wm • Highly Respectable Gen- WHAT WITNESSES SAID tleaiea by Day But Burglar and Murderer at Night. The trial of Bertram G. Spencer, who Is charged with murdering Miss Martha G. Bl&ckstone. a Springfield, that he was taking her to a dance.; street for identification. Ricord expects leniency as the result! • of his confession. SLIPPED ON PEEL OF BANANA. KILL GIRL IN JKtliOUN RAGE. Enraged Because Site Accepted At tentions From Another. •Crared^by jealousy, Ed J. Drazell, May Result in ('rippling for Life oi Man Who Stepped on It. The Greenville Piedmont says tes timony to the fact that the city ordi- Austrian Officer Demands $25,000 From American Girl. A breach of promise suit for $25,- 000 was filed against Miss Helen Mc- Murray of New York by Lieut. Ed- k ward Stars of the Austrian army. He alleges that Miss McMurray prom ised In Vienna, in 1910, to marry him I whRe 'the' Dimcan giri and that thereafter he did all he! could to make himself pleasing in her eyes, taking a year's leave of absence from the army and losing his opportunity for advancement, sell ing his racing stables and taking up the study of English. He also claims to have given Miss McMurray many of his family heirlooms, wreaths and bunches of flowers, and that he pur chased “at enormous cost” a civilian outfit and evening clothes. When he came to New York in July last to claim his bride she saw him but once, he alleges, and then only long enough to discard him. a white cotton mill operative, forty- two years old, shot and killed Carrie Helle Duncan, a sixteen-year-old girl, in the presence of Brazell's sick wife, Thursday morning Before the man could rqload the single barreled shotgun and turn th.e weapon on himself, his wife, thougto weak and feverish from illness, wres tled with him and prevented him from accomplishing his purpose. Of ficers soon arrived and placed Brazell under arrest. Brazell and his wife and the dead girl and her family lived in the same tenement house. He was enamored with the girl and was insanely jeal ous because of her alleged acceptance of attentions from another man. was in the room with the wife and just after she prepared breakfast for the Rra- zells, the husband seized a gun and blew the girl # brain# out. — The wife is prostrated and Brazell refuses to talk, although letters found in his pocket stated that he loved the girl, was jealous of other men and that he intended to kill her and end his own life. GAVE IT ALL TO CHARITY. CASE SETTLED AT LAST. Bottom of the Maine AVas Blown In- - ward by Explosion. Exploration of the bottom of the Maine Wednesday at Havana, Cuba, about 140 feet raft of the bow, re vealed a plate identified as forming i portion of the outer hull of the ihip on the port side near the keel and under the magazines as having been blown inward, the upper p£i*t being folded Inward. This appar ently could result only from an ex ternal preseure. The engineer in charge and the other officers are maintaining reticence, but the dis covery is strongly confirmatory of the theory of an external explosion. One body was recovered from tho boiler room. It was that of an unusally tall man. Woman of the Underworld Disposed of Fortune That Way. Anna Willson, a woman of the un derworld, who died recently in Oma ha, Neb., left her fortune of $250,- 006 to charity. Margaret £llce Piatt, lived in St. Louis witu her pa rents until she was seventeen years old, when the family removed to Memphis. Three brothers were steamboat engineers. Margaret eloped soon after they went to Mem phis, but was followed by one of her brothers and forced to return home. In ,1,867 the family removed to Jack- eon county, Illinois, but Margaret re mained at Memphis, where she was employed as a maid in the family of Dr. Thomas. Anna Wilson^was a character of considerable notoriety in Omaha for forty years. She died four weeks ago and objections were palsed to accepting her bequests on the ground that the money was "tainted.”' nance against the IhrowFn^ ba nana peels on the sidewalks of the city's streets is not enforced as it should be, and that failure to en force the law puts pedestrians in a precarious situation is borne by a sad incident that occurred recently, barely failing to cause death to a Greenville resident. Mr. Robert Nash, a man who has lived here for about eleven months, having come here from Virginia, was walking down Main street near (the postofflee building a week ago. | Near the corner of Main and Broad streets be slipped on a banana peel and fell to the sidewalk, the base of 1,1s spine striking the pavement. The foot that stopped upon th“ peeling went high into the air and he suf fered a hard fall. Persons on the street came to the aid of Mr. Nash and he was taken to the Salvation Army citadel where be was glveb medical attenrton and- Dr. Black and Brown have been at tending him since. It was found that the base of Nash’s spine was fractured and that the nerves were badly deranged. Nash has suffered terrible pains and R is likely that he will never walk again. The attending physician said that the injuries may heal, but the chances are that he will never again have the use of his limbs. His legs have been numb and feellng- lesB since the fall. It Is thought that the break in the spine will heal but that his nervous system will never lie whole aOMn and that this will prevent furth* use of the legs. Nash is a young man and rather tall and it is believed that his height made the fall more serious. It is thought that If it had been an old mean to suffer the fall death would have resulted. However, Nash, be ing a young man, the wounds will not, it is thought, prove fatal. ?fary Harris, the White Woman in the Case, the Principle Witness for the State, Testified that Tutcn, the De fendant, Did Uie Killing of Lang ford, Which the State Claims. LeRoy B. Tuten, of Hampton County, Is not guilty of the murder of J. R. Langford, according to the decision reached by the Jury in the case early Thursday afternoon. Two and a half days were consumed in the trial of the case which was brought to Bamberg from Hampton, and ac cording to statements made, it took the jury scarcely three minutes to de cide the case, once the matter was in its hands. The case of the State against Le Roy B. Auten was begun in the court of general sessions at Bamberg on Tuesday. The defendant is charged with the murder of J. R. Langford, just outside of the town oi Brun son, in Hampton county, about a year ago. Both the deceased and the defendants come from large and prominent families. The case was transferred to Bamberg County on the ground that a fair and impartial trial could not be had at Hampton. Below we give the testimony in the case: The first witness called by the State was Dr. J. W. Mole of Brunson, vrho held an autopsy the day after the killing. This witness testified that the body of Langford was found in the woods near Hampton, and that a wound was discovered near the left ear. The skin was not severely in jured and the skull was not fraetur- ed, a hemorrhage near the brain be ing the Imedlate cause of death. Dr J. L. Folk, the next witness, testified that he was the family phy sician of Langford .and that he had never seen any evidence of apoplexy about the deceased. E. VV. Addison stated that he saw Tuten the day after the burial, Octo- 1, and that Tuten told him that he had been near the place where the body was found, on the morning of the killing, and that he had been hunting birds there The witness testified that a horse and buggy was tied to a tree about 3 6 feet from the spot where Mr. Langford’s body was discovered. It wag testified by Gray Rivers that he saw Langford leave Brunson on the mronlng of the killing, and that he himself was In the party that found the body about 8:45 that night He a la ted that laagford w#* IDAHO EXECUTIVE INDIGNANT AT MAN'S PARDON. Attorney General Wlckersbam's —_—. . __— - Agents Usurp Functions of Reg* alar OtBclaJs In fittate of Idaho Mass., school teacher, has begun. The killing took place on March 31, 1910, but the trial has been delayed In order that the prisoner might be watched by alienists, for the de fense will be insanity of a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” type. Spencer has admitted to the police that he was responsible for a series of holcl-ups and robberies, which for nearly two years kept the city almost panicstrlcken. He was known among his acquaintances as an honest, hard working young married man. About three years ago, while em ployed as a railroad man, Spencer fell in love with an attractive young woman from a highly respected fam ily and not long afterward they were married and went to housekeeping. A baby was born, and the couple were to all outward appearances hap py and deroted. Yet during all this time Spencer. '>crording to his statement to the po lice, was terrorizing the eity by bp d robberies. Most of these were com mitted in the early evening, ao that by 8 o’clock he might be at home with his little family. On the night of March 31, 1910, Mias Blackstone was visiting at the home of Miss Harriet Dow when a man entered aod ishot both women. Miss Bl&ckstone was killed, but Mlaa Dow was only slightly Injured. After the police had exhaused every effort to run down the murderer and had about lost hope, a locket which had been found In the yard of a home robbed several months before was turned over to them. The locket bore the initials “B. O. S.” and by a coincidence the only name in the Springfield directory with these initials was Bertram G. S>peneer Pictures in the locket were Identified as of his wife and a rela tive Spencer was arrested. He ad mitted. the police say, every crime laid at his door and told a remark able story of his dual personality. — . , SSI Unfair fan S1hfWr,l »•* i , . - KILLED IB ' •*1** w< • The Convicted Mu* Die Is Electric Chair UatoM i' .o. Killed in Wreck of Train. Engineer W. A. Kinney waa killed, Fireman Ed Townea, colored, seriouv- ly injured, and the mail clerka and passengers were badly shaken up when Southern railway train No.37, from Washington to New Orleans, was derailed between Benaja and ReidorlUe, about $0 miles north of Greensboro, N. C. Thla Is one of the finest trains In the SonttM Ja*' , • •• . V*' ' " ■ Buried Dog in Flag. Maggsle, the little terrier mascot of the aeronautical corpa of the army, la dead and burled at College Park at Washington In a United States flag. Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, is highly indignant and has appealed to the Secretary of War, demanding kn Investigation. - Beattie Will Have to Hang. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says the supreme court of appeals denied the petition for a writ of error by Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., convicted of -uirderlng his young wife last July. This decision on the appeal from the judgment of the Chesterfield court, which sentenced him to die in the electric chair November 24, Is final. »-» “Unloaded" Pistol Kills Boy. At Chattanooga, while playing “jail” Tuesday evening, Dewitt Clarkson, 13 years old, a son of A. Clarkson, a prominent real estate dealer, was shot and killed by Dennle Hughes, 11-year-old son of J. N. Hughes, s contractor and builder. The pistol was not snppefod to be 10*1.4. . llSSrrsr /J-* Jr : a>4&’A£ wj v,*D found lying on a lap robe, and that a horse and buggy was hitched to a nearby tree. J. C. Dowling told of finding the body of the deceased in the woods, and also stated that about a week after the killing Tuten had said to him that he had been near the place of the killing on November 29, look ing for a covey of birds. After find- ng the body, several men went to the house of Mary Harris, and took her to the Hampton Jail John Allen, a colored hand of Tu ten, testified that Tuten offered to di vide $100 among Allen and some oth er negepes if, they would tell the truth at the trial. Allen swore that Mr. Tuten was in the field with his hands at about sunrise, and was in their sight almost all the time until the train went by, which other wit nesses testified was about 9:30 In the morning A good deal of Wednesday's ses sion taken up with the testimony of Mary'^afris, who has played a most important part in the case. The night of the killing this woman was arrested, and after bting confined in the Hampton jail for a time, she was removed to the penitentiary, where she had been kept since. Richard Williams, the negro, whose name ap pears often in the testimony, has also spent some time in the penltem- tjary, where he was hurried soon af ter the homicide, the offlers faring that he might be lynched. The testimony of Mary Harris, the principal witness for the State, was greatly weakened by the proof brought out on cross-examination that she had made a number of con flicting statements as to who struck the fatal blow. Sne stated on the stand Wednesday that the defendant, LeRoy B. Tuten, hit Langford on the head with his gun, but it was shown that soon after the killing she told a number of people that the act wa<. committed^ by Richard Williams, and told another man that Mr. Langford dlod a natural death. Several spirit ed contests by counsel over the ad mission of evidence arose during the examination of this witness. The defendant sits In the court room beside his counsel and appears very eool and collected. He Is a tall man, with gray hair, and Is very prominently connected In his native county. . R. C. Brant testified that as the wound on Mr. Langford’s head was so slight he was not fully satisfied that It had been cansed by a blow, and ao about two weeks after the death he examined carefnlly the ground upon which the body bad been found. He stated that he had found no roots, sticks or other ob- . .' Jects in the ground which could have produced the Injury, but that the land at the place w&g quite open. Mary Harris was then placed upon the stand. She Is 21 years old, and lives with her aged father near Mr. Tuten’s house She testified that on November 29 I^kngford came by her house, where she waa cutting wood, and asked her to go with him. She said that the two then sent out In the woods together. Tuten walk ed up, the girl testified, and struck Langford on the bead with his gun, and then told the girl that if she did not say that Richard Williams had hit Langford he would kill her, as he had already killed two men The girl says she then ran home, and went into the cotton field, about 100 yards from the scene of the killing, passing a colored man in a wagon on the way. The witnesa said that she was afraid of Tuten after this, and that this was why she told Herman Llghtsey, J. G. Bowers, and a detec tive, in the penitentiary, that Wil liams had struck the blow. The witness said that after she had been taken to the penitentiary she told several men that Tuten had killed Langford. She stated that Tu ten had been intimate with her for three or four years, but that the ne gro, Rlcharde Williams, had never made any improper remarks to her. It was brought out on cross-exam ination by Mr. Welch that at the coroner ? inquest, a few days after the killing, Mary Harris swore that Williams had struck the fatal blow with a stick. The witness admitted having made this statement at the inquest. It was shown that she had made similar statements to Mr. Dowl ing, Mr. Harter, Mr. Gray, and in the penitentiary to Capt. Roberts, Mr. Griffith, Dr. Butler and members of the penitentiary board. Some testimony was also brought out that Mary Harris had told sev eral men that Richard Williams had been intimate with her. The witness admitted having told J. P» Bowers la the Hampton Jail that^o one struck Langford but that he had died from natural causes. In addition It was shown that the woman had told the solicitor at the penitentiary that Tu ten had never been inimate with her. The girl testified that Langford had bean attentive to her for about two years. Three negroes were placed upon the stand In order to throw light up on the whereabouts of Richard WlL Hams at the time of the killing. E. W. Rouse testified that on the morn ing of November J!9, as he was drlv Ing Into Brunson, be met Williams, near the Cossawhatcbie swamp, and took him In his buggy. John Hil liard swore that as he was driving a two-horae wagon out from Brunson on he Matthews Bluff road, he bass ed Mary Harris near her house, walk ing fast and looking back several times, and that later after driving two miles further down the road he met Rouse and WllUgms in a baggy, coming toward Brunson. In haasing near he scene of the killing, he saw s horse and baggy in the woods, and It was between this place and Mary's house that he saw her. Jphn Preach Governor Hswley, of Idaho, Wed nesday gave out at Boise s signed statement, addressed to the people of Idaho, in which he condentfif the action of President Taft In granting h pardon Wednesday to Clarence W. Robnett, bookkeeper In the Lewis ton National Bunk of Lewiston, Ida ho. He was convicted of embezzling ‘funds of the bank and was sentenced in the federal court at Idaho Springs to ten years’ imprisonment. He nev er entered upon service of his sen tence. ‘‘I feel that the pardon of Robnett is a fitting sequel to the proceedings In the United States coart during the last four years, while &e special as sistants to the United States attorney general have been usurping the func tions of the United States attorney general and his assistants and have been running the cases In which the United State* has been Interested with a high hand, regardless of Jus- tlce or decency,’’ the statement muluMtar.'Bam*/ forth “I am not surprised at this psr- ’on. In fact, no act ever dons in connection with the courts of Idaho has brought Justice more into dis repute and weakened the courts mors in the estimation of our people. For more than four years, in every im portant case in which the United States was interested, the regnlsr prosecuting offlesrs bars been retired and these special assistants to tbs at torney general have been given full control. “Without the slightest interest In our State, caring nothing for our people, simply dsslroqs of establish ing s reputation in the department of justice, these special prosecutors have done more to Injure Idaho and retard Its development alnce the fall cf 1 907 than all other causes com bined. “The Injustice of this action of President Taft, inspired without doubt by the special prosecutors, will long rankle in the minda of our citi zens and will inspire them with a wholesome contempt tor such dis graceful methods. ' “It Is probably unfair to severely blame President Taft directly for this unspeakable setien, os he undoubted ly acted on the request of Attorney General Wickershsm, who evidently had been In collusion with his asso ciates In charge of this prosecution.” the leiw's With the frank statement that he belleyed in t prisoner’# guilt* Governor Mann of Virginia declined to grant n respite to Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. eenvtaApd tn Chesterfield County, fiaptmfier t, of wife murdey. The Governor to Interfere with the tence, which the Supreme dared on Monday to be plainly right, means that Beattie will die !» the electric chair at the State Gary on Friday, November t4. Being aware that a final would be reecbed in 1 JUDGE 9PEER ON COTTON. Tells Jury to Investigate Conditions ('nosing Urn Price. Judge Emory Speer's charge to the Federal grand Jury Wednesday at Savannah was featured by his refer ence to the present low price of cot ton and the probable forces that are alleged to be at work holding the price down. He read a newspaper Interview with the Attorney General of the waited expectantly for from the Governor’s offles. His hairqd father, utterly it and strength, who Monday that an appeal bad nied, waa spared the ordeal of edb- veylng a second ms—ga that aB hope was lost. Rev. Benjamin Denaia, as Epis copal minister, who had imtarsadsd In the young men's quickly and quietly to t Inform him that every fort to oave him hod failed, hoard tha snnouncemeat la though ha Wfl0| Later In the afternoon hla father, brother end young eisted called to aa# him. T'nllke the Supreme filed no writtsa opinion ta a writ of orror. Governor out a statement, in which ha' that BsotftMfeii “the purpose, If poootblo. of ax the consequence# of a crime he knows he is gnUty.” The Governor also stated that •ocallod i not worthy of eonaidormtioa aa evi dence. in * signed Seattle's lawyers and the Governor Mann sold: “While I sympathise ve foundly with tha father of H. C. Beattie, Jr., sad would be glad 'ta help him If I could do so with proper regard for the public Intereste, I cannot with any consideration far those Interests interfere with the 4m execution of the seateace of jlfc* Court In the Beattie case. I followed that ease during the trial, and as its horrible facts ware developed, regretted that a cruel and motlcloea should h»«t cur red within the confines ef‘ State. In the decision of every ques tion which wee presented to the able and Impartial Judge who praaldoi at the trial, he was careful to give the benefit of every reasonable doubt to th* sible prosecution by the governmont of cotton "beers” holding the pHcs of cottoh so low. | did not The Judge charged that It would I be the duty of the grand Jury to In vestigate such conditions, if any are found In the southern district of j Georgia. He said that it would not be necessary for any Instructions to the “““ * po -1 'J'SJLi «>, oner could trte the elusion of evidence or la hla tlons given to thb Jury, tvqshowa la the refusal of the Supreaie Court 'of Appeals to grant a wrU of error. Thera is go question of the esty and fairness of the Jnrors try- h. r r ;,.4 Attorney M "" eral before that body could proceed in this district. or any other evidence or Uon brought to my Sclent for that purpoee, nor do I question the wisdom, 1 might odd. the necessity of In cases where human life heo 1 the buggy with Rouse. After argument the Court allowed the introduction in evidence of what Mary Harris said to her sister when she reached home Just after the al leged killing, for the reason that the girl should be permitted to explain her conflicting statements. Florrle Harris, the sister of Mary, pHntnd'in"til, 29th of November Langford came to 1 her house in his buggy and entered into conversation with Mary, who was inthe yard cutting wood; that soon after he left Mary followed him Into the woods, and (hat in a short time Mary hurried back to the cot ton field and TaTd Yd the MHlh—f “Florrie, Roy has killed Mr. Lang ford.” Soon after Langford had left the house, stated the witness, and before Mary returned, Tuten passed by, and after a talk with Robert Harris, he went in the same general direction, , n .. ... _. k . Langford had taken. On crooe^x- CMe wo “7 , * amination It was shown that Florrie r 0 d U, f had said nothing about Mary’« »^te- menf until a very abort time before J ^^g^e j LuevL the trial. i * At this point Mr. Davis annonnesd 1 W * y te *° Ch f™ 8 *? that the tSate rested its case. After. , a conference of the defendant’s o-{ ** n '• torneys, Mr. Welch stated to the L" 4 *™* of JjT court that the defense would put up 7" ,T** a . . no testimony, but would rely upon j rect WUBOUl lnl ® rier ® n ** the weakness of ths State’s case. It I • • • H was agreed thgt each aide have three I hours for argument. Col. W. S. Til- John Y. linghsat made the first argument for Young, < the defense followed by Solicitor Gnn- J Securities ter for the State. defence made by law yers of character and ahilUy obtained for H. C. Beattie, Jr., every advan tage guaranteed by law to poraoM charged with crime. , “That Beattie ts guilty of the wil ful, deliberate and cruel murder, his young wife I have not the eat donbt, nor la It insisted that shall be any greater reHef than the commutation of his aememee • to imprisonment for life. I do not think the affldavtt* of « On the contrary. I this punishment hi protection of society, and If on a j I would not hesitate. In n proper ( to agree to a for life. To grant a adequately, I r\ 211 >®te» 'j in Saturday’s issue of Mr. Dun- er stated that he saw Williams got In can’s John Duncan for Clover—r. Mr. John T. Duncan of Columbia announces his candidacy for the gov ernorship. 7 Tha announcement Jijwdi on the to company. /.v-vr* * t. \v v T .::