The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 26, 1908, Image 3
THE TRIAL OF MILITIAMEN
SPARTANBURG SOLDIERS HELD
FOR DISOBEYING ORDERS.
First Trial of this Character in the
History of South Carolina?Impressive
Proceedings.
Spartanburg, November 18.?Privates
Simpson Rogers, James Wild,
Lester Holt, M. C. Quinn and W. A.
Holt of the Hampton Guards, Company
I, First infantry, N. G. S. C.,
were courtmartialed here to-day upon
the charges ot desertion and neglect
of duty on October 10, when
their company was called out to
guard the county jail against the
mob surrounding it and threatened
to take out the negro John Irby and
lynch him for attempting criminal
assault upon Miss Leila Dempsey.
Privates Lester Holt and M. C.
Quinn pleaded guilty to the charge
of desertion. W. A. Holt was charged
with three offenses?conduct prejudical
to good order and discipline,
violation of the 42nd article of war,
and disobedience to orders. He
pleaded guilty to the second charge,
, and not guilty as to the third and
first.
The case against Clarence Cobb for
desertion was nol prossed, as^ there
was no evidence to show that he had
disobeyed any military rules.
The court, which was held in the
office of the chamber of commerce,
was presided over by Capt. P. K.
McCulley, Jr., adjutant of the First
regiment, Anderson. He was the
senior officer of the three appointed,
and by law tliepresident of the court.
The other members of the court
were: Capt. H. C. Hunley, captain
of Company C., Morgan nines ui
Clinton; Capt. R. F. Watson of Company
A, Greenville, and Capt J.
Frost Walker,' Jr., captain of Company
M, Union, who acted as judge
advocate for the court. Attorney H.
L. Bomar represented Privates Rogers,
Wilds and Lester and W. A.
Holt. '
Dignity marked the proceedings of
the court, and all were impressed
with -the thoroughness with which
the matter was threshed out.
j<: Contention of Defense.
The contention of the defense was
that, having turned in their uniforms
and arms and, that having attended
no drills for some time prior to October
10, they did not consider themselves
liable to duty . The court held
that they having enlisted on November
1, 1906, their term of service did
not expire until November 1, 1908,
and not having a written discharge
handed them by Capt. S. J. Nicholls, |
signed by the colonel of the regiment,
they were still members of the
, Hampton Guards company on the
10th of October, 1908, and were li"*
able to duty.
Officers of the Hampton Guards
company testified that the accused
men had been summoned. The ac.
cused testified that they had not been |
notified and produced a number of j
witnesses to prove that they had not)
been. The court held that no matter
, whether they were personally noti-j
-fled or not, if they knew their com-j
- . panv had been called out for service |
and did not report ior auiy iuey wac
guilty of disobedience to military
discipline.
, Testimony was brought out by the
State to the effect that Private Jas.
Wilds had been personally notified
and that he refused to respond to
the call, cursing and swearing when
Corporal Holt carried him the orders;
also that on that day he was
K "' seen about the walls of the jail yard
with a shotgun on his shoulder.
After hearing the testimony and
arguments, the court decided to increase
the bond of Simpson -Rogers
and James Wild from $50 to $100
each. John A. Law, president and
treasurer of the Saxon mills, went
on their bonds.
The bond of the others was left at
$50 each.
The finding of the court will not
be made known until it has been
passed upon by Col. Lewis, and the
public will not know under 10 days
at least what penalty will be imposed
'< - upon the accused.
TWO CENTS A YEAR.
This is Entire Salary Uncle Sam Paid
? to Postmaster.
Bay City, Michigan, November 19.
?James LaFrance, late postmaster
at Stewart, has received from the
government as full pay for his year's
service the sum of two cents.
Stewart is the postoffice for two
1 little summer resorts about ten miles
up the shore from this city. LaFrance
was appointed as the successor of a
Saginaw man. He furnished the required
bond, and his commission arrived
in due time, but no supplies.
But that didn't keep him from acting
as postmaster. He bought supplies
himself, borrowed a key for unlocking
the pouches and settled down to
serving his country.
Everything went along smoothly
t until Uncle Sam asked for reports.
He had nothing to report, and this
led to the discovery that all supplies
for the office had been sent to his
predecessor, who forgot to turn them
over. According to the department
register the postmaster at Stewart
draws $9 a year. But the official could
A T Al?t*onAO hoH QT1V
not llgUl'C lliai Liar i autv uuu
more coming than the salary for the
few days since he had received supplies,
and sent him a check for two
cents.
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A Good Law.
In West Virginia it appears expensive
to sell a man more whisky
than he can carry internally and then
turn him adrift. The case of Dinah
J. Pennington, suing for her children
vagainst C. D. Gillispie, a saloon keepper
near Hendricts, W. Va., was de%
cided recently by the jury awarding
the plaintiff $6,000. At a previous
term of court Mrs. Pennington sued
and obtained a verdict of $800 for
the loss of her husband. Pennington
was killed near the saloon and Gil*
lispie was sued as the man who sold
the whisky on which Pennington became
intoxicated.
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I THE REFORMATORY READY.
j Gov. Ansel Officially Notifies the;
; Judges of the State.
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i Columbia, November 20.?Gover-j
i nor Ansel has written to all of the
j circuit judges, calling their attention
to the fact that the new reformatory
at Florence is now open and ready
to receive such boys as the courts
may, under the terms of the act, commit
to the institution, lender the act
establishing the reformatory, white
boys between the ages of eight and
sixteen convicted of a crime for
which the penalty is imprisonment
in the penitentiary or service on the
chain gang, may be sent by the court
to the reformatory, and any boy of
the same age may be committed to
the institution by his parent or
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guardian on ayyruva.i ui wc juu<,&
of circuit, probate, or city court.
There is now plenty of room at the
institution, there being only ten boys
in the institution, seven of whom
were transferred from the Lexington
institution.
Baby Poisoned by Pills.
Myrtle Whit.ock, the ten-monthsold
daughter ibi Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Whitlock, Oi Spartanburg Junction,
died yesterday from poisoning
by pills. It will be buried this afternoon
at 3 o'clock. Funeral services
will be conducted by Rev. J. T. Fowler,
pastor of Duncan Methodist
dhurch, interment at Oakwood cemetery.
The death of the infant was very
sudden, and was caused by being
poisoned from eating pills from a
oottle which had been given to it by
one of the older children. The baby
while playing with the bottle of pills
broke it, and. baby-like, put the pills
into its mouth and ate them. When
the mother found the child it was almost
unconscious and expired before
medical assistance could be^ secured.
?Spartanburg Herald.
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Fined for Killing Birds.
In Orangeburg county Henry Rice,
colored, was sentenced to thirty days
on the chain gang or pay a fine of
ten dollars for killing a thrush, a
wood king and two yellow hammers,
hv law haraiise thev
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are insect destroyers. Robins are
also classed as non-game birds, and
there is a penalty for killing them.
Game wardens should see to it that
gunners respect and obey the law,
whiqh protects the non-game birds
from slaughter by sportsmen.
Taft Accepts Invitation.
Augusta, Ga., November 20.?Mr.
and Mrs.. Landon A. Thomas, residing
on the "Sand Hill," a suburb of
Augusta, this afternoon received a
telegram from Judge William H.
Taft, accepting an invitation to become
their guests. Judge Taft and
family will arrive in Augusta, December
18. For the first few days
they will be entertained at the Thomas
home. Judge Taft will personally
select one of the Hill cottages that
have beeif offered, and he and his
family .yill take their meals at the
winter resort hotel on the Hill near
the Taft cottage.
William H. Taft, Jr., and Miss
Helen Taft will join the family during
the holidays. Mr. Thomas is a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Augusta,
being president of the largest
cotton manufactory here. He and
Mrs. Thomas do much entertaining,
ineir house is one of the finest on
the Hill. The cottage which Judge
Taft will probably select is a very
short distance from the leading hotel.
CHILD KILLED BY TRAIN.
Little Samuel Campbell Loses His
ijiie at ureenvuie.
Greenville, November 20.?Little
Samuel Campbell, the 4-year-old son
of Mr. J. S. Campbell, section master
of the C. & W. C., was killed by the
northbound passenger train on that
road yesterday afternoon just in
front of his parents' home. The
body was carried to Belton to-day.
The deah is particularly sad, as Mr.
Campbell had a son, a conductor,
who was killed a month ago yesterday
at Piedmont. It is supposed that
the littlfe boy ran out as the train
went by and was too close to the
track, the steps of the engine striking
him on the head. Death was instantaneous.
The inquest will be
completed Monday, when the engineer
will be here to testify.
NO COFFIN LARGE ENOUGH.
Colored Woman Weighing About 400
Pounds Died Monday.
Bryce Ann Harmon, a colored woman,
died here Monday, and her size
was so unusual that no coffin could
be found here or in adjoining towns
large enough for her body. A special
coffin was made for her by Mr.
Agnew, of W. V. Blyth's undertaking
establishment, and the body had to
be carried to Save All cemetery, the
colored burying ground, in a twohorse
dray. The door frame of the
house in which she lived had to be
taken out before the coffin could be
taken out with the body.
The woman came to ureenwooa
from Cotton Level, in the Bradley
section, many years ago. She weighed
close around 400 pounds. The
unusual features of the burial attracted
many to the burial and caused
no little talk Tuesday.?Greenwood
Index.
Clubs May Sell Liquor.
Columbia, November 18.?The
State administration's injunction
policy against blind tigers received
a setback this morning in the case
of the City Club of Columbia, Judge
Gage refusing to make the temporary
injunction he granted against
the organization permanent after the
Attorney General's office had worked
up one of its strongest cases through
"Bob" Haynes as detective.
Sellng to members was admitted,
and it was also admitted that the sole
purpose was drinking, but Judge
Gage decided that it was a legitimate
club.
The Attorney General will appeal
to the Supreme Court.
WHITE MAN IX TROUBLE.
Tried to Desert His Wife and Elope
With Another Woman.
Anderson. November 18.?Devoe
C. r rench, a young white man from
Williamston, was arrested here yesterday
afternoon by Chief of Police
Murphy and Police Officers Lee, Whitten
and Shirley. The arrest was a
result of a report to the effect that
he had come here to elope with a
young woman who has for some time
made her home in the city, having
come from another town originally.
French was in a two-horse vehicle
driven by a white man who is employed
at his stable in Williamston.
He had been drinking, apparently,
and in his possession was found a
Winchester rifle, two pistols, a pair
of knucks and a grip containing cartridges
for all of these weapons. He
was placed in the city jail last night,
where he remained until this mornin?
Two charees have been prefer
red against him, each for carrying
concealed weapons, but when the
case was called for trial, his attorneys
asked for a continuance for
five days.
From what can be learned of
the intended elopement it seems that
relatives of the. young woman learned
of the plan and came here ahead
of French and got the girl and carried
her out of town, and the police
were on hand when he arrived. He
had hardly drawn up to a halt in
front of one of the hotels when the
officers aproached and took him in
charge. It had been expected that
there would possibly be trouble, and
several policemen were present, but
French offered no resistance whatev-|
er.
French was released on bond this
morning but before being released;
he promised to go to Atlanta and
take a course of treatment to cure
himself of the drink and drug habits,
to both of which he has been addicted
for some time.
French killed a negro at Williamston
about a year ago and was tried
in the court of sessions here and acquitted.
He has a wife and three
small children at Williamston.
How Mother Managed.
A young man presented an en
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gagemeui riug tu a iwkzij &n 1 uuu.
won with the remark, "I am poor,
but you manage as mother does and
we'll get along nicely." The young
lady investigated how "mother managed."
She was a wife, a mother, a housekeeper,
a business manager, a hired
girl, a laundress, a seamstress, a mender
and patcher, a dairy maid, cook,
a nurse, a kitchen gardener, and a
general slave for a family of five.!
She works from five in the morning
until ten at night, and I almost wept
when I kissed her hand?it was so
hard and wrinkled, and corded and
unkissed. When I saw her polishing
the stove, carrying big buckets of
water and great armfuls of wood, often
splitting the latter, my heart
failed me, and it is needless to say
the ring was returned.
If the wife must drudge let the
husband share it. If she must cook
let him carry the fuel, if she, must
scrub, let him carry the water, if
she must churn let him milk the
cows. The girl did what every girl of
sense and wisdom would do.
Gives to Negro College.
Lexington, Ky., November 18.?It
was announced here that Mrs. Russel
Sage, of New York, has given
$25,000 toward the estaDiisnmenr 01
a college for colored youths in Kentucky
to be a branch of Berea College.
This brings the fund up to
$350,000 from outside sources, leaving
$50,000 to be raised in Kentucky.
This is being rapidly done.
The college will be modeled after
the Tuskegee Institute. The new institution
was decided upon when the
courts declared that Berea College
could not educate blacks and whites
in the same school.
. Fatal Dose of Patent Medicine.
Eatonton, Ga., November 18.?
Dosing himself on a well-known patent
medicine, Samuel Cox, a prominent
Putnam county farmer, took his
bed to-day and died immediately, according
to attending physicians.
Complaining of a simple ailment
he went to his room and in the presence
of the family took the dose according
to printed directions.
A Happy Marriage.
Dr. George H. Walter of this city,
and Miss Blanche Green were married
Wednesday afternoon at "Oakhust,"
the beautiful country resiidence
of the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. Marion Green, eight
miles from the city. Dr. D. T. Riley,
of Florence, was the best man,
and Miss Inez Green, a sister of the
bride was maid of honor. Rev. Mr.
Wiggins, of Cope, officiated.
Dr. Walter is one of this city's
popular physicians, who has built up
a larerp nraotine. He numbers his
friends by the score, and all will
unite in congratulating him on winning
such a charming and accomplished
young lady for his bride.
Dr. and Mrs. Walter left via the
Atlantic Coast Line for a bridal tour,
which will embrace Washington, Baltimore,
New York and other Northern
points.?Orangeburg Sun.
GIRL KILLED NEGRO.
Shot Him With a Pistol in Candy
Store Where She Was a Clerk.
Miss Corinne McCowen, 20 years
old, a clerk in a confectionery store
in Kansas City, Mo., shot Newell
Hower, a negro, Saturday, and he
died in half an hour.
Miss McCowen was alone in the
store, in Westpoint avenue, when
Hower entered and asked for a cigar.
Yv hen she placed some cigars in
front of him, it is alleged, he tried
to seize her; she caught up a revolver
and hred 5 shots at close range,
two of them taking effect. It was
the negro's fourth visit to the store
within a few hours. After his third
call, Miss McCowen got a pistol and
kept it within easy reach.
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