The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 10, 1909, Image 5
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PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
?Mr. J. W. Barr is spending a
few days in the city this week.
?Mr. H. A. Wright, of Orangeburg,
spent Sunday in the city.
?Miss Ruth Riley is at home
from Winthrop College for vacation.
?Misses Pearl and Alma Black
came home from Winthrop last week
to spend their vacation.
?Messrs. W. D. Rhoad and A. W.
Knight spent a few days in Spartanburg
last and this week.
?Miss Flora Keith Chapman, of
Anderson, is in the city on a visit to
Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg.
?Messrs. Norman and Simms
Fender will come home this week
from Furman University.
?Miss Alice Sease spent several
days last and this week at Kline, on
a visit to her parents.
?Dr. F. B. McCrackin spent Wednesday
and Thursday in Newberry,
on a visit to his parents.
?Mr. W. I. Johns, of Baldoc,
spent a few days here this week,
looking after his large farming interests.
?J. F. Carter, Esq., spent last
Friday in Charleston on professional
business before the United States
court.
?Mrs. H. S. Dowling and little
daughter, of Anderson, are in the
city on a visit to Mrs. E. H. DowMng
-?Misses Flossie Murdaugh,
Urma Black, and Belle Cooner
are at home from Greenville Female
, College.
?Mr. W. S. Hogan is again in the
city. His family is at Pacolet. Their
little baby has been quite ill, but is
i7rmrnvine.
?Miss Mary Ellen Eaves came
home last week from the College for
Women at Columbia, for the summer
vacation.
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?Messrs. Jno. H. Cope and W. M.
Brabham went on the trip to the
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tuai UC1UO VI *MWV Ttwwy
bad a most pleasant trip.
?Mr. E. P. Allen, superintendent
of the Bamberg graded school, left
yesterday morning for Williamston
to spend the summer vacation.
?Mrs. E. H. Dowling, who has
been sick for some weeks, is improving,
and it will be pleasant news to
her many friends to know that such
is the case.
?Mr. F. F. Shores, local manager
of the telephone exchange here, has
been in bad health recently, and has
gone away to recuperate. During his
N absence Mr. E. M. Matthews, of Orangeburg,
is acting as manager.
STARTLING DISCLOSURES,
Rawlinson, Black, Wylie and H. H.
Evans Named in Affidavit.
For the first time since the beginning
of the revealing of the scandals
of the old State dispensary has there
been brought to light a charge which
implies directly that the controlling
agents of the State dispensary got
money for favoring certain firms.
Col. C. W. Dudley, who is now
very ill at Lexington, Ky., has made
an affidavit, in the presence of his
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attorney, uoi. Anmuay ?>. vanuii, ui
t Louisville, Ky., that to secure an order
for liquor from the State dispensary,
Clarke Bros. & Co., of Peoria,
111., had to pay about 10 per cent,
commission or $6,200 on an order of
$60,000 delivered and accepted. The
original order was something like
$150,000, made in the last days of
the dispensary, and a great deal of
the 8tuff was turned back.
Mr. W. E. Hull, manager of
Clarke Bros. & Co., testified when he
was here recently that he had paid
to C. W. Dudley $6,200 "commissions"
to secure this business.
Dudley was known to be ill. Attorney
General Lyon and Col. T. B.
Felder visited him last week in Lexington,
Ky., and later his attorney,
Col. Anthony J. Carroll, a leading attorney
of Kentucky, went to the hospital
and advised him to give the affidavit
introduced in evidence yesterday.
This affidavit, while not admissable
in a court in which a criminal
action is being tried, is said to be
backed up with corroborative evidence,
documentary and sworn testimony.
This is the first time in all the
months of patient prodding that the
direct charge of bribery has been
made. Col. Dudley was a bon vivant
well known throughout this State,
and his affidavit, which follows,
shows that of the $6,200 he kept at
least $2,000 for himself. The affidavit
is*
"The affiant, C. W. Dudley, states
that he represented several liquor
dealers in the State of South Carolina
during and for several years
prior to 1906, for the purpose of
procuring orders for liquor for the
State dispensary. He states that
during parts of said time J. B.
Wylie was a member of the board of
directors of the State dispensary.
"Affiant states that about the
month of October, 1906, through the
efforts and by arrangements with
the said Wylie he procured an order
from said State dispensary for a
quantity of liquor to be sold and furnished
by the Live Oak Distilling
Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Affiant states that he paid to the
said Wylie the sum of $1,060 as a
commission for procuring the purchase
of said liquors, that amount
Hdinc HomanrloH hv Rnirl Wvlfp whn
was at said time a member of the
board of directors of the State dispensary.
"Affiant states that about December,
1906, he procured an order for
the purchase of certain liquors by
the State dispensary from Clarke
Bros. Co., of Peoria, 111. He states
that he was paid as commission for
procuring said order the sum of $6,225
by W. E. Hull, that being the
total amount of commissions paid
him on account of the goods so purchased,
and which were retained by
the commission. He states that he
divided his said commissions with
the three members of the board of
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directors of the State dispensary, to
wit: John Black, J. W. Rawlinson,
and J. B. Wylie, as a consideration
for their making said purchase. Affiant
does not remember the exact
amount paid them, but Black was
paid approximately $2,200, Rawlinson
$1,200, and Wylie approximately
$1,200.
"Affiant states that while H. H.
Evans was a member or tbe board 01
directors of the State dispensary he
paid the said H. H. Evans $1,500 to
aid him in his campaign for reelection
to said board of directors; this
was in 1905, or early in 1906.
"Affiant states that this was the
only amount he remembers to have
paid said Evans, but he might have
paid him other sums.
"Affiant states that he has been
practically confined to his bed for 15
months, having sustained a paralytic
stroke complicated with other troubles.
He states that he suffered constant
pain and is now confined to his
bed in Good Samaritan hospital at
Lexington, Ky., under the care of a
physician and nurses. He states that
he is unable to travel and it is a
matter of impossibility for him to go
to South Carolina or to take any trip
whatever. That he was able with
great difficulty to come to Lexington
from Chicago and is now worse and
unable to leave his bed.
"Affiant states that he had other
transactions with the members of the
board of the State dispensary, but he
is now unable to recall the details of
same. C. W. DUDLEY.
"Subscribed and sworn to before me
by C. W. Dudley this 4th day of
June, 1909, W. WORTHINGTON,
N. P., Fayette County, Ky."
Noted Ex-Sheriff Wounded*
Jackson. Ky.. June 7.?Ex-Sheriff
Edward Callahan, famous throughout
this section of the State for the
part played in the numerous
Breathitt county feuds, was shot
from ambush early to-day and it is
believed fatally wounded, at his
home in Crockettsville.
Reports to-night from Crockettsville,
the home of Former Sheriff
Callahan, are to the effect that the
feud leader cannot survive until
morning.
Later developments regarding the
shooting are that at least two assassins
and probably more were engaged
in the conspiracy to wipe out
the Callahan family. At the same
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nine me eiuer v/auauau woo mcu
upon, another party attacked his son,
Wilson Callahan, who had gone to a
barn about daylight.
The son was returning to the
house when a bullet fired by an unseen
enemy plowed its way through
his hair and carried his hat 20 feet
away. Stooping behind a paling
fence he made a successful run for
the house, while palings behind and
in front of him were splintered by
bullets. The assassins were shooting
from ambush in the woods 200
yards away, as they did when firing
on the elder Callahan. He was unable
to go to his father, and the wife
of the former sheriff went to her
wounded husband's assistance.
A negro sneak thief stole a bicycle
belonging to Mr. Robert Felder last
Sunday night and succeeded in getting
as far as Denmark, where, upon
being questioned as to where he obtained
the bicycle, it at first being
thought that it was a wheel that had
been stolen from Mr. Brickie in the
recent robbery of his bicycle shop,
dropped the bicycle and ran. He was
caught, however, and is now "doing
time" on the chain gang.
Southern Sta'
H. L* HARV
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OF ALL
810 to 818 Gervais St.
MONTHLY I
OF THE DISPENSARIES IN BAMBI
MAY,
Stock on hand
Dispensary No. 1st of month Receip
Bamberg 1 $5 080 56 $2 470
Denmark 2 4 354 87 1 513
Olar 3 2 987 05 985
Ehrhardt 4 3 628 47 '945
Total $16 050 95 $5 913
State of South Carolina, )
County of Bamberg. )
Personally appeared before me E.
bruukUlK, members or the Bamberg u
duly and severally sworn, deposes and
ment is true and correct.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
x EXCURSIO
j| To Chester and Return
Account United Confede
W South Carolina the South
@ very low round trip rates t
As will be sold June 22, 23, an<
turn until June 28th, 1909
w Round trip rates from print
& Bamberg $2.45
As Blacksburg 1.00
Sg Blackville 2.30
@ Branchville 2.60
A Camden 1.40
SP Charleston 3.75
? Columbia 1.30
JSj Children between five a
? For further information
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@ J. L. MEEK,
A Asst. Gen. Pass Agt.,
X ATLANTA, GA.
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BOYS ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY.
Two Aiken Youths Accused of Burglary?Settlement
is Made.
Aiken, June 4.?This afternoon J. |
C. Browne, Jr., son of the Rev. J. E. L
Browne, D. D.-, and John Weeks, son!
n n7AAl.fi nVioirman of thP I
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county board of registration, were
arrested in connection with the recent
robberies committed in this
city. Browne was charged with entering
the home of M. J. Quattlebaum
and stealing several articles,
and Weeks was charged with the
burglary of Dr. C. C. Johnson's drug
store. Five other warrants it is said
were issued, but not served on the
boys, who are 14 and 15 years of
age, respectively.
Before the case was called for the
preliminary hearing Mayor Salley,
who was present in the Magistrate's
court, representing the State, suggested,
on account of the youthfulness
of the two boys, that if an adjustment
could be affected with the
insure in thft recent robberies he
thought it would be best. He asked
each one of the losers if the losses
were made good or the stolen property
returned if they would drop the
cases and each agreed to this settlement,
the boys' parents also agreeing
to see that the stolen property or the
equivalent is returned to the ownerg.
It is a matter of the greatest regret
that these boys were implicated
in these thefts, some of which were
exceedingly bold. They are of the
best families in the county. It is,
however, generally satisfactory that
this amicable settlement was made.
It is thought that this will be a lesson
to the boys, who, Mayor Salley
said, did not comprehend the seriousness
of their crimes. It is stated that
evidence to convict in any of the robberies
in which warrants were issued
has been discovered, and it is stated
if the future conduct of the boys is
not better the cases may again be
brought up.
SUMTER CITIZEN A SUICIDE.
Mr. J. H. Wit hers poon Kills Himself
by Drinking Carbolic Acid.
Sumter, June 4.?This community
was shocked this morning when it
was learned that another of Sumter's
citizens naa committed suiciae. mr.
J. H. Witherspoon, manager of the
Witherspoon Brothers Furniture
Company, deliberately took his own
life, about 8 o'clock this morning,
by drinking carbolic acid.
Last night Mr. Witherspoon
bought four ounces of carbolic acid,
supposedly to treat his little son's
foot, the boy having stuck a nail in
his foot Yesterday he seemed to be
in the best of spirits, and no one had
any idea that he contemplated such
a rash act. This morning he was
missed from his home, and when
search was made, his lifeless body
was found in the toilet with an
empty four-ounce bottle marked carbolic
acid lying nearby.
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i\o cause nas owu assi^ucu w
show why Mr. Witherspoon should
take his own life. He has been connected
with the Witherspoon Brothers'
Furniture Company?formerly
Whilden Furniture Company?for
about nine years, and has always
proven efficient and satisfactory. He
is survived by his wife, who was
Mrs. Ella Strange, and one son, hesides
numerous relatives here and in
Darlington county.
res Supply Co.
T5Y, President.
FINQ
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Columbia, South Carolina
STATEMENT
2RG COUNTY FOR THE MONTH OF
, 1909.
ts Expenditures Breakage Liabilities
15 $ 97 51 $13 40 $ 2 597 01
62 104 60 10 55 2 830 70
01 72 10 9 20 1 992 84
15 69 65 4 91 2 678 41
93 $343 86 $38 06 $10 098 96
C. HAYS, H. C. COPELAND and J. Z.
r\n?+v PionAnaflnr RnnrH vhn hpintr PAfh
says that the foregoing monthly statethis
4th day of Jane, A. D. 1909.
EL L. PRICE, [L. S.1
Notary Pablic for S. C.
N RATES $
via Sootbern Railway $
rate Veterans Reunion of iK
em Railway announces JS?
0 Chester, S. C. Tickets @
1 24, limited good to re- gs
ripal stations as fellows: A
Gaffney $1.15 &
Orangeburg 2.30
Rock Hill 50 SP
Spartanburg 1.15 ^
Sumter 2.00
Winnsboro 55 yP
Yorkville 50 ^
nd twelve years of age
i, tickets, etc., apply to A
ents or address, )i(
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ROAD NOTICE.
The road overseers of Bamberg
county are hereby requested to look
carefully after the roads in their
I charge and see that they are kept in
good condition. You are also requested
to report promptly all persons
who violate the law by plowing
into the road, as it is my intention
to break up this practice if possible.
J. B. KEARSE,
County Supervisor.
Bamberg, S. C., May 31st, 1909.
It is stated that seven persons
paid the income tax in this coupty,
but we have not seen the names and
amounts.
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