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^57*7-; ; , 4 >* '-i' ' ' * * * KENNEDY IS CONVICTED S'% ? < VERDICT IS ACCOMPANIED WITH RECOMMENDATION TO MERCY. % Defense Will Ask for a New Trial. Facts of the Assassination of Perry Ussery Reviewed. Barnwell, July 29.?The famous Chester Kennedy case came to a close this morning at 6 o'clock, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to the mercy of the v court. Tne case went 10 xne jury a | little after 1 o'clock yesterday ana after deliberating for 17 hours they agreed upon a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy. It is understood that all of the jurymen except one wanted to convict outright, but that there was one man who . would not agree to a verdict of this kind. He held out and early this morning, all of the jurymen came to hia view of the case rather than have a mistrial again. This verdict will carry the sentence of life imprisonment with it. The attorneys for the defense will, it is understood, make a motion for a new trial, and if that f is not-granted, an appeal to the supreme court will be made. yS^hile the case made out by the State was a very strong one, yet there very few who thought that a ' verdict would be reached: It was a case~of a negro against a white man, and the opinion was that there would * be another mistrial. So far the judge has not sentenc ed Kennedy, cut win ao so Deiore court adjourns on Saturday. Story of the Crime. ; t The crime for which Kennedy has been convicted is one that has attracted attention throughout the State since it was committed. Last November Perry Ussery was shot from ambush and instantly killed. At the time of the tragedy, he was in the company of Mr. Marvin Holland. The shooting occurred on the carnival grounds almost in the heart of the town, about 11 o'clock at night. It was on Saturday night and the carnival people were closing up to tear down their tents preparatory for a move the next day. In the midst of the excitement incident to this work, the loud report of a shotgun rang out v upon the air. That shot, it has been proved, was fired by Johnson at the instigation of Grubbs and Kennedy in order to kill Mr. Marvin Holland. The assassin made his escape that night, and it was several days before any definite clue could be had. In > the meantime, however, the authori ^ ties and citizens of the town and community had been aroused by the infamous deed and were doing all in their power to locate the man or men . who had committed the crime. It L was not long before material facts were picked up and when Detective Harry Killman, of the Pinkerton agency, arrived he was enabled to start right in and get results. By the valuable aid given him by the local authorities he was able to weave a thread of testimony around the guilty men," and before they knew it, they were held tight within the meshes of the law. Kennedy was not arrested until ^ . after the first trial of Johnson and nt thp March term of court, when the negroes were convicted for the killing. It will be re* membered that after they were convicted and Johnson had been sentenc' ed to be hanged and Grubbs had been sent up for life, Mr. Ninestein, attorney for the defendants, made a moi tion for a new trial on the grounds of after-discovered evidence. This motion was not contested by the ? t J State's attorneys and the new trial was granted. Just as soon as the new trial had been granted the negroes, steps were taken by the State to have Kennedy brought to trial. And the time in^ tervening between the March and * July term of court was taken up by the State in linking together the chahi of testimony that has resulted i in Kennedy's conviction. The First Trial. It will be remembered that Kennedy was tried here two weeks ago to-day for this shine offense, and, af; ter one of the most interesting and exciting cases ever-tried in this court house, the jury failed to agree, and a mistrial was ordered by Judge Gary. Not daunted at this seeming defeat, the solicitor and his associates took advantage of the privilege given them to have the case tried again at this term of court and requested the governor to have a new judge sent here to fill the vacancy caused by the illness of Judge Gary. Judge Sease, of Spartanburg, was sent and on Monday of this week the trial commenced. ; ? The testimony brought out by the Sate went to show that there was ill feeling between Kennedy and Holland; that Kennedy was afraid for Holland to come to Barnwell to testify in a certain case at the November term of court last year; that, in ** order to shut Holland's mouth and keep down this information he had hired Grubbs to get this man Johnson to assassinate Holland before court . ^ commenced; that in attempting to kill Holland on the Saturday night before the opening of court, Johnson made a mistake and killed Ussery instead of Holland. Kennedy's defense was a general denial, backed up by proofs of alibis in contradiction to statements made in the confession of Johnson and statements made on the stand by Grubbs. Notwithstanding the hard fight by the defense it was impossible to shatter the strong array of testimony put up by the State, and Kennedy is to-day convicted by twelve of his pears. NEGRO HAXGED'AT GREENWOOD Marsh Washington, Convicted of Murder, Confesses on the Gallows. Greenwood, July 30.?Marsh Washington, a negro aged about 30, was hung here to-day for the murder last July of his paramour. There were no unusual features of the hanging. Washington was cob! and'collected, and went to the gallows without a tremor. There was no hitch or delay in the proceedings. At 11 o'clock the Rev. B. W. Boone, the Rev. Chas. B. Gilliard, and the Rev. J. F. Jackson entered Washington's cell. He . had - - - - been aressea a iew minutes pexore. After reading a selection from the Bible, a hymn was sung, and the Rev. B. W. Boone jnade a prayer. The procession to the gallows began at 11:30. As Washington start* ed up the steps he began singing, "I am Going Home to Die." On the gallows, after the noose was adjusted, he was asked if he had any last statement to make. He said he had denied the murder of the woman at first, but now he confessed it, and he was ready to die. He then began a prayer, intermingled with a song, running the two together. In this he said that the man who sprung the trap for him would have to pray just as he, Washington, was having to pray for the murder of the woman and continued his prayer and singing to the last The trap was sprung at 11:47. At 12, noon, exactly, he was pronounced dead by "Dr. J. B. Owens. There was no excitement outside the jail. About one hundred people, mostly negroes, had collected around the jail yard on the outside. Washington was tried and convicted five days after the murder of the woman, but his attorney, D. H. Magill, took an appeal. A new trial was refused^ and at the last term of the court of general sessions Judge Devore sentenced him to hang to-dhy, July 30. IXTER-URBAX LIVE PROPOSED. Electric Railway May he Built from Spartanburg to Glenn Springs. Spartanburg, July 29.?The. question of building an electric railway from Spartanburg to Glenn Springs, and thence to Union, is being considered by the Electric Manufacturing and Power Company. Vice President and General Manager F. H. Knox, of the Power Company, with J. B. Lee, president of the Glenn Springs Hotel Company, and A. L. White, president of the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, and large stockholder in the Glenn Springs Company, made a trip through the country over the proposed route. Mr. Knox expressed himself as being highly pleased with the country, stating that the road COUia De COJlB^ructeu wnuuut givai cost, as there will be no heavy grades or heavy trestling to be done. The Glenn Springs people are preparing to build a large brick hotel, which will be kept open the year round. Before this work is undertaken, however, transportation facilities from the city to Glenn Springs must be arranged. Senate Votes Out McLendon. Atlanta, Ga., July 30.?l.\e Georgia senate to-day voted to remove from office Chairman McLendon, of the State railroad commission, the vote being 23 to .18. McLendon was recently suspended by Former Gov. Smith on charges of being too lenient with the railroads, in violation of campaign pledges. The house has yet to act on the removal. Today's action by the senate was based on a joint legislative investigation into Former Gov. Smith's charges. The investigation disclosed that McLendon, while commissioner, had sold Athens, Ga., street railway bonds, making a profit therefrom. McLendon claimed this was not unlawful. Little Child Killed. Darlington, July 30.?This afternoon Mary Mclndill, four years old, was shot and killed at the home of her grandfather, W. J. Baker, on Factory Hill, this city, the coroner's jury finding that she came to her death from a gunshot wound in a manner unknown to the jury. The first supposition was that the child, playing on the floor with a watermelon, rolled it against a gun in the corner, causing the latter's discharge, | but the mark of the bullet high on | the wall opposite was inconsistent [with this theory as the course of the I bullet in the child's body was downward. The child's mother is dead and | the father is not in Darlington. " THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND DEMOCRACY. A Correspondent Discusses the Eco- < nomic Side of the Question. The coining election on the liquor question in South Carolina has been discussed largely from the moral . standpoint, and from the economic , standpoint; but no one has viewed it , purely from a political standpoint. . From this view point let us now con- . sider it. j The great Democratic watchword has been, "Equal privileges to all and , special favors to. none." In the ef- . forts to regulate the liquor traffic by J law this has been reversed. Our forefathers used to make their own wines , and whiskies and everybody that , wanted to handle it did so. Politically this was in perfect accord with the < above great Democratic principle. Under this state of things intemperance was a serious menace to .the future wellbeing of our country's citi- \ zenry, and our political economists ! decided something must be.done to 1 check it So it was decided to tfy ( and regulate it by reversing the above < great Democratic principle, and make it special privileges ta a few ^ and equal privileges to noneand so the manufacture and sale of liquor was restricted by a license tax which became a protection about the few 3 against- the equal privileges of the < masses. What has been the result of this un-Democratic regulation? In the first place the greatest capitalistic and trust combine has grown up%, discriminating against the consumer, that is known. Under this protected ] monopoly, the price of liquor has gone up from 12% cents per gallon to $3.00 and higher. The created trusts are growing richer and the 1 drinking masses are growing poorer. J Instead of high license insuring a bet- ' ter grade of liquor to the consumer, 1 it is responsible for bad, adulterated 1 whiskey, that is more dangerous to the human system. Apd instead of < restraining intemperance and its at- ' tendant evils, these have increased and intensified under this un-Demo- : cratic regulation. < The strange thing is that the Dem- ' ocratic party, posing for equal privi- j i leges to all and special favors to none, ' the avowed enemy of trusts and < combines, and the opponents of a protective. hieh tariff, should be too cow- : ardly to oppose this most stupendous and oppressive of trusts protected by law, and even in many cases champions it. The State of South Carolina sought to improve this state of things by turning the whole State into a monopoly of the traffic, forbidding any of its private citizena making money by it, or making it even for one's self. If he buys it, he must buy it from his county dispensary at the price fixed by law, and the grades accepted by law. Tlius the business is taken from under the protecting arm of the law and placed on the very throne of government, and proclamation made that whosoever will not fall down and worship this monopoly set up by a Democratic government for a free people shall be punished by l^w. The dispensaries are in league with the other whiskey combines, " since dispensary liquor is bought from the protected whiskey manufactories, and is the same grades of liquor sold in the licensed saloonB. The price that must be paid 1b the monopoly prices. All this is done by Democrats in z Democratic State, sailing under the colors of equal privileges to all and special favors to none, and crying out against monopoly and the principle of protection that forces crusting prices on the consumer. Shall not such glaring inconsistency cause the wisdom of the ages to say of us, "Ye blind guides that strain out the gnat and swallow the camel." Democracy has stood as the friend of.the poor and oppressed; the laboring classes. And it is a known fact that these are the classes that largely patronise the dispensaries and from whom most of the revenue comes. So when we hear Democratic politicians, whose party champions the cause of the laborer and poor man, crying out we must keep the dispensary for the sake of the revenue, as it will increase our taxes, it reminds us of Joab of old, who saluted Abner with the kiss of friendship and at the same time smote him under the fifth would continue to grind out revenue would continue to grnid out revenue out of the poorer and laboring classes in order to save the well-to-do from a little taxes is both unjust and unDemocratic. Prohibition is the only present remedy for correcting the un-Democratic, discriminating and monopolisI tic regulation laws that have been fastened, octopus-like, upon the body politic of our nation, and restore equal privileges to all and special fajvors to none, and at the same time put a restraint on the evils of intemperance that threatens the wellbeing of our citizenry. When people argue that prohibition don't prohibit, they only take a onesided view of it. If it did not decrease the amount of liquor used, it would achieve the greatest Demo-1 cratic victory of the age. It is worth' having just for that. But that it does restrain the use of intoxicants | and so cuts down the evils of intemperance is clear to any unbiased mind from the statistics from the police courts where it is being tried, unless it be in a few places where there is a lack of sentiment to back it up. The true value of anything, we must bear in mind, is estimated, ot from its exceptions, but its general rule. The very fact that liquor manufacturers are spending thousands of dollars to check the tide of prohibition, shows that in sending out their battle cry, "Prohibition don't prohibit," they are only seeking to dupe the unthinking and uninformed. DEMOCRAT. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ss i Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. L Cheney & Co., doing business in (he city of Toledo, county and State ^foresaid, and that said firm will pay (he sum of one hundred dollars for fcach and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.. FRANK J CHENEY. ' Sworn to before me and subscribed in m ypresence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . (Seal.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood *nd mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. ' Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. FEMALE MOONSHINER. Marshal Finds Woman Running a Distillery. Surrounded by a crude outfit, with beer in the tubs and the ripple of a little stream trickling among the Sake stands, near the prosperous town of Sparta, in Hancock county, Ga., United States Deputy Marshal Frank Riley arrested Pearl Gordon, an a charge of running a blockade kAiOVAAlVl J In all Bis long experience in the service this is the first woman the Dficer ever captured in a *'moonsiine" plant. The outfit was in operation and indications were that the woman had been conducting a very extensive business. The woman gave bond for her appearance before Commissioner Irwin. H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Practices in all Courts of this State.! Offices in The Herald Building. W. E. FREE Attorney-at-Law All business entrusted to me will receive prompt attention. Office for present at court house. NEW ARRIVALS Curtis Brand Peas, per can 15c. Jumbo Tomatoes, 3 lb. can, 10c * MantroMtl flnP. 2 f Ol* 25C. Misletoe Hams, per pound 16c. Good Old Country Syrup, in barrels, 50c. per gallon, in quart bottles, sealed, 15c. a quart. Just received fine line of 10c. packages Downey's Chocolate Candies. The finest lot of Fresh Prunes that ever hit the town. Seeded Raisins on hand all the time. Have you ever tried our Butter? We only ask 85c. the pound. Don't forget that we handle Snowflake Flour, the best that is put up, in sacks. Don't forget to ask for anything in the grocery line. We come mighty near having it. E. BART PRICE BAMBERG, S. C. C. & K. HAT For $3.00 and $3.50 and a Florsheim Shoe For $4^00, $5.00 and $6.00 C. R. BRABHAM'S SONS BAHBERGi S. C. ? - . .. ; DOG HELD AS WITNESS. Animal, it is Believed, Will FurnishEvidence Against Negro. Atlanta, Ga., July 28.?A spotted white dog is to-day locked up in the Cobb county jail, near here, with an entry in the police blotter that he is a material witness in an assault case and is to remain a prisoner indefinitely. In the eyes of the law, at least, this imprisonment contains no element of jest, for the life of a negro prisoner depends in part upon the dog. The animal is supposed to be me uue wuxeii atwu^aui^u a ui.51 v who assaulted a white woman near Vining's station recently. Willard Webb, a negro, is in jail, in Atlanta, charged with the attack. The dog will confront his alleged master at the trial next month, his blind faithj fulness being relied upon to give true testimony. HiB victim already has identified the dog. Killed by Trap Gun. Smitbville, Ga., July 29.?A trap gun Emmet Booker, a merchant, had set for burglars was discharged this morning when Mrs. Booker opened the store door, two charges of buckshot entering the woman's body. Death resulted four hours later. Mrs. Booker knew of the presence of the gun in the store, but had forgotten the fact Bumper ussr Crop. Spokane, Wash., July 27.?Reports received by L. G. Monroe, secretary of the Spokane chamber of commerce, from 367 important points in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, show that the wheat crop this season will be between 62,000,000 and 63,000,000 bushels. Thirteen counties in eastern Washington report approximately 36,000,000 bushels, Oregon will cut about 14,000,000, Idaho is credited with 7,000,000, while incomplete data from Montana shows between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 bushels. It is believed these statistics are ultra-conservative, as well informed ranchers and millmen say Washington will yield 'not less than 37,500,000, while Idaho and Montana should each touch the 8,000,000 mark.1 The crop will be worth more to the growers than in 1907, when the record yield was harvested. Prices are higher for all grades of wheat, ranging from $1.15 for bluestem to 95 cents for the red varieties. , Remember the Place | ? * v/vlioK VIA ViMGfi lO pUU911 1UA vuv vawwh? .work on your car. 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