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* SERVED TWENTY YEARS. M Jones, of Edgefield, Will Soon Come From tbe Pen. **He killed three men single-handed.*' That is what they tell you out at the State penitentiary if yon inquire who is that gray haired man who marches in the gang of convicts apparently contented with his lot. Twenty-years spent behind prison walls! That is the history of the best years of Bob Jones' life. Leaving his farm in Edgefield county a score of years ago he kissed his wife and five little ones and came here to serve out his sentence. Now his wife has yessed sway, and J ones has not even all his children to spend his last days with. V* Once Bob Jones moved with erect Step, once he dared to fight many man, but now his step is slower he hat passed the youthful period and of the fifty years of his career the lost twenty have been fraught with much sorrow. 80, bowed down in ?irit, Bob Jones at the expiration of his term this year will pass out of the prison git*t The Joneses and Presaleys. la Edgefield county there are many who know the story of old Bob Jones' strange fight twenty-five years ago. When Bob Jones goes back there the eM fellows will sit around the fire at * lights and talk over that triple killtag. Back in 18S4 U. R. Brooks, now ilia veteran etork of tlia flnnromA court, was State land agent Before that time the Joneses and the Pressleys, two Edgefield families connected hy marriage, bought a tract of land known as the "Jennings tract" on Hog creek, in Edgefield county. Bob Jones had married a granddaughter at old Mr. Preesley, and he was one of those that made the purchase. The rule of the sinking fund commission was that where a piece of land was bought one-fourth of the amount should be paid in cash and the remaining three-fourths in annual instalments. Bob Jones paid the first instalment on about 200 acres at land rained at about $400 or feereabout Land was cheap in those days, and the amount paid on the first instalment was a mere matter of $50. The purchasers kept the land for eereral years, and in 1884 Col. Brooks went to Edgefield county to see the Joneses and Pressleys and demand another 'payment on the land. It was agreed by the purchasers that they would rather rent Be land. Col Brooks sent word to Boh Jones to meet him at Edgefield courthouse. Bob Jones and Charles Piesslsy met CoL Brooks at Edgefield the next day and the place was rented from CoL Brooks, land agent; Charles Pieasier witnessed the paper. The Pisssley and Bob Jones, who, as stated, was connected by marriaaa. divided the land. Jones tiling one-fourth. A Triple Killing. One morning in November, 1885, the Premiers were out in the Held. Chorion mod Ed. Pressley were ploughing, and the old man was aawtng the oats. There had been trouble beforehand., because Jones hdnt want them to plant oats on ell the land. 80 that day when he walked into the field and saw the younger >Preeeleys ploughing and the older Pteesley sowing, he went straight up to Charles Pressley and fired upon "Jj him with a gun, killing him. Then he ran. Like the historic occasion f when the Roman youth killed three adversaries, there was method in Jones' running. Ed Pressley pursued Jones, the former being unarmed. After they had ran some distance down the field Bob Jones stopped. Ed Pressley advanced, and drawing his knife Jones cut oat the end of Id Pr Wiley's heart, killing him Instantly. Ed was the youngest of the Pressley boys. Jones then reloaded his gun and walked oyer to where old man Preseky was. Suffering from palsy, a man of 7t. years,-the elder Pressley was helpless before the then young Jones. sflus His Grandfather. "Well, Qranpa. I beliefs 1*11 kill yon, too," were the words that Jones greeted his old grandfather with >when he stepped up, still bloody from two killings. With these words on his lips. Bob Jones tired, the load taking effect in Mr. Pressley's stomach, another victim being added to the day's terrible work of vengeance. Not content with killing these three kinsmen. Bob Jones, so the story goes, looked for young John Pressley, but fortunately the boy was working in another part of the field, and he was spared. Jones could not lad John Pressley. The Surrender. Bob Jones went directly from the field to Edgefield courthouse and gave himself up to the officers. "I have killed three of the best men in the county." he said to the sheriff. Then he began to cry. Jones was put in Jail in Edgefield. In that same Jail were seventeen men, who were charged with the lynching of Towlee Culbreath. Theee / ? ' . - 1 ? . ,* > men, who were subsequently tried and treed, argued with Jones and told him he did right. Conviction Was Hard. Tried at various times between the year 1885 and 1891. Jones, up to the last trial, succeeded in escaping with mistrials. No conviction could be secured in Edgefield; the juries would i not agree, and a change of venue vis bad. In 1891, before Judge Fraser. Bob Jones was convicted of manslaughter I and sentenced to serve twenty years, j Co!. P. H. Nelson, of this city, was i solicitor at the time. The trial was | at Lexington court house. Jones had a brilliant array of counsel. He was I defended by W. T. Gary, brother of Gen. Mart Gary, and by Gary & Evans, the former member of this firm being Ernest Gary. These men were considered as good criminal lawyers as there were in the State. R. G. Bon ham was the solicitor who first handled the case. Mr. Bonham died in February. 1887, during the pendency of the trials. Then P. H. Nelson was made solicitor and he secured the conviction in Lexington county before Judge Fraser. Will be Released Soon. Bob Jones will soon be released from the penitentiary. When he is freed he will have served nearly twenty years. It is the custom in this State to deduct one month tor ei"h year of a sentence if a man behaves himself at the State prison. Those who know Bob Jones say his sentence expired in May, bat the penitentiary authorities were asked today and September was the date given for his release. At any rate it will not be long now before Bob Jones is a free man. It is too late for him to begin life over, bat the lesson of twenty years in prison walls will, in his declining years, rise up before him as a vision of acts of a few minutes' inflaming of his heart years ago.?Columbia special to News and Courier. Heavy Sentence for "Tiger." Spartanburg, March 10.?The heaviest flne ever imposed in the police court of Spartanburg was the one Mayor Lee this morning placed on George Dearman, charged with storing whiskey. Dearman was sentenced on 166 charges to pay fines amounting to $16,600 or serve on the chaingang for thirteen years, seven months and 25 days. This is a test case. Wednesday night Dearman was arrested on the charge of storing whis key. Lieut Nolen and Officers Merrill and McAbee searched^ Dearman's house on Wofford street, just below Cudd's stables and found a trunk containing something over forty gallons of whiskey done up in pint flasks. Mayor Lee decided to try Dearman on a count for each and every pint There were 166 pints and for each pint he was sentenced to pay a fine of $100, or serve thirty days on the gang. Dearmen was represented by counsel, who will make an appeal. Dearman acknowledged to the police when arrested that this was the first time he had ever had any whiskey in h)p possession for sale, and the officers so testified. It is said that the whiskey is blockade stuff coming from Augusta, Ga. ^ . A Lesson on Specialising. 'I He was an American visitor, and as he sauntered into the barber's shop he freely criticised British methods of work and business. "You don't specialize," he said; "you should stick to one branch of a thing and master it completely." The barber said nothing, but lathered his face very liberally, and then sat down to read. "Well, why don't you shave me?" IUI(UIIW1 U1C AU1VI !UIU, Ol ICI u?c minutes. "We only lather here," was the response; "you must go to the next street for a shave. "?Tit-Bits. Killed by Trolley Car. Aiken, March 10.?An inquest was held late this afternon over the remains of Irvine McGhee, well known white man of this city, who was run over late last night by an AugustaAiken trolley car, some distance from the city. It developed at the inquest that McGhee was drinking last night and was lying across the track, beyond the Park-in-the-Pines hotel. The car was rounding a curve, and the motorman said he could not see McGhee until within a few feet of him, when he reversed the car motor, but *>he car did not stop until it had passed 10 feet beyond the body. Having slowed down the car wheels did not run over him, but pushed him in the middle of the rails. He, however, suffered a crushed skull. He was carried to a sanitarium in North Augusta, where he died soon after. McGhee's body will be interred tomorrow . His family resided in New York. The wife of the corner grocer could tell a lot of things if she would. V ^ ^ t t ^ * 1 ? ' - v' -1.-ffatftfi; -Vnii^isiari"tr WANTED IN ST. MATTHEWS. Calhoun Countj Man "8hoot*-Up" Wash i ngt on?A treatedWashington, March 12.?Forgetting for the time that he was in Washington, and laboring under the delusion that he was ' shooting up Brownsville," John Murray, who is wanted by Sheriff Dantzler. of Calhoun county, to-day made things lively here by discharging his revolver many times on Pennsylvania avenue. Murray was standing near Ppntro Markot irkan ko n WMM V ?MM? RVb, Vf uva lit O^IICU A Ut" teotive coming, and forthwith began to shoot right and left After firing several shots he was overpowered, and will be sent to St. Matthews, where there is a charge of obtaining money under false pretences against him. Why he is Wanted. St Matthew's, March 12.?Sheriff Dantzler received notice this morning that E. B. Murray, colored, was caught in Washington and was being held. Murray, as reported in the News and Courier some time ago, claimed to be traveling through the South making addresses, etc., with a view of "uplifting his race." He dropped into 8t. Matthews and proceeded to marry, upon short notice, one of the teachers in the colored graded school here about two months ago. He soon shook the dirt of this community from his boots and is said to have carried some of his wife's funds with him. He claimed to be a learned medico of Philadelphia, whose practice was confined exclusively to the upper social strata. kuu iuai uc uavvicu auuui iruui patient to patient in a $4,000 automobile. The sheriff, who has been hot on his trail ever since he left here, without his newly married wife, will leave for Washington, D. C., this afternoon to bring back the "uplifter of his race." Many of the most prominent negroes in the State? among them the Rev. Richard Carroll, of Columbia, and Editor Holmes, of Orangeburg?are to be commended for their untiring efforts in assisting the sheriff to bring the guilty to the ba? of justice. What course matters will now take will be watched with considerable interest hereabouts. Two Kinds of Law. A well known southern judge revives a story about a white man, who during reconstruction times was arraigned before a colored justice of tne peace for killing a man and stealing his mule. It was in Arkansas, near the Texas border, and there was some rivalry between the states, but the colored justice tried always to preserve an impartial frame of mind. "We've got two kinds of law in dis ver co't." he said: "Totm law an' Arkansas law. Which will yon hah?" The prisoner thought a 'minute, and then guessed that he would take the Arkansas law. "Den I discharge you fo' stealin' de mule, an' hang you fo' killin' de man." "Hold on a minute, judge," said the prisoner. Better make that Texas law." "All right; under de law of Texas, X fin' you fo' killin' de man, an' hang you fo' stealin' de mule."?Lippincott's. Teller Missing and Cash Gone. Savannah, Ga., March 10.?A warrant was issued here to-day charging James M. Doyle, formerly teller of the Hibernia hank at this place, with embezzlement of something over $9,900. The governor of Georgia has been requested to offer a suitable reward for Doyle's arrest The teller has been missing since Saturday night, when it is alleged he took the missing money in large bills from the bank vault, set the time lock for Monday morning and disappeared. He is an officer In the National Quard of Georgia and has a wife and two small children. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American war and was recommended for a commission in the United States army. A Deadening Habit. A fault-tlnding. criticising habit is fatal to all excellence. Nothing will strangle growth quicker than a tendency to hunt for flaws, to rejoice in the unlovely, like a pig. which always has his noee in the mud and rarely looks up. The direction in which we look indicates the life aim, and people who are always looking for something to criticise, for the crooked ! and ugly, who are always suspicious, who invariably look at the worst side of others, are but giving the world a picture of themselves. The disposition to see the worst instead of the best grows on one very rapidly, until it ultimately strangles all that is beautiful and crushes out all that is good in himself. No matter how many times your confidence has been betrayed, do not allow your-' self to sour, do not lose faith in people. The bad are the exceptions; most people are honest and true, and mean to do what is right -i- - - 'i . _ CARLOAD OF BABIES. Little Ones From a Pomdliag Asylum Given Away in New Orleans. Wednesday was the day they gave babies away in New Orleans. And the human gifts did not go begging. A carload of little tots arrived there that morning from the New York foundling and orphan asylum with an eager crowd of claimants awaiting their arrival. In addition to those who had previously made successful claim to a baby, many pressed about the car in the hope that there might be some "left over." Their disappointment was keen ~ when they found that the advance demand was fully up to the supply. Faying your dues in your fraternal lodge merely to keep up your life insurance does not spell fraternity by any means. m j' jr; q^etee* 1 'j ! I Attorney-at-Law 0 BAMBERG, S. C. < > Special attention given to set- < > j | tlement of estates and invest!- j [ < gation of land titles. < > < > Loans negotiated on farm lands < J | in Bamberg County. J J ? (> Ofllce over Bamberg Banking Co. < > j| DB. GEO. F. HAIR j; Dental Snrgeon~.Bambergt S. C. < > < > i > < > In office every day in tbe week. < | * Graduate of Baltimore College J[ 1 f of Dental Surgery, class 1892. J [ < Member S. C. 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