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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
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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.
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A Lesson on Specialising.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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