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Branchville Manslayer Will Appeal.
Case will be Argued Next Month.
Orangeburg, Nov. 16.?John J.
Jones, the Branchville attorney, who
> 1 was convicted here last January of
the murder of Abe Pearlstine, and
sentenced to imprisonment for ten
years and one month, has been quiet
ly spending the past few months at
? the State penitentiary, not as a con'
vict, but only waiting the determination
of his appeal, which will be argued
before the the supreme court
in December.
X . It will be remembered that Jones
and Pearlstine became involved in an
altercation in the postoffice at Branchjp
' ville and after the fist fight which
arose had terminated, Jones turned,
/ as he was about to reach the door of
the office, and shot Pearlstine down.
After a hard-fought trial?in which
the defendant was represented by
Messrs. Wolfe & Berry, assisted by
Messrs. Glaze & Herbert and Messrs
Brantley & Zeigler, and the State by
Solicitor P. T. Hildebrand with the
assistance of Messrs. Raysor & Summers
and Mr. Adam H. Moss?Jones
was found guilty of manslaughter and
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sentenced dv juage n. w. .Mtuiuuugci
to serve ten years and one month in
^ the State penitentiary.
Jones Xot in Stripes.
There has been much comment up*
on Jones's confinement in the peni'
tentiary and just why he was placed
there when his case was under appeal.
He has no doubt fared better
"by being placed in the penitentiary,
for the Orangeburg county jail is
small and one confined there has
only a small cell in which to pass his
time and the health conditions are
not so good as those in the penitentiary.
The convicted man does not
wear the garb of a convict. He is
clad in the clothes of a gentleman and
conducts his business to a certain extent
from prison walls.
After the defendant's conviction
he remained in the county jail for a1
least two weeks. Then the sheriff received
a commitment from the cleri
of court to take him to Columbia
Thinking that an appeal had beer
made, Sheriff A. M. Salley investigated,
but the true status of affairs could
not be determined. However, in s
few days he found out from the solici
tor that the case had been appealec
and was directed 'bv-him to tak<
Jones to the penitentiary during the
pendency of the appeal. .Mr. Salle)
stated to-day that the taking ol
Jones to the penitentiary by him was
only following the orders of tin
court.
The case is now under appeal and
will be argued at the December tern'
of the supreme court. The record ol
the case has not been completed, owing
to the fact that a conflict arose
among the attorneys for the defense
and prosecution as to certain matters
and this controversy has bfeen sub
mitted to Judge R. W. Memminger t<
be decided. The case is in his hands
now and what his decision will be is
not known. As soon, however, as the
case is returned, it will be filed witl
the supreme court.
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FREED BY SMITH.
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, Bawling Boys who Were Serving
Life Sentences for Murder.
> Atlanta, Nov. 16.?After carefully
' studying the case, Gov. H^ke Smith
has pardoned' Leonard and Jesse
Rawlins, following a recent recommendation
by the prison board. Even
before the board made any recommendation,
Gov. Smith had been
looking into the case of the younger
boy, Jesse, who was only 15 when
. the crime was committed.
Gov. Smith signed the pardon
Wednesday and the two lads, who
have been serving a life sentence in
the penitentiary for complicity in the
murder of the Carter children will
be freed at once. The governor's
action was not unexpected.
The .Carter children were killed in
1905: Old man Rawlins and his
' three sons, Milton, Leonard and Jesse,
and a negro named Alf Moore,
were charged with the crime. All of
them were convicted, and Rawlins
and the negro were hanged, while
the three boys were given life sen>
tences.
To the last the elder Rawlins
' maintained that his sons had nothing
to do with the crime, and that
Alf Moore, the negro, had been offered
$150 if he would kill old man
Carter, and that the negro killed the
children instead when they surprised
him while prowling around the Car
ter home.
No case has ever been harder
fought than that of the Rawlins boys
> and their father. Following their
> conviction Attorney Cooper appealed
( the case to the highest court in the
t iana.
Gov. Terrell declined to intervene,
: and the elder Rawlins was hanged.
> The murder of the Carter children
I was one of the bloodiest ever record
ed in the annals of crime in this
State. It was the outgrowth of a
, feud between old man Carter and old
t man Rawlins which had smouldered
for years.
; Children Were Shot Down.
. | The evidence showed that the chili
j dren had heard an unusual noise in
! the neighborhood of the barn on the
I night of the murder. Carter's little
i girl stepped into the yard to see what
- the disturbance was about. She
II called to her brother only a year or J
i i so older, and told him that somei
I thing was disturbing the little calf.
As the little girl called to her
F | brother a shot rang out and she fell
J: dead. As her brother stepped into j
? | the yard to see what was the trouble j
I a second shot rang out and he fell i
I mnrtjiilv wounded bv his sister's'
11 side.
f j Old man Carter, who was in the
-1 house at the time, dared not go to
3: the assistance of his children, be?
cause of the fear that he, too. would
5 be shot down from the dark. The
- house was darkened and the doors
) barred and the two children, one of
3 them dead and the other mortally
3 wounded, lay in the yard of the house
J until daylight made it safe for the
l Carter family to venture out and give
the alarm. |
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AND IN MILWAUKEE, TOO.
Races Separated at Men and Religion
Movement Banquet.
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IWllWailKee, WIS., 1MUV. iu. nau
a dozen negroes sitting by themselves
at a separate table when a banquet in
connection with the Men and Religion
Forward Movement was given at the
Y. M. C. A. building, looked rather
strange to other delegates, who saw
indications of race discrimination.
The notion gained .belief when
they saw a negro preacher take a seat
among the white men, while the other
negroes gestured violently for him
to sit with them. He half rose, turned
to his brethren, sat down again,
scowling, and then rose once more.
A few stage whispered words passed
and he took his seat at the negroes'
table. A few minutes later he got
up to talk, and one of the remarks he
made was "There are no black seats
in Heaven." There were then more
violent motions from the negroes*
table for him to take a new'tact. Still
he hinted at discrimination until,
heeding the murmurs of the other negroes,
he turned about and changed
his address .into a plea for tne cooperation
of white people in religious
work among the negroes.
The Rev. George J. Fox said his
race had not been discriminated
against; that he had made a special
request for a separate table, prior to
the banquet, as he thought his congregation
would feel more at home at
a table of their own.
Prayed for Death of Husband.
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 16.?Henry
Gillingham, the suspended police
officer who killed Chief of Police
Hare here at midnight last night,
died to-night in the hospital from the
effects of the bullet wounds inflicted
by Assistant Chief Huyck and Special
Officer Charles Bauer.
At his bedside last night Mrs. GilI
lingham expressed the wish that her
husband would not survive.
"I pray God he doesn't get well,"
she exclaimed, "for if he lives I know
they will hang him."
Gillingham had been suspended by
Huyck on the charge of intoxication.
| Girl a Daring Steeplejack. j
I^ydia AiKens is tne cnampion wuman
steeplejack of the world. She
I is the daughter of J. T. Aikens, of j
j England, who has climbed the lofty j
| spires of many churches and cathed- j
j rals of England. After climbing a j
1 sleeple 220 feet high in Market Har-!
borough, England, she announced
her intention of coming to this country
and climbing the steeples of the
highest churches and the flagpoles of
the big buildjings. She wants to
scale the flagpoles of the Singer
building and the Metropolitan tower.
Miss Aikens is young, atheletic in
build, strong and agile. She says
she never feels any fear when at the j
top of a building, is not frightened I
by height, and never has a desire to j
jump.?New York Press.
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$3,000 TEETH FOR HORSE.
Lou Childs's Fast Pacer Blanche to
Have Set of False Teeth.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 14. ? Lou
PhiiHs of Snokane. owner of the fast
pacing mare, Blanche, said to-day
that the mare is at once to be equipped
with a set of false and gold-filled
teeth, to cost $3,000.
The little mare, which has won
$10,000 for her owner, this season
on Western tracks, has been much
troubled with toothache, and Childs
has decided to equip her with false
molars. Those that can be saved
will be filled with gold.
The mare ran away on the North
Yakima track, bumping into a fence
when an attempt was made to stop
her, with the result that she knocked
out three front teeth, loosened
several .more, and started a bunch of
aches.
Messenger Dead, Safe Looted.
Scranton, Pa., Nov. 17.?Between
8:26 and 8:30 o'clock to-night, Express
Messenger Irving G. Barger,, of
this city, was killed and the safe in
his car looted as it sped between
Taylor and this city on the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western road.
The train left North Cumberland
at 5 o'clock. It made its regular
stop at Taylor just to. the south of
the Soranton city line. Barger was
seen by train hands during the minute
that the train was stopped at
Taylor. When the train arrived at
the Scranton station at 8:30, four
minutes later, Barger was lying dead
in a pool of blood on the floor of the
car, with his head battered -in. Doctors
later found a bullet in his brain.
It entered at the base of the skull.
His revolver usually worn in a holster
at his side, was found in the express
safe, and the safe was looted.
It is said that between $1,500 and
$2,000 is missing.
The robber or robbers, it is supposed,
got into the car at Taylor,
committed the deed, and dropped off
the train as it slowed up on entering
the Scranton yards.
Barger was 45 years old and lived
in South Scranton.
Acquits Soil of Killing Father.
Camden, Nov. 18.?The ca&e of
Willie Kirkland. charged with the
murder of his lather, McCrea Kirkland,
came up for trial yesterday.
The case was hard fought from beginning
to end, but it was easily established
that Willie Kirkland was
compelled to shoot his father to protect
his mother.
From the testimony, it seems that
.McRae Kirkland was accustomed to
getting in violent rages and would
treat everyone very cruelly that he
came in contact with. Mrs. Kirkland,
the widow of McRae Kirkland.
went upon the witness stand and
told of the cruel treatment she had
suffered from his hands during the
30 years of her married life, and howit
became almost unbearable during
the past two years.
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BAMBERG, S(
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TON, GOVERNOR PRO TEM.
Succeeds Hoke Smith Until Georgia
Elects New Executive.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15.?Governor
Hoke Smith, recently elected United
States senator from Georgia, tendered
his resignation as chief executive
of this State to-day.
To-morrow morning the Hon. Jno.
M. Slaton, president of the State senate,
will take the oath of office as
governor pro tern to serve until Governor
Smith's successor is elected.
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Constitutional school tax....3 mills +
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SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.'
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No.1 12 * 3 mills . ;
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19. 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 2 mills *
Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills
Denmark, No. 2i 6% -^lls
Ehrhardt, No. 22, .ils
Govan, No. 11 > mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 ....1 2 mills
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Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill
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