The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 28, 1911, Page 4, Image 4
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HOOKWORM TREATMENT.
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Making Arrangements in Orangeburg
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for Opening of Dispensaries.
? Orangeburg, Dec. 23.?Dr. F. M. 1
Routh of the State board of health <
was in this city yesterday completing 1
arrangements for the opening of the i
free hookworm treatment dispen- <
saries, which are to be established ]
here. It will be remembered that
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the Orangeburg county board of i
township commissioners made an appropriation
to pay for the medicine ]
that would be dispensed to those desiring
treatment. The services of *
Dr. Routh, who will be in charge, ]
are free, he being paid out of the <
Rockefeller fund for the treatment
of hookworm disease in the South, i
SUMTER TO HAVE SKYSCRAPER.
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City National Bank Will Erect Mod- '
era Seven-Story Building.
Sumter, Dec. 23.?Sumter is to 1
c . have a modern skyscraper in the [
course of the next twelve months.
The announcement to this effect
was made Monday afternoon by Mr.
- G. A. Lemmon, president of the Sum- *
ter Savings bank, following a full
meeting of the board of directors of 1
that bank on Monday anernoon.
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when the plan to build a modern
jseven-story building on the north- {
east corner of Main and Liberty 1
streets, the two principal thorough,
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fares of the city, on a lot which was 1
recently purchased by the Sumter 1
Savings bank at a cost of $25,000. *
FRANTIC WOMAN'S WILD ACTS. ]
Slashes Her Children's Wrists and j
Attempts Suicide. (
Seneca Falls,, N. Y., Dec. 26.?
Driven frantic, it is thought, by her
belief that she had given her two
children poison in mistake for medicine,
Mrs. Anna Curie, wife of a
prominent merchant of Waterloo,
Seneca county, sought to save them
from a death of torture to-day by 1
slashing their wrists with a paring
knife. The distraught woman then 1
i
tried to commit suicide by making '
n ugly gashes in her own wrists. All 1
have d chance to recover.
Harry K. Thaw to Fight for Freedom. 1
New York, Dec. 25.?It is said '
that Harry K. Thaw will soon make ,
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another effort through his lawyers to j
obtain release from the State hospital
for the insane at Matteawan,
and that the basis for this effort will '
be the. recent case of Mrs. O'Shaugh- ^
nessy. Mrs. O'Shaughnessv killed ,
her husband "to save his soul" and
was acquitted of murder. The court
accepted the jury's v.erdict as meaning
that she was insane when she J
shot her husband.
Stabbed in Stomach by Negro. '
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A man by tne name or x-ursrej., u>- ?
ing at 1,124 Olympia street, was ]
stabbed as he was descending from a <
street car at the corner of Pendleton
and Sumter streets late Saturday af- I
ternoon. He says that a little ginger- i
caked negro was shoving his way i
when the people went to get off the
car, and he remonstrated with him, j
when suddenly the negro pulled a :
knife and stabbed him in the stomach,
the negro escaping. Pursley was ;
given medical attention and the i
wound is not serious. The negro, who
is accused of the crime, has not as <
yet been arrested, but the officers are i
looking for him.?Columbia Record, <
Dec. 26. !
HAI) TO SWIM TO SAFETY.
Driver and Passenger Had Narrow
Escape in Newberry.
Newberry, Dec. 23.?Further details
of the drowning of the horse
from Guy Brown's stables yesterday
were learned to-day. The drowning
was in Hunting Fork creek, a very
small stream that flows into Indian
creek about a mile and a half below
where the accident occurred. A man
can step across the creek in dry
weather, but yesterday it was very
high. Daniel Oxner, who lives beyond
the creek, tried to warn Fred
H. Hunter and the negro driver not
to drive in, but they seem not to have
understood him. In a little while the
horses were swimming. One was
drowned; the other broke loose and
swam out. The negro driver swam
out on the Newberry side. Mr. Hunter
got out on the Whitmire side and
went to Mr. uxner s ana got ary
clothes and then went on to the
home of John M. Stuber's to which
place he started when he left Newberry.
Mr. Hunter lost his valise
in the water, and tne buggy was carried
down stream. The streams in
that section were so high this morning
that no one could get either
to Newberry or Whitmire, but Mr.
Suber carried Mr. Hunter to Whitmire
later in the day, and he reached
Newberry this evening by rail by
way of Clinton. Neither the buggy
nor the valise had been found at
last accounts this evening.
THEIR HOPESMSHORT LIVED.
Negroes Throng Capital in Washington
to Get Money Back.
Washington, Dec. 6.?Scores of aged
negro men and women gathered in
the rotunda of the capitol to-day,
*ach tightly gripping a musty bank
book, by which they expected to gain
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collapse of the Freedmen's Bank
here in the early seventies. v
"Where do we get the money?"
they eagerly asked.
"What money?" replied a capitol
policeman.
"The Freedmen's bank claims.
This is the day we arc to get all the
money back?between 10 and 3
e'clock in the rotunda."
The excitement was due to a misunderstanding
in a local church announcement.
Ministers in negro
churches last Sunday advised their
congregations that a committee had
heen appointed to see Speaker Clark
to-day to urge further legislation for
relief of the survivors of the thousands
of negroes who lost their savings
in the collapse of the bank,
which was organized just after the
war. The committee later saw the
speaker. \
The bank with branches at Baltimore,
New Orleans, Jacksonville and
ether Southern cities had more than
70,000 depositors when a board of
commissioners took over its affairs
n July, 1874.
The liabilities were over $2,879,)00.
The affairs of the bank were in
i badly tangled condition and con
*ress provided for the handling of
ill its funds by the treasury departlient.
There has been a continuous
ippeal to congress since then for
'.jill payment to the negro deposit)rs
but none of the claims ever has
Deen paid by congress.
MAN DRIVEN TO COXFESSIOX.
rision of Dead Victim Forces Man
to Surrender to Police.
Baltimore, Dec. 26.?Haunted by i
/isions of his victim, John Henry
Martin surrendered to the police
iere to-day, declaring that he was
;he murderer of William H. Mickle,
in old storekeeper m 70th street,
Washington, on November 17 last.
Martin, who appears to be a nervous
wreck, said that he entered the
store, struck the man over the head |
ivith a wrench, took the contents of
:he cash drawer and fled. He- said
that he went to West Virginia and
did not know that the man he assaulted
was dead until he read it two
sveeks ago in a Washington paper,
tf-e saw also that some one else had
aeen arrested for the crime.
The memory of his deed and the
:hought that innocent pdrsons might
suffer for it, drove him to a Catholic
confessional, where he told his story
to the priest. It was on the advice
d{ the latter, Martin, said, that he
surrendered himself.
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[and, Md. He has been in Baltimore
Dnly a few days, he said.
Martin told the police that his
first thought after reading of the arrest
of another of the murder was
that he had a lucky escape.
"Then," he said, "I began worry^
ing. I could not rest; I could not
sleep. I have been in misery.
"I would rather be hung or have
anything else done to me than to be
tormented by thoughts.
"Ever since I read that I had killed
the man I struck, I have seen
faces at night when I was in bed. I
can see the picture of that cigar
store."
WHY BLACK WAS PARDONED.
Blease Gives Reasons for Extending 1
Clemency.
Columbia, Dec. 25.?The reasons
moving Gov. Blease to grant a par- I
don to John Black, convicted at Ches- i
ter last year in connection with for- ?
mer State dispensary matters and c
sentenced to the penitentiary for five s
years by Special Judge Moore, and i
which will be transmitted to the i
legislature along with the reasons ]
in each case in which executive clem- c
ency has been extended, were ob- <
tained to-day and are as follows: <
"DIoaI- TnVin tt'V> i t a /mnvi'ptod at i
JLIiaUIVy U UUU, TT Ui W) wu t AWVM Mr V J
the November, 1910, term of court
for Chester county of conspiracy to
defraud the State, and sentenced to
five years' imprisonment in the State
penitentiary."
"Should Have Been Acquitted."
"After reading carefully the testimony
given in this case and the
charge delivered by the attorney
presiding as special judge, in my
opinion, John Black should have
been acquitted. I have practiced
law more than twenty-two years and
made a specialty of criminal cases,
having defended many capital cases
and very many of smaller nature,
and as to my reputation as a criminal
lawyer, I gladly leave that to the
people of the counties where I have 5
practiced, and to the judgment of the 1
circuit judges before whom I have t
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appeared, auu x uimn. nuui uij ca- perience
that I am as competent to j
judge of the testimony as that jury, c
and as well posted on criminal law as i
the lawyer who presided, and in my I
opinion, when John Black was convicted
and his codefendants acquit- i
ted, justice demanded that ,the ver- I
diet be set aside, and in my opinion t
an impartial and unprejudiced and c
well learned presiding officer, who ?
had no political prejudice against i
the dispensary or Black, would have i
so acted. c
"Others Let Off."
"Others have been let off by the t
payment of a sum of money, who (
askowledged guilt, and of an offence a
involving much larger sums of money t
than Black's transaction. They were 1
saved from the stupea and allowed t
to pay back to the State a small, i
measly pittance of what had been ^
received, while this man, one of the f
State's own sons, was not allowed c
the privilege or given the opportuni- e
ty of paying a fine, but absolutely j
forced into stripes and into prison; i
but, forsooth, because he was sick- t
ly, the words 'without labor' were
added to meet, I presume, the great
command to show mercy; such mercy
as this is a stench in the nostrils of 1
men and mockery in the sight of
God. Notwithstanding uie iluuiuuilj
for pitiful sums given to these foreigners,
who had sworn in public i
court that they had bribed and had r
robbed the taxpayers of South Caro- s
lina out of hundreds of thousands of c
dollar^, the money was given back c
to them, and all of it in the name of ^
the State of South Carolina. t
Thinks Black "the Scapegoat." 8
"For these reasons, exercising my a
legal right under the constitution and *
statute laws of South Carolina, I c
granted pardon to the defendant, ?
thereby saving his brothers, some of *
whom are now holding high political *
offices, and his sisters, and his true
and faithful wife and innocent, sweet *
little children the humiliation of c
having their brother, husband and I
father placed in stripes, and him the 1
disgrace that prejudiced political and s
personal enemies attempted to heap c
upon him. If that jury had convicted *
all, I would not have interfered, but *
I am satisfied because of a personal 1
difficulty with one of the State of- J*
ficers of this State that this man was ^
made the scapegoat of the entire dis- j
pensary regime.
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"Why?" t
"Somebody must be punished to 0
save some people's political reputa- c
tion; a conviction must be had; who t
shall it be? Of course, the man who P
cursed the learned attorney general" i
to his face upon the street, and it j
was not personally resented. Why j]
was the case transferred to Chester? s
Why left there? Why was it not r
tried in Columbia, or in the same cir- ^
cuit, at Kershaw, or if it must be in p
the 6th circuit, why not at Lancaster
or Fairfield or York? Why was s
it absolutely necessary to go to Ches- 0
ter? Why was it necessary to try v
it at that particular court, by a speci- ^
ally picked and appointed attorney t
to preside? The newspapers were e
clamoring for somebody's conviction, ^
and yet' many were given immunity, t
some of whom have since come into r
the State and gone upon the stand f
and swore as witnesses in other j
cases that they were guilty of the
lowest and most corrupt Drioery; p
yet they were allowed to go free and jnone
have since been prosecuted. ^
Son of Confederate Soldier. t
"John Black's father was a brave 1
Confederate soldier; served as sheriff a
of his county for more than 20 1
years and was holding that position p
at the time of his death. A man e
highly honored and of the highest p
character. His mother was one of e
the purest and noblest of Christian t
TOM MILLER A CANDIDATE?
lumor Says He will Seek Seat in '
Legislature from Jasper County. (
While walking on Main street 011 1
Monday I met a certain colored clergyman
from the lower part of the
state, and after questioning him con- c
jerning church matters the conver- (
;ation turned on matters in general, j
\.nd among the matters of interest
ivhich he told me was this: Ex- (
President Thomas E. Miller of the j
jolored State college is preparing to .
inter politics again. It was rumor- =
id at the time of his resignation .
;hat he would run for the national
louse of representatives against Con- 1
jressman Legare, but Dr. Miller em- j
Dhatically denied the rumor. But 1
lis friends (and they cteim to know) ^
ire saying that he is in the field for <
:he next legislature of South Caro- .
ina. He expects to be one of the
epresentatives of the new Jasper j
lounty. He is carefully laying his (
ilans to this end.?I. E. Lowery, in t
Columbia Record, Dec. 23. (
KILLING IX FLORENCE COVXTY.
Coroner's Jury Holds J. JVL Kimrey
for Collins's Death.
Florence, Dec. 24.?Magistrate C.
5. McClenaghan has returned from *
3ffingham, where he went yesterday *
;o hold the inquest over the body
>f Lum Collins. The verdict of his *
jury was that Colllins came to his
leath from a blow with a piece of
ron piping in the hands of J. M.
Kimrey.
Kimrey and Collins both were men
vith families and both worked at the
Dargan Lumber Company's plant at
;he time of the difficulty. Kimrey
:ame to the city yesterday afternoon
md surrendered to the sheriff, stat- .
ng that he thought he had killed' a
nan and that he had acted in selfiefence.
From what can be gathered of the
estimony adduced at the inquest
Collins and one of Kimrey's sons
vere having a difficulty and Kimrey,
he father of the boy, went to Colins
to remonstrate with him about ^
he trouble he had with young Kimey,
and Collins advanced on Kimrey
vith a knife. Nothing can be learn;d
as to what led up to the diffi- (
:ulty between Collins and the youngir
Kimrey. The man in jail has em)loyed
counsel and has been advised
lot to discuss the affair until the
rial is held.
PAY PINE OR TO PRISON.
Jarnwell Man Convicted of Violat- j
ing Liquor Law.
Barnwell, Dec. 25.?John McLe- \
nore, who was convicted several 1
nonths ago of violating the dispen- c
rary law and sentenced to pay a fine *
>f $400 or spend nine months on the v
:haingang or in the penitentiary, *
vas arrested last week and lodged in 1
he Barnwell county jail. McLemore 1
ippealed his case, but Judge Shipp, (
it the recent term of court, dismissed
he1 appeal. If the fine is not forth- 1
ioming, or the governor fails :to "
^rant a pardon, McLemore will be "
aken to the penitentiary to serve A
lis sentence.
He is receiving the best of atten- *
ion at the jail, having been given a i
ell usually reserved for the women c
irisoners, and he is served with 1
neals from the sheriff's table. The c
hpriff was recentlv acauitted of the *
harge of assault and battery with
ntent to kill the prisoner for whom
te is now doing all in his power to
nake comfortable during his stay in
ail.
women, and from the best of family,
lis brother, a State senator from an
idjoining county; another brother,
he auditor of his own county; anither
brother, the mayor of his own ity;
a sister, the wife of an ex-senaor,
and one of the State's most
irominent lawyers; Black himself
laving for many years been highly
lonored by his people as mayor of '
lis town; as sheriff of his county to
ucceed his father; as major of his
egiment in the militia, and having
ieen otherwise honored by the peo- t
le of his State.
"Why should he be kept for the
laughter, when foreigners outside
f the State, who came into the State,
irere turned loose and given immuniy,
notwithstanding the fact that
hey admitted that they had attemptd
to bribe State officers, and notwithstanding
the fact that in all
rials upon such testimony, the juies
have heretofore acquitted or
ailed to agree, except in the case of
ohn Black.
"In my opinion, the pardoning
>ower was provided for the prevenion
of just such travesties upon jusice
as this, and to relieve men from
he oppression of the courts by po- |
itical enemies and prejudiced jurors
md partial and unlearned judges!
"hese are my reasons, gentlemen, for
>ardoning John Black. They may
Lot be sufficient in the minds of some
?eople; they are to me, and I have
lo excuses to offer and no apologies
o make."
KING'S SLAYER LIBERATED.
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luring good behavior.
Lee Porter, convicted in Spartanburg
county in June, 1911, before
fudge Wilson, of being drunk and
lisorderly and resisting arrest, and
sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment,
paroled during good belavior.
Albert Boyd, convicted in Laurens
lounty in June, 1908, before Judge
vlugh, of murder with recommenda:ion
to mercy and sentenced to life
mprisonment in the State peniten;iary,
paroled during good behavior.
Abraham Wilson, convicted in
Florence county in the fall of 1905,
before Judge Watts, of murder with
recommenadtion to mercy and sen:enced
to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary, paroled during
?ood behavior.
Will Johnson, convicted in Newberry
county in 1907, before Judge
lary, of manslaughter and sentenced
;o five years' imprisonment, paroled
luring good behavior.
Greenville Case.
Tom Rollins, convicted in Green/
rille county in September, 1902, before
Judge Watts, of murder with
recommendation to mercy and sen:enced
to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary, paroled during
?ood behavior.
Will Johnson, alias W. H. Harrison,
convicted in Spartanburg coun;y
in November, 1909, before Judge
Devore, of larceny of live stock and
breach of trust and sentenced to
:hree years' imprisonment, paroled
luring good behavior.
Frank R. Manly, convicted in.Richland
county in May, 1910, before
fudge Devore, of grand larceny and
:ontpnr>eri tn three vears and six
nonths' imprisonment, paroled durng
good behavior.
Mabel HacKett, alias Mabel Hodg?s,
convicted in Aiken county in the
fall of 1907, before Judge Memmin?er,
of manslaughter and sentenced
:o seven years' imprisonment in the
penifentiary, paroled during good
jehavior.
Horace Sheppard, convicted in
Laurens county in September, 1906,
jefore Judge Aldrich, of murder with
recommendation to mercy and sen:enced
to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary, paroled during
jood behavior, and on the condition
:hat if he is hereafter convicted of
iny offence he be recommitted to the
penitentiary to serve the remainder
)f the sentence imposed.
Must Leave State.
Henry Davis, convicted in Wiliamsburg
county in June, 1904, be'ore
Judge James Aldrich, of murler
with recommenadtion to mercy
ind sentenced to life imprisonment
n the State, penitentiary, paroled
luring good behavior and on the coniition
that he leave the State of
South Carolina within twelve hours
ifter his release and never return.
:f he should .ever return he is to be
ecommitted to serve the remainder
)f the sentence imposed.
Richard Suber, convicted in Lau ens
county in January, 1908, before
Tudge Gage, of manslaughter and
sentenced to five years on the public
vorks, paroled during good behavior.
James Sanders, convicted in Ches;er
county in November, 1905, beore
Special Judge Frank B. Gary,
)f murder, with recommendation to
nercy, and sentenced to life imprismment
in the State penitentiary,
jaroled during good behavior, and
>n the condition that at any time he
s convicted of any crime he is to
)e recommitted to serve out the renainder
of the sentence imposed in
his case.
Charles Huntsinger, convicted in
Spartanburg county in April, 1911,
>efore Judge Wilson, of non-support
>f his family, and sentenced to pay a
ine of $200 or serve one year on
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DYNAMITE IN A. C. L. FIRE.
Four Hundred Pounds Explode in . (
Burning of Elm City DepotWilmington,
N. C., Dec. 26.?During
the progress of a fire which destroyed
the Atlantic Coast Line depot
at Elm City, N. C., early to-day,
400 pounds of dynamite in the ^
freight warehouse of the structure
exploded, the detonations from which
shattered glass frame windows for J
several blocks and razed chimneys to i
the ground. Night Operator Harris
escaped from the building just before
the explosion took place, but Conductor
Bruce Cotton, in charge of a A
freight train whicl^ was assisting in
saving rolling stock, was slightly
hurt by a flying piece of debris from '
the explosion. About eighty hales ^
of cotton were destroyed with other
property belonging to the railroad
company. jj
the county chaingang, paroled during
good behavior, and upon the condition
that he support his family
properly. In case he fails to do so,
he shall be recommitted for the purpose
of serving his sentence.
G. W. Ennis, convicted in Barn- . |
well county in the spring of 1892,
before Judge Witherspoon, of arson,
and sentenced to life imprisonment
in the State penitentiary, paroled
during good behavior, and on the
condition that he leave the State of
South Carolina within twenty-four *
hours and never return. Should he
return he is to be recommitted to
serve the remainder of his sentence.
Samuel Reepe, convicted in Chester
county in November, 1899, be- *
fore Judge Buchanan, of murder,
with recommendation to mercy, and T
a i a- m. ! 1 i n
sentenced to me impiisuumeut iu
the State penitentiary, paroled during
good behavior. \
Peter Myers, convicted in Richland
county in May, 1911, before
Judge Aldrich, of larceny of live 4
stock, and sentenced to one year's
imprisonment, paroled during good
behavior.
Came South with Sherman.
' Columbia, Dec. 23.?A soldier in
Sherman's army, when it swept
through South Carolina with fire in {
the days of 1865, was liberated from
the penitentiary to-day when Gov.
Blease paroled George W. Ennis,
who was sent u^ from Barnwell
county in 1892 for life. The condi- ^
tion attached to the parole was that
Ennis leave the State within twentyfour
hours and never return.
Ennis, as stated, was a soldier in
Sherman's army and at the close of
the war settled in Barnwell county
oh a farm. In 1892 he was arrested,
tried and convicted of arson, burning
a neighbor's gin house, and sentenc- j,
ed to be banged, Gov, Tillman af- ^
terwards commuting the sentence to
life imprisonment in the State penitentiary,
from which Ennis was released
to-day, after a service of 19 ?
years, an old man now, being about
72. It is said that at the time of his
trial in Barnwell he admitted on tlie ?
stand that he was a member of
Sherman's army and was proud of
the fact. -1 ( \ J
While in prison Ennis was an ex-*
cellent prisoner and ran the mill, always
had the best corn and furnished V
fresh meal and hominy every day,
and on account of this the doctors .
are of the opinion that this accounted
for there never having been a
case of pellagra in the prison, the
only one known to have been there
having come from Sumter county.
Ennis always took great delight and y
pride in his fresh meal and hominy.
It is stated that Ennis is well connected
in Illinois, having a wealthy
brother living there,-near which ' g
place Ennis was born. It is thought
he went there this afternoon on being
released from the penitentiary.
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