The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 25, 1913, Page 3, Image 3
WILL GO TO CONFERENCE j
PROBERS FIND NO TRIAL IS J
NECESSARY.
Rev. A. J. Cautlien was not Given i
Right to Associate Others With \ t
Him as Prosecutors.
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L Greenville. Sept. 17.?Presiding
Elder P. F. Kilgo tonight gave out : a
the following statement bearing on 1
gpSf ihe investigation into charges against
Egaf the Rev. S. A. Nettles, editor of the
? Southern Christian Advocate: js
IK "Rev. S. A. Nettles, having re- r
K quested an investigation of rumors l
W detrimental to him, the committee;v
of investigation, composed of Rev.,s
L. P. McGee, Rev. \V. E. Wiggins,1 ^
and Rev. W. M. Owings, met at St. j *
Paul's Methodist church. Greenville, | k
S. C., Wednesday. September 17. at'
\ Z o'clock p. m.. Rev. P. F. Kilgo, pre-;t
f siding elder, in the chair. Rev. O. ; a
-r M. Abnev was appointed secretary : S
and Miss Beam stenographer. j
"Rev. E. S. Jones appeared as \i]
counsel for the accused and requested
that each witness be examined i ^
without the presence of, other wit- *
r.eeses. Rev. A. J. Cauthen appeared |
as a prosecuting witness and claimed j *
tne rignt to associate witu aim, as
co-prosecuting witnesses, about one- .
fourth of the witnesses summoned.
The chair ruled they would have to _
> appoint one of their number, as the ?
accuser or prosecuting witness.
Will Appeal to Conference.
"After a brief consultation with 1
one another, Mr. Cauthen said, 'We
died. Ku <v? . vr ruling and have ^
it was an acciv .you, and will car- j
The coroner came e annual confer- | 8
* berg, this mornin if
quest over Mor -rew, some of his *
Rain heir with him. Where- j
cooler c'hair addressed the remain- a
V : 3
ing witnesses, asking them if they
had anv accusations to bring against : t
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Rev. S. A. Nettles. There being no
/ i r
4 response, the chair instructed the 1
committee to prepare their decision ] |
and they rendered the following: '
*No accusation and no evidence hav-!
a
ing been brought before tne com.
mittee, we find no trial necessary.' j
P. F. KILGO, President.
O. M. ABXEY, Secretary,
L. P. McGEE, ."
W. E. WIGGINS, ^
W. M. OWINGS, *
Committee." .
* The Rev. E. S. Jones, who repre- j '
sented Rev. S. A. Nettles in the in- j &
vestigation held this afternoon, made j ^
the following statement last night: i ^
Mr. Jones' Statement. [ ^
"This investigation was called at j h
the request of Mr. Nettles. For some [ h
time untrue rumors of an irritating i e
and reflecting character had been j n
coming to Mr. Nettles' ears, and he j tl
decided that the best course to be i b
pursued was to ask for an investiga- j
tion. In the letter he addressed to:
Rev. B. F. Kilgo, presiding elder of
this district, Mr. Nettles stated that ^
> Rev. A. J. Cauthen, of Spartanburg,
claimed to know of these derogatory
matters.
"When Mr. Cauthen was request-|L
> ed to appear before the investigating! t:
committee, he wrote that he would i r
be on hand, but that he would not j t]
appear as Mr. Nettles' accuser, for j 3
he knew nothing against him, but j a
would 'simply furnish accusations j t<
that have logically been given me." t<
The presiding elder then requested j n
Mr. Cauthen to furnish him the | s
names of these accusers in order that' n
* they might be notified to appear be- j p
fore the committee of investigation, j n
Mr. Cauthen replied with a list of j fi
55 names. Each of these was in- j g
formed bV letter of the date, place j p
and purpose of the investigation and h
was asked to be present. Many of h
t them did not appear. As a matter of fact,
many of the persons whose nam- p
es appeared on the list furnished by a
Mr. Cauthen expressed t surprise f
at being summoned, stating that v
they knew nothing whatever against c
Mr. Nettles, and one of them goe?" i
so far as to say that, prior to the re- c
ceipt of the summons, he had never t
heard of either Mr. Nettles or Mr. v
Cauthen. In view of these facts, it ?
is difficult to understand by what t
'logical* channel accusations by these 1
parties reached Mr. Cauthen's hands, ii
Appeared as Accuser. x
"Mr. Cauthen appeared before the 33
investigating committee this afternoon
in the character of the ac^
cuser or prosecuting witness. "When e
the time came to begin the taking of c
testimony, Mr. Jones, as Mr. Nettles* I
counsel, requested that each witness C
give his testimony without other wit- t
r.esses being present. Mr. cautnen t
made strenuous objection to this, o
stating that there would be quite a d
number of others associated with him e
as prosecuting witnesses. The chair t
raid that, in his opinion, this joining a
of others as prosecuting witnesses in }
order to have them present through- v
cut the proceedings, would amount to t
a dodging of the church law on the s
point, and. therefore, ruled that only
one person could remain present t
throughout the proceedings as prose- r
cuting witness. t
"After a hurried consultation with t
his would-be associate accusers or i
TWO MEX ARE ARRESTED.
Lrthur Waul and Henry Gary Fall \\
Into the Custody of Sheriff.
Laurens. Sdpt. IS.?Wanted for
he alleged murder of Gordon Xorris cil
September 7, at Stottsboro. Jackson
ounty, Ala., two young white men.
irthur Ward and Henry Gary, were
rrpsted and lodged in jail here early u
oday by Sheriff John D. Owings. The It-1
rrests were made at Clinton, where |
[ is said the men had been under j111
urveillance for several days. Tomor- u
ow Deputy Sheriff Reid will take
he fugitives to Chattanooga, Tenn., o1
>here he will turn them over to the 11
heriff of Jackson county. Both men (t~
eny their guilt but admit they are
rom the section where the alleged
illing occurred. rDavid
Hamilton, a young man of
he upper section of this county, was
rrested today by a deputy United ai
tares marshal and carried to Edge- ni
eld, where he is charged with break- s0
ag into the Trenton postoffiee early
a this month. Hamilton denies that 01
e had any connection with the CT
rouble at Trenton. l>1
? ^ ? ni
Lttempts to Shake Arc-Light, Killed. b(
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Monroe, N. C., Sept 17.?Think- to
ag to do what he had often before h<
one himself and seen others do, Mr. of
lllison H. Bivens, local manager of er
he Southern Cotton Oil Company, er
aught hold of the chain of a sput- Ji
ering arc-light ir. front of his home cc
o-night about 9 o'clock, intending fc
o shake the lamp and cause the car- in
on to burn more freely, and was intantly
killed, it being estimated that tb
Lilly 2.300 volts of electricity passed as
hrough his body. ai
Mr. Bivens, together with his wife ra
nd three children, had started to t-.\
nother part of town. Seeing that ?i
he light in front of his home was H
ot burning properly, he seized the th
ing at the end of the chain which re
nwers a light of this type. The chani, ec
: is supposed, had become heavily 01
harged through a short-circuit prob- th
bly caused by the recent heavy sr
ains, and the death of Mr. Bivens ju
as instantaneous. in
It has been of common occurrence m
Dr citizens passing an arc-light burn- s(
a'g feebly, to shake the lamp; in
hich case the carbon usually ignites ar
lore fully. Until to-night no harm th
ad ever resulted from such help ne
iven the town's lighting system. be
Mr. Bivens was the oldest son of io
Ir. and Mrs. E. J. Bivens of this th
sty, was born in Union county and re
ad lived the 35 years of his life pc
ere. gaining the warm regard and m
igh esteem of the citizens by his la
xemplary character and good busi- ar
ess ability. Besides his wife and of
iiree children, he is survived by two th
rothers and several sisters. o;
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GOTH AMITE ACTS QUEER. m
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Hi
islieville Police Take Man who
lc(
Wants to Hun Town. ' ci
Asheville, X. C., Sept. 20.?W. V. to
.yons. of Xew York, to-day was fe
iken in charge by the police at the as
equest of relatives, who have asked ai
liat inquiry be made as to his sanity. v. ]
ince coming to Asheville. two weeks ck
go. Lyons has attracted no little in- te
?rest. Recently he declared his in- th
ention to remove from office the u
layor and other city officials, and to in
top the publication of the local m
iewspapers. Today he distributed n>
rinted cards announcing his de- a
ermination to dismiss the police th
orce and reorganize the municipal al
overnment. Lyons appearently is
lentifully supplied with money, and ly
as purchased vaiuaoie yrupen> iu
ere. it
rosecuting witnesses, Mr. Cauthen if
nnounced that he would proceed no pi
urther before the committee, but v
rould appeal from the ruling of the ?
hair, and take the matter before the
ext annual conference. Having so
ielivered himself, he and some of *
he witnesses abruptly withdrew. The l<
witnesses who remained were then 1
sked by the chair if they had anyhing
to say against Mr. Nettles,
'here was no response, and the chair
nstructed the committee to prepare
heir decision. They decided that
o trial was necessary.
Reason Obvious.
"The reason why Mr. Nettles^desird
the exclusion of all witnesses exept
the one testifying is obvious,
t is not positively known why Mr.
"authen was so strongly opposed to
his usual manner of procedure, but
rom what was said on the floor by
>ne of Mr. Cauthen's associates who
iesired to be present during all the
xamination of witnesses, apparently
he reason was not because they had
inv testimony to offer against Mr. ^
settles, but merely because they 1
ranted to see that it was not made \
o appear that Mr.Cauthen was perecuting
Mr. Nettles. I
"Mr. Nettles regrets exceedingly
iiat, after all preparations had been
r.ade to go thoroughly into the mater,
Mr. Cauthen refused to produce
he accusations which he had promised
to produce on this occasion." .
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LAWYERS AM) THE LAW.
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'oeful Lack of Confidence Continues
to Cirow Steadily.
One of the most remarkable ad"esses
delivered at the meeting of j
te American Bar Association, in j
ontreal. was that of Mr. Moorfield '(
orey. a leader of the Boston Bar, ;
ho declared to his brother lawyers
iat "our profession is to-day more j;
scredited than ever before," and
ged them not to delay the reforms;,
hich the people are demanding, j
"There is no profession," said Mr.
lorey, "which has suffered more!
ora superstition, none in which tra- i
tion has exercised and still exercis- I
; a more baleful influence than our
vn. The common law which in theo
'broadens down from precedent
< precedent,' has almost invariably
?en influenced too much by the past,
id has been very slow to change its :
ethods with the changing needs of
>ciety."
The result has been that instead
protecting the community against
ime by making it dangerous and
iprofitable to the criminal, the
ethods of criminal procedure have
:en allowed to become so cumber- i
?me that society, "though anxious
free itself from a pest," finds itself
mdicapped at almost every stage
the proceedings and the criminal
ijoys an advantage to which he is
ititled upon no conceivable grounds,
istice is easy to defeat, and the
mrts which have been established
>r its administration are brought
to disrepute.
Mr. Storey has no patience with
te barriers which have been raised
rainst the swift and sure discovery
id punishment of crime. He demnces
the practice which permits
ipeals to be taken again and again
id upon all sorts of technicalities:
e undertakes to expose the folly of
ie rule which protects a person aristed
for crime from being question!
with a view to finding out whether
not he is guilty. He insists that
ie custom of allowing counsel to
end days in the empaneling or a
ry, wasting the time of the court
the effort to gain some unfair adintage
for their client, should be
opped.
The views voiced by Mr. Storey
e shared by increasing numbers of
e people. The enactment by Min>sdta
of a statute vesting ten mem^rs
of a jury with the authority to
nder a verdict is a recognition of 1
e fact that the unanimous verdict
sts only upon precedent and unsup>rted
by common sense. There are
any other theories of the criminal
w which are equally indefensible
id which help to defeat the efforts (
society to protect itself against (
ose who are not properly mindful !
the rights of others, so many, in ;
ct, that even .Mr. Taft, one of the
ost conservative of men, declares
at "the administration of criminal <
w in this country is a disgrace to (
ir civilization."
I
It is for the lawyers of the country
act if they would save their prossion
and preserve the courts :
:ainst the contempt into which they
( falling. The people do not know
hat it is wrong but they lack confi nce
in the power of the law to pro
ct them against acts of aggression, j
ey are convinced that the law as I
is generally administered, discrim- i
ates against the man without |
eans in favor of the man who has I
oney. and there is bred in the land j
feeling of hostility to law from \
e vicious consequences of which j
1 of us suffer.
The Mississippi judges who recent-!1
met and odopted recommendations i
r changing the law so as to make |
more responsive to justice, had the j
ght idea. They would recognize that j
courts would be trusted, they must j
*ove themselves trustworthy.?;
ews and Courier.
, C. LEE, President
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Hundreds of people in this vicinity
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CARD OF THANKS.
I wish to thank my many friends
for their kindness in my recent sad
Via Iacc a f mv fotVlDT
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as it is impossible for me to see them
all personally.
WM. H. PATRICK.
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1913 until the
15th day of March, 1914, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1914. until the 31st day of January,
1914, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1914, until
the 28th day of February, 1914, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1914, until the 15th
day of March, 1914, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be addea to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For state purposes 5% mills
For county purposes oy2 mills
Constitutional school tax....3 mills
For public schools 1 mill
For roads % mill
Total 15% mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 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. 21 6% mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Fishpond. No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Mirtwflv. No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills
Oiar, No. 8 4 mills
3t.John's, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 3 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age. are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1913 are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor, are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1914.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October. 1913, until
the 1st dav of March, 1914.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
TEACHER'S EXAMINATION.
The regular examination for certificates
to teach in the public
schools of Bamberg county will be
held Friday, October 3, beginning at
9 o'clock a. m., at the court house.
This will be the last examination
held till May, 1914. All teachers who
have not certificates will please bear
this in mind, as no teacher is allowed
to teach who has not a certificate.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education.
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