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5 h ^ lambrrg ^wralb j ====================================================== ? One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1914. Established 1891. *-;. % i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS! SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt I tellings. Ehrhardt, April 27.?Well, the Methodist district conference is over and our town looks deserted to-day. They did not paint the town red, as the usual saying goes, but they must have put the notion of white washing the town in the heads of our town council, for they have had all the P trees whitewashed as high as a man can reach on Main street. Helps the looks somewhat. One of our citizens says that he had several hens sitting, and the boxes were open towards Main street. Last week every one of them quit their nests and went away. Says they saw so many preachers that they got scared their time would come next. The brick company is ready to 1 ? -1- -?^ViAAr?non\r ISKQ SIOCK IV lUi ill men (.wuii/au;. $100 a share and they want about $15,000 to ?tart up the company. ^ . There is no doubt but brick making f is a good business, and will pay the stock owners a good profit. All the people talk about in this section is base ball and the Mexican war. Some have even picked out the place in Big Saltkeatchie to hide. Patriotic inclined. Mr. Alex Henderson and his bride are expected in town to-day. All are preparing for the memorial on April 30. They anticipate a big time, and it is hoped that the young ladies will get a chance to show ? their new hats and dresses. JEE. Colston Dots. Colston, April 28.?We are having some beautiful weather for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rentz attended the quarterly meeting at Ehrhardt > ' last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. George Besinger and daughters visited Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Padgett last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bishop and mother, Mrs. Ogretta Beard, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bishop last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Beard went to Bamberg last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J.~ H. McMillan, from Lodge, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bishop last Saturday and Sunday. We are glad to know that Mr. Frank Kearse is able to be up from the mumps. Miss Annie Bishop gave her friends a birthday quilting last Saturday. Misses Elizabeth and Flossie Hiers visited Miss Annie Bishop last Saturday. ^ Misses Bessie and Flossie Folk were the guests of Mr. Joe Bishop and family last Saturday. Mrs. J. B. All and mother visited friends and relatives at Ehrhardt last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Jones Bishop and sister were , the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bifthnn last Sunday. Messrs. Mazone, Copeland Zeiglar and aunt, Miss Virginia, visited Mr. I * and Mrs. J. C. Beard last Sunday. Miss Annie Florence Fender spent last Saturday with her sisters at jEhrharat. There will be a picnic given at Colston school on Saturday, May 2nd. Everybody is cordially invited to come and bring well filled baskets. We will have some speaking during the morning hours. There will be mothers' day at Colston church on the second Sunday morning in May. Speaking by the Sunday-school. Everybody is invited to go. Mr. Jake Fender, from Lodge, visited his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Folk, last Sunday. NOT A POLICEMAN, SAYS BYRNES South Carolinian Won't Make Anoth-p. er Trip to Colorada. Washington, April 28.?Chairman Foster, of the committee on mines and mining, to-day asked Congressman James F. Byrnes to be one of v a suh-committee to make a second visit to the scene of the Colorado coal strike. Mr. Byrnes declined, and made this statement to The News and Courier correspondent: "I shall not go to Colorado, for the '^jason that there is no Federal question involved in a fight between " J rv-iilitio nf fViza Qtatp striKers anu uic mmuo wt iuv uvuw. We are urged to go on the ground of keeping the peace, and I am not a policeman. L EDITOR CHARGED WITH LIBEL. L. A. Beaty, of Georgetown, Accused by Dr. Olin Sawyer. Georgetown, April 26.?L. A. Beaty, editor of the Georgetown Times, was arrested here yesterday afternoon on charges of libel, brought by Dr. Olin Sawyer. The action was the result of the publica-j tion in the Times yesterday of an article relating to a political meeting at Carver's Bay, this county, following which a killing occurred. The arrest of Mr. Beaty was made by Sheriff H. H. Ward in the latter's i UU1UO. Dr. Sawyer is recognized as one of the prominent leaders of the governor in Georgetown county. The policy of the Georgetown Times is one of opposition to the governor. It seems that the action against Mr. Beaty is similar to that brought several days ago in Columbia against James H. Moore, editor of the Columbia Record. Andrews Had Warrant Issued. 1 Georgetown, April 27.?An inadvertent error was made in the dispatch of last night relating to the arrest of L. A. Beaty, editor of the Georgetown Times, on charges of libel, the dispatch stating the charges had been brought by Dr. Olin Sawyer. Dr. Sawyer dicf not 6wear out the warrant, though he was named as the injured party. The affidavit on which the warrant was issued was made by W. H. Andrews, mayor of Georgetown, general manager of the Georgetown and Western Railway, and a leader of the State administration faction in this county. The preliminary hearing was to have been held before Magistrate Harrelson this morning. At a conference held this morning in the office of Mr. Beaty, between Judge Harrelson, the Hon. M. W. Pyatt and Mr. Beaty, the Judge asked the defendant if he had any desire to have the case transferred to another magistrate. To this Mr. Beaty replied that he had perfect confidence in Judge Harrelson's fairness and it was not his wish to have the case transferred to any other magistrate's court. It was then agreed that the preliminary hearing should be held at 11 o'clock "Saturday morning. Judge Harrelson fixed the bond of J **? t> _ 4. o -| AAA TV, ic Q c ol_ I MI. DC<liy ctl i,y u v# i mo ** wo ui most instantly arranged. The filing of this suit has created a great deal of local interest, and the hearing will probably be held in the court house in order to accommodate the large number of spectators expected. HE COULDN'T SING LATIN. Failure to Stand Policeman's Test Lands Youth in Jail. When. James Smith, 18 years old, of 19 Mechanic street, New Rochelle, was sentenced to sixty days in prison for petty larceny by Justices O'Keefe, Herrman and Salmon in special sessions a few days ago, he said he had been led to steal by going to church for the first time in his recollection. Recently, his father, who is a postman, took him to task for not being a church attendant. "Son," said the elder Smith, "you're going to the bad. Go to church instead. You'll never get ahead in this world until you do." So on the last Sunday in March James joined the faithful who went into the mission at 35 West 135th T"? street. ine jttev. rv-iuuctiu uuiuc? was holding forth on the beauty of a righteous life. Deeply touched,, James knelt with the others in prayer. While he was wiping away the moisture from his eyes his glance was caught by thoi minister's hat and coat in an anteroom. Remembering his father's remark about getting along in this world by going to church, James tiptoed softly to the garments. On his way out, three overcoats found their way across his arm. i James walked sanctimoniously away until he reached 131st street and j Madison avenue. There he was stop-1 ped by Patrolman Hart, of the Lenox j -? i?l avenue station, who noticed a sneaL of sacred music protruding from the coat that belonged to the minister. "Stop!" said the policeman. "Where are you going?" "To church," said James. "I sing in the choir." "But what are you doing with those coats?" "Taking them to give away to the poor." The policeman fingered them suspiciously and looked more closely at the music. "This music is in Latin," he ex IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Qnick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Boston Walker was shot and killed in a poolroom in Lancaster on Thursday by Knox Crochett?both v;uiui cu. Clemson college is one of the principal exhibitors at the fourth national textile exhibition, at Boston, now being, held. James H. Fowles, magistrate for Columbia, has been suspended by the governor. The suspension holds until the senate meets in 1915. John McGill, who was injured by a police patrol- automobile in Charleston some time ago, has been awarded $436 damages by the Charleston city council. William Wragg shot and killed his wife in Georgetown on Sunday because she interfered with him while he was beating their child. The parties are colored. John Henry Cain, of Florence, was bitten by a pet dog a few days ago and the animal's head was sent to Columbia for examination, which showed rabies. He is now undergoing the pasteur treatment. The intercollegiate oratorical contest, which took place at Rock Hill " !1 r> T Ovfon j fnaay mgiu, was wuu uj xv. u. ^iau of Wofford college. Second place was won by Frank Eugene Broyles [ of the College of Charleston and , third by Howard D. Smith of the Presbyterian college at Clinton. Snioak Buys Paper. Walterboro, April 25.?A deal was closed here yesterday, whereby R. M. Jefferies, who has edited The Press and Standard, Colleton's only newspaper, for the last year, sold all of his interest in the business to W. W. Smoak, the former editor and owner of The Press and Standard. The deal has been of much interest locally and has created considerable excitement in Walterboro. Mr. Smoak is now business manager of the Anderson Daily Intelligencer, and he will remain in that position at least for a while. Jas. F. Risher, of Smoaks, a graduate of the Citadel ana a teacner ior many years, has taken charge of the paper i-and will serve as editor and manager. Mr. Risher is a Colleton man and has a large family connection and many friends. His ability .will demonstrate itself. Mr. Jefferies was appointed some time ago as master for Colleton j county in the place of Col. C. G. Henderson, deceased, and he will give his time to that work and the practice of law here. Such a Nice Lot of Girls. Nice, pleasant, refined lot of j young women they are training for the State of Indiana at Perdue University. Miss Mabel Roagers, a freshman student there, asserts under oath that she was visited in her room by seven young ladies, sister students of the senior class and hazed according to the most modern and advanced ideas. She was stripped in the presence of seven; her body was daubed with red ink, mucilage was poured over her and then she was stuck with pins and thrown suddenly into ice water. Consequently she was made severely ill and she has sued the seven for $7,000 damages. We hope earnestly that she will get it and that the parents who brought up girls of that kind will have to pay it. There are nearly forty thousand electric vehicles in this country. Joseph Willett, tourist conductor, of St. Albans, Vt., who is now on his one hundred and twentieth transcontinental trip from Boston to California. had been travelling constantly for forty-six years. He estimates that he has covered in this time 3,270,000 miles. claimed. Can you sing it?" "Sure," replied James, who knew several Italians. "Then sing it now," ordered the 1 *? ?TOTV?AC T*T o o rnlnnfant ponceniau. nug t^uv/wui., declaring that he was not accustomed to singing Latin on street corners. At length he yielded to urgent prompting. The policeman listened as long as he could. "That'll do," he said finally. "You'd better come along to the station house and resign from the choir."?New York Sun. DENY AFFIDAVITS. Frank's Lawyers Ask Court to Eliminate Statements. Atlanta, Ga., April 28.?Two affidavits, in which the Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and R. L. Barber asserted they had heard James Conley, a negro factory sweeper, confess to the murder of Marv Phaean. the 14-year-old fac tory girl, have been repudiated by the affiants, it was announced today. Superior Judge Hill, at the request of attorneys for Leo M. Frank, the factory superintendent under sentence of death for the murder, today signed an order eliminating the affidavits from the pending extraordinary motion for a new trial for Frank. The defence counsel also issued a statement saying that the two affiants had made the affidavits voluntarily, and that they had every reason to believe they were truthful at the time they were made. Repudiation of the affidavits reflecting upon the negro was in a sworn statement given by the two men to Solicitor General Dorsey, chief of the State's legal forces in the prosecution. Conley was convicted as an accessory after the murder and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. He testified at the trial of Frank that the latter had killed the factory girl in the plant of the National Pencil Company here, and that he aided in j the disposal of the body in the fac-j tory basement. The girl had been hit on the head and strangled. The convicted factory superinten-1 dent issued a statement from his cell to-day, in which he reiterated his innocence, commented on the report ot a national detective agency, which asserted there was nothing to show that he was a pervert, and asked a new trial. Frank also commented on the statement of Chief of Detectives Lanford, in which he said that the State never had charged that Frank j was a pervert. The convicted man said he believed the /public's im-j pression on the point inflamed opin-| ion against him at the time of his trial and this was one of the chief reasons why he should have a new hearing. Taken to Grave on Mother's Lap. Spartanburg, April 28.?In a casket covered with flowers the body of Virginia Pendleton, the two-' months'-old baby drowned here Jan-i uary 30, was carried to Oakwood j Cemetery this afternoon in the lap of Miss Fleda Pendleton, the 19- j vear-nld mother, who in general ses-| sions court yesterday was found not guilty of the charge that she murdered the child. The grave overlooks the creek into which the baby was thrown. Six hundred women and children attended the funeral. After the burial they pressed around Miss Pendleton to shake her hand. Clyde C. Clement, the father, who was convicted of the murder, is be-1 ing carefully watched to prevent a possibie attempt at suicide. Contents of his diary, introduced at the trial, showed that he sometimes contemplated suicide. Miss Pendleton has been placed under bond as a witness against Clement in case he should be given a new trial. FLORENCE PROUD OF HER HERO Relatives and Friends Learn of His Rrave Deed in Mexico. Florence, April 27.?The "E. F. Sessions," of Florence, who was reported in to-day's News from the j American-Mexican border trouble as sent out from Galveston, Texas, under date of April 26, as having run the Mexican blockade under a German flag, and rescued a number of women and children, Americans from the interior of Mexico, is none other than E. Frank Sessoms, and not "E. F. Sessions," of Florence, and is the eldest brother of Mr. Alexander L. Sessoms and Mrs. J. Frank Jones, of this city. Mr. Sessoms left Florence in the early 80's for Texas. He was a boiler-maker by trade, having served his apprenticeship in the Wilx' n onrt Flnrenne shoos lUfctUIl, . V/., Uiiu ^ of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway company. He was always known as a brave and daring man. He is the eldest son of the late S. B. Sessoms, of Mars Bluff, but who moved to Florence later in life. Florentines are congratulating themselves that a Florence man has made a hero of himself in far away Mexico, while the members of his family here were worrying over his safety. . . _ I BOY CONVICTED; BIRL FREE SPARTANBURG JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY FOR MAN. Spectators Show Approval When Young Woman is Acquitted of Charge. Spartanburg, April 27.?Clyde C. Clement was found guilty of murder, but recommended to mercy. Miss Fleda Pendleton, jointly charged with him of the murder of their baby, whose body was found Januj ary 31 in a mill pond, was found not guilty. The jury returned the verdict at ten minutes after 7 o'clock to-night, after having been out since twenty-six minutes after 5 o'clock. The court room was filled with spectators when the verdict was returned. "When foreman J. W. Gaston read the jury's finding the crowd gave a demonstration of approval, cheering and clapping their hands. Judge Shipp made no effort to stop the applause. Clement rose to his feet, staggered over to his mother, who sat nearby, threw his arms around her neck, buried his face in her bosom and went to sobbing. Mrs. Clement also wept piteously. The boy, after a few minutes, was led back to jail. Mr. and Mrs. Clement and other members of the family left in an automobile for their home in North ~ i Carolina, ay ine ume mey uuaiueu the car Mrs. Clement was in hysterics and had to be supported. "Oh, may God save my son," she sobbed. "Oh, will they kill him? Oh, save him." Miss Pendleton had bowed her head when the jury entered. When the words freeing her were pronounced she straightened up with a jerk, her face lighted up with a smile and she clasped her attorney's hand and shook it vigorously. Then she rushed over to the jury ami shook the hands of all of them. Mrs. J. H. Pendleton, her mother, was also overjoyed. The funeral of the drowned baby will be held to-morrow at 4 o'clock at Oak wood cemetery and will be conducted by the Rev. C. C. Herbert, pastor of Central Methodist church. Miss Pendleton and her mother will attend the funeral. Miss Pendleton left Wednesday morning for her parents' home in Durham, N. C. Miss Pendleton's Confession.. Spartanburg, April 24.?Saving for rebuttal what he regards as in many respects his strongest evidence of the guilt of Clyde C. Clement and Miss Fleda Pendleton, jointly charged with the murder of their baby daughter, Solicitor Albert E. Hill rested for the State late this afternoon. The evidence the solicitor adduced against the pair during the day became more and more damaging with each succeeding witness, and reached its climax with the introduction ?.<> ATi^c Pondlotnn's rnnfpssion. made V/I *?i. iVJU A Vuuivvv^ ? , in the jail a few hours after her arrest, and recorded by a stenographer in the presence of witnesses. Counsel for Clement used every ruse known to skilful lawyers to prevent the introduction of the document. In it the girl charges Clement with having thrown their little daughter, on the night of January 30, into Lawson's Fork, the creek which forms the mill pond, where the body was found the next morning. She admits in the confession that she accompanied him on his alleged dire mission, but declares that she protested against the death of the baby. She was induced not to prevent him from drowning the baby by his promise to marry her if she acquiesced, and threatened to desert her if she thwarted his purpose, according to the confession. After the State rested a controversy arose between counsel for Clement and Miss Pendleton as to which side should present its defence testimony first. Character witnesses for Clement were placed on the stand to say he bore a good reputation. Each of the defendants on the witness stand to-day denied the charge on which they were jointly . I indicted, that they murdered the J T/% %% wtr | baby wbose ooay was iuuuu .jauuai; | 81 in a mill pond here. They adj mitted that they went together on ! the night of January 30 to the bridge, from which the child was thrown into the black waters of Law I son's Fork, the stream wmcn iorms the mill pond, but each of them denied any knowledge of the purj pose of the trip. Clement said lie j went at Miss Pendleton's behest; she I - - ' said she was taken there by Clement. - * He said she threw the baby into the creek; she said he did it. Highly Dramatic. \ Miss Pendleton's testimony this afternoon was highly dramatic. She would have died, she said, rather than permit harm to befall her little daughter, whom she loved dearly. Her only reason, she averred, for not exposing the alleged murderer, Clement, was that she was blindly in love with him and he told her that he would marry her, take her ? far away and they would blot the y murder from their memory. "And do you still have this blind ' love for Clement?" asked her gray- >. haired counsellor, Col. Alvin H. Dean. .' ' j;J "Do you want me to tell exactly the real state of my feelings?" she inquired, in turn. Yes, I do, said her attorney. She paused for fully a half minute. Then, with heaving bosom, exclaimed: "You want to know if I still love the man who lied to me from start to finish, who won my confidence, who robbed me of my* ' virtue?the man who murdered my child, without my consent, willing or *9 unwilling?the man who now comes y up here and lays the crime on me, .;; when he knows deep down in his \. . heart that he did it himself, who drags me before this public and exposes me to shame; love such a brute?" Her lip quivered, her voice broke. Two thousand persons jam ming the court room almost to suifocation held their breath. "Love such a brute?" she asked with / withering scorn. "I detest him." She had answered, and a murmur swept the court room. "Quite a flourish," said C. P. Sanders, of counsel for Clement. "Very well rehearsed," commented Samuel J. Nicholls, the boy's chief of counsel. 'Living Truth," Shouts Dean. Col. Dean leaped to his feet. His eyes flashed. "Every word of it is the living truth," he shouted, "and there's not an honest man who does not believe it, as you will find by the verdict." "There's not an hones^ man who does believe it?" answered Capt. Nicholls, angrily. . , '.;J Judge Shipp called the lawyers to order. Miss Pendleton made an excellent witness in direct examina- v ^ tion. Her testimony was at variance with her original confession. While it was true she said that she had de~ sired to part with her baby because she wanted to marry Clement, and he had laid that down as one of the conditions, the idea of murdering the baby never entered her mind. When Clement took her in a carriage to the bridge over Lawson's Fork that fatal stormy winter night, she was without the slighest intimation of his intention. She gave him the baby to carry after they left the carriage, she. said, to protect the little crdature from the rain. She was ill and scarcely knew what she did, she said. She nearly fainted three times and Clement was required to support her. . / He walked ahead of her with the baby, she swore, and when he returned the baby was gone. When realization came upon her, she said, she ^begged her lover to throw her . j into the creek, too. The . girl was caught in frequent contradictions in cross-examination. Mrs. J. B. Jones testified that Clement had promised to marry Miss Pendleton last summer. The girl denied Clement's statement that they had been immorally intimate since she was 14 years old. Their illicit relations did not begin, she said, until they were betrothed in the early part of last year. "The men higher up," who Samuel J. Nicholls said would probably be involved in the case, failed to materialize. Miss Pendleton's reputation was attacked by insinuations. She was asked about "a red-headed fireman" and an unnamed Georgian with whom she was said to have talked about going\ to the North Carolina State Fair, but successfully parried these shafts. ????^???Fatal Auto Accident. Macon, April 26.?Harry Jacobs, an automobile dealer of Cordele, was killed outright and three other wellknown Cordele men were injured early this morning when the automobile in which they were traveling from Cordele to Atlanta overturned at Dunbar, fourteen miles south of Macon. The injured men are A. J. Little, cashier for the Seaboard; E. E. Purchell, employed by an imple ment house, ana j. a. smun, a. wholesale hide dealer. Charles Greer, a prominent farmer, the other man in the car, escaped unhurt. \ . M t V7^ ' ' V-\