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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1914. Established 1891.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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said she was taken there by Clement.
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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
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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.
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