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UNWRITTEN LAW
ACQUITS WARREN
JURY TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO
SAY NOT GUILTY.
Killed Earl O'Quinn.
Shtooing Result of Alleged Failure
of Dead Man to Keep Promise
of Marriage to Sister.
After consuming nearly two days
of the criminal session of court, the
case of the state versus Hancy R.
Warren, for the killing of Earl
CTQiiinn. came to a close Tuesday
night, when a verdict of not guilty
was returned, the jury requiring only
about five minutes to reach its
conclusion. 9
This case excited considerable interest,
and the trial was attended
by a large crowd. The defendant is
an ex-soldier of the world war, having
served with distinction on the
western front in a machine gun squad
while the dead man was a member of
a well known family of the county.
The defendant pleaded not guilty,
. and offered the plea of self-defense
and temporary insanity. It was alleged
that his mind was so wrought
up by disclosures made to him by
his sister and the further fact that
his nerves were affected in the war,
:that he lost control of his mental
faculties temporarily. He also entered
the plea that it was his belief
that O v^uinn was going to kill him.
R. M. O'Quinn, father of Earl OQuinn,
testified that Hancy Warren
came to jjris home on Sunday before
* the killing and asked to see Earl,
but that Earl was not at home. Warren
told him.that he would kill Earl,
. saying that the dead boy had promiseyl
to marry his sister and failed to
do so. The witness described the
wounds on his son, stating that shot
had penetrated the body from the
stomach to the left shoulder. After
his son fcas shot and before he died
he told his father that he could not
live, and that he did not know why
Warren had shot him. He did not
' know that Warren had anything
against him; that they had had some
unpleasant words that morning, but
they had made that all right. The
witness said his son had frequently
visited Miss Ellen Warren, out tnatj
he never knew anything about his
son intending to marry her. The
two families were neighbors and fre
quently visited each other,-and were
always on the best of terms. The
witness said that Warren had served
in the world war with another of
his sons, both being together throughout.
He denied that he had told his
son to kill Warren, but admitted he
told his son of the visit of Warren.
C. L. Jolly testified that Warren
told him before the killing "there
would be a sitting up the next day,"
that he would either kill O'Quinn or
b? killed. He said the defendant
was very angry at the time, and that
he, the witness, did not question him
about the matter at all.
L. P. Jolly, a fellow worker at the
Embree mill, said that he had talked
with Earl O'Quinn about Warren.
Eddie McMillan, another workman
at the mill, testified that he saw the
two men talking together at the mill
about nine o'clock on the day of the
*, killing. He did not hear what was
being said, but afterward Warren
told the witness he would not stay
mill V>q/-ionco ho wrmlrl not
Oft tiio Hili Aj wwwuuv MV ?T ^ work
with a man who had treated
him as O'Quinn had. The witness
keard two shots downstairs, or noises
that could have been shots, which
were in quicy succession. He saw
O'Quinn two or three minutes afterIwarcK
but the wounded man made no
statements then. The witness testified
that it was generally talked
that O'Quinn was to have been married
on Sunday.
Drs. Robert Black and J. S. Wimberly
described the wounds found on
- the injured man. Dr. Black conducted
the autopsy at the inquest, while
Dr. Wimberlv was called to attend
O'Quinn when he was shot. He found
penetrations over the abdomen and
in the left shoulder, the penetrations
going from right to left, diagonally.
H? carried the wounded man to the
hospital in Orangeburg for operation,
where some of the bullets were extracted.
One was exhibited in court,
and the witness was of the opinion
thaf it was a "lug" or home-made
bullet. One of the wounds resembled
that of a pistol shot, but witness
was not certain of that. The
wounds indicated the man who fired
the shrts was some distance away.
Dr. Black stated that it was pos
LEONARD JORDAN KILLED.
Colleton Boy Killed in Far Off California
by Bullet of Jealous Man.
Leonard M. Jordan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Jordan, of Lodge, was shot
to death at Los Angeles, California,
Sunday, March 7th, by Charles Orr,
who then committed suicide, according
to a story appearing under a
Washington date line in the News
and Courier. Mentioned in connection
with the killing is the name of a
former Colleton girl, now Mrs. Bessie
Kelly, who is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. T. R. Risher, of the Providence
section. The affair is shrouded
in mystery.
Young Jordan had many friends
and relatives in this county who will
regret to learn of his tragic death.
His body will be brought to this county
for interment, and the story of the
tragedy learned. Mr. Jordan has received
brief telegrams and cannot
give any information as to his son's
death. Much sorrow is felt over the
unfortunate affair.
The following is the news story
appearing in the News and Courier:
Washington, March 12.?Leonard
M. Jordan, of Lodge, Colleton county,
S. C., who was chief machinist
in the United States navy, was killed
last Sunday at Los Angeles, Cal.,
while on leave from the U. S. S.
Prairie.
Charles Orr, in a fit of jealousy
over Bessie Kelly, an old friend of
Jordan's, took the South Carolinian's
life and immediately thereafter
committed suicide.
The body of Jordan will De sent to
Lodge by the government.?Walterboro
Press and Standard.
sible for a man's nerves to be deranged
from service in active fighting,
and that it might impair a man's
mind.
Wayne Sandifer testified that he
saw the two men together twice the
day of the shooting and that they appeared
friendly. After the shooting
witness went to the engine room and
picked up gun wadding and saw
where shot had struck the tool house.
The conditions he saw indicated that
O'Quinn must have been sitting down
and' that Warren must have been
standing on an elevation.
S. A. Gardner, foreman of the Embree
mill at the time, testified that
O'Quinn was engineer and that Warren
was a sort of general utility man,
whose duties carried him over the
mill. He saw them together several
times during the day apparently
friendly, and that on one occasion
O'Quinn was smiling. During the
day Warren told him he was going
to quit working at the mill; that he
could not work with O'Quinn, who
had mistreated his sisteA On Saturday
previous Warren had told him
his sister was to be married the next
day. Tuesday Warren told him
O'Quinn did not show up for the wedding;
that he had hunted O'Quinn
Sunday to kill him; that he did not
come to work Monday because he
was afraid he could not control himself,
but that Tuesday he thought he
could meet him. After the shooting
O'Quinn had told witness Warren
shot him. The wounds indicated that
the shots ranged downward.
' D. P. Babson said he was standing
across the canal when he heard the
two shots fired in the mill, th6 last
one sounding less loud than the first.
He went to the mill and met Warren
on the way, who said he uad shot
O'Quinn; telling witness to go and
take the gun off O'Quinn. Later he
saw O'Quinn, but saw nothing of
a weapon on him.
This ended the main testimony on
behalf of the state. None of the witnesses
testified that a pistol was seen
or found on the deceased.
Wimberl^ Bessinger was the first
witness for the defense. He told of a
conversation he had with Earl
O'Quinn about ten days before the
shooting, in which O'Quinn told him
it was reported he was going to marry
Miss Ellen Warren, but that he
was not, and made slurring remarks
about her to the witness, who told
Warren what he had heard on Monday
before the shooting.
The defendant, Hancy R. Warren,
took the* stand next. He told in a
manner that impressed his hearers as
being very candid his entire story,
and did not make any attempt to conceal
the fact that he meant to have
satisfaction from O'Quinn, and that if
he failed to give him the proper satisfaction,
which was to take his sister
out of disgrace, that he intended to
kill him. The defendant served in
the world war, and was engaged in
some of the big battles on the western
front, but he was not permitted to
go into details of his service in the
army. He returned home and took
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NEWBERRY FOUND
GUILTY BY JURY
JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
DECLARED GUILTY.
Sentenced to Two Years.
Brother and Fifteen Campaign Managers,
Including Cody of N. Y.
and King of Detroit Guilty.
Grand Rapids, Mich., March 20.?
Truman H. Newberry, junior United
States senator from Michigan, was today
convicted by a jury of having conspired
criminally in 1918 to violate
la we 14Ck WQ<1 CpntPTlCfid
\/!c/vblvu lu n g. aav t* vw w v ?
by Judge Clarence W. Sessions to two
years' imprisonment and fined $10,000,
released on bond pending an appeal,
and at once issued a statement
declaring his intention to retain his
seat in the upper house unless that
body decides otherwise, or the supreme
court upholds his conviction.
Sharing the fate of the senator
were his brother, John S. Newberry,
and 15 campaign managers, including
Frederick Cody, of New York, and
Paul H. King, of Detroit. Both these
men received the limit sentence with
their chief.
Charles A. Floyd, of Detroit, was
also sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary, but he was fined only
half as much as Newberry. The
brother was fined $10,000 and was
one of four who was not sentenced to
Leavenworth. The lightest sentence
went to George S. Ladd, of Sturbeydage,
Mass., and h% was fined $1,000.
The jury was ready with its verdict
at 11:12 a. m. Less than half an
hour later they had been discharged
hv thft rnnrt after freeing 65 of the 85
defendants. There was a brief respite
for luncheon, then the senator
and his 16 associates were brought
into court again. News of the convictions
had been spread around the
city and the room was jammed. Ordered
to stand before the bar, the m^n
ranged themselves in a crescent, the
senator on the left and his brother
next." The stir of ranging the men
before the bar died away to absolute
stillness. In quiet tones Judge Sessions
asked if any of these men wished
to say anything before sentence was
pronounced. ^They stood mute. Then
the court in even tones read the time
honored formula of sentence.
/
Limit of Law.
"Truman H. Newberry, in your
case, it is the judgment of the court
that you be confined' in the penitentiary
at Leavenworth for the full
time and period of two years and be
fined $10,000," said the judge.
No one stirred as the audience
caught the words that showed the
judge had addressed against the principal
defendant the heaviest sentence
allowed by law. Each successding
sentence to prison or heavy fine
was received in stoical silence.
Immediately after the sentences
had been passed, Frank C. Daily, of
Indianapolis, special assistant attorney
general and chief prosecutor,
wiped the slate clean by moving the
dismissal -of ten of the 135 respond^
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ents 10 tne lnaicimem wuu ua,u ineau
"concontendre." He also moved the
discharge of Elmer White, of Traverse
City, who was given a severance
because of illness, and of James
Daily, a Muskegon contractor who
went to South America on business
before government officials could
serve him with a warrant.
Ninety days were granted the attorneys
for the convicted men in
which to perfect an appeal. Then
court adjourned.
"We are all with you, senator,"
said several of the freed defendants,
as they crowded around him. The
chief figure in the trial grasped their
hands. His wife, brother and son
were with him, Mrs. Newberry showing
the effects of the verdict only in
the determined composure with which
she met the tearful condolences of
wives of other defendants.
What tears there were appeared,
in fact, only among the wives of the
men who had been freed.
Judge Sessions announced he would
allow the defense 90 days in which to
perfect an appeal and meanwhile
would release the convicted men on
bonds.
? < > ?
I have just received my last lot
of seed Spanish Peanuts and King's
early Big Boll Cotton Seed. Place
your order at once for same, as this
is the last shipment of the season. I
have also just received one carload of
wire fencing. See me for prices. S.
W. COPELAND, Ehrhardt, S. C. 4-8
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COTTON PRODUCTION 11,329,75:
1919 Crop Falls Near One Millio:
Bales Short of 1918.
Washington, March 20.?Cotto:
production amounted to 11,329,75
equivalent 500 pound bales in th
1919 crop, the final ginning report o
the census bureau issued today an
nounced.
The cotton crop of 1918 amounted
to 12,040,532 equivalent 500 poun
bales and that of 1917 was 11,302,
375. The Department of Agricultur
in December estimated the 1919 cro
at 11,030,000 equivalent 500 poum
bales.
Included in the 1919 productio:
are 174,629 bales which ginners esti
mated would be turned out afte
March canvass. Round bales includ
ed are 113,857 for 1919, compare
with 154,204 for 1918. American
Egyptian included was 42,374 bales
compared with 36,187 for 1918, an
Sea Island 6,907 bales compared wit]
52,208 for 1918. "Snapped" an<
"bolly" cotton included amounted t
579,934 bales. The average gros
weight of bales was 503.2 pound
compared with 505.6 pounds in 191S
Ginners operated numbered 18,80
compared with 19,259 for 1918.
Ginnings of the 1919 crop b;
states, in equivalent 500-pound bales
were:
South Carolina, 1,422,020.
Alabama, 711,646; Arizona, 60,
081; Arkansas, S?2,768; California
52,000; Florida, 15,925; Georgia, 1,
658,253; Louisiana, 296,858; Missis
sippi, 952,446; Missouri, 64,005
North Carolina, 828,565; Oklahoma
984,1 11; South Carolina, 1,422,029
Tennessee, 708,746; Texas, 3,064,
997; Virginia, 22,378; all othe
states, 4,947.
Ginnings of Sea Island by state
were: Florida, 2,779; Georgia, 683
South Carolina, 3,445.
The cost of picking and ginnin;
the 1919 cotton crop was abou
$32,73 per bale, according to th
Bureau of Crop Estimates. By state
the cost was as follows:
Virginia, $37.56; North Carolina
$28.17; South Carolina, $21.68
Georgia, $25.31; Florida, $22.71
Alabama, 22.96; Mississippi, $30.41
Louisiana, .$28.93; Texas, $42.37
Arkansas. $34.56; Tennessee, $36.82
Missouri, $44.88; Oklahoma, $47.80
Smith Carnlina. Georeia and Flor
ida Sea Island, $46.10.
Breaking it Gently.
At an amateur performance an ar
tiste gave imitations of several popu
lar actors, one of whom happened t
be present.
Afterwards the ambitious amateu
sought an introduction to the "star,
and asked hopefully:
"Did you see my imitation of you?
"I did," replied the great mar
promptly.
"Then sir," persisted the aspirin
youth, "may I ask you to give m
your opinion of me as shown ij
that impersonation?"
"Well, my boy," the great ma
said, "one of us is rotten!"?Londo
Tit-Bits.
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Our First Person Singular.
Is not English the only great lac
guage in which the pronoun of th
first person is capitalized? Hot
monumentally imposing is that uppe
case "I!" If a writer is egotistic th
capitals stretch across his page like
colonade. When he writes "we" h
descends to the lower case. But thi
orthographic solipsism, mark you, i
shared by Americans, Canadians, Aus
trailians,NewZealanders-all who us
the English tongue. It is, therefore
not to be set down to insularity, bu
to individualism?a stark, ineradi
cable, valuable quality of these vari
ous folks whose thoughts and feeling
have been nourished by the same lan
guage.
It comes to its philosophic clima:
in the Yankee Emerson, who held th
infinity and sufficiency of the privat
man, and declared, "I wish to sa;
what I think and feel today, with th<
proviso that perhaps tomorrow I shal
contradict it all." No Briton, no
even Carlyle, could beat that.?Hen
ry Van Dyke in Scribner's Magazine.
^ iti m*
Conscious of Error.
A little girl was asked, upon he:
return home, how she liked the sing
ing of the congregation in the church
"I liked it very much indeed," sh<
said, "although all th? people saic
it was bad."
"All the people said it was bad
What do you mean, my dear?"
"Oh, it was so bad that I heard th<
people praying, 'Lord have mercy up
on us miserable singers'."?Londoi
Tit-Bits.
" HONEA PATH MEN
? ON SERIOUS CHARGE
tl
? JOHN AND KENNETH GOSSETT,
LODGED IN PENITENTIARY.
Admit Being With Girls.
d
Charged With Assaulting Two Young
e Women of Abbeville?Wallace
p and Bourne Released,
d
Columbia, March 18. ? John
n and Kenneth Gossett, young
~ white men arrested yesterday
r in Greenville and Honea Path,
" respectively, on the charge of crimi^
nally assaulting two young white wo~
men in Abbeville last Sunday were
'' brought to Columbia late last night
^ and lodged in the state penitentiary
k for safekeeping. The young men ad*
mit having been in Abbeville last
0 Sunday and taking the two young
s girls out riding. The boys are first
s cousins. Kenneth Gossett is the
' younger of the two, being about 21
* years of age, but is married. John
Gossett bears a good reputation in
^ his community.
The Gossett boys were placed in
the same cells occupied the previous
two days by James B. Wallace and
Lee Bourne, young men from Green-J
L' wood, who were arrested in connection
with this case last Sunday night,
but released yesterday J after the
' young women had declared positively
" that Wallace and Bourne were not
' their assailants.
~ Ar?A rtffonlf 1 O
IVtJIliltJLU VJUSSCll, n HU3C aooauu
r said to have been successful, claims J
that he did not get out of the autos
mobile. John says he walked back
' up the road a short distance to Longj
Cane bridge with . the other girl, j
* where the car was first stopped. When j
* the latter two came back the girl who.
P " j
iremafned behind in the car with
s Kenneth the other girl says, came
running down the road crying, "He
has ruined me." Kenneth denied last
' night that he had made further ad'
vances than laying his hands on the
' young woman.
The two boys, both of whom give
' the appearance of being in their
teens, were brought to Columbia by
C. J. Bruc'?; deputy marshal of the
Western District, and T. L .Cann,
deputy sheriff af Abbeville county,
who made the arrests. These two
officers have been tireless in their persistent
and successful work. It was
0 not until late Tuesday night that they
got a definite description of the two
assailants. By 6 o'clock yesterday
r
mnrninor Tfonnpth rinssptt had been
?9 illUl UinjD ^
. placed under arrest at his home in
,, Honea Path and John Gossett had
been arrested at a hotel in Greenville,
where he had registered under
the name of John Grown. Both were
taken immediately to Anderson. The
young women, who were on their way
home from Columbia on the morning
train, left the train at Hodges and
were driven directly to Anderson
through the country and there identified
the young men.
James B. Wallace#and Lee Bourne,
young men from Greenville, who had
L_ been arrested late Sunday night une
der this charge and brought to the
N state penitentiary for safekeeping,
r were released yesterday about .11
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e o'clock after the young women had
a stated positively that the two men
e then in Columbia were not their ass
sailants. The release was ordered by
s Governor Cooper as soon as he had
been authorized to do so by Homer S.
e Blackwell, of Laurens, solicitor of
, the Eighth circuit,
t The arrest of the Gossett boys was
. effected under difficulties. John is
i_ said to have been spirited away from
s Honea Path by a friend. As soon as
_ this friend returned to Honea Path,
Deputies Bruce and Cann caught the
x man who had taken John Gossett
* - -3 l?;*w 4- f rvl 1 TXrVlOTO
q away ana cumyeueu mm iu ?,
e he had taken John Grossett. Mr.
Y Cann was taken to Greenville .and die
rected to the hotel where the young
1 man had been left and the name givt
en under which the young man had
_ registered. Mr. Cann then proceeded
with his prisoner to Anderson, where
Mr. Bruce had taken Kenneth Gossett.
The two officers who brought
the prisoners to Columbia last night
r praised the mayor and and the chief
- of police of Honea Path, who cooperated
with them in their efforts.
3 The young women were on their
1 way to church Sunday afternoon when
they were accosted by the Gossett
! boys and invited to ride. Instead of
stopping at the church they drove on
3 into the country.
Asked last night if the girls rei
quested that they be let out at the
church, Kenneth Gossett said they
TO EXHIBIT GERMAN SHIPS.
Five Vessels Allocated to U. S. May
Be Brought To This Country.
. Washington, March 19.?Five German
surrendered ^warships allocated
to the United States under the armistice
terms, a battleship, a cruiser and
three destroyers, will be brought to
this country next month, it was announced
today by the navy department.
,
The cruiser Frankfurt and three
destroyers now at Rosyth, Scotland,
will be towed over by three mine
weepers and a transport. The battleship
is the Ost-Friseland, 22,400 tons,
built in 1911; and a second line ship
_
during me war.
The navy plans to exhibit the ships
at Atlantic ports, it was said, in addition
to a careful study of them by .;
naval experts. Later they will be sunk
at sea. Under the supreme council
agreement they must be destroyed
within a year after their arrival here.
NEW COUNTY EMBRYONIC.
N
Petition, Reports Say, is Now Asking
For Formation of Another County.
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News has come to Orangeburg that
petitions for the formation of a new
county in the Western portion of
Orangeburg and with a slice of both
Barnwell and Aiken counties are now
being circulated about the towns to *
the westward and that organizations
are being formed for like action in
the affected portions of the two adjoining
counties. It is the purpose of
the petitions to secure a sufficient
number of signatures for the calling
of a special election by the Governor
of the State. Springfield business
men in the city yesterday afternoon
stated that the movement Is making
considerable headway and that a large
; portion of the residents of the western ? ,
portion of this county is in sympathy
with the movement.
Whether the promoters of the
movement will be able to secure the
required number of signers remainsi
to be seen. It is known that the
petition will call for the portions of
Barnwell and Aiken to also be incorporated
into the new division to
be made into a member of the family
of state counties. While no petitions
are yet known to be in circulation
in the two adjoining counties,
it is said that the present movement
will be early extended to those sections.
With the circulation of petitions in
the western portion of Orangeburg
county it is the avowed purpose of
the promoters to make Springfield
the seat of the proposed county gov..
* .
ernment. Reports have rt also tnat
the adherents of the new plan in
Barnwell and Aiken counties desire .
that Wagener should be the-seat of
the would-be county.?Orangeburg
Times and Democrat.
Peace Hath Its Victories.
SM
"Times have changed," said the
buck-priva^e-that-was, with a grin.
"What's the matter?"
"Nothing. Life looks mighty good
to me to-day. I've got three second
lieutenants taking orders from me
now.'*?Detroit Free Press.
? ? ?
"We are getting up a club for
amateur cornet players. Will you
join us?"
"Certainly?with the greatest of
pleasure! What player do you expect
to club first?"
did make some statement about being
on their way to church, but after
something had been said about going
to church any time the car was then
driven on into the country.
The officers were practically exhausted
when they placed the men
behind the bars here last night. They
had not been to bed for 48 hours, continually
on the go and under the highest
tension. r
Thp arrnf in arresting the wrong
men at first was wholly incident to
the excitement of a brother and mother
of one of the girls, who mistook
the name Gossett for Wallace. Being
informed that the assailant of
one of the girls was named Wallace,
and a young man from Greensboro
being in Abbeville that day by the
name of Wallace with another young
man set up a string of circumstancial
evidence which wholly misled the officers.
> ;
One of the Gossett boys said last
night that the car they were driving
Sunday afternoon was one stolen in
Columbia last Saturday morning and
identified in Honea Path Monday
morning by a description carried in
The State last Sunday. The car belonged
to L. S. Earle, of Blythewood,
and has since been returned. A Co..
lumbia boy was implicated in thr
stealing of the car.
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