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f y' \ \ ?hr Hamburg Ijrralb ^ $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1920. Established in 1891 f CORBETT ACQUITTED ! OF MURDER CHARGE L JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT LATE B MONDAY NIGHT. \ Returns to Jail. 1 Other Cases, Growing Out of Killing* ? To Come Up Later.?Jury Out Five Hours. | Orangeburg, Sept. 28.?Carlos Corbett was today found not guilty of the murder of Bryan Salley, the jury bringing in a verdict of acquittal at 11:45 o'clock last night, after being out exactly five hours. Corbett was returned to jan anu will be tried at the next term of court on a charge of murdering one of the other two men, who were killed along with Sallev. Attorneys for the defense announced that they would ap- . jply for his release on bond. Corbett shot and killed Bryan Salley, Hugh Fanning and Jule Cooper and blinded Jones Salley Saturday, March .26, the shooting taking place in front of Corbett's home. Corbett's defense was that he shot in self defense and in defense of the castle, claiming that one of the men who, he testified had previously set fire to a pile of cane pumice near his house, opened fire on him, endangering his ^ life and that of his wife. The jury early this morning left for "the scene of the tragedy, about 20 ? miles from Orangeburg. Only the P sheriff and his deputies accompanied the party. The jury returned at a quarter to 12, and addresses by counsel were resumed. The trial of Carlos Corbitt, who is alleged to have shot and killed Bryan Salley, Hugh Fanning and Jule Cooper and to have blinded another man by a shot, Jones Salley, near Salley, i I was placed on trial for killing Bryan ThnrsdflV. All I | saney ill viauscuuij, ^ ~ ~ ?. of Thursday was consumed in cleart ing away preliminaries and securing the jury. The taking of testimony was started Friday morning, and Saturday afternoon, after the completion of the state's case, the court was adjourned until Monday morning, when the defense began its case. The following summary of the evidence is from the daily papers. / ____ The first witness was Rudolph I Schoenberg, who testified to a lay of the premises in the vicinity of the I Carlos Corbitt home, as displayed upon his plat. Dr. Mcllveen testified as to the gunshot wounds and the position of the three dead bodies, those of Brvan Salley, Hugh Fanning and Jule Cooper, in the road just in front .of Carlos Corbitt's home. 0. B. Rosenger explained the pictures he took of the location of an automobile, reputed to be where the auto stood on the night of the tragedy, and of the road where the bodies are said to have fell, boards indicating the bodies. f A leading witness for the state was I Henry Salley, policeman at Salley. He stated that he was the first person to L reach the scene of the killing. He r told where he found the bodies and k stated that the pictures showeu tne | ( exact fcpcation and testified that he was at the scene 15 minutes before he stepped across the road to the au* * to in which Jones Salley was groanI ing. He stated that he knew it was f Jones Salley from his groans, having heard his groans many times before. He remained with the bodies during i the entire night. | Arrived After the Killing. r Fred Fanning and Raymond Salley ttold of their arrival on the scene after the killing and of the position of the bodies in the road, but that Henry Salley was there when they arrived. Alderman Pooser told of removing a i .38 calibre special bullet from the l right rear door of Jones Salley's car ? on Sunday morning after-the killing i on Saturday night. Jim Curtiss and Nat Yon. tenants on Howell Salley's farm,- told of being 854 feet away at Curtiss's house and hearing all the trouble, stating that Corbitt halted these men after they had passed his house and gone down the road and came back, and then shot them. The main witness and the last witness Friday was Lewis Salley, one of those who were in the automobile. He testified that the party, consisting of Jones Salley, aged 66; Hugh Fanning, aged 28; Jule Cooper, aged 24; Bryan Salley, aged 21, and himself, aged 17, left the town of Salley on Saturday night at about 8:30 o'clock, to go down to Four Pines church, j. + which is eight miles distant, far divine service. After the service the party went in the direction of Corbitt Mill to Jim Williamson's place for some whiskey, the witness testified. When Jones Salley and Jule Cooper got out to get the whiskey, they returned without any. Car Stuck in Bog. The witness stated, however, that in going from the church their car stuck in a bog at the side of Corbitt's house; that two of the occupants got out and with their pushing and the engine running, the car pulled out and they went down to Jim Williamson's; that on their return later they saw a fire in the road near Corbitt's house, where they had been stuck. It appears that there was some cane pumice in that place and it was afire. They were then halted by Carlos Corbitt, who inquired who had started that fire. He got out of the car, Mr. Salley said, turned off the lights, but left the engine running, and that Hugh Fanning, Bryan Salley and Jule Cooper also got out of the car, and that he endeavored to reason with Corbitt, and that the other three had gone at least three steps to the road, and that Corbitt was standing on the edge of the road in front of his house, and with an oath stated "he was going to clean up the bunch,'' and commenced firing. Cooper, Fanning and Salley fell. The witness said that he also fell to the ground between the first and third shots, remaining there until Corbitt went into the house. He then got up and ran up the road, and when he had got some distance heard several more shois. At this stage the court adjourned. The state rested its case Saturday following the testimony of Jones Salley. Mr. Salley was one of the participants in the car on the night of trio fotol chnAfino- o ivd Vi o VintVi pvps Li-LV^ 1U IU1 OilV/UtiJUQ C4.XA A_I.C4.VA wvi/i* shot out, one being put out it is claimed by powder. He further charges that after Corbett had shot the other three men that Corbett then shot him while he was in the automobile. Lewis Salley, who was driving the car, finished his testimony early Saturday morning and testified in substance that, upon his return by Corbett's home, after fire, had been set to sugar cane pumice, he and Julian Cooper, Hugh Fanning and Bryan Salley got Qut of their car and that they were met by Corbett, who cursed them and started to fire upon them. Lewis Salley. further stated that between the first and third shots that he fell to the ground as if shot and when Corbett returned to his home he ran away and after leaving heard further shooting. Testimony was resumed Monday morning at convening of court at 9:30 o'clock with Mrs. Carlos Corbett on the stand for the defnse. Mrs. Corbett testified that on Friday before the shooting on Saturday night, ber husband had hauled five one-horse wagon loads of sugar cane pumice and placed it in a washed place in front of their home. Saturday, she said they drove in their buggy over to Salley to do a little shopping where she visited relatives for a short while in town and then they drove home about an hour of sun, had early supper and retired. Awakened by Big Light. About 11 o'clock, Mrs. Corbett stat ed, she was suddenly awakened by a big light and thinking the premises were afire she aroused her husband, told him to take the pistol and fire to enlist assistance from neighbors. When she went out, the witness said, her huband told her the pumice in the road was a fire and she drew water, while Corbett carried it to the scene of the fire, which was in the road just in front of .their house. She soon gave out drawing water, she said, and Corbett told her to go to the steps and rest, as she said she could do no more if the whole premises burned down. About the time she was seated at the front steps. Mrs. Corbett continued, a car came up in the road and she heard some one speak in vile terms, she giving the exact language in court, and saying also "there he is now putting out our fire, we will give him hell and set it again." They then drove the car around the fire and turned in toward the yard, the witness said, and stopped the car, all getting out after each other and started toward her husband, firing a pistol. Mrs. Corbett stated that she did not know how many shots were fired before her husband opened fire and she then went into the house. Later her husband came into the house, she said, and told her to get his best clothes, after which he went out with a flash light. When he came in the house, the witness, said, she asked if he was hurt and said she thought they had killed him and that her huband had told her he thought he had killed three of them. Corbett, his wife said, then dressed and left to surrender and she spent the remainder of the night in the barn. Carlos Coi'bett oil Stand. Carlos Corbett testified deliberately and calmly, giving his version of the killing. He corroborated his wife as to his putting the pumice in the road on Friday and as to their activity on Saturday. He was aroused by his wife about 11 o'clock, he said, and was told the house was on tire. He jumped into his overalls, Corbett said, took the loaded pistol from the bureau and about three or four cartridges nearby and ran out of the house to tire the pistol to alarm the neighborhood, but found that the fire was in the road and did not shoot. Putting the pistol in his right pocket and balls in left, he and his wife began fighting fire as Mrs. Corbett testified, the witness said. While his wife was sitting 011 the steps and he was fighting' the fire with the water in the tub, he said he heard an auto coming. He also heard the statement testified to by Mrs. Corbett as coming from the auto, Corbett said. The auto came on up around the fire, the witness continued, and stopped in front of his house with one wheel about to his front yard, the car broadside to him, whers the occupants got up and began to get out. He thought he recognized the voice of James Salley telling the boys to give him liell, "the witness testified and then three or four jumped into the road, he said, and were making for him, one shooting as he came. He opened fire, Corbett said, and immediately reloaded and emptied what he reloaded with, since after he reloaded two more men were coming toward him from toward the back of the car. Shot in Self-defense. Hp shnt in self-defense and de fense of the castle, Corbett testified, as the shots from the advancing crowd were going to where his wife was, too. Mr. Corbitt said that he did not know who the parties were at the time and that he went into his house and upon inquiry told his wife he was not shot, but thought he had killed three or four men, that all fell, except one, who ran off. He told how he asked his wife to get his clothes and got his flashlight and went out to where the bodies were in his yard near the road. Later he returned to his house and then went to a neighbor's, asking her to go and stay with his wife. He testified that when he went out with his flashlight, he found a pistol lying about equal distance between two of the dead men but did not search them, that he brought the pistol back with him and gave it to his wife, with instructions to hold same until trial. A pistol was opened in court by the sheriff with difficulty, the cartridges were removed, and some were empty, having been shot. Mr. Corbett stated that he got some one to carry him to Columbia and he surrendered to the au*u+of tvio nonitonHarv Hp. told LilUI 1HCO au iuv of an interview he had with some newspaper reporter at the penitentiary, and that Mr. Bleasejvas present at the time and that he was merely talking to the gentlemen present and did not know he was giving any statement to a newspaper and did not state fully the facts of the shooting. Columbia Newspaper Man Testifies. The defense in reply put up W. J. Cormack, of Columbia, to testify that Corbett did not tell him of any ot the parties advancing upon him having any pistol, when interviewed at the penitentiary. The sheriff and coroner were put upon the stand to contradict Mrs. Corbett's testimony concerning some statement she made tc them the next day. Both the sheriff and coroner testified that Mrs. Corbett was very nervous and about down and out at the time. *************** * * * $1.00 FOR BEST NEWS * * * * The Herald would like to * * have every interesting item * * of news that happens in the * -* county. To stimulate the * * sending in of such items of * * ruews The Herald will ^pay * * $1.00 for the best news story * * received for publication no?:;: * week. This may be some hap- * * pening in the community, or * * the story of some freak, but it * * should be something that has * * not been published heretofore. * * There a n conditions to this * * offer. bu( h stories should not, * * ordinarily, take more than 200 * * words to tell them. * * * *************** MISTRIAL IX RRAXT-CONE CASK. Jury in Allendale Fails to Agree in Double Killing Affair. The session of the court of general sessions continued through Saturday of last week, the following cases being disposed of: John and Earl Brant, charged with murder, mistrial; Julius Smith, violation of the prohibition law, guilty, sentenced to one year on the chain gang with eight months of the sentence suspended during good behavior; Halcott Ash, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons, found not : n ... m n -11- ? i ? i.: guniv, ^uauuier ?mans, viuiauun ui the prohibition law, not guilty. The case of R. W. Youmans was called but was continued upon motion that he be committed to the insane asylum due to his condition and as recommended by Dr. Williams of the state hospital, who stated that in his opinion Youmans was insane. The case of Joshua Williams charged with murder was also on docket but was continued on account of the condition of the accused. The trial of the Brant case consumed about. three days and was probably the largest attended and the i most interesting case ever tried in this county because of the prominence and large connections of the . accused and the two men they are alleged to have shot. The defense set up a plea of self-defense, also alleging that John Brant shot both the Cone men, Earl Brant not shoot! ing, in reply to the state testimony ! that John Brant shot Aubrey Cone and Earl Brant shot Allie Cone. A week's session of the court of >->m r\?i nlooe era n r?n A T n n rl ?) V iAi JJJ.W 11 pi^ao Uii ..... v ^ with Judge Peurifoy presiding. Cases i of interest that have come up are: Bennet vs. Bates, et al, verdict directed for defendant by Judge Peurifoy; Moody, et al, vs. H. A. Moody, et al, non-suit ordered by judge. This is the last week of court. The docket of civil and criminal cases is by no means cleared, however.?Allendale* Citizen. ^ mi ? "WET PROHIBITION' PARTY." _ ? Ehrhardt Glee Club Holds a Convention. Ehrhardt, Sept. 24.?The "wet Prohibitionist party" met in convention here today. The party is considered a product of the almost universal unrest prevailing at present. Delegates were present from all sections. The main plank of the platform advocates giving all factions their several desires, as the only remedy for the present abnormal condi. tions. The main plank of the plati form is as follows: "We indorse the . absolute W. J. Bryan prohibition with : a reservation of unlimited privileges to those persons using alcoholic beverages prior to January 1, 1900." Ao inetifiration of the foregoing , , XJLO J l/A AA VW- w V - _ plank, the wet Prohibitionists point out that the same method was used by the baseball commisson with almost complete satisfaction, m dealing with .the spitball delivery. The most unusual aspect of a convention without candidates, was pre, sented. No one man could be found . to serve who represented all issues. , The I. W. W. was the chief stumbling block. That was finally done away with without protest, as the I. W. W. were thrown out of the convention. This was rendered easy by the fact that they had neglected to . send a delegate. After the purging mentioned above Vernon Stanley's name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the Presidential nomination. The motion ( was immediately seconded. His > chances are regarded as good, for he is assured of at l ?ast three votes in. eluding his own. At this point an adjournment was voted to allow the local police force I to add to their collection of firearms : and to give the delegates an opportunity to pay their respects to the judge. The date of the next meeting, to : conclude business, will be decided when it is known whether the vaca; tions granted will be for thirty or sixty days. So a; not to cause hard feelings ; among the Republicans there is talk ! of offering Mr. Harding the nomina. j tion for vice president. You have always wanted a nice player piano. We have one in fine condition, slightly used, which we are offering at a big bargain for a quick sale. W. H. Chandler.?adv. ^ i ? ^ Records for all makes of talking machines always on hand. All the new records received regularly. W. H. CHANDLER.?adv. i SHOE POLISH CAUSES ILLNESS. Strange Case of Poisoning Reported From Milledgeville. Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 27.? Young E. B. Smith, Jr., son of Mr. j and Mrs. E. B. Smith, residents of this city, is now recovering from a peculiar illness wrought about Tuesday morning by the application of polish to his shoes. The boy, who is twelve years of age, before going to school early in the morning, took occasion to use a tan colored polish on a pair of white canvas shoes he was wearing. The polish soaked the coarse cloth af ..rVii/ili +Vi a c- Vi aqp uroro maHo a n r? VJ L ? i 1 1V/11 Li:c OULTLO IIV/IVj lllUUVy uuu the poison contained in the polish was n taken up externally into the system. Shortly before ten o'clock the same morning while sitting in the class . room, the child showed signs of becoming ill. Paleness of the face was noticed by the teacher and within a few minutes of recess the little fellow fell upon the ground in a fainted condition. A physician was summoned and treatment administered. Later in the day the mother of the child, after he was taken to the home, conceived the idea that the child had not responded to the treatment given him. The physician was again summoned and found the child confronted with difficult respiration and an abnormal pulse. Upon further investigation the physician took notice of the fact that the child's feet had been stained, which discovery led to the cause of the serious illness. The conclusion was soon reached that the little fellow was suffering from being poisoned by the absorption of benzoic acid contained in the shoe polish. Until today the child was held un der steady treatment and confined to his bed and the peculiar cause of the illness has caused much comment by local physicians and others here. MRS. G. E. HUTTO. Estimable Christian Woman Died at Home Here Monday. Mrs. G. E. Hutto, a most estimable Christian woman, died at her home on Railroad avenue, Bamberg, Monday afternoon at 6:30 o'clock, following an iirhess of several weeks. The remains were carried to Clear Pond Tuesday afternoon, and interment took place at the Folk burial ground at the old Lutheran church location near Clear Pond. Rev. Geo. P. White, of "Bamberg, conducted the funeral services, which were attended by a large number of friends and relatives. Mrs. Hutto was about 70 years of age. Her husband died in 1914, and shortly afterward she moved to Bamberg to reside. She was a member of the Bethesda Baptist church. Before her marriage she was a Miss Folk, and she is survived by two brothers, Tom Folk, of Estill, and James Folk, of Branchville, and one sister, Mrs. Rosa Jones, of Walterboro. One son, John H. Hutto, of Bamberg, and one adopted daughter, Mrs. John Schwarting, of Bamberg, survive her. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, September 27. ? Business is slow, though the cotton gins are kept busy. Not much of the fleecy staple was made hereabouts. Tobacco crop was not as good as usual. Vernon Stanley has returned from Atlanta, where he has been taking a course in pharmacy. He has resumed his old position with Ehrhardt Pharmacy. Dr. Harry Hiers, of Roper hospital, Charleston, has been in town for a week visiting his parents. Mrs. Herschel L. Morningstar suffered a painful accident Thursday when she broke an arm while attempting to crank her auto. Junior Smoak, a negro boy from "Branchville, was kicked by a mule Sunday morning. The boy died wifch~? ?- ? TVioro -rriic nn snar. in a 10w iiimuit;s. xu^iv w , death being caused by a blood vessel breaking internally. Our new depot is about completed. It is by far the best structure of its kind in the county and the number of those in the state that can compare with it is not large. I. M. K. Multiplying Difficulties. The teacher, a lady of questionable age, was having a hard time getting Johnny to memorize the names of the kings of England. "Why, when I was your age," she finally exclaimed, exasperated, "I could recite the names of all the kings forward and backward." "Yes'm," replied Johnny, unimpressed, ".but when you were my age there wasn't nearly so many kings." PLAYERS CONFESS TO SELLING GAME ? INDICTMENTS AND SUSPENSIONS BREAK UP WHITE SOX. Cicotte and Jackson Confess _____ Veteran Players Tell Cook County Grand Ju**y of How Games Were "Thrown." , #| ???? ; Z jff Chicago, Sept. 28.?Indictments vere voted against eight baseball stars today and confessions obtained from two of them, when the Old Roman, Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the oftime champion Chicago White Sox,^. smashed his pennant chasing machine to clean up baseball. The confessions told how the White Sox threw last year's world championship to Cincinnatti for money paid by gamblers. Seven White Sox regulars and one fomer player comprise the players against whom true bills were voted by the Cook county grand jury and the seven were immediately suspended by Mr. Comiskey. With his team only a game behind the league leading Cleveland Indians the White Sox owner served notice on his seven stars that, if they were found guilty, he would drive them out of organized SSTJErJ baseball for the rest of their lives. Officials of Chief Justice Charles McDonald's court, desirous of giving the national game the benefit of publicity in its purging, lifted the curtain . on the grand jury proceedings sufficiently to show a great hitter, Joe Jackson, declaring that he deliberately just tapped the ball, a picture of one of the world's most famous pitchers, Cicotte, in tears, and glimpses of alleged bribes of $5,000 or $10,000 discovered under pillows or on beds by famous athletes about to retire. McGraw Awaits Call. > j Around the court room at one time or another were some of baseball's greatest leaders, among them John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, awaiting a call to testify tomorrow and John Heydler, president of the National league, who went before the grand jurors this afternoon. The exact nature of the information Mr. Comiskey put before the grand jury was not disclosed. The men ' * ' whom the jury involved as a result of testimony uncovered by their owner -were Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher, who waived immunity and confessed, according to court attaches, that he took a $10,000 bribe. Arnold Gandil, former first baseman. ""1 ' Tn nlrnAn Vl r.OT7T7 Vl 1 SUUeieSS J UtJ iidtnouu, uca ? j u<v ting left fielder. Oscar "Hap" Felsch, center fielder. Charles "Swede" Riseberg, shortStop. Claude Williams, pitcher. George "Buck" Weaver, third base- > man. Fred McMullin, utility player. While the grand jurors voted their true bills, the Old Roman, seated in the midst of his crumbling empire out at White Sox park, issued the telegram suspending those involved, paid off Weaver, Cicotte and Jackson on the spot, and announced that checks for pay due the others would be sent them at once. With his voice trembling, Mr. Comiskev, who has owned the White Sox since the inception of the American league, said this was the first time scandal had ever touched his "family" and that it distressed him too much to talk about it. Cicotte Weaps in Court. '? The rush of players to bare their part in the affair, started today when Cicotte appeared at criminal court it -j ~ ^ norm icainn tn t PS UUilUillg ct-uu aoacu Vw - ? tify. Cicotte wept, court attaches said, and exclaimed in anguish his sorrow for his two small children as he told how he did his utmost to lose rather than win the 1919 world series after he had "found" $10,000 beneath his pillow where it had been placed by professional gamblers. He said he lobbed the ball to the plate so slowly "you could read thej trarfa mark on it" in the first game at| Cincinnatti when he was taken out off the box after three and two-third innings had been played. Last year's world series records show that in the first inning of the first game, he started by hitting Rath, the first Cincinnatti batter, in the back. Daubert followed with a* single over second base that sent Rath, to third and he scored when Groh flied to Jackson, Rath beating Jackson's throw to the plate. ^ w? New Victor records every month at G. A. Ducker's.?adv. 10-14 -:4 , mm