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pp p ...: , . . r i ?br Saattarg fjmlii $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,1921. Established in 1891. . DEMANDS AJ OF SOU1 FOR INVASION OF S. C. MOB INTO GEORGIA. BY JUDGE HAMMOND. Augusta Judge Writes Letter of Protest to Gov. Hardwick Asking Delivery of Member of Mob. August 15, 1921. His Excellency, Thomas W. Hardwick, Governor of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.: Sir: As a citizen of the state of Georgia I respectfully request that you lay the following statement of facts before Hon. Robert E. Cooper, governor of the state of South Carolina, and that you demand from him apology for what has occurred and immediate effective action in righting a grievous wrong to a sovereign commonwealth, of which you are the chief executive: On the 8th day of August, two o'clock at night, near Leesville, S. C., S. J. Kirby, C. O. Fox, and Jesse Gappins foully robbed and cruelly murdered William C. Brazell, the driver of tke taxicab in which they were riding. In the stolen car the three murderers came to Georgia, passed through the city of Augusta and county or 'Richmond. At McBean, near the Burke county line, the car broke down and while two of the three went forward on. foot, the third, S. J. Kirby, sought a nearby chaingang official, W. D. Roberts, to whom he made*a statement charging the other two with the robbery and murder. He was arrested and J. T. Plunkett, sheriff of Richmond county, notified. ' Immediately the sheriff put in motion ?very force at his command?drove with two deputies sixty miles. At Greens Cut, in Burke county, with the assistance of Frank Hurst, its sheriff, he effected the arrest of the two fugitives from South Carolina and lodged them securely in the Richmond county jail. More than this; he actively and skilfully and yet by legitimate means obtained from ? i xne inree cunsyira.i,urs cuxxic?oxuii.o %?-*. guilt ample to secure their conviction. The sheriff then immediately got in communication with the South Carolina authorities. One of the prisoners, consenting to return to South Carolina, was faken by the sheriff of Richmond county in the death car, which bore blood stains, and was car| ried to Leesville and led to the scene f of the murder, Sheriff Plunkett turned over to Sheriff Ruff, sherifl of Lexington county, at the Lexington coun - '' - ot T ty jail me prisoner o. u. ivuu;. ' Sheriff Plunkett then returned to Augusta, accompanied by Sheriff Ruff, it being his purpose to remove the other two prisoners to Lexington county, but before the prisoners were removed Solicitor T. C. Callison telegraphed Sheriff Plunkett as follows: ''Don't let Sheriff Ruff leave Augusta with prisoners tonight. Have him call me." Sheriff Ruff reported that the solicitor told him over the phone iV - ' - ? V _ f/M>minrr fn WOvtaV Lflclt a UIU U was IUI luiug " uj??. "him on the road and take his prisoners from him and that he would ask the sheriff to hold them for him. This the sheriff of Richmond county consented to do, and the sheriff of Lexington county left for his home. Your Excellency is asked to take into thoughtful consideration the foregoing as the first act in the drama which led to the outrage put upon the state of Georgia by the state of South Carolina. On August 10, at 8 o'clock at night Sheriff Plunkett was notified that the Augusta Chronicle had received from the Columbia State a message stating that an armed mob in automobiles was forming in Columbia; that it was going that night , to Georgia and take by violence irom the Richmond county jail the two slayers of Brazell and lynch them. Upon receipt of this information Sheriff Plunkett immediately called over the telephone Sheriff Heise, Sheriff Ruff, of Lexington county, and Chief of Police Derrick, of Leesville, asking about the information that had reached him, requesting that he be given further information and that these peace officers, one of them located in the city where the mob was forming, and the others along its proposed line of march, should inter\ cept and use all necessary force to prev.ent the mob coming to Georgia. He received absolutely no word of warning nor aid of any kind, nor as ^ far as is known was any step taken by these or any other officers to pre vent this invasion of Georgia by an ?OLOGY rH CAROLINA | armed mob. The mob formed in Columbia and proceeded in a campact body along the usual highway to Augusta. It is known that Sheriff Heise knew of the formation of the mob before Sheriff Plunkett telephoned him. It is known that Chief of Police Derrick saw and sDoke to the members of the mob in the automobiles as they passed through Leesville. On the uncertainty as to whether the mob would or would not attack the jail the sheriff deemed it best to remove the prisoners to the city of Savannah. At 4 o'clock a. m. Wednesday night an organized mob of over 100 heavily armed men went to the county stockade on Fifteenth street and with curses and therats forced and com| pelled an entrance to the stockade, made a search of the premises, aroused fifty or more sleeping convicts. Not finding their intended victims they . then went to the Richmond county jail, a brick structure surrounded oy a brick wall ten feet high. Again with threats and curses they scaled the wall, entered the jail yard and porch threatening to batter down the doors of the jail unless Fox and Gappins were instantly turned over to them. The jailer assured them that "the prisoners had been removed from the jail, but these assurances were set at naught and the jailor compelled to turn over his keys<and admit them for the purpose of search. They aroused the inmates of the jail, going from cell to cell in a serch for their victims. Not finding them, they again with threats and curses and in tumultous fashion left the jail. The members of this mob were guilty of a felony under Georgia law and subject to a punishment of from one to twenty years in the penitentiary. Mobs and lynchings have become so much the order of the day that unless some unique feature is presented mere comment upon the condition would seem to be vain. But up to 'this time mobs have been intra-state. This one was inter-state. Peace officers have been called on to deal with | mobs formed within their own bailiwick. Has it come to pass that a sheriff may expect a mob from a neighbor, perhaps from a distant state? However this may be, as a general proposition, the concrete situation is presented to Your Excellency of your sheriff, exerting almost superhuman effort to render service to the state of South Carolina?successful service, and the reward of such service is .the invasion of Georgia territory by an armed, organized mob, the peace and quiet of a great city violated, the state's stronghold assaulted, its keepers and defenders defied. Must you not require of the state of South Caroline genuine activity in securing and delivering to Georgia authority some of the 'hundred offenders who have outraged it? Three South Carolina criminals were arrested by Georgia authorities and returned to South Carolina with evidence to convict. Will not South Carolina arrest and deliver to Georgia one of the one hundred men who broke and defied its laws? Had this very incident occurred between the countries of Mexico and the United States on the south, or the Dominion of Canada and the United States on the north, would not full explanation and apologies have been instantly made, and if not would the occurrence not have been a cause of war? Georgia and South Carolina are as distinct sovereigns as are the two countries. A new condif tion is presented -to your Excellency and you should take thought?serious thought?of how you should meet it. Here is invasion of your state by an armed force, defiance of its laws and your authority. Assault and capture of" your jail and stockade, your property seized, and what have you from South Carolina or its governor in satisfaction of these unthinkable outrages? What answer does she propose to ' make or will you exact? Respectfully, HENRY C. HAMMOND. Bobbed Hair Must Go. Chicago. Aug. iu.?uraers were! posted by Marshall Field & Co., one of Chicago's largest departments stores, today that girl clerks with bobbed hair must wear false nets until their tresses grow again. One clerk was dismissed for refusal to obey the rule. ? m hi ^? After August 1st I will sell only for cash. I will have no books and will not charge anything. G. O. SIMMONS.?adv. i ([ BASE BAMBERG WINS FIRST. Whiteside Too Much for Williston's Heavy Hitters. V? \\TV? 4 f Af i /I a Drt w Vv At?r*'n r?i v_ ?* iLii *> uiicoiuc, uauiuci5 a OIAteen-year-old local pitcher, on the mound Bamberg defeated Williston s heavy hitting team on the latter's diamond last Friday in the first of the post-season series. Smythe did the hurling for Williston, and pitched a good game, only one earned run: being made off of him, but received poor support at times from the Williston infield, the errors counting large1 t* in tViQ min molrincr Rumhercr co AJLk A UU IUU?1U?}> JU/UUA<UV* Q WW j cured nine hits from his delivery, but: the most of these came after the side! should have been retired. There was a large crowd present, who seemed to enjoy the game, notwithstanding the fact that the home hopes failed to come through with a win. There was a number of visitors from the surrounding towns, the most of whom were rooting for Williston. Bamberg scored four'runs in the first inning and three in the ninth. Williston scored their two runs in the third and fifth. The following will show how it was done: Large up, fans. Bamberg hit to second, who let the ball get away, Bamberg stopping on first. C. Rentz singled to left. Warren hit through short, who let the ball go through,] scoring Bamberg and Rentz, Warren going to second. Radcliffe singled to; right scoring Warren. L. Rentz hits i to right for a single scoring! Radcliffe, who had gone to second; on the play. L. Rentz went to third on a passed ball by the catcher. Brabham and Price fanned in their times up. Two errors, three hits, four runs. Lott up, walks. Willis hit to 3rd and on a pretty stop and peg Lott was out at second. A. Kennedy fouls out to catcher. Dodge fans. No errors, no hits, no runs. Second Inning. Whiteside hit to first, out. Large hit hot liner to short, out. Bamberg fans. No errors, no hits, no runs. Sherlock fans. Quattlebaum hits pop to short. Trottie hit to 2nd out at first. No errors, no hits, no runs.! Third Innning. C. Rentz fans. Warren fans and! catcher misses third strike. Radcliffe fans. Warren out trying to steal: second. No errors, no hits, no runs. Q. Kennedy up hit to right for single. Smyt'he hit to short, Kennedy out on second. Lott hit to right for two bags, Smythe stopping on third. Willis up, out at first from pitcher, scoring Smythe, Lott on third. A. Kennedy fouled out to L. Rentz. No errors, two hits, one run. Fourth inning. L. Rentz hits long fly to center, out. Braham hits long fly to center, out. Price hits easy chance to third, out at first. Xo errors, no hits, no runs. Dodge hit to third, out at first. Sherlock out from third to first. Quattlebaum pops out to pitcher. Xo errors, no hits, no runs. Fifth Inning. Whiteside out Lott to first. Large hits high fly back of tnira ana is oui by pretty catch by Lott. Bamberg hits to right for one bag. C. Rentz singles to left. Warren . gives left fielder a hard chance and is out. No errors, two hits, no runs. Trottie hits one to short too hot to handle and is safe on first. Q. Kennedy walks. Smvthe hits to second an? on error all bases were full with no one down. Lott pops out to first. Willis grounds out to first scoring Trottie. A. Kennedy gives third an easy roller and is out at first. One error, one hit, one run. Sixth Inning. Radcliffe pops to center. L. Rentz hits to right center for two bags. Brabham up, and on passed ball L. Rentz goes to third. Brabham fans. Price hits high fly to center and is out. No errors, one hit, no runs. Dodge hits long drive to center for two bags. Sherlock hits to third and Dodge is out on play between bases. Quattlebaum flies out to second, i Sherlock out trying to steal second. \ Xo errors, one hit, no runs. Seventh Inning. Whiteside hits to third and out at first. Large flies out to center. Bamberg fans. Xo errors, no hits, no runs. Trottie pops to pitcher. Q. Kennedy hit by pitcher. Smythe flies out to left. Lott flies out to right. Willis fans. Xo errors, no hits, no runs. Eighth Inning. C. Rentz fans. Warren safe on er ==^ BALL j ror of Lott. Radcliffe sacrifices Warren to second on grounder to A. Kennedy. L. Rentz hits long drive ' and on pretty catch by Q. Kennedy is out. One error, no hits, no runs. A. Kennedy out from short to first. Dodge pops out to third. Sherlock out from third to first. No errors, J no hits, no runs. Ninth Inning. Brabham safe on first through ; wild throw by third. Price singles to ( left. Whiteside sacrifices to A. Ken- 1 nedy, Brabham and Price on third and second. Large singles between short and second scoring Brabham and Price. Bamberg fans. C. Rentz singles through short scoring Large. ' Warren hits in front of plate and is out from Dodge to first. No errors, J three hits, three runs. Quattlebaum flies out to Whiteside. Trottie grounds to second out at first. Q Kennedy fans. Time of game: one hour and a half. J Batteries: Whiteside and Large, Smytne and Dodge. Umpire: Smith. Wins From Orangeburg. Bamberg swamped the locals Wednesday afternoon in a game which started off to be a close contest but which took a turn for the worse in the fifth inning, finally ending in a score of 12 to 1. The visitors made one run in the cocrmH o n H nnp in fhp thirH thpn rPSt gvvv/uu UUU WV AAA VUV tUi* v? , V wM * ed during th? fourth.- When the fifth opened up they also opened up and' started in on a hitting expedition. Before the inning was over six hits had been secured off Bill Wolfe and seven runs had been piled up on the score board. Two more runs marked the eighth and another was chalked up in the ninth. Orangeburg managed to put one across the plate after Johnnie Scoville made a three-bagger j and Able followed with a scratch hit. Bamberg went through the game without making an error. The locals made six errors. Warren, for Bamberg, allowed 7 hits. The visitors got 15 hits off Bill Wolfe. The visitors played fast throughout the entire game and ex- ; hibited pep until the last man was out. ti'verv man on me visiung ieaui out one is credited with at least one hit and several of them got two and more.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Bamberg Loses. In the second game of the post season series which is being played to decide the winner of the pennant in the Tri-County league, Williston defeated Bamberg in Williston Tuesday afternoon by the score of 5 to 3. Warren, pitching for Bamberg, was hit hard in the fifth inning, yielding five clean hits which netted Williston four runs. They made one run in the early innings on a squeeze play. The Bamberg boys lacked the necessary punch to put over a win. It was stated that 'the Apollo Music club, which enjoyed a picnic near Williston yesterday, fed the ball play- , ers too high, which might have ac-i counted for the listless way some of < the men played. Charlie Rentz play- f ed well in the field, having caught 1 several flies that would have gone for extra bases if he had failed to get them. The Bamberg team had an excellent chance to win the game in the eighth inking, 'the first three men having connected with hits, but the best that they could do was to make two runs, although there were two * men on bases with none out when they made the two scores. Score: Williston 5 12 4 Bamberg 3 9 1 ? - . a _ 1 Batteries: smytne andwuoage; Warren and Large. Umpire, Mr. ' Smith. A Whopper. c D. C. Murph, of Orangeburg, is greatly interested?academically?in ' The Times Whopper Contest and sub- J mits that a gentleman from "down * the country" said that during the recent wet spell there was a barrel 1 with both ends out lying on its side 1 i -n Vi i ? Konl- ro rrl T~111 r i n cr nno nf tVlP c j. liinj) ; ui u. JUUIXU^ wi ~ "showers" it rained through the ] bung-hole, which was on the side of the barrel which was turned upward. * faster than the water could run out of both ends of the barrel.?Calhoun Times. Gabrielle d'Annunzio asked permission of the French government to live in Paris as a "sovereign in exile." TWO PR FULL NO GOOD IN LYNCHING. "The Law Has Done Its Part in Capturing the Murderers and it Will Punish Them.' M. E. Brazell, the father of William Brazell, the slain taxi driver, In a statement given The State yesterday made a personal appeal against mob violence; asking that theofficers be allowed to bring the prisoners to trial and punishment unmolested. "I am a law abiding man," Mr. Brazell said, "and though I know that no punishment, however cruel, could possibly be too severe for these men, yet I would prefer to see the law allowed to take its course. The lynching of the three men, or two of ttoem, can not give me back my boy and it may possibly cost the life of some of my friends or my murdered boy's friends. It is the sworn duty of the sheriff to protect his prisoners and I should not blame him for protecting them from a mob any more than I should blame him for risking his life to hold them should their friends attempt to rescue them. If I were in the sheriff's place I should hold them if it cost m 1 i f n T n AH* AvrvAAf f Vi A 1X1^ Ui^ HJ.X? auu A A1VS W Lmz sheriff and other officers to do likewise. I should be true to my oath; they will be true to theirs. "The representatives of the law first arrested the men, who otherwise might by now have made good their escape, and I know that the law can be trusted to hold them and to punish them for their brutal crime. The death or injury of a sheriff or of some friend of mine or my boy's will not help me to bear my loss. If I were to read tomorrow that Fox and Gappin had been lynched I should feel no better or happier than I do now. These men have broken the law and will be punished without delay by the law. The lynching of them will not make their punishment more certain. Two crimes do \ not make a right. The law has done its part in capturing the murderers and obtaining the evidence against them; it will do the rest by punishing them." Mr. Brazell also made his appeal in person to men, supposed to be members of the mob, asking them to discontinue any efforts to take the men from the hands of officers.?The State, Monday, August 15. Good Rations for Brood Sows. Clemson College, Aug. 15.?Good rations for brood sows suggested by the animal husbandrvmen are given below. Ratinn 1. Corn 6 parts. Oats 3 parts. Tankage or fish meal 1 part. Ration 2. Corn G parts. Bran 1 part. Shorts 3 parts. Tankage or fish meal 1 part. Ration 3. Equal parts of corn meal, shipped 3tuff. and ground oats. It is help ful always to keep the following mineral mixture before hogs. Charcoal .... 5 parts. Wood-ashes 2 parts. Lime 2 parts. Salt 2 parts. Perfectly Natural. "The Brown's have a new baby." "Yeah? Well, folks generally get 'em that way." road near Leesville, in Lexington county, were lodged for safe keeping in the Charleston county jail yesterday morning after arrival at dawn of the Atlantic Coast Line train from Savannah arriving In tne union station about 5 o'clock. Sheriff Roof and two deputies had tharge of the two prisoners, who were thoroughly handcuffed. The party traveled to Charleston in an ordinary coach. They came in the face of the governor's announcement that in no circumstances would they leave Sarannah Saturday night. The hasty departure from Savannah to which they had been spirited from Augusta ifter the mob demonstration, evidently surprised interested men. So secret was the movement that OV.at.iff Tncanli A \ Vmi 1 n A t" wa <5 jUUiil > u *?1 J. vvtiuw ?. ?.?/ not apprised of the fact that he was to be responsible for the safety of the two men until they are removed from here to the state penitentiary in Columbia. Sheriff Poulnot was advised ;>n the arrival of the party and went to the county jail where he and Sheriff Roof held a conference. IRS MAKE CONFESSION FOX AND GAPPIXS TELL OF KILLING OF TAXI DRIVER. \ > A, V > HELD IX CHARLESTON JAIL. Sheriff Plunkett of Augusta Drives All Night to Evade Mob Which Storms Jail in Augusta. 1 Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11.?Confession to having committed one of the most brutal murders in police annals was wrung from C. 0. Fox and Jessie Gappins, the two prisoners brought to Chatham county jail at 5:55 o'clock this morning after an all night ride to avert a lynching party that stormed the Richmond county jail at Augusta shortly after Sheriff Plunkett left with the two men. Their statement of the killing of William Brazell, a young chauffeur of Columbia, whom they had engaged to go for a ride with the intention of robbing him, was practically the same as that made by S. J. Kirby, M Avr* 4m ^ Vl A C AlllVi A ATI 11U W 111 LL1C ou u in vaiuuua pcuncu. ' ? tiary. Fox and Gappins were hurried from the Augusta jail Thursday morning by Sheriff Plunkett following information that a party of 50 automobiles **as coming to take the men. He left instructions with the jailer to let the lynching party in to search the jail. The sheriff with his two prisoners left the jail and started for Savannah, stopping only at Waynesboro to pick up a Burke county officer who was familiar with the roads leading to Savannah. At First Refused. When the party arrived at the Chatham county jail they were refused admittance with their prisoners due to a rule that no more "foreign prisoners were to be accepted without a written order." The men were placed in the city jail but were later returned to the county jail upon the proper order. In the presence of Sheriff Plunkett and Jailer Kidwell the two men confessed their guilt, telling a revolting tale of the murder of Brazell. The - i confessions of the two men were then . signed, Kidwell witnessing the signa LU1C3. In their confessions the two men stated that they with Kirby engaged the car from Brazell with the intention of driving to Lexington. They planned to get him out of the coun- ty, they said, and to take the car from him, but at the time had no intention of killing Brazell. Brazell, after driving them about for some time, stopped the machine to buy some gasoline and one of the party stepped from the machine to see how much money he had with him when he paid for the gasoline. It was found he had $3 in his possession. .s. The automobile started again and, stopping for a few minutes in the road, according to the statement of the men, Fox struck Brazell in the * head with a billy. At this point the three men attacked the helpless driver with knives, brutally stabbing him in the body. Brazell put up a bard fiffht. but was overpowered by his assailants, two of them holding his hands behind his back, while Fox plunged a knife in the driver's body. Pleaded for Life. The two men admitted that Brazell pleaded earnestly with his assailants that they spare his life, protesting that he would not turn them up. His assailants turned a deal ear to his pleadings. Fox, in a confession, admitted twisting the knife around in Brazell's body after he stabbed him. The body of the dead man was taken in the automobile and carried along the road a short distance be fore the slayers tooK n mio iuo woods some yards from the road. There was very little money in the pockets of the dead man, but after relieving him of the few dollars he had, they drove the automobile off. The automobile finally broke down near Waynesboro and the three men deserted the car. Kirbv told W. D. Roberts, of Waynesboro, N. C., that the other two men had committed a murder. Kirby then showed where the body of Brazell had been takeir by the passengers of the murder car. Kirby is at present under arrest in Columbia. Brought to Charleston. Charleston. Aug. 14.?C. O. Fox and Jessie Gappins charged with having had part in the killing of William Brazell on the Columbia-Augusta