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Columbia, June 16.?Columbia was
surprised this morning when extras
announced the execution of the three
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white men convicted some time ago
of the murder of William Brazell, a
white automobile driver. C. J. Kirby,
C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins, the
three criminals, all wanted to make
tajks before their death. The general
tone was to ask for forgivenness,
i to warn young men against bad company
and to express sorrow for the
. Brazell family. It is a noteworthy
fact that not one of the three executed
this morning is a South Carolinian,
all coming to Columbia to live
from other states. Of the three who
were executed Kirby was most, resist11
/ ant and did not want to have the ex
ecutioner expedite his work.
The penitentiary authorities had
the work dispatched early in the day
in order that the curious might not
annoy thetn. The first of the prisoners
was waked up as early as 5.25
o'clock this morning, when the death
warrant was read. At 6:12 o'clock
Kirby was taken to the electric chair
and was the first to be executed. All
of the preparations, all of the prayers,
all of the talks and the three
executions were completed within the
span of fifty minutes.
How Men Are Killed.
The execution was by electric current,
registering 1,900 volts. The
statement is made that the recoid
also shows that In Kirby's execution
there was a record of ten amperes.
The prisoner;: are taken from the
death chamber to the electrocution
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room, then they are strapped in a
i large chair and a siit js generally
made in the leg of the trousers for
the contact with the electric power.
Out of the abundance of caution two
shots at short intervals are applied
K -v y and death follows .instantly.
'There were three ministers in attendance
at the execution this morning,
the Rev. J. 0. Abney, Mr. Murphy
and the Rev. J. W. Anderson.
The three prisoners joined in the services
and prayers.
At each of the executions there
were separate groups of twenty Spectators,
no more than this number being
allowed by the prison auhoritie3.
aitnougn it is unaerstooa tnat mere
were many requests to witness the exeditions.
Kirby in his last moments seemed
to resist the officers as he wanted to
make additional statments, although,
he had been making them quite regu- j
larly for some days. None of the
participants ever have denied being
involved in the murder, their only
statements being to shirk some part
nnrt ciKi Hftr
Jesse Gappins, who was quite
Jy " i. r-young,
when he was taken to the
electric chair made a somewhat connected
statement. In substance he
v haid:
Statement 4>y Gappins.
"Gentlemen, all young men and
old ones, too," j began the young prisoner.
"I advise to keep good company.
I am here today to die for
keeping tfad company. If the truth
were known, and, God knows it, I
would not be here to die today. If it
had been left to me, young Brazell
. would have been living today. Let
this be a warning to everybody. You
may not Deneve wnai 1 leu you, our
before God it's so; Jesus knows my
heart. I know lots of faces among
you. I have not had justice. Jesus
died, after a perfect life. Goojd-bye,
everybody. Stand by me, dear Lord,
in my Ifcst moments on this earth."
The young criminal prayed and then
in a quiet tone, for a whole minute,
without interference from the executioner,
who waited as he prayed, a
hand on the switch, fthe young murderer
poured out his soul to God
for forgivenness. Gappins had tears
* in his eyes while he was talking and
his execution seemed to i effect the
spectators more than that of any of
the others.
x In less than three minutes from
the time the first shock was applied
Gappins was declared dead.
Fox was the last of the trio to be
executed. He appears to have been
the one who actually stabbed Brazell
, to death. In his case the physicians
declared him dead in four minutes
and seven seconds. Fox also asked
to make a statement, which was quite
brief, in which he said:
"I have very little to say, except
that I want to warn all poor fellows
out in the world to live right; I'm
sorry I got in bad company: but I'm
not good company. I bear no malice
for any one; I have nothing to say
against the other boys, and I hope to
meet them a'.i in Heaven."
The threj men executed for murder
were caken to the dead house
where the members of their families
none of whom witnessed any of the
executions, claimed the bodies and
took them to undertaking establish
'ins, and Fox
)eath Penalty
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RUXCAX '*XOT GUILTY."
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Farmer Acquitted of Killing Riley *
Hammond.
Laurens, June 14.?In general ses
j ions court here this afternoon, Thomas
P. Duncan, farmer of the Madden ^
section of the county, was acquitted C
of the charge of murder in the slaying,
April 5, of Riley Hammond, mer- s
chant of the Laurens Mill village. The ^
jury was out about thirty minutes. *
The killing of Hammond occurred at o
the home of Duncan, and the defend- f
ant claimed that he shot Hammond r
in self-defense while the unwritten t
law played a part in the trial, though a
the defendant himself did not make 1
this his plea.
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Club Girls at Winthro>p. t
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Winthrop College, June 12, 1922. t
Dear Homefolks:?I came to Win- C
throp college to learn that which I i:
did not know. I like the college very n
much. I am learning things that I h
never, knew before and I am going to v
take it all back home to my friends v
that did not get to come. I am I
planning to come to this college c
when I finish at home. I
We went to an informal party Fri- :>
day night given by Dr. Johnson, the h
president of the college. Ice cream o
was served after which we played v
games and sang home songs. Dr. t
Johnson is a fine man. I believe he t
is about the greatest man in South v
Carolina. h
I am having lots of pleasure while
here and I hope I can come back
here to school.
ETHEL KITTRELL. S
A majority of the wage earners in
Argentina are women.
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ments for burial.
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Columbia feels m ' relieved that
these execu'tlbns have been held. The
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community is now awaiting the exe- ^
cution of two other young white men
who were convicted of killing Mr.
Arnette, and whose cases are now on ^
appeal to the supreme court after ^
their sentence to electrocution.
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A brief history of the Brazell case
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may be of interest. Young Brazell
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was murdered during the night of
August 7, last year. The three men ?
engaged his car to take them to Augusta,
whence they were to go to
Florida to sell the car, after they had .
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black-jacked the driver and left him
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on the roadside. The young driver q
was black-jacked as the party traveled
through Lexington county, but the ^
blackjack broke. Then to complete
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their job they had to put the chauffeur
out of the way. Kirby devised j
the scheme of killing him. He or- ^
dered Gappins to inflict the death ^
wound, but the young man refused.
Then Fox was ordered, and he obeyo
ed, the knife being jabbed into the
young Columbian's body and twister
around several times for each operation.
- The body was thrown in the
11 ndar >?tmi oVi noar tho rnari nnri thp>
three men proceeded on to Augusta.
After leaving Augusta a short distance,
the men had tire trouble, and
stopping to get help, Kirby told of 0]
their criminal act, and they were ar- ^
rested. The next day, August 9, ^
Kirby was brought back to Lexington
and he assisted officers in finding the ^
body of young Brazell. Later he was L
brought to the penitentiary, escaping
efforts of a band of men to get ?
him. h
Fox and Gapping were held in Augusta.
A mob stormed the jail, in an
j effort to get them. Later they were gT
| taken to Savannah, and thence in
dead of night they were smuggled to n
Charleston, and several days later
still they were brought to Columbia, v
after a mob had searched trains and R
automobiles and guarded roadsides ^
for days, in an effort to get hold of j
the two men.
All three of the men confessed to ?
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the killing. On the witness stand n
in Lexington, when they were tried u
last September, they told unflinchingly,
the horrible details of the j,
crime, and then on September 14, g1
they were convicted and sentenced to y
the electric chair, October 21, being v
set as the date for their execution.
All three appealed, however, and j
their appeals stayed their executions. 1(
The appeals, without merit, were 0
never perfected, and on motion of n
Solicitor Callison in Lexington on d
May 23, they were again sentenced a
to die, this time June 16, being set as n
the date.
Vain attempts have been made in v
recent weeks to have the governor j,
save the lives ' of the prisoners. ^
Petitions for their commutation have
been presented in behalf of Gappins
and Fox, these signed by some of the
jurors who convicted them. But to v
all these the governor turned a deaf
ear, and the justice of the law was t
maintained. \
Pay
for Murder
COLUMBIA WOMAN SUICIDES.
?ocks Self in Koom to Take Her Own
Ldfe.
Columbia June 12.?Despondent
nd worried by unexplained fears,
Irs. Mabel Gerald, wife of E. H.
lerald, locked herself in her room at
ler home at the corner of Ridgewood
treet and Lakewood avenue, Eau
"laire, early yesterday afternoon and (
here shot :herself in the head to fall
i
iead across a bed. Two shots were
ired, one of the balls entering the 1
'ig'ht temple and passing entirely ,
hrough the head, to strike the wall
nd bounce back under the bed. '
wac almnst inctnntariPmiR
ZtUlU " U44JULVVV
E. H. Gerald, Mrs. Gerald's hus>and.
was at a well in the yard about
en or fifteen yards away from the
ouse at 12:30 o'clock when he heard
he two shots, he says. His wife, Mr.
lerald said, had complained of feeing
ill during the morning and surnising
the fact that she had killed
terself he set down the bucket of
rater and called to several men, who
rere standing on the edge of the
tidge wood golf course at the corner
if the two streets. These men, Alva
I^Knnl. PrAO/^TlOV T A V> n T.
JUliiptWU, X' I aiin JJ1UUUUU.1, w w u u
limnaugh, Hugh Wilson and G. N.
iichols, answered his calls and came
ver to the house, where through the
window they could see the body on
he bed. The door, however, was
>arred from within and all of the
windows screened and covered with
leavy fence wire.
WATER BODY UNDER GROUND.
unking of Earth in Sonih Dakota Indicates
Subterranean River.
The recent sinking to a depth of
rom fifteen to thirty feet of a coniderable
area of land on the ranch
>f Samuel Alleman near the Missouri
iver in the central part of South Daota,
has given rise to the theory that
nderlying that part of the state is
large subterranean cave, river or ,
ike, and that the sudden collapse of
le early crust and the dropping down
f several acres on the Alleman ranch
7a.s due either to the collapse of the
oof of an immense cave under the
round at that point, or to the col- *
ipse of the earth roof of an underround
river or lake.
Hundreds of people are daily visitlg
the scene of the phenomenon. The
ollapse of earth took place on the
astern edge of a small plateau about
ix hundred feet from the Missouri
iver, where the land begins to slope
astward into a literal ravine.
The collapse disturbed twenty-one
cres on the steep side of the ravine,
irusting it out fifteen feet and
tirowin? a fence out^)f line. It was
ot a landslide, but a vertical falling,
f the earth's crust, which has left a
uge trough in the center.
MAJ. E. S. HAMMOND DEAD. |
onfederate Veteran and Former
Newspaper Editor Passes Away*
Maj. Edward S. Hammond, confedrate
veteran and former editor of
le Richmond Dispatch, died at his
9me in Blackville S. C., Sunday
lorning. He was 88 years old.
Major Hammond was cjescended
om one of South Carolina's most
rominent and historic families and
'as beloved by hundreds who knew
?? " V,<->o rto/1 ffontloman nf
nil as a n.111 u ibu guui.ivu>uu ?_
ie old southern school. He was a
raduate of the University of Pennrlvania
and a doctor by profession.
During the civil war Major Hamlond
served on the staff of the govrnor
of South Carolina and saw serice
in the great struggle around
dchmond. He was editor of the
.ichmond Dispatch during the years
tiortly after the civil war.
Major Hammond was born at Silerton,
S. C., and later lived for
lany years at Beach Island. He
as a lifetime member of the Beech
jland Farm club and donated the
ind on which the clubhouse now
Onrinf ttiA last twent.v-five
LCI 1J. VXO. ^ w^v w-f
ears of his life he lived at Blackille.
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He is survived by two sons, Hon.
ames H. Hammond, South Carolina
jgislature and prominent attorney
f Columbia, and Dr. Dunbar Hamlond,
of Barnwell county; one
aughter and many other relatives
mong them Judge Henry C. Hamlond,
of Augusta.
Funeral services and interment
,rere conducted at the Beech Is
and cemetery, Beech Island, S. C.,
Ionday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
Starting Early.
"Who was the lucky phap at the
redding this morning?"
"The best man. I saw' him kiss
he bride three times when the groom
vasn't looking."
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