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Death Sentena
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York, Nov. 25.?William C. Faries,
convicted by a York jury of the mur
der of Newton Taylor, 13 year old
toy, at Clover, was this afternoon sentenced
to die in the electric chair
December 29, sentence being pronounced
by Judge James E. Peurifoy
at 5:35 o'clock this afternoon, after
he had overruled a motion by counsel
for the defense for a new trial. |
Counsel for Faries announced this'
afternoon that an appeal would be
taken to the supreme court.
Hears Verdict Unmoved,
At 3:21 o'clock the verdict wasj
read his attorneys , showed practl-1
cally no emotion. Stolid and unper-;
turhed, he had lounged in his chair
through the morning session, apparently
forgetful of all happening
* about him.
The motion for a new trial was
idenied and at 5:21 o'clock Judge
Peurifoy ordered Fardes to stand up
t to hear his rentence.
Sentence is Pronounced.
"I have wondered," Judge Peurifoy
told the a.ged defendant, "if you could
retrace your steps if you would live
your life any differently. Now, I
think, you have come to know what
it means to strike down and kill in
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young folk of this city something
about the control of the passions. But
your race is run. I do not know what
your intentions were in youth. But if
good intentions are cot translated into
good actions, they fall short of
valhe. You have taken the wrong
angle. You might have made Triends
of these people, but instead you fed
the flames of anger, and as a result
you stand today, Just as the sun is
\ sinking, almost In the very presence.'
of your Maker. Your attorneys may
get you a new trial, but my advice to I
you is not to rely upon .this hope, but
now, without delay, to make your
preparations to meet your God."
^ For 14 minutes Judge Peurifoy
talked and for 14 minutes Faries.
having admitted that he had nothing
further to say that had not already
* been said, stood watching the judge
and waiting for the inevitable solemn
"and may God have mercy upon your
eoul." As the minutes wore on, his
gaze wandered and all the time (he
showed no signs of emotion other
\ than the constant twirling of his big
black hat. The strain, however, had
begun to tell and it required conscious
effort on -Jiis part to reply
underThe coaching of his attorney to
the judge's query as to whether he
had anything to say why sentence of
death should not be passed upon him,
he stammered, choked,' then caught
himself and answered, "Nothing except
what my counsel has said before."
Faries Confesses.
The state, after putting up only six
witnesses, rested its case at 4:45
o'clock Friday afternoon and the defense,
after a brief examination of
Mrs. William C. Faries, wife of the
defendant, called Faries to testify in
his own behalf.
Faries, somewhat pale from nearly
two months in the state penitentiary,
but to all outward show calm and un'
perturbed, admitted that he had killed
Newton Taylor, for whose murder
he is now on trial, confessed that he
had also killed Lela Taylor, Claude
Johnson and Fred Taylor and wounded
Gertrude Taylor and Dolly Taylor,
and offered only the excuse that he
had been inflamed by an alleged aton
one of his children by one of
the Taylors.
The defense, it appears, abandoned
any plan for the introduction
of expert witnesses in support of an
insanity plea and th? only evidence
offered to support such a contention
was the statement of Faries, as his
own "expert," that after firing the
first shot he did not think he was in
full possession of all his faculties.
Faries also contended, on direct examination,
that he did not remember
exactly what occurred after firing
the first shot. Then, under crossexamination,
he proceeded to recount
the story of the four kilings in detail I
;-n rororso nrripr ill response to I
saxin txt i v'v>wv ,
the questionings of Solicitor J. Monroe
Spears.
The high water mark of the prosecution's
case was reached in the tesl
timony of Mrs. Jamos M. Taylor,
mother of the slain Newton Taylor,
Mrs. Taylor was the first witness to
take the stand for the state and there
was an almost strange calmness,
something of surprising courage, in
the telling of her story. There were
signs of tears in her eyes and sometimes
in endeavoring to answer parti
3 Decreed
jer of Children
cularly trying questions her voice
broke.
"Are you the mother of Newton'
Taylor," Solicitor Spears, who was;
conducting the examination, asked
her.
"Yes," she answered and the court
asked that she speak louder that the
jury might hear.
"Is he living or dead?" came the
question.
"He is'dead." There was a sob and
her voice wavered.
Who killed him?"
"William C. Faries," the answer
was clear -and strong.
Faries, watching her from his seat
beside his atorneys, glanced at his
accuser but showed no other sign that
he heard.
Mother is Eyewitness.
(Mrs. Tylor was in the back room
of her home, just across the street
from Faries's house in Clover, when,
she testified, one of her ten year old
girls came into the room crying and
told her that John, one of the Faries
children, had hit little Newton on the
head with a rock. Mrs. Taylor then
went out into the front yard and there
heard Faries, who was in his yardj
across the street, remark, "This has
to be settled and I might as well settle
it right now." While she was trying
to persuade Newton in the house,
Faries, Mrs. Taylor said, appeared on
ihis porch and opened fire. Newton,
the 13 year old boy, stumbled and fell
and pretty soon another shot was
fired and Claude Johnson exclaimed,
"Oh!" and stumbled into the house,
to fall mortally wounded. Some time
later she heard another shot and then
she went into the house to her children;
she could remember no more.
Johnson, Mrs. Taylor said, bad macie
no remark that she heard before
Faries opened fire.
Mrs. Taylor also told of a disagreement
of some weeks' standing between
the two families, dating from
the time that her family stopped getting
water from a well in Faries'
yard, which appears to have occasioned
the disagreement. It was only
a children's quarrel and only once,
she said, had she had words with
Faries concerning the well. Faries*
she testified, had told her that she
would have to stop getting water out
of the well and she had asked him if
he had a deed to this hole in the
ground. The dinner recess was taken
with Mrs. Taylor still on the stand,
cross-examination following upon
the reconvening of the court tbis afternoon.
To trlnr
<JI1 Cross-ti.Ulunuauuu .m o. aw.
made no change of importance in her
testimony, admitting, however, that a
policeman had called at her home investigating
a charge that her children
* 1 thrown rocks at the Faries
children. Faries, he said, had asked
the Taylor children to stay from the
well, but the children had coniinued
to play around the well until it had
been locked up by Faries. She denied
all knowledge of the alleged fact that
on the morning of the trageidy the
OpUestion of shooting had been discussed
in a barn used jointly by the
two families.
Perry on Stand.
Thomas Perry, star eyewitness of
the killings, and admitted crony of
Faries, followed Mrs. Taylor, telling
how he had been with Faries on the
afternoon of the tragedy when one of
Faries's children had come to them
and reported that little Johnnie
Faries's head had been "knocked off
by that Taylor boy." Faries, Perry
said, got up with the remark, "I've
tried the law and tried every way and
I've done talked all I'm going to
I talk." Faries tlien went into tne
| house and a few minutes later Perry
heard two shots and saw one of the
Taylor boys fall into the house. After
firing the shots, Faries went over
to the well and unloosed the bucket
and took three sips of water." "He
set his gun somewhere, I don't know
where," Perry said. Perry, according!
to his story, was also a witness to the j
shooting of Fred Taylor some timej
later. "He was coming down the
street," Perry said, "and had turned
to go across to his house when l|
heard some one say. 'Don't go down!
there, you're going into danger.' I
fdon't know who said it. Then I heard
3 shot and Taylor jumped up and
pitched face foremost on the street."
Perry saw Farie9 with a single barreled
gun in his hand, he said but
did not see the actual firing of the
shot. The noise, he admitted, came
from the dire-ction of Faries.
On cross-examination Perry told of
assisting Faries in cleaning out the
240 BALES OX 205 ACRES
Edgefield Farmer's Experience Using
Liquid Poison.
(From the Southern Cultivator.)
While over in Edgefield County
on the 28th we met Mr. B. T. Boatwright,
Jr., who lives out a few miles
from Johnston, S. C. We learned that
IMr. Boatwright had made a wonderful
crop of cotton for this season, hav j
ing gathered 240 bales averaging 495 I
pounds, from 265 acres of land. We
asked -Mr. Boatwright how he hall
succeeded in making this wonderful
yield, and he said, "By using the
calcium arsenate and syrup mixture."
Wa than nuirPfi him how he came to
try this method, and he replied, "On
acount of endorsement given by D. R.
Coker of Hartsville, S. C." Mr. Boatwright
used the simple method of
putting on the poison with a bucket
and a little hand mop made by tying a
small handful of shredded shucks to
gether. During our conversation Mr.
Boatwright made this striking remark.
We were talking of the relative
merit of the dust and the
spray, and he said: "In using the
spray I am not dependent on weather
conditions and the fall of the dew.
I kill the weevil before the dew falls,"
meaning that the liquid poison acted
so readily that he killed many weevils
on the very day it was applied.
We foun(d that many South Carolina
farmers had tried the syrup and calcium
mixture, and everyone was loud
in its praise.
Moonshining.
Aiken, Nov. 24.?O'Neal Duncan,
a colored prisoner sentenced for
moon shin in? to serve six months in
Aiken jail at the last term of Federal
Court in Columbia, has taken
leg bail by jumping the brick wall
enclosing the jail yard. Jailor Vernon
let the man go into the yard for
a walk and he placed the cow trough
against the high wall and made his
escape.
well, testifying also to a meeting
some time before, when Faries had
shown him an array of shells loaded
with buckshot and had told him that
he had seen one of the Taylors sitting
on the front porch, cleaning
some "blue steel pistols." The buckshot,
Faries told him, were "just as
good as blue steel pistols." "Faries
said he had bought fehe shot he had
been looking for," Perry testified,
"and I askeid him where he got them,
but he would not tell me." Perry
laughed. He also admitted that he
had heard Faris accuse the Taylor
children of spitting in the well, but,
Perry said, ihe had never seen any of
the children spit in it. "They hung
around it a good deal," was the only
admission to be obtained from him.
The well, he said, had been used by
_ -
everybody in the community and he
could not say whether it was the property
of the mill company or not.
None of the Taylors was armed,
Perry said. He had known Faries for
many years an/d had been an intimate
friend of the defendant for 25 years.
Doctor Saw Last Shot.
Dr. W. K. 'McGill, Clover physician,
attended the six wounded members of
the Taylor family immediately after
the shooting and had been an eyewitness
to the killing of Fred Taylor,
the last to be shot. A week before the
tragedy, Dr. McGill said, he had been
called to the Faries home to prescribe I
for Mrs. Faries who told him she
was "nervous." Faries at that time!
had told him that the Taylor children
had been "fussing with Mrs. Faries"
and that the Clover authorities had
been asked to "do something about
it." Nothing had been done, Faries
said.
"Faries told me," Dr. McGill testified,
"that the did not know whether
it was due to the ignorance of the
authorities or to the fact that they
were afraid of the Taylors. T am not
afraid of them,' Faries boasted, 'and
I intend to show them that I am
not.' " No weapons ha)d been found
anywhere near any of the fallen children,
Dr. McGill testified.
Viola Deas, a 14 year old neighbor,
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was sitting on lier rroni porcn wnn a
baby in her lap when the first shot
i was fired, she said, and she saw Farj
?es shoot Newton Taylor, "The little
, boy," she said, "was standing near
the norrh. 'n his yard, doing roth;ng,
I when Mr. Faries shot him. Mrs. Tay!
'or. Dollv Taylor and Lela Taylor
were on the norch. I went into the
! honro then and didn't see any more
until I came o'lt and saw Fred Tav|
lor shot as he was comin? down the
ror"h"
Ori ^roce-evamina^ion. the little prdrl
! early in the shooting
| <!ho h?'? :h?*rd s^me one at the Tayi
votl ont. "Tyot me get hold of the
; gno, IT. fix hirr*." She refused, how
every, to identify the speaker as
Gives Test Early
Stalk Destruction
Yorkville Enquirer.
Two Colleton county farmers have
proved the effectiveness of stalk
destruction against the ravages of
the boll weevil. The benefits derived
from the simple practice this
season is reported as follows by
the Walterboro Press and Standard:
"As further evidence of the benei
fits to be derived from the early
! plowing in of cotton stalks as a
j method of boll weevil control, the
i ovnoriflnfifl nf IMooere T \T and \T
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I. Rizer, of the Ashton section of
the county is put in readable form
so that Colleton county farmers may
study and understand a few of the
simple practices which are proving
helpful to the farmers who are employing
them.
"Believing that the best time to
start the fight on Mr. B. Weevil was
jfiuring the early fall when he was
| busy getting himself ready for his
winter hotel, the standing cotton
j stalks, which furnished food until
frost and shelter during the cold
winter months. The practice was
carried out on the farm of these
j gentlemen generally, with the exception
of one field some distance
| from the main part of their farm
! holdings, on which stalks were left
| standing until early spring, when 10
acres of this field was prepared and
planted to cotton. In order that a
comparison of results with stalks
destroyed and stalks not destroyed
might be had, Mr. Marion Rizer,
manager of the farm, selected another
field of nine acres with similar
soil type, equal fertility and the
same cultural methods were employ
ed, except stalks were plowed in before
frost in this field. .In fact the
treatment of the two fields considered
in the test were identical with the
single exception of fall stalk destruction.
Again believing that the best
time to attack an enemy is just before
he goes to bed or just after he
gets up. Mr. Rizer began to catch
the weevils that appeared in the fields
early, and on the 10 acre field where
stalks had not been turnefd under in
the fall 4,000 adult weevils were
caught before cotton began to square,
whereas on the nine acre field, in
which stalks had been plowed under
during the month of October, only
165 weevils were caught at the same
period of growth.
"Results at th? time Mr. Rizer
gave out the data on this test, he
had already picked from the nine
acre field six bales of cotton, while
on the 10 acre fieW he had only
picked three bales, and there was
not enough cotton remaining in the
fields to change the figures given
above."
Mr. Rizer destroyed his stalks last
week, continues the Walterboro
newspaper, and asks other farmers
iHotionnor nnocHnn. have vou
ItlC wuaiivu^nig ?, .
destroyed yours yet? Will you be a
three-bale farmer next year or will
you raise six bales to nine acres?
And then the Standard concludes:
While we cannot afford to conclude
from this test that stalk destruction
is going to make for us a
crop of cotton, we are forced to bej
lieve that the practice is decidedly
beneficial and should be adopted by
every Colleton county cotton farmer.
Claude Johnson, a relative of the Taylors,
who was one of the four killed
Taylor, who had been wounded by
Faries's fire and had recovered only
after treatment in a Gastonia hopsital,
was the fifth witness for the state to
testify. She saw Newton fall, she said,
and hearing the shots had come to the
door and was herself wounded. "I
saw Mr. Faries when he shot me,"
she said. No one in the Taylor house,
she said had any "blue steel pistols."
The story of Faries's attempts to secure
legal action against the Taylors
was told by R. E. Love, magistrate at
Clover and the state'9 final witness.
Some weeks before the tragedy, the
magistrate said, Faries came to him
j ?Hint >,/-, Tovlnra ho nilt tin
<1UU rljivcu i-JLxau lug MW r
der a peace bond. "Faries said he had
seen some of the Taylors sitting or
j the porch, cleaning a blue steol piste J
j for him," Mr. Love said, "but he could
not furnish any evidence to show thai
; there had been any threats against his
life and I refused to grant his request.
He then told me, 'If there's nc
law for it, I will make one; you need
not be surprised at anything you heai
cf me doing.' " Mr. Love identified a
number of buckshot taken from the
j Taylor residence door and two shells
1 loaded with buckshot which he had
taken from Faries's double barreled
gun. The shells and buckshot were
placed in evidence. The (defense, as
MRS. NICHOLLS IS HURT
Wife of Former Congressman Injured
in Washington.
Washington, Nov. 24.?While on!
their way to the union station here
today in a taxi cab, Mrs. James F.
Byrnes, wife of the Congressman
from the Second South Carolina district
and Mrs. Sam J. Nicholls, wife
of the former Congressman from
Spartanburg had a narrow escape
from serious injury when the taxi
Was struck and almost demolished by
a big automobile truck. 'Mrs. Byrnes
was not injured at all, but Mrs.
Nicholls, though not seriously hurt,
was taken to a hosDital suffering
from shock anil from painful cuts
about the face.
Mr. and Mrs.Nicholls have been
here since the first of the week visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Byrnes.?News and
Courier.
Ye Farnie Gossipe.
One way to take the evil out of
weevil for next year -is to destroy
cotton stalks and other hibernating
places now.
As a consumer of by-products and
farm waste the porker wins the
championship.
If you really want to help Mrs.
Biddy fill the egg basket, feed the
bird.
To too many farmers a new idea is
about as welcome as a dose of poison.
There are less than ten fruit trees
overage per farm in South Carolina.
Therefore, fruit is high.
Even doubting Thomases should
see now that co-operative marketing
of cotton and tobacco is not a mere
"gesture."
A tip as to soil building: The
farmer like all other people must
"put" if he wishes to "take."
Too many farmers want a "hardy"
dairy cow, meaning one that will
stand neglect, exposure, abuse, poor
feeding, and still produce well. There
ain't no such animal.
Southern bankers are showing high
appreciation of the need of helping
farmers to market their products
more efficiently. They realize that
by Faries's buckshot volly, Gertrude
the farmer's business is everybody's
business.
The old story of casting pearls before
swine has a paralled in feeding
good corn to scrub hogs.
Having cultivated" the other crops
for some months, don't fail to give
proper cultivation this winter to the
most important of all crops?the
crop of country Doys ana gins. I
The 1921 Yearbook of the U. S. j
Department of Agriculture would, if I
printed privately, sell for not less
than $3.00, but farmers can get it
free by writing to their senators or
representatives in Washington.
FOOD FOR FRIENDS
Greenwood Negroes Send Rabbits to^
the Notth. J
To satisfy the yearning for the
flesh-pots of the South, felt by negroes
who have emigrated to the
North, Greenwood negroes are sending
home-caught rabbits,home-made
butter and other delicacies to their
relatives in Philadelphia, Chicago and
other centers of negro accumulation.
In return, they are receiving castoff
clothing.
One Greenwood negro attempted to
send a dressed rabbit through the
mails to a negro in Chicago last week.
When told that the rabbit could not
be sent through the mail without difficulty
in packing and the signing of
several blanks, he decided to send a
i live rabbit by express. The recipient
1 of the rabfit did not believe an Illinois
rabbit tasted like a rabbit from home,
1 he said.
' revealed -in the testimony of Mr. and
, Mrs. William C. Faries, the only wit'
nesses called, is based largely upon
the contention that the Taylors were
i armed and had threatened the lives
; of Faries and his wife. About a week
, prior to the killing, Mrs. Faries tesi
tified, she had seen Newton Taylor
l with a little rifle. The night following
the visit of a policeman to the Tay[
lor home at Mr. Faries's request, Mrs.
Faries said she had been in her
1 house and had heard Mrs. Taylor yell
[ to her to come out. "She said she
: would shoot me if I came to the
j door," Mrs. Faries said, and she told
Mr. Faries, who was in the door, that
if he opened his mouth she would put
11 a ball through him. Un cross-exam ma
tion she admitted that she had not
l ! gone to the door and therefore could
j not say that Mrs. Taylor had been
i! armed at the time. She denied that
IJ Mrs. Taylor had visited her since the
I j calling In of the policeman and claim>|
ed that she did not know the exact
r nature of the children's quarrel.
Declares Negroes
Loyal to Whites
Atlanta. Nov. 26.?Negroes ar?
just as loyal and friendly to the white
people now as were fheir ante-bellum
ancestors, Dr. R. R. Moton president
of Tuskegee Institute, declared
today in opening a good will tour of
Georgia designed to promote better
relations between the races.
Speaking in the city auditorium,
to an audience of several thousand
persons, almost eq.ually divided between
white and colored, Dr. Moton
asserted that "the world hears much
of the occasional clashes between the
races in the South but little of the
hundreds of cases of unusual and
helpful cooperation between blacks
and whites that take place daily in
every community in the South. The
time has now come when we should
emphasize the thousands of good
things that are happening right here
in Atlanta, in Georgia, and throughout
the South, rather than the occasional
bad things."
The president of. the big negro
institution in Alabama asserted that
"we as negroes must not permit the
moral lapses here and there on the
part of a few thoughtless white peCK_
pie who frequently misrepresent their
own race to befog those unmistakable
evidences of friendship and cooperation
on the part, not only of the lead
ing white people but frequently of the
average white person as well.
'
Do Not Represent Race.
"On the other hand, we want to .7*
ask the white people not to allow
the acts of the comparatively few* '
ignorant criminal members of my*
race who humiliate and disgrace our
race to mar the good feeling that exists
between us and to blind themselves
to the fact that whatever may
be said and done the negro believes
in the white race and earnestly asks
for a just and fair cooperation."
The negro, Dr. Moton continued,
"is willing to give himself to the
utmost in cooperation with the white
people to make the South all that it'
is possible to become.
Sketching the remarkable progress
his race has made in the last
half century, the speaker pleaded
for fair treatment for the negro.
"It is gratifying." he said, "to me
that we hear little nowadays of the
foolish question of 'social equality*
being brought up to disturb the good'
feeling on the part of both races toward
each other. When the negro
asks for better educational facilities,
sanitarv arrangements in *
his part of the city, good road3 in hi?
| part of the country, or equal rail|
road accommodation, he is not seeking
'social equality' but he is asking
for civic justice to he treated on his
moral, intellectual an/1 economic merits."
. -Declaring that it is a question of "simple
justice which is as important
for the good of the white race \
as it is for the good of the black
race" Dr. Moton said that the white
race is not fair to itself when it is
unfair and unjust to a weaker group,
and the black race is not fair to itself
if it becomes embittered with hatred
for the white race.
WINTER CARE OF BEES.
Clemson College, Nov. 28.?It la
time to put bees into winter packing
cases. In making these preparations
for winter care of bees there are
three very important things to be
remembered, says E. S. Prevost, Extension
Specialist in Bee Keeping.
First, the packing cases should be
made of good seasoned lumber and
the packing material should be
thoroughly dry. Second, there should
be a goojd queen that will be ready
for work early in the spring. Third,
* m ?4 nmnnnt
there should oe a SU1I1C26UI aiuuuuit
of good quality honey for winter
stores.
In regard to winter stores, be*
keepers are cautioned that the summer
and fall honey may crystalize
rapidly and bees can not use it for
food when in this condition. Therefore,
where the honey has crystallized,
winter feeding must then be
done.
If there is occasion to open the
hives at this time of the year, be
sure to select the warm portion of
the iday; otherwise, there is danger
of chilling the bees and losing the
stand.
Sic 'em Tige!
"What you need is a tonic to
sharpen your appetite," said ttho
doctor. "By the way, what Is your occupation?"
"I am a sword swallower in a circus
sideshow," replied the caller.
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