The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 23, 1907, Image 6
THREE MEN HELD
For the Murder of R. T.Westcott
in Columbia.
TWO ARE NOW IN JAIL
Jim (lardncr, Jr., and J. li. liny
Charged With the Crime and T.
C. Jones Wanted as a Witness.
The Authorities Determined to
Hun Down the Cuilty Parties If
Possible.
The State says Jim Gardner, Jr.,
and J. B. Hoy are in the Richland
jail as the result of the inquest into
the cause of the death of it. T. Wescott,
and the coroner's jury has recommended
the arrest of T. C. Jones,
who is said to know something1 of the
matter. Gardner was arrested the
afternoon of the murder and has
been in jail ever since.
Hoy was arrested last Friday night
week after an adjourned session of
the coroner's inquest, and was released
Wednesday of this week, but
was rearrested Thursday night. He
was with Gardner the night preceeding
the killing of Mr. Wescott.
Tom Jones' connection with the
matter is that he has declared that
he has information which would implicate
some one. He made this
statement to Mr. Jesse Thomas, the
father-in-law of Mr. Wescott, and
the jury had the information the
night of the homicide, it having been
conveyed to them privately. Hut Tom
Jones has been seen only once since
that time.
Mr. Thomas' statement to the jury
was that Tom C. Jones had come to
him the afternoon of the homicide
and had stated that if inducements
in the form of rewards should be offered
he would give information
which would incriminate some people.
That is all that is known of Tom
Jones' connection with it, but the officers
are very anxious to get him
and find out what he knows. Coroner
Walker stated Thursday night that
he has an idea where Jones is and
that he may get hold of him Friday.
The inquest convened Thursday
night at 6:30. This was the third sitting.
After having heard the testimony
of several witnesses the jury
deliberated about an nour and
brought in the following verdict;
"That R. T. Wescott came to his'
death by gunshot wound at the hand |
of party or parties unknown to the
jury at this time. We, the jury, recommend
that Jim Gardner, Jr., J.
B. Hoy and T. C. Jones be held for
further investigation.
"George A. Burns, H. E. Watts,
"C. L. Slich, H. L. Creighton, R. L.
Murrell, G. M. Miller, F. C. Grigsby,
P. M. Malone, W. S. Brown, W. F.
Stieglitz, T. I. Harris, J. D. Popwell."
The coroner's jury also recommended
that the grand jurv be apprized
of the conditions in this coun
ty with the view of getting mounted
rural police. This very interesting
action was expressed in the following
language:
"We, the jury empanelled by the
coroner to investigate the death of
R. T. Wescott, after rendering our
verdict do resolve:
"That the coroner be and is hereby
requested to appear before the
next grand jury to Richland county
and give an account of the murders
recently committed in our suburbs.
"That he express to the grand jury
and desire that they carefully consider
the pressing needA of a mounted
county police service and make such
recommendations as will phomote the
inauguration of such police protection.
"George A. Bruns, foreman; H.
E. Watts, C. L. Sligh, R. L. Murrell,
i3 *5 . n* o II t
x . m. inaiuiit:, v. o. ui ? n< u,
Creighton. G. M. Miller. W. S,
Brown, T. S. Harris, J. D. Popwell."
At the inquest several interesting
things were brought out. Coroner
Walker so handled the case that Hoj
was confused and contradicted himself.
He was very much worked up
over this and was quite unruly at one
time.
It will be remembered that Mr. R
T. Wescott, a butcher who had a shoj
on Taylor street and lived in Waver
ley, was found dead by the schoo
house in Waverley on tne morning
of May 2. By his side was found t
32-callibre revolver with two emptj
chambers and the suicide theory wa*
at first indulged by some. But latei
developments indicated foul play
While the bullet which producec
death was a 32 calibre, yet the wounc
was such that it was wellnigh impos
sible for Mr. Westcott, a man wit!
one hand, to have inflicted it.
The homicide occurred about 5 a
m. That afternoon Jim Gardner, i
rather notorious young man of Wa
verlev, was arrested onsuspicion. H<
had been seen hanging around the
Shandon dancing pavilion until about
2 a. m. or later, and he was agair
there about 7 a. m. and knew all oj
the particulars of the homicide
which had been discovered an houi
or two before.
His own contradictory statement
about his acquaintance with the de
ceased and his knowledge that Wes
cott was dead caused his detentior
on suspicion.
J. B. Hoy was arrested on suspic
ion also, lie and Gardner were verj
thick. They had tried to "hold up"
ex-Magistrate E. A. Larick once, anc
when they that their identity
SI'KOIAli DKIJVKltV LKTTKltH
After July They Will Not Require
Special Stamps.
No special delivery postage stamps
will be needed after July, td insure
immediate delivery of a letter. Postmaster
General Meyer has issued au
order that, on and after July 1 next,
if there is attached to any letter or
package of mail matter 10 cents'
worth of stamps, of any denomination,
with the words "special delivery"
written or printed on the envelope
or covering, in addition to the
postage required for ordinary delivery,
the article will he handled as If
! it bore a regulatlonspeclal delivery
j stamp. This change is made possible
by an act of the last Congress.
The Postmaster General has decided
also to recommend to Congress
an amendment to the present law,
whereby such letters may be' left at
their destinations without procuring
receipts in all cases. The amendment
would enable the department
to deposit such letters in receptacles
controlled by the adressee, and get a
receipt later. Until Congress can act,
however, a broader construction of
the present law will be given, so that
receipt will ho accepted from any one
occupying the premises to whom ordinary
mail might be given.
COItlOY-GIUMAN WRDltlNG.
Is Roughly Criticised by the Georgian
of Atlanta.
The Atlanta Georgian thinks some
pretty hard things about the CbreyGilman
wedding, and U says them in
print. For instance: "The man should
have carried his bodIzzoned sireni to
a wilderness, and there in the forest
at midnight, without witnesses save
the priest, yoked up with the actress
lie never ought to have known."
Hut how then asks the Charleston
Post would The Georgian have been
able to publish a three-column picture
of the "bedizzened siren" and a
daring account of the wedding oiv Its
drst page?
was known they passed it off as a
joke. Likewise they held up a boy
named Shull in Waverley one night,
and when he called their names they
again passed this off as "just for
fun." Hoy and Gardner were reported
to have been seen together on ?
Heidt street the night before the I
homicide.
So far no direct evidence has been
produced, but the conduct of the two
men has excited suspicion.
Thursday night Coroner Walker
introduced a witness, W. F. Car tar, '
who conducts a store at the corner
of Gervais and Heidt streets. He
swore that between 8 and 9 o'clock
the morning of the homicide a young
man came to him to borrow a nickle
with which to get up' town to collect
some money. The man was Hoy, for 1
Carter, after remonstrating with the
young man for not working, loaned
him the 5 cents and wrote Hoy's
name on the wall.
He contends that about an hour
later Hoy came back, repaid the loan,
went to the back of tne store and
took a drink. Carter mentioned the
matter of the killing of Mr. Wescott.
Witness' testimony on this point
is:
if "He went in and took his drink
and came back out, and I mentioned
something of the tragedy and I noticed
he seemed somewhat affected,
a change in his complexion at the
mention of it, and there was no conversation
after that between us. and
he soon left and went on."
Hoy had been kept in ignorance of
Carter's presence and testimony.
When brought into the room where
! the inquest was held, Hoy denied
that he knew W. F. Carter, denied
i having borrowed the 5 cents and denied
that he came into Columbia be
fore 11;30 in the morning, and swore
. positively that he did not take the
[ car that morning,
i Carter was brought in and con!
fronted Hoy, identifying him at
. once. Hoy then admitted that he had
i 5 it ? 1.1 _ \ i JI i i
uorroweu trie mcaie out ueciaroa
, that it had been in the afternoon.
Hoy gave a rather indistinct ac,
count of his movements in Columbia,
, but it was brought out that he pawn'
ed a pair of shoes to Goldstein for
; $1, got a quart of X liquor for 60.
cents and then went home. He could
r prove by Steve Gardner that it was
. 5:30 in the afternoon. He claimed to
> have the pawn ticket at home. He
> said that he and Jim Gardner had
bought a quart of whiskey in the
. morning and he had bought thisoth)
er in the afternoon.
The coroner asked: "Did you buy
| whiskey twice that day?"
r A. It was three times, I think, two
i or three times.
r Q. Do you usually buy it that way
3 every day? A. No, sir.
r Q. Seemed to be worried that day?
. A. Had nothing to worry me.
I Q. You and Gardner didn't usualj
ly come up that many times a day
- and drink, did you? A. No.
\ The other witnesses examined
Thursday night threw no light on
. the subject except that a negro woi
man named Scylla Moore testified
- that very early the morning of the
3 homicide she saw a man at tne Shan;
don pavilion and when he saw her
t and another woman approaching he
i turned his back. She could dot idenf
tify him.
? A young man named Montz testi*
fied thai Jim Gardner had had a 32calibre
pistol.
3 Coroner Walker stated Thursday
. night that he will urge Gov. Ansel to
. increase the amount of reward offeri
ed from $100 to $260. The city has
offered $250,
When Hoy was rearrested Thursf
day night by Constable A. P. Rich'
ardson of Waver ley, he was disposed
I tq be quite resentful at first, but was
r placed in jail without dMBcvdty,
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HORSE ATE GOLD
llhat Was Stored Away in a Sack
of Wheat.
Tlielr $140 is (kine, Father Won't
Have Horse killed?Two Stablemen
Art; Arrested.
Toodles, an aged roan gelding, wlio
used to draw a wagon for the feed
store business of Isreal Wishnosskle.
to 18911 First avenue, New York
city, might under ordinary circumstances
bring $17 at auction, but at
the present time he is very valuable
niece of horseflesh. It is highly probable
that if some one were to offer
$140 for him it would be peremptorily
declined.
Pauline, Hose and Yetta, the young
/)ni,?l.ln..n - ~? 41? 1
uau^iiiui o vjl LUC uw iiui UI tUf5 UUinu,
take the greatest Interest in the aged
beast for the reason that the suspect
he is carrying in his interior $140 in
gold coin that they have been saving
for years. Yetta, the eldest, whp is
seventeen, and works at cigarmaklng,
had saved $106 of the total, and
Rose, aged thirteen, had put by the
remuining $3 5.
They were in doubt about the best
place in which to keep their hoard,
and, after a consultation, decided
that a bag pt oats in the feed store
would muke an ideal hiding place for
the gold. They went to the bag at
intervals to count the coins, and were
horrified Tuesday morning to find
that the bag had dissapcared. The
girls went to the stable hands, two
polish young men, who informed the
girls that they had taken that phrticular
bag of oats to feed Toodles, and
that a large part of it had gone toward
his supper Sunday night and
his breakfast Monday morning.
Then a veterinary surgeon was
called, and the girls suggested that
he cut Toodles open in order to get
their gold. The father declared that
he would not sacrifice the horse for
/\ir I\ / I n 1 nun h Ai?rvln Imrl
I. III? lllUiii:^ , (lliu (l iron IIUI Uiv iiictuv/u
was tried but without success.
Then the young women sought the
aid of the police and went to the
104 street station, where they wept
opiously while telling the story to
Capt. Corcoran. They wanted the
two Poles arrested, and this was
done. They gave their names as Alexander
Yesahitz and Rescio Zenkavach,
and when they were arrained in
the Harlem police court they were
held in $5 00 each for trial in special
sessions. They denied seeing any
gold coins in the oats bag, which they
said they poured into the feed box
for Toodles.
OLD MAN DIKS.
Said to lie One Hundred and TwentySeven
Years Old.
A dispatch from Spartanburg tc
The State says Adam Frost, colored
said to be about 127 years old, diec
eariy Thursday morning betweei
Cedar Springs and Rich Hill. Unti
within the last few days Adam Fros
was In the best of health.
According to his own story, giver
a newspaper man a few weeks ago
Adam Frost was born on Sullivan'i
Island in 1780. His first owner wai
a man named Hunter, who sold hiir
to Col. Drayton. Before the Civi
War he was bought by Dr. Frost anc
the old negro lived with the Frosi
family until after the war.
During the Civil war the family ol
Dr. Frost refugeed to this county anc
located at Cedar Springs. The ok
building that watf formerly used at
the colored Institute for the deaf
dumb and blind at Cedar Spring!
was built by- Dr. Frost. When the
Frost faintly returned . to Chart**
ton Adam remained In ffcts county.
TER THE DC
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e cured John F. Eline and c
the greatest hospital in the w
Olmstead, the Norfolk. Va., c
s had given up hope. Rheum
of rheumatism she hi
' ,a Hughes, of Atkins, Va.,
There is a reason why i
!) r!na cal science, and while |
of the blood, it opera!
? batlly most delicate stomach
'J t lie in. _
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in arly M . ?
mo oue U
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intl my
nl'iij ;:weeps all p
ixdavs a purely vegetable re it
after I 6ure* by removing the cause,
as any Sample bottle and booklet fr?
KES. BOBBITT CHEMIi
MUSIC AGENTS GAME.
It is Said He Caught Many Suckers
In Suffolk, Va.
lie Operated in Columbia and Is (
| Given a Good Send Off by The liecord
of that City. ,
Thursday evening a very plausible
! white man called oa Kev. J. H. John.
son, of Columbia, representing him-1.1
J self as the agent of a Philadelphia
I music publishing: house. He had
i music bargans galore, which he perj
suasively offered,, promising to throw
in a subscription, to a musical journal
as a bonus for purchase of some
sheet music.. The Reverend* says
the Record, invested $3 and the
agent promptly left.
Then the minister picked up The >
Record, and began reading it. He
had not gone very far before his eye
was caught by the following dispatch:
"Suffolk, Va., May 13.?-An agent,
claiming to represent a Philadelphia
musical magazine and other publications,
has, within the past few days
swindled numbers of Suffolk people,
principally music teachers and pupils.
He took orders at cut rates, collecting
in advance and neglecting to turn
i in the cash.
"A lettter from a publishing house
disclaims his authority, and offers to
pay any reasonable sum to effect his
arrest, saying ho has operated in
other cities, using a different alias In
each new field."
Not being given to the use of slang
he dd not orclalm "Stung!" but he
thought it. Suspicious circumstances
began to flash upon his mind. The
receipt given him for $3 was made
on an ordinary receipt form that can
be bought in any hook store. It did
not hind any music paper or publishing
house, only "R. L. Railey," the
signer, to supply the ordered sheet
fuslc and send the monthly musical
journal. Mr. "Bailey" had t^pld Rev. .
i Johnston he was staying at "the Coli
unibia hotel, so the preacher went |
. there, but there was no such name on
the register and no guest by that
i name stopping there,
i More than ever convinced that he
was flimflammed, Parson Johnson
went home. Mr. "Bailey" had told
i him he was going to Chester on the
i early morning train, so he went to
1 the depot in the hope of catching
' him, but, of course, the music agent
' was not in sight.
: Rev. Mr. Johnson thought it but
proper to make his experience public,
for the benefit of others.
Mr. "Bailey" may be all right and
his "bargain lots" may be sent to the
. purchaser, but it is a safe rule never
to buy from any peripatetic agent
who insists on cash with order.
A favorite game with swindlers is
} to represent themselves ae agents,
but the gafe is profitless unless they
1 can collect in advance.
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[ Mr. Debs, who was never charged
with violating a statute law is be1
lieved by President Roosevelt to be
j an undesirable citizen, while Mr.
3 Paul Morton, who brazenly admitted
? +Wa4- Via irinlataj thp IflW IS ffivPn A
> VIMftV lie Tivmv^u v?.w 0. ?
1 fine recommendation by that same
[ president.
; __A Catalo;
5 to any of our customers for the as*
plumbng or hardware business, ai
1 page catalogue which will be found
> prices oa nythlag la the supply line
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July /a>*
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Rheumatism after all the do<
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IMPRISONED IN AUTO.
Thrw Women Have Narrow Escape
From Possible Death.
Practieally imprisoned in a runaway
automobile, three women had a
narrow escape from possible death
at Bryn Mawr, Pa., recently.
The machine, a big touring car,
occupied by Samuel W. Colton, Jr.,
Mrs. Colton, Harold Colton, Mrs.
Harrison Allen and her daughter,
drove up to the railroad station at
8:3 0 o'clock. Mr. Colton and his son,
who had occupied the front seat,
I.-xi * - -
i?n in*? roucnine ana entered the sta-1
tion.
They had hardly dissapeared when
the machine started off. It headed
straight down the road that leads to
the tunnel nnder the tracks of the
railroad, gathering momentum as It
sped on. The women, seated In the
rear of the car, were unable to reach
the mechanism to shut off the power,
and to jump means serious injury or
death.
After going a distance of about
100 yards the machine swerved from
the roadway and crashed into the
stone wall that abuts the sides of the
road at this point. The iron rail
along the wall was broken down and
the fore part of the car plunged over
the gap. Luckily the rear wheels
jamed into the network of the iron
railing and held fast.
The women, frightened to the
verge of hysterics, were thrown to
the floor of the car, but sustained no
painful injuries.
NINE KILLED IN EXPIiOSION
l*rematui'C Firing of Dynamite Near
Alta Pass, N. C.
Saturday afternoon while a force
of men were at work blasting on
the South and Western railway on
the works of McCarty Uros, near Alta
Pass, N. C., an explosion occurred
in which nine men were almost In
Buimiy Kinea ana iour otners were
seriously if not fatally injured. The
men were all employers of the railway
company and were natives of the
Alta Pass section.
The force had drilled for a long
blast, and after placing the explosives
in the blast hole, and as the
force started to retreat, the dynamite
tired prematurely and the men
were hurled in every direction. Those
who were killed were terribly mutilated
.while the surviving workmen
are badly bruised and lacerated.
YOUR GRAND MOTllttH USEI) IT.
Rut She Never Had Sulphur In Such
Convenient Form As This.
Your grandmother used Sulphur
as her favorite household remedy,
and so did her grandmother, Sulphur
has been curing skin and blood
diseases for a hundred years.
But in the old days they had to
take powered sulphur. Now Hancock's
Liquid Sulphur gives it to you
in the best possible form and you get
the full benefit.
Hnndcock's Liquid Sulphur and
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Salt Rheum and all Skin Diseases.
It cured an ugly ulcer for
Mrs. Ann W. Willett, of Washington,
D. C., iu three days.
Taken internally, it purifies the
hlnnri nnri Honrs* th? rnmnlftvlnn.
Your druggists soils it.
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fE FAILED.
;tors and all other means
he famous specialists of
de cured Austin Fercefle,
snt large sums on other
crn, of High Point, N. C ,
?hcumacide cured W. R.
/ York specialises failed.
i M . _ A -1* ^ _ _ _ mm
latest discovery or meat*
II germs end poisons out
oas, does not injure the
stem.
CURES,
Rheumatism.
JT clatlca.
Lumbago,
fthcumatlc Gout,
Indigestion,
r PI onn Constipation.
" . .5 \ Liver Trouble,
the disease and Kld rrooM*.
ds Rheumackle. La 0r,ppe
to \ All Olood
pore. Dlanase*
j The economy
of special
i treatment '
BY
When a man or woman, who is wise,
enters a le al controversy involving
a arge amount of money, do they seek
1 to eonnomixe in the matter cf competent
covncel?
Would it be eoonomy to engage an
attorney at $75 who lost the oase, when '
the one who>waoted f 100 could have
won it?
With the man or woman suffering
from a chronic or deep seated ailmeak
there is muoh more At, stake 4hen with ?
the party who seeks the lawyer.
Thievery day there are t onrands of
men and women who are taking treatment
for the wrong troublel
They have gone to the home physician?a
worthy man, yet whose experience
in deep-seated troubles is
comparatively limited, even after yen**
of praotfoa.
Oh, how sad it is to see patients wait
until four or five d dtors have given ,
f'em up *nd then oome to us when H
is too late!'
Thishnppens sora'times. But more
often we have been able to effect a
complete cure, even under auoh adverse
oiroumstanoea.
In neerly all of auoh cases it baa
been our experience that 1 he root of
the trouble has never been discovered,
and thAt b it very little treatment
would have been necessary had we had
the case at the beginning:
If vou, reader, are not enjoying the
health that Nature iotended yon
should, write to us.
In the majority of oases it will be
cheaper in the end for you to even
make a special trip to call npon oe
for a
FREE EXAMINATION
and consultation.
After we have t een and had a good
long talk with you, we often oan handle
i juui uwh hi your own home.
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| Mailed free in unprinted wrapper^
i
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| to you.
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