The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 07, 1909, Image 4
SERIOUS CHARGE
Four White Men Arrested for Whipping a
Negro Man to Death
MAN WAS ILL AND DIED
The Law Abiding Citizens Are Yoi*y
Mudi Aroused and the Governor
Called 1'jhui to Art?The Evidence
is Not Convincing That the Whipping
Caused Death.
The State says a report by a proin-j
incut citizen of Greenwood county
to Gov. Ansel's ofliee reveals a state
of affairs at Dyson, near Ninety-Six,
that demands immediate investigation.
According to this report a negro
died as a result of injuries inflicted
by a severe whipping, and
the magistrate, James Rogers, held
an inquest at which a verdict of
"death from natural causes" or
?lw t i- * i.
livn I l W I !">? ?! il ts IMUlIglll 111.
The ease as reported to Secretary
Bethea, Gov. Ansel being out of the
city, was that the negro, who had
worked for Henry Williamson, a
fanner, had been arrested charged
with violation of contract and taken
to Greenwood jail. Last Saturday he
was taken back by the men who
placed him there and Saturday night
the negro died.
Some of the law-abiding citizens
in the community determined to take
up the matter with the State authorities
and as a result Mr. Bethea,
on hearing of the facts, at once telephoned
Sheriff McMillan. The sheriff
stated that he knew nothing of
the arrival or depart tire of the prisoner.
He promised to investigate
the matter at once.
The particulars of the whipping
is given in a dispatch from Greenwood
to The State. The dispatch
says four white men, Henry It. Williamson,
Sloan Williamson, Ashby
King and Sam \V. Cooper, were arrested
and lodged in jail by Sheriff
McMillan on the charge of having
caused fhe death of a negro, Gus
Gilcrease, near Dyson's last Friday
by whipping him.
An inquest was held Saturday by
Magistrate James Rogers of NinetySix.
An old negro named Robinson
testified at the inquest, but stated
that he knew nothing of the matter.
I)r. John Lvon of Nlnntv-fitv
examined the body, with Magistrate
Rogers, and saw the marks of whipping,
but nothing further developed.
However, later the old negro Robinton
came to Cip?. James Rogers, the
magistrate, and told him that he hail
not told the i?uth, that he kno v
he was a dead man if he to id the
truth, but he had to tell the truth.
He then told that the four men above
named had whipped the dead negro
and that he afterwards dropped dead.
Magistrate Rogers sent the old negro
on to Greenwood and he is now in
jail.
Gov. Ansel wired Sheriff McMillan
to look into the matter with all
possible diligence and also wired
Magistrate Rogers. Sheriff McMillan
went to Ninety-Six and MaJ. S. P.
Brooks, foreman of the grand jury,
also went down to Ninety-Six, and
they consulted with Magistrate Rogers
and other citizens there, and
Sheriff McMillan placed the Williamtons
under arrest -there. Ashby
King and Sam Cooper were in town
and were arrested here. Henry R.
Williamson is the young man who
had to serve two years in the penitentiary
for the whipping of J. H.
Wertz, now living in Greenwood,
then a neighbor of Williamson's.
The correspondent interviewed all
four men now under arrest and they
deny the charge made against them.
They state that they did not whip
the negro. Two of them, Cooper
and King, say they were not with
the Williamsons but a short time,
having met them in the road, that
the negro got out of the buggy and
started to the field to work and
dropped, that Henry Williamson
went to him and asked him what was
the matter and the negro said he
was sick; that the negro got up and
started off again and dropped again,
that they carried him to his sister's
house and that Henry Williamson
sent for a doctor, hut the negro died
^ soon after.
Henry Williamson had tho negro
under contract but he ran away
about three months ago. He gave
a description of him to different
chiefs of police in adjoining towns
and last Thursday the negro was arrested
in Greenwood by Chief McCombs.
Williamson was in town
Friday on bis way home from a show
at Abbeville and was told by Chief
McCombs that the negro was there.
He carried the negro on homo with
him on the train and says that he
told the negro if he wanted to go
back to work it would be all right.
He was met at Dyson by his buggy,
driven by the negro, Robert Robinson.
The four drove off in the buggy
and he says that the death of
the negro occurred as above stated.
ChJef McOombs says the negro
was sick while at Greenwood, that
he was staggering as he walked, that
when he offered him some dinner
the negro told him he was too sick
to eat and told him what was tho
matter with him, and that he was in
a mighty bad fix. He said that in
THOSE AWFUL HATS
Tin: I.ADIKS AHK NOW WEAKIXG
WILL SOON BIO (iOXK.
The Fall Styles An* a Hi? Improvement
in Looks anil Comfort on
tlu* I'rcM'iit Style.
It is with a High of relief that
most women will hail the new fall
hats, whirh are conservative in
shape and almost brimlcss. Turbons
and toques replace the monstrous
ami ungainly huge hats of the preceding
seaams. Except for dress
occasion the la rue hat can rest on
its laurels won last season and this
summer.
For the first time in many months
the hack of the neck is to be visible, |
and women no longer wear their hats !
sweeping below the shoulders and j
looking periously as if (hey were
humpbacked.
The new fall models are to be worn
squarely and firmly on the head.
Historic periods are evidenced in the
newest models, for we see the ttubman
of Marie Antoinette with its
soft draperies and the double bouffant
crown of Henry IV., with its
somewhat wider brim.
The tricorne hat of Revolutionary
days is one of the most popular
shapes of the fall. It sits straight
on the head and in most instances is
vnt'v cintiih' I rim mini veil it <> iww L *? \ . ? I
or huge cobuchon.
A pretty feature of the new style*
is the matching of dress materials
with which the hat is covered on |
crown and top brim," to be faced under
the brim with black velvet. In
nearly every instance the black velvet
facing is seen. It is soft and as
a rule, becoming.
The to<ilies and turbans are very
tall and look topheavy. The trimmings
for the most part is simple ?
arranged to the side and back.
Aigrettes were never so popular and
never so much to be worn, in spite,
it would seem, of the Audubonists.
Feathers abound, the uncurled and
willow plumes leading in popularity
and the ostrich, as always, holding
its own place.
Hugo bows of lace and chiffon
or malines trim satin, velvet and fur
hats and rich laces of gold and silver
embroidery are appliqued Hat on
the brims of many of the heavier
and fuzzy materials.
Nearly all the trimmings used lies
flat against the crown or brim.
Tucks, plaits and fold* art? flattened
and are not wired to stick out at
angles which destroy the shape of
the hat. In many of the models
the trimmings is so arranged that
finding the front of tin; hat is lilo
placing a picture puzzle.
This has its advantages, however,
as the hat can be worn perfectly
in several positions. Morie ribbon
| and morie silks are used almost
more than any other material and
often these are covered with a coarse
net of the same shade.
Altogether the newest hats give
cause for rejoicing, and are extremely
pretty, serviceable, and lit the
head closely, and are therefore comi
fortable styles.
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ST I DION T DISA 1'1'IOA ItS.
New llampsliii'e Lad, In School at
Aslievllle, Missing.
A dispatch from Asheville say*
an appeal to the chief of police of
that city by the anxious parents of
Gray Churchward, of Hampton, New
Hampshire, a few days ago developed
the fact that the lad, a student
at an Asheville school, had mysteriously
disappeared from that insti
tut ion September 19, ana has not
since been heard of. The school
authorities state that the boy had
been missed on the date mentioned
and after his departure a fellow student
had given out the information
that young Churchward had told him
that he intended to go to New York.
The boy's father is now in New York
using every means to locate his missing
son.
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Coon Frightened Iter to Dentil.
An aged negress, living on the
plantation of .). Y. West brook, near
(Ireensboro, Ala., was frightened to
death this week by a racoon which
she saw crawling across her bed.
The raccoon was killed and eaten
by a grandson to prevent any more of
his family from perishing.
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Husband Defused Wife Shoes.
That her husband had purchased
her only one pair of shoes in the
four years of their married life was
one of the reasons given by Mrs.
Margaret Dando, of Chicago, 111.,
for desiring a divorce from William
Dando.
carrying him to the Jail the negro
could hardly get along.
Dr. John Lyon's testimony at the
11111 it<'m was sunsiamiaiiy as ioitows*
"Upon examining I found deceased
suffering from a foul disease. Ho
had bruises apparently from whipping.
I do not think the bruises
were 8uflicient too cause death in
it.-elf. I think the deceased died
primarily from septic fever. The immediate
cause was probably from exhaustion.
The bruises on the body
were caused inside of 4 8 hours ot
death." Ho further says ho saw no
blood on the clothing and no other
evidence of violence except the bruises
referred to above. . #. ^
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F1 UMi CAPTI'KFH 15V (iliUi.
Turned Over to Some Men Who Let
the Unseal Kscnpe.
After having been captured hy the
brave daughter of a fanner, eight
miles from Statesboro, Cia., during
the late hours of Monday night, after
he had broken her room and attacked
her, Otis Hendricks, a burly negro,
later escaped from the men in
whose custody lie was placed and is
at large.
The news of the attempted assault
and Hendriek's peculiar escape reached
Statesboro Tuesday morning. It
is said the young woman the negro
attacked is large and unusually athletic
for a woman, and the negro
had no chance to get away after he
attacked her before her cries for
help brought several men to the
room.
The men took him Into the nearby
woods, it is said, to wait for morn*
I ing before taking him to Statesboro.
| They built a big lire and were all
standing around it when Hendricks
disappeared. The negro's shoes, hat
and coat were found on the premises
of the farmer's home, where he had
placed them before entering the
young woman's room.
siifjiiff oi'twits moil
Florida Officer Saves Three Negroes
From Lynching.
From Pensacola comes the news
that, evading a mob bent upon lynching
his prisoner. Sheriff Hayes Lewis,
of Marianna, .Jackson county, reached
there early Thursday morning,
having in custody three negroes, Dan
Davis, Gary Gray and Robert Gray,
who were arrested Monday for tlm
murder of .John Dukes, a planter,
of that county.
After the negroes had boon placed
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mob was formed about midnight and
doiuaudod entrance. Concealing the
negroes, the mob was admitted l>v
the jailor, and after failing to tin<i
the prisoners, quietly left the jail,
later learning of the rule by which
they had been outwitted, the citizens
formed again and prepared to attack
the jail a second time. The sheriff,
however, succeeded in getting the
prisoners away without being molested.
Dukes, it is said, was murdered
in a brutal manner, the body
being horribly mutilated. His wife,
who was a Mrs. King before their
i marriage, is prostrated, her first husj
band having been murdered in a simi
ilar manner by negroes.
Indicted for Deserting Child.
I A dispatch from Spartanburg says
the grand Jury returned a true bill
against II. A. Sack and wife, charged
i with deserting their three weeks'
'old infant at Southern Station las'
Saturday night. They were arrested
in Columbia, but Mrs. Sack was not
I able to return to Spartanburg on
j account of being ill.
Shoots Himself.
At Winston-Salem, N. C., Albert
C. Wharton, one of tin? most promi1
nent citizens of that section, com1
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I milieu suH iiit: a lew days uro Dv
shooting through th? head. Ho had
been suffering from melancholia for
several weeks. *
lumps the Track.
Near Huntington, W. Va., one man
, was killed and four others injured,
| one probably fatally, when a Chesaj
peake & Ohio, engine jumped the
track and turned over into a ditch
j Friday. Kngineer O. W. Perry died
shortly after being taken to the
hospital.
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Hit by Ball Bat.
Fifteen-year-old Joseph Good
man, who lived with his parents at
No. 1 17 Anes street, East New York,
was watching a number of boys playing
hall near his homo. He was
standing close behind Max Meyering,
also fifteen years old. The batter
swung back his bat wtih all His
might and accidentally struck Goodman
in the stomach. They carried
the boy to a drug store, but by the
time an ambulance arrived from St.
Mary's hospital Goodman was dead. v
PHOFKHHIONAL CABDH.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At L?a%
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Physician ami Surgeon.
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Attorni'i at Law.
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INSECT DAMAGE TO CHOI'S.
Destroy Over Eighteen Million 1>oIlal'N
Each Year.
Few people of the State realize
the great damage that is done to
all crops of tho State annually by
the insects. Within the past several
years the peach orchards have been
practically wiped out by the San
Jose scale and the ravage of th^
wire worm down in Colleton is a
very striking example of insect damage
to crops. Whole peach orchards
have been destroyed and abandoned J
by the owners. However, within the
past, year several orchards have been I
planted and are doing remarkably
well by the use of the various kinds 1
of sprays, especially so in the Ridge
section of the State.
The birds are most effective in 1
lighting the insect plague. By statistics
it is shown that the birds
in South Carolina destroy over 100,000
bushels of insects every year and
savo the State millions of dollars.
According to statistics it is shown
that the insects destroyed over $18,000.000
worth of crops of the State
during the past year. The Audubon
society is doing very effective work
in protecting the birds and the people
are beginning to learn their
value to mankind and join in the
work of protecting them.
Commissioner Watson has prepared
some very interesting data concerning
the amount destroyed last j
| year by the insects in the State.
fnsePt damage to crops in South
Carol ina:
Cotton, $5,000,000; Cereals,
wheat, barley, $800,000; tobacco.
$250,000; truck. $2,000,000; corn,
$2,560,000; hay, $1 10,000; rice.
$100,000; total damage $11,210.000.
Poultry, etc.. $200,000. Dim-I
age to forests $5.000.00ft. Products
in storage. $2,000,000. Gran t total
$ 1 S. 170.000.
There is no estimate made for
fruits as there are no figures as to
totals *
JOHN BLACK OX TKI.VL.
Former Member <?t* South Carolina
Dispensary Hoard.
At Columbia John Black, former
member of the State dispensary
board, was put on trial a few days
ago for having received a bribe of
$2,500 from John T. lOarly, representing
Fleischmann & Co., a Cincinnati
firm. The transaction is alleged
to have occurred in 1906.
There was sensational testimony
when Joe B. Wylie, a member of
the same board, testified that there
was an agreement between the whiskey
salesmen and members of the
board by which certain houses wore
to lie favored. Wylie submitted in
evidence his private memoranda alleged
to have been made when the
board was in session in March, 1906.
Attorney General Lyon put in evidence
check for $2. .">00 from John
T. lOarly, and for $5,000 from M. A.
Goodman, both payable to Black.
Defendant will try to show that these
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fore election on the board.
The Black case is the only remaining
one of the series in connection
with alleged frauds in the old State
dispensary which will be tried at
this term.
SKXATOK TILLMAN AMl'SKI)
To See Mow Little Was Made Out
of Wylie's Confession.
Senator Tillman was in Columbia
on Monday on his way to the country
trom his home in Trenton, stopping
over between trains to do a bit of
personal blinking busine.-s.
"What do you think of the vorlict
in the Karnuni ease?" he was
asked, as he boarded a street hack
51 lid ordornd t ilrtvnr i It liiii',.\r i It
the Southern train.
"Haven't thought very much about
it one way or the other," lie said,
ordering the driver to "go on.
"It has tickled me no little to see
how some people are worrying about
it. And it has surprised and amused
me to see how little the prosecution
got out of its little game of bamboozling
that fellow Wylie into ai
confession." Hy that time the Sen-j
ator was making hio way rapidly
toward the depot.
He told a friend that it was his
intention to do no lecturing this
year, that he was going home and
stay there till Congress opened, devoting
his attention to farming.
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(Jilt L OI'TKAUKI) AM) SHOT.
Young laxly Dies at Haul I'Y as Itesult
of Terrible Crime,
A most horrible erimme was recently
committed near Saijt. I'Y, N.
M. A dispatch says as a result of
being criminally attacked and shot
last Tuesday, while on the outskirts
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in mo inw 111 uermrucie Montgomery,
who wont thoro from Shreveport, La.,
whero she taught in collogo for fivo
yeara, died in that city Monday.
Misa Montgomery was not found
until Sunday, when, awakening from
her stupor, she tried to crawl to a
water hole to quench her thirst and
was seen hy a littlo girl, who gave
the alarm.
Three convicts at work on the
highway in that vicinity have been
arrested.
COTTON PICKER
INVENTED BY A BENNETTS VI LJL.E
MAN IS A 8UCC10S8.
Operated by Seven Hands and Will
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Pick From Four to Six Thousands
Pounds Per Day.
For years the genius of the South
has been trying to solve the problem
of labor saving in the cotton fields
with especial reference to the picking
of the cotton, the great bug-a-boo of
the planter. Mason of Sumter and
otuers have made partially successf
ill experiments, but nothing has
yet been found practical. A Bennettsville
genius now thinks he has
solved the problem. The Advocate
of that town in speaking of the invention
says:
A few days ago Angus Campbell,
representing Theodore Price, the
well known New York Cotton man
and speculator, was in Bennettsvllle
for the purpose of securing a field of
cotton for the demonstration of Mr.
Campbell's cotton picker, in which
Mr. Price and others are interested.
It was announced that the cotton
would remain in the field till about
the first of October, when Mr. Price
and his associates would come to
Bennettsville and try the machine
in the field of cotton, which was obtained
from Mr. Price's friend, exSenator
John b. Mcbaurin.
v irw u;iys auer air. Campbell
was horo, a telegram was received
from Now York, announcing that
the factory which was making the
cotton picker had been burned down,
and that the demonstration would
have to be called off.
While the people of this section
will not have the anticipated pleasure
of seeing tin* Campbell-Price
picker demonstrated here .they will
be able to see one invented and
manufactured by a Hennettsville
num. J. M. Itrasington, the inventor
and manufacturer of the Star
pea lniller, and other valuable farm
machinery of his own invention.
He expects to have it ready for a
practical trial in the Held within the
next few weeks.
Mr. Hrasington's picker will be
operated on the suction principle.
It will have six arms and when owe
of them touches an open hole of cotton,
the staple will be drawn from
the boll and up the hollow arm into
receptacle. The principle is the
same as that by which cotton is \
sucked up from a stall or wagon
into a ginnery.
The machine will be propelled
and operated by a gasoline engine.
The wheels will run in the middle
of the rows and the machine will be
high enough to move over the to|>
of the stalks. The arms will be directed
to the open bolls by hand.
There will be an operator for each
arm, one on each side of the row.
and three rows will be picked at a
time. The arm will merely touch M
the boll, when the cotton will be
instantly sucked out and will be k
passing up into the receptacle while ^
the arm is being moved to the next
boll.
Mr. Ilrasington has tried the machine
by taking stalks of cotton to
it in the factory here. It picks the
cotton clean, and he is convinced
that a practical demonstration in
the field will prove it to be a success.
He estimates thnt u nmfhiim
V % itlM^lllUVy
will pick from 4,000 to 0,000 pounds
a clay. It will require seven hands
six to operate the arms, and an engineer.
Theg machine will he so
constructed that the engineer can ^
regulate the speed for thick or thin
cotton. *'
ltriiIN(? ON COTTON WKIGIIKKS.
fudge (iary Kcnders Opinion m Case
From Bethune.
A decision rendered hy Judge
Finest Gary on the duties of the cotton
weighers at Bethune, in the cas3
of Sydney Bartleld. nlalntiff mi??a
on several important points that will
he of local interest. Tlio motion
raises substantially three questions:
Whether or not the act of 1900,
entitled "An act to provide for the
election of a cotton weigher at Beth
tine, S. C., and to describe their
i duties and fix their compensations,"
shall make it mandatory for the
I cotton weigher to weigh all cotton
| brought to the market for sale, or
| whether that provi.-ion in the act
is merely directory. Judge 'Clary
holds on this question that the language
of the statute, "It shall be the ^
duty of the said weigher to weigh
all cotton brought to the said town
for sale fairly and promptly. ism
j i.ig a ticket therefor, which shows
I the weight of each hale," Is plain
I and explicit in its meaning that the
1 cotton weigher shall weigh all cotton
j brought to said cotton market. A
i second question is raised, whether or
not the act in so far as it may seek
to exclude buyers and sellers from
agreeing upon private arrangements
for weighing cotton, which is mutually
agreeable to both, is repugnant
to the constitution of this State, and
an infringmcnt upon the liberties of
the citizen, and therefore is null and
void. The judge holds in ths question
that the act is a proper exercise
of the police power of the State.
About the hardest thing to do is
to get any enjoyment out of the
enjoyments you carefully plan. ^