The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 19, 1912, Image 5
WILL DIVIDE TIMt
COURT DEGIOtS ABOUT TILLMAN
CHILDREN
v MUST SEE THEIR FATHER
>
Mother IkK-lured Fit l'crnou to Cato
\
for Offiipriug, but Supreme Court
Hol<U Father, by Couiluct of l'u>t
TlirtHJ Veurn, Kntitled to
and Consideration.
Mrs. Lucy Dugus is permitted to ret?.iu
the custody of her iwo v-'uljfeu
Douschka Pickens and Sarah Starko
'Tillman, on the conditioriatliai their
father, 11. K. Tillman, Jr., have them
two months In the summer, halt of
Aho Christmas holidays, aud one ween:
each spriug, and ai.so he permitted
tc see them with reasonable fre<iu
e-ucj unuer coiiaiuonu,wuicn will not
ta embarrassing to liim, according to
tho opinion of the Supreme Court tii
eti late Tuesday afternoon.
The Court orders that the children
bo kept within its jurisdiction and requires
both the fattier and mother
to enter into bonds of $5,000 each
that they will carry out the provisions
of the decree. It will be recalled that
the fact that his wife had obtained a
divorce from him was stressed by
young Tillman in his plea for his
children.
The court says it cannot say that
the respondent has become unfit to
rear her children because she obtained
a divorce after this court, had adjudged
that her separation from hor
husband was due to his fault, and
holds that Mrs l)ugas has been a most
loving and devoted mother to the two
little girls, and that she has discharg
ed hor d'Utien as only a mother could
It holds that the father young Till
man, has lod a sober, industrious ill
for the past three years and is e.utit
k-d to respect and consideration.
* * 11 is true," says the Court, "tha
it. it. Tillman, Jr., wus not a formal
4>arty to mat proceeding, but ho submitted
an affidavit making no claim
on his own behalf, but insisting 011
the claim of his father and mother,
to whom he has solemnly convovOu
all bis rights and custody. it id
clear that hy this action he became
bound by the decree rendered in the
"--^"former preceding, but. that decree expressly
declared, in accordance with
the well settled law, that an application
might be made for in charge of
custody upon such proof of sueli
material change of conditions aa to
make such a step proper.
"The judgment of the Court as 10
the custody of a child is never linai,
for the Court must at all times be
free to act upon such a vital change
of conditions as requires a change or
custody. Hut it. is none the less true
tiiat the father having been adjudged
responsible for the situation wh.ob
requirod the court to give custody
to the mother ho cannot demand that i
the children be taken from her unless
he shows her to have become unfit
for their custoday. This we thinl,
he lias not done.
"There can bo no doubt that the
mother is giving to the children the
most affectionate and assiduous care.
The fact that she has joined txie Catn- j
lie Church is nothing against her, nor ,
is it for a Court to judge it an injury f
to the children. It iH regrettable that j
the sectarian religious influence j
shouldn't bo that with which the f?th- <\
or is sympathetic, but it would be just r
as regrettable to the mother for the H
children in custody of the father to f
be under religious influences w;tu (
which she is not in sympathy. ,
;
*> "The Court cannot say that the re a
epondent has become unfit to rear ho r
children becauso slio obtained a dJ n
vorce after this court had adjudged a
that hers seperation from her mis n
band was due to his fault. It is true
that divorce is against the legislative ^
policy of this State, as expressed oy
the prohibition of the Constitutiou
but in the face of the opposite sontiinent
of the vast majority of the poo- ^
plo of the civilized world, it would be ?'
arrogant for this Court to say that v<
the mere act of obtaining a divorce Vl
is so bad as to show unfitness for ma* ^
ternal duties and obligations. ?
"Nor can the inference of unfitness M,!
bo drawn from the refusal to accedo
to the petitioner's request for a rocon- m
ciliation. A real reunion in life and a
sentiment Is most desirable, and It it hl
commendable in the petitioner tha ^
In his letters ho frankly acknowledge! ^
lii^ errors and expresses his desire for '
a reunion, but it would ho most harsh
judgment to hold that tho conditions as
are so changed that respondent i eo
not fit for the custody of the child- 0,1
ton because she refuses to enter into ,|U
a. loveless reunion. Without more do
tailed discussion, wo acquit the re nn
spondent of such charges as rondo (>r
her unfit for the oustody of hor child "r
re?. ?
' Put there are some font ores o
the respondent's conduct towards the
petitioner which the Court, cannot approve
and which it wit! hy its order to
correct. Whatever may have heon ;()j
the sins of the petitioner wa
against his wife, he has suffered for to
them severe penalties, the Court can- ?|ai
not doubt, and it sees no reason for pGr
the mother of his children to doubt jcr
not only that he has deeply repented ]1)S
f the wrongs he has done, but that, *'w
under severe temtpation to fall,he has
left off drinking and become a sober
uud earnest man. Some of his letters
to the respondent are no doubt
tnapt ln sentiment and unfortunate in
e>pressioti, but certainly uoneofthem
are so offensive as to warrant a refusal
to give him Information directly
ubout his children The record
shows that the petitioner has by his
conduct for three years won his rlgtit
to be accorded respectful, consider
ate treatment at the hands of tho
mother of his children, at least with
respect to them; and it is not locally
regret ted that he -has not been ho
corded by the respondent the opportunity
for such association with hts
children as the court regards, under
all circumstances reasonable and
proper.
This Court is of the opinion that
The llritish Parliament haB just
passed a law to indict dogging upon
every white slaver convicted of a second
offence. That may seem to soino
sentimentalists rather an extreme
punishment, but. to persons lost to a I
moral sense, as a white slaver certainly
is, perhaps Hogging is the only
effective punishment l< will h?* ? ?
called bow effective flogging was in
putting an end to a garotting so pre\
alent nearly a half century ago
the petitioner should have the children
in his home for two months of the
summer vacation season of eacn year
one-half of the Christmas holidays
rnd week during the soring, at Mich
time as may bo found most convenient,
subject to tho right of the
mother to have them with her at all
times in case of their illness We are
of the opinion, also, that in the inter-,
veals the petitioner should be allowed
to he with his children with reason-,
fi<nnnnni'V under COllditionH llOt
<#.?l l TI J i I>?J inn - ;
unpleasant to hi in.
' Wo make no order at this time as"
to the details, in the confidence that
the parties or their counsel will be
able to agree on the particulars and at f
an early date. Hubrr.lt a proper order;
to the court. These provisions v\ i 11 heHiibject
to alterations as the children,
advance in years, especially when the
time comes for them to be sent away,
to school, but the hope is indulged byl
the Cor-t that all future contingencies
may he met in a spirit of mutual,
accomodation and provided for by
agreement of the parties, without ap j
peal to the Court.
"it is ordered that the children':
shall rein.un subject to the juriBuii-i
lion of this court and that the petitioner
and the respondent do enter,
into an undertaking with sufficient
surety, to be approved by the clerk;
of this Court, in the sum of
conditioned that they will not ro-|
move the children nor procure their',
removal beyond the jurisdiction of!
'.he Court j
"If the parties to this d^plorabfro!
con trove ray will think loss of 'he en-forcemeat
of their legal rights and/
more of the foroberance and liberal-1'
I ,
ity which personal dignity, to say!
nothing of the Christian charilyj '
which both profess, requires thai they!
should eX'Toise in carrying m;t the!
spirit of this decree, there will be n j \
need for further litigation. Surely
nothing could so alleviate the tuinfer j
tune of these children as courtesy i'
forbearance and charity of their par J (
enta toward each other."
i
OKANGKHTRG COLMCGK.
?
n??j Great Christum Schotd <>r South i 1
em South Carolina.
During the past year this eohoo
iae been born again. We have sj>en j r
luite a handsome sum during til ; t
summer on the grounds and build j ,
ngs. We now have a new auditor | _
urn, new parlor, new equipments ant j 0
ill dormitories and ciat-e room j
encwed inside and out. We have; ,
lixteen teachers and officers, splendid!
acuity and a fine student body. Dur-? .
ng the past eight months we have! ^
t 'A fi (Kill for fhr> r?n In rfumisnl i
" - ~ I ll
ncl bolter equipment of our collegej
dant. Wo have also bought ten'j,
crea of land just a block or two
way from our present site. 1'pon th i '
e\v land we hope soon to erect a!
irge modern boy's dormitory, which j
rill be surrounded by parKH and J
elds for all kinds of athletic sports ! L*
i short, we are determined to niak I ?
in Orangeburg College the great!j!
hristian school of lower South Car j
lina. Our motto is, "to give the
?ry best library and religious ad J1
intugos at the least possible cost.'
'o now give bond and tuition for
125,000 for the entire year and we r<J
ako a special price of $75,000 from! e"
hrifitmas to end of session. Wo w'
ako (he claim that we have a sohoo
' good as the best and at. the same c'{
*ne the price is in reach not only of Ci(
e rich but of those of small means | on
ith the price the Orangeburg Col j
go offers no ambitious boy need bo
prived of a college education. We
k all who contemplate going off to t;a
liege to investigate the merits o j l)r<
ir school. Wo expect to en roll j v-''1
ito a large number of new students; '10
tor Christmas. Why not you he[ ;,D
tong the list. Write 'or Catalogue, (,( l
for information to W. W. Rivers t
est dent. Orangeburg. S. C.; R. M.J
reman Financial agent. I
Charged With White Slavery. ^ wo
t
Maeie A. France of Douglas, s ?id owi
he the wealthiest woman in Wyo-i wit
ng and noted for hoi philanthropy, to
s sentenced in the Federal Court d< f
one year at Leavenworth peniten-Jeha
ry. She was charged with trant i Art
ting Helen Rourie and .lessie Hoe-'ion
from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Dong-1 mid
. Wvo., in violation of the Mannjwht
hite slave" law. I ed i
WOULD HELP THE FARMER
GOVERNOR** WANT TO IXK)8K
MORTGAGE'S GRIP.
Relieved That Scheme Will Result la
(Greater Indcpmdeoce for F?rmer?
of (lie Nation.
The fifth annual Governor'* conference
at Richmond adjourned Friday
afternoon to meet informally Saturday
with President Taft at Washington
and discuss rural credits, and
to meet formally next year at Colorado
Springs at a date as yet undetermined
In its dying hours it dopted
a resolution, which, in the opinion
of many delegates, sounds the knell
ol a new ilnaiicial era for the farmers
of the country.
Should the Intent of this preliminary
resolution attain accomplishment
the governors believe that it
will result In the establishment of a
new system of state banks throughout
the United States, governed by a
uniform state law.
These banks, under the resolution,
would be financed by private capital
jikI would operate ..nder legislation
sufficiently elastic to enable them to
issue bonds for short or long terms
upnn American farms, In lieu of
mortgages. The bonds, in turn, il
the opinion of the governors, would
be listed under sta?e supervision on
ilie stock exchange of the world.
The resolution under which it il
hoped to bring this about indorses
the addition of a plan of financing
rural credits, yet to be detailed, but
similar to those abroad. It provides
foi the appointment of a committeej
of the governors to draft such a plan
and a bill legalizing it, This bill must
bf submitted to the governor of 6ach
state In the union ami upon approval
of two third shall be sent to the legislatures
of the various states for fenBCtment.
Marty of iho governors left Snturday
in a special train For Washington.
Refore adjournment the executive
committee appointed Miles C.
Riley of Madison, Wis., secretory and
treasurer, and John ^ranklin Ko**t
former governor of New Jersey, manager
of the conference. Mr. Fori will
have charge of the program of next
war. The. conference also adopted
,? iewolu*ion congratulating (iOV Wilson
of New Jersey and Gov. Marshall
ot Indiana upon their election a**
president and vice-pres?idem.
1 he customs of electing governor?to
t)je highest oflices in the gift of
the people," said Gov. Had.'ey, father
of the resolution, "is a wise one, in
which, 1 am sure, we ail concur."
Gov. Rlease again showed that his
views are at total variance with those j
af conference when alone he opposed
.'option of the resoiuMon calling for
?no appointment of a committee o
live lo draw up a plan for the proposed
rural i\"dit system, lie said it,
would be distinctly discourteous toj
['resident Tait for the body to take
ictiou in this matter before eon feriug
with the president in Washingon.
lie alone voted ''no" when the
esoiution was put to ? test.
Tt K\K1> LOOSK liV lii.KAKK.
iVealthy Abbeville ;?fi |s f reed by!
the (iovei nor,
It. A. Riehey, a wealthy whltaj
nan of Abbeville County, serving \
en year sentence in the penitentiary,
or assault upon a little white girl I
ens turned loose by.Governor Hloasoj
ui Thurahay, with the requirement
hat he ented into bonds of $5,0 )0 to
e certified to by the clerk of Court
i Abbeville County, and that he preent
himself before tlie Governor on
iovemher L'.'C 11)1,1, for such action j
hen as the Governor may deem wise j
Riehey war released from the Hen ]
.miliary Thursday afternoon and leitj \
t e.iee for- his home in Abhevill
ounly, where his wife and daughter ?
re. Riehey, a wealthy white plant j
r, of Abbeville County, was convict ,
1 of statutory rape in the sprin f
I 191U, his alleged victim being :*|(
Ming white girl, who was living in j
is home, and who was said to bav ^
mil under 14 years of ago at th
mo tin; offence was alleged to have tj
en committed. ,.
The board of pardons recommend ?
! a parole for Riehey and they stat 0
I that the alleged victim appeared NV
f V> tllO mnlvnti *-?C ill A ? ? ' '
... I..VJ iiHUUli Ui U1U liUUl Ul liopo, J.
lero she is now residing, and doired
that Richey had been 8111?.- w
>ntly punished and asked for clem j }
ey. In the reasons given out by
c Governor it is stated that Richey ,
present is a hopeless invalid, un- jn
le to leave his bed at the Peniten- g,
ry, and several physicians have so
enounced hitn. Richey's farm is' r,
thin a few miles of Abbeville and
is a prominent planter. The case
ranted widespread Interest on aeint.
of the prominence of the man
used.
"c
tr
Women .Jury Convict Woman
\f Twin Prills, la., the first Jury of; an
men in Idaho found one of tlieirj rr(
ti ?"X guilty of threatening a man o
h a revolver, but recomended her' ag
the mercy of the court. The in
rndant, Mrs. Edward Butts, | ho
rped with drawing a weapon onj t.ei
hur Hequa. The hearing v*as ad-j an
rued while the jurors propared tho, un
[day meal for their famlies, and, Co
in tho evidence was In they reach i In
their verdict in less than one hour [ tlr
WHAT HLEASE SAID
GOVERNOR GIVES OUT REPORT OF
j HIS SPEECH
IN REPLY TO GOV. GAREY
Governor B1e*ne Hny? He Wftntit
I*eople to Head His Full Remarks
and that He Htanda by everything'
He Said and Does Not Care AATuil'
Anj body Thinks of it.
On Monday Governor Blcase addressed
a letter to the Columbia eor-j
respondent of The News and Oourier|
enclosing a copy of one of the speech-'
eu which he made before the Houre
of Governors, at Richmond last week
and which raised such a torin of
comment in all parts of the country.I
The Governor stated that he had pur-1
chased a copy from the RichmondTimes-Dispatch
news bureau, and ho
makes the request that all of the news
papers In South Carolina print it.
"I stand by every word I said,*' he(
declares in bis letter. "1 have absolutely
no apologies to make to any
man or set of men in this State, o
outside of it, and, as I said in Richmond
and repeat now, I do not care
what the Go\ernor or Governors of
any State or States thought about tt
or what anybody else in the American.
Union thinks about it. This is what
T think, nnd I said there only what
I said on the stump nil over South
Carolina. And I aui receiving letters,
and telegrams from all -over - this'
State, and from many other States
of the Union, Congratulating me upon
niv position."
(*io\ernor fUeuse says that he has]
asked for a stenographic report of thoi
speech lie made after the adoption ofj
the resolution which is known as the^
resolution of censure and that both
of the speeches will be incorporated'
in a message to the General Assembly j
when that body meets so that they;
may be made 4*a part of the official
records of this State." |
I The following is the stenographic,
i report of the speech publication of
which is asked by Governor HI ease: j
'Che views of Governor Bleftso on<
| marriage and divorce were brough J
I out forcibly in an address delivered
j brforp tho Governors' Conference on
| Thursday afternoon. Governor Wei!
I If. Mann, of Virginia, had just finish-!
j ed a d.i? oission of turning the rrond:
of population from the towns n:.d cifl
ios to the country, and referred 10 it i,
; great work being accom p-idm 1 by the'
boys's corn clubs, giving statin*.cj as
to the corn yield accomplished, by'
these young farmers. Governor
Hlea*>e said: i
".Mr. Chairman I shall not under-!
raho to discuss with the dnjjng ntshc il
Govenor of Virginia the question ofi
raising corn, because South Carolina
holds the world's record, and as to,
the quality of his corn, 1 would not
for a iriomr t:t discuss ihat, because
ail through prohibition c >= >
ii > vj ti in \ j it I 1) I I " i
n:i we h:i /o examples <?f quality of
his corn, shipped from the capital of
his State bv his wholesale dealers. ,
'Hut Mr. President, the other ques-j
lion in which South Carolina stands
alone , and in which in my opinion,
she is superior to all other states of,
the America Union, written in the!
fundamental laws of my State by a
constitutional Convention, composed
of men of both races, in 186S, and ev-j
en more emphatically in 180ri by the
white people of South Carolina, are!
the words: 'No divorce from the
bonds of matrimony shall ever he "
granted.' it may be sir, a hardship t
In some cases, and possibly I might.)"
refer to cases whore other States J 1
might think it was right, still I say'1
o this audience this afternoon, and 1' s
tay it with pleasure, that the only s
orrect rule, following both the Bib- v
icil injunction and the injunction of *
nan, is that which South Carolina 0
ollows when she says: "Those whom' c
lod hath joined together, let no man '4
?ut asunder.' If there be one thing
n the American Uiron that is a disraeo
to American civilization, it is n
io sale of American whomanhood for! a'
zenith; if there bo another, it is the hi
holesale and unwarranted granting j ^
f divorces because, forsooth, some, 111
'oman or some man has got as much! lM
lonoy by their marriage as tliev ex-|ul
ected when tlio marriage ceremony j ?'
as performed. 1 am glad that wej
we 110 divorce law i/i South Carolina
srsonally, and if you will look to the
?ar of this hall and pick out the best 80
oking red-headed woman In this,
:ate, you will see why 1 object per-j ot
mnlli. ' ~ ? -
-.icin.y n> uivorco. tun, .Mr. Chair-,'W1
an w lion you lay down tho law you
111 reap tho hnrVost that tho distlntishod
Governor of Nevada has picrou
to this conference.
"Vy State stands alone. We grant: no
i divorces; v?c recognize no divorces- re^
u man leaves tho State of Southi to
trollna, or a woman, and goes into! ca1
other Stale end ohiainr, a divorce: Wi
)n\ his wife, he may come back in-; tli(
South Carolina and live, but if ho Vn
nin marries and moves hack with-' vie
the State with a second wife wo! for
Id him and his wife guilty of ad ill- ( thr
y and punish them accordingly;, the
d If there are children born to the ste
loti after the divorce, the Supreme Wl
urt of South Carolina has stated at
their opinion that they are illegl- trh
nate and cannot Inherit the proper- saj
CENSUS COTTON REPORT
AMOUNT GINNED UP TO TIU
F1HST OF DECBMBKH.
|
To(h] Amount Ginned In Nearly One
Million lean Than for (tic Nuxiw
reriiKl Iant Year.
The alith cotton ^Inning report o<
the Census Bureau for the season, issued
at 10 o'clock Monday morning,
announced that 1 1,844,432 bales of
cotton, counting round as h.\i( bales
of the growth of 19 12 had boon ginned
prior to Sunday, December 1, to
which date during the past aeveu
years the ginning average 82.2 per
cent, of the entire crop. I at ye at
to December 1 there had been ginned
12, 810,807 bales, or 82.4 per
cent, of the entire crop; in"'1908 to
ihat date 11,008,661 bales ur 84.1
pc r cent, and in 1906 to that date
10,02 7,8 68 bales or 77.2 pt r cent.
Uinning8 prior to Decernner 1 by
States, with comparisons tor last year
and other big crop years and the
percentage of the entire crop ginned
prior to that date in those yen t o, fol
low:
Year. (Winnings 1\(\
Alubnuiu.
19 12 1,1 60,63 7 ....
19 11 1,136,0 7 6 s 1.7
1 908 1,1 75,629 8* 3
19 06 1,018,955 *;.!
Arkansas.
1912 660,1 7 I ....
19 11 680,45-1 rl.3
1 9 0S . . .... i 7 b,4.11 i S.0
1906 570,324 o.: s
Florida.
1912 . . . .' . . 4 8.593 ....
1911 7 4,056 7X4
190 8 58,603 s *.. 0
19 0 6 50,028 81.4
Ceorgia.
191 2 1,563.443 ....
191 1 2,53 9,554 85 7
1 90S 1,73 9.657 8 'vO
1906 1,391,224 SO. 2
Louisiana.
1 91 2 3 4 3,2 36 ....
ion 313,624 s::.i
1 9OS 3 9 4,918 S \.6
1906. . , . , . 672,873 70.4
Mississippi.
1912 81 8,862 ....
1 9 t I 89 2,195 76 3
1908 1.297,677 80.1
190 6 1,007,879 67.9
North Carolina.
1 91 2 75 4,249 ....
19 11 82 9,6 60 7 3.0
1 9 0 S 55 4.346 81.1
1906 4 9 0,1 40 80.3
Oklahoma.
1 91 2 867,4 88 ....
? i - t?on /?ort "T 1
I>ii >-> ^ .1,;? ^ ii.i
1;;),>s f>or?,r?s4
lixu?!! .. .. 57-1,0 4 3 65.8
South Carolina.
1.11 2 . . . , , . 1,0 4 M2 I
urn i,3io,9(? J? 7*.;!
1 9 0S 1.051,550 80.5
1 0 0 C 7 00,785 8 1.1
Tennessee.
101 2 208.72 1 ....
1 01 J 3 1 0,079 7-1.1
1908 270,05 1 S3.7
1 000 1 84,242 02.0
Texas.
10 12 1,308,721 ....
101 1 3,7 17,03 2 0 1.3
1 00 8 3,10 3,000 S S. 0
1 000 3,257,001 82.3
Olhor Static.
1012 0 0,04 8 ....
1011 80,2 15 6 1.2
1 00 8 5 0,0 10 7 0.6
100 6 4 0,3 7 4 50.1
y of the parent. That I say, may
icom to some of you a hardship; bu
nv friends, it is far bettor that in a
e\v instances some good woman may
ufiv-r. or some man may be caused ?o
offer, than to lay down a law which
I'ouM bring, and which is bringing}
o-dny, in disrepute the solemn bonds!
f matrimony, which only under any
onditions or any circumstances
hould be contracted for love, saneem
d by a Pi vine power. 1
"Mr. President and brother Cover- 1
ors, we do not apply to your States
nything wrong. It is your way of
inking at the proposition, wo do not
arolinians for a moment set itself ?
ean tor a moment to condemn you,
)r would South Carolina or South
> as the only or the proper guardian
the morality of the American na:>n;
hut we are glad of the distinc- K
:>n that we hold: we are nmnri Umi ^
is written in our fundamental law,|*
that no Legislature, elected posidy
by a wave of excitement or from *
her causes, can change it; it is so:
ritton that it is Impossible to sr
nnge, and of that we are proud.
ol
# H
One Glass, an Alabama nowspnpor gt
n has discovered a veritable mare's? ^
st. An Atlanta dispatch says he e(!
scaled startling facts in reference! ,%j
Governor Wilson's pro-convention n.
npaign, in which lie declared that _#1
en
illiam .T. Hrvan attempted to knife ?
* N'ew Jersey governor just as ^? ls
ifed Chantp Clark, with the end tn
w of having himself nominated
president. Glass is talking
ouph his hat. Why don't he give
? public his "startling facts", in- in
ad of insinuating There is not a A
Ison man who was on tho ground hi
Raltimore that believes that TCryrn at
r>d to knifo Wilson. What Glass fu
'B 10 all poppycock. | ac
ALLENS ALL TRIED
? * - y
TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH AND
! KIIUK GO TO PRISON
>; .
''AS KtSULT OF KILLING
11
This Ih Ihc Final Settlement of AD
' the Cases H^sultiug From Ih*
j Shooting L P of the Court House
! at lUllestille by the Allen Clan
last March.
Final settlement of all the case*
1 resulting from the killing of five peri
sens in the Hillesville, Va., Court
House by the Allen clan on March
14, last, waa reached at VVytheville,
Va., Wednesday afternoon, when Sidna
Allen plead guilty to second degree
murder for killing Sheriff
Webb, and Wesley Edwards plead
quilty to the three charges pending
against him.
Thirty-five years in the peniteai
tiary is the penalty Sid 11a Allen will
I pay. Allen's nephew, Wesley idwards,
will spend twenty-seven years
: in the penitentiary.
These two sentences were the re1
suit of a compromise Wednesday af1
ternoon, following a verdict of voli
. untary manslaughter in the case of
Sidna Allen for the murder of Commonwealth's
Attorney William M.
( Foster, the jury fixing the penalty
j In that case at five years imprisonment.
Allen already had been found guil
ty of second degree murder at a former
trial for the killing of Judgo
Mnssie, for which he had been sen,
tenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary,
and the other indictment
j pending against him, for the muri
dor of Sheriff Webb, was compromiai
cd by letting him plead guilty to
I second degree murder and take a
j fifteen-year sentence, the combined
sentences making thirty-five years.
Three indictments against Wesley
J Edwards also were compromised, he
fk'ng a sentence of nine years Im*
I" son merit on each.
In the second trial of Sidna Allen.,
which ended Wednesday, nine of tha
jurors on the iiist ballot stood for
acquittal and the other three for murder
In the neeond degree.
Following their discharge the jurors,
in an interview, declared that
not one of t r. mi ! bought t lie evidence
presented by the Suite was sutficiontjy
strong to bUb.ain the charge of
conspiracy.
This ends, as far as the Courts
are concerned, a tragedy which was
w ithout parellel at. i which stirre I
the country from c,i\? < ud to the oilier.
On the 1 i'h < f ' s' March, t< ^
lowing tho COIlVH.liel. of 1' lo> ^
Ion, of an offence which w ' ^ ^
sent him t<) ;h? pf-nH." rcr G.)t,
i M\'ir member# of tlou ^ t-..,,; .
,-si, ?
j the Court House ^ vvL .o. 'C
in Is.
At the first volley Judge TL
L. Massie fell mortally wounded ;
when the smoke cleared away She. iff
Webb and Commonwealth's Attorney
Foster were found dead. Or*
he following day one of the Hum
I jurors w ho were shot died of h ?
wounds, as did also Miss Hefts
Avres, who had been a witne.-i
against Floyd Allen.
Floyd Allen v/as arrested on the
day ionowing tue tragedy, being too
badly wounded to escape. Tho arrest
of tho others implicated in the shooting
followed at various intervals, the
two men whoso fate was decided
Wednesday having been the last
caught.
Of the six men who have been con
vlcted of complicity in the shooting
two?Floyd Allen and his son
Claude?are under sentence of death
while tho four others?Sidnu and
T'riel Allen, and Wesley and Sidna
Edwards?have each been given lonsj
tetms in tho penitentiary. Victor
Allen, a son of Floyd, was acquitted
and Ilyrd Marion was discharged Vai.se
of lack of evidence against him
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CROWD (JREAT1/V CREASED,
+,
\ lien Verdict of (juilty Was Rendered
in a Court.
At Mobile, Ala., loud applaus
reeled the jury verdict of "first de~
ree murder" In the trial of William
. Drown, for tho murder of Alfred
crcy. Mrs. Alfred Percy, wife of
,e victim, clapped her hands with
elight. "I wouldn't take a thoutnd
dollars for that verdict," she exaimed
a few minutes later. The wife
f the accused man simply uodded.
rown killed Percj as the latter
epped from a street jar in OakdsK
la., July G last. Drown .<?at unmov1
when the verdict was
it's all right," ho said, 4* 1 * 11 win my
ipeal." Sentence will be pronouncl
within two weeks unless a stay
execution is asked. The penalty
death by hanging.
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Planter (Jorcd to Death.
J. A Smith, aged 80 years, a prom-ont
planter living six miles from
thens, C.u., was gored by a Jersey
ill in his lot late Saturday evening;
id died instantly from tho two fear
il wounds in his abdomex^and stoniih.
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