The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 19, 1914, Image 5
INTEREST KtPT UP1
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SPARTANBURG LAWYERS TALK
OF COMING SURPRISES.
TO TRY BABY'S SLAREBS
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Solicitor Declares Ho Has More Kvidenco
Which Will Astound the Pub- c
lie?Clement's Attorney Claims He j
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If 111 A'lVV mill XAIB& Uin illUl II
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Sympathy. i
That Clyde C. Clement, the former [
Wofford Fitting school student, will !
claim that he accompanied Miss Fleta
Pendleton to the outskirts of Spar- t
tanburg a week ago Thursday in the
belief that sho was going to lay their (
two-inonths-old baby daughter, Virginia,
beforo the door of a dwelling
house, and that she, without his
knowledge or consent, threw the in- (
fant into the mill pond, from which
the body was recovered tho next day '
?this was surmised by persons who
are unable "in any other way to account
for Clement's unequivocal denial
of the girl's statement that he
drowned the baby.
Witnesses have come forward to
corroborate in every detail, except
the actual slaying of the child, Miss
Pendleton's story of their sinister
journey from Mrs; W. M. Hodges'
boarding house in Greenville to the
creek, and their return to Mrs. J. T.
llell's boarding house, in Spartanburg,
where they spent the remainder
of the night. Mrs. Hodges saw them
leave her home with tho child.
Jeff Williams, the negro hackman,
says he drove the couple and the
baby to within a short( distance of the
creek. H. C?. Bolter, the street car
conductor, says ho saw them board
his car on the edge of the city, near
tho creek,* without tho baby, and
brought them hack to near Mrs.
Bell's home. They were indifferent
to the rain, says Boiter, and held
their heads close together as they
conversed in low tones. Mrs. Bell
says Ihey came to her house at 9:30
o'clock, with clothes dripping, and
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"T am innocent," says Clement.
"When all the facts are known, not
only the jury, but the general public
will be convinced that he is not
guilty of the crime charged," says
Samuel J. Nicholls, his attorney.
When Robert C. Clement, the Polk
county. N. C., merchant, came to see
his son after the latter's arrest, he
addressed the youth, it is reported, as
follows:' "Son, you have never been
afraid to tell mo the truth. Did you
do this thing?" 1
"I didn't do it," answered the son.
"I believe you," said the father,
"and I will stand by you. If I believed
you had done it I would have
washed my hands of you." An indignant
denial was Miss Pendleton's
answer when asked if she had been
intimate with other men besides
Clement?the men "higher up", who
Mr. Nichols says will probably be involved
In the case.
Lawyers have raised the point that
undor the common law Miss Pendle
An let r1! nm /\n t 'r? n?l f a el n o A V* r?
vwai io Vyiumcut n >v lie:, nmv *; 11 c n *cu
with iier in conjugal relationship
during a considerable period of time
in Greenville, Spartanburg and Charlotte,
introduced her as his wife in
boarding houses in all three cities
and professed to be her husband. As
his "common law wife", the attorneys
say, she is entitled to the same
privileges as if a ceremony had been
performed, and can not be compelled,
against her will, to testify against
Clement, her "common law husband".
This contention is disputed by other
attorneys.
It is pointed out, on the other
hand, that Clement, under the statement
of boarding housekeepers in
Greenville and Charlotte, where the
couple lived as man and wife, is
liable to indictment in the Federal
courts for violating the Mann white
slave act. which forbids the carrying
of a woman from one State to another
for Immoral purposes.
Should Clement carry out before
he is brought to trial his alleged
promise to Miss Pendleton to marry
her when their baby was disposed of,
or should she protest as his "common
law wife" (and be sustained)
against her confession being used
against him, Solicitor Albert R. Hill
would have still another card to play.
Her accusation of Clement having
been made in the latter's presence
t the hearsay evidence of witnesses to
her confession would bo competent
testimony, it is said.
Solicitor Hill asserts, however,
that even without Miss Pendleton's
confession he has ample testimony to
convict both of the defendants. Ho
asserts that he has much evidence in
the form of affidavits which has not
been made public and that when the
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complete story or tne crime is mm u
will ho too horrible for publication,
lie refuses to give a hint of the nature
of the affidavits.
.The mysterious intimations of the
opposing lasvyors, Solicitor Hill am!
Mr. Nichols, of a shocking story af
yot untold, have keyed public interest
In Spartanburg up to the highest
Pitch of intensity,, and the case if
discussed in all circles from evorj
angle.
Miss Pendleton continues to be
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rO FIGHT HOG CHOLERA J
JSVKR REPORTS RILL. TO SKCURE
APPROPRIATION. v
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louth Carolina ConRrMsman Pointa
Out the Need of Immediate Aid for ^
(ho Campaign.
Showing that the annual loss to
South Carolina alone aggregates the
5norinou8 total of $i'.l8,914 from raviges
of the hog cholera, Uepresenta,ive
Lever, chairman of the House
joinmittee on agriculture, reported
'avorably from the committee Wedlesday
the hill appropriating $r>00,)00
for the prevention of hog cholera
ind $100,000 for a fight on dourlne.
Phis is an emergency appropriation tl
withdrawn from tho general agricul- >'
.ural appropriation bill to enable tJie ti
lepartment to perfect its organization d
to meet the ravages of these diseases b
which being in the early summer. h
Tho report shows in substance that r
the country is losing annually ?
through tho ravages of these diseases o
at a conservative estimate, some- s
thing like $70,000,000, and this loss ?
is distributed throughout the whole e
country. It also shows that last year
an appropriation of $75,000 was s
made by congress to meet this situa- t
tion and although it was absolutely c
inadequate remarkable results were 1'
secured by the department in the four s
States in which tho experimental c
work was done, and it is believed that 2
with an adcquato appropriation and f
with a strong co-operative organlza- f
tion among federal, State and local 1
authorities the disease may be re- c
duced, controlled and substantially
eradicated. i
Tho report forcefully sets forth (
tho fact that pork, hog meat and (
hog products compose the basis of the (
everyday meal of tho average citizen, t
and that as hogs and hog products t
are to a large extent the subject of I
interstate traffic it is incumbent upon I
tho federal government to take urgent ?
steps toward the control of (he di- f
sease until the department can build 1
up a permanent co-operative organi- I
zation with the several States looking
toward tho final eradication of <
tho disease. '<
The report also shows the presence i
of dourlne among horses in tho Northwestern
States and that about 10 per
cent, of the range horses are afflicted
with this disease and points out the
danger of-a general spread of it
throughout the country unless vigorous
efforts are made to stamp it out.
The report recommends an appropriation
of $100,000 for this purpose.
PASS HIGHWAY MM A SI HH.
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Shackelford Hill Appropriates $25,000,000
for Good Koads.
The Shackelford bill, under which
the federal government would distribute
$20,000,000 for good roads
among the various States conditioned
upon a dollar-for-dollar appropriation
by each States, was passed by the
national House Tuesday by a vote of
282 to 4 2 and awaits action by the
Senate. Its passage followed sdveral
days of debate, during which most of
the hundred and more speakers advocated
the project in the interest of
the farmers, while a minority attacked
the project as .a dangerous opening
wedge for heavy future inroads
on the treasury.
Democratic Leader Underwood, Republican
Leader Mann and Representative
Hinebaugh of Illinois, the
rank Progressive in the House, all
voted for the measure. Representative
Mann declared that the cities
could well afford out of their wealth
to contribute taxes to aid the country
in their construction of roads and
other improvements. Most of those
1. ? . * 1% ^ Kill Avrtl n I ? n ,1
I WHO vuiuu tu^ uin uAjMtuiiru
their opposition was not to feJeral
construction of highways but to the
j method proposed in tho pending
measure.
llnby Hoy Fatally Burned.
Luther Massey, tho two-year-old
son of J. S. Massey, of Woodruff, received
burns Wednesday morning
while standing before tho fire, from
which he will die. His mother was
dressing him when tho accident occurred.
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object of much pity. The fact
that tho Clement family, with whom
' she was on terms of warm friendship,
and whom sho visited at their
home in North Carolina the day before
her arrest, have not only left
her to shift for herself, but, according
to report, aro endeavoring to put
the entire blame for the crime upon
her. is much commented upon. The
1 failure of members of her own fam
ily to visit her or come to her assistance
is the cause of even greater surprise,
though it is ronierto. that they
',inav not have heon informed of her
plight. She asked that the news be
withheld from them if possible.
Since she started to earn her own
living, first as instructor In a Spnr*
tnnburg school of telegraphy and
I later as a telegraph operaior, she has
'.had no communication, it t3 said,
with her parents. She has brothers.
* however, who It la believed, would
* come to her aid If they were Informed
\ of her predicament* One Is an
' orange grower in Florida and Is said
* to be wealthy.
OR RURAL CREDIT"
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KDKHAIj GOVERNMENT TO IlECOGN1ZK
FARMERS WORTH.
KILL PROVIDE FOR THEM '
ermany, France, Austria and Italy ^
Have Methods of ljendlnj; Money to ^
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Farmers on Short Time?At Fast j,
America ?eems lleady to Help the
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Farmers, C
d
There are 12,000,000 farmers in f
tie United States, and their labors (
leld over $8,4 00,000,000 to the na- ^
tonal wealth each year. They are
oing this on borrowed capital of $0,- t
4 0,000,000 on which $510,000,000 0
iterest is paid annually. That is a
ate of a little better than eight and v
no-half per cent. The United States ^
vnnrlnrl ^ 'I Q T* HOA fl 11 lT u? Art It t\C f /wnl.
tuffs last year, yet the sum barely {
qualed 7 5 per cent, of the interest j
harged on the farmers' debt. c
Take these same farmers and these j
amo figures on production and set ^
hem down in Germany, where they
an borrow money for three and one- N
lalf or four per cent., and they will .
ave almost $250,000,000 in interest ,
barges each year. The United States, ]
!0 years behind the times, is now ,
acing the problem that European (
armors solved before the close of tho ^
ast century. President Wilson rec- t
igni/.es its importance. ,
New measures for trust regulation \
s the task before Congress at pros- \
;nt, but when this is completed the
piestion of rural credits will be tak- ?
m tip and pushed to completion by i
lie administration. It may be a mat- i
;er of a year or two before a law is ]
>assed and the system is working ef- ;
fectivelv, but it is 011 the way. Two
agricultural credit bills, each the remit
of special study of the situation,
iiave already been introduced, 0110 in
the Mouse and 0110 in the Senate.
Rural credit is simply tho ability
nf the farmer to borrow at a reasonable
rate of interest the money he
may need for the cultivation of his
farm. It can be done; Europe has
been showing us this for 2 0 years.
How? Co-operation, plus a gentle
push by the government to set tho
wheels 111 motion, and a little supervision
afterwards.
Germany has tho most highly organized
and perfected agricultural
system in the world. This it what it
ennhloe. tho knisnr's ilnm.nin to <lo*
Support 07,000,000 people and produce
05 per cent, of the foodstuffs
they consume; and this on land centuries
old and which was never rated
any too good. Credit is the founda- '
tion on which this wonderful structure
of food production has been
built.
A German farmer has at his command
two kinds of credit, short term
money on' his personal note?money
loaned him for a few months to cover
the expenses of planting, harvesting,
selling, labor, etc.?and long term
loans on a farm mortgage?money
which he puts into permanent development
and improvements.
Co-operative personal credit is the
secret of the German agricultural
credit system. They call it the Landschaften,
and it is nothing more than
thousands of small agricultural societies.
These, in turn, aro bound together
in regional societies, and tbe^o,
in their turn, in on big, central society.
Give all these societies, big or
little, many of the functions of a bank
and you have the German system in a
nutshell.
Germany is doing a business of
$5,000,000,000 a year in these rural
societies or banks?as much as the
regular commercial banks aro doing
?and it i^ the development of agriculture
duo to the farmers' financial
system that lias enabled the land
tillers of that empire to become the
most scientific agriculturists in the
world.
France has in L.e Credit Agricole a
system similar to that of Germany
In the 20 years existence of this society
it has lent to the farmers $9G,000,000
at interest rate of four per cent.
During this time th?* annual value of
the crops in Franco has increased
$500,000,000. Le Credit Agricole is
composed of 4,000 credit associations
combining 200,000 farmers. And
France has an area less than that of
tho state of Texas.
Austria also has farm credits down
to a science. The 0,000 rural banks
have a membership of 750,000 and
do an annual business of $90,000,000.
Italy has GOO of these banks, and to
date they have loaned $200,000,(700.
Belgium boasts of 450 establishments
with a membership of 28,000 and an
annual business of $5,000,000.
While* foreign nations have been
perfecting methods of protecting the
farmer from high interest rates than
his business will stand, the United
States has done nothing. The result
"bf this throttling of the American
farmer has been the natural one?a
falling off of tho country's agricultural
products.
Compare German's record with that
of the United States. In this country
the number of farm owners is decreasing
and that of farm tenants increasing:
farm mortgage debts are
rising: tho exportation of foodstuffs
Is diminishing and the Imports grad
LOSES HER IDENTITY
*OKGET9 AGE,- PLACE, HIHTII
ANI) ADDRESS.
'hysioians In Kentucky Say She Is
Not Insane, Rut Her Mind Was
Made by Drugs.
Ileart-soro people, mothers espeially,
are visiting or writing to the
Kentucky stato hospital for the inane
at Ilopkinsvlllo, and seeking to
lentify an inmate committed recenty
from Union county. She was
ound just about the time Jesslo Mc'ann,
the New York social worker,
isappoared and it was thought for a
ew days that sho might ho Miss Mc'ann.
Rut, even beforo the body of
liss McCann had been found and
denuded at Coney Island, it was cerain
the girl in Kentucky was anther.
The patient, who is only 2 4 or 25
ears old, physicians, is not Insane,
>ut her mind is a blank. She can't
ecall her name, age, place of birth or
ho town where sho resided last.
>hysicians believe the lapse is due
ither to a blow on the head or to
laving been drugged heavily at some
ime.
Judging from visitors at Hopkins*i
11 o and letters of inqury received
it tho asylum, thousands of families
nust have missed daughters since
December. Nearly every state is rep ocr.titrwl
In hn rnrntncf o fni* In f/Munn.
ion. Tales of sorrow that would
vrlng the hardest hearts are told in
heso letters, which indicate the appallingly
large number of girls who
lavo forsaken their homes or have
peon lured away.
Vet none of these has offered the
slightest clew to the identity of the
young woman who was found in
LJnlontown, Ky., In December, and
has since been unable to give any
account of herself.
The unidentified girl Is five feet
five inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, itwell
proportioned, though of slender
build. She has blue eyes and brown
hair. I lor eyes, head, nose and ears
;iro normal. She talks freely, most I v
in response to questions, and her language
is free of rough or slang)
phrases. She was reared evidently ii
a house of refinement, and recelvet
good school advantages.
She says her name is Alma, tha
sho traveled with a chum Jiamet
Jones, but was deserted. Even thes<
details were obtained by suggestioi
and are not relied upon.
ually increasing; tho movement fron
the country to cities and towns i
augmenting, and tho production o
food supply is approaching steadily t
the point where tho country will sooi
have none to export, and where heav
importation will becomo a neccssit
to supply tho home demand.
The average farmer in tho Unite
States earns about $700 a year?les
than $2 a day. Is it. any wonder tlia
the young men aro rushing to th
cities? There they can make tha
much in eight or nine hours diggin
holes in the ground or handlin
freight. No 12 or 15 hours a day a
the hardest work there is. No seeh
ing to rise to independence through
sodden blanket of 12 per cent, into
est charges.
Tho neglect of tho United State
farmer by tho Federal governmei:
has been tho cause of a constantl
increasing protest. The inferiority c
American agricultural methods t
those of Europe has becomo a cryin
shame, and a few years ago protest
began to take definite shape. Agr
cultural experts soon diagnosed th
fundamental ailment?the bloodsucl
ing system of credits for tho farmc
?and this was made tho point of a
tack.
During tho close of the Taft admit
istration tho farmers' demand f<
r.. i .. ?i?.f ?/x i 4 iw. i 4i,
L (111 I'lUjr UUUUIIAU 1 11 o I o L* 11 t I 11 < I I til
president appointed a commission t
visit Europe and study rural cred
systems. This commission sailed i
1912 and spent almost a year abroai
examining the methods 14 Old Worl
countries use in aiding their tillei
of the soil. The commission returi
ed to the United States eight montl
ago, crammed so full of the subjei
that it has not yet finished its repor
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher (
Florida is the chairman of this con
mission. As the result of its wor
he has already Introduced in Congrei
a rural credit bill which, if passei
will give the United States a syste
patterned after those of other n;
tions, taking, however, only the be
from each.
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Reduces Five Terms.
The governor Tuesday reduced tl
terms of five prisoners serving tern
in the State penitentiary from Ham
ton and Abbeville counties on tl
condition that the men be sent to tl
countv chain ennits
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Throe Deaths from Cold.
Tho cold snap which Wednesdi
descended on New York and sent tl
mercury below tho zero mark, h(
caused three deaths up to a late hoi
Thursday night.
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Unset Diamonds Stolen.
Unset diamonds valued at $8,ft*
were stolen in New York Thursdi
by two men from a carriage whii
stood In front of the store of a W?
Side Jeweller.
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Wilson Sends Names of Weston ?n<l '
Sims td the Senate.
;s
it President Wilson Monday ended
y the long drawnout contest over the
>f South Carolina federal district attor- '
o neyship by sending to the Senate the
g name of Francis II. Weston of Cots
lumbia to fill the former position,
i- and the name of James L. Sims ol
ie Orangeburg to fill tho latter. These
c- nominations will probably be con;r
firmed within the next ten days,
t- Senator Tillman was seen in An
gusta Monday night ami made thi. 1
i~ statement: "While I wanted tin
>r president to nominate Mr. J. Willlan
te Thurmond for the position of district} 2
o attorney, I do not bitterly oppose the c
it nomination of Mr, Weston and I will t
n not oppose tho ratification of ids i
:1, nomination. Mr, Thurmond is from
id my owfl county, Edgefield. Mr. Wes- t
-s ton is from Columbia. x
i- "As regards Mr. Sims, his nomi- j
is nation meets with my approval?I f
ct advocated his nomination, in fact. I (i
t. tliink both of tiie gentlemen nomi- \
-,f nated will lie suitable, but I think i
1. that if Mr. Tliurmond had been nomi- f
^ nated and elected to tho position of \
district attorney he would have made t
j a better man." j
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Tiie Secretary of tiie Navy Speaks lie- i
Y. XI. C. A. Men at Creenville. I
10 When told that tho Lever Agricul- 1
ls tural bill had nassed the Sonata with. 1
p" out a dissenting vote, Secretary of
,e tho Navy said at Green vile recently:
ic "That is the greatest contribution
made by a South Carolinian in many, <
many years. It means a great benefit 1
to the farmers of tho nation." 1
iy In ids speech at the Y. M. G. A.
ie banquet Secretary Daniels elaborated
id somewhat upon the I.ever bill. "South
ur Carolina does not have to go back to
tho days of Calhoun," said ho, "to
number her statesmen. A man who
can draw a measure of such Impor[)ft
tanco as the I.evor bill can work year
ay after year for its success, and finally
ch get it through Congress without a dls:st
senting vote, reflects glory upon his
State." . . ..
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LAN IAM,\VMS MINKS.
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Vviator Discovers Thom at an Klevation
of 1,500 Feet.
Lieut. Towers, a navy aviator, late
Tuesday afternoon demonstrated tho
act that submarine mines planted in
larbors are discoverable from aeroplanes
at an elevation of 1,500 feet.
vivo mines were planted at the enranco
of the harbor at Pensacola,
^la. Tlie aviator, in his daily experinents,
reported the location of the
nines upon his returning to earth.
Later Lieut, Bellinger, without
<nowledge of the report of his fellow
pfheer or the fact that mines had
men placed, ascended to a height of
1,000 feet, at which elevation he not
mly discovered the mines tho second
ime, but traced the chains to each
ndividual anchor.
Navy officers attach great imporanee
to these developments in the
ise of airships and claim that they
ndlcate the importance of aviation
md aviators in future wars. The
liscovery of these submarine mines, it
s explained by aviators and their
brother officers lies in the fact that
it great heights tho reflection upon
he water tends to make It more
;ransparent and of a highly magnifyng
tendency.
Invalid Killed by a Train.
Wandering from her home at Roaioke
,Va., early Friday Miss Blanche
CiOldbcrg, who has been an invalid
Tor many years was killed by a train
when sho attempted to cross the
track.
lloiler llxplosioii Kills Two.
Frank Pennington and Robert Buyer,
of Urban, Ky., were instantly killnrl
nrl,lo.f ?in
v.. ? 1 imu.t n lieu (V iMdlfl 111 tl saw mill
exploded, completely wrecking tho
entire plant.
Prisoners llreak Away.
Nineteen out of 2 5 prisoners In tho
Lee county, Ala., jail Wednesday es
cnped. Charles Shipley, jailer, was
overpowered and tho'keys taken.
Why is it that whenevor a subscriber
who is in arrears settles up ho
always asks that the label on his paper
be changed at once?