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VWHHBHMrt-upw ? wnnrnmiiMi ? mmzmmmmm mi \ Vol. xxiii JESSE G. WALKER IS WANTED IN OKLAHOMA His History Reads More and More Like Strangest Fiction IDENTIFIED BY ARMY MAN Circumstances Stranger Than Fiction Form Latest Devei/ opment in Case of Man I Who Killed Sheriff i s Stanland. Fiction never framed a more pecuJ liar series of circumstances than those of the past few days whereby fate ap- i pears to have fixed the fact that Jesse I C. Walker, now in jail at Southport,! f charged with the murder of Sheriff! Jackson Stanland, of Brunswick coun- j v ty, in the fall aof 1008, and Paul Wil-: | liams, wanted by the authorities in j Oklahoma, where he escaped from the ! | State prison in 1912 after serving a Ffew years of a 80-year sentence for mkilling a deputy sheriff there in the ' .summer of 1909, are one and the same : I; man. Six years ago Dr. J. J. Johnson was j Ihu practicing physician in Muskogee" w'county, Oklahoma. In May or June of Ij 1909 he was summoned to treat the! P/wounds of a man named Paul Wil- j 'flbiams ,who when two oflieers had :?t - Attempted to place him under arrest, jbrhad killed one, a deputy sheriff, and ElVad been wounded himself by the othDr. Johnson appeared as a State's witness in the trial and Williams was lW -"onvicted to serve 30 years in the OkEaWioma State prison for manslaughter! iff Date r !)) . Johnson enlisted in the! w.rmy, and as a surgeon, was attached Hy> the hospital corps at Galveston, K (Vxas. A short time ago he was or- I H ered transferred to the mine planter . leneral W. T. Frank now stationed at Rydrt Caswell. B\On his way to Wilmington, from' Hvhich point he was to take the train J iW's C?.. l.O UV/UUIJA/I t, OUI ^UUII tJWUIIMMI, I'llRmy morning read in The Star a brief Uervjew with Sherilf J. E. Johnson, ' Brunswick county, telling of information received by the Sheriff and ^f^licating that Walker was wanted in ^W^ahoma, under the name of Paul ^ ','illiams, for killing an officer there Id later escaping from the State |Mjison. ^ The Star's story was the first intiP||V\tion that Surgeon Johnson had that Mkd Williams, whose wounds he had ! Brassed and against whom he had tes^ fed six years ago, had escaped from ^HT> Oklahoma prison. He became in^H|ested in the matter, and when, the ^V/n of co-incidents still holding good, arrived here, boarded the train for ^^ Uhport and was introduced by Rev. ^^mj\ Britt, another passenger on the ^Hpn, to sheriff Robinson, also returnto Southport on the same train, ^^V^'old the sherilf all he knew of the ' ^^ftjliams case. On arrival at South-1 ^^ t the surgeon accompanied Sheriff f^Hrh'nson to the jail, saw Walker and ^^Hijtified him as the same man whose ^^Bnds he had treated in Oklahoma ^^Vycars ago. Ing to corroborate the story the army officer was the arrie last week of a letter from Dick, of the Oklahoma state ;o Sheriff S. P. Cowan, encloslotograph and description of illiams. local officers, who arrested here Sunday March 7, say the iph sent by Warden Dick is the same man they arrested 1 in jail in Wilmington until removed to Southport. ;unshot wounds on Walker's :cording to the press corres3 at Southport, are identical >se described by Surgeon John also mentioned in the circular Sheriff Cowan by Warden Dick er's letter is as follows: Sir: Through McGilvray's e Ageney; of Hattiesburg, have been informed that you your jail Paul Williams, our ). He tells us that you have n a charge of murder commitr near Southport, and that he eg under the name of Jesse I am enclosing, herewith, his rid description and if he is i and the evidence there isn't nough to convict him be sure fy us and wo will gladly pay I of $50 for delivery to an f this institution. Please keep d about this matter and if we >f any service to you, com>r, it will be remembered, is ng hold in jail at Soulhport > May term of Superior Oour jjjf rjr<ammm?mmmmmmjmmmn mtt m aoii ?i??WW? u?wmmmwmmm ilOHRV C( MMMHMBMflMBmaMMNHMHBHMnRVyMHMWMMMtlMK'tMa in Pender county, to which county his case was ordered removed by Jud^e M II. Justice in Superior Court at South port. Attorney for Walker Talks. wiiuani .J. Bellamy, usq,, or Wilmington, of counsel for Walker, when asked as to the latest developments in the case of the young man, said that from reliable sources he was informed and believes that Walker has never been in the State of Oklahoma and that much of the stories concerning Walker's movements in various parts of the United States is pure tiction. He said that Walker', in Oklahoma is but one of the many "manufactured facts" of Walker's political and personal enemies in Brunswick county to influence public opinion against the young man, all of which are consistently in accord with the enmity, hatred, malice and hardness heart that so thoroughly characterizes the conduct of certain political prominent citizens of Brunswick county to cause Judge Justice recently to preemptorily remove the case to another county. "There," said Mr. Bellamy, "Walker i n Willi hie: fftinmol'c \7V?\t?e f i'pn from prejudice, venom, hatred and hardness of heart can be tried fairly, impartially and justly, by jurors who will be governed not by prejudice and passion, but by the evidence and the law of the land." B. T. BEAT Y IS KILLED BY NEGRO While at Work in a Lumber Plant Last Thursday at Goldsboro, N. C. SHERIFF HAS THE NEGRO The Killing- Followed Some Hot Words Which Pessed Between the Parties About Running' a Machine. Relatives of the dead received news here last Friday of the murder of B. T. Beaty by a negro at Goldsboro on Thursday, the day before. Beaty was a son of VV. S. Beaty, late of this coun ty, now deceased. He resided near Conway and his son B. T. Beaty left here about four years ago to accept a position in North Carolina. The particulars of the kelling are given in a news dispatch appearing in the Wilmington Star last week as follows: Goldsboro, N. C., March 18.?There was a shocking murder perpetrated at Mt. Olive this morning shortly after d o'clock in the planing department of the Enterprise Lumber Co., plant at that place . A white man by the name of B. T. Beaty, from Bolton, N. C., below Wilmington, and a negro named Isadore Best, 18 years old, of Mt. Olive, had a wordy controversy as to which one should operate a machine when the mill started up this morning Beaty being the first at the machine when the steam was turned on. Other workers on the floor could not hear what words passed between the two on account of the noise of the machinery, but soon Best disappeared 1 ----li-l- 1- I- 1 onwiny ictui iicu wiui ins snovgun ana without warning and before anyone could reach him and disarm him, fired both barrels at Beaty standing at the machine, killing him almost instantly. Best was immediately apprehended and Sheriff Edwards hurried from this city to the scene, and now has Best in jail here. Buckley Brothers Back. Last week Messrs. Buckley Brothers, partners in the restaurant business in Conway once before, came to Conway and rented the small build ing on 3rd Avenue immediately behind the town hall, and are fitting this up for a first-class restaurant where lunches will ba served at all times. Having been in the restaurant business here before and pleasing a large number of customers, at the re-1 quest of several of their friends they decided to engage again in the business at Conway, The place is being thoroughly overhauled and repainted both inside and out and they will spare no effort to make their place very nice and inviting to their customers. When here before they were located in the Masonic building on the east side of the Main Street, the same place that is now occupied by Mrs. B. F. Skipper. They have both had a long experience in both the lunch counter, restaurant and hotel business. L. T. Thompson of Nixonville was in Conway on business one day las', week. corvrv and hku pkoi'ik. i'iic DNWAY, S.'"C., THURSDAY, Ml PROGRAM BOOSTE EDUCATIO Thu rscb Afternoon 3:15 Address by Hon. R, H. Scarbi 3:15 Concert by the LaDell Conct 4:15 .Lecture, "Description of. Pai Jer. Evening 8:15 Lecture, "I'ncle Sam and Am 0:00 .Grand Concert hy tlie LaDell CITIZEN Fridi Aftcrnoon 3:15 Address by Congressman J. 3:15 Forty-live Minutes of fun f< Mysterious Morton, presenting magica 1:30 Humorous Lecture on "Grun' nity" by Dr. H. W. Sears. Evening 8:15 Half hour Magic with Hal M 8:15 Lecture "More Taffy less Ep Dr. II. W. Sears. AG RI CELT I C..4.. ... Oct IUII Afternoon 3:15 Addresss by Hon. E. J. Wats 3:15 Concert by the Strollers 51 a 4:15 Entertainment by Ellsworth Evening 8:15 Melody of impersonations, (J stead 9:00 Grand Concert by Strollers ! Season tickets good for all events, ii evening performances, Adults $1.50; C Horry Drug Co. SERIOUS CARGE AGAINST NAPIER Y. IV!. C. A Secretary is Arresteel ASSAULT IS ALLEGED Came to South Carolina to Organize Industrial Department at Rion. Wirmsboro, March 1H.?W. C. Napier, secretary and treasurer of the Y M. C. A. at Rion, a community eight miles south of Winnsboro, was arrested here today on a warrant sworn out before Magistrate Tom Lewis charging Napier with assaulting an Italan girl between 5 and 6 years of age. The crime was alleged to have been perpetrated yc_toiday, the information being revealed to the officers today about 4 o'clock. An automobile was secured and Napier was arrested oil the outskirts of the town. The Rion settlement was very much excited over the affair. William C. Napier came to South Carolina last spring to organize at Rion, among the employes of the winnsDoro uranite Corporation, a branch of the industrial department of the Y. M. C. A. The building erect ed for the Y. M. C. A. by the corporation was formally opened December 15, last. Mr. Napier was educated at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, and at the New York Y. M. C. A. training school. He came to Rion from the East Side branch of the association in New York. Perry A. Fellows, superintendent of the quarries is chairman of the local board in charge of the Rion Y. M. C. A. Felix Solana is vice chairman, Albert C. Moni is recording secretary and William B. Douglas is treasurer. The other members of the board are: Marcus B. Boulware, who was graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1914; Robert N. Allen, Pasqualiano Frebrezio and Marion A. | Green. The Rion community comprises a number of Italian families, most of the men heintr stnnp flitters nn/l dressers. i Fire Alarm. A slight blaze last Monday at the \ residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. A. , Burbage, caused an alarm of fire to . be made, and there was some excite- < ment until it was extinguished. The ] fire company responded quickly but i as it happened the flames had not gained any headway and was put out i in a few minutes. The fire was evi- i dently the result of a spark catching l a shingle on the roof. ? ? Several days last week were as l bitterly cold as any we had in Ihe \ depth of Winter. I sr. I, A ST. NOW AND l'O KI.VKK." \RCH 2 5TH, 1915 ilmup NAL DAY i.v arouxh ?rt Company nama and Imposition."?l)r. Win Ralorican Ideals" by Dr. Win. Kadcr. Concert Company. S DAY ay W. Kaj>sdale. >r children and f*ro\\ n-ups w ith (he 1 illusions. iblers" or "Tlu* Manualizcd Commulorton itaphy" or "The Evils of Worry" by fRAL DAY day >011, Commissioner of Agriculture le Quartette 1*1 A - I * i luinsifaa, inipersonaior. rave and Gay, by Ellsworth l^lu 111 Male Quartette. icluding three afternoons and three hi Id's $1.00. Tickets now on sale at GUNBOAT BATTLES WITH A SUBMARINE The Passengers Aboard Liner Reaching New York Saw It THINKS SUBMARINE SUNK Steamer Lapland, Reaching N. Y., Brings News of InterestBattle Outside Liverpool Harbor. New York, March 20.?Passengers aboard the British steamer Lapland which reached here today from Liverpool witnessed a battle in thelrish channel between a British torpedo boat which escorted the Lapland and a German submarine. The Lapland, crowding on all steam, fled in a zigzag line from the combatants. The Lapland joined her escort just outside Liverpool harbor. They were not far from Liverpool when the torpedo boat opened fire The raider fired a torpedo at another vessel. Passengers aboard the Lapland watched the progress of the missle through the water and say it went wide of its target. No torpedo was discharged at the Lapland as far as could be learned. Meantime the torpedo boat's guns had quickened their fire. The Lapland's captain ordered full speed ahead. To accord the submarine a poor target, the Lapland was steered at intervals abruptly to port and to starboard. The steamer soon left the com batants far behind. The Lapland carried 113 passengers. Thinks Submarine Sunk The submarine was sunk by the torpedo boat in the opinion of Captain Bradshaw of the Lapland. A widening circle of oil on the water, the captain said, told of the submarine's fate. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a passenger son of the American ambassador to Turkey, said first warning of the submarine came when the torpedo boat which had been in the rear of the Lapland overhauled the steamer at full speed and inquired if Captain Bradshaw had seen a submarine. He had not, and the warship fell back. When she was 1,000 yards behind the steamer, she started firing in the [lirection of the Lapland. Her guns spoke in quick succession and the shots fell so close to the Lapland's port side that the spray from jets of water they raised almost touched her. Then the water became oil covered rery near the Lapland. Meantime Lhc steamer sped ahead. The torpedo boat remained near the oil spot. A. B. Garran visited Pee Dee on business last week. Ho was buying materials for the new hotel, the. erection of which has already begun. TODDVILLK TIDINGS. Miss Maggie Oliver spent Sunday in town. Miss Maud Long visited relatives here last week. Miss Ethel Harper of Plantersville who has horn tho charming guest of Miss Josio Harper for the past two weeks, returned to her home last M <n day. Quite a number of prominent people from this section attended the closing exercises of Oak Grove school last Friday night, March 19th. The school house was beautifully decorated for the occasion and baout "00 people were present to witness the exercises. The program was very attractive and the children did their parts well, which shows that they had been well trained. Miss Maggie Oliver, the teacher, was congratulated on ev- i cry hand for the successful term of school she had taught and for the en-1 tertainment which was carried out j without a "hitch" from start to finish. An Fpworth League was organised at Union Church last Sunday with the fnllAu-inir t\ o l/i tf I wf IT C! II..... I I v/l IV M 111^ V/ I I IV VI O . VI/-. U . t 1 Cl I |;?'l ? Pres., A. N. Hardee, V.-Pres., Miss Josie Harper, See., Miss Ciraee Hase!den, Trcas., and M. E. Dusenbuiy, Cor Sec. "Forecast..'' THREE DAY FESTIVAL TO BE BIG TIME Three Big Days for General Good and Enjoyment in Particular RAGSDALE IS TO SPEAK Arrangements Have Been Made A _ HIT _ 1 11. tTTl 1 mi io ivitiivc uie wnoie xnree Days Highly Enjoyable to Everybody Who Will Attend. Three biff (lays of "boosting'" mixed with the better class of entertainment have been arranged by the "boosters" club and Chautauqua, to come ofT at the Burroughs School Auditorium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March, 25th, 2(>th and 27th. The festival emmittee is composed of J. A. Norton, Power W. Bethea, W. Percy Hardwicke, M. C. Anderson, E. L. Mcvt Mr Mr..11 i-? n 1 v_/u,v, i*i. vv. vvitii, ivuui. d. waruorough, A. C. Thompson, J. B. Cox, J. T Mi shoo, H. L. Scarborough and H. W. Ambrose. These men are all well known to the people of Horry county. That they will make this gathering all that it should be the people of the county may rest assured. The fact that they are behind it should stand as proof that it will be money well spent for the people to buy tickets now and attend each of the attracttions. By reference to the program which is printed elsewhere, it will be seen that some of the best talent in the State has been engaged to address the people on important questions of the day. On Thursday, which is Educational Day, there will be an address by Hon. R. B. Scarborough; then on Friday, which is Citizens Day, Hon. J. W. Rags dale, congressman from this district, will deliver an address; and on Saturday, which is Agricultural day, the farmers and other people as well may expect to hear a good talk from Commissioner E. J. Watson. All arrangements had been made at last accounts to assure the presence of these three speakers. Besides these there will be other attractions as mentioned in the program and each of these in itself will be worth the price of admission. Season tickets have been on sale for some time and a large number were sold. Tickets for single performances are on sale now at the store of the Horry Drug Co. Be sure to read the program appearing elsewhere in the paper and be on hand to see these attractions. OBITUARY. On the 15th day of August the death angel visited the home of W. N. Chestnut and took from him his loving wife, Armatha, at the age of 28 years. 2She loaves a husband, four children, three boys and one girl, a father, mother, three brothers, three sisters to mourn her loss. She was a loving wife, a kind mother and an obedient child. She joined the Baptist church at Bethleham early in life and was happily converted and we are satisfied that our loss is her eternal gain. Father and Mother. Civil court next Monday. No. 49. REVENUE OFFICIALS TAKE ILLICIT STILL The Operators of the Still Left Quickly and Running Tiirv adit ni n ncccMncoc I f I I- I HI1L VJ L. L/ W I I I? I J L/L.IIO Tlie Place Was Visited Several Weeks Ago arid Signs of Still ing Found.?This Time the Still Was Taken. Revenue officers, T. H. Gore and Ic. F. Jenkins, accompanied by Sheriff J. A. Lewis and deputy W. J. Johnson, left here one day last week and made a raid on an illicit whiskey still which they had information was being operated in Little River township in a dense and little frequented place near the State line. This particular "still" *J 1 1 A 1 _ 1 was visucu oy meso omciais severui weeks ago, but the operators of the still had been warned in some way that the officers were coming' and they moved the still, leaving only a few barrels of "sour mash" with which they intended to run oil* a large charge. The officers made a close search for the still but they had to come off without it. Last week they had better luck. They found the still in its hiding place and brought it to Conway. They also tried to slip up on the men who were running it but while the men were sharp enough to elude the officials they did not have time to move the still this time. When last seen by the officials, the men were running, and though the otlieers fired at them, they failed to hit the mark. The names of the men who operated the still are Spencer and Babe Bozeman. They are two of the crowd who shot up the revenue late last year after the officers had arrested some of their number. The still proved at last to be a very crude affair. It was exhibited on Main street the afternoon the officers arrived here with it. LARGE BRICK WAREHOUSE. The Contract Awarded and the Work Begins at Once by H. 1*. Little. On last Friday evening those interested in the new Tobacco Warehouse, which has already been mentioned im these columns, met and H. P. Little, contractor, was awarded the contract to erect at once a large and substantial Brick Warehouse, 150 feet long, by lid feet wide. This is in accordance with what had been predicted for some time, as to the growth of Conway, and what she will eventually be. Mr W Percy Hardwicke, who is Pres ident of the new organization, chartered as Planters Tobacco & Storage Warehouse Company, is a yoi...g man of sterling worth and naturally he sees the future of Horry County, and does not hesitate to induce his friends to invest their money in anything that is for the good of the town and the a ii'Aiini"il I i' Wa n i*n c >-1 1 < I iiiiliioJ I'V. V *V ^VIIVI , ?? v **-? V ^,U?VI 1 I I\ IV V VI that these improvements are going on. Capt. J. H. Bowles, who will be General Manager, is a man who docs not need any introduction to any of the people, for doubtless you have not forgotten that when he took hold of the tobacco situation in Conway, it was less than it is now. We congratulate these gentlemen on the step they have taken and trust they will enjoy all of the business they anticipate and that in the end it will be for the good of the people as well as to Conway, and themselves. Death of W. H. Hardee. A short dispatch from Portsmouth, Va., appearing in the daily papers last Sunday stated that a Conway man, W. H. Hardee, had been killed by an automobile at that place. Telegrams confirmed the sad news. None of the particulars up to a late hour had been obtained, but it was under stood that the remains would be shipped through Loris, and thence to his home in Simpson Creek. He formerly resided at Conway having been engaged here last Summer in carpenter's work. Later on he accepted a position with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., and went to Portsmouth, Va. in that position. He is survived hy his wife and children. OBITUARY. On the 19th day of August, 1913, the death angel visited the home of J. R. Anderson and claimed for its own the dear father at the age of 29 years. He was a loving husband and a kind father. He leaves a wife, one boy, one girl, a father, mother, three brothers, three sisters and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Father and Mother.