The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 03, 1918, Image 1
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COURT OF SESSIONS
COMES TO CLOSE
With Long List of Cases for
Which No Time to
, Try
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BUSINESS MEN HAVE
A CROWDED WEEK
Both Ju&je and Solicitor Expedite
Business of The
' sM > Criminal Court
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Our last is.suc contained a list of
the criminal cases disposed of during'
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of the court. As was stated last
week there were more cases than
b -ever before pending on the dockets.
On the whole it was about the busIicst
time of General Sessions ever
had Conway.
Both the judge and circuit solicitor
expedited the business of the
court so as to make as rapid head
way us possiDie in the disposition of
these cases. Many important crim
v inal cases wore tried but a number
had to be continued until another
time as it was impossible to try
them. There was a crowd of people
in Conway nearly the whole week.
\ Business houses in Conway had a
full and busy week. That they trans
acted more than the usual amount of
business was plain by a visit to any
, of the offices or stores,
k On Thursday morning the case of
k B. Haskill Todd was finished. The
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
, The following cases were then con
* fcinued.
The State vs. D. G. Hinsotu
The State vs. R. G. Todd and Thos
Harder.
* The Slate vs. Steve iDawsey.
The State vs. M.' Fowlwv
The State vs. Garfield Grainger,
, ?t al.
The State v3. John Grainger and
Ernest Grainger.
The State vs. Whittie M. Grainger
t al.
The State vs. Marshall Fowler and
Charity Tyler.
The State vs. Harrison Rowell and
; Sal lie Cook.
The State vs. Enoch Allen and
j Jimmie Allen.
I In the case of The State vs. Ernest
] Jones, charged with murder, the de?
fendant pleaded guilty to mant
slaughter and was sentenced to two
years at hard labor.
George Finklea pleaded guilty to
> manslaughter and was sentenced to
i throe years at hard labor.
The court tried Robert Johnson, a
negro boy for the killing of James
Rav on Sunday before court, the
details of which appeared in this
paper in the last issue. It appeared
from the testimony that no charge
of malice could be proved; and the
negro was found guilty of manslighter
and sent to the reformatory
at Lexington for the term of
two years.
On Friday morning the Court tried
the case of the State vs. Jordan on a
charge of seduction and the defendant
was found guilty by the jury
and sentenced to two years and six
'months at hard labor.
In addidtion to the cases already
continued and so announced on
Thursday, the Solicitor continued
'the following cases on Friday morning
The State vs. Calvin Martin.
The State vs. Joe Hewitt and Gard
iner Hewitt.
The State vs. Ben Hewitt.
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OUVIL' VS. I'UgO OKipjUM*, l?L ttl.
The State vs. Henry Jordan, et al.
The State vs. Maston Adams.
The Court was finally adjourned
about noon on Friday, leaving a num
ber of cases still undisposed of for
the reason that there was no time in
which to try them. r
Solicitor li. M. Gasque spent a
very busy week and devoted his entike
time to the trial of all the case's
he could bring up. Quite a quanK
tity of business was disposed of.
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HE Guarantee to farmers of a miniBi
mum price of $15.50 a hundred
I pounds for hogs during the war is
B recommended by the national agriB
cultural advisory committee.
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SOLICITOR FINDS
OFFICES WELL KEPT
The Circuit Solicitor, Mr. L. M.
Gasque, al'ter the close of the business
of the Court last week, ma?le
the following annual Report showing
tin t the offices of the Clerk of the
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are in first class order:
To Hon. I. W. Bowman, Presiding
Judge, Fall term of Court of General
Sessions for Horry County.
Pursuant to the requirements of
Section 728, Civil Code, I herewith
submit to you my report on the Office
of Clerk of Court and ShorilF fot
Horry County.
I have at different times gone into
the Office of the Clerk of Court and
Shei iff and find it kept in first class
order and these Officers have discharged
their duties in a most efficient
and commendable way.
WAR SITUATIONPRnMi'JF?
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Bulgaria is definitely out of the
war and Turkey virtually cut off
from communication with her allies
and her armies in Palestine almost
annihilated, likely soon will be forced
to sue for a cessation of hostilities
against her.
Meanwhile the entente allied forces
from Belgium to Verdun on six
battle fronts are registering victory
after victory over the Teutonic arms
and the enemy front almost everywhere
is crumbling.
Seeing eventual defeat staring her
in the face through the swift progresses
of the Serbian, Italian, British,
Greek and French troops in the
reclaiming of Serbia and the invasion
of Bulgarian territory, the Bulgais
begged for an armistice, reserving
to themselves no conditions.
Austria in Danger. *
Thus in addition to the isolation of
Turkey the back door to a direct invasion
of Austria-Hunomrv 4<a flunrr
wide open to the allies and doubtless
the time is not far distant when an
advantage to the full will be taken to
the new avenue through which the
enemy can be reached.
Viewing the situation in all its aspects
the darkest days of the war
seemingly are faced by the AustroHungarians.
Although it had been officially announced
that hostilities against the
Hulgarians ceased at noon Monday,
tlie French official communication of
Monday night said French cavalry
had entered Uskub, one of the roost
important communication centers in
Serbia. It is not improbable, that the
French are still hard after the Germans
who are known to have been
fighting with the Bulgarians acting
as rear guards.
On all the sectors under attack
from Belgian Flanders to the region
of Verdun the German front is gradually
bending back under the violence
of the attacks of the British,
American, French and Belgians.
From Cambrai to St. Quentin the
British and Americans again have
delivered successfully hard smashes
against the German strong points all
along the front.
In the region of St. Quentin, where
the Americans are fighting with the
British, the old Hindenburg line has
been cut and penetrated to a depth of
three miles over a front of eight
miles.
In Champagne the French troop;
west of the Argonne forest everywhere
are pressing ahead.
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i 111; uiiivci nny ul oi'uiii v^uroiutit
opened last week.
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REGISTRATION FOR HORRY.
The number of men who registered
in Horry County on September
12th, was Three Thousand and
Twenty-Seven. In all of these two
were Aliens, and Six Hundred and
Eighteen were negroes, and the balance
of Two Thousand, Four Hundred
and Nine were white men. The
total number of men who registered
in Sbuth Carolina, the grand total,
was bne Hundred Fifty-Five Thouand,
Six Hundred and Eighty-Eight
were negroes, Four Hundred and
Ninety-Four were Aliens and Three
Hundred and Nineteen declarant
Aliens, and the balance of EightyOne
Thousand One Hundred and
Forty-Four were whites.
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"""W- THCTa'DAT.
OVER $^00^000.00
TO FOtjRTl
Horry County's Allotment $5C
For October 12th Witfi IV
can Soldier Fr
Up to time of tfoing to press the
citizens of Horry , County whose
names appear below have subscribed
over three hundred thousand dollars
to the Fourth Liberty Loan. This
leaves two hundred thousand to be
subscribed to secure our allotment of
five hundred thousand dollars. We
have less than three weeks in which
to secure the remainder, and we appeal
to the people of the County to
get their subscriptions in as fast as
possible and get their names on the
( next list which will appear in the
papers next week.
We expect to have in Conway on
Saturday, October 12th, a big band
with good speakers, including a
wounded American soldier returned
from the front, and at that time we
want to finish our allotment. But
don't wait till then to get in your
subscription. Give it to any bank in
the County, and let your name be on
next week's list.
Our men at the front have the
Germans on the mn. Lets back
them to the limit, and get the boys
back home.
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i ne lonowing are suuscripuuii.s
made to this date:
J. B. Skipper $ 50.00
M. G. Anderson 1,000,00
Waterman M. Booth 100.00
J. Morgan Lewis 1,000.00
John Coles 200.00
H. H. Woodward 2,000.00
E. S. C. Baker 50.00
A. J. Baker 50.00
Max Schwartz 50.00
I? H. Burroughs 200.00
S. F. Bourne 100.00
A. J. Richardson 200.00-v.
J. L. Chestnut 1,000.00
J. W. Spark.' lOOfiOui,
J. T. Mishoe , 500.00
Rev. D. L. Hill 100.00 ,
fcev. E. L. McCoy 200.00
Mrs. K. S. C. Baker 50.00
Miss Alma Moore 50.00
F. G. Holliday 1,000.00
D. G. Spivey 2,000.00
D. H. Russ 100.00
Rev. Paul T. Wood 100.00
L. R. Ambrose 100.00
F. C. Todd 500.00
A. M. Sutherland 200.00
Conway Lumber Co's
Store 500.00
Geo. J. Holliclay 5,000.00
Rev. J. M. Lemmon 3 00.00
R. VV. Lane 100.00
Mrs. Effie T. Edgerton 1,000.00
Burroughs & Collins Co 80,000.00
Ohas. ,1. Epps 750.00
A. C. Thompson 15,000.00
W. A. Freeman 5,000.00
E. J. Sherwood 1,000.00
D. V. Richardson 20.000.00
S. P. Hawes 2,000.00
F. A. Burroughs 1,000.00
V. F. Piatt 1,000.00
L. D. Magrath 500.00
F. Marvin Floyd 500.00
Conway Telephone Co. 250.00
One Price Shoe Store 1,000.00
Hal L. Buck 3,000.00
C. H. Snider 250.00
A. W. Barrett 1,000.00
C. A. Cohen 200.00
Henry B. Baker 500.00
Poonles National Bank 21.000.00
D. A. Spivey 4,000.00
Baptist Baraca Class 100.00
NO OTHER TAKES ITS PLACE
Editor Herald:
You will find inclosed check for
$:;.00, which you will apply on my
subscription to the Horry Herald.
This will pay up my back dues and
also pay in advance for the paper up
to January 14th, 1921. Please send
receipt for same and also change
date on label of my paper from
1-14-18 to 1-14-21. Guess I am one
among the oldest of your subscribers.
Think I have been a continual
subscriber to the Horry Herald for
about 2T) years. My subscription
dates back to the time when the pa
W.? If. TO lir xr
pvi was p.ui/usucu uy wr, j\#, n. Piuiley
which as you know has been
many years ago. Think during- this
time the Herald has changed hands
a few times and perhaps has been
published and sent out under different
names. There has been many
improvements made in the paper dur
L, OCTOBER 3.1918."
SUBSCRIBED
H LIBERTY LOAN
10.000 no?n:~ D-M- ot_ ? -- J
? -.ww?uig ixany i innnea j
larine Band and Ameriom
the Front.
Baptist Sunday School 100.00
D. A. Spivey (for family) 300.00
Peoples Bldge & Loan 500.00
Conway Iron Works 500.00
Dr. (J. I. Lewis 1,500.00
W. C. Adams 2.000.00
Spivey Mercantile Co. 2,000.00
Dr. C. Medley 200.00
W. C. Pitts 100.00
C. It. Scarborough 150.00
Conway Guards 100.00
A. K. Goldfinch 500.00
Mrs. J. A. McDermoot 2,000.00
W. B. King 1,000.00
G. 1?. Jenkins 12,000.00
O. F. Booth 100.00
W. W. Uuss 4,000.00
.W. F. Henderson 1,000.00 |
Geo. L. Marsh 100.00 i
Conway Lumber Co. 10.000.00
Conway Savings Bank 20,000.00
Conway National Bank 20.000.00
J. B. McMillan 100.00
W. B. Chestnut 1,000.00
Conway Drug Co. 500.00
Conway Moth, church 100.00
Conway Moth, church 1,500.00
H. VV. Ambrose . 2.000.00
Conway Hdw. Co. 1,000.00
F.i W. Henderson 200.00
Miss Mozelia Hedley 50.00
Mrs. Sara J. Clardy 100.00
J. C. Spivey 500.00
Kingston Furniture Co 500.00
J. A. McDermott 8.000.00
T. W. Booth 100.00
Miss Ella Sessions 50.00
J. O. Cartrette 50.00
A. E. Wait 200.00
j . JVlrs. Sarah K. Wait 300.00
i A. T. Collins 2,500.00
B. G. Collins 2,500.00
J. J. Williams 5,000.00
R. B. Scarborough 2,000.00
w. C. Ma*chiittiey 500.00
o i; IK Mawbinney 50.00
. Margaret Mawhinney 50.00
VIri .Tano \f owrK ?*??%??? rtA
- VI V>?uv uinniiiuiicjf W.W
C. B. Dusenbury 100.00
Mrs. C. B. Dusenbury 100.00
Miss Sadie Goldfinch 50.00
Mrs. W. T. Goldfinch 50.00
Miss Maye Goldfinch 50.00
N. Allsbrook 500.00
J. B. Cox 500.00
A. H. Long 1,000.00
W. A. Stilley 2,000.00
W. L. Richardson 500.00
G. F. Murrell 1.000.00
J. P. .Derham 1.000.00
Hugh B. Layton 50.00
A. M. McNeill 200.00
G. W. Cannon 50.00
Miss Mary Oliver 50.00
L. E. Alford 50.00
S. S. Sarvis, Jr. 50.00
I W. F. Alexander 1,000.00
Mrs. Sophie M. Alexander 500.00
| Geo. E. Byrd 500.00 i
, J no. P. Floyd 100.00
I N. E. Armstrong 100.00
Miss Anna B. McCaskill 50.00
i S. H. Brown 1,000.00
W. E. Graham 1.000.00
I Evan Graham 2,000.00
W. I. Graham 100.00
Miss Winnie Holliday 100.00
Oliver J. Johnson 50.00
Total $307,600.00
Note:?Those who secure subscriptions
are urged to send them in
promptly each day so they can be
reported to headquarters.
ing this time and think it is now one
of the best County papers that can
be had for the money it costs. It :s
always a welcome visitor in our
home. We take several other papers
besides the Herald but none of them
seem to fill the place of the Herald.
Wishing for you and the Herald
much success, I am,
Yours very truly,
?G. W. HARDEE.
R. F. D. No. 3, Loris, S. C.
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REGISTRATION FOR TOWN
ELECTION.
The book of registration for the
general town election on Dec. 16,
1018, for the election of Mayor and
six Wardens is' hereby ordered open
from Sept. 4 to Dec. 3, 1918, and Mr.
L. H. Burroughs appointed as Supervisor
of Registration for same.
C. H. Snider, J. A. McDermott,
Clerk. Mayor.
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INFLUENZA APPEARS ll
IN THIS COUNTY
It was reported in Conway yester- |
day that John Cartrette had come
home from The Citadel in Charleston
and was ill at his home in this county
suffering from a case of the
dreaded influenza now prevalent,
mostly at the army cantonments, but
spreading to the civilian population
in many sections of the country,
especially in the State of Massachusetts.
A son of G. J. Watts died from this
disease in a distant city a few days
ago and his remains were expected
o pass through hero on their way
homo for burial. Several other cases
a.i*e sahl to he in this county, but at
last accounts there were no eases in
Coftv. ay.
jonn tjarirotto was rep Mod to bevery
sick.
LOfflSPHYaHAM1'
VOLUNTEERS SERVICES
The Stale Executive Committee
arid representatives from the counties
all over South Carolina, from the
Volunteer Medical Corps of South
Carolina, met in Columbia, a few
days ago to consider the reponses
from volunteers in answer to the
urgent call sent out for medical men
to help handle the influenza epidemic
in any part of the State where an
out-break might be or already was
reported. Dr. H. H. Burroughs went
as the representative from this county.
Dr. J. D. Thomas, of Ix>ris, had
answered the call as a volunteer and
he was accepted for this emergency
work and will be sent wherever skilled
attention may be needed and is
not otherwise supplied. Dr. Thomas
stands high in his profession and deserves
all honor for offering his services
in this emergency.
f)r. Huger Richardson also offered
as a volunteer. He has a large prac
tice, and the committee thought, best
that hie should remain at his post of
duty at home as if both physicians
had been taken, that section would
have been short of doctors.
MARINEBAND TO
BE HERE ON OCT. 12
Don't fail to subscribe to the
Fourth Liberty Loan because you
haven't got the ready money. Pay
10 per cent, of your subscription,
and either bank in Conway will loan
you the money at 0 per cent, interest
to carry the balance. Read the lis',
published in today's paper, look at
the amounts these people have subscribed,
and get your name on the
list.
Come to Conway on Saturday, October
12th. The Marine band will
play. An American soldier returned
from the front wounded, and other
speakers will be present.
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AIRMAN MEETS DEATH
Lieut. Louis K. Godman, aviator
from Camp Jackson, lost his life
when the machine in which he was
bombing Columbia with appeals to
purchase Liberty bonds crashed to
earth in an alley just off Main
Street, last. Saturday.
Lieut. Roy Thomas,* aerial observei,
was painfully, though not seriously,
injured in the fall.
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FIRST PROSECUTION.
C. W. Miller, Chief Clerk of the ,
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the i
State Board of Health, brought suit
against Dr. B. K. H. Kreps of Columbia,
for failure to report births
attended by him within the prescribed
ten days as specified by State
statute.
Dr. Kreps was prosecuted on four
counts, to which he pleaded guilty.
Magistrate Coker, before whom the
i
rase was brought, imposed a fine of |
$25 in each of the four cases.
This was the first prosecution of
fhe Bureau. For this reason, Dr.
the Bureau. For this reason, Dr.
James A. Hayne, State Health Officer,
requested that sentence be suspended.
Mr. Miller emphasizes that prosecutions
will be brought in ail cases
coming to his attention, and upon
conviction, no further suspension of'
rontence will be recommended. I
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MURREL-WATTS CASE
RESULTS IN MISTRIAL
Case of Interest Takes up
About Two Days of
Court
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DETAILS ARE TOLD
BY NUMEROUS WITNESSES
Said That Jury Stood Ten for
Acquital and Two for
Conviction
The ease that attracted most at?
ntion at the C nirt last week was
that of the charge of homicide
."gainst A. C. Murrcll for the killing
"i .iv >i n. >?vuis aooui nine months
ago. This ease had been continued
from the last term. Among the attorneys
representing the State was
the firm of Sehulken & Toon, of
Whiteville, N. C., and Hon. E. J.
Sherwood, of the Conway bar. The
case was taken up by the Court on
Wednesday, not very late In the day,
and was not concluded until a late
hour on Thursday night, when the
jury, who had been locked in their
room for several hours, came out
and announced that they could not
agree. The Court declared a mistrial
in the case and it will be tried
again at a future term of the Court.
The Jury empanelled to try the
case was as follows: L. V. Todd, J.
D. Shelley, Boyd Ford, A. H. Benson,
H. B. Cribb, Herbert L. Bellamy,
John Causey, M. Martin, L. B.
Suggs, J. F. Milligan, B. K. Doyle,
and W. J. Anderson.
The State used the following witnesses:
J. W. Lewis, A. J. Long, Mra
L, J. Watts, Tom Todd, Dr. B. L.
Scarborough, Mi's. Ida Thompson,
E. H. McNeill, and Levi Watts, Jr.,
(a nephexv of the Deceased).
At the close of the testimony for
the State the defendant put up the
following witnesses in his behalf,
after testifying himself, and relating
in detail, the fact and circumstances
which surrounded the killing:
A. J. Baker, Garland Murrell,
Kelly Tompkins, Harry Tharp, B. H.
Wright, John Capps, A. M. Martin,
Martin Brock and Thomas Wright.
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showed that there had been bad feelings
between the deceased and the
defendant for a number of years,
probably as long- as ten or fifteen
years. Several of the defendant's
witnesses above named were put on
the stand to testify to a number of
threats which had been made by the
deceased at times previous to his
d^ath. On the day of the trouble the
defendant was on a lot of land which
had been in dispute between the two
men and they had had the matter in
Court. The defendant had erected a
house on this land, and some window
frames had been moved from the
house and thrown into a pond; it appears
that some question about these
window frames brought on the difficulty
which resulted in a fight between
the two men, and the deceased
got the worst of it. He lingered for
several days, Sometimes in a half
dazed condition and was finally taken
to a Hospital where he died following
an operation. The operation
disclosed a blood-clot on the brain,
which was thought to have been
caused by the injuries he received
in the fight. There was a small nxr?
which one of the young Murrell boys
had, which figured in the case.
The deceased was survived by several
brothers, all of whom attended
the trial ,of the case.
It has been stated that the jury
stood ten for acquitting- the defendnnd
and two stood out for conviction.
The attorneys representing the
defense wore Hon., K. B.. Scarborough,
T. B. Lewis, and Hoyt McMillan.
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GERMAN VESSaS
Santiago, Chile.?The Chilean government
last Thursday ordered the
naval authorities to occupy with arm
ed forces all the interned German
ships in Chilean harbors.
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