The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 09, 1922, Image 2
NATHANLEWISI
COMES TO TRIAL
Charged With Killing Memorv
Booth, Using an Ax as
Weapon
MANY WITNESSES SWEAR
^Defendant Goes on Stand in
Own Behalf--Widow of
Deceased Testifies
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The case of the State against
Nathan E. Lewis on the charge 01
.homicide Whs tried on Tuesday and
"Wednesday of this week.
Th case was called almost the first
thing on Tuesday morning. The State
"was represented by Solicitor L. M.
dasque, and the firm of Sherwood
& McMillan, and the defendant b>
non. k. ts. Scarborough ami H. H.
^Woodward.
It took but a short time to cm
panel the jury. Each of them was
sworn on the voir dire, as it is
termed concerning tin4 relationship ]
to the parties in the case, and his
willingness to give defendant a fair
"nd 'mpartial trial, and as to his
avinr; expressed or formed in his
lir.d any opinion regarding the ca<e. (
'w V. Ward, of Wanipee, a merchant
nd farmer, was appointed by the i
jiHlgo as foreman of the jury.
The State <
T? e State had Dr. 11. H. Bur- <
roughs sworn, lie gave about the
same testimony as he did at the <
coroner's inquest. It was the same J
in substance. On cross examination
he stated that tlie wound on .Memory <
Booth's leg, from the infection of '
which the ueceascd came to his death,
could not have been inflicted upon
the deceased except by a man immediately
in the rear of Booth at 1
the time, or else immediately in front
of hin,. He said that no precautions
had been taken when Booth came to
his hospital to prevent infection of |1
the wound, but that he immediately i
took the usual course and applied tlie J
usual treatment. He also said that)1
Booth was under the influence of :
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wiiiMvfy wueii nc was taiccn to the
hospital. Dr. Burroughs ha<l in the
court room a human skeleton aiuM
on this he showed the exact position
of the wound on the outside of the!
left lejr, which he said had cut both|'
bones of the limb and a part of the
muscle, and that the wound had been
inflicted by a sharp instrument.
lie was followed on the stand by
Ben Hardee and the most important 1
testimony of this witness for the
State was his account of a conversation
which he said took place between
Nathan Lewis and Memory
Booth after witness got there and
heard this talk. It was to the effect
that Lewis said Booth had hold of
.him and choking him and he chopped
him with the a\c to m;ike him turn
loose, or words to that effect; and
that Booth had replied with an oath
that he had not touched him.
A. M. Booth was called and testified
to about the same as respects
conversations taking; place just after
-the event.
Herbert Dorman was called anil
he testifed in substance that he heard
Lewis say that Booth had grabbed
Yum and was .netting the best of him
and that he asked him to turn him
'cose and lie wouldn't do it and he
used the axe and did not know
whether he struck him on the le^f
with the butt of the axe or jwith the
<od;re.
M. S. Booth was then sworn and |
he proved a disappointment for the
st'itc*, as hi> testimony turned ou" to
be much in favor of the accused. He
i is /I Vrother of Tom Booth, the father
of the deceased.
Mrs. Xe' tie Booth, widow of Memory
Booth. was '.he k ' on the stand
in the stale's c.a e in chief. The main
point in her testimony was concerning
fcVy number of times that her husband
jhrtd left the house of Noflian T ^wis
iK t Sunday evening. She claimed
tliz? Pooth went otV toward the ford
of the swamp with Norman Skipper!
and remained there, and that after
Skipper had returned to the house,
then Nathan went olf down there and
the cutting was don#*. S^e < pom
tradicted by a number or witnesses,
some of them apparently disinterested,
to the effect that Booth returned
,to the house, or near there, with Skip
per and stopped where Lewis was
cutting -wood, and that Lewis left
with hik- axe and went toward the
i swamp and turned off in the woods
i do 'CiftJting wood and that Booth followed
along behind Lewis and was
standing up close to Lewis when last
.seen before the injury.
The Defense
Then the defense put up its witnesses,
first being Miss Stella Shan
non. She was riding by the place ir
a cart at the time that Booth was
seen by her and her brother Stacej
Cr\ llnu'iiio' I owis ill on IT th<
1 Wl I I I I < M I IM^ w .. - - ... - , ,
road, while Lewis waft carrying tin
aixc in his right hand and Booth, ac
cording to both of these witnesses
had his hand in his right hand hip
pocket.
Miss Dora Dew, a young daughte
<?f the late A. II. Dew, was thei
placed on the stand. She told hov
'..' he went to the home of the defend
i it; she was with Norman Skippei
and in a few minutes Memory Hoot!
and his wife, Nettie, came oxer am
. ?at down on one side of the room
That she played on the violin, as sir
) / was requested to do by those presen
and that Booth got up on ti e floo
arid tried to dance. To this Mrs. Rut!
Low is objected; that Booth used pro
fane language and refused to quit
That finally- Mrs. Lewis orderei
Hooth to leave the house and lie it
fused to go and cursed Mrs. Lewis
that all of this time Nathan was no
present at his home. Later, afte
TRooth had become quiet, Natha
I.ewis came home and went to get
T
ting in some wood, and that he came
and sat down by the heater in the
room and talked to his wife and
baby; that shb hfeard no talk among
the j*u?ie.4? about * hat had occurred
before 'that. This was about all she
knew about the case, as she started
to leave with Norman Skipper. It
was about this time that Nathan
Lewis came running back toward the
house with the axe and Memory
Booth was heard making cries down
in the woods.
Norman Skipper told about the
occurrences in the house about the I
same. He told of going dovrn .toward
the ford of the swamp and that
Booth used very hard language in
regard to Nathan Lewis' wife, a
sister of Skipper; that he was scared
of Booth and he did not resent what
he said. He also said that he bad
seen Booth take a pistol out of his
oocket and try to present it before
that on this same day, when Tom
Booth, father of Memory Booth, had
made a show of running his car over
hi:... lie mi id that Booth was about
half drunk or more.
Si'th Lewis, the wife of Nathan
Lewis, was sworn to testify as to .
tlie conduct of deceased at the house.
Cora Lewis, a sister of the defendant
was also sworn for the same purpose.
Lewis on the Stand
The defendant was the last on the
stand. Tie made an impression on
those who heard his storv. He told
of how he had known nothing of the
trouble between his wife and Memory
Hooth; that he had been friendly
with deceased and at his request the
lay before had purchased a dozen
cartridges in Conway and delivered
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n * in u> Diunn ;u ins, ijfi\vis* nouso
on Saturday nii?;ht, and at tho same
lime lie gave Booth a hair cut. Ho
said that Booth had followed him ;
r?ff to the woods whore ho went and
was cutting wood; that Booth askod
for wine, which ho refused, and that
Booth then made an insulting: renvirk
about his wife, which
lip. Lewis, disputed, and that Booth
then clinched him and had him almost
down with ono hand hack of
his neck; that he told him to turn
liim loose throe times, and that Booth ,
refused, tolling him lie would kill I
him. It was then that ho said ho
used the axe with a side blow, not
seeing- at the time which end of
tho blade on the loir.
Several witnesses were thon callod
by tho State to contradict some of
tho 4estimony offered bv the defense.
The arguments wore finished by
Tuesday night. On Wodnasday morning:
the judge is doMverintr his chare*0
o the jury and whon this is finished
the iurv retires with the case.
The jury found a verdict of man
slaughter, but defendant has not boon
sentenced.
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MYRTLE BEACH
CLUB BUILDING
Club is Being Fully Organized
in Florence and Plans
Perfected
SOME COM WAY MEMBERS
Will Take Care of One HunA
-i, ^ A On. i_. CI vrr
uicu i wfjii^-iivu ivicm
bcrs on Home Plan
A further step toward the development
of Myrtle Beach a- a seashore
resort was this week when a meeting
of subscribers to (.he capital stock of
the Myrtle Beach V/.icht Club, Inc.,
will be held in the odices of Arrowi
ith Muldrow for purposes of organizatibn.
Membership in the club]
will ho limited to 12.">. Only ya few
;>' ;<es no vv remain upon on the lists.
Most of the members are Florentines
ut tin re are sevoral from Mario?,
and Conway.
The corporation proposes to build'
on a commanding site facing the
ocean at Myrtle Bench a clnhhon.se
which will ho one of the handsomest
I .and most complete to he found anyI
where. It w ill contain thirty-five bedrooms
besides lobbies, 1.1 road piazzas,
bathrooms, etc.; as a matter of fact
the clubhouse will be just as complete
in every detail as the modern hotel.
One of the most attractive features
will be a pier running from the clubhouse
piazza out i 11 to the ocean for a
distance of ,370 feet. At the end of
the pier there will be a covered pavilion
measuring 30x50 feet. There will
also be a float here for tying up boats.
Three thousand feet of boardwalk is
now being completed on the strand.
Complete plans for the building
I have been drawn by W. J. Wilkin?
I p. ..,w.u: <?i ~ .?1
IV V'U,, ill tlluetlft, UIIU ? **!f (JI UMJIUCU
. at the meeting. The corporation wil
. have u capital stock of $2.">,000, aw
1 this will he divided into 125 share;
of the par value of $200 per share
; With the exception of a few share:
3 the capital stock has been subscribed
2 Membership was limited in order tha
- no meipber who wished to spend ;
,, few days at the beach at any tim<
- would be denied comfortable accom
modations.
v Competent persons will be procure*
i to operate the club and members wil
v be charged actual cost rates. It wil
- not be a money-making concern an
stockholders are promised no divi
ii dends. The idea was oricinate
1 some months ago by VV. J. Wilkin;
i. C. VV. Muldrow and others and tnc
n have been working on the projee
f afAnHilv. with the result that the clu
p and clubhouse arc now a certain tj
li The splendid site on which the buih
- ing is to stand was given the coppoi
. ation by the beach development con
(1 pany. The land itself is valuable an
- will incpease in value as the years n
; by. Fop this reason the stockholdei
t feel that they will be doubly rewan
p ed by having a fine place to go in th
n i summer at small cost and at the $am
.-[time to have made a paying invesi
HE HORRY HERALD, CONWA
ment. Most of those who have joined
the club are men of families, who feel
that the club will offer them the opportunity
of sending their families to
the seashore and at the same time escape
the expense of regular hotel bills.
The clubhouse will be conducted just
.is near like a home as possible.
According to the plans the building
will be three stories high. It will
contain thirty-five bedrooms measuring
12x12 feet, with a large dormitorv
on tho second floor.
j On the first floor there will be lobby,
dinfngroom service pantry, storeroom,
kitchen, writing rooms for the ladies
and men, cigars and soft drink stands,
clerk's office and toi'ets. Tn addition
to this the first floor will have a
lobby measuring 37x40 feet, with an
immense fireplace in the end. This
floor will also contain the lounge,
measuring 20x50 feet, which can bo
ncnrl nil ? ? 1 1
".'vm iwi an nwi is in [lurpoKes, including
dances. A twelve-foot piazza will
extend across the front of the clubhouse
and along its sides for the entire
length. There will he 240 feet
of piazza space altogether.
On the ground florr, or basement,
there will ho hath houses for men and
ladies. The, plans-provide for seventeen
dressing rooms and three showers
for the ladies and fifteen dressing
rooms and three showers for the men.
Three servants' rooms ?are on this
floor besides a barber shop, men's **ssembly
or club room, pressing club
and sowing room and toilots. In the
center of the basement is ;in open
space *10\;")0 feet with a floor for the
children to play when the sun grows
too fierce or rain should happen to
come.
There are sixteen bedrooms on the
second floor and a la.'go dormitory
which can he fitted wivh either cots
or beds. Storage closets and member's
individual lockers are also on
this floor, together with bathr'-oois
and toilets. The na'. brooms are fitted
with all the necessities including!
bathtubs. A balcony Ji<x30 feet o\or-J
iooks the ocean. I lie third floor is
completely taken rp with be.lrooms
on this floor.
The architects have overlooked no
point which would tend to increase
the com Tort of the building1. They
expect to begin work on it at once
and it is hoped that it will he ready
to receive guests by .June 1.
Myrtle Beach is recognized as one
of the finest be.aclies on the Atlantic
Coast and it is growing every year
in its attractiveness. Many Florence
people have built summer homes
there, and others are planning to join
the colony this summer. 4-h the
bridge across the Pee Dee River and
the highways improved the beach is
brought within about throe or four
hours of Florence by moderate speed
of auto.?Florence Times.
With the Adult
Schools of County
Superintendent C. E. Allen and
Miss Wil Lou Gray of the State Department
of Education have just completed
the arrangements for r.lic comty
commencement of the adult schools.
Friday night, March 21. will comp:et
o the term of the night schools
and < n Saturday tho pupils, teachers
and trustees of all the night schrrols
wil come to Conway for the closfng
i "i es. The Chamber of Com
e will assist in making all local
r.v. > .'\ inonts, and prospects are that
this v ill be a red letter clay in the
in 1 '-rv of' die county.
Th? county is to t>e honored that
day by having as its guests both
('Governor Tlobert A. Cooper and Superintendent
J. K. Sweanngen. No
school district should fail to have its
trustees, teachers and as many patrons
as possible present. The roll of
districts will be called to ascertain
; what each district has accomplished
in the campaign and it is hopt-i that
every district will respond with a
good re | ort.
The program of the day wiff be as
f ollows:
1.?Literacy Contests, Burroughs
high school, at 10:30 A. M.
Registration of sign-your-name pupils,
Burroughs high school at 10:80
A. M.
2.?Declamation Contest at Methodist
Church at If*:30 A. M.
3.?Welcome adfdress, roll call ot
districts and sketch, "Sure Cure for
Ignorance," at Methodist Church at
11:30 A. M.
I.?Picnic dinner on school ground?
at 12:30 P. M. (Each school is asked
to put dinner together.)
5.?Address by Governor Kobcrt A
1 Cooper at 2:00 P. M.
f>.?Address by Superintendent J
" E. Swearingen at 3:00 P. M.
| 7.?Awarding of prizes at 3:45 P. M
K.?Benediction.
REGULATIONS GOVERNING
THE CONTES1
Representatives?Each school wil
* solect its representatives by a pre
liminary contest held on Friday night
* February 17. One school may sen*
1 two representatives to each contest
The following information abou
every representative must he filed wit
Miss Wil Lou Gray by Tuesday, Feb
| ruary 21:
' Name of pupils age grade
1 Address
, Contest entered
Name <d' school
Approximate number days pupil ha
3? attended school in life
Prizes?A five dollar gold piece wi
1 be given to the winner of each cor
test. The winner will also becom
the county representative to the stat
contest to l>e held in Columbia o
April 28 and 20. A pretty bookie
l" awarded by the banks of Conwa:
" will be given to every pupil who lv
0 learned to write his name during tli
s campaign. A library will be /riven i
the school in each section which turr
0 in the best report from the sign-youi
10 name campaign. A library will al?
be given to the school in the count
Y, S. C., MARCH 9, 1922
which turns in tho best all round re- I
port of work accomplished. This will
mJude the following points:
Enrollment Average attendance....
....perfect attendance .per cent of
persons in community taught to> write
A pretty button will be awarded every
person who has maintained perfect
attendance throughout the term.
, , Contests
The Declamation .Contest will be
held in the Methodist Church. The
subject will be,? ^What the Adult
School Has Done for Me." Each representative
will be limited to three
minutes.
The Literary Contests will be held
in the Burroughs high school.
Heading Contest. I?Open to all
pupils who have had. from fifteen to
fifty lessons and who could not read
at all at th e beginning of January,
1D22. Bible-Story reader will be used
as a text and no pupil will be expected
to read beyond the page reached
in the book.
Reading Contest. 2?Open to all
pupils who have had from fifty to 150
lessons. Country Life Reader, Hook
i or hook z will ho used as a text.
Rending Contest 3.?Open to all pupils
of fourth and fifth grade ability.
Simple selections from the county
newspapers will be given.
Writing Contest 1.?Open to .all pupils
who could not write at alf on
January 1, 1922. and who have had
from fifteen on fifty lessons. Pupils
will he asked to write capital letters',
small letters, name, age and address.
Writing Contest 2.-?Open to pupils*
who have had from fifty to 150 los-;
sot s. Pupils will be asked to fill out!
a check and a money order.
Writing Contest 3.?Open to pupils
of fourth .and fifth grade ability. Pu- j
pils will he asked to write a business
'o1 '.or enclosing a money order for a
bil* of goods.
Spelling Contest 1.?Open to pupils j
who have had from fifteen to fifty
lessons and who could not spell at
the beginning of January, 1022.
In order that all pupils may have
the same words to spoil, contests will j
be written. Twenty words will he
given in each spelling contest. For
swelling, the words will be taken from
the list "Worked to Death," published
in papers. Should several papers be
perfect s\ second contest will be
iriv'Pn \vnrrl< I miner fnlrnn t'i'nin f li*.
list of 100 common wordfo.
Spelling Contest 2.?Open to pupils
who have been to school from fifty to
150 lessons. Words will be taken
from list of 100 common words published
in papers. Shoufd several
papers be correct, a second contest
will be j>iven, words being taken from
the list of 1,000 common words found
in the back of Arnold's Mastery of
Words.
Spelling Contest .3.?Open to pupils
of fourth and fifth grade ability.
Twenty words will be taken from the
list of 1.000 common words taken
from Arnold's Mastery of Words.
Arithmetic.?Pupils will be piven
sheets in each contest containing examples
similar to the ones given here.
The pupils will be expected to ^ ive
the following information on each
sheet and tlion record lesults.
Name or'. pupil
! Add re ss
Age Grade
Approximate days you have attended
school m vour life
Contest 1.?Open to pupils * ho
have had from fifteen to fifty lessons
??nd who could not write figure- on
January 1, 1V22. Contestants may
consult multiplication tables.
Add 25 47 23 400
4 IS 10 507
57 358
2:*
Subtract 29 $4'?.7;> 23(i
11 .'*X 22.50 148
Multiply 24 47 40*5 3(n
2 23 22 4."
Divide.... 2408 by 2
7(1 IX!) by 6
<)3(5T by 3
10478 by (i
Contest 11.?Open to pupils wlu
have been to school from tifty to 15(
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I'or In format
J. L. Mimnaugh, Jr.
* ' U General Chairman
\ | VOTE FOR
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I days. Contest will !>e similar to Contest
1, only larger and more diflicult
combinations will be used.
Contest 3.?Optui to nupils of fourth
and fifth grade aoifitj* Jr
Add 3 plus 2 plus 7
5 15 10
Divide 9 by 3
3G by 4
Subtract 7 minus 4
I 8 21
Multiply 2 by 4 by 10
3 5 16
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"Give up and luarry" is advice
offered bachelors. Then they marry
and giv\? up.
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SIGN-YOUR-NAME
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
A "sigii-your-name" campaign has
just been launched in the city of Rock
Hill. M iss Eva Hite, supervisor of
nights schools, tells the following
I stories of the co-operation which is
?: it- - f
utMUK vcn me campaign:
"One old lady, (?0 years of urc,
whose left hand and arm were useless
from rheumatism, was asked if she
wished to learn how to write, si, id,
"Teach me to write my name and
cunt to one hundred and I will he
| the happiest woman in town. A
Wymojo night school pupil who has
I New, Clea
Spring an
Goods just
Al priccs lower than fc
I Call anc
I Millinery
y March 1
! 1?
jj Hems!
I Bring your hemsti
\ to 1 he Sparks Cor
| given pron
J The Sp
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MAFI
g Festival Week at C
Anril 17 th tf>
4 ? ? - mmm MM A.
The Fashion Sh
RING: Wide Beauty C
Palmafesta Queer
Display, Baby
Daily Band Coi
host of other
GRAND OPI
PLAN TO C
TlJ
Manufactureri
ion ,write the following at C
Jas. M. Green
Kxhihit Space
l PALMAFES
a perfect attendance record is teach- i
ing this old lady. I gave her a Bible 5
Story Reader an dshe says she is go*
ing to learn to read it, too." I
"A man whom I taught to read and B
write has three friends who could not 1
read and write in the Blue Buckle 1 I
village. He wanted to teach them but |
could not write well enough so he 9
had me to make copies for him to I I
take them. He brings these copies in v
to show the progress and I send out IT
more. This is ji slow process, but resuits
finally come, and then the spirit
of this 'pupil teacher' is so fine."
"I talked on the 'Sign-your-namfe" j I
campaign in the chapel of the city
high school and asked boys and girls
to help, Two eighth grade boys -determined
to tea<jji some one. They
could not locate a white person to
teach, but when the washer woman 1
brought in the clothes they asked her
and found that she could not write
her name. They promptly gave ty?r
the first lesson. The mother of one
of the boys phoned me and said she
wished 1 could ,see the picture of one
little l>oy on each side of the old 1
colored woman."
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Charging that the bonus is attacked
"not by those who fought," but "by
those who profited," the American
Legion at Marion, O., home of Presidont
Harding, has appealed to Congress
to look at the facts "in the
liicht of pure reason." I
n Stock of (I I
d Summer | I
opened lip. f M
>r the last three years. H
r Opening Q I
4 and 15 i I
I'M
itching 0 m
itching and pecoting U I
npany. Mail orders !J I
apt atlcnlion. U H
arks Co. ] I
-ixE*.tEE:: HaEEzajwEziT^ "*J I
iST A11
Columbia U I
ow, Style Show, State- I I
ontest, Crowning of the y
i, Auto Show and Trades I
Parade, Floats Parade, J I
ncerts, Fireworks and a ; I
attractions including I I
IRA STAR NIGHT. I I
:OME AND BRING Q I
IE FOLKS I
>: Reserve space now I
olumbia, S< C.: U 1
H. F. Eldridge U I
Publicity jj 1
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