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vuXjUme xxxvn DIX WOUNDED BY SKIPPER Fall Out Over Trespassing Hogs On Sunday Evening SKIPPFR IS IN nilRTnnY IV I II V W W V V h# Injnry Dangerous in Physician's Opinion?Injured Man May Die Frank Skipper and Wilbur Dix, both of Dog Bluff township, got into a cutting scrape last Sunday evening. As a result of the affray, Skipper was lodged in the county j#il last Monday to await the result of the wound that he inflicted on Dix, and Dix is regarded as in a precarious condition with the chances against his surviving the Injury. Skipper used a sharp knife, aiming directly at the heart of Dix; but the blade failed to strike the heart, yet entered the pericardium and thus made a serious wound. The pericardium is the conical sac of serous membrane which incloses the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels of vertebrates. If you yet do not understand fully the meaning of these terms, just take in the fact that the knife of Skipper, according to reports, made a wound in the cone shaped uack of tissues that incloses the heart and roots of the big blood vessels. In the opinion of a doctor it is possible that Dix will live, but the chances are that he may die in a few clays from the effects of this dangerous wound. It all came about over the matter of Skipper's hogs eating up some sweet potatoes that belonged to Dix. Dix was about to move to uie farm of Marvin Floyd. It appears that he had already moved some of his things. His potatoes were still there at the old place and it appears in such a way that he could not protect them 3; THE FIGHT PRIMEVAL S 5 % ^ Renorts reached Conway a j" J? few days ago of a fight heJJ tween, Westhury and Ricks, % % some miles from Conway on the ? 5 way to Little River. ? Ricks was a tenant of West- % % bury. They fell out about J| something and tried their best % % to fight. They did fight. They J > intended to fight! J 2J Ricks jumped at Westbury J and caught both thumbs in the ? g? corresponding corners of West J bury's mouth. In this way he I" J? held Westhury, but could not ? ?J keep Westburv from worrying j* Jb him with his fists and using his a" feet in .applying kicks; while at J the same time Ricks found that ? J? his feet were useful in keeping DJ J the flies off Westbury while he " bridled him with the bits, this I" in his teeth. \ * They punished one another for 3" some time in a rather tame way "I " and found out that neither *-ould % Ji inflict a whipping on the ether that each would have liked un- % J *1-- n?.l t % tier Hit? t'liuuiiinutii^cn, auu ujc 0~ J? continued efforts at one another "J J got to be rather painful as the JB small wounds seasoned.. They kept this up for a time, tram- BJ J T>ling the earth around and I* J? about, and managing to stay J within a small space. Ji Tn the opinion of onlookers ij there was not a doubt that each "I J man was doing all that was in J" J? his power to get at the other, J but still they were both handi- J? ? capped, owing to the position . J? brought on by the bridle that J Ricks held, and the fact that it J? took both of Ricks' hands to J constitute this bridle. The ?J J, harder that Westbury tried to "b ! turn and twist the harder went J the thumbs, the main stays of [ J. the bridle, up and backward be- Ji J tween the jaws; and of course [ % the more lively would the lists , 5 of Westbury hit the sides of % Ricks and the feet of Westbury ?J hunt for places, either hard or Jb J soft on the back territories of Ricks. , The fight waxed long and B? J furious, so far as pent up emoJi tions could go, and it looked as Ji J if, under these circumstances, % the fight might go on forever. [ S Now, Ricks had bared his J teeth several times in the course [ Ji of the conflict, but he had not Ji ? yet realized that he could use I1 ? 4-Vn??nr? Ruf wVton WAst.burv. with T| VIIVIII# *^viv 7 S a final desperate effort nepan f r pummelling him on both sides tj Jb with his fists and kicked and J ? squeezed with both legs and feet 5 % in a final effort to make Ricks 5 J? turn loose, then Ricks remem- 5 J bered his teeth. 2 , Ricks began to use his teeth J and at places nearby where his 5 J thumbs were clinched, and this 3 J? is what brought matters to a J ? focus. 3 5 The fighting stopped just { J? long enough for each man J J to say to the other that he had 2 enough. J They are better friends than 2 J they were before. j .. . 4..? . . PARTIES LAW OVER A MULE Number of Suits Pending Between the Thompsons The magistrate court of W. H. Chestnut, at Conway, was engaged last Thursday in the trial of a case entitled A. C. Thompson and Robert R. Green, Plaintiffs, vs. M. B. Thompson, defendant. Neither side asked for a jury to pass upon the case, so that Mr. Chestnut became the sole judge of the law and the facts. The plaintiff, A. C. Thompson, and the defendant are brothers. For some time prior to 1921 they both lived in Conway and the defendant, M. B. Thompson was concerned with the plaintiff, A. C. Thompson, in the management and conduct of some of the enterprises at the head of which A. C. Thompson has been for some time. This magistrate case is only out of a total of five suits now pending bet.w#?An M R Thn mna/Mi nnH A C*. I Thompson. Representing A. C. Thompson in nil of these cases is the Law firm of Sherwood & McMillan. M. B. Thompson Company is represented by W. P. Stackhouse, of the Marion bar, and H. H. Woodward, of the local bar. All of the five suits, except this magistrate case, is beyond the jurisdiction of the magistrate court. One of the cases now pending in the Court of Common Pleas was brought by M. B. Thompson against A. C. Thompson for damages in the sum of $26,000.00, alleging the breach of a contract of sale of a lot of stock certificates, or interest of some kind, in the corporation Conway Bargain House. The three other cases now nending in the Court of Common Pleas are all suits brought by A. C. Thompson, or the enterprises with whioh he is connected, against the M. B. Thompson Company. The M. B. Thompson Companv is also a corporation in which M. B. Thompson is 'nterested to a lartre extent as a "tnokb^'d^r. the other stockholders l>einf? R. V. Wnrd. of Wampee, S. C.. inri the AmenVan Bank and Trust Companv of, Wilmington. N. C. Thf suits against the M. B. Thompson Company now nending in the higher court are all founded upon accounts nl'e^ed to have been made bv the M. B. Thompson Companv with either the Conw.ay Bargain House or the Conway Livestock Comnanv. which at this time is a partnership known as the A. C. Thompson Comnanv as the successor. This article mentions those other suits in connection with the magistrate raso for fhe renson that crossexamination of the parties while they were on the stand in the trial last Thursday brought out f\ lot of facts about these same suits. Tn the magistrate case the plaintiff's attorney, Mr. Hovt. McMillan, read the complaint to the court, which alleges that on March 12th. 1912, M. B. Thompson became indebted to A. C. Thompson nrvl T>0hert R. Green in the sum of $8!V00 for one mule and that this mule was then the property of Thompson and Green, these two gentlemen constituting .a partnership and trading and selling mules they had purchased from the United States Government, and the. complaint also said that payment of this amount had been demanded and refused. The defendant through his attorneys. entered the substance of his answer on the record of the court and this consisted of a general denial of the complaint that there had beeiv a misjoinder of plaintiffs and also set up a counter-claim against the defendant, A. C. Thompson for hauling brick in the year 1920, with a truck and other help for four days at one time and two days at another, amounting in all to the sum of $90. A. u. Thompson was tne principal witness on the behalf of the plaintiffs, testifying that he had sold this mule which belonged to himself and Mr. Green, to M, B. Thompson as an individual. On the other hand the defendant, M. B. Thompson, was the main witness on that side, and he testified that he bought the mule for the M. B. Thompson Company, and not for himself. He testified further that he traded to A. C. Thompson for from trespassing stock. Of course there should have been no wandering stock. Everyone knows what the stock law means. On Sunday night Skipper went to the house where Dix was and dared him to come out of the same. It is reported that he cursed at Dix. Dix was in his own castle, as he looked at the situation, we suppose, and he went out. The result was the serious cutting that has landed Skipper in jail, and which may yet result in his being tried on a charge of homicide. | Dix is laid up and if he is strong ? and sound he may withstand the ter[ vible shock that has been dealt to an i important or^an of his system. At least he cannot fro on with his plans [ of work and service for his family and others. ; Sheriff James A. Lewis was at the [ place early on Monday to arrest Skip per. He went by Aynor to see a phyJ sician about the seriousness of the t wounds inflicted. pu?*3 CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY, I k I 3rtB^ ^BB\J /AVAVAV.VJV.WWA".W.WJ J THE SANTA C ; One of the finest things ;I is the organization and worki] I The club was organized i weeks ago under the guidanc< J churches of the town, i Ever since that time tin *E of holiday sunshine and Chi I < ; steadily growing; the evidenc ^ ing affiliation with this happj Jj By this means Christmas % for both the old and the youn J be able to participate in the Xv.V.WiBA%W/.WAV.W.V.V BAPTIST MEET AT THE ANNEX Churches Asking Aid Are Ex- f pected to be Ready To File The members of the executive committee of the Waccamaw Association t are called to meet in annual session j in the Annex Bible Class rooms of 1 the Conway Baptist Church, on Fri- 1 (lay Uecember 22nd, at 11 A. M. ( This committee is composed of the c following: E. S. C. Baker, Moderator of the Association; M. C. Holmes, , Treasurer; W. J. Jordan, Clerk; Rev. < M. W. Gordon, and Rev. W. J. Wil- i der. e All churches desiring to apply for t aid or assistance will please have their applications ready to submit to the < Executive Committee at this meet- , ing, as it is necessary that these ap- \ plications be in the hands of the ] sions Commissions by January 1st. r W. J. JORDAN, Clerk j Waccamaw Associa- t tion. " i Armed Russians have crossed the t Manchurian frontier at Aliauor and f attempted to capture the Chinese j coal mines. 1 i ( the mule in question, another mule A that belonged to The M. B. Thomp- 1 son Company and which A. C. Thomp- 1 son had sold his pomnnnv nt ? ti??? before that and that his brother knew 1 that at the time of the trade; that I he traded mules and agreed to pay the $85.00 as boot between the two i animals, but that he agreed to do c this for his company, a corporation at Wampee. He also testified and had 1 another witness to prove the haulinp: ( of the brick which went into the j erection of the new livery stables on | Fourth Avenue, in Conway. R. F. j Green testified that he had been half < interested in this mule trade but was ' not present when it was made. Before the trial took place, the \ plaintiff's attorney made a motion to <hsmis$ the counter-claim because it \ fcxisteH against one of the plaintiffs < only, Mr. Green having no connec- 1 tion with the hauling of the brick. 1 The magistrate heard the whole | thing, including the testimony, and after hearing arguments from Mr. 1 McMillan on the part of the plain- i tiff and Mr. Stackhouse on the part of the defendant, the court said it would consider the case, including the motion made and would render a de- \ cision later. if jj* DECEMBER 21, 1922 > I! 5^ liujUuir BKS^H^S^yp^A ^N^k IIIE9 _ :laus club ? ever carried out at Conway jl ng of the Santa Claus Club. ! and put to work about two 5; 3 of the bible classes of the > % ie membership in the club ristmas gladness has been e of the little badges show 2; r order increased every day. 5 presents will be provided "C g who otherwise might not ^ enjoyments of the yuletide. I" ; .v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v/.v.v.v HORRY YOUTHS UNDER CHARGE 3ermenter Boys and Others Take Warrants For Housebreaking It has remained for two Horry boys ,o plan out and work a confidence *anie that beats anything we have ecently seen in the annals of the daiy press coming- from such cities asi Chicago and New York, if allegations' >f charges now made, prove true. Their names are Goldie Tharp and \aron Blanton, both white, one the irm rtf -TulillCJ TKni'H nf T i + IJiifAr iv?? VI V V4IIVII? & 11(11 (/f VI IJlVVig 1VK VV/ I community, and the other the scm of i farmer well known in that same sec;ion of the county. They were arrested in Conway on Saturday before last by the city narshall on suspicion of having* taken ots of fur from citizens of Little River township. The marshall found rharp with the lot of fur and it apjeared that Tharp had offered to sell his Joe Sarkis, the Syrian. Adjriig, Holt, the town policeman, i?ked -^rh^rp a number of questions ;o find out how he came to have the :ur. He asked him where he got the *ur and he made evasive answers. Finally he said he got the fur from a tegro man and could not tell the name )f the negro man. Other questions .vere not answered in a satisfactory nanner and the marshall placed Tharp n the town guard house, to await 'urther investigation. Blanton was lot in on it at that time but was sus lected. Later on in the day, Blanton was m plicated and he too was placed unler arrest. A citizen of the town sent out to the country and the owners of the fur ;ame to Conway later in the day. They identified the fur. They the town released the suspects, but they were imimmodately taken up on warrants sworn out in the magistrate court. rney were then placed in the county jail and were there late Last week in default of bail. According to the allegations of the men who claim that this lot of fur was stolen from them, the fur was taken from the Permenter boys, of near* Warn pee, a lot from a negro boy by the name of Moore; another lot from T. C. Todd, and still another lot from Bright Parker. In the cases of Moore and Bright Parker, the furs are alleged to have been taken from the buildings of the owners and the warrants, three in number, taken out in these three cases, charge the crime of housebreaking and larceny. In the raid. PEACEBROKEN NEAR JORDAN Capps and Hyman Brothers Involved in Personal Matter WARRANTS ARE ASKED Bad Feeling Since Testimony of M. W. Hyman in R. C. Cook Case Warrants have been applied for ivithin the last few days before Magistrate Chestnut alleging- a number of breaches of the peace in the neighborhood just this side of Jordanville. Involved in the matter are John Capps and Rolliu Johnson as defendants in the warrants; R. A. Hyman ind M. W. Hyman as prosecutors in the cases. Tf will ronallod TVf W T-I V "111 ?V I V v-14 I vvi Viiu V !?& ? ? AJl > was the star witness for the 'ledefendant, R. C. Cook in the non-support ease that took place at two terms of the criminal court, once in 1022. and once in 1921. Tt is stated that there had been bad feelings existing ever since Hyman rendered his testimony in the case at both of the trials of the non-support case. R. A. Hyman is a brother of M. W. Hymn;:. According to the warrants, on November 22nd, R. A. Hyman was passing the Capps residence. After he had passed the house a short distance he met John Capps and Rollin Johnson in a car. Nothing' was said. After Hyman passed on his way, in the direction of the schoolhouse, someone shot him from behind, the shot striking the top of the buppry and the mule but they were so far spent that they did not injure the mule, and none of the shot actually struck Hyman. Hyman believed that it was one of the men in the car that had shot him, although he did not see them. Later .at Jordanville he met Capps and asked him if it was he that did the shooting: and he alleges that Capps admitted the shooting: in the presence of witnesses but claimed he urn ij nnf c)nM\tinn' of n ?? liv?v niiv/wnu^ ?.% W * Jl ^ IIIUIII The trouble was continued on December 14th, but this time it concerned first M. W. Hyman, who says he went to Hieh Point church to prayer meeting with Miss Bertha Johnson. Mi ss Johnson lives with her brotherin-law, .as also does her mother, Mrs. Helen Johnson. The brother-in-law is Mr. Babe Martin. M. W. Hyman went to the residence of Babe Martin to get the young lady to pro to a prayer meeting and found that she was not. at home, but was at a neighbor's house. Before he left the Martin residence Babe Martin came up and perhaps Capps also. Hyman went to the neighbor's house and got the voung lady and returned to the Babe Martin home after services were over. When lie went into the house with Miss Johnson, Rollin Johnson, who is not supposed to be any relation of the young lady mentioned, was iii the bouse, as was also John Capps. As Hyman went to get his hat to leave the house John Capps began to beat him and shoved him out of the house. He found himself on the ground. As he got up, he says Rol1 in Johnson took him by one side and hit him while John Capps held ihim on the other side and hit him, and he alleges that he was beaten severely by both of them. He states further that he was lead to his bugorv by Babe and Roll in; that thev unhitched his horse and that he went hc-'^c a^ quickly as he could. On the same night that this beating took place at the Martin home, R. A. Hyman was again passing the r* ?:*u~- u V'ttjJiJh iiumt;, tiitucr ucinc ui ui I?CI the incident at the Martin home. Ac* cording t(? the warrants <ind statements mode by Hyman, he was halted by John Capps and threatened with severe consequences, and it was with diftlculty that Hyman managed to cet away from the place without serious trouble. It. i? stated that in the trouble at Jordnnville, when Hyman asked Capps if he had done the shooting: that efforts of others nearby prevented a personal encounter between the parties. M. W. Hyman showed plain signs of the beating about which he told in Conway a few days after. _____ case of the T. C. Todd fur, the charge is only for larceny as Todd had his fur hanging up under the porch of an old store, and it is charged that the boys merely took this in as they went along. Their plan, it is said, was to call at the home of a man who had some fur to sell, and make an offer to purchase the hides at prices that were too low and which would not be accepted. The fur would be carefully looked over and examined and a line would be gotton on its location and manner of taking care of it on the premises. No sale would be made at the low prices offered, and later this same lot of fur would be missing. It appealed that on the Saturday morning of the arrest. Tharp had come to Conway in a paddling boat, the property of Walter Drew. It appeared that the night had been spent at Mr. Drew's home or some other home in that vicinity. While the boys were on the way to market here with a lot of twenty-two hides belonjrinfc to Bright Parkfr, seven belonging to f. C. Todd; a not he i NO. 35 GYPSIES DRIVE IN MOTOR CARS Have Finer Vehicles But Not Better Ways Than in 1912 STEALING AT MULLINS, S. C. Story of Law Suits Tribe Had at Conway Ten Years Ago .V.V.V.V.V.VnW.V.'.V.W.'.V, Who is a Gypsy? One of a % Caucasian race, whose tribes % J" coming originally from India, 5 * entered Europe in the 14th or v \ 15th century, and are now scat- S J tered over Turkey, Russia, Hun- ? % gary, Spain, England. United V "? States, etc. Originally of vaga- t " bond and nomadic habits, many % % have settled in the countries " named; others still maintain \ their intinerant life and tribal ^ organization. They excel as 5" U met.il workers, farriers and % "< musicians, while fortune telling J and horse trading are traditional occupations. % V .'.w.mv.w.vsswAV.v.v Recently a band of Gypsies passed through Conway. They appeared to be the same band that came through this section the middle or latter part of the month of December, 1911, and ! If? *? * remained in camp near tne town limits for about three months, until the convening- of the Court of General Sessions for the first term in 1912. But there appeared to be a chancre. This time the Gypsies were' driving big and powerful motor cars in place of the old covered and tattered wagons. In 1022 they drove the finest kind of horses hitched to the covered wagons; now they had not horses but sported themselves with luxurious ease in Cadillac Eights. Items in the newspapers in other parts of this section of South Carolina show that they were accused of crime as they went through this time in their big cars. In Mullins, they were recently arrested for stealing, according to the ' Mullins Enterprise, which said in a recent issue: "A band of Gypsies created a stir in Mullins on Monday as thev passed through. They travelled in Cadallacs ,nnd Hudsons and had their covered automobiles to carry the excess baggage. There were some six or eight cars seen passing through Mullins, and at some of the stores it was claimed thev held up the storekeepers and relieved them of small cash, but were not altogether successful .in making a get-away. The band camned between Nichols and Mullins on Sund.nv night, and early Monday morning drove into Mullins. On entering town they stopped at a country store operated by John Nesbitt, i who claims that, one of the women re loived v>im of $8.00 in cash taken from his person. The next rdace visited v>s A. R. I mho's? store. There (Continued on F!ditorv>l Page.) !?!. ( > >!,I.'"?c;i< TEACHERS PAY Whereas, There .nre now in Horry Oonntv many srhool claims due tochers for teach inn: done during- the two or three venrs last pnst. aggregating several thousand dollars in amount, and the school authorities have no funds with which to pay them, although thev are recognized ns just and lepral obligations of the State; And whereas, our laws and educational system, as now existing, are such that this condition is most likely to recur during the current as well as the succeeding years; Therefore, be it resolved by the Horry County Citizens' Educational Association that the members of our legislative delegation be, and they hereby are, memorialized to give their best efforts towards securing appropriate legislation at the next meetinfif of the General Assembly, (1) To pay up all past indebtedness due teachers for work already done, and (2) To prevent the possibility of the recurrence of this condition in the future. o Frank \V. Shealey, chairman of the South Carolina Railroad commission, announced that a preliminary in vestlgatton had failed to place the responsibility for the wreck at Hanahan flap? station on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad some time recently, when the second section of train No. 80 crashed into the rear of train No. 52, which had stopped at the station for the engineer to attend to a hot box. lot belonging to the Pernienter boys, some of these others missed fur and be fan to take some steps to try to find out what had become of their property; hence the arrest here on mAvnS?\rv fAurw nnl v/i? wii \ tc% v iii\'I iiic vunn pvuvv? The furs, or raw hides, consisted of coon skins, opossum hides, minks and the like. By the middle of last week the 1 father of one of the boys was in Con1 way trying to compromise the cases* > is was said. He was also making iua '1 effort at making bail for them.