The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 15, 1923, Image 8

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THOMAS BROW N GETS SENTENCE (Continued From Page One.) that she had hollered and asked her why she had done that, and then she told her what Brown had done. Before that she had thought it would be better to keep it secret and not have all of the publicity of going to court. She explained, how on the way back, Brown had stopped the car and got some matches from a boy on a porch, the boy bringing the matches to him while the engine was running. Her uncle, Walker Allen, came over to her home and asked what it was all about, that hollering down there the day before and ?hen she told about it. * v Her father had sworn out the Warrant. In the struggle she had slid ,1 -j ? it. - _i?i? i?? ' viuwii unutM uie steering wneei ana put her ami around it? while defendant had hold of her. She stated that if she had not screamed she believed the defendant would have accomplished his purpose, if he could. She had objected to his going up the old road and when he said he would go up in there where he could kiss her and not be seen, she had told him she would not. Berry Alford said on oath that he was passing the road and saw the girl and Brown on the old cut-off road. He went on and heard somebody making a noise like someone screaming, sounded like a woman's voice. Heard one scream and after that heard it again and then Jack Altman said someone was in trouble and he would go and see. Then they heard a scream and Jack called his brother and they went to see what it was. It pounded like someone in distress. The following was in the direction of the fouple on the old road. He admitted ae had served a term for manslaughter, but this was not held to disqualify him as a witness. He said that it had looked suspicious to see the car stopped where it was. He is a dis tant relative of the prosecutrix. Jack Altman then told on the stand about Alford being at his place and heard the voice of a woman hollering as if in distress. Once there was a sort of scream. He told the boys he "would go down there to see what it was about. He got where he could see the car and saw a man standing on the running board. Then he saw a girl stand up in the car and this was about all he saw. There was loud talking and he heard someone hollowing, but could not say whether it was a man or a woman. He did not de- j scribe it as a scream. He could not tell whether the girl was crying or not. He saw they were fixing to leave and he stepped back and they passed along within 15 or 20 steps of him. Eley Alford was called and said on oath that he was walking along and ? r? 4" lU A "fW1 saw a car Muppcu ?ai< mc a boy and a girl in it. While at the house of Altman he heard a woman holler and in a few minutes heard it again. He went down then and saw the girl sitting in the car and the man standing ?n the running board and while he stood there the man cranked up the car and they drove off. The road connects two other roads. The car was about half way between the two. The prosecutrix's mother said the girl was about seventeen years old. She noticed that her daughter was downhearted and this was not usual with her. Walker Allen came and told her about this hollowing being heard and then she asked her daughter what she was hollering about and she had said Brown was trying to do this and she had not intended that he should do it. She found her elbow was hurt. She had complained of her side hurting her and her stocking 'was torn. 1 The Defense. The defendant took the stand. He told that on that day he had been sent to Aynor to distribute circulars. He saw the prosecutrix in the barber shop first, where she was getting a shoeshine. Next he saw her at the school ground driving around in his car. She was in the car when dinner was called. After ninner she was near the car and she wanted him to take her in the car to her uncle's. They drove to Mr. Mishoe's and left the coat there. When she came hack he spoke of going on and she said she would go with him and he was willing. There was no one there as the little sister had left the car before that. He drove along the road going by Antioch church. She made remarks about turning around and he drove hack the way they had come and passed along the cut-off and stopped the car He was talking to her and had thought that he might take liberties owing to the way she had treated hiir in the car. The men passed. She was writinc her name on some papers. He hug ged and kissed her. She made no ob jection to this. He kissed and huggec her a number of times with bo ob jections and he thought he could g< further than that and he denied mak ing any proposal in words. She wa shy, etx:., and she was loving and h tried to persuade her. This wa about the substance of what he saic He got out to crank the car an had some trouble. He had been dc nied anything further than the hug and kisses and nothing else to r< main for. Cranking the car, or trj jng to do so, she lay down on tf scat with her hand near the steerin wheel .and her- hat fell off. He o fered to get the hat and she said sV would get it herself and she got 01 over the steering wheel and got tV hat. As she got out she almost fc and started to holler. He told of driving back to Ayn< and of getting the matches and seeii a girl who had a sack with some pe nuts. After getting hack to Ayn she sat in the car with him fora whi ar.d ifter that they stayed aroui there and they talked together. S -* l:' 0 was talking about a way of going home and he asked her if she would ,go with Rogers. He told of going to Mr. Mishoe's after her coat. When he left her he told her goodbye and shook hands. He was arrested on Thursday in Mullins after having distributed circulars. He denied that he had ever intend to do this thing unless it was consented to. He was subjected to a severe cross examination by the solicitor. He denied that he asked her to ride but she had asked to ride on her way to Mr. Mishoe's. He denied that he kissed her against her will. He admitted that he had thought he could take liberties. He had found that she objected. He could not tell how the stocking got torn. He did not know how she fell out of the car. He is t virnn f lr.t uta vaavc nl/1 V??VIIVJ v?? V kTVUtO VIVil llv oaiu vl Id V when the men approached she had asked him to remove his arm as they might see it and he had moved his arm behind the back of the seat to hide it. Miss Lizzie Johnson was sworn. She said that after the ride she asked her how she liked that man and she said "fine." Miss Lee Hucks said she was at the picnic. She was with them at the barber shop. The defendant and she rode away together. She saw them go off to ride. She saw them when they came back and gave the prosecutrix some peanuts. She heard prosecutrix say she was married, and this was after the ride. She did not notice if she was friendly with Brown. Witness said she is fourteen. Miss Bernice Hucks testified she was at the picnic. She saw the prosecutrix in the late afternoon. She said she was married and seemed to be in a good humor. She was walking around then like she always did. Wright Shelley testified he was at the picnic. He met Brown and a gill in the afternoon and slowed down his i r> i \.:f... .. .t* 4 car ana orown *tsKt:u iiim iui ?? naan but he did not have any. Hope Shelley testified he was at the picnic and saw the two on a bench after the ride laughing and talking together. He had went with her to the car and she was rather quiet but talked some. The affidavit of Thad Rogers, an absent witness was read to the effect that he saw the parties when driving up to the picnic grounds and saw no evidence of any injury, but seemed very happy and that he took the girl home. By the time the case was finished the courtroom was packed to overflowing. Both parties are known to many people of this county. The prosecutrix especially is largely connected with many families by both blood and marriage. Crowds of friends and relatives and ,n!so strangers had time to fill the courtroom to hear the wind-up of the case. The arguments were made, two on the part of the defendant and only one on the part of the State. ^ ^ ^ ??** *? {m xr a f oim. I A lie Jtn y JUUIHl mill Fy\A Iivjr \j i Uitu ! pie assault and battery and he was j sentenced to 30 days on the chain gang of Horry County. HOSPITAL IS TOTAL LOSS Mull ins.?Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Mullins hosT)ital and much valuable equipment Thursday night. The eleven patients which were in the institution at the time were all removed without injuries and placed in nearby homes. Dr. L. M. McMillan, the owner of the hospital, was away at the time, so the actual loss cannot be accurately estimated, but it will probably be somewhere near $50,000. Some very valuable X-ray apparatus belonging to Dr. Frank Martin was totally destroyed. Flames were discovered on the second floor about 9:45. Firemen succeeded in preventing the spread of the fire, but were not able to save the building. The hospital was the pride of the 1 town and is considered a great loss. THE CAROLINA S. S. CONVENTION PLEASANT MEADOW CHURCF FRIDAY MARCH 23 10:00 A. M. Devotional Exercise am ; Organization ; 10:15 A. M. Verbal Report fron [ Each Sunday School 10:30 A. M. "Grading of the Sunda; | School" , 11:00 A. M. "Value of Co-operatioi i between Country Sun day Schools," J. G. Go ing 11:30 A. M. "Preparation and Teach Iof The S. S. Lesson, D. M. Simmons. 12:00 M. Dinner 1:30 P. M. Miscellaneous Business 2:00 P. M. "The Shortcomings c our Sunday Schools an how to overcome them, A. L. Pickens Adjournment REV. RUFUS FORD, Pre H. E. STEVENS, Sec. KILLS RATS *nd mice?that's RAT-SNAP, the ol reliable rodent destroyer. Come** j cakes?no mixing with other foo Your money back if it fails. 35c size (1 cake) enough for Pantr Kitchen or Cellar. 65c size (2 -cakes) for Chick< House, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size (5 cakes) enough for s farm and out-buildings, storaj buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and Cuaran'erd by P!"t1 Pharmacy, Conway, S. C. / THE HOBBY HERALD, THREE GUILTY FOR RiOTING (Continued From Page One.) to them; then they went to the well and threw something in the well, and after that shot twice into the top of the house. After that Hays came and calftd Oscar out. Oscar told Hays that tie. Hays, knew all about the affair. Hays offered to go with them to L. B. Bailey's if he wanted to. The family left the house and went to L. B. Bailey's. She said that they had been employed to go there to help Hays on tobacco days and Bailey for the rest of the time. Oscar Hewett said that the chickens squawled. He looked through a broken pane and saw three defendants go to the well. Later they shot the house. Hays was there with his gun. He saw Hays fire his gun twice. Then ! they started chunking the windows and broke the windows out. After a little Hays came there and asked witness "what were we doing here in that fuss." He told Hays he knew already as he had helped do it. On cross examination he was asked if he had not said that he would swear just what Bailey told them to swear. He denied this and said that Bailey had advised his mother to have nothing to do with the law case as it might lead to more trouble and would be ix lose of money and time. The Defense. Percy Huggins testified. He is a son of J. L. Hug-gins. He was on his way home. Ossie was at house and he went with Ossie down to the tobacco barn. Hayes was at the barn. According to him, he heard two gun shots away from Hewett's home. He heard the shot fall on the tobacco barn. Later he heard two reports of a gun but could not tell the direction. He told that he had heard Oscar Hewetts say he would testify just as Bailey told him to do, and that Bailey would teach them what to say. Ollin Fowler was sworn and testified to about the same things as Huggins had told. Mrs. Ollin Fowler swore to the same effect. Will Fowler testified he was at Bai The P I'm a practical Georgia money, and five years i j ^ plantations, in an effort' protect my cotton from t is the result, and in the has gotten practically nc HTl i i f\ y n n? _ fit _ _ _ six ganons win guve ] Compare this with the ? The molasses in Hill's a rainfall of less tha feet on it! It can be 1 - Unq\ Hill's Mixture was tr s* farmers on thousands < ONE OP THEM ARE C J 1928! Let me send you 5 President of the Americ trip to Burke County to endorsed it *9 the best b Id in d. y? I" ?e March trd. tV, ???im 001CWAY, g, C, MAR, lg, 192: ley'3 tobacco barn on the night the house was shot. He heard the parties say they did not see anybody bqt heard some voices. He stated he heard Mrs. Hewett say they would tell that it was these boys now indicted, although they were not certain it had been them. Mrs. Emory Hayes was sworn and said that on the night it was claimed the house was shot her husband was with her and the children at the tobacco barn and while they were all there they heard this shooting and the shot struck the tobacco barn. later on they heard another fuss over^ at the Hewett home. They had gone to the watermelon patch and got three watermelons and ate them. She called her husband, who was in the back house. They took the children to the house and her husband then said he would go and see what the racket was about. Thp dpfpndnnf.. .Tim fJihsnn swam he heard four Run shots that night, but he had nothing to do with it; did < not know who it was or where it was at the time. 1 Emory Hayes, * another defendant, swore he had nothing to do with the shooting of the house; that he did not procure anybody else to do it. He was ; at the barn peeling peaches with his ; wife at the time the shooting was < done. He did not come out very well | on cross examination. i Allard Gibson was sworn and said he and another boy, Lundy Daniels, had chunked the house and broke out ; the windows with brickbats. He is a ; son of Jim Gibson. He had done this because the Hewetts had thrown bats ; at them. After doing this, and the other boy had fired off a pistol, he went back to the pack house. He never told anything about it until later his father had been reported to the Grand Jury. The Hewetts had moved from the house the next evening. The Jury found them all guilty and they were sentenced each to a fine of $100.00 or thirty days.. Gibson's sen tence was suspended until November I 1st, 1923, so he can make a crop and! pay the money. o Don't let bugs and worms eat what you grow for the family. roof of t farmer, and spent $23,000 in n time on my Burke County bo perfect a poison that would \ Ti _ -'1 TT111J ;ne JDOii-weevu. niii s mixture past two years the boll weevil ne of my cotton, /^8i rrsro N^7| protection to an acre_of cotton, cost of dusting. Mixture acts as a binder, and in a half-inch has little ef?UT ON ANY TIME OF TUB _ _* e i n uanjiea Jhnao ied out last year by scores of >f acres of land, and EVERYJOING TO USE IT AGAIN IN' their letters endorsing it. The an Cotton Assn. made a special investigate Hill's Mixture, and oil weevil poison on the market. R. P. BIJ MARIC Agent for Marion and Immediate Temt FOI HILL'S MIXTUB AUOUSTJ ? I U-COTTON KINDS FOB PEE DEE Clemson College.?Any one in choosing a variety of cotton to plant should select a variety which consistently makes a high yield and which has good quality as well, advises Prof. C. P. Blackwell, Agronomist, who explains that after several years of experimenting, the Agronomy Division of Clemson College recommends the following varieties: Short staple, for wilt-free land, Cleveland Big Boll, for wilt infested land, Dixie Triumph. Long staple, Deltatype and Webber 49. In 1922 two tests were conducted at the Pee Dee station at Florence un der boll weevil conditions, and below are given in pounds of seed cotton per acre the highest yielding variety in each test. , The tests were in different fields and should not be compared with each other. All varieties in each test replicated three times. Tao* 1 X CC31 11U? JL Variety 1. Woolsey's Clevelund .. 1239 Pounds 2. Dolfos 1236 Pounds 3. Mexican Big Boll 1158 Pounds 4. Cleveland No. 5713 .... 1077 Pounds 5. Humphrey's 6102 1038 Pounds 6. Cook No 1346 999 Pounds Test No. 2 1. Mexican Big Boll 1431 Pounds 2. Lightning Express .... 1341 Pounds 3. Dixie Triumph 1170 Pounds 4. College No. 1 1155 Pounds 5. Coker's Cleveland 1107 Pounds 6. Express 432-782 1971 Pounds More complete data on these tests will be published in bulletin form later. o ? Don't work the ground too wet. Don't wait too late in the spring to risk some early things. Don't trv to economize by buying cheap seed. Don't be stingy with the seed; use them freely. Don't fail to cultivate frequently. Don't be satisfied with a one-season garden, but plant for a succession and for all the year. 1 Your A Is the Youl And I raised 604 bales on J In 1922. (This was 4% of tl 1% of the planted acreage,) by protecting my cotton with ing the boll-weevils from j cotton! You Can Ri If you'll protect your crop economical, efficient and the to apply, on the market toda; t Hill's Mixture is a liquid pc arsenate, molasses, water anc form a combination that we i /vKf Air\ a/] r? n 4"V? K/\ll TXfO VUbAillCUf CJbl>i OC!>?> blic WVU Tf V ijjMiXl ,\S?s DAY, and requires no much MoU Q man nut. of Jk. fltick V AMUnv H ?>v|f VM, and pass up and down the i each plant with the mop. rsement of D Hill's Mixture is mechanics being put in in the exact uncertainty of "mixing your Hill's Mixture is sold ir barrels. Secure prices from whose name appears below* lCKWELL )N, S. C. ory, and the entire County of Horry, S. 2 THTB !E CORPORATION L? GEORGIA NEGRO BOYS ARE TAKEN Three negro boys were up before the mayor last week charged with Ernest Brown, Henry Beaty and Lloyu L?esesne were tne ones engaged. They got tangled up on the street and began fighting and scratching, and they kept this up until the marshall got there and took them to the guard 'house. x Ernest Brown was found guilty and fined in the sum of $15.00, while the two others got off without a fine. Don't fail to rotate as much as possible. Don't neglect the berry plants in the garden. Don't let grass and weeds get the best of you. J a vi | jyy ^>1 W+^m+ ~M k.^ m. M WRIGLEYS fcn? and give your ! stomach a lilt. ?. fHiMu ?*?be bit el 0W?ef ftm bmmmficiai % Helps Ve cleans* I A tbe teed! end keep tt>cn> kcattky. lethod Cotton \aise 312 acres in Burke County he crop for my county, on I was enabled to do thi* "Hill's Mixture," preventgetting one pound of my jise Cotton with HILL'S MIXTURE? easiest boll-weevil poison y. \in/\r\ 11 t i !<"> > nun il /\^ itnlnillMI jiocru, v/uui^uacu ui ta?,iu(u 1 secret ingredients which ire convinced, from result* evil, r | fDre tinery for its application. nth a rag tied on the end, rows, touching the bud of * rsers ! illy mixed, every ingredient I proportion. None of the 1 own." ; i 50-grallon /? ?. i the agent ' c. !