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i i i v Yv. - Consolidated Jans 1, I92&. M Ju«t Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LVI. / BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER l), 1932. * NUMBER 7. PAUL H. OWENS INSTANTLY KILLED BY JOHN C. HOGG SHOT IN BODY THREE TIMES BY POLICEMAN.—y- Homicide Witnessed by Owens’ Wife ..and Chief of Police George W. Peeples. Paul H. Owens, 36-year old World The Orangeburg Fair Reduces Admission Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week \ A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others . You Don’t Know. Will Be Only 25 Cents for Everybody, Which ts Just Half Former Fee for Adults. War veteran and automobile mechanic, of this city, was shot and instantly killed Sunday jnorning at 1:30 o’clock by John C. Hogg, night policeman. The homicide occurred near the resi dences of the two men, who were next door neighbors, and was witnessed by Owens’ wife and Chief of Police Geo. W: Peeples. Owens was shot three ye ^ S times in the body when, it is alleged, he advanced on the policeman with an open knife in his hand. According to testimony of witnesses at the coroner’s inquest, Policeman Hogg had ordered Owens to go home earlier in the night, the officer alleg ing that he was drunk on the streets. About one o’clock Mrs. Hogg phoned her husband to come home immediate ly, as Owens was cursing her and nherwise disturbing the neighbor hood, it is said. Hcgg requested C hief Peeples to go with him and when they reached the scene the former im mediately went in to his house, Mrs. Hogg fainting just as he entered the <i .or. Shortly thereafter Mrs. Owens came out of her yard and almost im mediately Owens made his appear ance. The officer said’ that he then uot out of the car and Owens advanced towaid him with his hand in his pock et and in answer to Peeples’ inquiry as to what he (Owens) had in his hand is said to have replied, “My knife.” Peeples further testified that Owens refused to surrender the knife and hit at him with a flashlight which he had in his other hand. The officer backed away, followed, he said, by Owens, whereupon he hit Owens with his pis tol, knocking him to his knees and then jerking him down and putting his knee on Owens’ neck. Mrs. Owens, he said, was standing nearby. “You Have Killed Me.” The Orangeburg Fair, which will be held this year October 25, 26, 27 and 28, is announcing through an ad vertisement in The People-Sentinel reduced admission fees to the gate. The charges will be only 25 cents this year for" everybody, which is half the •price charged for adults in previous The fair association has been able ’ p aye in ew ° r ^ to obtain the same class of shows and y s * on una e *° ra ^ amusements and exhibits for gi'eatly reduced prices this year and the bene- fits of this are being passed on to the patron-'. It is expected the fair will i be better this year than ever before, las a number of new features are be- I ing introduced. School children from this and ad joining counties will be admitted free at the gates Tuesday and Wednesday this year. The Citadel-Furman football game will be played Thursday. Plenty of free shows and fireworks. The John nie J. Jones Midway and Victor’s Band will furnish amusements. The Jews of Barnwell Celebrating Yom Kippur or Day of Ato^iem^nt. . . C, G. Fuller trying to put his plane into a tail-spin. . . Coach W. R. Pfice saying that the Carlisle game may be the last “big”~game^ seen in Barnwell this season because of the lack of financial support, and com plaining about the large number of so-called fans who attend the games without paying admission Johnnie Scoville back from a two weeks’ vacation in the North, where he attended the World Series games . Har- Caroiina supporters over the Gamecocks defeat at the hands of Wake Forest because his team, Clemson, lost also. . . . Expressions of surprise over the gov ernment’s increase in the cotton esti mate. . . A small bay throwing a football on the field during Friday’s game and two Carlisle players diving on same, thinking that Barnwell had fumbled. Weight Handicap Too Much for Local Team Barnwell,Boys, However, Made Great Showing Against Heavy Car lisle Football Squad. house and when we got here we found his wife in a fainting condition. I sat in the car. John went in the house to his wife. 1 saw Mrs. Owens coming from below her hou e e and went in to John’s.house and was about 100 feet behind her. When Paul got to John’s gate I got out of the car and asked him where he was going, and he said he was going in John’s house. 1 said, ‘No, Paul, you can’t go in. What is that you have in your hand, in your pocket?’ ‘My knife,’ he said. I said, ‘Give it to me, Paul,’ and reached^Tor his arm and he hit at me with his flashlight which he had in his other hand. I backed off and he started to ward me and I hit him with my pistol and he came at me the third time. I Policeman Hogg is then said to have, knocked him to his knees, jerked him o me out of his home and it is alleged down ami put my knee on his neck. I that Owens hit at him, whereupon the • ^ oc * iet ^ U P an< ^ ^ ,s ’ Owens was stand- officer^truck him with his club. ^ ' n K hy. I picked up his glas>es and OwensPs then alleged to have grabbed handed them to her. Then I .-aw Hogg in the collar and kicked him.!^°h n - P au * 8 0t away from me and The policeman knocked Owens’ hand U P on his feet and hit at John, loose and when the latter is alleged to J°hn hit him two or three times with have advanced towards him with his his billy. Then Paul jerked loose fiom knife, Hogg fired four times. The him, grabbtd John in ths collar with fir st shot went wild, but th»^ other his left hand and kicked him, and when three bullets took effect in Owens’ he done that, Paul h&d his knife in his body, causing almost instant death. It is said that the only words spoken by Ch^ens after he was shot were: “You have killed me.” The knife, ’with one blade open, is said to have been found by Owens’ body. | " Mrs. Owens testified that when she came out on the street from the Hogg Card of Thanks. ^ I wish to express my appreciation for the support given me in the past election. I assure the people of Barn well County that I shall do all in my power to perform the duties of the office in an acceptable manner. James T. Still, Coroner-elect. The Barnwell Assn, i. Held Annual Session Met at Double Ponds Baptist Church Tuesday and Wednesday of This Week. . » After playing |he heavy Carlisle- Fitting School football team on better than even tterms in the first half of Friday’s game, weigh? finally proved tco much for the light but fast Barn well high school eleven, and the vis itors won, 18 to 6. Shortly after the contest Jstatted, a bad 'p&«s from cen ter was fumbled behind the Barnwell goal line and a Carlisle player fell on the ball for a touchdown. The locals then took the ball on the kick-off and marched straight down the field t^Ktie the score. In the .second quarte Davies, local center, recovered a Car lisle fumble on the visitors’ 25-yard line. Barnwell drove the ball to the five-line stripe, only to lo-e it on the third down on a fumble. Thej^ s uc- ceeded, however, In keeping the ball deep in Carlisle’s territoiy during most of the first half in spite of the fact that one of their main-stays in the backfield, J. Hogg, had been taken out becau-'s of an injury. Time after time they took the ball away from the visitors on downs and started drives to the goal line. The annual meeting of the Barnwell Baptist Association, composed of the Baptist Churches of Bamberg and Barnwell and a portion of Allendale Counties, was held on Tue-day and Wednesday of this week at the Dou ble Ponds Baptist Church, this coun ty. The program was as follows: Tuesday morning, 10:30—Devotion al, Dr. W. M. Jones; report on order of business; annual sermon, enroll ment cf delegates; report on missions, including state, home and foreign missions; miscellaneous business, in- oduction of new pastors, Visitors recbgmzed, appointment of * special committees, announcements, etc.; ad- journmenN^or dipner. Tuesday afternoon, 2:30—Devotion al, Dr. W. C. Allen; report on Christ ian education, including S. S., B. Y. P. U., Christian literature, schools and colleges; report on state of churches; miscellaneous business and adjournment. Wednesday morning, 10:30—Devo tional, the Rev. Waymon C. Reese; report on benevolences including or phanage, hospital, aged ministers’ re right hand, going toward John after he got hi^ hand loose from John’s col lar. John knocked his hand loose. Paul had his knife in right hand go ing toward him and John shot four time-. I think he missed him the first time. This happened on the corner by Mr. Hogg’s house under the electric light and I could see plainly what read from Mr. Hogg’.- house.” N T. K. Bolen. “I got up between one and two o’ clock. I stopped at the gate; seen a tussle between Mr. Peeples and Paul Owens. Mr. Hogg was present, too. Mr. Owens got loose from Mr. Pee- plaa and went for Mr. Hogg. Then r. Hogg made a few steps backward and the gun fired. “While Paul and Mr. Peeples was in a scuffle, Paul asked Mr. Peeples ‘why you don’t shoot me.’ “I saw Paul up town about an hour before this, drunk, and Mr. Hogg was carrying him home. He was not hav ing any tiouble with him at that I time.” Dr. A. B. Patterson. “I find three gun shot wounds, two sufficient to produce death, and two injuries on top of head attended by fracture of skull, one back of the ear about an inch long, groove in bone.” John C. Hogg. In his application for bail, Hogg made the following sworn affidavit: “That he is the defendant in this case ,chaiged with the killing of Paul Owens. That deponent is the night policeman in Barnwell and that last night about two o’clock (Sunday morning) he was up town and re ceived a telephone message from his hjme, some one was searching her husband and she begged him not to happened.’ shoot Owens, Peeples replying that he Recalled, Mr. Pee-pie-: would not. She alleges that she was follows: testified as When I saw John shoot Immediately 'after the second half | stalled, Lemon, speedy quarterback i lief 5 report on Christian stewardship, for the locals, was injured and had to j including enlistment, a^sociational be removed from the game. Aided by e ^i c iency and womans work; miscel- penalties totaling 25 yards, Carlisle' :aneous business, announcements and carried the ball to Barnwell’s eight- adjournment for dinner, yard line, fir-t down and goal to go. Wednesday afternoon, 2:30—Devo- Three thiusts at the line netted only tionaJ * the Rt * v - B - H - price ; election of about five yards, but the touchdown officers; report on social .-ervice, in- was made on the fourth by a matter of , eluding temperance, prohibition and inches. The visitors third touchdown ,aw an d order; miscellaneous business came in th$ la-t few minutes of play an d b na l adjournment. Urges Fair Visitors to Stay Over Night Several Reasons Given, One of Which Is to See Magnificent Oitt- of-Doors Revue. Columbia, Oct. 11.—Paul V. Moore, secretary of the South Carolina Fair, is urging visitors to stay over night for several reaspns, one of which is to see the magnificent out-of-door* Re vue that has been art'snged for each evening of the fair. Last year the fair brought a great musical extrava- ganza to Columbia to be presented nightly in front of the grand stand, and the show made such a whale of a hit that a similar Revue wa£ booked for this year, which Mr. Moore knows will be larger and better than last year’s, though the 1931 Sensations wa.« top-notch in every respect. An other reason Mr. Moore wants the people to stay over is *o they can have more time to see the splendid exhibits that have been assembled from all sections of the State. The Carolina-Clemson game at noon Thursday tops the athletic bill, but a high school game Friday after noon between New Brookland-Cayce and Sumter and a Horse Show Wed nesday and Friday mornings are out standing added attractions. Mr. Moore believes in urging the people of the State to join the merry throng in Columbia, October 17-22, inclusive. after they had battered and tired out their much younger and lighter oppo nents. Eveiy member of the local squad banks, of Aiken, is visiting J. J. Bell who participated in Friday’s game de- and family. Williaton News. Williston, Oct. 8.—Mrs. S. D. Eu- serves all the nice things that have been said about them. Although out weighed 25 to 30 pound- to the man, they stopped Carlisle’s line plays dead time after time and when on the of- Miss Patricia Baxley spent la*t week-end with her mgther in Colum bia. Mrs. Jessie Kennedy, of North Au gusta, i.< spending some time here holding on to Hogg and begging him not to shoot Owens and that the offi cer “slung me away from him and shot Paul.” T. N. Putnam, a nearby neighbor, testified that he saw Peeples backing away from Owens and telling him to “drop that knife.” He did not witness the shooting. T. K. Bolen, another neighbor, testified that when Owens broke away from Peeple 5 and ad vanced towaids Hogg, the latter shot “him. -. The coroner’s jury of inquest re turned a verdict to the effect that Owen? came to his death from gun shot wounds the hands of Hogg in the discharge of his duty. . Hogg has been granted bail by As sociate Justice Catter in the sum of $1,500. Owens, who was a World Was vet eran, received injuries to his head in an automobile accident several years ago. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, of this cit^; his moth er, who lives in Graniteville, and sev eral sisters and brothers. Funeral services were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock in the Barnwell Baptist Church. The following is a copy of the tes timony taken at the inquest: George W. Peeples. “John Hogg came to my house and asked me to come and arrest Paul Owens; said he had been to his house. I gel in the car and rede down to his Paul, Paul was advancing toward John with his knife in his hand. The officers have had troub’e with Paul many times before. I saw this knift, opened, picked up by Mr. Hogg after he had shot Paul, and John handed me iff soon after that.” Mrs. Paul H. Owens. “I left Paul standing on the porch with the children. I told them to to his (Hogg’s) house, cursed Mr.?. Hogg cut and told her that she must telephone tor Mr. Hogg, or he was going up town and have it out with him. That deponent had found Mr. Owen- drunk up town about midnight and had taken him part of the way home and gone back up town. This evidently infuriated Mr. Owens and fensive they ripped it open for sub- with Mrs. R. L. Hair and other rela- stantial gain?. As Coach W. R. tives. Price expressed it, the team looked I Mis* Mayo Rountree left Saturday better in defeat Friday than they for Atlanta, where she wil] spend a have looked on previous occasions f e w day? with her sister, Mrs. H. H. when on the big end of the scote. - To Altman. naim the star? would be to call the j Mr. and Mr. L. E. Birt and daugh- roll of the team, but J. Bush, guard,; ter, Maggie, Mrs. Bessie Grubbs, Roy and Lemon, quarterback, deserve spe- Davis, Isabelle Bullard and Clarence cial mention. Mobley, of Laurenburg, N. C., attend ed a reunion of the Ha^t- family at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cook, near Snelling. It has been announced by Major E. „ Leila R "“* n - of W ! nt ^P M. Reno, officer in charge of the Ma- College acuity wa, a vuutor .n Wtl- rine Corps Recruiting Station, Post hs,on Wednesday and met w.th the Office Building, Savannah, Ga., that a‘-W i, ’ th I r0 J? ^ u,<h ' crs ™ ,he home of limited number of applicants are be-| rs ‘ * ’ . James McKerley left for Savannah Wednesday night where he has joined the marine corps. - Marine Corps Wants Recruits. ing accepted each month at that of fice.. The Marine Corp? is a small organ- wife at home that Paul Owens, who , . J i u—j i ■ ization .which is called upon for many lives next door, was drunk, had been . , , .. , , , , vaned duties and has built up a repu tation for its ability to perform such tasks a? are being assigned in a high- S. B. Creech Passes. Low Railroad Rates. Columbia, Oct. 11.—Setting a new low in economical transportation in South Carolina, the Southern Railway System will sell on Thursday of State Fair Week round-trip ticket* from Oby point in South Carolina to Columbia foe one dollar, the avistant general passenger agent of the road said yes terday. The Seaboard announces a rate of $1.25 round-trip down to 50 cents between Columbia and Haiqlet. The tickets will be sold for all trains on Thursday by the Southern and will be honored on all trains Fri day for the return trip with the fol lowing exceptions: No tickets will be honored on the Crescent Limited and the tickets will he sold from points between Calhoun to Blacksburg and Landrum to Alston on Wednesday, because existing train schedules do not permit arrival in Columbia in time for participation in the major events of the day. These tickets will carry a return limit of Friday also. All of the $1 ticket? will be honored in day-coaches only. In addition to these tickets, the Sdiithern and Seaboard will begin sell ing on Saturday October 15, from all points in South Carolvpa to Columbia, tickets based'on one-fare plus 25 eta. for the round trip with, a limit of Oc tober 24. These tickets will be sold daily and will be good in Pullman and parlor cars upon payment of proper fares, but will not be honored on Crescent Limited. the knife and I handed it to the ?her-_ was t ^ le 0 ct as i° n f° r the visit to de ponent’s house by Mr. Owen?. That de portent, after receiving the (message fiom his wife, went home $nd upon going in fouhd his wife in a hysterical i condition. That knowing Mr. Owen? stay with their Daddy and 1 would go; , 0 b( , bad charactel , dcponent on the over to Mr.-. Hogg's, and Jaftn ran oat. way home wen( by an<J ^ tht . chle{ of Police, Mr. George Peeples, to go S. B. Creech, of Barnwell County, died at his home October 3rd after an ly efficient manner. In order to main-! illness of ten adys. tain this high standard of efficiency,! Mr. Creech, who wag a son of S. J. which the government expects of Creech and Susan Williams Creech, them, it is neces.-ary that those ad- wag hern in this county February 26, mitted to theii“ ranks young men 1856, being 76 years of age at the of high character and that they have time of his death. He was widely con- the “necessary intelligence to learn nected in the county, where he had quickly to perform efficiently all the spent his entire life, varied duties of a Marine, both ashore Funeral services were conducted at and afloat. I Friendship Church at 3:30 p. m. Oc- Applicant? who have at least a high tober 4th. interment taking place in school education and excellent char- the churchyard. The services were acter are the only ones who are being conducted by the Rev. D. W. Heckle, accepted. Sutviving Mr. Creech are the fol ia Memoriam. home with him. While deponent was in the house administering to his wife, he heard on the outside Mr. Peeples in a fight with somebody and going out found Mr. Peeples trying to a,rest | or i by maU are •' iven of the house and said he would be back ’ in a minute, and I followed him. I got in the street and 1 saw some one on top of Paul. John was seaiehing him. I begged him not to shoot him, and Mr. Peeples said he would not. I saw the blood as they went to pick him up and asked if they had shot him. Paul got up and I was swinging to John and I begged John to please net to shoot him, and before I knew it, John slung me away from hifn and shot Paul.” | T. N. Putnam. “I saw Mr. Hogg stop in front of his house. I saw Mr. Peeples get out of the car on right side, walk behind missing him, he thinks, the first shot, car and then saw him back up the That immediately deponent picked up street 12 feet, somebody coming on the knife that fell by the side of him, and Mr. Peeples was saying, Owen?, handed it to Chief Peeples, •Diop fhat knife, Paul,’ three times, who in turn gave it to the Sheriff, I turned away and did not see the who came up shortly, the trouble by shooting. I was standing at my win- Owens having in the meantime, as de- dow in the house, looking through the ponent is “informed and believes, been window on the opposite side cf the reverted to the Sheriff.? Whereas, hi the providence of oar Heavenly Father, Mr*. Daisy Doncan Buckingham has been transferred from the Church Militant to the Church Triumphant; and, whereas, she has been an active and zealous work er in our Society—The Ladies’ Guild of the Church of the Holy Apostles— we hereby adopt this method to mani fest our £<pprecition of her labors and to show our grief at her loss; there fore, be it Resolved, that thi? Society has sus tained a great loss in Mrs. Bucking ham—one that we will long feel; and we rejoice—judging by our knowledge Yeung men in this vicinity who de- lowing children: C. ,J. Creech, of sire dpty in the seivice of the Marine Denmark; S. C. Creech, Buist Creech 0 f h er correct walk in life to feel Corps should apply or write to the and Geter Creech, of Olar; Mrs. Lot- Marine Corp? Recruiting Station, Sa- tie, Cope, of Fail fax; 31 grandchildren vannah, Ga. Applications in person and 11 great-grandchildren. Owens; that deponent went out and when he walked up Mr. Owens turned Mr. Peeples loose and plunged at de ponent with an open knife in his hand; deponent hit Mr. Oweas with a billy, but he came back at him, where upon deponent realizing that Owens, who wa? a powerful man, was going to kill or seriously injuie deponent, shot Mr. Owens, shooting four times, but sideration. Squashing a Party. Pall-bearers were the following grandchildren: Wilton Creech, Ernest Ray, Gilmore Creech, James Creech, Robert Ray and Charlie <jk>pe. Blackville Items. Blackville, Oct. 8.—Mr. and Mrs. This comprehensive expression is from The Barnwell People-Sentinel: “If the Democratic nominees in South Quinby Beard and Mrs. Furman Still, Carolina are so rotten that the for- of Beaufort, were guests Tuesday of Mrs. Ralph Brown, Secretary, mation of a second party ha? become Dr. and Mr*. R. A that she ha? been freed from suffering by her transfer to the more abundant life. Futher, Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the fam ily; also published in The Barnwell People-Sentinel, and spread upon our minute? by the secretary of our So ciety. Mrs. Charlie Brown, Sr n President. necessary to insure good government. Gyles. Mrs. Ada B. McLaurin, of Columbia, •funny that Hambright, Harrigal, et and Mrs. Bob Moore, of Montgomery, To Ser/e Oyster Supper. The ladies of the Barnwell Mcfthod- al., would want to associated with Ala., were guests this week of Mrs. ist Church will serve an oyster supper them even to the extent of having S. B. Rush and Mr*. G. F. Posey, in the dining room of the church on Democratic and Republican nominees’ Mrs. Rush and Mrs. Posey spent last Friday evening, Oct. 14th, the pro week-end in St. Mptthew.? as guests of ceeds to be used for the building fund, their parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. F. For those who do not like oyster?, that The Barnwell People-Sentinel ^ Bruce. They returned Sunday after- sandwiches, candies and cakes will be treads cn the new Republican party noon and were accompanied home by served. Come out, enjoy .«ome good and squashes it. ’ |the above mentioned guests. est s and help a good cause. names printed on the same ballot.” To The News and Courier it seems