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r X 'i ta is-T 1 v PAGE POUR. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, flOUTH CAROLINA TlwBTnwll PeopU-Seiitinei | Wilet Is Sentenced to Be Electrocuted JOHN W. HOLMES E. P. DAVIES, Editor nd Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C. t as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months - .60 (Strictly in Advance.) Will Pay Death Penalty March 12th for Slaying of 15-Year Old Colombia Boy. / THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 19S4. Swift Justice. In just three weeks after he had kidnaped and murdered Hubbard H. Hajrriss Jr., 16-year old Columbia school boy, Robert H. Wiles, J3r., was tried, convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution. No one doubted from the very outset of the trial that the verdict would be other than that of “guilty.” The crime with ■which Wiles was charged aroused the entire State as has no other in many years and it was the universal hoipe that swift justice would be meted out to the wretched murderer. There is always too much maudlin sentiment in some quarters for the criminal class, but so far that has been oonspiciously absent in the Wiles case. Perhaps his quick trial and conviction of this particularly revolt ing murder i 8 a sign that the pendulum baa begun to awing back *and that henceforth stern justice and not mis placed mercy will govern the ver- dfctg of the coQrts. At any rate, it should be a warning to would-be kidnaper-murderers that this particular crime will not be toler ated in South Carolina.--. -- A Short Sessicti? r Columbia, J'an. 13.—Robert H. Wiles, South Carolina’s first kidnaper-’ killer in tnodem years, was sentenced to death today, three weeks after he betot to death a fifteen-year old school boy. Ignoring an ifisanity plea, a Rich land County jury in less than a half hour of deliberation found Wi]e 8 guiK ty of murdering the school boy,^ Hub bard H. Harris, Jr. Wiles admitted on the witness stand he lured Hubbard from home on the , -- ■. . • tad’s birthday, two days before Christmas, to demand $ 1,00(1 ransom. He hammered the boy to death, he said, with an iron bar at a deserted farm house when his “one-man” plot went awry. A part of the twenty-three minutes the jurymen deliberated the case was spent in prayer asking ‘.‘divine guid ance” in their verdict. As Clerk of Court C. E. Hinnant intoned the fatal word “guilty,” Wiles’ three-year-old son, Robert, Jr., could be heard outside the court room door crying, “daddy, daddy.” The child had been with hi 8 father in the court rydm but was taken out side by hi 8 mother and two grown half-sisters before the jury retired. intjrc tty nay. Wileg heard the verdict with the stern composure he had maintained during most of the three-day t He leaned forward in the prisoners' dock and looked intently at Rice as the sentence was pr His only sig»- -of- nen the rapid chewing of aytfuid of tobac co in his mouth. “Bob,” Judge Wee asked, “you've got nothing further to say?” ‘No, your/honor,” the condemned quietly. Typnrrttsr For Sale ROYAL TYPEWRITER No. in GOOD RUNNING GONlNTIftN WILL SELL CHEAP FOR CASH OR PART CASH TO RESPON- SIBLE PARTY. SEE ME IF YOU NEED A MACHINE. E. E. GOODSON, r v Legal Advertisements * v I will be at the Allowing places for the purpose of taking tax returns for the year 1933. Both real and personal property are to be returned this year./ Ten per cent, penalty will be on .or/before February 28th, 1934 bbins, January 19th. Snelling, January 22nd. Williston, January 24th. • Respectfully yours, , W. H. MANNING, Auditor, Barnwell Cou: SHERIFF* S^SALES^ State of South Carolin County of Barnwei ■ Ujrder and by viftue of Tax * Exe cutions to me ^directed by JT J. Bell, Treasurer of/Batnwell County, I have this day levied upon and will sell to thg highest,hiddex for cash, between man re. The jpnge read the formal sentence, and /aid, “may ‘God have mercy on -souVr’- A few minutes -earliets, T - P»gh- Word continues to be broadcast from Columbia that the present ses sion of the general assembly will be a short one. Let us hope so—but there are two measures that mSy prove stanrtrttng^irlockr" ter quick adjourn" ment. /They are the bill and the .liquor question. A —the. auto license reduction—segtns to be safely on it 8 way to a /quick eett Dement cm the basis of ar 50 per cent. reduction, effective Ndv v 1, 1934. An appropriations biU-'in line with the “economy bill” or last year was prepared by the y*vays and means ' date for considering the point committee of Uw^House before the tar and Kenneth R. Kreps, legislature convened artd many of its other lawyer, indicated they dtemj will/be discussed thi s week. I press for a sanity test. However^it is probable that its final j Twelve policemen si'pped- Wihrs passaaf may be delayed by. the ap-1 out-through a rear door and returner! the^gal hours of sale in front cf the irt House at Barnwell, S. C., on 4he 6th—day of February. 1934, this being Salesday in said month, the .’following described real estate: Ten acre 3 of land and 1 building in Big Fork School DistrictrSounded as follows: North by Gordon Boynton, East by Gordon Boynton, South by B. M. Jenkins and West by B. M. v Jen kins. Levied upon as the property of Jtm Todd Creech and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. Taylor,.defense attorney, who had ar gued to the jury the killer was “in- sane as caa be,” asked whether Wiles c uld be-committed to the insane asylum. Judge Rice said , he could not issue such an order but would set a future Tay- Wrles’ would One hundred and fifteen acres "o7 iand in Seven Pines School District, and bounded as follows: North “by Laura Jenkins, East by Allen HUT, South by L. W. Tilly and West By J. W. Patterson. Levied upon as - the property of S. K. Brown and sold to satisfy the abovedoxecution and fcosts, — — Twenty- building in aoreg of land and 1 barton School District aa follows: 'North by Matilda Hoeey, East by lands of Fed eral Land Bank, South by Tiny Easley and Weet by H. J. Dunbar. . svied upon as the property of of Seles Thompson and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Coats. —ALSO- Twenty^seven acres of land in Joyce Branch School District and bounded as follows: North by Angus Price, East by Mary Jane Golphin, South Julia Golphin and West by Gej^gia Bing.’ . Levied upon as the PLdperty of Est. of Peter Golphin aruFsold to sat isfy the above Executuam and Costs. Seventy-ning'acres of land and 1 building in/3oyce Branch School Dis trict amr bounded as foHows: North tag ,, by A]«ena Greene, East by Quitman Rountree, South by Anna Weathers- and West by Albert Golphin. Levied upon as the property of Mary Jane Golphin and sold to satis fy the above Execution and Costs. \ BROWN & BUSH V- Attorneya-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA CTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS Against Hunting, Fishing Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to sit uate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose,of hunt ing, fishing' or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place L650 t 9 - — ALSO— Fifty-nine acres of land "and 1 building in Reedy Branch School Dis trict and bounded as follows: North by Ben Brown, East' by EsL F. O. Black, South by Est. of D. S. Black and West by. Jeff Black and Mrs; Em- ma Holman, Levied upen as the property of Mazie Bjitler and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs.- J. B. MORRIS, . Sheriff, Barnwell County. Barnwell, S. C., Jan. 16, 1934. ~ NOTire orBOTlD ELECTION. Barnwell High School District of Barn well County, South Carolina. In accordance with ft potiHnn by more than one-third of the resident electors and a like proportion cf the -age of 21 years of Barnwell High School Dis- -AXSO- riation for education. Teachers’ laries were reduced rather, drastical ly at the last session, and there may be a determined effort to increase them, in view of the general upward tendency. him manacled to the State peniten tiary. They had formed a human barrier around him in the prisoner’s dock. Spectators Searched. As an additional precaution against The liquor' question is bound to any violence, Sheriff T. Alex Heise or- prove troublesome and may not be dered eaeh—of- the spectators -who settled at this session. Col. So’omon packed the court room Searched for Blatt, cf Barnwell, and several °therj weapons. Most of them had been representatives introduced a ‘local present throughout the swiftly-mov- option” measure In the House on th? ing CTim dTffTttar * '; ' opening day of the session. ' It pro- ! The jury had taken -the case with vides for the operation of county dis-j c nflicting arguments on the insanity pensaiies in “wet counties,” 25 per plea ringing in. their ears. Defense cent of the profits to go to the State j cJunsel, pleading for “mercy,” argued and the balance to the counties in the middle-aged killer was “plainly which they are operated. #t is veryTderanged.” / much like the county dispensary sys- Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner coun- t«m that was abclished-when South tered that the insanity flea “collapsed Carolina adopted prohibition in 1915.! under Wj^s’ cwn testimony” and his However, the prohibitionists have the argument that the State voted “dry” la?t fall, although only a small percentage of the qualified voters par ticipated in the repeal election. The “bone dry” elerpent may be counted on to use this argument in an effort to stave off any liquor legislation—they V plot wa 8 “impossjbh* in a mad man.” Wiles yesterday had testified in de- ( tail of his lifg history and calmly out lined his plan to abduct Hubbard and extort a ransdm from the youth’s father, a chain store executive. . * He said he had been under “a ter rible mental strain” since he shot and ■lay -even tty to-erase the modestly ' kjttT*d' 'hrs~'frrstr wrfr arnta Ttadplr*- •B.-f- moist “quart-a-month” law from the', statute books. A majority of/he counties went “dry” in the' recent election and as this i| “electron year” R ia-very probable that evepr the legis lators from those' counties who “drink wet” will be .afraid to vote their honest conviction s in the gen eral assembly. The Peoiple-Sentinel thinks that, since thenrta not the remotest possi bility of a strict, enforcement of the prohibition law, Colonel Blatt’s coun ty dispensary system is the best solu Gordon, a plumber, who, he said, “ran away with my wife and two babies.’/ He was acquitted of the double slaying in Durham, N. C. Parents'oh Stand. Packing drama into the court proqeedings, the mother and father of Hubbard added i their testimony to the mass of State’s evidence against the flayer. “V The father related Wiles had wished him a “Merry Christmas” cn the street a few hours after Hubbard was clubbed to death. Mrs. Harris told of tion of handling the liquor question j telephone calls that lured her son no far advanced. New Doctor at Ellenton. Dr. Paul H. Calbreath, formerly of Charleston, has located at Ellenton for the practice of his profession and is boarding with Mrs. R. D. Mayes. He was graduated from the Charles ton Medical College m 1929, since ■which time he has been connected with the Roper hospital and also as a member of the faculty of the medi cal college. He wa g the leader of his daae at college and aince his gradua- tiaa has advanced rapidly in his chosen from home to death with the promise cf 9 holiday j 1 /. Wiles admitted - making the tele phone calls to the Harris home the night before the kidnaping. He told also cf extending the holiday greeting to the slain boy’s father. ' First Crate of t'Crass.” The first crate of South Carolina asparagus was shipped from Fairfax on January 4th by. N. B. Loadholt It is understood that'A. A. Foreman, of Ellenton, shipped a few bunches about the jume time. This i s exceedingly early and reflects the mildness cf the present winter. “7 ~ One lot and 1 build/fg in Dunbar ton School District and bounded as follows: " North by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, East, South and West by lands of said R. I, Gave. Levied upon a s the propeity of Daniel .Hay and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. —ALSO— Ope hundred and—forty land and 2 bui’dings in Cedar Grcve School District and bounded a 8 folr lows: By lands of D^P. Sprawls and Pat Hair, "L. A. Thrmpson, Public Road fit cm Barnwell ta Aiken and Rr.s^mary Creek, wheie it goes into pond. ’ Known as Tract No> 3 in the division of the Nat Pav/ell Estate. Levied up.n as the property of Fied Powell and sold to satisfy the ab^ve Execution and Costs. . ^ i ' —ALSO— nty-tAiee acres of land in Dun barton School District and bounded as fellows: North by Hosoy Estate, East by Se’es -Thompson, S:uth by Tiny Easley, West by Carrie Ashley. Levied "‘upon as the property of H. J. Dunbar and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. trict, County and State aforesaid, duly fi'ed with the undersigned beard of trusteei, and in accordance with an Ordei and Resolution of said Board passed and adopted on the 10th day of January, 1934, likewise on file with said Board; all pursuant to the piovis- iens of Section 5621, Civil Code of South Carolina, 1932, NOTICE IS-HEREBY GIVEN TQ Sweet Water Place - 500 B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200 ^^Bainwell Turpentine Co: Simmons Place 450 Middleton Place JL---- 300 Mose Holly 200 R. C. Norris 400 J. W. Patterson 100 . L. Cohen—(Hay Place 200 Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000 Bruce Place 500 Harriett Houston 150 Mrs. B. H. Cave 250 Sue Ford „ 120 C, F. Molair (West side of J. M. Wentherebee 572 Est. of H. A. Patterson 2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman - 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. — 150 John K. Snelling 100 J. P. Harley - l^O L. W. Tilly 160 John Newton 200 Tom Davis B. L. • Easterling Terie Richardson N. A. Patterson (Tanglew Place/ -/ 130 W. M. Cook yC- 250 Billy Jenkins 56 Jerry Scott ^ 150 'N 400, 00 old ; Savannah Pond__ 100 GEO. H. WALKER. Owner ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr. Treasurer’s Tax Notice wil open from September 15th, 1933, 933 taxes, which include veal and per- The County Treasurer’s office ta March 15th, 1934, for collecting sonal property, poll arid road tax All taxes due and-payable/between September 15-and December 31, .I£33^,wlll be_collected without/penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be subject, tn , penalties, as provided by law January 1st,. 1934, on/ per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1934, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th/1934, seven per cent, will be added. Executions will placed-, in-the. hands of .the. Sheriff for collection/ af ter March 16th, 19: .When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school/district if property is in more than one school district. All personal check s given for taxe s will be subject to collection. - f - Fifty-two acres of land in Big Fork School Djstriot and bounded as fol lows: North by S-altkehatehie River, East by C. F. Rizer, South by C. F. Rizer and .West by Hungry Hfll Mill Creek. .- ~' Levied upwn as ,the property of Farmers’ National Bank and sold to satisfy the above. .Execution and Costs. _ . —ALSO— ALL QUALIFIED VOTERS RESID ING IN SAID BARNWELL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRCT, That an election ■will be held on Wednesday, January 31, 1934, between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m., at the places within the said district designated be-, Iqj^ to determine whether or not Die said district shall issue serial, coupon bonds in an amount not to exceed ■Thirty-Eight Thousand Doitar^tS38. 000.00), for High School purposes as permitted by said Sdctiorg 5621, t Civil Code, 1932, and that in/said election only qualified voters residing in said Barnwell High School District shall be alfcwed to vote, as is provided in said section of the Civil Code. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN That, for the convenience cf the quali fied voters of said Barnwell High School District in said -electicn’on the day designated above, the said high school district will be divided into four voting areas, according to com mon school districts, with a box and .managers thereof at the voting places indicated below: Barnwell Court House:—Barnwell School'District; Reedy Branch School District; Diamond School District and Long Branch School District. Kline, Southern Railway Platform: Kline School District; Big Fork School District; Morris School District, and Red Oak School District. • Hercules School House:—Hercules School District: Barbary Bra nch School District, and Friendship School District. ‘ .Snelling, Atlantic Coast Line Plat form:—Seven Pines School District. Qualified voters residing^in a par ticular common schoof district, who desire to Vote in said election, will One lot and 1 building in Dunbarton. ^P 01 * to the voting place assigned to School District and bounded as fol lows! North by old Dunbarton-Donora highway, East by old Dunbarton-Do- ncra highway, South by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Levied upon as the property of E. M. Harley and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. —ALSO— Thirty-one acres of land and 1 building in Dunbarton School Diirtrfct and bounded as fbHows: North by Marie Hazel, East by J. M. Killings- worth. South by Willie Chavous and West by Federal Land Bank’lands. Levied upon as the property of Robt. Hazel and sold .to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. that common school district. The following managers have been appointed to conduct the said election: Barnwell—Perry B. Bush, J. Buist Grubbs and Robert A. Patterson. Kline—Manley Barker, B. M. Jej/ kins, Jr., and W. H. Moody, Jr. Hercules—Frank Sanders, Maner W. Mcrria_and W. W. Harley/ Snelling—W. Bratton Parker, R. R Moore apd R. W. Moore By order" cf Beard of Trustees Of Barnwell High School District, of Barnwell County, S. C. Jas. Jalien Bush, Chairman, Richardson, Brown, L. A. Plexico, Solomon Blatt, Clerk. No. 24—-Ashleigh No. 33—Barbary Branch No. 45-—Barnwell No. 4—Big Fork • No. 19—Blackville __ No. 35—Cedar Grove „No. 50—Diamond VNu. 20—Double Pond -r-t-j* No. 12—Dunbarton No. 21—Edislgp ."TZ No. 28—i-Elkojfc-- - No. 53—Ellmjiton .1 No. 11—FoiilR-Mfle No. 39—Friendship, - No. 16—Green’s l__ No. 10—Healing Springs ---- No. 23—Herculeif i —— No. 9—Hilda --1_. No. 52^—Joyce Branch No. 34—Kline Nd. 32—Lee’s ..i* No. 8—Long Branch No. 54—Meyer’siMj^ No. 42—Morris-^pl, "No. j 14-^-Mt. Calvary •- No. 25—New Forest No. 38—Oak Grove No. 43—Old Columbia , No. 13—Pleasant Hill W 7 Hair No715—Reedy Branch -i-lT— No. 2—Seven Pines N«. 40—Tinker’s Creek No. 26—Upper Richland No. 29—Willistc • / — ; — State ■ >* —c — 9 ■■ o O - - >* Im CO c •5 O tr. t3 C C O -« 03 rs a, o M 3 ’V- 'Z jJVJ ar/ U3 c o m rs c . a-a/’ CG ' ig / T /.° a o £ w o O Zj O .*5 *53 Zj . CO TOTAL — ' - .—/ 5 4 4 1. 3 . 12 29 5 4 4 1 3 J 30 47 4/ 4 1 3 29 46 5 \ 4 4 1 : 3- 18 < 35 5 / '4 ■ 4 i 3 20 37 5 4 4 i 3 27 44 "f ■' 4 . 4 1 3 - 14 31 -ifSr- —t - -4'- 3. -1 “TIT 36' 5 1 4 i * 3 27 n 44 5 4 4 i 3 ‘ ' 8 25 5 4 4 i 3 26 43 5 4 4 i 3 7 24 5 4 4 i 3 8 25 . 5 4 4 i 3 14 31 5 4 4 4 3 19 36 5 4 4 1 3 20 '37 5 4 4 1 3 27 44 5 4 4 1. 3 36 \ 52 5 4 4 1 3 26 43 5 4 4 1 3 18 35 5 4 4 1 3 10 27 5 * 4 4 1 3 17 34 “ta 5 4 4 1 3 21 | 38 . 5 / 4 4 1 3 12 ta 29 c - A _1 ^ <3 r —ZT —44— 5 4 4 1 3 27 44 6 4 4 1 3 19 36 f- Bl 4 l 3 26 4S taju _ 4 -4 ta 1 3 14 ■ 31 --4—= i i 3 16 / 38 5 4 4 i 3 14/ 31 • 5 4 —4': - l -3 • if f 29 5 4 4 i 3 16 33 ' 5 4 4 i 3 CO (N 43 5 1 4 4 i 3 31 48 < 1 JL /•'* The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by til male citizens between the ages of 21 and 56 years. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxfefc for 1933 will be paid at the same time other taxes are paid/ It is the duty of each fdTool trustee in each school district to see that this (tax is collected or aid the Magistrate ii --visio -visions of thi s Act. fi) in the enforcement of the pro- Checkg will not be accepted for-taxes under any circumstances except at the risk of the taxpayer.-^-(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) Tax receipts will be ^released only upon legal tender, post office money orders or certified checks* , J. J. BELL, County Treat. \ ur Orders J for Job Pi ta