Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, August 12, 1899, Image 4
FINDINGS OF THE INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE.
The report of the penitentiary
investigating committee has been
filed at the executive office. The
report makes no recommendation
as to what steps shall be taken in
the matter, and as Governor Mc
Sweeney is out of town no action
will he taken for a day or two at
least.
We give a synopsis of the report,
space will not permit it
being published in full.
It covers a great jeai 0f ground
and is right to the point. The
matters examined were embraced
under three heads: 1. The treat
ment of the convicts The con
dition and management of the
farm and tin' disposition of farm
products. 3. The general financial
affairs of t he penitentiary proper
ami the use and disposition
made of the assets of the penitentiary
proper, including amounts
due to the same.
The treatment of the convicts
were found to be very good. Only
one case of severe whipping was
reported, and that was given by
a subordinate, tor which .Mr. Neal
was not responsible. Mr. Miller,
manager of the Lexington farm
was commended for his methods,
which reduced the necessity for
whipping to a minimum. The
next matter taken up was the
condition and management of the
farming property. This was lound
to he in line condition, well
stocked and well cultivated; large
crops are made, and valuable improvements
in the way of buildings,
and dykes and ditching, vfce.
The DeSaussure and Ileid farms
have been paid for under superintendent
Noil's administration,
and he is commended by the
committee tor his -k.llful man
agement ol both of these farms.
The committee is of the opinion
that the fanning business does
not pa\.
"There has been, for instance,
for the year ol 1S9S an average
of 135) hands used 011 the Keid
and DeSaussure farms. The evi
dence is that they will pay $.">()
per year per head when hired
out, making $t>,5).">0 net from
their lure. Ilio total products
from these i.1 ri11s lor 1 OS as reported
hy the hoard was $41,
013.Do The fish re1 turned from
the larm pre ioee ol DeSaiissure
ail<I II I larm, p ?<: ? J | and II.
is $ 1 *J 7ninel \ nine ha!e>
ol Col i' i on h i nl .1 uuiar; I t,
JSC.); v. i ^ pofil.lv on hand
at ' hn: ' i *u on ler a ! ih? r il e-t i
male moo worth o* other pro
clnee, naKOr.: a tot ,| <.:
21 (),."?"? .c.Mi .. | lor. arid leaving
a hat.i o $ i s Mi l | i w 11i. :i
niu ' i . ui-i.!. \ i\/.
this <T ' 11 : e. | , ||ie hir
ol <*i 11 v it. a I: . 11 11 - pa j. 1
for lit" " o ; rI? -. $20.1 h?' >; lent
ol land. ? ?1 .i 111_i i 11 urn- (|ii.ir
Discovered by a Woman.
Aim i.r t i -at oise..\ery has
been m <i?. , . I . nal mo, by a la
dy ill li.i- < . .1 . v. " ifjst ;:si* fatened
i,v- ? ?? t* - to > ? her ami
for sev- n -to- withstood its
severes' ? .*? 1 ?-r vital organs
Were limb imiiinl and death
seemed iintr: i t I-\ir three
month- -?*! e<?ii?rh?*d incessenfly,
and could not sieen. She finally
discovered a way *<> recovery, by
purchasing of us a buttle of I >r.
Kind's New Discovery for Consumption,
and was so much relieved
on lakimr first dose, that
she slept all night; and w ith two
bottles lias been absolutely cured.
Her narr.e is Mrs. Luther but/.'
Thus writes W. 0. Hamnicfc <fc
Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial bottles
free at Crawford I>ro?. Drug Store
Regular size 50c. and $1.00
Every bottle guaranteed. i
ter of the crop, $10,250.40 ; pro
duce consumed in the making
$18,803.40. The crops cost, t lere
fore, $50,076.27; the value of tlx
crop, $41,013.95, leaving a de
' licit of $15,062.32. From thii
should be deducted the value o
permanent improvements claimec
as being made during the yeai
(seo exhibit A), $1000, leaving
an apparent deficit of $14,062.32
To this should be added the in
terest on the equipment, which i;
valued by the directors at $25.00(
on page 21 of the report of 1 SI*7
which, at 6 per cent, would la
$1,500, making the total deficit
of $15,562.32. From this, ol
course, should be deducted Liu
corn and oot? and bacon fur
nislu l to the penitentiary itself
which, at a liberal estimate Iron
the testimony could not
exceed $5,000 from the croj
| of 1 SOS, which would necessarily
leave a loss of $10,562.32 Iron
i in ruling operai ions on i nose (W(
' farms.
".'i. As to the general linancia
affairs of the penitentiary propel
and the use and disposition madi
of the assets, etc., we are con
stiainod to report that the inves
ligation has brought forth a state
of affairs which is not creditable
I In th<? first place it will be fount'
by a close examination of the tes
timony taken that the director:
knew too little of the affairs o
the institution and were too sub
servient to the will of the super
intendent. The fact that then
| were about $4,600 of ItagsdaU
notes in the bank with the pen
itentiary endorsement represent
ing convict hire for two years 01
Mr. Xeal's place, while the direc
tors thought the hire had beer
I iviiit bIia\po
I ...... rw.iwv. .vi.ft.
|of the allairs of the institutioi
was entirely superficial. The fae
that they paid him $10 a tnontl
stable rent for six years and tw<
months for allowing penitentiary
| horses to stand in his stables
j where they were kept purely fo
I his convenience, and now profes:
j not to know they were paying i
is another evidence of the sorn
I nolence of their faculties whet
approving accounts. They eitho
knew that such was the case, o
they did not know it. If they
! knew they were paying it, they
I were deliberately yielding to Mr
j Neal's desire lor money, to whirl
he was not entitled, and wen
I therefore culpable, or, it they
didn't know it, they were ap
i proving and paying an iten
I monthly lor several years whirl
I was wrong and never found out
: Kit her supposition is sufficiently
humiliating. We would note hen
j that we know of no law author
; izi11ir the directors to keep a lo
jot horses and carriages for the u?(
(>t the superintendent's family
and we regard it as an unwarran
tel extravagance. I he evideiua
h> n1 i-i tli.it t li?' bookkeeper Inn
to use his lior.-c mi Penitentian
business, lor which the State lei
111111 in part, while the horses lo
( whose stable rent we were pay
i(ih hanil.-uiiH ly Were being u?e?
b\ the .uperiiiten-h-iil's family
I he evidence i- that there Wa
> 1 ilile mom tor these horses a
the Penitentiary.
i lie col ii lo i! t ee culled atlelitiol
(ilorious News.
<"(/ines from I > r. 1). H. ('argile
>t Washita, I. T. llo writes
rour nomes 01 r.iecuc roller
la ?t ^ en red M rs. Brewer of scrofula
which nad caused her great suf
lering for years. Terrible sore
j would break out on her bead am
face, and the best doctors couh
give no help ; but her cure is coin
plete and her health is excellent.'
1 his shows what thousands hav<
proved,?that Klectric Bitters ii
tho hes blood purifier known. lt\
! the supreme remedy for eczema
| tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boil
and running sores. It stimulate!
{liver, kidneys and bowels, expeh
poisons, helps digestion and buildi
i up the strength. Only 50c. Solt
by Crawford Bros. Druggis
' Guaranteed. '
to the custom of entertaining
? large crowds of tho penitentiary
at the expense of the State, and
also to some of the distinguished
5 beneficiaries.
f Now as to Mr. Neat's financial
1 transactions and his moral oblir
quity in the matter: In the first
r
" place, in the face of the plain
spirit ot the law, he arranged as
? soon as he became superintend
) ent to have his kinsman and
> creditor, J. Helton Watson, take
' charge of his plantation in A.11p
derson county, and procured for
him convicts to work it, and
agreed that tho net proceeds,
> alter paying for the convict labor
' and farm expenses, should be ap
plied to his debt to Watson, and
. he was thus to get the advantage
! of all profits made by the convict
) | labor, indirectly hiring them to
I himself. The law enjoins upon
': him the duty of watching those
r| who hire convicts, preventing op
pression and enforcing the rule
that they shall he humanely
''treated, carefully attended hy
physicians and not required to
labor more than ten hours a day,
J nor on Sundays and holidays.
Sections fiOO and 50'.). Vol. 2,
- liev. Stats of 189.1.
The plain intent of the law is
that he shall not hire thetn him
self, directly or indirectly, or he
personally interested in the
j amount of work done. The net
proceeds being his the tendency
1 would he to give Watson the best
? labor, work it over time and re^
port as much lost time as possible.
, Having run under this contract
> lor the years 189.1 94-95, he had
I his debt reduced as a result from
< $17,000 to $14,900. (See Exhibit
r H.) Then lie took a contract from
s Watson (Ex. 11.) whereby exclu
I sivo control was returned to him,
but the convicts were hired to
1 Mr. Watson, (see Ex. (1,) and no
r bond was taken from Watson.
r'Ti.io .....o a ? :~i >
- | t ?no u a.i jfidiilljt UUIIU IU Illl^lfilU
>' the board of directors, as he
' frankly admits that they would
not have hired them to him. Thus
1 lie became the master, the cou2
tractor, in fact, with Watson as a
>' stalking horse. All the profits in
I sured to his benelit.
1 i Instead of paying the State for
1 i the convict hire for 18b?; he took
ia worthless note of his foreman,
'' one Ilagsdale, and endorsed it as
2 superintendent of the J'enitenti
ary, borrowed the money on it
Hand returned it as cash received.
2 i The note has never been paid,
'land the bank threatens the 1'en
litentiary with suit lor it. The
' same t hing occurred in 1 V.?7 with
1 another Uairsdale note, and in
' 1S!?S no pretence of payment has
' been made. I lie net proceeds ol
r the farming operations for 1 *>'.) ?
and ISP7 wa re paid to Mr. Wati
?on on Mr. Neal's debt to hiin.
i i xcept ^ 1. hiS5, lor which Mr.
" Meal irave Watson a receipt as
'superintendent. ami w hicli was
, not turneil in to tho treastirv. I>111
11 which is covered hy one of the
_ K i^-'l.ile note-. She Stulr has
heen left out lor the entire three
years, and in 1K0S neither Wat
, son nor the State lias heen paitf
: an.vthin?r.
h! In Novetnher, ISM.", Mr. .Veal
i collected of \V. Hammond
' , $500 on convict hire, which he
"ikeol :ilid llsed In I leeoinl ior
I 1 SIM'., ho collected from Coolv ?V
.
'I The Appetite of a Goat.
j Is envied by all poor dyspeps
j tics ^hose Stomach and Liver
s are out of order. All such should
know that Dr. King's New Life
* I'illf, the wondeful Stomach and
s Liver Kemody, gives a splendid
? appetite, sound digestion and a
s' regular bodily habit that insures
1 perfect health and great energy,
t Only '25c.at Crawford Bros. Drug
I Store. 4
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ~
-SRCentral
Time llelween Coluinbia unil Jaok onTille.
Kaatorn Time Itetween Columbia
ami Otlier l'ointa.
Effective .Tunc 11th, 1899.
" I ;N<>. :u No. 3d
Northbound. Daily. Dally.
Lv. ,1'ville, F.O.&P.Ky 8 20 a 7 top
" Savannah 12 IIS p 11 f?9p
Ar. Columbia 4 88p 4 JO a
Lv. Charleston, So. Ky 7 00 n fi 30p
Sutnmerville I i! n ? ?"P
Hratuhville " Oji a i ->0p
Orangeburg 9 '-J a 8 24 p
Ktugvsllo 0 l.?a 0 '.Vp
Ar. Columbia .11L?
Lv. Augusta, So. Ky - I'l 9 30p
" (iranitcvillu 11 09pi 10 lop
" Aiken - oJlP
" Trenton J30|> 11 OOp
" .Tohlistons. It 4'.t |> II 20 p
Ar. ColtuubiaL'n. dep't 5 20 pi 2 loa
Lv Col'bla Ftlami'g at ft 45p| e.Vta
" Winnaboro Olfiipl 0 40 a
" Chester 7 20 p i 3. a
" Hock Hill 7;>8p 8 11 a
ir Clmrli.ltu S 4."l t> 0 lo
^
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; Fowler $500 convict hire, which
he also used. In February, 1897,
he collected from those two firms
over $1,300, and deposited to his
own credit and used $539.95 of
the same. lie collected from J. J.
Fret well $387.17 for oats (Ex M)
and failed to pay it in. lie gave
a check to the bookkeeper for
$172 to balance his account for
cash in hand, and there was nothing
in bank to pay it, and it has
not been paid. He took a note ol
\V. W. Russell for $000 for his
own accommodation, and endors
ed it. as superintendent of the
Penitentiary, and placed it in
bank, and tt has never been paid
The bank is after the Penitenti
ary for the money, and Mr. Neal
admits that he is liable therefor
He collected $710 stable rent,
which was unauthorized, bu'
which, he claims, was allowed ly
th<> board of directors, which they
j deny, and which appears to havt
been approved in the prison pa\
roll. He has got ton supplies from
I the Penitentiary, for which he
has paid, amounting to $038.29
jliis family washing has not been
paid for and he got a carload ol
cotton seed to plant, which he
should pay for.
All these matters, taken with
| his presents of State property to
j his friends, and his having hit*
superintendent, Kagsdale, to fur
! nish the cows to the Pententiary
| at a big profit, which prolitu Mr.
I Neal got, his keeping open house
for his friends at the Penitenti
' ary at the State's expense, stamp
! him as being utterly deficient in
I the faculty of distinguishing be
I tween what is his and what is the
State's, accompanied with a re
I markable faculty of being gener
! ous v.ith the State's assets and
especially to himself.
We hold that both W. A. Neal
and J. R. Watson are liable for
the convict hire for convicts to be
worked on NeaTo nlnntntirm for
the years 1896 97 98, for the rea
8(jn that Watson contracted t??
pay for them and Neal pot the
benefit of the labor, and violated
his duty in procuring them to be
worked for his benefit and do
ceiving the borad of directors
Their labor was an asset of the
I l'enitentiary as much as the products
of the labor on the State
I farm, and he cannot take either
and refuse to pay for it. A conversion
of ono is the same as a
conversion of the other.
Wo also condemn the practice
1 of the superintendent's endorsing
1 paner as superintendent, and
[ thereby pledging the credit of the
Penitentiary without express authority
from the board of directors
in each instance. We especially
condemn Mr NeaPs action in
(endorsing an $850,000 note for .1 |
I?. Watson and thus making tlrnj
Penitentiary borrow that amount;
of money merely for Watso. *1
accom mod at ion. We also con-i
(lemii its use io the llaa 1??,
notes and NV. \V. Uus?ell note.
lie Fooled The Surgeons.
\ 11 doctors told Kenick II itu
ilton, <>f \\*t IciT?*r<on, (after
snf!'erin?: Is months from Kectah
Fistula, he would die unless a
costly operation was performed;
hut he cured himself with li\-boxes
of Ihieklon's Arnica Salv. .
i the surest I'ito cure on lvirth.au '
the best Salve in the Worhl.
a hr)\. Sold by Crawford UroDrnccist.
1 j
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SEERS,
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roads are hereby ordered to
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rcspTtive section* at once. Ity ortler
i of Itoarit. M. <t Jari>\kh.
< 'o. Supr. j
I,. .F. 1'kkky, Clerk.
FlJRMAN : s s
I fXIVKNSITY
OF GHEEN VILLE, S. C.
! rnil K next session will begin SepJL
t??mher 27, Full and thorough
instruct ion,leading to several degrees,
is offered. Hoarding in private families
moderate; in the mess, the fare
is excellent and cheap. For catalogue
or further particulars, apply to the
President,
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July 16, 1M9U.
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Pullman drawing room sleeping enrs betweeu
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with the southern at Hock Hill, S A. I., at
Catawba Junction, I* At at Lancaster fur
Chester, unit Attn the Charleston Division of
the Southern at Camden.
SAM'I. HUNT, A. TRII'I'.
. President Superintendent.
.ktfSBl S. II. LUMPKIN, O P A.