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WILL PAIR ACQUITED OF ASSAULT CHARGE BY JURY OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY CITIZENS Xegro Whose Life wuh llravcl) Defended i?j Sheriff W. J, White in the Knee oi mi Angl) und Determined Mob ('omen Clour of, the (.'lnirge Lodged Against Ulm. Lud) Subject to Feinting Spells. Jur> Airrees Dial i rime uns never Actuullj Committed or Attempted. Spartanburg, Sept. 2d.?'Will Fair] was today acquitted of criminally as saulting a white, woman near Glendale i on August is. Ho was Immediately re leased and has left town. The jury did not reach a vordict without u lengthy deliberation, it was given the case shortly after I o'clock yesterday afternoon and did not reach a verdict until noon today. This morning it reported to Judge Gage that it would be unable to agree hut the judgo returned them to consider the matter further. It is understood that the jury stood 10 to " for acquit tal until the final ballot was taken. The verdict was accepted by the public philosophically. It has been the general opinion since the trial of the ease yesterday that the negro was not guilty and it cannot be said that the vordlcl came as a surprise. Fair toft the city Immediately after Iiis acquittal. Summarized briefly, the defense endeavored to prove that Will Fair was on his way to Wellford, where lie had a position; that he admits seeing the young woman in the road and that he was preceding Ihm-, but lie emphatically denies that he en tered the house and committed the alleged crime. In his own words, he says: "I ain't the man, Captain 1 didn't enter that house." Witnesses were introduced who state that they saw both Will Fair and the woman in the road; that the former did not enter the house. Kxpert testimony was given to the effect that the peculiar physical con dition of tlie woman might have so deranged her that she would be sub ject to hallucinations. No Demonstration, j The court room was crowded when the verdict was returned, but there was no demonstration when it was announced that Will Fair was a free man. Instead, the crowd silently left the court room, while the attorneys for the defense thanked the jurors for the verdict rendered. Judge Cage shook hands with Foreman Leo ami thanked him for the unbiased way in I which the jury had handled the case after it had boon placed in their hands Hear Charge ltereild. The jury was sent for by .fudge Cage at ll:5fi a. in, The 12 men filed Into :!:.? court room and took their j seats, and when asked whether ihoy had arrived, at a verdict staled thai they hail not. Foreman l.ee stated that (hoy seemed to be hopelessly tied up. Judge Cage then asked whether he could say anything that might as sist the jurors in arriving at an agree ment. Foreman Lee stated that he feared not, bul requested that the charge made Ihe jury yesterday after noon he read again. doe W. Mans tleid. official court stenographer, thin read the charge over again to the 12 men. and when be bad Concluded (in jury reliiid to their room again. Within ten minutes a knock on the door of the jury rooiU indicated that a vordlCt had been agreed upon, and the crowd leaned forward in their seats i xpectnntly as the men filed out. After answering to their names (In jury was asked by Clerk UcnilOtl whether they had agreed. Foreman Lee replied in the aHirniativo and handed in the indictment. Clerk Ken net! then read: "Indictment against Will Fair for rape. Not guilty. Jo soph Lee, foreman." Judge Cage then commended the jurors for their ver dict and the special term of court or dered by Governor Blcaso adjourned. Nene for Conviction. It is reported authentically that not one of the jurors had stood out for conviction for one moment. On enter ing their' room, it is reported, the fu st ballot taken showed that six men were for acquittal while six were in favor of putting the responsibility of freeing will Fair upon the shoulders of another jury, as they osoiued to fear that something might result if they freed Lie accused negro. All llighl long the other jurors argued With these six men in vain, ami it had begun to look hopeless until Judge Gage's ehnrgo was again read to them at noon today. After hearing this once more the men who hesitated to vote for acquittal, it is said, agreed to acquit Fair. Approval of Vordlcl. When the jury announced that Will Fair was free there was no evidence that anyone in the court room was surprised. On the contrary, there seemed to he many men who had been confident of his acquittal from the very beginning and there seemed to he gonoral satisfaction at the ver dict. I The following statement was made j by Judge Cage to the jury when they wore brought before him at 11:36 to day: "Do you still think I may not say anything t<j help you in arriving at a conclusion in tins case?" The foreman replied: "We r.re hopelessly dlsagi eed." Judge, "I have had juries so often say that to me, and then go out and find a verdict within ten minutes. I tried a ease in Charleston where the jury was out two nights and a day and said they could not agree, and that jury agreed in ten minutes after that. "You cannot agree if you each make different points if one man sets his head this way and another sets his head that way and another another way. If the members of tlie jury get. to combating views, and OSpecially, If they lose temper, ami, if they get up that thing called "pride of opinion" they will never agree. Hut if they put everything under their feet, and go at it in the spirit of truth seeking, in the spirit of honesty I mean, honesty with yourselves let every man, every juror go down into the bottom of his own heart and un cover himself before his Maker and his Maker alone an denquire calmly and quietly what is the truth, and, when you do that, and see the truth in the small and silent chambers of your heart, at d. if you do that and own it ami proclaim it. you will all be of one mind. (Jreat Nervous Strain. "Tho court was called for the trial of this case and nothing else. It has been held at an enora.ous expense in money, in time and nerve. 1 have been on the 1? nch now sixteen years, and I have never held a court that caused me such nervous strain. It is loo much to put on anybody again, and too much to put on you. "It is next to impossible for us in matters of this kind to put away all outside considerations -1 speak from my own experience, and out of my own heart and my own knowledge. I was raised on a plantation with no-j groes and 1 think I know them :is woil as any man knows them. I know their weakness and I know our own weakness. They are here by a strange providence, but they ore here. How our final relationship with them is to be determined no man I knows and no man need question j himself. 11 we go to our duty day bj day and do justly mail by man. t M end will come, and the God who made us und who made them and who put us here together, will bring us all safely to some common end. Public Opinion I'ncertatn, "I know that UlCll are almost it] capable of weighing a nice bouiiuv ol truth where the contest is : ? ween one race and another race. eupcciollj where the one race is charge! with tho awful crime of rape. I know the awful anxiety and the awful peril our country women are subjected to I was raised in the country, and I know Its duties and beauties its glorios and its perils, its joys and its sorrows and burdens, but tho only question for you in this case is, did this man assault this woman, and under all the testi mony is it true beyond a reasonable doubt. If it Is, it is your duty to so declare, it is your duty to say, "guil ty." If it is not true as you see it, if it is not true beyond a reasonable doubt then to write a verdict of ?guil ty' in answer to anybody's demand would he to crucify the law, to degrade our courts and to stultify you men. I know there is such a thing as public opinion that drives and whirls men like a sandstorm, hut I tell you this: a wave of public opinion in times of excitement is sometimes the most tin Certain thing in tlie world. The only certain thing is the knowledge which points to the truth and which never eri'S. If you follow it. you are in the sure path, and, if you leave it, you are in quagmires all the way. "Now gentlemen, I do not mean to take from you the prerogative of de ciding the truth. If you believe the charges in the Indictment have been proved by the state beyond a reason able doubt, it is your duty to say so, : hut, if you an' b it by the testimony in a state of uncertainty and your minds arc unsettled, it Is your duty ? to say so. I cannot reach your inner consciousness; those men cannot. You I can; and the (!od who presides over i you can. "I am not going to say another word to you. I am done. But I don't want to leave this city with this case unsettled. The supreme court lias di rected me to sit at this court, and It has been ordered by the governor. It has been held at great expense. To ord< r a mistrial would be to have all this furor and excitement continue ami through another term of court. I will confidently wait upon you with the expectation that you will find a verdict In this case. Vou may retire." The jury asks that charge I" ;.g;.::: read to them. The court orders the Btenographor to road it. After returning to the court .reran tho jury returne'd their verdict?"Not i Guilty." Tho following was addressou to the Jury then by Judge Cage. Gontlemon of the Jury: "Inasmuch :is you have had tho courage to do your duty in this matter 1 ought to have the courage to com mend you for it. Time will show that your verdict is right. There are many tilings that cannot bo proven in evi dence, but when you sift this thing to the bottom, you will find that your faces have been sc t in the right direc tion. I discharge you." KAI It WEATHEK Kills WEEK. Weather Bureau Predicts slight Frost in K?stern Cotton Holt. Washington, Sept. 21. Fair weath er generally for tho entire country Is promised by the weather bureau for tin coming week. Chief Marvin in his weokly forecast issued today says: "Cool weather will prevail east of the Mississippi river during the early part of the week. There will he frost Monday morning in the Great Central valleys, the upper lake region and western lower lake region. Tennessee and the extreme northern portions of tho east Gulf states, and on Tuesday morning In the Ohio valley, the Lake region, New Bngland, tho Middle At lantic states and possibly the Interior of North Carolina and northern South Carolina. These frosts will probably be heavy over the northern territory of states. "It will he warmer early in the week west of the Mississippi river by Tues day or Wednesday over the central portion of the country ami by Thurs day or Friday over the eastern dis tricts and there are no present indica tions of decided changes over the west during the second half of the week." Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "I was taken with diarrhoea and Mr. Yorks, the merchant here, persuad ed me to try a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Ilomedy. After taking one dose of it I was cured. It also cured others that I gave it '%" writes M. B. Gebhart, Oriole, Pa That is not at all unusual. An ordinary at tack of diarrhoea can almost invari ably bo cured by one or two doses of this remedy. For sale by all dealers. CLEANING and DYEING ?FOR Fall Winter Needs Should be Done Now. Send them to f Footer's Dye Works Cumberland, Md. America's Greatest and Most Sanitary Cleaning and Dyeing Establishment. I _^=_f If we have no Agent in your locality, send direct by Express or Parcel Post. The advantages of the Parcel Post place our wonderful facilities and univer sal service at your door?so to speak. I REAL ESTATE t If you have a Farm, a House or Lot for Sale ini the county or adjacent county, or wish to buy a farm, House or lot, drop me a card or see me at Laurens tourt House and we shall see if we cannot get for you jus? the very thing you desire. I have a seven horse farm three miles from Laurens and one mile of New Prospect School I will either reut or sell to good party. Terms. Remember the best investment on earth is cj piece of the earth itself. I J. S. MACHEN Laurens, South Carolina ; l III 11 if I 9 Old INVITE YOU TO BE PRESENT AT THEIR :? I M ff I I |f II II I: I d:| 19 ? I ? I til p it i Displaying 1913 Styles -IN High-Class Millinery, Dress Goods, Silks and Ready-to-wear. A superb collection of the best Merchandise we have ever shown. ! j Thursday, Sept 25th, 1913 i From 9 A. M. to 8 P. M I Davis-Roper Company sis___