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Qt - - -... - 4 T.U. VAUGHN [SCAP[S FROM STATE ASYLUM Former Head of Odd Fe!. lows Home MADE ESCAPE MONDAY NIGHT Former Head of Odd Fullows Home, ('onvicted of Hein1ou1s Crime and Se'ntence Upheld Because of Sup posed Insanity, Escape8 from State lospltal for Insane Monday Night, Columbia, Sept. 16.-Thurston U. Vaughan, the former head of the Odd Fellows Orphanage at Greenville, who was sentenced several years ago to the electric chair for criminal assault on young girl inmates of the home, but who afterwards Ivas sent to the state hospital, in a plea of insanity, escaped from the hospital hteic today. lie was to have been taken to Green ville this week, to undergo sanity tests, and if found not to be insane, wolid Ih be 7re-sentenced to the electric chair. This was In accordance with a court order of last Saturday it Greenviille. This is the second time Vaughan escaped. lie escaped from the.Green yille jail several years ago after his sentence to the electric .chair. When he was found in Balt imore and brought back to the penitentiary he acted In such a manier as to be judged insan and was then committed to the sta'te hospital. A recent sanity conmis-, slon again declarei him insane. Vaughan's escape was made from a* ward on the fourth floor of the main building of theaasylum in which he had been confined. It is the opinion of hospital authorities that he had in some 'way secured a key and that he unlocked the door leading to the fire escape. All wards in the hospital are ulnlocked by the sane key. None of the windows In Vaughan's ward were broken and there was no evidence of tle doors having been forced. Vaughan escaped between 8:30 o'clock last. night and 6 o'clock thuis morning, according to the night at tendant of his gard, who says that Vaughan retired rather early last night complaining of a headache. At 6 o'clock this morning the attendant went into his room to deliver tite morning newspahper. lie saw what he took to be Vaughan's body it tle bed Inider the bed clothes. At 7 o'clock tite night attendant went off duty and the day attendan came on. About an hour later this attendant went to Vaighan's room to call him, as he had not appeared. H1e found a dummy in the bed, wlich had been made from clothing. Tle nitendant at once gave a gen erial alarm and searelt was imumediat e ly begin for the prisoner. Ofilcers all over the State were notilled but titus far no clue has been foutnd as to the whereabouts of the escalped man. The night attendant says that he was in amgd out of the ward during the night but saw nothing of Vaughan. Vaughn is dlescribed1 as beintg about 3M years of age, abouit five feet tall, weighs about 120 pounds, has ligt brown hair, very thin, is almost bald on t01). He has blue eyes, v'ery pen etrating, rather protri'ding. H e hman n light sandly complexitn and a rather effeminate aippear'ance. le wears a No, 5 shoe and~ is suppuosed to hatve carried with him a gray stit with an extra pair of blue trousers. Wh'0th a searcht of the gronds was muadeit. resultedh in the discovery that a b~ench which had 'been setting in the yal'd hdl beeni moved to thte brmick walhl which suriroundls the grounds and there were footprints which resem bled those of Vaughn's ntearby. A brick pavement rius along the ouit side of this wall, but in the st reet adjoining there were automobile Itracks wich showed that a machine had been turned there. Au tomtobilo Sraille is heav 'I 3ont thhi rt reet, however, andg r r nmehino frrntuentlly tu rn in theii irast Sun day night thle llev. ('. TI. Sgires b(egan a seri(es of sermonts on the" i'artables of .Ieomis. Thle parable ' d 'ar "Th' e flood Sa mit an'' and Mr. Sqitiilres anniounceos for ntextI Sabbath evening at 8:310 the( ptarable nf "The Sower". fAOISlTiTE N. B. WOOD C(LEARED 01F MUltDIER CHARGE Court of General Sessions Adjourned Friday A fternoon after Completing Work. The Court of General Sessions ad JoUrned Friday afternoon after dispos ing of all but a few minor cases which Were carried over until the fall term. Late Thursday night the Jury which had been out for several hours on the case of Magistrate N, H. Wood, who shot and killed Otto Garrett, colored, a few days before, returned a verdict of not guilty and Mr. Wood was dis charged. Air. Wood, testifying in his own behalf, said that lie shot Garrett when Garrett brushed heavily against him and made a move as if he was drawing a pistol to shoot. Porter Irby, colored, charged with the murder o' Will Jeter, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years and one month at hard labor. A motfon for a new trial was refused by Judge Memminger and an appeal to the Supreme Court was filed by file defen(ant's attorneys. Curtis Griffin, who shot Mr. George Anderson near Waterloo several months ago, was found guilty of as sault. and battery with intent to kill and 'was given a ten year sentence. F'urman Abercrombie, who shot and Mortally wounde(I his uncle, Magis trate Alexander /Abercrombie, in Ydungs township a few weeks ago w'hen the latter was discovered in the yard of young Al~rcrombie's home, was acqiuitted by direction of the court upon the motion of th'e solicitor. Only two witnesses had testified in the case when the motion of the solicitor was made. The evidence of these wit nesses plainly indicated to the solici t.or that the young man thought that lift was shooting at a burglar or other Intruder. In.passing sentences upon prisoners where pistols were involved, Judge Memminger severely excoriated the pistol carrying habit and said that lie was determined to do his utmost to break it up. Heavy sentences, lie said. were imposed in these cases as a warning against others who are In the habit of, cai'rying pistosl and he urged that the practice be stopped. CITED FOIL BRAVERY. Washington Recognies Services of lileut. A. G. Hart. Word has been received in Lau rens from New York that Augustus G. Hart, formerly an officer in the Twenty-sixth infantry, had been of ficially cited for gallantry in action on .July 18, 1918, when with but four' men lie advanced and took a cave in which were concealed 796 German soldiers. Lieutenant Itart. was in New Yo'k last wee(k for the home coming of the famous First i)Ivision in which he fough t and from which lie was inevalided liole. lie is a native of Laurens, a graduate of thlie UIa versity of Siouth Carolina and well known t h roughout tile State. The o1i-al etation, a copy of which was received in this city. followvs: "t.The conmmaninig omcler, Sec'ondh Infantry Brigade, cites thte following namted offil' for' galIlatry in act ion: Autgu'mtus (l. ITarnt, secondl lieutenant, Company L, Trwentty-sixth Infantry, ani offlcer' attentive to his ditties, con-. scientious and~ brave: displayed cour' age and hteroism in the taking of a Cave near Mimzy aux bois, Jutly 18, 1918. Although wounded at this pinft lie continued the advance, leading and encouraging his men, refusing to he evacuated until the objeetivye was at tained." Rtest iloom hieing Prepared. Thue r'est r'oom in the court hioutse rectly pr ~ovided for' by thme newly formed Business Cirlsm' Club, is beinig eleaned1 and the wvalls caleinmined, pre paratory to its openting withtin a few dlays. in order to make final preptara tions for the6 opening and to make other plans a meeting of the club htas been called fot' next Monday evenuing at 6 o'clock, to which all memnber's and othIer's dlesiring to join arte r'equiested to attendl. ('oton Advanmcinig. Th'ie Co*tin marktlet has show n a st eady' advaitce during the( past fewv days. Teal spot(s1 were brtinging 29 cen'tts h'Tesdiay amftcrn oon atnd thle day becfore was liing 28 1 -8. The Ighst pr Ic' pahl( in (Green(ttwood Tiuosday af mtteoon, a('cord(ing to ith' Index .!ournal wasit 28 :t- centis. The New York mtarket took a leap of over a htundred(1p0 noats vyst erday. COTTON ASSOCIAl TO BE i 'Following Well Attended ] Monday Executive Co Closer Canvas for Mer A well attended neetinL; of farmers was addressed in the Court House Mlonday morning and afternoon by Sen. N. B. Dial, Gov. R. A. Cooper, Mr. John 13. Cannon, of Spartanburg, and Mr. Workman, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The meeting was held primarily In the Interest of a system of government regulated warehouses for this county, but resolved Itself In to a meeting in the interest of the American Cotton Association. It was the sense of the speakers that the formation of the Laurens county branch of the cotton association was essential to the success of the ware housing proposition, to cotton asso clation Interest was given first consid oration. The formation of the ware house association, according to Farm Dlemonstrator Moore. Is not lo he giv en up but will be pushed with energy, a resolution endorsing the warehouse idea being unanimously adopted by the meeting. Farn ilemonstralor M. ). Moore presided over the meeting. lie made a few Introductory remarks outlining the cotton stitation at present and said that conditions required that cot ton be marketed more gradually and hat more warehouses were needed to bring this about. Senator Dial, being introduced by Chairman Moore, said that he was trying to assist Southern farmers In Washington but that cotton had few friends. Unfortunately for us, he said, there is a surplus of cotton right now in spite of high prices of cotton goods. The high prices of cotton goods he assigned to the scarcity of spindles rather than the scarcity of cotton. The remedy, he said, lay in raIsing less cotton and more food sup plies at home and keeping the boys on the farm rather than allowing them to go to the cities where they becofne coipetitors for raw products. After reciting the efforts of congress to ar range credits for European countries where by cotton and other Americyin products could be di:sposed of. he "aid iiat 'he southern tarmer must begn to look out for himself and not deped'i upon oiler l'eoplle. As -1n instanlce of legislation calculated to he detrimen tal to the farmer, he spoke of the aiendinent to the food control act whereby clothing would le placed among file articles whose prices were to be regulated by the government. Sen ator 1)ial said that he fought this amtiteidmilenit becalse it redluced the sale of ITotton goods and thereby caused a decline in the cotton market. Pre dieting brighter prospects for tle southern farier wien world condi tions readlust Pd tiemtselves, '\It'. Dial ur ged that t he farmers market the i r cotton in a businessl ike manner and take good care of that which~ is kept onl the farm. .\r. Workman, of the Department of Ag ricuil Iurie, dlevoted most of hIs t ine to aL teclhnlea1(681 dcrption1 of thle methlods of bulldling warehouses and thle advantages to lbe derived from themi. ie pointed out that undicer the Fcderal Rteserve act and thle Federal WarehousIng act farmers could store their cotton In federal regulated ware houses, cari'ry the receipts to the han ks and( 5~i eenr mioniey on them ait any13 t ime, lie uirged the farmiers to take ad(1vaniitage oif thlese provisions in thelir inteCrest as in no other way coulId thle cot ton crop lie satIsfactorily ma11rk eted. lie adv ised thle erect ion of a systemii of small warehouses at least 100 feet a part whichel could later lbe jolin ed to g('ther In a ha rger buIldinog. iIn lie a fternioon .\ir. .1 lihn It. Can - non, of Sonartanbu rg, was thle fiIrst speaker. Mi'. Cannon recited the ex perIence of thle Spartanbur g fa rmeris In organ Izing to buio 111warehiouses. ('ottoni )Ieet ing Jl af anarh. .\ joli nimetinog of cit Izensi of( I ps Ano~hmr towvnshiip ini Spaitanbuirg (ounlty and Youing ernihip, oif l,:i . runis county will 'te hliI n' t'l'i I SitatiIon Satuirday, S' d. 20:. mii the in tcirest of Ire An' r'' -. i ''i'lon .\:no a biurig, acnd \lr.-A. C'. Tfod-, of l.aurens have bein invited to sj."ak. A full lit iienfdancee of '.11 t hose inte re ste-I ini t ot ten niyloe'n; i'reanui(:P LION MEETINGS ELD NEXT WEEK Vleeting in the Court House rnmittee Decides to Make nbers Next Tuesday. fils county, he said, had arranged for storage of about 75,000 hales of cot ton. lie said that everybody else was organized but the farmer and that or ganization was their only salvation. "ie urged the formation of the cotton association before attempting to build the warehouses. He said that Spar tanbu rg county was already largely organized and that he wanted to see the fever spread to Laurens, thence to Greenwood and then onward over the entire state and entire South. Gov. Cooper, who spoke last, dwelt partieularly upon the educational hen eflts to he derived from southern pros perity. Te said that if money alone was the goal of the cotton association, then the association would not suc ceed. lie saw in the culmination of the association's plans a larger and better home life In the South, where the children would he enabled to go to school and the women he spared the drudgery of field work. Low picke cotton, he said, meant the continued enslave(ment of women and children on the farm, while a fair price for cotton meant that the children would be educated an'd the heavy work be hft to men alone. "The advantages of organization," said Gov. Cooper, "have belen so often demonstrated that no argument is neessary. I want to see the day In Sou th Carolina when iour people shall be not only organized, bit organized for a very definite urpose; that is to increase the happiness of all the peo ple; to improvo their standards of liv ing; to make their home life more at tractive. With this purpose we have an incentive to go forward. "The present world wide unrest is due in the final analysis to ignorance. It is due to the fact that the average man has lieen circumscribed and handicapped. He has not hadt an op portunity for self expression. I would like to see this state prosper material ly, but I can not look to the futuire with confidence unless ou1r material prosperity contributes to ouir happi ness, and gives us a higher standard of morals and Christianity." 1l'(ixenthie Conimuittee 31eetinw. Following the afternoon meeting a meeting of the executive commit tee of tie county organization was held, preAlded over by Chairman Power. 'The secretarv reported that at least three: school districts had sent in ex eel lent reports ill tile mcimlbersllip drive and othI er' sllool districts were at work. llowever, it, was learned that most of the school distrIets had not as .yet, been organized. It was then lecidbled to have a big one-day cam Iailn nex T 1 IitTuesday! 1 lwhenl 1-ub0li ! mneet Ings woilId be held In each t own shipl w'-hen speak ers wvould( address fi e eolton ~ Ower'C S in the Int1('est of tile ausoeiltionI. Py the endI of the week it IS hlopedl 'o 1.ve theii enuty fiully or gan ized. Programu of .Metings5, The fol lowing plrogram tins been out Ilned for' the meetings next Tues day: Mlount ville.... .. .. .. .. 10:00 A. . QIross 11111. .. .. .. .. ....12:30 P. . Water'loo ...... .......3:30 P. M1. \lt. Olive .. ...........10:00 A. M[. P'ollar Springs ............:0 P~ . . lPrinceton .. .... ......3:30 P. *M. IIick~ory Ta vern.. ........5 :00 P. . 1:4den1...... .........11:00 A. M1. G reen P'ond.. .........13:30 P. . Oilngs .... .... .. ....3:30 P. .! (tray Court .. .. .... .. ..5:0(0 P. M1. lHethany .. .. ..... ......10:00 A. M1. Ihlirbin .. .... .. ....1:00 P. . Younugs School 10us1 . .3: 00 P'. .l. IHenno .. .... .. .. ... .1:00 A. . Iopew'ell .. .. .... ..2:00 P. M1. To H lid( Fi' lC (oftinues. AMr. Ii. P. hiOl ing stat ed yest eiday hat lhe had plan isi uder way for- the eectio of110 five hanudisomei ('01ttages .Iust acrOss ILittle liiver- on the pr'o licity re'enit 'ly etoniging to .\lrI. ii. It. Siubert and1( t hat Iw o11(f thiemu would 13y section of the city, as yet only par' tlly 13 developed, and .\lr. i'lem ing hopes t 1(add more hlouses Ithere as thle demod neiewi FiUElAi, FoI 3tc. IV. P. I.ABICIS SUND.IY liiinilreds Preseit to Pay Last 11e. peels to Esteeied Gray 'ourt. Cit Izel. Gray Court, Sept. I I.-The funeral services of \V. P. Harris were held at tIheMethodist church here this fore noon at. eleven o'clock. M'r. Harris Passed away at his beautiful country home, "Greystone," Friday night at eleven o'clock. The exercises here today were conducted by. Itev. F. M,. Dibble of Bethel Me'hodist church, Spartanburg, assisted by Rev. W. 11. Owins. of the First Methodist ehurch, Woodruff, Rev. Nilr. Brooks, of the G'ray Court Alethodist church and Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of tho Gray Court Bap tist church. The numitxei'rous and ex quisite floral tributes and the crowd ed church bore testimony to'the high esteem in which the deceased was held by his fellow man. The news of Ills demise had become widely known and many were In attendance from Iaurens and adjoining counties. Mir. Dibble. for many years a close friend alid ad mlirer' of .lr. Ifarris, paidl a beautifiil triiute to his mtemory, holh as an unusually successful business man, atl as a man who wrotight into his daiy life the religion which he pro fe' ed. "Indeed a great man has fallen." - A pathetic feature in coilnection with the funeral was the presenc of several negroes of the antec-bell int type who had lived on the place own ed by 31r. larris and had come to pay the last mark of respect to theIr late employer. Villiam Pinckney Harris was born at Waterloo, S. C., June 3, 18417. Af ter his marriage to Aliss Lula Gray, of Gray Court, In 1878, lie moved to Youngs Township, where lie acquired extensive property. Mir. Harris was a son of Richard Harris and Jane Teague Harris, the latter being a niece of Major MeJunkin, of Revolu tionary fame. As a youth of seventeen .\I. Harris enlisted under the colors of the Stars and rvars and served un til the end of the war. While a South erner at heart, Mr. Harris was never biased simply because of sectional lines to the extent of allowing his heilinge and environment to dull his vision Ii national affairs, either in re gard to men or measures, if such mteasui res made for a better, happier and more prosperouis peolle. Though devoted to his cliutrch and denominia I loll of which he was a s roig sit port'r, he was a trontg advocate of' vocational training fori mien and wo mel. as a result. of which lie ediucated foitu' of his I.e daugifers at Win lirop and all four sons at Clemson. ['p to the time of his death le 'as a staunch believer in the improvement an l development of oii IIbilic school system and tlie editatien of the mass 0t as the ;olt ion of many of our' c ivi' an(d religious5 problells. E'arly in life Mr. 1Iarris did a great d(al of experimental farming, em plyig h most improv-ed machin ery3, and~ wa.'s a con1tribuitoir to agr'i tuiituratl .lournallls, uainly g'ivinig to athIteris t he bteniit of his ow e~l xper'ii en cis, anid on onie occ(aslin wain firust piz /e off'ei'ed by an agricul turialI pa 111.r by' prep'Iariing theii best pa per on theii farm. In this paper the writer' simi 111y staited what r'esulits be achiev"ed oun hiis own1 farm'is . II is r'epiutat ion for' far im inig has spread from coast to cast, anid hie al ways gave a gr'eatI deal of thoiought to the growing of smnall gra in amii win ter' cover' ('rop s. lie was a strontg believer In Iure 1bred0( hogs and cautile, and was one of tilt Iirist mmi)u to it'odiice i'egistered .1er 503' cattle Into Laurniens coutiy. In 1918~ Mir. IIlarris was honiored by Clemson College by haviing conferred upon111 him al cortIi('eate0 for "Di)stlin guiIsh ed Service to the St ate otf Sothi C'arol Ina ini Agriutureit.'" Th'is sIg nal hoinor had ('omei at that t ime to only five mcii in the Staite. Mr. ilar is Is sut'rvived bty .\i's. Ii arr'is a nd inle clihirtn: 31lisses .\adge, D~aisy andi L~oui'e, w..ho live at the old hionie; \Messi's. it. G., II. A., .1. G. anti TI. (1. 1liarrtis, wh'lo aure suitccessful planitirs, It) the sam tte intii hborhoodl and ml3.rus. ('. It. M\ariitt of Gret.nilliie andi 31lrs. 1,. W. .\ltoor' of lnk' ('ity. ''The d' e''asied is also surivivtd by" oine brthtl e'. .1. TI. IIariris, of Sparitahur'. and o' rYP'r, .\lvs. .1. II. Whartiton,. of The a''ctiv alhaeswr:..T IIiarris, .It'.. tif Spatanhurtg. 1)ouglais lahton of Willamstoni. .1. 'V. miithi liltd l.'*. \\ b harton,1 of W~atoer'oo; A. Ihl i (im' of 1 n rr~ nl'~ .\fl'.o't I). (line CAMIMIGN TO B[GIN FOR MEMORI1 FUND Memorial for Soldiers of World War ALBERT C. TODD COUNTY CHAIRMAN a('mimign to "Iaise Laurens County's Quota of Memorial Fund to bo Launched September 29th, Anni.. versary of Date of Breaking of 1l1n. denburg Line. At the last session of the General Assembly a joint resolution was pass ed to provide for a memorial to the men and w.men of the State of South Caro(nla who rendered nervice in win ning the wot Id war for human liberty. The o et irets two commissions, and two ininit'orial buildings shall be erect ed upon thw Slate-owined property, oin at Cohnnhia and one at Orange burg. 'lhe meniorial btlIding for the white men and women who participat ed inl the .)rvat wat* Is to be creted upon the grounds owned by the State and held by the Trlistecs of the 1Uni versily of South iaroliia. The Act provides that the memorial building shall he of "architecltural beauty and a ppropriat e('ss". and shall he design ed as a memorial chapel building. It is also provided in the Act "That said mlemorial buildings shall preserve in marble or' brtolnze or other imperish able form the names of all Soutli Carolinians, whether soldiers, sailors, iurses, or other workers In the cause of victory. who have offered their lives as the supreme sacrilee in the winning of the war; and said build ings shall be the repository of books, inaunscripts and other records of the history of the war and its purposes and achievements, and of the part borne in said war by the State of South Carolina, and by her sols and daugh ters, whether in organizations or as Individuals, and whether in battle or in other work and service; and es pecially shall there be preserved in said memorial building writings com memorative of the military and naval exploIts and brave and patriotic deeds of South Carolinians who have shared the dangers and the glories of the great war on land and sea and in the air; and said buildings shall con ta in alcoves or secllns for separate mevimorial to the men and wvoiieni of the several counties of the State." The commission, of which Gov. It. .\. Cooper is chairman, and former Governor R. 1. Manning, vice-chair atI, has authorized a campaign throughout the Stat 10o raise the scum of at least $100.00 ) by popular sub scriptions inl addition to the amoint a1pproprialted by the legislatire. Lau t'cis coimty has beei asked to give in rouid numbers $6,800. .\lr. A. C. Todd has conisentedl to serve this worthy ('ause1 as dihlirmuan for' the couinty. A (ounlt y-wvide drive or' campaign will he hautiched Sept. 29Ith, the annivecrs ary datte ini which tie :0th Dilvislion 1brok e the great Illindenbuorg l iy~, and wIll close Nov. lIh, t he anniiiversa ry (hate of the signing of the Armistice. 'll omitt ees will he a ppoinlted to so lie It atnd receive sitbscri pt ions ina each school district. 'l'he amount will ho appllorione by111h a central comminit tee to oan'h districtI. ''There ill1 also be a wolman0's or ganiizatitoln covering thle doun lty. Tthe (ha irmtant of th e woman's or'ganIizt 1ion will be' annitoiunced from State hetadlquiarters in a few days. it 1is ('onfiudetly bel ieved that L aurIeins cooty w ili over-subsucrlbe its apipor t thiient in I this caimpalgn as it has always done in the past. Only white peol le arie to lie rsol icited. Negroes will ('ondulc(t a simlilrer caimpaign at an ely3 date. Th1ie piersonnuelI of the or gantization will he announced no.' week. in eil lng of 3lonmu mettl. veil thle mlonumeni'lt of 8ov. A\gnes A\ .\litchll Sundmay. Setembertitl' 21set, at. lion lhurh. atl nu:', i. .\dl. Tiohe b li' isi i 'l'ordiial ty d. not werfcilowv-ntlicct'. of the Mlethiodist. ('hireb of Gray 'out, atnd 'lose bulsi.. ne's a ol nerl'nnml reictnau