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SA LMON PLEADS Ioyer of Flinkenshelt Vivts i1s Ver in 01 o Iilling of Flinikenshiell 31ak . Stout Denial Of Robber Vhaif4 Iouing Man Asserts FliN shel ?red at Him First. With sitot (rveriville News, Nov. 10. Walte: Salmon's story of the killin 'of Asa Flinkenshelit, with which lhe I Charged, was told for the first tim yesterday by Salmon himself, after hi had been Lbrought to the county jai In the early morning by Deputies, Par kins and Bra'mlett. Salmon surren dered to his wife's uncle, the chief o iollce at Salisbury, N. C., on Sunda. night, andl made no effort to preven officers from bringing him back tc :Greenville. That he shot Flinkenshelt. In self. dcfcnse, after F'linkenshelt had Ilred two shots at him; that he took nc money whatever from the Flinken. shelt home after the shooting; and that Mrs. Alec Alken, his companion on the ride to the farmer's house last Friday, placed the pistol, with which he ,id the shooting, in his coat pock et, were the assertions made by young salmon to officers 'who brought him to the city, and, later to newspa h'ermen at the county Jail. Salmon, a veteran of the 50th In fantry at Camp'Sevier and the picture of good health, was perfectly calm as he related his story of the tragedy. lie expressed confldencg that he would soon be freed of the charge of lurder against him and said that the only matter troubling him now is that his young wife, to whom lie was married last spring, will naturally be occasioned some worry. Denies Robbery. Parts of the testimony of both Mrs. Flinkenshelt and Mrs. Alken were contradicted -)y Salmon In his state ment. Mrs. Flinkenshelt, at the in (Ilest said that Salmon took $800 to $1A .000 in cash from under her pillow, and this the young man stoutly denies. 'Olicers 'were told by Miss Amber Rob inson, sister of Mrs. Alken that Sal mon forced her to give him the pistol at her IlMunean mill home shortly be fore the killing, and Salmon likewise denies this assertion. ('ame Here 31onday. After the intervelewer had been ad mitted by Jailer Christopher, Salmon SELF-DEFENSE KILLING FARME1 told his story. In the order in whic thle events occurred. ille sald that he caic here Monda night about I o'clock fromA Morganto1 N. C., in the car belonging to his moth er-in-law, Mrs. Alice Drury. O Tuesday morning, he said that he wen to the McCauley home at number Hale street, Duncan, staying ther until Friday morning. During th Weekl he said he met -Mrs. Aiken. On Friday morning, he said, Mrs Aiken wanted him, to drive her out t get some whiskey for her sick child asking that lie drive her to the hous< where they went the night before fo liquor. The McCauley boy was 1will them. When she got In the car shi had a pistol saying, "I'm taking thI .pistol -along. You can't tell what bootlegger might do.' Upon reaching the Flinkenshel house, iSalmon said he asked the wo man if she wanted to go to the housf with him, and she replied in the nega tive. She placed her gun in his righi coat pocket, he said, and when lie goi to the house he found a man standinE on the steps of the back porch. "I told him I wanted a pint of wlis. key," Salmon said, "and he asked Li I had a bot-tle. I didn't have any. I-I got - slender bottle and went dowr to an outhouse and got the whiske3 and set it ill) on the shelf. Said Flinkenshelt Shot "Is that all you camo for?' he asked me, and said, '0-- D- you, didn'l I shoot you once?' Then he reachet down back of the door, got a shot gun and fired. I jumiped off the next to the top step and stooped over as I ran fol the corner of the house. lie fired twice and then I raised up and shot, but I looked at the chamber of the pis tol afterwards and there were two cartridges left. The woman told in there had been six." Salmon said that lie walked away pretty fast after ' the shooting, and upon reaching the automobile again, told the woman in the car that he han h ad a little trouble. lie said that sIC laughed as she replied, "Yes, T heard the shots. Are you going to try tc get away." Salmon said that he told her that he was going to see his wife and then give upi). "I asked lier," Salmon said, "if she 'would go to .Spartanburg and brin8 the oar bajc. hero, as I didn't want tc drive through to North Carolina. Shc said she would but couldn't drive un less I taught her. I told her I wouldn't have time to do that between hero and Spartanbu rg, and she sug geste(I that we stop at Greer and get someone to drive her back At a Place near Greer-1 think she calle( It. Taylors--I stopped at a store ald - bougtli a hat and two boxes of cart ridges. t 'We drove into Greer," lie Colti I ued, "and had the fan belt of the car repaired and bought oil and gas. A 11111 who worked in the garage told us he could get us a driver. I told him1 I was a salesman working in Balti mllore. Stayed in Spartanburg That the three ate supper in a Spar tanburg restaurant before the swoman i and boy started back to Greenville was Salmon's statement. Ile said that be fore leaving her lie did nQt -tell her where lie was going other than that lie was going to see his wife. When the woman and driver left he went to the Spartanburg fair grounds lie said; lie ipulled the pistol out of his pocket and wanted to shoot at a uarget in a shootng gallery but the proprietor objected. A jicliceinan and two plain clothes iren walked i) and took his gun away from him thou, lie said, nid took $t0 bond for his al pearance That night Salmon said lie stayed at the Piedmont hotel iII Spartanburg, and two women came into his room for whiskey (luring the night. Police men raided the place while lie was there, lie said, and lie, among others, was taken to the city Jail and locked up. This time it cost him $25 to get free, and this left him only $3 or $-1. lie said that lie succeeded in borrow ing $5 at a restaurant on the iplea that lie 'wanted to so his wife and needed railroad fare. At the Spartanbu rg depot, Salmon said that lie read In a paper of the killing and asked a policeman if the man had been caught. Whien lie got to Charlotte, where lie stopped to see his brother-in-law, lie said that lie again asked a policeman the sanie question. Salmon stated that ie stay ed in Charlotte only four or flive hours as he found that his lirother-in-law had come to Greenville to get the car. Gave Up Reading in a paper that his wife had gone to Salisbury and was not then in Morganton, Salmon said that lie went to Salisbury. In Salisbury, he said, he went to so Nay Kesler, son of the police chief. "We then went to the chief's home but he wasn't there. I told them I had come to give up but wanted to see iy 'wire. They called Uncle John down lo the ,house and he said he wolid bring my wife utp the next morning. I was taken to the jail and the Jailer told mne that my wife would be there at :3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She came a little after :3, and I toldl her what had happened. Salmon bared Iis shoulder to show the scar of a wound which he received whlie soldiering at Camp Sevier, say ing that lie got tile wound when lie was shot and robbed near a park here. From his description it seemed that the Park to which lie referred was Dukeland. The military authorities, he said, had never been able to learn who his assailant was. lie was with a wnoman at the time but he does not re member whether she was the same woman as the one lie swent with to the Flinkenshelt home. -Salmon was discharged from the regular army last year at Camp Dix, N. J., because he was subject to epi leptic fits. Ie was born near Owens )oro, Ky., and has seen service In China, Manilla, Russia and other coun tries. Distributes Many Bib'es. During its existence of more than a centiry the British ind Foreign 131. bl)e society hns distributed approxi. mately 25,000.000 coples of the Scrip tures in more than 100 inguages and dialects, the very names of some of whiclh are unknown to many students of langunges. (OET MORE BUTTEi M's. Hattie Meece of Wle, Miis souri, says: "I w-as not making enough butler from ily cow's milk pro duction for a family of two. After using Dr. LeCoar's Stock Ponwders a short time. she :a':t a half galion more milk a day, and a po1und of but ter a day." Dr. LeGear's Stock Plowde's give to milk cows just what is needed to keCp the digestive organs in proper condi tion, so that they get the most possible good frotm their fel. Give equally wonderful results when used for horses, hogs, and sheep. because they are tonic, appetizer and worm expeller. It matters not what allment you may have among your slock or potl t ry, it will pay you to get the propeor Dr. IeGear Reiedy from your dealer. 'They are tho Doctor's personal tire srilitiolis, comtipounided duiiring hiis 28 years of Veterinary Practice and Ex port Pouitry IIreCeding. 'i'liey must satisfy you, or your dealer -will refund your mnoney'. Auto Tires Reduced STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! All Tires and Tubes 25 and 30 per cent off---or make that old tire last you through the winter. Have them restored and relined, which gives you practically the life of a new tire. For expert tire repair work bring them to McDaniel Vulcanizing Plant Next Door to Postoffice GAS, OIL AND GREASES - ziarante " 1f after usin entire contents of 1P can of Luzianne co ee ac cording to directi . you are not satis 1e in everygsp ct, r grocer wnilre c h mon ypu p o it. WRITE FOR CATALOU Goo - olf Luzianne must please you. N2,slwice as~ar LVZIAN NE 14.RiL1?C.,A~ew Orleans AIR ROd~AM--ilW& e rtaur Countyare is owned, opeAated and controlled by the good people of the Piedmont section of Carolina This conlipany owns 15 warehouises, voinlipped] thr11oughout with aultomlat iv pikes It hias six raiilroad sidetr-acks and is -srv - .N -11 Pied - > 'soulthei u I ailway Company's maini lin es and is within thr( ee miles of Sparall irg e lie our railw y tIuik line pass- the i i thel I idnt and Nortei il wy Ail the G Ienwood; tie C. & W. G. Raiilroad to Aiguista. Charleston, Port Royal and the Atlatie ocealn to port s where ottl van be loaded for iol the to til C.rn lI, ndrson and the west th'ough 'Ciiiniati: the Soltherin Iailway main lin es to Charleston, another seaport town to New York. the busi ess edter o' Ile ornt rv ; toe , . l ai ra 1 a irunl< i (otton imarket center, and to Asheville and Cincinnati. It has leadin hg to it. froimill li directions paved 'ind top-soiled colity i ou ;w, lu T his warlehouse Company is located in a (oun11ty that. prtou ees itself, 65,000 bales of cotton, enough to fill the wa echouses I I i lex ove-, and ill a (Il tl South," for there are thirty cottoll iiills located here. these mills alone eonsi ming amnill y 150 ,000 bales, enoll to fill Ihe *-4patalli - oi> ity w- - i This company owns a building on Walnut Street that is absolutely fire-proof and of the most modern construction and with the exception of the Allen and Law building is the best office building in Spartanburg and is the only building of its kind in the cotton belt. fi this uililding is lept oi file t eill sain(pl. of 'v r bale ol (t ton in t lle warehou'ses. The cot ton is gI(adedl and hisc nd li ll - l iple' 1111s eli .o'(I voltoni m ehmits nd a itll of Spri tn r vounlity. nd hhd Thw 1:t( I to rn olloll inl ware. ihuss is 50 .(.eIts pel'r hale per monthi, which covm-is stoarage clioiu-ges. fire in -miilili(e to tlo fu1ll1marlw- o 'Jilii orthe The Spartanburg County Warehouse has space for 20,000 bales of uncompressed cotton and 25,000 to 35,000 bales of com pressed cotton. There are 5,764 bales of cotton on storage in these warehouses and there is at least 20,000 bales of cotton laying out all over Spartanburg county exposed to fire and weather damage. O f the 5,761 baile. Ei s rage inl these warl ouses appIoi)I ir vlY -000 t m lls otf' etioll shipped ill Iroil l e w est ali fom oter set i ii I il voniity volton onl stolag.r1t These warehioiuses ar last being filled by cotton shipped ill f'roimi ot her sections. I)o the falrIeris and other bisilless interests inl PiW1imonlt section appreciate what they have ill owning the Spill a n g oility warehotlses (1 it the ouitside world by putting their own (otton oil storage Jithem. ' lv Y Ask Any of These Gentlemen to Advise You Whether to Store Your Cotton or Not. The (irectors of the company are all South (ar olina iell as follows: W . ). inur liot. 0. M. Moore, V. E'. Ilaticet, J. A. Leat hers, .Jolin I . annon W. i1 Pat ton. I). . A mersa, J. J. Fineh and L. I rby. The officials, direct ors and stockholders eaniestly appeal to the cotton prodicens, cotton Ilierchlants and lills to patronize this liolme owned inst ittilol The Spartanburg ounty Warehouse SPRG - any SPARTANBURG, - - S OUTH C.AROIN