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CCOLMICK 0OUWPY NEGRO LYNCHEID ItT POSSE Negro Charged With Assault on White Woman Saturday Identified by Vie ti, Forced to Climib Tree and Shot Death. McCormick, June 19. - Herbert Quarles, a negro, charged with crim inal assault upon a -white woman of this county, was lynebed by a posse of citizens one mile west of 'Plum Branch this afternoon at 4 O'clock fol lowing his capture one hour earlier fifteen miles from the place where lie coml"itted the crime. After his cap turt the negro was identitled by the victim and himself admitted having commltted the crime. W'hen asked for a statement before he was forced to clImb , tree where 'his 'body was rid (lied with bullets, Quarles gave no rea son for the deed, but sa-id: "Tell all the colored people that this is the wrong thing and tell them to -try and he better people and never try the deed I tried." After being identified by his victim and a-fter nalcing a full confession, Quarles was taken to a point within the Robinson grave yard, near Plum Branch, in the clump of woods where the deed was committel, just 1(0 yards from his home and about 200 yards from the home of his victim. With a IPlow line around his neck and trace chain around his body he was directed to climb a cedar tree. With the same degree of coolness with which he maY have gone about climb ing for an oppossum, he broke the -linibs and climbed the tree about fif teen feet. Whlmen "e had reached this distance some one went up a.d chained hIm to the tree. WIIhen Il was in readiness a volley of probably 5,000 shots .was fired, many of them taking effect in the negro's body which was left riddled with bullets It dangling loosely to the tree. ''he posse began its search for Quarles on Saturday morning only a bort while after his attack on the White woman. The hunt was kept up all day' Saturday and through Stur dy 4igh0t and Sunday until the negro - MUMNS~ IlIit'(Q CO. Pains Were Terrific Read how Mrs. Albert Gregory, of R. I. D. No. 1, liluford, ill., got rid of hier ills. "During . . . I Swas awfully weak. .. My pains were terrific. I hogtI would die, The ~ barmng-down pains were - actually so severc I could * *not stand the prcssure of my hands on thme lower Upa rt of my stomach... Is simply felt as if life was for out a short time. My " husband was worried... *One evening, wvhile read ing the Ilirthday Alma * nac, he came across a * case similar to minte, and Swent straight for some Cardui for tme to try. TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic S"I took it faithfully and the results were immiedi ate," adds Mrs. Gregory. i'"I continued to get bet. ter, all my Ills left me, Sand I went through . ., with no further trouble. My baby wvas fat and strong, andmysel-thank God-am once more hale and hearty, can walk **miles, do my work, Uthuotch 44 years old, feel * like a new person. All I many years Cardul has been found helpful In buIldIng up the system Uwhen run down by dis-. orders peculiar to women. Take Cardul 1.62 was found hiding under some brush about fifteen miles from the place where he committed the cilme. The Posse increased as the search con tinued and when the negro was cap tured it numbered approximately two thousand men. Citizens of Green wood, Edgofteld, Aiken, Abbeville and Newberry counties and Lincoln coun ty, Georgia, Joined men of McCormick county in the hunt. iWhen the party which found Quarles was In about ten feet of him the negro jumpied out of the brush, holding h-Is hands up to indicate that he had given ip. Hundreds of shots were fired into the air by the party as an alarm that the negro had been found and the news spread faster than t-he local telephone comipanyp could get it through the cotntry andI the posse soon gathered on the scene. From the spot where he was found, Quarles was taken to the lonie of his vicitim, though there was no doubt on the part of the men w ho found him -that he was the negro who had com imitted the crime. The crowd was per fectly cool and orderly and immed! ately agreed to take the negro to the woman's home to bc identified. After he had been idntilld Quarles was taken to the Robinson graveyard where he was forced to pay the penalty of the crime to which he confessed and against which he warned other mem lbers of his race. This is the first lynching that has ever occurred in McCormick county andI although the regular June term of the court of General Sessions for icCor'm ick county commences hero on tomorrow, the al))eal of the oMeers and those who do not favor lynchings fell on deaf ears, as the quiet, undem onstrative assemblage of men went about their work. In fact, not more than half the number in the hunt were present when the negro was put to death. Those in charge of the negro who had taken him from the town of 'Plum Branch to the home of the vie tim to be identified had stated that they would return to the town before going ahout the work of lynching him. This statement was relied upon by sev eral hundred who remained in the town of Pimi Branch awaiting the re turn of the men with the culprit, when :-I of a sudden a vollely of shots rang out and r:verybody made a rush for the scene, the crowd who were ' res ent having left by other and various roads before those waiting in the town could reach the rcene, A nunber of those who MW io ob tain such as sotivnilrs o'htained them from the body daliglin from the tree by mneans of tile trace c hain w hich had 'heen placed a bout his body. Some I clit iniger, s e tot's froil the ne gro's body, and others littois o)fr his clothes. As a ru le tle colored people of Mc Cormick coun y ae :olite and c hlig iing land (itite a ni1uber took part inI the search for the negro, althbough thle fat her-il-law of tie negro wa- sullen and abuisive wheni partliies approacheud toi little as he waS seoon shiowni im it would not. hue tolerat ed. TFh're is no feeling whatever bet ween the white' and1( colored lopl anid ceery one seems to feel satisfied since one w ho Veotud ioiniti suhaoi)(Ine! haV be remoived fru~ta theY'' iomannity Tl lt) .lit0iTtltt 3 i I ill l: a I aie el nion byt-n ni / N 'r e men, .1- I. ~ i fuorig tfo tie purpoVe a; :1 y w ith e s h e iff as to.0 i he .~ uu : ot drivin of atom-- i ntttyhs 'i'h iotoi-m 'les rsut o thr conference wa's iba tetnegaio byuntiianulyoiiac br. e the shriuf~ 't ppit tol .nbl :.iona tdepnwu jtties talso authoied h pur-c afternoo buiy Chairman~ ioulwar et-f vice. The sheriff wyill matk e the api itimen ts as 800oon i as het an. Th'e sheriff antd htis de(:uties have beenl jitilinig speedcrs, andt it is ho'4.( thatt theu futhter *'nfore'rnwtnt '.f the iaw by the mtoto reyeile of(1leers n ill matke automobu~ile dr~iing on) the highI Sher' ill lt0:u8 se h~5ie will endleavor to app~otint fromi amtongst lihe first ap olicanits, if theyv satisfy himt as to their ability to) opera':te a miotoreyele atid kiE0i:ig of samieo ini propier ((ondition lit all times, tor(ete with t' he d aitlea 1:ions s;.eesary to moakintg :ia oiliceri. .No WVorms In a Healthy Child All chIldren trouhled wIth Worms haive an tin healthy color, wh leh Indicates poor hiod, ad as a rule, thuere la more or I es sbomnachi distu'rbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS ChIlLL TONIC siven regu larly for two or three weeks'. will enrIch the blood, Improve thed(igest Ion. and act nsa ageneral Strength ening Tonlo to the whole avstem. Nature will then throw offeor dIspel the worme, and theChlld willhe ia perfect heullth. Pleasant to take. 60c ger buol. REORGANIZATION OF DRY FORCES PLANNED Senalors le1kve VPlan Proposed by ProhibItIon Enforcement Officials Would Tighten Lid on Liquor. Washington, June 17.--Prohibtlon enforcenent officials 'have comiveted a program from the reorganization of the federal enforcing units and re vision of enforcement methods. The suggested changes, which include abol ishment of about half of the super visory jobs and establishment of a system of state directors to be held wholly responsible for enforcement and adninistrative work, were sub mitted today 'by Prohibition Commis sioner Haynes to -Chairman Penrose, an(] Senator Watson, Itopublican, In diana, of the senate finance committee. Senators who studied the plans de clared the changes would tighten the lid on liquor and would result in a saving in the money cost of eforcing the Volstead act. Mr. Haynes and Commissioner Blair of the bureau of internal revenue, who had approved the program, explained to the senators SI Men We have ta Shoes and I placed a vei S1 LOT f Men's Tan and I lish and Brogue f Men. Tan ar Kid in conserva Older Men. LOT I Men's ran Engi: * styles as well as Gun Metal in be LOTIl All of this lot w< * last year and co Seral assortment styles and for $10.00 to $12 5 1-2 to 11. You w< the sai Make y Sale at Whari Laurens. S. C. To Holders of COTTON We have a profitable working plan to offer you. Write for letter C 50 without obligation on your part. ROSE & SON Cotton Brokers 24 Stone St. New York THREE GOOD MECHANICS AND TWO GOOD HELPERS I am doing the repair business now. Come in and see the boys work. TERMS CASH HENRY COUNTS' GARAGE L SALE Cut Shoes stock of Men's Low Cut rito thruee special lots and i them to close them out. UR WINDOWS Special Pair Special Pair Special Pair double these prices for a a few months ago. fore your size is gone. uirens and Greenwood. 3 ME" Greenwood. S. C. that they had sought to eliminate "red tape" and .make the enforcement corps more responsive to its various duties. Mr. Haynes said it had been "clear ly demonstrated after a thorough trial," that the present plan of organ ization of the field force should be abandoned. le wantedl he said, a cen tralized authority, coordination in the handling of Permissive and enforce ment features and elimination of un certainty, friction and confusion as a result of present methods. In addition to the creation of a sin gle enforcement and administrative unit for each of the ;tates, .\r. Ilaynes pro,,oged abolishment of the offices of su Pervising federal prohibition agents, elimination of prohibition inspectors and the designation of all enforcing and administrative offices under the state directors to "logical and accessi ble" locations creation of a mobile field force organized to operate directly un der the federal commissioner, and the consOl(intion of all records to avoid duplication and, at the same time, to provide a closer check on leaks which may be sprung in the liiuor supply. PECIA 's Low Lken our entire divided them ii ey low price or E THEM IN C q0. 1 Wahogany Eng otyles for Young Ad Black Vici tive shapes for Un2 ish and Blucher Black Vici and ~st shapes. 0. 3 are carried from nsists of a gen of leathers and merly sold at a pair. Sizes >uld have paid ne grade shoe: our selection be both stores-Lal on Cloti "SUIT: