The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 31, 1910, Page EIGHT, Image 8
' IN THE TOILS
OF THE LAW.
TRAVELING SALESMAN CHARG
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RIO (JSLY ILL AT HOTEI.
Kingstree. March 29:?A W j
Phelps, a traveling salesman for the
International Harvester Company,
lies seriously ill at the Kellahan
hotel, in this town, while Sheriff
Graham holds a warrant of arrest,
charg'ng him with bigamy, and
which will be served as soon as
Phelps is sufficiently recovered to
be removed to the jail.
Three marriages were performed
here on Easter day, one of which
was that of A W Phelps to the
daughter "of a respectable farmer,
living a few miles from Kingstree.
The couple took the train at 9:12 on
Sunday night, going to Lanes, and.
spent the night there. On Monday
they came back to Kingstree, Phelps!
having suffered a slight stroke of
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paralysis, and put up at tne noiei.;
Meanwhile the Rev W E Hurt, of the
Baptist church, who had per-i
formed the ceremony and to whose 1
congregation the young lady belong-1
ed, received information that Phelpsj
was not legally entitled to contract
a marriage, as he then had a wife
lfving in North Carolina. Mr Hurt
promptly began an investigation,
which uncovered facts sufficient to1
warrant him in going to Phelps and i
charging him with having practiced i
a gross fraud, both on the minister
and the innocent girl. Phelps admitted
that he had been married,
but wa3 divorced at Greensboro, N
C. When the minister, however,
'offered to wire the clerk of court at
Greenst&ro for proof of this statement,
Phelps objected, saying the
clerk of court might be dead and
please to wait until he was recover-:
ed from his attack, when he would
straighten the matter.
Investigation further disclosed the
fact that Phelps had told other parties
here that he was married. These
facts unfoi nately only came to
knowledge Monday morning after the
ceremony had been performed. The
w- father of the young lady was communicated
with, and came at once
to the hotel and laid the facts before
jL.. Ws daughter. The poor girl is, of
cqurse, crushed and mortified, as[
are also her parents. , She returned
home with her mother about sundown,
and on the advice of the So?
licitor her father swore out a warrent,
charging Phelps with bigamy,
and he is at present under the
supervision of Sheriff Graham.
The Sheriff this morning wired
^-^the clerk of court at Greensboro to;
t know if Phelps had been divorced j
there. as he claims. If he cannot;
set himself straight before the pre-:
liminary, which will be held later, |
he will have to face a Williamsburg
jury on a charge of bigamy.
The foregoing article clipped from j
the News fjid Courier gives the
salient facts of a sensational and
v unfortunate affair which has stirred
:
up the people of our peaceable and
law-abiding community more than i
anything of the kind that has trans-1
pfrad here in a long time. Out of j
consideration for the young lady!
and her family, who live near town j
and who are new-comers to ourj
. county, we withhold the name of!
PLEA
Individuality i
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picaMj _yuu uui um
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the victim of the lamentable occurrence.
Mr Phelps is an expert machinist
and has been making periodica!
trips here for several years and his
friends are greatly surprised at his
conduct in the light of present appearanees.at
least. A telegram was
received yesterday morning from ar
attorney at Ashboro, N C. who Mi
Phelps said represented Mrs Phelps
No. 1 in the divorce proceedings,
stating in substance that nc
such proceedings had been instituted.
so far as he knew.
It being reported that Mr Phelps'
wife was living in Greensboro, N C,
Sheriff Graham wired the chief of
police there, stating what had occurred
here and asking for information.
Up to this time (Wednesday
afternoon) no reply has been forth
coming.
Meantime Mr Phelps is confined
to his bed at the Kellahan hotel,
with one-half of his body paralyzed
and a warrant pending for his
arrest. There is no doubt that he
is a very sick man and the excitement
and worry attending the affair
has not helped his condition. Certainly
unless he improves he is in
no condition to be taken to jail.
From several stand-points the situation
is painfully embarrassing.
The people of Ringstree have tried
to be humane in dealing with this
case, having given the man charged
with the serious crime of bigamy
every opportunity to clear himself,
offering to communicate by wire
with any one who could vouch for
his innocence, but it now seems that
the coils are tightening about the
unfortunate man and that he must
pay the penalty of the law.
In response to an inquiry tele?l?
J Alrxwlf nA?**t nf r.nil.
Krapuru UJC turn* ui umu v^.?
ford county, N C, (of which Greensboro
is the county seat) Sherifi
Graham received the reply: "Nc
divorce granted A W Phelps ir
Guilford county."
Notice to Subscribers.
In transferring the names of subscribers
from our subscription lis
to the galleys of the mailing machim
we nave recently installed, there ha;
been some confusion of names anc
postofficesand a few subscribers,wht
are entitled to the paper every week
complain of not getting it. We asktherefore,
every subscriber who faili
to get his or her paper to notify u:
at once? a postal card will do?s<
that we can rectify the error, if suet
there be. Don't fly off the bandh
because you happeu to miss a eopj
or two of the paper, but drop us i
eardaud we will promptly look int<
the matter. It is no easy task t(
transfer 1,S(K) names scattered amons
50 or 7.5 postoffices, with a different
date to each name, without making
a few mistakes, (iive us a little
time, please, to get our mailing nia
chine working smoothly and we hop<
there will be no further trouble.
Tributes of respect,obituaries
cards of thanks and all communications
of a personal nature,
nut news, are charged *or at the
rate of one cent a word.
When you come to town put a
copy of The Uecord in your pocket
and consult its business directory?the
advertising columns
in making your purchases. tf
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Summed Up.
He was a lion tamer, but the man
' who ruled the king of the forest
I was in turn ruled by his wife. One
? night lie was entertained by his
; friends, who refused to allow him
to depart until the small hours of
the morning. As a result on his I
i homeward wav he had a presenti- I
1 i inent that his better half would not !
receive him as cordially as he de- !
; served, consequently he spent the
night elsewhere.
In the morning he tried to slip
1 into the house unobserved; but,
'J alas, a voice from the top of the
j stairs greeted him coldly:
I "Where have vou been all night, '
John?"
. | "Well, mv dear. I was afraid of i
j disturbing you, so I slept in the j
" I lions' cage."
| There was a moment's pause, a i
j gritting of teeth, then down the j
stairs tloatcd one word:
"Coward!"
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I j The Ancients and Electricity.
,i A writer in the Elcktrotechnische
[ l Anzeiger cites many incidents to
. show that electricity was not unknown
to the ancients and that
Georg Ebers' suggestion in a novel
that the Egyptians made use of
lightning conductors was well
. founded. Instruments much like
( the modern heliograph were also
used, the writer says, by priests as a
means of communication between
' temples. There can be no doubt,
he says, as to the temple having
been protected bv lightning rods. <
. The Biblical descriptions show that
the roof was provided with metallic (
points held aloft by columns and
that these points, ending in chains,
terminated in great water tanks.
! He adds, "All of which is vouched
. for in the first book of Kings and
the second book of Chronicles."
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