The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 18, 1911, Image 1
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VOL XXV. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, HAY IS, 1911. NO 10~
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UGLY AFFAIR AT SCRANTON.
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Florence County Magistrate Ar
rests Citizen Without Cause.
Scranton. May 15: ? Saturdaj
morning,about 2 o'clock,it is alleged
that several men went to the home
of Mr John Mitchell, a prosperous
t farmer living about two miles from
Scranton ("his Honor" Mack Collins
?a magistrate of Florence county?
his son, Hubert Lee and Daniel Lee
being in the crowd),asked admission
in an ungentlemanly, high-handed
and boisterous manner. Mrs Mitchell
opened the door and,she says, Collins
and Herbert Lee came in and in an
ugly and domineering manner arrested
her husband. Mr Mitchell
^ was submissive and hand-cuffs were
B at once placed on him. Mrs Mitchell
B was then informed by the "Judge"
B that he had fifty men stationed outB
side and that Mr Mitchell's body
B would smoke before day dawned. Mr
Mitchell was then carried from his
p home under arrest at the dead hours
of night?leaving his family in a
high state of excitement, when absolutely
no crime had been committed
by him.
From what the writer can gather,
Mr Mitchell and a negro employed
on his farm had had some little controversy
last Monday over the management
of a share crop artfl both
had resorted to guns. Some few shots
were fired, but neither was seriously
hurt. A warrant was issued before
Judge Baldwin by Leffie Mathews,
and the parties were arrested.
Things passed on quietly until
Friday Friday night, when "his
Honor," Mack Collins, from the Oak
Grove section, in Florence county,
L came and created one of the most
& violent excitements and disturbances
that has ever occurred in our community.
We were reminded by some
of the citizens of Fibrence county
jg some time ago that after the annexM
ation move we would have letter
on-fn? /??!rv>writ At loivs nrwl thaf thn
r continued lawlessness of some of our
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people would be suppressed. If Fri-1
| day night's demonstration is a sample
of better laws, God forbid that
we ever should have been annexed.
Have the pood people of our coun-:
I ty allowed our government to be'
come so corrupt and vile that we
> cannot select officers that will re1
spect our wives and daughters? Is
? it possible that the time has come
" | when our wives, daughters and little j
' children are forced to be subjected
to such pross insults and to the
sounds of oaths of the blackest type?
Absolute loss of respect for self and |
> i others and a general disturbance at
' | our homes, caused by so-called peace
1 officers?
1 j Later reports are that the Mitch- 1
1; ell family are in a high state of ex-j
citement and in fear of being mobbed.1
j Tonight Mr Mitchell has gone to the j
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writing is asking the Sheriff to pro'
teet him and his family from bodily'
s injury.
The foregoing article, which also
appeared in The Florence Daily
Times Monday, bore the following
: comment:
I
The Times has no hesitancy in say!
ing that while we publish the above
accpunt of the incident, just as it is
written, we are sure that our friend
is allowing his sympathies to prejudice
his judgment somewhat. We
have known the officers referred to
too long and too well to think that
they would so outrage decency and
we are waiting for the story from the
! other side.?Florence Ihily Timex.
Approaching Nuptials.
The editor acknowledges with apj
preciative thanks the following in|
vitation:
"Mr Henrv P Tallevast invites
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1 you to be present at the marriage of
I his daughter, Rosa, to Mr Van D
! Harper, on Wednesday evening,May
124,1911, at 3:30 o'clock, at home.
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Please allow me space to sav to g0
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our mutual friends and people at ^
large that the unfortunate occur- \y
rence of May 1 between Mr E R ca
Rhodus and mysef was -Weh/ mi/ do
fault.and the report that Mr Rhodus ^
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(Signed) M D DeLorme. er'
The whole matter being fully and
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(Signed) E B Rhodus, lo1
(Signed) M D DeLorme. as
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