The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 30, 1922, Image 8
FARIES CONVICTED;
GETS ELECTRIC CHAIR j
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is an old man, 60 years old, and ms I
hair is pray. He has killed, and 1 j
do not deny it. I am not asking- that !
you .turn him loose. 1 am cc ning
% to you to a<k for his life and his lite
alone. Justice we want, but justice
tempered with mercy."
Mr. Rlease's argument was bottomed
upon like grounds.
"I am satisfied that he killed." .Mr.
Blease said, "I know he was wrong.
. bad wrong, as Benedict Arnold, whom
I consider the greatest military genius
America* has ever produced, was
nagged into .treason. Not one of
these little acts, perhaps, furnished
sufficient provocation to lead Faries;
in to killing these children, hut it |
was the long series of insults that
drove him into his^c razed action.
John G. Carpenter, solicitor-elect
of Gaston and Mecklenburg counties.
N. C., opened for the state.
"This is no time." Mr. Carpenter
said, "to show mercy to a man who
has so wrecked and crucified a home j
as this man has. The defense has of- I
ferer no excuse for this rampage j
of rage and anger save that it grew i
out of a children's quarrel. And ior
this children's quarrel four people,
fwo of1 those children, are dead."
Solicitor Spears divided his address
between a refutation of the plea 01
insanity and an argument that the
death penalty was needed in the defense
of lav and order in the state.
"Why did not counsel for the defense
place alienists on the stand to
testify as to Faries' mental condition?"
he asked. "They were too
honorable; they would not advance a
specious plea."
Mr. McDow in his argument had
mentioned the fact that no white
man had ever been sent to the electric
chair from York county, and
this, the solicitor argued, was the
reason that York county today boast- :
ed a larger number of homicides per
capita than any other county in the
state.
"They have asked you for mercy."
Mr. Spears said. "And the only reason
for giving mercy they have advanced
is the fact that he committed
an atrocious acy
John R. Hart, of York, closed for
the state with a calm, dispassionate
recounting of the admitted and uncontested
facts concerning the awesome
tragedy.
"It is a crime," he said, "the equal
of which has never before been seen
in York county. Days beforehand
Faries purchased his buckshot, loaded
shells and then, according to his
own admission, awaited his time to
use them."
" T looked for it (trouble) all the
time, and staved at home over' a j
week expecting it.' He stayed at
home over a week," Mr. Hart said.
"He seized the opportunity and four
people lie dead as a result. If this is
not murder, then I have never heard
of raurder. He asked for mercy, and
I ask where was the mercy when he
shot down this unarmed little boy;
where was the mercy when he killed
the little girl; where was the
mer;y then?"
Mr. Hart concluded at 12:55 o'clock,
and after a short recess Judge Peuri-1
foy began his charge to the jury.
At 1?37 o'clock the charge, covering '
the law on murder, self-defense, insanity,
defense of persons near an'd
dear, was concluded. A minute later j
the jury retired.
The courtroom a^ain was filled to '
vap^-vuiij.
_ For 14 minutes Judge Peurifoy
talked, and for 14 minutes Faries,
having admitted that he had nothing
further to say that had not already
been said, stood watching the judge
and waiting for the inevitable solemn
ending, "and may God have ,
mercy upon your soul." As the minuter
wore on his gaze wandered, and 1
all the time he showed no sign of
emotion other than the constant
twirling of his big, black hat.
The strain, however, had begun to 1
tell, and it required conscious effort
on his part to reply under the coaching
of his attorney, to the judge's
query as to whether he had anything
to say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon him. He stam- 1
mered, choken, then caught himself
and answered, "Nothing, except what
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my tuuiiaci nao ?uu uvtwv.
No members of Faries' family were
in the court room when the jury returned,
but James M. Taylor, father
of three of the slayer's victims,
had crowded in with the hundreds of
others that came back after dinner
to hear the verdict, and as the lone
word "Guilty," was read tears welled
up in his eyes. Mrs. Taylor, who was
with her husband, also sobbed.
Several of Faries 16 children were
in the room, however, when sentence
was pronounced and there were
tears in the eyes of more than one
of them. Some, however, were too
young to understand it all, and when
brought inside the rail to see their
father after adjournment, clustered
around him, silent, ill at ease in the
strange surroundings and thn crowd
but showing no sorrow.
At 6 o'clock Faries was taken to
GERMANY AGAIN PREPARING
WAR, SAYS FRENCH TIGER
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portant matter. I also heard that 1
was not desirefl. Hut I dare say one
to tell me that I have a personal end
in trin from Fiance to America
and that 1 pursue any design, political,
personal or of any kind. I simply
came to speak to you and that is
what I am going to do tonight. 1
do not know whether you will like it.
but I am very glad of it.
"When a man with his own nature
tries to aim as high as he can, it
is encouraging to hear the raging
shrieks from below. So, thus provided
I came. Of course, as the boat
came on and I began to think that
that was not quite so rosy, and there
were some hours I wanted to say to
the captain, 'Now please, let us go
home.' Hut was so much encouraged
that at last 1 came, ar.d now my
thought in this:
"These two countries. America and
France, have had a great deal in
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events that have ever been seen in
the world. They had the good fortune
to open a new era, not only in
the human thought but to open the
time, the era, when maybe justice,
hope, good will and righteousness
would be realized on earth.
The beauty of this was that there
was a romance between America and
France. I do not know two other
peoples among which there is such
a stretch of imagination. That is the
thought that brought me here.
"After all, I am an old man although
you may not think so. Hut
I am a very, very old man, and after
I am gone I don't know in what measure
I will be interested in some of the
questions that have been most interesting
in my life.
"That is the romance Gen. Pershing
could tell you when he came to
France. The first thing he said
something. He went to Lafayette's
tomb and said: 'Lafayette, we are
here.' And here you were, and there
you stood during the worst days.
I saw the man and I saw the chief,
very often, he may have thought, but
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l was comiorieu uy uicu m^iu.
"I wanted to speak with them, and
I sometimes had quarrels with Gen.
Pershing, beautiful quarrels. I said,
'I don't know what is your power to
say yes, but I 'know what is your
power to say no.' A bad quarrel between
us was that as soon as the
American soldiers came I wanted them
to go to the front and he wanted
them to go to the front too, but, of
course, he couldn't send them as they
were.
"\J?e are not looking for trouble, we
are merely seeking to put ourselves
in a position where we can be assured
that we will not be forced into
another such terrible war as that
we have just been through. I think
that we are entitled to that.
"Safety, we have had a very bad
frontier since the time of the Romans.
Since all time, it has taken the thread
of the Germans to invade us. Well,
look at our frontier. But now there
is something better. Now, this new
Europe we speak of, and fortunately
I cannot dwell upon it now, this new
of them, I do not think there is one
of them, if you ask them whom do
you depend upon to help you in case
of danger, would not answer, upon
America, would not say, upon France^.
"And if I were to meet you this
afternoon I would say upon America.
These new powers in Europe?there
are new powers, and they have your
thought and feelings when you live
upon European feelings. And if you
really think you can live among
yourselves, get your own produce
safe from the rest of the world and
do just as you please, that is not what
you said in 1776. In that time there
was?no?I do not want to speak
baldly of the Monroe Doctrine. It did
good. It did good. But you are
wrong, and the policy of an old man
is not the policy of a child.
"Now, my friends, I must come to a
conclusion, begging your pardon that
I have spoken so long. I do not blame
you. Let the past remain the past.
We may see what the situation in
Europe is today. The war of four
years that brought the greatest damages
known in Europe at any time,
even in the time of the wildest barbarism,
is over. The treaty which is
to establish the new order of things
is not executed.
"What is to be done? You see
where Germany is now. Germany began
by not executing the conditions
of the treaty. I am sorry to say that
the powers under the pressure of
England accepted it, and we gave up
all that we had gained by the treaty
the York county jail, where he was
visited by members of his family.
Either Monday or Tuesday he will be
carried to Columbia to await electrocution
or a new trial. The filing- of
notice of intention to appeal automatically
stays the execution of the
death* sentence, which, if carried out,
will set a new precedent, for York
county, not once since the substitution
of the electricing noose, has a
York county white man paid the supreme
penality of the law.
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On Wednesday, November 22, Miss
Ruth DuBose and Mr. Chollis Stewart
were quietly married at the Baptist
parsonage by the Rev. J. Belton
Baker. The bride is a daughter of*
.Mr. and Mrs. B. L. DuBose of New
Zion and one of the most attractive
young ladies of the community. The
groom is a promising young farmer
and a son of Magistrate Stewart of
Bethel. The young couple have the
best wishes and hearty congratulations
of their friends.
"Aunt" Tina Dinkins, an old colored
woman, age 90, was burned to
. death in a fire that destroyed her
little cabin home in lower Richland
county last week. The old woman
was highly respected by white and
colored. She served as laundry woman
for a number of families in he.
community.
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Dead Number 84.
The number of dead, as a result
of the coal mine explosion at Birmingham,
Ala., last week totals 84 persons.
The explosion was declared by mining
experts to have been a freak,
and so far as local records show or
ly the third of its kind ever to have
occurred in this countrv.
Dolomite No. 3 is a slope mine
opened in 1882. and heretofore operated
without a serious accident,
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Mrs. W. D. Fulton Dead.
Mrs. Lilly Adams Fulton, aged
about forty years, wife of W. Darbey
Fulton of Mouzon died about midnight
Saturday after a brief illness from
pneumonia superinduced by an attack
of influenza. The deceased was a
daughter of the late Elliott Adams
and was a woman of exemplary character
and was beloved by a large circle
of friends and neighbors. She is
survived by her husband and four
small children.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at four o'clock, conducted
by the Rev. John W. Davis of the
Presbyterian church. Interment followed
in the McEIveen burying ground
at Mouzon.
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?most of it?and is it very extraordinary
that Germany took advantage
of that ? That was the beginning, and
the rest came, and we were told,
'You must use the mentality of victory,'
and Mr. Schroeder, the Finance
Minister said, 'We are going to strike
out the line reparations.'
"Do you know that they are manufacturing
cannon by the hundreds,
that they are making machinery' everywhere?
The German taxpayer
pays, I think, $13; let's say $14?the
French $43. There is a line in the
treaty that says Germany will have
to pay as high as the Allies and all
the rest. And what are they preparing?
"I tell you plainly, as I told Lloyd
George before the war, they are preparing
war again. Don't you see
what is going on? Don't you read
the papers? Why, haven't you heard
of the treaty between the Turks and
the Germans and the Russians ? Look
at all this manufacturing that is going
on in Germany.
'Now I say that Gen. Ludenorff
and Hindenburg are preparing war?
civil war?to crush the German democracy,
if they can. Have you forgotten
what the Prussians did after
Jena? How with 50,000 men they
brought Napoleon down? Now it is
the same game. It is written, nobody
can deny it.
"And now I must tell you what I
want I don't want to bring any friction
between your country and my
country. I don*t want you to do something
that would put the civilization
in danger, in circumstances that must
"be worse than before. We have been
guaranteed a good frontier. England
promised it. We haven't received it.
"LJoyd George said that America
made the same promise and had also
not kept it, so he wasn't to blame
exclusively. I respectively ask leave
to tell him he is grossly mistaken.
The facts are these:
"One day I told Mr. Lloyd George
I wanted the Rhine, and I gave him
a paper that described all my reasons.
After the next day or two he told
me 'If you leave the Rhine I will
bring you other guarantees, and I
promise you to do my best?with Mr.
Wilson to obtain the same thing f<om
him.' Mr. Wilson very wisely said
he was willing to agree but, of course,
it was all subject to the acceptance
by Congress."
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