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YOUTHS CHARGED wrra adduction : Are to Face Charge of Ab- i ducting 14-Year-Old Girl 1 ?Negro Bell Boy is Call- \ ed Hero?Magistrate ' Gantt Says It Is Court's \ Duty to Protect Innocent s Girls. <Saturday's Spartanburg Journal) j Declaring that it was his duty to * protect such arirls as Miss Eva John- ^ son, 14, from having their lives ' blighted, Magistrate Gantt late yes- 1 terday bound Carlisle Wilkins and f Moody Henry, youths, sons of prom- * inent families of Cowpens, over to A the grand jury charging them with | abduction. J Wilkins and Henry, according to ' the evidence given at the preliminary * trial, registered under assumed 1 names at a local hotel Thursday A about midnight. They were accom- 1 panied by Miss Eva Johnson, who * was persuaded to register under the name of Mary Scruggs. s The young men, says the hotel 1 clerk, were assigned to a room on the * third floor and the young woman to 1 one on the first floor. Miss Johnson r was recognized by a negro bell boy * as the daughter of a former employer of his. During the night, according to Miss Johnson's testimony, one of the young men came to her room but was immediately asked to leave by the bell boy, who in the meantime had notified the girl's father, who is a merchant at Chesnee. Later the young men, according to the testimony, complained to the hotel clerk that they would like to have access to the room occupied by the girl. This was denied them and at about 5 o'clock Friday morning the j'oung men are said to have left the hotel. Nicholls is Eloquent. Attorney Sam Nicholls, for the girl's father, declared the action of the young men to be "high-handed." Hi3 plea that the defendants be held subject to the action of the grand jury was able and eloquent."* Attorney Chas. P. Sims, for the defense, insisted that the action of his clients showed no intention of abduction and pleaded that they be set free. Miss Johnson, who is a beautiful and unassuming girl, told the court that there were no imoroDer relations between her and the defendants. 1 That she met them in a picture show s here while she was sojourning in the city enroute to her home at Chesnee from Cowpens where she had been on a visit for a week. She accom* panied the young men, she said, to Mayo, a small town near here, with the intention of visiting a cousin and later going home. She found her cousin away from home and one of the young men, she alleges, telephoned for a conveyance to take her to her final destination but when the carriage arrived it was sent back empty because she had been persuaded in the meantime to return to Spartanburg where, the young men told her she said, they could stay all night at a hotel and that she would be well taken care of and on Friday morning she could return home. "The fact that the young men found the young woman in Spartanburg and left her where they found her," according to Attorney Sims, "is conclusive evidence that abduction was not their intention." The court ruled that the young woman, under the age of consent, was still under the control of her parents and that the evidence showed that the young men attempted to divert, or did divert, her'from her father's legal control while in the city. ? ^ 1 moiner in Court. a Miss Johnson's mother, with a ^ small child, was seen in the court t under a heavy mental strain and was r sobbing part of the time. ^ The defendants seemed not to re- j, alize the gravity of the charge hang- g ing over them. Their youthful faces j, seemed to be eagerly scanning the t crowd and only at intervals were ], they turned in the direction of the t combat to save them from going be- t fore a jury. Attorney Nicholls was high in his j praise of the negro bell boy who he c declared, "saved the young womun c from ruin." t Miss Johnson made the following y, statement: e Family Separation. f "Desiring to make known once for r all my share in the case of yesta^- a day, I want to make a full and complete statement of how the whole affair started and how I found .myself in the predicament which I had got- m ten into Thursday night. To begin f at the begining: * "Last Sunday morning I left my mother's home at Chesnee with the permission of my mother, who has ii full charge over me, since the sepa- v ration of my father and mother last February, and went to Cowpens, where I visited my cousin, Mrs. Nan- j :y Dewberry. I reached there all right and remained there till Thursiay morning, when Cousin Nancy >rought me to Spartanburg in fc bug- < ;y, whence I was to take the after- < loon train for Chesnee, my cousin i n the meanwhile returning to her 1 lome at Cowpens. I had not writ- < ;en .my mother what day definitely 1 ;o expect me, although it was under- < stood that I was to return home 1 Thursday or Friday. Waiting for Train. i "As I had a good while to. wait ] n the city for my train, I decided i :o go to the moving pictures, and I < vent into the Grand theatre. While c n thora Will.!? ? x .. x.v.v uoinoic ?iiiuiia utiue up i' i ne and after we had seen the pro- i Cram, asked me to go with him over s so the Rex theatre, which I did. ^ As t ve were coming out of there, we met 1 she other boy, Moody Henry, who < oined us. I felt no hesitation in go- t ng with the boys, as, although I had 1 cnown them only a little over a ] month and was not very intimate j vith either of them, I had always ] inderstood that they were both per- 'ect gentlemen. "About 4 o'clock one of the boys suggested that we all go up on the ifternoon train to Mayo to see my l sousin, Beatrice Jones. I assented, 1 is I intended either to spend the < light with Beatrice or go on home i >efore night. When we got to Mayo f ve found that my cousin was not ot lome, whereupon the boys phoned 'or a buggy from Chesnee. The bug- I jy came about 6:30, I understood, 3 iriven by Mr. Paris, although I myself never saw it. I would have re- < urned home to my mother in it if i [ had had a chance. They i^ever said mything to me about returning in she buggy to Chesnee with Mr. Pars, although they did say something | ibout us all going to Spartanburg vith him, which I refused to do. Thereupon they paid the man and 1 sent the buggy, back. Later they irocured a carriage and asked me to t CO back to Spartanburg. At first { . didn't want to oro. hut finnllv ?j<j t was getting late and I knew that ' had no place to stay there, I de- i :ided to return to the city, intend- \ ng to spend the night at my aunt's, ' Urs. M. S. Turner's. * Thoughtlessness. s "We arrived in the city about 12 >'clock. Right there was where I nade my great mistake. I had not r ealized how fast the time had been 3 'lying, and when I found out that it * vas 12 o'clock, the thought of what ' ny aunt would say at my being out ) to late under such circumstances, and 1 he scolding I would get for my houghtless imprudence, completely innerved me, and I became all con- ( 'used and frightened. And, of course j >eing in such a state of mind, it was 1 lot hard for the boys to persuade me 1 o go to a hotel and spend the night, c ind, as they said they would see that ] 10 harm would come to me, I could ? eturn home in the morning without mybody's ever being the wiser as to he scrape my thoughtlessness and c ? i?i ?? .. 1 iu(ji uucutc nau guiusn me into. At irst I was hesitant in spite of the * act that up to this time they had c >pth proved perfect gentlemen hroughout the day, but finally, at he thought of this being such an (asy solution to the problem, I yieldid. { First Suspicion. 1 "I did not even know the name of a he hotel until we registered. It was ^ hen that I got my first suspicion <j hat something was wrong, when the s >oys suggested that we register un- ? lev assumed names. They gave as heir reason that I wouldn't want my tame on the register,, as I wouldn't ? vant it known that I had registered p here alone. I assented and went up v 0 my room. Five minutes later flood y Henry entered without knock- , ng, but had only been in there for ' 1 few minutes when a bell boy enered and informed him that to go o a lady's room was against the ules of the hotel, and that he would lave to go out, which he did, and I ocked the door after him. The ne:ro boy returned about 15 minutes ater and told me that he had put s he police after the boys. The boy v .new me, which accounts for his e imely interference, for which I am r ruly thankful. "That is all I know about it, and 1 never saw them again till in the ourtroom this afternoon. This is a ] omplete statement of the whole af- 1 air. I was innocent of any and all .nowledge of their intentions, till I (j ntered the hotel, when I became so e Tightened and confused that I lost g ny nerve and was helpless. That is g1 11. (Signed) "Eva Johnson." To Prevent Blood Poisoning rr>/ ? vuvc lut wuuumni old reiiaPlC DR. ORTBR'8 ANTI8RPTIC HRALINO OIL, a urIcal dreulng that relieves pain and beats at v kc same time. Not a liniment. 29c. 90c. $1.00. r The season has arrived when miniters wake up to find that their diinity has been doctored. LIQUOR SOLD IN CHURCHES. Mderman Chicco Writes An Open Letter To The Governor Alderman Chicco yesterday adiressed an open letter to the govern>r, in which he charged that liquor was sold in some churches here. His etter was the result of the govern>r's remarks in Spartanburg Wedlesday about efforts at suppression >f Charleston blind tigers. Aldernan Chicco's letter follows: "Dear Governor: Your statement is above is noted, and I solemnly irotest against same as untrue and injust, and call upon you to withIraw the charges under the penalty >f having the proofs of its incorrectiess thrust upon you. You should lot except the churches, as I can ihow you some edifices of that na,ure wherein liquor is sold regulary. This whole agitation is hysterical and foolish. There are three ;hings which cannot be regulated by aw; Rum drinking, women and gun lowder. History from the days of \dam, Noah and Roger Bacon will irove this. V. Chicco. ?News and Courier. I -Baptist S. S. Convention. The Baptist Sunday School contention will be held next Sunday at ?airview Baptist church. An interjsting program has been arranged ind dinner will be served on the r rounds. It will cost Boston nearly $21,000,100 for municipal government this rear. St. Louis Black Hand gangs now lemand payment of blackmail on the nstallment plan. How's This We offer One Hundred reward for iny case of Catarrh that cannot be :ured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known ?. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, ind believe him perfectly honorable n all business transactions and fitancially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. National Bank of Commerce. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interlally, acting directly upon the blood ind mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c >er bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for conitipation. Mrs. Kitchens is sueing the Gaff ley manuiacturing company for >75,000 for the death of her hus>and, who was killed by the exploson of a steam pipe while he wus vorking as engineer for the comlany.?Newberry Observer. A Worker Appreciates This. Wm. Morris, a resident of Florence )regon, says: "For the last fourteen rears my kidneys and bladder inca>aciated me for all work. About 8 nonths ago I began using Foley Kidley Pills, and tnev have done what ither medicines failed to do, and now ! am feeling fine. I recommend Foliy Kidney Pills." The Rice Drug Co. The big barn of the Anderson ounty home was burned down Thursday morning. It was insured or $4,000; which covered the loss if the contents but not the building. -Newberry Observer. No Substitute Could Do This No inferior substitute, but only the genuine Foley Kidney Pills could tave rid J. F. Wallich, Bartlett, febr., of his kidney trouble. He ays: "I was bothered with backache, ind the pain would run up to the lack of my head, and I had spells of lizziness. I took Foley Kidney Pills md they did the work and I am now ntirely rid of kidney trouble." The lice Drug Co. When a girl says she intends to be n oia maid it is a dangerous time to ropose to her?unless you really /ant her. CHICHESTER SPILLS V . Til DIAMOND BRAND. A WSpDIW 111U la R*4 and 41*14 amillc\lr/ ~-Wfi sealed with Blue Ribbo?.>^^ ft** li Ji BIaHoND BRAND FILLS, far Bft A~ JV year* kaowa as Bctt, Saint Alwajra Reliable ^--r SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE 1> The Saxon government has bought everal large brown-coal fields in the icinity of Leipzig with a view to the ventual electrification of its State ailways. -or Weakness and Loss of AppetKe ["he Old Standard general strengthening tonic, DROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drircs out dalaria and builda up the system. A true tonia n<! sure Appetiser. For adults and children. 60c. Representative Aswell has introuced a bill to segregate white Fedral employees from negroes. In the iimmer time, especially, therd are trong reasons for this move. HONEY TO LOAN On long time, five to ten 'ears, on improved farm ands, in Union county. Moderate Expense. J. E. MINTER, I We told You So! We can't lower the Thermometer, but we leave it to every Consumer in Fifty Miles of Union, if the prices below don't do more to soothe the irritated pocket nerve than anything that tins hannon<wl MM A?M|/|/VIIVU MKIO OU11II1ICI For the Week June 30, including July 4th and 5th. From Monday through Saturday, including July 4 We offer as long as the stocks last, which ought not to be more than a few days, notwithstanding, we have more good things to eat than you ever saw in one stock. One car Dan Valley Mills, finest Head Patent, Soft Winter Wheat Flour worth $6.25 or more, given away at $5.75 per barrel, $2.90 per Hundred, $1.50 per 48 lbs, 75c per 24 lbs. Your Money Back without Question, if You Want it. One car famous Golden Grain Flour, finest full patent, soft Winter Wheat Flour, worth $6.50 per bbl. going for the pittance of $5.85 per bbl., $2.95 per hundred, $1.55 for 48 lbs., 80c per 241bs. Our guarantee means your money back if not satisfactory. One car Pansy, conceded by Experts to be the finest Flour sold in Union County, worth $7.00 everywhere, for the week if it lasts that long for the unheard of price of $6.00 per bbl., $3.00 per hundred, $1.60 per 48 lbs., 85c per 24 llko I IU9? If you don't find it the rfinest Flour by every test that money can buy, we don't want you to keep it. If you can buy a carload of any Flour named above for less than our barrel price, we will give you a barrel free. Best Granulated Sugar, $4.65 per hundred, in clean full 100 lb. bags. 20 lbs. for $1.00. WE WILL HAVE BI6 STOCKS AT YOUR COMMAND, BUT IT IS UP TO YOU, MR. CONSUMER, TO MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINtS. Masons Improved Pint Jars complete, for 50c per Dozen; Masons Improved Quart Jars, complete, for 65 cents per Dozen; Masons Improved Half Gallon Jars for 85c per Dozen; Masons extra Jar Caps, porcelain lined, for 20c per Dozen. Improved Jelly Glasses, large sizes, for 25c per Dozen. Finest White Jar Rubbers, for anv size iar. nprl Dozen, 7 Dozen for 25c, for time named. Finest thick, red Rubbers, 10c Dozen, 4 Dozen for 30c, for the Week named. CALL TO SEE US ON THE FOURTH Come to see us in person, mail or phone us your orders every day in the year. If you want the Best Goods in America or abroad, the best service that men can give at prices as low as any can make and stay in business, if such things are worth anything to you, wewill be glad to serve you and save you money. UNION GROCERY CO. L. L. Wagnon, Mgr Phone 100. 1 BRING YOB BUSI 4* + To the BANK that is no 4? SAM, .But has the large: 4* Union County. T We make a special el T care of the requirement: T their demands are ir ? 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