The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-13
ESTABLISHED 1865.

adjoining that occupied by the acting
jailer and his assistant, who both had
keys in their pockets to the iron door
leading up to the second floor. These
things were allowed, Notwithstanding
the Sheriff had been twice warned that
preparations were being made to aid
their escape.
rs. Prisoners under sentence were al
lowed to visit their families, and Others
have been employed in hauling wood.
SO. The Jail, contrary to law, has
been used as boarding house.
10. Discrimination has been eNer-
cised in the treatment of prisoners.
I'll. Within week after Murrell and
Carpenter got out, another prisoner,
under indictment for burglary, escaped
in the daytime in the self-same way,
and through the selfsame hole through
which Murrell and Carpenter are
alleged to have escaped, showing that
warning, escape of Murrell and Car
penter, and nothing else seemed to have
impressed the Sheriff with his lack Of
caution and the portanceiof his trust.
I'm view Of these facts, we present
Sheriff QUITS and Joseph QUITS for
criminal negligence, and ask the
Solicitor to Institute judicial proceed
ings against them. And that Marion
Booth and Robert Powell be indicted
for aiding and abetting the escape Of
these prisoners.
1--WE desire to say, in this connection,
it is with sorrow and pain that sense
of duty alone compels this harsh meas
ure against our Sheriff, a personal
friend of many of US, and man whom
as citizen and officer the people of
Edgefeld have delighted to honor.
And we exonerate him from any con-
nivance or intentional wrong. His
humane heart and over confidence
have drawn him into this trouble"
Judge Wallace in discharging the
grand jury commended them highly
for the efficient manner in which they
had discharged their duty, and it gave
him pleasure to say that their body was
unquestionably composed Of men (as
shown by their presentmenD who had
the welfare of the county at heart.
Referring to that portion of their
presentment in reference to the
supreme Court, he spoke Of the Judges
of that court as able lawyers who
welded Unfortunately and fairly the
power they had of checking unjust
verdicts and erroneous decisions of the
circuit courts and protecting the rights
Of a free and enlightened people.
AS to the censure in regard to con-
cases, and especially that Of
Jones, he said that leading counsel
stated that be had just been subjected
to surgical operation, and it would
have been inhuman to counsel and un-
Just to Jones to have forced the case to
trial and thus deprive the prisoner of
the able service Of counsel. AS to the
former continuances he knew nothing,
but felt sure that they were founded on
grounds equally as just and proper as
the continuance at this term was.
Solicitor Nelson will give out indict-
ments against Sheriff QUITS and his
son, Joseph, and Marion Booth and
Robert Powell at the next term of the
court. He has already caused the
arrest of Booth and Powell, who are
now in Jail. Sheriff QUITS and his son
gave bond this evening. The firm Of
Gary & Evans has been retained by all
four of the above mentioned parties to
defend them when the case against
them comes up for trial.