The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-11
place where they could have brokon

| place whcre they could have broken
in.
Could not say that any Of these
goods woro there OH Saturday, but
know they were there Il day or two
before.
Never ran Il commissary. 1t is
gott'ng to be fact that good many
people do run commiSsaries. DO not
know whether or not tho Risers ran
commissary. Never heard Of it.
Never saw them haul any goods from
depot, only what they bought thore.
Had not gone over stock in ~ days.
Store door novcr left opon all night.
Passed thore one Sunday evening
about dark and saw back door open.
Did not shut door and so far az |
know it remained open all night. 1t
was d. Hlpp Il Co., then. l was
sleeping in store at that time. We
moved ont about tho middle Of Jan
uary and wo do not go in thcre much
now. Charlie Counts and Clarence
Bundrick slept in store last fail.
Don't know whether they had Other
people i'll store with them or not.
Redirect examination by Mr..
Johnstone:
Mover hoard Of tho Riscrs hauling
away goods from depot marked ID.
lllpp. Tho cost mark is put on
after wo get goods in store.
Mr. Hatton had charge of the storo
when | saw door open. was afraid
to go back and lock it. Some ono
camo ont Of the back door and an.
other ran hctwoon the two stores
while l was thcro that Sunday even.
ing. Did not know them. Was
afraid thnro would be somo ono hurt
mo if | went back to lock tho door.
Those people who broke in.
These goods-blankct, lap robe,
shoes, etc, wcro bought after that
door was seen open that Sunday
evening.
Never saw silk hunkcrchicrs, lap
robes, SI.50 blankets and such goods
in commissary, and mover heard of
tho Riscrs running commssnry
aud they never bought any goods
from Hipp for it.
II. W. HOLLOWAY.
Tho private detective was next
sworn and testified as follows:
| am private detectivc. Am ON
ploycd in this case. Received let
ter directed TO my father. Wrote
MIR. Hipp mysclf. Ho came to Co.
lumb,a aud went TO hotol to 500
him and he employed mo to co?cup
to look after the robbery. l. camo to
Pomariu on Thursday, 2lth Fcbru.
airy, rs II picturoagent. Loarcd around
Pomaria on Thursday and on Friday
swore ont tho warrants against these
parties and went out on Saturday to
mako tho search. Was accompanied
by Joe Wcrts, magistrates constable,
and Mr.. Hcntz to identify goods. AS
wo drove to tho house Albert Riser
mot us and told HIM | had warrant
to search house Ho looked sur
priscd and said there were mono Of
the goods in there that belonged to
d. Hipp. told him that wo would
go in ut any rate and look through.
Wo went in his room first and found
nothing but few cigars Wont on
in his mothers room. Found soy.
eral ends of boxes in there with D.
Hipp's mark on and they claimed
thcso wcro picked up after being
thrown away. Then we found box
tobacco and we oponod trunk in j.
! A, llisor's room and found somo cloi h
and n pair Of boots. Looked at n coat
and said it had boen worn. Mr.. jim
Riser then cnmo in room and said he
didn't care what wo took Just SO wo
didn't take anything he had bought
and paid for.
We thcn went up stairs in room.
Saw hole in wall and crawlcd in it and
on coiling over piazza found pair Of
blankets and shoes. Then asked for
Willie's room to be opened. There
WAS no key and | went through tran
som and opened door from inside
Found in there 5 or 6 pairs pants,
coat and vest hanging on wall and
several handkcrchicfs in cont pocket
and big box and another box full
Of goods and two or three pairs Of
shoes under the bed
Then found trunk aud as there
was no key forced the lock. We
found in this shlta, collars and cuffs
Albert asked mo to take the trunk
as it stood without opening it and
he would explain later why he did
not want it opened. / told him be
knew those were stolen goods in tho
trunk and that if h. did not open it
] would forca the lork. He admitted
that some of them were stolen and
he explained that he was fixing to
run away and get married and did
not want the fox to kncw it. There
was ono table cloth which he said he
had bought and paid for.
We then searched tho meat house
aud found the -four Mr.. Riser said
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