The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-15

irrs utrd Il duplicate contract of the
sai, he date oi March >. 1875. Tie
lahoi lti;lct WaS signed March. >. 1876.
and ili' "py OF the contract of the sale
OF the property WH~ also signed and
dated ncl!. isW The witness again
reiterated ;liai ne got thee nvict labor
for his own M>r ,lulin. thu. past three
Years.
Referring 10 the pcnilcntia,y report
for 1896. he IS credited with paving
:H.iH1i or more iOr convict hire: hr said
he knew nothing of il. He supposed if
but ne never used convict hire. In
January, 1S9', he is credited with pay
ing over S:Woas Il balance for ISM. liz,
denied that he owed any balance. In
April. 1897. he WAS credited hy the re-
port for 81 ,-IS2.95. He WAS moi positive
whctll her he had paid that on the settle
mcnt of his contract. which expired in
hour of convict labor. In lS9. Mr.. Bur
iiS wrote that witness had given IL note
for the hire of cnnvlctS Tor that wear
The cotton raised on the Anderson aud
PicllcnS farms WAS sold To factories.
The balance coming To me To pay for
thr land WAS turned over to Col Neal.
Tie amount WAS Sl.lG5.Sl. 1t was to
be credited to payment for convict
labor. lie got q receipt signed by Sn-
lrrinten,lcnt Neal. Mr.. Stephenson
remarked that there WAS no credit in
the report. Mr. Watson said in letters
and from personal statements from Col.
Neal he WAS told that all accounts had
been balanced up. So he supposed il
was correct. He had paid up all .Nc
was due for labor for { he wears IS!c.. ~
and % After that he WAS not rcSnon-
Siblc for convict hire.
''Slncc he contract of lS!ti have Won
| used convict labor ," asked Mr.. Steven
son.
Not one hours time" answered Mr..
Watson.
"Well, then. since the contract of
lS9'; have You made. any payments ut
all for convict labor
"Yes, Indirectly. one time. 1t WAS in
this way: i he cotton made OH the two
farms. one III Anderson and the other
in lickenS. in 1896 was sold hy me at
Piedmont and Pelzer. After taking
from the sale I'LL that was to come to
me as the first payment on the farm
turned over to Col. Neal on Feb. ~,
1877. = .46j.SJ. This WAS to hr used to
pay for convict hire under contract Of
lS!lG.'
Mr.. Watson produreda Il receipt signed
by Col. Neal as superintendent for the
amount, but it did not specify that il
WIS for convict hire.
"Wrll, Mr.. Watson. you are not cred
tied with having made such Il payment
i'll the superintendent report. Did
you ask Col. Neal about it -
"lcs, from personal statements and
letters from Col. Neal had every lra-
son to believe proper credit had been
given me-
you mentioned the Pickcns farm.
What connection had that with the
matter?
1T WAS worked i,y Col. Neal with
convict labor; under the smpcrimtcm
dcncc of &. w. RagStlalr. He didn't
know how many convictS were worked
OH this farm
AS to the check for $o,G0O given by
him. he said his attention WAS called to
it when he read liz. report oi the pcni-
tcntiary for the past year. He is put
down as due S2,:,74.22. When he SAW
1T he began to make inquiries. He
went to Mr.. BursS, who told him that
the account against linn WAS abon,
S2.S0O. lie added that some expenses.
about 5000. would have 10 come off.
He afterwards saw Mr.. Cunningham,
who showed him Il memorandum given
him by the Carolina National bank.
There were two notes.-the B. Is. Rags
dale note for S2.59:5.M and the {. w.
Ragsdalc note for $2.Ol".i:j. He Sllp-
convict hire for 1S9S and that OF G. W.
Ragstlalc for convict hire 1S9,.
Mr.. Cunningham then asked him To
help him Straightcn the matter out
Cunningham told him tha, Neal had
said hat he had about $50 bales of cot
ton which woulsi he sufficient 10 settle
the matter. He SAW Neal. who said
to him that hr had about III bales of
cotton. Col. Neal w;,s sick iii he time.
ami said as soon as he WAS able iic
would SctIlr the matter. He (WatSulil
believed that he had sufficient uiutcc-
ton in the land and cotton tn secure
his first payment and enough surplus.
so he gave his check for S2.Gnn to take
up the Is. Il. RaES.lnlc note.
"W hat were your reasons for not al
lowing the draft to be paid ," l,r w:is
asked.
lie said it was painful to have to tell
the reason why he recalled the draft.
1t was IL 10 days draft. His first draft
was for S2,G0o. Mr.. Clark. of the bank,
didn't approve of this, and another was
drawn on January %, $3.50. expected
to get 100 from Col. Neal as Il third
payment on the land. In November
he stated he would be able to pay it,
and went on to say something about
the balance. liz said he had arranged
to borrow the balance. One man pro-
posed to loan it to him for 7 per cent,
payable sc1ni-annnally; another ut y
per cent. annually. He asked me about
1t and told him if he lost his job
would advise him to take the per
cent. AS to why notified the banl.
not to pay it was in consequence of
papers on the cotton which would pre-
vent mc getting it. There was 81. 900
note III the Farmers and Merchants
Bank, of Anderson, which Mr.. Fowler
had endorsed and which had e<nn. to
protest. Mr.. II. NJ. Bui'riss and Mr. w.
Z. Hammond were the other endolscrs.
The note was made by Col. Neal. They
notified Mr.. Ragstlalc not to move any
cotton from tile farm. IL. went ovcl.
to take the cotton to sell it :fd meet
the draft when he WAS notified that
Others had IL lien OH it, Then he told
the bank not to pay the note: lie has
those Ragsdalc notes were given for.
He had told Col. Neal he had given