The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-06
NEAL ARRESTED.
After Some Difficulty He Finds
Needed Bondsmen.
MORE SERIOUS CHARGES.

Come to Aid the Ex.Supers
intendent. Columbia Bus y
mess Men Did.
Col. Neal, former superintendent OF
the State penitentiary, was arrested and
carried to Columbia on Tuesday night
of last week, and Thestate says it look
ed for several hours W ednesday as Il
he would not be able to give his bond
and you'd have to go Jail before friends
from his home could get to Columbia to
help him out. Wednesday, smorning
when 10 o'clock, the hour appointed
for the preliminary came, Col. Neal
had not succeeded in securing bonds
men. Three personal friends that ne
was relying upon proved to be away
from the city. At this time also war
rants sworn out by Attorney General
Bellinger in two other cases were serV-
ed upon him, making three distinct
charges preferred against him. The
original warrant charged him with fail
ure to turn over public funds to his
successor. One Of the new ones chaTg-
ed him with breach Of trust with fradu-s
lent intent, and the other.with embez-
element Of public funds.
The affidavit in the breach OF trust
case read as follows:
State Of South Carolina, County OF
Rictiand. The State VS.. William 4.
Neal. Affidavit.
Personally appears before me
Smith, a magistrate for and IN SAID
county and said State, G. Duncan Bel
linger, attorneytgeneral, who, on oath,
saws that he is informed and believes
that on the first day Of December 1888.
in said State and county, one William
A. Neal was guilty Of a breach OF trust
with fraudulent intent in this:
That being then and there paid by
one j. S. Fowler the sum Of FIVE hum
dred dollars for the use and as on ac-
count Of the State Of South Carolina,
the same being the property Of said
State, upon the special trust and conn :
dence that he the same should safely
keep, transfer and disburse for the said
State, as its public servant and othcer,
he being then and there the superln-
tendent,of the State penitentiaTy, he
did then and there feloniously appro-
pirate, eonverb and divert the same to
his own use, with intent to cheat ana
defraud the said. State.
Sworn to before me this 29th day OF.
August, 1899.
T.. 81 G. Duncan Bellinger,
Attorney General.
J. NJ. Smith, Magistrate.
The affidavit in the embezzlement
case was as follows: :.
State Of South Carolina, County Of.
Richland.t SThe State vs.. William a.
Neal. Affidavit.
Personally appeared before me j. ID:
Smith, a magistrate for and in said
county and said State, G. Duncan Bel
linger, attorney general, who on oath,
says that he is informed and believes
that on the = day Of 1893, IN
said State and county, oae William a.
Neal was guilty Of embezzlement, II
this:
That then and there, being superin-
tendent Of the State penitentiary, ne,
as such superintendent, did receive
from one W. T. Magill the sum Of forty
dollars for the use Of said penitentiary
the same being public funds, and the
property Of thesState o. South Carolina
and he being then and there charged
with the safe keeping transfer and dis.
bursting Of the same, and did then and
there Acknowledgement, divert and
appropriate said sum to his own use:
And further, that the said William
A. Neal then and there the sum Of forty
dollars, the property Of the said State,
did steal, take and CARRY away.
Sworn to before me this 29th day OF
August, 1899:
(L. 81 G.. Duncan Bellinger,
Attorney General, S. G.
j. VI. SmitSa, Magistrate.
Col. Neal waived the preliminary
examination and the bond was fixed at
So, 500; Of this $4,000 was fixed on the
original case, which is regarded as most
important; $500 on the second charge
and 81, GOO on the third.
When it was found that Col. Neal
had NOT secured bondsmen; Magistrate
Smith agreed to let him remain in At
torney Nelson's Office during the day
in custody Of Constable Roach, and
from there endea7or to secure bail.
None of Col. Meals former political
friends came near him during the day.
A year ago things were very different.
for Col. Neal was man of political
influence. The weary hours rolled by
and still no bondsmen appeared. Col.
Neal made proposition to Magistrate
Smith to allow Constable Roach to ac-
company him to the up. country so thst
he could in person secure bondsmen,
but this was declined. The magistrate
however, consented to allow Col. Neal
unit. Thursday morning to secure the
necessary bond permitting him IN the
meantime to remain in constable Roach
custody.
But this proved to be unnecessary,
for about 2.30 o'clock Capt. W. B.
Lowrance and Capt. Geo. a. Shields,
of this city, both staunch business men
who do not mix in politics, consented
to sign Col. Meals bond. They repair
ed to the magistrates Office, where the
bonds were promptly signed up and
the ex-superintendent was set at lib
arty.
Col. Neal declined to talk. He quiet
ly went to the depot and in a few hours
was speeding homeWard via Char