Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-12-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

/ - w. z. ROWell, QlSpeIlSary coHstd
BILE, shot and killed ]. c. Blount at
Florence last Friday night. Blount
was In the employ Of the Atlantic
lCoast Line and the shooting occurred
near the station. Rowell said after
ward that he saw Blount enter blind
tiger and asked him. about it. Blount
got angry, and jerking a stick from
RowelPs hand, hit Rowell over the
head with 1t. Rowell drew his pistol and
fired. Blount was killed almost in
stantly. The dead man was about 45
years Of age and Rowell is about the
same. Witnesses say that Rowell was
drunk when the difficulty occurred.
Rowell has been on the dispensary
force about eight years, having been
appointed originally by the late Gov
ernor Ellerbe. .... r.
Rudolph Rabens, who conducts q
grocery establishment on King street,
Charleston, was arrested last Thurs
day afternoon by the United States
marshal, on warrants sworn out by
postoffice inspectors, charging him with
conspiracy in the robbery Of postof-
fees. His place Is alleged to have
been the rendezvous Of the members
Of the gang. His place was searched,
as were the homes Of his two broth
ers for evidence to implicate Ed
ward Murphy, alias Morgan, whom
Inspector Gregory identified Wednes-
day as a member of the notorious Nc
Kinly- Noland gang, among the alleg-
ed bank robbers rounded up by the au-
thorities in Baltimore. The arrest
caused a sensation. Rabens was re-
leased on a $500 bond for the prelimi-
nary examination.
Will Hardin, colored, nineteen
years old, was hanged in Chester last
Friday for the murder of his father
in-law, Henry Sanders. aged seventy,
in October last. Hardin and his wife
were quarreling. Sanders interfered
and Hardin shot him. The execution
took place inside the jail and was wit
messed by 100 persons. Hardin declin-
ed to make a statement before the trap
was sprung, but prayed earnestly for
thirty minutes, and then begged the
sheriff to give him another week. His
meek was broken by the fall. Frank
Hardin, the father, secured the body
and took 1t to his home, eleven miles
from Chester for burial. He refused
to see his son before the execution, nor
did he look upon the body, and Har-
din's wife did not come to Chester
after her husbands conviction.
- Charleston special Of Dec. II to
Atlanta Journal: The order Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, putting the office Of
deputy collector in the civil service re-
moves the last appointment that was
reserved to Collector Of the Port Crum
and the other collectors and In
Charleston's case the action Of the
president does the port a good turn. in
that 1t obviates the likelihood Of mat
ters being still more obnoxious by the
negro collector putting into the office.
now held by Mr.. A. 8. Withers. an Of
fetal with whom the community would
be brought into close contact, for 1t
is with the deputy collector that most
dealings are had. Deputy Collector
withers has held the office for five
years, consenting to retain 1t under
the colored collector, upon his APP
pointment two years ago. and to this
extent, he has done the port a good
service, and the order of the president
makes his position permanent and
adds a certain amount Of relief to
the trying situation in effect here.