The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-21
SHOT TO DEATH
a MARLBORO BOOZE SELLER
KILLED ABOUT GIN.
The Quarrel Arose About the Pay
ment Of a Bill for Strong
Nrink

OfV COuQGleS QSV6 5 Q2rS Dlme
managing their blind tigers. In Marl.
boro County julie Combs, proprietor Of
one Of the notorious line bars, was
shot and killed in his bar room Sun.
day night week ago.
Combs clerk and two other witness.
es say that Eobie Qu:ok, Carey Quick,
Louder Q i!ck and Love Knight went
to the bar sogether Sunday night and
were drinking. Combs told Knight
that be owed him for a half. pint OF
gin. Knight said he did not. Combs
then struck him In the face, and the
witnesses rsp out. After they got ont
they heard pistol shots inside. It Is
not known which Of the four men in
side fred the fatal shot.
The bar room is only q few feet from
the line, on The North Carolina side.
Combs was taken to his hcms, on the
South Caroline side, and died there
TWO or thrse hours later Coroner Nc
Call and Sheriff Green went up and
hsld the irquest Tuesday.
There iSsone question as to Wheth-
er tie trial should be held in North
Carolina or in ttis State, but 1t Is the
general opinion that it should be n
toe county in which the crime was
committed.
For generations thers has been q
string OF bar rooms extending along
the State line, from the northeast cor.
oner Of the State, westward across the
barren sand hills, for three OF four
miles. For ss7eral years e A. Lack
ey kept the most pretentious Of these
bars, and also operated 8 distillery on
TIE line. Waen tbs Watts law was
passed in North Carolina L2ckey
abandoned his plant on the line and
moved to hamlet From there he
wss driven, q year later, by the pro-
hibition Law for Richmond CJInty.
AL Of the other line bar keepers also
closed up and left except two-Wll
CHM and Jule Combs. They contin-
ued to sell liquor on the line between
two prohibition counties.
AS the State line through that bar
rem country was no5 marked, it vas
difficulty to prove in which State the
bars were lcc2sed. This was the main
reason why the two States through
their Legislatures provided for Joint
survey to establish and permanently
mark the line between Marlboro and
Richmond counties. This survey was
made last fall, and all Of the bar rooms
were found to be In South Carolina,
although it was previously believed
that they were in North Carolina.
VIII CHM pretended 30 abandon his
liquor shop, although he threatsned
to move it across the line or to have
the Courts snnul the survey. South
Carolina ccnSaables made several ef.
forts to capture his liquor, but they
found it stored il his barn, which was
in North Carolina.
Jule Combs Immediately built
new bar room, on the North Carolina
side and continued his business there
In open violation OF the Law. 1t was
in this new building that he was kill
ed by one Of his customers Sunday
night.
Several years Ego, on Christmas
Day, Combs shot and killed man b5
the name Of Q!ck. il his old bar
room, few yaros from where he lost
bis own life. BE claimed accident OF
sslf-defencs, and was acquitted at
Rockingham.
The death Of Combs probably ends
tae career Of thu open bars which have
Hourtshsd on the State line for CEN
tury.