Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-13
TO BE CONTINUED.

Columbia Record: Just now the
|penitentiary holds number Of new
prisoners of more than usual interest.
The first of these the newspaper man
was shown today was young Harry
Dean. as handsome as ali Apollo. He
comes in from Spartanburg on life
sentence for homicide, and 1t saddens
one to reflect on how those dancing
ewes will be dulled. and how the hard
lines will be chseled into that fresh
young face by relentless prison life
with it's monotony and hardship. Har-
ry Dean doesn't look like murderer.
BY his side in Deans cell stood
young John Nall. the North Caroliniaa,
whose life sentence the supreme court
recently refused to interfere with.
Nall is only twenty-five years old. He
got into trouble over In Darlington
about a year ago while drunk with his
compa 1ior, Bob Smal!s, and they Killed
a negro in brutal circumstances. COM
ing out Of the prison Bob Smalls was
pacing a walk with Fisher and ODay,
the last two recently sent In for safe
cracking although North Carolina had
also claimed them. Smalls Is also q
Young man and he has created par
ticularly favorable impression since ne
has been at the penltentiary. He Is
hard worker. He Is to go back 10
Darlington i'm a short time to be resen-
fenced. Smalls' only hope lies In the
pardon board Much feeling. was
aroused In Darlington by the case and
Smalls had to be brought here for sate
keeping. Taking a sunbath on pile
Of logs at the end Of this walk, sat X.
A. Adams, the Colleton county white
man who. in a passion, hunted up his
kinsman, Henry jacques, and killed
him with a shot gun as result OF
family row. He Is under sentence or
death. though the execution has been
deferred in remarkable ways a number
of times. short time after sentence
was pronounced against him he escap-
ed Jail, and carrying his shot gun into
the fields with him, made a crop for his
wife and children while a heavy re-
ward was out for him. Then he was
captured I'm a spectacular way, but az
ter the supreme court passed upol his
appeal adversely Judge Townsend, In
stead of resentencing the prisoner
granted him a new trial on alleged al
ter discovered evidence. The supreme
court later upset this. which again
raised the curtain in front Of the gal
.ows for Adams. Recently Adams at
torney secured a stay pending an IN
vestigation of the merits or the AFTER
discovered evidence. HOyt Hayes, the
young Oconee county mountaineer SEN
fenced to hang for the murder OF his
bride wife but who he claimed COM
mtted suicide while in delicate con-
dition, works i'm the kitchen. This case
has attracted attention throughout
three states, because of the peculiar
circumstances surrounding the alleged
murder. Both the solicitor ana the
trial Judge have declined to recommend
that Hayes be pardoned, and when
Governor f1eyWdIu COliiIiiubSu tA"s ~
sentence to life Imprisonment numer-
ously signed petition came to him from
Oconee asking him to resign as gov
ernor. But the governor places much
store by the report of the handwriting
expert, Mr.. Carvalho, who pronounced
as genuine the note purporting to have
been written by the woman just be-
fore the shot was fired, and In whlch
she spoke of death being preferable 10
the pain she was undergoing. Hayes
friends are confident that the govern
or will pardon Hayes before new
governor Is inaugurated next January.
And there is reason to believe these
hores have good foundation. The PEN
itentiary people don't appear to like
Hayes. He hasn't got an engaging
way about him.