The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-11-23
SHOT TO DEATH
"A MARLBORO BOozE sELLER
KILLED ABOUT GIN.
The Quarrel Arose About the Pay
ment Of q Bill for Strong
Drink.

| Dry Counties have o hard time
managing their blind tigers. In Marl.
boro County julie Combs, proprietor OF
one of tho notorious line bara, was
shot and killed in his bar room Sun.
day night week ago.
Combs clerk and hwo other witness.
es say that Edible Quick, Carey Quick,
Louder Q lick and Love knight went
| TO tho bar together Sunday night and
were drinking. Combs told Knight
that he owed him for n half. pint OF
gin. Knight said he did not. Combs
then struck him In the face, and the
witnessas ran out. After they got out
they heard pistol shots inside. 1t "a
not known which of the four men In
side fred the fatal shot.
Tho bar room is only few feet from
the line. on the North Carolina side,
Combs was taken to his homo, on the
South Carolina eide, and died there
two or three hours later Coroner Mo-
Oall and Sber.ff Green went up and
held the irQuest Tuesday.
There is some question as to wheth.
| or the trial should be hold In. North
Carolina or In tLis State, but it is the
general opiuion that 1t should be In
the county In which the crime was
| oommit6ed
For generations there has been q
string Of bar rooms extending along
the State line, from the northeast cor.
Oner OF the State, westward aoross the
barron sand hills, for three or four
ni!lcS. EGr several years &c a. Lack
ey kept tho most pretentious Of these
oara, and also operated q distillory on
JDe line. Wnan tho VISITS law was
passed in North Carolina Lackey
| abandoned his plant on the line and
moved to Hamlet. From there he
was driven, q year later, by the pro-
hibition law for Richmond County.
All Of the other line bar keepers also
closed up and left except two-Wtl1
CHM and julie Combs. They oontin.
uod to sell liquor on the line between
two prohibition counties.
| AS the State line through that bar.
rem country was not marked. ii was
difficulty to prove in which State the
bars were lOcated. This was the main
reason why the two States through
their Legislatures provided for joint
suryeY to establish and permanently
mark the line between Marlboro ant
Richmond counties. This survey was
made last fall, and all of the bar rooms
were found to be In South Carolina
although 1T was previously believed
that they were in North Carolina.
Wtll CHM pretended to abandon hit
P' .uor ahop. elthough ha hhvnstannd
5EYafoS9f 40 tlofCa5 D06 'une or tt
Il the Courts annul the survey.
i Carolina oonstables made several ef
forts to capture his liquor, but the.
found 1t stored In his barn, which wa
In North Carolina.
julie Combs Immediately built
new bar room, on the North Carolin
side and continued his business ther
In open violation Of the law. 1t wa
in this new building that he was kill
; ed by one Of his customers Sunda
night
Several years ago, on Christina
Day, Combs shot and killed man b
, the name of Quick, In hia old ba
room, few yal ds from where he los
, his own life. He claimed accident 0
defence, aid was acquitted q
Rockingham.
The death Of Combs probably end
the career Of the open bars which ha9
fourished on the State line for COZ
tury.