Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-26
sourH CAROLINA NEWS.


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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has been
invited to 60 to Winnsboro, 8. c., and
present the veterans Of Fairfield with
crosses Of honor. A special from
Winnsboro to the News and Courier
says: "At a meeting Of the John
Bratton Chapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy, Friday, the 18th,
at the home Of the president, Mrs.
T. H. Ketchin, 1t was decided to pre-
sent crosses to the veterans in Fair
field. The chapter hopes to have the
presentation made by Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson. This chapter has been re-
Gently organized and will take up the
work of the Ladies' Memorial asso-
citation. which have the credit OF hav-
ing erected in Winnsboro one OF the :
handsomest monuments In the state
to the soldiers OF the Confederacy."
- Greenwood special of January 23
to the Greenville News: Telephone
advices from Mccormick today an
nounces the, death this morning in
Augusta, Ca, of State Constable j.
c. Holstein.,, who was shot at Nc
Cothran had a fight with Napoleon
Wideman, and defying arrest, the
town marshal asked Holstein to aid
In the arrest. In the scufie Cothran
shot Holstein. The fight with Wide
man was the result Of q suit against
a friend Of Cothran's, named Palmer,
for seducing.. Wideman's daughter.
Holstein's record as constable Is
good. Cothran was carried to Abbe-
Vile jail today. Holstein was a MEM
Der of the first class at Clemson Col
lege. His father was once sheriff OF
Edgefield county.
= Mr.. Hutto Of Lexington, drew the
eyes of members of the house and Wis
ton of personal privilege. He took for
his text the expense report Of the dis
pensary investigation committee. He
preached sermon on the danger OF
not requiring the committee to report
at the present session Of the assembly.
He appeared to think he had detected
graft In the committee appointed to
ferret out graft in the dispensary sys-
tenn. He read from the report, 1t was
Of expense put down to Members per
diem and expenses" II this were al.
penses might total $4,000. He did not
think the evidence the committee had
so far brought out amounted to any
thing. The way that things are going
,ow the committee could run about
over the state without let or him
drance, running up expenses and chas-
ing idle rumors. Mr.. Hutto felt that
the committee was not doing right by
the members Of the house and his con-
stituents felt that they also were being
wronged. Mr.. Lyon answered that the
its duty and, finding they didn't have
morey enough, they borrowed It. II
the legislature did not pay 1t the COM
mittee would have to.
Columbia Record: The preva-
lent idea that Gus DeFord may have
something to do with the recent rob-
berries in this. state, Georgia and
North Carolina has caused the gov
ernment to redouble its efforts to
capture the man and officers In ev-
cry city and village In three states
have been furnished with minute de-
scriptions. Added to this Is the hope
Of the reward of $1,000 and the
knowledge that DeFord is Q desper-
ate man must make the life OF the
outlaw anything but pleasant, when
he realizes that most Of the officers
| of the law would not hesitate to shoot
him. DeFord,; 1t will be recalled.
made a most spectacular escape
from the United States deputies
| while being taken to Charleston to
stand trial for safe cracking. He had
been arrested In the upper part OF
New York state and near Florence
he jumped from a passenger train
going at speed Of sixty miles an
| hour That he was not killed was
| simply a miracle and gives an In
| dex to the character Of the man.
A short time afterwards detectives
here said that DeFord had been seen
in Columbia, but before he could be
caught friends warned him and he
disappeared again. Now II is said
he Is In the upper part Of the state
and the government again has hopes
of capturing him. "As long as De-
Ford Is at large" said an officer In
the employ OF the government one
day, ''there will be robberies. The
man can no more help committing
crime than eat. and I have no doubt
but that he has friends In several
| Of the larger cities Of this state and
North Carolina" It Is generally be-
lieved, however, that DeFord will be
captured soon and when this happens
the minds Of the postoffice inspec-
tors will be easier.
There Is quite q sensation over In
Gaffney as the result of @ development
| in Kansas City, Mo-, last Monday. Az
ter the marriage Of John Allaine Whit
man to Miss Marietta Jelley, the CASH
Ter Of Kansas City restaurant 1t de-
veloped that the supposed groom was
woman, and she was arrested on the
charge Of having committed perjury In
the representations she had to make
| In order to secure q marriage license,
At police headquarters she said her
name was Pauline Webster and told
story like this: II am woman, but
have dressed as a man for three years.
have worked an a man ana lived as
one I married this girl when she said
she could not live without me. Ny
fathers name was Noah Webster. He
was a big South Carolina Mason.
When he died eight years ago, he left
some money to me and my two broth.
ers, ]. e. Webster and ]. r Webster.
I did not think was getting my share,
so after quarreling with my brothers,
left home. worked In hotels and
restaurants until three years ago. One
day In Dallas, Texas, while I was en-
ployed in the Kimball hotel, I heard
that a cook was wanted by theatrical
company travelling In private car.
The owner of an employment agency
told me II I was a man I could get $50
a month. That gave me an idea l
bought a cheap suit, cut of my hair,
and next day returned to the agent
and completely fooling the employ
ment agent, was hired for the theatri-
cal company" The Jelley woman had
a little money and this Is supposed to
have been the reason Of the marriage.
The Gaffney correspondent Of the
Spartanburg Herald interviewed Pro-
bate Judge Webster In regard to the
matter last Tuesday, and quotes him as
follows: mo truth In the newspaper
account. Noah Webster died fifteen
years ago. not eight years ago. When
Pauline Webster. whose name was
Pauline Glenn Webster. left home there
was no reason for her going as she was
well treated and lived with her sister,
Mrs T. E. Wilkins at Cowpens, s. c.
There was no duarreling over the es-
tate Of Noah Webster. as alleged, but
1t was settled to the satisfaction Of all
concerned. II she were living now she
would be thirty-eight years old. Her
mother died at Glenn Springs, 8. c.
July II. 1871. when she was child.
There may be a Pauline Webster. some
where, but she cannot be the one herein
represented' Judge Webster express
ed as his belief that his sister had been
dead many years, saying to the cor
respondent that he had proven to his
co tIefo ction that she was dead. He