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THE SHANAHAN CASE.
The Jury Finds a Verdict of Not
Guilty
Which the Judge Says the Defend
ants in the Case Will Not Believe
ThoroaIyo, "'EY. -

D. B. Shannahan and Carrie 2
Pou, who at one time lived near Liy
ingston In Orangeburg County, are IL
trouble In Columbia, where they wer,
tried for adultery last week. Boil
Shannahan and the Pou woman ar,
white. Shannahan left his wife 1,
take up with the Pou woman, wht
deserted her husband to go will
Shannahan it is alleged. The tria
consumed the better part of two day.
and resulted in the conviction of boti
defendants.
The defendant was represented BY
Mr.. F. G. Tomkins, Of Columbia, anf
Mr.. A. H. MOSS Of the Orangeburs
bar. Before the. jury@was drawn two
hours Of the time of the court were
consumed in hearing and determin.
ing motions made by counsel for the
defense. 4 81. gA,
A motion to quash the indictmen,
was o%verruled, although the judge
stated that the draft Of the indict.
m~entwasnot in accord with his views
on what the required form should be
and added that IL he were the solici.
tor he would mol pros the case and
draw up a new indictment.
A motion was then made to re.
quire the solicitor to elect upon
which charge in the Indictment he
would 60 to trial. This was objected
to strenuously blythe counsel for the
State, but Judge tombstone ruled that
the trial would have to proceed upon
only onet of the two charges OF
counts" in the. Indictment. The So
licitor entered a mol pros as to the
second count In the Indictment. D.
This is an interesting case and
Thursday attracted more than the
usual attention. The prosecutor in
the case is Mrs. D. B. Shannahan and
she was the first witness for the
State. Mr.. Pou, the husband of the
woman with whom it is alleged Shan
nahan is living in shame, was also In
court as a witness for the State, and
will be put up probably to testify
that his wife has been liyfnsly open
ly with the first, named defendant.
Mrs. Shannahan testified that her
husband had not been living with heI
since January, 1906. and that she
begged him since that date to give
up the Pow Woman and live with he1
as man and wife should. She also
testified that Shannahan carried on g
correspondence with the Pou woman
before he finally left her and went to
living with his codefendant. :.
Mrs. Shannahan testified that she
and the defendant, D. B. Shannahan,
were married in Orangeburg County
in 1901. They had but one child, q
daughter and she died on July 5 Of
this year at the home Of Mrs. Shan
nahan. She told of a visit to hel
husbands "home" and Of getting
some of her own wearing apparel out
of the trunk Of her husbands alleged
paramour. She said that she was
offered $500 to compromise the case
against her husband, but declared
that she refused the offer and would
not agree to accept any money for 6
settlement.
After being out for twenty-foul
hours the jury in the case returned
with a verdict of not guilty.
Turning to the jury, Judge John
stone remarked in his most sarcastic
tore: "Gentlemen, the defendants dc
not believe your vertict."
1t was considered by the Court
very evident, that the prosecution
had made out its case and many 9th
ers thought so too, but the jury did
not see it that way.