Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-16
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1907.

Charles Howard will be taken to the
state penitentiary at Columbia within
the next few days to begin a sentence
Of ten years each for safe cracking and
larceny. They were convicted on the
charge of robbing the vault in the
Office Of the Enoree Manufacturing
company, November, 1902. The jury
deiiberated on the case for several
hours Saturday night. At IL o'clock
a verdict had not been reached and
Judge Aldrich instructed the jury to
bring in a sealed verdict and that
court would sit Sunday morning at 10
o'clock and receive the verdict. After
midnight a verdict was reached and
the Judge was awakened from his
slrmbers and requested to go over to
the courthouse and receive the verdict.
At one time II looked as II the case
would result in a mistrial. At first
the jury was equally divided as to the
guilt and innocence Of the prisoners,
but after hours Of deliberation the six
who were in favor OF verdict of not
guilty gave in. Had the prisoners
arrested as soon as they got outside
Of the court room, for 1t Is understood
that warrants had been issued charg-
ing them with the same offense In
other parts of the state. G. p. Sims,
attorney for the defendants, says he
will carry the case to the supreme
court.
= Spartanburg Journal: The parents
Of Ella Mclaughlin, the pretty young
girl who was taken in charge here sew
eral days ago by the police and ac-
companied to her home in Kings
Mountain, N. c., by an officer, are
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Geo. F. Kirby, pastor Of the Methodist
church Of that town. In a letter to
his father, Major A. H. Kirby, Rev.
Mr.. Kirby states that this young girls
running away to get married or that
she had been married were rumors
without foundation. While she has
caused her parents no end Of trouble,
she Is not a bad girl at heart Her
principal source Of worry and anxiety
to them is her Unsuitable desire for the
stage, to join theatrical troupe, and
anything in the line Of plays or play
ers appeals to the heart of the stage
struck girl The girl is an excellent
"ianist. The night before she disap-
oeared from Kings Mountain the
atrical troupe played. in that town,
md their pianist skipped the show
there. The girl, according to the min
ister's letter, was seen talking to
members Of the show company on the
street that afternoon, and as the play
ers went from Kings Mountain to
Asheville 1t is surmised that they had
5argained with. the girl to meet them
IN that city, to begin an engagement
as their pianist. The truant was in
tercepted at Spartanburg, however.
and she should be grateful to her pa
"ents, the police of this city and 9TH
ers concerned who saved her from
the barn. -storming route.
r. H. Holsonback was shot
through the heart by George Thomp-
son near Johnson, Edgefleld county,
Sunday afternoon at about o'clock
and was instantly killed. The killing
occurred In the public road and the
weapon used was a magazine pistol.
Thompson and Holsonback were In
Johnston Saturday afternoon. They
were quarreling then and II was
thought that a serious row between
them was imminent The chief Of
police took a hand and managed to
Quell the difficulty. Thompson and
Holsonback left town. This afternoon
the two men met In the public road
about three miles from this place In
what is known as the Philippi section
of Edgefield county. Some words
passed between them In regard to
to money matters, and Thompson
struck Holsonback on the head with
the butt end Of buggy whip. Hol-
sonback then put his hand on his hip
pocket, as If to draw q pistol, and as
he did so Thompson shot him through
the heart with a magazine pistol. Eol-
sonback staggered back about ten
feet and fell. He died instantly. There
were five eye-witnesses to the killing.
Holsonback was a married man, but
had no children. Holsonback Is well
known throughout the state as the
doorkeeper Of the senate under Lieu
tenant Governor James II. Ttllman,
and was the most important witness
for Tillman in his trial for his life Tor
the murder of Editor Gonzales, testf-
flying to alleged threats by Gonzales
against Tillman. tsa
- Charlottesville, Va, dispatch Of
April 13. to the Charlotte Observer:
Daniel Henry Chamberlain. aged sew
enty-two, governor Of South Carolina
during the turbulent times immediate
ly following the era Of reconstruction.
died this morning at the residence OF
william c. Chamberlain, near the
University of Virginia, after an illness
Of cancer of the stomach. The de-
ceased had recently returned from
y
disposed Of his property in Massa-
cilusetts with q view to settling In
Virginia. While Daniel II. Chamber
lain CAME from the north after the
war and was elected governor Of South
Carolina by the Republicans and ne
groes. his action in boldly defying the
legislature and refusing to issue q
commission to a negro politician who
was elected to the supreme court OF
that state half redeemed his admints-
tration. Thoroughly in sympathy
of slavery and the slave owner
then rampant and ranking through
New England, was concentrated and
burning like a living flame In his
breast, but in the memorable revolu-
tiona-y year Of 1875 when $4,000 white
men undertook to capture the stare
from more than 10000 black men and
their scalawag and carpetbag white
associates, Chamberiin faced deadIy
field he stood dauntless while 1,200 red
shirt men on horseback, many Of them
veteran Confederate cavalrymen who
had cut their way through Grant lines
under Mart c. Gary and who never had
surrendered or taken any oath OF al
legiance, galloped. yelling and dead
ly circle, around his audience OF fright
ened negroes. When the raQlcal reg
lslature met in Columbia in November
of that year and the whole atmosphere
was electric with danger and death
waited at the next step Of any prom
inent man, he delivered one Of the
most deliberate and clean-cut ad-
dresses ever put before public body.
At least a third Of the white people
Of South Carolina that year were
ready to endorse Chamberlain, who
had served one term as governor, Tor
reelection. They had in mind his
fight against the Forty Thieves" OF
the legislature, led by Frank Moses,
in January, 1875; he had telegraphed
to the New England society, sitting In
banquet at Charleston, that the ques-
ton pending was between civilization
of the cavalier and the roundhead,
the Huguenot and the Puritan. bar
barism and desolation. Yet the ma
iority Of the white people elected him
Tor a straight fight with Wade Hamp-
ton, cavalier and cavalryman, peerless
gentleman and dauntless soldier lead
ing his own kith and kin and blood.
SO he lived through many vicissituoes
of life and thought and relations 10
two races and two sections and great
causes. He Is one Of the very few
...Sothon ooy,,aro m tha 9Outh OF re-