The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-02-06
VERY SAD CASE.
\ HIGHLY CONNECTED Young
LADY CREATES SENSATION
By Leaving Her Home and Going
Off With Married Man,
Who is Arrested.

J. M. Dempster, who was arrested
at Charlotte, N. O., hotel on Tues
day Of last week for abducting Mis-
May Foster, Of Greenville, S. c., wa
carried to Greenville Wednesday
morning and lodged in the county
jan to await q preliminary hearing
The trial was held up st the reques;
OF Ool. T. B. Butler, of Gaffney, AZ
uncle OF Miss Foster, who wired C
allow no preliminary to take place
until hs could reach Greenville
which be would do as soon IS be
could.
The young lady was brought back
from Charlotte whore she was .foun5
registered under an assumed name,
snd is now st her home in GreenYille.
Dempster was found at the same no.
tel that the young lady was stoppi1 g
at il Charlotte. The case has created
great excitement In Greenville on &C.
count Of the prominence Ut the girls
family connections. She Is q grand.
niece Of former United Statts Senator
Mstt. G. Butler.
Dsnpster, accompanied by bis at
torneY, E. NJ. Rsdd, reached Green
vile at 4 O'Clock Wednesday morning
and vas placed in the county jail,
where be will remain until the law.
ye1s agree on the time for holding q
preliminary. Abduction, under the
South Ceronna law, Is a statutory Of.
tense and punishable by three years
imprisonment.
The Spsftanburg Journal says J.
NJ. Dsmpster, who WAS arrested In
Charlotte Tuesday on the charge OF
abduction, running sway with Miss
Mary O. Foster, Of G,eenville, taking
her to Charlotte. where she was also
spprehended, passed through Spar
.anburg Tuesday night In the custody
of officers.
Dsmpster, it is ssid, lives at Ker.
shaw, where he has q wife and sew
eral children. When arrested Meth.
or Mr.. Dempster ncr Miss Foster
would tell . full story. There are
many breaks in the accounts which
they give Of their movements since
leaving Greanville Tuesday morning
MI. Dsmpster asserted that he was
nothing more than friend OF the
girl, whom be knew slightly, and
that he was acting for friend OF hi5,
George B. Barron, OF Spartanbu5g, s.
C. He did not explain how no came
to register the young lady under the
name Of M:ss Annie Evans, OF Greens.
boro, nor could he tell of tho exact
whereabouts Of his friend for whom
be was safeguarding the girl.
Miss Foster tells the same story IS
MI. Dempster, declaring that she
left Greenville Of her own free will
and that she hoped to see George Bar.
ron here In day or two. To 3 re-
porter she said that she was en- route
to Washington to visit relatives.
Miss Foster dispatched q message
to Mr.. Barron shortly after her arrest
Tuesday morning, It read as follows.
Come to Charlotte on next train.
Jack In trouble" No reply WAS re.
csived, nor did Mr.. Barron appear on
the first trsin. Hs had evidently
gotten wind Of what was happening
ana discleetly decided to stay away.
Mr, Dsmpster, against whom the
charge is for seduction, as well as
abduction, WAS born and reared in
Morning Star township. BE is well
known in Spartanburg as is also G.
B. Barron. The case has caused s
great sensation in Spartanburg as
we'll as 1T Greenville.