Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-28
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Within and About the County.
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Lantern, April "a: The Southern EX-
press company has recognized the
| long and faithful service of Mr. c. II.
Brennecke as it's agent here by retir-
ling him on pay The company will
continue to pay him a salary but
imakes no further claim upon his SER
vices, and he is at liberty TO engage
in any employment he may feel IN
clined. 1t is a rare thing that a man
serves a corporation faithfully and ac-
ceptably and at the same time is so
courteous and accommodating to its
patrons. We have no doubt that the
express company has been saved mon
ey and trouble here purely on account
of it's patrons consideration for Mr..
Brennecke and his good offices in ad-
iusting differences before they grew to
serious proportions He invariably
acted as the mutual friend of en-
ployer and patrons. He worked
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and did whatever he could for the in
terest of employer and accommoda-
ton Of patrons. We congratulate Mr.,
Brennecke and commend the express
company. Mr.. Robert Brlce OF
Evans. had horse killed by South
ern train one night last week. Mr.
Brice had put the horse in the pas
ture and some one passing through
the pasture left the bars down and
the horse went out and was grazing
along the track when the train came
along and killed it,. Miss Florence
Caldwell returned yesterday afternoon
| from a visit to her sister, Mrs w. ;.
Hall at Gaffney, and other relatives
i'm Yorkville. Messrs. w. II. and
Pinkston Nail had a hair-raising eX-
perience yesterday morning which
they do not care to have repeated. Mr..
Pinkston Nail awoke about 3.3O
o'clock and heard the steps of man
advance a few steps into his room.
He kept perfectly quiet and the would
be burglar perhaps thinking no one
was in that room turned and went in
to Mr. w. r. Nails room. Mr.. Pink
ston Nail then quietly arose, turned
the light on in his room and got his
pistol out of a drawer. Knowing the
pistol was out of order, he armed HIM
self with a pair of tongs and slipped
across the hall to his brothers ROOM
and reaching in he turned on the light
and found himself face to face with
the burglar. The latter threw up his
hands to shield his identity and Mr.
Nail went at him with the tongs ana
broke them over his head and arms
BY that time Mr.. w. R. Nail awoke
and came to his brothers assistance
and the man, seeing he would be over
powered, ran down the stairs with Mr.
Nail close behind beating him with
his piece of tongs The man on
reaching the floor grabbed a chair and
raising it said, stop, young man.
Mr.. Nail halted a second and then the
man ran through the sitting room ana
out through the window through
which he had entered. The Messrs.
Nail were close behind him and in the
struggle his outer shirt was left in the
room. One very peculiar thing about
the burglar was he was in his night
clothes and barefooted. Policeman
Williams, who answered the call, ar
rived on the scene soon after the
would-be burglar left and was able to
track him to the new school building,
where it seemed he dressed himself
and going down to Saluda street he
came up to Main street and his track
was lost about Mr.. owens store. There
is some suspicion who the guilty party
is and the police are working up the
case but no arrest has yet been made.
The man was white and clean shaved
and the only mark on the shirt that
was left was a laundry mark. An eX-
animation of the local laundry books
showed that there was no number to
correspond with it at the laundry
here. Some one, likely the same man,
was heard around Mr.. II. S. Hyman's,
only a few doors farther along the
street the same night, but he failed
to get in.