Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

THE Farmers Union Of Spartanbure
county is arranging to organize ma
tional bank with capital stock Of $780,
900.
- Various South Carolina Banking as
sociations that issued certificates dur
ing the recent panic are calling in ano
retiring the same.
- George Kenney, colored, was hanged
| in Charleston last Friday for the MUIR
der of Herman G. Stello, a stockade
guard, in August, 1906.
- Burglars entered the rural postoftice
station at Gluck's Mill, four miles south
| Of Anderson last Friday and stole a
tin box containing $48 in cash. Some
goods were also taken from the shelves
- George Berry Proffet, a young
draughtsman of Columbia, aged about
23 years, committed suicide in Colum-
bia last Sunday, because his love OF
young stenOgrapher was not returned
- Chief of Police A. E. Dargan OF
Darlington, was found dead in room
of the city hall in that town last Sun
day morning at about 10 o'clock. He
had been shot through the head, and
his revolver was lying by him; but
whether it was a case Of suicide OF
murder is not certain. Opinion Is In
clined to favor suicide.
- Spartanburg, January IS: The peo-
pie of Spartanburg are considerably
excited over the number of reported
holdups and robberies in the city dur
ing the last few weeks, and many peo-
pie are afraid TO venture out at nights
unprotected or unaccOmpanied. The
citizens are looking we'll to their per-
sonal safety and the safety of their
homes. There have been several seri-
Gus assaults and robberies and hold
ups within the last few weeks, one OF
which resulted fatally and two others
seriously. The police have received
reports of alleged hOld-ups, but they
take little stock in them. The alleged
hold-up of a colored minister Friday
night, the police declare, was a fake
on the part Of the preacher.
- Columbia special of January 20, to
the Charlotte Observer: Allen Emerson,
a celebrated white prisoner, whose sem
sational escape from the Anderson Jail
about a year ago was the subject of
grand jury investigation and for whose
capture rewards were out aggregating
$500, surrendered to Constable Adams,
about twenty miles from Anderson,
Saturday afternoon and was placed in
Anderson Jail early this morning. The
constable kept the prisoner at his home,
thirteen miles from Anderson, till early
Sunday night. Emerson met Adams
on the public road, being then on his
way to Anderson to surrender. He
agreed to surrender to Adams If the
constable would agree not to claim the
$500 offered by the brakes, nor the $500
offered by the sheriff for his capture.
He said he was we'll armed Adams
agreed to this This leaves Adams $500
from the state. The prisoner declines
to say how or where he spent the time
since he escaped. He, however, told
how he got out of Jail, saying he Sc
cured a bar of solder from a plumber
working in the Jail and carved out a
key from this with pocketknife.
Emerson escaped a day or two before
the supreme court announced an ad-
verse decision on his appeal. He had
been given a life sentence for killing
George Drake, a prominent Anderson
farmer, in the latter's home. The kill
ing was in the room of brakes daugh-
ter, Mrs Bailey, early in the morning
Emerson pleaded self-defense, claiming
that Drake had acquiesced in the i'm
proper relations existing between
Emerson and Mrs. Bailey, by whom
Emerson had children. When 1t be-
came known at Anderson Sunday night
that Emerson was in the town and not
in the Jail, Sheriff Green had some diff
Guilty in holding the crowds in check.