Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-24
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER "a, 1908.

way To settle Il quarrel was to fight
and that the man who would not fight
Is a coward. The sentiment Is that If
a man strikes you in anger you must
kill him. We may delude ourselves in
to thinking that we can sow one kind
Of seed and harvest another kind Of
fruit. but the Scriptures tell us that rs
we SOW we must also reap and in this
case the harvest is necessarily assault
and battery of high and aggravated
nature, assault and battery with intent
to Kill and murder. If you run to keen
from killing a man you may be called
a coward You would not like to be
called coward. l would not fancy
being put in such a position. l know
IA man, however, who killed a man
rather than run. He thought he had
ii to do. He was acquitted but have
heard him say more than once since
that he wishes he had rum and he is
no coward either. Just as long as you
have men who say it is cowardly to
run to keep from taking life, you will
continue To have unnecessary murders
Judge Hydrick then showed how
lawbreakng was largely the result OF
training. 1t is sad to see the small boy
popping firecrackers against the town
ordinance. There Is nothing wrong
in popping firecrackers: but the viola
ton Of the law is a serious thing La
ter we see him killing birds in viola
ton Of the game laws. The killing OF
the birds does not amount to much
that is a small thing; but the violation
of the law is big thing. These vio-
lations lead to other violations. and the
more broken laws we have the more
serious the situation.
The observance Of law, his honor
II Il. -
who Is trained to obey the law from a
sense OF love and respect, will make a
good citizen. l would not think much
of a son who Obeyed me only from fear
But still there are those who cannot be
brought to observe the law from res
pect and they should be punished and
made to fear it.
Referring to the question Of inveSti-
eating the books Of the county offices
his honor said that there should be a
state examiner to look after this mat
ter under the direction Of the governor
or comptroller general. Most of the
county officials, his honor said. are
honest and desirOus Of doing their
whole duty. When they get into trou-
BILE, it is usually because of ignorance
They make a mistake and cover II
up But it is impracticable for grand
tions Of these books. l venture that II
you will look up the records in the
cases of the few county officers in this
state who have from time to time gone
wrong. you will find that each and ev-
cry grand jury report for a number OF
preceding terms will contain a state
ment To the effect that I'VE have eX-
amined the books Of the various coun-
ty officers and found them correct" II
we had a competent state officer tC
look after these things, we would not
have so much trouble.
After concluding his general remarks
of which the foregoing is only. sum-
mary. his honor proceeded to give spe-
cific instructions as to various bills OF
indictments that had been prepared by
the solicitor and taking these bills the
grand jury retired.
The first case taken UP was that OF
the State against Henry Sims
charged with assault and battery with
intent to kill. The defendant plead
guilty Of aggravated assault. and the
court imposed a sentence Of one year
on the chaingang or a fine Of 5000.
Waddel Castles, alias Wood Castles
was tried on the charge Of burglary
and larceny and acquitted.
Buster Ray charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill, plead
guilty of assault Of an aggravated ma
ture. and was sentenced to $50 or six
months.
Rufus Anderson, the negro who kill
ed Tom Hafner. also colOred, near
Yorkville recently, was allowed to
plead guilty Of manslaughter and he
was sentenced to twenty years in. the
penitentiary.
The business of court has been
dragging along very slowly this morn
ing owing largely to the unavoidable
absence Of Mr.. Mellow. who represents
the defendants in several Of the cases
that would have otherwise been taken
up.
The case against Mason Estes
charged with selling liquor, was no
pressed on payment Of the statutory
fine Of 800.
Marshall Melton, a white man, plead
guilty to grand larceny, stealing from
his brother and was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
In the case Of Henry Massey, charg-
ed with housebreaking and larceny, the
solicitor consented to verdict Of not
guilty.
The grand jury has been quite busy
Yesterday and today, and will hardly
be discharged before tomorrow.