The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-19
THE SESSIONS COURT.
Adjournment Reached Yesterday
Considerable Amount of Busi-
ness Disposed Of.

Geo. E. Prince presiding, adjourned
yesterday afternoon. The petit juries
had been discharged yesterday morn
ing, but the court was in session for
several hours afterwards waiting on
A1e final presentment Of the grand
jury.
While a number of cases were con-
tinued ON account of the sickness of
defendants and for other reasons
which made continuances necessary,
considerable amount of business
Was disposed of. The Langford case
was continued on account of the ab-
sence Of Col. George Johnstone.
The report in the Last i>scle Of Tile
Herald and News ciose1 with the
statement that J. S. Fowler, white,
! was being tried for disposing Of p:o-
perty under lien, the alleged lien in
question being held by Counts Bro
theirs, of Pomaria. Late Monday af-
ternoon the jury returned verdict oil
guilty with a recommendation to the
mercy Of the court. He was sentenc-
ed to pay a fine Of $50 or to serve
! six months.
Convicted of Manslaughter.
Love Singley alias Lou Singley, COL
ored, was placed on trial on Monday
afteronon charged with murder in the
killing of her father-in-law, Lang Sin
gley, ON Mrs. N. R. Testers place, on
last Saturday night a week ago. A
full account of this killing, including
the testimony taken at the coroner S
inquest, was published in The Herald
and News last week. It appeared
from the testimony developed on the
trial that Lang Singley and Bella, the
woman he had been living with, had
separated, and Bella had taken her
clothes to the house where Burr Sim
ley, who was Lang Singley's son, and
Lou Singley, Burr's wife, lived, and
put them in the loft. On Saturday
night when the killing occurred old
man Lang had gone to his son s,
Burr's, house to get the clothes which
Bella had left there. Burr testified
thatthe had gone up into the loft to
get the clothes for his father when he
heard the gun fire. He said that Lou
and Lang mad been i'll good humor be-
fore the shooting and that Lou cried
all night about it afterwards. Robert
Singley, LOUIS son, and Gus Singley,
another grandson Of old man Lang
but not a son Of Lou, were tie 2rinol-
pal witnesses for the State, Robert
being about eight and Gus about SIX
years of age. Gus said that after
Burr went up in the loft old man Lang
swung on the joists to go up in the
loft. and Lou warned him if he broke
anything on a table in the room that
she would shoot him; that old man
Lang broke something and Lou Shot.
He said that Lou also told old man
Lang that she had not told Bella to
bring the clothes there, and that
Lang couldn't take them away until
Bella came next morning to see about
it. Robert said he WASH It looking at
his mother when she shot and he did
n t remember what was said. Sheriff
Buford testified that the defendant
had told him that she told Lang he
couldn get the clothes until Bella
came, to which Lang replied he must
have them, and she told him if he
broke anything she would kill him,
but that she did not intend to kill
him, only intending to scare him. Lou
said she had got upon a chair and got
the gun and was trying to unbreech it
to see if there was anything in 1t,
when the gun was accidentally fired.
She said she was getting the gun
simply to scare old man Lang, and
first wanted to see if there was any
thing in it. She did not see Lang,
she said, at the time the gun fired.
The defendant was represented by
Schumpert and Holloway.
The case was given to the jury on
Tuesday morning, and after deliberat-
ing several hours the jury returned a
verdict Of guilty Of manslaughter,
with recommendation to mercy. The
ightest sentence was imposed-two
years.
Mistrial In Dispensary Case.
John Darlington, a negro who lives
on Mr.. James H. Johnson's place, in
No. 7, was tried on Tuesday charged
with violating the dispensary law. V.
P. Workman, chief Of police at Pros
perity. said he and Mr.. J. W. Donald