Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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building of ]. B. and ]. F. Cleveland,
and entailing loss Of $4,000. A Wof-
| ford stadent and several firemen We're
injured.
- Columbia, March 1S: While making
out pay warrants for $50 each for ten
Confederate veterans named In reso-
luton which passed both branches OF
the legislature in its last hours, Comp
troller General Jones was laughing at
the inconsistency and injustice OF the
resolution. Investigation Of the last
pension report revealed that all put
two of the ten are now on the pension
rolls, and that there are over 12O In
more destitute and helpless circum-
stances than the ten named In the res
olution. The total disability class is
class A, and last years report SHOWS
1928. In class B there were 1853 last
wear This makes a total Of 292 who
should receive $50 II equal justice had
been done. In other words II $50 had
been appropriated for all as deserving
as the ten named the appropriation
would have been over $4,000 instead
of $500. The resolution started out q
very simple affair. providing for $50
| for L. Wicker Of Marlboro, being intro
duced by Representative ]. P. Gibson
of that county. Others tackled on the
names Of friends, until there were ten
shots in the paper when 1t got through.
These additional names are: Thomas
H, Burkett, Sumter; Wash Bozeman,
Greenville; J. S. Prescott, Lee: McEl-
more and Blue Goodman, Laurens: w.
H. Sutcliffe, Berkeley: John A. Hin
nant. Fairfield; w. ]. Brown, Horny;
John r. Hunter Darlington. The PEN
sion lists show the following ref
erences to the veterans mentioned:
Wicker, wounded in leg, now getting
s4S a year; Burkett, getting $72 q
year; Prescott, in class c No. 2. II blind
end in need as stated in resolution
would be entitled under law to class A
with 500 a year; Blue Goodman, IN
class A and drawing $96: Sutcliffe. In
class c. drawing $4S. lost an eye: Hin
nant. in class A: Brown. In class
and drawing s72 year: Hunter. same
Anderson Daily Mail: If Attorney
General Lyons hope and expectation
that the Federal supreme court will
hand down q decision In the justly
celebrated dispensary case favorable
to the state next month materializes,
the probing Of the graft evidence IN
the management Of the old state dis
pensary will start up where 1t was
shut off by the Federal court taking
hold, but with decidedly renewed Wig
or. and It Is expected that the begin
ming of arrests of sensational nature
will be the outcome. Also 1t Is prom.
| ised that additional and very important
charges will be lodged against the nine
| prominent men under Indictment.
AFTER we have gotten busy with our
investigation again" said Attorney
General Lyon, in an interview in the
Columbia Record, 81 don't think any
body will have good ground for COM
planning that the probe Is not going
deep enough. At the time we were
shut off we really hadn't got to the In
teresting point" In Mr.. Lyons opin-
ion the state will save at least half
million dollars If 1t Is allowed to con-
tinue the investigation and settle ac-
cording to the law of the state and the
decisions of the state supreme court
The Carolina Glass company claim
has already been paid, amounting 70
some $1,000. Outside of this and some
accounts due supply houses the state
owes nothing in the light OF the evil
dence already adduced." 1T has been
established" said he, that the whis-
kys and stuff were bought not only In
violation of law, but there is the clear
and unmistakable evidence OF the
grating beside. The state therefore
has the moral as we'll as the legal OBJ
lection to advance against the great
bulk Of the claims" In this connectlon
| It is pointed out that decisions already
rendered by the state supreme court
will Justify the commission In refus-
ing to pay anv claim in which 1t is
shown that either the law was not
compiled with or in which there was
| grating. In the case OF Col. NeaIs
administration Of the penitentiary ne
negotiated a loan Of $4,000 from the
Carolina bank. and although the bank
acted in perfectly good faith, and the
states agent got the cold cash and
spent it for the state, the supreme
court decided the money was borrowed
illegally and the bank Is still out Its
money.
| -Laurens special Of March IL, to
News and Courier: Guilty Of man.
slaughter, with recommendation to the
mercy of the court" was the verdict
agreed upon by the jury in the case OF
the State VS.. Wade Cothran Pinson
charged with the killing Of Thornwel
Boyce at Cross Hill, on the night OF
November last. Upon the reconven-
ing of court this morning, which was
few minutes later than usual the
Jury conveyed word to the court thai
verdict had been reached, and at S.5s
o'clock sixteen and half hours after
the case went to the jury, the verdict
was read. Mr. Cannon, for the defense
at once gave notice of motion for
new trial, which, however, was over
ruled this afternoon, when Judge
Prince sentenced Pinson to term ol
| two years in the state penitentiary fol
the killing of Boyce. Counsel for the
defense will carry the case to the su-
preme court. Pinson is released on
bond Of $1,000, signed by his father ano
uncle. The appeal will be based on al
legged errors in the rulings and charge
Of the presiding judge. Young Plnsor
received his sentence without any
change of expression, being apparent
ly entirely unaffected by It, The peo:
pie generally were somewhat surprised
that a verdict had been agreed upon
since the jury had stayed out all night
1t is thought that the verdict rendered
was a compromise, some of the jurors
holding for an acquittal and some fol
manslaughter. However, the genera
| opinion was that manslaughter WoulC
be the verdict. Judge Prince charged
the jury very clearly on the points OF
law relating to involuntary manslaugh'
ter, defining the distinctions between
accidents and deaths resulting from
acts committed, which acts were ir
| themselves WTOllS, VI, ao thc 10"
put it, "malum in se." The point tha1
the jury had to decide was whether OF
not the effort on the part of young
Pinson, who was trying to adjust his
pistol when the fatal shot was fired
constituted an unlawful act because OF
gross negligence, or whether 1t was
the result of a wanton disregard fol
human life. This was the point es-
pecially stressed by Mr.. Cannon for the
| defense in his argument before the
Jury. Mr.. Cannon dealt with this
phase of the question in very adrol
and forceful manner, contending thai
II was not criminal carelessness ever
for the defendant to act as he did.
| Cannon Ignores Clark.-Only hVe
committees to be named by speaker
Cannon for the present These Will ot
| ~, ,.o,,s opa ,paons tho rnleS Drinting