The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-30
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

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julius Chavis, a white man, was
tried in the general sessions court at
Lexington last week on the charge
of hog stealing. He was found gull
ty and sentenced to twelve months
on the chain gang.
The Farmers Union Of St. Mat
thews has applied to the Secretary Of
State for q charter for bank which
they propose to establish in that
town. It will be known as the Farm
ers' Uuion Bank and Trust Company.
and the capital stock is to be SIS, 900.
Governor Ansel has agreed that
the State shall pay the expense Of
bringing Geo. w. Murray back to
South Carolina to serve his SEN
tence, and deputy from Sumter has
gone to Chicago to bring Murray
back,
Only few days ago a white wo-
man gave birth to child on the train
between Spartanburg and Columbia.
A well-dressed man who said he was
the woman's husband, met the train
in Columbia and carried her on
through to the low country.
Governor Ansel has refused to par
don Bessie Cook, of Varnville, in
Hampton county, who was convicted
of manslaughter in 1906 and SEN
fenced to 10 years in the penitentiary.
Several petitions for pardon have
been presented the governor in the
case in the last two years. Cook
claimed that he was assisting an OFF,
Ger when the act was committed.
Governor Ansel had hearing Mon
day as to charges against the Dor
chester county board of registra-
ton. The board is charged with is
suing registration certificates unlaw-
fully and changing numbers on certifi-
icates in order that certain parties
could vote in the dispensary election,
The charges against the board grew
out of this election. The governor
has not rendered decision in the
matter.
Court is going on in Charleston
this week, and there are more than
twenty blind tiger cases to be tried.
Some convictions are, looked for, as
the mayor and solicitor are in ear
nest in prosecuting, and it is stated
that there has been decided change
of sentiment in that city as to the
dispensary law. The citizens gem
orally want the law forced. Posi-
bly, Charleston is afraid that prohi-
bition will come quicker If the blind
A white man named Henry A.
Sack, with his wife, were arrested in
Columbia last Saturday on tele-
gram from Spartanburg which stated
that they had deserted their 17-days-
old baby in the toilet room at the
depot in Spartanburg. Both the man
and woman appeared to be much sur
prised, and stated they had no idea
the baby had been left The woman
was ill and had little to say. The
man was carried back to Spartanburg
to get the baby and the woman was
sent to a hospital in Columbia. The
couple were from Savannah, where
Sack is said to be wagon driver for
the express company. He said his
wife had been boarding near Hen
dersonville and he had been up to
bring her home.
George Washington Murray,
Sumter negro, who was the last ne
gro congressman in this State, was
tried in Sumter a few years ago on
the charge of fraud and convicted.
However, while the jury was deliber-
ating on his case, he quietly walked
out of the court house and disap-
peared. He went to Chicago, and
it is said divorced his negro wife and
married a white woman. He was
out on bond, and the county collect
ed the amount of the bond. Recent
ly steps have been taken to bring
him back to serve his sentence, and
he has been arrested In Chicago.
However, Governor Ansel will not
agree for the State to pay the ex-
penses Of bringing him back to South
Carolina, as Sumter county received
the money for his bond, and he
thinks the county should bear the
expense.