The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-12-22
SHOT BY sON.IN-LAW.
Laroche Polite Stays Adam Howard
About q IS Calf.

About IS Calf.
Beaufort, Dec. 26.-Laroche Po-
lite shot and killed his father-in:-law,
Adam Howard, last night about II
O'Clock, on Ladies' Island as result
of Politics taking a calf his mother
is said to have purchased few weeks
ago from Politics wife, daughter of
Howard.
Sheriff McTeer was notified early
this morning that a homicide had oc'
Cured on the island, and that the
slayer was at the home Of his moth
er, and had threatened to kill anyone
who approached the house. The
sheriff Immediately went to the scene
of the killing, accompanied by a
newspaper representative. Arriving
at the Polite house, the sheriff found
the place closed and apparently de-
serted. He kicked the door in and
| made a search of the house, finding
that the man had left.
Polite Arrested.
Polite was tracked for some miles
across fields, bogs and creeks, and
finally lost in woods. Later, leav-
ing the woods, the man was again
pressed by the officer, and finally
pushed toward the store conducted
by Magistrate E. NJ. Dale, where he
gave himself up without any resist
ance, and was conducted to jail by
the sheriff.
The story of the killing, as nearly
as could be learned from those in the
vicinity and at the inquest, WHICH
was conducted by Magistrate Dale,
the victim of last nights shooting a
few weeks ago persuaded Politics
wife to leave him and go to Georgia,
after spending what money Polite
had given her. 1t is said that few
weeks ago the mother of Polite
bought calf from her sons wife for
f$5, and that after the woman had
left the slain man had removed the
calf to his home. Last night La
roche Polite went to Howard's house
and got the calf from the stable, took
it away and sold it.
Story from Howard's Wife. I.
Just as to the way the killing oc-
Cured is told in different ways by
different disinterested persons. Isa-
belle and Elizabeth Howard, wife
and daughter of the dead man, de-
clare that Roche" Polite came back
to the house at about .12 O'Clock and
that Adam Howard went out empty
handed to demonstrate with him
about the taking of the calf, and that
without warning Polite emptied a
load of shot into his groins and
thighs, causing death in about FIVE
minutes. They say that they were in
few feet of the slain at that time
and the slayer was only about eight
or ten feet beyond him. Isabelle
Howard says that she had small
stick about 2 inches thick and feet
long in one hand and another stick
in the other hand, and. that when
Howard was shot she threw the stick
beside him and caught him in her
arms. One witness at the inquest
testified that Howard was lying on q
hickory stick about the size of the
one described by the wife and iden-
titled by her during the inquest.
Another witness, the first on the
scene after the shooting, says she saw
the stick by his side.
PoIte's Story of the Killing.
Polite says that after he took the
calf ne went off and sold 1t and was
returning home by the road and was
singing, when in front of the Howard
home, when Howard's wife, daugh-
ter and son came out OF the house,
reviling him and advancing on him
with sticks, and that he fired at
Howard with the intention of hitting
him in the legs and stopping him.
Declared Howard Made Threats.
Both Polite and his mother de-
clare that Howard had made threats
to Polite few weeks ago, at the
time of the parting Of Polite and his
wife. The coroner's jury returned q
verdict to the effect that Adam How
ard came to his death as the result
of a gunshot wound at the hands Of
Laroche Polite.
Polite was arrested short time
ago, charged with stealing a hat
from the store of Wallace & Danner,
but was not prosecuted by them on
account of the good reputation borne
by his father and mother.
Posse Prevents Lyching.
T,nverene Ala Dec 1S-After