Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Sol Stacy won the first prize OF the
Cherokee County Boys Corn club with
yield of LOG bushels.
j. w. Whitworth won the first prize
of the Richland county Boys Corn club
with ia bushels and three pecks.
The attorney general will call the
Southern merger suit in the Richland
court next Monday, instead Of the graft
case against H. H. Evans, at Newber-
ry.
Minus Hightower the young negro,
who was convicted in Columbia last
Monday of criminal assault and sem
fenced to be hanged December %, has
confessed his crime and gives whisky
and cocaine as the cause.
Before the opening Of the common
pleas court for q two weeks term at
Greenville last Tuesday, John Cuffie,
convicted in the spring Of wife mur-
der, was sentenced to hang on January
5. The case Of Cuffie Is most un-
usual one Going home at night he
found his wife in company with a
white man, Jess Fuller, with whom
she said she was going to elope. Cuff
fie left home, got gun, came back,
and the man and his wife were gone.
He followed them into the country
where he learned they had gone,
soon seeing them ahead in the road he
opened fire with the gun, and the wo-
| pnf n
jured. Cuffie sat beside the body till
morning and at daylight came in and
notified the officers that he had killed
the woman, giving himself into GUS
tody, at the same time claiming that
he had aimed at Fuller and had killed
his wife. Fuller tried to establish an
albi and partly succeeded. Cuffie was
tried, and entered the plea that he
killed his wife thinking he had his
gun drawn on Fuller. He was con-
victed, the case appealed to the su-
preme court. but new trial refused.
Charleston Post: One Of the clev-
crest stunts of detective work that has
been done in Branchville recently was
| hciC Wy soooShSAh 1S@N"ey
Detective A. r. Byrd, when he arrest
ed a negro Cohen Shuler (better known
as Moss Shuler), who on last Sunday
morning had the nerve to get on train
No. 35 while it was getting ready to go
| to Augusta and deliberately hold up
another negro and take IS from him.
| This was done in the presence Of the
train crew who were made to believe
by the negro that he was constable
from Charleston. Shuler had on him
at the time he robbed the negro, a
large badge with letters on it, thus:
charleston Constable" and when the
negro whom he held up was little
slow in coughing up the amount OF
money that Shuler wanted he showed
him his badge and told him at the time
that unless he gave him the money
that he would arrest him. The train
crew thought the negro was an officer
until some time afterwards and the
matter was reported to officer Byrd,
who in q short time picked the robber
up and landed him in the town jail. 1t
| is said that this is not by any means
the first trouble that Shuler has been
| in, but when he gets out Of this he Will
likely be willing to take rest.
| Columbia State: 1t is q custom
among governors to parole or pardon
one prisoner or several on Thanksgiv-
ing day and Gov. Ansel yesterday fol-
lowed this custom by giving Walter Al
len his liberty, who Is serving a life
sentence in the penitentiary for muir
der from Greenville county, which Is
the home Of Gov. Ansel. Allen came
| ;nto i,,aliOhf whara In 1907 he.
as a trusty, walked early one morning
out of the prison and to Greenville to
see his wife, Later he returned on his
own accord. He was convicted In 1901
on the charge of killing Henry Tram
nell, a neighbor, who 1t Is charged in
suited the wife Of Allen. Allen Is
known as a mountaineer, he having re-
sided in the upper section Of Green
vile county. Letters from the officials
at the penitentiary to Gov. Ansel say
that Allen has made most excellent
prisoner. He has on several previous
occasions asked for q pardon, but was
not successful. Back in 1907 Allen
grew homesick, He wanted to see his
sick wife who had removed from the
mountain home to the city Of Green
vile and was employed in one OF the
cotton mills Of that city. He was a
trusty, having gained the confidence Of
all officials at the penitentiary. Early
one morning he walked away with an
other prisoner by the name Of Sud-
duth. Sudduth has never been recap
tured. When Aliens wife heard Of his
escape she wrote letter to Gov. Ansel
stating that when Allen came home
| that she would send him back to the
penitentiary. He went to see his wife
and then came back to Columbia The
newspapers familiar with the case have
since then urged the parole. Allen Is
about 36 years Of age. Gov. Ansel also
pardoned another prisoner yesterday,
David Burton, a negro who was serv-
ing a life sentence from Anderson
county for murder, having been con-
victed several years ago.
| THE postmaster general has COM
menced an active campaign against
two big New York concerns that are
said to have swindled the public out
Of more than 500, 100000 by fraudu-
lent use of the mails. In New York,
last Monday, Sheldon H. Burr, presi-
dent Of Burr Bros, Eugene II. Burr,
secretary and treasurer Of the frm,
and Frank H. Tobey, vice president,
were arrested and each was released
on a bond Of $4,000. 1t is charged
by the government that they have sold
between $40,000,000 and $50,000,OOO
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exactly nothing. The other raid was
made on the officers Of the Continen-
tai Wireless Telegraph company Car
ter R. Keene. postal inspector, told
the story of Continental Wireless. The
company was organized, he said. in
Arizona, on October 1, 1909, with
capital Of $5,000,000 but did not begin
operations on large scale until May
Of this year. It obtained control OF
the Collins Wireless Telephone COM
pany, the Pacific Wireless Telegraph
company, the Clark Wireless Tele-
aph-Telephone company and the
Massie Wireless Telegraph company
The Columbia Finance corporation
was organized to market the stock
| and an ambitious selling campaign
was carried on all over the country.
In spite of the great amount Of busi-
ness done, Continental Wireless today
has no bank account, he said, that the
inspectors have been able to find, and
investigation has shown no trace OF
where the money realized has gone.
The Collins Wireless company was
organized in the District Of Columbia