The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-02-23
.M'QUEEN CIvESIUP
HIS WQULD.BE BRIDE
The Fountain Inn Abduction
Case Compromised.
YOUNG MANS AFFIDAVIT
Promises to Leave the State and For
get Girl Whom He is Charged
With Abducting.

-. IL. Mcqueen, tne young Wnlte
man recently charged with having
abducted Miss Grace Cannon, the IA
year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Cannon, Of Fountain Inn, was
released from the tolls of the law
Friday at noon when his attorneys
Martin and Martin, and Attorney j.
j. McSwain, representing the prose
cution, got together and effected
compromise.
Several hundred people assembled
early yesterday morning in Magis
trate Stradley's Office to hear the
case Of the young man and all parties
interested in the case were in the
city ready for the trial After a long
conference it was decided to end the
matter by compromise.
In an affadivit young Mcqueen
agrees to leave the state forever,
discontinue his affections for the young
girl. In his alfadivit the young man
swears that he holds the highest re-
gard and esteem for the young lady,
and that his intentions of marriage
We're noble and pure and that he
really loves the girl. He agreed, after
studying the matter over thoroughly,
that her tenderness of years must be
a barrier between them and that he
must learn to forget the firm steady
face of the little girl
al i, nf tbn off
made by Mcqueen:
State Of South Carolina,
County of Greenville.
Now comes ID. l.. Mcqueen, who,
after being sworn to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, deposes as follows:
That he is now under arrest, but
out on bond, pending a prosecution
under Section 2S7 of the Criminal
Code, for the unlawful taking away
from her parents, j. A. Cannon, and
his wife, Lizzie Cannon, of Fountain
Inn, South Carolina, their infant
daughter, Grace, who. as deponent is
now informed and believes by her
said parents, will be fourteen years of
age on February 2S, 1910, without the
knowledge and consent and against the
will Of the parents Of the said infant
daughter. That deponent is 2i years
of age, and, in order TO correct GER
tain mis-statements of fact in connec-
ton with said affair that have been
published in several newspapers, and
in order to exonerate said infant
daughter and her said parents from
any wrong doing, deponent now makes
the following statement of fact con-
nected with said matter: That he has
been acquainted with said infant
daughter Grace Cannon, only about
six weeks, but deponent had never
been formally introduced to the father
of said Grace Cannon. and had never
been introduced at all to her mother
Deponent had never been to the home
of the said j. A. Cannon, nor had he
ever asked to visit said home. and
deponent does not know that either
said j. "A. Cannon or his wife, Lizzie
Cannon had ever known or heard that
deponent was acquainted with their
said daughter. Deponent admits that
he had several meetings with said
daughter, at q near by home but that
such meetings were always accompan-
/ led by the highest decorum i'm the
presence of other persons. Deponent
further says that upon the profession
of his devout affection for the said
Grace Cannon, he persuaded her to
meet him on the street near the Foun-
tain Inn Cotton oil mill where she
appeared in company with a school
girl friend, on the morning of Feb
ruary Ia, 1910, and that she did so
meet him where he was waiting with
buggy, and Immediately drove with
her toward Woodruff South Carolina
That such drive was was continuing
toward Woodruff when deponent was
OVertaken by three men riding horse
back, and within few minutes there
after, a number Of other persons came
up, and among them a constable, with
warrant, who Immediately arrested
deponent and carried him to Fountain
Inn, South Carolina, and some of said
party carried said Grace Cannon, i'm
another buggy. back to Fountain Inn
and her home. That deponent has
never seen the said Grace Cannon
since. and, upon being informed of her
extreme youth. and being repentcnt
for hie act Of corrvIno bor o,,o,, 49,