The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-06-16
EVANS INDICTED
Ex-- Chairman Charged With Accepting
Liquor Rebates.
A COMPLETE SURPRISE

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Defendant Immediately Surren1
to Newberry Sheriff and Was Re.
leased on Bail.--Defence Press III
for Immediate Trial.-Sever': Re.
bates Charged.
On a bill of indictment, handed
out by Attorney General j. Fr4s T
Lyon and Solicitor R. A. Cooper, the
grand jury, in the General sessions
Court for Newberry County, Tresda"
neturned a true bill against H. II.
Evans, ex-me mber and ex-chaiSuaa
of the old State dispensary board OF
directors. charging him with r4;e:i7'
ing rebates while in office.
Immediately following the return
ing of the true bill by the grand
Jury Mr.. Evans surrendered TO the
sheriff, and upon motion of his at
torney, Eugene S. Blease, Esq, was
admitted to bail in the sum OF ore
thousand dollars. Attorney General
Lyon contended for bail Uf AT
least ten thousand. dollars. The ae-
PENDANTS attorney stated, that II
would be no hardship upon the de-
fendant to give this amount, as ne
was at home among his friends, but
that he felt such amount was eX-
cessiye, and would tend to prejudice
the case.
Judge Aldrich held that the let
ter and the spirit of the law was
that bail should not be excessive
and, inasmuch as the maximum hne
for the offence charged was only nVe
hundred dollars, he thought the
amount of the maximum tne pro-
vided would be sufficient. According
" he admitted Mr.. Evans to oall
in the sum of one thousand dollars.
The bail was Immediately given the
sureties being Messrs. E. NJ. Evans
a brother of the defendant; c. White
Fant of this city, and j. E. Norwood
cashier of the Newberry Savings
Bank.
Mr, Evan'ss attorney, Mr.. Eugene
S. Blease, pressed for an lmmealete
trial at this term of the Court. hne
Attorney General stated that one OF
the witnesses for the State was IN
Ohio and another in Virginia, as fne
defendant himself, if his counsel dio
not" he said, ought to know anu
that the State could not go to trial
at this term. He said he hoped the
defence would be as ready at the
next term of the Court as II was
now. and that the State would then
accommodate the defence.
In reply the attorney for the oe-
fendant said that he would let the
next term speak for itself, even as
the counsel for the State were pas
ing their action upon matters as theS
presented themselves TO them at tnls
term. Judge Aldrich said that on
the motion of the State, ne "oulu
grant the continuance to the next
term, as the Attorney General anu
tho solicitor were in command or the
case for the State, as he would nave
continued it for the defendant upon
q similar showing at the first term
- which . true bill was found.
MIR. Evans was elected MEMBER
of the board of directors OF the ola
State dispensary in 1900 and served
fonr wears as member of that board
and then for two years as chairman
of the board. His home is in New
berry, and since his retirement from
tho hoard he had devoted hlmsel1
principally to farming. The lndlct-
ment charges two rebates, one or TWO
hundred and fifty dollars and one
for two hundred dollars, from NJ. A.
Goodman, who, at the times mention
ed in the indictment, had his mead
quarters in Savannah, Ga, and re-
mresented various liquor houses. II
will be recalled that recently IN the
Richland County indictments against
Goodman were mol pressed.
Attorney General Lyon SAID 1hat,
from the experience which ne mad
with similar cases in other counties
he had no idea that defence woulo De
pressing for a trial, and that some
OF the States witnesses were IN other
States and the State could not go
to trial at this term. The MOTION
on the part of the State, for con-
tinuance until the next term, was
thereupon, granted.
This term of the Court for New
berry, is only one week, and had the
trial been ordered for this term II
must have boen held this week. Mr..
Evans appeared in excellent spirits
when he came into Court, Immediate
" following the finding of the true
bill, and surrendered to the sheriff