Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Lexington, October 3: After De-
ing in Jail since Tuesday night and
refusing to say anything for publica-
gro, who is held as a witness against
the party or parties who killed young
Williams on the circus train Saturday
night. makes n statement. .Grayson
Immediately behind the fiat on which
Williams and his chum were riding.
He says that he heard loud voices on
the fiat car and looked over to see
what the trouble was. There were
several men in a wagon on the flat car
fighting A man whom he. does not
know had Williams down in the wagon
choking him, but could not manage
him alone and called for assistance.
Then. he says, John Wilson, a negro
who is in Jail here, charged with be-
ing implicated in the crime. placed a
pistol in Williams face and fired.
There was a trail of blood for hun
dred yards or more from the place
where Williams was found back to-
ward Columbia. and it was thought
that the murderer held his victim un-
til they reached the cut and threw
him i'm there to keep the body from
being found easily. Grayson says
that Wilson Immediately threw the
body out of the wagon, but that 1t fell
on the floor of the car and it was sew
eral minutes before it was discovered
that ii was still on the train, and that
when it was found it was Immediately
thrown off.
- Either Ben Young, a 12-year old
negro boy, is the brightest 'nigger' in
the county. says a Spartanburg cor
respondent or he is the biggest ignor-
anus The chap was arrested on a
minor charge and was brought to
little crowded court room. where the
preliminary hearing was to be held.
1t was noticed that he had something
the matter with his skin and the dig
nifed magistrate asked what the
Jest gitten' over a little spell of small
pox." The crowd Of onlOokers In the
court room came near demollshinS
the building i'm their efforts to get
away from the negro. There was
nothing further done on his trial. FL
nally, to relieve the situation, one of
the constables slipped up behind the
door and commanded the negro to
walk to the Jail, saying that ne would
follow with his gun drawn. The ne
gro calmly set the pace, and single
file about forty feet apart they pro-
ceeded through the court house yard.
In the meantime, some one had put
the jailer wise, and he simply threw
open the gate and fled to the Jail, or
dering that the negro be left in the
little incloSure which is surrounded by
q high wall. This was done and the
officials induced a physician to come
and examine the negro. He bravely
did so. and on completing the job
walked to a distant crowd of curious
persons and said. It's bad case of
itcn."
Columbia Record: Confusion i'm
voting and confusion worse con-
founded" in counting promises to re-
Der s. from the similarity between two
of the constitutional amendment bal
lots. The form Of the ballot in each
case is prescribed by the joint resolu-
ton ordering the election. 1t is there
fore a statutory ballot and can not be
altered. All thai the secretary of
state, Mr.. r. Maxcy McCOwn. can do
to prevent confusion is to call the at
tention of the commissioners and
Of election to the details by
which the ballots can be distinguish
ed and to give the whole matter fur
ther publicity through the press. Both
of these courses he is pursuing. These
ballots are i'm the same '1nguage, but
are entirely different in their scope, the |
only difference in their forms being |
that i'm one instance the Arabic figure
! and the Roman numeral VIII are
used and in the other the words des-
ignating article and section are spell |
ed out. In other words, in the propo-
StiOn in reference to Darlington, |
where the proceeds of the sale of
bonds are applied To drainage and
street improvements, the words de-
noting the article and section are
spelled out: whereas. in the PROPOSE |
ton relating to the bonded indebted
ness of any municipal corporation, '