Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-19

Milus Fartlow, for instance, and send
ing for Mr.. Neely, horse dealer, who
had had some more or less expensive
dealings with Partlow, he was soon
convinced Of the correctness Of his
suspicious. When he saw Mr.. Neely
Partlow laid down and cut out fur
ther efforts at deception. He admit
ted that he was not John Black but
Milus Partlow, but he did not admit
having stolen the mule. He still
claimed that the turnout belonged to
a young white man named Frank
Rogers.
Constable sHorace Johnson and his
brother, Sam, went over to Charlotte
Monday to see the prisoper. Milus
recognized them at once and called
them by name. Horace Johnson Is
the man who had fastened the at
tempt to wreck the train at Crowder's
creek on Milus. In fact he, with his
brother, S. n. Johnson, had gotten up
all the testimony, a complete chain
of circumstances from which no link
was missing, and 1t was from them
that the negro has been lodging dur
ing the past three months. In reply
to questions as to where he had been
all the while, Milus claimed that he
had been working at the transfer over
at Hamlet, N. c., but as to whether
he is telling the truth, even about
this, there Is more or less doubt.
There are outstanding rewards Of
fered for Milus to the amount OF
$3.50, $3.50 by the C. & NV. rail-
way for his arrest and conviction,
and 500 by the governor Of North
Carolina, and the circumstances OF
the negro's arrest has given rise to
a contention as to who Is entitled to
these rewards. Magistrate T. b.
Glenn has a claim, partly on the fact
that it was owing to his vigilance
that the Charlotte police was put on
notice. Policeman J. G. Johnson OF
Charlotte, thinks he is entitled to the
money because he made the actual
arrest, and Messrs. Horace and 5. n.
Johnson base their claim on the fact
that If Partlow Is ever convicted 1t
will be on the strength Of testimony
worked up by them. The payment
of the reward money, Of course, Will
be decided by those who offered the
rewards.
When last seen previous to his dis
appearance shortly after the bastard
ly attempt to wreck the train, Partlow
was wearing a mustache. pretty
heavy mustache for a negro. But OF
late he has been keeping his mus
tache shaved off, and has been trying
to grow side whiskers. This mus
tache now Is about an eighth or an
inch long, and his side whiskers are
growing some. but not nearly so rap
idly as he would like. He does not
seem to be able to raise as much
hair as Is necessary to suit his present
II Magistrate Glenn had thought to
bring the negro back to South Caro-
lima before his identity was estab-
lished, and the understanding Is that
the negro had agreed to come, he
would be in good position to enforce
his claims to the reward, but 1t ap-
pears that Magistrate Glenn did not
at that time know his man as Milus
Partlow and when later the negro's
identity was established the Charlotte
police were not so ready to give the
fellow up. Although there are charges
on which Milus can be held in Meek
lenburg as we'll as York, the proba-
bility is that he will be taken to Gas
tonia and be tried on the charge OF
having attempted to wreck the c. 10
NV. train.
There Is no doubt of the fact that
Partlow is about as going
a criminal as has ever been developed
in this locality. There are those who
are now satisfied that he poisoned
his wife some years ago in order to
collect insurance money on her life.
He formerly worked for DR.. I. A.
Bigger. and there Is a plausible case
against him to the effect that having
sold certain rent cotton unknown to
the doctor he burned the cotton house
to conceal the theft. 1t Is stated as
a fact that he had insurance policies
on the lives Of his two young boys and
that he sent them by roundabout
way by train to a point on the Air
Line railroad which point could have