The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-08-17
MAp: UP A CASE
DETECTIVE CHARGED WITH PER.
JURY N s4dRER CASE.

JUN tS S6dfSGR CdoE.
He Paid a Negro to Testify Before
Coroner What He Told Him to Tes.
tify To B Byforehand.
Charged With perjury in his own
testimony ald with trumping up fic-
fictious evidence in the mouth of a
disreputable negro to hold j.. H. Gun
ningham AID Vincent -Kiisel for the
murder of :obert c. Shirer Thomas
L. Howard, private detective, was ar
rested in Augusta on Monday on
a warrant sworn out by Chief of Po-
lice George P. Elliot. The charge in
the warrant was subordination OF
perjury. TIE Chronicle says this un-
erpected tu.n Of affairs was result
OF the pre- sminary hearing into the
charges aSaipst Cunningham and
Kiisel befo g Judge Hammond Satur-
day mornir 3. Howard testified there
chat a negeo, Bill Glover, had come
20 him anf. told him that on the
night whe, young Shirer disappear
ed he vas hidden on the river bank
trying to s.eep off the effects of too
much whis Key. He had been asleep
and was awakened during the night
by voices o. two men leaving the riv-
er side. t'e did not know the hour
but from b IS testimony it must have
been far Iast the time when grave
yards yawl. The dead body Of Shi-
rer was fund 80 hours later, al
most unde' the temporary trestle
work on which he said the men were
standing hen he first saw them.
Suspectilg nothing at the time, he
thought nothing of the presence of
the men. He left the place of his
concealme.t and walked southwark
along Was lington street on his way
home. In front of him walked the
two men. Howard testified further
that Glover had told him they went
into a horse which the sleuth after
ward four d to be 80 Washington
street. Cunningham and Kiisel llV-
ed there. -
According to- Howard, the negro
described one Of the men as being
much taller th;.n the other and dress
ed in suit Of dark clothes and the
shorter ole as being clad in 9, dark
coat and grey trousers of light
shade, sscription which in general
lifted Cur ningham and Kiisel except
in one vtal feature. Cunningham
had no cry trousers at that time and
wore a full suit Of dark blue. ,.,
It is ntiw revealed by a statement
of Glover to, the chief Of police,
which wi: be produced at the hear
ing that he was not on the river
bank that night. that the whole story
was man factured according to the
negro's i,taement, in the cunning
brain of :: ON Howard, and none OF It
ever really happened.
The ne gro says Howard took him
to the ri, er, explained the situation
and told aim what to- say when call
ed upon 10 testify and promised him
a reward for his duplicity, a small
part Of wlich has been paid.
Another witness who appeared at
the preliminary Saturday was Char
lie w. D,.penport. He swore that he
was in J.adford's near beer saloon
one nigh and a young man wearing
light coA red suit Of clothes came in
and offes ed to pawn a watch. This
evidence was intended to show that
Cunningham had the watch Of shirer
in his DO session after Shirer's death
and was trying to dispose of it.
Daven ,ort failed to identify shi-
rer's wat h which was shown him as
the one offered by the young man in
the saloon. Cunningham stood be-
fore him and Davenport could not say
that he vas the same man who tried
to pawn The time piece. When ques-
toned a. 70 the time he did not re-
call the Late or specify the night.
In s atement made since, Daven-
port admits that Cunningham was
not the man who offered him the
watch aid that he was induced by
Howard to testify at the preliminary.
AS a r, suit of these startling dis
closures. it is expected that Cunning
ham wi be released from confine-
ment W without bond, and If this is
done, il almost necessarily follows
that the bond of $1,000 under which
Kiisel DIV holds his liberty, will be
cancelle and the young man reliey-
ed of it. obligations.
Hows I'd was formerly detectipe
on the police force of Augusta and
for years was regarded as one Of the
shrewdest in the business there. He
was found and asked for a statement
concern ng the charges. He denied
having committed any perjury and
that he had induced the negro Glov-
er to give any false statement. He
said Gl,ver had made his statement
first to DR.. Hudson, who told How
him to repeat his story.
ard of t and called the negro before
Cunningham was visited at the