Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

John T. Crews has been made state
executive committeeman from Laur-
ems county, vice his father, T. B.
Crews, deceased.
w. T. Jones, the Union county wife
murderer, was yesterday afternoon
placed In the penitentiary at Column
bia, to begin serving his life sentence.
= Governor Blease last Tuesday night
| signed a requisition for T. B. Fielder,
the Atlanta lawyer. It Is not known
whether Gov. Brown will honor the
| requisition; but II Is stated that II he
does not, Gov. Smith will later on.
- Governor Blease has paroled Green
Brown, who was serving q life SEN
| tence in the penitentiary for the mur-
der OF Mr.. John Hood, Sr., OF Chester.
The killing occurred on the night of
February Is, 1889. Browns age and
the fact that he has made q good pris-
oner, were given as motives for the
parole.
Chester, May 30: Emmett Rod
man, who shot Fletcher Ford q few
weeks ago at Richburg, has been
granted bond and will be released from
jail in a few days. Owing to the
prominence Of the two, both being
well known young white men, the
shooting attracted great deal Of at
tention, and the trial Of the case at
the summer term will be attended with
much interest. Mr.. Ford, the young
man who was shot, Is rapidly recover
ing from his wound. Though not
strong enough to go home, he is able
to walk about the piaZzas Of the Mag
Galene hospital, and DR.. 8. w. Pryor
now regards him as out Of danger.
= Chester, May 80: Arthur Brown,
colored, who. it is alleged, slew anoth-
er negro, Ernest Feaster, near Leeds,
Saturday evening, May 20, and fed,
Is still at large, all efforts Of Sheriff
Colvin to apprehend him having failed.
The crime occurred at o'clock In the
evening, but was not reported TO the
and 1t was noon when the sheriff and
his deputies arrived on the scene.
Owing to this fact Brown got q start
OF twelve hours or more, and doubt
less made his escape on one Of the
fast passenger trains that pass Leeds
and Carlisle, and was probably hum
dreds Of miles away before the matter
had come to the sherifrs ears. Tele-
grams and postal cards have been sent
all over the country, but no informa-
ton has yet been received that would
indicate that Brown has been cap
tured.
the. opening meeting of the South
Carolina State Press association which
assembled at the Colonia hotel In CO.
lumbia last Wednesday night. The
report Of President August Kohn was
read and addresses Of welcome were
made in behalf of Columbia by May
or Gibbs, and in behalf OF the Cham
ber of Commerce by President r. Bev-
erly Herbert. The response to the ad-
dFanQa0 n rny0a hry NNaVa
Wallace Of the Newberry Observer.
and by Major Helmes Of the Barn
well People. Tonight the association
listens to an address by Gov. Woodrow
Wilson Of New Jersey, and next Sun
day the party sails from Charleston
by the Clyde liner Apache, for New
York, which city most Of the men,
bers will make their headquarters un-
till the 18th of June, when they will
return home by way OF the Apache to
Charleston.
= Columbia, May 80: w. A. Hol-
man, Of the firm Of Holman & Holman
Of Charleston, was paid $500 on Mon
day by the new dispensary commits
amount by the chairman, Mr.. Stack
house. The commission did not re-
ceive the consent Of the attorney gen.
eral, Mr.. Lyon, before naming Mr..
Holman as attorney. The act Of Great
ine the dispensary commission gives
the commission the right ito employ
such assistant counsel as may be ap-
proved by the attorney general" The
commission conferred with the attor-
ney general on Monday relative to the
naming Of an attorney. The attor-
ney general stated that he considered
the naming Of an attorney at this
time as needless waste Of the public
money. The attorney general was Of
the opinion that the commission did
not need an attorney. AS a result Of
the action Of the commission in nam
ing an attorney without the consent
Of the attorney general 1t is expected
that the question will be carried be-
fore the supreme court.
Columbia State, Thursday: A ver-
bal order delivered by Chief Justice
Jones Of the supreme court last night
defeated the attempt Of the new dis
pensary commission to imprison DR..
w. j. Murray of this city, former
chairman Of the state dispensary COM
mission, on the charge Of contempt.
ternoon at o'clock on the charge Of
contempt for refusing to turn over
to the new commission the vouchers
held by the members Of the old COM
mission as private property. The su-
preme court held that the new COM
mission has no right to imprison a
member Of the old state dispensary
commission for refusing to turn over
vouchers, which are the private prop
erty of the members. 1t was ruled by
the supreme court that the commission
Is amply clothed with power 20 require
the members of the old commission to
permit the members Of the new COM
mission to examine all records to be
used in Investigations. The order OF
the commission said that Nv. ]. Muir
ray has not made satisfactory re-
turn to said rule (meaning that to
show cause why he should not be held
in contemDt for refusing to turn over
the vouchers in question: and he Is
hereby judged In contempt of this
commission, and 1t is further ordered
that the marshal appointed by this
commission do take said w. ]. Murray
into his custody and commit him to
the common jail Of Richland county,
there to be safely kept until he delivers
said vouchers and records or be other
wise discharged by law"
Spartanburg, May 81: There is a
chance that George Hasty, who was
sentenced to life Imprisonment for
killing Milan Bennett, an actor, at
pardoned by Gov. Blease last week,
may be brought to trial for killing
Abbott Davidson. ]. c. Otis, the So
licitor of this circuit, said today that
he had taken steps to get in touch with
the material witnesses, Miss Verne
Sheridan and Miss May Bishop. He
added that wiile he considered 1t USE
less to prose cute Hasty during Gov.
Blease's administration, as even If he
secured another conviction the gov
ernor would likely pardon him, the
case would not be mol pressed nor the
indictment forgotten. Bennett and
Davidson were members of the COM
pany presenting Nothing but Money"
musical comedy. While in Gaffney
they were guests Of the Piedmont Inn.
kept by two brothers Of George Hasty.
Miss Sheridan, the soubrette, told Ben
nett and Davidson on the morning or
the killing that on the night before she
found Hasty peeping through the tran
som into her bedroom. They remon-
strated with the hotel man and Da-
wilson struck him. Hasty drew a re-
volver and shot both dead. Hasty was
tried only for killing Bennett, that be-
ing regarded as the stronger case be-
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