Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-29
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Notes and Comments About Matters Of
Local Interest,

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Notes and Comments About Matters OF
Local Interest.
Chester Reporter, March 26: Pre-
ferring charges against another man
and having the charge rebound and
being convicted instead of the other
fellow is bad enough, but that was
not all that happened to Will Gath
er, colored, in mayors court Saturday
morning. After the charge Of disor-
derby conduct preferred against Sam
Wilks, colored, by Gather had been
mol pressed on discovery Of the fact
that Gather was the real offender, 1t
was discovered by officer Caldwell
that Gather is negro who was sem
fenced to spend eight months on the
public works several years ago and es-
capped from the officers while being
taken to Jail. He was Immediately
turned over to the county authorities,
and will serve out his term. Fort
Lawn was visited by disastrous fire
| last night, the handsome residences of
Mr.. M. W. Roddey and Mrs. A. A.
Wallace being totally destroyed. The
| fire Is thought to have originated In
the kitchen of Mr.. Roddey's home,
and being famed into fierce blaze by
the high winds that prevailed soon be-
came a roaring and destructive con-
hagration. Mr.. Roddey and family
had a narrow escape from their burn
ing dwelling, so rapidly did the flames
spread. The dwelling Of Mrs. Wallace
which adjoins that of Mr.. Roddey,
was soon on fire, and like that of Mr..
Roddey was complete wreck. Mr..
Roddey lost all Of his furniture ex-
cept one trunk. but part Of Mrs. Wal
lace's furniture was saved, though
badly broken up on account of the
haste with which it had to be thrown
out. Friends and neighbors worked
Iheroically, but with practically no
means at hand to fight the blaze very
little could be accomplished.
Chester Lantern, March 26: ]. D.
Taylor, indicted for the killing of
Wash Alexander, was acquitted, the
verdict being rendered by direction OF
the court. After the hearing Of tes-
timony to show the circumstances un-
der which the killing occurred, Sam
uel E. McFadden, for the defence,
asked the solicitor whether the state
intended to make any argument In the
case, to which Mr.. Henry replied that
the state would not ask for verdict.
The court then remarked that the
evidence clearly showed the killing to
have been done by Mr.. Taylor while
in the proper discharge Of his duty as
an officer and directed verdict OF not
guilty, the jury rendering the verdict
without leaving the box. The case Is
we'll known here, Mr.. Taylor having
shot the negro, who was escaping
from arrest, after having thrown the
officer down into the gutter. The
Rev. Robert A. Tongue, pastor of
East Chester Methodist Episcopal
church circuit, died Saturday evening
at his home, Heath's Chapel. near
Fort Lawn, following a short attack
of acute diabetes. He was 81 years
of age. The funeral services will be
held from one of the Fort Mill
churches this afternoon and the inter-
ment will occur there. The deceas-
ed remains were brought through this
city yesterday morning en- route to
Fort Mill Mr.. Tongue was born In
Charleston November 25, 1851. He
was educated principally at the
Charleston high school. In 1885 he
joined the Methodist church and was
licensed to preach under the Rev. DR..
Thomas Raysor, presiding elder. He
connected himself with the conference
at Spartanburg in 1887. His initial
pastorate was on the Williston circuit.
Mr.. Tongue was twice married. His
first wife, who was Miss Anna M.
Deery, of Charleston, died at Charles
ton November Is, 1891, leaving five
children. December 20, 1892, he was
married to Miss Jane B. Harvey. She
survives him with several children.
The deceased served the East Ches-
ter circuit during 1858. Last year
he was on the Chester circuit. This
year he was returned to the East
Chester circuit.
Gastonia Gazette, March 26: Mrs.
Amelia Manning died at her home in
Clover, S. c., Sunday night, aged about
80 years. Funeral services were con-
Quoted at the home Monday afternoon
and the remains laid to rest in the
Clover cemetery. Mrs. Manning's
husband, Mr.. Perry Manning, died on
Monday of last week at an advanced
age. They had no children. =. Reg
lister of Deeds Smith has brand new
marriage license book and brought it
into service last week. There is lots
object to recording a few there every
day. The old book, which was started
five or six years ago, is full and has
been laid aside. In the future it will
serve only as book of reference. The
first licenses recorded in the new book
are the following: James Null and
Pearl Clemmer, Belmont; John T.
Revels. Gastonia, and Annie Belle
Ferguson, Bessemer City. The Ed
Padgett arrested i'm Shelby last Thurs
day on a charge of passing worthless
checks, as chronicled in Fridays Gaz-
cite, was not of course Mr.. Ed Pad
gett Of the well-known firm of Padgett /!
Brothers, the tailors. The man ar
rested came to Gastonia and under the
name Of Fred Blanton made a small
deposit in local bank. A little later
using the name of Ed Fadgett. he
wrote a number of worthless checks
which he passed on merchants here
and elsewhere. In Fridays paper it
was stated that his real name was
Padgett and that Blanton was an as