Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-19

son, he fooled around finally and GO
the woman pardoned but they refuse
| to pardon the man on the ground tha
| he led the woman into II. They cam
down to me to represent him in tn
pardon matter on the ground that
| represented him and thought he wa
guilty-they came to me with thirt
or forty thousand dollars, and the
came to me and said they would Civ
me q mortgage on q farm he had u
there worth about $4,000, for 5000
on the contingency that / get him ou
of the penitentiary. said, mo, MI
| Green, I won't do II II you'd give m
your whole farm I wouldn't do It;
| represent people in that section, an,
| they blame me for representing him
but I've got right to represent m,
f, clients, but haven't got a right to asl
my friend, the governor to pardon hin
for I believe he's right" So they cam
and employed Wyche, after I refuse'
to take it, they employed Wyche. H
| refused to take the case on q contin
gency further than this, he told then
he would present the petition fo
$2,500, and If he got it through the!
were to pay him $4,000 when he got th'
man pardoned, he wouldn't get an!
more. So they paid him the $4,000
Wyche employed this Bob Harmon Il
go down there with him-he was 6
Blease man-they went down and talk.
ed with Blease, and Blease asked them
at once where I was, said San
isn't In town." Blease says, wait
minute" and he wired me instantly;
says, What do you think Of the Greer
pardon, should ic be granted" I wir-
ed him back, Il refused to present this
petition to you; this Is all I have to
say to you," and he refused to pardon
him. Plf tell you frankly, II you had
all the money in the country, II didn't
think your man ought to be pardoned
I wouldn't have thing to do with it
because had refused both Of those fel-
lows that told you about. Blease
knows that have got his interest al
heart, and he knows I'm not going to
advise him to do anything that he
oughtn't to do. was talking to father
about 1t the other night, after left
you. Although Blease knows father
has been against him, still he has a
great respect for him, and I was talk
ing to him about that case, and he
says he thought that man oughtn't to
have been punished-he felt a great
sympathy for that fellow. The fact
that this fellow had been convicted in
the United States court. That's what
hurt that fellow, in other words, the
verdict Of the United States court,
without that, they couldn't haEe-con-
victed him.
Mr.. Porter: Yes, I think that's
true. know there isn't one case in q
thousand, where the American Bank
ers' association Is behind 1t, and the
Pinkertons and Burns's behind 1t,
that they ever fall. think probably
that's what might have convicted him.
On Matters Of Reward.
Mr.. Nichols: Oh, that's what con-
victed him. There isn't anybody
knows anybody else IN your county.
In this county it's absolutely impos-
sible to get jury that I don't know
every man on 1t, or at least ten out of
twelve absolutely impossible to get q
jury that I don't know somebody on
the jury. I'll give you an example,:
A fellow here this was this last
court at Blackwell, s. c.; had two
cases; they were both murder and I
cleared both Of them. Now, / repre-
sented twenty-eight men since this
man has been solicitor; out Of the
twenty eight got verdicts In twenty
three Of not guilty In each case, and
two Of them I pleaded guilty Of man.
slaughter; and down at Greers the
other day, Blease went there to make
speech, I saw fellow that I had
never seen before. He spoke to me
and says, How are you getting on 2"
He says. II just want to tell you, old
boy, I've been on five cases where
you've been the lawyer and you amt
lost none Of them, and / want to tell
you something else, as long as you get
me on the jury you amt going to lose
none Of them" That's just how far
they'll go sometimes for personal
reasons. I had one thing to happen
to me about six years ago; l was up
at Henderson and kid got broke up
there. He was doing vaudeville
he was a pretty wild kid; he got half
loaded, run around with the women a
good deal, and he was broke and he
couldn't get out; we'll, he came to my
room and he told me. He said he
was from New York; said, I'm down
here down and out, and I always
made about $40 a week in the Vaude-
vile show, but I am broke and can't
get out of town; I owe few little
debts around here; it'll take about
$40 to get me straight, and just
came down here to ask you IL you
won't loan me this money!" I says,
You mean to give 1t to you, don't
you?" He says, mo, sir, 1 mean to
lend 1t to me-" / says, well, I'll
tell you what I'll do; I've got bunch
of friends up here"-about forty
friends of mine were there-'you
come up here and do the stunt and
I'll call them up here in the room"
got ten or twelve Of them up there
and he got to doing that buck dance
says. Boys, this fellow needs $40;
I'm going to give him $40 Of 1t and
want you to chip in and give him the
other $10." They Clipped Init was
about $26-and I gave it to him.
Well it passed out of my mind. ]
never thought about 1t any more and
last year I went to football game; /
and got about half loaded, you know,
and I was there In front Of show of
some sort and got into some disturb
ance, and Of course. the officer wanted
to make a case, and a fellow came
out and walked up to the policeman
and said something to him; I don't
know what 1t was, but at any rate the
policeman said, "a friend of mine
told me your name and I won't arrest
you; I'll drop It." This kid had rec
ognized me and interceded with the
officer for me. didn't remember
him at all. I said, I'm certainly
very much obliged to you; don't re-
member you" He says, You don't
remember me?" I says, mo" He
says, About four or five years ago I
was in Henderson and you gave me
broke money to get back to New York."
That boy never had forgotten that
thing. but he said, II recognized you
the minute I saw YOU" Well, I guess
he recognized me; the reason he rec
ognized me I was drunk the first time
he saw me and I was drunk the last
time he saw me. Well, he talked to
me a while and says, well, Mr..
Nichols. I'm doing pretty we'll now,
making $40 a week now. l never
will be worth much, but I'm doing
pretty well now. l live here In New
York and play here in the show
he was doing that vaudeville stunt
"the minute I saw that woman and
heard the disturbance looked up and
recognized you" 1t never occurred
to me that I would ever see that boy
again: 1 just felt sorry for him. The
Red Men are very strong down here
you know the order don't you?
A Spartanburg Incident.
Mr.. Porter: Oh, yes. the Indepen-
dent Order of Red Men?
Mr.. Nichols: The Improved Order
of Red Men, that's right; well. I'm q