Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

niSAoheSt Aeo"tdhu HOO tCoA6hCu
as private secretary to Governor
Blease, and w. Frank Blackburn has
been appointed in his stead.
-Messrs. R M. Jeffries and ]. D.
Bivens, minority members Of the sub
committee named by the state execu-
tive committee to investigate alleged
primary frauds were delegated by the
majority members to go from Ander-
son to Orangeburg to find out some.
thing about the mysterious disappear
ance Of the poll lists in that county. 1t
appears that Orangeburg was g
Jones" county by about 500 majority,
but shortly after the investigation talk
commenced, thirty mine of the forty
two polling lists disappeared. Messrs.
Jeffries and Bivens went to Orange
burg last Saturday and started an in
quiry, the chairman and secretary Of
the executive committee and others
were sworn; but nobody could tell
what had become Of them. 1t was ad-
mitted, however, that all the poll lists
were available when the votes were
tabulated by the executive committee.
= Columbia, September 81: E. w.
Dabbs, president Of the South Carolina
state Farmers Union, has issued a
statement to the members in which he
says Will thC PioPCi
ton Is cents per pound will be Sc
cured for two-thirds Of the present
cotton crop. Never before that I
can recall" says President Dabbs,
"have we had better prospects Of good
prices for cotton Sixty days ago cot
ton sold at 13a cents per pound at in
terror points. All Of sudden with
out rhyme or reason the market
broke and 1t continued to go down
until 10a cents was reached In the 10
cal markets. Not having the desired
effect of stampeding the farmers like
1t has in the past, we see 1t steadily
going up. Each day the 'wiseacres'
say 1t will break tomorrow. Each
day that Liverpool should come down
six or seven points. Each day sees
the report that Manchester continues
to buy at higher prices than can be paid
on this side. What does 1t all mean?
If 1t means anything, 1t means that
cotton Is in demand; that organiza-
tion is telling, or that there Is fear Of
it; that the farmers, the merchants
and the bankers need but to pull to-
gether and we will see 15-cent cot
ton for two-thirds of this crop. 1t
also means that they are working to-
gether more closely than ever before.
Market slowly and the price is ours
Aiken, September %: The long five
weeks, term of the general sessions
court for Aiken county, which con-
vened here this week, Judge John 8.
Wilson of Manning presiding, has
dragged slowly, only one important
case, that Of John Cleckley, charged
with murder, which was given to the
Jury today at noon, having been tried.
The defendant was the former chief
Of police at the little town Of windsor,
some thirteen miles below Aiken. Chief
Cleckley, was charged with murder In
with the tragic events Of
the so-called Windsor riot" which oc-
Cured in the little town one Saturday
night of last March, at which time the
chief shot S. l.. Cushman to death
and wounded two or three others. It
appears from the evidence put forth
at the trial, which begun last Wednes-
day, continuing through yesterday and
today, that his strict enforcement of
the laws, which had been thrown about
the little town Immediately after the
there Of dispensary, some
time prior to the trouble, had aroused
against the chief the enmity Of certain
turbulent classes of men who had. pre-
viously disregarded law with impunity.
The inauguration of a police system
greatly curtailed these privileges, and,
according to witnesses placed upon the
stand, there had been threats made
against Mr. Cleckley months before the
final trouble. 1t was testified that on
the afternoon in question there was
much drinking among the turbulent
element of the community; that late In
the evening some one fired a pistol at
random, whereupon the chief went to
6kinann A /
Gordon was quickly drawn about the
house, and as the officer and his pris-
oner stepped out Of the store some one
demurred at the arrest Words were
exchanged, a pistol discharged into the
ground lighted the fuse Of brewing
trouble and in the words Of one Of the
witnesses hell was turned loose" for q
few seconds Some fifteen or twenty |
shots were exchanged in close combat
and when the smoke cleared away
Cushman was dead, others wounded
and the chief carried several knife |
slashes in his coat. But he had never
during the brief but mortal combat re-
leased his prisoner. Driving the men
away from him with one hand he
his prisoner to the lookup |
after the trouble. At 1 o'clock, one
hour after they had taken the case, the
Jury returned a verdict of mot guilty."
declaring the act to have been justifi- !
able homicide Solicitor R. L. Gunter |
was assisted in the prosecution by ].
B. Salley. The Messrs. Henderson and |
Senator elect John F. Williams acted |
IS counsel for the defense.
There was a bloody tragedy at |
Wagener Aiken county last Saturday |
morning as the result Of feeling grow
ng out of the recent campaign. and
here came near being a general riot,
which would probably have resulted in
he loss of many lives. Hugh c. Long
shot and fatally wounded Pickens Gun
er. While it is generally understood
hat politics was at the bottom Of the
rouble, the exact details have not been
made clear Long who Is mayor of the
own and who was elected to the legis.
ature in the recent campaign, has been
publishing a newspaper at Wagner for
lbout year. Another legislative cam
iidate from WAGNER was ]. c. Hester
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