Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-07
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

PtckenS, WEDNESDAY,, August Il.
Greenville, Thursday, August 20.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Columbia, Jtfne s: The supreme
court handed down a decision this
afternoon declaring that ]. u. Bow
den, s. s. Timer, w. r. Tanner and
IT. o. Fowler, claimants under ap-
pointment from Gov. Blease for the
offices of magistrates In Spartanburg
county held respectively by A. II. K1r-
by, D. T.. Gossett, Z. Potter and w.
&c. Harrison, appointees Of former Gov
ernor Ansel, are Illegally holding Of
fee. The decision also declares that
Governor Ansers appointees have
wrongfully been magistrates since the
J adjournment of the legislature, Feb
ruary 1911. The result Of the de-
cision is to oust all the claimants for
the offices and declare them vacant.
Governor Anseps appointees are oust-
ed because their terms are ad5udged
to have expired February, 1911, and
Governor Blease's appointees are
ousted because they held over after
the senate of 1912 failed to confirm
them. In order to straighten out the
tangle the probability is that Cover
nor Blease will give recess appoint
menus TO the VIM hoN
not been duly confirmed.
- Columbia, June s.: The state
Democratic executive committee has
been called to meet In Columbia next
Tuesday at noon In the library Of the
state house by John Gary Evans,
stale chairman, when the assessments
for the candidates entering the cam
paign will be fixed. It Is estimated
that the campaign this year will cost
lover $4,000. This will necessarily
cause the assessments to be raised, as
there are a small number OF candi-
dates in the field. The itinerary
which has been prepared by the CUB
committee Is permanent, as the COM
mittee was authorized by the state
executive committee to map out the
, campaign. The first meeting will be
held at Sumter on June 18 and the
steady grind will be kept up until
August 22 at Greenville with recess
Of one week, beginning July 26. All
pledges must be filed by the candi-
dates by June II, the day before the
first meeting. The suggestion has
has been made that the candidates
charter a Pullman car to make the
trip Of the state.
- Governor Blease stated last Tues
day, according to a Columbia dis
patch, that he would instruct the sher-
|iffs of Greenville and Spartanburg
to arrest T. B. Fielder, Of Atlanta, at
torney and member Of the Georgia
delegation to the Baltimore conven-
tion as he passed through this state
on his way to Baltimore, the latter
part of the month. Gov. Blease stated
further that II some detective should
arrest Fielder in Baltimore he would
issue a requisition for his return to
this state. In going from Atlanta to
Baltimore, Mr.. Fielder will almost
certainly have to pass through South
Carolina. He will in so doing either
use Southern train stopping at both
Spartanburg and Greenville, or else he
will take a Seaboard Air Line train
passing through Abbeville, Green
wood and other towns. He can go by
way Of Chattanooga, Knoxville and
Bristol, Tennessee, without passing
through this state. There are rewards
outstanding for the arrest OF Fielder
in this state amounting to $4,000, and
there are three warrants for his arrest
in this state, these being held by officials
of as many counties. There Is one war
rant for his arrest in the hands OF
the sheriff of Lexington county.
warrant for his arrest In the hands
of q magistrate Of Newberry county,
and there Is also one in the hands
of a magistrate in Richland county.
These warrants charge Fielder with
conspiracy to defraud the state OF
South Carolina and with attempting
to bribe a state official. The whole
Is the outgrowth Of the old state dis
pensary. Governor Blease said he
wanted to see the charges against
Fielder threshed out, and to this end
he would do all In his power to have
him brought back to South Carolina
and made to face jury.
Columbia, June 4: Six prisoners
in South Carolina are standing with
in the shadow Of the electric chair,
and these will be the first to pay
the death penalty since the substitu-
tion of the chair for the gallows. The
chair has not yet been installed at
the penitentiary, though 1t is not
likely that there will be any hitch In
the execution of the death sentence
by reason Of delay In placing the
chair in the death house which Is be-
ing constructed within the prison
walls. According to the contract
with the manufacturers Of the chair
1t must have been completed and ready
for operation before the first Of July.
Samuel N. Hyde, the Anderson man
who killed his wife and her father,
asked Judge Prince, who sentenced
him last week to place the time so
that he might be the first man to die
in the electric chair in South Caro-
lima. July was the date named for
the execution Of Hyde. July Is also
the date for the execution OF Ernest
Mulwee, colored, of Walhalla, con-
victed Of murder. On July IL another
negro must go to the chair. He Is
William Reed, of Starr, Anderson
county convicted of attempted GRIM
inal assault. The month Of July will
be exceedingly notable for the num-
Der Of executions that will take place
in the death chair in the penitentiary.
In addition to the three condemned
persons, two Charleston negroes, Cole
and Butler murderers, have reached
the penitentiary to await the day for
their execution which has been set for
July "a. They took their last jour-
ney on earth Sunday, arriving in Co
lumbia Sunday night. Mulwee and
Reed have been prisoners at the
penitentiary for two weeks or more
and Hyde Is the only one Of the con-
demned men who has not yet reach
ed the penitentiary. The law pro-
vides that a person condemned to
death must remain in the county jail
not more than 20 days and not less
than two days before the time set for
the execution. So Hyde will join the
other condemned men not more than