The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-30
VIOLATING GAME LAWS,
AUGUST BELMONT FINED
Prominent New Yorker Pays
$500 Into S. G. Treasury.
OWNS LARGE PRESERVE.
Chief Game Warden Richardson
Gives On Statement i'm Re-
gard to Case.

gard to Case.
Columbia Special to Charlotte OBJ
: server, Dec. 2S.-August Belmont of
SNew York, one of the best known
men in financial and sporting circles
in this country and Europe, has paid
a fine of $500 to the state of South
Carolina for violation of the game
laws and has taken out licenses for
himself and friends to hunt on his
own preserves in Hampton county,
in accordance with the laws of the
state.
Chief Game Warden A. A. Richard
son tonight gave out a statement in
response to request, with regard to
the case which ended yesterday.
! Mr.. Belmont owns 5000 acres in
the tract in Hampton county, where
he was hunting deer, and he has
large training camp for his horses
in that section. Had he not shown
would have been arrested, for the
chief warden had warrant prepar-
| ed for the event.
G. oliver Islin, Jr., on of those
with Mr.. Belmont on the hunt at
| which the warden appeared to en-
! force the law, is a son of the promi-
nent international yachting expert
| who has raced with Sir Thomas Lip
! ton and others. The Islins usually
| winter in Aiken.
! Mr.. Richardson's statement fol-
| lows:
From information received from
Estill, | went to August Bclmont's
hunting preserve known as the
Paugramauga Club. seven miles from
Garnet, accompanied by Wardens
II. Tr
lwald. We arrived ur the Belmont
place about IL o'clock Saturday
morning and, after several hours of
inquiry and hunting, found Mr.. Bel
mont and his party down in the Sa-
Ivannah river swamp on a deer hunt
They had two fine deer that they had
just killed. The party consisted of
August Belmont, Morgan Belmont
and c. oliver Islin, Jr.
MY information that had carried
me there was to the effect that Bel
mont and party were hunting with
out licenses and had said that they
would not take out licenses, as the
property was Mr.. Belmont's and he
paid taxes in South Carolina. This
would not exempt them as our laws
distinctly say that a nonresident of
. South Carolina is required to have a
/ license in order to hunt and that the
tact that they own land in this state
| does not exempt them from being re-
CURED to have this license. / looked
J Tor Mr. Belmont to make a kick and
refuse to pay the license, but he did
| not dc so. He said he was willing
to pay the license and thought that
1T should be paid and that it was a
matter of carelessness in not having
their licenses.
told him that, according to the
laws of South Carolina, that for each
day a nonresident hunted without
having procured a license was a sen
arate offense which was punishable
In the discretion of the court: that I
/ had proof to show that he had hunt
ed 10 days, his son Morgan two davs
and Mr.. lslin one day, and that I
would have to take them to Estill and
bind them over to the next term of
court for Hampton county, which
would be in February.
Mr.. Belmont asked to be allowed
to pay the fine and not be taken TO
Estill. On account Of his having al
ways previously paid his license
/ in past years and in consider
/ alton of the fact that the clerk of
/ courts books showed that August
. belmont, Jr, had taken out a license
! i'i hiiilH'll anu a lIltlO, harold III.
| Weeks of New York, on December
! 3, and that Mr.. Belmont, Sr., was un-
| der the impression that at the same
time his license in past years, and i'm
| consideration to accept a fine of 500
! each for Mr.. Belmont Morgan Bel
mont and c. Oliver Islin. Jr.. and re-
quired each TO take out his license at
\ $1O.25 a license.
These fines were promptly paid by
Mr.. Belmont giving me check on
b August Belmont &, Co., of New York
I for 1881 to cover the three fines and
the three licenses. Mr. Belmont also
gave me another check for S1O.25 to
procure a license for Count Veil
Castel of Paris, France, who arrives
:. today. Mr.. Belmont said game was
more plentiful than he had ever seen
down here, and stated that he was
heartily in favor OF enforcing the
game laws. l assured him that non
residents were not the only ones that
had suffered at the hands of the game
4 laws, as over $50 South Carolinians
had been prosecuted this year"
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