The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-12-31
ADMITS identity
sPARTAkBURG SUSPECT SAlS he
is MCKINLEY
PARDONfD LAST MONTH TIL

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safe-CrackingTsrong Chain OF
Evidence Has Been Gathered
About Him.
After a strong chain OF evidence
connecting him With the robbery and {:
the attempt to blow open the safe Of I
Renard C. Frey, who runs a store ats
Fairforest, spar5anburg County on !
the night of. December 10, had been
wound around him, William McKin-
ley, alias Dayton Scotty," alias John
Kenny, was Monday afternoon bound s
over by Robert J. Can't, magistrate I
of Spartanburg, on the charge OF bur-
larg and attempted safe-cracking to :,
await the action Of the grand jury.
The prisoner admitted that he was
William Mckinley, one of the leaders
Of the notorious Nolan-McKinley
band of yeggma which operated In
this State in 19D2-19O3 and was pa
>roled by the governor on November
q. Mckinley took the decision q
the magistrate .onchalantly and did
not seem to be At all worried.
It was established by witnesses:
that Frey's store was broken into by.
the door being Wized open with some,
sharp instrument. The safe showed
evidences that IN attempt had been
made to blow it open, and around the
edges Of the door and in the cracks
soap was stuff I'D, and on top and
front was some liquid, supposedly
nitroglycerine. q
When the robbery was discovered a
in the morning, Mr. Frey found bo3V
had been empied of mems wooler
undershirts, siz ze. 3S, how many he
did not know, also one pair of wo-
mems and one. pair Of mems shoes;
were missing. Inside the store were
found a hammer and chisel and on
the outside a punch. These were
recognized by v. L. Shores as the;
ones stolen from his blacksmith shop
which IS not far from Mr.. Frey's
store, and on the night an attempt
was made to blow open the safe. In
the blacksmith shop Mr. Shores dis;
covered a button, to which was at
tached a tuft Of cloth.
When examined in prison McKin: 4
ley was found to have one button H
missing from the rear of his trousers' Y
Another was. taken of by the sheriff. a
compared and were found to be ide'
tical. Mr.. Shores recognized one II
them as being that which was found
in his blacksmith shop. Thus the
button was traced from the black
smith shop through the robbed store
to the trousers of Mckinley. Near
the place where. Mckinley was ar;
rested on the night after the robbery,
bag, containing an undershirt, q
blue overshirt, a coat, an empty vial
and a syringe, was found by O. 3.
Oshields on December IA. The ar
ticles of apparel were identified by
Mr.. Frey as the ones.stolen from his
store.
The most important testimony was
given by Elmore Wright, himself q
paroled murderer who was serving
life term in the state penitentiary
when he was released, and who Is
now in Jail for shooting his cousin
some time ago He testified that Nc
Kinley swepped him an undershirt inn
exchange for the one which Wrighe@
had on, saving:
ga store at Fairforest was broken
open, and some things we're taken out
and they are searching for. them.
They might search me for them and
do not want to have the shirt on :
This shirt was identified by Mr.. Frey
as one which was stolen out of5his
store, because of its size. make and
the word, SANITARY" branded u It.
Gertrude Williams, a negro cook !
who sleeps in the Frey residence
which is only 60 yards from the Itores-
testified that she heard two e;ploy
sions cI the,night OF the robbery tx
first of-wiflch. she s,5.tt-==ss'>eeabo5
/ O'Clock in the morning.
William Mckinley. wher put on
the stand stated that he was not
guilty explaining that he tound the
shirt he gave Wright unde' the coal
chute at spartanburg JuIcticn and
put it on.
Mckinley admitted he wss the =
noted yeggman, whom the g@ernor
paroled from the State penitsntiars9
on Thanksgiving day. He said IS soon
as he was released he made tracks to
get away" and went to Georgia.
Through excessive walking, he says.
his feet became sore and began to s
swell, and when arrested, he was
making his way to Baltimore where
he hoped to enter hospital.
Fireworks Factory Blows Up.
The explosion Of fireworks fac