The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-01-10

Columbia, Jan. 6.-Attorney Cen
eral Lyon this morning brought to
the attention of the supreme court of
South Carolina alleged acts of Bar
nard B. Evans, member of the CO.
lumbia bar, and asked the court to
take such notice of the matters stat
ed as deemed wise. The action is
the beginning of proceedings to dis
bar Mr.. Evans.
In the petition of the attorney
general, which was filed with the
court this morning, in it's original
jurisdiction, it is alleged that Bar
nard b. Evans slandered Sheriff Sam
pie, Senator Crouch, and Eugene
Able, all of Saluda and collected GER
tain moneys which he failed to turn
over to the proper parties, and forged
the names of two Edgefeld citizens
to notes which were discounted at a
Columbia bank.
Political Enemies.
Barnard B. Evans was an opponent
of j. Fraser Lyon in the race last
summer for attorney general along
with j. R. Earle and Thos. H. Pee
pies, the latter defeating Mr.. Lyon
In the second primary. The charges
which Mr.. Evans made against Mr..
Lyon and the bitterness and boldness
with which the latter denounced Mr..
Evans as "forger and liar" stirred
the whole state and made their race
second only in point of interest to
that between Cole L. Blease and Ira
B. Jones for governor.
After reciting the fact that Bar
nard B. Evans was admitted to the
practice of law on December, 10, 1902,
the petition of the attorney general
| alleges:
"That check for $198.99 drawn
on the Union Savings Bank, of Au-
gusta, by j. Frank & Son, in favor
of George L. Salter, Of Saluda, in
October, 1906, and sent to B. B..
Evans, attorney for Salter, at Saluda,
to be delivered to him, was indorsed
by Evans as attorney and the pro-
ceeds never turned over to Salter.
That thereafter upon demand of Sal
ter, Frank & Son paid to him the
sum of $198.99. The affidavit of
George l.. Salter an dthe original
OF one letter that passed between G..
K. Rembert, of Columbia and B. w.
Crouch, of Saluda, in regard to this
matter and copies of nine other let
ters passed between the same parties
are attached to the complaint.
A copy of the Indictment returned
against B, B. Evans for forgery by
the grand jury of Saluda county in
December, 1908, is attached to the
petition.
The collection of an account of the
Murray Drug Company against T. E..
Bates for $103 through B. B. Evans
Saluda in 1906 which it is alleged
Evans never turned over to the MUIR
ray Drug Company is recited and W..
j. Murray and J. Nelson Frierson are
named as material witnesses.
The charges made by B. B. Evans
in the campaign last summer to the
effect that Sheriff B. F. Sample stole
a certain receipt from his office in
Saluda and his other charges against
Sample, together with a statement
signed by citizens of Saluda denying
the charges against Sample are re-
ferred to and made a part of the
complaint. The petition says that the
charge against Sheriff Sample was
with malicious intent" and that
Evans when he made them knew
them "to be utterly false"
At Spartanburg Meeting.
That complaint also alleged that B.
b. Evans at the Spartanburg cam
palgn meeting last summer did
falsely and with malicious intent"
make a statement concerning B. w.
| Crouch and E. w. Able, of Saluda,
that if the Aetna and Hartford Fire
Insurance Companies had done their
duty Messrs. Able and Crouch would
be behind the bars as incendiaries,
that one of the persons was caught
In the act and compromised and the
other destroyed the libraries of all
the lawyers in Saluda, and the lam
guage of the complaint continues,
THAT on said occasion he further re-
ferred to the said E. w. Crouch and
l.. w. Able as blind tigers, thieves
and incendiaries, well knowing the
said statements to be utterly false"
McDavid Horton, of the Columbia
State; Wyatt A. Taylor, of the Co.
lumbia Record, and L. H. Wannama-
ker, Of the Charleston News and