The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-12-31
VIOLATED GAME LAWS; FINED
AUGUST BELMONT AND PARTY
PAY $500 FOR HUNTING
WITHOUT LICENSE.
He and His Party Kill Two Deer and
Find Game Plentiful at His Place
at Estill-Game Warden Interrupts
Their Sport.

Columbia, Dec. 29.-August Bel
mont, Morgan Belmont and G. Oliver
Iselin, Jr., all of New York, paid fines
Saturday, aggregating $500 for vio-
lation OF the State game laws by
hunting without nonresident licenses.
according to A. A. Richardson, chief
game warden Of South Carolina, who
returned yesterday to Columbia. All
were required to take out non-resi-
dent hunters licenses.
From information received from
Estill," said Mr.. Richardson yester-
day, Il went to August Belmont's
hunting preserve. known as the Pau
gramauga club, seven miles from
Garnett. Accompanied by Wardens
H. w. Richardson, Jr., and J. H. Os-
wald, we arrived at 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-
vannah river swamp on a deer hunt.
They had two fne deer that they had
just killed. The party consisted of
August Belmont, Morgan Belmont and
Z. Oliver Iselin, Jr. My information
that had carried me there was to the
effect that Belmont and party were
hunting without licenses and had
said that they would not take out
any licenses as the property was Mr..
Belmonts and he paid taxes in South
Carolina. This would not exempt
them as our laws distinctly say that
a nonresident of South Carolina is re-
quired to have a license in order to
hunt and that the fact that they own
land in this State does not exempt
them from being required to have this
license. l looked for Mr. Belmont to
make kick and refuse to pay the H.
cense. but he did not do so. He said
that he was willing to pay the license
and thought that it should be paid
) and that IL was a matter of careless
ness in not having their licenses.
Il told him that, according to the
} laws of South Carolina, for each
day a nonresident hunted without
} having. procured a license was a sep
arate offense which was punishable in
the discretion of the court, that had
proof to show that he had hunted ten
days, his son, Morgan, two days and
Mr.. Iselin one day, and that ] would
) have to take them to Estill and bind
them over to the next term of court
in Hampton county. which would be
in February.
J Mr. Belmont asked to be allowed
J 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 considera-
ton Of the fact that the clerk of
courts books showed that August
J Belmont, Jr., had taken out a license
for himself and a friend, Harold H.
; Weeks, Of New York on December 9.
} and that Mr.. Belmont, Sr., was under
the impression that at the same time
his license had been taken out, 1 de-
cided to accept fine of 500 each for
Mr.. Belmont, Morgan Belmont and
c. Oliver Iselin, Jr., and require each
to take out their licenses Of $10.25
for each license.
These fines were promptly paid by
Mr.. Belmont, giving me a check on
August Belmont & Co. of New York
for 1891 to cover the three fines and
the three licenses. Mr.. Belmont also
gave me another check for $10.25 to
procure a license for Count veil-Cas-
tel Of Paris. France, who arrives to-
day. 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 nom
residents were not the only ones that
had suffered at the hands OF the
game laws as over $50 South Carolin-
ians had been prosecuted this year."