The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-10-03
Charged With the Rob
berry at Parr Shoals.
Burns Detectives Think They
Have the Right Parties Who
Held Up the Paymaster of the
]. G.. White Co. and Got
$16,O00-Says Chester Boys
Will Have a Hard Time to
Get Away From the Charges
Held Against Them.

COLUMBIA, Sept. 3O.-The chief
investigator of the Burns Atlanta
agency was interviewed by a Record
reporter in a local hotel Sunday
night, and thorough resume of the
situation leading up to the arrest of
the Chester boys secured.
Arrest of Chester Youths.
Owe had nothing to do with the
arrest of the Chester boys" said
this man, "for we are Investigators,
not arresting officers. Besides we
had secured no evidence against
these men before the tip was given
Mr.. Mcclellan by a police officer of
Chester, and they had been identi-
fed by Mr.. Hancock, the man who
was shot at by the robbers, also by
man whose name we do not care to
divulge who saw them at a point
three miles from Parr Shoals short
ly before the robbery, and who saw
them get off the train after riding
a mile beyond the power site with
them. These two men, without any
suggestions or any aid, picked out
Frazier and Bigham instantly in
Chester. One peculiar instance
which convinces me that the tip was
the right one, and that Mr.. McClel-
Ian made no mistake, is, when Mr..
Hancock and the chief of police of
Chester were walking around the
street for the purpose of allowing
the Parr Shoals man to pick out any
one connected with the holdup, they
entered a restaurant where Frazier
was seated eating dinner. Instant
ly Hancock pointed him out to the
Chester officer as one of the men,
When Frazier saw Hancock, he turn
ed red, hastily arising, and leaving
his dinner, half eaten, got away from
the place.
at has been charged that the
chief of police of Chester refused to
make the arrest after the warrant
had been issued for the two men. AS
a matter of fact we did not ask him
to make the arrest, but through
courtesy to him as a local officer
invited him to go along with us. We
had brought to Chester with us the
sheriff of Fairfield county, armed
with the proper papers for making
the arrests but as it is custom in
this state to ALLOW officers in the
county in which suspects are located
to serve warrants issued for their
arrest, the sheriff of Fairfield turn
ed the warrants over to the sheriff
of Chester county, who sent one of
his deputies with us to perform that
duty"
The Investigator was asked what
was his opinion of the evidence Sc
cured against the two Chester men,
and their chances for disproving the
charges. "From what has transpired
in the positive Identification of them
by two responsible men, and from
the chain of evidence, which has been
secured, they will have hard time
getting away from the charges. We
have given them the benefit of the
doubt in every instance, and before
the arrests were made, legal advice
was secured, which, after all the evil
dence was placed in the light, was to
the effect that our evidence was but
natural consequence.
Since the arrest of Frazier and
Bigham, we have at the instance of
Mr.. Mcclellan tried as hard to dis
prove everything that has been prov
ed as we have to get more complete
evidence and | want to go on record
as saying that we have done our best
to get line on anything that would
clear the two men of the charges.
81 am not at liberty to say any
thing of the evidence we have secur-
ed since the arrests, except that the
cases against the men now out on
bond have been strengthened instead
of weakened by our further investi-
cations"
eve have documentary proof to
support this contention of the first
tip coming from the Chester. police,
in the form of several letters which
Mr.. Mcclellan has on file," added the
detective significantly.
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