The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-01-11
ACTION TO DISbAR B. B. EVANS
LYON PRESENTS ALLEG ATOMS
TO SUPREME COURT.
Charges Columbia Lawyer, Candi-
date for Attorney General i'm Late
Primary, with Various Wrongful
Acts and with Uttering of False
and Malicious Statements Con-
ccrning Certain Citizens of Saluda
County.

County.
Columbia, Jan. 6.-Attorney Gen
eral Lyon this morning brought to
the attention of the Supreme Court
Of South Carolina alleged acts of
Ba nard b. Evans, a member of the
Columbia Bar, and asked the Court
to take such notice Of the matters
stated as deemed wise. The action is
considered the beginning Of proceed
ings to disbar Mr.. Evans
Th Supreme Court took the papers
and the matter under advisement.
In the petition Of the Attorney Gen
eral, which was filed with the court
this morning, in it's original jurisdic-
tion, it is alleged that Barnard B.
Evans slandered Sheriff Sample, SEN
ator Crouch and Eugene Able, all of
Saluda, and collected certain 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.
Barnard B. Evans was an opponent
Of j. Fraser Lyon in the race last sum-
mer for Attorney General along with
j. r. Earle and Thomas H. Peoples,
the latter defeating Mr.. Lyon in the
second primary. The charges which
Mr. Evans made against Mr.. Lyon and
the bitterness and boldnoss with which
the latter denounced Mr.. Evans as a
'forger and liar" stirred the whole
State ant made their race second only
in point Of interest to that between
the candidates for Governor
After reciting the fact that Barnard
b. Evans was admitted to the practice
of law on December 10, 1902, the peti-
tion Of the Attorney General alleges:
That a check for s19S.99, drawn on
the Union Savings Bank, Of Augusta
Ga, by ]. 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 endorsed by Evans as at
torney and the proceeds never turned
over to Salter; that thereafter upon
demand of Salter, Frank & Son paid
TO him the sum of $19S.99. The afida-
Nsit nf
inal of one letter that passed between
George r. Rembert, of Columbia, and
Il. w. Crouch, of Saluda, in regard to
this matter and copies Of nine other
letters passed between the same par
ties are attached to the complaint.
copy of the indictment returned
against b. Il. Evans for forgery by the
grand jury of Saluda County in De-
cember, 1908, is attached to the petit
tion.
The collection of an account Of the
Murray Drug Company against T. +.
Bates for $103, through B. b. Evans at
Saluda in 1906, which, it is alleged,
Evans never turned TO the Murray
Drug Company, is recited, and w. j.
Murray and j. Nelson Frierson are
named as material witnesses.
The charge made by B. b. Evans in
the campaign last summer to the eff
feet that Sheriff Il. Il. Sample stole
certain receipt from his office in Salu-
da, and his other charges against
Sample, together with statement
signed by citizens of Saluda denying
the charges against Sample, are re-
felred TO and made a part Of the COM
plaint.
The petition says that the charge
against Sheriff Sample was with Ma
liciOus intent" and that Evans, when
he made them, knew them "to be ut
terly false"
That complaint also alleges that
b. Il. Evans, at the Spartangurg cam
paign meeting last summer, did
falsely and with malicious intent"
Crouch and f.. 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 incendaries;
that one of the persons was caught in
the act and compromised and the 9TH
er destroyed the libraries Of all the
layers in Saluda, and the language of
the complaint continues That on
said occasion he further referred to
the said B. w. Crouch and f.. w. Able
as blind tigers, thieves and incendiar-
les, well knowing the said statements
to be utterly false"
McDavid Horton, of the Columbia
state; Wyatt y. Taylor, of the Col
Ii.