Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

up to Wednesday night there were
| sixteen cases Of smallpox reported in
| Richland county.
-Zeke Richardson, a negro, was kill
ed in an elevator shaft in Sumter,
Monday.
In common pleas court for Sumter
| county this week, Mrs. Ella Dutton and
children were awarded $12, 900 damages
against the Atlantic Coast railway, her
| husband having been killed while cou-
pling cars for the railway about eigh-
teen months ago.
Capt. n. F. Walker, superintendent
| Of the state institution for the deaf,
| dumb and blind at Cedar Springs, has
| been selected for another term as post
master at that place. winning out in a
competitive examination over his son,
w. L. Walker, who is associated with
him at Cedar Springs. Capt Walker
made an average Of 90.5, while his son
averaged SS.1.
The postoffice safe in the store of
A. NJ. Smith at Duncan, a station on
the main line Of the Southern railway,
ten miles west Of Spartanburg, was
robbed, Wednesday night, by yegg-
men, who made a clean job and got
away with their loot amounting to
Sooo III stdihpS dHu money dpproN-
mating $235. Nitroglycerine was used
and though two distinct explosions
were heard during the night by citi
zens Of the place, the robbers were not
disturbed in their operations, and
nothing was known Of the robbery
until Thursday morning when Post
master Smith opened his place Of busi-
ness.
- billiard Wilson, an 1S-year old ne
gro trusty on the Lee county chain
gang was lynched by mob Of a hum
dred men on Lynche's river, near
Lynchburg, Tuesday, for the murder
Of Mrs. j. E. Truluck, a respected wo-
man Of the vicinity in which the con-
victs were working. Wilson went to
the home Of Mrs. Truluck, attacked her
and cut her throat with a razor He
attempted to kill her 9-year- -old son,
but the cries Of the boy frightened him
away The negro was later identified
by the little boy as the murderer Of his
mother. The brute was taken to the
river hung up by the heels and his
body was riddled by hundreds Of bull
let's.
Governor Blease on Wednesday is
sued 101 pardons and paroles to con-
victs in the state penitentiary as a
Thanksgiving present. Last year the
eheCullNe exercised executive
clemency in 105 cases at Thanksgiving.
Up to yesterday, Gov. Blease had par
doned or paroled 1,430 convicts during
his two terms as governor. Perhaps
the most notable case in the list Of
those pardoned or paroled Wednesday.
was that Of w. T. Jones, the rich Union
county farmer, sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of his wife.
Jones was issued a pardon on condi-
ft,Nta t1nf hl. lrt.,1
other intoxicating beverage. r. A.
Richey, the Abbeville county man, who
figured so largely in the primary this
summer, was paroled during good be-
havior. Among the other more or less
prominent convcts paroled were
George Nichols, ]. Allen Emerson,
Henry Patrick, Ernest F. Grimsley,
Harry Dean, all having been convicted
Of murder. John E. Hough, convicted
in kershaw county in March, 1913, Of
the murder Of his father-in-l law, and
sentenced to be electrocuted, his SEN
tence later being committed to life i'm
prisonment, had his sentence reduced
to five years in the state penitentiary.
-Spartanburg dispatch Of Novem-
Der Z5, to the Charlotte Observer: w.
r. Belcher, Robert Wilson and Hor-
ace Finch were found guilty late to-
night by a jury in the circuit court,
of having participated in the storm
ing of the county Jail on August 18,
1913, by mob of 1000 men who
sought to seize and lynch Will Fair,
negro accused of attacking white
woman, but later tried and acquitted.
Robert Ward and Jesse Wolfe were
found not guilty. Riot and assault
and battery were the technical
charges against the five defendants.
Judge Ernest Moore is expected to
impose sentence Friday. The trial
consumed the entire day and was hard
fought a large array Of counsel par
ticipating. Sheriff J. w. Whites tes-
timony was the outstanding feature of
the trial. He told how members of
the mob pointed pistols at his head
and reviled him with insulting epi-
thets when he refused to deliver the
negro over to them, how they battled
at the Jail gate with heavy timbers
and exploded dynamite under the
walls and how, after the gate gave
away, the mob was held at bay only
by the rifles Of the sheriff and half
dozen deputies. At dawn Sheriff
White spirited Fair out of the prison
and sent him to the penitentiary at
Columbia. Warrants have been issued
for two additional members of the al
legged mob and still other prosecu-.
tions are expected. Finch, one of the
defendants, was a candidate for the
legislature, last summer.