Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-11
GIRL NOT WITHOUT FRIENDS.
Clements Attorney Intimates Sensa-
dons i'm Spartanburg Case.

Spartanburg, Feb. 5.-With a con-
tribution of $50, Col. B. G. Landrum,
of Governor Blease's staff, to-day
started fund with which sympathiz-
ers of Miss Fleta Pendleton, accused
with Clyde G.. Clement of drowning
the girl baby, of whom she says they
were the parents, will employ the
best available legal talent for her.
Grateful for the sympathy shown her
and for gifts of fruit and flowers, but
wearied by the strain Of talking to
visitors, Miss Pendleton told Ed Will
son, jailer, to-day to admit nobody
else to see her for the present. Later
she said she would like to talk to the
ministers who have sought to console
her.
Samuel J. Nichols assertion that
the probabilities are that men higher
up might be involved' in the case
was taken here to-day as presaging an
effort to cast a doubt on Clements
paternity.
Mr.. Nichols statement that he eX-
pected to convince the jury and gene
raj public Of Clements innocence of
the crime charged-in the face Of the
girls confession and the statement of
the hack driver, who carried them to
the creek with the baby, and that
OF the street car conductor who saw
them return without the child--was
construed as foreshadowing an at
tempt to make the 19-year-old girl
mother shoulder the entire blame for
the crime.
Battle Royal Expected.
The retention of Mr.. Nichols as
counsel for Clement means that
battle royal will be fought in General
Sessions Court in April, with the life
Oh the young man as the stake.
Robert G. Clement, the Polk coun-
ty, North Carolina, merchant and
planter, s prepared, it is said, to
spend large sum Of money in the
defense Of his son.
Bcgs Solicitor to Visit Her.
Counsel has not yet been engaged
Tor Miss Pendleton, but at least one
lawyer, pitying her, is willing to give
her his services without cost. The
wretched girl is in the anomalous
position of relying most for comfort
and protection upon the one man
whose sworn duty it is to prosecute
her. She is soothed by conversations
with Solicitor Hill, and has begged
him to visit her frequently in the
jail. She asked him to come every
day.
She would prefer to be comforted
by Clement, for whom she exhibits
every manifestation Of frantic love.
She longs to see him, but communica-
tion between them is forbidden
whether through ignorance Of the
seriousness OF the crime with which
she has charged herself and her al
legged lover, or through Indifference
to her fate, Miss Pendleton appar-
emily gives no heed to the possible
consequences to herself or Clement.
Torn by conflicting emotions-el; ;ef
for the death of her little daughter
and love for the man who, she saws.
compelled her to assent to the baby's
destruction-the miserable Young
creature again and again expresses
the wish that she were dead.
4rom QiyI's Confession.
Examination Of the stenographic
report Of her confession discloses that
after Clement (as she ayers) dropped
the tiny girl into the black. wintrv
waters of the river, the frenZied mo-
ther entreated him (she aftirms) to
make way with her in like manner
Throw ME into theNriver, too" she
says, she begged lin.
The story Of the fearful mental |
struggle she underwent, the tortures |
she suffered as she contended for
twenty-four hours betweea love for
her baby and infatuation for the |
man who, she says, threaten(d to de-
sert her unless she made @v with
the brat" has made profond i'm
preston. There is sympathy FIR her.
The possibility that the death peaaltv
viii be imposed on Miss PendletG is