The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-03-18
TRIED FOR MURDER
GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Junk Caldwell Goes to
Chain Gang for Life.
TO TRY GREENWOOD
ROGERS FOR ARSON
Many Cases Disposed Of by Court Of
General Sessions. BOT Glover Re-
ceiycS Sentence Of Ton Years Tor
his Connection with Barn Burning,

Junk Caldwell, implicated along
with the two other negroes, Green
wood Rogers and Tom Young, in the
Killing OF MIR. Geo. f.. Young near
Renno on January 9th, was placed on
trial Wednesday morning following
the conviction the night before or
Greenwood Rogers. He was also
found guilty and recommended to tho
mercy of the court. Caldwell being
without counsel, the court appointed
W. r.. Richey, Jr., of the local bar, to
defend him. Mr.. Cooper was assisted,
as in the trial of Greenwood Rogers,
by Senator Macbeth Young, of I'm
ion, and Con J. RI. Ferguson. Follow.
ing the announcement Of the verdict,
Judge Bowman paid high tribute to-
the intelligence and manhood Of Lau.
rens county jurics, also taking occa.'
ton to commend the young attorney
for the defense because Of his ablo
conduct OF the case. The court also
spoke in very praiseworthy terms OK
the attorneys for the state
The testimony in this case was in
large part a repetition Of that in the
Greenwood Rogers case. Tom Young.
the third negro implicated in tho
case, went on the stand again and re-
iterated his confession rs to tho
crime, stating that he, Junk Caldwell
and Greenwood Rogers laid the plan
to kill Mr.. Young several nights be.
fore the tragedy that they went to
the house about one O'Clock in the
morning and that Green wood Rogers
fired the shot that disabled Mr. Young
as he sat in front Of the Fireplace
reading. He went further into tho
incidents immediately following, by
relating that Rogers took the burn
ing Goals out OF the fire and scattered
them over the house in the attempt to
set it on fire, after hitting Mr.. Young
in the head with the aXo and robbinE
him. He also related how he and
Junk Caldwell went to the woods
nearby to secure broom straw and
pine needles and placed these under
the corner of the house to make it
burn faster. He related again the in
cidents as to the distribution Of the
money by Greenwood Rogers and tho
carrying Of the stolen meat to tho
house of Greenwood Rogers.
Junk Rogers went on the stand in
his own defense and attempted to
make ont an alibi. He claimed to have
been at home the entire night, but he
failed to account satisfactorily for his
whereabouts between eleven o'clock
and early dawn. He repudiated con-
fession previously testified to by MI.
Stobo Young, son of the deceased, and
was made under duress and that he
did not realize its import. Junk
Caldwell was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by the court and was sent
to the county chain gang Saturday.
Thursday afternoon counsel for
Greenwood Rogers made motion for
new trial. but it was denied by the
court Solicitor Cooper has given no.
tice, however, that Rogers will be In
dictcd before the grand jury for ar.
son. SO this negro will have to remain
in the county Jail until next term to
stand trial on this charge. He pp-
peared to be the ring-leader in the
entire affair. Like an Indictment for
murder, verdict of guilty Of arson
without recommendation to the mercy
of the court would mean death pen"
| atty.
! Tom Young, the third negro impli-
Gated in the case and the one on whose
testimony the other two have been
convicted, will hardly bo brought to
trial until the cases Of tho other two
negroes have been finally disposed Of.
10 Is now in the county Jail.
Bob Glover, who was indicted along
with his mother, Bmma Glover, for
arson in connection with the burning
of Mr. NJ b. McCucn's barn near
Princeton, was found guilty of arson
in ,hc criminal court Thursday and
recC :mendcd to the mercy OF tl.e