The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-11-20
UNION ATTORNEY IN
TERVIEWS HIM AT
HIS HOME.
Says He Does not Expect
to Return to UniOn-In-
heritS One-Half of RObt.
Coleman Estate Valued
at About $4,000.

Roland Coleman has been definitely
located. This goes beyond question.
l.. G. Southard, Esq, one of the lead
turned from an extended trip through
out the North and West. He was sew
en- days in making this search for the
missing man. That the man located
is Roland Coleman is proven beyond
doubt by the statements from Mr..
Southland and the evidence he brings
back with him, and by actual photo
graphs of the man himself. The work
performed in searching for the miss
ing man makes reading more inter-
esting than a detective story.
In consequence of the message
which was received in Union on last
Friday attorney Southard took an au-
tomobile at about 7:3O o'clock and
went through the country to Spartan
burg; there he caught midnight
train, getting to Roanoke, Va; on Sat
urday evening at about o'clock. In
consequence of information which he
received in Roanoke, he then went to
Mansfield, Ohio, but tho man for
whom Southard was searching and
for whom he had travelled the dis
tance of twelve hundred miles to mott
fly him that he had several thousand
dollars coming to him as an heir
through his fathers estate, had gone
Mr.. Southard was at this time out of
funds to further trace, having left
here on such exceedingly short notice
and not anticipating such a tremen-
dous journey. He located the proba-
ble direction where Coleman was go-
ing; he then got in communication
with people in a city several hundred
miles from Mansfield. Ohio. Two
xiAz sand hall. after that Mr.. Cole
: fs1& &AS located in that city. There
I lr opthard went, and as he walked
Ssif hsS Sssa sat sess SoMn. Ens'safEsd saaIsd
Z over their boyhood days and school
days, and then Mr.. Southard gave him
in detail the painfully sad and yet
true story that his own brother, Har-
ry, had been accused, tried and con-
victed of tho murder of their father,
Robert d. Coleman and that Harry
was now in the State penitentiary of
South Carolina, in Columbia, serving
life sentence. Roland had heard the
story but not in detail. He asked
that his schoolmate friend, Southard
have all the evidence in the case type
written and sent to him. He said
that in consequence of such an awful
tragedy he did not feel that he ever
wanted to see the place again, but
rather would prefer that he live some
where where no one knew him, or
knew of such a tragic ending as de-
scribed above. He further stated that
his long silence was due to the fact
that one time in 1908 when he was at
home, his brother, Harry, was one
morning cursing his mother; that he
jumped on him and gave him a sound
thrashing, and then his father and
mother turned against him, (Roland)
and that day he left home intending
never to return and from that time
until this, he has written only four
letters back home. He wrote to his
father and mother up until November,
1908, then after he had heard the sad
news of his fathers murder, but not
official, he decided he would go to
Australia. He went to Denver, Colo
RADIO, and from Denver to Salt Lake
City, and from there to San Francis
co; there he waited few days, but
learned it would be three weeks be-
fore he could catch boat to Austral-
ia; he turned around and came back
The last person that Roland Coleman
saw from South Carolina that he
knew was Mr.. Samuel Littlejohn of
Jonesville. whom he saw in Roanoke,
Va. in 1908. In 1913, while on the
way to San Francisco, he wrote Mr..
Ljtdejohn that he wanted him to have
his cousin John Kendrick take charge
of his part of the estate coming to
him through his fathers death.
Mr.. Coleman has worked in num-
Der of the biggest cities of America; :;
he has taken advantage of the oppor-
tunities afforded him in these cities,
opportunities which he did not have
as boy. sHe has developed into a
well-informed, well-educated man of
the world. He has attended night
schools in these cities, and he says
that when he gets the money from his
faGner's estate, he intends to 90 to
school and take course in higher
mathematics.
He was married in Roanoke, Va. in
December, 1908, and has two bright
children, one boy of four years and
another, girl of two. His wife is
a woman of unusual intelligence and
energy. She has been one of the de-
veloping factors in this mans life and
he is happy with his wife and babies.
Roland Coleman has executed to L..
G. Southard, Esq, absolute power of
attorney to act in his behalf i'm rela-
tion to the inheritance in this county.
his wife joining in with him in this
said written instrument. He ratified
and confirmed every act done by Mr..
Southard and Mr.. Sawyer, attorneys
for him, in getting possession of the