Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-28
daliseellausous Rsadins.
sPARTANBURe MURDER CASE
The Facts as They Were Made to Ap
pear at the Trial.


they were jointly indicted-that they
murdered the baby whose body was
, found January 81, in a millpond here
They admitted that they went togeth-
er on the night Of January 80, to the
bridge from which the child was
thrown into Lawson's fork, the stream
which forms the millpond, but each OF
them denies any knowledge Of the
purpose Of the trip.
Clement said he went at Miss Pen
dleton's behest; she said she was TAX
en- there by Clement He said she
threw the baby into the creek. she
said he did it.
Miss Pendleton's testimony this aft
ernoon was highly dramatic. She
would have died, she said, rather than
permit harm to befall her little daugh-
ter, whom she loved dearly. Her only
reason, she averred, for not exposing
Clement was that she was blinded in
love with him and he had told her that
he would marry her, take her far
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from their memory
And do you still have this blind
love for Clement?" asked her gray
haired counselor, Col. Alvin Fl. Dean.
DO you want me to tell exactly the
real state Of my feelings?" she inquir-
ed in turn.
Yes, do"
Calls Clement Brute.
She paused for fully a half-minute.
Then, with heaying bosom:
you want to know II / still love
the man who lied to me from start to
finish, who won my confidence, who
robbed me Of my yirtue-the man who
murdered my child without my con-
sent. willing or unwilling-the man
who now comes up here and lays the
crime on me when he knows deep
down in his heart that he did 1t him
self-who ags me before this public
and exposes me to shame? Love such
brute?"
Her lip quivered, her voice broke.
Two thousand people, jamming the
court room almost to suffocation, held
their breath.
Love such a brute?" she asked
with whitening scorn. Il detest him.
She had answered, and a murmur
swept the court room.
Quite a flourish" lightly said c. P.
@ 30 al
Critical Counsel.
VERY we'll rehearsed," commented
Samuel j. Nichols, the boys chief OF
counsel.
Colonel Dean leaped to his feat. His
eyes flashed.
Every word Of 1t Is the living
TRUTH" he shouted, land there's not an
honest man who does not believe It,
as you will find by the verdict"
There's not an honest man who
does believe it," answered Captain
Nichols, angrily.
Judge Shipp called the lawyers TO
order.
Miss Pendleton made an excellent
witness in direct examination. Her
testimony was at variance with her
original confession. While 1t was true
she said, that she had decided to part
with her baby because she wanted to
marry Clement and he had laid that
down as one Of the conditions, the
idea Of numbering the baby never en-
tered her mind. When Clement took
her in a carriage to the bridge over
Lawson's fork that stormy winter
night, she was without the slightest
intimation Of his intention.
She gave him the baby to carry, af-
ter they left the carriage, she said, to
protect the little creature from the
rain. She was i'll and scarcely knew
what she did, she said. She nearly
tainted three times and Clement was
required to support her. He walked
ahead Of her with the baby, she swore,
and when he returned the baby was
gone. When realization came upon
her, she said, she begged her lover to
throw her into the creek, too. The
girl was caught in frequent contradic-
tions in cross examination.
Mrs. ]. B. Jones testified that Glenn
ent had promised to marry Miss Pen
dleton last summer.
The girl denied Clements statement
that they had been immorally inti-
mate since she was IA years old. Their
Illicit relations did not begin, she said,
until they were betrothed in the early
part of last year.
The men higher up" who, Samuel
]. Nichols said, would probably be
involved in the case, failed to materi-
alize. Assaults on Miss Pendleton's
reputation were made by insinuation.
She was asked about "a red-headed
fireman" and an unnamed Georgian
with whom she was said to have talk
ed about going to the North Carolina
state fair, but successfully parried
these shafts
Clement on Stand.
Clyde Caldwell Clement took the
stand in the court Of general sessions
today, and protested his innocence OF
the crime for which he and Miss Lau-
ra Fleda Pendleton are being tried.
Clements hands and eyes were rest
less but his high pitched voice was
clear and steady as he swore that not
he, but the girl, was the murderer.
She, the mother, threw her child into
the water on the night of January 80,
he said; he saw her do it, but too late
to restrain her. He had been in COM
plete ignorance Of her purpose, he
said, and when the deed was done, 1t
was done beyond recall, for he could
not swim, and the steep muddy banks
forbade his attempting to rescue the
baby from the shore.
Clement not only denied the muir
der but expressed doubt that he was
the father of the child. He admitted
however, that he had had improper
relations with the girl since she was
IA years old.
Traces Movements.
Clement went on the stand at $40
o'clock. He said he was born in Polk
county N c. and had known Miss