The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-02-06
BABY'S BODY FOUND
SATURDAY MORNING
IN WHITES MILL
POND.
Couple Came to Spartan
burg From Greenville
Friday Night and Went
Direct to LaWsons Fork
Where They Drowned
Baby.

tuesdays Spartanburg JournaD
The baby mystery has been solved.
The mother of the child, Miss Freda
Pendleton of Durham, N. c., 10 years
of age, is in Jail and C. C. Clements,
of Chesnee, the father of the child,
youth about 20 years of age, and the
man who threw. it's. body into Law
sons Fork Friday night, according
to the mothers confession made to
Mayor Floyd today, is under arrest
and charge of Sheriff White and dep
uties on his way from Chesnee to
Spartanburg. The young woman was
arrested this afternoon at Woods
boarding house on Magnolia street
by Officer R. E. Miller. She was in
the act of leaving for Charleston.
After her arrest she broke down.
and told Mayor Floyd, who was pres
,ent, the whole story, crying that she
loved her baby and that she had
fought Clements to keep. him from
making away with it.
Her Story.
She told this story: She and
Clements came to Spartanburg from
Greenville at $40 o'clsck Friday
night bringing with them the little
child. At the station they took a
hack and drove out East Main street
until they reached. Haywood street,
I where they dismisssd tie sconysyAhse
and oroceeded on .oorv ythe bridge
over Lawson Fork, a few yards above
the White MilF pond. Here Clements
took the child from her, against her
will, and as he threw it into the wa
ter she turned and ran up the hill.
She said the baby was born in the
Presbyterian hispital in Charlotte on
December 9th and that since that
time it had been with her. Since
early in January they have lived in
Greenville. The girl says Clements
has been urging her to get rid of the
child saying he would marry her if
she would do so, but would not unless
she did. She said she had named the
child Virginia Virl and that she loved
it dearly-just as much as any moth
er could love baby.
1t is understood that the young
woman spent yesterday at>Clement's
home above Chesnee and that return
ing to Spartanburg last night it was
her plan to go to Charleston today
and Clement was to go West at once
How near she came to getting away
from Spartanburg before being ap-
pretended is shown by the fact that
Mayor Floyd stopper her trunk at the
station and found her dressed and
'epared for her journey.
Miss Pendleton was student at a
local business college last year and
Clements is said to have been a stu
dent at Wofford Fitting school last
year. Clements was arrested at Ches-
nee by Sheriff White. So far as
could be learned he has made no
statement. He is a son of Robert
Clements, Of near Chesnee.
Clements in Jail.
G. G. Clements was placed in the
county Jail at 2:55 o'clock this af-
ternoon by Sheriff White and Capt.
Moss Hayes, who arrested him at
Chesnee. He was hand cuffed, but
appeared to be little disconcerned.
He refused to make any statement
to Journal reporter.
Solicitor Hill Talks.
Solicitor Albert E. Hill, who was in
Columbia attending the session of
the Legislature, returned to Spartan
burg this morning to investigate tho
murder of the baby.
He spent the entire morning with
the police officers as they worked on
the case and accompanied Mayor
Floyd, Chief Hill and Mrs. Hodges
when they went to arrest Miss Pend
Teton.
Solicitor Hill spent much time col
lecting affidavits and collecting the
circumstantial facts in the case. At
ter the arrest of the couple and after
the alleged confession of Miss Pend
Teton, Solicitor Hill said: rr.
From the facts I have collected
after a thorough investigation and
even before ithe. woman confessed