The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-04-30
Established 1891.
said she was taken there by Clement.
He said she threw the baby into the
creek; she said he did it.


Highly Dramatic.
Miss Pendleton's testimony this
afternoon was highly dramatic. She
| would have died, she said, rather
than permit harm to befall her little
daughter, whom she loved dearly.
Her only reason, she averred, for not
exposing the alleged murderer,
Clement, was that she was blindly
| in love with him and he told her
| that he would marry her, take her
far away and they would blot the
murder from their memory.
"And do you still have this blind
love for CLEMENT" asked her gray
haired counsellor, Col. Alvin H.
| Dean.
do you want me to tell exactly
! the real state of my feelings?" she
inquired, in turn.
Yes, 1 do, said her attorney.
She paused for fully a half min
ute. Then, with heaving bosom, ex-
claimed: "You want to know if l
still love the man who lied to me
from start to finish, who won my
| confidence, who robbed me of my
| virtue-the man who murdered my
| child, without my consent, willing or )
unwilling-the man who now comes
| I'D here and lays the crime on me,
when he knows deep down in his
heart that he did it himself, who
drags me before this public and ex-
| poses me to shame; love such a
brute?" Her lip quivered, her voice
broke. Two thousand persons jam
ming the court room almost to suf-
location held their breath. Love
such brute?" she asked with
withering scorn. II detest him.
She had answered, and a murmur
swept the court room.
"Quite flourish" said c. P. San
ders, of counsel for Clement.
Every well rehearsed," comment
ed Samuel J. Nichols, the boys chief
of counsel.
Living TRUTH" Shouts Dean.
Col. Dean leaped to his feet. His
eyes flashed. Every word of it is
the living truth" he shouted, "and
| 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 Capt.
Nichols, angrily.
Judge Shipp called the lawyers to
order. Miss Pendleton made an ex-
cellent witness in direct examina-
ton. Her testimony was at variance
with her original confession. While
it was true she said that she had de-
sired 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 entered her mind.
When Clement took her in carriage
to the bridge over Lawson's Fork
that fatal stormy winter night, she
was without the slightest intlma-
| ton of his intention.
[ She gave him the baby to carry
after 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 re-
turned 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 contradictions in
cross-examination.
Mrs. J. B. Jones testified that Gle
ment had promised to marry Miss
Pendleton last summer. The girl
denied Clements statement that they
had been immorally intimate since
she was IA years old. Their illicit
relations did not begin, she said, un-
til they were betrothed in the early
part of last year.
THE men higher up" who Samuel
J. Nichols said would probably be
involved in the case, failed to ma
terialize. Miss Pendleton's reputa-
ton was attacked by insinuations.
! She was asked about "a red-headed
fireman" and an unnamed Georgian
| with whom she was said to have
talked about going to the North
Carolina State Fair, but successfully
parried these shafts.
Fatal Auto Accident.