The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-16
RECOMMENDATIONS q
OF THE GRAND JURY


Court of General Sessions Disposes
of Several Cases-Court of
Common Pleas Opens Monday.
When we went to press Tuesday
the court was engaged in the trial of
Samuel Seegars, charged with muir
der. The jury found the defendant.
little colored boy about IA years
old, guilty of manslaughter with a
recommendation to mercy and the
Judge gave him two years. SEN
tence.
Zebedee McIlwain was found
guilty of assault and carrying con-
ccaled weapons and he was given q
new trial by the court
William Gardner was found guilty
of disposing of property under lien
and was given 500 fine or three
months Imprisonment.
Wyatt Foster, charged with muir
der, was found guilty of manslaugh-
ter with recommendation to the
mercy of the court and was given
two years on the chaingang
Ed Secrest was found guilty of an
assault and was fined $50 or 80
days.
Leroy McMurray plead guilty to
the charge of house breaking and
on the chaingang.
Joe Thompson was found guilty
of larceny from the person and was
given one year in the penitentiary.
Ammon Carter was found not
guilty of forgery.
William Dunlap plead guilty to
obtaining money by false pretense
and was given three months or 500.
Mary Cook of Kershaw was tried
in her absence on a charge of violat-
ing the dispensary law and was given
a sealed sentence.
The business of the court of ses-
sions having been disposed of We'd
nesday afternoon, Judge Efird went
over the civil docket with the men,
bers of the bar in order to deter
mine what cases will be ready for
trial next week, after which the
court of sessions was adjourned.
Judge Eflrd returned to his home
at Lexington yesterday. He will re-
turn Monday to open the court of
common pleas.
The following is the report of the
grand jury:
REPORT OF GRAND JURY.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Lancaster
The Court of General Sessions,
OCTOBER Term.
To Honorable G. NJ. Efird, Presiding
Judge:
We, the Grand Jury, hereby sub
NIT the following as our fina! pre-
sentiment: We have given our at
tention to the various bills of in
dictment handed us by the solicitor,
and have returned them back into
court with our endorsement there
on. Through committees of our
body, we have visited the County
Home, jail and chaingang, and nnd
the inmates OF each humapely
treated. We wish to congratulate
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett for their pa
tience and kindness shown to the
inmates Of the County Home. We
End the we'll at the County Home
not sufficient to furnish enough wa
ter and we recommend that the we'll
be made deeper at once. We fnd
that our County Home, which 10 a
credit to our county. is not insured,
and we recommend that 1t be in
sIred at the earliest possible date
We find the Jail in the same condi-
tion, as at the March term OF court
There being a basement at the rear
Of the jail building where water col
lects, which is calculated to cause
sickness to the jailer's family as
well as nearby residences. We rec
ommend that this basin or pond OF
water be drained through sever
pipe, which, we are informed is TO
be placed in the Jail sometime in the
near future. We find that there is
sone little trouble in some Of the
schools in the county. We recon-
mend that the Superintendent of
Education give this his attention at
once, and do all in his power to ad-
just the trouble. We further recon-
mend that janitor be appointed for
the court house, whose duty il shall
be to keep the court house clean and
attend all public meetings es-
pecially where there are ladies, and
keep fires for them in winter and
water in summer, and anything else
necessary to be done about the court
house. We recommend that this
Janltor be paid salary not to ex-
ceed $1,000 per month. We also
recommend that as soon as sewerage
is placed in and around the court
mouse that nice toilet be placed
somewhere on the court house lot
Tor the benefit of the public, es-
peclally for the ladies', and that il
De the duty OF the janitor to keen
such toilet In a sanitary condition.
In regard to auditing the books
OF the various county officers. we
nave only glanced over them. but
mo that Mr.. T. l.. Hilton and Mr.
i. y. Blackmon, treasurer and coun
" supervisor, have used some Of
the school funds for other purpose.
tnan for schools, which is a viola
tfoD or the law. After finding fbasa