The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-06
HAPPY REUNION OF A
FAMILY At THE JAIL
L. MARVIN CElILDS BROUGHT
HERE FROM ATLANTA TO
DO TIME
FEDERAL PRISONER
Has Had a Hard Road / United
States Court-Family h t Him
Here-WiIl Reform.

With a bright. chubby-faced little
son who had not seen daddy in nearly
a year playing about his knees anu
an exceptionally attractive little wife
with mass of wayy black hair sitting
near him and gazing ino his face with
that look OF unshaken faith in her
husband and an undying love for inc
father OF her cunning little boy, L.
Marvin Childs, young man of excep-
tionally fine appearance and physique
and nattily attired. sat last night in
the guard room OF the county iail and
discussed with a reporter for The In
.el!igencer his last prison career,
which began several months ago in
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
Childs was brought to Anderson
Monday night by a United States
marshal of the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta and turned over to the county
authorities Of Anderson. He will serve
federal court sentence of six months
in the county Jail here for intimidat-
ing witness in the United States dis
trict court for the western district of
South Carolina.
While the story is a long one. it is
interesting. AT the spring. 13io, term
| Of the federal court at Greenville,
Childs was indicted on charges of
using the United States mails to ue-
| fraud. Two cases were made and
proven against him, and in each case
Judge Henry A. NJ Smith sentenced
him to serve year and day in the
| Federal penitcntiary at Atlanta. In
other words Childs was sentenced 10
serve two years and two days in both
cases. But as the sentences were
served concurrently, he had to- do
time" for only a year and day. BY
exemplary conduct in the prison tic
acquired a rebate" of 72 days on his
sentence. which caused him to serve
only 9 months and Is days. He bega..
serving his sentence. March 15. 1914
and was released January 2, 1915.
At the October 1913 term of the fed
oral court Childs was again brought
up for trial this time on charges of
failure to pay license to carry on re-
tail liquor business. was proven
that Childs had acquired his license,
and the case was thrown out But in
the COURSE Of the trial Childs admon-
lshed' one of the witnesses not 10
swear lie. and the government. he
says, construed this as intimidating
witness. He was convicted on the
charge and sentenced to serve 6
months in the county Jail at Anderson.
1t Is to serve this sentence that he
has come to Anderson.
Childs is native Of Union county
and was engaged in the locker club
| BUSINESS there. While his cases in the
| federal court were under appeal to
the circuit court of appeals, sitting
IN Richmond, he made mis- nome la
Spartanburg. He is man Of splen-
did appearance and seems to be rather
we'll educated.
He talked very interestingly of
prison life in the federal penItentiary
at Atlanta, and according to his
| statements, it is fine place. When
asked If stories appearing in Atlanta
papers from time to time during the
past few months with reference to
| troubles at the penitentiary were true,
| Childs declared that there was no
truth in them. He spoke of having an
Interesting souvenir while in prison
there. It was an empty cigar box left
by Charles w. Morse. in the latter's
cell when he left there upon being
pardoned by President Taft. Tie CT
gar5 smoked by Morse, Childs stated.
cost $50 per hundred. He stated that
he kept the cigar box in his cell anu
used it as repository for pen,i ink and
paper, etc.
Mrs. ChiIds and their son are pay
ing Childs visit at the Jail here
this being the first time they have
hean together since the husband and
father was sent to prison. Childs de-
ciared very emphatically last night he.
was going to pursue the straight. and
that when he got out Of jail here he
was going to puruse the straight and
narrow" for the balance of his earth
ly life.
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