The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-01-08
HAPPY REUNION OF A
FAMILY At The JAIL
L. MARVIN CHILDS BROUGHT
HERE FROM ATLANTA TO
DO TIME
FEDERAL PRISONER
Has Had Hard Road in United
States Court-Family Met Him
Here-Will Reform.
FEDERAL PRISONER

With bright, chubby-fac little
son who had not seen daddy in nearly
Ia year playing about his knees ana
an exceptionally attractive little wife
with a mass of wavy black hair sitting
near him and gazing ino his face with
that look Of unshaken faith in her
husband and an undy!lg love for inc
father OF her cunning little boy. l..
Marvin Childs, a young man of excep-
uonally fine appearance and physique
and nattily attired. sat last night In
the guard room Of the county jail. and
discussed with a reporter. for The In
telligencer his last prison career.
which began several months ago IN
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
Childs was brought TO Anderson
Monday night by United States
marshal OF the federal penitentiary al
Atlanta and turned over to the county
authorities OF Anderson. He will serve
a federal court sentence of six months
In the county fail here for intimidat-
Ing witness in the United States dis
trict court for the western. district of
South Carolina.
While the story is long one, It is
interesting. At the spring, 1915, term
OF the federal court at G-eenville,
Childs was indicted on charges Of
using the United States mails to ae-
fraud. Tw0 cases were made and
proven against him. and in each case
Judge Henry A. M. Smith sentenced
him to serve year and q day In the
other words Childs was sentenced lu
serve two years and two days In both
cases. But as the sentences were
served concurrently. he had to do
time" for only year and day. BY
exemplary conduct in the prison nc
acquired rebate" Of 72 days on his
sentence. which caused him to- serve
only 8 months and I8 days, He bega.,
serving his sentence March Is. 1914
and was released January 2, 1916,
At the October 1913 term OF the fed
cral court Childs was again brought
up. for trial this time on charges, OF
failure to pay license TO carry on a re-
tail liquor business, 1t was proven
that Childs. had acquired his LICENSE,
and tho case was thrown out, But In
The course OF tho trial ChildB admon-
ished one of the witnesses not %
swear g lie. and tho government, ne
say8G construed this az intimidating
q witness, He was convicted on tho
charge 8nd sentenced to serve 6
months In the county Jail at Anderson.
It is to-. serve this sentence ;tiiat ne
has come to Anderson. 4. m ,.,i,s
Childs is native Of Union county
and was engaged In the locker club
business there. While hia cases in the
federal court we're undor appeal to
the circuit court of appeals, sitting
in Richmond. he made his home IN
Spartanburg. .He is man OF spien-
did appearance and seems to bo rather
we'll educated.
He talked very interestingly OF
prison life in the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, and according to hIs
statements. 1t Is fine place. When
asked II stories appearing in Atlanta
papers from time to time during tho
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. 1t was an empty cigar box left
by Charles W. Morse In the lattcr's
cell when he left there upon being
pardoned by President Taft. The ci-
gars smoked by Morse. .Childs statea,
cost S35 per hundred. !. He stated that
he kept tho cigar box.in his cell and
used it as repository for pen ink and
paper. etc. @
Mrs. Childs and their son are pay
ing Childs. visit at the Jail here
this being the first time they have
haen together since the husband and
father was sent to prison. Childs de-
clared very emphatically last night he
was going to pursue the straight and
that when he got out OF Jail hero he
was going to puruse the straight and
narrow" for the balance of his earth
Iy life. ~, ,,.5