The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-29
TROUBLE IN BEAUFORT.
FORMER CITY MANAGER AT.
Tackled ON STREET AND
ESAU LEVY ACCUSED OF
ASSAULT.
Citizens Meet and Protest to Mayor
False Registration is Charged,
Which Brought About Difficulty.

Beaufort, Sept. 25.-The city reg
istrar is under bond of $1,000 to an
swer to the charge of issuing fraudu-
lent registration certificates. A white
voter, Esau Levy, is under $500
bond for alleged fraudulent registra-
ton, and negro voter is eluding the
service Of a warrant for the same al
legged offence.
Ex-City Manager Horne is out on n
5000 bond charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons. and Levy is under
like bond charged with assaulting
Horne.
The alleged assault occurred in
| front of the postoffice tonight. Sur
rounded by party Of over twenty
Danner partisans, Levy is said to have
stopped Horne, who came along the
sidewalk in company with ]. w.
Gray, and cursed him for swearing out
I the warrant for false registration.
L
ening violence during the. afternoon,
urged on by the crowd, it appears,
struck Horne, and ran into a nearby
store calling out: He is going to
shoot me!'
| Horne went after the crowd in an
luproar. Others stepped in, police
man came up. Horne was charged
with being armed and turned over n
{revolver to the policeman and de-
manded the arrest Of Levy, which the
policeman refused to do. Horne
weighs 115 pounds.
| Tonight at meeting of indignant
citizens the fo!lwing resolution was
tpassed and presented to the mayor
by a committee, consisting of Messrs
lGeorge w. Beckett, George Water
house and w. E. Richardson:
BE 1t resolved, That the mayor of
the city, Mr.. c. E. Danner, be re-
iquested to guarantee police protection
for Mr.. r. c. Horne, Jr., who has been
attacked by political adherents Of the
mayor on the streets of Beaufort in
the presence Of the police, who refuse
to make any arrests upon the ground
that the chief of police has ordered
them not to interfere in the event Of
disturbances arising from politics, but
lonly to summon the parties involved to
appear in court. We present this res
olution in the face Of many rumors of
I threats Of violence directed against
Mr.. Horne"
The meeti. 6 then resolved, That,
whereas. the committee appointed by
the mayor and chief Of police have
given explicit promises that the peace
will be preserved and the chief Of DO
lice requests that any threat against
Mr.. Horne or any other citizen be re-
ported to him, upon which fnforma-
ton he Will make the arrest of said
person; therefore, be it resolved, That
lthe meeting accept the promises"
The meeting also voted to ask the
county commissioners to keep the ru-
raj police in the city until after the
election.
The city registrar has turned down
many men who are registered in the
county, but who had lost their county
registration certificates. The recall ad-
vocates some time ago presented a
protest to the mayor, after which the
names Of two of their opponents were
stricken from the registration list.
| Last night a number Of leaders
discussed other alleged irregularities
and decided on taking out the war
rants, which were sworn to this morn
ing by Mr.. Horne before magistrate
Riley, Of Yemassee. In the case of
the two charged it was found their
names do not appear on the county
registration books and, therefore. are
not entitled to the city registration
certificates that were given them.
other evidence is in hand warranting
other arrests. it is said.