Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-16
NO. 100
on a porch and fell. Mr.. Price is getting

on a porch and fell. Mr.. Price is getting
along nicely.
K. E. Bradley who has been spend
ing some time in Glover left last week
for Falls Branch, Tenn.
Among the Glover people who at
tended the funeral Of W. d. Morrison
in Yorkville Saturday afternoon were:
Mrs. ]. A. Barrett, Mrs. B. G. Jenkins.
Lee Jenkins, Mrs. j. Ross Parrish.
Mrs. ]. A. Forbes, G. ]. Forbes.
Kindly People rhsse.
"If ever anybody gets In trouble and
needs assistance in their community
the operatives at the Hawthorn Mill
can be depended upon to do their bit
for them," said Mr.. W. l.. Hogue last
Saturday. "a day or two ago a man
died at the Hawthorn Mil village. He
was a victim of tuberculosis and he
left a wife and three children and not
very much Of this worlds eoods-in
fact about 1926 covered his worldly
possessions Knowing his condition
operatives of the mill quietly collected
s75 among themselves and turned 1t
over to the family. That was not the
first time that they had done that
in fact they have done likewise many
times when some of their neighbors
and friends were undergoing a period
of stress.
Preparing Christmas Trees. IL
AS has been customary for years
and years there are to be a number Of
Christmas trees in Glover and COM
munity this year, which win contribute
to the pleasure and profit OF both
young and old. The Sunday school OF
the Hawthorn Mill expects TO have a
Christmas tree entertainment this year
and members Of the Sunday school and
others interested are now making pre-
parations in connection with It.
The Case Of Rev. Sanders.
That Rev. Leslie L. Sanders who at
one time was elected pastor bf the
Glover Baptist church and who preach
ed here about a month got In trouble
as mentioned in this correspondence :;
some time ago because Of the fact that
he tried to use the church as a means
for advancing his own financial inter
ests is indicated in the following dis
patch. from indianapolis, Ind4 which
tells of the case:
indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 81. These
are days, when the truth Of the gospel
is sorely needed" and whether you
help US financially or not shall be
grateful for your prayers In our be-
half" wrote Rev. Leslie l.. Sanders,
claiming to be a Baptist munster, 70
persons whom he feeced out Of thous- \
ands of dollars. according to warrant
drawn against him by United States
District Attorney L. Efr Slick: he is4
charged with using the mails IN .
scheme to defraud. f
4. Sanders was arrested by Deputy
United States Marshal C. NJ. Mikesen.
squad Of police and several private
detectives. He waived hearing before
United States Commissioner Charles
w. Moores and was held to the Federal
grandt Jury under $4,000 bond. @
He,swent back to jail in default OF
bond, ~
Got Large Sums, 10 Charge.
District Attorney Slack said that the
government will show Sanders to have
been swindling several persons out OF
large sums of money for several
months. He was arrested upon the
charge in Texas about three years ago.
Admitting this, Sanders says he es-
capped punishment through an arrange
ment with the prosecuting attorney, He
was at one time know IN Indianapolis
as 'The Boy Preacher" 1t Is said.
Sanders scheme was as follows, the
government charges:
He would advertise in church papers
that the Fire and Hammer Evangelts-
tic Association" of which he was
president" stood ready to issue notes,
almost as good as Liberty Bonds, as
security for loans up to $4,000 which
religious persons would make. The
money was to be used to carry on the
work of the association.
He represented that the evangelistic
association was incorporated In In
diana and that he had mortgaged his
own home, when neither fact was true.
Got $1,000 From One Man.
Using these representations and
various letters he induced S. Jay Nc
Curdy of Linesville, Pa, to send him
$4,000 which he converted to his own
use, the warrant charges.
The advertisement which 1t Is alleg-
ed shared McCurdy appeared In the
Christian Advocate May 90, 1919, ac-
cording to Private Detective II. II.
Webster. McCurdy made two loans OF
$1,000 expecting to get 10 per cent. in
terest, paid quarterly, and his money
back at the end of a year, 1t Is said.
1t was after he made the second loan
that McCurdy Is said to have become
worried. He wrote to the recorder OF
Marion county to see II a mortgage
upon Sanders real estate had been re-
corded. It was not. The private
detective was called into the case.
Sanders is alleged to have sent several
letters and kilograms to make McCurdy
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