Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

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- Fewer persons We're engaged in
Gainful occupations in South Carolina
last yea" than in 1910 according to
census bureau statistics issued last
Saturday Their number was 674,03S,
Or 40 per cent. of the population ten
years OF age and over, while in 1910
the number was 72S,627 or 4S.1 ler
cent. OF the total population of the
state the number gainfully employed
was 55.3 per cent. in 1920 compared
with 676 per cent. in 1910. Female
workers numbered 205,619, or 30.5 per
cent. of the total.
- Columbia, September "a: Notice Of
intention to appeal to the supreme
court from the circuit court verdict was
served on Solicitor T. G. Callison of
Lexington today in the case of Jesse
Gappins, convicted jointly with S. j.
Kirby and G. o. Fox, for the murder
Of William BrTlzell, young taxi driver
of Columbia, and sentenced to be cleo
trOcuted October 81 at the state peni-
tentiary. The notice automatically
stays the death sentence for Gappins
| until the supreme court hears the case.
Solicitor CallisOn said no notices of
intention to appeal had been served
on him by attorneys, for either Fox
or Kirby.
- Mlendalc, September "a: Memn-
ger Priester, the negro slayer who on
| Thursday night, 1t Is charged, murder
! ed two negro women near here and
! shot a third, had apparently escaped
! from the posses that have been search
! ing for him since the time he oom-
mitted his alleged crime. Before the
! committing of his last brutal killing
of his wife, Sister-in-law and shoot
| ing another Woman, he was q fugitive
from this section, having been charged
with the murder and assault of white
woman Of this section about four years
ago. He returned on Thursday night
and for no apparent reason ran amuck
with a gun. Posses of men from all
over the section have been searching
every nook and corner Of the country
| for the fugitive, but as yet no trace
| has been found of him. His disappear
ance is almost remarkable inasmuch as
large crowds were in pursuit of him
only a few hours after the commission
of the crime. 1t is thought he has es-
capped TO the Savannah river swamp
or to the Georgia side.
Walter J.. Hays, wealthy Anderson
county merchant, and his brotherin-
! law, Ed Wilson, were sentenced here
! Friday to serve fifteen years in the
state pcnitentiary on conviction OF
manslaughter by jury which tried
them for the killing Of 7. +. Ramey,
near Anderson, last July. George VIII
son, father of Ed. Wilson, and Allen
| Emerson two other defendants, were
| sentenced to pay fines of 800 each end
| to serye thirty days in the county
| hot iIT, having
| guilty only OF carrying concealed weap-
! ons. The jury rendered its verdict
after 90 hours of deliberation. Coun-
sci for the accused men said later they
/ were considering appeals on the cases.
| Hays and Ed Wilson are not allowed
/ bail, the statutes prohibiting bail where
| n sentence is more than ten years. Al
| len Emerson and George Wilson had
previously been convicted of killings
and were serving life terms when
paroled in 1912 by the governor. The
| present charges grew out OF fight at
/ Ramey's home. the state contending
| the defendants. tried TO beat up Ramey
over IN oh quarrel, and they asserting
they went to his home to make peace
and he started quarrel.
- -Newbcrry September "a: There
are no new developments in the case
of the serious beating and robbery OF
| Mr.. and Mrs. ". Johns, near Chap
pells, the night of September II, except
/ that officers succeeded yesterday in
/ finding the money box of the aged
couple. an iron box II by IA, weighing
about so pounds. It was found some
| distance back of the store and resi-
dence. where it had been broken open
with rock. The money, about $50,
| had been distracted, but the papers
remained in it. The negro John Gold
en-. arrested the day after the robbery,
| told the officers where to look Tor the
| box. He confessed to being one OF the
negroes who attacked Mr.. and Mrs.
Johns. but says the other, negro, whom
he described. was the one that beat
the man and his wife and also took
Iihe money, giving him IS Of 1t and
keeping the rest. But the officers have
found about $25 on Golden-$4.25 in
his pocket when he was arrested, AID
since then other sums hidden in his
clothes and in the mattress or his cell.
1t is now certain that Golden and the
other negro who committed the crime
were on the Chester county chaln-
gang at the same time, being released
Septcmber g. Golden and the Chester
county officials agree in the descrlp--
ton of the other negro, who passed
under the name of VIII Harris: Dark
.gingercake color, nearly black; about
five feet ten or eleven inches tai:
weighing about 165 pounds; about 20
years old: two upper front gold teelh
protruding: may have scar OF OLD
wourd in side The sheriff has offered
$50 for his arrest.
- Grecnvi,le Piedmont: r. T. Thorne,
who has been engaged in the real es-
tate. stocks and bonds business IN
Greenville. and who is secretary OF the
Union Republic League in Greenvi!le.
today was appointed group chief OF
the Federal Prohibition Enforcement
for South Carolina. Mr.. Thorne whose
arnointment became effective today,
will maintain his headquarters IN
Greenville, and he is now located IN the
office with Major Geo c. Bowen, Fed
cral Prohibition Director for this
state. Mr.. Thorne's appointment Is 10
he followed by other appointments IN
the next day or so. Mr.. Thorne was
formerly an applicant for the office or
postmaster at Greenville, and it was
thought in some quarters that MT.
Thorne would he the next postmaster.
His recommendation for the promDi-
tion enforcement position went for
ward several days ago II is reported
that he was endorsed for the place Dy
Jos. w. Tobert state chairman OF the
Republican party in South Carolina.
Along with the recommendation or Mr,