Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-18
CHARGED WITH burglary
Three Young White Men: Charged
With Stealing a Trunk.
TWO OF THEM ARE Ex:S0LOIERs.

county Firm, bus. Deny Theft of
Trunk-Talk Freely to Reporter and
Apparently Not Worried About Their
Plight. %
Charged with the theft Of trunk,
the property of Miss Myra Hunt OF
Prosperity, a Winthrop College stu
dent, and with breaking into the store
of Westbrook & McNeal, near Lando.
Chester county, three young white men
arrested Thursday in the Blue Buckle
Mill villageinear Rock: Hill, were ,comL,
mitted to the York county jail In s
Yorkville, Saturday morning: They are
Corbett Hunt, aged II, Roy Taylor,
aged 10 and j. H. McCluney, 23 who;
claims to live in the Eureka, Mill vii. Z
lage, Chester. Taylor and McCluneyj
are said to be veterans Of the late,
World War, Taylor serving in the 29th
Motor Transport Corps and McCluney
in the 18th Field Artillery, 30th d.
vision.
Talk freely or Crin1e.
Two other young white men, alleged
to be implicated in the robbery OF the
store with the three in jail in9TYork-
lille, have been taken to Chester for
trial. The three here are held foT;Ithe
alleged trunk theft sss3..:s;ss
The three boys talked freely Of their
thefts Saturday morning to a reporter
for The Yorkvllle Enquirer who Visit *
ed the Jail in company with Deputy
Sheriff Tom Quinn. ~: I
Hunt, the youngest Of the trio, did
most of the talking.
Sure" he said,. they found the;
goods from the young lady's trunk I'm
my house. carried it there. was
like this: was passing along piece!:
of woods near the Blue Buckle Mil
when saw two men whom I didn't
know out there. They had a1tEunk
and when they saw me they ran: {
went there and saw the :: trunk: 4 L
knew if 1 told the officers about'itiWfiy:
they would arrest me for. it.. So Istook
the stuff out and took It on. home; 81
never give none of it away; or nothing;
bust Just kept it there. I didn'ts steal
it, Cap'n. Swear T. didn't, -; !: 3
They've got me and the rest OF ua;
right for going into that store though,
I don't know. why we: did #. We were.
inst crazy, >sti,i reckon we w1ds going
down to Lando and we were Riding in
Ford that belonged to Mrs. Wade,
mother of Harry Webb, who was with
us. p: -:$
Carried Safe Away. :Sss,Y:2 Z: Z:
"Wcll, we got to this store. We, didn't:
break open the door; but just-pusheds
it and it come open. Then we took out
the safe and some other little stuff and
started back to Rock Hill. We; didn't;
o2en-the safe--couldn't open it.!Whlle
coming back to Rock Hill while. we
were near Lcsslie we got scared and
throwed the safe away. :
"Then we come on to Rock. Hill. I
could have got away when the officers
came for us last Thursday. I: had a
start Of 200 yards. But knoWed 1t was.
not q good idea to try to resist officers.
NV father was an officer once? and L:
know that you can't get away from Of. =
fcers for long when they are a1ter
you" ..5s
The other two boys verified Hunts:
statement: s
"They amt got nothing on me about
this trunk business" volunteered Mc-
Cluney. "They arrested me because =
was wearing a sweater that was gotten
out of the trunk and given to me BY;
| Hunt. -
Has Wife and Child. a.
Hunt is my cousin" he went on to-
explain. "I live in Chester, where L
have Il wife and child at the: Eureka;
mill. I come to Rock Hill last Monday
I'd been around Rock Hill before ht-s
tic but most of the time had been
there I had been in jail" ..
"I'ye never been into nothing out
once before" volunteered Taylor. I
was convicted in court here in. York
vile for forgery and sentence OF twoE
years is hanging over me. never did:
the forgery, though. Another rei-:
low who was with me did it l cant;
read and write. pa
I've been around Rock Hill for.
about ten years." lie went on to say. Z
hung around New York about q month3
after I got back from overseas and and
then I come back to Rock Hill. - IS
1--WE blowcd in $4,000 this year." he
said with a nonchalant air.
This is my first time to ever get IN
to anything" said Hunt. IF get OUT
of this won't get into anything else s
This is a good place to keep regular
criminals, sheriff." he said to Deputy
Sheriff Quinn.
Pretty good place." returnedt"thefF
deputy. '..-s:,,. :: * *
Not Worried About 1t. - 50; :;
Neither Of the trio appear to be much
worried about their plight. Hunttand'
McCluney wear partial dress ofarmy
clothes. Taylor has a neat brown suit.
What time is it?' inquired Hunt Of
the newspaper man. -
"a quarter after H." was the reply.J