The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-02-03
D.BICHAM CHARC-
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JURY HOLDS HIM
FOR TERRIBLE DEED.
Land Deed In Question
Clerk of Court Says That it Shows
Evidences Of Having Been Chang
ed Relative to Grantees.

Florence, Jan. 27.-That E. D.
Bigham was the perpetrator of the
crime which cost the lives of three
members of the Bigham family and
the two adopted children of the late
Mrs. Black is the opinion of the jury
of inquest which rendered it's YER
dict tonight. !
After hearing at Pamplico the tes-
timony Of thirty witnesses, including
the reexamination of Mrs. Bigham,
the wife of Edmund Bigham, and his
oldest daughter, the jury found that
Mrs. A. NJ. Bigham, Mrs. Margie
Black, the two McCracken children,
aged three and six, and L. S. Bigham
had come to their deaths at the hands
of E. D. Bigham.
Coroner Smith will issue warrant
charging E. D. Bigham with the mur-
ders. Bingham is now being held at
the county Jail on a warrant sworn
out by John McCracken, the father OF
the two murdered children. This
warrant was served and Bingham
arrested on January 20, five days
after the tragedy at the Bingham
home, two miles from Pamplico.
It was at first believed that L. S.
Bigham in a fit of despondency over
alleged financial troubles had COM
mitted the murders and then killed
himself, but following the strong
sentiment in the community that such
could not have been the case, Coro-
ner Smith continued his investiga tion
and has built up a case the circum-
stances of which, based on the evi-
dence adduced, are believed by the
jury of inquest to be sufficiently
strong to warrant the accusing OF
Edmund Bigham.
Phillip H. Arrowsmith conducted
the investigation for the coroner at
the hearing. He dug deep into the
case.
The two Singletary negroes,s who
have been in jail mere f;T several days
as material witnesses and the wife
of Andrew Singletary, were import
ant witnesses. Andrew Singletary
testified that after the wood cutters
had been paid off Saturday, January
IS, E. D. Bigham and L. s. Bigham
remained in the woods. Later, he
passed the house with his wife and
son going to Pamplico and saw E. D
Bigham emerge from the woods
alone, after looking up and doWn
the road, proceed to the house. This
was after Mrs. Bigham had sent q
vest out to him by one of the Nc
Cracker children. Bigham went tc-
ward the house with the child. The
time was about 8 o'clock. His testi-
mony was corroborated by his wife
and son.
Has Hurried Conference.
Ribert Foxworth testified that Ed
mund Bigham, with his family in his
car, had swept up to MS house, which
was only a short distance from the
Bigham home, and had a hurried
conversation with him, so hurried
in fact, that the witness dill not re-
member much about it. Biglam then
turned his car in the direction of the
Bigham home.
The testimony of Mrs. Bigham and
of the oldest daughter is said to have
varied considerably from that giver
at the hearing Sunday, January It,
and although the two were together
in the car on the trip to and from
Foxworth's their stories OF what had
occurred conflicted at several POINTS
It was stated today that the deed
which Mrs. Bigham presented tc
Clerk of Court Singletary for record
ing and which was later withdrawn
by her for the reason that she did
not have sufficient money to pay foi
the revenue stamps, amounting to
s42, has not yet been recovered. Mrs
Bigham is said to have stated that
she delivered the deed to her hus-
band at the jail.
This deed, according to Mr.. Single
tary, who read it closely while it was
in his possession, was signed by Mrs
NJ. NJ. Bigham, Mrs. Margie Black
and L. S. Bigham, and conveyed the
entire Bigham property to Ed. Big
ham for a consideration Of $4,000.
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