The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-07-15
YOUNG MEN FACE
KERSHAW CHARGE
FOUR ON TRIAL IN CAMDEN
COURT
Jury Completed and Taking Of
Testimony Begun as to Robbery
berry of Lugoff Bank


Camden, July 12.-The case of the
state against William Brawley, Alex
Cartledge, Lloyd Lorick and Dewey
Dennis, was taken up in sessions
court here this morning. An array
of witnesses, spectators and attorneys
were present, including relatives of
the young men charged with robblng
the Bank of Lugoff in this county.
Inspector Gregory, who succeeded in
rounding up the alleged robbers, is
here to give testimony.
Former Judge Mendel L. Smith is
assisting Solicitor Spigener in the
prosecution while Cole L. Blease and
&c. T. Graydon, of Columbia, and NJ
NJ. Johnson and G. G. Alexander are
representing the defendants. Prac-
tically the entire morning was taken
I'D in an effort to have the indictment
set aside, che defense contending that
the names of the grand jurors hand
ing in the indictment were not en-
rolled on the journal book. This mo-
ton was overruled by Judge Town
send. 1t was noon before jury was
selected, the entire panel having
been exhausted and extra jurors had
to be summoned. Many jurors were
objected to because they were related
to citizens who owned stock in the
robbed bank, and also because many
had not paid poll taxes. The jury
was completed after the noon hour
today with David Wolfe, of Camden
as foreman and the case was lmme'
diately gone into.
George Gum, alias George Ganney
alias George Robinson, an alleged
confederate of the young men on tria
turned state evidence in his testl'
mony. Gum claims he is from Penn
sylvania and gave an account of the
alleged movements of the gang from
the time he says he joined them ir
Columbia until he was taken off the
train in Richmond, Va. In his con
fession he went into minute details
Of the Lugoff robbery and also statec
that the same gang took part in the
robbery at Cope, S. C. Heath Springs
Is. c., and also that "a job was pullec
off in a town in Pennsylvania.
The case is attracting statewide IN
terest, and the jury is being held to-
gether tonight under instructions
from Judge Townsend. During the
progress of the trial this afternoon
there were some sharp clashes be
tween counsel.
The cross examination of the wit
ness, Gum, was directed towards ar
effort to show that as a confessed
safe cracker he was unworthy OF be
! lief and that he and his brother ane
another man named Wallace had gone
from Camden to Lugoff and robbed
the bank, and that they did not come
from Columbia with the defendants
on the night in question. In the
questions special emphasis was
sought to be laid upon the fact thai
neither the states witness, Gum, MOI
Wallace. had been indicted, and to
claim that the government has been
paying the expenses of Gum to sew
eral places throughout the country
and that he was taken to Spring
field, Ohio. where his brother was
recognized by him, his brother beng
implicated in other safe robberIes
Gum strenuously denied that he was
taken to Ohio for the purpose OF
turning up his brother
From the cross examination this
afternoon, it appears that the prln-
cipal defense will be that, the defend
ants were not present in Lugoff at
the time of the robbery, and the ef-
fort is to discount the testimony OF
Gum.