Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-15
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of More or
Less Interest.
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some Of Which You Know anc
Some You Don't know-Condensed
For Quick Reading.
On being asked yesterday when tho
general assembly would probably ad-
journ, Senator Hart replied IN abou!
two weeks" That means a session OF
perhaps forty-five days.
ku kIux "reminiscences.
LAS you know. formerly, we could
not write freely about such things,
says Prof John Wilson Mcconnell of
Davidson College, a native of the Nc
Conncllsvillc section Of York county in
Il letter to the editor of The Yorkvillc
EnGuircr. ''But the time has come
when VIC can speak out and give the
truth of those days. The hanging OF
Jim Williams rs he was known around
AIcCunnellsville was quite an event ana
did much good. The same night of the
Williams hanging the ku kluX came to
our house hunting a negro. confusing
John D. Mcconnell with John L. Nc
Conncll,' and tried to get Burt Latta.
4 negro who is still living on our old
place Burt got out by lifting Il plank
in the door and escaping in the dark.
There are still scattered arouno
York county many of the old single
shot 5O-calibre Remington rifles gen.
orally known as SCOTS rifles from
Governor Scott who issued them.
Those were indeed serious times when
the negroes constituted the armed
forces Of our state, and the white men
had been so reduced in numbers by the
then recent war, for the ti:st ku
Kluxcs were organized in 60, just four
years after the surrender"
Hoodwinkins the Law.
THAT was L funny casc--the case OF
that fellow Giles" remarked il leading
member of the York county bar to
Views and Interviews, Saturday, on
learning that Giles had been discharg-
cd from the asylum free man. III
there is such thing as hoodwinkinS
the law, | guess the idea is about
covered in this case. Anyhow, it Ger
tanly appears that way to me. l can't
say that | was especially interested in
the case; but being about the court
room part of the time, naturally |
formed some impressions. l mad
feeling tia; il" gn; away w:."H nc
ought to have hCcn Punished; but then
under all the circumstances don't cx-
aclily see where would DC justified IN
blaming anybody particularly. Ihc
funny part OF it was presented 10 me
after the trial. | had business That
took me t. Columbia about that time.
and il happened that | went down Oh
the same train on which Giles was be-
ing taken to the asylum. The officer III
cnnrs" Of the man told me afterwards
that as they approached Co!umpE'
Giles asked him if in his "pini"A, he.
Giics. should recover his reason, Wnu!u
they let him out Of the asylum. Thch
and there il occurred to me that Giles
could not be in for long. Hc was n"l
scnt tu the asylum for murder; but lor
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