Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-13
Scraps and faets.


sent Ito the senate after an amendment
which would have required federal
Z Judges to devote all their time 10 iu-
dicial duties had been ruled out on
point Of order. Creation of the Judge
ships was advocated by Chief Justice
Taft, Attorney General paugherty and
a. group Of federal Judges and district
attorneys, which made a survey to de-
fernine the causes andNextent of dock
ct CONGESTION in various districts and
the means of expediting the handling
OF cases. Under the, new bill new
Judges would be, allotted to the mid-r
die Tennessee and southern FHorTda
districts in the South, The bill also
proyides for. the holding annually Of a
conference to be presided over by the
chief Justice of the United States with
senior Circuit judges, district judges,
if deemed advisable, and the attorney
general participating. Reports would
be submitted as to business transacted
in various hourts during the year and
plans made for relieving delays in the
administratieh' of justice. 30 81
- Tom Slaughter, who was one of the
most Notorious desperadoes of the
southwest: Was killed last Friday after
a sensational escape from the Little
Rock, Arkansas, penitentiary. Slaugh-
ter was under sentence OF death and
had been in the death house for some
time Awaiting execution. He called TO
a guard complaining of being i'll, and
when the guard handed him an extra
blanket, he presented his pistol, dis
armed the guard and locked him in
cell. Then he made a canvass OF the
entire prison, holding up guards, tax
ing away their pistols and Aocking
them in cells. Then, accompanied by
]. c. Howard, under sentence for three
years for forgery, and four negroes
who were awaiting 9" the execution OF
death sentences, he went to the nearby
home of Warden Dempsey and taking
the warden, his wife and children, he
locked them in cells also. The next
step was to get his party into an auto
mobile, standing in the prison yard
and belonging to Mrs. Dempsey, sped
away. TReAlarm' having been given,
finally the-escaping car was attacked
at the town Of Benton, by. officers and
one OF -tbe- negroes, was mortally
wounded I'm the fight Later on
Slaughter was killed by Howard. who
shot him in the back, and explained
10 the officers that such had been his
intention all ,the while at first oppor4
tunity. f:y -
-E- Early consideration OF the Dyer
anti-lynching bill in the house was as
sured last Thursday, the rules COM
! mittee voting to give the message
privileged status on the calendar
Chairman Campbell said the bill would
be taken up before the Christmas hol-
days. The committee vote was six TO
four. three Democrats and Representa-
tive Dale, Republican, Vermont, OPP
posing a special rule, while ell voting
/. in the affirmative were Republicans.
Democrats opposed 10 the measure
predicted a hot fight on the floor whea
debate gets under way. Urging the
rules committee not to give the b!l!
priyileged status Representative sum
ners, Texas, Democratic member or
the Judiciary committee declared that
the bill was without constitutional
warrant. There isn't a lawyer on
earth who can defend it on consutu-
rtional grounds" Mr.. Summers declared.
, at gives Washington the right TO
dictate to states how they shall eXer-
else pAliee powers. TheFsJnfHer i,
propoSltibn like it evenI1d@s~ cohsttuco
fior DAYS. It permits the federal gov
ernmentto lay coercive hands on states
and establishes a precedent of sweep
ing encroachment and fines for persons
particfpating in lYnchings and stiff
fines for officials who, through negll-
gence fail to prevent mob disorders.
-LostisvilIe KY, December 9: Fed
eral prohibition agents in Kentucky
have Just concluded one 'of the largest
raids insthe history OF prohibition en-
forcenlent in the state. Whisky band
its Hkewise have just completed one of
the most successful distillery raids
ever made in kentucky. Instead of a
breathing spell today, following a busy
week in three Kentucky counties, fed
eral agsnts are off. in search ola score
OF whisky lbahdits,. who last night, in
q spectacular raid, got away with lS4
cases of bottled in bond, and ten bar
rels of whisky from the I. b. Rlpy
distillery at Tyrone, Ky. Early in the
week, thirty prohibition enforcement
agents invaded Nelson, Washington
and Marion counties: When the agents
came out late yesterday the raid had
yielded. seven prisoners, ten stills ana
thirty-eight foundations We're broken
up. and 5000 gallons of beer and sixty
eight gallons of ~moonshine destroyed.
Warrants for number of other alleg-
ed law yiolators have been issued as a
result -of the raid. Meantime several
raids in Louisville have netted sma'l
quantities of wet goods. The bandits,
in raiding tire: Ripy distillery, captured
four guards and three pasSerSDy ana
after Handwriting them, put them in
vault in the distillery office while they
loaded the whisky into motor trucks
and automSbiIes and drove off.
+, Pausings between shots to explain
his action and with pedestrians look
ing on, Angelo Giurlando of Rock
ford, H., shot Andrea Anato to death
in one of sl,e principal streets of lnde-
pendence, La, last Sunday. Five shots
were fired into Anato's body and be-
tween eacb-sbpt Giurlando hesitated to
exclaim I'd THE. crowd of witnesses a
word or t&Siip explanation of the act
which he was carrying out slowly and
determinedly. II wanted everybody to
know ] killed him and why it was nee
essary," Giurlando shouted at the top
of his voice and went on to say that
Anato had ruined his home. The two
men married sisters, Giurlando told
DR.. J. H. N1eLendon, coroner, and 9th
er officials, that two months after his
marriage, his wife told him that Anato
had attacked her week before the
ceremony. Giurlando said he was so
/, irfuriatet at the time that only
shortage of money stopped him from
= coming here from Rockford sooner
Last week, he said, he made the trip
and Immediately set out TO find Ana
to, carrying with him Il knife with
which he charged Anato had threaten