The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-05-17
COLUMBIA TRIO
ON TRIAL TODAY

In general, sessions court of Richland
county on the charge of the murder
of j. c. Annette, II witnesses for the
state being heard during the day. Ad-
journment was taken at $3.50 o'clock
last night with Sheriff T. Alex Heise,
one of the principal witnesses for the
prosecution, on the stand. The trial
will be resumed at $3.50 o'clock this
morning with Sheriff Heise facing a
gruelling cross-eXamination at the
hands of attorneys for the three de-
PENDANTS. A motion made by counsel
for Frank M. Jeffords at the opening
Of the trial to secure a severance of
the case and separate trial for def
fords was denied by Judge w. H.
Townsend and the three men are being
tried, as they were indicted, together.
Mr.. Annette was slain at his filing
station Tuesday week ago.
Practically the entire morning ses-
sion was consumed in the empaneling
of the jury and it was. not until 1887
o'clock that the first witness took the
stand. Two witnesses were heard be-
fore the dinner recess and seven wit
nesses were sworn during the after
noon, the day being brought to a close
with the testimony of Sheriff Heise as
to the confessions, alleged to have
heen made to officers by the three men,
1t is chiefly upon these alleged confes
sions >as retoli by Sheriff Heise and
te be retold by Chief of Detectives
S. S. Shorter, Detectives Jim Broom.
Bob Broom and w. T. Kelly that the
state is basing it's case against the
three men. Circumstantial evidence
introduced yesterday and expected to
be given to the jury today is calcu-
lated by the prosecution to reinforce
and to cerroborate the testimony of
the alleged confessions.
Sheriff Heise took the stand at 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon and for
exactly an hour was occupied in the
!: Ietelling of the story of the plot
Against .Arnette's life and of the slay-
ing Of Annette, as confessed, he said,
to- HIM and other officers. Informed
of the finding of Mr.. .Arnette's body
!, on 5Kifkland avenue by six national
guardsnen, Sheriff Heise said that he
! went to the scene Immediately Tues
dag sniglst and !. there discovered the
'sDUuy N efie f00C o. !4-caf. Bi66d was
discovered on the front seat of the
automobile. Sheriff Heise said where
it had apparently trickled down the
upholstering from Mr.. Arnette's head,
beside the driver of the car. The loca-
tion of the blood stains, the nature of
the wounds on Arnette's head and the
fact that the automobile had been sent
down the embankment with so little
force, Sheriff Heise testified, con-
vinced him that Mr.. Arnette's death
was not due to accident and led him to
the theory that the crime had been
committed elsewhere and the body
placed in the automobile and brought
to the bridge and there abandoned in
stimulation of accident.
The discovery of the fire at the
Elmwood filling station somewhat
later than, the sheriff said, convinced
him that Mr.. Annette had been slain
at the filling station, which was
operated by Mr.. Annette and Frank
M. Jeffords, one of the defendants
Going to the filing station, Sheriff
Heise said, he found Frank M. JEFF
fords, Policeman J. C. Parker and a
newspaperman there. Jeffords, the
sheriff said, unlocked the door con
Meeting the front room of the filling
station with the repair shop and there
in the repair shop, Mr.. Heise said
he discovered several pools of blood
and signs of fire, which had beer
extinguished. The fire, the sheriff
testified, had apparently been started
almost directly over the blood pools.
City police were then called in on
the case and the sheriff, according
to his own testimony, then went to
1929 Hampton street, accompanied by
Deputy Sheriff Thompson, Chief of
Detectives Shorter, Detectives Bob
Broom, Jim Broom and Kelly. Here
Mr.. Heise said, he and other officers
entered the room occupied by Ira Har-
rison, finding him apparently asleep
with bloody coat hanging on a nail
over the bed. Harrison was awak-
ened, Mr.. Heise testified, was shown
the coat and asked, "Whose coat is
this?" Harrison, the sheriff testified
admitted the ownership of the blood
stained coat and told officers that he
had chung it up there" Harrison
was then arrested, Mr.. Heise said, and
carried out of the house. Glenn Treece
who, it had been learned, according
to the sheriff, was employed at the fill
ing station as was Harrison, was the,
also arrested. No blood was found
on his clothes, the sheriff testified
The State.