The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-10-05
Harry Monroe Wild
Man in Court and Jail

After telling the judge that he
would come back worse after serving
a sentence, following an expression
of the court to the prisoner that ne
hoped he would come back from prls-
on better man, Harry Monroe,
white, sentenced for breaking into
the city high school and Arant's store
and who was serving a chaingang
sentence for mutilating the jail, IN
dicated that he meant what he said
by giving an exhibition of being
worse before he left to serve MS
time. This exhibition was given IN
the county Jail Wednesday night
when he became rampant, broke
locks and defaced jail property so
that a locAsmith was necessary to
get the jail room door open Thursday
morning. The exhibition caused him
to get four additional years to his
sentences, and now he has to serve
six years instead of two.
Nor did this Jail exhibition
Wednesday night end his demonstra-
tions. Monroe gave another demon
stration Friday morning when Dep
uty Sheriff ]. w. Gillian went to the
iail to get him to turn him over to
the penitentiary guards who, under a
new law, had to carry him to the pen.
Mr.. Gillian walked to the bars OF the
room in which was Monroe and told
the prisoner through the bars, the
door being locked, to get ready to go
to Columbia. With an oath Monroe
said he would not go until he got his
clothes.
"Where are your clothes?" asked
the deputy sheriff.
cat the chaingang' answered the
prisoner.
ssThen you can't get them, re-
sponded Mr.. Gillian. As this repsonse
came from the deputy sheriff, Monroe
caught the bottom end of one leg OF
his trousers he had on and tore them
from the bottom to the top and i'm
mediately did the same thing with the
other leg.
The deputy sheriff then requested
the jailor to give. him suit of over
alls. This Monroe said he would not
wear. but when Mr.. Gillian looked
him in the eye and cautioned him not
to repeat his first performance he put
ON. the overalls with no more ado.
He was then handcuffed and chained
to Paul Gibson, Norway youth sent
ND for Is years for burglary and lar
ceny, and the two went on to Colum-
bia with the guards on the Carolina
Special.
Monroe plead guilty to house
and larceny in court last
week on the charge of breaking into
Arant's store June 26, last, and steal
ing about $500 worth Of clothing and
for this was sentenced to one year.
Following his "cutting up and his
promise to "come back worse" this
sentence was this week increased to
five years in the penitentiary. On
Wednesday he was found guilty OF
housebreaking, having been charged
with HOUSEKEEPING and larceny in
connection with the breaking into
the city high school last June and
stealing of a typewriter.
When court opened this session
Monroe was serving term on the
county chaingang for mutilating the
iail, the mutilation occurring while
he was locked in the county prison
on the charge Of breaking into
Arant's and the school building. Hen
~ RoweII, white, is indicted along
with Monroe in connection with the
schoolhouse robbery, but is at large.
In the sentences Of Monroe the
court inserted clause that the SEN
sence is to commence Immediately
and that such is in the interest of the
public welfare. - Times and Demo
crat, Sept. 80.