Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS


Governor Harvey has revoked the
parole of Henry Smith of Union and
Grover Crowles. Of Walhalla, both hav-
ing been reported to him as having
been violating the laws.
- Ernest Ashley of Anderson con-
victed of manslaughter for the killing
OF Arthur Hughes, deputy sheriff and
policeman of Honea PATH, on August
"a, 1920. was on Monday sentenced 10
twelve years at hard labor in the state
penitentiary.
A shooting affray between f. q.
Cannon, policeman, and John Lloyd, at
Orangeburg Sunday, resulted n dan
gerous wounds to Lloyd and flesh
wounds for Cannon. 1t is said that
Cannon found Lloyd very drunk ana
told him to go home. Lloyd hred at
Cannon and Cannon returned the nre.
Rev. William Augustus Massebeau,
widely known Methodist minister, oleu
in Johnston Sunday and was buried IN
Chester Tuesday. He is survived by
his widow, one son, John Masseoeau OF
Johnsonville and three daughters, MIS-.
CLYDE Carter, Chester; Mrs. Thurstoa
Boland, Springfield and Miss FRANCES
Massebeau of JohnsonVllle.
Mrs. ]. E. Dyson Of Manning, was
fatally injured Friday night by the
overturningf of vehicle caused by a
dash by frightened horse. Mrs. Dy-
son was placed in an automobile and
rushed to the Sumter hospital, but
she died Just before reaching the hos
pital. 1t was found that her skull was
fractured from falling on a wheel.
- Governor Harvey has telegraphed
the president urging that he sign the
bonus bill. His telegram is as follows:
Admitting that defects exist in the
adjusted compensation bill, 1T Is SEEM
ingly what the eX-service men, VINO
did the fighting and made the sacrl-
fees, want, and this fact, couplcd WIN
its passage so overwhelmingly y both
houses, would, l think, warra u your
approval of the same
- That 34S acres of land within the
corporate limits of st, Matthews nave
been escaping taxation for municipai
purposes has been brought to light by
the Industrious research work oI tne
town clerk, j. c. WaetZel. Mr.. Waet-
eel has been of the opinion that the
sum total of areas as appearing on the
tax books would not fully cover the
map of the town Lately he secured
the services of a civil engineer and
survey was made with the discovery
of this great amount Of taxable prop
erty off the books. A detailed state
ment shows that a tract of SO acres
has never been on the books OF the
town. a tract of 60 acres has been Off
since 1918. A tract of 6S acres has
been off for eight years. \ tract OF
JOS acres has never been there. A
tract of As acres has been off about
half the time for eight years. A tract
of 43 acres was returned once. tract
of 19 acres was never returned, as was
also tract of nine acres.
IT. G. Mcleod was nominated for
governor over Cole L. Blease in the
second primary on September II by a
majority of 1920, according to the Of
fetal tabulation of figures by H. n.
Edmunds, secretary of the state Demo-
cratic executive committee, yesterday
morning for the meeting of the com
mittee at noon today. Mr.. Edmunds'
figures show that Mr.. Mcleod receiv-
ed lOO.114 votes against S5,S34 for Mr..
Blease. All the figures were official.
The same tabulation shows that James
III. Hope defeated John E. Swearingen
for SUPERINTENDENT of education by a
vote of 104,97S to 1866. The total
vote cast in the race for governor was
1S5,94S, the largest ever polled in
Democratic primary in South Carolina,
being 1888 more than in the first pri-
mary. With these figures there We're
4O,052 voters who did not go to the
polls. as the enrolment was approx
mately $4,000 for the state. Allard II.
Gasque defeated Phillip II. Stoll for
congress from the Sixth district the
official vote being Gasque 14,572 and
Stoll 1898. The state committee Will
declare the result at its meeting today,
but no changes are expected from the
above figures. No protests had been
filed with the secretary of the COM
.nittee late yesterday afternoon, Mr..
Ednunds said. Mcleod carried 80
counties and Blease 13, according to
the figures of Mr. Edmunds. The
Blease counties were: Aiken, Ander-
son, Berkeley, c.. "lestonS Cherokee,
Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester. Flor
ence, Lee. Pickens, Saluda and York,
All the other counties went to Mcleod.
Greenwood, September IT: After
celebrating 16 1-2 hours, the jury in
the case of R. Clayton Underwood and
Berry b. Hughes, charged with the
murder of Oscar Mitchell, Greenwood
baseball player, reported to Judge II.
+. Rice this morning at 10 o'clock that
they had agreed on a verdict Of guilty
of murder in the first degree with rec
ommendation 10 mercy in the case of
Underwood, but they could not agree
as to Hughes. Judge Rice then order
ed a mistrial as to Hughes. In impos-
ing the life sentence carried by the
verdict, Judge Rice pronounced q
warning against the influence of liquor.
Underwood received sentence without
a tremor but his wife, who had shown
no emotion throughout the trial, burst
into tears. A motion for q new trial
was overTuled by Judge Rice. and he
again refused to direct a verdict of not
guilty for Hughes. Bail for Hughes
was fixed at $4,000. The life sentence
for Underwood was the first sentence
ever pronounced in this county on Sun
day and one of the few on record in
this state. The trial of the two men
consumed three days, during which
time hundreds packed into the court
house to hear the trial of n case that
had aroused intense feeling. Oscar
Mitchell, Greenwood second baseman,
was shot to death by Underwood in
front of UnderwoOds fathers board
ing house on August S. Underwood
claimed that Mitchell made on attack
on his wife. The state introduced ev-
idence to disprOve the attack story.
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