Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-17

an order staying the effect of the order
of the South Carolina supreme court,
which last week dismissed an appeal
by Harrison and by Frank NJ. Jeffords,
likewise condemned to death for the
Annette murder, and directed that they
be resentenced in court Of general ses-
sions. No official move has been made
by Jeffords thus far to continue his
| fight.
- Richard F. Cheaper, the fifth of
five Sumter defendants in the case
growing out of the recent shop
mems strike, wherein the defendants
were charged with contempt in that
they violated Judge Smiths order
against interference with strikebreak-
ers, appeared before Judge Smith in
Federal court in Columbia "wednesday
afternoon and pleaded guilty and was
penitentiary and fine of 800. The
same sentence was imposed last week
on c. d. 'Witherspoon, J. P. Collie Hen-
son and M. B. Henson.
= Leading farmers and expert ento-
'mologists from Clemson college will
meet in Columbia tomorrow at the call
of Governor Harvey, to discuss means
of intensifying the fight on the cotton
boil weevil In the state. One of the
objectives, according to Governor Har-
vey's letter to the persons invited to
the conference, was preparation of a
concise formula for efficiently apply
ing methods of curbing the pest in the
state by applying the latest scientific
methods of control. ITO reach the
area and fix the attention of the null
titude Of small farmers" said the gov
ernor will require much systematic
work and sustained effort"
Charles H. Barron, one of the most
widely known lawyers and financiers
in South Carolina. was found 6aad at
Barron's Pond, a resort five miles
east of Columbia, Tuesday with bull
let wound in his head. A pistol and
note to his partner, J. Nelson Frierson,
were found beside him. The body was
found by j. II. Lee, caretaker of the
place. Lee, according to the story told
the coroner, was at dinner when Mrl
Barron appeared at the place, of which
he was owner. He left the house to
see what the proprietor wanted, and as
he reached the pond, heard a shot
Rushing over the knoll he found Mr..
Barron breathing his last Mr.. Bar
ron had financial connections in New
York, mining interests in the west and
was attorney for the Seaboard Air
Line, American Railway Express and
other corporations. The contents of the
note left for Mr.. Frierson were not
made public, but it was said they re-
ferred only to details of winding up his
affairs.
Dan Murphy, one of the Oldest
prisoners in the penitentiary, who had
the record as to length Of service, was
found dead in his cell yesterday His
death is thought to have been due to
apoplexy. Murphy was convicted In
1897 Of the murder Of Treasurer Copes
Of Orangeburg county. In those days
the treasurer was required to canvass
the county in making his tax collec-
tions just as the auditor is now re-
quired to go to different points in the
taking of returns. While passing along
road that ran through a swanapy
jungle, Treasurer Copes was shot down
and robbed of all the money he was
carrying. Tracks and other circum-
stances pointed to Dan Murphy, and
after long time he was captured
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. There was very little
doubt Of the mans guilt, until long
afterward when people TO, got about
the matter, and a year or two ago the
newspaper reporters and correspondent
worked up a sentiment that seemed to
crystalize in the idea that perhaps
after all Murphy was not guilty and it
is, said that the governor offered to
pardon him. He is represented as
saying that since the world had gotten
so far ahead of him, he preferred to
spend the balance of his life in prison
He always claimed that he was in Au-
gusta, Ga, at the time Treasurer Copes
was murdered.