The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-05-16
ARRAIGN THREE MEN
IN HOMICIDE CASE
JEFFoRDs, TREECE AND HARRI.
SON PLEAD IN COURT
Plead mot Guilty" in Court Forty
Hours After Crime-Show
Little Emotion
The State, II.

The State, II,
Frank NJ. JeEords, Ira Harrison
anl Glenn Treece, self-confesseo
ce. raj figures, according to officers
N the staying last Tuesday night OF
J. C. Annette, will go on trial on
charges of murder in the cuort OF
general sessions in Columbia next
Tuesday morning. The three men,
true bills having been returned
against them by the grand jury yes
terdav morning, were arraigned on
the charge of murder before Judge
". H. Townsend yesterday after
noon, their pleas of mot guilty. re-
corded. and the date of the trial set,
The case, under present plans, will be
called at 10 O'Clock May 16, the trial
of the three men being begun there
fore within six and half days after
the crime was committed.
The three men were brought to
the court house at $50 o'clock yes
teraay afternoon and at 3:42 o'clock
were placed in the dock and their
handouts removed. None Of the men
showed any sign Of emotion as the
indictment charging them with "wll-
fully and malic;ously and felonlously
shaving Annette was read to them by
Clerk H;nnant. Their answers OF
mot guilty" to the question, Are
YOU guilty or not gailty?" and their
responses to the other usual quest
ions of the formal ARA gslment were
barely audible FIVE feet away. John
Hughes Cooper, who is acting as at
torney for Ira Harrison, served as
counsel for the three men in the ar
raienment, R. Beverly Herbert, at
tcrney for Glenn, Treece, being ab-
sent from the court at the time.
Frank NJ. Jeffords, the third member
of the trio, told the court that ne
had not engaged an attorney and
James H. Hammond was named by
Judge Townsend to conduct Jefford's
defense. At Mr.. H9mmond's re-
quest John F. Quinn was selected by
the court to aid Mr.. Hammond in the
case
Three Men Handcuffed "
The three men were then hand
cuced and placed in an automobile
with officers and carried back to the.
state penitentiary, where they are be-
ing confined since the city jail is now
being repaired and the county jail IS
overcrowded. Over score of city
and county officers were in the court
: room and grouped around the three
men during the arraignment. There
was no sign of disturbance IN the
court room when the three men were
known only to a few persons
present were taken by surprise when
thew learned what was taking place.
The fact that the men were to be
arraigned yesterday afternoon had
been kept secret by officers, who re-
called the record crowd which attend
ed the inquest, and with the fact
known to only to few persons
there was only small crowd at the
court house when the men were
brought there to make their pleas.
Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigener pre-
sented the indictment charging the
trio with the murder of Annette at
$50 o'clock yesterday morning and
at 1887 O'Clock the grand jury re-
turned true bills against the three
men.
The arraignment of the three men
yesterday afternoon, approximately
40 hours after the commission of the
crime, probably establishes new rec
ord for speed in the Richland cou{ts
The grand jury brought in true bill:
against the trio at 1887 o'clock, less
TINA 35 hours after the crime had
been committed and hardly more
than 80 hours after their arrest.
Record for Speed
Mr.. Annette was killed at his filling
station at II o'clock Tuesday night
at 80 O'Clock the body was dis
covered by the bridge on kirkland
avenue by six national guardsmen
at II o'clock midnight Sheriff T. A
Heise and Deputy Sheriff Thompson
were notified and began work on the
case; at 80 o'clock Wednesda!
morning it was discovered that the
crime had been committed in the
filing station and Chief of Detectives
S. S. Shorter and Detectives jim
Broom, Bob Broom and W. T. Kelle!
were called in; by 2:45 o'clock lr;
Harrison had been arrested am
shortly afterwards city and count.
o4Soore olro took Glenn Treece int