Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-08
PALMETTO GLEANINGS
News Happenings Over the State OF
South Carolina.

1
I Jack Schumacher, the Elloree
county man who was paroled and then
who refused to return to the peniten-
tiary on August /, when the parole
period expired, was brought to the Of
fee OF Gov. Harvey Friday morning by
Sheriff Dukes. of Orangeburg county,
and the young man confessed to the
governor that he had been trying to
make his escape, but that. when he
saw how determined the governor was
to have him rearrested, he decided to
surrender and he came to apologize for
his conduct. Schumacher was taken
to the state penitentiary and there he
win spend the next two years, because
of an attack he made upon his mother.
when she refused to give him food
which he demanded, for which crime
he was convicted by an Orangeburg
county jury.
- The great grand daddy of all the
moonshine stills of South Carolina, and
one Of the patriarchs of the South in
that line, was captured Friday morn
ing in Pee Dee swamp by State Con-
stable Eichelberger and Federal Of
ficer Youmans 1t measured 640 gal
Ions capacity, being about seven feet
long, four feet wide and waist high
and, approximately, coffin shaped in
it's general proportions. Marion coun-
ty now gets the cake for the biggest
still. Sumter had it before, said Mr..
Eichelberger, reporting the find on re-
turning to the city,'this morning. More
than two hours arduous labor by the
two officers was necessary to destroy
the mass of copper, sheet iron and
brick. George Best, prominent farmer
near Marion, is in the Marion county
Jail charged with owning and operat-
ing this giant sti!l.
A jeff Gregory. prominent farmer
and formerly cotton weigher at Ker-
shaw was shot and killed by his son,
Paul Gregory, at his home few miles
from Kershaw at about $3.50 o'clock
Friday morning. Young Geogory used
a 38 calibre rifle, four bullets taking
effect to cause almost instantaneous
death. Young Geogory, himself, gave
the alarm, telephening to friends in
KershaW that he had killed his father.
He was taken into custody by Sherin
Welch within few hours after the
killing and is now in the Camden Jail
facing trial on a charge Of murder, the
coroner's jury investigating the homi-
eide having held him responsible for
the death OF his father. Young Greg
ory is about Is years old, but is small
for his age, having been crippled by
an attack of infantile paralysis. The
only eye witness of the patricide, if
any, are members of the immediate
family and these with Paul Gregory
have declined to make any statement
with reference to the shooting. Paul
Gregery's younger brother and n sis
ter, officers have been informed wit
messed the tragedy. Neither, however,
testified at the coroner's inquest, the
jurys verdict being based upon ad-
missions OF young Gregory. The boy
after having confessed firing the four
shots to persons first reaching the
house, has refused to make any further
statements, officers say, except to
clam that he acted in defense Of his
mother ard sisters. The first persons
reaching the house after the killing
found a loaded pistol grasped in Mr..
Gregorys hand. The revolver had not
been fired. Mr.. Gregory was about SO
years old and is prominently connect
ed and we'll known in both Kershaw
and Lancaster counties. He is surviv-
ed by his widow, five daughters and
two sons.