The Bamberg herald (Bamberg, S.C.).(Bamberg, S.C.) 1909-05

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MYSTERIOUS CASE IN SALUDA.

Pope Havird Claims to Have Been

Ambushed by Five Men.

Saluda, May 1..Pope B. Havird, a

white man living about 10 miles fromhere in the Havirdsville section,claims that while plowing in his fieldFriday afternoon about 5 o'clock, hewas fired upon from ambush by five

V white men, as he neared the end ofthe field next to the woods, and as a

result of the fusillade the mule hewas plowing was killed. Havird escapedunhurt, although he claimsthat the parties who killed his mulewere trying to murder him.He says he recognized two of the

party as Fred Goff and Joe Rhinehart,two young men who are close* neighbors of Havird. He further

* says while not so positive, he believes* the others were Walter Rhinehart,

Andrew Mitchell and a son of BenBrooks.The sheriff and his deputy went to

Havird's home yesterday morning toarrest him under a warrant issuedsome time ago, charging him withtrespass after notice, and placed him

. t in jail.According to Havird, after his

mule was killed he left for Prosperity,14 miles away, on foot andfrom there wired Gov.. Ansel forbloodhounds and also asked for protectionat the hands of the governor.The bloodhounds were sent up on

yesterday morning's train to Prosperity.The guard in charge of the

^ dogs, accompanied by Havird, reachedHavird's home yesterday about thetime the sheriff got there. The dogsstruck trail near where the mule was

lying dead but it seems ran eachtime in the direction rather ofHavird's home. Nothing was accomplishedand the hunt was called off.

There is considerable doubt in themind of most of the people of thiscounty as to whether Havird really

> was ambushed, as he says, or whetherhe himself killed the mule, as amove to gain sympathy. Havird isnow under bond on the charge ofkilling a negro about 10 years ago.

Havird- is in jail here to-night andexpresses great anxiety for the safetyof his family in his absence. Whenarrested to-day he was armed with a

magazine pistol and a large improvedv Smith & Wesson.

For 15 years or longer Havird hasbeen having trouble with his neighborsand it is a common saying thatit is a wonder some one has not longago killed him. A few years ago hewas shot by John Yarborough andhad to have an arm amputated as a

% result of the wound.He is now charged with killing a

negro 10 years ago and burning hisbody. A true bill was found againsthim at the December term of courtbut the trial was postponed, that amotion for change of venue might beconsidered.

i y Judge Shipp two weeks ago filedan order granting the change ofvenue and the case will be heard atEdgefield at the next term of court.

The guard wno went mere u>-uay,Sheriff Sample and Deputy Padgett,express grave doubts as to the truthof Havird's statements about beingwaylaid and five men shooting at himat so close range and missing him,yet evefry charge entering the mule's

.* body.The whole affair is, to say the

least, mysterious.No one, so far as can be learned,

believes Fred Goff and Joe Rhinehart,ihe two young men whomHavird says he recognized, had anythingto do with the shooting of hismule.

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Lived 152 Years.> Wm. Parr.England's oldest man

.married the third time at 120,worked in the fields till 132 andlived 20 years longer. People should

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Geo. Stalvey Completes Sentence.Last week George M. Stalvey, the

convicted bigamist, after serving sixmonths in the Aiken county jail s^ndpaying a fine of $500, the sentence

¥ imposed when he was tried, was releasedfrom jail. There is yet anothercharge against him, for thenon-support of his children. Bondwas fixed in the sum of three hundreddollars for this offense, whichwas furnished.The fine, which accompanied the

sentence of six months in jail, was

paid Wednesday afternoon by a

brother of Stalvey, from Marion., v It will be recalled that Stalvey

married Miss Etta Lightfoot of Orfangeburg, in this city, last summer,whereupon the charge of bigamy was

brought against him by Mrs. Stalveyw No. 1, she alleging that she was the

lawful wife of Stalvey.This has been one of the most in5'teresting cases ever tried in Aiken

county. Stalvey comes from a prominentMarion county family. The firstwife is a member of a North Carolinafamily of some prominence, andMiss Lightfoot comes from one ofOrangeburg's best families. The case

against Stalvey will probably come

up for trial at the. June term ofwui I.

The question of paying the fine, inaddition to serving six months, hasbeen the subject of a great deal ofdiscussion lately. It appeared thatthere would be a complication in regardto this part of the sentence.However, this was avoided by the appearanceof Mr. Stalvey, from Marion,with the money.

v Stalvey is in good health, thoughsome the worse for his half year'sconfinement in jail. He remained inthe city until Thursday shakinghands with old acquaintances. Stalveyfeels confident that he will beacquitted of the second offenseagainst him..Aiken Journal andReview.

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G. O. SIMMONS.

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NEGRO OR INDIAN BLOOD?

Richland Farmer Seeks $10,000Damages from Neighbor.

A case 01 an unusual character hasbeen brought in this county, a suitior damages on the ground that thedefendants had stated that the plaintiffshave negro blood in their veins.The suit grows oat of an appeal from

the action of the Hood Plateauschool trustees, which had excludedtwo daughters of Mr. Roach W. Wil-son on the ground that they had ne-

gro blood in their veins, the countyboard declined 10 raKe <tcuuu, an

agreement being reached betweenthe warring factions whereby thechildren were taken back into the <

school. It is claimed by the Wilson Jside that this action by the trusteeswas done for spite and malice, and 1was inspired by Charlie Haithcock,one of the trustees, who secured the ]action by his own vote and that ofTrustee William Dowdy, who, it isclaimed, reversed his vote when he jlearned the true conditions. The ,

claim is that Mr. W. D. Davis, the jthird member of the local board oftrustees, was not notified by Mr. ]Haithcock of the meeting at whichthe action was taken, and that he (

was against taking such a course.It was admitted in the trial of the

appeal that the Wilsons had Indianblood in their veins, Mrs. Wilson tes- 1tifying that her grandfather was half 1Indian, but it was mosit emphatical- 1ly denied that any of the family was

tainted with negro blood. County \Attorney Thomas took the positionfor the county Doara tnai iaumu ,blood being shown, the action of thetrustees should be sustained, but the 1other side strongly objected to this. .

What would- become of the social ,

standing of the numbers of charm- jing people over the State, whose \proud boast is their direct descend-ance from the Pocahontas Smiths, of:.Virginia, if such a contention were ,

sustained in the courts, it is argued. !It is claimed that the charges be-

fore the trustees and the effort tohave the county board decide againstthe Wilsons have their foundation ina property division. It was freelyadmitted in the testimony before thecounty board that up to recently theother side freely mingled with theWilsons without question, went tochurch and to picnics with them andtreated them in every way. as socialequals. A few days ago some one J"shot up" the home of Mr. Haithcockin the night time, and the governorwas appealed to and offered a rewardfor the perpetrators.Now the Wilsons hive retaliated

againstCharlie Haithcock by bringinga suit for slander through theirattorneys, DePass & DePass, againsthim for $10,000 damages for telling j.people about the neighborhood that}the Wilsons had negro blood in theirveins and for his work in having thedaughters of Wilson dismissed fromthe schools..Columbia Record.

Report on Temperance.At the recent session of the Charlestondistrict conference, the followingreport on temperance was adopted.It was requested that every

newspaper in every county where {there was located a charge of this jdistrict, be asked to publish this report.Therefore, as the Ehrhardtcharge is in Bamberg county, Mr. J.G. Rhoad asked that the report be

published. The report was signed byH. B. Browne, W. M. Williams, S. A.

Marvin, and Henry J. Cauthen, andis as follows:A canvass of the reports of the

several charges of the Charleston districtreveals the fact that practicallyevery charge is cursed with a dispensaryin its bounds. This shouldserve to awaken the church to unusualactivity.The growth of the anti-whiskey

sentiment in other sections of theState and South has been notable.Nearly all of the Southern Stateshave become prohibition and thePiedmont section of our ow;n Statehas voted out its dispensaries. Oursection is the stronghold of whiskeyin South Carolina.A map of the State, on which the

whiskey territory is indicated byblack and prohibition by white,shows the lower section of the Stateto be solid black. There is only one

exception.the county of Clarendonhas recently become a prohibitioncounty. This should provoke thechurch to serious thought.

Reports of the charges indicatestrong and growing sentimentagainst whiskey. If this be true,nrV.v fhp ft isnpn sarins continue?n UJ V»V v**\# .vw. .

Cannot the vote of the church determinethis matter? The vote of our

Methodism, if cast in accord withour religion could solve the liquorquestion. Would it not be wise forour preachers to throw themselvesinto the coming fight.the Augustfight.and endeavor to influence thevote of our membership in favor ofprohibition? Could we not, by a

wise and tactful campaign, do Godand humanity a great service duringthe coming summer? We need not

be offensive in a political way, butwe may by prudence and tact leadour membership to right voting andlet the world know where Methodismstands on the liquor question.We would suggest that the month

of July be utilized as a season of specialactivity by the church in a campaignagainst whiskey, preachingand working especially to this end.

As soon as the weather is warmenough to warrant it, I will startmy ice wagon regularly. Until thattime customers can have ice deliveredduring the mornings in lots oftwenty pounds and upwards.

L. C. PRICE.

SOUTH AND WEST. jSenator Smith Thinks Their Political

Interests Are Alike.

Charleston, April 29..Senator E.D. Smith spoke last night at thecommencement of the Medical Collegeof South Carolina. He comesfresh from the tariff battlefield, andwill leave this morning to tal-.e uphis fight for free fertilizer products,bags and ties, and oleo stearine.

Senator Smith is confident that hewill win on the fight for free fertilizerimports, and says he has aboutan even chance at present on thebags and ties amendment. He isdubious on the outcome of the oleoamendment."The great West," said Ssnator

Smith, "witn its marvelous resourcesand great wealth, is lined upwith the South on the free importationof fertilizer ingredients. In lateyears much of the vast and fertileterritory of the West has been dividedinto small farms, and the fertilizationof the land has become an importantfactor in agricultural pursuits.There is a transition stage inthe life of the South to the developmentof manufacturing and in thelife of the West to smaller farmsthat bring the South and the WestDloser together than ever.

"1 believe," said the senator, "thatPresident Taft sees the promisingpossibilities of the South for a moveto the Republican party and fearsthe wider growth of Democracy inthe West; so that he is bending allhis energies to strengthen his positionwith the people of Dixieland,and keep up his party's balance ofstrength."

It is the opinion of the senatorthat the income tax is going to be establishedfirmly, because of the exhaustedpatience of the West and theSouth in relation to the great protectivetariff which has long fattenedthe purses of the opulent East. Heregards the present tariff bill fight asa crisis in the history of the UnitedStates, with an ultimate tearingdown of many of the bulwarks ofprotection.

Sellers Sued for $25,000.Columbia, April 29..Wade HamptonSellers, known in these parts as

the "king of blind tigers," now outon bond, awaiting his second trialfor the killiug of Constable J. P.Farmer, in P'ebruary, 1908, will besued by the widow of the man hekilled for damages to the amountof $25,000.00.

It was on the morning of February22, 1908, that Wade Hampton Sellersshot to death Constable J. P.Farmer. Farmer and Constable Oggwent to the house of Sellers, armedwith a search warrant, and whenthey were refused admittance Farmer,upon being told by Ogg to do so,kicked open the door, holding a pis-tol in his hand. As the floor was

swung ajar Sellers fired from within,the rifle shot passing entirelythrough the body of Farmer, killinghim almost instantly. Just a fewweeks before the shooting Sellers'horse had been shot, when Farmerfired in an attempt to stop Sellers,who was racing up the street withjugs of whiskey received from thecars of a freight.

Sellers' whole life has been filledwith adventures, ever since the timehe came to Columbia and ran as a

newsboy on trains, and the storygoes that in that time Sellers beganthe selling of whiskey.One of the many incidents that

may be recalled of Sellers' career,is the occasion when the Seaboard"Flyer" struck a wagon load ofwhiskey belonging to Sellers, killingthe negro driver and; demolishingthe wagon and its contents, save afew kegs of whiskey, on which it issaid that the "Sandhillers" of Richlandcounty thrived awhile.

Such has been Sellers' career andhe is yet a young man. At the Mayform r»f prnirt hp will hp tried for thekilling of Farmer, the jury beingunable to agree at the first trial.

Sellers is said to be well off, infact his numerous fines were alwayspaid readily. His bond was fixed at$5,000, when he was released shortlyafter the killing.

Governor May Fire Hoards.Comptroller General Jones said todaythat many of the county assessingboards over the State have

wholly failed to carry out the recentinstructions sent to them by the governorand the comptroller general as

to assessments of banks, their reportsto the comptroller general showingthat entirely unwarranted deductionsare made in favor of banks, in theface of the very explicit and emphaticinstructions from Columbia.United States bonds, and even investmentsin cotton mill stocks and municipaland county bonds and schoolbonds are exempted. One bank with$100,000 capital and nearly $50,000surplus makes return for taxation ofonly $2,500.The comptroller general will reportthese cases to the governor and

request him to remove the countyboards which have refused to carryout the law. The county boardsare made up from the chairmen ofthe township boards, which are all

appointed by the governor, and subjectto removal for cause. Their removalby the governor would create a

profound sensation in a political way,but Governor Ansel is a man whodocs not allow politics to interferewith duty, and a big, sweeping outof members of county assessingboards would not create great surprisein the circumstances..ColumbiaRecord.

Texas Lynching.Tyler, Tex., May 1..A mob to-day

took from jail Jim Hodges, a negro,and hanged him to a scaffolding atthe court house now building.

Hodges was charged with assaultingand seriously injuring Miss WinnieHarmon near here last night.

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