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ARRAIGN THREE MEN
IN HOMICIDE CASE
JEFFORDS, TREECE AND HARRISON
PLEAD IN COURT
Fie?d "Not Guilty" in Court Forty
Hours After Crime?Show
Little Emotion
The State, 12.
Frank M. Jeffords, ira Harrison
an-1 Glenn Treece, self-confessed
ce? .ral figures, according to officers,
in the slaying last Tuesday night of
J. C. Arnette, will go on trial on
charges of murder in the cuort of
general sesrions in Columbia next
Tuesday morning. The three men,
true bills having been returned
2gainst them by the grand jury yesterday
morning, were arraigned on
the charge of murder before Judge
W. H. Town send yesterday afternoon,
their pleas of "not gulity" recorded,
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 therefore
within six and a half days after
the crime was committed.
The three men were brought to
the court house at 3:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and at 3:42 o'clock
were placed in the dock and their
handcuffs removed. None of the men
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showed any s^gn 01 I'muuuu as mc
indictment charging them with "wilfully
and maliciously and feloniously
slaying Arnette was read to them by
Clerk Hinnant. Their answers of
"not guilty" to the question, "Are
you guilty or not guilty?" and their
responses to the other usual questions
of the formal arra g/iment were
barely audible five feet away. John
Hughes Cooper, who is acting as attorney
for Ira Harrison, served as
counsel for the three men in the arraignment.
R. Beverly Herbert, attorney
for Glenn > Treece, being absent
from the court at the time.
Frank M. Jeffords, the third member
of the trio, told the court that he
I had not engaged an attorney and
tr TTommnnH ws; named bv
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Judge Townsend to conduct Jefford's
A defense. At Mr. Hammond's request
John F. Quinn was selected by
the court to aid Mr. Hammond in the
Three Men Handcuffed
M The three'men were then handcuced
and placed in an automobile
with officers and carired back to the
B? state penitentiary, where they are <be;v.
ing confined since the city jail is now
V being repaired and the county jail is
fN* overcrowded. Over a 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
ccurt room when the three men were
k known only to a few persons
? prerent were taken by surprise when
'
rthey learned wnai was pwv.c.
The fact that the men were to be
arraigned yesterday afternoon had
k been kept secret by officers, who reL
' called the record crowd which attendK
ed The inquest, and with the fact
p known to only to a few persons
' there was only a small crowd at the
court house when the men were
(brought there to make their pleas.
Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigener presented
the indictment charging the
trio with the murder of Arnette at
9:30 o'clock yesterday morning and
at 10:37 o'clock the grand jury returned
true bills against the three
men.
The arraignment of the three men
yesterday afternoon, approxmatelv
40 hours after the commission of the
crime, probaby establishes a new record
for speed in the Richland counts.
The grand jury brought in true bills
against the trio at 10:37 o'clock, less
thna 35 hours after the crime had
been committed and hardly more
fthan 30 hours after their arrest.
Record for Speed
Mr. Arnette was killed at his filling
str.tion at 11 o'clock Tuesday night:
at 11:30 o'clock the body was discovered
by the bridge on Kirkland
avenue by six national guardsmen;
at 12 o'clock midnight Sheriff T. A
Heise and Deputy Sheriff Thompsor
were notified and began work on the
case; ' at 1:30 o'clock Wednesda\
morning it was discovered that the
crime had been committed in the
filling station antf Chief of Detectives
S. S. Shorter and Detectives Jin
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, Broom, Bob Broom and w. i. jvene\
were called in; by 2:45 o'clock Irr
Harrison had been arrested ant
shortly afterwards city and count}
officers also took Glenn Treece intc
custody, both men being found a'
t\tir residence. 1529 Hampton street
at 4 o'clock Frank M. Jeffords wa:
also arrested and a few minutes latei
admissions of complicity in the crime
had been secured, according to of
fiecers from each of the men; at 7 :SC
o'clock Wednesday night the inqoest
was held; at 9:30 o'clock yesterday
morning the cases were given to the
grand jory and at 3:42 o'clock the
men were arraigned. Next Toesday
morning the trial will have been bef.
gun.
The three men, Jeffords, Harrisoi
and Treeee, are now confined in th<
regular cell house at the state pen:
tenitary, their cells being in the up
per tier, each member of the tri<
being several cells apart from his ai
leged confederates. Treece at th
penitentiary yesterday afternoon ap
peared to be the least concerned ove
the affair, while Harrison, the small
! est and youngest of the trio, showe<
the strain under which he must b<
laboring by an almost nervous eager
fiess to talk. Jeffords appeared to b<
somewhat morose and moody.
Native of Columbia
i Jeffords is a native of Columbi;
and will be 29 years old May 25, hi
says. He has lived in Columbia prac
tically his entire 'ife and at the tinn
of his arrest was living at 1108 Pric
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avenue. He was employed at thi
Columbia compress company fo
about 13 years, of which Mr. Arnetti
was at one time foreman. About si:
months ago he became associate<
with Mr. Arnette a? the now dea<
man's partner in the filling statioi
at the corner of Elmwood avenue am
, Main street. Jeffords is married an<
i has one child.
f Harnson, who first told the stor?
of the crime to the officers, admit
ting, they say, that he struck the firs
blow, was born in Hampton icountj
! and is Only 21 years old. His family
however moved to Columbia whei
Harrison was only two years old an<
he has spent 17 years of his life ir
' Columbia. Harrison served in thUnited
States havy two years, eniist
ing in Columbia in 1919. His er.list
; ment expired last December and h<
>tthen returned to Columbia, oeginninf
work for Jeffords & Arnette at the
filling statoin last February. Harri'
son- has known Jeffords and Treec<
about four years, he said^
Has Prison Record
Harrison is the only one of th(
, trio known to have a prison recorc
' and is now in the penitentiary foi
| his second time. He was sent to :h<
state prison February 19, 1919, fron
the mayor's court in Lexington coun
ty to begin the serving of, a sij
months sentence for various mino]
t .
offenses. At that time, the prisor
i records show, he gave his age as 18
' *--1- V> i O cffn Q*<
. wnne HIS lailllij Jiaicu UJO
| under 17, according to penitentiary
'officials. Ke^was released under ha
beas corpus proceedings July 10
1919.
Glenn Treece is 22 years old am
: is a native of Asheville, N. C., bu'
has been living in Columbia since h<
; was four years old. Treece went t<
'work as an employee at the filling
station last December, having, lik<
: Harrison, had some experience in au
' tomobile repair work. Treece, alsi
I like Harrison, served in the navy, en
i listing in 1918 from Asheville. Hi
i enlistment expired last August.
Only one thing, the fire in the fill
ing station, remains hnexplained B;
the alleged admissions made to offi
! cers by the three men. The blazi
. was started at about 12:20 oclock, of
ficers think, in a pot of gasoline ii
' t'*- n-t fillincr o t a t i n T*
' lilt? ic<ii luum vi tii^ iiiiing
: the pot being placed almost directl;
over the spot where Mr. Arnette hai
| been killed.. This fact leads officer
1 to hold to the theory that the fire wa
* started in an effort to destroy evi
dence of the crime's having beei
committed at the filling stut.jn. Botl
Harrison and Treece denied an;
knowledge of the fire, Officers sa$
| while Jeffords, who has had very lit
| tie to say to officers about the crime
has told officers nothing about t_h
blaze.
I The body of J. C. Arnette was cai
ried to King's Mountain', N. C., yes
i terday morning, funeral being hel
1 at King's Mountain at 5 o'clock yes
, terday afternoon. Mi. Arnette i
| the three years that he had lived i
I Columbia had made a large numbe
I of friends. He was a native of Mor
' ticello and was 45 years old.
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In Loving Memory
^ i Of our dear mother and wife, Po
> lie Ann Frances Shealy, who depar
* ed this life April 5th, 19?2. i
And art thou gone, our dear one?
Gone to thy peaceful rest above,
Couldst thou no longer tarry here
To bless us with thy tender love?
!
1 Yes, thou art gone! Pale is thy chee)
And cold is thy brow as winter sno'w
1 Death has forbidden thy lips to speal
* And stilled the heart that loved us si
} But, dear one, we will think of t-he<
^ nd bless the Lord of all your car*
' We'll think now oft' you counselle
J us>
And gave us to the Lord in prayer.
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I And, dear one, when our breath sha
cease, *
r And when we must bid the worl
adieu,
May we, like you, depart in peace,
r And ever live with Christ and you.
Written by the Family.
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'flood makes gain
n in louisiana town
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- Levee Protecting Old Portion ol
Jonesville Breaks, Permitting
D Water to Flow in Street*
Natchez, May 8.?The levee proe
tecting the old portion of Jonesville,
La., about two thirds of the town
r broke today. The new section outside
the levee was already flooded
^ The water is said to be from two tc
e four feet deep in the streets of the
town. Jonesville is in Catahoula par
ish on Bia-ck river and has a population
of about 1,500.
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! Following the crevasse ii. the Mis
a sissippi levee abuot Ferriday, La., a
? hard fight was made at Jonesville tc
- build up the private levee protecting
? the main po'rtion of the town aheat
? of the rising waters which have beefi
? coming up at the rate of four inches
r a day. Sacks and flood fighting ma?
forijil wpr<> riishe d from Rhinehart,
< the nearest point of railroad commui
nication. and every^available man wa;
1 put to work. Residents of the town
1 had been apprehensive for severa;
i days that the dike could not oe held
1; Arrangements have been made tc
' send a steam boat with supplies sufj
ficient to last for two weeks to the
- 429 refugees marooned at Artonish.
t Miss. When a survey of conditions
r was made at Artonish it was found
/ immediate relief was essential.
iRations have been distributed tc
i approrimately 5,000 people from the
i barge of supplies sent to Ferriday,
? La., to give aid to those in the imme
diate vicinity of the crevasse.
B. C. Brown, president of the Con?
cordia parish police jury, left today
r for Baton Rouge to make an urgent
> appeal in behalf of the flood sufferers
. in other sections of the parish and
? also for the lower part of Tensas parish.
i Practically all of the people who
> are willing to leave their homes have
I been taken out of the area inundated
by the Weecama crevasse. The Mis>
sissippi river is still on a stand here
1 at a stage of 53 feet. The gap in the
levee caused by the crevasse has not
widened to any great extent for sev?
eral days and the' swiftness of the
t current going through has greatly decreased.
' At Ferriday and other points in
, Concordia parish the rise of backwater
has decreased to about onetenth
of a foot 2. dav. ^
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j | New Orleans, May 8.?Official an>
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Liberty Bonds, Unp
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Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits
Bills Payable
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Newberry Count:
mers pledging more
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J pie of Newberry Co
[\ possible the above s
3- advice and assistan
extend the very bes'
d' vice.
"The Banl11
Jno. M. Kinard, Presic
Floytl Bradley, Asst. C;
C. W. Sanders, Bookki
Jno. C. Floyd, Collectoi
Jiouncement was made today by relief A
f organizations that approximately
70,000 persons had been rendered i
F i homeless in Mississippi and Louisiana L
|by the floods along: the Mississippi!
j river. Forty thouand of these are
being cared for by vairous relief ag- j
jencies and 30.000 others are seat-'
itered throughout the flood areas, the .si
. announcement said. 'ti
i Representatives of commercial and b
, icivil organizations in New Orleans, tl
;!working under the state flood relief 1
. committee, began a campaign today c<
in this citv for the collection of mon- j*
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ey, provisions and clothing for the w
thousand or more persons driven
L from their homes by the crevasses in a
> the Mississippi river levees at Poy- c<
. dras and Myrtle Grove, below New if
I Orleans. j a
L ; A majority of the families affected e<
; by the inundation of the territory ad-j
. jacent to the two breaks have been tl
transferred tc Jackson barracks in n
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. New Orleans. Some stragglers, how- c
, ever, have remained in their flooded I:
t homes. J ^
[ j Maj. R. T. Coiner, chief engineer ' a
of the fourth levee district, today S'
, branded as improbable an idea enter- n
. tained in ?ome circles that the Miss- "w
, .issippi fiver might change its course i fi
i to the Gulf of Mexico by seeking an fi
outlet through the Poydras crevasse ' h
[ Due to the fact that the break has f.
: widened to 800 feet, approximately (
, one-third of the width of the river at j n
, that place, and that the water has . b
'washed a hole about 45 feet deep im-;
. mediatel yback of the site of the de- j
j stroyed levee was reported to have !
. caused some fear that the river might *
- desert its old' bed for the shorter *
course to the gulf. ^
.' Major Coiner said he did not be-' 1
I lieve it possible for the flood waters
. to scour a new channel between the
crevasse and the^gulf Through Lake r
Lery which would become deep ;s
, enough in the natural life of the I ^
flooti to attract the current from its j ^
. old basin. j a
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: Troop 1 held its last meeting Mon- j
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', dav by moonlight. We assembled at.r
! j -c
headquarters, and after dispensing 5
with the'business, sadjourned to the 1
' outride, where we marched to John-1
! stone's woods. There we enjoyed o
: ourselves in' playmg games, and some s;
' of the scouts passed tne secona-ciass ;
' test. After the games, the troop was j
! assembled and the b^ys living in that n
j neighborhood were dismissed, the j
! rest coming back^ down town. | k
Commercial
Newberry, S. C.
of Condition Ma
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RESOURCES
snts .....$892,519.18
ledged $140,950'. 00
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LIABILITIES
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; than our quota for coopei
e are able, anxious and wil
unty, who by their confidei
splendid statement. Don't
ce at any time. Our prim
t possible Banking Service
c That Always Treats You
lent \ J. Y. McF'all, 1
ashier J. M. Kinard, ,
eeper Miss Tilla Wes
p Hunt, Hunt, &
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lLL are urged to
ATTEND MEETING
ecture Charts and Moving Pictures
to Be Used to Help the
People
Illustrated lecture charts, demon:ration
material and moving picires
will be used in conducting the
ig community meeting to be held a1
le court house on Monday, May 22
0:30 a. m., according to the local
ommittees on arrangements. The
nportant question of dairy farming
ill be discussed.
The program will be interesting
nd instructive to both town and
ountry people. The schools are beig
invited to cooperate and women
nd children will be especially invit
d to atted.
Mr. H. S. Mobley, a practical Sou
lern farmer and successful dairylan,
is being sent here by the agri
ultural extension department, of the
nternatioal Harvester company, Mr
lobley is an able lecturer and will d(
11 in his power by talks and demon
trations to be of service to the far
lers in exDlaininer to them how anc
rhy dairy cattle make farming pro
table, why the South is peculiarly
tted for, a great dairy section, ant
ow easy it is to get a start in dairj
arming.
Everything will be free. No ad
iission will be charged and every
ody will be welcome.
Keitt-Hart
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Keitt announc<
he engagement of their daughter
irina Coe, to Mr. Edgar Hart o:
'dgefield, the wedding to occur Jun<
5.
The above announcement will b<
ead by many friends throughout th<
tate with great interest as Mis,
Leitt and Mr. Hart are both widelj
nown. Miss Keitt is a very populai
nd attractive young woman and ii
eloved by all who know her. Mr
fart is a young1 business man o?
leasing personality, a native ol
Idgefield and a member of one ol
Idgefield's prominent families.
And sometimes when a man takeJ
ut a fire insurance policy he is nevej
atiified until he has^a fire.
The man who rocks the boat wil'
ever get to the top of the ladder.
It is always easy for those whc
now nothing about it to settle '<
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50,000.00
135,521.76
50,000.00
" 966,561.20
- $1,202,082.96
i account of our farnative
marketing of
ling to help the peoice
in us have made
fail to call on us for
;ipal purpose is to
and then more SerRight."
/ice Pres. & Cashier
Jr., Asst. Cashier
,t, Bookkeeper
Hunter, Attys.
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