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LAURINBURG, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1914. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXXII - NUMBRR 7 MOTHER'S PATHETIC STORY OF MURDER OF HER CHILD 1 t Miss Fleta Pendleton, pf Durham, Makes Sickening Confessions About Her Personal Disgrace and the Murder of Her Baby She and C. C. Clements, of Chesnee. S. G, in Jail. In oui last issue there appear ed the following news item : "Richly dressed in hand em broidered cashmere and silk, the body of a blue-eyed baby girl about six weeks old was found in the race of a mill pond near Spartanburg, S. C, Saturday. It is thought that the baby was thrown from a Southern passen ger train." Since then the mother of -the child, Miss Fleta Pendleton, of Durham, and the father of the child, C. C. Clements, of Ches nee, S. C, haVe been arrested and the mother frankly confessed her disgace and the guilt of Cle ments, who murdered .the child. The Spartanburg Journal, of February 3d, contained the fol lowing : Yesterday afternoon, in the! child in the river. I didn't hear the child hit the water, because I didn't want to hear it, as I loved it so much. CAME BACK WITHOUT CHILD. "Tne child was alive when Jyde took it from my arms, and when he came back to me he did not have the baby. I didn't know what he did with it. Then he and I crossed the bridge and came on back up the road togeth er. We didn't talk about it, be cause I could't bear to hear it mentioned." Solicitor Hill asked : "When Clyde took the child and went down the river and you turned your back and left him, what was he going to do with it?" . Miss Pendleton answered : "I guess you know what he county jail, Mis3 Fleta Pendle-1 was going to do with it." ton made a complete confession to A. E. Hill, solicitor, in the presence of R. J. Gantt, magis trate, and it was tiken in short hand by J. W. Mansfield, an at torney of Spartanburg. She was first apprised by the solicitor that she did not have to make a confession, or any state ment that she made must be made freely and voluntarily on her part without any compulsion, dread or fear. She then said : "If you care to know all about this afFair, I will tell you, bu: I have alread - told it one time r.;j for-." In rrly, Solicitor Hill said : "Then go ahead and make your statement in your own way." In ans vcr to question put by the solicitor, she substantially mad? thi following confession : Miss Pendleton claimed to have give : birth to the child in Char lotte at the Presbyterian hospital there on December 6, 1913. She went to Greenville and stopped at the home of a lady. Upon question, she then said it was Mrs. Hodges, the sarnj woman who had identified the child a a few hours before. MUST KILL CHILD. Continuing she sa;d : "Clyde Clement came over to Greenville on Thursday, January 29, and spent the night with me, and we talked about marrying. Chde said that he would tell me in the morning what he would do. We discussed the child. Clyde said that I would have to make away with the child,' and I told him I did not want to, because I loved her. Solicitor Hill : "Whatdidhedo with it, then ?" Miss Pendleton replied : "You ought to know what he did with it-?" Solicitor Hill: "Well, do you know where your baby is now ?" She answered : "In heaven." COHOENSED HEWS FROM EVERYWHERE k Column of the Week's' Happenings Throughout the World Told In Brief Gathered From Our Contemporaries and Boiled Down For Our Read ers. Fifteen aspirants have an nounced their candidacy for the governorship of Texas. A bill is being urged in con gress for the appropriation of $25,000,000 for federal aid. to the States for improvement of high ways used by rural mail carriers. W. H. Nottleton, aged 88, of Bristol, Conn., and-his secretary, A COLUMN OF STATE HEWS Short Items of North Carolina News of . General Interest To Scotland County In Condensed Form For Exchange Readers Gathered from Con temporaries. Hill Granberry, colored, was hanged Friday at Opolika, Ala., for double murder. The case of Granberryhas been in the Su preme Court twice and he had been sentenced to death three times. C. E. Everett, a young white man of Abbottsburg, who wa caught depositing bogus checks the other day to Hartford, Conn. and were married. said the young man is weak minded. Journal Mary Baldwin, aged 68, eloped ; ln a Raleigh bank recently and was being carried home by his father, escaped from the parent The Virginia Senate has passed !LaJm,et and t is said secured for a v JU Irm a bank there. It is Mil V (AAMlfcl 11 V pvww""' State-wide prohibition election to be held in that" State in Septem ber. President Wilson savs he will "use his best efforts to repeal the provision of the Panama Canal Act eliminating American coast wise ships from payment of tolls. A quartz company of Chester, Pa., has offered a wage increase j of 10 per cent to its 300 employes if they will agree to abstain from all forms of intoxicants. A monument to John Tyler, former president of the United States is to be erected over his Miss Pendleton then requested 1 Srave in a Richmond. Va., ceme- a i j. n i i 3 the solicitor to let her see her!ier-y- w)ngressnasanpiopnai mi i rrr ? jl baby. . and the solicitor said she , f iU'uuu Ior ims Pose. would see it later. I A Chicago judge has ruled that Continuing her confession, Miss ! a man who habitually sets his alarm clock for 2 a. m. and at that hour makes his wife get out Pendleton said : . CATCH STREET CAR. j "Then Clyde and I came to the up town. I saw several girls g"t, on the car just before we got of bed and slfep of.4isweferlv m Forty We got off the car and there I went to a boarding house and stayed ?U night. The next day I went down to Wood's boarding house and have been staying there ever since. Clyde went on home. was finecroO ministets Pa. , armed themselves with car penters tools last week and pro ceeded to build a large tabernacle which is being used by Evangelist Billv Sunday for an eight weeks . mi m Jhe Monroe Journal reports the finding of two turnips in a citizen's field that are whoppers. One is two feet and eight inches in circumference while the other is two feet and seven inches. Lots of soup there boys. Henderson county is spending $100,000 for good roads. Lonnie Jones, a lad of 16. stole $181 from his father at Mt.vAiry a few days ago and left for eparts unknown. x The father located the boy in Greensboro where he was registered at the McAdoo hotel and had him attested. $176 of the money was recovered. While engaged in gambling in a npgro poul room at Greensboro last cek. Will Hill and Sam Har iris, both colored, fell out abut onv h p fW -T"t ''v tsrwitn the jresult hit ' - ;kf ""For hil'tiiTg cars""on Sum of Scranton, OFFICERS HUBBARD AND BROWN RAID GAMBLERS m 4 Seven Colored Boys Caught Playing "Skin" Saturday Night by Police Officers-Had Hid Themselves in the'Basement of Hotel Chetwynd. and the Game Was in Full Sway When Investigated. lav that did not contain perishable tjoods, the Southern Railway Co revival in that city. P.Annrroacrnon T? CI Rrpmmpr "On yesterday (that was Mon-; or iew jersey wno nas Deen day, wasn't it) I went out to 1 undergoing the radium treatment Clyde's home and took dinner. I for cancer since last December, went out in a public automobile. ; died Thursday. One hundred I got the automobile from Nes- j thousand dollars worth of radium hitt's garage. I came back to , was used in the treatment of his was fined $25 and cost recently by a Grcensooro j ;dge. Forty-seven of t he fifty-three applicants to the Supreme Court for license to practice law passed of last week. For some time a party of young negro boys, some of whom were employed by the Hotel Chetwynd, have been having a quiet a game of "skin" quite often, using the building in the rear of the hotel, which is used by . the hotel as a sample room. The matter was reported to the officers, and for some days and nights the crowd has been closely watched. Sat urday night about 12 o'clock Chief Hubbard and Officer Brown m-ide a visit to the suspected place of concealment, but evi dently the gamblers had gotten wind of the fact, that they weu being watched and upon arriving atrthe house Where the officei expected to find their game, there was nothing 'doing. The house was darkened, no evidence of anything unlawful there showed itself. Not being satisfied, the officers continued to search and finally located -" them huddled close up to the boiler in the base ment of Jhe hotel. The game was in full sway and the officers slipped into the basement unno ticed. Just as they got in where they could make a quick haul, one of the boys counted up his money, and after taking the in ventory of his wealth announced to the companions that he would bet the princely sum of 25 cepts. At this juncture Officer Brown stepped up toward them an an nounced that4e would raise the l-ssdfitucoApie JwcJy made; a dive; for safety," but DCflntn was no way of escape stood guard at the only the doorway. This being the only way of escape, they rush ed behind ythe boiler and tried to hide in the mortar joints, just anywhere so it Was a place of es- a FROM SNEAD'S GROVE. BY BUMPS. Mr. Eston Covington made visit toBuie's Creek Fridav. Misse? Josie and Tillie Snead, of Hamer, S. C, spent the week end with relatives in this section. Messrs. H. T. and J. W. Jack son, of Laurinburg, were on our streets Sunday. A'birthday entertainment giv en by Miss Hattie Threadgill last Thursday night was greatly en joyed by quite a number. There will be a missionary meeihg here on the fourth Sun day. A good committee has been appointed to arrange the pro gram, and we may expect a good time. From all accounts, Bud SneacL must 1 ave joined the Sunday school at Rachels. He goes, any way. If yon get sick, and this scribe reports that you are suffering un told agonies with la grippe or pneumonia, when, as a matter of fact you have toothache or lum bago, do not abuse the scribe, as it is of little consequence to the public what ails you just so you are sick ! The patrons of Tnead's Grove school are congratulating them-v, selves upon the fact that they wer foi iunate enough to secure the serviccs-of soKih efficient and energetic young teachers as Prof. J. A. Hornaday, Jr.. and Miss " Lucy Hayes. TheRerviees theyjj are .rendering iieie is ; ueser vings i ft I u; i r there Chief exit, town and went back -to my room. This morning Clyde came in from Chesnee on the train. I met him at the train, and he and I walked up Magnolia street until we got case. Alleging that by making the change the school would be heavi ly jfldowed, Gov. Blease has asked that the name of Clemson to the corner next to Kennedy j College be changed to Calhoun library. We then stopped and University in honor of Jno. C. talked for awhile. ' It might have i Calhoun of New York, a grand-1 bef-n for 20 minutes or one half son of Vice-President Calhoun, an hour. Clyde gave me $25 and Dr. C. T. Wvche of Newberry told me we from here. had better get awaycountyj South Carolina, speaker He said, 'You take! pro tern, while presiding over tije ... . . . . . c it i this o and get oat oi uns iownjIower House of the General As--get away from here.' He then; bl r Columbia was Fildav He then said he would ; saidlie had to get back home. I : u stricken with paralysis and not marry me with the child, but j told him to go to Nesbitt's garage j ejj jnto tjls armg 0f a frjenfj that if I would get rid of her he and get an automobile to carry j i h "I sat ud until 3 o'clock the next morning, begging and plead ing with Clyde not to make me get rid of the child. I was cry . ing and pleading with him nearly all night. The next day he said that he would come to Spartan burg. We left Greenville on 40 and arrived here about 8 o'clock and caught a publfc hack, driven by a colored man, who drove a black or dark gray horse. The wc had curtains on it. We drove down East Main street un 'til we got near the bridge. Then we got out of the hack and walk ed on down toward the bridge. I was cai ry i ng the baby. Before we got to the bridge Clyde took the baby from nae, and we walk ed on across the bridge. ' I turn - ed my bade ar.d went up the left hruid toad 'by myself. Clyde y--Tit o vn. -1 never looked back. :. I:;.., , lu threw the mm. He said he would do that. PREPARES TO LEAVE. "After that I went down to the depot and looked upon the board to see when the first train left town. I saw one marked up to leave "at 1:40 for Cnarleston, What is perhaps the most se vere blizzard since 1911 held the plains of the middfe west in its ! grip the past week. At Dodge, Kan., the thermometer registered four degrees below zero; at Den ver. Colo.. 12 degrees: at Sheri- so I decided to go on that train, dan, Wyo., 26 degrees; at Willis- ton, N. D., 32 degrees and at Harve, Mont., 42 degrees below zero. For the murder of Anna Amul ler, a young woman he had mari ried through a self .performed ceremony, Hans Schmidt, an ex Preist was Thursday declared guilty by a New York jury and it being the first one out. I came back to the boarding house, packed my trunk and grip, 'phoned to Blowers' Transfer company., to get my trunk down to that train. Theysent tor the trunk and I put on my hat and was sitting there when they walked in on me (referring to officers who arrested her.) Mrs. Hodges was with them andi re cognized her as the 'lady with whom I was staying in Green ville. I tcld them every thing I knew about it. I told I hem the truth." Solicitor Hill said to her : (Continued on page 8) will bf spntpnrpd to death in the electric chair. This was Schmidt s second triat, the jury hearing the first one failed, to agree. Upon receiving the verdict Schmidt, who is thought by the defense to be crazy said: 4T would rather dip tnnicrht. than' tomorrow and added, "It is as it as I wish it." Upon an improvised gallows made of twisted leather straps and telephone , wires, George Evans, -a white man of Greens boro hanged himself Thursday. In his report about North Caro lina cotton mills, the Commis sioner of Labor and 'Printing says there are 287 mills in opera tion in the State. Of this num ber 265 show an aggregate capi tal of $52,351, 8CJ. The number ; of spindles is 3,515,822; looms, 63,122; cards, 8,704. The mills annually use 372 907,046 pounds of cotton and the product is wor th $71,306,233. The mills employ 59,332 people, which-. means the support of about 175, COO. Eighty five per cent of the employees can read and write. Report says that Harry K. .Thaw is planning to buy an estate f near Asheville and make North Carolina his home. Brother and Raleigh Bercher, two young white men of Camden county were recently convicted of beating their aged mother and only received 30 days for the crime.-- . For the -murder of his wife, Thera Caldwell, and her uuncle Asbury Moody, Jim Caldwell who submitted to a charge of murder in the second degree at Waynesville last week, was sen tenced by Judge Frank Car ter to score 50 years in the State prison. Mr. H. T.. Love joy, a citizen of Rocky Modnt, while on a trip to Richmond, Va., blew out the gas and went to sleep. When found be was batpJv living, hut as a re- Officer Brown followed them behind the boiler, and as he reached the point where they had huddled themselves, the front one facing Mr. Brown made a motion toward his inside coat pocket. This is the move that the negro desperado made at the time that Mr. Brown and Detect ive Poindexter were both shot by him, and moves of this kind make this officer get ready for action, and like . a flash the n egro was covered and ordered to "hands up." An investigation revealed the fact that this youngster was not trying to engage in ny pistol fight with the officer, but it was he who grabbed the pot when the officer arrived and was only try ing to slip the , money to his pocket. The bunch, seven in all Rich ard McRae, Neill Tuck, Jc- Lit- -v . 1 tie, Luther Williamson. JNatnan McLaurin, John Little and Mal colm Fairley were placed in jail, and on Tuesday were . given a hearing in the Recorder's court. John Little turned State's evi dence and was given his free dom, and Richard McRae was de clared not guilty. Each of the remaining five were taxed to the amount of about $1759 each. I : l , -i oi ,aie nigret commnaanon. nut only been i n st r u me nta!" Tn ' getting our school building panned, but also supplying the school with a valuable iano. The oyster supper was a suc cess. Tho attendance was fine and every one seemed to enjoy the occasion to the fullest. Our friend, Jamen Peele, who super intsnded the cooking, fully de monstrated his ability to prepare them in the wav most paletable ; while Mr. J. McN. Patterson, pcting as auctioneer, soon dis posed of the cakes, which the la dies had prepared for tne occa tion, at fancy prices. The net proceeds amounted to about $?3, wThieh will a fraction over cover the puipose for which it was in tended. Messrs. A. K. Jackson and Melvin Bo wen made a "pleasant trip to Hoke county Tuesday. I u Lf i -i X, : i :i't oi ick medical ai! was re ived. ., - : Recorder Joseph McGovern of Hnhnkpn N. J.. has instituted a cigarette cure clinic in his court room, and it is said the room is visited by hundreds seeking treat ment. The treatment consists in 7ahfcincr tho throat Willi a so T UK. S " t . "j X h jution OL nitrate Why He Qiii Smok'ng. "The late Senator IViiliam B. Bate, of Tennessee, bought many a cigar wnicn ne simptv cnewea to pieces without lighting, al though pasfjonately fond of a smoke," said H. M. Doyle, of Memphis. "The reason for this grew out of -a tragedy on the battlefield of Shiloh. During the progress of that bloody fight General Bate, who was devoid of fear, lit a cigar, but had taken scarcely a puff when a ball from the Yankee side knocked the weed from his mouth and, pass ing on, struck his brother, who was not three feet away, in the breast, killing him instantly. After that incident the surviving brother was never known to light another cigar." Washington Post. I i i f I 4 1 i supply of gentian ;ilver and a to chew. when t: e desire to smoe comes. .. The street cars of . Chicago nW it fiia trail cfp? system carry a ...7 piibsenger Lb lm'es of 5 j. j roots for. Miss Ella Wyatt McKinnon of Red Springs has been selected to act as sponsor for.North Carolina j at the reunion of the Con federate veterans to be held in Jackson ville, Fla., tjiis year. Mrs. W. H. H. Bagwell and W. H. H. Bagwell, Jr., have en tered suit against the Southern railway for $75,QC0 for damages sustained in bing hurt b.r a Southern freight train last June a anarge'o wh'ioh tirr.p. Mr J Kt TorrM";rn was killed. ii 1 ;1 I if ' V
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