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Yol. 8 TRYON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1935 Est. 1-31-28
ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE
_AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3. 1879
Vestry Tonight
An important meeting of the
Vestry of The Church of the Holy
Cross has been called for tonight
at 8 o’clock at the Rector’s study.
ta.ll members urged to be present.
E. P. Henson
E. P. Henson .aged resident of
the Gowansville section of Green
ville county, died at a local hos
pital at an early hour Wednesday
morning cf a gunshot wound which
he suffered Tuesday morning.
Henson, who was said to be
between 75 and 80 years old, was
brought to 2, Spartanburg hospital
at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday morning
and attending surgeons said he ap
parently was shot about an hour
curlier.
The charge entered his abdomen
and punctured the stomach and
lung, according to hospital attaches
who said it eippeared to have been
inflicted with a shotgun.
The shooting was said to have
Occurred near Henson’s home be
tween Landrum and Gowansville,
in Greenville county, but Ideal of
ficers last night had not been in
formed of details of the affair.
Mjr. Henson formerly made his
home in the Saxon section. His
two sons were disabled in the
World War, friends said last
night.—Spartanburg Herald.
LUNCHEON PARTY
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Vanderhoef,
Jr., are giving a luncheon on
Thursday for Mr. H. B. Vander
hoef of Greenwich, Conn., and Mr.
Noah Sice of New York, who are
on their ws|y to Mexico. Mr. Slee
is the husband of Margaret Sanger,
famous birth-control advocate.
Burglars Enter
Landrum Depot
The Southern Railway depot at
Landrum was broken early yes
terday morning and two men sus
pected of being implicated in. the
break escaped in a waiting automo
bile after exchanging a fusillade
of shots with a Landrum officer, it
was leagued here last night.
Night Policeman Orr of the
Landrum police, discovered the
break about 1:30 o’clock yesterday
morning while making his rounds
He reported that he saw a man
cdming out of the depot, and halt
ed him.
As he halted the man, the Lan
drum officer said, another man
shot at him with a pistol from
around a corner of the depot build
ing. Orr said he returned the fire.
f:nd that fdur or five shots were ex
changed between him and the ban
dits.
In the exchange of shots, both
men fled and made their getaway
in a V-8 model Ford automobile
which had been left parked beside
the depot. They sped away in the
direction of Tryon, N. C.
The Landrum officer called Ru
ral Officer C. E. Carrut, about 2
a. m„ who came to the scene and
made an investigation.
Officer Carruth said the burglars
had entered the depot by breaking
a window glass on the front side
and reaching through to remove
nails by which the window was
bolted.
Although the bandits ransacked
a number of monev drawers, it is
believed the only loot they obtain
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