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VOL. XLIII. NO. 214
GASTONIA, N. CJ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 7, 1922
SINGLE COPY S CENTS
Weather
Fair
Meeting Gives Rise To Hopes
Of Early Settlement Of Strike
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Railway Shop Crafts Policy Committee of Ninety Is Summoned
to Meet In Chicago Monday Railroad Executives Deny
That There Are Any Peace Overtures Decline to Comment.
CHICAGO, fici. 7. With the rail
way shop crafts policy committee of
ninety summoned to meet in Chicago next
Monday, hope of an early or partial set
. tlement of the rail strike wai renewed
today for the first time since railroad
executives and union chiefs broke off
peace negotiations in New York.
These hopes were founded principally
on the call for the union's policy com
mittee meetintr and statements by strike
leaders of the possibilities of separate
agreements with 52 of the class one roads
representingapproximalely 85,000 miles.
Railroad executives generally either
denied that peace overtures had been
considered in conferences with union
leaders, or declined to comment on ru
mors of an impending settlement. Some
insisted that the strike was broken and
that peace parleys had ended with the
break up of the New York Conferences.
The call for the policy committee meet
, ing issued at Chicago strike headquar
.ters by John Scott, secretary of the
Eailway Employes Department of the
American Federation, of Labor went out
to the general chairmen of the shop
raf tg erganization over the names of
B. M. Jewell, head of the department,
whose whereabouts had remained publicly
unknown since the governments strike
: injunction was granted.
Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad of which Daniel Willard is
president and which is included in the
group of roads from which strike leaders
hope to obtain separate agreements, de
nied knowledge of any conference with
Jewell or his associates.
With the issuance of the call for the
policy committee meeting, Mr. Jewell
was reported to be enroute to Chicago.
The call informed the general chairman
that tho meeting was "very important.
The meeting of . shop craft 's leaders
was called for the same day which Judge
James It Wilkerson set for hearing
the Government's application to muko
the Daugherty injunction permanent.
Attorney General Daugherty announ
ced at Washington that the Government
would consider in duo time what pro
ceedings would be taken against the few
misguided labor leaders who have ninde
incendiary speeches in connection - with
the industrial situation." He said tlto
Government had been "somewhat hamp
ered" by the difficulty process servers
had exeperienced in locating leaders of
ficiuls of the shop crafts organizations.
Union leaders denied that Jewell and his
associates had leen purposely avoiding
the service of the wr.its.
ALABAMA TO HAVE STRONG
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Full State Ticket Will Be
Named at Today's State
Convention to Wage an Ag
gressive Campaign Against
Democrats.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 7. After
today Alabama will have "two strong,
active and progressive" political par
ties, according to republican leaders,
who announced their intention following
a caucus, to "name- a full state ticket at
today's convention here and to wage
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people in the November election.
A threatened fight between factions of
the republican party was Paid to have
been wiped out at preliminary confer
ences and it was the opinion of siwkes
men for the party that peace will reign
at today's meeting which opens shortly
after noon and that a plntf orm will bo
adopted that will "command the confi
dence and s'lipport of the voters who
believe in republican principles and j
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It was said by leaders that local tick- j
ets will be named m at least one-nair
' the counties of the state and tho party
will place candidates in the field in
every congressional district.
-' The number and influence of the
negro at the convention will be negli
gible, according to foremost members of
the party, who attended the caucus.
Oliver D. Street, member of tho na
tional committee, will have a prominent
part in the proceedings, it was stated.
DENY EAMON DE VALERA
' ARRESTED BY IRISH
DUBLIN, Sept 7. Knowledge re
garding the rumored arrest of Eaniou
de Valera or the wounding of Erskine
Childers was denied today by the pub
licity department of the Irish Govern
ment here. 1
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Cotton fu
tures closed firm; spots quiet, 40 points
up. October 21.00; December 21.25;
January 21.11; March 21.21; May
21.17; spots 21.23.
Receipts
Price . . .
42 bales
22 cents
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Friday.
GIVE UP HOPE OF
RESCUING BUSIED MINERS
JACKSON CaL, Sept 7. (By
the Associated Press.) Hopet that
the buried miners in the Argonaut
shaft would be reached by rescue
crews which have been tunneling fe
verishly since a week ago Sunday
night, in time to bring out alive the
entrapped miners, faded after it be
came known early today that rescuers
burrewing from the 3,600 foot level
of the Kennedy workings have yet
to pierce 333 feet of caved-in debris
and timbers and 29 feet of solid
rock.
Unless better conditions are en
countered, it was believed by some
mining experts here that it will be
closer to thirteen than to seven days
before the task is accomplished.
PYTHIAN BAND TO COMPETE
FOR MADE-IN-CAROUNAS
EXPOSITION PRIZE
Gastonia's Pythian Band is going to
the Made-in-Curolinas Exposition on
Gaston County Day, Wednesday, Sep
tember 27th, for the express purpose of
bringing back with them the $500 cash
prize offered by the exposition manage
ment for the best band in the State of
North Carolina. Manager Floyd C.
Todd and his players are , in splendid
shape and firmly believe that they can
prove themselves the beBt North Caro
lina Band.
During the summer this band has been
giving a series of free open air con
certs at Community Service Park on
Tuesday evenings. Thousands of Gas
toniang have enjoyed this music.
At the Knights Templar' Convention
at Winston-Salemn in May this band won
tho decision overa number of competitors,
At the 20th of May Celebration in Char-
lotto this year the. Gastonia band won
the first prize of 430 for being the best
band in the State. Since that time Mad-
ager Todd has had his men hard at work
practicing with the result that they are
in better shape now- than ever before.
If any other North Carolina town car
ries homo thebacon from the Made-in-Carolina
's Exposition they are going to
be under .the necessity of doing some
'tall" playing.
KLUTTZ'S RELATIVES
PREPARING FOR TRIAL
Murderer of Crabtree Not
Likely to Be Tried at Next
Term of Court, However.
RALEIGH, Sept. 6. George W.
Wright, grandfather, and R. Lee Wright,
great-uncle of Charles M. Kluttz,' in the
county jail here charged with the mur
der of Detective Tom Crabtree a week
ago,' are here tonight arranging for the
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Criminal court next week finds the
Kluttz case ready for grand jury action,
but the defense fan not go to tTial now
G. W. Wright visited the boy 's
mother tonight m the hospital. She is
yet too ill to bo told of the tragedy,
and knows nothing of it. The Kluttz
boy, who has long been addicted to dope
and heavy dnnk, hints at others in the
car with him the night that Crabtree was
killed, but the youngster is in no mental
shape to put up a defense and hasn't
been for years. '
Rev. Dr. R. L. Lemons, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Salisbury, came
down with the Wright brothers. John
O. vWright, uncle of Kluttz, also came.
CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR
MUST RUN AGAIN
ATLANTA,, Ga., Sept. 7. Complete
and unofficial returns, with the excep
tion of one precinct in yesterday's white
city primary held unJer the auspices of
the democratic party indicated today
that a second race for candidates who
sought nomination for mayor will be
necessary.
Walter A. Sims, attorney, and James
G. Woodward, a former mayor, will be
the .contestants, neither having received
a majority of all votes cast in the six
cornered race for the office.
Figures in the race for mayor this
morning gave Sims, 5,708 ; Woodward,
2,832; J. R. Nutting, 2,078; James L.
Beavers, 1,061; Dr. John C. White, 667,
and Charles F. Jackson, 197.
Candidates for three other city offices
out of the total of forty-one also will
face a second race.
GOVERNMENT WON'T INSIST ON
CURBING FREEDOM OF SPEECH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Attorney
General Daugherty today sent for Sena
tor Borah, republican, Idaho, chairman
of the senate labor committee, and after
a conference- regarding the Chicago in
junction issued against the striking rail
way shopmen it was indicated that the
government would not insist, in. next
Monday's bearing on the permanent in
junction, on the provisions alleged to
curb freedom of speech.
LIEUT. B. W. MAYNARD
KILLED TODAY WHILE
FLYING IN VERMONT
RUTLAND, Vt., Sept. 7.
Lieut. Belvin Maynard,
known as the "Flying Par
son," was killed while flying
at Rutland Fair today.
2 COMMISSIONERS TO
INVESTIGATE THE ROAD
SCRAP ON IN GUILFORD
Mr. Page Tells R. W. H. Stone
and Delegate the Com
mission Is Also Plain. .
$20,000,000 TO BE SPENT
This Much Left to Be Spent
Out of the Original
$50,000,000.
RALEIGH, Sept. 6. President II. W.
H. Stone's and G. Sam Bradshaw's as
sumption that the state highway com.
mission isn 't " plain people, " " humble
people," or just ordinary "tax-payers,"
got a heft from Chairman Frank Page's
lusty foot today which kicked the idea
so high that when the tail of Gilderoy's
kite is trailing in Pleasant Garden road,
the dual aBsumacy will still be tangoing
amongst the stars.
Commissioner Cox personally request
ed the commission to send a represen
tation to Guilford to investigate the
issues raised and Messrs. Doughton and
Wilkinson were named. Both of these
are entirely removed from the Cox dis
trict and their selection seems to satisfy
everybody. Another Guilford delegation
was here today discussing tho uibson.
ville underpass but it went over for
final settlement. . ..
The state highway commission was
ia session today when the Pleasant Gar
den disputants came before the board.
The noble sandclay turnpike had been
duly eulogized but at Btinaon'a store,
where the dispute begins, the delegation
began to talk about costs. Commissioner
J. Elwood Cox. who favors the route
which he says will save $100,000 to the
eounty and state, said he based his cal
culation on the estimates furnished him
by W. C. Boren, former county commis
sioner and now county highway commis
sioner. President Stone of the farmers'
union was down here to speak for the
folks. He retorted that whereas the
Cox route might save the amount claimed
it would damage the farmers who will
not be served twice that amount and
Mr. Stone was contending that the road
should be sent by the; 45 farmers to be
served rather than by tho Cox survey
which has only 10 farmers on it.
Plain People Not Represented.
G. Sam Bradshaw, of the Guilford
Ear. was appearing for the Stone con
tingeht. He said that he recalled quite
well the chamber of commerce's- action,
but that did not "represent tho plain
uconle. '
"We are all plain people," Chairman
Frank Page said without a second's
interruption of Mr. Bradshaw's noble
oration.
A very elongated citizen in Mr,
Stone's delegation, one of Gray's "mute
inglorious Miltons," only ho wasn't
mute, insisted on talking. He left no
name. But he said Mr. Cox's choice
was the result of a frame-up with the
county commissioners. The Quaker
commissioner did not notice the thrust
and went on with his business. Again
it was used and Mr. Cox rore to object
to tho term. He didn 't like it ami he
was only doing his duty as a state high
way commissioner.
Mr. Stone was ready with the diplo
matics. Frame-up f "Only a mutual
agreement T'' he explained, thus showing
Cow insulting and even defamatory lan
guage, used by the ''plain people,"
"humble people" and "tax-payers"
can be made to serve noble ends.
Brother Stone, who has done so much
for the railroads since he became a
director in the great North Carolina,
who has been banker and talked about
farming, then conducted the highway
commission into realms not hitherto sur
veyed, "projected with, or even looked
at. He told the commission that Ood
had said that Solomon was the smartest
man who ever lived or ever would live,
but God did not say Solomon was
smarter than any two men. What Mr.
Cox should do, according to Mr, Stone,
is to commune with other folks, to talk
to "tax-payers and humble people."
We Are All iiumDie.
"We are all humble people," Chair
man Page chimed in.
Thus the farmers' union man couki
not get across one word of the whining,
whimpering, self-pitying dope that has
gone so well and so often. Frank Tago
refused to allow the Guilford gentleman
to abase himself or his craft by speak
ing of the farmers as a class different
from those who are on the commission.
"We are all plain people," "we are
all humble people," literally took every
thnig away from dockhqalexandcr's suc
cessor, even the literal language of Zion
because Chairman Page would not allow
Mr. Stone to employ it.
The result was that the commission
left this road row in the air. i
Adjourning today to attend the formal
opening of .Roanoke Kiver bridge Thurs
day, the state highway commission fin
ished its business session of two days
and went in a body to the great event
celebrated jointly by Bertie and Martin
counties.
The commission with only a few dele
gations before it at this session, and
with its 1922 program far ahead of
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RECEIVING POINTS FOR
CO-OPERATIVE COTTON
All Important Places In Cotton
Belt That Have Not Li
censed Warehouses Are Re
ceivmg Places For Cotton.
RALEIGH, Sept. 7. Receiving points
at all important places in the cotton belt
that do not have State licensed ware
houses uro being established this week
by B. F. Brown, managed of the cotton
department of the North Carolina Cot
ton Growers Cooperative ' Association
Field representatives of the Association
will be given regular iternarics of towns
in the counties in which hey are located.
In addition to tho field agents, who will
begin receiving cotton right away, there
will be receiving agents at many impor
tant points that do not have warehouses
to take cotton und ship it for members.
The cotton association Jias completed
negotiations with warehouses to receive
cotton at the following places: I'ee Dee;
Monroe, Polkton, Statesville, Mt. Gilead,
Morven, Lilesville, Rowland, Moucure,
Fuyeteville Dunn, Smithfield, Creedmore,
Louisburg, Clinton, Kelford, Pollock
villc. New Bern, Oriental, La Grange.
Contracts have been made by the As
sociation with the following warehouses,
which have not yet received their State
licenses but which will have them with
in the next few days, as their applica
tions arc now in Washington for ap
proval: Charlotc, Greensboro, Garland,
Garner, Kinston, Kings Mountain, Ken-
ly, Lillrgton, Mount Olive, Littleton,
Middlesex, Nashville, Norlina, Sanford,
Elizabeth City, Eveeretts.
Negotiations are pending with a score
of other warehouses at different points
throughout the state. These will be
completed it is expected, before cotton
begins to move in large volume. In the
meantime, cotton received by receiving
agents or shipped by members will be
stored in one of the warehouses named
above. '
Tho first samples received at the State
headquarters of the cotton Association
wa a batch of forty-one from the cotton
warehouses at l'olkton and Morven on
Tuesday. These samples were promptly
classed and this department of the cot
ton association set in motion.
Secretary Bing completed a tour or
eastern North Carolina banks the pasi
week and received assurances of ample
loans to take care of the cotton delivered
by members of the association.
Lawrence Mar rue. State bales Agcni,
will leave next week for a tour of the
textile centers with a view to finding out
the newls of eotton mills for cotton.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
TO CORK BROKEN
LONDON. Sent 6. Interruption r-f
teleeranhic communication between Dub-
In and Cork has led to the belief by
some London newspapers that events of
great moment are happening in the Cork
region especially since fighting fas re
porter there during the night.
Coupled with this was the report that
came through last night of the capture
of Eamon de Valera and Erskine Chil
ders by Irish National forces. This re
port, however, baa not been confirmed.
MTQQ T J?T A TA VT HJ? TITTDr inrrrTlT
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OF SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY IN
WHICH BJLLFARRIS SHOT UP FAMILY
MRS. CANDLER WILL
STICK BY HER HUSBAND
PASADENA, CaL, Sept. .7. Mrs.
Walter T. Candler, wife of the At
lanta financier who was sued - for
100,000 damages by Claude K. By
field, on charges involving an alleged
attack upon Mrs. Byfield by Candler,
arrived here yesterday on the way to
Atlanta. She recently returned from
Honolulu.
"A wife's place is at her hus.
band's side at a time like this," said
Mrs. Candler, "and I am going to
start for Atlanta just as soon as I
can obtain . reservations probably
Friday."
Mrs. Candler's mother and daugh
ter probably will accompany her to
Atlanta.
THINK DR. PEACOCK ESCAPED
FROM RALEIGH IN PLANE
Lexington Folks Think He
Had Aid From the Outside
May Be In Mexico
Europe.
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The following from the Lexington Dis
patch relative to tho escape of Dr. J. W.
Peacock from the iusane asylum will be
of interest :
Dr. J. W. Peacock, who escaped last
Wednesday morning from tho insane de
partment of tho State prison by sawing
through the bars of his cell and letting
himself to the ground by means of sheets
tied in a strip, seems to have disappeared
without a trace beyond that found ut
first, which led to u woods a short dis
tance from the penitentiary.
Although u reward of S400 was imme
diately offered by the stato and descrip
tions of Dr. Peacock telegraphed and
mailed far und near no results have beeu
obtained and the mystery of his getaway
deepens . , '
In case the doctor should be appre
hended in .another state, ther urises a
question as to what procedure would be
taxen to have him returned. Solicitor J.
C. Bower states that he could be brought
back to North Carolina on the charge of
escaping from a place of legal deteution.
However, there are others who contend
that. Peacock might successfully light ex
tradition. He might ulso be charged with
shooting Henry Shaver.
Many conjectures have been heard
here, but of course they are only conjec
tures. Thomasville has been full of such
conjuctures since the sensational escape
it is reported here. One thing appears to
be certain, somebody evidently slipped the
doctor a hacksaw. Such a" thing is not
unusual, however, for hundreds of hack
saws have been slipped into the state pris
on and into practically every county jail
in North Carolina. Not very many men
escape from the peuitentiury itself, but
some do from time to time. But not in
many years has there been the escape oi
so prominent a man as Dr. Peacock and
probably never from tho insane depart
ment of the prison.
One thing that throws some light on
the case of Dr. Peacwk's escape is that
the portion of tho prison where he was
confined does not have the high guard
wall without, so that when Dr. Peacock
let himself to the ground he ulighten out
side the prison boundary and had only to
slip away in the early morning darkness.
rrobably six hours had elapsed before his
escape das discovered.
Another thing that made his escape
more easy than would have beon the caso
of a convict was that Dr. Peacock did
not have to wear prison garb. He was
not a prisoner but was being legally de
tained by the state under u statute per
mitting persons acquitted of crime on the
ground of insanity to be committed to tho
State Prison. Dr. Peacock probably
sed in "eomoany" clothes before
making his swing to liberty.
A conjecture of his escape that has
been advanced, it is reported in Thomas
ville and probably elsewhere, is that an
airplane alighted nearby and that Dr.
Peacock was taken on as a passenger.
The doctor is said to have been an en
thusiast on the matter of aeronautics, as
he was on a number of other questions.
It is being recalled in Thomasville that
some months before tho slaying of Chief
Taylor Dr. Peacock figured in the air
plane wedding of a relative. The couple,
or one of them, motored up to Thomas
ville from Florida and then over to High
Point, where they were married by Ilev.
W. A. Lambeth. Then the bridal party
took to the air and circled around the
church tower while the chimes therein
played sweet wedding music. The honey-
mooners left for a tour after being enter
taincd by Dr. Peacock, who was one of
the participants in the wedding.
Since this affair was 80 unusual and
since Dr. Peacock 's escape was also quite
unusual the situation lends itself to con
jectures. On the other hand, there is
pointed out the extreme difficulty of an
escape by this method and the Btrong
probability of immediate capture. Air
planes attract too much attention to be
very popular as means of escape from
prison.
Many people believe that by this time
Dr. Peacock has probably boarded a ship
and is on his way to some foreign coun
try, from which it would be a very diffi
cult matter to ever secure his return.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. Mhs. Luella
Melius, wdely known European opera
singer, today sought a Federal injunction
restraining Georgo Daiber, a New York
manaeer from handling Mms. Ganna
Walska's booksing's inalleged violation
of her contract with Daiber.
Claude Johnson, Newton and Lela Taylor Dead
and Three Others Wounded When Man Flew
Into Rage and Shot Down Family One By
One Taylors Formerly Resided In South
Gastonia -Farris Taken to State Penitentiary
at Columbia.
With the death of Miss Lola Taylor, aged 15 years, at the, Gaston Sanatorium
Wednesday night, from a gunshot wound in chest and lungs, the list of victims
from the terrible shooting affair at Clover Wednesday afternoon had increased
to three. The life of another, Fred Taylor, a 23-year-old man, is hanging in
the Tbalance at the City Hospital. There are three buckshots in his right lung
underneath the shoulder blade, and he is bleeding internally from this wound
and others. One shot was removed from his groin this morning. It had entered
vuo my hiiu puBBeu arouna to me groin, ms chances lor recovery today are
better than they were late Wednesday afternoon, according to attending physi
cians. Newton Taylor, aged 13, died on the operating table yesterday afternoon
at a local hospital Claude Johnson, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, a boarder
in the home, was instantly killed. Miss Gertie Taylor, who received a wound
in the arm, was removed from tho hospital this morning and returned to her
home in Clover. Dolly Taylor, the Bixth victim of "Fighting Bill" Farris' gun,
received only a slight wound and was not brought to the hospital
Funeral services over the remains of the victims were held today and interment
was in the South Gastonia cemetery.
The above are the outstanding features today of the sensational tragedy of
Wednesday afternoon when William Farris flew into a berserk rage and shot
up the whole Taylor family at the Clover mill over an alleged quarrel between
children of his and the Taylor families. It is stated that he stood on his
porch and shot the victims one by one as they came out of the door,, and that
young Johnson was shot down after tho other five vcitims had been shot. Farris
was removed to the South Carolina state ticlliti'lltiiirv at fViliim)io (
Farris became enraged, it is reported
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here, when the Taylor children and some
of his children became involved in a
quarrel. There had been bad feeling
between the two families all summer,
and it is alleged that he had htrcatened
lie Taylor children before.
The two families are near neighbors
at the Clover mills, and when young
Newton Taylor did or said something
while at play with tho Farris children,
the old man seized his gun, loaded with
buckshot, and from the house opened
fire on the lad. As different members
of the family came to the rescue, he
picked them off as they came out of
the door, from his own porch. Young
Johnson, a nephew of the Taylor fam
ily, was visiting at the home. When he
went to the rescue he was killed in
stantly. The father, J. M. Taylor, was
at work in the mill The mother, for
some reason unexplained, did not come
out of the house.
All of the wounded were rushed' to
local hospitals, where they were given
attention. , ;
Farris was immediately arrested and
conveyed to the York county jail at
York. Farris had been living in and
around Clover for a number of years,
and he, too, was - an employe of this
mill, which is owned by Charlotte in
terests. Feeling around Clover wa iiitense,
but there were no threats of violence.
Farris has. beon marriod twice. He has
a number of children, some of whom
are married.
Y0RD, S. C Sept. 7 Farris is said
to have fired several loads of bucksho
from two guns at the group of six on
the front porch and in the yard of the
Taylor home which is opposite that of
Farris.
In a statement explaining the affair
Fa ris is said by the police to have
stated the Taylors had threatened him.
The shooting, however, they added, re
sulted from a quarrel between the chil
drenn of thetwo families.. Ill feeling
had existed between the families for
some time the officers declared.
Farris surrendered immediately after
the shooting and was placed in the county
jail here, only to be hurried awya to Col
umbia when intense feeling arose.
Inquest was held over the bodies of
Farris victims at Clover this' morning the
cororner's jury returning a verdict that
the three came to their death at the hands
of Fans.
Farris is known throughout this section
of the State as "Fighting Bill", the son
og "Ku Klux John" Farris, a name
given the father as a result of a battle
he is reported to have fought with Ku
Klux Klansmen in the early seventies.
COLUMBIA, & C, Sept 6. Sheriff
Fred E. Quinn and Policeman 11. E.
Steele of York county, arrived at the
South Carolina penetentiary tonight at
Jl o'clock with William C. Farris, who is
charged with killing two persons and
wounding three others, one probably
fatally. Farris was at onee placed in a
cell at the state prison.
YORK, S. C, Sept. 6. Taking up a
children's quarrel and using a shotgun
loaded with buckshot, William C. Farris,
60, textile worker of Clover, 10 miles
north of York, killed Claude Johnson, 21,
and Newton Taylor, 13, and wounde
Fred Taylor, 21; Miss Gertrude Taylor
18; 'Miss Lela Taylor, 15, and Dollie
Taylor, 8. Johnson was killed instantly
and Newton Taylor died an hour later
o the operating table of a hospital in
Gastonia, 12 miles distant where all the
wounded were hurried immediately.
He suffered 27 perforations of the in
testines and died as the 24th puncture
was being sewed up. Fred Taylor is not
expected to recover, according to infor
mation from the hospital at 7 o clock
tonight. He was shot through the lungs
and will likely succumb to internal hem
orrhage. The other victims of the, trag
edy are exected to reeover, though Miss
Gertrude Taylor will have a paralyzed
arm as a result, of severed nerves.
Folowing the shooting Farris surren
dered to Chief of Police John A. Jack-
son, of Clover, who lodged him in the
York County jail at 4 o'clock,
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On account of the excitement and in
dignation prevailing in Clover, which
mado mob violence a possibility, Sheriff
Fred.. E. Quinn took Farris out of the
York jail at 6 o'clock this afternoon
and removed him to another place. Cher-
inff Quinn accompanied by Policeman
R. E. Steele, of York, left with his
prisoner in an automobile and from the
direction taken, it is presumed that they
went to the State pententiary in Colum
bia. There was open talk in Clover of
meting out summary punishment to Far
ris. An inquest will be , held tomorrow
morning, being postponed from this
afternoon on account of the absence oi -Coroner
Paul G. McCorkle, of York.
Farris did the shooting from the
front porch of his home, firing across a
narrow street into the Taylor yard, im
mediately opposite. A quarrel between
the children of the two families is said
to have precipituted the tragedy. It
appears that the children were quarrel
ing about a well used jointly by both
families when Farris plunged into the
u flair by get ing his shotgun and opening,
fire at all theTaylors in sight. So far as
is known all of them were shot down
without offering any resistance.
Though there were several eye ' wit
nesses, some of the details of the killing'
are conflicting and it will take an inquest
to clear them up. Johnson was a relative
of tho Taylors and lived with them.
Tho well that was the source of trouble
was recently cleaned out by Farriss, it
is said and his children accused the Tay
lor children of throwing trash in it and
otherwise polluting the water.
Farris said after the killing that he
had been threatened by tho Taylors. He
declined to talk about the affair when
in the York jail this afternoon.
Farris has been living in Clover for
several years and is a native af northern,
York, lie has a wife and severa child
ren. He has retained Thomas F. McDow
to defend him, it is understood. Crim
inal court convenes hee Monday but it
is not likely that his case will be heard
then.
The Taylor family moved to Clover
from Gastonia six months ago. J. M.
Taylor, head of the family was working
in the mill of the Clover Manufacturing
company when the shooting occurred.
CLOVER. S. C, Sept. 6. Claude
Johnson, 20, was shot and instantly
killed and five of his cousins Bhot and
seriously wounded at 2:30 o'clock this
afternoon .by William Farris, 60, a
neighbor living across the street in the
Clover mill village. Those badly wound
ed are Gertie Taylor, 20, Fred Taylor,
22, Newton Taylor, 20, Dolly Taylor,
10, and Lela Taylor. 16. They are the
children of James M. Taylor, of Clover
mill village. The shooting is said to
have resulted from an old quarrel be
tween the children of the Taylor and
Farris families.
Following the shooting Farris surren
dered to Chief of Police John Jackson
and was carried to York jail. It is re
ported he has been carried to the state
penitentiary for safekeeping. .
According to Tom Perry, a neighbor
nnd eyewitness, a quarrel between Ear
ns and the Taylor children was renewed
this afternoon, and Farris is alleged to
have said "This thing has to be set tie. I
and I might as well settle it now."
With that he grabbed, two shot guns,
a double barrel and a single barrel, and
began firing at the Taylors and John
son, who were in the Taylor yard and
Hie Taylor poreh 40 feet across the
street.
Claude Johnson was almost instantly
killed by buckshot. Gertie Taylor was
shot in the side and neck; Newton ia
the abdomen; Dolly in the right arm
and Lela in the arm and stomach. Pre. I
Taylor, according to Perry, had run out
of the house to get a doctor. After
shooting the five Farris put dwn his
gun and proceeded to draw a bucket
of water. Seeing Fred Taylor return
ing 100 feet sway he is alleged to have
exclaimed, "If yon come any nt-srer
I'll kill you." Fred continued bis pace
and Karris shot him in the si.U.
; The five Taylors were carried u a
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