https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/01dff5ba52ff5d9f4525d8484c99ca8f.pdf fe45efe4a53d06360d8f003dccd636e2 PDF Text Text Year $2.00 Per GOVENOR READS ASSEMBLY MESSAGE (Fbr Hamburg ifmtlh 1| Established in Advance BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20,1921. LONE STAR NEGRO WHOLE FAY IS WIPED OUT IN PENITENTIARY AGED WOMAN IS BURNEI). Mrs. Louise D. Logan, of Columbia, Found Dead. | in 1891 RIDES TO COLUMBIA. PEOPLE NOT BROKE, 1 OCONEE MAN SAYS recovered RESOLUTIONS Gaffney Boy Returns Horse and Gets * Old Job. ; i Gaffney, Jan. 16..The Jones-Poole Columbia, Jan. 14..Caused from WANTS NO "HARD LUCK" either sparks igniting her bed or her SHERIFF HILL CARRIES SLAYtR TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED Mule company of Gaffney has STATE FINANCES DEALT WITH was taken the horse which by INTRODUCED. NEAR PAMPLICO. night clothing catching on fire, Mrs. COLUMBIA. TO white EXCLUSIVELY. the man, Fred ALMOST young Wolfe, Louise D. Logan, aged eighty-six, the barn saying who at left note a widow of the late Charles Logan, he had taken the animal. Wolfe was burned to death this morning 2 stated that he went as far as about 5.55 o'clock at her home just riding the horse, and that Vote for Governor and Lieutenant across from the state capitol on the Calhoun Officer Caught Fugitive and Theory is That L. S. Bighain Shoots while he was in a restaurant, he Recommends Tax on Incomes and Governor Declared by corner of Assembly and Senate and Two Sister, Boys, Mother, Mob..Dastard Eludes heard two men talking about the Large that is The Tax..Not in Favor of streets. presumption Senate. th)en Ends Own Life. of the horse and that a taking at Lone Star. Crime flew the from fire, open sparks Cotton Acreage Legislation. of $25 Had been offered for his her bed while she was asleep or arrest, and that he thefl and there Columbia, Jan. 14..Senator that she was feeding her pet dog onL Florence, Jan. 16..Discovery Jan. 15..Richard Columbia, R. 12..Governor Jan. return. of Oconee, sprung something of a that he decided Columbia, had better of the bodies of five members of the hearth when her clothing caught gle, Calhoun county negro, who shot A. Cooper read his annual message afire and sfie sprang into tne Dea tc' He was away four days and it was surprise on the senate today. The a white the Bigham family revealed that the Earl killed Wadford, and of the to the two houses general smother the flames. She was dead man, seriously wounded Corbett Zeig entire family, living about five miles stated yesterday that he was given point of it was that the state of South in joint session at noon today. when a neighbor, Mrs. from Pamplico in the southeastern his job again with the mule com- Carolina and the people in South discovered by and white painfully another man, ler, The message deals almost Carolina are not broke by a "durned" Melvin Platte, lying at the foot of th ! wounded Mrs. Wadford and her four part of Florence county, was wiped pany. the It is finances. state with His resolution is rather slrikbed. months old baby at the Wadford out some time yesterday afternoon, be any more depressed yesterday sight. that the the of unusual and reads Iiks this: and governor opinion ing Mrs. Logan is survived by very few home near Lone Star Wednesday a total of five being killed. said. than he usual, be reduced "Whereas, the senate has had property tax levy should L. S. Bigham, aged about of her immediate family. Mrs. LoganL night, was brought to the state I into car with my "When the got to mills and one-half twelve resolutions of a distressing \ from is thought to havfi shot and killwas a native of Lexington county, hex afternoon by Edmund to yesterday to I Pamplico," go family nine mills, and the governor maiden name being Miss Louise iff Hill and Sheriff Dukes after the ed his mother, Mrs. M. M. Bigham, Bigham testified, "I left my mother nature presented before it; and three the measures whereby Schwartz. She has lived in ColumbiaL officers eluded a mob of between 600 aged 60; his sister, Mrs. Marjorie and sister and the children at their "Whereas, Such resolutions are and one-half mills may be raised since her to mislead the people as to childhood. A. Black, aged 35; and the latter's various occupations and play. As far early men. and 1,000 from other sources. His our real condition; and It has been Mrs. Platte's customL The negro's act greatly enraged two adopted children, Leo as I know there had been no are for the enactment of a "Whereas, The state of South and John McCracken, to awaken Mrs. Logan every morning the people of Calhoun county and all aged nine, Instead of the day. during measure for a tax on incomes, gifts and when she' knocked at Mrs. is undoubtedly hurt by the low troubles going straight to Pamplico, I went Alleged family a posse searched the aged five. night Thursday of and inheritances, an increase prices of its products, still the door at 5.55 a. m., she swamps and woods for the fugitive in which an estate valued at about up the road to see Bob Foxworth for and privilege licenses, and a and other classes of citizens, \ the bed afire with the deceased's* and members of the sheriff's party $75,000 was at stake, is reported to a minute.- As we came back we saw not are while yet depressed, consumption tax on gasoline, ieeling body at the foot badly burned. She5 here yesterday believe have been the cause of the tragedy. mother stagger but of the yard. I and soft drinks. Nine mills on immediately summoned the negrc> bringing Fogle broke. L. S. Bigham has not been officially then turned and caught a glimpse of negro might have been "Therefore, Be it resolved, That property would produce about four butler who attempted to extinguish thedealt with the crime as the changed by been had he caught almost with woods the into Smile turning ly million dollars. will not make a report for in a run. He had his right hand up no further resolutions of a the flames. In the meantime turning the mob. jury for is scale A graduated suggested nature be received and in an alarm of fire. The negro, who is said to be about about two weeks, but the theory is toward his breast as if something in the pessimistic but that like the income tax provisions, exempting senate, Charles Logan, the late husband oi 17 years of age, was barefooted and that he was the murderer and the I not see but did in was any pistol, it, be forthwith rejected and not young men of payment on $1,000, Mrs. 'Logan, died about twenty years when he torn his were as badly clothing died we mother carrying my tax A of $2,000. and married men The father of L. S. Bigham was the her into the house. T. D. Garrison considered." ago. He i^ remembered for his manj at the penitentiary, indicating of one-half of one per cent, would be benefactions The senate had about passed the to the city of Columbia tlrat he had been dodging about in late Senator Bigham and the family and Hoyt Bostick had come up in to $3,000; When he died he bequeathed a levied on net income up resolution by a viva voce vote when. is a prominent one in the county. the swamps. Officers of the the meantime. I called my sister, Mr. Christensen asked what is was all one per cent, from $3,000 to $5,000; tract on Elmwood avenue and a iary said yesterday that Fogle's first All were evidently killed Mrs. Marjorie Black, but she did not about and had the resolution read a two per cent, from $5,000 to the for cash man's of nucleus $40,000 except Mrs. Bigham, the move after getting inside was to light answer. three per cent from $10,000 to second time, and suggested that it had of a modern school building a cigarette. He seemed not to who lived a few moments, mother, Child. Finds Youngest better go over. Under the senate 150,000; and four per cent on all net which was completed some years ago preciate the seriousness of the crime and the oldest child, who died at 5 "I then went back the on piazza a income above $50,000. The grounds and money, however he is alleged to have committed. o'clock this morning. The tragedy and found John McUrachen, tne rules one objection carries a that out The governor pointed over until the following day, and were to have become available at the5 owes his life took place at the old Bigham home youngest child, dead there. is it said, The negro, My tax of one cent per gallon on the resolution will, therefore, be coi& death of Mrs. Logan but she waved to Sheriff Hill, of Calhoun county, the five miles from Pamplico. on the floor afdnrod of n latpr dav. also was mother's cap would yield approximately title to 'both the land and the monej officer displaying courage and bravery After slaying all within the house just by the back door and there was Senator Johnstone inquired if Sen- \% ol released them for the purpose and is it at the Bigham alleged, his duties. time, of the mother discharge I in believe all about. blood my Cotton acreage reduction by force erecting the school. The property has ator Mason was a farmer, but the went deep into the woods surround- and the child were shot on the Wednesday Night. Shooting resolution had gone over and no dieof legislation is not deemed enhanced many thousands of dollarsi the place and fired a bullet Into ing the into to tried that she and get the but The shooting occurred Wednesday his own brain. When his cussion was in order. by the governor, since bequeathed and is considered[ body was road for help. makes it of sufficent importance one of the most caluable schoo.I night, but did not become generally Mason stated that his * Senator noon today his right hand it .found for look to my started "We then All day "that the farmer must be impressed propertfes in the state. In additiort known until Thursday. grandfather, his father and he had the pistol. It was still grasped was It other child. the and sister rea of all been farmers, and that there were with the absolute necessity to the city olI Thursday Sheriff Hill, his deputies, left Mr. who examined $9,000 Logan the physician by two hours almost dark, probably duction of cotton acreage for the I Columbia for work of protecting and an ever increasing crowd sought the nothing but farmers in his famly. that Bigham had been dead] body found we that reached we home, Hiai ly luuisuay 1115111,, r Ugie. Senator Mason in conversation said, \ year 1921." dumb animals. more than twelve hours. room her in dead Black Mrs. the to the widespread "Because of that he realized that the farmers, in At her own insistence Mrs. LoganL said, three negroes came The murdered persons were all not did of the prohibition law, Governor lived alone in the house in which she iff and told him where they thought shot in the with everyone else, head; the bullets in each "Later some one found the child, common have a bed of roses just at this time, Cooper asks for more funds died, the furniture of which is o1I Fogle was hiding in a house six miles case entering just beneath their Leo McCracken, on a pile "of straw but that they were far from beings for enforcement. He emphasizes antique mahogany and walnut and isj from where the shooting occurred. was shot more than once, None behind a potato bank out in the vard. "broke," and even if they were that if the revenue from fines and considered by collectors to be of muchl Several citizens were present when missed that balls had two although forfeitures had been paid into the value. the negroes told the sheriff and they their mark were found near the back He was still alive. We called Dr. "broke" there was no use to be paradPoston as soon as possible. The boy ing that fact to the public. As state treasury, there would have been spread the word to members of the door. The large pistol used by i» ^ died about 5 o'clock this morning. of fact, both the senate and a balance to the credit of this mob scouring the swamps for the an unexplodedj It ROOM. contained still BLOOD SPATTERED was the that boy is evident The governor is of the the house met today to receive new the that indicates which cartridge, shot." was he when the of Sheriff Hill and his men went for that the violators bills and to go through the technical man reloaded. Tells Story of Madman's Assault or Mr. Bigham could not say why the requirement of declaring the official law should serve terms in the negro and began a search of the The Bigham home is more than room of Mrs. Black was not searched vote for Governor R. A. Louisiana Family. Cooper and house. N After a few moments or and "that the law should be so a mile distant from any half he "It so," happened sooner. just found Wilson G. a guilty located was that Lieutenant Governor person amended searching, the negro one could be found No house. Jan. about think not did DeRidder, La., we said, "that a mattress by Sheriff Hill, but of wilful violation of the prohibition There were bare quorums heard had shooting who any today the of saving despaired tonight it." of in either branch, as it was law should serve a term due to the fact that the officer and about the 1 place. victim latest John life of him to Orlander, asked had Some one go of the any no known that the usual week-end and that the men in the house had payment lights a Ghastly One. Sight ol two and Mr. children, with wife it. his do not but he just did recess would be taken today. The amount of money should not the sheriff did not let his discovery A #3 Vi -tt. leti ge uuwu gatiicicu UUHU5 believe authorities the a fiend brother that his who, declared also of service Bigham house will meet again on Monday to relieve from the be known generally. While other passed from room to room had been in financial troubles and evening and the senate today agreed the imprisonment sentence, and that is the same that seven years age) members of the party continued the day and the dead. The sight was a had aften spoken of them. Two claimed 45 persons as his victims inL search, the Calhoun officer slipped viewing to meet at 11 o'clock Tuesday. The there should be no suspended On a bed in a ghastly .one. 1 from reached that trail of a terror was while he of service the postmaster after years ago no except out with Fogle, who made engrossing department, through its and mother the room aged lay Texas. a to with Houston, Lafayette at Orum, he was charged from three to six months." to shoot or resist arrest. At J new chief, Mr. Jackson, announced their faces the child, youngest theii his a Besides wife, been had to Orlander, There as always shortage. that the department would remain Another recommendation least 15 men were in the house when In an adjoining with blood. Paul, and 6, it had daughter of Josephine, age and that about this is statutes was said question here and be ready for such clerical change in existing Fogle was discovered, it children of the oldest room the of victims the old are. son, been settled. He had also work as might bp offered at any time the state highway department. The eight year terday. a bed where he died at 5 o'clock assault madman's bloody been had supposedly state who certain the of relieve the people After getting the negro out of during the recess. governor would this morning, and beside him the body trying to do him wrong, he said. with an axe. of the of duty to him rushed Hill highway department house, Sheriff Senator Wightman, of Saluda, has of Bigham was placed when the "That morning about 12 o'clock, evidently got his legislative gun out collecting automobile license fees by The tragedy was discovered early waras wrangeuurg iu an auiumuunc. searchers returned with his body. we had paid off the hands together transferring these duties to the office today by a child who sought entrance1 Fogle was found between 9 and 10 for many of the present activities of in the room she usually Upstairs which of store the little to was grocery turn brother in I that who noticed and the sheriff my of 12 state, o'clock o'clock and of secretary by the state government. Today he was the body of Mrs. He would stand awfully depressed. would distribute them tnrougn tne Orlander was proprietor, to make a had him in the Orangeburg jail. The bills looking toward the oldest sister of Bigham; Black, the door small Finding purchase. in an abstracted and about each of county. court about of clerk gaze sheriff reached Orangeburg up abolition of the Board of Public Wel ./gja just in front of the manner. He did not have a pistol fare and the State Tax Commission. The governor also recommended a closed the little girl went to the side midnight. Sheriff Hill said yesterday it lay on the floorlate this afternoon dresser. Until complete revision of the present state entrance leading to the sleeping his first thought was to smuggle the when the coroner's jury completed that I know of. The pistol he did He proposes to devolve these duties of the family. Shrieking for negro on ftie Carolina Special and get the killing with was mine and was on other departments and revert to pension law for Confederate were bodies the evidence, taking the aroused she neighbors. state help in my bureau drawer when I left t£e county board of assessors in tax him to the penitentiary. ans. He would abolish the Lying across their beds, clad in the house. There was another board and distribute the matters. Mr. Wightman is also Start for Columbia. to said the is tragedy Although the the their man, in night clothes, my the in somewhere house, through the office of the of introducing a bill to abolish Early yesterday morning Sheriff have been committed at 3:30 o'clock Walls were found. children and obtained general, which plan the State Highway Commission. -He Dukes, of Orangeburg, decided to yesterday afternoon, it was late last mother's room, I think." were floor and bed and clothing also It Edmund is Mrs. of two The ago. until years testimony has already introduced a bill looking up make a get away with Fogle and night before word of it reached with blood, while a broken little two daughters, her and recommended that the pensions be Bigham a flat 20 per cent, reduction in the to bring him to Columbia. The officials and they county showed how an window on the latch the in Confederate those Mr. to Bigham who accompanied salaries or compensation of all state, paid "only officer found his automobile not sent out dispatches asking car house the just from and sailors, or the widows of entrance had been gained. away county and other officers connected functioning properly, however, and officers to be on the watch out for the from were lips Moans issuing financial at of every with either the state or county the shooting, tallied such, who are in need his start was delayed. In the in nearby towns. Bigham conscious was She of the woman. the Mr. of Bigham. Under present assistance." point with that time snerin jtim wim ms utsyuncai Bigham's brother, Edmund There were some at the scene of al lveterans receive a pension, a despite her terrible injuries, but, with had arrived ancl it was decided to Senator Johnstone suggested that the house with his left had to Her talk. unable her were to jaw split, who as the shooting today graduated scale obtaining the finance committee had under the negro in the Calhoun husband lay beside her, the top of bring machine. Sheriff Dukes then family in an automobile at 3:10 that Smile Bigham had doubt to consideration the resolution o'clock. He returned from a short done the wholesale killing or that he his skull broken. The children were informed looking toward the extension fcr the th* few men at the i visit to a neighbor's house about 20 had killed himself. All of the Sub-District Institute No. 5. unconscious, suffering from great payment af taxes, without penalty, jail that he was going to a minutes later and found his mother found be today, gashes in arms, legs and shoulders. could which until April. The committee was anxplace in the county and would The Methodist sub-district institute Although an Italian merchant is return shortly. This was done to staggering toward the road. He however, pointed toward him as the ious to know the attitude of the jumped from his car but the aged .No. b, comprising tne sunaay scnoois1 held on suspicion, Sheriff Frazier and the track, woman died almost before he reached murderer and suicide. The complex county authorities, and how this mob off Calhoun the throw of Ehrhardt and Lodge circuits, will his deputies are tonight searching estate situation in which the Bigham extension might affect county should it show uP at Orangeburg. her. Others happened to drive by xicia u ecu ?-ntto/3 fnT fV»o rvocth vo.1T convene at Lodge Methodist church for a negro with whom Orlander is j and suggested that the various Sheriff Dukes then took Fogle out the house at that timd, and when January 30, at 11 a. m. All the trouble. said to have had senators, if opportunity permitted, of the jail through the back yard and they bore the body of Mrs. Bigham or two, gave rise to the doubts schools are requested to send a the of living some people by the inquire what the home view was with party into the house they saw evidence of placed him in the car and 12:30, adjournment for dinner. representative delegation. in the community. reference to the extension of the time was soon on the way to Columbia, I blood on the floor and began an Afternoon session.2:00, song » PROGRAMME First. Black Mrs. Kills 11 for the payment o/ taxes. the start being made about which revealed the 'ftag 2:10, reports; 2:20, of Morning session.11:00, devotions scene the at From the situation o'clock. "Everything was quiet as a slaughter of three others. the L. J. the unreached.making 11:20, Jones; led by and songs, the shooting it is believed tTiat the The Hague, Jan. 17..The former lamb when we left," Sheriff Dukes At the inquest today Edmund by a state worker; 2:40, From first. "Evangelism our chief business," A. murderer shot Mrs. Blbck said. The party met a group of men testified he had been away from tbe cleanness of the bullet wound, German empress, Augusta Victoria^ a Christian leadership.the S. Varn; 11:40, "What, why and how is reported to be very sriously ill in a road making the trip through the house only twenty minutes. He and of decision day," Rev. T. L. Belvin; educational movement," Rev. R. P. the room into he crept evidently She suffered a relapse immed. Orangeburg county, but had no had left his brother standing in the shot her before she knew it. It is 12:00, "Our organized Sunday school Hucks; 3:00, miscellaneous business, in getting to the city. The party yard. He had acted strangely for lately after the former crown prince, i D. M. VARN, adjournment. work," W. E. Willis, district weeks but he did not appear to (Continued on page 5, column l.)|:returned to Wierengen. President. (Continued on page 2, column 1.) 12:20, enrollment of delegates; Wightman Has Gun Kills 1, Wounds Others Five Persons Killed Tax Question Discussed Gasoline _____ Columbia reward igniting Fo' today Mason, fortyfivp numerous McCracken, calculated Carolina farmers assembly exclusively penitentiary Sher5 .' suggests recommendations business tobacco ° ' Logan's discovered ' summari1 coroner's ' depressing resolutions suicide. arrived ' _ quarreling ' $10,000; valuable erection penitent1 ap' ' instantly resolution ' _ gasoline $400,000. " piazza expedient condition stated r ttt.1. m , 1 mi n violation department. opinion prohibition prison imprisonment, sufficient ' running upstairs, ' A . r*rs 4- Cf attempt yess s°\ 1 ._ ^ 4. downstairs covered layon never spoken ^ occupied Marjorie soldiers statute quarters I introduced undisturbed. woman spattered income. Orangeburg TTM1 -*iL l_;_ J mean1 officer's Orangeburg certain Florence immediately Bigham, pistol thinking before inclined evidence governments. serious , 1. - Sunday mvuiT^u mi i.uu ^ . expressed investigation Bigham service; "Discovering survey," "Preparing president; Harvey. present already ' i veter! pension pensions comptroller amatt^r , neighboring under -i -- temples. Bigham ' ' i j- % upstairs. fugitive. 12..Surgeons * after 10 sher> sentences *"*- ^ - . trouble several various finances, * ' today. ... � https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/4e441fccacd534291b1cab844a56ad98.pdf a25f8514fe6b1a231ecd7c64b61e65d3 PDF Text Text De-| dispatches I I I r starred recently. composed Parlette Canada. January I sister-inlaw, Bigham, kitchen other before Big[ Bigham, Bigi George[ imprisonment 1 PHONE 15 ' : | TomDucker IJ ?8 ^ ry I BAMBERG, S. a Service ".:. V! > . ... .... County vS&A i February, Bamberg J. T. Herndon LAXATIVE J^3 .EHWHilll IIIIIMff undersigned musical cultured lyric Robert members Wa Ln rue accompanist, ifc musicians, accompany A *. Sliced Boiled Ham Sliced Bacon I Quality THE CITY attendancePRESSING CLUB Lindquest **.*;» l estate hundred season vanety Best on the U. S. flarket ' will help and inspire the young men of Carlisle whom the state of , South Carolina has committed to The Carlisle School has this care and training. spared neither pains nor money your CLAUDE MELTON. .Adv. Formerly Operated by j a most boy's body wras half-way down the in providing for Bamberg of NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. steps, indicating that he was trying splendid lyceum course, consisting Mr. Naill live attractions tnai represent the meantime the In to escape. and quality beyond all former Notice is hereby given that the child evidently had made his way Is Now Being Operated by guardian of Virginia Ayer \ into the yard and wras run down, seasons. The course will open on January Grimes will on the 11th day of being overtaken near a potato bank 21st 1921, file his final accounting ! with the coming of Albert at the rear of the kitchen. From all as such guardian, and will at the Mr. same time make application to J. J. and assisting artists. that can be gathered Bigham must |! in America and Brabham, Jr., probate judge of have immediately buried himself in, Lindquest is known county, for his final discharge Tenor with the thick woods a mile from the house Europe as "the American First-Class Work Guaranteed. said as guardian. R. A. AYER, the voice of gold." The greatest where he took his own life. of Virginia Ayer Grimes. Guardian LET US GIVE YOU critics of the age are unanimous January 18, 1921. Bigham was about forty years old. finest the of He was unmarried and was a son of in proclaiming him one He The Qototoe That Does Not Affect the Head < the late Senator L. S. Bigham, who concert tenors of this generation. Because of its tonic and laxative effect. intellect, musical a broad has senate the in than ordinary better terms is BROMO QUINLNE served several not cause nervousness nor and polished, and an exquisite Quinine and doesRemember the full name and from Florence county. in head. nnging voice. W. GROVE. 30c. of of E. The for the look signature quality engineer. a civil Bigham was Miss Leonora Allen and Mr. only surviving members of the MacDonald are the other www ham family now are Edmund Miss concert company. this of and home, old the at who lives whose Allen, soprano, and Mr. Allen, Dr. Cleveland Bigham, are highly accomplished whereabouts are unknown. Dr. and well qualified to ham was convicted in the Mr. Lindquest. town county court several years ago This attraction this season has sold of the murder of his wife. He w:»3 in the large colleges and universities sentenced to three years the United in the penitentiary, but before of Europe, Canada and an engagement, but by he could be taken to prison, jumped States at $500 fortune Carlisle his bond and has not been heard of a rare piece of good services for half since. The amount of the bond was School procures theiractual cost, but a price, much below $10,000. To do your BATTERY WORK, courtesy that the Bureau wishes to Still Uncollected. any kind of battery. We have for past an experienced battery new to The state of South Carolina has extend out of gratitude bond do battery work, and have the the collect to never been able Music together club, The I Bamberg the money and the matter is now in m MBgaa with all music lovers of the commuparts for your battery. 'hands of the attorney general for and a in us and trial, Come give It is understood that the nity, are urged for your own we think wo can. please you in in to hear this concert. Yours, work and price. Bigham estate is responsible for the We rare a is opportunity. this case, the of money, all the members kind and quality We also have rental batteries having signed the bond except shall be given that an into us for you to use while we are Mrs. J. Bogan Cain, who died rather of music that leads repairing yours. that lies even beyond the suddenly during the influenza and tears, where demic, leaving a husband and one power of laughter and longing fill us with son. As a possible motive for his inspiration like the deed yesterday, it may be stated that the pure and the beautiful, with the L. S. Bigham has been suspected of red and white meeting of a rose. To lift us high to make mutilating the county records for the these are the experiences purpose of getting hold of the estate us strong,owe ourselves oftener than that we lands. This matter is being It seems that about the time occasionally. BAMBERG, S. C. Following the Lindquest concert Dr. Cleveland Bigham left Florence the Bighams transferred their WANTS TO GO ON GANG. in the estate of the late Mrs. J. Bogan Cain, the only member of the family not on the bond. All the Hugh Bramlett Withdraws Motion For a New Trial. deeds to the thousand or more acres of land bear her name. Greenville, Jan. 13..Hugh T. Since her death, it is stated, that Bramlett, convicted last week of the Bigham has been attempting to COTTOX BROKERS a settlement from her husband who murder of his mother-in-law, .Mrs. HMVV VVM 108 Jackson St., Augusta, Ga. is a deputy sheriff of this county, but' Lou .McHuyh, with recommendation For Leng Distance call us at the the matter has not been closed. Sev-j to mercy, was this afternoon Cotton Exchange. Cotton handled eral pages have been torn from the' by Judge George E. Prince to serve in ten-hale lots. We solicit your deed books, the indices indicating, the remainder of his life at hard business. H Bramlett today withdrew his Correspondents and it is stated that they relate to the IICSE & SOX, Bigham lands, and it is also said ihat motion for a new trial and announced Broad 81 Street, Xew York. in more han one case the wording of through his counsel that he was to receive sentence. Bramlett the deeds where the record is in long hand has been -crudely altered to ii asked that instead of being CITATION FOB LETTERS OF AD-! he be state the to to, entitled penitentiary show that Mrs. Cain was MLMSTRATIOX. t fID ! the on sentence serve his to COL imci permitted iinru only a nan or case might le in the certain tracts j chain gang here where he would be The State of South Carolina.County of Bamberg. Ev J. J. Brabham.j referred to. The mutilation of the near his family and his aged mother. [. Jr., Probate Judge. m court house records caused something This request earnestly pleaded tor Whereas, C. If. Brabham has made j £&? of a ssnsuliou and the matter hasi by Bramlett's counsel and strongly suit to me to grant him Letters of the Estate and ef-: opposed by Solicitor .Martin was giv- AdministrationAX.ofBrabham. been kept quiet until absolute of \V, fects I J*a en consideration by Jud?e Prince, could be secured. are. there'ore, to cite and These the in serve BramleU to ad.ro: ish all and singular the Kin- i but included a provision that dr'Hl and Creditors of the said W. M. S*: i rag l&ifea tobacco mnxcs 1:10:2 i'kkxs. f$#'ii»"*W fc-Si ''in case the insane asylum unite in Brabham, deceased, that they be and of before me, in the Court Genera! Willingness to S* 11 in a certificate that you have entirely appear to be held at Bamberg. o;i Probate, recovered your mental balance you the 21st day of January, next, after hereof, at 1 1 o'clock in may be, on request of the publication Lexington, Ky., Jan. 17..Higher of Greenville county, transferred the forenoon, to show cause, if any have, why the said Administra- | prices and general willingness on the for hard labor upon the public works they should not be granted. part of growers to sell characterized of said county for the remainder of tionGiven under my hand this 6th day j the reopening today of hurley your sentence." of January, Anno Domini, 1921. Ken-1 Central J. J. BRABHAM, JR., market throughout Judge of Probate. 1-20 tusky, according to reports received! Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. < U. S.1 SLICING MACHINE f Strengthening reserved provided Excellent Numbers. c' ^ regularly Beef I Sliced jj ' his mother, the piazza, which connects the and dining room with the main house. There he shot her and the youngest of the two children. The -I- unhealthy Lindanes! audiences. largest s ji^ Carolina. February, coun-j Estill Orangeburg, | r NOTICE OF niSCHAIlOF. The markets closed artists will come "The Harry Leiter Notice is hereby given that I will January 4 following refusal of the Light Opera Company," "The Clifton file Girls my final account with Hon. J. J. "Tlie at at and Virginia their This crops Mallory Players." City People Visiting in farmers to market Brabham, Jr., Judge of Probate for Other Points. Sextette," and Ralph Parlette. prices offered at. that time. State of South Bamberg county, At only one point.Carrollton, Ky., tailed announcements will be made as Guardian for Grace Moore .Miss Mary Valiev, of Holly Hill,' .was any dissatisfaction shown over as each company follows the other. Langford, upon the 5th day of 1921, now next ensuing, and Our Light Opera Company has made; is visiting Mrs. S. C. Hollifield. prices offered by buyers. There, will petition the Court for an order showed, the market closed a "great hit" throughout the .Mrs. Geo. P. White is spending of discharge and letters dismissory. at 2 p. m. because of complaints of try. The Mallory Players have a few days in Union with relatives. ALEX LANGFORD, New of not Platforms offered the did on Guardian. that Lyceum farmers prices .Miss Ethel Black has gone to This 8th A. D., dav of January, costs. Decision as to York City and Philadelphia only to spend a few days with friends. pay production 1921. 2-3n The Virginia Sextette is whether the markets will reopen is to .Mrs. D. C. Murph, of of six cultured Virginia girls be made tomorrow. No Worms in a Healthy Child spent Monday in the city with the who sing and play well. Ralph All children troubled with Worms have an Reports from practically ail relatives. color, which indicates poor blood, and as a is everybody's favorite.his markets showed that rejections of there is more or 1 ess stomach disturbance. rule, .Mrs. D. G. Felder, of Biltmore, buvers' offers were rare. "The University of Hard Knocks" has GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, is in the city for a few days on N. Prices offered on the Lexington been heard around America and the digestion, and act as a general improve a visit to relatives. market, the largest in the world, Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then The tickets this season, covering throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be .Rev. Geo. P. White attended a were slightly better than before the five attractions, are offered at in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle. meeting of the Baptist general board growers forced suspension on in Columbia this week. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 4, warehousemen stated tonight. three-fifty ($3.50) an extremely low Albert that recall around we when was price .Mrs. R. C. Jones and Miss Lil- The average price here Pursuant to an order directed to stated. was alone commands a price of not it 100 week-end the pounds, past $12 per lian Martin spent the undersigned, in the case of' me, Approximately 900,000 pounds was less than two-fifty to three-fifty T. M. Bailey, in Allendale with relatives. plaintiff, against C. C. stated in all large, seat to warehousemen per $3.50) and here ($2.50 McMillan sold et defendants, in the al, of Virginia, .Dr. E. 0. Watson, Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg and university bids growers of by college city, that rejection spent Sunday in the city shaking would is notice County, hereby given to all Head not total one per cent. the hands with his many friends. claims against 'persons having has authorized me of the Duncan three Colonel least at for buyers McMillan of Mrs. Susan Bailey, -^-C. P. King, superintendent of the firms to state that an entire side section of deceased, to file the same with me, manufacturing tobacco Charleston division of the Southern were on the local floors today and the Carlisle auditorium will be duly itemized and verified, on or the 5th day of February, 1921, railway, was a visitor in the city the offers were made for every basket for those of the city who hold on said day I will hold a reference and week. past of quality. Prices ranged season tickets, and chairs will be regardless office at Bamberg, S. C., for the at my .Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Glover have from 50 cents per hundred pounds to to take care of the overflow. of hearing testimony on all purpose returned from Ehrhardt, where they $53. I may say further that the Carlisle claims and passing upon the same, with illness the were called on account of from other points boys will maintain attentive order and all persons failing to comply Dispatches the with accordance in this and death of Mrs. Glover's showed the range in price as follows: among themselves, and will cooperate ordernotice, be will barred. of said Court, Mrs. Ritter..Walterhoro Press Winchester 50 cents to $56 per in making a grand success of this J. J. BRABHAM, JR., *nd Standard. pounds; Lancaster, $5 to $60; larger and more inspiring lyceum Judge of Probate for Bamberg and acting Master for Bamberg Danville, 25 cents to $53; Frankfort, course. FAMILY County. 2-3 WHOLE to $48, and The lyceum may be made to serve $1 Carlisle, to $69; $1 OUT IS WIPED mm MBiwmaMa.w as a great institution in Bamberg. Paris, 50 cents to $35. have 5.) Let us make it such. We may (Continued from page 1, column the great in the lyceum world just in SPLENDID LYCEUM. thought that the man then rushed proportion as we give support to this Mrs. met and stairs the down Offers Unusually cause within our gates. Your at the back doer on Course at Carlisle here tonight. PERSONAL, MENTION. ; A PRESS Winter Resorts in the South I iMM 1 jjjl REACHED BY THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Pullman service for the principal cities Through on/1 K»ftOAt«to rtf flia SkAllth vuv/ wvuvui CliLU XCOUX lid VI ^ >. > t'xrm ' Winter Tourist tickets on sale October 1st, 1920, *: limited May 30, 1921. For full information, apply to Depot Ticket | Agent, or | R. W. HUNT, D. P. A., j Charleston, S. C. ' Ready * settlement. | family epi| patronage. pleasure experience bosom A. H. 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Wearing a pajr of old hrogan bye, 'Whore's that new pair of shoes with his blue .suit, Bigham shoes I was supposed to get when jokingly asked Deputy Warden I left here?" Kllis Men V , . i go0(i. McDougald said he'd see about sending Bigham a pair of shoes. v 4 f (cardbfc. Bigham to Go to Florence For 4 Murder Hearings -****. ^ X EDMUND BIGHAM . . . FREE AT 81 Enjoys First Meii On 'Outside' DUG UP AGAIN In the Horry County Court House |at Conway 33 years ago the Jale Judge Mendel L. Smith, declared, after the fourth murder trial of Ed mund D. Bighara, "The Bigham case is ended." But, at the initiative of Senator Gasque, after four decades in prison, four years of which were spent in the death house, Bijjham has been removed to Florence for a hearing in the four other deaths of members of his family as a prelude to the granting of a pardon. The case, which started in Jan uary- 1921, when the bodies of Bigham's mother, brother, sister and the latter's two adopted sons were found at th« family home near Pamplico, Florence County. The state charged that Bigham had wiped out his fam ily in order to inherit the extensive BIGHAM TO GO HOME: South Carolina's most fam^d slayer, Edmund H. Bingham, above, is scheduled to he returned to his home county jail at Florence Thursday afternoon. Bigham, a doorkeeper at the State Peniten tiary, has been serving a life sentence since April. 1927. He was twice sentenced to the electric chair lor the slayIng, and his prosecutors said that if he ever came up for parole he would be prosecuted for four other slayings in his family. Bigham, through the years, although his memory has become somewhat clouded, has maintained his innocence. (Staff Photo) holdings. The case aroused more sensational interest than probably any in the state's history, and there was violent opinion on both side?. Bigham's chief defense was that the imprint of a bloody hand was that of a left hand and he had no left hand. He contended that Smiley Bigham, in whose hand a pistol was "loosely held," was the murderer. Whether any evidence was adduced to show whether S m i 1 e y * s left hand was bloody is not now apparent. The case also made history when, at the fourth trial, the first consent verdict in a murder case was per mitted, the accused being allowed to plead guilty on the agreement that he would be sentenced to life im prisonment. And now, long since considered buried and almost forgotten, the Bigham case has been dug up again. FLORENCL A court order to Senator Gasque, is to a&k the was signed Tuesday to return court to compel the state to fry the other four counts of murder Edmund D. Bigham. alleged against Bigham that have been murderer of five persons, to hU ponding for 39 years. home county of Florence. The reason for this. Senator Bigham has been a prisoner at Casque noted, in that the parole the South Carolina penitentiary board will not consider Bigham since April 4. 1927. with 47 months for parole until the four cases of that time spent in the death are disposed of. house. In case of a tria lof the four Presiding Twelfth Circuit Judge murder charges, there could be Thomas Bussey signed an order very few witnesses. A boog was to return Bigham Thursday after written about the case entitled noon to the Florence County jail "The Last of the Bighams." In addition to being the last of the And on Monday morning, a BiRhams. Ed has outlived all hearing is to be held on four witnesses and al! jury members murder charges against Bigham in the original trials something all dating back to the 20's. he said, and was quoted at the Bigham, who is 90 years old| time as saying, he would do. if you listen to him or 75 if you go by prison records, is serving a life sentence for the slaying of his mother. The four other mur der charges are for slaying his brother, his sister, and her twt adopted sons. The hearing and the move to Florence came on motion of two [was a schoolmate of Biqham's; |Joe Bos tick, son of Hoyt Bostick. attorneys who have taken up the mailman who in 1921 on a Bigham's case on a no-fee basis. mail delivery discovered the five The motion was made before dead bodies at the Bteham home Judge Bussey by Marion Sen. J. Others included C. D. Munn. PamRalph Casque and Attorney Wil banker; Mayor Bennett; and| liam H. Seals. [S. L. Finklea, magistrate. According to Judge Busse; *' BiRham stood around the car. order, there was no opposition [dialling and talking. Sometimes! to the Gasque-Seali motion. The he would recognize uV crertersl sometimes they would have order specified that Bigham be) to tell who they were and hf transported to the Florence Coun would say, "Oh, yes, I remembor ry ail Thursday afternoon "to I |you." the bystander reported. Aftawait disposition of the motion herein Hnd any trial or trials er reminiscing for a while andj which may result from the hear-1 looking at old landmarks, he point mg of said motion." ed to the Pamplico Mule Co..| The hearing Monday, according! across from the drug store, still) operating in the same building. After talking for a while, he] was invited into the drug store by J. D. Calcutt. The drugstore lt-| self has not changed too much, no bystander reported, Bigham Visits Pamplici Hrlaxed and friendly, Bigham] auphed, to exhibit It's Like Old Home Week 'quitr H andsenseseemed of humor." the I HUMOR front of the drug store at 3:30. lystander reported. A little phil-j By 8UII Writer PAMPLICO-Ed Bigham drank Otdtimem say it was the first time wophy came from Bigham, the In chocolate milk at Hyman Drug h* had been back to Pamplico jystander said, after Bigham re-| Store here on Main Street Fri since he was arrested shortly marked hf enjoyed "seeing all he pretty youne girls walking! day, shook hands with Pamplico after the slayings in 1921. he Is around." The philosophv. the by-, residents and took a trip out to While not a free man where live members of his lam- waiting a court hearing on Mon bander said, was . "God made |lly were slaughtered back in 1921. day that possibly may lead him man for His own glory, but he| Bigham was treat made woman for man's glory." Bigham. an old man between to a parole Coming out of the drug store. 180 and 90, is serving a life sen- ed as such Friday. Itence for one of the slayings. He Peter Hyman, formerly magis Bigham got back In the car and | was indicted for Wiling all five, trate at Florence, was driving the hoy drove away, While he had car with Sheriff Hanna hi back vcn talking, he had expressed I including his mother. !he desire to see a house he hart Rut Friday, it was different. with Deputy Sam Ba^oat. built out on the old River Road BETTER LOOK Oldtimers came up to Bigham, hook hands with him. and talked. As soon as the ca r stopped. near the old Bigham house. The BY SHERIFF Bigham got out. The crowd, one Bigham house, a two-story frame Bigham was brought to Pam bystander said, was "a bit re building, burned down 15 or 201 plico. five miles from the Bigfiam luctant but curious" and moved years a50. home where the five were killed up to get a better look. And one Tho house Bigham wanted to hy Florence Sheriff John Hanna. by one. the bystander said, the old see is up the road from the old I Rumor here was that it was timers came up and started shak home, and Bigham had lived! done at the request of Bigham In? Ed's hands and. the hvstand there. i himself. cr said, "it almost got like old The bystander, a native of 1he| Word had gotten around town home week." Pamplico area, said "I detected) I that Bigham was coming. A The bystander said Cutrion My- a remarkable change In the send-1 I crowd gathered on Main Street. ers was first to greet him. Others ment in the people during and] The sheriff's car, with Bigham greeting him included Press My- after his visit this afternoon. In I | In the front seat, pulled up in crs; Mrs. Mary Wilkmson. who my opinion, the feeling ii not �Inearly so strong against the man! las it was." SENSATIONAL SLAY INGS AMIABLE the indictments^ mal until recent ly had been reported pending. He urged the jurist to swear, Ed Bigham: Prisoner to Prince in Eighty Miles P a fury and let the indictments, The bystander, talking further. presented, and then if a nol w I said that "All during the years piosse was in order, that it be they have felt bitterly about his| taken ni that time. | beinc releaased from the penirough." He turned then and pick Bv REV BALLARD Jud«p Bussry declared that the [tentiary and coming back down up his walking cane. "This." ed court had no interest in the case Htaff H filer lor The State there . . . Strangely enough, when he grinned, "was the heaviest indictments were there unless :the man made an appearance. f. re sen ted and that in view of the FLORENCE- "They're killing thing I lifted the whole time." I everybody seemed amiable." tart thai the four impending ac me down here with kindness'" He went on 1o explain his duThe Bigham House was located B> BEV BALLARD tnat they will immediately take tions had been marked "nol A jovial Ed Bigham. back In his,ties as doorkeeper at the prison, I about five miles from Pamplicoj :teps tn prepare a presentation prossr" on the journal, that the home counly after many years of 1 He spoke as if the job were the Waff Writer for The Stale on the old River Road, which wasi Parole Board in nn ef court could not revive the indict imprisonment in Columbia at the most important one thrre and before well traveled before the highway FLORENCE A court ruing has fort to the S. C. Penitentiary, spoke highly!warned, "nothing nor no one goes ments. between Florence and Pamplicol cleared the way and his attorneys dom. win for Bigham his free of his treatment since being re- through that door that 1 don't ques the raised again Gasque was paved. It runs roughly parplan (o make a bid lor the freetion of whether or not there could turned to Florence last Thursday, see." lallel to the Pee Dee River com-; dom o( a convicted murderer at At Tfl. Bicham considers his he any future prosecutions on the "Why, they've brought me I "Who's taking care ol tin'ing through that section. The Big-, i he next meeting of the South health "as good as could be ex indictments and admitted, "I am plates and plates of good country while you're away?" | ham home faced the road, andi pected under the circumstances." ompletely frustrated. I've asked home cooked food. And my friends' 'Oh, they got a young fellow Carolina Parole Board. was about a half mile from the! He sat throughout the hearing, the solicitor to decide in the mat all come to visit me," Bigham de- youngest I **ver saw up there. 1 Florence taking Bigrmm, Edmund I river. crossfire between ter of prosecutions and th*n the clared. Scall him chillun who is taking County lanmer who spent 39 years lawyers inandthejudge. The Bigham property, estimat-] To reach Bigham for iin inter-'care of my duties and my bunk shuttleo been I've rule. to t/urt the for Penitentiary C. S. the .n led to have been worth $80,000 in view just alter a hearing; here My radio and othrr possessions 11971 slaying ot his brother, wa< What did he think of the out buck and forth like a yo-\o." 11921. has since changed hands. The judge then settled the mat- Monday morning during which'have been locked up for safekeeptold that there were no charges come? ifr bv issuing the statement to the court ruled four indictments in* until I return." Bigham said | pending against him in the sensa THE STATE — 'Well, these old ears aren't so ihe clerk of cmirt that "in my for the slaying of members of He was not sure when he would tional slaying of four other mem- tjood any more and I hardly opinion, there are no pending his family were no longer stand* return. 'I'm enjoying meeting my March 26, 1960 Ibeis uf his family. heard anything the judge sajd. but tases or prosecutions against Ed ing, a reporter had to push his:friends down here." he added, Judge Thomas Bussey of Char according to what I've been told. nmnd Bigham." He added "at way through * crowd gathered; Someone remarked assuringly, leston, sitting m General Sessions it all went in my favor and may lhi» time." "Mr. 3igham. if they got up a just outside Bigham's rrll. |Court here, heard Bigham's attar - be I'll get some time before I In the )ail office, a deputy rp- petition in Florence and Horry , neys Sen. Ralph Casque and Wil die to live outside the prison," marked, "we've got a celebrity .counties. I bet they'd be filled THE STATE — liam Seals of Marion and then the bowed prisoner said. .with signatures before nightfall." here." [dictated a court order lo the ef- Gasque told the judge in review March 29. 1960 And to sre the visitor* circled He explained he means a petition itect that "at the present" no pro- ing the circumstances behind the around ilighair. it seemed he had for Bigham's relmse. to clear Bigham that hej [ secutions are pending against appeal been hoisted from the role of a "I saw the old home place and i iJ ^^ ^ i Bigham. ! prisoner to a pnnce. He stood out- my how things have changed," and Seals aren't receiving any j side the door to the crll and Bigham concluded. He referred Bussey signed an order last mone\ for their services and thai | laughed a* he answered questions, to « trip hr took Friday with Florol agreement the with hud re Tuesday to return Bigham, 79, to One of the visitors asked, 'Mr. Vnce County Sheriff John Hanna the Florence County Jail on Thurs the probationary office, gone so did they work you hard,back to the farm near Pamplico. iBighsm, to plans motion in set to day, where he remained in con tar a* 'I do hope I can get out for a | up there in the prison?" tact with his lawyers until the provide Bigham a residence "if before I am too old to get while paroled." i hei when and he "Yessireebob:" hearing Monday morning before he said tearfully, re down'around." rolling sweat had I "Why. in and warrants original Thr a crowded courtroom. mv fnrehead and boy, was It'minding of hi: age of "about 80." Hiclmrnt* against Bigham were Gasque said he had planned to introduced by Gavque, along with Widay, March 29, 1960 nave any pending indictments «n order lor his "death in the brought into court and a trial be electric chair." gun if necessary so as to dispose It A ax pointed out by the deanything against Bigham's rec- lense that the Bigham case ha? rind thus open the way to iterome a legend in the Pee Dec that no other indictments arrj Tea. Gasquc said, "Many storie* parole consideration. *K«in*t the gray-hatred | pending o* various incidents connected old man The Piling poasibly However, it was noted that ft with Ihr alleged slayings have! opens the way ^ hi« strongest! \vas discovered late last week been told and retold. remaining desire to he realized tnat the four indictments against "A lot of the (acts have been I "to die away from prison b* B[gharri had been "nol pressed" rlixiorted. I don't believe there Biehsm has maintained his in-l ip the Horry County General Ses hn* been any case in the annuls of the murders down I nocwve sions Court record of January, «.' South Carolina history where' years. th* through 1921. But, the warrants contain ?inv man has served thii long a I ing the indictments had not been period in the penitentilary when Edmund FLORENCE <AP> THE STATE so marked. convicted purely on the grounds | [Bigham left the Florence County evidence." circumstantial trf as man happier a Tuesday jflil Gasque narrowed down ttii March 30, 1964 The Mtoin^y told of how Big Ihr: headed bnck to his home of (/ucstinn before the court to a re yearr the stale penitentiary in quest for a decision as to whether ham spent lour years on death I Columbia. the court journal or the warrants row. He said the aged man con With him, the 79-year-old man are considered conclusive. Since tended continuously that he was! (took the knowledge that the State the journal had "not pmused" innocent ol the playlngi. Parole Board can now consider marked across the four indict "He accepted a plea of guutyl for parole. It had refused to him ments, then "is there any prose- in order to save his Life and have Ho so seven*! years ago herause against my the sentence commuted to life im-| pending rut ion it WAS believed four murder in client?" he asked. prisonment." Casque added. dictments were pending against Solicitor Richard Dusenbury Producing a packet of letters! (him. said he considered the journal the collected over the years, Gasqur ! Biaham, brought here from Co-| t;nal word and declared that he started to reiterale some of what Jumbia last Thursday for s spe knows of "no prosecution pending he termed "pitiful pleas," when cial hearing Monday In General I J udge Bussey interrupted and ,.gainst Edmund Bingham." Sessions court, was arrested tail kept be remarks the that .rged After an hour of arguments on tc> the constitutional question in-1 1920 for the murder of his broth-1 clarification of the constitutional vo(ved. |er. Smiley. rights of thep risoner and the Gasque Ihr-n laid aside the let He wan Blso indicted for the I MEETING FRIENDS: Jubilant over having been cleared question of possible future prose ters and he read a law which of his mother, a sister, [ I'laying* by a court order of any impending prosecution, Edmund cution, Judge Bussey handed down land two foster children. | "entitled is citizen a that stated Bigham. 78-year-old veteran of 39 years' imprisonment in the order which was considered if n speedy trial" in case of in However, it was disclosed by the S. C. Penitentiary, stands outside the Florence County by Casque and Seals as "Just dictments. [search last week. Horry County I court records show the other four jail talking with friends and neighbors. He halted for the. what we wanted In the first He stressed the word "speedy' indictments to havt been nolle I and said he. felt Bigham had been greeting as he walked freely from the courthouse to th« place." 1 plowed. The Bigham lawyers said after patient in that 39 yean jail, left. (Staff photo by Ballard) (he hearing that they are well I elapsed and nothing had been 1 Testimonv nn ihi« mir*^ Judge! leased with the outcome and laonc in bring him to trial over 1 v to rule iThoma* P 1 Ruling Puts Bigham Closer to Freedom iBigham Now Sees Hope Of Parole < � https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/7a5fbadf61f910bdb7b0d6630fe36a5d.pdf eaffe77ebaeb5e6221fb4c93f0ff93bf PDF Text Text Bigham Relishes Freedom After 39 Years in Prison ~ fas Brother, smiley; his mother; "But I believe sentiment is with] his sistrr; and his sister's two mr now. All thrse Rood people stepchildren. A««orlated Prww Staff Writer nil these sood people," the old| Bisham maintained Smiley had man sighed. Kdmund R IK ham stood in the committed "the crimes, then de One of Bigham's witnesses at bright sun>hme of Main Street stroyed himself. the parole hearing, the Rev. I [here Thursday alternoon, hw lined Charles M. Kelly, pastor of the iface agog at the wonder of free- Three times Bisham was con First Church of the Nazarene. Horn after 39 years behind prison victed and sentenced to die. and Raleigh, N. C., lold of a ques-| three timofi he won appeals to tion BiRham put when Kelly 'bars. the state supreme court for new the prison chaplain here. Only a half hour before, a maj. "He asked me if a man could I |ority vote of the stale's parole trials. board had freed thr man who once Finally, he agreed to a consent kill his mother and his brother [stood an-usrd of five murders in verdict of cuilty of the slayinc of and his sister and two children and | a sensational family massacre. the brother, Smiley, and «»* stay In prison for 25 years and| return his mental balance. "How does it feel to be free?" gentenced to life in prison. "I told him 1hat would he hard] The other indictments were no he w«* asked. to do," the Rev, Mr. Kelly said. pressed in 1927. Eugene Fallon. Sunday editor of] Obviously relishing the question. The subject of his guilt or in- the Florence News, also testified ! the Kl-year-old former Florence (county resident leaned forward on nocence has been an almost comp- for Bigham. He told the board ^»>v« conversation piece for Big. Mparate polls by the News and far ham durm* ^ Ion« pnson >cars hy the Cheraw Chronicle indicated moment of contemplation. "See this." ho declared in the there would br no resentment if I I dont beheve I v c really ^^.^ interview Hr rolled up Bisham were released. J " h time to get accustomed ^ ^^ ^owmK . slcndcr Parole board member* had SURchuckled finally. handless stump which he slapped KM ted that Bigham stay aw ay | "f do want to say I'm deeply dramatically against the door of from Pamplico. Asked dunns the hearing if he wanted to return] grateful to Sen. Gasque and all til* stale office building. the other wonderful people who "That hand could leave no print there. Bigham looked at Gasque | have helped me." I lost it 14 years before I was and jwid. "I'll say thi.«. If ihc people ofl acnjscd." Ralph Casque, the Marion counPamplico wanted me over there He was referring to evidence at Ity senator, had argued success crimson stains that the on a short visit, I'd eo over fully for Bigham's release before HI? trial defense argued ucre made by a provided it didn't interfere »with| the six-member board. He urged Jpf* hand against a door. Bigham y«ir work." the board to parole the senior inOut on the sidewalk couldn't have done it, his altor jmate of the state penitentiary so the marvels of downtown traffic, n«»y« said. "that this old man can spend his BiKham w-as asked when he was] "The human race is nectilair." last days'a free man." Bigham sighed as he walked away gome "home" to Marion. Ry a majority vote, the hoard from the bloodless innocence of "When Sen Gasque comes to] get me," he replied. freed to turn Bigham over to the office hutldine door. A guard nodded aerccment arvlj |r»avpie, who will supply him with ' The Scribes and the Pharisees Mi4, not unkindly, "that won't be| trio-i to turn sentiment against a home and light employment. for about two days, thouch." Jesus Christ. I don't mean to The brulal slaying in the Pamp- compare mywlf in any way. but Righam didn't seem to mind| the wait lico section of Florence county on that's what was done to me not after 39 jears. Uanuary 15. 1921, plunged Bigham sentiment was turned against me," THE STAT1 into unaccustomed limelight. He imihnc a ultlr. hr added: June'3, 19601 was accused of shooting to death H.v ROB MrHI (.H ___ Old Well Where Mr*. Bigjam's Body Was Found THI "CHARLOTTE OBSIKVEK Friday, Ayti 1, ________ 'Last of the Bighams' Scheduled To Come Up for Parole on June 2 Edmund Bigham "the last of were no longer in existence came death in the bizarre case, fi the Bighams" is scheduled to to light only two month* ago. one story of the 1920's. but <>n| come up for parole June 2, pa Bigham's lawyers claimed he three occasions his lawyers oh-i role board officials said yester couldn't get a parole bct<*re be lamed state supreme court ap-| cause it was ihought the indict peals. day. The parole board was 10 navel ments were still in effect Bigham. whose age is rM defi nite but is between 66 and 75, The state has declined to ask. heard the case next Thursday, was sent to prison, ace-used o! for new indictments. Witnesses at [ but state Sen. Ralph Ga&nje. "t| five murders in the ma.-> slay the original trial have lorw since Marion, one of BriKham'? attor neys, asked for thr postponemrntj ing of his family, 33 yen is- ago died. to June 2. this month. The life sentence way Next week thr board, however,I for the murder of his broincr, L. According lo penitential y rec wilt hrar an appeal for pamle ords, the former resident of the | Smiley Bigham. Indictments for the murder ol Pamplifo area in Florerut: Coun from another long-lime ronvict, his mother, a sister and iwo of ty is 75 years old. According to Lathan Robert Crisp. 66. »*crvins her foster children, were nol.t parolp board records, he is 66. life for the 1931 slaying of pressed (set asidri many years Bigham (old a newsman la;t year wealthy banker. Crisp, a former Laurcns Countj he was 87. furl that those indictment-* HP w»s originally sentenced to resident, WHS turned down lor pa. role in 195S. He has been a trust] THE STATE ; Saturday, May 14, I960 for a quarter of a century. ine< >tate| her foster children, were nolle casions his lawyers pressed (set aside) several years Supreme Court appeals and he was eventually sentenced to life] ago. The fact that those indictments imprisonment. were no longer in existence came THE STAT1 to light only two months ago. Bigham's attorneys claimed he June 2, 1960 couldn't get a parole before becr;use it was thought the indict By THE ASSOCIATED PREHS ments were still in effect. Edmund Bigham, an inmate ol The state has declined to ask the State Penitentiary for 33 for new indictments. Witneses at years, will ask the State Proba- the original trial have long since I Upn, Pardon and Parole Board for died. | his freedom today. There is some doubt as to BigBigham was sent to prison, ac- ham's age. Penitentiary records cused of five murders in the mass sliow him to be 7^ years old. Pa 'slaying of a family, in May of role board records have him 66. 1927. The life sentence was for the And last year Bigham told a 1 murder of his brother, L. Smiley newsman he was 87. I Bigham. The lormcr Florence County Indictments for the slaying of resident was sentenced to d«ulhl I his mother, a sister and two of back in the 1920's. On three or- Ed Bigham To Ask for Parole Today ator in Marion. EDMUND BIGHAM Old Convict Quits Cell For New Life COLUMBIA, S.C. - OJP1* For aged Edmund Bigham, life began at more than two times 40 as he walked to the South Carolina Penitentiary Friday a free man for the first time in mre than 39 years. The oldest convict in the state wan paroled Thursday by the South Carolina Probation. Parole and Pardon Board but was nnt released for 24 hours while necy paper work was perform ed. At that. Bigham who had packed his things before the pa role hearing was freed sooner than he expected. The radio wouldn't fit Into the car and a npwuman cover ing Blgham'R departure put Ihf huge instrument In htc station wagon, promising to deliver It to Bigham's new home In Ma rion. Each of the boxes containing the old convict's personal effects was neatly addressed to "E. D. BigThe old man wh» claims U ham, Marion. S.C." br Hfl althnuKh the Parole Board Bigham had been in jail since Ray* he Ii 81. was itill In pris Jan. 21, 1921. shortly after his on clothe* when his lawyers, mother, brother, sister and his State Sen. Ralph Casque and sister's two stepchildren were William Seals, called it the found shot to death at the penitentiary to pick him up. ham farm near Pamplico in Flo rence County. "I'm sorry I wasn't ready for Three times Bigham was sen you. If I'd known you were com tenced to death and each time] ing this early I'd have been tht State Supreme Court reversed] ready." Bigham told Casque as the conviction on a point of law. he hurried back to his cell to don his blue double-breasted suit. At the fourth trial. Blgham He and several other trusty agreed to plead guilty to the convicts carted his trunk, two laying of his brother. Smiley, cardboard boxes, a pre - World In exchange for a life sentence. War II radio and an armful! of He liter repudiated the guilty plea and has sine* stuck stead picture* out to Casque's car. Bigham will work for the sen- fastly to his nriKfnal story that Smiley killed the others and nletde. � https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/9c26796b24c9f91bd64d221fb16a1c82.pdf 67a5621db1ece8d450aad30bfa09fa16 PDF Text Text S. C. FOUR INDICTMENTS DISMISSED ^__^ __ « • ** * __ Oldest S.C. Convict Near Freedom? FLORENCE, S. C. <UPI) The path to freedom bright ened Monday for Edmund D. Bigham. oldest inmate of South Carolina's penitentiary when a circuit judge ruled four mur der indictments against h i m had been dismissed 33 years ago. However, state Probation Parole and Pardon Board Su pervisor Curtis Moor; said it would be gome time after formaJ application is made before the board could consider a par ole for the aged convict who dainu to be 90 although prion record* list him as 75. "We will have to Investigate the case thoroughly before it comes up," Moore said. He add ed it would be impossible to bring the case before the board at Thursday's regular meeting. The board had refused to con sider parole for Bigham until the four indictments were dis posed of. His attorneys moved for Monday's hearing be/ore Circuit Judge Thomas P. Bussey for the purpose of having the four indictments dismissed, but learned while researching the case that all four had been no] - proased in Horry County General Sessions Court at Conway April 1927. Bussey ruled there were no charges pending against Bigham who was ordered returned to the State Penitentiary at Col umbia while his lawyers pre pare a formal parole applica tion. Bigham has been behind bars since shortly after five mem bers of his family were found slaughtered at the Bigham fam ily home near Pamplico in January 1921. The family was one of Flor ence county's most prominent namei at toe time. Bigham's mother, brother, said he pleaded guilty in South sister and her two stepsons Carolina's first "consent" ver were shot to death with a .38 dict on record because he was caliber pistol owned by Bigham. promised a parole after five He was convicted three times years. and sentenced to the electric Stale law requires service of chair spending 4 - months at least 10 years of life sent in the death house before fi ences before parole can be con nally pleading guilty to the slay sidered. Bigham has served 33 ing of his brother. Smiley, and years being sentenced, receiving a life sentence in 1927. but has since been in custody 39 Despite the guilty plea, the years. one - armed Bigham has since His lawyers State Sen. maintained his innocence and Ralph Casque and William claimed Smiley murdered the Seals, both of Marion said four other victims and then they had a job waiting for Bigcommitted suicide. Bigham ham if he is paroled. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [ ^^^^^^ i^^^MM^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H aughter Of Five In Family Horrified South Carolina on Edmund when he was order was missing. "Aunty Silvia." a -withered yean ag« sad was replaced Edmund arranged a quick ed searched by the coroner for Negress born as a slave on the with what ti BMW the quiet and simple mass funeral for all a pistol he reportedly had been Bigham place, is said to have country home of Mr. and been cooking hog meat at one MM. Thomai Pottoa. five of the dead. The two boys seen carrying. Edmund Bigham. returned some land dce( were buried in white coffins. The able solicitor told the Bigham home when the slaugh Mrs. Poston said she saw to hit native Florence Coun carrying on her person were News nf the slaying spread jury how Edmund and Smiley ter began. the car Bigham was in stop ty this week to hear a judge (missing. She allegedly ran across a were last seen together in the over the state in no time. * * * in front of her house Monday. rule that four of five murder field and silent about Some residents of the Pam woods near where Smiley's what she remained She said _h*_^eemed Jo__droi in4ietm*nii against him hod had seen. plico community, 18 miles body was found. his head after taking a quTcl * * * been,dmmissed 33 years ago Lifeles* Body Witnesses testified thai Smisoutheast of Florence, agreed look at the old well in the] Attorney* for Bighorn, old- The lifeless body of one of with Edmund that it was Smil A'ew Trial Denied back yard and the outbuild Icy tried to leave the woods but «t inmate rtf the S. C. Peni Mrs. Black's two adopted sons. ey who killed his mother, si.stcr ings on the place. Bigham's attorneys appealed i tentiary of Columbia, said the 2-year-old George McCracken. and the two boys and then took that Edmund called for him to Bigbam recently stated he is| for * new trial but received] court ruling ITOJ the /ir*l step was found under a long bench his own life. wait so they could walk a denial June 10, 1922. The pris 90 years old but prison rec in their efforts to win the Rumors were thick that Smil home together. Both Smiley oner was sentenced to die July ords list him as beinf 75.1 j*n the back porch. The young prisoner a formal parole. Former Pamplico acquaintances) ster had been shot in the tem ey, who had worked at a postal and Edmund were in the woods I 22 of that year. Bigham hat been in custody ple. job. was worried over a short paying N'cgrn woodcutters their j say he is 77. since 4 1ev> days after five age of funds discovered by a wages. The Bighams were left But the defense lawyers Sit year - old John Me- postal examiner. member* of his family were wouldn't gire up. Thf 7 won in the woods alone. Cracken Jr. was found lying found slaughtered at the BigThey whispered Smiley was other trials for Bigham and on a potato bank near a ptCasque explained to the jury ham family homeplace near ran tree la the back yard. He ' also disturbed over impending how Mrs. Edmund B.gham IB April of 1927 it Conway Pamplico in January of 1921. too had been shot la the prosecution for destroying rec went to the court clerk's office succeeded in gaining a com Folloicing is an account of temple but was itlll living. ords at the Florence County in Florence while Edmund was promise with Solicitor Casque the discovery of the five bod There wai also a wound la Courthouse. in jail awaiting trial and tr<ed thai the Jury be permitted to ies, Bighorn's arrest and the Another rumor was that he to record a deed Casque said enter a guilty verdkt and one of thf boy'f hand*. Indi legal tkirmuhes that followed. cating hr had raised his arm had been denied a loan by a was taken from Marjorie Black recommended mercy. bank a week before the shoot when her undervest was ripped to ward off the assasiin's bul By DON GRAY ings. This was done and Bigham Staff Wrtttr let. open. However, was sent to the S. C. Peniten the Wednesday aft PAMPLICO. S. C. - When an Casque emphasized that Ed John McCracken died during er the fateful Saturday Edmund. mund's lust for land led him to tiary for life. He has been there aging rural mail carrier for the past 33 years but still stopped at Mrs. Dora Bigham'i the night without saying a word. who denied any connection with the shooting spree. maintains his innocence. Mrs. Edmund Bigham and the crime, was arrested on a fcome near here Saturday. Jan. Clerk E. M. SinglMary testiWhen Casque agreed to the 15. 1921. little did he know he her two daughters were found warrant signed by John Mchad came upon the scene of one alive on the front porch of the Cracken Sr. father of the two] Led the deed, signed by Dora compromise at the 1927 trial { Bigham, Mrs. Black and Smi he reportedly included in the of the worst crimes S. C. has big house. All three were young boys killed. settlement that if a governor scared almost beyond speech. ever known. At the March. 1WI. term of ley Bigham. was forged. should pardon Edmund for (he Edmund testified the other Mrs. Bigham lay crumpled criminal court in Florence Edmund said he had seen his behind an old well. A stream brother Smiley disappear into County. Edmund was found Righams owed him $42.000 and murder of Smiley he would be of blood led to the back steps the woods near the home and guilty of murdering Smiley and liad given him a deed' to all promptly re-arrested and tried again for the murder of one of f the house. that he had a pistol in his was sentenced to die in the their property as payment. the other four victims. Edmund Bigham. one of the hand. electric chair. dead woman's son*, ran to the Edmund admitted the pistol Solicitor Lonnie Gafque ar The day after the shootings mall man and said "She has Edmund found in Smiley's hand was gue that Smiley Bigham's post directed a search that just died . . . ihe told me his i Edmund's) but .«aid Smil Bigham Returns Smiley done it. he has killed us led to the discovery of Smiley's office shortage amounted to ey had gotten it by forcing body. only 40 cents and that he could When Bigham was brought •11." have borrowed f 10.000 from Joe open a locked drawer. He too had died of a bullet to Florence this week in con Mrs. Msrjorie Black. Ed One defendant was convicted nection with his bid to win mund's sister, was found in wound in the temple and was McCown's bank if he had need on circumstantial evidence, parole, officers drove him to I ed it very badly. holding Edmund's pistol. room dead. She had been Casque also argued that there were no eyewitnesses to Pamplico to the old Bigham J . . in the temple, her under Edmund suggested suicide to wear "«d been ripped open and the coroner but Smiley's wallet mi ley's wallet was found the shootings. At least, none homeplace. who would testif: The old house burned � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bigham Murders Collection, 1921-1960 Description An account of the resource Several news articles recounting the Bigham Murders on Old River Road. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1-20-1921 5-4-1960 3-26-1960 3-29-1960 3-30-1960 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Bamberg Herald The Charleston Observer The State