Arrivals Yesterday Twice as Numerous as Last Year. EXTRA TRAINS TO HANDLE CROWDS By Tonight Columbia Will be Crowded With Folks From Every Section of South Carolina. And still they come. Every train coming into the city is now filled with visitors to the greater – or rather the GREATEST state fair and the number of passengers on the incoming train is increasing with every … Continue reading Special Trains Bring The Visitors Today.

Defendant Acquitted But Not Until After Another Delay Occasioned by a Sick Juror – One of the Attorneys Superstitious. Special to The State. Camden, Oct. 7.-A final termination of the Gillis case has at last been reached. The jury after a deliberation 20 minutes this morning rendered a verdict of not guilty. Another delay, although only for a couple of hours this time, was added … Continue reading EVIL STAR SHONE ON GILLIS CASE?

Passengers Form Bucket Brigade and Quench the Fire. ENGINEER PREVENTS AN ACCIDENT Despite Eight Hours’ Wait Passengers Kept in Good Spirits and Thank Engineer and conductors. It was largely due to Engineer D. K. Wright of train 31 of the Seaboard Air Line that his train pulled into the local depot last evening at 6:55 o’clock – exactly eight hours late. And yet there was … Continue reading Trestle In Flames Makes Long Delay.

Defendant Contradicts Witnesses For Prosecution. ARGUMENTS WILL BE MADE TODAY Testimony Concluded In the Trial of J. E. Gulls for Killing MeRae Whitaker. Special to The State. Camden, Oct. 5.-The Gillis case, after its many continuances by the defense since the commission of the homicide 18 months ago, and the un-avertable delays this week since the commencement of the trial on Monday, is now nearly … Continue reading GILLIS ON THE STAND PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE.

Eye Witnesses Describe the Shooting at Ancrum Boykin’s Store in Kershaw County. Special to The State. Camden, Oct. 3.–This morning J. E Gillis was placed upon trial for the killing of John McRae Whitaker on the 9th of April, 1904. This case has gained notoriety for two reasons; because of the prominence of the family connections of the deceased and because of the number of … Continue reading J. E. GILLIS ON TRIAL FOR KILLING WHITAKER