By International News Service
Florence, S.C., June 25—“Finis” has not yet been written to South Carolina’s most sensational murder case, and Edmund D. Bigham, twice convicted slayer of his family of five, will not learn his ultimate fate until autumn.
When his trial came up for a third time in Horry County court, defense counsel obtained a postponement of the trial.
After watching his fate swing pendulum-line through the courts for five years, as his counsel waged one of the longest legal battles on record to save him from apparently certain doom, the prisoner now has lost some of the stoicalness that has marked his five-year fight to evade the electric chair, and now wants to “get through with it all.”
The prisoner vehemently protests his innocence of the wholesale slaughter, maintaining that his brother, Smiley—one of the five victims—wiped out the entire family in one of his characteristic “fits of madness” and then ended his own life by suicide.
The prosecution, on the other hand, contends that Bigham committed the crime in order to fall heir to the vast Bigham estate.
From page 6 of The Concord Times, June 28, 1926
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