The Union Daily Times

Greenville, March 21.— L. C. Tinsley, operator of a Coffee street garage here, and J. B. Stokley, an employee of the same garage, are being held in the county jail pending a special term of the court of general sessions in April, when they will be tried for murder in connection with the killing on the night of March 13 of the Rev. Milton F. Daniels by an automobile on West Washington street, a coroner's jury having fixed the responsibility for the minister's death on the two men at the inquest late this afternoon as the two occupants of a Hupmobile coupe believed to have struck and run over him.

Testimony of witnesses and evidence gathered by the police placed in the hands of David W. Smoke, circuit solicitor, who conducted the inquest, what appeared to be a strong chain of incriminating facts. The stellar testimony of the inquest was rendered by C. E. Clippard, a textile mill employee, who happened to see the accident as he stood on the corner at Richardson and Washington streets when it occurred. He stated positively that the automobile he saw strike down and run over a man whom it later developed was the Rev. Mr. Daniels was a Hupmobile coupe and that there were two men in it at the time. The driver of the car, he said, wore glasses. He could not distinguish more than this.

Tinsley wears glasses and told officers prior to the inquest that he and Stokley had been riding about the city in a Hupmobile coupe just before the tragedy which resulted in the death of the evangelist.

The state introduced four other witnesses, none of whom were eye-witnesses. However, the general tone of their testimony was in corroboration of that of Clippard.

Sergt. George M. Meyers of the Greenville police department testified that the day following the killing he examined the Hupmobile car in Tinsley's garage and found the left side of the front bumper smashed as if it had been thrust against something. The bottom of the dust pan of the motor also had been wiped off as if dragging over a fallen man.

Mrs. Ida Godshaw and J. V. Caldwell of Spartanburg, who were arrested in connection with the killing, were not implicated in the verdict, Caldwell was released under bond several days ago and Mrs. Godshaw was released early tonight.