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VOL. XIII. 'kINGSTREE, SOUTfl CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30,1897. NO. 45.
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Both of These Last Named are Colored
Been an Accident ?James is in Jai
Poaton, Killed Near the Jai
Done in the Dark by >
No Clue to tht
The past week has been one of the
bloodiest in the history of this county.
Killing bus followed killing in j
rapid succession. One of the deeds
was committed right near the jail,
und in the dark.
The first killing was that of Mr.
Z~*' Philip Poston,
Suowden, colored, and the third was
Weefi->"
T. ? ??/* niifrrn villi sllO*. Mr*
t CiUIl llllliu, v*v. liv^i - --
Poston, iu the ord^r 11, ned. BeforeV':r
the killing of Turner occurred, we;
f> m.
had the account of Mr. Boston's vio-i
lent death into type, so we give it as
it was originally written:
One oil he mo>t unfortunate amdeplofaMe
tragedies tliat has ever
occurred in this section took place!
early la>J Tuursday morning ai ;
Mr, W P Price's store i:i liiej
Johtisonville section. Mr. Philip j
Post on was killed and a negroj
Si?m Turner, was badly wounded. j
* The tirsf news of I lie killing'
that reached Kings!tee was very j
. * meagre and I tie reports were con-!
flioting. it was at lirat reported!
tIt.?t Mr. I'osloij au<i the negro1
,both were killed hot bv each
oiiter. Another report said that '
the negro had killed Mr Post on j
and a mob had lynched the negro.
Nothing definite could be learu.
ed.
However, we obtained the following
^account oi' the troublej
from one who was present at the!
inquest:
Sometime during the .first ot
the week Sam Turner, a negro,j
had his buggy repaired at the(
shop of a Mr. Johnson, who lives
jti the neighborhood. When Turner
went lor his boggy he had
some trouble with Mr. Johnson j
about it, and Mr. Johnson swore!
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out a warrant belore Magistrate Li
L Ard charging Turner with
bre ch of the peace. Mr. Ard
^ placed the warrant in the hands,
of Mr. Philip Poston, his regular j
constable, lobe served. Mr. Boston
together with Mr. Koswcll!
Harmon went to Turner's house
to serve the warrant. The negro
went along with the constable and
Mr. Harmon till thev at rived at
the store of Mr. VV P Pri?e, on I he
^county line" road; that is. the
jy road which divides the comities
of Witliamsburg and Geo; gel own.
'Here the men entered the store
and Turner asked Mr. Price to
read the arrest warrant, which he
did. Mr. P rice then talked to
Turner a little, telling him that
twit l\ft lfi trn 11 twiii
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that warrant. Mr. Post on insisted
upon Turner's accompanying him,
and they went out toother. Mr.
Price called Turner back and the
negro again entered the store.
The conversation which then
took place between Mr. Price and
Turner is not known. Mr. Pos
.1 ton called his prisoner, who re
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I Kills Elliot Snowden.j
Boys, and the Killing is Said to Have
I.?Sam Turner, Who Shot Mr.
I in Kingstree.?The Deed
U .known Parties.?
; Murderers.
fu-ei to come out. The constable
and Mr. Harmon went into
the store and tried lo take Turner
by force. Mr. Price shoved them]
ail out of I lie door, closed and j
fas.ened it, l.e remaining inside, j
The luo white men and the negro
.-eufiled on and several pislo!
S^l^were tired. Another negro,
Abr-nTTrreTn^ v^ojva* there took j
a hand in the strii^le,^Vli4"4,h^h>;
Harmon and Post on had Turner
down, Green struck Mr Post on
on the head a terrible blow with
a heavy bil.et of wood, eru.-hing
the skjll. AH. Post on tell back
wards, Turner jumped uj> with
his own and Posten s pistol, and
shot Mr. Poston squarely in the
forehead. Green ran off. Turner
tried to run but felt, be having
been shot i hree times in:the struggle.
Mr. Harmon called to Mr.
Price. wljo did come out. Several
men gathered around, and mem
bers of.Mr. Posto.n's family were
summoned. Mr. Post on died instantly:
the negro Turner was
picked up and carried to a negro
house where lie was attended bv
physicians.
Magistrate Ard held an inquest
Thursday afternoon over the body
of Mr. Post on. As the killing
occurred right in the road it could
not be decided whether I lie deed
was committed in tins or Georgetown
county, so Magistrate Carter
of Georgetown, held aiiottier.in
quest Friday. Mr. Poston was
shot in three places.and struck on
the head. Turner was badly hurt,
having been shot in three places.
A w arrant was issued lor Abram
Green, who struck Mr. Post on,
and he was arrested. Threats pi'
lynching were heard and he was
at once brought here and placed
in jail. A reporter lor the Conn
tv la-cord iuteiviewed him Monday
and he told the lo!lowing
about the killing:
He wa- at the >t?>re when Pos
ton, Harmon and Turner n:ered;
he did not hear Price leil Turner
that he could not be made to g<*,
: he did not hear the eouversali it
; between Turner and Price alter
I
| Price called him back; when Price
pushed the three men who were
j struggling out, lie was pushed out
j to</; lie did not '-take a hand" in
the fiaht, but stood (iff and louktd
on; he s'a;v Post on shoo Turner
|twice and saw Turner shoot l'?
' ton twice; h 1 did not pick up the
piece of wood at all; lie was secoral
yards awa.v from the slrufijjjlini;
party all the time; when
j l oston fell, he only walked away
to his hotne and remained there
until a short time before his arrest;
he did not know what he xwas
arrested for u :til he reached
! Kimrslree.
It will be seen that his tale
differs materially from that of the
others.
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When Green's lather heard ol
!iis Stan's arrest he got Ins pin and
went to Magistrate Aid's office
and demanded the release of him.
Of course, this the Magistrate refused,
whereupon old man Green
began to "raise Cain." He was
arrested lor breaking the p mice,
threatening an officer, Arc., tried
and Sv nt to the chaingang for a
period of 15 days. He began service
Monday morning. Several j
years ago olJ man Green attempt-j
ed to (arte a prisoner from an officer,
and fared pretty badly as a
result.
Turner was raised in North j
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in Florida lor Rome time and on'y
went to lie Johnson vil'e section
about two or three weeks ago.
He was considered a bad character.
Mr. Philip Post on was the old
est son of Mr Pinion Post on. He
was about 40 years of aire. He
married Miss Nannie OrrKi win, of!
Charleston, several years ago.
JS11e and several small childreu
survive him. Mr Post on was one |
ot' I he best known men :n this
conniy, and lie was indeed, one of
best citizens in *it. lie was
nobT^tftrt&^A^nt'rous, liveable
and was a consisTetoLjuomber ol
the Johnsonville N^h?Uiodisi
church, in which he was a stewaUL
No man in tlie county had a
<rreater number of friends than he
Mis untimely end is much regretted.
The killing of Mr. Philip Po>ton
last Thursday has a bloody
sequel. The negro Turner who
caused the trouble and who shot
Postou was cruelly murdered just
ou*>ide of the jail yard here last
Tuesday night. It is not known
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WHO tiltl lite KlUJIIg, UOl in iiicjc
any due at all lo the murderer.
Alter we had the account of tlie
killing of Mr. Post on into type,
the shooting of iurner oc tired.
From ti e story of Mr. J. L. llaselden,
who brought 1 timer here
we got the following:
Turner was lying iu a precar-j
iou.s condition at the negre house!
where he had been placed after J
the killing of Mr Poston. 'J here
were thread of lynching on every
side, and, as a precaution, Magistrate
Aru ordered Turner's re
movaf to toe jail. Mr. naseiuen.
G. li. Dennis ana i- Cannon were
deputized lo bring the prisoner !o
Kingstree. A in;, t tress was pul
into-a wagon and the wounded
and helpless negro placed I hereon
and flie Irip to Kingstree made,
the party arriving here at ten
o'clock Tuesday night. Turner's
wile, his broth, r and two other
relatives accompanied the con
stables and the prisoner.
While lying in the wagon, and
the people who brought him here
were near, somebody slipped to
tile wagon and shot Turner in the
lel't temple several times.
The coroner was notified and
and lit Id an inquest Wednesday
morning. Dr. W. V. Hrockinglon
made the post mortem examina
lion. He removed part of ihe
skuil anu found two pistol balls
in bis brain. No one knew , who
did tiie killing. Just after the
firing, Turner's wile, who was
sitting in a buggy nearby, crieJ
that somebody had killed her husband,
and turned her horse and
drove rapidly away.
The loll wing is taken from Mr.
Haselden's testimony belore the
coroner's jury: When the party
in charge of the negro got to the
gate of the [ail yard aud; found
that Mr. Britlon was away, he
(llaselden) went i'or bim. Mr.
Briiton came to the wagon, and
then went around the yard and
entered at another gate, got his
lanletn and !: ys and catne to the
gate near the wagon. Just as
Mr. Brit ton it ached the gate, -ev
jerai pistol shots rang out, in or
near the wagon where the prisoner
was h ing. The men gather
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IV Brockiinrinn was summoned.
| Wlien lie arrived I he negro was
dead. Mr Cannon told practically
ill same story, except that while
Mr. Haselden was gone oft' after
Mr. Britto , several men walked
bv the wapiti, passing ri^ht
through the crowd, lie did not
;ecomiizc any of the rcen. Air.
Dennis was in the lot and did not
see toe shooting. Mr. II 0 Britton
was opening the jail-yard
[gate and heard the shots. He
I saw the Hash of the last shot in
the wagon, but taw no one. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was
that the deceased came to his
i death at tlie hands ol'unknown
I
parlies. 0
The affair is shrouded in Ihe
(deepest mystery. The night was
dark and the constables could see
no one around. They were not
very far from the wagon when Ihe
firing was done, but they saw no
one run away after the killing.
lire negro Greta who was im
plicaleffin the ki'liog of Mr Boston
is to bfc. carried to George
lo.vn ayd placed TrT'i'iiTT' ^ gen |
jiieuniu from the Johnsonvilk^eeI
lion told us yesterday that tlbue
j w as dumrt r of Green's being lynched,
that the people ot that section
j were muji worked up over Mr.
Post oil's death. Mr. W P Price;
j in whose store the Poslon-Turner
difficulty began, is in the Georgetown
jail.
A Christmas killing occurred
near Lamberts postuffice last
week Following closely the terrible
Boston-Turner Green trage
dv at Johnsonville, a negro boy,
Aaron James, shot Elliot Snowden,
another negro 'ad, from the
effects of which wound he died
Sunday morning. Magistral LL
Ard heid the inquest and sent
James up to jail. Our reporter
went to the jail Monday, and in
company with deputy Brit Ion,
; had a talk with the boy about the
killing, tlames looks to be not'
more than 17 or 18 years old, and
he said that the negro he killed
was about the same age. Here is
I lie substance ? f t lie interview:
Aaron James, Elliot Snowden
and several other negro boys were
at liemmingway's store .last Friday
night making Chris'mas purchases;
a whole wagon-load of the
negroes, including the two named
above, started homeward, a'l yeh
ing and celebrating the .occasion;
James had an old pisto" in his
pocket which "he pulled out and
fired into the air, as he was replacing
it in his pocket the pistol
lired again. The boys kept up
their tun, and when about a mile
further Snowden said that James
had shot him when he was firing
some time before: matches were
struct and it was found that
Snowden had been shot in the
I cim> l?v tho accidental discharge
of the pistol, the boys drove hurridly
to Snowden'shorae and summoned
Dr. H L Baker; Snowden
lived un'il Sunday morning, as
above stated.
We could find no one else to in
terview adout the homicide, so*
cannot give anything bat what
lames himself tells* . v
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AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL
REPORTER AND NOTED.
Written in Condensed Form and Printed I
in Like Manner for the Sake
of our Weary Readers.
Mr. T J Brown sp?nt Christmas
with relatives in Darlington.
Several of our young men celebrated
Christmas by going hunting.
Miss Alberta Team, of Camden,
spent Christmas with Miss Louise
Gilland. ,
Tuesday morning we were presei ted
with the heavest frost of the season,
and the weather siuce that has
been very cold.
Mr. Edwin IJirsch left Tuesday
for Columbia to enter the South
Carolina college. Mr. llirsch
will take a course in law.
If llie crowds in town during
I lie past few days have been any
indiea'iou of the amount of business
done, our merchants have
no cause to complain.
At (he recent meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Masons ia Charles
ton, Mr. Louis Jacobs w s elected
Distf-ict Deputy Grand Master of
the lull) State district, which con prise*
all of the lodges in Williamsburg
ami Georgetown counties
and the lodge at St Stephens.
A very important meeting of
the local camp of the Woodmen
of the World will he held next
Monday l ight. Offtcers for the
ensuing year are to be elected
and other business of importance
is to be transacted. A *ull attendance
of the^e^nber^is desired.
Ufirislmas (lay pasaqw on very
quietly in Kingstree, evH^rthing
was pleasant except the weatnV,
which whs very disagreeable. The
weather was cold, and the rain tell
nearly all day. The streets were
practically deserted, only a few
people standing around in little
groups. An occasional shout
went up from some crowd, to?
otherwise the day was more quiet
than the one just proceeding it.
The hotels served extra fine dinner,
and so did the housekeepers,
and in all everything went along
merrily.
Among those who spent Christ,
mas with relatives in Kiiigstree
we noticed the lolloping: Geo.
LJ Logan, i'.sq., of Columbia; \V 6
| Logan, of Charleston; Julian
Jacobs, of Sumter; Clarence and
Louis Jacobs. Jr., of Charleston;
I.** Inlli.ii/imr noula rnllpre sin
I HO l\/liwniug ?n??*v vw.??r?
dents: Heber Kpps, L W Gilland
Claude Marlin,C J and A D Kpps,
W S Lynch and Ed Brockinton;
young lady students: Misses
Louise Gilland, Mary Brunson,
Alma Kellev and Ossie Epp?;
teachers: Misses Florence Be.ii
min, Margaret Brunson, Ivah and
Nettie Epps.
The negroes of Kingstree will
celebrate emancipation day next
Saturday. A parade, speeches, &c.
will be the features of the day.
Kev. H. M. Murphy is to be the
orator of the occasion, and Rev.
J. E. Wilson, E. H. Deas, S. J.
Jackson and other prominent neg
roes are expected to- be present.
James Tharpe id master of ceremonies.
and he promises the very
best ot order and that everything
will pass off smoothly. One feature
of the parade, as promised
by the program, is to be one hun-f
dred little girls all dressed in white
The addresses, music, &c, will
take place in the court house.
HE IS PLEASED
That is, the man who trades with 1
us. We 3t: ive to please all, and w e
always ^ucoeed.
v. v 1 '
jSire as a trial and s^e if we can
please von. We are sure we can*
SAMS,
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A New Parlor oame. |
FuMclaatiar to Old a?d Ytakff.
It is the very latest game
Cheap, and everlasting. A *cien-t:? "
tilic game. Just see ill Don't let | |
a week pass wit hont baring ? S?
board for Carroaafe lew will get *
more genuine enjoyment out a
game ot Carroms than from atty^jj:
thing else. Be sure to call au<f
Hsia^s Pickls And
Queen Olives ft> greatee ;
variety. Just call aud look over , .V
our stock. ^
It is fine. Tr^V'pojndTof It. A
You will be pleased. If. you or J
your boy want a. _
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Pocket Knife
Just call and see our line. All | ^
the celebrated makes at the Iow*9f|9
possible prices.
Of course, everyone mutt wear *f
S H O'ES* I
Our line of shoes Is large and ?*
complete. Prices right. Just call
and see us before bdyin# your |
!
We have been watching the ,,j
condition of the country *ndk?eghr||S
ing acquainted with the timefl^H
We know the tastes and means ot^M.
the people, and the markets
of tl>e country.
We've got goods and pricesgr
(.uvii to the hard pan of an economical
basis, and coriikJerKly.in- " ^ .
vite yon lo save money by exam- f
irvatrouof oar stock. We*co!le<$|9
oat the bestr particularly in the ,1|
Grocery line, for yonr purposes/ ^ '
ibices are not given in this in- |
vitation. We want you to see "t!
prices and goods together. They
help each other and will help yon ]
Give us a call.
Yours truly,