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T HE ] Lan< T T?rv/-?Tjr? <nr"> :asi *ER Ne^ 7S LVOL. 3. NO. 4 Interesting Mu Trial and Convict 8. SEMI-WEEKLY. rder Case, f"?0"'-an' that there * and breast, ion in Mon- camo there *1. U. i .r.i ajcj*. iODZ LANC i then it wa9 noticed self vaa blood on her arm "Su G. W. Russ, who and after the others test- goii O i i 1 1 KJiVUiw 1878 )ASTER, S. C., MARCH like a crszy mnn, he si ie, do the best you can," i went outside, saying he i ig lo kill himself. She 9 ENTERPRISE 1891 21, 1908. |ifl> Judge Buchanan's Proved Fatal?S TT* T aid His Life. PRICE 5 CI I Wound Uf Qeorg Iketch of 5NTS PER COPY e Moore Dead. roe of Negroes Young Furr, \ Time Lived in County, with #h in-Law, J. Ha Monroe special ir Charlotte Obserrei for Killing house .nd , Vho at One hat under h t Lancaster *ent to wh< is Brohter- lj'led to 8liP blanket whi rvey Flynn. liu88 went i 1 Thursday's blood on th( r: The iurv place and t " Btw ouo go in me ne I 3ome out with Tom's so d ier arm, and that she not ere the body was and 10 i the hat under the the ich covered the body out n the house and saw fror ) floor near the fire- thai ipatters of blood on nun Had said such thinga bef( lid not beliere him and go outside with him. Ab minutes afterward, she he; report of a guu and rual to find Furr lying by a tre< it of her house. She e t the dead man had fixed t/O t lift fcrflft hv u rrtnA in o 3.r?' Augusta, Ga., Mi Judge O. W. Bui ard Winnsboro, an(j one hed known men in the a in state, died here this ia?J aa the result of a bul inflicted yesterday , The Wellarch 17.? _ shanan, of Lancas* of the be?t *** Texas, Palmetto Adoptionj moruinf?, Here, let wound The many afternoon hi* Known Former in Passed A way the State of His -To be Buried friends in Lancas nr h/\rviA i 1 1 in the case of Sue Onarles Stratford 1 verdict of guilty ol the second degree night after being ou The pentence of ea years in the State p labor. rru? ~ e o... Watts and the wood wo brought in a When Cliie f murder in scene, aboui at 10:30 to- * lot of bl< it six hours, woman's I ,ch is thirty w?8 water < rison at hard other room been made I >rk over the fireplace a m f Laney reached the gun t 9 o'clock, he found ger oody clothing in the hina jedroom, and there arm on the floor of the brei as if an attempt had wan to wash up the floor lyin ~ I U 1 1 mi ? ? "jyv M u O I lunner that he could point at himself and pull the ti with the rope. She lit t up, holding hiB head in 1 9 and restiug it against ?Bt. She said she did it Furr's folks to find the b( ig near her door, so she w while he was on a fcrai ig_ to Augusta. The bu ted caused his death was hpr unknown party am lier through the car win . the train was rum ent vvards, S. C. The bul in en route shocked and g 1'et which the death of ft fired by an of Rockdale, 1 1 crashed re(j Thursday i idovr while that state. T ningj near conveyed here let entered evening to Mr iv* "UUID^ Wilt UO :rieved to hear of Ir. A. G. Moore, I'exas, which occurafternoon at Waco, he sad news was > by wire Thursday . Moore's mother. jl ut? iriHi in out Charles Statford, t charged with the m mas Furr, a white old, was begun in Si yesterday morning. The body of youi found in a field nea of Sue VVatts early 3 VYHUS HI1U ioiuu?o i >oth colored, Watts worn: urder of Tho- thing at the boy 18 years would tell a iporior Court Charles S he was hom< ng Furr was and the reak ,r the house Medliu and in the morn- Furr was 1 SbttiUH (II uioou. llie up 1 in refused to say any the } time, saying she bac 11 later. and tratford testified that lif'c 3 all night that night, 'he k>u he did not go with 'o d White to search tor dig because he did not rein to rlynn ? barn and got < mule and buggy and dri k, intending to take the be leave it in Flynn's yard. J id the body and placed it baggy, she said, and star irive np to Flynn's, she wa on the ground holding 8/ B II t lllA tinilv f'till ntlt out the rlght 8,de a?d ca ove gestion of the lungs, suited in death at 11 5',e day. The shot was I ted ca^^er weapon. lk_ Judge Buckanau 1 the his state in several he 4: i _ ? iused con- Mrs N c Moi which re- gave no partic o clock to- most have bee From a 22 only a fewa dj munication v lad served from Mr. Moo: inored po- feronce was r ore. The telegram ulars, but his death u sudden, as it was ays ago that a com* ras received here re in which no renade to his being ing of January 22i had been shot throu and County l'hysic testified that death been instantaneous. Furr, mother of t said that her son lef ing a mule about a < 1 i. id last. He think that a gh the heart, ed to Tom. nan Stewart brother and must have who live in Mrs. Sallie corroborated he deceased, he had been t home rid- fified that hi quarter of an with Furr tl nything had happen- the Stratford's wite, his it ii several other negroes the the house with him She 1 his statement that ?nd at home. Ho tea- toot e had a little hiss riod ie Sunday before the toot V IUII buggy, and she could not 1 again, so she dragged it place where it was fou lett the buggy where it w returned to her house. S : the gun oil'the tree ind c it in the hou?e where f i the exploded she 1 out a ui siuuiiH, naviof? oeen cir Pet legislator and attorns fi^? II? was born in A aa^ 16> 1858? the PO Hie Buchanan and Rebec ar ward. On both side*, she Revolutionary stock. Mui _Ir.li ,1 cuitjudge, 8iok As is 1 iy general. Moore's home Vinnsboro, wheie he had n of R. A. ^,e newBpapei :ca Wood- years?was ed lie was ol dale Reporter llis uncle, here why he v well knoiVn, Mr. w.?s in Rockdale, been enc;as*ed in r business for some litor of the RockIt is not known Pas in Waco, where nuur utsiure suiisei before. During tin mule returned withe bridle, and later a liitcbed to a buggy, ' pery of Harvey F Furr's brother-in-la\ standing near Mr. 1 There were blood a uie evening Killing occu 9 night the amount to i ut Raddle or Furr were fi nother mule 'ore, as ?wa both the pro- having visit 'lynn, Tom before ho w v, was found >vas over al rlynn's barn, when the (] itains on the were there rreti, but it ciicl not put inything and he and subi *iends after it as b*;- no a s shown by Furr's enct ed him the evening her as killed. The (uha tion t Sue Watts' house in h lefendant and Furr licai ? and some others Stra in a loaded one. This is I dance of her story. She irlf ittempt to explain the pr s of the hlood stains arou fireplace, anil her explai for the bloody clothing foe ier room is also unfit tor pi tion. She did not implic; tford fit all urtrl tl?. "viiii uuvuaiiaii) the signers of the Ore e>i- Seccesaion. nd Judge Buchanan w? na in the common scho l"(* county and at Mr. Zio L* lie studied law in th ate _ J as. H. Kiou. and afte wcbouboi iie died, but iiuance of had gone tlier to take his ph is educated order that he r ols of his caster to meet n institute. William Moo le office of government's r an ?r?m . u -i it is thought he e to get some one ?co in his oifice in night come to Lanhia brother, Mr. re, who is in the postal service in Hides of the buggy i blood inside. Ilai was awakened, and wife and Mrs. Fun Watts' house, about a mile away, the rei going there being tl less mule had return .1 i tl mid a pool of drinking th< rvey Flynn fondant said he and his ened Furr. * went to Sue testimony oi a quarter of he had hear rson lor their to kill Furr c lat the rider- two weeks t ed from that was shown I 9 Sunday before. De con* I he had never threat- goo< In answer to the f Jack Williams that d Stratford threaten >ne day at noon about C jefore the killing, it v >y the payrolls of the i?uu tuc laitrj udered to have made out :1 defense. :es Fixed for State a Jounty Democratic Cc entions. i.? /1_i i ... r i? ? ? (l nation by the euprem admitted to practice in Mrs. Buchanan, to ncj was married at Clark's in- 1 S80, was Miss Sopl man, a daughter of th greasman Goo. D. Til! ? v,?x aiiaiiia, ana 0 court was here du a vi si I ' 1880. ?, .. Mr. Moore v whom ho 0d in lhj8 con) 1 Uill, Jan. a SUJ) of t])e ^ Ilia A. Till- ?f the Lanc# elate Con- forly.lhreo y#, man and a ? ?? , who is expected t in a few (lays, vas born and rearmunity. lie was ate W. A. Moore ster bar and was irs ot a?e, and un direction, oue sta that she hud rot see early in tlie evoiiinf: told Sue to co " 1: J his house; at first si do this, but finall and went with them ed there for about a she returned to fieri ieu 10 tnem incemoriee n Tom since Stratford wc Mr. Fly tin work there >ack over to morning till le refused to day in ques y consented have been a and remain- Williams sai n hour when made. Mr ;abin. In the tied that Sir Lotion Mill, whore A >rked, that he was at Stat Irom 6 o'clock in the corn t> at ninht on the nj lion, and could not j t. the place wheio (l ho heard the threat Robert. Iceman teati'Jitlnrtl lnut mil v fi\r no v>oiuraoia state: r e Democratic execut mittee at the meeting I it tix^d tho time for holdi State convention for M the county conventions 7 f, and the precinct cli a im-il or, ti.;? *i._ lift niece of benator B. R. uo Judge Buchanan elected a representa in^ Fairfield county to tl aN assemble; was appoin for ant attorney general b General D, A. Town marueu. lie le lillman. 20 years a^o, was twice which 8^ate h? tive from er part of the >e general skilled an(1 8U ted assist- mail) haymg g| y Attorney ne?8 }iere (jurj isend, and \ hnftrJ id nere some lo or Koing to Texas, in i resided fhe greattime. lie was a ccessful newspaper tarted in that husiing his young mmfina nf ll.? >1.1 T meantime Mr. F1 Ben WInte atul Lee colored men who i neighbornood, that missing and he hu; they come to Monro hounds to track the The two colored it ynn notified halfadaytr Medlin, two month of Ja live in the on the 20t Tom was Kurr was ki ggested that that he went e tor blood- iho morning missing man. his way to ien came to there as the< om work during the rea8 nuary, and thut wa? one h, two days before lle<l. Stratford said tru< b'to tlie Flyni.'s house 1 ; after the killing on e?rat work. Ho reached com y weio starting to go tj il|"" lil'S wits Hie 111! oil for the meeting, althou or two other resolutions need were discussed, precinct or club meetings d .es will be elected to ity conventions and wi count v rnnventinnu upon the election of A l6 send to the bench in 111 elected without oppo9i the vacancy thus ca 'f ^ Dec. 4, 1894, lie w L*'e judge of the Third c u 11 the expiration of the (IU lr. lown- caster Rovjev 1803, was numbered tha ition to f,U week(J in Lanc iiiseJ. On 8Ummer as elected . . As charae ircuit. At ? . family?parei four-year ulut nrj V i? \ IM U13U || IJ HIf. It will be ret he spent a few aster,his oltl homo, teristie of all his its, brothers and Monroe but could bloodhounds ("ma Lee Medlin callod lie testified) and Me to cull at tho house Stratford and see been there, becaus lie knew Tom and ( vnrv frinndlv Whfii not get t tie to one Wat's il dogs old and he won them when vey Flynn h )dlin decided said to the] ) of Charles anything ah it Tom had buggy, k'I ai e, as he aaul, as the angel Jharles to he they reaches i t tin ?iftfpniw 1 nu tiL'/aiit i > i house the last timj t with them. liar- 8em tated that Stratford con m, before he knew coui out the blood in the the n as innocent of this jn (] s in heaven." When -j i Sue's house. Charami Ann r\f tKn n? if AIIC^ bled dele^atos to the St rent ion will ho elected, e; ity being entitled to t\v number of representatr lie general assembly, bero was a very full attei ? when the meeting v term ho was reelectei ate cond torm commoncin ?ch 1S'J8. For several y< ico been practicing \hw res bor?n ] : Chester Negro's Lo Lf<iK j Cheater Reporter: a O ? *>. * t> ATI J ( IT , his seK Dee. 8, exceptionally. Bars he has wa3 apparent at VVinns- him to readilv of a problem, and perplexin ss by Fire, possessed of The barns I hearted nat 11 r 'iuui o wn^ a ii'ri.i tn bright mi ml. It tly i)') trouble (or ' master any kind however intrieito g He was also a generous, openn HIAASI n or reached Charles' hoi some ditliciilty in a and when I hey told I disappearance and of foul play he said, Tom was over hero and wont away all r witnesses testified :ise, they had nesses said, irousiim him, noticing the liim ot Tom's pointed to it the suspicion say you lcno "Surely not; how caine t this evening sleove?" S ight". Other The testin tliat young which was g y \j iX\j \j i>iiu n ib he looked at Sue and call* blood on her sleeve the and said,''Sue, you wer w nothing about thin, brov hat blood on your nien ue did not answer. chai tiony of Sue Watt a, the ivon at the uiirht sea mar n 3(1 to order and as soon dates for the coiventi o fixed Mr. Cole L. Hie mht up a resolution reco idinx to the convention t n'ze in tho constitution party so that tho lirst | V rnurlit he field nn the f.lii n4 und stables of Will i'r on on tho West End roa :iH(, mile lrooi the city, we m ed by fire la<t. nijjdi bo loss is very heavy, inc 01 horses, three head of ( >n~ in^ implements and a ! " alt, colored ali'y and com d, about a tion, all of wli re destroy- f r him friend it. Pratt's lie came in coi 'hiding two pliysique and ;attle,farm ence, his was pupply of any crowd. panionable di^po-itich tended to win s of all willi whom 11 tact Of splendid commanding presa striking figure in J' urr had been ai house early that ovo mnined only a Hhort ford went back to 1: not go with the me for Furr. George Flynn, Ila er, who lives two I I a ri/oir'ti Iwumn uroa i Stratford's sion, was n ning, but re- story ol thi time. Si rat- her and you >od and did publication, n to search donee of oth only too tru .rvoy's broth- Kurr came rnilos from night, and ?< 1 lost dramatic. Il?r Sail 0 relations between the nj; Furr is unfit lor \fr# but from the evi heai era it seems to be whe o. She testified that alio to her houflo that orde aemed to bo troubled mar IT- ~ ~ i .1 i irday in Augusta instead fourth Tuesday as at prosei HUase stated that he ti "d of a number ot ca re mill operatives were i wed to K('t oir on Tuesday ir to voto and it was eus y in the mills to g?vo t feed. The fire is suppo nt. been of ineendiar' ori iad ? *eH Struck in Eye b\ . ^ UafFney special in j() Observer: Mr. Porr) ho efficient superintende fled to have Mr. Moore i , mother, Mrs. ] the following / Nail. . Messrs yesterday's Moore and Mi ' Hill, the of this place; nt of the of Rock llill; s survived by His N. U. Moore, anil brothers <?nil pis. . Ernest and Paul ra. H. L. Orn*v;'ord, Mrs. J, C Lindsay, \I fS. I' () t ..rinrtrm ??(u o n"unu^ vv he went over there and 5 o'clock in tl 0ll aryey suggested 1 go oyer to Sue Watt the body was disco1 after they arrived. n^nt iui ami nuuut ruuiui ) between 4 for his gun, ie morning, and she tolc hat tbey all room where h' again, and got it, and a yered shortly hands fooli They called minutes, an tiling. nt? iiHKoii nor ope which ho kopt there, y^ti 1 him it wan in the ulur it always was. IIo 8ftj(j iftor holding it in his pOBC ng with it for fivo wou d mumbling to him- Wft8 ratives ? half holiday inlay. This applied part ly to Richland county, The resolution waa < >d on the ground that i'd delay the returns, finally tabled. on county farm, suafaine< 1C painful accident Aloud ,KI encaged in driving a i U 1 *jt hammer and in strn jt glancing blow the nail in the left eye. J quite a of Atlanta, (J ay. lie was Hum Moore, n< iail with a remains^are king it a Lancaster for struck him pected to arri ( or Monday. a., and Mr. Wil)w ol Panama. The being brought to burial, and are oxve here tomorrow