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12 NEGROES HELD
FOR CONSPIRACY
PLOT AGAINST WHITES DISCOVERED
AT GREENWOOD.
Blacks at Ninety Six Said to Havo
Conspired i:o Kill Foi.? Prominent
White Citizens.
(ireenwood. Sept. 14.-- Kj'.-jven negroes
were bought. here .Saturday,
September 12, about noon from NineI'
Six, in the custody of Sheriff
McMillan and Peput.v S. eriff Charles
J)uke>, piiilor a warrant charging
them v. ;!i conspiracy. T!?c arred of
tliest; Ik ? rocs x-as the outcome ol' an
invest it?:iI ion ??ti i:.c? pari of I e local
au11ior:| i cs and certain ci'./.jns in
<??'eeuw I. Very li 11?? was known
in Ninety Six up to Satur'J.iv niorninj?
<>f Hie proposed arrest or I lie
cause therefor, but several of the
loading citizens of Ninety Six were
fully aware of I lie situation, and the
bringing ol the negroes to (ireenwood
was decided upon us the best method
to proceed in ;i lawful and orderly
manner. Saturday evening; mother
negro was arrested and brought here
on the same charge. The negroes
first arrested are: P. It. Dean, S. T.
Jackson, a preacher, Jas. Stephens,
Anderson Stephens, Ed. Harris, Tom
Bishop, bavego Williams, Wayinan
lackson, John Calhoun. Zeke Cluippell,
another preacher. and Wade
W illiaius. I'lie negro brought Saturday
night was Press (loodwin.
I'lie investigation, which led up to
the arrest of these negroes, started
mi (ireenwood on Tuesday. Scplcuiber
S. (>n thai day a certain negro
in (ireenwood received by mislake a:
letter addressed to another negro in
(ireenwood. and that letter, upon
which the whole cause hangs, as it
were, is the most important docu-!
menl and development in the whole'
i'ltnir. fl.e great question is, is the
letter genuine or a fake? This is the'
letter: I
"Ninety Six. September 7. I !?l?S.
''Mr. Ilartie Harris, (ireenwood,
S. ( .: \\ c want you u<d Id give us
away in this me and Toiu l>ishop and
be\. /eke ( happell is a committee
jo get up men to by Winchesters, to
1*ix for white folks in a few days. We
are going front 'house to house at
night and shoot in, and they will
think it is Tolhcrl. Now, we want
you lo see how many at (ireenwood
will help. All o| us who come up
there to Tolbert convention is in it,
but Joe. Don't know any! Iiing about
this. I| is us. who is S. T. Jackson
1 here. We will be 'ready bv Sunday
night t<? start if our men get back.
Don'I tell anybody of this, and burn
"Hiis letter up. I,el me know who will
vorne from there by Thur-dav.
(Signed) Wade Williams."
A> slated above, this letter by mistake
was received by another parlv!
than the one to whom il was addressed.
I his party, a negro, states that
be started to put the letter back in
the letter back in the po>to|liee, but
realizing the serious nature of its contents,
be turned it over to Chief of
Police Mct 'onibs. The chief of police
immediately consulted with Sheriff
McMillan and llu'-e two with several'
other representative citi/.ciis began!
(lie i u \ e>t igat ion.
I lie negro who had received the
lelier having him-.-If been a resident'
of Ninety Six. was t,o,t .dos.dy
quol ioued. lie lei it It.- known that
be knew something ol what was ??r {
liad been going on anio'.ig tin* odor- j
ed people at Ninety Si\. Kxpres>jng !
fear I'm- his ow n >afct v lie was re- j
lucianl to divulge anything. We-j
jieated quest ioniiig finally brought ;
out the statement that two negro
societies al Ninety Six had been in-,
dulging in incciuliary talk against i
the whites in their secret orders for
some lime. These talks had been'
more frequent and more violent since'
the recent trouble at Ninety Six. as
\ he result, ol the local election on
the matter of issuing bonds to build
a school house. The negro did not
connect any white person at all with
these talks, but stated that the talks
wore original with the negroes and
confined exclusively to their own
secret orders, lie stated that the nevgro
Odd 1' eUows' 1/odge at Ninety
Six was taking an active interest in
the matter as were the members of
another secret society among the no-j
groes, known as the "Knights of the
Guiding Star of the East." lie stated
t'hat a committee from each of
these lodges had been appointed to
have a conference with each other
as to the purchase of guns, and to
do certain other things, so he had
been informed.
After considerable parleying he
consented to go to Ninety Six and
attend the meeting oC-Mie negro Odd
Fellows on Thursday night, this being
their regular meeting night. lie
slated before going that ho did not
/
jknow whether he would be allowed
Jo get in the lodge or not, as lie was
behind in <liis dues. Money was given ]
him to pay up his dues and he left
Greenwood for Ninety Six. On Friday
he returned und as proof of the
faet that he had been to Ninety Six
and had attended the meeting, he I.
brought back with 'him his member- i
ship card on which the payment of c
his dues had been receipted and c
dated at Ninety Six the night before, t
and countersigned by the regular of- I
ticcrs of the lodge, who wore rcsi- '
dents of Ninety Six. ~ u
'I'llis* negro reported to those who *
had sent him that he attended the
meeting of the lodge and that after S
the -regular business had been disposed
ol in I Ik* lodge an executive session
was called. That fie asfced {o ?
be allowed lo remain to this executive
session, but tuat lie was not allowed
to remain until lie had nmle a fierce
denunciatory speech against the
whites. After that he was allowed
to take part in the executive session. n
At this session all of the facts connected
with the proposed beginning
of the fight were discussed and four
w.Iiile citizens of Ninety Six were ,!
11 *nicd as victims. As was suggested
i:i the letter to llarlie Harris, pub- "
lislied above, if was stated that the n
while people of Ninety Six would n
blame any shooting that might lake v
place on tlie Talberts, and that the
negroes would not be suspected. The s
lour men selected were well known !l
citizens of Ninety Six and it. was
staled that others might be chosen '
later, such developments depending ^
"u (lie outcome of the first venture. ?
II was also slated thai the Ifev. Jack- f>
son. iiiciiI ioned in fhe letter; had '
laiscd a I und oi .'jwO towards buying \
a dozen Winchester rifles in Savan- ''
nali, t?a. I h(i plan of gel Hug these
rifles to Ninety Six was also discuss- ''
ed. ?*<
Some years ago some, little excite- V
mcnl was caused at Ninety Six Jby V
the fact th-at some, eight or ten negroes
had ordered Winchester rifles.
I lie.se negroes slated that they wished
them lor protection against rowdy !'
members of their own race. Thev
readily gave them up when the white '
people demanded them and thus the
matter ended. Having this episode
in mind the negroes staled that it
would not be safe to have any guns
shipped lo Ninety Six, so it was pro- ?
posed to have a young negro, named ,
l)av? ga Williams, one. of those now i
in jail, and a son of Wade Williams, I
the secretary of the Odd Fellows'
I'"due, go to Savannah to purchase
the guns. Ostensibly he would go to
< liif 1 i 11 I niversily, carrying a trunk.
Instead of going to Clal'liu he would s'.
proceed to Savannaili, Imv the guns S
and return as far as Dysons, which
is the next station below Ninetv Six ''
toward Columbia. lie would get olT
there with a trunk in which the guns
would have been safely packed, and
in this way the guns could be distributed
without any suspicion being '!
aroused. The floods interfered with ('i
ais going to Savannah and back at i
II"' lime first appointed. Whether
??r not any other gnus were secured /i
is not known.
ii 01
However, according to the negro
in former, the first attack was to have ;ll
been mad" on Sunday night, Seplem- ||
I '' being slated tint the moon j;
would be about right so far as dark- |<
concerned al that lime.
II all oi 1 his. he true it seems pro- si
vi.Initial that the letter addressed to b
ihe Harris negro did not reach liiin, ei
l"11 l'?'" into th<> hands of the sheriff si
through the medium of another per- ti
s'M. tor Saturday morning Sheriff
McMillan started out with warrants
all ol Hie ringleaders, and bv
noon had them safely lodged in the
"'in.y jail. As staled in Ihe begin- b
ninu only a few people al Ninety ^
Six knew anything about Ihe matter, S|
and it is possible that if all of the
I a ei. s had been known (lie eleven negroes
might never have been allowed Si
to leave the town. However, the
matter was well managed, and Mie 0
negroes were brought here and put c
in jail without any bodily harm being
done lo them. ' n
Saturday afternoon one of them
called to the sheriff and stated that fl
they did not want a preliminary hear- o
ing then. This procedure if adhered e
to will mean I hat the whole dozen
will remain in jail here until the
next term ol courl of general sessions.
A large number of while people
at Ninety Six think fhe whole
1 hiny is a fake. They think fhe in- ?
former is up to "spile work," and "
is simply trying to get the white !'
people worked up against certain ne- .
gro enemies of his. There is no ex- 1
eitement either here or at Ninetv
Six whatever. The affair has caused "
ed considerable talk, of course, but '
there is no excitement whatever.
s
The wife in Abyssinia always owns ii
the house and contents. ]
NEGRO CONSPIRACY A FAKE?
People at Ninety Six so Regard Af- ^
fair in Which Twelve Negroes ?
Wero Arrested.
P
Greenwood, Sept. 15.?There ha\fe <1
>cen 110 further developments in the
natter of the negro conspiracy, so- ?
lulled, at Ninety Six. The prevailing
pinion hero and also at Ninety Six II
his afternoon, as ascertained by inerviews,
is that the thing is a
'fake," a scheme hatched up by one
legro to get revenge on other negroes ti
or wrongs of his own. I
SENATOR TILLMAN
SIGHS FOR HOME
learched London Over For Some
Real Corn Meal, and Got
it, Too.
M
A dispatch from Londan to the
few York Herald says Senator Tilllan,
of South Carolina, who is makug
his first European tour, likes A
london very much, though he sighs
u vain for the delicacies of the
uhle of "down South." ?
'1 Young man," said the sonafor I
liis morning, "if you will only foil 1
le where 1 can go! some real corn
leal in this town, you will make me
our debtor for life," d
A friend who was standing near
upplicd the information and the sen- fl
lor was effusive in his thanks. U
"Well, sir, I've had a hard time tn
0 net something to eat over here, 'i
on know a man jtsed all his life to
m- Southern cooking naturally eravs
for something that has corn in if. 1)
don'! en I beef ami 1 have I lie hard <1
lime everywhere 1 have been frvig
fo explain whal 1 meant by break- ie
asf bacon, but as for corn bread and st
ominy grils, why, sir, T haven't been t]
hie fo find a I race of I hem any
'here, so I us| tbought if I could l'(
nlv find somebody to (ell nie where |
could get some corn meal I would {
?ke il to my slopping place and show
lie cook how to make a nice yellow
one of corn bread or an asheake.
tromplon road, did you say? I am
erlainlv much obliged." ~
She Collected. ^
The clerk at a branch post office in
lie city looked up in surprise the ti:
thcr day when a pretty young Rns- fe
inn girl appeared at the grated win- of
ow and announced, in extremely
roken English that he owed her V).
rninly did he declare that he had Ci
ever seen her before; she was mild &
nd polite, but determined to have
ie money. Her father she said, had 111
Id her not fo leave the olliee until
ie obtained it. dc
"Where is your father?" asked the t,
u/.zlod clerk. ^
" I n f lie con nl ry.''
Then he wrote l<> you about it ^
'' Yes.'' ?
I? inally, after more questioning, if.
|> pea red that she had the letter with 1/
or. Reluctantly, with evident- fear
"ill some trick would be played upon
er, she was persuaded to show the
'Her to the clerk. Tn it he found 12
?e solution o the mystery?a money
'dor nn the olW*e for $f>. * he
"Wight you are," he said, smiliu" 01
1 l,M' l>o'-]>lexed girl; "1 do owo you ca
money, and here if is, l,?f 1 cor- ')e
thought first that it was some S<
U1,l "I :i liohl-up game." ^
I'he girl probably didn't under- ??
<? '?' word in ten of his remark f
"I *ho saw the money and that was
"Migh. I Seaming with satisfaction,
,M'1 11 " efully in |,er purse and
"iPI'ed awav. ?
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( up!. IVitehard of the record J
leaking Maurotania I old a group of 1
'in erica ns on a recent voyage that a on
* life was a hard one. or
It Ti nU
H is not so hard as it used to be
etore the coming of steam," he ""
!li(l' ">>?* still fearfully hard, >"<
"I- all that. I? fuel, I never heard 5!
t but. one man who had a decent ^
xcuse for going to sea. an
''And who was he, captain? said M
Chicagoan.
Noah," the captain answered.
I*or if flie old fellow had remained <
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