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BA is 'S SLAYER SI:RRE\DERS. f Mrs. Sarratt, in Cherokee Jail, Refuses to Discuss Shooting. r Gaffney, July 11.-MIrs. Frances Sar- a ratt, a white woman of this county, I who oin Sunday night shot and killed n Ruth Duncan, a two-year-old negro t girl, in an alleged endeavor to shoot L Lil Duncan, mother of the dead child,n came up this morning about 10 o'clock and surrendered to Deputy Sheriff 1: Watkins. t A search for the woman has contin- t ued since Sunday and this morning Deput: Watkins was near the river e preparing to renew the search, when t he was met by Mrs. Sarratt and her husband, Ira Sarratt. They were com- r ing to town to surrender. S Mrs. Sarratt, when seen in the jail s by the News and Conrier corr%spord ent late this afternoon, said that she had no statement to max? and refused h to discuss ft e matter, saying that the1 affair was one best known to herself.. She stated that she had not engaged. E counsel. She is a woma a ,.f some r fifty years of age. . c d The following story of the shooting for which Mrs. Frances Sarratt is held by the Cherokee county authorities, is taken from yesterday's issue of the Gaffney Ledger: News reached this city Sunday morning from Blacksburg to the effect that a killing had taken place near there on the plantation of a man nam- fi ed Mack Byars. The coroner, accom- e: panied by Sheriff Thomas, Deputy p Sheriffs Henry Lockhart and Joe Wat- is kins, and a large number of the cu- u, rious, went to the scene, which is of about thirteen miles frori Gaffney and three miles from Blackburg, andt ir found there that a waite woman, Mrs. ec Frances Sarratt, wife of Ira Sarratt, b: had shot and killed a 2-year-old negro ai baby, Ruth Duncan, the daughter of ki LIl Duncan, ear.ly Sunday morning. At ci the inquest, which was af once held, it was found that the shooting took place some time between 1 and 2 S1 o'clock on Sunday morning and oc- S. curred in the road before Mack Byar's home. Mack Byars is a brother of the woman who did the shooting. The entire affair seems to be hard N to get straightened out, as several parties figure in the testimony. It ~seems from tlie testimony given at the inquest, that the killing of the baby 'was more or4less an accident, as the W white woman was shooting at th'e neg. tr 7o woman and the shot took effect in the baby, who was being held in the ' negro woman's arms at the time of W the shooting. The weapon used was a double-barrelled shot gun. Several eye-witnesses saw the shooting~ andb as the moon was shining at the time they had no hesitancy in swearing as I to the identity of the woman who fir- d ed the shot. . The testimony of the Duncan worn an, mnother of the dead child, was to the effect tha~zt Ira Sarratt and Pete' bi Byars, two white men, husband andt brother of Mrs. Sarratt, had been at' 2 her home in the early part of the st evening the shooting took place. They had later left her house, accompanied by her, and had gone to Blacksburg in buggies, returning from that trip in W the night, after sun down. According to her testimony she had been to her mother's home and was returning to her own home, in company with an other negro woman, when the affair cE took place. It was stated by her that N when she came to the cross roads.ji Mrs. ~Sarratt came running towards! her 'with a gun. She saw her ap proaching and shifted her child to the left arizi in an endeavor to get it out of the range of the gun, but just as ax she did so the shot was fired, talging ax effect ,In the child's head and side. by Death was almost instantaneous. It would seem that the trouble arose out of the ride which the negro woman. and the white men had taken together on that evening. f The coroner's jury returned a ver dict that the child came to its death byc a gun shot wound, instrument in the CC hands of Mrs. Frances Sarratt. A dili- $ gent search was instituted by the sher-f iff and his deputies for the woman on c day night, but without result. _____ ____ ____ __-. sil SPARTAN LAD A GENIUS. 1th Mathematical Prodigy is Young et Maurice Lawson-Will Soon En- 5 ter Harvard. Spartanburg, July 10.--Maurice' Lawson, age 18 years, son of Mrs. or Rannie Lawson, of Spring street, is sC a mathematical genius for fair, and CE when it comes to rapid fire calculation m he can make an adding machine "look w like its 30 c.ents.''h Young Lawson will enter the senior F class at Wofford college next Septem- fu ber, and when he finishes there will S go to Harvard, where he has been c awarded a scholarship. 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