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Recollections < By Co!. D. No. 6. The Killing ? On the morning of the 27th of July, 1866, Newberry county was thrown inIto a paroxism of excitement by the report, flashed from house to house by post riders, of the killing and robbing of Lemeul Lane. Mr. Lane was n on/1 m-AoHVut nriH U'SC i I. wuiuuj' auu ncaiuif vibiuvu ? known to keep a large amount of specie in his house, there being no banks in the State at that time. The report was that he had been killed and robbed of fourteen thousand five I, hundred, and sixty dollars by a mob of negroes led by a white man, said afterwards to have been "Billy Wilson." No one knew this man. One man Cureton a few months be| fore had been murdered and robbed by the same crowd a few miles out from Newberry. So also had a Mr. Walker, of Chester, and the question on every lip was, "Who next." The people had a right to believe a regular band of murderers were roving | over the country, t6r these very people who killed Mr. Lane said they wtre i going to kill Gen. Koon had they not 1 been frightened away. Mr. Lane had employed two young men as guard around his house, Wash Calmes and Theodore Keller, of Fairfield. In addition to this precaution he kept a brace of vicious dogs chaini ?ed during the day and turned loose fc at night. This very night one of the B young men had gone away and the dogs were not unchained as usual. I * ...... , i * This was at first thought to De merely a coincident but it developed later that Hilliard Dawkins, Mr. Lane's foreman, j and confidential servant, had the gang of assassins concealed in a thicket for more than two weeks awaiting the time when the guard as away and he, whose duty was to iioupe the dogs k and loose them, hot Mt ilum chained I up to further his plan. John Lane, his eldest son, Jeff, his next, a lad then about thirteen years of age, with Keller, were sleeping in the front piazza, while Mr. Lane and his youngest son were lying on a cot, between his dwelling and the meat 1 Q+ tho trifll Iauusc. r iuui luc ciiutuw uv vuu va it seems that Hilliard Dawkins assembled the gang b-.xh;nd the garden, himself crept stealthily upon his sleeping victim and brained him with a hand axe. So quietly was it done that the young son, sleeping by his side, knew nothing of it until next morning. A wild rush was now made by the tra-ncr fr?r th^ front niazza. firing their | to ***-*? ? _ r pistols as they came in, bound John Lane, and Keller with stout thongs, ready at hand. These two they rushed to the spring, tied them to a tree and left a negro, with a gun to guard them. It appeared Hilliard Dawkins knew of the places "where the money was concealed. Out of a mattress on which was sleeping Mrs. Lane, they rot $10,1500 in gold and from other places a j lot of silver. The young daughter had j $1 ,000 in gold in a shot bag entrusted i to her keeping and was in the act of j leaving the house wi*h it, when one of j the party hearing tne sound of the; 1 metal in the folds of Jier aress, caugm. her and took the money away. After the party had gotten all of the money they retired behind the garden j to divide the spoils. Whether it was a preconcerted plot between the leaders among the negroes and Billy Wilson, to stimulate fright, each grab what he could, leaving the "stool pigeons" without anythings, or whether it *?? ??+ +Vi->+ T/-?v>r? T.qtic> hnrl mjidft fLW ilS UXC lavi uiai> ouuu his escape, anyway someone said, "Yonder comes somebody" an'i a wild yrab was made and the crowd precipitably dispersed. There was supposed to b- a^out 12 j in the gang, but those who /ere real-j ly known and convicted wc . hilliard 1 Dawkins, Lon Jones, L? i Cliue, j Tom Cline, Burr Sondley. .'o-'u Counts I "" v? *-V>^ r Ttinmoc ! S>I1Q ct 1 U Uy lilC JULCLli-lV. . iiivuiuk) ; said to have been from Edge eld. Hi? , tale was that while workig in the l leld at his home several mge ne- j ' jroes came along and per*': ided him to accompany them. Now became a fevered n an hnnt More than twenty-fivt or t.irty suspects were lodged in Jail. > ast rider was sent early in the morn g to Columbia and other towns, tiv re being 1 ao telegraph in those days. ever did P" * Best Kediclne for Co *" I ' When a druggist ffccomme^ ? *ej^iaedy for eoMs, throat and In- $ fro** bles. jou can feel 8*. re that fc* - lowf MB "what he is talking about ower, BDrnggtet, ol Marlon, Ohio, writes of Dr. King'a Krr Dlscorery: *7 ftnov H Dr. Elny'c Star Dtseorerf V &i I?rt toro*t tnl Itse aMIclui 1 &1L H rf a Long Life A. Dickert * of Lemuel Lane. : a man tmrsue with greater diligence and singleness of purpose, than did John Lane follow on the trail of his father's assassins, he and his family defraying all expense, which amounted to several thousand dollars. ! On the second morning after the robbery three negroes >ere arrested in Columbia and when they failed to stop when ordered, were fired upon by Scott Pope and his brother-in-law, VnHnty Tn>in Pniints. thft nther two. Lon Jones and Burr Sondley, made their escape. Counts had in a pillow slip with Mrs. Lane's name engraved i upon it $2,200 in gold and silver. We will see now how relentlessly i fate followed the bandits. Hilliard Dawkins was arrested on suspicion, first by his failure to tie up the dogs, and his familiarity with the places of concealment of Mr. Lane's money. After a long time ne coniesseu implicating the others whom he knew. John Lane got the postmaster in Newberry to watch out for letters coming to relatives of these negroes, now absent. The first to be caught through the mails was Lon Jones, who wrote from Vicksburg, Miss., to his mother to meet him there. John Lane and a fri-end preceded her and had her son handcuffed on the front seat of the coach when the mother entered the train at Jackson. On seeing her son handcuffed and in the hands of officers, the shock was so great she fell dead upon the platform. News came from Petersburg, Va., that a gay yellow lathario, was blowing gold and silver in an amazing manner in that city and was said to be espoused of damsel of equal tint. Now here fate played the negro Thomas false. John Lane was to meet a friend on the cars on a certain day and go to Petersburg. Jeff Lane, the little brother, brought him to Pomaria, - - 1 J? 1_ 4. just as tne train was airtaay m siguL, on which was his friend. Jeff saw a negro sitting oil some distance and said to his brother, "There is the negro that stood guard at the corner of the house the night of the robbery." The writer of this, by the merest chance, was at Pomaria on that day. John l^ane could do nothing at that time, so he told Jeff to do whatever tie could, in i-ess man uve uuuuicb ( the. negro was tied and confessed his j part in the crime and was afterwards sentenced to be hung. John Lane, after some exciting adventures, ran his: man down, which turned out to be Belt Cline. Next came a clue to Burr Sondley in Charleston. He was "caught andi brought back. In fact, all who were j known to be implicated -were rounded up in less than six months. Thej o+ PVioctor "had first P.all i autuiui U V VUVWW4 upon Belt Cline and Lon Jones for J the killing of Mr. Walker and they, j with several others were hung in j Chester. Hilliard Dawkins and Burrj Sondley were hung over near th-e railroad. The others in jail under sentence of death, made their escape and were never heard of again. What became of all the money? That was a question everybody asked ! but none could answer. Belt Cline had $500 worth of silks in his trunk, for his fiancee, although he had a wife in Newberry. John Lane got that. With the exception of the $2,200 found on the person of Counts and the silk from Cline, nothing was ever heard of the other $12,000. Some of the condemned negroes told of hiding their share in some pines j near Mr. Lane's. The pine thickets j wror^ rnto/i nvpr and reraked. Some! of the robbers being with the searchers, indicating where they thought they had hid the money. But all in vain. Rumor had it at that time a, great lot of the money was given to 1 lawyers by suspects to be turned loose or to be cleared on the trial. Others had it the jailor got a big lot of it for allowing the criminals to escape. But this was all rumor and theories. One fact remains, however, that some one got a part of the money whose nnnnninTiA/v ( mrt'ffl TllTTl \Tflf1V VISITS OXUW^ y afterward John Lane, when lie was living in hard luck, received two hundred and fifty dollars expressed from Columbia with a few lines scribbled ! on a piece of paper, a "partial atone! ment" cured my wife of a severe bronchial cold after all other remedies failed." Tt wiP do the sain for you !f r j-TifferiBg with a c^9 or any bronchial, throat or lung cough. Keep a bottle on hand all the time for everyone In the family to use. It is a home doc|for. Price 5t)c and $100. Guaranteed . by ail druggibla. I BIDS WASTED. I Bids are invited for the erection of! | brick school house at Chappells, S. j ! n. Plans and specifications may be I seen at the office of the county superintendent of education for Newberry county. The right reserved to reject a,ny or all bids. It is desired to let contract not later than May 5, 1913. E. H. Anil, County Supt Education. ! J. L. Watkins, W. R. Keith, A. P. Coleman, Trustees Chappells School istrict. At the request of several contrac tors desiring to maxe estimates on t-?e building, the time for receiving I>aus has been postponed until Friday, May 9, at noon. NOTICE OF ELECTION INSILYERSTREET SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 58. Whereas, one-third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the ' ^ 1 _ ft xl A ^ o resident ireenoiaers 01 me a.g? ui twenty-one years, of Silverstreet School District, No. 58, of Newberry county, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in i said School District on the question of levying a special annual tax of two mills to be collected on the property located in the said School District. * - - "1 3 Now, tnereior-e, tne unaersigneu, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the Silverstreet School District No. 58 to hold an election on the said question of levying a two mill tax to be collected on the property located' in said School District, which said election shall be held at ^ * ? TX T ^ \ Y\ suverstreei., in n.. v^. ? siuic, m j the said. School District No. 58, on Friday, May 16, 1913, at which said j election the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon and closed i at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The j members of the Board of Trustees of j said School District shall act as man- j agers of said election. Only such; electors as reside in said School Dis-1 trict and return real or personal prop-. erty for taxation, and who exhibit their, tax receipts and registration certifi- j cates as required in general elections,' shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall ?ast; p iballot containing ;he word j "yes" printed or written thereon, and eaich elector oppose to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the! word "no" written or printed thereon. Given under our bands and seal on May 1, 1913. E. H. Anil, J. S. Wheeler, S. J. Derrick, County Board of Education for New berry County. , . Special Bates Cn >\ & L. The Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad company announces very low round trip fares to Greenville, S. "C., account Gala Week and Greenville jHors^ Show association, May 19th?24th, 1913. S3 fin V^UlUJUJMia. Prosperity 2.55 Newberry 2.30 Clinton 1.65 Laurens.. 1.35 Proportionately low rates from intermediate points. Fares for children 6 and und-er 12 years of age, one-hail regular fare. Dates of sale: May 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 1913. Going journey must commence on date of sale. Return limit: Tickets to be limited to reach original starting point not later than midnight of May 27th, 1913. For further information, phone or write R. A. Torrer, C. A., Columbia, S. C. Phone 1040. WlnthrOn follcee SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of ney students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 4, at 9 a. m. Applicants must be not less than sixteen years of age. 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