The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 25, 1904, Image 1
BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY AUGUST 25, 1904.
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With (doUUiif wtuilUod witti kOro-
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, •ore&ming to ttearaa for ttM
mmj that tho mob would not abow,
Paul Baud and Will Oato, negrow, two
of tba principals io the dastardly mur
der aad banring of Heury Hodges aod
wife and three children six miles from
Statesboro-, Ga., three weeks ago, were
honied at the stake on Tuesday, Aug.
Iftth.
That afternoon at 1.21 o'clock a de
termined mob charged upon the court
bouse, overpowered the military
guard, secured Oato and Rsed, who
had bean found guilty after a legal
trial and sentenced to be hanged,
took them two miles from States
boro and there exacted the fearful
penalty.
The forenoon passed quietly, the
trial of Paul Reed, the ringleader in
the murder, being concluded and a
verdict of guilty rendered. Sentence
wee imposed upon both him and Will
Oato, sentenced the day before, and
SepUmbar » Was fixed as the date for
the execution. ,
The crowd astern bled about the
court home Tuesday was not so large
as Monday. Nor was it so threatning,
though, for that matter, there was
naver much parade about the crowd
that Argued the worst and the deter
mination of the countrymen who had
come in from miles around for the
trial waa never to be doubted.
Up to the noon hour there was no
intimation that so soon wsa to be en
acted the terrible climax. In the
trial of Reed little delay was caused
and upon its conclusion the prisoners,
as before, ware hustled Into the wit
ness room where a strong guard of
military was mounted over them.
THK AGITATION BCG IN 8.
In the corridors the agitation be
gan. The spectators left the court
room and from the lawn outside many
entered the hallways. Shortly before
1 o'clock the crowd was addressed by
a tell man who seemed to ioflune it
greatly. He called on those about
him to follow him. Then Gapt. Hitch
of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry,
who wet in oommand of the forces,
realised that tbe situation was deeper
ate. Ha posted guards on each of the
stairways that led to the floor above
where the prisoners were confined.
With fixed bayonets but unloaded
rlfiee, tbe guards stood. The mob
surged toward them but ware repulsed
several time a The determined effort
waa yet to be made. At tbe rear stair
way tbe gravtst danger threatened
Prominent In the crowd was Rev. Mr.
Hodges, brother cf tbe murdered man,
who sprang to tbe front to address Its
members. He begged them to die-
rcy, all resistance having been
beaten down. Oato, Reed, Handy, Ball
and other prisoners cowered before the
crowd. They dragged Oato and Raed
Out,, releasing Bau Into tbe baada of
fs^soldiers left there ta soon as
1 hey learned that be wag not Beedr
for whom they had mat taken him.
Reed was taken down oaa stairway
with a rope about his neck and Oato
down tbe other, both pleading for
their lives.
By than the crowd numbered 500.
They dragged tbe men along, shouting
and cheering along the roadway laad-
ng to tbe Hodges homestead, where
,be five members of the family had
men murdered and burned. That wa
their destination.
THE CRIME
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for Which Oato and lee
Burned to Death.
Wars
AM SOTIBI FAMILY MUBDXRXD
And Their
Former
In their
Which Waa
but remembered that tbe little
had escaped and would tell who
were.
According to the woman, the ne
groes then returned to the boose and
found the little girl hid behind a
trunk. She pleaded with them to
spare her life, but her pleadings were
in vain. A blow from an axe ended
her life. The wonaan then satd the
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Shsriff Kendrick was in the crowd.
Ha Cautioned the crowd against vio
lence and pleaded with them to dia-
nerae. 'Tam your^frienl," he said.
-^T beg you to do nothing that will re
leot upon us as we l aa on the com
munlty. Disperse and let tbe law
take its course. We need these men.
There are other* to be brought to Jus-
ttoa and only from the information to
be gained from Cato and Reel can we
bring the right ones to Jnstioe. lean
almost promise you that a hen the ca-e
Mfinally sifted there will be five par
the who are equally guilty.”
THKIK KKIKND KKNDKK K.
"Wf know yon are our friend, Ken
drick,” someone shouted, “but prom
ise Os that you will Jet these men stay
Ih the Statesboro Jail and not be taken
back to Savannah. Theh we will dis
perse, 'not untlTthcuu”
There was a shout and cheering and
Kendrick oould n)t reply. “Promise
•us that,” th a ,y shouted, “you will not
.take them away from Statesboro.” A
•commotion to the front drew tbe
•crowd there. Tots was bat tempor-
ary. Presently they were back at the
" fear and some 25 men crowded around
tba guards. Before they oould be
(prevented they bad caught two of the
guards, wreitled their weapon* from
them aud thrown open the breech
kicks.' Tbe weapons were empty
iThst was What the oroed wanted to
ascertain. The troops had been given
'orders not to load their rifl *.
The captured soldiers were belt
prisoners. Tbe same policy was fol
Jowad wltb others of tbe soldiers.
Man after man, caught isolated, was
relieved of his rlfls after a struggle.
At the front a member of the mob
» crept along the Will until he got dose
to the guards. He threw himself
upon them. In tbe broach thus
formed his companions threw them
selves, Two hondred wildly cheering
men followed him and soon thg aol
dlert, though thqj tough desperate
ly snd inflicted bayonet wounds upon
Some of their assailants, were over
A WAABY CROWD. ,
The beat was so intense that tbe
crowd wearied when two miles of the
six mile route had been traversed.
Going several hundred yards from tbe
road-the crowd halted. The two ne
groes were made to seat themselves
on a log. They were told they had but
short time to live and that they
should confess. Reed was tbe first to
speak. He confessed, Implicating other
negroes as he had In the court room.
He denied, however, that he had taken
an active part in tbe murder. Cato
answ-ered Incoherently.
The crowd moved across a field to
strip of woodland. Several men
dimed to branches and called for
ropes.
Burn them, burn them” shouted
the crowd.
Oato begged to be shot or hanged,
he was Innocent; that be bad
oad no band in the crime. Some of
the more humane wanted to granthts
request but they were in tbe minority.
The rest Wanted to visit tbe same
death upon the negroes that they had
visited upon the Hodges family.
A member of the mob made a speech
recounting tbq horrors of the crime.
This, inflamed the crowd to the buro-
ng pitch. To a large stump, 12 feet
ilgh, the men were chained with their
>acka to the stump. With trace chains
tbe men were lashed to the stump.
Then a wagonload of plnewood was
hauled to tbe spot. It waa plied around
the men and ten gallons of kerosene
was thrown over them.
‘ A GROBGLA OOIN-CHABKR.
A Photographer was ^present and
the crowd waa cleared back that he
might get several views of the men
muod to the stake and ready for the
burning.
Tbe scene’ which followed beggars
description. Freniled cheers rent tbe
air aa men, almost crazed with hatred
of the men being punished, saw the
cruel flames drinking up the life blood.
Just as the match waa applied to the
pyre one of tboee in froot asked Reed
didn’t be want to tell the troth before
he died.
‘Yea, sir; I killed Mr. and Mis
H dges,” be replied.
‘Who killed the childreny” be was
asked. x
Handy Bell,"came the reepo se, aa
the flames lept upwards tnd further
questioning^ was Impossible in the
wild tumult. The spectacle was
frightful. As the flames touched
Reed’s naked oil satked akin he twist
ed his head around in an endeavor to
choke himself aod avoid. tbe . (earful
torture. Only once did he complain.
He said: “Lord have mercy!”
Cato screamed in agony and begged
that he be shot. His heavy suit of
batr which was oil suaked wai almost
the first th’ng the flames fastened oo,
and be screamed with agony, while
the lr mp rope became a collar of fire
around his neck. A thrill of horror
ran through the frames of the more
timid. Before the flames had quench
ed (Jato'a life, tbe rope was burned io
two and his head swung from side to
si do is he endeavored to avoid the
fiery tongue. By efforts almost super
human he writhed under the Clore
locked chains. For only about three
minutes was he vis’ble to the crowd
tx fore the gre.it pile of fagots made a
wall of flame' 1 jRbiQh the wind wiped
aronnd on Cato’s side and so bid him
from view. *
a girl
toay
Met on Flaw by tbe Hu
man Devils.
The Bodgea murder, for which the
two negroes, Oato and Raed, were
burned near Statesboro, Ga., on Tues
day of last week, was one of the moat
brutal that baa ever been committed
any where. An entire famHr, con
sisting of the husband, wife and three
children, were cruelly murdered In
cold blood and their former home set
on fire and burned to the ground. The
devilish fiends threw the bodies of
their Innocent victims in the burning
bonding and thus attempted to bide
their crime by cremeatlog the bodies.
Thera was no happier family In all
tbe section around Statesboro than
Henry Hodges, a well-to-do farmer,
and his wife and three children. He
was Industrious and economical and
bad managed to accumulate some
thing for a rainy day. His accumula
tions, following a small dsposit be bad
made in one of the banks, began to be
talked about and soon reports of
boarded money were told. It waa
even said that Hodges had a pot of
gold hidden in his front yard. With
the coming of the dawn on Friday,
Jnly 29 the whole community was
shocked by the story of the crime.
Shortly after midnight neighbors dis
covered the home of Mr. Hodges in
flames. The home is just six miles
from Statesboro. Rapidly neighbors
and ftiends gathered to render assis
tance. Instead of a home just afire
they found the bouse ahnoet destroy
ed. Members of the family were no
where to be seen.
BCRNK OF HORROR.
Closer investigation, as daylight
opened the way, showed a horrible
scene. Mr. Hodges was found with
bis skull crushed in as though from
the blow of an axe.
Mn. Hodges’ head and body had
been beaten with some blunt instru
ment. ~
The body of a little girl was horrib
ly mangled.
The two other children!* bodies did
not show any signs of violence, and It
is supposed they were victims of the
flames and not the murderous blows
of tbelr assailants.
On pieces of timber In the yard
were found many blood stains and
bloody finger prints.
STRUGGLE WITH ASSAILANTS.
It developed that Hodges went to a
neighbor’! about 8 o’clock the same
n*ght to bring his little child back,
who had been spending the day.
It is believed be was met at tbe
gate by tbe aasai'ants and murdeied
ih re and that his body was dragged
into the house. There were many In
dications of a struggle at the gate and
blood stains were lound on the gate
post.
A lamp waa found sitting on the
gate post. A horse and buggy was
also found, hitched to a tree in the
back yard. Toe body of Mrs. Hodges
waa found near tbe fireplace. Tne
body of the oldest child was discover
ed on the front porch.
All the bodies were dressed, indioat'
ing that tbe crime was committed
early in tbe night before the family
had retired.
BLOODHOUNDe ON TRAIL.
As soon as the crime was made
known, s large posse was formed and
bloodhounds put on the trait.
As reported at the trial, the blood
hounds followed the trail during the
day to a picnic, at which several bun-
tired negroes were at-sembied. With
out warning tbe dogs pounced on two
negroes. The office is fan to the dogs
and in attempting to arrest the two
negroes they were immediately sur
rounded by the crowd. The crowd
sought to prevent the arrest fit tbe
two men and the officers drew their
guns.
Within a short time thirteen ne
groes were placed under arrest aud
carried to tbe St&teeboro Jill.
Prior to the arrest of the thirteen,
Paul Reid and his wife and Will Gate,
other negroes, were placed in jail. In
s confess on made later by the wife of
Paul Reid she declared her hus
band and Will Cato committed the
murder.
NRG BO WOMAN CONKKS8KS.
The woman told a harrowing tale
of tbe crime. She was anxious, she
said, to make a clean breast of the
whole matter and would have dune so
before, when she heard Gf the murder
being planned, but she was afraid,
she said, that her husband would kill
bodies of the five vlctimi were then
piled In a heap and the house set on
fire.
There wsa great excitement follow
ing the woman's confession and
threats of lynching were heard on all
aides. A public meeting was callen
at the court house and the cooler
heads finally persuaded the enraged
citizens to allow tbe law to take its
course. Later, under military escort,
the two negroes, Paul Reid and Will
Oato, were carried to the Savannah
jail.
To a party of Statesboro citizens,
who viilted the pris mere in the
Savannah jail, Reid confessed that
the Hodges murder was planned by a
black mafia society known as “Before
tile Day Club.” He said tbe mem
bers of the dub, whloh included many
negroes in the neighborhood, had
marked several victims. The meet
ing of tbe club were held after mid
night and sdj urned before day
A*! Want* HU Fee.
The State says: “Aron Prioleau,
who periodically protest the oongroi-
slonal election in the first district for
GOES IIP FOB LIFE.
White Murderer feat to
Penitentiary from Faluda.
the
A GOOD 1XAMPLB TO FOLLOW.
Judge Watte Telle the Ooavtcted
Man of the Enormity of hie
Crime and tbe Justice of
the Rentenee.
A spedal dispatch from Saluda to
Tbe News and Oourler aays the notice
of motion for a new trial in the
Tbrallklll case, was abandoned by de
fendant’s attorneys, and the prisoner
arraigned for sentence. In passing
sentence Judge Watts old:
“You have been tried and convicted
by a Jury of your country of murder.
It is now my painful duty to pass sen
tence upon you. I am always sorry
for any one who la In trouble and dis
tress. But you have violated tbe law
of vour country. A jury of your coun
try have found you guilty of murder,
and have recommended you to the
mercy of the Court. 1 am of tbe opin
ion that the verdict was warranted
absolutely by the facte of the case. I
do not see how the Jury oould have
done otherwise under the testimony
the case than to bare found the
verdict they did. I think it is going
to have a happy effect throughout tbe
State of South Carolina, because the
he had nothing to say |
sentence should not be passed
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upon him. Judge Watts then aeoten-1 levtral Bloody lattlee:
oed him to hard labor In the State] _ . •
Penitentiary tor the period of his nat- F®**
oral life.
YOUMG AM1IL KILLKD
WILL
IT TO
In a
the sake of the $2,000 that Is allowed
a contestant by the federal govern- I>®opJc of this State .Will learn that a Mr
meet, Is in trouble with the negio
lawyer who helped to manage his case
in Washington before the congres
sional committee. This fellow wants
his fees for services. He has brought
suit against Prioleau and Is likely to
get judgment against him even If he
never is able to collect tbe amount.
Prioleau Is In worse luck than ex-Oon-
gressman Murry of Sumter who Suc
ceeded in swindling an old darkey
who was not smart enough to care for
himself until the courts took tbe mat
ter up and brougbt.Mqrray to grief.'
Boys for Farm Work.
The State says Commissioner Wat
son expects two boys from tbe Chil
drens’ Aid society of New York city
n s few days. These b iys will go to
Abbeville and later on In the year
others will be sent. As has been
stated, these boys are not Inmates of
reformatore, but are foundings oared
l or bv the society until an age of
discretion has been reached, when
-they are sent out to make their own
ivings. They are under tbe supervi-
»1 n of the State for two years. Any
one wishing to secure some of these
boy* as laborers, farm hands, etc.,
should write lb Commissioner E. J.
Watson, care tbe department of ag
riculture, oomjaerceand Immigration,
at Columbia.
SAVAGERY IN DKTAIL.
Reed was the first to exhibit unoon-
sclousne s and was perhaps the first
dead. After tbe flames bad progress
ed very far up bis body his head sank
forward and many believed that tbe
fire got into his lung and killed h'm.
As Cato’s bead swung to and fro sime
of tbe more excited members of tbe
party oommenoed throwing llghtwood
knot* at it.
As soon as it was seen that the men
were dead the crowd commenced dis
persing. A large number remained
behind, however, p : ling more fuel on
until the bodies were burned except
the trunks. They employed them
selves In tbrasing out the tire which
commenced spreading slung the
Streaks of pine net dies.
Late Tuesday attpruoon, after the.
last member of the mob bad left the
scene, hundreds of citizens who had in
no wise participated in the (xecuttoolmr. Tbe woman said that her bus-
repaired to the scene and many riffband Will Oato were Impressed that
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ONE FIGHTING SOLDIER.
One young soldier of the Oglethorpe
L He fought
i through his cap-
lout RpoQ the lawn. A weapon
Thill they
mained until long after nightfall pick
ihg op whatever souvenirs th*y could
find. Conspicuous among the crowd
were a nnmber of small boys in knee
pants.
HERD'S CONFESSION.
Both nigroes made statements be
fore they died. I Will Oato n iterated
the statement made a few days ago
that be was only a guard in the cane
patch while tbe murder was being
^ ^,oommlttod. Paul Reed said that ha
Jh# crowd end did ail the hlUlBg and that Will Oato
told the truth when be said ha watch
ed In the jOiaapsto'L He said be did
who bed relaed
threw them-
Mr. Hodges bad about $300 in money
and had planned to kill him and rub
the house the Saturday night before.
The?' went to the house, called Mr.
Hodges out, but tbelr courage failed
them and as an excuse asked for some
spirits of turpentine.
They were still resolved to try tbe
murder again, tbe woman stated.
She heard them plotting doling the
week. - She said her husband and Will
Oato left tbe bouse together on the
night of Aha murder sad
there were two or three others with
them, but did not know who, as they
Richly Deserved It.
Alfred A. Knapp, convicted of the
murder of bis wife, Hannah Goddard
Knapp, and who confessed to five
murders, was electrocuted in the
annex of the Ohio penitentiary a few
minutes after midnight Thursday.
Knapp, who weakened when he found
his last hope for life had gone, ex
pressed a fear that be would have to he
carried to tbe death chair, regained
his nerve and met bis fate with little
show of fear or emotion. Tbe 'elec
trocution was performed without a
aitoh, the first shock being applied at
12 02, tbe second s drinute later, and
at 12.09 he was pronounced dead.
Wont on Record.
According to tbe Railroad Gazette,
tbe recent wfieck at Eden, Col., was
tbe worst railroad disaster in point of
loss of life, wblch has ever occurred
in this conntfy. It is believed that
more than 100 persons were killed in
the Colorado disaster. In August,
J887, St Chatswortb, 111., 85 lives
:were lost in a railroad wreck, and this
was the record until last week. There
were a larger number injured in thff
Illinois wreck, however.
Well Taken Care Of.
The State says: _
Tbrallklll and his son
Saluda Jail fur several months charg
ed with the unprovoked murder of
Benj.' Burton, but our correspondent
reports that ’neither looked the worse
for oorflnement.’ And why should
they, living in oomfort&bly furnished
and well fortified rooms, taking their
meals at tbe sheriff’s table, having
the liberty of tbe honse and being
well armed P
r . Burned to Deatb.
John II. Frazier wa* burned to
death at Columbia Tenn., Thursday
moruing in a fire which destroyed the
planinga mill pl&nt of the N. F.
Vaughn Mercantile and Manufactur
ing company. Frazier was cut ot
while attempting Ap save tools stored
in tbe mllL The property loss was
MO,000.
A Trolley Tragedy.
At Chicago four people were killed
another fatally hurt and tweoty-tbree
severely Injured In a collision late
Thursday afternoon between an ex
press train on the Chicago Great
Western railroad and a train of three
cars bound for the Hawthorne race
track.
“Morgan W.
have been in
overpow. not kill the children; that they were never asms Into ttM house where she
Meek Broken.
Clarence Derlder, a cyclist, was
killed while attempting to “loop-tbe
loop” at a local resort at Salt Lake
Wednesday night. He reached tbe
ltd# when the wheel left the
track and he droped. His head struck
the wheal aod his Deck was broken.
man of respectable character and with
property can be convicted when he
commits a crime, the same as the
poor, the ignorant and the unlettered. |
here has been too much shooting in
•South Carolina. Men too much have
taken the law in their own hands.
You cannot pick up a newspaper but
what you will see that somebody has
lieen killed. Defendants come in
Court aud make an effort at self-de-
ence. I heard the Solicitor of the
6th district say he was absolutely
afraid to blow his nose in the Court
House because be carried hit handker
chief in his hip pocket aud was fear
ful that somebody might take that aa
an excuse for shooting him. There is
no doubt in my mind that you went
up to Monetta with malice in your
Heart and blood on your mind. You
went up there to pick a row, it seems
to me, with the school teacher. What
the cause of trouble was between you
and him I do not know, but he (the
teacher) seemed to be a very inoffen
sive and quiet young fellow. You
lad no right to take the law in your
bands. The worst feature of your
whole case, to my mind, is that you
oaded your shotgun with buckshot
and you gave your elghteen-year-old
boy a pistol, and carried him along
with you. A boy, especially one 18
year* old, will do anything his father
tells him to do. 1 think your son is
more to be pitied than to be blamed,
le was acting under your orders.
You went up there to harm the school
teacher and got into an altercation
with tbe brother of the man yon sub
sequently killed, arid as far as I can
earn you shot him for no cause stall,
and you concluded you would clean up
the crowd. When his brother came
down, as It was natural that he should
do, on hearing that his brother had
r sbot, you shot him down with-
giving him a dog’s chance. He
might have been a bad man. I do
not know anything about that. Tbe
testimony developed the fact that he
bad had some fights In his life.
Un(prtuuately and unluckily all
of us have done the same thing. 1
suppose if I was on trial you could,
rake up some fight I lisve had and so
ar as that Is concerned, most every
body else In tbis Court room. Tbe
older a man gets the more he realizes
that fighting does mot pay. I would
take a great deal before I would fight
under any circumstances. The man
who wins his fight usually gets tbe
worst of it. I would rather be tbe
dead man than tbe live one—that is,
would rather be dead than to have
to kill a man. I do not think a man
has much bapplnem when he takes
the human life, unless he does it
acting strictly in self-defence. Tbe
Tne law Is that no man can claim
self-defence unless he Is without fault
In bringing on the quarrel and diffl-
oulty. It seemed to me sa if you
oould feel it in the air around the
Court House that tboee people around
about Monetta seemed to be afraid to
testify in this case. It actually looked
as if they had been terrorized some
bow. You are the most determined
man I ever saw. You went to
Monetta for a certain purpose and
you carried it into effect. I think
the Jury deserve great credit for find
ing the verdict they did, and 1 think
it is s happy omen for this conn
try, going to show that tbe peo
ple of Saiuda County are tired of
lawlessness, are tired of so much
bloodshed, and In fact they are^ deter
mined to cut It down and place this
county on an equality with other conn
ties in this State so far as law and
good order are concerned.
This Is one of tbe finest counties
ever saw In my life. Its people, white
and black, are courteous and polite,
and I cannot understand why there
should be so |mach shooting. I am sor
ry-for you, I am sorry for your wife,
am sorry fur yonr children. I have got
five children myself. I have frequent/
ly wished, on occasions of sentencing
defendants, that the punishment
Railroad Wreck on Thandav
Morniag Near Central.
A special from Greenville to The
State uys In a head-on collision near
Central Thursday morning a local
fre’ght and a flirt train were badly
smashed up and several of the train
crew Injured.
Claiborne Ansel, fireman on tbe
local freight, waa caught between the
engine aud tender and remained in
that position tor over two hours until
an engine oould be sent tor from
Greenville to pull tbe wrecked loco mo
tive off the goffering fireman. Mr.
Ansel had both legs broken Just below
tbe knee and was slightly scalded by
the escaping steam.
Engineer Hanks of the dirt train
received a out In tbe bead and was
burned and badly braised by the
shock of the collision which threw
him 20 feet from his engine. On ex
amination by the physicians it was
found that amputation of one of Mr.
Ansel’s legs would be necessary and
probably tbe other one also. If tbe
artery in tbe other leg cannot be saved
the limb will have to be taken off.
1$ a son of M. F. AnaeL
As soon as s train oould be made up
irdman Ansel and Engineer Hanks
were brought to the city and taken
tbe Greenville sanitarium where
The
Geaeral Grew]
at the
the
am
A dispatch from Gbefeo says
raged' around
Eirle took them In charge. Ec
gineer Hanks was not seriously hurt
a* he waa able to walk from tbe am
bulance into the house. The extent
of his Injuries were bruises, burns and
gash on the to ehsd.
Fireman Ansel was remarkably cool
for one so badly Injured. When placed
on a stretcher at the depot he recog
nized the doctor and other friends
and exchanged handshakes and told
them about the wreck. Report says
that Engineer Hanks of tbe dirt train
was sitting in his cab in a cot when
the local freight came down the track,
lilting the front of his engine and
knocking him up on tbe side of the
cut about 20 feat.
A later dispatch from Greenville
brought tbe sad intelligence that
young Ansel had died at 6 30 p. m.
at the Greenville sanitarium. Ha
i about 20 yean old, only son of
Ion. M. F. Ansel, and -a popular
young man socially. Mr. Ansel had
ambitious to become a locomtive en
gineer and Thursday’s trip was his
I rat regular ran in the full capacity
of fireman.
KILL1D AT MDGGXTTt.
to death when he fired tbe
He told how he found the Ut-
Kittie, behind a trank and
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sms. They were gone about an hour
RLdabalL WhsottM
husband said be bad .^Sflunltted ah
awful crime, and was In trouble about
it., They said they had killed Mr.
Bodgea and wife and two dhUdraa,
ish farmer has bad aevenU
Engl la
Knwr, stuffed and
bee of hie fruit
bird will come anywhere
oould fall upon tbe guilty cue. Your
wtxc ana cuiiartn wtu sonar doomm
of violation of tbe laws of tire land.
Nothing that we new do can bring the
dead man back to life, sad bis wife
sod three httie children. It is one of
tbe saddest oases that I ever saw In
dry life. 1 trust you will make your
peace and repent of your
Let the
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Popular Yorfng BuestueM Man Fatal
ly Shot by a Necro.
A special dtspateb-from Meggett’s
o Tbe News and Courier says Allen
Heathlngton, prominent young white
man, waa shot and killed at his broth
er’s saw mill in Toogoodoo at sunrise
Thursday morning. Tbe slayer was a
negro teamster, Sam Brown, who waa
n tbe employ of tbe mill. A difficul
ty aroee over the tardiness of the oe
i fro in going to work. Young Heath-
ngton fired two or three shots and In
ured the negro, though it is not
bought seriously. A bystander stated
that the negro fired but one shot,
whloh was fatal, tba bullet entering
the left eyrofHeathlngton, and caus
ing death in a short time.
News of Ahe tragedy spread Rk*
wildfire and in a short while about all
the white men and several of the ne
groes were armed aod to pursuit 6(
the fugitive.
Sheriff Martin, of Ohsrltttdb, was
telegraphed to for bloodhounds. A
special train, was chartered andOffioar
Burton and two aa$lstants arrived
with the hounds about 11 o'clock. >-
Up to late Thursday evening it la
not thought that the hounds have
struck the right trail.
In view of previous troubles In this
sect!oi the Governor has wired to
Sheriff Owens, of Walterboro, to call
out tiie Gampobelio Rifles to protect
the fugitive if caught.
There are two posses out, each in
charge of a local magistrate. Every
thing is orderly, hot serious, aud no
effort will be spared to capture the
negro.
Mr: John M. Hsatbiagtm, trother
of the deceased, has offered a reward
of $500 for tbe capture of the culprit,
Sam Brown.
Cream Eaten Poisoned.
Reports from Pleasant View, Am
herst county, Va., where 25 persons
were poisoned Thursday afternoon by
eating ioe cream, are meagre, owing
to distance from telegraph lines bat It
tt known that all of tboee affected
are considered out of danger save one
young lady, Mlsa Lawborne, whose
address Is not known, and who la said
to ne In a critical condition. There
were more than 2,000 persons present
at tbe aeasioiia of tba Piedmont
Baptist association aod those .who
were poisoned ate of the cream after
tbe afternoon samion adjourned. In
tore than half an hour the church was
turned Into a hospital and four pby-
slclaas vrefo working heroically to
counteract the effecta of the poison.
Over tbe Fell*.
' Just before ten o’clock Wednesday
morning an nnknown woman commit
ted suicide by going over she Ameri
can Falla at Niagara. The suicide
was wHns—if by hundredsbf
five hundred fret from the pradptoe.
She was about forty-five years old and
wore a black dress and skirt tad a
eM. It seeaosthat the
of
tie of bogs proportions
Port Arthur August 14 and 15 and
waa resumed August 17. The Japan
ese, it Is reported, sacrificed 20,000
more men but gained important ad
vantages In the matter of petition.
The above news was brought to Cbe-
foo on Junks, one of which, having on
board three Rue-Ians concealed in the
baggage of Chinese to escape from tbe
Japanese, toft Port Arthur Thursday
night and waa blown rapidly to Chefoo
by a gale. The main force of the at
tack wa* directed against tbe toft
wing and resulted in the capture of
Pigeon bay positions sod some of the
forts at Liao Tleshan. At Pal on
Chang the Japanese hastily mount.d
guns which did excellent service la
siding tbe storming of tbe right wing
where the Japanese are said to have
captured two torts of minor value,
mounting eight 4-inch guns, two edge
guns and six quick firing guns.
Tbe position that tbe Japanese oc
cupy on Liao Ttosban peninsula Is not
clear but numerous Chinese sources
aver that the Japanese have bean seen
in force la that section. Apparently
an attack originating In L ulsa bay
swept through the Pigeon bay, posi
tions Into the peninsula, in the doing
of which a ms j Jrity of the lives of
the expedition were siorlficed. On
the night pf tbe 15th the battle lulled
somewhat when the Japanese sent tbe
terms of surrender to Lieut. General
StOMBSL._. H .L . ., - - . —
The terms provided that tire garri
son should march out with tba honors
ot war and j dn Geo. Kuropatkln; that
all civilians be brought to a place des
ignated by the Japanese admiral; that
the Russian warships in the harbor,
numbering seven namely, the battle
ships Betvizan, Sevastopol, Pobtoda,
Peres viet, polls va, the armored cruis
er Bayan and the protected cruiser
Ballads and 12 or more Torpedo boat
destroyed and four gunboats be euro
rendered to tbe Jeponeee. Lieut.
Gen. Steoerel le alleged to hare re
ceived tba terms with a burst of wm$-
derful profanity, his habitual togtttr-
nlty deserting him. He strode tbe
tbe floor until be became calmer and
remarked that if the Japanese propo
sition wae a joke it wae in bad taste.
WILL MOT SURRENDER.
The London Express printed tbe
following dispatch from its Toklo cor
respondent on Thursday:
,T I am informed that tba Mikado
baa received from the commander of
his forces at Port Arthur tbe Russian
general’s reply to tbe imperial de
mand tor toe surrender of tbe foroee.
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“In bis reply, Lieut. General Stoe- ^
eel expresses hie thank* for the hu
manitarian offer to grant safe conduct
to all non-oombeteota within the Rus
sian lines.
“Tba demand to surrender Btoaseel
refuses uncompromisingly, and do-
dares his garrison will fight to tba
last man in defence of the fortress.” ^
, • FROM PIGEON BAY,
According to news reestved at Ghet
foo the Japanese'have begun to bom
bard Port Arthur from Pigeon Bay,
to which the nght wing of the army
has penetrated, this being lees than
three miles from the fortram.
The coal yards of Port
been set afire by the J*, —
and are now burning.
The centre of the beetiglng force ^ “
baa been moved to Paling Unurg, two
miles north of the town, and
line has moved closer to tbe .doomed
fortress.
Passengers on board tbe steamer
Deolms, whloh anchored off Port Ar
thur Thursday night, wltoetied the
bombardment from Pigeon Bay.
A TERRIFYING SPECTACLE.
Tbe Japanese shells were vis'bto
during their whole course. They cir
culated cometrllke to tbe town and
tbelr explosions were marked by great
■plashes of fire, which shot up into
the sky.
Tbe bombardment from this and
other points began at midnight sad
lasted until morning. Tne Wi1 — 4 rn i
did not reply to the Japanese fire.
Major Seaman, formerly a surg.on
la the American army, was a passen
ger on the Declare. He says the spec
tacle was most brilliant and awe In
spiring. Tbe Deeinre weighed anchor
from Port Arthur at 5 o'clock Friday
morning. At sbma distance out she
saw five Japanese warships guarding
the harbor.
' Chinese refugees from Port Arthur,
who arrived here last night,, report
that tbe Japanese have captured tbe
petition at Baliohuang, three
out on the main road from tbe
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Horrible AeoktewL
jfca
Tbe Augusta Herald say* Mrs.
mie Jackson, an employe of
Mill carding room, while
Wednesday moral ug had tbe
tom from the top of her head r
While
i up by the i