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. > .i r " " T > ''" . '■ '' ‘ :t itW t r - \ C VOL. XXXI. BARNWELL, S. C.. THUBSDAT. AUGUST 28. 1906. NO. 5L BUGK4tim Brave Young Woman Fights for . * life aifl Honor AGAINST A FUND. Bob Darts Attempted to Rarlsb sad Mar* dcr Yooag Lady la Qraeawsod^on* 4y. Tbsa Makes Saccessfal AtUmst oo s Nsfro Woman. —r • A dispstoh from Groonwood to Ths Stats says ooo of the most dlaboikat •U,. attempts at eHmloal aasault possible mas made Tuesday upon the person of Miss Jennie Brooks, the 20-year-old daughter o£ Mr. and Mrs. J. !?■ Brooks of the Mt. Moriah seotlon of the orun ty, by a negro named Bob Darts. The Sand did not aooampllsh bis purpose but he oame near murdering Mlm Brooks who Is not yet out of danger. The crime Is a horrible one. Mr. Brooks is a farmer who liras between Greenwood and Mt. Moriah church, J^bynt four and a half miles from town r^i. a sery sueoemful farmer and baa b^aoeumulated property. In connection with his farm he runs a store. The store building Is about 50 yards or lose , — ‘ Trom hli ROuss. Thrpubllc road-runs clanged mounts as ths aerenteen gans between the two. were fired in salute of Gorernor Hey r ——It la a eery public plane and It ward’s arrlral In tha camp of the seems Inorsdlble that the Jlend would South Carolina troops. Crack! bare been so bold as to attempt the “crack 1" for rerenUen salutes roared erlme In this place and in open dav the cannon ss the G »rernor and his - TWbE TtWttmuastom of theismtiy escort drore lnto camp, h'^ to keep ths stors looked and to open AV&Aheaduf tha mmw« a h—whin eastomers oome. Tuesday Mr. from the 12Lhoaralry, which acted - and Mrs. Brooks had gone to attend a special escort. ▲ brief stop was mads protracted meelJag aT R^hoboth. | at Ool T h W^* HEYWARD HONORKD. THREE THOUSAND TROOPS RE VIEWED BY OUR GOVERNOR. The Demonstration Was Bupsrb and Was All That Any One Could •\-r Vmn ' ▲ dispatch from Chattanooga to The Mews and Courier nays from twenty-fire hundred to three thousand troops turned out Friday ^ftembon to do honor to Gorernor Heyward, of South Carolina. It was a superb spec tacle, aod a gratifying demonstration, uarollna’s gorernor came to Chieka- onauga to extend the band of cheer eud well done to the 2nd regiment, and the three regiments of Georgia troops, ths nth latthte of Jtsgnlars, the 12th oartlry and a battery of ar tillery torned ont to do honor to their comrades of ths Second and Gorernor Heyward and his staff. Gorernor Heyward went to the oamp about noon, and was met by Oapt. Ferguson, representing Gen. Bubb, In oommand of the eamp. Gor ernor Heyward, Geh. Fish, Gen. WlHe Jones, Col. Hsnry T. Thompson, Col. Robt. W. Hunt, Ool. August Kohn, Ool. Jaynss, Mr. George L. Baker and Wm. D. Melton, went totbe head quarters of the 2nd regiment In eamp carriages and Cols. Watkins, Folk, Moore, Brans, Irby, Batsman, Banka, D. 6. Herbert and Ed Clark mounted the bones kindly supplied through Gen. Bubb.-All arrired In eamp as they started except Ed Clark, who And Governor Heyward Goes to the Scene and Abbertlle, were there. How many guns were there, Hearen only knows At least 500, ard counting pistols, _ twice that numb Foot wen literally Into the room to show him to , HP! Brooks. The crowd was so thick that Within Hearing of the Scene of Into the TfilES TO SAVE HIM. They left their two eldest daughters, Jennie and -Malo, and their | Gorernor Heyward, and the sly Y mam- grandmntt|ah4firs. Herlong, at home. ThJ graframother uses a rolling chair, being a oonfirn •Bed tot rwed Inralid. MBs Jennie called to the store by some negro custo sen and while they were there the negro Bob Deris earns In. . ahsaay& aba did not .like the neg ro's looks. He waited until the others had rone ont of the store, then be asked to see some shoes. He selected a pair aid then bought a pair of then he told her be wanted be eon. She told him she was out of beoon. He pointed to ~ that suited him In the box and she came from behind the osnnl It. As she did so he grabbed up tbe meat knife and came towards bar say ing: “Too are what I want." MHa Brooks, mbo was perfectly oool when relating ber awful experience, •ays she saw aa lion bar before ber and attempted to get It to defend her self. The negro m*<le a mnrderoos with ths knife and she threw up her hands tnroluntartly to her fees. Tbe blow of the knife al most eerertd two of henfinsrers. As aobn as she dropped ber again struck at her with knife, this time making a ghastly wound lt> Is about four t£e carotid Ariertes bers of his staff, were warmly Y fee ted by the Carolina soldiers. In a few mo ments, Gen. Bubb and bis staff srrir sd and it was not long before they were taken Into the Carolina. It had rained all morning and was quite threatening. When Gen. Bubb asked Gorernor Heyward whether to go on with the reriew or not. Gorernor Heyward suggested that he wished to suit tbe pleasure of Gen. Bubb end tbe men. The reriew was held and It was Indeed a moat thrilling sight to witness oos company of soldiers after another march by and then see gullop- tbe sturday men and then tearing _ with clatter and fury the. grim cannon of the artillerymen- Gen. Bubb and Gorernor Heyward with their staffs first Inspected the UOOSI tApy tp hn ed along the field as far as the rislun reached, then they took their plaoos for the beaut! ful reriew. ^ First came the. 17th Infantry with Its fine band, Ool. Vanarsdale, oL-thlt rglmsot, took his place next to Gen. Bubb and Gorernor Heyward. Then came the three regiments of Georg ians, then the 2od South Ctrollna, then the regular earairy, and the ar tillery. After the reriew the earalry Mid ar- Tbe Ooreraor Plead Eloqnestly asd Ear* ■estfy Wltk tbe Cnnhl to Let Ibe “ Law Take Its Coarse. Bat tbe Crowd Resptctlally Dedised to DoJSo. ^ Bob Darls, tbe fiend who attempted to assault a white girl and who really succeeded In aanoltlng a colored girl, has been caught and lynched. After tbs erlme was committed on Tuesday a big crowd of men and boys of both races went to hunt down tbe fiend. They searched swamps and houses and nerer did tbe zial slacken. They meant to catch that negro, and they meant to km him, and that Is the whole story. Fow forty-sight hours the hunt kept up without abatement, and then It was rewarded, thirteen or fourteen miles away from the little store In the Whitehall section, where Bob Darls attempted his crime and bis murder. Will Brooks asw a head close up against a log. The body was prostrate, oorered with cans, but the head showed. Brooks and John Will iams caught tbe negro, and it was not long before be was tied and under es cort, started for the scene of his crime for Identification. : About tills time there war % Gorer nor In Columbia with a deep cene. of pride in bis State, who was worried Abd'pkdifigmi cffoe. 'TEelKcfTff of the county had telegraphed him that If Darls was caught be feared a lyn ching, and be asked for help. Gorer- Heyward consulted friends -In Gftenwood, and realised that first of all the ntgrp might not be caught, and If he should be, that tbe temper of tbe people was sueh that armed troops might lead to bloodabed and useless loss of life. He thought orer the whole situation. Mo posse oould be assembled In tbe neighborhood, he thought, to defend tbe would be-rar- labor should he be osughi To order out the militia might lead to blood shed. It would hare been premature and had the militia been here Darts would hardly hare been brought to the house for personal Identification. Gorernor Heyward thought, perhaps, he oonld more tbe people to’a reallxv Mon of their duty as ottlsens end men by a personal appeal to 1st the law take its course. He want orer the whole thing end felt that tbe people might heed him as Gorernor of South Carolina, pleading for law and order. It was a patriotic and an unusual re sort for a Gorernor to virtually get down on his knees and plead and beg and implore that, the law take Its course. Perhaps some day it may an oompllsh good. Tbunder It was o-e less. The circumstances of tbs assault, ths young woman in the room fifty feet away, the long and weary search, the record of the negro the bloody gar- allooaiBUfldJo make the ala This weand and* hy the mere fraction of an ineh. With her blood spurting from the wound In tlUary gars A thriQing exhlBEion o’ I queooe. tbe force and the earnestness msnshlp and drilling, it is such of Gorernor Hey ward’s appeal for law exhibitions ss this that make Ameri fall on deaf can. from the woono in | cans think all the mure of their eoun- There had been a wreck near hnr throat and disabled in her right til- The 23 South Carolina, under obappell, oo the Colombia and arm by tbe other woond, him BrOoks 1 Gol. Thompson, made a fine showlng. Greenville Road, and tbe train with Hicneesfullv fought iff Her assailant, It Is a fine regiment. Ool. Thompson Governor Heyward on board arrived jn Borne way securing the knife *»■ accompanied by his staff, mount- at Mlnety-SIx about 4 o'clock Tours thnuiih aha savs she does not know how sd, and the belts linns wots nr>tt>man<Ma t y afternoon. It was teen that though shssaya sue ooes non awwnu . ^ Culler and 1 The thiur that saved hsr was a Teadon. The oLV.inles were oom- H, irthn Tnihart. flomtnir I mauded by Oapts. VanTuscon, Joe Davis Miss [ thick It was difficult to get- him house, but he was finally taken into the room and Miss Brooks Identified him beyond question. She had no doubt In bis identification, and he was easily! reoognlxtble. Davis was than taken back by his captors to tbs bog gy in which he was brought. Gov ernor Heyward was asking that ths negro be turned over to the officers of tlie law. Tbe crowd asked that be be heard. Several boards sere placed across the angles of tbe front yard fence and Governor Heyward, was pulled up on the boards. The Brooks house Is about 100 yards from" the store. Around the yard is s picket (boos. In one angle wii Governor Heyward's impromptu stand, and In the other front angle was the guard with the negro. It Is well to note these relative positions; Governor Heyward was Intensely In earnest. He almost pals with excitement when he mounted tbe little stage. There was applause, and as he spoke ths crowds cheered tbe man, the Gov ernor they all felt and knew was da tng his duty. Some one suggested that the hurrahing might disturb MIm Brooks, and Governor Heyward oeggtd that the audience be quiet aa this was a most serious matter, and qut of respect to the women and slok. Governor Heyward literally had guns.to the right and left of him, to the front and to the rear. The men were deeply io earnest" and listened. Governor Heyward said he came alone, except that there were two newspaper men with him, oitixens of South Carolina, just as he was. said he came unarmed, unassisted and alone to plead for law and order. Then came applause, and finally Gov ernor Heyward stopped it. Governor Heywad sald he might, hai*^ troop* to the scene, and even these might have been useless, but he- did not wish to have further trouble. He cams from Columbia, he weut on tj say, to enter his plea Governor- of the great State of South Carolina that tbe law be allowed to take Its course. He be lieved the men present wou'd see It as he did, and the great wrong and great it Justice that) would be done the State f the crowd took the law In its owh hands. “Let the law take Its course’’ h. begged. I am a South Carolinian just tbs tame as you are. I have a wife and family at home for whom I have ths time attachment that you all have. I, too live In the country Perhaps when I was In CoUston 1 lived more remotely from neighbors than any if you.and I assure you 1 know how you all feel. Still I sm a His Awful Crime. AN ORDERLY AFF4.IB. »b Davis, the Plead, Pays tbe Pesalty for [His Dastardly Assault on Two Helpless Wessee He Wes ' — Haaged sad Riddled With Ballets. '~ r ~" the negro. Consent was given, stiffT^ as ha worked his way through the de- termlnsd e*owd up to ths victim, all uncovered their beads. That wn a spontaneous tribute to God. With uncovered beads, that vast throng, South Carolinian, and as Governor of this State, tat me beg you, let me im plore you, that the law bo allowed to taka ltsoourse. The State pf South Carolina is on trial before tbe civilised world. The question is Shall the people In passion rule, or shall the majesty of the law hn upheld? “It Is a sorlods question. The full seriousness Is upon you. Let me ap peal to the manhood of Greenwood County, let me appeal to you as South Carolinians, that you let this man, this brute, he punished as ths law dictates. I sppealto yon to your dtlsifii&Ifr tauruHdiS 'iir irna, rise above your natural and prejudices. It will do' you good. I have oo me here to promise you on my word as Governor that than will be no delay In this oue l am as anx lous as you to see this brute punished, and 1 understand your feelings. Ths Within he&bg distanoe of the Brooks home, where Mias Jennie Brooks, lay suffering from a fearful wound, whloh he had Inflicted, Bob Davis, the negro who on Tuesday at tempted to criminally assault her, was lynched about half after 7 o’clock Thursday evening. Tbe negro had first been identified by Miss Brooks, and tbe Governor of the State of South Caroline bad made a futile appeal to the determined men who were leaders In the lynching to allow ths law to take Its course. The lynching was ss decent, orderly and matter of-fsot an affair of the kind as oonld be Imagin ed. — * While Governor Heyward was speak ing the fiend was taken away by the men who had him In charge and the crowd quickly followed. He was taken down to the first olump of trees, below the boms of J. Pelt Brocks and there a halt was made. It looked aa ii tty tWBlteLgaalOc Mr. Brooks, the father of tbe young girl, rode up and begged that the crowd wait a while. He said that many who had been on the three days’ hunt had not yet arrived, and to wait on them. He then begged that the erlme be wiped ont by burning the Mound reL The negro seems anxious enough to wait and ha sat on the ground. It was hard work to koep some from shooting him, but ths wait continued. Crowds came up, some from Greenwood and some from the neighborhood and most of thorn with guns and pistols. Than appeared to be no hope to save the negro’s life. T m crowd would listen to nothing. Governor Heyward, who remained some distanoe back, sent messages by friends to sun 1m know In tho oowd to do what they oonld to save tho ne gro and to have a legal hanging. The crowd would not even let his messen gers return. He sent other messages, bat all in vain. He wanted to go to ttys woods and soe wbat he oonld do, out his friends told him that would be neslees, and ths crowd told hlmthat be would rather he would not *nd it was even hinted that If went that his head would km covered with a bag, not as a disrespect to the Governor, but simply so that he see nothing. A negro woman, Annie Spare, niece had been assaulted by Dkvls came up and Identified the man, and cursed him for his conduct . She ask m ‘ into his body. All agreed that this privilege be given her, and she was handed a pistol and placed In front of the firing line, bat her nerve failed ber and she did not fire, although the colored man next her claimed to have fired four times. The main firing line was about 100 foot from the Intent on killing a poor negro, sd to the colored man’s prayers, dar ing ths long wait there were repeated suggestion of burning ths begro and of mutilating him before kHllng him. Finally Oapt. Evans, who had been working to save tbs negro for trial and who had been on the bant for days got consent of ths crowd that they would do no burning or mutilat ing. Two men tied a rope on Davis’s anas and be was pulled up about two lengths of bis body In a pine tree, about a q tarter of of a mile from ths horns. He klbked scd squirmed, and then his legs were fastened. With bis fees to the anxious crowd, be was given a moment or two to Mj some thing, and then at tbe brop gf a bat a thousand ballets were fired Into his body. Hundreds and bunersds and hundreds of balls pleroed his body and then after the first fusillade men tsked to be allowed to take shots and In the final round up his head was literally shot to a pulp. and with the rain (x z!ng down over his head and clothing. With the son fast sinking over the hills, tbe thousands or more who had wltneeeed the miserable af- -fatr went bom*. At the first volley the smoke obscured the hanging body; but the firing kept up, then the smoke lowered and the shooting continued. There was no hurrahing, no drinking, no cheering, It waaquldt and pre meditated. Davis was a ratherl young negro. He was coal black. Evan to his big thick Ups. His head was shaped like a oromnnt with an Inclined fotahei^ and the hair, begtenlng far hack on his bead.. His eyes were rod and In the oorners of tbe eyes was pus. He looked drowsv, but did not appear frightened except thrt he always CITY WRECKED. Vdpanbo, Chile, the Ceatre «f Earthquake Shock. GREAT LONS OF Lilt. Fires Fallowed the Sdsaric Distarbaaces aad Nearly Every Neast la H» €Hy Has Beta bfarsd hy Either Earthquake er Terror Reigns. A sp'oial cable to Tbs Mews aad Courier says at aboot E o’clock Thntp- day evening there was a tremeodow earthquake at Vel pan to, Onlle. As at San Franotsoo. ths shock was fol lowed by the outbreaking of many fires. The fiaaaip, extending from Mm Plaza Ordan towards tha north, have not been extinguished. Many bourns have bean destroyed, and nearly all of them are more or LossdaocagJd, either by tha earthquake or the five. Busi ness is at a oomplet* standstill. The banks are closed. The gas supply Is unavailable the electric lighting system is pletely knocked out. tbe elty at nlgbt is in darknsss*. Tho greatest panic prevails among tho inhabitants. Many families AM flselng from the elty. — Oommunloatlon with Hanttago ds Chile is interrupted, and It la • bit to learn what has < __ __ Many persons were killed aod inju|_ wanted to Mt down. The crowd liter*! ln The s ioeka cnTHIaso, ally had to shove him nj i. John Tolbert, coming „ Sat k— Krwrnrm ilM— - w vOJVU Ua Ii19 Dujm j • vmmm* wuk store. Tbe passing frightened the negro. He fled and Miss Brooks oame to ths doof and bad strength enough left to call to Mr. Tolbert. He had heard, he said, a peculiar noise In the store, bat led ber to the —gate, Where he was met by Ber sister, who said she would take her in and for Him to go for help to catch the pegro. Ha did so. In s short time men wars leaving town in droves. Dr. G. P. Meel went to the woonded rl at ono* in an automobile, Mr< __ibert haring caught him by ’phone from the nearest ’phone to the Brooks borne. Dr. Meel thinks she will re- After his attempted aasuauit on Miss Brooks tbs fiend went to the home of a colored woman on the Bell ind there made an assault on a negro woman whose name oould not be learned. In this attempt he was sueosasful. The description of ths negro fits exactly Bob Davis and there la no doubt that tho sasae fiend com mitted both crimes. If caught the fiend will be lynched. Terrible TmgeOy* A terrible tragedy took place a few miles from Anderson on last Saturday B. Allen. Christie Bennet, Lleuts David Kobe, Olaffy, Moseley, Brice, Epps, Rawlins, King, Doar, and Shu ler. After the review Govmwr. Hey* ward and his staff visited the 2nd reg I meat, and then made a brief official call on Gsi his commendation of Ool. Thompeon’s regiment. He told Governor Heyward that he thought this had been the beat week uf military training he had ever seen. Tbe boys of the 2d upon returning to eamp, promptly began work, getting ready to leave forborne. The find leaves here shortly after mid night, and Ool. W. W. Lewis, of tbe 1st, will-be here to-morrow ready for irork. GovariMt aiid his staff expeot to visit OoL Lewis and bis regiment Monday, bat will do so without th pomp and display of to-day r . Tho Carolina boys take well bore. They are In fine apirits and health, and were proud of their Governor and his silk hat to-day — Governor Heyward and his party will leave hers Monday night at 10.30 o’clock for homo over the Southern Ballway, via Aahvllle. ■’./ '' Auottst Kohn. there was excitement and It was soon earned that the searehers had a negro an9~were on their way to the home of J. P. Broois to have tbe saan Identified. Governor Heyward talked to the State Senator Brooks. Foriher Representative Klnard, Oapt. Fraser and other oitixens at ths station at Ninety-Six. They all told him th* thing, that be oonld hardly op* to do x&y good, as the crowd meant death to avenge the outrage As soon ss possible arrangements were mads to take th* Governor to th* Brooks home, eight miles away. When he arrived there he found a girl at ono* in an automooiM, mr* i iwunmj* r**'«*r*y i crowd of fifty or sixty determined Tblbert haring caught him by ’phone *wk, getting ready to leave for home, men there. ■■ ~ ‘ — .#*-. —i* The store In whloh the outrage was attempted was open and across the road was the neat cottage In whloh Mlm Jennie Brooks lay. There were women folk about. Governor Hey ward made himself and his mission known. He was cordially received, bat was frankly told that there . was no earthly ohanoe for him to save the negro shoull he prove to be tbe right man. He went about in the crowd, but got no sign of help or encourage ment. Tbe men were there with pistols and guns ready to kill. They were not mere boys on a lark, hot men with gray hairs and determina tion. They oame with their coats off and a deep-set vengeance! Gov ernor Heyward was asked Into the ___—. _ —_ boose to get a bite to cat. He sng of the most prominent farmers In the jin, Texas, were found dead gested that the law take Its course, county wee killed by J. Allen Eaer-1 in their oall, Thursday morning, ths | The women folk flashed that they people Of your county should try this body and the largest crowd wm on esse. Ths men about ms are tbs Miuid* made by the cut In jurors. Why not leave It to them- while Bob Paris wm sitting on tbe if ths Jury convicts this man, and I ground awaiting Htf fate he was asked they will do so, I would be willing to about the crime. He admitted that cut tbe rope Just to have a legal exe ^ had been In the store and that he eutien^ -You at* my people. You bad been out with the meat knife, we all mj friends, and let me plead ui* band was lacerated. He, hew with you and beg you tolturn this aver, tried to implicate some one else, man over to the officers of the law and and said shat he took tbfi knife away have a legal execution. | from Miss Brooks and that he had not “I have in the four years of my attempted to criminally assault bar up the little pins tree to get him high enough ap for'the rang* of the impatient crowd, It wm not the least exalted orfrotster- ous only a bit Impatient waiting to •hoot and kill their prey. Sheriff MoOestan tried to save the negro end made a plea for e trial, but tho crowd was Impatient and did not care to listen to him. Divls bad a half brother lynobed In this eounty shout thirteen years ago for assaulting a white lady.' It eras In this county about eight miles from hare, that about elgbt yean ago I saw the Phoonlx lynohlngs, and to-day's a was much like that I saw at Indepen dense Ohuroh, la Edgefield Uounty, where all day long a crowd awaited the obaao* to shjot down their victims, experience seaass to show that whan a crowd of aaveral hundred onos get hold of a man, charged with such an offsnos, as this that there Is no bops of a legal trial. Governor Heyward, after tha lynch ing, whloh he avoided seeing, oame to Greenwood, and with the crowds and newspaper sm after 8 o'clock. It to about five miles from here to Mr. Pst Brooks's horns. Thors ware several negro sasa in the crowd at tbs time of thosbc lug. The dead body was left tied in the pin* tree. Aueuar kohn. HTTnfitali Owtraate- An unknown scan entered the „ oLMano. JtexiitJiL farmer near Btidln, Fla. , atfi c Wednesday morning, struck him In tbe head with an axe as he was sleep beside htovwlfe, then aaadea des perate attempt to criminally assault Mrs. Davis who fought with ths strength of a giantess, screaming lus tily meanwhile torlmlp Finally the other members of the family were bat are milder. Cb* shli Ipplng The i In tbe port was not White Priaoaere MovdereO, .— .. ^ ^ H. H. Trawlok and Sam Chandler, night, in which Mr. T. F.-Drake, one msn| confined In the Angelina ] Mi ■on, who to in charge of the county chain gang. Tho killing occurred at lbs home of Mr. Drake, -had gone to Mr. Eserson Drake’s houx* skulls of both men being crushed, and | John Wilson, held on a minor charge and who was confined in the same cell to held charged with having murdered his sell mates. While denying that | would act as men lf need bo. Gover nor H< y ward thought ho might got Mr. J. Pett term, so help ms God, undertaken in ever way to uphold the majesty of the law, and I want you to do so nbw. The State to prospering and there Is ] rat one cloud on tbq horizon, and thst Is that sueh crowds u this take the law too often In their own hands t dost you and it does the State harm." - .. The Governor referred to the Pboe nix riot In this county, and said that ths effects of that were bad and the food people here obght to consider such matters. It makes no difference raw we feel about such cases, It ought to be remembered that there are am ple law* In tbe land, and that each sueh Impulsive action, each such in fraction of th* law did harm not only to thee* engaged in It, but to the State as # whole. “In God 1 * name," be Implored, “do not pot ynrtZhwr stain on th* name of your State. I beg you, I Implore you, I plead with you, let this man have a legal trial. The else can be tried In two weeks’ time, and your own Jurora will tor him and no one will Interfere with the verdict of your jury." Finally Governor Heyward asked tbe crowd to reason together as Oarolln young woman, and a sturdy man, to help him; but no, he, too, wanted Wilson has | quick vengeance. He even wan rad the negro burned. It looked hopelem from the PW, WM— ’—-.-.L—.J on him, I deoiaws that aa oae wne curing ««i start Finally the cavalcade oame up SahSIt to keep from “MB* Be discovered the men fighting to the boose with tbe burly negro “ d ^^“^^St eSS* M? separated them. An earthern tied. The crowd had grown. The bSdv andm thc ousptdor found in the oeU was evl (news bad 5 ditiT th* weapon nped. It to be- tam and ueved tha r**' war* Mlled while they ^.ndutaiuely, and was dftoovered In a I he committed the crime Wilson has ... daughter. Smer mad* a number of oonfl.otlng state room with Drake s ^ |800fi ifabtai mants concerning the tragedy. He m him. I declares that at oae time during the | spread aod from far and .with their firearms Men from Greenwood, from above and below Greenwood, and even from He did not talk distinctly, bat rather mumbled his words and very little oould be gotten out of him. While he was sitting Ustan’ng to tire questions he asked for a cigarette and he puffed It with pieman. A colored minister, the Bev. J. C. Goode, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Ohuroh, asked It he might pray for as Brooks, the father of tbsltacto find" see tho wrong that was about to hM done by lynching Davis. He told titom how ho was eiroum- stauoed, and how he had always felt that there was something higher and nobler than vengeance on a brute of a negro devil and that was fibs vindica tion of the law, “Gsnttamon, after you have killed this poor negro, M you may do, yon will not enjoy It Lit there be a legal trial and yon will all we appreciate what you say; but ws are going to dolt." Governor Heyward wm pleading earnestly and ekquently. Ho was fighting arising tine, but he kept on begging for a trial for the negro. Finally, fagged ont and hopelem, he was taken from the stand. Soma one in the crowd, an old man with a beard asked when there oould be a trial. Governor Heyward thought he saw a ray of hope and be jumped on a carriage, and said, that ha had trie- graphed for Solicitor Oooper and that he oonld certainly promise a special term of Court in two weeks. He mid the laws required two weeks for the drawing of s jurr, and that tbe trial oonld be had in that time. Over la the other corner of the fanes ths crowd with tbs negro, was getting impatient, and whl a Gover nor Hayward was talking they drove away with their victim. Governor Heyward beggid that tbe people tarn the nsgyo over to Oapt. Evans In whoal til had the greatest 001' ‘ aad let him have a trial. Os the woods the captors led their tim and those around Governor Hey ward realising tbs attar of htoi Mrs. Davis from head to foot in blood from hsr wounded husband, who to still In critical oondltlQOi Mrs. In a collapsed condition from her des perate fight. A pom* of has been out all day with tng foe the fiend wtthoot the trail. Mrs. Deris says she not tril whetharthe or black. The entire neighborhood to greatly excited and threaten speedy Justice if the man to caught. - W tupped • Woman. A special from Spartanburg to The State says Lum West and OJle Pon der, charged with partiolpatioa In the sensational whipping of Mrs. Bar riett Ooburn, July 3, were bound over to await trial at sessions court as tho result of preliminary investigation before Magistrate Kirby Wednesday afternoon. BoaM in tbe sum of (200 was required and given. Wbat to considered damaging sridenoe was ad duced. Solicitor Sease appeared for the State and Mr. Sawyer of Union for Ponder. Bo large was the crowd It was necessary to hold proceedings in th* court room Instead of magis trato’s efflje. . -./.YV ' Harder la His Heart. At Jennings, La., Draw Dobbins, while despondent, Friday took a re-1 rolver containing three loaded car tridges, fired ths first bullet At his I wife and missed, then deliberately aimed ths second at bto baby bat again mimed, and sent the third! ballet Into bto own body, dying In a| A neighbor was slightly by one of tbe shots. most ware Os lies Blanco, Uondril and Ki me raids and those In the DellriM district. ' — ' s v\\Ne*r© Nigro United States troops utad very badly at BrowmvUle, Tex as. Tha killing of ona man, the fa- al wounding of another and an at tempted outrage opoa a whim woasaa constitute crimes that will not be lightly couponed. The splintering of write rmidenoss with rifle bullets tired by negro hands was all on ae- c rani of toe feat scat a white tftV^ftn refused to s&ve them drinks. Msgro soldiers seem to be the only la- oentive tor tha dastardly aottuo of the otgrosa. Demands of a nature have been made on mender of Fort Biown tor tiro arrest and proper pon tobmentof tbe marau ders and the matter of sanding stats irropt to the Mens to only held In abeyance until It to known what tho \ tary authorities intend to do. It to understood that General Mo* Oarty, nowln Austin, wffi make W7 Investigation law tha affair. — Ams te’ewtiM. The following letter was published In the Orinmbta B.ooxdTnaraday: To the Editor of the Defly Bword, Co* lomMa, 8. 0.—Deer Btr: Will yen Una know that John O. Haskell tori ~ s most damaabie lie when be otade the eiatsasns that I had aaade a rq* mark to the eff rat thal the repairs on Wihe Jones’s house had bun made by TAnsiian, the whiskey msrohent? TO the beet of my knowledge, 1 never heard ofLanahan before this affair Into notice. I these repairs wars made, they bays been mads riaee ‘M, ae I left South Carolina la that year. I don’t think Mr. ~ with fair-minded aad hjoast by telling a tbatL to Urns tnonsann muss away Ap .’OZXSwnLL. — OvMa Him a Liar. Ths Orinmbta State lays Gen. WiU» Jonas said Tanreday In refacanaa to OoL Haskell's reawcks about LMa han presenting him with a punen bowl that bo oonld not understand why OoL Haskell should (Its utter ance to suab lying and slanderous sto ries unlem he know they were Iras and ws them. As Ori. Haskell 1 be did not know that they wen true aod did not give tho aeaso of any man Hite had stated tha stories, all ho oould do was to tim as a liar, regardieaa of who ha wia. ~ Voted Owt. Without a dismnllng vote la the presence of e large gallery of tors the elty oonnefl of Ala., Thorsday night finally in ordinance whloh will prohibit operation of any sort of house In theeity whloh deals In fntwr- es, after October 1. Ths aetteh la the result of tbs Mali ment berartit stoat by the defsleettan In the mist na tional Bank of Birmingham. Five Oaildvaa 1 In a fire which destroyed |of Dr. Geo. L Miller, of ha, daring Wednesday i dna of ad to flireth The state board of i tom held lie monthly day but tbe meeting v. that the board al 1 would % rm ■ % ‘ only iboy; urged him to get down j Some one hi the «zowd: "Governor,] >lh bar of* Yr- HHHH ;-v T' , — M