The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 10, 1909, Image 4
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I| Thursday, June 10, 1909
No, no, we have not gone back to
the days of barbarism in South Carolina,
as one would think to read of
the murders and assassinations in
this State recently. These things are
only evidences of our boasted twentieth
century civilization.
There is still room in Bamberg
for more good citizens. Those who
fe are looking for a good town in
jfe" - which to locate would do well to info
vestigate the advantages of Bamberg
before making a choice. We
people in Bamberg believe we have
the best town in the low country,
||l.> and we'll show you if interested.
. It seems that we are developing a
race of murderers and assassins in
South Carolina in these piping times
Sfc of peace. The number of people
killed from ambush in the lower part
, of the State during the past year or
v so is a record like unto that or the
mountain feuds of Kentucky. Human
life evidently gets cheaper every
day.
xjv Mr. W. W. Ball, who has been editorial
writer on the News and Courier
for several years, has left The
Courier and gone on the staff of the
p*. Columbia State. Mr. Ball is one of
the ablest newspaper men in the
State, a cracking good all-round
|p;N writer as well as a first-rate paragrapher,
and is a fine fellow in every
^ way. We congratulate The State on
securing his services.
It is pleasant to glance back at
|j? the record of Bamberg along the
ll&e of growth and progress for the
past few years. New buildings,
%'i both business houses and residences,
have been erected, new enterprises
BPk. have been established, and electric
- ; light plant has been established by
the city and water works will soon
be installed; in fact there has been
a substantial, steady growth all
along the line. Few towns in the
State have kept pace with Bamberg
Hfor several years past. We are
keeping up the pace, too. Visitors
|p? to the town remark on the great
'' growth and improvement made.
This newspaper has given con
siderable space recently to the temperance
people, who favor the voting
out of the dispensary. We want it
distinctly understood that we are
not fighting the battles of anybody,
and if the dispensary people want
space for their side of the question,
they can get it just as well as the
prohibitionists. All we ask in this
matter is that discussions be based
on reason and no flings or insinuations
be made at anybody, and we
Bay now to both sides that we will
. not publish communications which
any way incline to be personal. Let
us differ decently, so that when the
election is over we will be the same
friends as before and there will be
no sore places which will take time
to heal. Our interests are identical,
and we must live together here long
after the election is a thing of the
past. Let there be temperate discussion,
a'full vote and a fair count,
and, no matter what the result may
be, every true man ought to accept
the result.
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FANNING'S SLAYER KNOWN.
White Man Suspected of Being AVilliston
Farmer's Assassin.
Barnwell, June 7.?The slayer or
slayers of Cleve Fanning, the Williston
farmer, who was ambushed and
instantly killed on Friday night, are
still at large. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was that "he came to
his death at the hands of unknown
parties," hut it is the consensus of
opinion that there is sufficient evidence
to cause the arrest of a certain
white man whom many believe to be
the assassin.
Mr. Fanning was heard to remark
just before leaving Williston for his
home, that he was "afraid to go."
Bad blood has existed between him
and some parties in the neighborhood,
and it is thought that he was
expecting to be assassinated.
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A MIMED NEAD DENUDE
MR. J. A. NIX SHOT AND KILLED
BY ISADORE STEVENS.
Murder Was Unprovoked, Mr. Nix
Being Shot in the Back?Posses
After Xegro.
On his way to Denmark, afoot,
.Mr. J. A. Nix, a substantial and
highly respected farmer, of this
county, residing about a mile and a
half South of Denmark, was foully
and brutally murdered Saturday
morning last by Isadore Stevens,
alias Hartzog, alias Ximmons, a mulatto
negro farm hand. The murder
occurred at a tenant house on Mr.
Nix's farm, occupied by three negro
women, share croppers and the
murderer.
The story of one of the most atrocious
assassinations in the annals of
crime in this State, as told to a
Herald representative by Mrs. J. A.
Nix, the widow of the murdered
man, who, with tears in her eyes,
her whole body convulsed with sobs
of grief, surrounded by her children
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comfort their stricken mother, was
pathetic in the extreme and is substantially
as follows:
About seven o'clock Saturday
morning Mr. Nix, having business to
transact in Denmark, preferring to
walk the short distance to town
rather than stop a horse from work
in the field, left his home strong,
stalwart, and cheerful, little dreaming
that the pleasant "good-pye"
waved to. the wife and . children
would be 'the last on this earth;
At the turn of the road and dust
h?rpiv nnt of sieht of his house
stands the four-room cabin whicb he
rented to the negroes together with
land enough to make a nice crop.
These negroes had been furnished
with toolB, provisions, stock and in
fact everything necessary to work
the land, and in fact, one of the women,
afflicted with tuberculosis and
unable to work, had been provided
for by Mr. Nix, and in the kindness
of his heart he had even furnished
medicine and medical attendance.
On the fatal morning, upon reaching
the cabin he found the two ablebodied
negro women idling about the
house at a time when they should
have been in the field. Upon being
taken to task for neglecting their
work, it seems that one of the women,
Julia Davis, cursed Mr. Nix,
calling him several vile names. He
very promptly slapped her down and
turned to go. As he reached the
front door, as if by prearrangement,
the negro, Stevens, came up in the
rear of the cabin, entered by the
rear door, secured his pistol, and,
without a word of warning, Mr. Nix
being even unaware of his presence,
fired two shots at Mr. Nix, both taking
Affect, one in the neck and one
in the back. Mr. Nix fell from the
front porch of the cabin, down the
steps to the ground, where he expired
almost immediately without
ever regaining consciousness.
Another negro hand employed on
the place and working nearby, hearing
the shots and seeing Mr. Nix fall,
ran to inform Mrs. Nix that her husband
had been shot. Her first
thought was to dispatch a messenger
for the nearest doctor and then she
sped down the road to the side of
her dying husband, and pillowed
within her arms he breathed his last
within five short minutes of the time
the first shot was fired.
Within an hour's time the entire
community was aroused. Bamberg
was appealed to for bloodhounds,
and r?n fnnt and hnrsahanlc an nut
raged and determined community
assembled to search for the brute
who had committed this damnable
deed.
At first, not knowing just exactly
what direction the murderer 'had
taken, small parties scattered in almost
every direction and upon the
arrival of the bloodhounds from
Bamberg these were placed on the
trail, but failed to carry it for any
distance. After several hours had
elapsed, word was sent to Denmark
that Stevens had been seen about six
miles from the Nix place, near Baxter's
estate, in the community where
he was reared. In the meantime
bloodhounds from Columbia arrived
on the midday train, having been
telegraphed for when the Bamberg
dogs failed to take the scent. Messengers
were sent to round up the
parties who were searching in other
directions and as soon as they could
be gotten together at the Baxter
place the Columbia dogs took the
trail and followed it to within two
miles of Barnwell, where, at a negro
caDin, tney stopped, seeming Damea
in their efforts to carry it further.
The cabin was occupied by a negro
woman, who at first upon being accused
of harboring Stevens, finally
admitted that she had hitched up a
horse and buggy and had carried him
several miles beyond Barnwell. This
was early Sunday morning.
With jaded horses and practically
worn out themselves from their all
night pursuit the members of the
searching party kept doggedly on,
confident that they. were only an
hour or two behind the quarry. One
of the party, it is said, traveling in
advance of the rest, finally got within
sight of the negro and at a distance
of about 800 yards secured
three shots at him with a Krag-Jorgensen
army rifle, none of which, it
is thought took effect owing to the
great distance. Urging his worn
and tired horse to greater speed in
a desperate effort to overhaul the
negro, only resulted in the animal
giving entirely out, and at this juncture
it was seen that without fresh
animals further pursuit was impossible,
the country of this section being
very sparsely settled and no
horses obtainable.
The negro Stevens, it seems, has
been in trouble several times before,
upon one occasion shooting and seriously
wounding another negro. Upon
their return to Denmark, members of
the searching party were informed
by several negroes that he had taken
the same general direction in his efforts
to escape this time as he did
on the former occasion, his idea being
to keep to the woods, skirting the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, until he
reaches Savannah, where, he has ai
uncle, who gave him refuge before
All towns between Denmark ant
Savannah have been notified to b<
on the lookout for him as well ai
the police of Savannah. The mayo:
of Denmark has offered a reward o
$100.00 for his capture, and to thii
the governor of the State will doubt
less add another hundred. The de
scription of the criminal as given ii
the circular announcing the rewan
offered by .Mayor W. S. Cooper is ai
follows:
"One hundred dollars reward wil
be paid for the arrest of Isador<
Stevens, alias Isadore Nimmons
alias Isadore Hartzog.. He is a gin
ger-cake colored negro, nineteen o
twenty years old, five feet, fiv<
inches high, weight 140 pounds
Stammers in talking. Has blacl
spot on left cheek. Wanted for mur
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Ut?r. 1 Lie duuvc icwaiu %> in vvz pai\
for his delivery to W. S. Cooper
.Mayor, Denmark."
One of the saddest features in con
nection with the brutal murder o
Mr. Nix, is the fact that after year
of hard work and self-denial in ai
effort to give his children those ad
vantages of education, which he him
self had been denied, two of hii
daughters had just graduated fron
Winthrop College with honors, an<
just as his hopes and plans in re
gard to the welfare and future of hii
family were about to be realized, {
pistol in the hands of an ignorant
half-breed negro, whose prope:
place was on the chaingang for th<
crimes he had previously committed
ended his earthly labors. A son six
teen years of age is left upon whon
will devolve the duties of a father t<
the stricken family.
A peculiar and striking co-inci
dencein connection with the cfdm<
as related by Mrs. Nix, is the fac
that a clock which had been runninj
for a long time without trouble wa;
found to have stopped at exactly fiv<
minutes past seven on the morninj
of the murder, just at the time wbei
word was brought that Mr. Nix ha<
been shot.
It is only a matter of a few days
at the most, when the negro will b<
captured, as the whole countryside i
aroused and the very moment that h<
touches a spot where the telegrapl
or telephone penetrates his taking I
certain.
The body of Mr. Nix was interre<
in the old Salem burying groun<
Sunday afternoon, the funeral beinj
one of the largest ever witnessed i]
this county.
Later.
A rumor gained circulation ii
Bamberg Tuesday morning 16 th
effect that Stevens had been cap
tured at Kline, a small station o]
the Southern Railway below Barn
well, but upon investigation prt>ve<
to be without foundation.
Governor Ansel is keeping i]
touch with the situation, by lonj
distance telephone and Insists tha
he be kept informed from time t<
time of the progress of the search
He has added another $100.00 re
ward to that offered by Mayo
Cooper, of Denmark, and on .Tues
day telegraphed Magistrate Ray
at rionm#Tt a a fnllnwa' *:
"If Isadore Stevens is arrested, d<
everything in your power to pre
vent violence and have him turne<
over to Sheriff Hunter."
SPECIAL "NOTICES.
Advertisements Under This Head 25c
For 25 Words or Less.
Grain Threshed.?I am prepare!
to go anywhere in county to tllresl
grain. Write me and make an en
gagement at once. R. W. M4-TH
ENY, Bamberg, S. C.
For Sale.?One Ford runabout
used very little and in fine condition
also two nice buggy horses, sount
and gentle. Will sell cheap. JONES
A WILLIAMS, Bamberg, S. C.
NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEALERS.
Office of County Dispensary Boar<
of Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., June 2, 1909.
Bids are hereby requested, in ac
cordance with the terms of the Dis
pensary Law now in force, for th<
following kinds and qualities of li
quors, beer, and other articles here
in enumerated, to be furnished t<
the State of South Carolina for us<
of the County Dispensary Board oi
Bamberg County, to wit:
Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey, 9(
proof, different grades.
Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 9(
proof, different grades.
Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof
Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different
grades
Bids will also be received for Cast
Goods, including Rye, Corn and
Scotch Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum
Wines, Beers, Ales, and Porter. Also
glasB, corks and tinfoil, wire and
other articles used for a Counts
Dispensary
All goods shall be furnished ir
? ?ixu a ik/
compliance wun aim. buujcci iu m<
terms and conditions of the Dispensary
Law of 1907, and bidden
must observe the following rules:
1. The bids shall be sealed, and
there shall be no sign or mark upor
the envelope indicating the name
of the bidder
2. All bids must be sent by express
or registered mail to Jno. F
Folk, County Treasurer for Bamberg
County, at Bamberg, S. C., or
or before 12 o'clock of Monday, the
5th day of July, 1909. The contract
shall be awarded to the lowesl
responsible bidder on each kind
the Board reserving the right to
reject any and all bids and anj
parts of bids. The Board reservei
the right to increase or decrease
the above quantities at the same
price as the bids submitted.
3. All goods to be delivered f
o. b. Bamberg, S. C., freight prepaid
Terms, to be paid for within ninetj
days and subject to regauge at oui
warehouse. Also state discount foi
cash payment. Bids will be openec
in the office of the County Dispensary
Board at Bamberg, S. C. on Monday,
July 5th, 1909.
E. C. HAYS,
H. C. COPELAND,
J. Z. BROOKER.
County Dispensary Board for Bamberg
County.
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COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
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125th Year Regius October 1
Entrance examinations will be
held at the county court house Fri- iM
day, July 2, at 9 a. m. All candidates
for admission can compete in
October for vacant Boyce scholar- cjj
ships, which pay $100 a year. One
tuition scholarship to each county of
South Carolina. Board and furnished
room in dormitory, $12. Tuition,
$40. For catalogue address,
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BAMBERG, S. C.
Practices in all Conrts of this State.
Offices in The Herald Building.
Shoe & Harness Repairing J
I have moved Into the store lately occupied
by The Bamberg Herald, where /
I am better prepared to serve yon than l
ever. All sorts of harness and shoes re- $
paired and . satisfaction guaranteed. I jJ:
manufacture harness ofallklnds, bridles
halters, etc. Give me a trial.
H. W. JOHNSON,
BAMBERG. S. O.
W. E. FREE I
Attorney-at-Law
All business entrusted to me
will receive prompt attention.
Office for present at court house.
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Attorney-at-Law
BAMBEBG, S. 0.
Respectfully offers bis services to
the people of Bamberg county, and
by giving faithful attention to all
business trusts to merit a portion of
the legal work, and assures in advance
his sincere appreciation.
Offices upstairs over Bamberg
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