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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Xews from Go van.
Hl- i
Govan, Dec. 26.?Rev. Paul E
Bolin filled his regular appointment
at Georges Creek Baptist church Saturday
and Sunday. His text on Sunday
was taken from St Luke: 2-40:
"And the child grew, and waxed
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom:
and the grace of God was upon Him.*1
He preached a very, impressive sermon.
Mr. Bolin has recently beer
elected the regular minister for the
Double Ponds Baptist church.
| The Old Barnwell circuit is split
placing Salem in the Olar circuit
with Rev. Walker the appointed minister
for that circuit. We are indeed
sorry to lose Brother Wilkes, bul
. maybe the Ruler Supreme has a betft.
ter field for him.
Mra? Scott Fields died this morning
at an eary hour. She had
been sick for some time and her de
parture was not unexpected, in nei
death our community loses the companionship
of a genial and hospitable
woman. She leaves a family tc
mourn her departure, to which we
extend our heartfelt sympathy.
mm f
j Denmark Doings.
Denmark, Dec. 27.?Mr. J. R,
Owens, Jr., of Chianeston, accompanied
by his wife, dined with his
By?' father, Col. J. R. Owens, at the Denmark
-Hotel yesterday. Mr. and Mrs.
V C. R. Hooton were also the guests oi
Mr. Owens yesterday. Mr. Hooton is
district plant chief of the Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company,
with headquarters at Denmark.
Mr. Owens, Jr., is the efficient clerk
of the shipping department of the
II? Charleston /plant of the Virginia:
Carolina cnemicai company, tie sayg
that mammoth preparations are beBp
. log made by this large company preceding
the beginning of the movement
of fertilizers for the new season
and in a few days this industry
will be the most active business in
and around Charleston.
BIpJ: \ Miss Maxci Sheppard, daughter oi
if- - Ex-Governor Sheppard, spent the
||* Christmas holidays with Capt. J. B.
Guess. She returned to her home in
Edgefield this morning.
K. - Saved From Awful Death.
How an appalling calamity in his
family was prevented is told by A. D.
. McDonald, of Fayetteville, N. C., R.
^ F. D. No. 8. "My sister had consumption,"
he writes, "she was very
thin and pale, had no appetite and
seemed to grow weaker every day, as
all .remedies failed, till Dr. King's
New Discovery was tried, and so comm
pletely cured her, that she has not
a. been troubled with a cough since.
Its the best medicine I ever saw or
heard of." For coughs, colds, la(nHnno
-asthma, cronu. hemorrhaee.
all bronchial troubles, it has no equal,
50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by People's Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. C.
Dose Proves Fatal.
Pittsburg, Dec. 27.?Twelve days
ago Elmer Dese swallowed 27 grains
of bi-chloride of mercury, ^enough to
kill 150 persons, and to-day he died.
After the poison had been taken a
physician was summoned, and in a
short time Dese was apparently as
well as ever. He told members of his
family' what he had done, but gave
the matter no more attention. Christmas
Eve he became ill and his condition
gradually grew worse until he
. . died from the effects of the poison.
Telephone Saves Dives.
i Muncie,
Ind., Dec. 27.?When Mrs.
Anthony Hefel suddenly awoke here
to-day she found that her home was
being rapidly filled with gas from
leaking pipes conected with a stove.
Taking the telephone beside her bed
she was barely able to whisper an
f appeal for*aid. When neighbors reach?
ed the house they found Mrs. Hefel,
her husband and James Faust, a
boarder lying in their beds unconscious.
They will recover.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lujcas
county. * SS. ,
; Frank J. Cneney makes oath that
he w senior partner of the firm of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business in
the city of Toledo, county and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of one hundred dollars for
each and every case of catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall's
Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
t Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D., 1886.
(Seal.) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
and acts directly on -the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free. F. J.
CHENEY & C., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
; stipation.
?^
A year's subscribtion to The Her*
aid will make a nice new year's present,
it only costs $1.00.'
RAILROADS CLASH.
)
Seaboard Tries to Prevent Work by
* the Atlantic Coast Line.
Columbia, Dec. 27.?An ugly sit
11 .it /IV - !1V . V-..1
j uauuu tti uueraw wuu auuut uil^
armed employees of the Atlantic
Coast Line confronting representatives
of the Seaboard Air Line, the
. former trying to establish by force
t a crossing over the Seaboard's main
. line, and the Seaboard trying to pre.
vent the success of such efforts, has
: been relieved, it is hoped, by a pert
emptory telegraphic order from Railroad
Commissioner Caughman for a
' cessation of work until further in.
structions.
l On Friday night the Coast Line
> commenced laying the crossing,
which the Seaboard men tore up on
, Saturday morning while the Coast
, Line force was at breakfast. A lo.
comotive with banked fires which the
I Seaboard had' placed on the crossing
i was removed by a Coast Line en.
gineer, the Seaboard's train crew being
restrained by town policemen
. from interfering. The Seaboard's
I crew was kept under arrest for
. nearly two hours.
The railroad commission had
. granted permission to the Coast
s Line to establish the crossing, but
> stipulated that the interlocking
t equipment satisfactory to the commission
and by it approved beforehand
should be provided to prevent
collisions. There is no?record at the
commission's office of, any engineer
to inspect such equipment being ap
pointed, but State Counsel Wilcox,
t of 4he Coast Line, telephones from
Florence that his father-in-law, Mr.
Brunson, was designated for the
work by ^Commissioner Earle, and is
' on the job. The commission will
i probably go to Cheraw soon, perhaps
to-morrow, to look into the situa
tion.
} States Won't Lose.
Washington, Dec. 27.?The coming
i congressional reappointment will
r provide for a total membership of
. 435 in the house of representatives
. according to present indications. This
would mean a member to every 211,700
population.
Mr. Crumpacker, chairman of the
house committee on census, and some
r of his associates have been digesting
, the statistical calculations recently
compiled by the census bureau - to
show the effect of various systems of
apportionment on the representation
of the different States.
Of the 16 members of the committee
11 ?members are from States
which would lose one or more representatives
if the present number of
members of the entire house is maintained
in the light of the population
shown by the census just completed.
It is likely that these States will not
only be protected but^as Mr. Crumpacker
and others believe, that an
| increase to 435 will solve the problem
before the house, that being the
rrrlll <X* TTA ATTnrTT
uuuiuu mat nui oa ? t t v* j
State, from any loss in the numerical
strength of its delegation at
Washington.
? ?
HELD FOR NEGRO'S DEATH.
' Sumter White Men Charged with
Killing Negro Hack Driver.
Sumter, Dec. 26.?The coroner's
1 jury empanelled to-day to inquire in|
'to the death of Edward Bossard, col.
ored, held J. W. Harper, white, for
> the killing, and R. T. Bateman, white,
an accessory. The deceased was a
hack driver and the shooting followed
an altercation at the Atlantic
Coast Line depot last night.
The negro offended Bateman by the
, use of offensive language, and in the
i dispute that followed Harper is said
to have been knocked down by a blow
on the head, the negro driver using
, the butt end of a whip. Harper then
drew his pistol and fired twice, one
ball taking effect in the abdomen
and causing an internal hemorrhage
from which the negro died, at the
Sumter Hospital, within three hours
after being wounded.
Bateman surrendered to the sheriff
and is now in jail, and Harper will
deliver himself up to-morrow. Ap|
plication for bail will be made by
. counsel for defendants at once.
! *T ITtlloil Amsv+Hm.
i i^Cgru lYJUivu oiivun,!
Greenwood, Dec. 27.?The only
killing of the Christmas season in
this county, so far, was that of a negro,
Lige Horn, 'who was shot and
' killed by another negro, Joe Smiley,
I at Smiley's home near Verdery last
. night. Whiskey is supposed to have
been the real starter of the row
which led up to the killing. The
dead negro had two brothers killed a
year ago at Verdery at a hot supper.
Coroner Dock Owen and Sheriff Mc[
Millan left early this morning for
the scene of the killing.
IN THE PALMETTO STATI
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOU
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
' State News Boiled Down for Quid
Reading?Paragraphs About
| Men and Happenings.
I
The handsome Pearlstine residenc
on Main street in Branchville ha
been rented to W. A. Bass, who wil
run a hotel there.
A negro woman named Dais
White commtted suicide at the in
' sane asylum in Columbia last Frida
by hanging herself to her bed. Sh
, was demented.
The Southern Railway will nex
, week put on a fine new train froi
; Charleston to Cincinnati. It will b
. a through train and handsome equip
! ment throughout will be thj rule.
L Commiseioner E. J. Watson ha
appointed Dr. A. C. Doyle, of Orange
burg, as inspector of drugs and hu
* man foods,- as provided under th
i pure food act.-He will travel through
' out the State on inspection tours.
It is stated that a man over ii
Orangeburg county named Williai
: Sanford killed a hog recently tha
weighed 753 pounds. The pig wa
omy seventeen months old. This i
' said to be a record breaker for tha
age hog. , '
The commercial . club of Walter
? V.
boro has also become interested ii
the project of opening up the Edist
river, and there will no doubt be
strong showing made by the^variou
towns interested at the hearing se
for January 3rd in Washington.
The citizens of Orangeburg ar
somewhat wrought up over the cit
authorities allowing the explosion o
fire crackers and other fireworks 01
the business streets, and a petitioi
will be presented to council asklnj
that it not be allowed in the future
This would be a good step for Bam
berg to take.
Shooting at Johnston.
Johnston, Dec. 24.?Jim Edward
was shot and seriously wounded b;
Dantzler Toney here this afternooi
about 4 o'clock. The injury to ed
wards was the leeult of unusual cii
cumstances, EdWards being an inno
cent bystander and being struck, ap
parently after the ball had ricochetei
^rom the forehead of John Forrest
with whom Toney was struggling a
the time.
'-Toney, it is said, had an overcoat ii
a pressing club. Edwards had sen
a cloak belonging .to his wife to th
same pressing club to be dyed. For
rest and Toney passed high worde
and finally came to blows. While the:
were clinched the negro in charge o
the pressing club asked them not ti
fight and separated them. They join
ed battle again and Toney knockei
Forrest out. Jim. Edwards, at thi
stage of the proceedings, entered th
room. Edwards's story is that hi
thinks Toney did not mean to fci
him, but fired at Forest.
In Forest's forehead is a bulle
wound, the ball apparently havi.ni
glanced under the skin and sped on
ward into Edwards's face, striking a
the nose and emerging behind th
ear.
Ewards is resting well and hope
are entertained that he will recover
/_
Toney has not yet been arrestd. I
is thought that he will surrender to
morrow.
ACCIDENT NEAR HAMPTON.
Hairy Mason Shot while Preparinj
to go Hunting.
Hampton, December 26.?Harr;
Mason, a young man, living about on
mile from this place, was accidentall;
' shot this afternoon by Willie Priester
and died of his injuries at 6 o'clock.
It seems that Harry Maso^, Willi
Pxiester and Tillman Crews compose<
a party about' to go hunting. Prieste
had already mounted and Mason wa
about to mount, when a gun in Pries
ter's hands, about eight feet away
went off, the load entering Mason';
right shoulder from the front.
The,accident occurred at the hom<
of Mr. John Priester, with whon
young Mason, who was about 19 year
old, was staying.
Prompt medical attention was givei
the young man by Dr. C. O. Rush
but to no avail.
Priester and Mason were firs
cousins, and the unfortunate occur
rence is deplored by all.
Banks on Sure Thing Now.
'Til never be without Dr. King'i
New Life Pills again," writhe A
Schingeck, 647 Elm St., Buffalo, N
Y. "They cured me of chronic con
stipation when all others failed.'
Unequaled for biliousness, jaundice
indigestion, headache, chills, malarh
and debility. 25c at People's Druj
Co., Bamberg, S. C.
g RIDDLED BY MOB'S BUI,LETS.
Oscar Chitwood Taken from Deputy
? by Citizens and Put to Death.
Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 26.?
k Twenty-five masked men lynched* Oscar
Chitwood, after overpowering a
deputy sheriff just outside the jail
here, before daybreak this morning,
riddling the prisoner's body with bule
lets.
3
Chitwood was charged with having
killed Sheriff Jake Honpt, of this
city, August 17 last. John Ruthery
ford, was in charge of the man, en
" route to the railroad station to take
v a train to convey Chitwood to the
e State penitentiary at Little Rock for
safe keeping, pending trial in Saline
t county on a change of venue granted
n recently. His trial on a first degree
e murder charge was to have taken
- - -t- % X 11 -1
piace nere last wees, dui iue cmuige
of venue intervened and, indirectly,
3 probably gave the mob an opportunity
s- to^wreak vengeance. The citizens of
i- Hot Springs did not know of the kille
ing until later in the day. The mob
i- coveied the deputy sheriff with guns
and demanded the prisoner, telling
a him that the slightest resistance on
q his part meant death to them both.
t The body of Chitwood was riddled
s with bullets and left where \t fell and
s was removed later by the officers,
t He was shot once in the head and
once in the left nipple. One bullet
entered his hand as be threw it up
to ward off bullets.
After Chitwood was shot the members
of the mob, with the exception
of one man, who was left to guard
the deputy sheriff filed out of the jail
yard. He kept- the, deputy covered
with his revolver for a short time
e and then backed ou^ of the yard with
y his gun still covering the deputy.
' None of the prisoners in the Jail
ax were molested and in ten minutes
a after the tragedy all was as quiet
5 around the prison as if nothing un'
usual had occurred.
Locked in for Two Years.
New York, Dec. 24.?Henry DeGroff,
a delicatevlooking hoy 11 years
8 old, told Justice Salmon in the chil^
dren's court that his mother, Mrs.
I Annie DeGroff, had kept him locked
in their flat at 1870 Third avenue for
two years. Once or twice, he said,
K she had taken him to the Bronx to
" see his older brother and his giand*
mother. Then she kept tight hold of
'? his hand all the time.
t Henry's hair fell over his shoulders.
He said it had not been cut since he
II had been immerseu. Robert M. Cos*
grave, the Gerry agent, who took
8 Henry from his mother, told Justice
Salmon that the rooms at 1870 Third
'? avenue were far from clean and that
^ When he found the boy he was in
f rags.. The attention of the society
0 was called to the case, he said, by
" notes Henry had written on scraps of
* paper and thrown out the window.
8 These had been picked up by the
e neighbors. They were appeals for
e clothes that^he^ might go out on the
* street. <
Mrs. DeGroff had been notified to
* be at court, but she did not appear.
5 Justice Salmon remanded Henry to
the Gerry society,
t . ^
e Recommended Rhame for Examiner.
Columbia, Dec. 20.?B. J. Rhame,
s of Sumter, was to-day recommended
' to Governor Ansel for appointment
* to the position of State bank exam"
iner, to take the place of Giles L.
Wilson, resigned. Mr. Rhame is at
present, the assistant bank examiner.
The recommendation was made by
the executive council of the South
* Carolina Bankers' Association, following
a session held in Columbia today.
^ Mr. Rhame will be appointed by
e Governor Ansel as the request for a
P recommendation for successor to Mr.
? Wilson was made by the governor
himself.
B Giles L. Wilson recently handed
* in his resignation as state bank exr
aminer, having been appointed na3
tional bank examiner. His (resignation
is to take effect on January
? 10, when Mr. Rhame will assume the
s office.
? Two Negroes Spring.
i Charleston, Dec. 23.?Both pros
testing their innocence, two negroes,
James Edwards and William Kelley,
i were hanged at Monck's Corner, in
, Berkeley county, shortly before noon
to-day. Edwards was convicted of
t wife murder, while Kelley was sen
tenced to hang for the murder of another
negro.'
Edwards, who had three wives,
warned his fellows against women,
s saying that they were sure to get a
man in trouble, while Kelley, who
. was drunk when he committed the
' murder, held liquor responsible for
his plight.
* Both men died after hanging for
about 15 minutes.
HANGS FOR AWFUL CRIME
MINUS HIGHTOWER EXECUTED
FOR CRIMINAL ASSAULT.
Freely Admitted His Guilt?Trap
Sprung in Richland County Jail
Yard Last Friday.
Minus rfightower, alias Ed Byrd,
1 I?. IV. T3I.V
a ucgru uujr, was uaugcu iu liic xviuuland
county jail yard for a criminal
assaul? upon, a whit? woman which
he committea last October. He was
pronounced dead from strangulation
10 minutes after the trap was
sprung.
The scaffold was erected against
the southside of the jail building.
Two canvas flies were stretched on
each side of the scaffold, shutting off
the view from the crowd of morbidly
curious on Lincoln street and on the
buildings and fences around the jail.
Approximately half a hundred people
witnessed the execution in the jail
yard.
Befoie the physicians had pronounced
the .negro dead, a broad
shouldered white man elbowed' his
way through the group surronding
die scaffold.
"I just wani to touch him," he
said, "and get a souvenir."
"Stand back," ordered Sheriff Coleman;
"we are not barbarians."
The^broad shouldered man did not
get his souvenir.
Prays for Condemned.
At 9:55 o'clock Minus Hlgfytower
was taken from his cell on the first
floor of the jail to a room on the second
floor. Here M. G. Johnson, pastor
of the Ladson Presbyterian
church, prayed with the condemned
negro.
After the prayer was said, Sheriff
Coleman read the death warrant to
Minus Hightower at 10:02 o'clock.
He was taken out of the jail into the
yard and up the steps of the scaffold.
The negro's hands and feet were
bound and the black cap adjusted,.
He did not move a muscle or show
any signs of emotion while this was
in progress.
At 10:07 o'clock the trap was released
by Sheriff Coleman. The negro
fell seven feet His body twitched
spasmodically two or three times and
then swung rigid. In 10 minutes the
physicians in attendance pronounced
him dead from strangulation. The
body was lowered into a basket and
carried to the hearse from a negro
undertaking establishment which was
waiting in the jail yard.
Makes No Speech.
Minus Hightower did not make a
speech on^the scaffold. He said after
the prayer by Rev. Johnson in the
jaiL that whiskey and bad company
had caused him to commit the crime
for which he paid the death penalty.
He admitted his guilt and declared
that he believed that he had been forgiven.
Rev. Johnson stood with
Hightower on the scaffold until the
trap was sprung.
After the body was taken to the
undertaking establishment of Hardy,
Pinckney & Biggs, several hundred
curious negroes &atherd, all anxious
for a look. So insistent {lid they become
that a squad of policemen was
called to disperse them.
First in Five Years.
The hanging is the first in Richland
county during the past five
years. The last execution was that
of Marion Parr, a white man, found
guilty of murdering a white boy
with a hoe on the Congaree river
near Granby. Eight years ago Winter
Cantey, a negro, was hanged for
killing a negro, woman.
Minus Hightower, the 19-year-old
negro boy, committed the crime for
which he was hangedr about 4 o'clock
on the afternoon of October 18. The
negro stole a pistol from a cab in the
Seaboard yard. After leaving the
yard, he went toward the northwestern
section of Columbia, entered a
house and committed the assault at
the point of a pistol.
About 20 minutes anerwards he
was arrested by Policeman Hite on
Park street and carried before his
victim, who identified him. The negro
was taken first to the police station
and then to the State penitentiary.
The night after the crime, groups
of men gathered and discussed the
feasibility ,of entering the penitentiary
and lynching the negro. No attempt
was made at violence.
Special Term of Court.
On November 28, a special term of
the Richland county court of general
sessions convened to try Minus Hightower.
Two companies of militia
were ordered out to guard the court
house while, the trial, which lasted
only a few hours, was in progress. A
near-mob gathered about the court
house during the afternoon. After the
jury had pronounced the negro
guilty and sentence had. been passed
COL. W. W. MOORE APPODPEBIK^
Adjutant General-Elect to Fill Uneiejft
pired Term of Gen. Boyd.
Columbia, Dec. 22.?Governor Ajgffijpl
sel,to-day appointed W. W. Moore, dj?S||
Barnwell, to fill out the unexpfirefl|ffi;:||
term of the late Adjutant and ta^Mm
spectar General, J. C. Boyd, who dleiffljli
Col. Moore is the adjutant genera|g||S
elect bv reason of hia winning thraffifl
Democratic nomination in the
marles last summer, and also, of;||il
course, the general election pla$||S|H
him as the successor to General Boy?|Ej9
However, general Boyd died befon^^jj
the expiration Of his own term* ?n|i|
January when all State officials
sworn into office. Col.
Moore being appointed
governor to-day, will serve untiT$j|Kl?
date of the incoming administrstMHBjH
in January, the 17th, and then ha WmBW
take office for another two yeai^jBlpH
reason of his own election, t'o the o^^^C
flee of adjutant general.
, Capt Oscar Babb, of Laurens, wm|9
appointed by Governor Ansel sofjHRfifl
time in October to fill out the uag^^j
niro/1 term nf tha gcelotonf A A<nImmJIBIK
V%4 VV* V* VMV LMJU1UVUU U AU J
General, W. T. Brock. So that friaWEM
now until the middle of January bMBpH
the Adjutant and the assistant AdrapgS
tant General are filling unexpjpri|ffl|9
terms. But Capt Babh will be rNjgnBB
pointed assistant Adjutant Geneff?||||H
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. 'HK8H
Night Watchman at jthe Grendel JBM^S|
Makes Attempt.
_________
Mr. J. H. Walker, night watch
at the Grendel Mill No. 1 made (draB
unsuccessful attempt to commit ttHPS
cide Tuesday, morning. He went&tiBH
his room and went to bed, apparisiBM
ly to get his regular sleep.
Hearing a noise in the room,
Powell ran out and notified a netng^H
bor who went in and found that
Walker had attempted to commit i^p^H
cide by the use of chldroform. Hi
had saturated a handkerchief WM?^n
the chloroform and put it OYWtwKtjR
nose and then pulled up the; BHB
clothes to confine the fumes. He mBS
recovered now and is out at
again.?Greenwood Index.
Do You Know How to
"Table manners in^ their simptift^H
form are so taken for granted
well-bred people that at the first {gRpO
pulse it seems almost unnecessary
give instructions concerning de!s|flp9
of behavior," says Christine Terhu^B^l
Herrick in Woman's Home ComnagM^^H
on for January. "But the offensSj
against convention we all see '-Mf^aB
times prove that everyone do&:i|B|afl
know exactly what constitutes go?BaW
conduct at meals. MlBi
"Is it needful at this stage of df?^|
ization to say that one should '-mBN
eat with his knife? It ought to l^^a|
but I am afraid it is not. Those
us who are accustomed to eating OqIm^H
in our own homes or at Che tablet
our friends are prone to think tajSgfl
none but barbarians eat with
knives. A little foreign travel^ljj||jB
likely to cure us of that notion. Kpmgra
only foreigners whom we meet '-aflgPM
hotels or in pensions shock our seiraK|9
sibilities by such offenses, but otiJjpfl
own countrymen often show ra-'frjBfM
amsples of their skill in swordHWwjS^M
lowing exploits. "|3?
. "Yet in no circumstances is eating 3
with the knife anything but a ctfmMjfl
against good manners. The
to cut with, the fork to be used; l?j9|^
Wants to Help Some One. "jjH
For thirty years J. F. Boyer,
Fertile, Mo., needed help and couidn.*f|||H
find it. That's whyr he wants w3|9
help some one now. Suffering
long himself he feels for all dia|ri^$||j|fi
from backache, nervousness, loss
appetite, lassitude and kidney dlsog*ii?
ders. He shows that Electric Bitters^-'jl
work wonders for such troubles.
"Five bottles," he writes, "whtdly ^^
cured me and now I am well ant^W^
hearty." It's also positively guarastijiHl
A .1 a llnn.
LtJtJU iUi li * ci uuuuiCi ujoyvyBW|^?au
blood disorders, female complalntj^^
and malaria. Try them. 50e at'||M
People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. -&jKj|
=M|
upon him, Sheriff Coleman and
deputies spirited him out of the coartlp|?
house across lots to a waiting auto^^aH
mobile iil which he was carried bacfiilSi
Hightower confessed his guilt to
one of the guards at the penitentiary||3f|
the day following the trial. ;jj
Early Friday morning he wa#_4f|B
taken from the penitentiary
locked in a cell at the county ja!L-|||jp
His spiritual adviser, Rev. M. G.
Johnson, a negro preacher, visited ^ j
him in the early hours of the mom^ j
ing and remained with him until the ^^H
High tower's body was sent to his v>|??f
father at Branchville for burial..